The GREAT The GREAT

The Most Holy Trinity
30th & 31st May 2015
Blessing Prayer
The GREAT
Commission
This day is full of beauty
and adventure,
help me Lord to be
fully alive to it all.
During this day,
may I become a more
thoughtful person,
a more prayerful person,
a more generous and
kindly person.
Help me not to be turned in
on myself but to be sensitive
and helpful to others.
Let me do nothing today
that will hurt anyone,
but let me help at least a little,
to make life more pleasant for
those I meet.
When night comes,
may I look back on this day
without regrets;
and may nobody be unhappy
because of anything I have said
or done or failed to do.
Thoughts of
Fr Francis Jordan
Without humility
you will never grow in
holiness. Therefore, be
quite humble.
Wake Up
The World
2015 Year
of
Consecrated
Life
Lord God, bless this day for me
and all of us.
Make it a day in which
we grow a little more
like your Son, and gentle
as Mary His Mother.
Amen.
Fr George celebrated 21
years on 28 May, and Fr
Robert 17 years on 30 May,
since their ordination.
Congratulations and thank
you Fr George and Fr Robert,
especially in this Year of
Consecrated Life.
1 Keenan Street Mona Vale NSW 2103 • Tel:9997 7311 • Fax 9012 0509 • email: [email protected] • website: www.pittwaterparish.org
The Most Holy Trinity
30th & 31st May 2015
We Pray
for
Deceased Anniversary
VINNIES WINTER
APPEAL 2015
The weather is turning cold and
the homeless are looking for a
safe place to settle for the night.
In Sydney and other cities
Vinnies Night Patrol vans
provide some of them with
blankets, a cup of tea, coffee or
soup and a sandwich. The
queues at the van are getting
progressively longer each night.
Apart from the homeless there
are many people that need help
at this time of the year. The
disadvantaged often need help
with utility bills. Heating the
main room of their house and
cooking hot meals increase
electricity and gas bills.
Sickness with colds and
influenza means increasing
medical expenditure.
Vinnnes website has a sad story
tied to its advertisement for
donations to the Winter Appeal
2015. It tells us of a once
happily married woman called
Grace whose marriage broke
down leaving her with one child,
Jack, who was found to be
autistic. He was very difficult to
communicate with in the best of
times and did not connect at all
in the worst of times. Soon
after, to make matters worse,
Grace was retrenched and
found life to be tough: sitting at
home looking after Jack and not
being able to keep up
expensive treatment for him.
Vinnies with the help of donors
was able to rebuild the lives of
Grace and Jack. You can help
us make a real difference to
someone's life by giving money
and hope to the needy this
winter.
Bede Murray
The Avalon Conference of St
Vincent de Paul meets at 5pm
and at every 2nd and 4th
Tuesday evening in the Church
Hall. Prospective members are
welcome.
The Piety Store at Maria
Regina, Avalon will be open by
special request. Please call the
Brookvale Centre 9905 0424.
Sue Bowra
For the needy, help is
available by contacting
the Brookvale Centre
9905 0424 during
business hours.
Brian Timbs
Stefan Biernacki
Jan & Sofia Kupczyk
Eternal Rest Grant Unto
Them O Lord, And Let
Perpetual Light Shine Upon
Them. May they Rest in
Peace. Amen.
May Their Souls Of The
Faithful Departed, Through
The Mercy Of God, Rest
In Peace.
Amen.
Recently Deceased
Ted Carmen
John O’Neill
Ellen Molony
If you would like the names
of your relatives or friends
and offerings included, please
drop the envelope in to the
Parish Office by midday on
Wednesdays. Thank you.
Prayers for
the Sick
Navenka Kunjasich
Anna Katanec
Angus McKee
Pauline Sheath
Pat Fenney
Margaret Holt
Janne Hennessey
Doris Lenson
Mary McHugh
Mons G Weaver
Vera Howorka
Timothy Bottero
Kim Purser
Emily Ezzy
Liz Ryan
This list will be updated
every month and we would
appreciate it if we are
advised, if further
reconsideration is required.
Thank you
Charitable Works
Fund
The Charitable Works Fund is
an annual appeal that
supports five agencies to
make a difference in the lives
of children and families.
Through your donation, you
support:
Catechists
Bringing God's love to nearly
20,000 students in State Schools
Hospital Chaplaincy
Providing care to Catholic
patients in hospital
St Lucy's School
A school of excellence for
children with disabilities K-6
St Edmund's School
A Year 7-12 co-educational
special high school for
teenagers with a wide range of
disabilities.
The Ephpheta Centre
Supporting the Catholic Deaf
community in wider Sydney.
Each year the Diocese of
Broken Bay through the
parishes raises funds to
support these important
pastoral works in the
Diocese.
