this week’s diary · 2016-02-12 · captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind....
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Dear Parishioners, It was great to see so many people at Mass on Ash Wednesday. I estimate that 1200 adults and 300 school children attended Mass at Sunnybank, and 400 adults and 250 children at Acacia Ridge, as we began Lent with the ceremony of placing ashes on our forehead. The three areas we look at during Lent are: our prayer – can I spend more time in prayer, at Mass, praying the rosary, attending Stations of the Cross, Adoration of the Eucharist, or quiet prayer every day; fasting – giving up something, food, drink, impatience, telling lies, being dishonest, gossiping about others or living an immoral life; almsgiving – what we give up we give away, possibly to Project Compassion (envelopes are at the back of the Church). During Lent, we have an extra Mass at Sunnybank at 6.30 am Friday and at Acacia Ridge at 6.30 pm Friday (following the Stations of the Cross at 5.45 pm). Also at Sunnybank during Lent on Saturday at 10:30 am, we have Mary's Way of the Cross (Stations of the Cross). At the Sunday Masses during Lent, we will pray some parts of the Mass differently. At the Penitential Rite we will pray the Confiteor (I Confess). We will sing “Lord Hear My Prayer” at the beginning and the end of the Prayers of the Faithful. After Communion, we will have a few minutes of quiet prayer and reflection. The Archbishop has issued his Lenten Pastoral Letter which will be heard at the Masses this weekend. There is a copy of the Lenten Pastoral Letter on the back table of the Church. The Archbishop will be the presenter at Our Lady of Lourdes Church this Thursday at 7.00pm for Faith 16. The first session of Faith 16 was well attended at Mt Gravatt last Thursday evening. See page 2 of this Newsletter for more information. There are still some Little Black Books (for adults) and Little Purple books (for children) available on the back table of our churches for daily prayer and reflection during Lent. The Bible Study Group is meeting in the media room at Sunnybank every Tuesday from 9.00 am to 11.30 am. You are invited to join this group to learn more about our scriptures. Aria Angels which is for children from birth to Pre-school, begins this Wednesday, 17th February. This is a very lively group of children and their parents or grandparents who enjoy song, prayer and play. See page 3 of this newsletter for more details. The Multicultural Mass at Sunnybank will be celebrated on Sunday, 6th March at 10.30am. Please come along in your National Dress and bring some of your nation’s food to share after Mass. God bless, Fr Dan
This week’s diary
Monday 15th February
8.15 am Morning Prayer - S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank Tuesday 9th February
8.15 am Morning Prayer S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 7.00 pm Silent Adoration - Sunnybank Wednesday 16th February
8.15 am Morning Prayer S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.30 am Rosary Thursday 17th February
8.15 am Morning Prayer - Sbank 9.00 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Mass - Acacia Ridge 7.30 pm Meditation - S/bank Friday 18th February
6.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 8.15 am Morning Prayer - S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.30 am Benediction - S/bank 9.45 am Legion of Mary - Media 6.30 pm Mass - Acacia Ridge Saturday 19th February
8.30 am Mass - Acacia Ridge 10.30am Mary’s Way of the Cross
- Sunnybank 11.00am Reconciliation - S/bank 5.00 pm Reconciliation - S/bank 6.00 pm Mass - Sunnybank 6.00 pm Mass - Acacia Ridge Sunday 20th February
6.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 8.00 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Mass - Acacia Ridge 9.15 am Mass - Sunnybank 10.30am Mass - Sunnybank 11.30am Mass - (Spanish) A/R 6.00 pm Mass - S/bank Youth
Priests
Fr Dan Ryan (Parish Priest: Sunnybank) Fr Terence Nueva (Parish Priest: Acacia Ridge - 3277 2252 Email: [email protected]) Fr Ladu Yanga (Associate Pastor) Fr Dominic Orih (Associate Pastor)
Parish Office (adjacent to OLOL Church, Sunnybank)
Monday to Thursday, 8.30 am - 4.00 pm; Friday 9.00am - 4pm. Ph: 3345 3766 Fax: 3344 3343, Mass Times: 3345 1831
Post: PO Box 32, Sunnybank, QLD 4109.
