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SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR C Vol 7 : No 09

KANGAROO ISLAND CATHOLIC PARISH Parish House: 22 Giles Street, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223 Phone: 8553 2132 Postal address: PO Box 749, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223 Email: [email protected] Web: www.kicatholic.org.au

NOARLUNGA DOWNS CATHOLIC PRESBYTERY FIRST READING all of them. The particular way in Phone: 8382 1717 Isaiah 62:1-5 which the Spirit is given to each About Zion I will not be silent, about person is for a good purpose. One PARISH TEAM CONTACTS Jerusalem I will not grow weary, may have the gift of preaching with PARISH PRIEST until her integrity shines out like the wisdom given him by the Spirit; Fr Josy Sebastian (8382 1717; dawn and her salvation flames like a another may have the gift of in emergency - 0452 524 169) torch. preaching instruction given him by the same Spirit; and another the gift Fr Roy John (8382 1717) The nations then will see your of faith given by the same Spirit; integrity, all the kings your glory, another again the gift of healing, PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL and you will be called by a new through this one Spirit; one, the Mr Peter Clark (8559 5131) name, one which the mouth of the power of miracles; another, Lord will confer. You are to be a prophecy; another the gift of PARISH NEWSLETTER crown of splendour in the hand of recognising spirits; another the gift Mr Peter Clark (8559 5131, the Lord, a princely diadem in the of tongues and another the ability to [email protected]) hand of your God; interpret them. All these are the (All items for the newsletter must be no longer are you to be named work of one and the same Spirit, received no later than Tuesday ‘Forsaken’, nor your land who distributes different gifts to evening.) ‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called different people just as he chooses. ‘My Delight’ and your land ‘The MASS CENTRES Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight GOSPEL ACCLAMATION • KINGSCOTE: Our Lady of in you and your land will have its 2 Thess 2:14 Perpetual Help, Cnr Giles/Todd Sts wedding. Alleluia, alleluia! Sunday - 9.30am God has called us with the gospel Like a young man marrying a virgin, to share in the glory of our Lord • PARNDANA: Uniting Church, so will the one who built you wed Jesus Christ. Cook Street you, and as the bridegroom rejoices Alleluia! 2nd Sunday - 2.30pm in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you. GOSPEL • PENNESHAW: St Columba’s John 2:1-11 Anglican Church, Cnr North RESPONSORIAL PSALM Terrace and Fourth Street Ps 95:1-3, 7-10 There was a wedding at Cana in 1st Sunday - 1.30pm Proclaim his marvellous deeds Galilee. The mother of Jesus was to all the nations. there, and Jesus and his disciples had SPONSORSHIP also been invited. When they ran out KANGAROO ISLAND SECOND READING of wine, since the wine provided for TRANSFERS (0427 887 575) 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 the wedding was all finished, the generously donate transport for our There is a variety of gifts but always mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They visiting Priests. the same Spirit; there are all sorts of have no wine.’ Jesus said ‘Woman, service to be done, but always to the why turn to me? My hour has not CHILD PROTECTION same Lord; working in all sorts of come yet.’ His mother said to the Child Protection Unit 8210 8159 different ways in different people, it servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ is the same God who is working in There were six stone water jars (Continued page 4) January 19/20, 2019 • Page 1 12

1. Peace MarchKangaroo on Palm Sunday Island 25th March Catholic Parish

Mass Roster PARISH NOTICES 27th Jan:

Readers: A Clark, A Gibbs. Mass next week : Fr. Josy. Gifts: Clark family. Kingscote 9:30 AM Sp. Ministers: K Florence, K Hammatt. Confession available 30 min before mass. Cleaning / Coffee: A Clark. Parish Council next week after Mass.

World Youth Day Adelaide Mass: Please pray for………. 5:00 pm Sunday 27 January at Sacred Heart Josephine Sexton, Skyla Davidson, Noeline College Somerton Park. Thomas, Charles and Sue Gorman, John Slagter, Cheryl Scopazzi, Pat Hadland, Christian Hadland. World Youth Day Adelaide is fast approaching, but

Mei Kuen Sexton and Elizabeth Schoolbread. it’s not too late to be part of the action. Sacred Heart College in Somerton Park will come alive on Fr. Jim Honner. Sunday January 27 for an event featuring live May all our sick parishioners, relatives and performances from some of Australia’s best friends know the healing love of Christ through musicians, a range of workshops and speaker our actions and His healing presence. panels discussing topics including environmental Jesus did this as the beginning of his protection and social justice, food vans, a rock- signs at Cana in Galilee climbing wall, merchandise, a live broadcast from and so revealed his glory. 1079 Life FM and a youth-led Mass. Tickets are “They have no wine.” only $20 each and can be purchased online at “So what?” www.cathyouthadelaide.org.au/wyd or at the gate. For more information, please contact Peter “Do whatever he tells you.” From that instant she left it to him. Bierer at the Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults, or see the blue poster at the back of the To us: Church. “Do whatever he tells you.

