St Christopher’s Cathedral Parish, Canberra 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A

St Christopher’s Cathedral Parish, Canberra
30th Sunday in Ordinary
Time, Year A
25/26th October 2014
Weekend Mass Times
St Christopher’s Cathedral (SCC)
Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn
Archbishop: Most Rev Christopher Prowse DD STD
Vicar General: Mgr John Woods
Acting Administrator: Fr Varghese Vavolil
St Peter Chanel’s Church: Fr Peter L’Estrange SJ
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON: Let the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice; turn to the Lord and his
strength; constantly seek his face.
Cnr Franklin & Furneaux Streets,
Forrest (Manuka) ACT
Sunday: 8.00am, 11.00am,
5.30pm
St Peter Chanel’s Church (SPC)
Cnr Weston & Loch Streets,
Yarralumla ACT
Saturday: 6.00pm Vigil
Sunday: 9.30am
Weekday Mass Times
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Monday: 12.15pm
Tuesday to Friday: 6.45am,
12.15pm
Saturday: 12.15pm
St Peter Chanel’s Church
Tuesday: 5.30pm
Thursday: 10.00am, following
9.30am Adoration
Reconciliation
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Thursday: 6.00 - 6.30pm
Saturday: 11.00am - 12noon
St Peter Chanel’s Church
RESP. PSALM. R: I love you, Lord, my strength.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my
Father will love them and we will come to them. Alleluia!
COMMUNION ANTIPHON: We will ring out our joy at your saving help and exult in the
name of our God.
As a parish we pray for…
Those to be baptised Victoria Damo, Levi Muscat, Spencer Dowling
Those who are ill Hazel Lamdin, Frances Beattie, Terry Conlan, Henry Friend, Janet Meaney, Gwen Winchester, Elizabeth Hall, Melanie Swan, Ana Marko, Timothy Batinich,
John Wilson, Rachel Capps, Fr Phil Harding
Anniversaries of death William Stanislaws James Duffy, Dorothy Whitfield, William Patrick Boyle
Tuesday: 6.00 - 6.30pm
Saturday: 5.15 - 5.45pm
Recently deceased Sr Mary Esler RSM
Perpetual Novena to Mary
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Special intentions Sammy Calago (RIP), Ralph, Allan & Leo Biggs (RIP)
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Wednesday: 6.00pm
Holy Days this week
Anointing Mass
First Thursday of the month at St
Peter Chanel’s Church, 10.00am
Mass for the Anointing of the
Sick.
Tue 28 Oct
Fri 31 Oct
Sat 1 Nov
Sun 2 Nov
Sts Simon & Jude, Apostles
Day of Penance
All Saints
All Souls
Feast (red)
(green)
Solemnity (white)
(violet)
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Baptisms by appointment on
second and fourth Sundays at St
Christopher’s and on third Sundays at St Peter Chanel’s.
Weddings by appointment on
Saturday afternoons.
Liturgy of the Hours: Psalter Week 2
Parish Office: Cathedral Presbytery, 55 Franklin Street, Forrest ACT 2603
Tel: (02) 6295 9555, Email: [email protected], Website: www.stchristophers-act.info
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am-12.15pm, 1.15-5.00pm; Parish Secretary: Jacinta Smallhorn
OUR PARISH
PARISH MINISTRIES
Director of Music
Jaki Kane
School of Religion
Muriel Joseph
PPC Chair
Keith Baker
Pastoral Care Practitioner
Elizabeth Porra
Young Adults Leaders
Jonathan Lee & Genevieve Nicoll
Accounts
Linda Casella & Karina Widjaja
Lector/EMHC Coordinators
Edwina & Mark Hyman
Maintenance Manager
Pieter van Gent
Devotional Groups
in our Parish
Serra Club
Encouraging and affirming vocations to
Priestly and Consecrated life
RCIA The Cathedral parish’s RCIA (Rite for Christian Initiation of Adults) program
for 2014/15 has commenced but is still open to new participants. If you are or know
someone who is interested in exploring entrance into the Catholic Faith, please feel
free to come along or extend the invitation; sessions occur on Thursday evenings at
7.00-8.30pm at the Cathedral Presbytery (55 Franklin Street, Forrest; entrance at
main/front door, on Franklin Street side).
MGL ORDINATIONS TO DIACONATE & PRIESTHOOD All are welcome to
attend the upcoming Ordinations to the Diaconate of MGLs Isuru Weliwatte and
Lenin Thenamirtham, and to the Priesthood of MGL Izak Belyanan, at St Christopher’s Cathedral on Friday 14th November at 7pm.
NOVEMBER: MONTH OF THE HOLY SOULS During the month of November
the 12.15pm Mass on Fridays at the Cathedral will be set apart for your intentions.
November Mass Offering envelopes have been placed for collection in both churches. You may inscribe the names of your dear departed on an envelope with your offering and put it in the collection basket or hand it in at the Parish Office. The All
Souls chapel at the back of Cathedral is open from around 6.30am-6.30pm every day
for you to pray for your departed family and friends., and is a quiet place to be still
and reflect.
