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We acknowledge the Yalukit Willam Clan, the traditional owners and custodians of this land. We pay our respects to them.

May we walk gently here.

The CarmeliteParish of Port Melbourne and Middle Park

in the care of the Carmelites since 1882

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time 4 August 2019

in this issueParish News ........ 3&4

When I Was At SchoolDivine MercySt Vincent de PaulBASP Leaving CollectionAugust Men’s DinnerParish Craft Group Carmelite ConversationsEvelyn Underhill

Reflections On This Week’s Readings .... 5Our Liturgy ................ 6

All through life we are faced with the question, ‘Which god will I follow?’

This is not about choosing to be a Catholic or Protestant, Christian or Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim. No, its recognizing that many things in life compete for our attention and make demands on our soul. In the unfolding of our lives we continually ask of God’s creation more than it can be. We regularly pour our heart’s desire into some part of God’s creation and ask it to be GOD for us. We ask some part of God’s creation to be uncreated; we take a GOOD and ask it to be GOD.

This is the point of this Gospel story. The farmer has been seduced by the promise of “plenty” and “wealth”. Plenty and wealth are a GOOD but this farmer has asked them to be GOD for him. On his journey through life, the farmer has settled down with his wealth and refused to go on. He has settled down with a lesser god; it gives him some peace, some identity, some joy, some security. But Jesus is quick to point out what we all know but find hard to internalize – and that is that when you ask a created thing to be GOD, it will eventually crumble under the expectation. This short-term solution masks a spiritual problem.

There are lesser gods that are obvious; power, career, addictions, violence. These are easy to identify; and while mostly they are not evil in themselves, yet we know that unless used in the pursuit of love, they will eventually demand a person’s soul.

And so in our personal lives we have to continually ask: What are the idols, the non-negotiables that have become part of my life? What are those things without which I cannot go on? Am I hurting them by clinging so tightly to them? Where have I become unfree in my life.But as good citizens, bearing the Gospel of Good News to the Poor, Freedom to Captives and joy to those in sorrow, we can ask the same of our world. For example, has the world become so addicted to corporate success that it has become a god? To care about the National Interest of Australia’ is good but when it becomes a god we end up with divisive relationships with other nations and detain people in detention centres.

Both individually and nationally we can be deceived by the short-term attraction of lesser gods and mistake them for God.

our parish this week

we remember

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Churches St Joseph’s cnr Rouse & Stokes Streets Port Melbourne

Our Lady of Mount Carmel cnr Richardson & Wright Streets Middle Park

Sunday Masses 6.00pm (Sat) Mount Carmel 9.00am Saint Joseph’s 10.30am Mount Carmel

Reconciliation after 9.00am Mass Saturday

Carmelite Parish Office 274 Rouse Street Port Melbourne Vic 3207

Telephone 03 9681 9600

After Hours Emergency 0408 754 283

Email parish@sj-mc.org.au

Parish Website www.sj-mc.org.au

Carmelite Website www.carmelites.org.au

Office Hours 9am-4pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday(CLOSED WEDNESDAYS)

Parish Priest Fr Hugh Brown OCarm

Parish Secretary Anne Ierardo (Monday to Thursday)

Community Liaison Sr Geraldine Stapleton csb(Monday/Tuesday & Weekend Mass)

Pastoral Life Co-ordinator Michael Murray (Wednesday/ Thursday)

Finance Officer Shane Harrison (Tuesday - Friday)

Facilities Manager Ken Chaffer

Galilee Regional Catholic Primary School Bank Street South Melbourne Vic 3205

Telephone 03 9699 2928 Principal Simon Millar

Those who are ill or in need of prayer: John Bassett, Sarah Battersby, Karen Brown, Ciaran Byrne, Maureen Dickason, Gary Finn, Lyn Fleming, Gerald Gill, Ivy Hermence, Tony Hyde, Maria & Joseph Jelincic, Maura McKenna, Laura McGuinnes, Margaret McInnes, Betty Molnar, Maria Loc Nguyen, Greg Pringle, John Pringle, Noel Quinn, Rafal Rafalski, Paul Ryan, Katie Ryan, Teresa Sheehan, Sash Carti Somerset-Beauverie, May Spencer, Helen Stanley, Maree Stanway, Ivo Strauss, Jim Sullivan, Bridgid Toohey, Sr Barbara Walsh, Jonathon Will, Tami Yap, Helen York, Roma Zinger.

