Welcome to the Parishes of

St Columbkille’s and St Joseph’s PO BOX 304 Woonona NSW 2517

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Parish Secretary: Lisa Bates Office Address: PO BOX 304, Woonona NSW, 2517 Office Hours: Wed & Thurs 9:30am- 3pm Email: bulli@dow.org.au PLEASE NO VISITS

or corrimal@dow.org.au TO THE OFFICE

Cemetery (Corrimal) Christine Phillips 4283 6954

St Columbkille’s School Principal: Mr Brad Colquhoun St Columbkille’s School PH: 4284 7987

St Joseph’s School Principal: Mrs Jen Charadia St Joseph’s School PH: 4283 1111

Fr Patrick Vaughan Bulli Parish Office PH: 4284 3000

Fr Geoff Allen Corrimal Website: saintjosephsbulli.com

parishes@corrimalbulli

Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ; last weekend we celebrated Good Shepherd Sunday & world Day of Vocations. We are all called to pray for vocations to the priesthood & religious life and certainly to pray for our nation & the world caught in the Coronavirus pandemic. The words of Pope Francis’ message call us to reflect on our journey now. Our usual commitments & activities have been stripped away, for a time, leading to fear & grief for all of us. This presents an opportunity to pray & to hear the quiet voice of Jesus our Good Shepherd more clearly. Pope Francis said in his message “The image of the disciples crossing the lake can evoke our own life’s

journey……. The remarkable experience of Jesus & Peter during a stormy night on the Sea of Galilee

(Mt 14: 22-33)” The dark storm of the pandemic leads us to Jesus who can heal, calm & bring His peace to our world. Pope Francis goes on to say “Something similar takes place in the hearts of those who, called to follow the

Teacher of Nazareth, have to undertake a crossing and abandon their own security to become the Lord’s disciples. The risk involved is real: the night falls, the headwinds howl, the boat is tossed by the waves, and

fear of failure, of not being up to the call, can threaten to overwhelm them. The Gospel, however, tells us

that in the midst of this challenging journey we are not alone. Like the first ray of dawn in the heart of the night, the Lord comes walking on the troubled waters to join the disciples; he invites Peter to come down

to him on the waves, saves him when he see him sinking and, once in the boat, makes the winds die down.

“ Take heart, it is I; have no fear”( Mt 14:27)

Wishing all Mothers a blessed and happy day. Yours in Christ , Fr Patrick

Fifth Sunday of Easter 10th May 2020

Happy Mothers Day

ONLINE MASS SCHEDULES AROUND THE DIOCESE Sunday Masses with Bishop Brian and priests from around the diocese are available online

at dow.org.au or diocese’s Facebook page

For weekend and daily Masses Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays 12:10 p.m. Mass from the Cathedral House, Wollongong Tuesday—Sunday Masses from Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church, Rosemeadow Saturdays 5pm and Sundays 10am Mass from St Mary MacKillop Catholic Church, Oran Park Daily Mass from St John the Evangelist Catholic Parish, Campbelltown, St Paul’s Parish, Moss Vale, St Michael’s Thirroul and from Bishop Robert Barron’s Chapel Daily 7 p.m. Mass and Sunday 10 a.m. Mass from Mary Immaculate Catholic Church, Eagle Vale Mass for You at Home is available across the Ten Network on Sundays at 6:00 a.m. and any time on TenPlay Daily Mass on Demand is available at CathNews YoutTube channel Daily 1 p.m. Mass and Sunday 11 a.m. Mass from the Archdiocese of Melbourne

The following resources are also available on our website (dow.org.au) to assist parishioners with their home worship:

Liturgy and prayer resources: Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Journey Catholic Radio is a weekly radio program and podcast developed by the diocese all about faith, hope, love and life. It includes music, Gospel reflection, interviews with the best Catholic presenters in Australia. Faith Circles is free weekly resource that contains the upcoming Sunday Gospel reading as well as a reflection on the Gospel (usually by Pope Francis) with questions for discussion and prayer points. Family Resources LITURGY HELP: includes daily prayers, readings, prayer services, the Sunday Office, commentaries, homilies, reflections as well as Gospel based activities and resources to support personal and family prayer.

liturgyhelp.com/aus/woll/pray (this free during this time of self isolation) CAtHFAMILY: brings you a selection of activities, prayer rituals, crafts and recipes for free from their website. https://cathfamily.org/cathkids-faith-unlimited/ A weekly a two-minute animated reflection on the Sunday reading, questions to stimulate discussion, a simple activity and prayer .

