Lent is the season of our cleansing. Like the Jerusalem Temple, we have been sullied by commerce and worldly attachments. This is the time to restore prayer and holiness to our lives—so that Christ’s Body—the Church– may speak with his voice and touch with his healing power. If the world believes the Church is losing ground, it is a judgment on us, who are the Church. And so, the need for mortification.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS Every Friday of Lent at 7.30pm

Third Sunday in Lent—4 March 2018 Year B

MON 5 MAR Weekday Mass 6.45am

Lenten Program: (25-45yo) 7pm—8pm Parish Office

(All age groups) 7pm—8pm Old Church

TUE 6 MAR

Weekday Mass 6.45am

Marian Movement of Priests Cenacle 6pm Church

Devotion to St Michael & the Angels 7pm

WED 7 MAR Weekday Mass 6.45am

Lenten Program 4pm—5pm Parish Office

Legion of Mary 7.30pm Parish Office

Special Parish Pastoral Meeting 7.30pm Presbytery

Baptism Preparation Course 7.30pm Parish Office

THU 8 MAR Weekday Mass 9.15am

Marian Devotion Croatian Prayer Group 11am Church

Spanish Stations of the Cross 7.30pm Church

FRI 9 MAR 24 HOURS FOR THE LORD (Please see program attached)

Weekday Mass 9.00am Bethany Day Mass at Bethany Hall

followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Lenten Program 10.30am—11.20am Old Church

Catholic Schools Week SMSS School Mass 12midday

STATIONS OF THE CROSS 7.30pm Church

SAT 10 MAR Meditation 8am Back Meeting Room

Weekday Mass 9.00am followed by Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Reconciliation Times: 9.45am—10.15am & 4.15pm—4.45pm

Mass Times: 5.00pm Vigil Mass / Spanish Mass 6.30pm

SUN 11 MAR Mass Times: 8.00am, 10.00am and 6.00pm

Lenten Program (18-30yo) 7pm—8pm Presbytery

Planned Giving Envelopes

This weekend, the new sets of Planned Giving Envelopes are ready for collection at the back of the Church. If you would like to contribute to the Parish through

envelopes or direct debit system, please contact the Parish Office.

Thank you for your continued support of our Parish. Blessings, Fr Janusz.

We pray for the sick in our community: Nancy & Lilia Abril, Theodora Sakr,

Eutiquia Amper, Margaret Irigam, Paul Tyson, Mary Stirrat, Charles Chow,

Angela Ablong, Ellie Humphries, Peter Tabutor, Terese Bull, Ann Grout-Smith,

Ernesto Madrona, Georgie Craven, Atelaite Alamoti, Charlotte Massoud,

Nathan Nguyen and Fr Bill Heng.

We pray for the repose of the souls of the recently deceased: James Jun Kwong Chan,

Maria Florimo, Wahjono Djuari, Lucille Stroud, Sr Joan Jurd RSC, Yolande Charleston,

Jacob Laupoin Snr, Renato Gutierez, Rudolph Bergagnin, Clothilde Almeida, Steve Sutalo,

Romana Nuez, Panicia Anderson and Carolina Randall.

We remember those relatives and friends who have departed this life: Isidro, Presentacion and

Antonio Diego, Manoling Enriquez, Oscar Enriquez, Luis Isaac, Antonio & Catalina Enriquez,

Cerenia Pepoy, Melania Baja, Leonarda Arnejo, Boy Arnejo and Marciano Amper.

We pray for: Peter Comarmond, Slavka Kokinovska, Gladys Morvan, Peter McKenna

and Onofria Triolo whose anniversaries occur about now.

We pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and for those who have no one to pray for them.

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT ST MICHAEL’S THIS WEEK

Saturday 24 March 2018 10am-4pm

Please donate to Project Compassion 2018 and help equip

people to succeed in the future. You can donate through Parish boxes

and envelopes. Your support is greatly appreciated.

and continues overnight

Congratulations to:

Ava Trovato

Daughter of Sabino & Emma

We welcome her

to our Catholic Community.

Through her Baptism we pray she will love

and serve the Lord always.

We also pray for her family and ask God

to guide and strengthen them

as teachers of the faith.

© The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Double-day & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and Gospel Verses, and the Lenten Gospel Acclamations, and the Titles, Summaries, and Conclusion of the Readings, from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:

My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues my feet from the snare.

Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and poor.

FIRST READING: Ex 20:1-17 A reading from the book of Exodus

God spoke all these words. He said, ‘I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the

land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. ‘You shall have no gods except me. ‘You shall not

make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in

the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I, the Lord

your God, am a jealous God and I punish the father’s fault in the sons, the grandsons, and the

great-grandsons of those who hate me; but I show kindness to thousands of those who love

me and keep my commandments. ‘You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to

misuse it, for the Lord will not leave unpunished the man who utters his name to misuse it.

‘Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. For six days you shall labour and do all your

work, but the seventh day is a sabbath for the Lord your God. You shall do no work on that

day, neither you nor your son nor your daughter nor your servants, men or women, not

your animals nor the stranger who lives with you. For in six days the Lord made the heavens

and the earth and the sea and all that these hold, but on the seventh day he rested; that is why

the Lord has blessed the sabbath day and made it sacred. ‘Honour your father and your

mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the Lord your God has given to you.

‘You shall not kill. ‘You shall not commit adultery. ‘You shall not steal. ‘You shall not bear

false witness against your neighbour. ‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall

not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his servant, man or woman, or his ox, or his donkey, or

anything that is his.’

The word of the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 18:8-11. R. Jn 6:68

All: Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

1. The law of the Lord is perfect, it revives the soul.

The rule of the Lord is to be trusted, it gives wisdom to the simple.

2. The precepts of the Lord are right, they gladden the heart.

The command of the Lord is clear, it gives light to the eyes.

3. The fear of the Lord is holy, abiding for ever.

The decrees of the Lord are truth and all of them just.

4. They are more to be desired than gold, than the purest of gold and sweeter are they than

honey, than honey from the comb.

All: Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.

SECOND READING: 1 Cor 1:22-25

A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians

While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look for wisdom, here are we preaching a

crucified Christ; to the Jews an obstacle that they cannot get over, to the pagans madness, but

to those who have been called, whether they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power

and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s

weakness is stronger than human strength.

The word of the Lord.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

God loved the world so much, he gave us his only Son,

that all who believe in him might have eternal life.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

✝GOSPEL: Jn 2:13-25 A reading from the holy Gospel according to John Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found

people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters

there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and

sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the

pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’

Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me.

The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’

Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied,

‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’

But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead,

his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words

he had said. During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when

they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he

never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.

The Gospel of the Lord.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON:

For anyone who drinks it, says the Lord, the water I shall give will become in him a spring

welling up to eternal life.

2019 ENROLMENT APPLICATIONS Our Catholic Primary School,

St Mary's Star Of The Sea Hurstville, is now accepting enrolment applications for

the 2019 Kindergarten classes. (As well as for other classes) Parents / Carers who are interested in enrolling are welcome

to do a SCHOOL TOUR on TUESDAY 6 MARCH (9:15 and 12:15)

or THURSDAY 8 MARCH (9:15 and 12:15). Please contact the School Office

on 9587 2358 to book a spot.

Parents and students of those wishing to enrol into Year 7 in 2020 are invited to see BETHANY IN ACTION - OPEN DAY TUESDAY 6th of MARCH 2018

from 3pm—6pm at the College. Enrolment packages will be available on the day.

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