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Welcome to the Cathedral Parish of
SAINTS MARY & JOSEPH
132 DANGAR St (PO Box 2025)
ARMIDALE 2350 PH 6772 2218 [email protected]
www.smjcathedral.org.au
Faithful to the Teaching of the Apostles
Faithful to Prayer
Faithful to the Breaking of the Bread
Alive in the Community of the Spirit
Sharing what we have with those in need
Acts 2:42-46
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A/1) Sunday 26th February 2017/Psalter Week 4
LITURGY THIS WEEK SATURDAY: 9.15AM; 6PM VIGIL MASS SUNDAY: 8th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8AM; 10AM; 5.30PM O’CCC Youth Mass MONDAY: 7AM; 10.30AM Funeral Mass for Maria Cavallaro; 12.30PM CATHEDRAL TUESDAY: 7AM; 9.15AM CATHEDRAL
WEDNESDAY: ASH WEDNESDAY (Day of Fast & Abstinence)
7AM; 9;15AM; 12.30PM; 5.40PM CATHEDRAL; 9.15AM DLS CHAPEL
THURSDAY: 7AM CATHEDRAL; 9.15AM OLA CHAPEL Eucharistic Adoration to follow 10AM-10PM; 5.40PM CATHEDRAL
FRIDAY: 7AM; 9.15AM; 5PM STATIONS OF THE CROSS; 5.40PM CATHEDRAL
SATURDAY: 9.15AM; 6PM VIGIL MASS SUNDAY: FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 8AM; 10AM; 5.30PM
SACRAMENT of PENANCE
FRIDAY: 5-5.30PM SATURDAY: 11.30AM-12NOON; 4.30-5.30PM
LENTEN PRAYER GROUPS Wednesdays 11.30am in the Holy Family Parish Centre commencing 8th March. Thursdays 8am at O’ Connor Catholic College 67721666. Thursdays 7.30pm
Email [email protected] or phone 6772 2218. There is a cost of $8
CHOIR PRACTICE in preparation for Holy Week and
Easter…. There will be no practice THIS Saturday the 25th Feb
but WE WILL RESUME next Saturday 4th March at 11am in the
Cathedral.
OUR SPECIAL EFFORT THIS LENT 2017
STATIONS OF THE CROSS
commencing this Friday 5pm…lead by the
O’Connor leaders: Madeleine Murtagh,
Eliza Clark, Drew Thomas, Tom Frazier,
Damian Roff & Regina Menz…. next
Friday St Mary’s Primary: Chloe Lincoln,
Nick Newsome and Claude Toakley….
‘40 FAMILIES FOR 40 DAYS’
LITURGY DURING LENT There will be extra masses during lent to allow for families to attend… don’t forget
‘40 FAMILIES FOR 40 DAYS’
signup forms on pews from this weekend.
ROSARIES THIS WEEK: MON 27TH FEB, 12 noon Angelus
followed by the rosary prior to the 12.30pm Mass; TUE 28TH FEB in the home of Carmel Rogers, 8 Werrina Cres at 4pm; WED 29TH FEB, 12 noon Angelus followed by the rosary prior to the 12.30pm Mass.
OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS…
This Sunday’s 5.30pm Mass will be a Family Mass
with participation from O’Connor Catholic College.
There will be two Family Masses at the Cathedral
per school term:
Sunday 26th February; 26th March; 28th May; 25th
June; 20th August; 17th September; 12th November;
and 10th December.
ALTAR SERVERS FOR HOLY WEEK &
EASTER LITURGIES…preparations are now
beginning for the Holy Week and Easter Liturgies.
Families who have rostered altar servers are asked to
please contact the Parish Office of your availability for
these Services. Thank you. 6772 2218.
HOW DO WE “DO” LENT IN OUR PARISH 2017??
Catechumens prepare for sacred Christian
Initiation at East Vigil…….
Join the ‘40’ Families for Forty Days by
bringing your family to attend one of the daily
Masses Monday to Friday during Lent…families to
commit to one Mass during the 40 days of Lent.
Signup forms will be available on the pews.
By joining one of the Lenten programs
advertised.
Purchase a copy of ‘Five Minutes with the
Word’, $2 – daily readings through Lent.
By joining “Sunday Afternoons in Lent” -
(Scripture reflection with the priests) – register at
Parish office. (Fr Tim McCarthy Meeting Room) ….