This is the last appeal for this
financial year.
Every year each parish is
given a target to meet and at
Pittwater we are
experiencing a shortfall of
$33,000 for this year.
Show your support by
making a 100% tax deductible
donation
to the CWF Appeal.
Donation envelopes are
available in the pews.
In your generosity...
they will find new life.
A Reminder “TINNIES FOR
VINNIES” for the first
weekend of the month,
2nd and 3rd May 2015.
Many thanks to the kind
parishioners for their kind
donations already. Another
suggestion was to donate
personal items, viz toiletries etc., as these items
represent luxuries for
those most in need.
Vinnies will leave their bins
out every first weekend of
the month. Many thanks.
Sue Bowra
from Our Schools
Mater Maria
Catholic College
Our thanks to the community
for supporting Friday
evening’s Mater Maria
Festival. This was a
wonderful evening under the
stars (and clouds) for
wandering the market stalls,
eating and being merry!
Congratulations to our
wonderful parent volunteers
and our hospitality students,
musicians and dramatists
who contributed so greatly
to this fundraising
opportunity which has raised
funds for College projects.
Our next
Salvatorian meeting
will be on Thursday
June 4th following
the Vocation Mass
at 9.15.Am.
Sunday the 7th June is the
Feast of the Body and
Blood of Christ- Corpus
Christi which we will
discuss together with
lectio divina and the lives
of the salvatorian
missionaries Everyone
Welcome.
Maureen Suggitt
Adoration &
Benediction
10am
Sacred Heart Church
5th June 2015
First Friday of the month
(no 9.15am weekday Mass)
Anointing of the Sick
Mass
11am
Sacred Heart Church
Adoration &
Benediction
8am
Maria Regina Church
4th June 2015
First Thursday of the month
(followed by 9.15am weekday
Mass)
The Most Holy Trinity
Parish Pastoral Council
Marie Bockman - Chairperson
[email protected]
Pittwater Parish Ministeries
Catechists
Co-Directors
Maureen Wooldridge - 9997 4694
Angela Smit - 9997 7311 ext 13
Evangelisation Ministry
Erich Ott (Coordinator RCIA)
99138051
Sr Margaret Collis - 99138051
Sue Berg - 04 1999 1781
(Coordinators Adult Faith
Education/Formation)
Kathy Gray (Coordinator
LOTWEM) - 99401090
Hospitality Ministry
Nicole Ovens - Director
04 0826 9563
IT Ministry
David Kerr
[email protected]
Legion of Mary
Marta Bizubova - Director
04 1499 0195
Marriage Ministry
Penny Kerr - Director
[email protected]
Media & Communication
Ministry
Laura Ee - Director
9997 7311 ext 31
Music Ministry
Josh Willard - Director
9997 7311 ext 17
Pastoral Care and
Communion to the Sick
Ministry
Co-Directors
Denise Bottero - 9997 6904
Maureen Suggitt - 0422970151
30th & 31st May 2015
Keep the chill out of your
relationship this winter
with a weekend together.
A Worldwide Marriage
Encounter Weekend is a
Marriage Enrichment
experience – set in
peaceful, picturesque
surroundings, away
from the distractions of
everyday life. During the
weekend, couples have a
unique opportunity to
reconnect, rekindle and
refresh their relationship.
Give the greatest gift, that
of your time alone - invest
in your most precious
asset . . . your Marriage!
2015 Weekend Dates
19-21 June
11-13 September
13-15 November
Venue for Weekends:
Mount Carmel Retreat
Centre, Varroville, NSW
To apply contact:
Ardell & Bill Sharpe
Tel. 02 4283 3435 or
[email protected]
Sacramental Program
Ministry
Angela Smit - Director
9997 7311 ext 13
Social Justice Ministry
Tamara Harding - Director
04 0322 6699
www.facebook.com/pages/Pittwater-Friends-OF-Soibada/162612300466694
Youth Ministry
Simon Hyland - Director
04 3799 7749
[email protected]
Mary - The Mary
MacKillop Story
A film by Kay Pavlou
The film is a dramatic
recreation of Mary's
MacKillop's life integrated
with commentaries. Mary
saw how impoverished
lower classes in colonial
Australia were in the late
19th century, so commited
herself to the education of
all people regardless of
race, social status or
religious belief.
Our parish is now able to
process your credit card
planned giving donations
directly through the parish
office rather than through
Ezidebit. By doing this, we
do not have to pay the
service fees to the external
company.
If you are contributing to
our planned giving either
weekly, fortnightly, monthly
or yearly using a credit card,
we would appreciate you
contacting the parish office
to allow us to process the
payments or completing a
planned giving form, found
at the back of the Church.
