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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 15 August 2021

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Next Week Entrance Antiphon Parish Priest Joshua 24: 1-2, 15-18 REV. MICHEL G CORRIVEAU Eph 5:21-32 A great sign appeared in heaven: Ps 33:2-3, 16-23. R. v.9 a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon Parish Secretary Jn6:60-69 beneath her feet, and on her head a crown of Janine Meades twelve stars Parish Office Hours

Thursday

in a nutshell 9:00am-4:00pm

Psalm Response Blessed is she…having completed the course of her earthly life, Mary was assumed body and soul into heaven. (R.) The queen stands at your right hand, arrayed Weekly Schedule Her assumption reminds us that in gold. heavenly glory is our Christian Sunday destiny. As we keep the end of life’s The daughters of kings are among your loved Warburton: Saturday—-4:30pm pilgrim journey before us, we join ones. Yarra Junction: Sunday—8:30am On your right stands the queen in gold of Ophir. with Mary in praising the greatness Weekday Mass Listen, O daughter, give ear to my words: of God. Wednesday—9:00am forget your own people and your father’s house. (R.) Reconciliation

So will the king desire your beauty: Thursday 6:00pm-6:45pm we pray for He is your lord, pay homage to him. Thursdays at Yarra Junction all who are sick or suffering and They are escorted amid gladness and joy; First Thursday at Warburton those parishioners unable to be they pass within the palace of the king. (R.) among us this weekend especially, Exposition Charlie & Mary Booth, John Pas, Des Thursday at 6:00pm Hillas, Al Tyler, Bill Ryan, Bernie Thursdays at Yarra Junction Reed. Gospel Acclamation First Thursday at Warburton For those who have died recently, and those whose anniversary occurs Alleluia, alleluia! at this time. Mary is taken up to heaven, and the angels of God shout for joy. Weddings Alleluia! Please contact the office

Baptisms

of special note Please see Father after Mass Communion Antiphon CatholicCare Appeal will take place when we return All generations will call me blessed, Parish Primary School for he who is mighty has done great things for Principal: Nick Boyhan More information inside me. Website: www.sjyarrajunction.catholic.edu.au

Parish Office: 58 Clegg Rd, Mount Evelyn VIC 3796 Tel: (03) 9736 2850 Web: www.sacredheartuyv.org.au Email: [email protected]

Parish Notices

St Vincent de Paul Conference—Thank you Bulletin notices by 12:00 noon Thursday please Dear Parishioners, thank you for your generous donations to our [email protected] Winter Appeal. We collected $286.60 across the two churches. It will go towards the purchase of dry food, fresh fruit and a bit of fresh Child Safety is everyone’s responsi- meat. bility. Our Parish is committed to Spare Time to Volunteer? the care, wellbeing and protection Our Conference member numbers are dwindling due to age and ill of children, and vulnerable people health and would welcome new members. If you have a little time to in our community. spare, perhaps one afternoon a week, we need help for visits to people/families to deliver food. We are desperate for more helpers this can be as full members or associate member. If you are interested, please email Nancy [email protected]

The He who could create all things from nothing would not remake his ruined creation without Mary. For God begot the Son, through whom all things were made, and Mary gave birth to him as the Saviour of the world. Without God’s Son, nothing could exist; without Mary’s Son nothing could be redeemed. (St. Anselm) Adoration, Yarra Junction, Thursday nights at 6:00pm except first Thursday (Warburton). Confessions available during Adoration. Friday mornings 8:00am (Mount Evelyn).

Stewardship Corner “And Mary said, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my saviour.” Luke 1: 46 After Jesus, we look to Mary as our model of stewardship. Her entire life was lived in obedience to God’s will. Just as the moon reflects the light of the sun, Mary reflects the light of Christ. Like Mary, we too are called to reflect Christ to the world. We do this by living grateful and generous lives. We do this by putting other’s needs before our wants.

Catholic Mission Special Collection Thank you so much for your generous support of Church-run mission programs like the Mother and Babies Home in Thailand through last week’s Catholic Mission Appeal. Your gift helps to continue the work of Sister Chalaad and the Good Shepherd Sisters as they support vulnerable mothers and their babies, as well as many other mission programs around the world. To learn more about the impact of your support, visit catholicmission.org.au/our-work, where you can also sign-up for our regular newsletter.

Readings Reflection

Thanksgiving/Stewardship Envelopes Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Anyone wishing to join the program call the office on a Thursday and speak to Janine. On this feast, we praise God who has taken the sinless Virgin Mary, body and soul, into His glory.