“Love God, love your neighbour, Frs Selva Raj Leenaiah and Jack Otto SJ have make a home for the Spirit.” generously accepted their appointments to serve

Help us leave our Parishes under the leadership of Fr. Josy. everything to you, Lord. A full list of Archdiocesan appointments for 2019 approved by Bishop O’Kelly is available from Peter We are water. Clark Turn us into wine. Catholic D

! Ron Rolheiser column Ronald 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.

WENDY BECKETT – RIP audience but also brought scorn from must, like little children, be No community should botch its a number of critics. They mocked protected from the erotic so that deaths. The renowned her simplicity of language, criticized even while they’re supposed to be anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, her for not being more critical of the doctors of the soul they should be suggested this and its truth applies to art she presented, and were put off shielded from the deep impulses and communities at every level. No by that fact that she, a consecrated secrets of the soul. Sr. Wendy didn’t family should send off a member virgin, could so comfortably discuss buy that. Neither should we. Chastity without proper reflection, ritual, and sensuality and the nude human body. is not intended to be that kind of blessings. They found it difficult to digest that naiveté. this pious woman, a consecrated On December 26th, 2018, the family virgin, clad in a traditional religious Full disclosure: I had a personal link of art and the family of faith lost a habit, sporting thick glasses and to Sr. Wendy. Many years ago, when cherished member. Sr. Wendy buck-teeth, could be so much at ease I was young and still searching for Beckett, aged 88, famed art critic, with sensuality. Robert Hughes, of my own voice as a spiritual writer, committed woman of faith, and Time magazine, once mocked her as she sent me a large, beautifully- nurturing friend to many, died. Since a “relentlessly chatty pseudo- framed, print of Paul Klee’s, famous 1970, Sr. Wendy had been living as a with her signature teeth” whose 1923 painting, Eros. For the past 29 and hermit on the observations were “pitched to a 15- years it has hung on a wall behind grounds of a Carmelite in year-old” audience. Germaine Greer my computer screen so that I see it England, praying for several hours a challenged her competence to every time I write and it has helped day, translating religious tracts, and describe erotic art given the fact that me understand that it’s God’s color, going to daily Eucharist. she was a consecrated virgin. God’s light, and God’s energy that inform erotic longing. Early on, after choosing this way of Sr. Wendy mostly smiled at these life, she began to study art history, criticisms and countered them this In 1993, while visiting the started writing articles for way: “I’m not a critic”, she would monastery where Sr. Wendy lived, I magazines, and published the first of say, “I am an appreciator”. As to her had the opportunity to go out to a more than 30 books on art. In 1991, comfort with sensuality and the nude restaurant with her. Our waiter was she did a short BBC documentary on body, she would answer that just initially taken aback by her television and was an immediate hit because she was committed to traditional religious habit. With some with a wide audience. She soon celibacy did not mean that she was trepidation he timidly asked her: began to host her own BBC show, not fully appreciative of human “Sister, might I bring you some Sister Wendy’s Odyssey, which was sensuality, sexuality, and the beauty water?” She flashed her trademark so popular it sometimes attracted one of the human body – all of it. smile and said: “No, water’s for quarter of the British television washing. Bring me some wine!” The audience. There are of course different ways in waiter relaxed and much enjoyed which the unclothed human body bantering with her for the rest of the Anyone who watched her programs can be perceived, and Sr. Wendy was meal. was soon taken by three things: The a smiling, unapologetic appreciator absolute joy that was present in her of one of them. An unclothed human And that was Sr. Wendy, an anomaly as she discussed a piece of art; her body can be shown as “nude” or as to many: a consecrated virgin capacity to articulate in a simple and “naked”. Good art uses nudity to discoursing on eros, a hermit but clear language the meaning of a honor the human body (surely one of famous art critic, and an particular work of art; and her earthy God’s great masterpieces) while intellectually brilliant woman who appreciation of sensuality and the pornography uses nakedness to befuddled critics with her simplicity. nude human body which she, as a exploit the human body. But, like all great minds, there was a consecrated virgin, could describe remarkable consistency at a deeper with a disarming appreciation. Sr. Wendy was also unapologetic level, at that place where the critic about the fact that her consecrated and the appreciator are one. All of those qualities (her joy, her virginity did not disprivilege her simplicity of language, and her from appreciating the erotic. She You can read, or download, Ron capacity to give the pure gaze of was right. Somewhere we have Rolheiser’s weekly columns from his admiration to the nude human body) developed the false, debilitating website at: www.ronrolheiser.com were what endeared her to her notion that consecrated celibates

