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‘No Euthanasia’ Sunday - From the Bishops of QLD
“Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is legal in Victoria and
Western Australia. In Queensland, the Law Reform Commission has been asked to draft legislation that would legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD).
Legislation has not come before the current Parliament, but it may in the future, whatever the outcome of the forthcoming election. The Catholic Church is opposed to
voluntary assisted dying. However, the Church strongly supports high-quality palliative care, respect for patient autonomy, preservation of personal dignity and a peaceful end to life. Nobody is morally compelled to
suffer unbearable pain, nobody should feel like a burden, and nobody should feel that their life is worthless.
It is clear from appeals across the world to legalise some form of assisted suicide or euthanasia which in Australia
is called voluntary assisted dying, that people are afraid of losing their freedom, their dignity, their worth, as they face what they believe will be a terrible process of dying.
The Catholic Church maintains — based on its theological and philosophical beliefs on the nature of human beings, and on the empirical evidence of high-
quality specialist palliative care — that none of these things need come true. Freedom, dignity, worth, and minimal suffering can all be achieved. Dying need not be
horrifying. This is not to glorify or minimise how challenging the process of dying is. But it is a process that we as a society and as individuals must face in a way
that respects and preserves those principles of freedom, dignity and the minimization of harm that we all hold dear.
Research also shows, however, that many people do not
understand the Church’s position on end-of-life care. Misunderstandings may lead people to support voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation on mistaken
assumptions about what dying entails and how the Catholic Church teaches one should respond to it. There is confusion about the right to refuse or end treatment,
about the moral legitimacy of advance care planning, about the use of pain-relieving medications, and about when hastening death may be morally acceptable. […]
Regardless of what happens with the proposed bill to legalise voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Queensland,
the Church, tasked by God to care for both the dignity and salvation of individuals and to work for a just and humane society, recognises the need to help people
better understand what choices they already have and what pathways already exist to ensure a dignified and peaceful death. People need assistance — not to end their
lives butat the end of their lives — in ways that they feel fully recognise their autonomy and dignity. Finding ways to improve understanding, access, and assistance may
also have the effect of delaying or preventing the legalisation of voluntary assisted dying. Even if voluntary assisted dying (VAD) should be legalised, then
this important service offered by the Church may help to ensure that voluntary assisted dying (VAD) is seldom utilised. Moreover this service to the People of God, and to all of society, becomes a prophetic voice affirming the
dignity and worth of all life against a belief that a life can be meaningless and purposeless on the one hand or that one’s own freedom is all that matters.
We are challenged now to approach death and the dying
differently, accompanying every person on the way to death and allowing them to love and to be loved to the very end and into eternity. Pope Francis has encouraged
Catholic people everywhere to resist euthanasia and to ensure that the elderly, the young and the vulnerable are not cast aside in what he has called a “throw-away
culture”. Instead, the Pope calls us as Catholics to follow Jesus Christ by accompanying people at the end of their life with all the skill of palliative medicine and all the
compassion of the human heart, since true palliative care embraces the whole person, physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually. That is the ‘care-first’
approach which the Church supports being made available on a statewide basis – an alternative path to that of assisted dying legislation.
To that end the Church is investigating the development
of a training program within Catholic communities to help people better understand what choices they already have and what pathways already exist to ensure a
dignified and peaceful death. […]”
28TH SUNDAY IN ORDIN ARY TIME (Year A) - 11th October 2020
W E E K LY PA R I S H N E W S L E T T E R We are a par ish of the Cathol ic Archdiocese of Brisbane incorporat ing the communi t ies of :
Sacred Heart Church, 63 Maple Street, Cooroy; St Patrick ’s Church, 1 Church Street, Pomona; St Thomas More Church, Ben Lexcen Drive, Sunshine Beach and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, 5 Moorindil Street, Tewantin.
Parish Pastoral and Administrative Office Open on Monday & Tuesday 8am - 12 noon and 1pm - 4pm, Wednesday 1pm - 4pm, & Thursday 8am - 12 noon and 1pm - 2:30pm.
