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Parish Priest’s Email Address: [email protected]
Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time 14th / 15th September 2019
The Prodigal Us
Who would be dumb enough to adore something they have constructed with their own hands! Imagine worshipping a molten calf!
… In the First Reading we find God becoming quite upset because the people in ancient days put up cheap products as their God. While Moses is away, they have built a golden calf,
and are making it their God. Ridiculous. God had a different idea of his relation to the people. We could sum it up as follows:
What about the two-way covenant of love I have been offering you? “I will be your God and you will be my people. I will love you more than you can ask or imagine.
Won’t you just love me in return?”
But they refuse and wilfully run away to their paltry desires. God becomes angry, maybe in the way a parent would with a seriously disobedient child.
He shouts at Moses, … A few lines later, Moses acts as a family friend. … Just calm down, Give them some time. God agrees.
Yet they were “worshipping” false gods! Maybe you and I do not exactly worship (fall down and adore) all the man-made items that demand our time, but have you ever run away from God
so you can have whatever arouses your own addictions? For sure the prodigal son did. He left what he felt were the "shackles" of home life
and also the confining love from his father. He made himself “free”! He squandered everything on a life of dissipation, the equivalent of our many refrigerators,
cars, houses, magazines and clothes. When he finally comes crawling back home, defeated, we would expect his father to say:
“Oh sure, now you turn up, thinking everything will be just like it used to be. Well think again, pal.” But instead his father actually runs to meet his son, embraces him and prepares a huge feast of welcome.
Did the young man get what he deserved? No, he got what his father prepared for him. Entire forgiveness. God does not want to keep us from the things that attract us.
He wants us to value them in due proportion. Love God above all things. Then you can love everything and everyone else as they deserve.
We fail, of course, like the prodigal, and like the ancient Israelites did. So Jesus pleads for us, just as Moses pleaded. God puts his arms around us and says,
“welcome, welcome, welcome. You came back! We can love one another again, can't we?” We will do our best, we say.
John Foley, SJ
DATE CLAIMERS:
Sun 15th Sept Confirmation Practise (Cab)
Mon 16th Sept SVdP Meeting (Bribie)
Tues 17th Sept Parent Baptism Meeting (Cab)
Wed 18th Sept 12.30pm Steering Committee Meeting (Cab)
Thurs 19th Sept 7.00pm KSC Meeting (Cab)
Thurs 19th Sept 9.15am Anointing Mass (Bribie)
Thurs 19th Sept 5.00pm Combined Finance Council Meeting
Fri 20th Sept 8.30am Bolton Clarke Priest Visitation (Cab)
Fri 20th Sept 6.00pm Celebration of Confirmation (Cab)
Wed 25th Sept 9.30am Anointing Mass (Cab)
Thurs 26th Sept 7.00pm Pastoral Council Meeting (Bribie)
Mon 30th Sept 10.00am Hospitality Meeting (Bribie)
Fri 4th Oct/Sat 5th Oct Brisbane Assembly for 2020 Plenary Council Please note the Parish Office will be closed on the Friday as staff will be attending
NEXT WEEKEND MASSES
St Peter’s: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 7am, 10am, & 5.30pm
Little Flower: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 8.30am
Beachmere: Sunday 8.30 am (24 Rogers Street)
RECONCILIATION
St Peter’s: Individual: 5.00 pm Saturday evening
Little Flower: Individual: 5.00 pm Saturday evening
PARISH BAPTISMS
St Peter’s 10.30am 1st & 2nd Saturdays of each month
Little Flower 10.30am 3rd Saturday of each month
SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK
This Sunday - 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time ( Yr C)
Ex 32: 7-11,13-14; 1 Tim 1:12-17; Luke15:1-32
Weekday Readings:
Monday Sts Cornelius & Cyprian 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 7:1-10
Tuesday 1 Tim 3:1-13; Luke 7:11-17
Wednesday 1 tim 3:14-16; Luke 7:31-35
Thursday 1 Tim 4:12-16; Luke 7:36-50
Friday St Andrew Kim Tae-gon 1 Tim 6:2-12; Luke 8:1-3
Saturday St Matthew Eph 4:1-7,11-13; Matt 9:9-13
Next Sunday– 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Yr C)
Amos 8:4-7; 1 Tim 2:1-8; Luke 1616:1-13
Response:
I will rise and go to my Father.
