Please pray for our departed loved ones, especially Rita Reeves (Sr Mary Roche’s sister) Jennifer Minna Flores (Townsville), Dawson Corrigan, Marge Little, Sr Rita Little sgs and Elizabeth (Betty) Hawke, recently deceased and also for Anna and Riccardo de Mattia, Dorothy Rogan, Giuseppe and Francesca Saffiotti, Joyce Stefano, George and Mary Allen.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: The hand of the Lord feeds us;

He answers all our needs.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

A great prophet has appeared among us; God has visited his

people. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephesians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: The hand of the Lord feeds us;

He answers all our needs.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

A great prophet has appeared among us; God has visited his

people. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

2 Kings 4:42-44 Ephesians 4:1-6 John 6:1-15

Please pray for our departed loved ones, especially Rita Reeves (Sr Mary Roche’s sister) Jennifer Minna Flores (Townsville), Dawson Corrigan, Marge Little, Sr Rita Little sgs and Elizabeth (Betty) Hawke, recently deceased and also for Anna and Riccardo de Mattia, Dorothy Rogan, Giuseppe and Francesca Saffiotti, Joyce Stefano, George and Mary Allen.

26th July 2015 (Year B)

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On sacred Scripture in the life of the Church from the Second Vatican Council, fifty years ago.

The Church has always venerated the divine Scriptures just as she venerates the body of the Lord, since, especially in the sacred liturgy, she unceasingly receives and offers to the faithful the bread of life from the table both of God's word and of Christ's body. She has always maintained the Scriptures, together with sacred tradition, as the supreme rule of faith. Inspired by God and committed once and for all to writing, they impart the word of God … and make the voice of the Holy Spirit resound in the words of the prophets and apostles.

Therefore, like the Christian religion itself, all the preaching of the Church must be nourished and regulated by sacred Scripture. For in the sacred books, the Father who is in heaven meets his children with great love and speaks with them; and the force and power in the word of God is so great that it stands as the support and energy of the Church, the strength of faith for her sons, the food of the soul, the pure and everlasting source of spiritual life. Consequently these words are perfectly applicable to Scripture: For the word of God is living and active (Heb. 4:12) and it has power to build you up and give you your heritage among all those who are sanctified" (Acts 20:32).

Easy access to sacred Scripture should be provided for all the Christian faithful. … Prayer should accompany the reading of sacred Scripture, so that God and humankind may talk together; for we speak to him when we pray; we hear him when we read the divine word…

Just as the life of the Church is strengthened through more frequent celebration of the Eucharistic mystery, similarly we may hope for a new stimulus for the life of the Spirit from a growing reverence for the word of God which lasts forever.

� TOM ELICH parish priest � MARY RANDLE SGS pastoral associate � HELEN PRICE and HELEN COLE parish secretaries � ANN-MAREE NICHOLLS SGS school principal �

Please remember the sick in your prayers – Jacob Nuske, Vincent Elmore, Matilda Swain, Bernie Kinneally, Bette Ferguson, Alex Kerr, Gretta Donnelly, Frances Foley, Andrea Pagliaro.

DATE CLAIMERS 2015 Monday 27 July Centenary Committee meet 7pm Tuesday 28 July Carer’s Group meet at 10am RCIA information evening 7pm Wednesday 29 July YOUNG MUSICIANS rehearsal Thursday 30 July Playgroup 9:30am in the Hall Sacramental Team meet 4:30pm Liturgy committee meet 7pm

Church renovations …………………...

Mass continues as usual in the following locations: SUNDAY MASS – Good Samaritan Hall behind the church. Saturday evening 6pm; Sunday morning 8am; Sunday evening 6pm

WEEKDAY MASS – under the presbytery (old meeting room) Times as usual – check the weekly newsletter.

The lift is now back in working order

Please note: No sharp heels allowed in Good Samaritan Hall Toilets on either side of the stage – women to left, men to right.

SEE YOU AT MASS!

CHURCH RESTORATION UPDATE – We are at the exciting stage of the first ‘wow’ moments. This week should see the end of the painting, the cleaning of the old marble in the sanctuary, the carpet laid, the pews returning, the first of the Stations of the Cross being hung. We’ve still got a way to go, but it is coming together nicely. Please remember it is still a construction site and not open for visitors.

