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Parish Priest Rev Fr Eduardo de P Orilla [email protected]
Assistant Priest (p/t): Rev Fr Emmanuel Lubega
Parish Secretary : Catherine Chia
Bookkeeper / Accounts : Esther Esber
Youth Co-ordinators: John Corpuz/Teresa Winata
Liturgy Co-ordinator: John Fenech Sacramental Co-ordinator: Sr Nory Ordiz, CM
RCIA Co-ordinator: Anne Hay
Children’s Liturgy : Patricia Balatbat
School Principal: Ms Carolyn Parsell Phone: 9646 1310 Fax: 9646 2139
email: [email protected]
Family Educator: Dominique Sherley
RE Co-ordinator: Jeanelle Richards
Parish Pastoral Council : Geoff Barrett
Finance Committee : Vladimir Lesic
Parish Building Com: Joseph Nguyen
CCD Co-ordinators:
Lidcombe - Teresa Azzi
Newington - Eileen Gallagher
WE COME TOGETHER TO ENCOUNTER GOD, WELCOMING ONE ANOTHER JOYFULLY IN ACTIVE SERVICE
3rd Sunday of Advent (B) Jesus himself is our joy 17 December 2017
Rosters 17 Dec 2017 24 Dec 2017
Altar Society Joy Mabel & Friends
Church Cleaner ARC / Shirley ARC / Shirley
This Week : 16/17 Dec Week 3
Ministry Sat 5pm Sun 10am Sun 5pm Sun 8am
Music Groups CFC Youth for
Christ David & Co Men’s Choir Congregation
Readers St Joachim
Youth Anne D / Andrew
Nerissa /
Christine Fred B / Angelo
Ministers of Holy
Communion
Jolanta /
Petronella Ivy / Matt Teresa / Winkie Muli / Poli
Acolytes John Yuve / Victor Norman Peter
Altar Servers Alison C Ariel/Sophie/
Alex / Patrick Caitlin / Belgie
Gabriel /
Alexander
Next Week: 23/24 Dec Week 4
Ministry Sat 5pm Sun 10am Sun 7pm Sun 8am
Music Groups Tehillah
Community SJ Multicultural David & Co Sacred Heart
Readers Uina / Rachel Anne / Andrew Diane / Mabel Rhonda T /
Bernadette
Ministers of Holy
Communion Mick G / Tea Catherine / Lynh
Thea /
Christine D Janey / Katerina
Acolytes John / Nilo Vincent Norman Victor / Peter
Altar Servers Jessica / Djuarch
Naomie / Philip /
Nicholas/
Thashalia
Monica
Gabriel /
Alexander
OFFICE HOURS: TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, & THURSDAY only 09:30am to 03:30pm PLEASE RING or EMAIL the Parish Office for anything … Mass Intentions—drop in the mailbox or collection baskets. Weddings: minimum 6 months notice.
Baptisms: held only on 2nd & 4th Sunday of each month. Canberra Nursing Home - 4th Friday @ 10:30am / Berala on the Park 3rd Friday 11am If anyone needs Holy Communion /Home Visits please contact the office to make arrangements.
Mass Schedule at St Joachim
Children’s Liturgy 2017 Possums Koalas Kangas
The Children’s Liturgy Team wish you a Blessed Advent &
a Joyous Christmas
MASS INTENTIONS:
Recently Returned to the Father : Joe O’Halloran, Joyce Martin, Jake Coleman
Death Anniversary: Jesus & Antonia Ronan, Rita Rampoldi, Dennis G Reyes, Jimmy & Win-nie Acton, Arthur Barrett, Carolina Sarnosky, Michael Anthony Pillai, Simone Armstrong, Reme-gio B. Yu, Marie McNamara, Norma Dunshea, Mgr John Meaney, Philippe Khalil Melhem Kha-lifeh
In Loving Memory of: deceased members of the Keating family, Mary Willis, Dominic Wang, Maria Huang, Vic Raciunas, Dorothy M Roll, Jure Zeljkovic, Giovanna & Carmelo Macri, Jose & Imelda Ronan, Teofilo & Catalina Ronan, Juan & Purificacion Broqueza, Juana & Alfonso Abuodo, Grace Detera & Levi Detera Jr, Gloria Pallardelly, Frank, Lucy & Melville Rodrigues, Robert, Mathilda & Ralph Hewett, family & friends of Roll family, all souls in purgatory + all souls listed on envelopes for November Masses.
