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PARISHES IN PARTNERSHIP – MAFFRA/ COWWARR-HEYFIELDSt. Mary’s (Maffra); St. Ita’s (Newry); St. Joseph’s (Dargo)
St. Michael’s (Heyfield); St. Brigid’s (Cowwarr); Father Dom Hilarion Fernando OSB
Email: [email protected] Maffra 5147 1921 - Mobile 0478909541 - Fax 5147 1476
For Emergencies: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sale, Phone 51444100
6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Year A – 16th February, 2014Our Sunday Liturgy:Theme: Christian way of life goes far beyond fulfilling the law.
Introduction: By choosing the way of Jesus, leading us to the wisdom, only God could give, we could experience even here on earth, a glimpse of God’s Kingdom.
Entrance Antiphon (or Hymn): Be my protector, O God, a mighty stronghold to save me. For you are my rock, my stronghold! Lead me, guide me, for the sake of your name.
1 st Reading: A reading from the book of Ecclesiasticus: 15: 15-20He never commanded anyone to be godless.
Responsorial Psalm:Happy are they who follow the law of the Lord!
2 nd Reading :A reading from the first letter to the St Paul to the Corinthians: 2: 6-10God in his wisdom predestined our glory before the ages began.
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, Alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom. Alleluia!
Gospel:A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew: 5: 17-27Such was said to your ancestors; but I am speaking to you.
Mystery of Faith:We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.
Communion Antiphon:They ate and had their fill, and what they craved the Lord gave them; they were not disappointed in what they craved.
Message to take home: If you trust in God, choosing life, good and mercy, you shall live the life of perfection.
God we trust that you will provide us with the insight of a true Christian life and to have forgiveness and mercy to those who have hurt us. Please God, grant that we may be what you have
always wanted us to be, peaceful, merciful and loving.
MASSES NEXT WEEKEND: Rosary before Mass : MAFFRA: Sunday 9.00am HEYFIELD: Saturday 6.00pmNEWRY: Sunday 11.00am WEEKDAY MASSES: Maffra: 17th Feb: Mon 9.30am Seven Founders of Servite Order (Rosary before Mass 9.15) 19th Feb: Wed 7.00pm Mass and Adoration Till 8pm at Presbytery Chapel. 20th Feb: Thur. 9.30am Votive Mass of the Holy Eucharist (Rosary before Mass 9.15) 21st Feb: Fri. 10.15am St Peter Damion (Adoration till 11.15) 22nd Feb: Sat. 9.30am The Chair of St Peter (feast) (Rosary before Mass 9.15)Heyfield: 18th Feb: Tues. 9.30am Votive Mass of Holy angels. (Rosary before Mass 9.15) RECONCILIATION: Maffra: Saturday – For Half Hour after 9.30am Mass (And any other time by request). Heyfield: 5.20pm-5.45pm prior to Saturday evening Mass -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RECITATION OF HOLY ROSARY FOR OUR FAMILIES IN THIS YEAR OF THE FAMILY:Maffra: Mondays, Thursdays & Saturdays at 9.15am (Before Mass)Heyfield: Tuesdays at 9.15am (Except on 2nd Tuesday - at Laurina Lodge 10am)Newry: Thursday at 7.30pmCowwarr: Wednesday at 9.45am--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------MAFFRA: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament – Wednesdays 7pm Mass & Adoration in Presbytery Chapel till 8pm. 1st Friday of the month - 10.15 Mass (Healing and Anointing) 3rd & 4th Friday of the month – 10.15 to 11.15 am (Mass and Adoration) HEYFIELD: 3rd Tues of the month – 9.30 to 10.30am (Mass and Adoration)COWWARR: 1st Friday of the month – night HOLY ROSARY: Before Sunday Masses – Maffra and Saturday Masses - HeyfieldMaffra: 1stThursday – 9am before Mass (for Mothers and unborn babies)Newry: Every Thursday – 7.30pm _____________________________________________________________________________________PRAYERS FOR THE DECEASED: Anniversaries: Flora Gannon, Gavin Hackwill, Megan Bourke, Charles Lincoln, Raymond Welsh, Joyce Bodel, Leo McCole, Edmund Lasich, Eileen Young, Sean Munro.Bishop Arthur Fox, Frs. Manny Spiteri, Edward O’Donnel, James O’Kean, Patrick Quigley, William Regan.