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PARISH PRIEST
FR PAUL CHACKANIKUNNEL CMI Email: [email protected] Mob: 0428624287 (only urgent or after hours calls)
DEACON
Rev Jack Ho Email: [email protected]
PARISH ADMINISTRATION: Phone: 07 3359 0239
Mrs Kerstin Knott ( Parish Secretary) Email: [email protected]
SACRAMENTAL COORDINATOR
Mrs Dianne Trudgian Email: [email protected]
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND VULNERABLE ADULTS:
Compliance Officer: Mrs Karen Smith Email: [email protected]
WORKPLACE HEALTH & SAFETY:
Mrs Karen Smith
PARISH OFFICE 146 Maundrell Terrace, Chermside West 4032
Phone: (07) 3359 0239
Mail: PO Box 859, Aspley Qld 4034
Email: [email protected] Website: www.olaparishchermside.org.au
PARISH SCHOOL
Our Lady of the Angels Primary School 30 Warraba Ave, Wavell Heights Q 4012
Principal: Mr Nick Hurley APA: Mr Paul McGlone APRE: Mrs Kirsten Karey Phone: 07 3359 9198 Email: [email protected]
MASS TIMES
St Gerard Majella - 146 Maundrell Tce, Chermside West
Tuesday: 8:30am Friday: 9:00am (8.30 am Stations of the Cross) Saturday Vigil: 4:30pm Sunday: 8:00am & 5:30pm
St Paschal Baylon - 30 Warraba Ave, Wavell Heights
Wednesday: 9:00am (during School Term) Thursday: 9.00 am (8.30 am Stations of the Cross) Saturday Vigil: 6:00pm Sunday: 9:30am
CONFESSION by appointment only until further notice. All Mass times are subject to COVID Restrictions.
Check our parish website for regular updates.
HOMILY By Richard Leonard
In the third verse of the rousing hymn, How Great Thou Art, we sing,
‘And when I think that God his Son not sparing
sent him to die I scarce can take it in.
That on the cross my burden gladly bearing,
he bled and died to take away my sin.’
This verse enshrines a long-held tradition that Jesus died as a necessary atonement to God for our sins. From this perspective Jesus’ suffering and death was the price of the ransom paid to evil so that we might share in God’s life. Alternatively, the death of Jesus is seen as the only
thing that satisfied God’s anger at our sins, and caused God to love us again.
We should be very careful about what we sing! On the one hand this theology rightly shows us the extraordinary love Jesus has for us. On the other hand it says some very difficult things about God. What loving creator, for example, would say that the torture and death of his beloved son is the only way he can be happy about his creatures? What just judge, no matter how angry he or she might be at the crimes laid out in the courtroom, would allow an innocent man to die for the guilty? And how powerful is God over evil if the only way to keep it in check is through human sacrifice? These are serious questions and they have an impact on our everyday life of faith, and can sometimes alienate us from believing that God is our all-loving
Father in heaven.
Today, we rightly hear a lot about victims – people, who through no choice or fault of their own, have been dealt with wrongly by others who are free to act otherwise and who know better. In some of the ways we think about the passion, Jesus becomes God’s victim. Through no fault of his own, and seemingly powerless in the face of his Father’s will, Jesus becomes a victim of
God’s need for a sacrifice, a ransom or atonement.
As a result, many of us can feel that sometimes we are God’s victims too, because if God wanted Jesus to suffer and die, why should we be surprised or complain when we receive large
crosses to carry as well?
Mark’s account of the passion tends to reinforce Jesus as victim. Mark has Jesus eating with the outcasts, his friends betraying, denying or deserting him. He tells us that Jesus is terrified at the prospect of death and calls on his ‘Abba’ or ‘daddy’ to help him out. In the end he accepts
‘the will of God’ but even then feels abandoned by God on the Cross.
