Sunday 25th September 2016 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C

Catholic Parish of Inner Newcastle

Always We Begin Again: (The Benedictine Way of Living)

We gather to celebrate Eucharist at: Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hunter Street, Newcastle West; St Joseph’s Parish Church, Cnr Kenrick & Farquhar Sts, The Junction; Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, Cnr Union St & Tighes Terrace, Tighes Hill; St Laurence O’Toole Church, 125 Broadmeadow Rd, Broadmeadow; St Mary, Star of the Sea Church, 54 Perkins Street, Newcastle

Proclaiming Christ to the communities of the inner city of Newcastle.

Celebrating the Sacraments

Reconciliation is available at Sacred Heart Cathedral: Usually Fridays from 11:00am until 11:55am and Saturdays from 10:30am until 11:00am

Baptisms are celebrated on Sundays, either during or after any of our Sunday Masses. The next Baptismal Preparation meeting will take place in the Parish Office on Wednesday 5th October commencing at 5:30pm. Please contact the Parish Office for more details, or visit the Parish website.

Weddings are celebrated by arrangement, with at least three (and preferably more) months notice. Please contact the Parish Office for more details, or visit the Parish website.

A Sacramental Preparation process runs each year in the Parish for children wishing to complete the celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation as part of the Parish community. Please contact the Parish Office for more details, or visit the Parish website.

The Parish hosts the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults process for those adults wishing to be baptised or be received into the communion of the Catholic Church. Please contact the Parish Office for more details, or visit the Parish website

Parish Staff Fr Andrew Doohan (Parish Priest) Fr Sabu Adimakiyil (Assistant Priest) Fr John Kedari (Assistant Priest) Chris Cootes (Business Manager) Margaret Cox (Reception/Admin) Dr Anne Millard-Daugherty (Music/Liturgy) Rebecca Millard (Sacraments/Admin)

Parish Office 25 Farquhar Street, The Junction PO Box 6, The Junction 2291 P: (02) 4979 1101 F: (02) 4962 4644 E:newcparish@mn.catholic.org.au W:www.newcastlecatholic.org.au

Office Hours The Parish Office is opened Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm, and closed for lunch from 1 to 2pm.

Parish Bulletin Prayer requests and items for the Bulletin should be received at the Office by 5pm on Wednesdays.

Other Pastoral Contacts Lingard Hospital Team Sr Florence Tobin rsj Mercy Pastoral Team Sr Patricia Whitten rsm (02) 4979 1116 St Joseph’s Pastoral Team Contact the Parish Office

St Joseph’s Primary School Mr Peter Treloar (Principal)

Union Street, The Junction NSW 2291 PO Box 183, The Junction NSW 2291

P:(02) 4961 2827 F:(02) 4940 8499 E:admin@merewether.catholic.edu.au W:www.merewether.catholic.edu.au

Holy Family Primary School Mrs Sidonie Coffey (Principal)

Pell Street, Merewether NSW 2291 PO Box 153, Merewether NSW 2291

P:(02) 4963 3009 F:(02) 4963 4065 E:admin@merewetherbeach.catholic.edu.au W:www.merewetherbeach.catholic.edu.au

This past week in the Diocese On Wednesday 21 September around 300 people gathered in the beautiful new school hall at St Mary's, Maitland to celebrate the contribution of religious to the life and mission of the Diocese. The Liturgy included a history of the religious communities in our Diocese, presented in a Ballad written by Ellen Royan rsj. As each congregation was mentioned, those present were asked to stand and lead everyone in singing a hymn associated with their order.

The Daughters of St Dominic from Dun Laoghaire founded St Mary’s, renowned for music, art and literature.

Sound the Great St Dominic Sound the great St Dominic’s praises, raise the song for him who came. Charged to tell the gospel tidings, charged to spread the gospel flame. Lordly errand! Lordly errand!

In Singleton the Ennis Sisters‘ came to bring God’s Mercy in schools and hospitals.

