2 July 2017 Thirteenth Sunday in Ord Time Year A

2 JULY 2017| THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORD TIME | Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Kensington YEAR A

THIS WEEK

SATURDAY 1 JULY 6:00pm Mass SUNDAY 2 JULY 9:30am Mass + Kids Church, Morning Tea 11:00am Baptisms 3:30pm Indonesian Community Mass 6:00pm Mass MONDAY 3 JULY 9:00am Mass WEDNESDAY 5 JULY 9:00am Mass THURSDAY 6 JULY 5:30pm Reconciliation 6:00pm Mass FRIDAY 7 JULY 9:00am Mass SATURDAY 8 JULY 6:00pm Mass SUNDAY 9 JULY 9:30am Mass + Kids Church, Morning Tea 3:30pm Indonesian Community Mass 6:00pm Mass

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Get the OLR eNews in your inbox each Friday afternoon. Visit www.olrkensington.org.au We acknowledge the traditional owners who cared for this land for thousands of years and their descendants who have maintained these Spiritual connections and traditions. OLR Parish Kensington 2 JULY 2017| THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORD TIME | YEAR A RESPONSES OREMUS ENTRANCE ANTIPHON Let us Pray As peoples, clap your hands. SICK Cry to God with shouts of joy! Robin Lee, Mark (Darren’s friend), FIRST READING Gwen Smith, Levi Alexander Roland, 2 Kings 4: 8-11, 14-16 Frances McLaughlin, Angela Miranda, Jolan Bogsanyi, Cezar Estrellado, RESPONSORIAL PSALM Miriam McKoy, Lyn King, Leo O’Sullivan, For ever I will sing the goodness of the Colleen Corcoran, Fr John Shallvey msc, PARISH Lord. Margaret & Gerhard Stocker, SECOND READING Lucienne Radzyminski, Desleigh Carlton, DIRECTORY Romans 6: 3-4, 8-11 Br Raymond Concannon, Junus Sunardi, 4 Roma Ave Kensington NSW Tonia Pastorelli, Tjandra Djakaria, GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Libby Nagel, Adlin (Joe’s Wife), Gerty Polin, 2033 Alleluia, alleluia! Karen Simonet, Lianne Cross, Lil Siely, T: 9663 1070 You are a chosen race, a royal Ghassan Serhan, Kate Lingard, Will Coady, E: priesthood, a holy people. Praise God Manuel Mouco, Neville Dunn, [email protected] who called you out of darkness and into Ashika Nandan, Vivien Christie, Derek Chick, Tony (Dulwich Hill), Llewellyn Samuel, W: his marvellous light. Joe Di Blasio, Anton’s mum, Nella Custorella, http://olrkensington.org.au Alleluia! Dee Piper, Marie LaBrooy, Patty Ingram, GOSPEL Frank George, Angela Breen Ortega PARISH PRIEST Matthew 10: 37-42 BELOVED DECEASED Fr Aloysius Lamere msc COMMUNION ANTIPHON Sr Marie O’Brien rscj, Maria Hermina, DEACON Bless the Lord, O my soul, Carlo Pengue Rev Kimi Vunivesilevu msc and all within me, his holy name. YOUTH MINISTER ANNIVERSARIES Judith Ann Bennett, Giovanni Miceli, Snezana Tanevska – 0434 Alma Eleanor Whittingham 620 346 PARISH SECRETARY Maria Caetano (Mon-Fri, 9am-1pm) ROSTERS MASS TIMES Sat 6pm (Vigil) Sun 9:30am (Family), 6pm 1-2 JULY SAT SUN 9:30AM SUN 6:00PM Mon, Wed, Fri - 9am 6:00PM Thurs 6pm Acolyte Handojo Widjaja Sal Barone Terry Gormley Indonesian Mass Sun 3:30pm James Lynch Josue Castro Nicholas Black Readers Judith Lynch Sandy Mak Virginia Black French Mass Third Sun 11am E. Ministers Alice Mouco Trish Veness Grace Pandiangan RECONCILIATION Robyn Kildea Nani Widarto Mon 9:30am & Thurs 5:30pm Ana Corpuz or by appointment Amelia Iovanella KidsChurch Aubrey Curley, Holley Curley ROSARY Counting Terry & Val Gormley, Ratna Santoso, Rob Payten First Saturday at 3.30pm Comm to Sick Trish Veness, Robyn Kildea Rosary Room 8-9 JULY SAT SUN 9:30AM SUN INDONESIAN COMMUNITY 6:00PM 6:00PM Fr Aloysius Tamnge msc – Acolyte Sal Barone Gus Alimhamzah Fred Luca 0426 042 624 Readers Linda Irhia Nani Widarto Shilla Azalea BAPTISMS Agnes Irhia James Wong Selvi Ung E. Ministers Dewi Suryani Thomas Chia Marieann Duncan First Sunday - 11am, bookings Grace Pandiangan required Henny Ramali Margaret Rigotti WEDDINGS Roy Rigotti By Appointment KidsChurch Erin Beavis, Harriet Beavis SACRAMENTS Counting John Moore, Ray Delohery, Selvi Ung Contact parish office Comm to Sick Thomas Chia, Grace Pandiangan OLR PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Marie Nilon - 9663 3346 OLSH COLLEGE PRINCIPAL Jenny Fowler - 9662 4088 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE Roy Rigotti - 9313 8334 John Hill - 9663 3222 Sr Pauline Richards - 9663 2447 Page 2 Parish Website: www.olrkensington.org.au 25% TAX DEDUCTIBILITY ARRANGEMENT PARISH EMAIL ADDRESS FOR PLANNED GIVING Please note our Parish Email Tax deductibility of the weekly PLANNED GIVING (ENVELOPE) address collection ceased from 1st January 2017 because of Legislative has changed to: changes. [email protected]

