St Bernard’s Church 4 Klumpp Rd., U M G.

St Martin’s Church Cnr Logan & Chester Rds

Eight Mile Plns, Bne.

St Catherine’s Church 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart.

PARISH PRIEST Fr Patrick Molony

ASSOCIATE PASTOR Fr Stephen Kumyangi

PRIEST IN RESIDENCE Fr Hyacinth Udah

GREENSLOPES HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN

Fr Quintin Culpeper

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Mrs Trish Stapleton pa.umg@bne.catholic.net.au

PASTORAL MINISTERS VOLUNTEERS Mrs Bronwyn Dunks E: cv.umg@bne.catholic.net.au

YOUTH & YOUNG PEOPLE Edwin Pereira E: yaya.umg @bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH MANAGER Mignon Telford E: umg@bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH OFFICE Michelle Baldi Lorraine Neagle Phone: (07) 3849 7158 Emergency: 3830 5178 Fax: (07) 3849 8742 E: sec.umg@bne.catholic.net.au Website:http://umgwcatholic.org.au/ F: Like us: http://www facebook.com/umgwparish

DEANERY www.parishes.bne.catholic.

net.au/south/index.html

ST VINCENT DE PAUL Welfare: 3010 1096

ST BERNARD’S SCHOOL 1823 Logan Rd., U M G Phone: 3849 4800

ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart Phone: 3349 7188

CLAIRVAUX MACKILLOP COLLEGE

24 Klumpp Rd., U M G Phone: 3347 9200

NEWSLETTER 8/9 April 2017

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD/A READINGS: Isaiah 50:4-7; Philippians 2:6-11

GOSPEL: Matthew 26:11-54

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

Guided by the Holy Spirit, we aim to be an evangelising, faith-filled parish whose members care for one another and are welcoming and inclusive.

Creating the silence we need ...

The point of religious processions is not just to get us from one location to the next. It is also to mark a rite of passage. Think of the smaller processions most Christians undertake in their lives: to the baptismal font; down the aisle to take their marriage vows, or to graduate from a school or college and to be farewelled. In each case we recess out of the Church differently from how we entered it: as a newly initiated member of the Christian community; as a husband or wife; as a graduate; and to be buried.

Matthew’s account of the Passion is very tough on the Jewish leaders. His entire Gospel has been preparing the hearer for this. Matthew shows that even though the Jews had the New Moses right in front of them, they were unable to recognise him because he didn’t fit their expectations of the Messiah. The crowd in Jerusalem receive him like a pop star. By week’s end the Chief Priests and elders manipulate the crowd’s enthusiasm to force Pilate to execute Jesus. And throughout it all, during the adulation of the crowd, their change of allegiance to Barabbas and at his trial, Jesus hardly says a word. In Matthew’s Gospel Jesus’ silence is deafening.

In the journey of faith we should always be on our guard against being part of a manipulated crowd. The unchecked enthusiasms of a crowd can carry us away to places, people or things we would not ordinarily choose and should not embrace. If we are vulnerable, a gifted guru through his or her version of eternal life can whip us up into a frenzy. We only have to look at the power of the media and advertising to see how susceptible we are to becoming a slave to fashionable ideologies, dress codes and what and who is in or out. Every time we buy something because someone else has it or because we convince ourselves that our wants are really our needs, the crowd has won. The story of Passion Sunday is that manipulation of a crowd, even by legitimate authorities, can be the beginning of spiritual death. Hype often distorts priorities, blurs good judgment and can choose expediency over integrity.

So what’s the remedy to being manipulated, to regaining a sense of what really matters, to standing up against the crowd for the values we know are right? Jesus shows us in Matthew’s Gospel. It starts with silence. It’s being a contemplative in a manic world and praying for the courage to dissent from the crowd’s hyped-up madness. As we process into Holy Week, this annual rite of passage for our faith, may we model our lives on Jesus in every way by creating the silence we need in our lives to sort out our priorities, by using silence powerfully in a world that loves words but has very little to say about our meaning and destiny and allowing our sacrificial love, even to the point of death, to do all the talking.

Adapted from Richard Leonard SJ LiturgyHelp.com

Our parish takes time out each morning in Holy Week to celebrate the Prayer of the Church.

Morning Prayer

Please come to the East wing of St Bernard’s Church Mon-Thurs 8.00 am, Good Friday 9.00 am

& Holy Saturday 8.00 am

Good Friday Outdoor Stations of the Cross

10 am St Catherine’s Church

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READERS ROSTER Easter Masses

15/16 April St Bernard’s: As advised

St Martin’s: As advised

St Catherine’s: As advised.