The sacrament of Penance/ Confession/
Reconciliation during Lent.
By Fasting and Abstaining on Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday (and abstaining from
meat on all the Fridays of Lent! In response to the
Bishop’s call for us to make reparation for sin of
Child abuse in the Church).
By attending the Stations of the Cross on
Friday evenings at the Cathedral 5pm & then Holy
Mass
Put something ‘violet coloured’ up at home
to remind the family – 40 days of Lent.
By giving up something we like and putting
the money toward PROJECT COMPASSION.
Reading reflectively Pope Francis’ Lenten
Message 2016…. https://smjcathedral.org.au/blog-362
Caritas BBQ dinner Thurs 2 March 5.30-
7.00pm at St Anne’s Hall in St Mary’s School
grounds. Visitor from the Fijian People’s Network. $2
gold coin donation and there will be sausage
sandwiches + salads. RSVP to Naomi 6771 8700 of
CCD COLLECTION… $2400 was raised for the
Catechetical Fund…Thank you for your kind
donations.
COLLECT YOUR
PROJECT COMPASSON
BOX at Cathedral
entrance …. Caritas BBQ dinner Thurs 2 March 5.30-
7.00pm at St Anne’s Hall in St Mary’s School
grounds. Come & meet Simiti a visitor from the
Fijian People’s Network. $2 gold coin donation and
there will be sausage sandwiches & salads. RSVP to
Naomi 6771 8700 at [email protected]
FIVE FIRST SATURDAYS DEVOTION TO OUR LADY. Next Saturday, 4th March, following the 9.15am Mass in the Cathedral.
CATHOLIC PEACE AND JUSTICE GROUP
Next meeting Tuesday 28th February at 5.30pm in the Fr Tim
McCarthy Meeting Room.
WORLD DAY OF PRAYER - Philippines
Friday 3rd March at St Peters Anglican Cathedral.
Theme: Am I being unfair to you? Members of our Filipino
congregation are urged to attend and will participate in the
service. Everyone is welcome. Morning tea will follow.
Sponsored by the CWL. There will be a collection to
support “Trauma Counselling for Women in the Philippines.
ROSTERS THIS WEEKEND
6PM 8AM 10AM 5.30PM WELCOMER WClark TFlynn Chapmans Turleys READER KMcMahon CHooper SChapman O’CCC
AMay FMiron CChapman O’ CCC
JWard DLatham AHallman O’ CCC
ROSTERS NEXT WEEKEND WELCOMER RDavis Spiller Driscoll Chin READER JAtchison SMiron LHanrahan JRoff
MAtchison ARogers JHanrahan DRoff
NBrennan NRamazan MEdgley MBeeby
REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THIS WEEK: RECENTLY DECEASED: Maria Cavallaro (Funeral Mass Mon
27th Feb 10.30am in the Cathedral), Agnes Nyankeh (Ghana), Br Kevin Moss cfc, Wallace Rae, Fr Fred Bliss SM (NZ), Marguerite McCarthy, Kathleen Rae (England), Cecily Brack Qld), Rodel Dahiroc, Pauline Beryl Worthington (Murwillumbah), Shiv Ludher
ANNIVERSARIES: Doug Sibraa, Stan Hunt, Ian Kennedy SICK:
Carol Goodhew, Ghodsi Amini, Mark Norman, Susan Maye, Michael Zhu, Michael Moloney, Aeron Ryan, Helen Hesketh, John Fleming, Laurie Fahy, Blake Ross, Gemma Milliken, Joseph O’Brien, Deacon Peter Harrison, Frederic Koelmeyer, Kay Robertson, Maureen Veitch, Maria Selvey, Eleanor Pankhurst, Kay Goodwin, Norma O’Brien, Anne Simpson, Silvia & Ralph Bowles, Justin Post, Dean Doran, Alice Payne, Jane Obbem, Gladys Navarrete, Desiree Redlich, Alexandra Curtis, Margaret Doherty, Fr John Carey, Marie Trevanion, Michelle Owens, Sheetal Patel
SUPPORT YOUR PRIESTS AND YOUR PARISH: 1ST COLLECTION (supports the clergy):
BSB: 082-105 Acc. No: 001023527 2ND COLLECTION (supports the Cathedral and parish):
BSB: 082-105 Acc. No: 001006225 (Reference with your Planned Giving Number and your name)