KANGAROO ISLANDCATHOLIC PARISHParish House: 22 Giles Street, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223Phone: 8553 2132Postal address: PO Box 749, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223Email: cphkings@adam.com.auWeb: www.kicatholic.org.au

NOARLUNGA DOWNS CATHOLIC PRESBYTERYPhone: 8382 1717

PARISH TEAM CONTACTSFr Charles Gauci (Parish Priest - phone 8382 1717)

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCILMr Peter Clark (8559 5131)

PARISH NEWSLETTER Mrs Annette Roestenburg (8553 8281; rostie2@bigpond.com)(All items for the newsletter must be received no later than Wednesday evening.)

MASS CENTRES • KINGSCOTE: Our Lady of

Perpetual Help, Cnr Giles and Todd Streets Sunday - 9.30am

• PARNDANA: Uniting Church, Cook Street 4th Sunday - 4pm

• PENNESHAW: St Columba’s Anglican Church, Cnr North Terrace and Fourth Street Saturday before 4th Sunday - 7pm

SPONSORSHIPKANGAROO ISLAND TRANSFERS (0427 887 575) generously donate transport for our visiting Priests.

CHILD PROTECTION UNITSally Wellington (Manager)Phone: 8210 8268

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Kangaroo Island Catholic Community(Part of the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island Cluster of Catholic Parishes)

FIRST READINGJonah 3:1-5,10The word of the Lord was addressed to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city great beyond compare: it took three days to cross it. Jonah went on into the city, making a day’s journey. He preached in these words, ‘Only forty days more and Nineveh is going to be destroyed.’ And the people of Nineveh believed in God; they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least.

God saw their efforts to renounce their evil behaviour. And God relented: he did not inflict on them the disaster which he had threatened.RESPONSORIAL PSALMTeach me your ways, O Lord.SECOND READING1 Corinthians 7:29-31Brothers: our time is growing short. Those who have wives should live as though they had none, and those who mourn should live as though they had nothing to mourn for; those who are enjoying life should live as

though there were nothing to laugh about; those whose life is buying things should live as though they had nothing of their own; and those who have to deal with the world should not become engrossed in it. I say this because the world as we know it is passing away.GOSPEL ACCLAMATIONAlleluia, alleluia!The kingdom of God is near:believe the Good News!Alleluia!GOSPELMark 1:14-20After John had been arrested, Jesus went into Galilee. There he proclaimed the Good News from God. ‘The time has come’ he said ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand. Repent, and believe the Good News.’

As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake – for they were fishermen. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me and I will make you into fishers of men.’ And at once they left their nets and followed him.

Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his

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JANUARY ANNIVERSARIES Eunice Airton, Eileen Bateman, Dorothy Brook, Monica Buick, May Cairney, Dominic Cash, Marlene Cummins, Pauline Deagan, Jim Dodgson, Lucy Edwards, Colin Fahey, Margaret Flemming, Ralph Florance, Catherine Glynn, Alec Goodwin, Edward Hughes, Ida Jackson, Christina James, Jack Kindellan, Ettie McDonald, Irene Northcott, Ottaviano Orsi, Marj Phillips, Una Reynolds,George Rowen. Ann Smith, Sheila Tabor, Lorraine Laher Storfer, Mary Weatherstone,... And all the faithful departed.

Prayers for the sick

Please pray for Clarence Cook, Phil Connell, Maureen Dunn, Veronica

Farnden, Jayden Forster, Cynthia Fowler, Peter Gibbs, Charles & Sue Gorman,

Robyn Guerney, John (BJ) Hardy, Rev Brad Henley,

Toni Kempster, Leigh and Philip McDonald, Fr Frank Perry, Jack Pitcher, Anne Redden,Harry and Margaret Rich,

Bill Roestenburg, John Smith, Brian Travers,Angela Ward, Peter and Anthony Weatherstone and Rob Willmott., Joyce

Pearson

May they know the healing love of Christ through our actions and His healing

presence.

PARISH NOTICES –25/01/2015

1. Thank you to Fr Charles for celebrating Mass with

us today.

2. Next Sunday there will be Liturgy of the word with Holy Communion **********************************************************

DID YOU KNOW?

• John the Baptist was arrested by Herod Antipas, son of Herod the Great, who ruled over the region of Galilee. John had been highly critical of the behaviour of Antipas in marrying Herodias, who was his niece and the former wife of his brother.

• The Sea of Galilee is also known as Lake

Tiberias and the Lake of Gennesaret. It is the largest freshwater lake in Israel, and is approximately 53kms in circumference , about 21km long, and 13km wide.

• Each Gospel account of the calling of the

disciples is slightly different. Compare this Gospel to last week’s reading.