Mother of Mercy Mother of Mercy day by day, my love for thee grows more and more. Thy gifts are strewn upon my way like sands upon the great seashore (x2). Get me the grace to love thee more. Jesus will give if thou wilt plead. And, Mother, when life’s cares are o’er, O I shall love thee then indeed (x2).

The Redemptorists came from Clapham, the Brigidines from Mountrath, and the Brothers of St Patrick.

The Josephites came from Bathurst to Lochinvar and from there spread like weeds across the Diocese.

Lochinvar Hymn Give us grace to stand unflinching ‘Gainst the storms that loom afar. Give us love and power and wisdom. Bless the souls of Lochinvar. Holy Joseph, guard and guide us Make thy children all thine own Dearest patron, lead and guide us To our King’s eternal throne

Finally the Marists brought their acclaim in field and sport and classes.

Sub Tuum Sub tuum praesidium Confugimus, confugimus, Sancta Dei Genitrix, Sancta Dei Genitrix. Nostras deprecationes, Ne despicias, ne despicias In necessitatibus nostris, Sed a periculis cunctis Libera nos semper, Virgo gloriosa et benedicta.

The Parish Diary…(for the week ahead) Twenty-Sixth Week in Ordinary Time

Tuesday—27th September Memorial of St Vincent De Paul 7:30am Mass @ The Junction 8:20am Mass @ The Cathedral

Wednesday—28th September 7:30am Mass @ The Junction 8:20am Mass @ The Cathedral

Thursday—29th September Memorial of Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael 7:30am Mass @ The Junction 10am National Police Remembrance Liturgy @

The Cathedral 8:20am Mass @ The Cathedral

Friday—30th September Memorial of St Jerome 8:20am Mass @ The Cathedral 10:15am Mass @ The Junction 11am Exposition @ The Cathedral (until 12pm) 11am Reconciliation @ The Cathedral (until

12pm) 12:05pm Mass @ The Cathedral

Saturday—1st October Memorial of St Therese of the Child Jesus 9:20am Mass @ The Cathedral 10am Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help @

The Cathedral 5:30pm Vigil Mass @ The Cathedral 5:30pm Vigil Mass @ Broadmeadow

Sunday—2nd October Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30am Mass @ St Mary’s 8am Mass @ Tighes Hill 9am Mass @ The Junction 9:30am Mass @ The Cathedral 9:30am Italian Mass @ Broadmeadow 11:30am Polish Mass @ The Cathedral 5pm Mass @ The Cathedral

"Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I

am suffering torment in these flames." Luke 16:24

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Richard Leonard SJ

Maybe the reason this Gospel-story has become so famous is its extraordinary attention to detail; the regal colours of Dives' clothes, his exquisite tableware and fine dining. It all conjures up a vivid picture. At the same time Lazarus' world is equally well described. Begging at the gate, Lazarus' only companions are the dogs and his sores. Even giving names to both these characters adds to the power of the parable. These people are not just a rich man and a beggar. They are Dives and Lazarus, well-known to everyone in the village. All these years later they are well known to us too. Not the actual characters, of course, upon whom the story could be based, but all the Lazarus' and Dives' in our own villages. It is an important task for us to decide which one of these characters we think we are.

Recently the United Nations published a paper which creatively described the world as a village of 100 people. Staying consistent with the international statistics the United Nations tells us that our global village looks like this. There are 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 North Americans, 8 Africans, 4 South Americans and an assortment fills up the final four places. There are 52 women and 48 men of whom only 30 are fair-skinned and 70 are dark-skinned. 91 are heterosexual while nine are gay. Only one of us has a University education and yet six people in our village own 64% of our town's wealth and all of them are Americans. 80 people live in substandard housing without electricity, clean water and sewerage. 70 of us

cannot read and 50 suffer from malnutrition. This village analysis sorts out very quickly who

Lazarus and Dives are in our world. As hard as life is for some of us and as much as we struggle financially, we are, comparatively, dressed in purple robes and feasting off fine linen.