*ALL PARISH MEETINGS ARE TO BE SUSPENDED AT THIS TIME *No HOLY COMMUNION is to be given to anyone including the sick (exception Viaticum) celebrated according to the procedures recommended by medical personnel. *Holy Communion is NOT to take Holy Communion to the Sick.

* All Baptisms are postponed along with all Sacramental preparations. *PLEASE CONTINUE TO SOCIAL DISTANCE and KEEP GOOD HYGIENE PRACTICES.

IN RESPONSE TO EVER EVOLVING COVID-19 CRISIS THE OFFICE WILL ONLY BE OPERATING ON WEDNESDAY’S AND THURSDAY’S FROM

9:30AM TO 3PM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. For safety and hygiene reasons for parishioners and others we ask that you DO NOT COME TO THE OFFICE and only contact us by phone or email.

We realise this is a difficult time for everyone, but we must abide by the directives of the government to keep everyone safe and well. Please hold onto your Planned Giving Envelopes and Project Compassion Boxes until we resume parish Masses again. Please do not bring them to the office. Planned Giving options are available for parishioners via Direct debit by going to the Diocesan website www.dow.org.au/plannedgiving

Sunday Mass: with Fr Patrick inside St Joseph’s parish church In these restrictive times, we can still attend our regular Mass. The Parish Mass will be uploaded to the Website at 5pm each Saturday. Gather the family and go to www.saintjosephsbulli.com and set your own time to view the weekend Mass. The Mass will stay on the website for the whole week. We thank Michael and Cristene Barnett for all their time and effort into putting the Mass online together.

Please continue to pray for: All in our hospitals and Nursing homes and those affected by the Bushfire, Drought and COVID- 19 Crisis Our Sick: Margaret Hawkins (Joey), Caroline Tichener Bloom, Hannah Kavanagh, Maureen Bradbury, Jim & Bernice Murrie, Eunice Michaleff, Susan Hughes, Annette Miller, Sue Daniels, Brian Brennan. Our Recently Deceased: Mark Murphy, Clare Parkes, Mark Harris Anniversaries: Mary Whipp, Irene Wailes, Daniel Zulian, Ferdinando Zulian, Mario Beltrami Our Deceased: William Crinnion, Georgina Jones, David Park, Ken Cox, Spiridione & Garifalia Naccari, Rita and Dom Stefani, Ron McCudden, Judith Kuit, Riordan Family, Desmond and Sylvia Trainor, Jeanette and Nevile McRae, Socrates and Ida Lomnau, Siro Rostirolla, Ganassin and Zanetti families, all our deceased Mothers and all the Holy Souls

Update on Sacramental Programs for St Columbkille’s Parish Corrimal Earlier this year we scheduled and sent our enrolment forms for the Sacraments of

Confirmation, Reconciliation and Holy Communion.

Unfortunately due the current circumstances, the directives from the Government and

Diocese of Wollongong have meant that these have been postponed until restrictions

have been lifted. If you have filled out the enrolment forms please send them into the

parish office either by mail or email. That way we can create a data base, so as to

contact parents and carers as soon as we have been advised to go ahead with Sacramental preparation

classes and new dates are set. Parish postal and email details are on the front page of this bulletin.

