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PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.
81 Percy Street, Warwick.
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Phone: (07) 4661 1033
Fax: (07) 4661 4232
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick.org.au St Mary’s Catholic Parish
Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227
Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly
PARISH SCHOOLS St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 [email protected] St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Margaret Grew Phone: 4661 1872 [email protected] Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.
Assumption Place, 163 Palmerin Street (via Church car park, Acacia Avenue), Warwick.
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Phone: (07) 4661 1033
Fax: (07) 4661 5442
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick
St Mary’s Catholic Parish
Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto
Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227
Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly
Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan
PPC Chairperson Michael Gaffney 0401 787 416
Parish Schools St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 [email protected] St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Emma Timmins Phone: 4661 1872 [email protected] Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 [email protected]
St Mary’s Catholic Parish Warwick EMBRACING THE COMMUNITIES OF:
St Mary’s, Warwick, Our Lady of Dolours, Greymare, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Gladfield and
Our Lady of Fatima, Karara
Gaudete Sunday How, in this period of waiting for the coming, and in this Year of the Word, do we identify the Word of God that is speaking to us? The readings for the third Sunday of Advent offer a sug-gestion for they invite us to find joy in quite unexpected places and so encounter our God. We listen to Jesus reflecting to the crowds on the joyful unexpectedness of the Baptist: ‘What did you go out into the desert to see? A prophet? Yes, I’m telling you, and something bigger than a prophet’. Then he quotes Exodus, using a quo-tation that our evangelist, Matthew, had found in Mark: ‘Look! I am sending my messenger before your presence, who is going to prepare my way before me’. But there is no end to the unexpectedness, it seems, for he continues: ‘Amen I’m telling you – no one has been raised up among those born of women who was greater than John the Baptist’. We pause and make note of this very strong state-ment, and then we are given even stronger medicine: ‘But the one of least signifi-cance in the Kingdom of the Heavens is more important than him’. Presumably this refers to us, and that is very surprising. But it is also remarkably good news. The answer, then, to our question about how to identify the presence of God is this: our task, on this Gaudete Sunday, and all this week, is to look out for those joyful surprises that signal the presence of the Almighty. They are there, if you will just open your eyes in joy.
Nicholas King is a Tutor and Fellow in New Testament Studies at Campion Hall,University of Oxford.
14th/15th December 2019 3rd Sunday of Advent
Year A
PLEASE PRAY FOR
RECENTLY DECEASED Des White (Gold Coast), Marcelle Maroon, Des Leeson
ANNIVERSARIES Mary Ryan, Ellen & Augustine Devlin, John Devlin, Joseph Devlin, Mary & Douglas Kelly, Beth Brewer, Raymund Cleary, Mary & Edward O’Mara, Harold & Patricia Baguley, Lauraine Bourke, William Holland, Keith Locke, Kingsley Locke, Rev Msgr Michael McKenna, Rev Frs Justin King, Joseph Callaghan & James Wiemers, Ian Graham, James & Edna Mullins, Tom & Wilma Crawford, Patrick Kelly, Basil Nolan (Jnr), Basil & Rita Nolan, Jack & Winifred Henry, Kay Warsfold, Jack Telford, Tom Dunn, Harold Booth, Don McGinness, Mary Bourke, Viv Cuskelly, Basil Byrne, Jim & Monica Nolan, Lorna Bradfield, Bob Keogh, George & Nell Butler, Vince Plummer, Peter & Hannah Morrisey and all relatives and friends.
SICK Carmel Ryan, Kevin Booth (Bris) Michelle Canil (Canada), Catherine Watson, Warren Giles, Clare Giles, Jeannette White, Paul Fogarty, Doreen Morris (nee Upton), Con Lo Giudice, Rod McLennan, Nita Monteron (P’pines), Jessica Sondergeld, Mary Darr, Fr Don Murray, William Walker (Canada), Harvey Delacour (Bris), Basil Doherty, Moya Schaefer, Graham Ryan, Maureen Bayly (Bris), Jim O’Farrell, Lorna Smith (Bris), Geoff Willett, Ron Rettke, Leila Eades, Dean Adams (A’de), Scott & Dylan Grady, and residents of Akooramak, The Oaks, patients at the Warwick Hospital and all those who receive Home Communion.