Office Address: 5 Moorindil Street, Tewantin Postal Address: PO Box 111, Tewantin 4565
Office Phone: 5447 1188 (option 1 for office staff) Mass Times line: 5447 1188 (option 3) Emergencies: 0438 705 447 Parish Email: [email protected] Facebook: www.facebook.com/noosacatholic Website: under construction
Please pray for the Sick: Heavenly Father, we ask your blessing upon Susan Lamb, Anne Parlevliet, David Orme, Joan Charman, Charlotte Goeldner, Pat Wark, Ken Hazelton, Clare Bird, Keith Ogilvie, Pat Shannon, James Woods, John Porst, Pauline Sullivan, Andrea Steen, Andrew MacRitchie, Edison Dungo Sr, Grant Smith, Jo Simmons, Kevin Robertson, Bernie Mawn, Matthew Talarico, Judith Harper (O’Toole), Marie Dunn, Shirley Player, Dougie Bruce, Billie Jane Armstrong, Fay Minter, Gregory Minter, Alan Taylor, Helen Conlin, Desley Staatz, Dean & Dianna Shurte, Denise Walters, Pat Kennedy, Ivan & Maria Kolesaric, Jackson Burgess, Anne-Marie Jeffries, Jan Penny, Kay Middleton, Ken Kipping, Barbara Channon, Ken Smith, Chris Leach, Corey Henry, Helen Thompson, David Barson, Betty McKeown, John Ian Hall, Monica Carroll, Gab Carter, Claire Taylor, Ingrid Valk, Bob Burgess, Des Manning, Max Shearer, Margaret Doolan, Doug Horn and all the sick.PLEASE ADVISE THE OFFICE IF ANY OF THE ABOVE NAMES CAN NOW BE REMOVED. Please also Pray for the Deceased: We remember in our prayers all those who died recently and all those whose anniversaries occur at this time especially Marie Miller, Agnes Gibson, Mary Bremford and Gary McErvale.
PARISH DIARY WEEKDAY MASSES
NO BOOKINGS REQUIRED
WEEKEND MASSES BOOKINGS RECCOMMENDED FOR BOOKING INSTRUCTIONS SEE SEPARATE INFO SHEET
Bookings for 24/25 October open Friday 9th Oct and bookings for 31/1 Nov open Friday 16th Oct
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Monday 12th October
Weekday, Ordinary Time 28
Parish Office hours 8am-Noon & 1pm-4pm
8.30am MASS, OLPS Tewantin
5.00pm STCC Pastoral Board Meeting
Tuesday 13th October
Weekday, Ordinary Time 28
Parish Office hours 8am-Noon & 1pm-4pm
8.00am Rosary, Sacred Heart, Cooroy
8.30am MASS, Sacred Heart, Cooroy
Wednesday 14th October
Weekday, Ordinary Time 28
Parish Office hours 1pm - 4pm
1.30pm STM Compulsory Parent Orientation Session for Confirmation 2020
5.30pm MASS, St Patrick’s, Pomona
6.00pm Tewantin Compulsory Parent Orientation Session for Confirmation 2020
Thursday 15th October
St Teresa of Jesus
Parish Office hours 8am-Noon & 1pm - 2.30pm
8.00am Rosary, OLPS Tewantin
8.30am MASS, OLPS Tewantin
Friday 16th October
Weekday, Ordinary Time 28
Parish Office closed
8.30am MASS, OLPS Tewantin
Saturday 17th October
St Ignatius of Antioch
Evening Mass - 29th Sun in Ord Time MASS - TEWANTIN 5PM
LIVE-STREAMED AT 5PM
MASS - SUNSHINE BEACH 5PM
Sunday 18th October
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
MASS - TEWANTIN 8AM
MASS - SUNSHINE BEACH 8AM
MASS - TEWANTIN 10:30AM
LIVE-STREAMED AT 10.30AM
MASS - COOROY 10:30AM
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For accessing live-streaming go to: facebook.com/noosacatholic
PRE-ORDER of Advent and 2021 Individual Devotional Resources The Parish Office is taking orders for the following Advent and 2021 Devotional resources
which will available for pick up from the Piety Stall later this year. Please let the office know if you want any of these publications.
Adore—Advent & Christmas Daily Reflections — $5.00 each God’s Word 2021— Daily Reflections Liturgical Diary — $20.00 each
Columban Catholic Art Calendar 2021 — $9.00 each Break Open the Word — $25.00 each
Ordo 2021 — $14.00 Each Daily Mass Book 2021 — $25.00 each
HAPPY 55TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Congratulations to Nicky and Fred Austin
on the occasion of their 55th Wedding anniversary which they
celebrated on 9th October.
Aid to the Church in Need is organizing the prayer campaign One Million Children Praying the Rosary. We know how powerful the prayers of children are, they fly like an arrow into the heart of God. How powerful
then is the prayer of the Rosary prayed by millions of children, and adults, all around the world! Join this prayer campaign on the 18th of October. Go to www.aidtochurch.org/one-million-children to learn more.