Adoration Live streamed Wednesday Evenings: The NET team will be hosting a Holy Hour every Wednesday ay 6:30pm. This will be a

time set aside for adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

It will be broadcast via: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cymdow/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wollongongnetteam/

COMING SOON: YOUTH MINISTRY ONLINE- SMALL GROUPS In the coming weeks the Net Team will be inviting all young adults aged 18-35 to

join our Faith Circles on Zoom. It is a weekly group that brings together people

of faith who are open to an encounter with Jesus Christ, through sharing and

reflection on the Gospels. Contact the NET team on Facebook “CYMW” or

Instagram “wollongongnetteam”

Blessing Prayer for Mothers on Mothers day Lord God, through your creative power you give birth to all and love all as a mother loves her child. Bless these women who are mothers. When they worry for their child, hold them in your care. When they work to provide a home for their child, stand beside them. If they mourn for their child, hold them in your love. When the joy of their child overtakes them, laugh with them. Bless them, and may they each be a living symbol of your love; a symbol to their children and all who they encounter. We make this prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Position Vacant - Director, Office for Evangelisation, Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay This is a full-time role based at Pennant Hills. The Director supports Bishop Anthony Randazzo to achieve his

pastoral priorities; provides strategic direction; leads the Office for Evangelisation to meet present and

future opportunities for Christian mission. The Office for Evangelisation works across the areas of Pastoral

Planning, Sacramental Life, Liturgy and RCIA, Life, Marriage and Family; Catholic Life, Mission, and Faith

Formation; Catholic Youth and Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. It works closely with the parishes of the

Diocese and provides significant support as they carry out the mission of the Catholic Church.

Go to Broken Bay Diocesan website: https://www.bbcatholic.org.au/people/positions-vacant

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

FIRST READING: A reading from the Acts of the Apostles

About this time, when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenists made a complaint against the

Hebrews: in the daily distribution their own widows were being overlooked. So the Twelve called a full meeting

of the disciples and addressed them, ‘It would not be right for us to neglect the word of God so as to give out

food; you, brothers, must select from among yourselves seven men of good reputation, filled with the Spirit and

with wisdom; we will hand over this duty to them, and continue to devote ourselves to prayer and to the service

of the word.’ The whole assembly approved of this proposal and elected Stephen, a man full of faith and of the

Holy Spirit, together with Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus of Antioch, a convert to

Judaism. They presented these to the apostles, who prayed and laid their hands on them. The word of the Lord

continued to spread: the number of disciples in Jerusalem was greatly increased, and a large group of priests

made their submission to the faith.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Lord let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

1. Ring out your joy to the Lord, O you just; for praise is fitting for loyal hearts.

Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp, with a ten-stringed lute sing him songs. (R.)

2. For the word of the Lord is faithful and all his works to be trusted.

The Lord loves justice and right and fills the earth with his love. (R.)

3. The Lord looks on those who revere him, on those who hope in his love,

to rescue their souls from death, to keep them alive in famine. (R.)

SECOND READING: A reading from the first letter of St Peter

The Lord is the living stone, rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to

him; set yourselves close to him so that you too, the holy priesthood that offers the

spiritual sacrifices which Jesus Christ has made acceptable to God, may be living

stones making a spiritual house. As scripture says: See how I lay in Zion a precious cornerstone that I have

chosen and the man who rests his trust on it will not be disappointed. That means that for you who are believers,

it is precious; but for unbelievers, the stone rejected by the builders has proved to be the keystone, a stone to

stumble over, a rock to bring men down. They stumble over it because they do not believe in the word; it was the

fate in store for them. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation, a people set apart to

sing the praises of God who called you out of the darkness into his wonderful light.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! I am the way, the truth, and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father, except through me. Alleluia!

GOSPEL: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God

still, and trust in me.

There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should

have told you. I am now going to prepare a place for you, and after I have

gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that

where I am you may be too. You know the way to the place where I am

going.’ Thomas said, ‘Lord, we do not know where you are going, so how

can we know the way?’ Jesus said: ‘I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

No one can come to the Father except through me.

If you know me, you know my Father too. From this moment you know

him and have seen him.’ Philip said, ‘Lord, let us see the Father and then

we shall be satisfied.’ ‘Have I been with you all this time, Philip,’ said Jesus to him ‘and you still do not know

me? ‘To have seen me is to have seen the Father, so how can you say,

“Let us see the Father”? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?

The words I say to you I do not speak as from myself: it is the Father, living in me, who is doing this work.

You must believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; believe it on the evidence of this

work, if for no other reason. ‘I tell you most solemnly, whoever believes in me will perform the same works as I

do myself, he will perform even greater works, because I am going to the Father.’