January 19/20, 2019 • Page 3 REGULAR MASS TIMES IN (Continued from page 1) that has a transformative effect on OUR CLUSTER CHURCHES standing there, meant for the his disciples, so that they come to ALDINGA ablutions that are customary among believe in him. The miracle at Cana Mary of Galilee, the First Disciple the Jews: each could hold twenty or announces the richness of the gifts cnr Quinliven and How Roads thirty gallons. Jesus said to the of God that Jesus has come to Saturday 5.30pm servants, ‘Fill the jars with water’, Tuesday 9.15am dispense, and for the disciples and and they filled them to the brim. for all who come to believe in Jesus, GOOLWA ‘Draw some out now’ he told them this is a life-changing event. St John the Apostle, 10-14 Gardiner St ‘and take it to the steward.’ They did Sunday 9.00am this; the steward tasted the water, DID YOU KNOW? Wednesday 9.30am and it had turned into wine. Having • Ritual cleanliness was very no idea where it came from – only important to the Jewish people. It KINGSCOTE the servants who had drawn the was the custom to wash Our Lady of Perpetual Help, water knew – the steward called the thoroughly before eating or cnr Todd and Giles Streets bridegroom and said; ‘People drinking, after coming in from the Sunday 9.30am generally serve the best wine first, marketplace or the road, in case a and keep the cheaper sort till the NOARLUNGA person had come into contact with St Luke, the Evangelist, guests have had plenty to drink; but someone or something that may cnr Honeypot Rd and Goldsmith Dve you have kept the best wine till have rendered them ‘unclean’.

Saturday 6.00pm now.’ • In John’s gospel, Jesus performs Sunday 9.00am This was the first of the signs given only seven ‘signs’, and each is 1st Sunday 11am (Spanish Mass) nd by Jesus: it was given at Cana in designed to reveal something of 2 Sunday 2.00pm (Filipino Mass) Galilee. He let his glory be seen, and Sunday (Youth Mass) 5.30pm who he is. Here he ushers in the Monday 9.00am his disciples believed in him. messianic banquet, a symbol of Tuesday 9.00am the Messiah often used in the Wednesday 7.30pm Jewish Scriptures. Thursday 8.15am (St Luke’s) EXPLORING THE WORD • This is the third of the Thursday 9.15am (St John’s - term time) In the Gospel of John, this is the first Friday 10.00am ‘manifestations’ of Christ, read in public act of Jesus and it is the succession over the last three NORMANVILLE woman, his mother, who initiates weeks. St Peter, Cape Jervis Road this first display of his divine origins 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays 10.30am when he ‘let his glory be seen’. Her 2nd, 4th Sundays 8.30am total trust that he will respond to her 1st Friday 6.00pm observation helps to explain why we THIS WEEK’S READINGS look to Mary as a model of faith and (21 - 27 January) PARNDANA • Monday, 21: St Agnes (Heb nd discipleship. Jesus takes the symbol 2 Sunday 2.30pm of the old rituals of Israel - the water 5:1-10; Mk 2:18-22) PENNESHAW for ritual cleanliness - and • Tuesday, 22: Weekday, Ord Time 2 St Columba, North Terrace transforms it into something new. (Heb 6:10-20; Mk 2:23-28) (shared with Anglicans) This is a recurring motif in John. 1st Sunday 1.30pm • Wednesday, 23: Weekday, Ord Another recurring theme is that of Time 2 (Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Mk SEAFORD ‘the hour’ of Jesus. In John’s gospel, 3:1-6) Seaford Ecumenical Mission, the ‘hour’ will not be finally fulfilled Grand Bvd until the supreme moment when • Thursday, 24: St Francis de Sales Sunday 10.45am Jesus shows the fullness of his love (Heb 7:25 - 8:6; Mk 3:7-12) Wednesday 9.15am for both his Father and for all • Friday, 25: The Conversion of St VICTOR HARBOR people; the moment when he is Paul (Acts 22:3-16; Mk 16:15-18) St Joan of Arc, 30 Seaview Road ‘lifted up’ on the cross. This story is Saturday 6.00pm about much more than the • Saturday, 26: Australia Day (Is Sunday 11.00am performance of a miracle at a 32:15-18; 1 Cor 12:4-11; Mt Tuesday 9.00am wedding feast. In the performance of 5:2-12) Thursday 9.00am this sign, Jesus reveals something of • Sunday, 27: 3rd SUNDAY in Friday 9.00am the power and glory of God 1st Friday Benediction following Mass ORDINARY TIME (Neh 8:2-6, operating in and through him, and it 8-10; 1 Cor 12:12-30; Lk 1:1-4, WILLUNGA is this revelation of the glory of God 4:14-21) 4:14-21) St Joseph, 12 St Judes Street 1st, 3rd, 5th Sundays 8.30am PASTORAL CARE 2nd, 4th Sundays 10.30am If you (or someone you know) is house-bound, in hospital or in residential care and Wednesday 9.00am would appreciate a visit from a Priest or someone from the Parish, please let us know. Thursday 9.00am Contact: Noarlunga/Seaford (8382 1717), Willunga (0488 287 552), Friday 9.00am Victor Harbor/Goolwa (8552 1084), Kangaroo Island (0418 819 078).

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