The Catholic Community of North Harbour

2 King Street, Manly Vale NSW 2093 Phone: 99494455 Fax: 9949 3413

Email: parishoffice@northharbourcatholic.org.au Parish Websites: www.northharbourcatholic.org.au Parish Priest—Fr Paul Maloney OSA

GOSPEL SYMBOLS AND IMAGES Being wasteful listen

in the care of the augustinians

St Kieran’s, Manly Vale

Just like the steward in this story, we are entrusted with God-given talents and we must use them in a way that will yield genuine riches. Increasingly in the modern world, we are also aware that we must be good stewards of God’s creation to ensure its riches for future generations.

Readings this Sunday Amos 8:4-7 Timothy 2:1-8 Luke 16:1-13 Responsorial Psalm “Praise the Lord who lifts up the poor.” Readings next Sunday Amos 6:1.4-7 Timothy 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31

25th Sunday in ordinary time 18 sept 2016

eConference—Mercy: A Way of Being in the World This Tuesday 20th Sept 10.30am—2.45pm St Kieran’s Parish Centre

This eConference will commemorate the Jubilee Year of Mercy and take up Pope

Francis’ invitation to explore this central element of our faith.

A light lunch will be provided.

Please call the parish office 9949 4455

to book your place.

This event is free of charge and everyone is welcome.

ORDINATION TO THE DIACONATE On behalf of the AFA Committee Members I would like to say congratulations to Brothers Francis and Saldie and wish them all the very best on their

Ordination to the Diaconate on Saturday, 15th October 2016 at St Kieran’s Church, Manly Vale at 11:00am. Everyone is welcome to attend the mass followed by refreshments in the Parish Centre. This is a very exciting time not just for the students and their families but also for our Augustinian Community and I am very much looking forward to this wonderful celebration. If you are able to help on the day with either setting up, serving, cleaning and packing up or by bringing a plate of savoury finger food to share can you please contact me on 0402 099 746 or email me at albowyer@bigpond.com or simply write down your name on the sign-up sheets which are located at the back of both St Cecilia and St Kieran’s Churches. We are asking for savoury finger food (such as sandwiches, mini pies, mini quiches, sausage rolls, meat balls, chicken wings or mini chicken drumsticks) as we will be ordering a celebration cake for the dessert. Many thanks Adriana Bowyer (President)

THIS SUNDAY

Father Vincent Trung Nguyen, Assistant Priest of the Hornsby Cathedral Parish will be celebrating Mass for Serra at Sacred Heart Church, 2 Richard Porter Way Pymble on Thursday 29th September 2016 After dinner we will be showing a video of a talk given by Father Morgan Batt, Vocations Director for

the Archdiocese of Brisbane to the Serra International Convention held in Melbourne in October 2015. His topic is “Christ the Light of the World”. Fr Batt was Parish Priest for Port Arthur when the massacre occurred in 1996. His whole first communion class was executed that day and he also lost a few parishioners. Since then, he has worked as a priest in the army/war zones and is an alpine mountaineer having climbed over 100 mountains worldwide including Mount Everest. He celebrated Mass on the top of Mount Everest, the highest Mass ever celebrated. Everyone is welcome so please join us for a very interesting evening. Please telephone: Terry Scanlan on 0438 887 295 or email terry_scanlan@bigpond.com if you would like to attend.

Reflections on The Joy of Love (Amoris Laetitia) Each week we read an extract from Pope Francis’ letter and reflect on how it might relate to our family lives. “Dialogue is essential for experiencing, expressing and fostering love in marriage and family life. Yet it can only be the fruit of a long and demanding apprenticeship. Men and women, young people and adults, communicate differently. They speak different languages and they act in different ways. Our way of asking and responding to questions, the tone we use, our timing and any number of

other factors condition how well we communicate. We need to develop certain attitudes that express love and encourage authentic dialogue.” (Amoris Laetitia 137) Be aware this week of communication within your family, being mindful of how family members dialogue with one another. Are there patterns of communication that can be affirmed and others that may need improvement.

Manly Vale CWL’s monthly meeting will be held on Monday 26th September in the Parish Centre from 10.30 am. Visitors warmly welcomed. Tea & coffee will be provided. BYO lunch. Enquiries: Maria 9948 3218 Day of Reflection All parishioners are invited by CWL Broken Bay to a Day of Reflection in this Year of Mercy on Saturday 24th September in St Kieran’s Parish Centre commencing at 10.30 am. Father Kevin O’Grady will be our convener. Tea & coffee will be provided. BYO lunch.

Dear Fellow Parishioners, 18th September 2016

The challenge presented to us in today’s readings unmasks an enduring human weakness, that of maintaining financial security at all costs - usually by honest means, but sometimes by tampering with the scales, measuring out less and charging more, and exploiting the poor by selling the sweepings of wheat instead of the good grain waiting in the barn. The disgraced steward is not much better, but he is within his rights to juggle the amounts owed to his master by cutting the exorbitant commission that he would normally have charged. When he saw he was about to be fired he let the debtors off his usual share in the

transaction and wanted it to be known they were paying what was owed to his master less his percentage which he hoped would be the means of buying their good will.