NB: Please let the Parish Office know when circumstances change
Sick & Infirmed: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Lawrie Matthews, George Switala, Fr Graham Kings, Joan Morgan, Shirley O’Brien, Madeline Mitchell, Val Jenkins, Teresita Buenaflor, Luka Sebastian, Bernadette Driessen, Engelberto Leal, Agnes Fazon, Sr Joan Harrison rsj, Phillip J. Murrell, Zachary Marsh, Tony Dahlen, Francisco Mendoza, Vladimir Tuazon, Kerry Jacobs, Leila Ismay, Tess Aragoza, Michael Tucker, Maria Henson, Rosemary Gaynor, Eileen Kenny, Zahra Bourke, Victor Esber, Leila Mitchell, Gwen Ross, Maree C. Biggar, Laurel Jamieson (sister of Sr Marcia), Maurice Malfitana, Mars Cavestany-Singh, Emma Pallardelly, Elmer Ale-man
Birthday: Sofia Monsalve, Johann R & Aramiel Cruz
Thanksgiving: John Smith, & Someone who reached 88 years old in good health
Holy Rosary: the last Rosary gathering for 2017 will be hosted by Kathy Irga on Tuesday 19 Decem-ber 2017 @ 7.30pm in 28 Matthew Rd Lidcombe
CatholicCare’s NDIS Therapy Team We help children 0-18 years living with a disability to access the therapy they need to reach their po-tential. We offer speech therapy, occupational ther-apy and physiotherapy at locations across Sydney. For more information, contact our friendly CCareline team on 13 18 19. [email protected] | catholiccare.org Australian Catholic Youth Festival - The Australi-an Catholic Youth Festival has been an outstanding success. There were more than 20,000 registra-tions and the young people participated with joy and enthusiasm in the prayers, workshops, plena-ries and general activities. The Closing Mass was very well attended by festival participants and by parishioners of Sydney. It was a beautiful celebra-tion with the Archbishop of Sydney, 29 Bishops of Australia, 200 priests and 15,000 in the congrega-tion. The Festival was an extraordinary achieve-ment for our Archdiocese and the support of the priests and parishioners is greatly appreciat-ed. Thank you to the hundreds of volunteers who gave up their time on Thursday, Friday and Satur-day to make it such a special event. Go to www.xt3.com/live and watch “on demand” the ma-jor events including the Closing Mass . Thank you for your support.
The Lights of Christmas – St Mary’s Cathedral 6 – 25 December 2017 8.30pm-Midnight Celebrate the season at Sydney’s most popular Christmas lights show. Join us at the annual Lights of Christmas at St Mary’s Cathedral Square, in the heart of Sydney’s CBD, for a spectacular free sound and light show every night from Wednesday 6 December until Christmas Night 2017. Choirs will sing Christmas carols from 7.30pm, and the new sound and light show celebrating the sea-son of peace, joy and goodwill will illuminate the huge 75m façade of St Mary’s Cathedral at 8.30pm and continue through until midnight. This event continues to capture the imagination of adults and children alike and is now firmly Sydney’s most popular Christmas lights show. For more details: http://lightsofchristmas.com.au/
CCR NSW Retreat will be run from 26 to 28 Janu-ary at the St Joseph’s Retreat Centre, Baulkham Hills. The main presenter will be Br Lalith Perera of the Community of the Risen Lord. All are invited
132 Years of Pastoral Care 1885 – 2017
St Joachim’s Catholic Parish
Phone: 9649 7030 2 Mills Street, Lidcombe 2141 NSW, Australia Fax: 9646 1125
Parish website: www.stjoachimsparish.org
Heartbeats from your Parish Priest Fr Eduardo
Theme of the 3rd Week of Advent: I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the
JOY OF MY LIFE.