In our first reading, from , we find God’s CatholicCare Victoria Sunday Appeal August temple in heaven opened and the Ark of the Covenant As our parish’s social service agency, CatholicCare Victoria revealed. The most sacred item in Israel’s history, the delivers counselling and mental health services, specialised Ark had been missing since the Temple’s destruction in support for children and teens, refugee and asylum seeker 586 B.C. Thus, John reports some startling news. Even help, support for separating families, homelessness more startling is his revelation that the sacred vessel is support and pastoral care. Donations from our parish now a woman, who is mother of the royal Son of David, community will help to support the most vulnerable the Messiah. individuals and families in our community. Please donate to the CatholicCare Victoria Sunday Appeal. Your support Of this woman, then, we sing to God as the ancient and generosity will help the vulnerable and marginalised in Israelites sang: “The queen stands at your right hand, our community and empower everyone to reach their full arrayed in gold.” In the court of King Solomon, we potential. You can donate using the appeal envelope glimpse Israel’s traditional arrangement: Solomon’s available or online at www.catholiccarevic.org.au or call mother, Bathsheba, takes her place at the king’s right hand (see 1 Kings 2:19). (03) 9287 5513. All gifts of $2 and above are tax deductible. Envelopes are available today to take home and return At Mary’s Assumption, as we see in Revelation, the next week if you wish. queen once again takes her place at the right hand of

the Son of David.

Information Session - Permanent Diaconate Our second reading shows us why this is fitting: “in NEW DATE: 4 September, at 10.00am at the University of Christ shall all be brought to life, but each one in proper Divinity, Catholic Theological College order.” What is implicit in St. Paul’s statement is In the Archdiocese there are now 20 permanent deacons revealed in Revelation. The consummation of Christ’s with a small number of aspirants in training. On Saturday, work has begun, as is proper, with the Assumption of 4 September, at 10.00am in University of Divinity, Catholic Theological College, 278 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne the queen mother. VIC, there will be an information session on the Permanent John’s Apocalypse shows also the fulfillment of our Diaconate. If interested simply turn up. An email Gospel. There, Mary, pregnant with Jesus, retraces the to [email protected] with full name and parish, steps of David as he brought the Ark to Jerusalem (see would be welcomed. Wives are also invited. 2 Samuel 6). Mary “arose and went” into the hill country, just as David “arose and went” to that region. Something to make you smile! Upon Mary’s arrival, Elizabeth is awestruck, just as Every ten years, the monks in the are allowed David was before the Ark. The encounter causes the to break their vow of silence to speak two words. Ten years baby John to leap with excitement, as David leapt go by and it’s one monk’s first chance. He thinks for a before the Ark. And Mary stayed in the “house of second before saying, “Food bad.” Ten years later, he says, Zechariah” for “three months,” as the Ark remained in the “house of Obed-edom” for the same period. “Bed hard.” It’s the big day, a decade later. He gives the head monk a long stare and says, “I quit.” “I’m not Mary is the vessel of God’s presence, and she is queen surprised,” the head monk says. “You’ve been complaining mother. She reigns now in splendor with Jesus in the ever since you got here.” heavenly Jerusalem. Dr. Scott Hahn stpaulcenter.com The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven Body & Soul

How did the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary develop?

A great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars….She brought forth a male child, on e who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne. (Rev 12:1-5)

The dogma that the Blessed Virgin Mary was assumed into Heaven body and soul is implicit in Scripture and has been held by the Church since the early centuries of Christianity. This dogma was solemnly defined in 1950 by Pope Pius XII through the constitution Munificentissimus Deus.

As the Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary has a unique relationship with God that surpasses all creatures who had come before or who would follow. By her cooperation with God’s will, salvation was brought into the world through Jesus Christ.

The Assumption into Heaven of those especially close to God is not without precedent in theOld Testament: Enoch (cf. Heb 11:5) and Elijah (cf 2 Kgs 2:11) each are spoken of as having been taken by God without having died. It is fitting that Christ would bring his own Mother to Heaven.

In giving birth you kept your virginity; in your Formation you did not leave the world, O Mother of God, but were joined to the source of Life. You conceived the living God and , by your prayers, will deliver our souls from death. (Byzantine Liturgy, Troparion, Feast of the Dormition, August 15).

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a logical extension of her : since she was preserved from any stain of Original Sin, she did to suffer its consequences of concupiscence and death.

The Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all guilt of original sin, on the completion of her earthly sojourn, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Quen of the universe, that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and the conqueror of sin and death. (Lumen Gentium, 59)

In her theology and her liturgy, the Church interprets the figure in the Book of Revelation of the “woman clothed with the sun” as the Blessed Virgin Mary, who appears in Heaven full of glory.

Since the fourth century the Church has celebrated the of the Assumption on August 15; in the Eastern Churches this feast is know as the Dormition of the Virgin. From the Didache Bible

44. … for the glory of Almighty God who has lavished his special affection upon the Virgin Mary, for the honor of her Son, the immortal King of the Ages and the Victor over sin and death, for the increase of the glory of that same august Mother, and for the joy and exultation of the entire Church; by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.

From the Apostolic Constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII, 1 Nov 1950