• Simon and Andrew, James and John lived in

the town of Capernaum on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. Look at a map of Palestine. Most Bibles include one.

PRAYER AT HOME

This week’s Psalm offers a wonderful prayer for catechumens:

Teach me your ways, O Lord

Lord, make me know your ways. Lord teach me your paths.

Make me walk in your truth and teach me, For you are God, my Saviour Teach me your ways, O Lord.

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LOOKING FOR THE ONE GOD INSIDE OUR DENOMINATIONAL

AND FAITH DIVISIONSChristian de Cherge, the Trappist Abbott who was martyred in Algeria in 1996, was fond of sharing this story: He had a very close Muslim friend, Mohammed, and the two of them used to pray together, even as they remained aware of their differences, as Muslim and Christian. Aware too that certain schools of thought, both Muslim and Christian, warn against this type of prayer, fearing that the various faiths are not praying to the same God, the two of them didn’t call their sessions together prayer. Rather they imagined themselves as “digging a well together”. One day Christian asked Mohammed: “When we get to the bottom of our well, what will we find? Muslim water or Christian water?” Mohammed, half-amused but still deadly serious, replied: “Come on now, we’ve spent all this time walking together, and you’re still asking me this question. You know well that at the bottom of that well, what we’ll find is God’s water.”

There are important religious truths couched inside that story. First off, all religions worthy of the name believe that the first thing we need to affirm about God is that God is ineffable, that is, God is beyond all human imagination, conceptualization, and language. Everything we think and say about God, even within scripture and our defined dogmas, is more inadequate than adequate. It reveals some truth, but, this side of eternity, never the complete truth. No dogma and no religion ever provide an adequate expression of God. If this is true, and it is, then all religious truth is always partial and limited in its historical expression and cannot claim adequacy. All religions, all dogmas, and all expressions of theology, irrespective of denomination or

religion, must humbly acknowledge their incompleteness. Only God is absolute, and an absolute knowledge of God lies at the bottom of the well, at the end of our religious journey.

That fact radically changes the way we need to conceive of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue. Since no one, us included, has the full truth, the way of ecumenism and interfaith dialogue should not be conceived, as has been so much the case up to the present, of one side winning the other side over: We, alone, have the truth and you must join us! Rather the way has to be conceived of precisely “digging a well together”, namely, as each of us, with an open heart, longing for those others who are not at our table, refusing all proselyting, becoming engaged through our own religious tradition in the search for deeper conversion. That search is precisely the search to get to the bottom of the well, knowing that, once there, we, as all other sincere, authentic religious searchers, will find both God’s water and unity with everyone else who is there.

The renowned ecumenist, Avery Dulles, called this the path of “progressive convergence”. Eventual unity among the various churches and various faiths will not come about by everyone in the world converting to one denomination or one religion. Rather it will come about, and can only come about, by each of us converting more deeply inside our own tradition. As each of us and each faith move more deeply into the mystery of God we will progressively draw closer and closer to each other. Christian de Cherge’s story illustrates this wonderfully.

And this path, when correctly taken, does not lead us into relativism and the naïve belief that all religions are equal. Nor does it mean that we do not enthusiastically and openly

celebrate our own religious faith tradition, stand ready to defend it, and stand ready to welcome anyone into it. But it does mean that we must humbly accept that, while we have the truth, the truth is not ours alone. God is not a tribal deity and God’s salvific intent is universal. God desires the salvation of those in other denominations and in other religious traditions just surely as he desires our own. Hence, as Jesus teaches us, God has “other sheep”, loved individuals and loved communities who are not of our fold. God’s love and revelation embrace everyone.

The path to unity among Christians of different denominations and the path to unity among world religions is not then the path of proselytism within which any one tradition, Christianity included, claims absolute truth for itself and demands that union can be achieved only by everyone converting to its side. Rather it lies in “digging a well together”, that is, in each of us, within our own tradition, converting more deeply into the mystery of God and into all that asks of us. As we move deeper into the mystery of God we will find ourselves more and more one, as brothers and sisters in faith.

No religion is absolute, only God is absolute. Knowing that, should make us less smug in the practice of our own religion, more respectful of other denominations and religions, and more willing to let God’s vision trump our own.

You can read, or download, Ron Rolheiser’s weekly columns from his website at: www.ronrolheiser.com

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Ron Rolheiser columnRonald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He is a community-builder, lecturer and writer. His books are popular throughout the English-speaking world and his weekly column is carried by more than sixty newspapers worldwide.

