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Sunday Mass Times

St. Paul’s Moss Vale

Saturday Vigil - 6 pm

Sunday - 10 am

St. Peter’s Burrawang

1st, 3rd, 5th Sunday - 8 am

2nd, 4th Sunday - 5 pm

St. Brigid’s Bundanoon

2nd, 4th Sunday - 8 am

1st, 3rd, 5th Sunday - 5 pm

St. Francis Xavier’s Berrima

1st Sunday of the month (except Jan,

June, July, August)

- 11.30am

Penrose Park Monastery

- 9am & 11am

Weekday Mass Times

St. Paul’s Moss Vale

Mon, Wed, Fri 8am

Thu 9.30am

St. Paul’s Int. College (Sat ) 8am

Public Holidays 9am

Octave Easter & Christmas 9.30am

Penrose Park Monastery 11am Daily

Reconciliation

St. Paul’s Moss Vale

Saturday 5 - 5.30 pm & on request

St. Brigid’s Bundanoon

1st Sunday 4.30pm followed by 5pm Mass

St. Peter’s Burrawang

2nd Sunday 4.30pm followed by 5pm Mass

one parish - Six churches - many needs - working together

Parish Priest Fr Richard Green, osppe

Presbytery: 24 Garrett St. Moss Vale

OFFICE HOURS 9.00am to 1.00pm Mon, Thu, Fri 12.00noon to 4.00pm Wed Parish Mobile: 0423 722 627

Phone: 4868 1931 Email: mossvale@dow.org.au Website: www.stpaulsmossvale.org.au Pauline Fathers: 4878 9192

We pray for our Parish

Benefactors: Those who so generously donate their time and resources towards projects in our Parish: that God will richly bless them for their generosity.

Weddings: We congratulate Vincent Bezzina & Chloe Hobbs, Thomas Wormald & Anna Cranney who were married this weekend in our parish.

Sick: Ludvinia, Matthew Simpson, Charles Bullock, Alwyn Kelly, Sr. June, Gerard, Rodney Clarke, Tricia, Margaret, Catherine, Len, Cathy, Moira Ritchie, Tracy Gammel, Dorothy O’Halloran, Nora Waugh, Desmond, Kevin, Kaye, Phil, Kylie, Emily, Harley, Elaine, Bruce Shepherd, Muriel Dromgold, Marilyn, Anthony, Julia, Catherine, Anne, Stuart, Mike, Nicole, Brian, Peter, Elizabeth, Bridget, Paula, and all on the Intercessory Prayer List.

Deceased : Marie-Louise Duetz, Muriel Dromgold, Kevin Lawler, Anne Crisp, Ross Woodcock, Edna Simpson, Jacqui Mack, Neil Gilbert, Carl & Daphne Ewart, Ted & Helen Babula, Dominic, Maureen Steele, Noela, Alan & Peter Lawler, Dennis Lambourne, Ron Channels, Helen Burke, Marie Quinn, Maree Fitzgerald, Charles Hayes, Tom Gill, Greg McRae, Keith Williams, Noel Tilden, Colin McCue, Harry Clout, Barry Ellsmore, Jack Simpson, Dromgold, Hyde, Tilden, Conroy, Poidevin, Murphy, Dwyer, Halls, Lawler, Allport & Saker Families & All Holy Souls. Recently Deceased: Lauren Gormham

May they rest in peace. Amen Prayer requests for the Intercessory Prayer list to mvprayerlist@gmail.com or Sue at the parish office.

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Please remember the children of our parish in your prayers, as they commence their

preparation programme this Sunday for the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

St. Paul’s Parish

ST. PAUL, PRAY FOR US

MONTH OF MAY The Church honours

MARY, the MOTHER OF GOD

The month of May is the “month which the pi-ety of the faithful” has especially dedicated to Our Blessed Lady and it is the occasion for a moving tribute of faith and love which Catho-lics in every part of the world pay to the Queen of Heaven.

Why not take the time to pray The Litany or the Rosary this month!