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, Alleluia! God was in Christ, to
reconcile the world to himself: and the Good
news of reconciliation he has entrusted to us.
Alleluia!
News from St Peter’s
SUNDAY
6.00 pm Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
7.00 am Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
8.30 am Mass of the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Beachmere)
10.00 am Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
5.30 pm Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
MONDAY
9.00 am Mass (Church)
9.30 am 5 Decade Rosary (Church)
12.30 pm 20 Decade Rosary Church)
TUESDAY
6.00 pm Parent Baptism Meeting (Meeting Room)
WEDNESDAY
9.30 am Mass (Church)
12.30 pm Steering Committee Meeting (Meeting Room)
THURSDAY
10.00 am Mothers’ Prayer Group (Parish Centre Meeting Room)
10.00 am El Shaddai 21 Hayes St. Ph. Susie 0404 844 395.
5.00 pm Joint Finance Committee Meeting (Meeting Room)
7.00 pm KSC Meeting (Hall)
FRIDAY
7.45 am Mass (St Columban’s Chapel)
9.30 - 11.30am Craft Group (Hall)
SATURDAY
5.00 pm Individual Reconciliation
6.00 pm Mass of the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
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News from Little Flower
SUNDAY
8.30am Mass of The 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
MONDAY
TUESDAY
9.00 am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Church)
6.00 pm Mass (Church)
WEDNESDAY
9.00 am Communion Liturgy (Church)
9.30 am Christian Meditation (Our House)
3.30 pm Bible Study Group Frederic Ozanam Centre
5.30 pm Men’s Choir Practice (New Men’s voices welcome) (Church)
THURSDAY
9.15 am Anointing Mass (Church)
FRIDAY
9.00 am Mass (Church)
SATURDAY
5.00 pm Individual Reconciliation (Church)
6.00 pm Mass of the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Church)
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Little Flower Anointing Mass
The monthly Anointing Mass will be celebrated this Thursday at Little
Flower during the regular 9.15am Mass. Please join us in celebrating this
rich sacrament of healing and then afterwards the hospitality ladies invite
you to stay and enjoy a cuppa and chat with your fellow parishioners.
MEETINGS & GATHERINGS
MEETINGS & GATHERINGS
Our Schools
St Peter’s Primary School
30 Beerburrum Road, Caboolture. Ph: 5495 2266 http://www.stpeterscaboolture.qld.edu.au
St Columban’s College
100 McKean Street, Caboolture. Ph: 5495 3111. https://stc.moretonbay.com.au
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Please Remember In Your Prayers
Those Who Have Died Recently
Louise (Marie) Daamen, Veronica O’Rielly, Consolacion Borela,
Robert Hughes, Peg Fisher, Graeme Crowley, Jimmie Castles,
Majella Matheson, Simon Twarowski, Robin Houston,
Jacqueline Flanagan.
Anniversaries of Those Who Have Died
Epifania Otaza, Felicisima B.Abano, Antonio Landicho,
Alan Nuss, Eileen Martin, Kevin McMahon, Jessie Cannon,
John Bush, Liam Ryan, Jaimie Fairey, Joan McCafferty,
Raymond Gilbert, Elizabeth Swinfield, Harry Wrench,
Vojech Laske, Glen Standfast, Ryan Bliss, Ross Gabriel,
John Brady, Iris Hickey, Alan Corbett, Elizabeth Brown,
Mary Jones.