MASS TIMES
THIS WEEK 14TH/15TH DEC
St Mary’s
Sunday 8:30am
Saturday 6pm
Yangan
Saturday 6pm
Gladfield
Sunday 10am
Lay-Liturgies
Killarney
Sunday 8am
WEEKDAY MASS/
LITURGY TIMES Monday Mass 9am
Advent Reconciliation 10am &
7pm
Tuesday Mass 9am
Wednesday Mass 7am
Thursday Mass 9am
Friday Mass 9am
Saturday Mass of Anointing
& Healing 9am
No Mass or Lay Liturgy if
there is a Funeral Mass
FEAST DAYS
n/a
NEXT WEEK
21ST/22ND DEC
St Mary’s
Saturday 6pm
Sunday 8:30am
Killarney
Sunday 8am
Lay-Liturgies
Yangan
Saturday 6pm
Gladfield
Sunday 9:30am
Reconciliation
St Mary’s
Saturday 9:30am
after Mass
THIS WEEKEND
14th/15th December 2019
NEXT WEEKEND
21st/22nd December 2019
Ministries Vigil 6pm 8:30am Vigil 6pm 8:30am
Bell Ringers
Brian Collins Mal Brownlie Brian Collins Mal Brownlie
Welcomers Gina & Matthew
Noble, Trish Seaby
Shirley Owens &
Marcia Hughes
Wayne Watt family Des Collins
Readers Sharon Young WR
Ian Kelly
Bernice Furness
Pat Sheil WR
Pauline Pickering
Michael Ryan
Justin Walsh WR
Patrice Riordan
Michael Dwan
Margaret Lawton WR
Louise Cox
Michael Gaffney
Prayer of Faithful
Bryan Slattery …………………. Trish Seaby Margaret Plummer
Gifts Lyons family Nancy Ford Blake family Des & Cheryl Cantwell
Ministers of Communion
Gerry & Judy
Morrisey
Lynette & Mary Noble
Maria Ryan
Val Gray
Maree Ryan
John Telfer
Con Lo Giudice
John Forkan
Sharon Young
Michael Dwan
Meryl Kelly
Kev Seaby
Bernice Furness
Maureen O’Dea
Penny Doyle
Emma Timmins
Tom Lawton
John Rose
Powerpoint Kaitlyn Newley Gemma King Kaitlyn Newley Juliana Cruda
Musicians Men’s Choir
Kathleen & Patrice
Michael, Rey & Val Debbie Rey & Val
Children’s Liturgy
Morning Tea Assisi Place
Mary Goyne & Lesley
Grayson
Lynette & Mary Noble
Altar Servers
Patrick Swift
Hamish Swift
Oliver Swift
Ryan Totman
Jia O’Dea
Regan Henderson
Hugh O’Dea
Christie Lyons
Stephanie Lyons
Jessie Walker
Jazmine Cruda
Isabella Sullivan
WEEK COMMENCING 15th December WEEK COMMENCING 22nd December
Akooramak Maree Ryan & Nea McGinness Shirley Owens & Marcia Hughes
Home Communion Dianne Dawes & Maria Ryan Maree Ryan & Patti Hemmings
Money Counters Group 6—Mark Brennan 0419 647 751 Group 1—Rita Collins 4661 8144
OTHER ROSTERS
ROSTERS
CHILD SAFE PARISH: Ours is a Child Safe Parish. All children, young persons and
vulnerable adults, visiting or resident, have a right to feel safe and be safe. If you are
concerned by any form of abuse that is immediate, you should call 000. A significant risk or
harm, whether or not you have formed this belief on reasonable ground, should immediately
be raised with our Parish Child Safety Officer – 4661 1033.