If you are contributing via a
bank account, you may
consider switching to a
credit card, or to debit
directly to the parish. This is
to reduce the service fee
paid by the parish. For more
details please contact the
parish office on 9997 7311.
Thankyou for your
continued generosity in
supporting our parish.
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Roster for 6th & 7th June 2015
SACRED HEART CHURCH, MONA VALE
Sat 5.00pm
Senior Servers
Sun 8.00am
Sun 9.30am
Sun 6.00pm
D Traves/J Moran
Paul Willard
Norma Dennis
Stefan Wasinski
A Barbacetto
Anna Smyth
Bev Carmichael
Amelia Malone
Joe Stuart
Eucharistic
Ministers
Denise Bottero
Graham Baker
Theresa Nouak
Chris Tocchini
Pauline Chipman
Yvonne Gibbs
J Tindall
Kathy Gray
Musicians
Elke Lanzon
Josh Willard
Mona Vale Choir
Josh Willard
Soul Band
Readers
Counters
M Suggitt/J Moran Gerry Quinn
Team 2 (08/06/15) MAry Kitchen • John French
MARIA REGINA CHURCH - AVALON
Parish Library
Trish Newman - Director
9999 6322
Finance Matters
DVD REVIEW
Senior Servers
Sat 5.00pm
Sun 9.00am
Desley McLean
Miles Abrahams
Junior Servers
Readers
Eucharistic
Ministers
Musicians
Wardens
Library
Rosary Statue
Therese Kelly
B Kelly
Harry McErlean
John Ayliffe
Robyn Tuite
A Mitchell
Marion Russell
Judith Ratcliff
Fowler Family
Avalon Choir
Jan / Bernie
Acolytes, Senior Servers and
Eucharistic Minister (Maria
Regina) please collect your
roster from the foyer of the
Church.
Volunteers are always welcome.
Training will be provided where
required.
Terry McInerney G Williamson
Please contact the Parish Office
Trish Newman Margaret Hume 9997 7311.
B & M O’Connor
The Most Holy Trinity
30th & 31st May 2015
Walk of Joy 23 May 2015
The Most Holy Trinity
30th & 31st May 2015
Church to Church
“Walk of Joy an Annual
Event?”
Seems that’s on Father George’s
mind.
Last Saturday, saw our Parish
Priest brimming with his usual
vitality when he lead 89 of us
out on the promised “stroll”
from Church to Church.
A couple of hours later we
arrived at Sacred Heart Church,
where we had been promised a
“hearty breakfast”.
Thanks to Nicole and Jo and
their generous team the Parish
Centre had been transformed
into a first-class café.
Everyone was amply rewarded
for what had been a
considerable effort. Father
George even gave us all a
certificate! Thanks to all of you
who made it such a good
experience.
Same time next year?
Seems so, if you ask Fr George.
John Ayliffe and the PPC team.
The Most Holy Trinity
30th & 31st May 2015
The Living Word
First Reading
Dt 4:32-34. 39-40
A reading from the book of Deuteronomy
The Lord himself is God in heaven above and
on earth below: there is no other.
Moses said to the people: ‘Put this
question to the ages that are past, that
went before you, from the time God
created man on earth: Was there ever a
word so majestic, from one end of
heaven to the other? Was anything ever
heard? Did ever a people hear the voice
of the living God speaking from the heart
of the fire, as you heard it, and remain
alive? Has any god ventured to take to
himself one nation from the midst of
another by ordeals, signs, wonders, war
with mighty hand and outstretched arm,
by fearsome terrors – all this that the
Lord your God did for you before your
eyes in Egypt?
‘Understand this today, therefore, and
take it to heart: The Lord is God indeed,
in heaven above as on earth beneath, he
and no other. Keep his laws and
commandments as I give them to you
today so that you and your children may
prosper and live long in the land that the
Lord your God gives you for ever.’
The word of the Lord
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 32:4-6. 9. 18-20. 22.
R. v.12
sharing his sufferings so as to share his
glory.
The word of the Lord
See Rv 1:8
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory to the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit:
to God who is, who was, and who is to
come.
Alleluia!
Gospel
The eleven disciples set out for Galilee,
to the mountain where Jesus had
arranged to meet them. When they saw
him they fell down before him, though
some hesitated. Jesus came up and spoke
to them. He said, ‘All authority in
heaven and on earth has been given to
me. Go, therefore, make disciples of all
the nations; baptise them in the name of
the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Spirit, and teach them to observe all the
commands I gave you. And know that I
am with you always; yes, to the end of
time.’
The Gospel of the Lord
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)
REFLECTION
by Dianne Bergant CSS
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)
Our soul is waiting for the Lord.
The Lord is our help and our shield.