The Season of Advent is calling us to spiritual vigi-lance in preparing the way of the Lord who is to come. On this 3rd Sunday, another interior attitude is given to us to reflect, that is JOY, or REJOICE. The joy of
Jesus is “JOY IS AT HOME IN JESUS.” The WORD of GOD in a nutshell: This Sunday’s readings are full of joy and hope, for we have a glimpse of the joy of our approaching redemption. Isaiah, in the 1st Read-ing, announces the redemption of Jerusalem, clothed in the bridal robes of justice and integrity. Jesus quoted this text to describe his mission, and it also prefigured Mary’s role in our salvation. The Responsorial Psalm is the song of Mary’s Magnificat. It is a joyful hymn of praise to God for his holiness, his mercy and his faithfulness in bringing the salvation promised to his people. St Paul’s sentiments in the 2nd Reading echo this. He encourages the Thessalonians – and us – to be happy, to pray constantly, to give thanks to God and to be open to the Spirit as we wait for the coming of the Lord. God has called us, and he will not fail us. And this Sunday, we again meet John the Baptist in the Gospel. John the Evangelist insists on the Baptist’s role as witness to the light. He is a witness, a voice, but not the Messiah. The Messiah is here, amongst us, but we do not know him. During this Advent season, let us benefit to the full as we listen to all the voices that witness to Christ unknown amongst us. The ACYF 2017 held last week ( 7-9 December) was a living testament to many of the young people all over Australia to hold on to the faith amidst the challenging times. As the Archbishop of Sydney Most Rev Anthony Fisher challenged the young people - and in fact, everyone - to be “spiritual heroes” in these most needed times.
DAWN MASS SCHEDULE - @5.15am In preparing for the birth of Christ, Our Saviour, we are so blessed this year as our three (3) bishops & guest priests will be celebrating Mass at our Dawn Masses as follows:
16 Dec Sat : Rev Fr Eduardo - our Parish Priest 17 Dec Sun : Rev Fr Manuel Santiago, PP St Thomas More, Brighton-Le-Sands 18 Dec Mon : Rev Fr Eduardo - our Parish Priest 19 Dec Tues : Most Rev Tony Randazzo, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney 20 Dec Wed : Rev Fr Dado Haber MI - Chaplain Westmead Hospital 21 Dec Thurs : Most Rev Terry Brady, Auxiliary Bishop of Sydney 22 Dec Fri : His Grace Archbishop Anthony Fisher, OP, Archbishop of Sydney 23 Dec. Sat : Very Rev Fr Kelvin Lovegrove EV - Episcopal Vicar for Clergy 24 Dec Sun : Rev Fr Eduardo - our Parish Priest
ROOM for RENT in Lidcombe —Walk to station and church. Nice and clean room. Rental is $170/week. For further information call 0403 430 930
Sun 17/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 2) (by Fr Manuel Santiago) 8:00am Mass 10:00am Mass 11:30am Baptism 5:00pm Mass (+ Men’s Choir)
Mon 18/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 3) 9:00am Mass / Rosary
Tues 19/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 4) (by Bishop Tony Randazzo) 8:15am Mass / Rosary
Wed 20/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 5) (by Fr Dado Haber MI) 6:00pm Transfer of Bl Sac / Rosary 6:30pm Novena 7:00pm Mass 7:30pm Legion of Mary
Thurs 21/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 6) (by Bishop Terry Brady) 9:00am Mass/Rosary
Fri 22/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 7) (by Archbishop Anthony Fisher) 9:00am Mass
Sat 23/12 5:15am Dawn Mass (day 8) (by Fr Kelvin Lovegrove) 4:30pm Confession 5:00pm Vigil Mass
St Joachim’s Christmas Pageant 2017— The last rehearsal for children playing the roles of angels and shepherds for our Christmas Eve vigil Mass (24 December @7pm) will be in the church / Parish Hall on Saturday 23 Dec 2017 @10am For details contact Mrs Anne Hay 0410 450 432
Christmas Schedule 2017
Friday 15 Dec @6pm - Parish Christmas Party 16 - 24 Dec @5.15am - Dawn Masses (Followed by Breakfast in the hall) Friday 22 Dec @ 6:30 - 8:00pm Reconciliation Sat 23 Dec @ 4:00 - 4:30pm Reconciliation Sunday 24 Dec 8:00am—Mass 10:00am—Mass PLEASE NOTE: NO 5PM MASS 7:00pm Christmas Vigil Mass (with Christmas Pageant) 11:30pm Christmas Carols in car park
Mon 25 Dec 12:00am Solemn Midnight Mass 8:00am Christmas Mass 10:00am Christmas Mass
Bible Diary 2018
Now available for $15 each. See Fr Ed for your copy. Or put your pay-ment in the box
provided.