PRAYER & LITURGY Adoration each Friday from 9:30am to 12noon at Our Lady’s Altar
Rosary is prayed in the Church before each weekday Mass
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help 5:30pm on Wednesdays
FIL-Harmonix to sing on 2nd Sun of each month except January
The Men’s Choir to sing on 3rd Sat of each month except January.
General Choir Practice on 4th Sat of the month at 9:40am. New members welcome.
The Word Among Us Magazine for JANUARY is available for collection from Office.
Mass & Anointing for Advent Sat 21st December at 9am
PARISH GROUPS MEET-
INGS at the PARISH CEN-
TRE
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
meets on Tuesdays in Room 1 at
7pm.
HOLY CYA YOUTH
GROUP meets on 2nd Friday
of the month from 5:30 to
7:30pm for Gr’s 6-12.
Contact Patrice 4661 1033
LITTLE TREASURES PLAY
GROUP
Wednesdays (during school
terms) from 9am to 11am . Find us
on FaceBook. Cost $2 per family.
Contact Patrice 4661 1033
PARISH GROUPS
MEETNGS AT ASSUMPTION
PLACE
CHARISMATIC PRAYER
GROUP meets on Mondays at
9:45am. Contact Trish 4661 3133
CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
GROUP meets on Fridays at
9am. Contact Trish 4661 3133
FATHER’S PRAYER GROUP
meets on Tuesdays from 4:30-
5:30pm.
LAY CARMELITES
meet on 3rd Tuesday of each
month at 9am
Contact Pam Eather 4661 3917
MEN ALIVE GROUP meets on
Thursdays at 7-8pm. Contact Kev
4661 3133.
MOTHER’S PRAYERS
GROUPS meet on 1st & 2nd
Thursdays at 9am & other
Thursdays at 9:30am in Church
(Maria 0427 644 108) and Fri-
days at 10am (Maree 0438 617
347)
PARISH LADIES meet on 1st
Tuesday of each month at
9:30am.
New members are warmly
invited to join this group.
Contact Rita 4661 8144 or
Bernice 4661 1107.
THE CRAFTY CIRCLE, “TO
INSPIRE OR BE INSPIRED”,
young at heart, like-minded hook-
ers & crafters will meet on alter-
nate Sundays from 1-4pm. $2 per
head bring a plate to share for
afternoon tea.
Contact Patrice 4661 1033
PARISH EVENTS
Christmas Masses If you wish to read,
sing, be a gift bearer, a special minister or
welcomer, please indicate your preferences
on the sheets on the tables near the doors.
The Church will be open to all during the
week from 9am to 5pm but locked after
Masses on the weekends.
Christmas Down Under 2019 Calling
for volunteers to help at Christmas Down
Under from Monday 16th December to
Thursday 19th December, from 10am to
1pm each day. This is a multi-
denominational group who comes together
each year to bring the real meaning of
Christmas to families in a free, fun inter-
active way. Roles include helping with craft,
storytelling, taking photos and welcoming
families into the space. If you can help,
please contact Mary-anne Driver on 0428
841 164 or let the parish office know. A
Working with Children Blue Card is
required.
SVDP Bus Trip There will be no trips in Dec & Jan. They will resume in Feb 2020.
DIOCESAN EVENTS Global Gifts Be an angel this Christmas: buy a Global Gift—Water, Food and/or Sustainable Livelihoods. Order online at www.globalgifts.org.au See Poster & brochures .
MAGAZINES-ALL AVAILABLE ON TABLES AT DOORS Catholic Leader-Young Australian Catholics marched in their thousands to the steps of Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre last weekend – a pilgrim army united by faith, and urged by their bishops to “go and rebuild” the Church. . http://catholicleader.com.au/subscribe Trends—September 2019 Little Blue Books—Advent & Christmas Reflections “LOOK” Children’s Activity Sheets for Sundays
We welcome into our Parish Community through the Sacrament of Baptism
Jude Benjamin Breen son of Joel & Fiona Charlotte Elizabeth Rose Cameron daughter of David & Laura
PARISH CENSUS Please take and complete a Parishioners’ Details Card (on the pews)
and, either place on the collection plate, put in box or return to the Parish Office over the
next couple of months. It is important that we have a record of the details of all our catholic
parishioners and we would appreciate your co-operation in this matter.
