KEMPSEY - Macleay Valley Catholic Parish
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KEMPSEY - Macleay Valley Catholic Parish
All Saints, Kempsey St. John’s, Willawarrin Star of the Sea, Crescent Head St Patrick’s, Smithtown Our Lady Star of the Sea, South West Rocks Liturgy of the Word The Baptism of our Lord WEEKDAY MASS - 11th to 15th January Monday 11th NO MASS Tuesday 12th Wednesday 13th Location 5.30pm Mass followed by Exposition & Benediction Kempsey 8.00am Smithtown Mass Smithtown Thursday 14th 9.30am Mass 6.00pm Crescent Head Mass Friday 15th Kempsey Crescent Hd 9.30am Mass Kempsey Crescent Head 14th January Reading: M Eller Linen: G Steinmetz Flowers: S Kyle Offertory: Eller Family Cleaning: R Western 1st Reading: Location Date Time Crescent Head 14th January 6.00pm Willawarrin 28th January 6.00pm Saturday 6.00 pm Kempsey & SWR Sunday 7.30 am South West Rocks Sunday 9.30 am Kempsey 2nd Reading: St Paul 2:11-14;3:4-7 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm Kempsey Sunday Before Mass South West Rocks Tuesday 5.50pm to 6.20pm Kempsey Smithtown Weekly Roster John said: He who is to come is mightier than I; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Alleluia! He will be a servant, one who, though mighty, is gentle, one who is chosen by the high God yet committed to the needy and the marginal, one who is the proclaimed Son of God and who still attends to the least within the human community. He may have come from an insignificant village like Nazareth, but he was anointed with the Holy Spirit and with power. Episcopuss Wisdom Exits are on the way OUT……... Readers Beryl Boccanfusso Isabel Browne Betty Green Tony Corley Paula Tamblyn Margaret Goodwin Offertory Procession Peter Scott Barbara Barbour Tech / Commentator Jill Bishton Patricia Cullen Malcolm Ptolemy No Children’s Liturgy during school holidays Activity Sheets available at back of church Recorded Music Recorded Music Bruce & Roslyn Caldwell – Gloria McGee Cleaning The passage from Isaiah indicates the kind of messiah that God intends Jesus to be. FROM THE CATACOMBS: Sunday 17th Jan 9.30am Mass Music This Christological feast brings to a close the Christmas season that reveals who God is for us and who we are to be for others in Christ. The baptism of Jesus inaugurates his ministry as the messiah of God. Alleluia, Allelluia! Saturday 16th Jan 6.00pm Mass Children’s Liturgy Sunday only The Baptism of our Lord –Year C Gospel Acclamation: “Whatever hour god has blessed you with, take it with grateful Hand” Saturday Hospitality 10th January, 2016 FROM THE CATECHISM: SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Ministers of Eucharist Fr Paul Gooley & Fr Joe Holloway Oh, bless the Lord, my soul! WEEKEND MASS - 16th & 17th January, 2016 Kempsey Welcome to the Catholic Communities of the Macleay Valley Responsorial Psalm: Gospel: Luke: 3:15-16, 21-22 Other Mass Locations: Wednesday Before Mass Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 52-58 Marsh St (P.O. Box 3007) West Kempsey NSW 2440 Phone: 65625182 Fax: 65625716 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvcp.org.au South West Rocks Saturday Sunday Reader 1st Saturday Sunday Reader 2nd Saturday Sunday Reader 3rd Saturday Sunday Offertory Procession Minister of Eucharist Cleaning Saturday Sunday Saturday Sunday Sunday Home Rosary 16th & 17th January 2016 Anne Adams M Henshaw Anne Adams M Henshaw J Passmore P Dikinson P & N Reilly M Henshaw Anne Adams Lynn Wise M&C Cunningham Brady Family For whom did the messiah of God come? He came for people who were broken and suffering, blind or imprisoned. He came for people who are so easily pushed to the margins, beyond our view, where the circumstances of their lives will not trouble us – the homeless, the unemployed, the abandoned children, the helpless elderly, the mentally and chronically ill. He also came to people who, like Cornelius, do not belong to our inner circles, people who for any number of reasons threaten us, people we might actually despise. He came for the strangers among us, those who have different cultural customs, those who worship in different ways. He came for people we have pushed out