and Drouin Catholic Parishes St. Ignatius’, South-St. Joseph’s, Warragul-St Ita’s, Drouin ‘Forming Missionary Communities’

Parish Priest: Sunday 23rd May 2021– PENTECOST SUNDAY-Yr B Father Peter Slater

Presbytery: Sunday Mass Times 3 Witton St PO Box 275 Warragul. Warragul 3820 Saturday: Vigil 5.30pm ph: 5623-1642 Warragul Saturday Vigil 7.00pm [email protected] Warragul Sunday: 9.00am Drouin Sunday: 10.30am Assistant Priest: Father Confidence Masvosva Weekday Mass Times ph: 5623-1642 [email protected] Monday: Warragul 9.30am Tuesday: Drouin 9.30am Warragul 5.30pm Deacon: Wednesday: Warragul 9.30am Deacon Mark Kelly Thursday: Drouin 9.30am 0427 748 646 Friday: Warragul 9.30am [email protected]

Churches: St. Joseph’s: 17 Queen St A LETTER FROM FR PETER. COVID 19 RESTRICTIONS: Warragul. Dear Parishioners, The limit on numbers attending church Pentecost celebrates the gift of the Holy services will be lifted to 200 from May St Ita’s: Spirit and the beginning of the church in 28 provided all attending check in using St, mission. That mission continues today. the Victoria Government QR Service Drouin. Being a church member in not about through the Service Victoria app. If you

St. Ignatius: “getting salvation” as much as have a smart phone please download Main Road, continuing the mission of Jesus and the Service Victoria app and use it Neerim South. announcing the good news of the when you come to the church. We will kingdom of God. We sometimes hear of have Covid marshals to help those Parish Office: people “getting saved” or “saving their who don’t have the app but you must 19 Connor St, PO Box 275 soul” and it is easy to understand that be checked in before entering the Warragul. Warragul 3820 focus on the self. It takes trusting faith church. to commit to assisting the mission and You will no longer need to pre Ph: 5623-1642 [email protected] let God do the saving. book. Your cooperation with these changing requirements is much Parish Staff: At some of our masses today there will appreciated. be a short testimony from one or other Secretary: of our new members, baptised at Easter. RCIA: RITE OF CHRISTIAN Prue Walkinshaw These personal stories are always INITIATION OF ADULTS. fascinating as they describe what An Information evening will be held on R.C.I.A. Coordinator prompts someone to approach the Wednesday 28th July 7.30pm Marian Joan Robertson Ph: 5623-1642 [email protected] church and then the ongoing journey. Room (attached to St. Joseph’s Church Warragul; enter car park from Sacrament & Catechist Coordinator And while thinking of mission you might Bowen Street) for those who want to St Joseph’s & St Ita’s be interested in a presentation of the find out more about the Catholic faith, Thérèse Meggetto Ph: 5623-1642 mission of Jesus that can be what Catholics believe and why, [email protected] downloaded to smart devices and then considering possibly becoming a viewed. It is called The Chosen and is a Catholic or an Adult Catholic who has Youth Minister very interesting presentation of the not received First Communion or Bethany Allen Ph: 0476 273 279 [email protected] gospel story and the Judaism of Jesus’ Confirmation. If you know of someone day. I am happy to recommend it. that may be interested please bring Schools: Regards them along to this session. Marist-Sion College 5623-5944 Fr Peter. For more information you can contact: Principal: Mr. Peter Houlahan Fr. Peter Slater: 56231642 Safeguarding - Our Parish is Joan Robertson at St. Joseph’s Parish St. Joseph’s Primary School 5623-2943 committed to providing a safe and Office, Warragul: 56231642 Principal: Mr. Ronan O’Mahony Deacon Mark Kelly at Marist Sion supportive environment for all people with special concern for College: 56235944 or 0427748646. St. Ita’s Primary School 5623-7222 Principal: Mr. Andrew Osler children, young people and adults at risk. Our Safeguarding Officer is St. Angela’s Primary School 5622-9800 Brian Robertson who can be Principal: Mr Justin Greenwood. contacted via [email protected] or 56231642. CATHOLIC PARISHES OF WARRAGUL AND DROUIN OUR VISION - FORMING MISSIONARY COMMUNITIES We are engaged together in the mission of Jesus today; as we seek to make God known and to love God and neighbour. Anything that helps people live in their full dignity and freedom, that serves the kingdom of God, is mission. We do this in community because we are more than individual believers and parishioners. We are one community made up of smaller communities: two parishes, three churches, our parish schools, ministry groups and families. We constantly need formation in our following of Jesus and we seek opportunities to grow in community for mission.