PARISH CENTENARY - Next year 2016 will be the centenary of both parish and school. If you would like to be involved in planning our commemoration, please let us know. We hope to have a range of activities – social, historical, liturgical, artistic and charitable.

REGINA CAELI OVER 50’s CLUB – next outing Wednesday 5 August to Redlands Museum at 8:30am. BYO morning tea and lunch at Redlands RSL. Phone Leila 3397 1545.

SETON COLLEGE OPEN MORNING 9am 4 August. Catholic Co-educational College, accepting enrolments for Year 7 2016/2017 (max Yr 7 enrolment - 65 students). Accepts students of diverse abilities, but provides opportunities for students who need assistance. Ph- 3291 5333

VOCATION VIEW – If you are willing to share what you have, God will multiply your gifts. Imagine how God can use you to nourish a hungry world. Consider being a sister, brother, priest or deacon. Pray for vocations. To talk to someone about your vocation, call the Vocation office on 3336 9392 or

vocation@bne.catholic.net.au or www.catholicpriesthood.com

Humour - Time for a Smile - A taxpayer received a strongly

worded ‘Second Notice’ that his tax return payment was overdue. Hastening to the Tax Office, he paid his bill, saying

apologetically that he had overlooked the first notice. ‘Oh!’, confided the tax collector with a smile, ‘We no longer send

out first notices. We have found that the ‘second notices’ are more effective.’

NO PARKING please on brick paved area in front of the church.

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CHECK OUT THE PARISH WEBSITE

www.bulimbacatholic.com GET THE PARISH NEWSLETTER ONLINE

School newsletter: www.stspp.qld.edu.au _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

RCIA PROGRAM INFORMATION NIGHT - to be held in the Parish Hall on Tuesday 28 July at 7pm. If you are interested in coming to the RCIA meetings, or if you know of someone who is interested in joining the RCIA program, please speak to Sr Mary Randle or Kevin Twomey by contacting the Parish Office (Phone 3399 2386) and leaving your details.

CARERS’ MORNING - A morning tea will be held for anyone caring for someone with a physical or mental illness on Tuesday 28 July in the Parish Hall at 10am. All welcome. For more details please telephone Veronica Corcoran at 3399 5076.

MELBOURNE CUP RAFFLE - Great prizes! 1

st Prize - A Delightful $500.00 to save!

2nd

Prize - A Very Useful $300.00 to spend! 3

rd Prize - A Handy $200.00 to enjoy!

4th

Prize - Framed Painting “Tossing in the Breeze” by Sr Margaret Ann Kelly SGS

Yes, it is that time of the year when I call on your generous support for our Melbourne Cup Luncheon and fundraiser for the Sisters of the Good Samaritan Foundation. In 2014 we raised $15,500. Thank you. As always, we are asking you and your friends to support us in this venture. Next weekend 1st & 2nd August we will ask you take a book of tickets home to sell. Please return butts and money to the parish or school office when sold. Thank you,Sr Mary Randle

BISHOP MICHAEL PUTNEY MEMORIAL LECTURE - You are invited to the Second Annual Bishop Michael Putney Memorial Lecture on Friday 31 July at 7:30pm at the St Colomb’s Anglican Ministry Centre, 25 Victoria Street Clayfield. Rev Dr Ray Williamson, of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Canberra will speak on Forming the Ecumenical Mind: Being Church in a Polarised World Cost $10 (payable at door) includes a light supper RSVP by 27 July to Jela Virzi on 3369 6792 or admin@qct.org.au

VOCATION BRISBANE is offering a discernment weekend to young men considering the calling to priesthood. The Quo Vadis weekend provides men with an experience of seminary life, input and formation from the Vocations team and time for personal discernment and reflection. Details: Quo Vadis Discernment Weekend, 28-30 August at Holy Spirit Seminary, Banyo. Contact 1300 133 544 for more information.

Stand is solidarity with the world’s poor, who have to cover many kilometers each day for basic necessities, by walking/running for CARITAS AUSTRALIA in the Bridge to Brisbane 30 August 2015. Go to www.bridgetobrisbane.com.au then join our team: 7988. Contact Joe Foley on 3324 3134 for more information.