VINNIES FAMILY SUPPORT CENTRE REOPENED
After months of keeping in touch with its companions by phone and delivering food parcels to front gates, the Noosa-
Tewantin Conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society reopened the doors of its Family Support Centre last Wednesday, September 30. The centre at 8/165 Eenie Creek Rd, Noosaville, is now open at its usual times of Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30am until noon. The centre has introduced many protocols to keep Vincentians and their companions Covid safe and members are looking forward to resuming their role face-to-face. For more information please phone the Family Support Centre on 5449 9980 or after hours on 0400 956 146.
BOOKING IN FOR MASS
If you want to ensure that you have a seat reserved for Mass at the weekend, make a booking online or through the parish office. Go to: https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/ndcp before Saturday 2:30pm or call the office on 07 5447 1188 before Thursday 2:30pm.
PLEASE NOTE: If you book in online AFTER 2:30pm on Thursday before the weekend your name WILL NOT be on the pre-printed Covid entry register when you attend church. This is because the registers are prepared at 2:30pm on Thursday afternoon and printed. You will need to provide the Mass entry monitor with your name and contact details on entry.
PARISH CONTACTS
Parish Office Phone: 07 5447 1188 Emergency Mobile: 0438 705 447
Parish Priest
Rev Fr Jason Middleton
Email: [email protected]
Associate Pastor:
Rev Fr Paul Eloagu
Email: [email protected]
Parish Manager
Mr Fred de Waard - Ph 0429 897 903
Email: [email protected]
Parish Administration
Mrs Elaine Stephenson
Email: [email protected]
Parish Safeguarding Representative
Mrs Jenny Noakes (volunteer)
Email: [email protected]
STOPline Service for confidential disclosures
Phone: 1300 304 550
Email: [email protected]
‘Assisi House’ in Tewantin & Parish Columbarium See Parish Manager
Parish School - St Thomas More Primary
Ben Lexcen Drive, Sunshine Beach
Principal: Mrs Carmel Schaumburg
Ph: 5449 2022
Postal: PO Box 810, Noosa Heads 4567
Email: [email protected]
Catholic College - St Teresa’s Secondary
Sea Eagle Drive, Noosaville
Principal: Mr David McInnes
Ph: 5474 0022
Postal: PO Box 1592, Noosaville DC 4566
Email: [email protected]
Society of St Vincent de Paul:
Store & Depot Ph 5470 2091 165 Eumundi Road, Noosaville 4566
Family Support Office Ph 5449 9980
165 Eumundi Road, Noosaville 4566
After Hours Mobile Ph 0400 956 146
Email: [email protected]
Centacare Catholic Family Services
Bernard House, 21 Cornmeal Parade, Maroochydore 4558 Ph 5430 9300
Ozcare - Home for the Aged
80 Cooyar Street, Noosa Heads
Ph: 5473 6400
Email: [email protected]
Marist Brothers’Community
Ph: 0402 423 208
DISCLAIMER: This bulletin may contain advertisements and articles from parties other than the Noosa District Catholic Parish. Inclusion of these in this bulletin does not represent parish endorsement of the content of these advertisements or articles. The responsibility for the accuracy of the content of such articles or advertisements remains with the person or organisation providing the article or advertisement for inclusion in this bulletin.
Prayerful Remembrance of the Deceased in November
As we approach the feast days of All Saints and All Souls, all the faithful are encouraged to pray for deceased relatives, friends and members of the community. If you would like the names of your deceased loved ones placed in the Books of Remembrance as part of our prayerful intercession for them during the month of November please give the names to the parish office in one of the following ways: phone - 5447 1188, email - [email protected] or write the names on a piece of paper and place them on the collection plates at Mass. Thank-you!
2020 Confirmation Program If your child is in Year 3 (aged 8) or older, is a baptised Catholic, and feels ready for the Sacrament of Confirmation
please note the following important information. The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated on Saturday the 14th of November.
Call or email the Parish Office to request an enrolment form. Enrolment form with payment and proof of Baptism must be received by no later than Wednesday 14th of October. Compulsory Parent Orientation Session: Wednesday 14th October, 1:30pm in STM Centre or 6pm in Tewantin Parish Hall. Commitment to a 1 hour facilitated session with a group for 4 weeks. Rehearsal: Friday the 13th of November - Time TBC. Confirmation Ceremony: Saturday the 14th of November - Time TBC. Contacts: 5447 1188 or [email protected]
WORLD MISSION MONTH Readings – Is 25:6-10, Philippians 4:12-14,19-20, Matt 22:1-14 “The Lord will wipe away the tears from every cheek…”
There are a lot of references to food and banquets in the texts that form today’s Liturgy of the Word. From the first reading’s reference to “rich food, a banquet of fine wines”, through to the Responsorial Psalm’s assurance that the Lord “has prepared a banquet for me/in the sight of my foes”, and the famous parable of the wedding feast, told by Jesus – we are a Church which gathers for spiritual nourishment and we are a Church called to bring practical sustenance to those in need. From these moments of ‘coming together’, we are fed in order to then go forth and share what we have with others. One of the ways available for us, as Catholics, is to support the missionary work of the Pontifical Mission Societies, of which Catholic Mission is a part. During October, we ask for your prayerful and financial contributions. You can send a text to the following mobile number (the rest of the process is quite simple) 0488 854 436 (enter your parish name in the notes), by donating online at catholicmission.org.au/Cambodia or by using the appeal envelopes that are now available at all our churches. There will be a retiring collection on World Mission Sunday (Oct 17/18). In anticipation for all the ways you will help “wipe the tears from every cheek”, we give thanks.
PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF COVID-19
OPENING HYMN: GATHER US IN
Here in this place, new light is streaming, Now is the darkness, vanished away, See, in this space, our fears and our dreamings, Brought here to you in the light of this day. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, Gather us in the blind and the lame; Call to us now, and we shall awaken, We shall arise at the sound of our name. We are the young our lives are a myst’ry We are the old who yearn for your face, We have been sung throughout all of hist’ry Called to be light to the whole human race. Gather us in the rich and the haughty, Gather us in the proud and the strong; Give us a heart so meek and so lowly, Give us the courage to enter the song. Not in the dark of buildings confining, Not in some heaven light years away, But here in this place the new light is shining Now is the kingdom, now is the day. Gather us in and hold us forever, Gather us in and make us your own; Gather us in all peoples together, Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
© 1985 Marty Haugen. GIA Pub. Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-640228
RESPONSORIAL PSALM RESPONSE: I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our heart that we might see how great is the hope to which we are called. Alleluia!
OFFERTORY: A TRUSTING PSALM
Ref: Lord let your mercy be on us As we place our trust in you.
The word of the Lord is faithfulness and love. God’s love can never be measured. God’s beauty is like nothing we have ever seen. So let us place our trust in God. (Ref) The word of the Lord means a patient, gentle God. God’s love can never grow weary. God’s mercy is as though our sins have never been, If we can place our trust in God. (Ref) The word of the Lord is fire burning strong. God’s love can never grow weary. God will seek and save the lost until we all return. So let us place our trust in God. (Ref)
© 1989 Kevin Bates. Arranged by Alister Spence. Copyright agent Willow Connection Pty Ltd All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-640228
Next weekend Readings – 29th Sun in Ord Time (Year A) Is 45:1, 4-6; 1 Thess 1:1-5; Mt 22:15-21
28th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME (Year A) 11th October 2020
COMMUNION: BREAD OF LIFE, HOPE OF THE WORLD
Ref: Bread of life, hope of the world, Jesus Christ, our brother; Feed us now, give us life, Lead us to one another.
1. As we proclaim your death, as we recall your life, We remember your promise to return again.
2. The bread we break and share was scattered once as grain: Just as now it is gathered, make your people one.
3. We eat this living bread, we drink this saving cup: Sign of hope in our broken world, source of lasting love.
4. Hold us in unity, in love for all to see; That the world may believe in you, God of all who live.
5. You are the bread of peace, yu are the wine of joy, Broken now for your people, poured in endless love.
© 1982 Bernadette Farrell . OCP publications. All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LICENSE #A-640228
THANKSGIVING: Time for prayer & reflection
FINAL HYMN: HAIL, QUEEN OF HEAVEN
Hail, Queen of Heaven, the ocean Star, Guide of the wand’rer here below, Thrown on life’s surge, we claim thy care, Save us from peril and from woe, Mother of Christ, Star of the Sea, Pray for the wand’rer, pray for me.
O gentle, chaste, and spotless maid, We sinners make our prayers through thee, Remind thy Son that He has paid, The price of our iniquity. Virgin most pure, Star of the Sea Pray for the sinner, pray for me.
And while to Him who reigns above, In Godhead one, in Persons three, The source of life, of grace, of love, Homage we pay on bended knee. Mother and Queen, Star of the Sea Pray for the children, pray for me.
Tr: John Lingard, 1771-1851 alt. Music: Based in part on a trad English melody M Roger Holland II PD
MEM ACC 3 Save us Saviour of the world, for by your cross and
resurrection you have set us free.
During October, the month of the Rosary, we will sing a hymn in honour of Mary
This weekend Readings – 28th Sun in Ord Time (Year A) Is 25:6-10; Phil 4:12-14, 19-20; Matt 22:1-14
MASS OF ST FRANCIS: Text: Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, ICEL; Music © 2010, Paul Taylor. All rights reserved. Used with permission under ONE LI-CENSE #A-640228