Web: www.olol.com.au Email: [email protected]
Deanery website: http://www.parishes.bne.catholic.net.au/south/
First Sunday of Lent: 14th February
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Sunnybank & Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Acacia Ridge
Acacia Ridge, Algester, Archerfield, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Kuraby, Macgregor, Parkinson, Robertson, Runcorn, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 121 Mains Road, Sunnybank Our Lady of Fatima Church, 350 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge
Please note that Reconciliation at Our Lady of Lourdes Church will
continue only while there are people waiting.
Next Sunday - 2nd Sunday of Lent: Genesis 15: 5-12, 17-18; Philippians 3: 17 - 4: 1; Luke 9: 28-36
FAITH 16 Guest Speaker: Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Archbishop Mark was born in Melbourne and did his primary and secondary schooling in South Australia and Victoria. At tertiary level, he was awarded an Arts degree from Melbourne University, majoring in English and French language and literature. His studies for the priesthood were undertaken at Corpus Christi College in its various locations during the years 1969-74. He was ordained priest in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne on 18 May 1974 and served as an Assistant Priest in various Melbourne parishes before studying Scripture at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. After four years in Rome and Jerusalem, he returned to Melbourne to teach Scripture. Three years later he returned to Rome for doctoral studies, after which he taught in Melbourne, where he was eventually made Master of Catholic Theological College. In late 1997 Archbishop Mark was appointed to work in the Holy See’s Secretariat of State. Four years later he returned to Australia and was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne. In 2004 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture and Chair of the Roman Missal Editorial Committee of the International Committee for English in the Liturgy. He was subsequently appointed to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. In 2006 he was appointed Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn, and in April 2012 he was named Metropolitan Archbishop of Brisbane where he was installed on 11 May 2012.
YEAR OF MERCY PRAYER
Lord Jesus Christ, You have taught us to be merciful like the heavenly Father, and have told us that whoever sees you sees Him. Show us your face and we will be saved. Send your spirit and consecrate every one of us with its anointing, so that the Jubilee of Mercy may be a year of grace from the Lord, and your Church, with renewed enthusiasm, may bring good news to the poor, proclaim liberty to the captives and the oppressed, and restore sight to the blind. We ask this through the Intercession of Mary, Mother of Mercy, you who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit forever and ever.
Amen.
YEAR OF MERCY FROM POPE FRANCIS
Mercy is the very foundation of the Church’s life. All of her pastoral activity should be caught up in the tenderness she makes present to believers; nothing in her preaching and in her witness to the world can be lacking in mercy. The Church’s very credibility is seen in how she shows merciful and compassionate love. The Church “has an endless desire to show mercy.” Perhaps we have long since forgotten how to show and live the way of mercy. The temptation, on the one hand, to focus exclusively on justice made us forget that this is only the first, albeit necessary and indispensable step. But the Church needs to go beyond and strive for a higher and more important goal. On the other hand, sad to say, we must admit that the practice of mercy is waning in the wider culture. In some cases the word seems to have dropped out of use. However, without a witness to mercy, life becomes fruitless and sterile, as isolated and hidden in a barren desert. The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggle of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope. [Misericordiae Vultus, No.10]
Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Year C
Introduction: In today’s readings, we are reminded of our faith in a God who identifies with us in our common humanity and our struggles. First Reading: Deuteronomy 26: 4-10 We hear of the confession of faith of the people in a God who fulfils his promises.
Second Reading: Romans 10: 8-13 Faith’s spotlight is centred on the person of Jesus: personal trust and allegiance to Him is the pathway to salvation. Gospel: Luke 4: 1-13 Through being drawn in to the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, we hear of Jesus who shows his solidarity with our struggling humanity through his openness to be tested.
A VOCATION VIEW: The world tempts us to grab all we can. Even food becomes more when it is given than when it is taken. Follow Jesus: be a giver. Be with me Lord when I am in
trouble.