I often think we misread what Jesus is referring to when he accepts God’s will in the Garden. Rather than refer to the particular will of the Father to see Jesus suffer and die on Good Friday, I think it’s more helpful and consoling to understand it as referring to God’s will that Jesus remains faithful to the way he lived. If by doing that Jesus threatened the religious and political authorities of his day so much that they have to murder him, then his death is the ultimate sacrifice which reveals how far God was prepared to go in love for us. This reveals to us that Jesus came ‘to live’, and that by faithfully living this life he was put to death by the powers of sin. Through the cross we see the price to be paid in confronting sin in our day and obediently
living out the demands of God’s kingdom of justice and peace.
This Holy Week let’s celebrate that God spared nothing in showing us how to live. As we commemorate Jesus’ life, death and resurrection may we move from being victims of a bloodthirsty God to choosing again to follow Jesus’ example and live lives which are faithful, loving and obedient. May we also appreciate that this life continues to, literally, threaten ‘the hell out of’ those opposed to the reign of God in our world, but that as Jesus was faithful to God
and God to Jesus, so they will remain faithful to us as well, no matter what. © Richard Leonard SJ is the Director of the Australian Catholic Office for Film and Broadcasting,
is a member of the Australian Catholic Media Council
28thMarch 2021 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord Year B
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR PARISH. . .
All your donations, the Planned Giving (collection plate, direct debit & credit card), support the running of the Our Lady of the Angels’ Parish.
For those who wish to utilise Direct Deposit bank account details for the Parish Collections a/c are as follows: Bank: CBA - BSB: 064-786 - A/c no. 100000243. Please use your 1st initial, surname and Envelope No (if applicable) as reference.
If you would like to donate via Direct Debit, Credit Card, or envelope system, please contact the parish office on 3359 0239 or email [email protected] for the appropriate forms and assistance.
Should you feel that you would like to contribute more directly to the reduction of the Parish Loans you can do so by depositing directly to the parish Fund Raising a/c, details are as follows: Bank: CBA - BSB: 064-786 - A/c no. 100023237. Please use your 1st Initial and Surname as a reference.
All donations and supports are received with much gratitude.
Our Lady of the Angels’ Parish
warmly welcomes our newest
members through Baptism:
2021 Baptisms will be celebrated on Saturday mornings at 10:00am at both St Gerards’ and St Paschal’s Bookings to be arranged in person at the Parish Office Monday - Friday between 9am - 5pm. Check the Parish website for documentation required when making a booking.
SPEND TIME WITH GOD EVERY MORNING
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Fr Paul is wanting to start up the Children’s Liturgy
sessions at Sunday Morning Mass after Easter.
Before we begin these sessions we need additional
members to our existing team of volunteers who are
willing , able , creative, energetic and caring to help our
littlies as they begin their journey of knowing and
understanding Jesus and his ministry.
If you would like to become a member of the Children’s
Liturgy Group please contact the Parish Office on 3359
0239 or via email: [email protected]
The Local Chaplaincy Committee at Craigslea State High School thanks the members of the St Gerard Majella Parish for your ongoing prayer and support. We’ve hit the ground running this year. Individual pastoral care is still present in my work, but has given way temporarily to a focus on
broader school activity involvement. This term has given me opportunities to be involved in camps, excursions, and various activities both in and out of the classroom. Students are more comfortable approaching me and I believe the most important conversations are happening outside the office. A program called Strength for a small group of Year 9 boys has been enthusiastically run by Nexus Church and has been well received by the students and the school. Behind the scenes, I’ve been working to provide students in need with uniforms and other back-to-school resources thanks to some generous funding we received early in the year from a local congregation. In addition, the school now has its own Year 12 Chaplaincy Captain for the first time in years. She has been a great addition to the student leadership team.
Next term many broader school events are planned such as excursions, year 7 camp, Chappy Week, and other smaller events sprinkled in between. I aim to have as much involvement as possible whilst still encouraging students to engage in formal support where needed. I ask for your prayers as I head into the Easter break to receive some rest, and also deepened wisdom as I engage in professional development before coming back to a new term.