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PRAYERS FOR THE SICK: Rosa Pappas, Mary Harkin, Ethel Robertson, Ged McKenna (Brother Of Cate Goodman), Jack Cullen, Jim Last, Lee Allman, Gerry Gray, Marie Morgan, Judith Shaw, Ann Martin, Bishop Coffey, Tao Pham (Seminarian), Father Frank, Helen Garrigan, Maree Welsh, Mary Saunders, Ann Bumpstead, Laura Mowat, Xavier Mills and all those who seek our prayers. _____________________________________________________________________________________
PLANNED GIVING: Maffra: Envelopes $ 338 Presbytery $ 452 Heyfield: Envelopes $ 534 Presbytery $ 167 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CUPPA AFTER SUNDAY MASSES: to meet your community and catch up on good news.23rd Feb. – Newry after 11am Mass Please bring a plate to share2nd Mar. – Cowwarr after 11am Mass
9th Mar. – Maffra after 9am Mass15th Mar. – Heyfield after 6pm Mass
LENTEN REFLECTION GOUPS: Lenten groups will start the week of Ash Wednesday, all welcome
JOSEPHITE MEETING: to be held on Wednesday 26th February at Rosemary Wirken’s home
MAFFRA: LITURGY: Sun : 23rd Feb Mary Hartwig COUNTING TEAM: : Sun. (tonight) 16th Dick Moulton & Roy Shelton Recorder: Mary McLaverty Sun: 23rd Feb Gary Shingles & Rosemary Wirken Recorder: Barbara Gray LECTOR: Sun. 23rd Feb Val Hackwill COMMENTATOR: Sun 23rd Feb Kevin Christensen COMPUTER OPERATER: Sun 23rd Feb Pat FogartyOFFERTORY: Sun 23rd Feb Peter & Dorothy Smyth EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS: Sun. 23rd Feb Mary Hartwig / Rosemary Wirken / John Langley COLLECTORS: Sun 23rd Feb Kevin Kierce / Jack Gray & Helper COMMUNION TO THE SICK: Sun. 23rd Feb Margaret SlatteryVISITING TEAM: Sun. 23rd Feb Mary McCarthy and Margaret Slattery FLOWERS: Sun. 23rd Feb Leonee Seymour & Margareta Kirby HOLY VESSELS: (15th February to 14th March) Catherine Hicks (only every 2nd & 4th week) HEYFIELD:COMMUNION TO THE SICK: Sat. 22nd Feb George BoguszREADER: Sat. 22nd Feb Carmel PittariOFFERTORY PROCESSION: Sat. 22nd Feb Trevor & Christine DonohueFLOWERS: Sat. 22nd Feb Pittari FamilyLINEN: February Maureen Coleman NEWRY:READER: Sun. 23rd Feb Jack Dwyer_____________________________________________________________________________________
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER CELEBRATES 40 YEARS IN AUSTRALIA IN 20Marriage Encounter (ME) in Feb 2014 will be celebrating 40 years of running weekends in Australia. We want to hear from couples and priests who may have been involved with ME in the past and who would like to gather and share memories, celebrate what has been and hear about ME today and our vision for the future. We are having a special celebration on Saturday February 22 nd . So we ask you all to start spreading the word. Please ask people to contact Helen & Leo Wursthorn or call (03) 9874 6979 or [email protected] for more information.
DAILY ROSARY: During the year of the family, we will be having the Rosary before the 9.30 am weekday Holy Masses on Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays (at Maffra). Heyfield will be on the 1st and 4th Tuesdays before the 9.30am Masses. The Rosary will begin at 9.15am from Monday 17th February.(During the Rosary, I will be available for the Sacrament of Reconciliation.)
JOSEPHITE CALENDARS: The piety Stall (Maffra) has been left with Josephite Calendars for 2014. (These have to be paid for!!) Would you like to help us by purchasing one or two for the bargain price of $5??
