- PARISHES IN PARTNERSHIP St. Mary’s Maffra [Newry & Dargo] St. Michael’s Heyfield-Cowwarr Phone: 03 5147 1921 email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tues, Wed, Thurs - 9.00am-3.00pm. For Emergencies: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sale, Phone 5144 4100 Diocesan/ website: https://www.cdsale.org.au/maffra [heyfield] ****************************************************************************************************** SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP - 15th NOVEMBER, 2020

10th November 2020 PARISH PRIEST: Fr. Siju Xavier Dear Friends, Email: [email protected] EPISCOPAL ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION OF PRIEST EMIRITUS: -ELECT GREGORY BENNET AS TENTH Fr. Frank Young BISHOP OF SALE PARISH SECRETARY: Willie Schoenmaekers ************************************************** I am delighted to confirm that Bishop-elect Greg Bennet WEEKEND MASSES: Heyfield will be ordained Tenth Bishop of Sale on Tuesday 8th Saturday Vigil: 6:00pm December 2020 at 11am at St Mary’s Cathedral Sale. 1st & 3rd Sunday Cowwarr: 11:00am The ordination and installation will respect the WEEKEND MASSES: Maffra restrictions as prescribed by the State of . An Sunday: 9:00am & 4:30pm 2nd & 4th Sunday - Newry: 11:00am assessment based on the restrictions as proposed from 5th Sunday - Dargo: 12:00pm 23 November will see St Mary’s Cathedral Sale able to

WEEKDAY MASSES hold 70 people. HEYFIELD While we would have clearly liked to offer welcome and Tuesday: 9:30am hospitality to everyone, we will be restricted to the MAFFRA Apostolic Nuncio, Principal and Co- Wednesday: 9:30pm Thursday: 9:30am Consecrating , Bishops of the Victorian Friday: 9:30am Province, the College of Consultors and clergy required 2nd Friday Stretton Park 10.00am for the liturgy. Saturday: N/A Other liturgical ministries, COVID officers, restricted RECONCILIATION: Diocesan representatives & amp; Cathedral staff, and MAFFRA those required for the live streaming will form part of Anytime when requested HEYFIELD: the 70 participants. The attendance of Bishop-Elect Saturday: Before Mass 5.20pm Greg’s family and friends will be few. OR any other time by request A formal invitation will be emailed confirming the date, EXPOSITION: Maffra time and live streaming details. Wednesday: After 5.00pm Mass We hope you will join us via live-streaming as we ordain BAPTISMS: During or After the Vigil / Sunday Mass and welcome our new bishop. Yours in Christ, MARRIAGE: At least six months’ notice requested. Rev Fr Peter Slater PARISH SCHOOLS Diocesan Administrator ST. MICHAEL’S HEYFIELD

Principal: Jenny Miller Davis St. Heyfield - 3858 Please continue bookings for Weekend Masses Phone: 5148 2514 Between 11:00am to 1:00pm

ST. MARY’S MAFFRA on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays on 0490 384 454 Principal: Jason Slattery Heyfield Sat. 6.00pm; Maffra Sun. 9.00am and 4.30pm 4-12 Duke St. Maffra - 3860 Newry and Cowwarr at 11.00am on their designated Phone: 5147 1334 Sundays. Catholic Care: 1800 522 076 Thank you. Safe Steps: 1800 015 188 Facebook: facebook/dioceseofsale

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8912 2777 "An Act of wrote: ‘When you do not receive communion and you do not attend Care for the Sick: If you know of Spiritual Communion anyone who is unable to get to Mass My Jesus, Mass, you can make a spiritual and would like the Eucharist brought I believe that You are present in the Most communion, which is a most to them, please advise us on 5147 1921. Holy Sacrament. beneficial practice; by it the love of We pray for ALL who suffer (at I love You above all things, and I desire to God will be greatly impressed on receive You into my soul. present) in body, mind or spirit: you.’” (Ecclesia Eucharistia, no. Since I cannot at this moment receive You Gerald Zed Hurley, Belinda sacramentally, come at least spiritually 34). Weatherley, Archie Schacht, Coral into my heart. Justice, Julie Frew, Peter Smyth, Fr. I embrace You as if You were already there  How Do I Make a Spiritual Brian O’Connor, John Phelan, Lyn and unite myself wholly to You. Communion? McLindin, Ann Martin, Lorraine Never permit me to be separated from You. Below are recommendations for how Weatherley, Evelyn Bourke, Gerry Amen." to make a ‘spiritual communion’ when Gray, Lee Allman, Father Frank, unable to participate in the Holy Maree Welsh, and all those who seek WE ARE A CHILD SAFE PARISH Sacrifice of the Mass. The our prayers. recommendations can be adapted Any children, young persons and based upon personal and family vulnerable adults have a right to needs. SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF feel safe and be safe. If you are PERPETUAL HELP 2020 PATRONAL concerned about any form of  Gather with others in your household FEAST OF THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF abuse, or believe that someone is and begin a time of prayer with the sign of the cross. SALE at significant risk, you should th On Sunday 15 November 2020, the immediately raise your concerns  Take time to read and reflect upon the Diocese of Sale will celebrate the with one of our Parish readings from Sunday Mass. You can Solemnity of our Diocesan Patroness, Safeguarding Officers. Contact Via find the readings at usccb.org and a the Parish Office: 03 5147 1921. Sunday Gospel reflection on Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The our YouTube channel. Additionally, a [Adapted from Moe parish] Solemnity is observed annually on weekly televised Sunday Mass is this date and in 2020, it falls on the available to watch at adw.org/tvmass. 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time.  Share prayer intentions quietly or “According to the general norm, a aloud. diocesan patron is celebrated in the diocese as a feast or, for pastoral  Pray the Lord’s Prayer. reasons, as a solemnity. In , PARISH SAFEGUARDING  Pray one of the following prayers of diocesan patronal feasts are kept as OFFICERS spiritual communion [see above left] solemnities”. ST. MARY’S: Terry Donahoe Close with the sign of the cross ST. MICHAEL’S: Ed O’Brien