Those who have died recently: Kevin John Mahony, AM, Elaine Zoch.

Those who anniversaries occur at this time: Beryl and Basil Bamford, Michelina Battista, Barbara Byrne, Eileen Byrne, George Byrne. Adrian Franco, Fr David Kehoe, Mary Kehoe.

Monday 5 August9.00am Mass, both churches2.00pm Funeral Mass for Kevin John Mahony, AM, Mt Carmel

Tuesday 6 August9.00am Mass, Mt Carmel9.00am Morning Prayer, St Joseph’s

Wednesday 7 August - Parish office Closed9.00am Mass, St Joseph’s9.00am Morning Prayer, Mt Carmel

Thursday 8 August9.00am Mass, both churches7.00pm Meditation, Malone Room

Friday 9 August9.00am Mass, both churches9.30am Lectio Divina, The Lady Chapel, Mt Carmel

Saturday 10 August9.00am Mass, both churches6.00pm Vigil Mass, Mt Carmel

Sunday 11 August - 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time9.00am Mass, St Joseph’s10.30am Mass, Mt Carmel

ministers

for your generosity last Sunday

St Joseph’s Carmelite and Parish Offering $980.00Our Lady of Mt Carmel Carmelite and Parish Offering $ 1,354.00

thank you

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10/11 August19th Sunday in Ordinary Time6.00pm Mount CarmelCommentator: Pat Mount

Reader: Abramo Ierardo

Eucharistic Ministers: Janine Brodie, Kathy Mount, Ann Crump Communion to the Sick: N/A

9.00am St Joseph’sCommentator: Ron Cassano

Readers: Gerhard Correa

Eucharistic Ministers: Pablo & Danielle Craievich, Frances Correa

Counters: Ron and Sandra Cassano

Childrens’ Liturgy: N/A

10.30am Mount CarmelCommentator: Marlene Halim

Readers: John Molnar

Eucharistic Ministers: Peter Thomas, Marlene Halim, Margaret Fagan

Childrens’ Liturgy: N/A

Hospitality: Denis Churkovich

in our parish

St Vincent De Paul Quarterly ReportThe SVDP Conference made 336 calls from April to June in Port Melbourne and Middle Park. They provided assistance of $26,749 to clients in the form of Coles vouchers, payment of utilities, whitegoods, furniture etc. Scholarships of Rs 250 each to children in three local schools was also provided. Some children also attended school holiday camp.

It’s different from when I was at school….The design of classrooms in Catholic schools is changing and the latest edition of Catholic Education Today profiles a number of primary and secondary schools where architecturally designed learning spaces make a big difference to teaching and learning. Take home a copy today from the back of the churches.

Divine Mercy Chaplet3.00pm Sunday 4 August 2019

Our Lady of Mount Carmel ChurchBenediction, Adoration before Blessed Sacrament,

rosary and hymns. All Welcome.

August 2019 Parish Men's Dinner6:45 pm Wednesday 28 August 2018,

at O'Connor-Pilkington Rooms, OLMC.Speaker: John Tidey, journalist, author,

'Stories from a bygone Age'RSVP: John Molloy - 9699 2031 Cost: $35

BASP CollectionThank you to everyone who donated to last week’s leaving collection. We were able to raise $334.75 towards the purchase of MYKI cards for the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project.