MISSION SUNDAY
Every diocese throughout the world is encouraged to undertake a
World Mission Sunday
appeal in their parishes
for the support of the
Church’s global mission
activity. Please give generously; envelopes are
available in the pews for
this weekend of
25/26th October.
Cathedral Young Adults
Animating parish and Archdiocesan life
through prayer and event participation
Jesus Youth
Catholic charismatic youth reaching out
to other young people
Good Shepherd Prayer Group
Renewing spiritual life through regular
charismatic prayer and seminars
Syro-Malabar Rite
Our Catholic brothers and sisters following the East Syrian Rite liturgy
Legion of Mary
Sharing the faith through charitable
works and Marian spirituality
Spanish community
Meeting for Mass in Spanish together
one Sunday every month
African community
Meeting for Mass together one Sunday
every month
St Vincent de Paul
Assisting people in need and combatting
social injustice in our community
Christian Meditation
Meeting regularly for silent contemplation in an ecumenical context
For contact details of any of these
groups, inquire of the Parish Office.
LITURGICAL MINISTRIES ROSTER
Lectors
Extraordinary Ministers of Eucharist
Mass
25/26 October
1/2 November
25/26 October
1/2 November
6.00pm
(SPC)
Frances Bulbrook
Mike Nash
July Blundell
Sheila van Gent
Frances Riordan
Margaret Phelan
Mary Debus
Sue Buckingham
8.00am
(SCC)
Liza Quinn
Mineke Peerboom
Phil Pocock
[Assigned]
Tony Pelle
Mimma Memmolo
Betty O’Brien
9.30am
(SPC)
Colliss Parrett
Therese Jordan
Gloria Osborne
Lynn Chan
Keith Baker
Gwen Winchester
Gwen Winchester
11.00am
(SCC)
Maria Noronha
John Austen
Edwina Hyman
Ceciley Matthews
Liz Porra
Ines Marcetta
Jacqueline Hipwell
Mark Hyman
5.30pm
(SCC)
Jeanette D’Souza
Emma Buckham
Damien Balachandran
Marcelle Disanayake
Rene Sutherland
Tony Croke
Wilfred & Margaret
Lawrence
OUR ARCHDIOCESE & BEYOND
MT CARMEL RETREAT CENTRE Day retreat 1st November: “Love and Beauty: St Teresa’s poetry, a resource
to bring love and beauty to our life of faith today.” Presenter: Fr Greg Burke OCD. Cost: $20. Time: 930am400pm. Where: Mt Carmel Retreat Centre, 247 St Andrews Road, Varroville NSW 2566. Please bring own
lunch (tea and coffee provided). Inquiries to 8795 3400 or
[email protected], or visit
www.carmeliteretreats.com.au.
‘GUINNESS AND GOD’ Tuesday 11th November:
“How pornography is ruining your life”. Melinda Tankard Reist, the co-founder of Collective Shout, is an author
and speaker on the objectification of women and girls.
She will be exploring the impact of pornography on our
daily lives and culture. Venue: King O’Malley’s Irish Pub
in Civic. Dinner and some live music from 6.30pm, talk
starting at 7.30pm. For more info email
[email protected] or call 6163 4300.
TWILIGHT SPIRITUALITY SEMINARS Presented by
Shane Dwyer (CatholicLIFE) at the Rheinberger Centre,
Yarralumla, 5.30pm-7pm on Wednesday 29th October,
$10 at the door. To register: CatholicLIFE on 6163 4300
or at [email protected].
‘THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE’ An address by
Francis Sullivan (CEO Truth Justice and Healing Council) at Holy Family Church, Gowrie, Tuesday 28th October, 7pm-8.30pm. Francis will present an overview of the
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child
Sexual Abuse, including: * an update on what the Truth
Justice and Healing Council is doing; * insights into how
the Church leadership is working with the Council, and
where to from here. There will also be time allocated for
questions from the floor.
L’ARCHE GENESARET invite you to attend their Open
Prayer next Monday evening, 27th October, from 6.30pm
to 8pm at St Alban’s Anglican Church, Lyons. All welcome. Enquiries to 6282 9066.
A FUNDRAISING CARD DAY with proceeds to L’Arche Genesaret will be held on Monday 1st December at
the Canberra Bowling Club, Hobart Avenue, Forrest from
10am to 2pm. Cost: $20 per head, including tea, coffee,
lunch, wine/juice. If you would like to attend and can
arrange a table of 4 to play a card or board game, please
contact Di 6241 2658 or Mary 6258 1739. RSVP by 26th
November.
ST BENEDICT’S, NARRABUNDAH warmly invites all
to a Healing Mass, with special attention to praying for
the healing of mental health and addictions of all kinds.
When: Friday 7th November, 5.30pm. “I came that you
might have life, and have it to the full” (Jn 10:10).
ST THOMAS MORE FORUM Thursday 30th October, 7.30pm-9pm, 30 White Crescent, Campbell. Rev Fr
Maurizio Pettena CS, Consulter to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care to Migrants and Itinerant People, will speak on “The Church and Asylum Seekers and
Refugees”. Hear how Catholic teaching highlights a broad
awareness of the context of forced migration, as well as
the weaknesses and ambiguities of the strategies that the
international community and national states have developed in response to the phenomenon. To register: www.stthomasmore.org.au/Forum/upcomingforums.html or Sharon on 6163 4300.