The UN report goes on to say that 1.2 billion people live on $1.50 a day or less. And while we might be personally very generous in assisting the poor in a variety of ways, our Dives-like countries are not. Australia only gives $98 per person per year to aid third world development. Canada gives $108, the UK gives $112 and the USA's third world development budget is just $67 per person per year. And for all the moral scorn sometimes heaped upon Scandinavia, Denmark is the most generous country in the world, giving $649 per capita last year.

The point of Jesus' story in today's Gospel is not to remind us that there are poor people at our gate. It is to implore us to listen and learn. Some Catholics want to vigorously uphold dogma and liturgical laws but do not seem to care one iota for the social teaching of the Church which instructs us that our love of God is truly found in deeds not words.

Given the way we keep repeating the sins of the past and we allow the rich to get richer while the poor die before us, it seems we Christians, who have had the benefit of the Law, the Prophets and even a man coming back from the dead, will not change the structures that enshrine global injustice. Why?

There is no way around it. Such a change would involve real sacrifice on our part and we are not prepared to pay the price. Jesus, however, reminds us today of the consequences in both our selective deafness toward Lazarus' cry and our lack of action; our comfortable passivity has implications for this world and the next.

In Your Charity, Please Pray for: RECENTLY DECEASED: Kathleen Joan Lawrence, Terry Tamplin

ANNIVERSARIES: Kay Varnum, George Ah-Foon, Sylvie Dorasamy, Joseph and Rita McCabe, Pat Francis, Lucille Glover, Bishop Toohey, Ken Hill, Geoffrey Williams, Norm French, Patricia Reay, Frank Tobin, Margaret Smith

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK: Betty O’Heir, Milce Lettoof, Mavis Smith, Colleen Carney, rsj

KID’S CORNER

Sunday September 25 is Social Justice Sunday. Pick up a Social Justice statement from the church this week. Or come along @ 1:00pm to the Social Justice Marketplace 'A Place at the Table: Social Justice in an ageing society' at Diocesan Offices, 841 Hunter Street, Newcastle West. There will be Aged Care stalls and presenter workshops on a variety of topics. P 4979 1111

OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE THE PARISH

Thursday September 29 from 9.30am to 1.00pm. Women of Mercy. “Sitting with the sick, hanging out with the poor, caring for the ‘least ones’, sharing the tenderness of God”. By popular demand Val O’Hara rsm will present this time of reflection a second time. Cost: $20.00 light lunch, included. Mercy Spirituality Centre, 26 Renwick St Toronto details/bookings P 49591025, E mercytoronto@mercy.org.au

Monday 10 October @ 9.30 AM Mental Health Week Workshops at Broadmeadow parish hall. Presentations, art therapy and entertainment. P 4979 1111 to RSVP.

Sunday 16 October @ 1.00 PM Confirmation Workshop - take 2 in the Toohey Room, Diocesan Offices, 841 Hunter Street, Newcastle West. P 4979 1134.

Friday 21 October @ 7.00 PM “Resilience” at St Therese's Hall, Royal St, New Lambton. A Springtime Dinner to mark the Golden Jubilee of St Therese's Church New Lambton. Guest Speaker: Gail O'Brien. Cost $30 Contact Gail 0410 523 165.

Wednesday 26 October @ 11.30 AM Diocesan Schools Mission Mass at St Francis Xavier Church, Belmont. "Blessed are the Merciful" Presider: Bishop Bill Wright RSVP Mark Toohey (02) 4979 1141, 0408 020 511.

PARISH NOTICES

Monday 26 September from 7pm-8.30pm, The Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement and review of Social Justice in the Marketplace. St Benedict Centre 25 Farquhar St, The Junction.

Wednesday September 28 @ 6pm View, Chew, and Chat meets for dinner, viewing and discussing the last

two episodes of Robert Barron’s Catholicism series (9 & 10). We’ll also plan what we’ll do next!