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

OUTDOOR STATIONS OF THE CROSS 10 am Friday 15 April

St Catherine’s Church, Wishart This youth-led event is held every year at St Catherine’s church on Good Friday. The Stations are re-enacted in a simple and moving service in the grounds of St Catherine’s Church. YAYA (Youth and Young Adults) is keen to hear from anyone who would like to be involved. Please contact Trish at the parish office for more information.

HOLY WEEK LEAFLETS A take home flyer with times of all the Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies is available at our parish churches. Feel free to take a few flyers to distribute in your local area.

PROJECT COMPASSION Like many of her neighbours in her coastal village in the Philippines, Aloma feared for her family’s safety as extreme weather battered their home and environment. But her participation in the Caritas supported Integrated Community Development Program has offered her a leading role in helping her vulnerable community prepare for extreme

weather events and work together to protect their environment.

Please donate to Project Compassion 2017 and help vulnerable communities in the Philippines learn how to work together to care for their common home, creating a more secure environment and a more

secure future for their children.

Please help communities like Aloma’s by giving to Project Compassion. Envelopes and boxes available at our parish churches. All boxes and envelopes to be returned by next Sunday, Easter Sunday.

OUR WORTHY

CAUSE:

THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH

SUDAN NEED OUR HELP

As mentioned last week, the people of South Sudan are suffering very badly. They are a young nation having gained independence from North Sudan in 2011, in a peaceful transition, but trouble soon began brewing between the new governing body and the military, and so began a civil war driven by economic and political problems as well as by ethnic issues. Consequently a huge number of people now need our help. Famine has been declared as many people, particularly children are dying of starvation.

Our special retiring collection at all

Easter Sunday Masses will help

these suffering people. Our

contribution will go to the Diocese

from which Fr Stephen came. We

are noted for our generosity, but to

be forewarned is to be forearmed so

please come prepared to support

this most worthy cause.

Beth McDonnell for UMGW Social Justice/

Lifelong Learning Group

HOLY WEEKHOLY WEEK

MONDAY MONDAY -- WEDNESDAY WEDNESDAY

1010--12 April 201712 April 2017

ST BERNARD’S CHURCH

Prayer of the Church 8.00 am

HOLY THURSDAYHOLY THURSDAY -- 13 April 201713 April 2017 ST BERNARD’S CHURCH

Prayer of the Church 8.00 am Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7.00 pm

Exposition and Night Prayer until 9.00 pm

GOOD FRIDAY GOOD FRIDAY -- 14 April 201714 April 2017 ST BERNARD’S CHURCH Prayer of the Church 9.00 am The Way of the Cross 10.00 am

The Lord’s Passion 3.00 pm

ST CATHERINE’S CHURCH Outdoor Stations of the Cross 10.00 am

The Lord’s Passion 3.00 pm

ST MARTIN’S CHURCH The Lord’s Passion 3.00 pm

HOLY SATURDAY HOLY SATURDAY -- 15 April 201715 April 2017 ST BERNARD’S CHURCH Prayer of the Church 8.00 am

Easter Vigil Mass 6.15 pm

ST CATHERINE’S CHURCH Easter Vigil Mass 6.00 pm

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES EASTER SUNDAY MASSES --

16 April 201716 April 2017 ST BERNARD’S 7 am, 9.30 am & 6.15 pm

ST MARTIN’S 8.00 am

ST CATHERINE’S 8.30 am

A Journey to the

Beginning Please keep our fellow travellers in your prayers this weekend and during Holy Week as they make final preparations for their Initiation.

Lynne, Roberto and Tatijana who wi l l be Bapt ised, Confirmed and share Eucharist with us next weekend at the Easter Vigil;

Anita and Leigh, Baptised as Catholics will be Confirmed and share Eucharist with us at the Easter Vigil;

Melissa and Rani, Baptised as Christians will be received into the Catholic Church and will be Confirmed and share Eucharist with us, also at the Easter Vigil;

Tom Baptised as a Christian will be received into the Catholic Church and will be Confirmed and share Eucharist with us on Easter Sunday Evening at the 6.15 pm Mass at St Bernard’s.

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Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

SAVE THE DATE!! We are so blessed in our

parish to have so many

people who do so much to

help the smooth running of all our

Ministries. To thank you for all the

wonderful work you do, the parish will

be holding a Volunteers Thank You

Lunch in the Aspinall Centre, Sunday

7 May 11.00am to 2.00pm. If you have

given extra time to our communities by

enhancing our liturgies, our gardens, our

church communities, looked after

financial matters and assisted

parishioners and others in need, then

mark this date on your calendar. It

should be a wonderful afternoon. We

will be asking for names and numbers

closer to the date.

LITTLE KINGS FOR THE DISABLED Thank you for supporting this appeal.

Could you please return donations to the

parish office or on the collection plate

this weekend. Your assistance is greatly

appreciated.