CATERING FOR FUNERALS: Would you like to be included on the list for helping at funerals, i.e. cooking, sandwich making or just helping in the kitchen on the day of funerals. Please see the form at the back of the Church.
SHROVE TUESDAY: Pancake Night – Everyone is invited to join us for scrumptious tea of savoury and sweet pancakes (Including Gluten free), Tues 4th March at the Maffra Uniting Church meeting room at 5.45pm for 6pm Tea. Cost: $8 – per person or $16 – per family. All profits will be used to support the Maffra Primary School Breakfast Program. Enquiries: Rev Sandra Houghton 0428 649 243
MAFFRA- PPC: will meet on Tuesday 25th February at 7.30pm.
ROSTERS: Maffra’s new rosters for 2014 are now ready to be picked up at the back of the Church.
From the Pastor’s Pen:
Dear Friends in Christ, The long Gospel (Mtth: 5, 17-37) with full of direct demands, seems to make Christian life somewhat impossible to live by ordinary people like us, here on earth. The demands seem radical, but the basis of all demands is love. Love can and love should overcome any hurdle to find fulfilment in our lives. Whosoever is enlisted in the way of the Lord, should keep on trying to see the wisdom St. Paul speak of (1 Cor. 2, 6-10) – No eye has seen, no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.Abba Father, grant us the grace to trust you in our life’s journey!Your fellow traveller in life’s journey.Fr Hilarion OSB-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DIARY Sun 23rd Feb – Cuppa Newry after 11am Mass Tues 25th Feb- PPC Meeting - Maffra 7.30pm Frid 28th Feb – Sun 2nd Mar 4X4 trip to Miller's Hut (Mt. Wellington)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ORDINARIATE SERVICES: Mass: Sunday: Heyfield: 10am Mass & Adoration: Wednesday: Cowwarr: 10am Mass: 2nd Saturday of the month: 11am Rosebrooke Priory: 12 Galvins Road, Mirboo North. Evensong & Benediction: 4th Sunday of the month: Heyfield: 4pm----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A TRIP TO REMEMBER: Why not take the opportunity and go see our outback right here on our own doorstep? The tranquillity and silence of a peaceful bush setting, while you sip a cuppa listening to the native birds. The beauty of God’s own creation here at our leisure.4X4 trip to Miller's Hut (Mt. Wellington) with day trips out to the Sentinels to look out over Lake Tarli Karng and to the Gable End (to look out over Miller's stock route). Meeting at St. Ita's Church (Hastings St. Newry) at 5.30pm Friday 28th Feb. for 6pm departure. Returning Sunday 2nd March. No cost as the trip is self catering. Some spaces available for those who do not have 4 wheel drive vehicle (donation for fuel appreciated). Mass will be celebrated by Fr. Jeff Klenjans on the Mountain.Flyers will be available to anyone interested and for promotion in your Parish on request. Any enquiries including what to bring: [email protected] or Don 0428556636
ACTION FOR LIFE WEEKLY/FORTNIGHTLY TREASURES: Over the next couple of weeks, Action for Life will be including information on adoption, which has been researched and provided by Women’s Forum Australia. Did you know...... In 2011-12 there were only 333 adoptions in Australia: 149 of these were overseas adoptions, 129 were “known” adoptions (when the adoption formalises a pre-existing parental relationship) and only 55 were local (Australian born) adoptions. This number has fallen from 1,494 adoptions in 1987, so there has been a 78% drop in the numbers of adoptions in Australia over the past 25 years. Australia has the 2nd lowest adoption rate for developed countries and there are significant numbers of Australian families wishing to adopt. The current waiting list for inter-country adoption can be between 3-5years and costs may be as high as $30,000.
Number of children in out of home care in Australia: 25,000. Number of children aborted nationwide: 100,000 per year.
For more information please visit Women’s Forum Australia’s website: http://www.womensforumaustralia.org/adoption. More details forthcoming.
Action for Life contacts – Elaine on 5144 2762 or Marianne on 5147 1019 or email [email protected]
