DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY—2nd Sunday of Easter 11 April 2021 Everyone who attends our Masses must register, Liturgy of the Word we have a QR sheet at the Church for you to use This Weekend: with your Smart Phone and paper registration 1st Reading: Acts 4: 32-35 sheets. Please make sure you fill in your details Responsorial Psalm when on site at our Parish. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting. 2nd Reading: I John 5:1-6 Fr Ireneusz will be available for Reconciliation Gospel Acclamation before all Masses Alleluia, alleluia You believe in me, Thomas because you have Saturday 10 and 11 April seen me; happy those who have not seen me, but still believe! 5pm Mass Holy Spirit Alleluia 6pm Mass St Anthony’s Gospel: Jn 20:19-31 Next Weekend Third Sunday of Easter 9am Mass St Anthony’s (Italian) 1st Reading: Acts 3: 13-15,17-19 10am Mass Holy Spirit 2nd Reading: I John 2:105 11am Mass St Anthony’s Gospel: Lk 24: 35-48 Tuesday 13 April 9.15am Communion Service—Holy Spirit Deaths and Anniversaries 10.30am Funeral Mass Holy Spirit—Alberto Gasparini 7.30pm Mass Holy Spirit Wednesday 14 April 9.15am Mass St Anthony’s Thursday 15 April 9.15am Mass Holy Spirit followed by Bingo in the Hall Friday 16 April 9.15am Mass St Anthony’s 10.30am Centering Meditation Saturday 17 and 18 April Rite of Welcome and Sacrament of Baptism 5pm Mass Holy Spirit Parents are the first faith educators of their children as a 6pm Mass St Anthony’s parish we support them with our prayers. We ask God’s blessings on Ophelia and Justin as they present Joseph 9am Mass St Anthony’s (Italian) Curran-Fernandez and Simon and Stephanie as they 10am Mass Holy Spirit present Jordan Leon for their Rite of Welcome and Luke 11am Mass St Anthony’s and Catherine as they present Owen and Isla for their Tuesday 20 April Rite of welcome and Sacrament of baptism this weekend 9.15am Communion Service—Holy Spirit 7pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Holy Spirit Reflection on readings 7.30pm Mass Holy Spirit This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be Wednesday 21 April glad, alleluia! Christ is risen, alleluia! Our joy at Easter, 9.15am Mass St Anthony’s our joy in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead is so Thursday 22 April great that we celebrate Easter for fifty days. The joy 9.15am Mass Holy Spirit followed by Bingo in the Hall which we have that Christ is truly risen from the dead is Friday 23 April so great, so momentous, that our joy cannot be contained 9.15am Mass St Anthony’s in one day. It cannot even be contained in one week. 9.45am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament St Anthony’s Instead, our joy is so great that it flows out of our 10.30am Centering Meditation celebration of Easter Sunday into this week. In the Saturday 24 and 25 April Church’s reckoning, this past week – the octave of Easter 5pm Mass Holy Spirit – every day has been like Easter Sunday. But not even 6pm Mass St Anthony’s this week of Sundays is enough to contain our Easter joy. ANZAC DAY Because our Easter joy will continue to flow out into the 9am Mass St Anthony’s (Italian) next fifty days until the Solemnity of Pentecost. That is 10am Mass Holy Spirit why this Sunday is not called the First Sunday AFTER 11am Mass St Anthony’s Easter, because Easter is not over. Easter is not in the Tuesday 27 April past. Rather, it is called The Second Sunday OF Easter. 9.15am Communion Service—Holy Spirit And by the end of this Easter Season, we will have celebrated seven Sundays of Easter, including the great 7pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Holy Spirit feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost. 7.30pm Mass Holy Spirit

Wednesday 28 April

9.15am Mass St Anthony’s The Parish of Holy Spirit and St Anthony’s and the Archdiocese of are committed to the care, wellbeing and protection of chil- dren, young people and vulnerable people in our community. May our message be that child protection and the dignity of every person is the responsibility of every adult. You can find out more about the Church’s work in this area at: www.catholic.org.au/ responseandprevention OR contact the child safety representatives of our Parish—Margaret Harrington and Pauline Egan