Open Parish Pastoral Council & Finance Committee Meeting

Parishioners are invited to attend a open meeting on Wednesday 2

nd

May in the school hall at 5.15pm.

Parish Finances

Copy of our Parish’s Income & Expendi-ture Statement are affixed to notice boards in foyers for pa-rishioners information. Remember to attend the Open Meeting so you kept up to date on all matters.

Faith Circles

Faith circles continue to meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. All parishioners and friends are most welcome to

attend. Next meeting will be on 8th May at 10.15am.

CWL The Catholic Women’s League will be

selling raffle tickets for Mother’s Day on

the weekend of 5/6 May. Your support is

always appreciated.

Shrine of Our Lady of

Mercy, Penrose Park First Saturday 5 May

“Renewal of Faith – Learning in the

Immaculate Heart of Mary”

Formation day retreats every 1st Satur-day of every month. Open to all ages.

Programme: 9am Talk 10am Adoration & Confession 11am Holy Mass 12.30pm Lunch (BYO) 1.30pm 1st Saturday Devotions (Rosary, meditation and talk) 3pm Coffee, tea, social and question time

St Francis Xavier Berrima

Mass will be celebrated on the first Sun-day of May at 11.30am. Please note, there will be no Mass during the months of June, July and August.

After the winter break Mass will re-sume on the first Sunday in September back to the time of 12noon.

Congratulations To our Parish Priest, Father Richard, who celebrates/d his 6

th anniversary of Ordi-

nation on 28th April. Please keep him in your prayers that God will pro-tect him and continue to bless him in his work.

The Journey Radio Program

Airs 29thApril This week on the Journey Catholic Radio, our Gospel reflection about the ‘Vines and the Branches” is spoken to us by Fr Ste-ven Varney. The Catholic Guy, Bruce Downes questions us about The Wrong Map, and Marilyn Rodrigues encourages us to Pray, Hope and Don’t Worry. The music is the thread that helps us connect our show to you, and with this, we create a show about faith, hope, love and life. Go to www.jcr.org.au or www.itunes.jcr.org.au

Parish News ..... Faith & Light

The meeting for Faith and Light Com-munity for people with Disability, their parents and friends will be held on Sun-day 13

th May from 1.30 to 4 p.m. at the

White House, Hartzer Park, 25 Eridge Park Road Burradoo. All Welcome. Please contact Coordinator Sue Jack-son 0488637197 if you would like to at-tend.

Inter-Parish Golf Day

Any Moss Vale parishioners wishing to attend the golf day on 20th May with Bowral/Mittagong, Picton & Camden please contact the Bowral Par-ish Office (4861-1902). You

can form a team of three or individuals will be placed in a parish team. Also, parishioners who would just like to attend the dinner would be most welcome. Cost of dinner only is $25.00. Hope you can join us.

Fr Sean

Pilgrimage Walk For Life Friday 25 May to Saturday 26 May 2018

A walk to raise PRAYERS for Australia. You are warmly welcome either day or both days. BENEFITS: Mass, Prayer, Hymns, Exer-cise, Spectacular scenery, Joyful fellow-ship and Blessings in abundance. Friday: 9:30am Mass at Kiama Catholic Church, walk to Gerringong Catholic Church for Benediction at 3pm. Shuttle-bus back to Kiama church or sleep over-night. Saturday: 8:00am Mass Gerringong Catholic Church, walk to Shoalhaven Heads for lunch at 1pm, Shuttlebus back to Gerringong or walk to Culburra Church for 6pm Mass. BYO Lunch and water. Friday dinner at local restaurant. Cereal breakfast provid-ed Saturday. Further information: Sue Hill 0435 336 195 or Gabriella De Battista (02) 4261 2500

Religious Vocations Who shall come forward to explain the

love God has for His people who should

be one in faith? We need more faith-

filled, prayerful and spirited people to

make the Vine and the Branches One

again.

