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Visiting the Church? Please Remember These Three Key Parish of Saint Joseph, Subiaco Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time 21 June 2020 WEEKEND MASS TIMES & BOOKING INFORMATION Let us remember in our prayers … Weekend Mass will be celebrated at the following times. Recently deceased: Albert Hayward, Fr Noel Connolly SSC, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Paul Sciesinski, Br Tony Kelly CFC, Vigil Mass - 5pm Saturday Morning Mass - 9am Sunday Family Mass - 5pm Sunday Phyllis McDaniel, Declan McKeown, Sr Mai Delahunty PBVM, Fr Ken Petersen O.Carm Weekend Mass Bookings will be taken each week from Tuesday until Friday at noon. Anniversaries: John Sammin, Elizabeth Sammin, Ethna Keogh Glenn Lewis, Georgia Lewis, John Durkin, Fr Peter Kenny SJ, Bookings to attend each Mass are essential and can be made online. Bernie Long, Justin Owen, Adrian Burton, Kerry Monaghan The best way to secure a booking, is to go to Try Booking. Sick: Dr Tony Da Silva Rosa, Todd Bennett, Phil Walsh, Patricia Brown, Mal Lamond, Michael Mitchell, Patrick Sweeney, The 27 & 28 June Try Booking web address is https://www.trybooking.com/BKCEE Colleen Gazeley, Geoffrey Davies, Ken Metcalf, Frank Blakiston, Angeline Low, Joan Hughes, Fred Chaney, Barbara-Nova Cameron, WEEKDAY MASS TIMES & INFORMATION Bill Robertson, Sr Joan Smith RSM, Barbara Berthold Monday and Wednesday at 5.30pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am 60 YEARS AGO, A POPE MET A JEWISH ICON AND THE WORLD CHANGED By John L Allen Jr, Crux Booking is no longer required for Weekday Mass, but guidelines remain in place. In his first encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict XVI wrote that Christianity doesn’t begin with an idea or an ethical system, but an Please aim to arrive at the Church to allow sufficient time for completing sanitising and sign in requirements. encounter with the person of Christ. Personal encounters are indeed foundational to much of Christian history, and this meeting was - Entry into the Church is ONLY via the Eastern Side Door. the 60th anniversary of one of the most consequential meetings of the last century. It was June 13, 1960, when a distinguished French - At the Church entrance you MUST record your name and contact details on the register provided. Jewish historian, intellectual and educator named Jules Isaac met St. John XXIII in a Vatican audience. Their conversation triggered a - Social distancing is mandatory, so directions regarding seating must be followed. long path of reconciliation between Judaism and Catholicism which reached a crescendo at Vatican II, gathered steam under St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and continues today under Pope Francis – one sign of which is a recent article in the official Vatican VISITING THE CHURCH? PLEASE REMEMBER THESE THREE KEY DIRECTIONS … newspaper recalling the Isaac/John XXIII meeting, written by Rabbi Abraham Skorka of Argentina, a close friend and occasional SANITISE as you enter SIGN OR CHECK IN SIT in the marked spaces traveling partner of Francis. By the time he met “Good Pope John,” Isaac was already a well-known pioneer in Jewish/Christian relations, in part because of his WEEKLY COLLECTIONS friendship with French Catholic poet and essayist Charles Péguy. In 1894, the two men sided with Alfred Dreyfus and continued to As may be aware, there are usually two collections each week. The first collection supports our Parish Priest, our Archbishop, priests in support him until his exoneration in 1906. Together, Isaac and Péguy also campaigned for reconciliation between Christians and Jews, needy parishes as well as sick and retired priests, while the second collection supports pastoral care programs, sacramental opposing a rising tide of anti-Semitism in France that exploded in the Dreyfus affair. Isaac was also one of the founders of Amitié preparation courses, Outreach ministries, Parish Administration, facilities maintenance and general expenses. Judéo-Chrétienne de France, an organisation devoted to promoting friendship between Christians and Jews. The June 1960 audience Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the collection baskets will not be distributed during Mass. Instead, please place your contributions wasn’t Isaac’s first meeting with a pope. He met Pius XII in 1949, presenting the pope with a list of 18 points Isaac believed should in the collection boxes provided at the entry and exit points of the Church. undergird Christian education about Judaism, such as “Jesus was a Jew” and “the trial of Jesus was a Roman trial, not a Jewish trial.” Alternatively, you can also leave offerings at the Parish Office reception, in an envelope marked ‘First Collection’ or ‘Second Collection’ When John XXIII announced his intention to call the Second Vatican Council in January 1959, Isaac thus saw it as a chance to encourage in the SVDP Box on the rear wall of the Church, by Direct Debit or EFT (Please contact Linda at