PROJECT COMPASSION SUNDAY
Doney and her family have often gone months without enough to eat in their remote village Malawi. Today they are building new livelihoods, improving health and growing
literacy to create paths towards a better future. Please donate to Project Compassion 2016 and help people in
remote areas of Malawi harness their strengths.
www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion 1800 024 413
Your Prayers Are Asked For:
recently deceased: Nathan, Alice Picardal, Trevi D’Silva, Nancy Wilson, Pat Enright, Marjorie Powell, Ana Powell, Mrs Lim, Jimmy Lim.
those with anniversaries & others who have died: Alessandra Pimpinella, Paul Tsinh Bich, Paul Trinh An, Maria Trinh Nga, Cecilia Gaveran, Charles Tyson, Garth Brown, Joseph Keenan, Olive Widrose, John Mentink,
those who are unwell: Albert Kessler, Tony Harrison, Queenie Sinclair, Johnson Pereira, James White, Steven Ferenc, Gladwyn Catchlove, Rosanna Collins, Fortunata Villiarino, Maria Barrientos, Theresa Buckley, Sayed Deen, Clancy Horsington, Frank Topic.
the Continuing Sick: Isabella, Jason Carroll, Barry, Iris George, Win Murray, Patricia Edwards, Beverley Armstrong,
Ray Greenwood, Don & Peggy Ayres, Terry Barrett, Elizabeth Boase, Vaughan Boucher, Maxine Brady, Jeremy Carroll, Marcela Castino, Hilary Collins, Dennis, Mary Dixon, Brian Elliott, Winifred Elliott, Flora Ellis, Malcolm Ellis, Chris Le Fevre, Jan Fooks, Gerry, Mary and George Goode, Betty Grace, Ray Greenwood, Norma Ives, Stephen Ives, Marianne Kellett, Baby Luka Kello, Blanche Kiel, Ah Chan Lee, Brian Mann, Ronnie McGregor, Mika Matesa, Vlado Matesa, Dragica Matesic, Danica Maydanski, Bianca Miller, Catherine, Miller, Trevor Muller, Jim Neehouse, Sulin Ngui, Alice O’Grady, Jenny Reed, Peter Ruhland, Robyn Scaysbrook, Noelene Schafer, Annaleese Stewart, Istvan Vadasi, Nicholas Valle, Rosemary Yow.
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$350,000
$300,000
$250,000
$400,000
$200,000
$116,269 $150,000
Reshaping
The
Future
Sunnybank (Church Refurbishment & Renovations)
$100,000
$25,000
$50,000
BAPTISM - Junior Programme (Grades 3-6) Please contact the Parish Office for an interview time with Sr Stella. Interviews will commence in April and the programme will begin in May.
Invitation To Celebrate
Our Lady of Lourdes
Multicultural Mass, Sunday 6th
March at 10.30am Wear your National Dress. Showing the Diversity of the Seven Continents! Bring your wonderful foods to the Festival of Food at Paloma after Mass!
Contact the Parish Office on 3345 3766 if you want to entertain us with your cultural songs and dance at Paloma.
BIBLE STUDY 2016
The group will begin the year by covering the Archdiocesan Lenten Program, for the six weeks of Lent. You are warmly invited to join the group at any time (no prior Bible knowledge needed). OLOL Media Room, 9.00 am to 11.30 am every Tuesday. Morning Tea and conversation until 9.45 am, followed by the actual study time until 11.30 am. Contact Sue & Rob Scott 3711 5921.
“MARY’S WAY OF THE CROSS” Stations of the Cross at OLOL
Saturday, 13th February - 19th March 2016 at 10.30am
"Mary's Way of the Cross" unites us to the sorrowful heart of the Mother of Jesus as she walks the torturous road to Calvary with Him. Her deep reflection on the meaning of her beloved Son's suffering and crucifixion will strengthen our own faith journey. Her total surrender to God's Will reminds us to Trust and Rejoice in His salvation for us.
“Where you there when they crucified my Lord?”
Aria Angels Term 1 Brisbane South Deanery
Term 1 Dates: Wednesdays - 9.00 for 9.30am start - 11.00am February, 17th and 24th; March, 2nd, 9th, and 16th (Cost: $6.00)
Contact Anne Scott 0419 642 490 / Parish Office 3345 3766.
Sunnybank Social Justice Community Scourge of Poker Machines
Pope Francis stresses “Let us not forget that “responsible citizenship is a virtue, and participation in political life is a moral obligation”” (Evangellii Gaudium 220). St Vincent De Paul and the Sunnybank Social Justice Community members consider poker machines to be a major cause of abject poverty and misery for families in our community. Poker machines are highly addictive and are designed to give players a sense of being “winners” when in fact they are losers. It is time for the government to consider implementing harm minimisation measures aimed at helping poker machine addicts by:
Reducing the addictive features which are designed into these machines.
Repealing the red tape legislation
Limiting poker machine players to one dollar per bet
Introducing mandatory pre-commitment (as recommended by the Productivity Commission)
What can I do? Tell your friends about it. Talk about it. Contact your local MP and express your concern.