Meditation Group A New term will commence on Friday 16th April for the Centering Meditation group. If you are interested in joining this group. The first four weeks will be a formation time introducing you to Centering Meditation. Ph: Sister Helen 0409 326 568 Fridays 10.30 am- 11.30am (if you are interested and this time does not suit a different time could be arranged. CATHOLIC CARE To day as we celebrate in anticipation, the opportunities of a unified statewide social service agency of the Catholic Church in Victoria, we also take time to reflect on the histories and exceptional achievements contributed by each of the agencies coming together.’

Agnes Sheehan, Chief Executive Officer of CatholicCare Victoria spoke these words at the official Opening and Commissioning Mass of CatholicCare Victoria on Wednesday 24 March. More than 150 people including CatholicCare Victoria Board members, staff, volunteers, donors, clients and friends gathered at St Anthony of Padua parish in Melton South, to formally celebrate the opening of the new entity. On 1 January 2021, CatholicCare Melbourne/Gippsland, CatholicCare Sandhurst and Centacare merged to become CatholicCare Victoria, which is now the social service agency of the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and the Catholic Dioceses of Sale, Sandhurst and Ballarat.

Principal celebrant Archbishop Peter A Comensoli of the Melbourne Archdiocese was joined by Bishop of the Sandhurst Diocese, Bishop Paul Bird of the Ballarat Diocese, Bishop Greg Bennet of the Sale Diocese and a number of local priests in celebrating the Mass.

In her opening remarks, Agnes Sheehan shared that in 1935, two social workers, Norma Parker and Connie Moffitt, undertook an appraisal of Melbourne’s Catholic child welfare institutions for Archbishop Mannix. They recommended an integrated approach to working with families in need and the Catholic Social Services Bureau was established, the first of its kind in . In 1977, the Ballarat Diocesan Family Service began followed by CatholicCare Sandhurst in 1986 and then CatholicCare Gippsland in 1998.

‘Fast-forward to December 2020, and Norma and Connie’s vision for an integrated and coordinated approach to Church social services moved even closer to reality when our Victorian bishops, Archbishop Peter and Bishop Paul, Bishop Shane and Bishop Greg, signed the Deed of Transition to bring the four social service agencies together,’ said Agnes. To celebrate the rich legacy of a combined 184 years of service, a representative from each region brought forward a symbol chosen to honour the unique contribution of each social service agency.

From Centacare Ballarat a painting titled It Happened to Me was presented. It was a winning entrant in the annual Grampians Mental Health Week Art Competition, which Centacare has been actively involved in since the mid 1990s. From CatholicCare Gippsland, the blackened remains of a fence scorched by the 2020 Black Summer Bushfire that raged through the East Gippsland town of Sarsfield where 70% of homes were impacted, was presented. From CatholicCare Melbourne a photograph taken at a Water Safety program held at Brighton Beach for refugee families was presented. And from CatholicCare Sandhurst, an Aboriginal Message Stick, which was handcrafted specifically for CatholicCare Sandhurst by local artist Rodney Carter Dja Dja Wurrung. ‘May these symbols serve as a reminder – of our rich and diverse contributing histories – which make up a solid foundation as we forge our new future as CatholicCare Victoria together,’ said Agnes.

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Divine Mercy Sunday—11 April 2021 The official Vatican explanation of the Feast of Mercy is as follows; According to Jesus, the Feast of Mercy is to be celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter, Jesus is showing to us the close connection between the Easter mystery of man's redemption and this feast. The Feast of Mercy is to be not only a day designated for the worship of God's mercy, but also a day of grace for all people, particularly for sinners. Jesus attached great promises to this feast. One is the promise of complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. In other words, this grace is equal to the one we receive in the Sacrament of Baptism. It offers completely new beginning?”