May your love be upon us, O Lord,
as we place all our hope in you. (R)
Second Reading
Rom 8:14-17
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the
Romans
You have received the Spirit that makes you
God’s own children, and in that Spirit we call
God: Father, our Father!
Everyone moved by the Spirit is a son of
God. The spirit you received is not the
spirit of slaves bringing fear into your
lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it
makes us cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’ The
Spirit himself and our spirit bear united
witness that we are children of God. And
if we are children we are heirs as well:
heirs of God and coheirs with Christ,
Mt 28:16-20
A reading from the holy Gospel according
to Matthew
Baptise them in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
(R.) Happy the people the Lord has
chosen to be his own.
With his word the heavens were made,
by the breath of his mouth all the stars.
He spoke; and they came to be.
He commanded; they sprang into being.
(R)
and that God is for us. Everything that
we know about God declares that God is
passionately in love with us, boundlessly
so!
© Dianne Bergant CSS
The feast of the Holy Trinity brings us
face to face with the foundation of our
faith. The readings for today provide
answers to the question: Who is God?
They can really only suggest something
about the mystery of God, and they can
do this only indirectly. They call to mind
some of the wonders that God has
accomplished for us and in us. It is
through reflection on these gracious
divine acts that we can get glimpses of
God.
The psalm declares that the harmony and
interdependence that we see in creation
point to a majestic creator responsible
for it all. The account of the history of
God’s people reveals a God who desires
to establish an intimate relationship with
them, enters their history as protector
and guide, and forgives disloyalty.
Finally, Jesus teaches that God sent him
into the world to save it, has made us
adopted children through the Holy Spirit,
and will ultimately clothe us in divine
glory. It is from his teaching that we hear
that the Son was sent by the Father, the
Spirit, which was also his Spirit,
proceeded from the Father and from him.
From our own experience, we know that
God creates, because we are immersed in
creation. We know that God saves,
because we have been freed from the
bondage of our own demons. Our
experience tells us that God is with us,
Liturgy for the Week
Ordinary Time 9
01/6
Monday - St justine, martyr
Tobit 1:3, 2:1-8; Mk 12:1-12
02/6
Tuesday Ordinary Time 9
Tobit 2:9-14; Mk 12:13-17
03/6
Wednesday Charles Lwanga &
companions, martyrs
Tobit 3:1-11, 16-17; Mk 12:18-27
04/6
Thursday Ordinary Time 9
Tobit 11:5-17; Mk 12:35-37
05/6
Friday St Boniface, bishop, martyr
Tobit 11:5-17; Mk 12:35-37
06/6
Saturday Ordinary Time 9
Tobit 12:1, 5-15, 20; Mk 12:38-44
The Most Holy Trinity
Anointing
Mass
At Nursing Homes And
Retirement Villages
George Mocklar Hostel
Tuesday 2nd June
at 1.30 pm
Anointing Mass
Ocean View Nursing
Home
Tuesday 2nd June
at 2.45 pm
Anointing & Communion
Mona Vale Nursing
Home
Tuesday 2nd June
at 3.30 pm
Anointing & Communion
Minkara Nursing Home
Tuesday 16th June
at 11.00 am
Anointing Mass
Seabeach Nursing
Home
Tuesday 16th June
at 1.00pm
Anointing & Communion
30th & 31st May 2015
Day retreat:
“Love is his meaning”
Julian of Norwich
An opportunity to discover more
about this little known this
little-known 14th Century English
mystic.
Presenter: Mrs Sheila
Upjohn
Where: Mt Carmel Retreat
Centre, 247 St Andrews Road,
Varroville
When: June 6
(10.00am – 4.00pm)
Cost: $20
Week-long retreat:
With Joy and Hope
Reflections on the teachings of
Pope Francis.
Presenter: Fr Greg Burke,
OCD
Where: Mt Carmel Retreat
Centre, 247 St Andrews Road,
Varroville
When: Jun 29, 3:00 pm – Jul
5 1:30 pm
Cost: $660 (concessions
available)
Contact: 02 8795 3400, email:
[email protected]
Northern Beaches
Family Law
MICHAEL PAUL
Bayview Nursing Home
Tuesday 16th June
at 1.45pm
Anointing Mass
Experienced Catholic
Accredited Specialist
Family Lawyers
Peninsular Nursing
Home
Tuesday 16th June
at 2.45pm
Anointing Mass
Level 3, Gateway Building
Mona Vale
Tel: 9999 6998
www.pplawyers.com.au
Seabeach Nursing
Home
Tuesday 16th June
at 1.00pm
Anointing & Communion
PITTWATER PALMS
RETIREMENT VILLAGE
Wednesday 24th June
at 10.30 am
Anointing Mass
AVALON HOUSE
NURSING HOME
Wednesday 24th June
at 11.15 am
Anointing & Communion
Joy
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