Our Sick
Judy Bakhash, Denis Berge, Calvin Bartlett, Patricia Clunes,
Eileen Connell, Karen Croke, Hank Daamen,
Colin Downan, Maria Del Rosso, Bernie Daly, Les & Mary
Dillon, Peter Dillon, Mary Daly, Margaret Edwards,
Catherine Ferguson, Pedro Fructuoso, Beth Falealili,
Lisa Griffiths, Nicole Harvey, Madonna & Anthony Hickey,
Laurie Holdsworth, Chris Hoogwaerts, Lionel Henschell,
Alison Jones, Brendan Kelly, Paddy Leahy, Gill Leach,
Bob Lewis, Lourdes Mercader, Eva Mendoza, Soriano
Otaza, Nicole Parker, Alison Peall, Leoncia Patiluna,
Pedro Sanchez, Pauline Sneddon, Emily Spina,
Gene Roenblatt, Gudelia Roque, Brenda Rennie, Dianne
Radson, Bernie Sheppard, Patricia Twinchek, Les Teys,
Betty Towell, Amanda Thacker, Gerry Van Dinter,
Terry Walsh. …………………………………….
PARISH COLLECTIONS:
Across the Parish your gifting this week was - $5269.70
Thank you for the continued support of your Parish.
Steering Committee Contact Emails
Little Flower - Sue Norris: [email protected] Beachmere - Geoff Morris: [email protected]
St Peter’s - Greg Atkins: [email protected]
Congratulations to Savannah Mutters,
Alannah Jack & Beau Bennett who will be welcomed into the Church through
Baptism at St Peter’s Church, this Saturday
Celebration of Confirmation
This coming Friday we welcome Bishop Ken Howell
to our Parish to celebrate the Sacrament of
Confirmation with our young people. You are invited
to join us for this exciting next step in the faith lives of
our young people. The Liturgy will begin at 6.00pm in
St Peter’s Church followed by a party in Mary
McKillop Hall afterwards.
The SVdP State President has declared a public disaster
appeal for Queenslanders affected by the current bushfires
and the continuing drought.
The ‘Always There – Vinnies Queensland Disaster Appeal’ initial response will be to support the regions affected
by bushfires in the last week. Credit card donations can be
received on the website
http://bit.ly/DonateVinniesQLDDisasterAppeal, or by
calling 13 18 12 or directly banked into the Always There - Vinnies Qld Disaster Appeal
bank account: Bank: CBA
Account name: St Vincent de Paul Society Queensland
BSB: 064-000 Account Number: 13661492
Couples celebrating their Golden Wedding Anniversary along with family & friends are invited to the annual
Mass with Archbishop Mark Coleridge. Saturday 28 September, @ 10.00am.
For catering purposes please RSVP to [email protected] or telephone 3324 3030
by Friday 20 September. Car parking is available.
Archdiocesan 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 by all.
Safeguarding Is Everyone’s Responsibility
Parish Office Contact Information
www.cabooltureparish.org.au.
Parish Priest: Fr David Pascoe
0414 675 356
Associate Pastor: Fr Lucius Edomobi 0451 570 990
Parish Secretary: Sharron Macrae
Finance Officer: Kath Rawlinson
Safeguarding Officer: Sharron Macrae
Staff Meeting - Wednesday 8.30am - 9.00am
Caboolture Parish is part of the Northern Rivers Deanery
“Take This All Of You And Drink From It”
The practice of Intinction is not adopted across our Parish
but rather we encourage you to ‘receive’ from the cup
in unity with your fellow Parishioners.
Yes, God maybe calling you—but probably not on your mobile! Please remember to switch your phone off or onto silent
before Mass begins; it can be very distracting to those around you.
Speed & Parking Changes around Little Flower Church
Parishioners please note that the speed limit has now changed to
50kph (still 40 within school hours) and new yellow lines have now
been painted up and down First Avenue restricting the areas where
you may park. When arriving for mass (both weekdays and week-
end) please make sure your car in not within these lines as you
may find yourself with a parking ticket. One of our Parishioners
found a ticket on her window after Mass last Sunday after parking
along the fence-line in front of the school.