the Parish Office for banking details. the world’s bishops to take up the issue of Jewish/Christian relations and requested an audience with the pope, which was granted a Thank you. year later as preparations for the council were underway. Angelo Roncalli, the given name of John XXIII, brought his own experience of Jewish/Christian solidarity to the encounter. While he served as the ambassador in Turkey during World War II under Pope Pius XII, PLANNED GIVING Roncalli helped save Jewish lives by issuing false baptismal certificates to Jewish children and also helping refugees obtain visas. He Thank you to all Parishioners who have generously supported the Parish of St Joseph’s Subiaco during the 2020/21 financial year. also passed along reports to Pope Pius about the annihilation of Jews in Poland and Eastern Europe, based in part upon what Jewish Special thanks to those who give through the use of the weekly Planned Giving Envelopes or via Direct Debit. This regular income refugees were telling him. Later, as pope, John XXIII used his first Good Friday liturgy to remove the term “perfidious” from a allows the Parish to ensure the smooth provision of services, to plan Parish pastoral programs and meet our commitments. As there traditional prayer for the conversion of Jews. are a number of new parishioners worshipping with us we invite you to consider participating in the Planned Giving scheme, either via According to Isaac’s later descriptions of the 1960 meeting, he presented John XXIII with a dossier containing the results of his research envelope or direct debit, by completing a Parish Registration Form (available in the Church entrances or in the Office) or by contacting on the history of Christian teaching on Jews and Judaism and its role in fomenting anti-Semitism, asking that a commission be formed the Parish Office by email to [email protected] or [email protected]. Envelopes for the new financial year will be ready on 26 June and available in the foyer of the Church. to treat the subject at the looming ecumenical council. The pope’s response, Isaac recounted, was to say, “I already thought about that at the start of our conversation,” and told him he could walk away with “more than just hope” that something would be done. CATHOLIC MISSION In one of those historical ironies that can’t help but seem unfair, neither Isaac nor John XXIII would live to see the breakthrough that As the COVID-19 pandemic inflicts all sorts of difficulties around the world, Pope Francis in his Missionary Prayer Intention for June resulted from their tête-à-tête: The Vatican II document Nostrae Aetate, on the relationship between Christianity and other religions asks us to pray for those who are suffering. He reminds us that many people are suffering due to the great difficulties they are with a particular emphasis on Judaism. Among its watershed declarations were that regarding the death of Christ, “What happened in enduring and that we can help by accompanying them in prayer. Pope Francis asks us to pray that all those who suffer may find their His passion cannot be charged against all the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews of today.” It also said that the way in life, allowing themselves to be touched by the Heart of Jesus. Catholic Mission is the Australian agency of Pope Francis’ Church decries “displays of anti-Semitism, directed against Jews at any time and by anyone.” A first draft of the document was international Pontifical Mission Societies. Thank you for your on-going support. For more information, visit catholicmission.org.au/. approved by John XXIII in November 1961, but the final version wasn’t promulgated until 1965 under St. Paul VI, two years after Pope CHURCH OPENING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED CONTACT DETAILS John’s death in June 1963. Isaac would die three months after Pope John, in September 1963. Interestingly, all three lead actors in the Thank you to those generous parishioners who have already assisted. In Office Monday - Friday: 9.30am to 4pm drama of Nostra Aetate– John XXIII, Isaac and Bea – were in their eighties at the time, proving, among other things, that it isn’t always order to continue to open the Church for private prayer, we need more Phone 9381 0400 the young who lead revolutions. volunteers, otherwise we will be forced to restrict the hours of access to Postal PO Box 568, Wembley 6913 In this case, three men brought the cumulative weight of their convictions and life experience to bear and, together, they changed the Church. Please register your availability at the Parish Office on 9381 Web www.stjosephssubiaco.org.au history. This turning point in Jewish/Catholic relations, like Christianity itself, began with a simple encounter. Perhaps the moral of the 0400 or via email to [email protected]. Email [email protected] story is that one should take every encounter with another person seriously, because you just never know when destiny may be calling.
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