The Parish has opted into an Archdiocese arrangement, now in FORMATION & TRAINING place, whereby: COURSE FOR 1. From 1st July 2017, the Parish will commence weekly payment EXTRAORDINARY of PLANNED GIVING (ENVELOPE) receipts to the MINISTERS OF HOLY Archdiocese Charitable Works Fund Trust (CWFT). COMMUNION Wednesday 26th July and 2nd 2. In return, the Parish will be able to issue Tax deductibility August 2017 Kensington receipts to PLANNED GIVING Contributors totaling 25% of Parish Hall 7pm-9pm. the PLANNED GIVING contributions received by the Parish. (both nights are to be attended Therefore, to the extent that any PLANNED GIVING to receive certificate) Contributors inform the Parish they do not require a tax- deductible receipt, the tax-deductible receipts issued by the This program is for those wanting Parish will be greater than 25% of a Contributor’s contribution. to assist as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion in 3. Subsequently, the Parish will receive a rebate of 100% of the the Archdiocese of Sydney. This amounts paid into the CWFT through a special distribution course is a pre-requisite for those from the Catholic Development Fund. who wanting to attend the Acolytes training courses.

Registration forms are available in the church foyer or from the Parish Office.

HEALING MASS & MORNING TEA THURSDAY 6 JULY 10:30am A Healing Mass, followed by morning tea, will be held at OLR Church at 10:30am on Thursday 6 July.

There will be a sit down Morning Tea in the Foyer of the Church

after the Mass. HOLY FATHER’S APPEAL The annual Holy Father’s Appeal will be held this weekend. Please pass on this information to Through this appeal you will become a vital partner of Pope anyone you know who is Francis in his mission to deliver corporal works of mercy to where homebound. Transport can be they are needed the most, anywhere in the world. Please arranged to and from Mass. consider giving your generous support. Thank you. Please call Maria if transport is

required: 9663 1070. OLSH SISTERS IN SOUTH AFRICA My name is Margaret Vella and I am good friends with Sr WORKING BEE Christine Martin and SATURDAY 8 JULY FROM 8AM Sr Helen Armstrong our Aussie nuns who are working so hard in

South Africa. Last year I went over to stay with them for two In preparation for Br Kimi’s weeks. Seeing the wonderful work that they are doing and how Ordination there will be a Working difficult the situation is for them I offered to help the sisters by Bee to clean up the speaking at your church on the 9th and 10th July at all Masses. Parish Hall for the OLR PARISH KENSINGTON WE’RE CELEBRATIN G…

2 JULY 2017 – BAPTISMS Taj Jeffery de Freitas Asher John Hanrahan Joshua Lawrence Starr Noah Blake Starr

NOTICES

OLR SCHOOL NEWS – YEAR 3M Year 3M are currently learning about the unit ‘Pentecost’. This unit explores the presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives. It focuses on the Holy Spirit as the source of strength which enables us to continue the mission of Jesus. 3M have been learning about how the Holy Spirit fulfils Jesus’ promise to always be with us and how the Trinity is central to our faith. The students have been introduced to and engaged in the stories of the ‘Ascension’ and MOUNT ST BENEDICT CENTRE - PRAYING WITH ‘Pentecost’. Through these stories POETRY we have explored how the gifts of We invite you to join us for the experience of exploring the ways the Holy Spirit are active in their in which poetry can lead to prayer in reflecting on the thoughts, daily lives, both at home and in their feelings and experiences in selected poems attending to their school community. Students have images, rhythms and capacity to surprise. Poems selected will identified their own gifts of love and be from a wide variety of poets including Mary Oliver, RS service for those in their community Thomas, Jessica Powers, Denise Levertov to name a few. and also for those less fortunate. There will be time and space for reflection and the invitation for This is evidenced in their donations participants to share their favourite poem. The day will be to the OLR St Vincent De Paul facilitated by well-respected teacher and scholar Glenda Winter Appeal. Bourke sgs. Date: Saturday 8 July 10am-3.30pm. SPIRITUALITY IN THE PUB Cost: $30 Morning Tea provided, BYO Lunch. Wed 5th July 2017. 7.30 - 9pm at Reserve your place by email [email protected] the PADDINGTON RSL CLUB or Phone 9484 6208 220-232 Oxford St, Paddington. Where: 449D Pennant Hills Road. Entrance off Hull Road. Our NAIDOC week topic: “RECONCILIATION AND FUNDRAISING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED HEALING”. Speakers: Norma We value the contribution that our volunteers make but more Tracey a Founder of Gunawirra, a are needed to assist us from time to time. Our volunteers help not-for-profit organisation & Graham us with the mailing of appeals and notices about our Toomey, pilgrimages and special events as well as other duties. Please an Aboriginal artist. Donation entry. phone Amanda on 1800 753 959 or email Info Marea: 0414 873 910. Page 4