Please continue to pray for vocations

To request Vinnies after hours emergency help. Please phone 0437509449

Invite you to join us for

Our Annual Celebration of Holy Mass for

W.U.C.W.O.

(World Union of Catholic Women’s Organisations)

on the

Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians,

Thursday, 24 May 2018 9.30 am

At St Paul’s Catholic Church, 24 Garrett

Street, Moss Vale 2577

Followed by

A Scrumptious Morning Tea & Mini Fair

All proceeds to be donated to Sr Rosarin Tataua

For the

O.L.S.H. Women & Children’s Crisis Centre

Republic of Kiribati

Morning Tea begins at 10.15 am –

Entry $10.00 –

Lots of Lucky Door Prizes to be won!

Come along - enjoy our delicious home-made

goodies - our friendly hospitality, and win

some great prizes!

RSVP Please - Kathleen 48869 1750

(mob) 0409 872 472 –

Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B 29th April 2018

© Excerpts from the Roman Missal © 2010, International Commis-

sion on English in the Liturgy (ICEL)” and “Excerpts

from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, ICEL” All rights reserved.

First Reading Acts 9:26-31

When Saul got to Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him: they could not believe he was really a disciple. Barnabas, however, took charge of him, introduced him to the apostles, and explained how the Lord had appeared to Saul and spoken to him on his journey, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. Saul now started to go round with them in Jerusalem, preaching fearlessly in the name of the Lord. But after he had spoken to the Hellenists, and argued with them, they became determined to kill him. When the brothers knew, they took him to Caesarea, and sent him off from there to Tarsus.

The churches throughout Judaea, Galilee and Samaria were now left in peace, building themselves up, living in the fear of the Lord, and filled with the consolation of the Holy Spirit.

The word of the Lord.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 21:26-28. 30-32. R v.26

R. I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people.

1 .My vows I will pay before those who fear him. The poor shall eat and shall have their fill. They shall praise the Lord, those who seek him. May their hearts live for ever and ever! (R)

2. All the earth shall remember and return to the Lord, all families of the nations worship before him. They shall worship him, all the mighty of the earth; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust. (R)

3. And my soul shall live for him,

my children serve him. They shall tell of the Lord to generations yet to come, declare his faithfulness to peoples yet unborn: 'These things the Lord has done.' (R)

Second Reading

1 John 3:18-24 My children, our love is not to be just words or mere talk, but something real and active; only by this can we be certain that we are the children of the truth and be able to quieten our conscience in his presence, whatever accusations it may raise against us, because God is greater than our conscience and he knows everything.

My dear people, if we cannot be condemned by our own conscience, we need not be afraid in God's presence, and whatever we ask him, we shall receive, because we keep his commandments and live the kind of life that he wants. His commandments are these: that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and that we love one another as he told us to. Whoever keeps his commandments lives in God and God lives in him. We know that he lives in us by the Spirit that he has given us.

The word of the Lord.

Gospel Acclamation Jn 15:4-5

Alleluia, alleluia!

Live in me and let me live in you, says the Lord; my branches bear much fruit. Alleluia!

Gospel

John 15: 1-8

Jesus said to his disciples: 'I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that bears no fruit

God may be calling YOU but probably not on your mobile phone.

Please turn off your mobile phone

during the celebration of the Holy Mass

he cuts away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more. You are pruned already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you. Make your home in me, as I make mine in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, but must remain part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, with me in him, bears fruit in plenty; for cut off from me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in me is like a branch that has been thrown away - he withers; these branches are collected and thrown on the fire, and they are burnt. If you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask what you will and you shall get it. It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit, and then you will be my disciples.'

The Gospel of the Lord.

Paschal Precept Each of the faithful is obliged to receive Holy Communion at least once a year. This is to be done between Ash Wednesday (14 February 2018) and Trinity Sunday (27 May 2018) unless for a good reason it is done at another time during the year. All the faithful are obliged to confess their grave sins at least once a year.

Feasts this Week Wed 2: St Athanasius, bishop,

doctor

Thurs 3: Sts Philip & James,

apostles