ANNUAL CATECHIST MASSES with Archbishop
Christopher are coming up soon and all Catechists,
family and friends are welcome. Details: 7th November
Cootamundra @ 12pm, 2nd December Gowrie @ 6.30pm,
3rd December Narooma @ 11am, 10th December
Crookwell @ 12pm, 11th December Cooma @ 12pm.
RETREAT DAY AT ST CLEMENT’S on the Spirituality of Charles de Foucauld - conducted by Fr Peter Ryan
CSsR: 7-9th November. To book: Jacqueline Donohue
on 6251 3950 or Maria Noronha on 0413 617 390.
Sts Simon & Jude: Feast Day 28th October
Jude is so named by Luke and Acts. Matthew and Mark
call him Thaddeus. He is not mentioned elsewhere in
the Gospels, except, of course, where all the apostles are
mentioned. Scholars hold that he is not the author of
the Letter of Jude. Actually, Jude had the same name as
Judas Iscariot. Evidently because of the disgrace of that
name, it was shortened to “Jude” in English.
Simon is mentioned on all four lists of the apostles. On
two of them he is called “the Zealot.” The Zealots were a
Jewish sect that represented an extreme of Jewish nationalism. For them, the messianic promise of the Old Testament meant that the Jews were to be a free and independent nation. God alone was their king, and any payment of taxes to the Romans - the very domination of
the Romans - was a blasphemy against God. No doubt
some of the Zealots were the spiritual heirs of the Maccabees, carrying on their ideals of religion and independence. But many were the counterparts of modern terrorists. They raided and killed, attacking both foreigners
and “collaborating” Jews. They were chiefly responsible
for the rebellion against Rome which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD70.
(http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/
Saint.aspx?id=1182)
Readings of the Day - Thirtieth Sunday, Year A
First Reading: Exodus 22:20-26 If you are harsh with the widow or the orphan, my anger will rage against you.
The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell the sons of Israel this, “You must not molest the stranger or oppress him, for you lived as
strangers in the land of Egypt. You must not be harsh with the widow, or with the orphan; if you are harsh with them,
they will surely cry out to me, and be sure I shall hear their cry; my anger will flare and I shall kill you with the sword,
your own wives will be widows, your own children orphans.
“If you lend money to any of my people, to any poor man among you, you must not play the usurer with him: you
must not demand interest from him.
“If you take another’s cloak as a pledge, you must give it back to him before sunset. It is all the covering he has; it is
the cloak he wraps his body in; what else would he sleep in? If he cries to me, I will listen, for I am full of pity.”’
Second Reading: 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10 You turned away from idols to serve God and await his Son.
You observed the sort of life we lived when we were with you, which was for your instruction, and you were led to become imitators of us, and of the Lord; and it was with the joy of the Holy Spirit that you took to the gospel, in spite of
the great opposition all round you. This has made you the great example to all believers in Macedonia and Achaia since
it was from you that the word of the Lord started to spread - and not only throughout Macedonia and Achaia, for the
news of your faith in God has spread everywhere. We do not need to tell other people about it: other people tell us how
we started the work among you, how you broke with idolatry when you were converted to God and became servants of
the real, living God; and how you are now waiting for Jesus, his Son, whom he raised from the dead, to come from
heaven to save us from the retribution which is coming.
Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40 You shall love the Lord your God and your neighbour as yourself.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees they got together and, to disconcert him, one of them
put a question, ‘Master, which is the greatest commandment of the Law?’ Jesus said, ‘You must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second resembles it: You must love your neighbour as yourself. On these two commandments hang the whole Law, and
the Prophets also.’
Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL); and The
Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981 & 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved.
Commentary on the Gospel
Loving one another, without exception
‘Love your enemies’: these words were addressed to a people whose traditions urged them to care for their own; but saw
no place for good will and generosity to foreigners in general - whom they looked upon as rivals and enemies. Old Israel
had been taken into covenant with the living God, shown in the Exodus to be the champion of the poor and oppressed.
Through the covenant they were called to identify with the ways of God. In fact, their traditions - as today’s reading
from the book of Exodus makes clear - were remarkable compared with the outlook of other peoples of their time. As
they began to learn what identification with God’s ways involved, they recognised that they must care for the powerless the poor, widows and orphans, the strangers who had settled among them. But they still had much to learn - their good
will was not extended to all of God’s children without exception. In advocating this as the ideal as his new Law of love,
Jesus was not abolishing the old Law, but bringing it to ‘fulfilment’. The ideal held up by Jesus as the fulfilment of the
Law was clear: ‘I say this to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you will be children of
your Father in heaven’ (Mt 5:44).
(From a sermon by Fr John Thornhill SM, http://www.theemmausseries.com/a30sunday.html)
St Christopher’s Cathedral Parish encompasses the areas of Barton, Causeway, Deakin, Forrest, Fyshwick, Griffith, Kingston, Manuka,
Parkes, Red Hill, Yarralumla