Jesus tells us we should put the same amount of energy and ingenuity into buying the goodwill of God our true Master rather than strive for the power over others which money, more often than not, gives us. In the words of St. Paul we are to “live religious and reverent lives in peace and quiet” by making use of all this world’s resources in such a way as to show faithfulness in little things so that we grow in faithfulness to God’s larger purposes. Our use of possessions should include sharing with those in need as a means of fulfilling God’s intention for this world “that everyone is to be saved”. This does not mean we can rest on our laurels and assume this will happen willy-nilly, but rather that we are to become actively involved in bringing about God’s saving actions towards everyone. It is on this ground that the demand will be made of us “Draw me up an account of your stewardship” which requires that as Christian’s the use of our goods be dictated by justice and love, not greed and abuse.

TUESDAY MORNING MEDITATION: Please note: There will be no meditation during school holidays on 27/9 and 4/10

Meditation will resume on Tuesday 11th Oct at 9.15am in SK chapel.

World Day of Prayer for Peace

Pope Francis has called for a ‘Day of

Prayer for Peace’ on Tuesday 20

September 2016. The theme of the day

is ‘Thirst for peace: faiths and cultures in

dialogue’. To mark the occasion, the Holy

Father will visit Assisi, Italy. There will be a moment of

silence in memory of the victims of war, an appeal for

peace will be signed with representatives of other

religions and candles lit, followed by the exchange of a

sign of peace. You are invited to take a moment to pray

for peace on this day. Below is the peace prayer to St

Francis of Assisi.

Peace Prayer to St Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness,

light; where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to

be consoled as to console; to be understood as to

understand; to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that

we are pardoned;

Pastoral Care Seminar Day

Or call 0418 616 602

mass time mass time St Cecilia St Kieran Saturday vigil 6.00pm sunday 9.00am 7.30am 9.30am 6.00pm

weekday mass St Kieran 8.30am Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat St Cecilia 9.00am Wednesday St Augustine’s Chapel- 8.15am Wednesday Reconciliation St Kieran 5 – 6pm Saturday (or by appointment)

Baptisms Bookings essential and Preparation course required. St Cecilia 10.30am Sun or 9.00am Mass on 1st Sundays of the month St Kieran 11.30am Sun or 9.30am Mass on 1st Sundays of the month marriages Require 6 months notice and includes Catholic Care course as part of the preparation.

SEPTEMBER 20 World Day of Prayer for Peace 23 End of Term 3 24 CWL Day of Reflection 10.30 am 26 CWL meeting 10.30 am 27 St Vincent de Paul OCTOBER 02 Baptism Preparation Course 11am SK 04 St Francis of Assisi 07 Our Lady of the Rosary

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF NORTH HARBOUR

Office (Mon – Fri: 9am – 4pm) 9949 4455

Clergy: Fr Paul Maloney OSA Parish Priest Fr Senan Ward OSA Assistant Priest Fr. Minh-Tan Hoang OSA Assistant Priest Fr. David Austin OSA In Residence

Pastoral Ministers (contacted through Parish Office 9949 4455) Janette Davidson Family & Sacramental Minister 0408 866 521 Adriana Bowyer Catechist Coordinator 0402 099 746 Rosemary McKinnon Counsellor 0400 495 076 Ben Marshall Music Ministry 0411809072 Br Francis Belcina OSA Youth Ministry 0400 924 073

Administration: Chris Burrows Parish Manager Anne Ross Parish Secretary Jane Filacuridi Parish Secretary Jacky Worthington Compliance Officer

We acknowledge the Gayamagal and Canalgal people, the traditional custodians of this land and pay our respects to the elders past and present, including

those who may be with us today.

From St. Augustine: Lord, You are the light of my heart and the bread in the mouth of my

soul. You are the virtue dwelling in my mind and the hiding place of my

thoughts. Confessions 1, 13

WE PRAY

Come to me! I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)

Prayer requests

Next week’s roster Week 4 Sunday September 25 Please swap with someone if you can’t make it

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Aurora & John Francis Kathleen Traveller Belinda Johnston Kevin Barsi Chris McAuliffe Kevin Smith

Daniel Collins Louis Hilton

Daniel Lister Louise Allara

Dave Miles Maree McNamara Dorothy Smith Martha Lois

Eddie Sharp Mary Nixon

Henry and Flavio Cataldo Michael Armstrong

Irene Hurrell Nixon Ball Jack Spencer Pat Leeder Jack Homan Ricki Hayes

Jarryd Timm Sean Bellenger JDG Simone Young

Jim Smyth Stephen Ward

Kath Zenetic Veronica Laverty

Kathleen Bunting

RECENTLY DECEASED

Charlotte Rawley Joe Zarb

Denis Mcloughlin

ANNIVERSARIES

Elizabeth Curtis Samantha Enright Barry Wyatt

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