Happy Easter and peace be with you all, Chappy Ash
Stewardship March 28, 2021 - Palm Sunday
“Pilate again said to them, ‘Then what shall I do with the man whom you call the King of the Jews?’ And they cried out again, ‘Crucify him.’” – MARK 15:12-13
Jesus told us “whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.” Every day we are presented opportunities to help someone. Every day we have the opportunity to see the face of Jesus in others and be the face of Jesus to others. Every day we pass by someone in need. Pray for the strength and courage to be the answer to someone’s prayer.
.Accessed on March 24 ,2021 from https://www.archstl.org/about-stewardship/bulletin-inserts/weekly-bible-reflections)
Easter Mass Times
St Gerards : Last Supper Thursday 1.4.21 7pm Stations Friday 2.4.21 10am Lords Passion Friday 2.4.21 3pm Easter Vigil Saturday 3.4.21 6pm Resurrection Sunday 4.4.21 8am St Paschals : Last Supper Thursday 1.4.21 7pm Stations Friday 2.4.21 10am Lords Passion Friday 2.4.21 3pm Easter Vigil Saturday 3.4.21 6pm Resurrection Sunday 4.4.21 9:30am
Parish Office Easter Closing Times The Parish Office will close
at 5pm on Thursday , April 1
and will re-open
at 9am on Thursday April 8
PLEASE HELP: An elderly lady who has recently
located from Rocky and has moved into our
parish in Cara St, Aspley is in need of
assistance in getting to Mass on the weekend.
If there is anyone who can help out please
contact the Parish Office on 3359 0239. :)
The annual collection for the support of the church in the Holy Land will take place on Good Friday, April 2nd. This collection promotes the missionary work of the Church in the Holy Land by providing welfare assistance to local Christians in areas such as health, education, employment and housing. Parishes, schools, orphanages and medical centres throughout the Holy Land also rely on assistance from this collection. It is also used to maintain over 70 churches and shrines associated with the life of Jesus. Last year, due to the global pandemic, it was an extremely difficult time for the Church and people of the Holy Land with very little income due to the lack of pilgrims and the closure of churches around the world. Despite this, Australian Catholics did manage to donate $406,000 (compared to the $1.3 million in 2019). This year, the Holy Land will continue to face an extreme shortfall in income due to the ongoing effects of the pandemic and so we are urging Catholics around the world to be as generous as possible. Please remember the Christians of the Holy Land on Good Friday and please keep them in your prayers. Thank you.
HOLY LAND COLLECTION—Good Friday 2 April
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN & VULNERABLE ADULTS PREVENTION AND PROTECTION POLICY
The Archdiocese of Brisbane holds that children, young people and vulnerable adults are a gift from God with an intrinsic right to dignity of life, respect and security from physical and emotional harm. They are to be treasured, nurtured and safeguarded.
NEXT WEEK’S READINGS 4th April 2021
EASTER SUNDAY
1st Reading: Acts 10:34. 37-43
Psalm: Ps 117:1-2. 16-17. 22-23.
2nd Reading: Col 3:1-4
Gospel: Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7
or Lk 24:13-35
WE PRAY FOR Recently Deceased:
Anniversaries: Please pray Teddy Walpole, Vic Vitale Boccabella and for all those whose names appear in our Parish Books of Remembrance.
Sick: Please pray for all those whose names appear in our Parish
Books of the Sick.
Our Lady of the Angels Parish Weekend Collections
Thank-You for your generous donations.
Weekend 1st Coll 2nd Coll Loose TOTAL
21.03.21 671.60 1109.00 2118.30 3898.90
COMING TO MASS?
PLEASE BOOK IN!
Scan the QR Code above to access the booking
website or visit our parish website here:
www.olaparishchermside.org.au