Come join us. St Benedict Centre, 25 Farquhar St, The Junction. All welcome.

Friday 30 September @ 11am Hospital Pastoral Care Team meeting at the Parish centre.

Wednesday 5 October @ 6.45pm Senior Catholic Singles Friendship Group monthly dinner for October will be held at the Aromas on Darby 113-125 Darby Street Cooks Hill. Aromas is a BYO alcohol restaurant, new members are very welcome. Please RSVP Kay 0412 648868

Friday October 7 @ 11am First Friday Food and Fellowship. St Benedict Centre, 25 Farquhar St, The Junction. Volunteers to cook and/or serve the soup are welcomed!

Friday October 7 from 5pm, First Friday Fish and Chips at Bar Beach. BYO everything. All welcome. Enquires, Chris 49265194

Sunday 9 October @ 6pm St Bene’s Book Club meets at the Parish Centre, 25 Farquhar St, The Junction to discuss Liane Moriarty’s novel The Husband’s Secret. All welcome! A light dinner is served. Walk in the Footsteps of Bishop James Murray Saturday 29 October from 8.00 am As part of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle's 150 year celebrations, there will be a guided pilgrimage in the footsteps of Bishop James Murray who arrived in Maitland in 1866. The pilgrimage will cover 12.4 kms (approx.) for average ability walkers. The route will begin in Morpeth, head to St Joseph's East Maitland and end triumphantly at St John's Chapel (approx 3.45pm). Pilgrim registration will be required for safety and hospitality. There is no cost. www.mn.catholic.org.au/150yearspilgrimage

TIME WELCOMERS MINISTERS OF THE WORD

MINISTERS OF COMMUNION COUNTERS

Vigil C & D Burke M Alexander, J Woods L Outram, C & D Burke, J Hayden, Volunteer x 1

Denise & Helen

9:30am D Riley, R Bowdler M Grimer, K Morante P Owens, B A Yanis, T O’Dowd, J Askew, Volunteer x 1

5:00pm V Walker Br David, L Walters A Brierley, V Walker, C Platt, Volunteer x 2

NEXT WEEKEND’S ROSTERS–SUNDAY OCTOBER 2ND, 2016

TIME WELCOMERS MINISTERS OF THE WORD

PROCESSION WITH GIFTS

MINISTERS OF COMMUNION

7:30am Rebecca P. Clark & K Frasca Mantach Family G Meyer, C Prider, R Colman

TIME WELCOMERS MINISTERS OF THE WORD

PROCESSION WITH GIFTS

MINISTERS OF COMMUNION

PRAYERS OF FAITHFUL

8:00am Annmareè Turner & Barry Reed

Rosie Hayes Mary Samwell & Margaret Crockett

Sr Val O’Hara, Annmareè Turner & Anton Podgorelec

Dorothea Norman

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL

ST MARY’S

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY

TIME WELCOMERS MINISTERS OF THE WORD

PROCESSION WITH GIFTS

MINISTERS OF COMMUNION

COUNTERS

9:00am John & Christine Cavenagh

C Cavenagh & L Josue

Radford Family J Cavenagh, P Dagwell & R Radford

C & R Perrin , T & J Collins

ST JOSEPH’S

ST LAURENCE O’TOOLE

TIME READER RESPONSORIAL PSALM SPECIAL MINISTER

This Week: 5:30PM Maree Martin Sr Pauline Murray rsm Sr Carmel Hanson rsj

Next Week: 5:30PM Sr Carmel Hanson rsj Sr Monica Sinclair rsm Ted Tully

COUNTING TEAM This Week: Judy & Denis Johns Next Week: G. Haggerty, R Cathcart, T. Casey

WELCOMING TEAM: This week: Robin Cathcart & Eileen Howard Next Week: Eileen Howard & Robin Cathcart

Coordinator: Renee Radford