WANTED – Do you have used postage stamps that can be donated to fight poverty? Supporting schools and programs for children, please help fundraising efforts for Mary MacKillop International Mission, Peru. Cut the stamp off, leaving a generous margin and send to the parish office.

PARISH ROSTERS NEXT WEEK Readers, Communion Ministers, Sacristans and Altar Servers Team 4 - please arrange a substitute if you are not available. Children’s Liturgy Roster 2 August – Adriana Fernando, Faye Goodyear, Millie C, Olivia D, Sophia H and Jess S. 9 August – Kerry Pontikis, Toni Barwick, Vivienne Thompson, Ellie S, Lila M, Claire R Hospitality Roster 2 August – Erica and Peter Willcox, and Brenda Hawke. 16 August – Susannah Morisaki and Nils Telle. Casserole Bank Roster Group 4 – Contact Louise Pierce

+ Liturgy this Week 27 July – 2 August 2015

MONDAY 7:00am Mass

TUESDAY - -

WEDNESDAY 7:00pm St Martha Mass

THURSDAY 9:00am Whole School Mass – Catholic Education Week

FRIDAY 9:00am St. Ignatius of Loyola Memorial Mass for Rita Reeves, Convent Chapel

50 Hawthorne Road, Hawthorne – ALL WELCOME

SATURDAY 9:00am St. Alphonsus Liguori Mass

SUNDAY 6:00pm (Saturday), 8:00am and 6:00pm Mass: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Children’s Liturgy of the Word at 8:00am Mass

Readings – Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15 Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 John 6:24-35

OTHER LITURGY AND PRAYER

RECONCILIATION Saturday at 9:30am and 5:00pm

MEDITATION Tuesday at 7:00pm (Lourdes Hill Convent) and Wednesday at 9:30am (Parish Hall)

ROSARY for peace Saturday before 9:00am Mass

ANGELUS for vocations Saturday before 9:00am Mass

ENTRANCE HYMN

GATHER US IN Here in this place, new light is streaming. Now is the darkness, vanished away, See, in this space, our fears and our dreamings, Brought here to you in the light of this day. Gather us in the lost and forsaken, Gather us in the blind and the lame; Call to us now, and we shall awaken, We shall arise at the sound of our name.

We are the young, our lives are a mystery, We are the old who yearn for your face, We have been sung throughout all of history, Called to be light to the whole human race. Gather us in the rich and the haughty, Gather us in the proud and the strong; Give us a heart so meek and so lowly, Give us the courage to enter the song.

Here we will take the wine and the water, Here we will take the bread of new birth, Here you shall call your sons and your daughters, Call us anew to be salt for the earth. Give us to drink the wine of compassion, Give us to eat the bread that is you; Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion, Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

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GLORIA Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will.

We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, We glorify you we give you thanks for your great glory. Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father.

Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; You are seated at the right hand of the Father, Have mercy on us

For you alone are the holy one, you alone are the Lord, You alone are the most high, Jesus Christ, With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father.

LAMB OF GOD Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us. Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, Grant us peace.

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION When we eat this bread and drink this cup, We proclaim your death O Lord until you come again.

COMMUNION HYMN

I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE

I am the bread of life. You who come to me shall not hunger; You who believe in me shall not thirst. No one can come to me unless the Father beckons.

CHORUS And I will raise you up, and I will raise you up, and I will raise you up on the last day.

The bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world, And you who eat of this bread, You shall live for ever, you shall live for ever.

CHORUS

Unless you eat of the flesh of the Son of Man And drink of his blood, and drink of his blood, you shall not have life within you.

CHORUS

I am the Resurrection I am the life. You who believe in me, even if you die, You shall live for ever.

CHORUS

Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, The Son of God, who has come into the world.

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RECESSIONAL HYMN

A NEW HEART FOR A NEW WORLD Trisha Watts/Monica O’Brien

REFRAIN Create a new heart, Holy Lord, beckon our lives through your word, open our eyes to your call, united as one for your world. Heighten our minds to your thoughts, heal us of pride and of hurt, may we go forth in your name we pray our hearts change.

The heart of the cross, lowly and poor, calls us on. Lord, it is you promising hope, promising truth.

Restless, the hearts who yearn for your peace in this land. Deepen the dream justice brings life, justice redeems.

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