RESTRICTIONS EASE FOR MORE ROSARY NEWS FROM OUR SCHOOLS VICTORIAN BUSINESSES An invitation is extended to all Density quotients of one person per two parishioners to come together to pray ST ITA’S square metres will soon be lifted for the rosary. St Ita’s Church will be open We welcome Mrs. Beck Bradley into the small-to-medium sized venues across on Friday evenings at 6.30 pm for quiet St Ita’s Teaching and Learning the state – but Victorians need to keep reflection with Rosary to be prayed at Community. Mrs Bradley will begin playing their part to help us stay safe and 7pm, church closing at 8 pm. working in school administration as of stay open by checking in using the next Monday. This week we are Victorian Government QR Code Service PLENARY COUNCIL PRAYER celebrating Catholic Education week, through the Service Victoria app. CAMPAIGN: we commenced with a Pyjama Day People across the country are invited to organised by our Mini Vinnies team. From 28 May, these venues can have up participate in the “Fan the Flame” Each child wearing their Pyjamas was to 200 people per space (such as a prayer campaign leading up to the first asked to bring an item of dining room or band room) without any assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Non- perishable food to assist in density limit, provided COVID marshals . The assembly starts on stocking the Vinnies pantry. Also, on are on site ensuring all patrons are October 3. Campaign materials include Friday our Foundation students had a checking in to each space. These resources for personal and communal sausage sizzle and their parents were changes will apply for spaces that are prayer, reflections, musical suggestions invited to come to school to meet the 400 sqm or below, larger spaces still and multimedia content. Find the teachers and their children’s new need to observe density limits. resources at: friends. www.plenarycouncil.catholic.org.au/ This means Victoria’s live music venues, fantheflame/ ST ANGELA’S restaurants, bars and nightclubs, will be Students from grades 3-5 participated able to welcome more patrons in a in their first SRC meeting this week. COVIDSafe way. It’s also an important FAN THE FLAME They were able to share their ideas step for places of worship, with people Towards Plenary Assembly One October about what is working well at our school able to register their details and gather in 2021 and discussed some options that could greater numbers within spaces smaller ‘As the Father sent me, so am I make it even better! On Wednesday, than 400 square metres. sending you.’ Homegroup 1 and 2 students were very John 20:19-23 lucky to be able to participate in From 28 May, all venues and businesses We cannot keep ourselves shut up in National Simultaneous Storytime. required to undertake electronic record parishes, in our communities, in our Students listened to a NASA astronaut keeping must use the Victorian parish or diocesan institutions, when so read a story book from the International Government QR Code Service through many people are waiting for the Gospel! Space Station. Congratulations to some the Service Victoria app. This is It is not enough simply to open the door of our senior students who represented convenient for Victorians and gives in welcome …, but we must go out St Angela’s so well at the Division contact tracers access to the best data through that door to seek and meet the Cross Country competition on Tuesday. quickly. people! (Pope Francis, World Youth Day They tried their best and demonstrated This will mean that we will need Homily at Cathedral of San Sebastian, great perseverance as they completed COVID marshals at every Mass even Rio de Janeiro, July 27, 2013) a very tricky course! during the week to ensure that every one that comes to Mass uses the QR ST JOSEPH’S code app. Please contact the office as COLLECTIONS On Friday we launched Catholic a matter of urgency if you are willing Sunday 16th May 2021 Education week with a mass attended by to be a Marshal. If you require help Warragul Drouin most of the students. On Thursday our with accessing the app on your phone, Planned Giving $ 1758.75 $ 1584.00 grade 5 children began their preparation please also contact Prue at the office. I Presbytery $ 823.50 for the Sacrament of Eucharist with a am very happy to help you Parent and Child workshop. These Planned Giving includes Direct Debit and workshops provide a great opportunity SPECIAL COLLECTION-TRINITY Credit Card Transactions. for discussions between the children and FAMILIES Weekly target for Warragul Parish to their parents. Please pray for these