REGULAR MASS TIMES INOUR CLUSTER CHURCHES

ALDINGA Mary of Galilee, the First Disciple

cnr Quinliven and Howe RoadsSaturday 6.00pmTuesday 9.15am

GOOLWASt John the Apostle, 10-14 Gardiner St

Sunday 9.00amWednesday 9.30am

KINGSCOTE Our Lady of Perpetual Help, cnr Todd and Giles Streets

Sunday 9.30am

NOARLUNGASt Luke, the Evangelist,

cnr Honeypot Rd and Goldsmith DveSaturday 6.00pmSunday 9.00am

2nd Sunday 2.00pm (Filipino Mass) Sunday (Youth Mass) 5.30pm

Monday 9.00amTuesday 8.00am

Wednesday 7.00amThursday 9.15am (St John’s School)

Friday 10.00am

NORMANVILLESt Peter, Cape Jervis Road

1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays 10.30am2nd, 4th Sundays 8.30am

1st Friday 6.00pm

PARNDANA4th Sunday 4.00pm

PENNESHAWSt Columba, North Terrace

(shared with Anglicans)Saturday before 4th Sunday 7.00pm

SEAFORDSeaford Ecumenical Mission, Grand Bvd

Sunday 10.45amWednesday 9.15am

VICTOR HARBORSt Joan of Arc, 30 Seaview Road

Saturday 6.00pmSunday 11.00amTuesday 9.00amThursday 9.00am

Friday (other than 1st) 9.00am1st Friday 11.30am

WILLUNGASt Joseph, 12 St Judes Street1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays 8.30am

2nd, 4th Sundays 10.30amWednesday 9.00amThursday 9.00am

Friday 9.00am

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brother John; they too were in their boat, mending their nets. He called them at once and, leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed, they went after him.

A WORKSHOP NOT TO BE MISSED!

“Celebrating the Easter Triduum” Liturgically speaking, we are now in Ordinary Time for the next few weeks, until we begin the Season of Lent with Ash Wednesday on18 February. Our Cluster is hosting a Workshop on Saturday, 21 February with Sister Ilsa Neicinieks and Mrs Jenny O’Brien from the Office of Worship, for a Seminar on the significance of Holy Week in our Liturgical Calendar. If you have ever wondered about some of the customs and practices we have around our celebration of Holy Week, then this is the Workshop that will answer all those questions.

The workshop will be held from 10.00am until 3.30pm at Mary of Galilee Church, (cnr Quinliven and How Roads) Aldinga. Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided.

To enrol, contact Lyn (8152 7806 or worship@ow.adelaide.catholic.org.au)

EVANGELII GAUDIUM “In all places and circumstances, Christians, with the help of their pastors, are called to hear the cry of the poor.”

Para 191 from Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis, Nov. 24, 2013

ABANDONING OUR NETS CAN HELP US LAND A BETTER GIG’Readers almost always gravitate to the same question. Why do Simon and Andrew, then James and John after them, abandon everything to follow Jesus? Mark leaves no doubt as to the immediacy of their response. Seeing Simon and Andrew casting for fish, Jesus says, ‘Follow

(Continued from page 1) after me, and I will make you to be fishers for people.’ Ancient philosophies often built their ranks from those persons who found ordinary life unsatisfying. According to Diogenes Laertius, Socrates encountered a young man named Xenophon in a narrow passageway. Blocking the path with his stick, the philosopher asked where he might find various kinds of food. Then Socrates asked, “And where do people become good and honourable?” With Xenophon looking perplexed, Socrates called him: “Then follow me, and learn’ (Lives 2.48). And some people abandon their nets because they hear good news worthy of our lives. If things were just fine in the world, perhaps they'd stay with their nets. But sensing God's kingdom drawing near, they reshape their lives in response to God's call. They drop everything and go another way. Far too few churches ask this question, this vocational question, of their members: to what life is God calling you? And far too many of us domesticate the question, as if Simon and his colleagues were just volunteering for a single night at the winter shelter. The realities of our world press us with questions greater than how we'll spend a given night. Meanwhile, the kingdom of God lies right at hand. And what about those nets?” Greg Carey

THIS WEEK’S READINGS(26 January - 1 February)

• Mon, 26: Australia Day (Is 32:15-18; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Mt 5:2-12)

• Tue, 27: Weekday, Ordinary Time 3 (Heb 10:1-10; Mk 3:31-35)

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• Wed, 28: St Thomas Aquinas (Heb 10:11-18; Mt 4:1-20)

• Thu, 29: Weekday, Ordinary Time 3 (Heb 10:10-25; Mk 4:21-25)

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• Fri, 30: Weekday, Ordinary Time 3 (Heb 10:32-39; Mk 4:26-34)

• Sat, 31: St John Bosco (Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Mk 4:35-41)

• Sun, 1: 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Deut 18:15-20; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28)