as well as for those we have refused to let in. The messiah of God came for all people without distinction. St Joseph’s Primary Kemp Street Kinder to Year 6 After School Care Vacation Care Ph: 6562 5501 St Pauls College Sea Street Kempsey Years 7 to 12 Ph: 6562 7200 Vincent Court Care of the Aged Leith Street Ph: 6562 6062 Recently Deceased: Macleay menALIVE Weekend for Men Beverly Baddock Gerald Jeffery Alma Giddy Therese Crotty Albert Hillman Jerrod Egan John Single Bill Blewitt What are you doing on the 5th & 6th March, 2016? Could you benefit from a weekend featuring talks, personal testimonies, opportunities for discussion, and space to reflect? Since menAlive commenced in 2003, thousands of Catholic men have been encouraged and inspired at weekends across Australia. Now, a menALIVE weekend is being organised in Kempsey, conducted by experienced leaders from MAT. Anniversary: Ainsley (Ena) Clarke Warwick Clarke Kit Eakin Teddy Pond Jim Tedd Richard Brady Enquiries Leo Hauville Ron Walker 6562 1083 6563 1762 Special Masses: Pregnancy Assistance A Pregnancy Assistance Line is available throughout NSW 24hrs a day for the cost of a local call for country callers. Ph 1300 792 798 Tiny Teddies Playgroup 1st Thursday of each month 9.30 to 1.30am The Underhill Family Joyce Clarke The Burge Family The Merrell Family Archbishop A Fisher Jim Hanrahan Lyle Stollery SOUTH WEST ROCKS Catholic Ladies Social Group Wednesday 3rd February at 10.00am in Boronia Gardens Hall, Lawson Street, SWR. Please bring a plate to SHARE Rosary & Adoration Meet every Thursday from 8.00am to 9.00am In the SWR Church. Prayer Group South West Rocks Nursing Centre on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from 10.30am \ All of January there will be Saturday Vigil Mass at SWR starting at 6.00pm as well as the usual 7.30am Sunday Mass KEMPSEY:Rosary Cenacle: Thursday - 4.30pm Rosary for our Country: After 9.30 Mass on Fridays at Mercy Chapel. Rosary: Sundays at 8.55am. For more information please contact:Rhonda Henry on 6562 5386. Catholic Leader & Catholic Weekly: On sale at South West Rocks and Kempsey. $2.00 per copy. Baptism Preparation Night: The next preparation night will be on Wednesday 3rd February 7.30 pm in the Parish Meeting Room. (located behind Kempsey Church) St Joseph’s School Hall in Kemp Street $2.00 per family BYO Morning Tea New Members Welcome Please contact the Parish Office to advise of your attendance. Our leaders for this meeting will be Bruce & Maureen Morris. Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Baptism of Our Lord. This brings to an end the season of Christmas. The Church recalls Our Lord's second manifestation or epiphany which occurred on the occasion of His baptism in the Jordan. Jesus descended into the River to sanctify its waters and to give them the power to beget sons of God. The event takes on the importance of a second creation in which the entire Trinity intervenes. In the Eastern Church this feast is called Theophany because at the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan God appeared in three persons. The baptism of John was a sort of sacramental preparatory for the Baptism of Christ. It moved men to sentiments of repentance and induced them to confess their sins. Christ did not need the baptism of John. Although he appeared in the “substance of our flesh” and was recognized “outwardly like unto ourselves, he was absolutely sinless and impeccable. He conferred upon the water the power of the true Baptism which would remove all the sins of the world: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him Who takes away the sin of the world” Many of the incidents which accompanied Christ's baptism are symbolical of what happened at our Baptism. At Christ's baptism the Holy Spirit descended upon Him; at our Baptism the Trinity took its abode in our soul. At His baptism Christ was proclaimed the “Beloved Son” of the Father; at our Baptism we become the adopted sons of God. At Christ's baptism the heavens were opened; at our Baptism heaven was opened to us. At His baptism Jesus prayed; after our Baptism we must pray to avoid actual sin. Excerpted from Msgr. Rudolph G. Bandas