The Trinity Families collection is being meet all church and Presbytery families as they journey together in taken up this and next week. This is the running costs is $5000. Thanks to all who preparation for the Sacrament. Some of charitable fund of our diocese and has give regularly and generously. our children competed in the Division given more than $1.5 million over 15 Cash is not held on the premises Cross Country at Chairo Christian years to other charities running Overnight School on Tuesday. A great day was had programs assisting families. Programs by all. Five of our competitors funded include bushfire relief, family successfully placed so they will go on to counselling services, parent support, compete at the regional level. school breakfast programs, suicide prevention, respite care, drug and alcohol programs, and emergency accommodation. Last year, during the pandemic, there was no appeal but still $108,000 was given out. Your support is appreciated. SAFE SHIPS Please pray for the following of our Parishes: Ships are safe in harbour, as disciples are safe huddled in the upper room. But ships are meant to be at sea and disciples are meant to be out spreading the Good News. Though Mass Intentions tempted to hunker down behind familiar barriers - what we have always done and thought - if we avoid Christ’s message, Tuesday 5.30pm Warragul Leah Turner (A) least it impact too strongly on our lives, then we just haven’t Wednesday 9.30am Warragul Thursday 9.30am Drouin got it!

Pentecost revisits the Holy Spirit descending upon the assembled men and women in Acts (Acts 2:1-11) and John’s, RECENTLY DECEASED Gary Wilts, Jessie Thaw, Barry Francis slightly different, gospel (John 20:19-23). We are called to burst Hickey, Alan Standfield. from that upper room like those first disciples, immersing with and loving our brothers and sisters in the world. ANNIVERSARIES Jim Burke, Barry White, Graeme Parker, Leah Turner “Many good men and women live on the epidermis of faith, nourished by a conventional Christianity. They find religious security in the belief and practices that are within their reach, but they do not live in joyful relationship with Jesus Christ. They have heard of him since they were children but they are not seduced or enamoured by what they know of him. Meeting Jesus can transform their lives. …. It is (tempting) to live correctly within the church without worrying about the one thing Jesus sought; the kingdom of God and its justice………… We have to return to the roots, to the experience that set off the long chain reaction. It does no good to confess Jesus as God incarnate if we never try to find out what this man who revealed God to us was like, how he lived and acted.

We begin to encounter Jesus when we begin to trust God as he did, when we believe in love as he did, when we look at people as he did, when we confront life and death with hope as he did, when we pass on the contagion of the Good News as he did.” (Pagola, J. Jesus – An Historical Approximation pp 27/28). Deacon Mark Kelly ROSTERS

22/23 May Readers 7pm Youth 9am N Gregory Communion Ministers: 7pm J Steven

9am N Coster

29/30 May

Readers PASTORAL SERVICES MEETINGS 7pm Vol 9am E & D Cameron Parish Office: 19 Connor Street Warragul CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP Meets Wednesdays St Ita’s Church 7.00pm All Communion Ministers: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm welcome. 7pm Vol MENALIVE PRAYER GROUPS 9am P Bertacco Baptisms: Celebrated on Sundays by Every Wednesday 7am St Joseph’s Meeting Room. prior arrangement including participation Fourth Thursday of each month 7pm St Ita’s at an information meeting for Parents Meeting Room. St. Ita’s (and Godparents) PPC Tuesday 7pm Marian Room Ministers: ST VINCENT DE PAUL WARRAGUL Wednesday 23/5 J Durand 30/5 F Allen Marriages: By prior arrangement, six months 10am St Joseph’s Meeting Room. ST VINCENT DE PAUL DROUINThursday 10am St Drouin/Longwarry Sick notice requested. Ita’s Meeting Room. 23/5 M Collins 30/5 D Gleeson Lyre-Bird: Exposition: Saturdays 10am St Joseph’s Church 25/5 J Gibbons 1/6 B Maunder Reconciliation: St Joseph’s Wednesday 9.15am Readers Saturday 10.30-11.00am 23/5 B & P Maunder 30/5 G & M Collins 6.30-6.50pm St Ita’s Saturday 9.45-10.15am