HORIZONS AUSTRALIAN CATHOLICS MAGAZINE November 2019 edition Summer 2019 Edition
both available at the door
SVDP REVERSE ADVENT CALENDAR
Each day add an item to a box. Donate the
contents to St Vincent de Paul to distribute to
local farmers this Christmas.
December 1 – packet of nuts
December 2 - tinned fruit
December 3 - packet of water icypoles
December 4 - long life custard
December 5 - pancake mix
December 6 - jar of applesauce/packet gravy
December 7 - lemonade
December 8 - packet of crackers/pretzels
December 9 - packet of chips
December 10 -coffee/tea
December 11 - packet of popcorn
December 12 – cordial/poppers
December 13 – jelly December 14 – chocolate December 15 – Voucher Please drop off, by 16th Dec, to the Parish Office or Ozanam House, King Street, Mon, Wed, Fri between 1:30-2:30.
St. Patrick's Parish, Allora Christmas Eve Vigil Tues 24 Dec 9pm. NO LITURGY on Sun 22nd Dec at 9am. There will be Mass instead of Liturgy on Sun 29th Dec, 9:30am to thank God for the blessings of the past year & pray for help & guidance in the coming year.
First Reading Isaiah 35:1-6, 10 God himself will come and save us.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 145:6-10. R. cf. Isa 35:4 Lord, come and save us. Second Reading James 5:7-10 Christ, the hope of all people.
Gospel Acclamation Isa 61:1 (Lk 4:18) Alleluia, alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he sent me to bring Good News to the poor. Alleluia! Gospel Matthew 11:2-11 Are you the one who is to come, or must we wait for some-one else?
Parish Visitation Group
If you or anyone you know would
like a visit from this Group, please
contact the Parish Office or Fr
Franco to arrange this.
REFLECTION
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Where better is possible, good is not enough.”
National Prayer for Drought Eternal God, in wisdom & love You created our
earth to sustain us & give us life. We turn to
You in faith, hope & love, asking You to look
with favour on our drought-stricken land, on
our starving animals, on our failing crops.
Strengthen, sustain & give new heart to our
farmers & all who are affected by drought; be
with those who support them. In Your loving
providence, send abundant rain & restore our
parched earth. Father of all compassion, hear
our prayer, through Jesus Christ Your Son, in
Whom the promise of new life has dawned, &
through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord
the giver of life; Renew the face of the earth.
Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Mary Help of
Christians—Pray for us. St Mary of the Cross
MacKillop—Pray for us. Amen.
THE BLIND SEE AGAIN. Many of the Jewish people
did not expect a Messiah like Jesus. Many wondered:
‘Are you the one who is to come?” Jesus came not to
exercise sovereignty and power over the people but
to bring blessing to the poor and needy. Let us
celebrate his birth this Christmas by being good news
for the poor.
Communion/Visits to Aged Care Facilities If
you would like your relative/s, in these facilities, to
receive Communion or be visited by our Parish
Priest/Parishioners, please advise the Parish Office
and arrangements will be made accordingly.
DATE CLAIMER:
The Celebration of the Sinulog in honour of the Feast of
the Child Jesus (Sto. Nino de Cebu) will be held on Sunday
19th January at the 8:30am Mass commencing with a
Procession around the Church at 8:15am. After Mass, a Sinulog
dance will be performed in the Church grounds and will be
followed by a celebratory Morning Tea hosted by the Filipino
Community.
A nine-day Novena will precede the Sinulog at 5pm from 9th to
17th January 2020. All are welcome.
Bishop’s Christmas Message 2019 Please take a copy of
this document from the tables near the Church doors.