GET FIT, DE-STRESS Every Wednesday starting 19 April,

10.15 - 11.15 am after school assembly,

St Bernard’s Community Centre. First

class $5. Why not come and try. Join an

easy going movement/dance group. It’s

fun, open for anyone who wants to feel

energised happy and healthy. Facebook -

fb.me/hbmovedance or contact Mary -

hbmd.mf@gmail.com.

BRISBANE CITY SOCIAL BRIDGE CLUB Formerly The Irish Bridge Club are now

playing at Penola Place in St Stephens

Cathedral grounds. Supervised play

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from

10am to 1pm. Lessons for beginners in

May. Contact Beris 3300 1332 or Cathy

0428 985 804.

MOOGERAH PASSION PLAY You are invited to join the 2500 people

who come each year to the Lake Theatre

beside Lake Moogerah, not far from

Boonah, Queensland, to watch a

performance of the Moogerah Passion

Play. It is a wonderful way of bringing

the message of the Gospel to people as

WE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED Especially Margaret Schleehauf (mother

of Jenny McCamley), Delores Beltran

(mother of Lynette Vosotros), Moira

McNamara, Rodney Byrne, Margaret

Smith, Betty Clare, Erika Felfer, Angela

Seeto, Joan Burcher and Andrew ‘Joy’

Peries who have died recently, also

James Smith, Derek Hartley, Helen

Madden, Fr Tom Breen, Ursula

Macpherson, Russell Long, Johnny

Handley, Keith Roff, James King, Dr

Hilary & Cleta Desouza, Rita Galea,

Simon Tinh, Laura Sim, Charles &

Scott Sullivan, Violet Markwell, Beryl

Johnson, Iain Toomer, Bob Reeves, Sr

Teresa Wood, Joe Senior, Ellen Scott,

and Nesam Subramaniam whom we

remember at this time.

EASTER SIGN ON SHEETS Easter Ministries: We require

Extraordinary Ministers of Communion

and Junior Ministers for all Easter

Masses. Sign on sheets are available in

our parish churches. If you can help

please add your name to the lists.

SENIORS BUS TRIPS To the Majestic Theatre at Pomona

on Thursday 20 April. Today we go

to a favourite place. THE SILENT

MOVIES. We travel the scenic route to

Pomona. Morning tea on the way and

lunch at the restaurant after the movies.

Cost $55 (includes

morning tea and lunch).

Leaves St Bernard’s

8.30 am. Bookings Sue

3349 8198.

Or to the Tramway Museum at Ferny

Grove and lunch at Gaythorne RSL.

Wednesday 26 April. Tour, lunch and

morning tea included $45. Bus leaves

St Catherine’s at 8.00 am. Bookings

Maureen 3343 3144. Stamps for the

Columban Mission can be left in the

box at St Catherine’s.

SEWING MACHINES The Loreto Sisters are looking for

sturdy sewing machines in good

working condition for their community

Development Centre in Gariuai, a

remote village in East Timor. The

project aims to provide an income for

rural women from a subsistence farming

community. A shipment for East Timor

is leaving Bne in April. If you can help

phone the parish office 3849 7158.

they watch the

story of Jesus

unfold before

their eyes. And

what’s more, it’s free! Performances

are on Saturday 8, Sunday 9, Friday

14 and Saturday 15 April. All

performances start at 5 pm. Brochures

and details on notice boards.

JAZZY CHATS CONCERT Come along to St Catherine’s Hall, 388

Newnham Rd., Wishart, Sunday

23 April, at 2.00 pm. This stage band

has a repertoire covering a wide range

of music. Entry paper donation eg. $5.

Lucky door prize and afternoon tea.

All parishioners are welcome to come

and enjoy.

MACKAY & SURROUNDS 7 DAY TOUR - 3-9 August, 2017 Tony Toohey, a parishioner of St

Joachim’s, Holland Park, has arranged

this tour for retirees and their friends

and has room for either you and/or your

friends to join them. This tour has been

arranged by Mackay Tourism and we

will see and be visiting many

interesting places. The price is $1572

per person twin share. The single

supplement is $520. Return Mackay

airfares, are in addition to the above.

Please contact Tony 3349 4308 or

email, aajtuy@optusnet.com.au for

further details and a copy of the

itinerary.

CATHOLIC LEADER Flood chaos - Regions across

Queensland and northern NSW hit

hard by disaster

Bne Catholic theologian to launch

book on being in love

Holy week peace march to urge an

end to violence throughout the

Middle East.

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PALM/PASSION SUNDAY/A - 9 April 2017 ♫ PROCESSIONAL: HAIL REDEEMER KING DIVINE

Hail Redeemer, King divine! Priest and Lamb the throne is thine.

King, whose reign shall never cease, Prince of everlasting peace. Angels, saints and nations sing "Praised be Jesus Christ, our King;

Lord of life, earth, sky and sea, King of Love on Calvary."