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St. Vincent de Paul Conference helpline: Warragul Ph: 5623 6741 Drouin Ph: 5625 4715 LITURGY OF THE WORD goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control. There can be no law against things like that, of First Reading Acts 2:1-11 course. You cannot belong to Christ Jesus unless you A reading from the Acts of the Apostles crucify all self-indulgent passions and desire. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the began to speak different languages. Spirit. When Pentecost day came round, the apostles had all The Word of the Lord met in one room, when suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven, the noise Gospel Acclamation of which filled the entire house in which they were Alleluia, alleluia! sitting; and something appeared to them that seemed Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful like tongues of fire; these separated and came to rest and kindle in them the fire of your love. on the head of each of them. They were all filled with Alleluia! the Holy Spirit, and began to speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech. Gospel Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 Now there were devout men living in Jerusalem from A reading from the holy Gospel according to John every nation under heaven, and at this sound they all The Spirit of truth will guide you into all the assembled, each one bewildered to hear these men truth. speaking his own language. They were amazed and Jesus said to his disciples: astonished. ‘Surely’ they said ‘all these men speaking ‘When the Advocate comes, are Galileans? How does it happen that each of us whom I shall send to you from the Father, hears them in his own native language? Parthians, the Spirit of truth who issues from the Father, Medes and Elamites; people from Mesopotamia, Ju- he will be my witness. daea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and And you too will be witnesses, Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya round Cyre- because you have been with me from the outset. ne; as well as visitors from Rome - Jews and prose- I still have many things to say to you lytes alike - Cretans and Arabs; we hear them preach- but they would be too much for you now. ing in our own language about the marvels of God.’ But when the Spirit of truth comes The Word of the Lord he will lead you to the complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from himself Responsorial Psalm Ps 103:1. 24. 29-31. 34. R. v.30 but will say only what he has learnt; (R.) Lord, send out your Spirit and he will tell you of the things to come. and renew the face of the earth. He will glorify me, 1. Bless the Lord, my soul! since all he tells you Lord God, how great you are, will be taken from what is mine. How many are your works, O Lord! Everything the Father has is mine; The earth is full of your riches. (R.) that is why I said: 2. You take back your spirit, they die, All he tells you returning to the dust from which they came. will be taken from what is mine.’ You send forth your spirit, they are created; The Gospel of the Lord. and you renew the face of the earth. (R.) 3. May the glory of the Lord last for ever! May the Lord rejoice in his works! May my thoughts be pleasing to him. I find my joy in the Lord.(R.) Next Weeks Readings:

Second Reading Gal 5:16-25 The Most Holy TRINITY A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Galatians Deut 4: 32-34, 39-40; The Fruit of the Spirit If you are guided by the Spirit you will be in no Rom 8: 14-17; danger of yielding to self-indulgence, since self-indulgence is the opposite of the Spirit, the Spirit Mt 28: 16-20. is totally against such a thing, and it is precisely because the two are so opposed that you do not always carry out your good intentions. If you are led by the Spirit, no law can touch you. When self-indulgence is at work the results are obvious: fornication, gross indecency and sexual irresponsibility; idolatry and sorcery; feuds and wrangling, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels; Mass texts: Roman Missal 3rd edition © International Committee on English in the disagreements, factions, envy; drunkenness, orgies Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Scriptural quotations: The Jerusalem Bible © 1966, 1967, 1968. Darton Longman & Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Inc. Used by permission. and similar things. I warn you now, as I warned you Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and Gospel Verses, and the Lenten Gospel before: those who behave like this will not inherit the Acclamations, and the Titles, Summaries, and Conclusion of the Readings, from the kingdom of God. What the Spirit brings is very Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.