The hungers of the heart send us into the world seeking nourishment. In many ways we say to each thing “Will you satisfy my hunger?” Our heart finds itself scattered everywhere as we ask each person and possession and each activity to tell us more about the Mystery at the core of our lives.Reprinted from Justice, Peace, Integrity of Creation Commission (Sunday Reflection)

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our parish news

Carmelite Conversations: Teresa of Avila’s Visionary Meditations with Katherine Blyth

10.30am – 12 noon Wednesday 7 August, Carmelite LibraryThis Conversation is about Teresa’s meditations within the interpretive framework of vision. The scriptural references and allusions in meditations form the focus of the presentation.

Through this conversation, which compares meditations with Teresa’s earlier works and other writers who lived in sixteenth century Spain including Francisco de Osuna, Louis de León and John of the Cross, we can explore Teresa’s meditations and their relevance for us today.

Carmelite Centre Program BookingsT: 9690 5430 (leave message if unattended) or registration@thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

via website: www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

The Carmelite Centre is a joint venture of the Carmelites of Australia and East Timor and our Parish of Port Melbourne/Middle Park.

Address: 214 Richardson Street, Middle Park Vic 3206 (Mel Ref 2K C10) T: (03) 9690 5430 Website: www.thecarmelitecentremelbourne.org

The Carmelite LibraryThe Carmelite Library, located in the Carmelite Hall next to the Church, is open on

Tuesdays from 12.00 to 8.00pm and Wednesday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm. t: (03) 9682 8553e: librarian@carmelitelibrary.org website: www.carmelitelibrary.org

Evelyn Underhill: Transfiguring The Gap Between The Seen And The Unseenwith Carol O’Connor

4.30pm - 6.00pm Wednesday 20 August 2019, Carmelite LibraryBorn upper middle class towards the end of the Victorian Era, Evelyn Underhill experienced personally and culturally many changes in her life. When she died, at the beginning of World War II, she left behind a legacy which included books, biographies, addresses, and reviews on mysticism, vocation, prayer and liturgy. In this session we will focus on Underhill’s own story; ponder the uniqueness of this complex woman’s life. Interdenominational at heart, her decision to place herself in the Anglican Church by 1921 never detracted from her underlying Catholicism. Her passion to read and understand the lives of many saints, philosophers and mystics throughout history and in her own time, never dissipated. Underhill came to understand that corporate worship is the wholly human response to the Eternal. For her, God ‘always awakens an energetic Love.’ Life is to be lived in balanced wholeness whereby the sacramental and the practical are to be honoured together. For Evelyn Underhill we are called to nurture a ‘life in which all that we do comes from the centre where we are anchored in God.’

Carol O’Connor is a writer, teacher and the Manager of St Peter’s Bookroom in Melbourne. She has a Masters in English Literature; a particular interest in poetry, meditation and Celtic spirituality; and follows her own mystical path.

Cost: $5 book through www.carmelitecentremelbourne.org or Phone: 9690 5430

Parish Craft GroupOur Craft Group are very grateful to the people in the parish have once again shown their generosity. Our Stall made about $500.00 dollars. We were all very happy with the result.Marianne van den Bogaert

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Reflection on this week’s readingsIn his Spiritual Exercises, St Ignatius Loyola says that pride, riches and power are the three most seductive and destructive temptations in the world. So many conflicts, and their continuance, can be traced to the interplay of this unholy trinity. The so-called reality TV show, Big Brother and its many imitators demonstrate just how far some of our compatriots will go to be famous, to be wealthy or to have a certain clout in the popular imagination.

We should never be surprised when our media culture reflects this back to us, because by watching the programmes, reading the papers and the magazines, listening to the shock-jocks and buying the merchandise, we are part of the problem, not the solution.

In today's Gospel Jesus tells us just how deadly riches and greed can be. Our own experience tells how right He is: think of how many children fight in the playground because everything they see is ‘mine’; the families who have fought over an estate; the number of friends who have fallen out over even small amounts of money; colleagues who no longer speak to each other because of a failed investment; and nations who have gone to war to get what their neighbours have.