King, whose name creation thrills, rule our minds, our hearts, our wills.

Till in peace each nation rings with thy praises, King of kings. Angels, saints and nations sing "Praised be Jesus Christ, our King; Lord of life, earth, sky and sea, King of Love on Calvary."

King most holy, King of truth, guide the lowly, guide the youth; Christ thou King of glory bright, be to us eternal light.

Angels, saints and nations sing "Praised be Jesus Christ, our King; Lord of life, earth, sky and sea, King of Love on Calvary."

© WOL Int. Brennan P/Flood W TRAD Lic 1326E

FIRST READING: Isaiah 50:4-7 RESP. PSALM: MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU…. Response: My God, My God, why have you abandoned me.

1. All who see me deride me. They curl their lips, they toss their heads. ‘He trusted in the Lord, let him save him: let him release him if this is his friend.

2. Many dogs have surrounded me, a band of the wicked beset me. They tear holes in my hands and my feet, I can count every one of my bones.

3. They divide my clothing among them. They cast lots for my robe. O Lord, do not leave me alone, my strength, make haste to help me.

4. I will tell of your name to my brethren and praise you where they are assembled. ‘You who fear the Lord give him praise; all sons of Jacob, give him glory. Revere him, Israel’s sons.’

© WOL Int. Smith CD WIL Ps 21 Lic 1326E

SECOND READING: Philippians 2:6-11 ♫ LENTEN GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ! Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ! ! Christ became obedient for us; even to death dying on a cross; Therefore God raised him on high, gave him a name above all other names. Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ! Praise

and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ! © WOL Int. Mason P WIL Lic. 1326E

GOSPEL: Matthew 26:11-54 ♫ COMMUNION HYMN: MAY WE COME TO KNOW THE LORD Refrain: In the bread may we be broken. In the cup may we be out-

poured. May we come to know the healer, may we come to know the Lord.

1. Though many are we, we are one in the Lord. We are all welcome to his table of new life. (Refrain)

2. We come to the table to remember the Lord, who gave his life that we might live forever more. (Refrain)

3. In breaking the bread in sharing the cup, may we be filled as we come to know the Lord. (Refrain)

© Word of Life Int. Gagnon, David OCP Lic. 1326

SONG OF PRAISE: JESUS REMEMBER ME

Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom. Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom. (repeat)

© Word of Life Int. Berthier, Jacques TAI Lic. 1326

♫ RECESS: GLORY IN THE CROSS 1. Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ who redeems us with his

blood. Let us tell the story of the cross of Christ and the pow’r of his saving love. Like a lamb he was slain; he carried our shame, to show us the mercy of God. Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ and the triumph of God’s great love.

MASS TIMES 10 - 16 April 2017

St Bernard’s:

Tues. 9.15 am

Wed. 7.00 pm

Thurs. 7.00 pm - Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Fri. 3.00 pm - The Lord’s Passion

Sat. 6.15 pm - Easter Vigil

Sun. 7.00 am, 9.30 am, 6.15 pm. - Easter Sunday

St Martin’s:

Fri. 3.00 pm - The Lord’s Passion

Sunday 8.00 am - Easter Sunday

St Catherine’s:

Mon. 9.15 am

Wed. 7.00 am

Fri 3.00 pm - The Lord’s Passion

Sat. 6.00 pm - Easter Vigil

Sun. 8.30 am - Easter Sunday

THIS WEEK Mon. 10 April 2017 NO HeartFIT: - Resumes on Monday 24 April. SVDP Meeting - 5 pm, St C’s Community Centre.

Tues. 11 April 2017 Craft Group - 10 am, St B’s Community Centre. Easter Music Practice - 7.30 pm, St Bernard’s Ch.

Wed. 12 April 2017 Beside Restful Waters - No meeting. Finance Meeting - 7 pm, parish office. SVdP meeting - 5 pm Aspinall Centre Rm 1.

Thurs. 13 April 2017 Play Group - School holidays.

Friday 14 April 2017 Play Group - School holidays. NO HeartFIT: - Resumes on Friday 21 April.

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

2. Let us bring our burdens to the cross of Christ

who has known our sorrow and tears.

In the great compassion of the heart of Christ,

God has walked in our hopes and fears.

He was mocked and betrayed, deserted by

friends, and banished to die among thieves.

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ

and the triumph of God’s great love.

3. Let us kneel in homage at the cross of Christ

where we see God’s human face.

We behold the Maker of the sun and stars

as he hangs on the throne of grace.

As we share in his pain, his sorrow and shame,

our hearts will be tested in fire.

Let us ever glory in the cross of Christ

and the triumph of God’s great love.

EASTER SUNDAY– 16 April 2017

READINGS: Acts 10:34, 37-43; Colossians 3:1-4 GOSPEL John 20:1-9.