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER - CUBA Friday, 4th March 2016
9.30am for 10.00am
The Anglican Church will host this year’s service at the Algester Anglican Church, 362 Algester Road, Algester.
PARISH STAFF & CONTACTS
Pastoral Associate
Stella Noskoff rsj [email protected]
Parish Office Staff
Karrin Halliday Parish Manager
Michelle DeAmbrosis Secretary
Tam Nguyen (Accounts)
Caring Coordinator Bernadette Christian
Unite Youth/Young Adults Coordinators
Steven & Eloise Bird 0403 182 617
Centacare - Sunnybank Aged Care Community Program Manager
Jennifer Vanarey 3216 9554
Paloma Reception Centre 3345 6666
www.palomacentre.com.au
OLOL School, Sunnybank Principal - Mark Badke
3345 0700
OLOL OSHC Co-ordinator - Sarubh Malviya
3344 3064 [email protected]
OLOF School, Acacia Ridge Principal - Damian Gambley
3275 1152
St Stephen’s School, Algester Principal - Phil Manitta
3711 4911
St Stephen's OSHC Co-ordinator - Victoria Hickling
3711 9291 [email protected]
St Thomas More College, Sunnybank Principal - Peter Elmore
3323 4600
Soubirous Place Coordinator -
Sr Bridgid Courtney RSM 3344 3481
Sunnybank Parish Groundsperson Natalie Langer
Housekeepers: Therese Prygiel Louise Weston
Latino American Chaplaincy
Fr Martin Ignacio Gutierriez (Chaplain) 0481 118 521
Marina Castellanos (Secretary) 0481 168 748
office@hispanoamericancommunity. com.au
Office: Tuesday & Wednesday 9.15am - 3.00pm 3277 6367
If you missed out on Friday night
never fear!! EDGE will be on again
on the 26th of February from
7-9pm in Paloma
EDGE is a youth group for those in grade
6-8, new people are ALWAYS welcomed.
It is a place where young people can grow up
together. Have fun, make friends, learn about
the faith in a fun and relevant way and explore
issues that impact them.
The BBQ is on this Sunday!!! A donation for a sausage and bread and $1.00 for a drink!
All donations go towards Unite youth and young adult ministry, thank you for your
generosity.
Life Nites is on THIS SUNDAY!!
Sunday 14th of February 2016
7:00-8:45pm in Paloma
Office Olympics… it will be epic!
LifeNite is a youth group for those in grade 9-12, new people are ALWAYS welcome. It is a place where young people can come together create lifelong friendships,
have fun and learn about how the faith can be relevant in your life! It’s a place where the tough questions can
be asked and real answers are given!
Summit continues on Tuesday the
16th of February for all those in
grade 9-12.
We meet weekly on Tuesday
afternoons from 4-5pm at the
Coffee Club at
Sunnybank Plaza.
This group gives us an opportunity
to go deeper in our faith and ask
the tough questions as well as
prepare ourselves for the upcoming
Sunday.
Come along and check it out!
Roster for the Next Youth Ministered
Mass Sunday 21st of February
MUSICIANS: M. Kearney, C. Lanojan, R. Rivera
SINGERS: K. Lee, F. Lee
READERS: C. Cabanatan, W. Madassery, S. Luate-Wani
OFFERTORY: G. Roe, R. Guerra
ALTAR SERVERS: K. Hall, E. Chambers, M. Chambers SPECIAL MINISTERS: J. Manimog, C. Micale, M. Rodriguez, S. Rodriguez, E. Guerra, S. Powell, S. Robb
BBQ: No BBQ Piety Store: Closed
Are you 18-35 years old? Do you want your faith to be unleashed in your life? Do you want to know more? Come along on Tuesday the 1st of March at 7:30pm and meet other young adults who are exploring their faith, want to go deeper or just want to give the whole ‘God thing’ a go.
One body, many parts... If you weren’t able to fill in a ministry form last weekend, there’s still time!! Forms
are available at the back of the church, pick one up and see how you can be involved. If you are already on the roster PLEASE fill in a form just so we know that you still
want to be involved =) If you still wanted to donate money to UNITE youth and young adult ministry there
are envelops at the back of the church that you can place your money in and put it in any collection.
Thank you for all your support!