The issue with money is not having it, because money, and the health, education and welfare that flow from it are good things, whereas poverty is an evil that God wants wiped off the face of the earth. The problem is what we do with money and what it does to us. Some Christians think that just because they are financially comfortable from legitimate earnings, they do not have to take any responsibility for the world's poor who are often stereotyped as being lazy, war-mongering and irreligious. These images may justify not sharing more of the excess we have, but it does not remove the moral obligation Jesus demands of us today. Of the world's 6 billion people, 1.2 billion of them live on US$1, or less, a day. On average 26,000 children will die today of starvation. We should try telling them they're lazy, war-mongering and irreligious! In an attempt to get rich quickly or to stay rich, most western countries gamble away 10 to 15 times more money than they give to third world development – money that might see markets and wages that are just, and so provide an incentive for work, curtail or prevent some wars and help develop democracy.

When faced with the enormity of the world's poverty, the bad spirit can convince us that it is so large there is nothing that we can do about it. Not true. Every moment of consciousness and each act of goodness toward anyone anywhere is a victory for God's kingdom and will to be done 'here on earth as it is in heaven'.

No one can pretend, however, that sharing is always easy or that throwing money around will solve the world's problems. Everyone who works in the front-line says that the biggest obstacle in the war on poverty is dignity. And dignity, as Jesus reminds us today, has very little to do with money or possessions. Each time we make a claim for our own dignity and we give dignity to people who do not even claim it for themselves, we contribute to the generous and just world Jesus wants. And sometimes that can be as easy as turning the channel on the radio or the TV.

Fr Pedro Arrupe inherited the office of leading the Jesuits four centuries after its founder St Ignatius Loyola died. He once said that, ‘the celebration of the Eucharist is always incomplete while there is hunger in the world.’ Let's pray at this Eucharist that we do not blunt the hard edge of the Gospel. Rather let us accept its power to convert our hearts and minds that we might meet its challenges in regard to bestowing dignity and sharing our possessions with those who have a just claim on them. © Richard Leonard SJ

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OUR LITURGYProcessional Hymn: Heal Me, O GOd

Penitential Rite

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Responsorial psalm Psalm 90: In ev’ry aGe

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Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity!

For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This, too, is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under the sun? What of all his laborious days, his cares of office, his restless nights? This, too, is vanity.

Colossians 3:1-5, 9-11Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at God’s right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed – and he is your life – you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.

That is why you must kill everything in you that belongs only to earthly life: fornication, impurity, guilty passion, evil desires and especially greed, which is the same thing as worshipping a false god; and never tell each other lies. You have stripped off your old behaviour with your old self, and you have put on a new self which will progress towards true knowledge the more it is renewed in the image of its creator; and in that image there is no room for distinction between Greek and Jew, between the circumcised or the uncircumcised, or between barbarian and Scythian, slave and free man. There is only Christ: he is everything and he is in everything.

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gospel

Luke 12:13-21 A man in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance.’ ‘My friend,’ he replied, ‘who appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of your claims?’ Then he said to them, ‘Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns, even when he has more than he needs.’

Then he told them a parable: ‘There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his land, thought to himself, “What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops.” Then he said, “This is what I will do; I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them, and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come; take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time.” But God said to him, “Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?” So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of making himself rich in the sight of God.’

APOSTLES CREED

I believe in God, the Father almighty,Creator of heaven and earth,and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,was crucified, died and was buried;he descended into hell;was crucified, died and was buried;he ascended into heaven,and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty;from there he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church,the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

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Cel: The Lord be with you. All: And with your Spirit.Cel: Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord.Cel: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. All: It is right and just.The Celebrant prays the preface at the end of which all sing:

HOLY, HOLY

mystery of faith

Lamb of God

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Cel: Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes away the sins of the World. Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.

All: Lord I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.

Communion HYMN eye Has nOt seen

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Recessional hymn We are Called

The CaTholiC Parish of PorT Melbourne and Middle Park is CoMMiTTed To Providing a safe and nurTuring CulTure

for all Children and young PeoPle in our Parish.