This title of honour – Our Lady of legendary interpretation is that Jesus, safe Perpetual Succour or Our Lady of in his mother’s arms, loses his sandal as he Perpetual Help – is given to the Blessed trembles before the symbols of his Passion. Virgin Mary. The holy icon that bears this On one side is the Archangel Michael name has been in Rome since at least 1499, holding a spear and a hyssop stick with a sponge on it. On the other, the Archangel Gabriel holds the Cross, which is in a form often depicted in the Eastern Churches. The lettering, which is a form of Greek, identifies each person in the icon. The feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in our diocese is November 15. It has the ranking of a Solemnity, the highest rank of feast days. [adapted from WF diocese]

First Reading: Proverbs (8: 22-31) From everlasting I was firmly set, from the beginning, but is probably older than that. In 1865, before earth came into being. The deep was not, when I was born, Pius IX entrusted the care of the holy icon there were no springs to gush with water. to the Redemptorist Congregation of Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I came to birth; Priests. Through their missionary work before he made the earth, the countryside, around the world, the holy icon of Our or the first grains of the world's dust. Lady of Perpetual Help became popular. When he fixed the heavens firm, I was there, The original icon is permanently displayed when he drew a ring on the surface of the deep, in the Church of St Alphonsus Ligouri in when he thickened the clouds above, Rome, which is a church still staffed and when he fixed fast the springs of the deep, when he assigned the sea its boundaries - kept by the . When we read and the waters will not invade the shore – the holy icon, it shows four holy figures on when he laid down the foundations of the earth, a gold background: the Virgin Mother of I was by his side, God, the Christ Child and the Archangels a master craftsman, Michael and Gabriel. Mary is shown delighting him day after day, ever at play in his presence, looking away from her Son to ourselves, at play everywhere in his world, ready to help us in time of need. Mary, by delighting to be with the sons of men. The word of the Lord. her hand, is showing her Son to us, directing us to Jesus the Word who Responsorial Psalm I Sam 2: 1, 4- 8 liberates us through his suffering and R. My heart rejoices in the Lord, my Saviour. death. Mary is the faithful disciple, ever My heart exults in the Lord, I find my strength open to the Word of God in her life. A in my God; my mouth laughs at my enemies as I rejoice in your saving help. R. My heart rejoices in the Lord, my Saviour. mother.' And from that moment the disciple made a place for her in his home. The bows of the mighty are broken, but the weak are clothed with strength. Those with The Gospel of the Lord. plenty must labour for bread, but the hungry Prayer of the Faithful need work no more. The childless wife has children now but the fruitful wife bears no more. 1. For our Church of Sale: That devotion to our Patron, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, R. My heart rejoices in the Lord, my Saviour. will inspire us to be faithful to the Gospel It is the Lord who gives life and death, he brings of her Son. Lord hear us. men to the grave and back; it is the Lord who 2. For the people of the Diocese of Sale: gives poverty and riches. He brings men low That they may turn to the Lord, in times and raises them on high. of difficulty and like Mary, learn to be patient and trusting, even in difficult R. My heart rejoices in the Lord, my Saviour. times. Lord, hear us. He lifts up the lowly from the dust, from the 3. For those who struggle with sickness of dungheap he raises the poor to set him in the body or spirit, for families that are company of princes, to give him a glorious struggling to stay together, and for those throne. R. My heart rejoices in the Lord, my who cannot find employment: that Saviour. through the care and protection of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, they will not lose Second Reading: Acts of the Apostles hope. Lord, hear us. (1:12-14) After Jesus had ascended into heaven, the Prayer to Our Lady of Perpetual Help apostles went back to Jerusalem, a short Mother of Perpetual Help, distance away, no more than a Sabbath walk; you have been blessed and and when they reached the city they went to the favoured by God. You upper room where they were staying; there became not only the Mother were Peter and John, James and Andrew, of the Redeemer, but the Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, Mother of the redeemed as James, son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, well. We come to you today and Jude, son of James. All these joined in as your loving children. continuous prayer, together with some women, Watch over us and take care including Mary the mother of Jesus, and with of us. As you held the child his brothers. Jesus in your loving arms, so take us in your arms. Be a The word of the Lord. mother ready at every moment to help us. For God Acclamation who is mighty has done great Alleluia! Alleluia! things for you, and his mercy is from age to age on those Blessed is the Virgin Mary Who kept the word who love him. Our greatest of God and pondered it in her heart. fear is that in time of temptation, we may fail to Alleluia! call out to you, and become Gospel according to John (19: 25- 27) lost children. Intercede for us, dear Mother, in obtaining Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother and pardon for our sins, love for his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Cleopas, Jesus, final perseverance, and Mary of Magdala. Seeing his mother and and the grace always to call the disciple he loved standing near her, Jesus upon you, Mother of said to his mother, 'Woman, this is your son'. Perpetual Help. Amen. Then to the disciple he said, 'This is your

SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP 2020 St. Mary’s Cathedral Sale – Dedicated to Our Lady of Perpetual Help The main part of St Mary's Cathedral (with its distinctive east-facing Gothic windows) was constructed in 1886 by pioneer priest, Fr James Hegarty. He initiated work on this red brick church when it was rumoured that Sale would become the seat of a Gippsland-based diocese. He wanted to ensure that the town had a church worthy of being called a cathedral. The first Bishop of Sale, James Corbett, brought back from Europe French-made bells for the free- standing belfry in the cathedral grounds, as well as statues of the Sacred Heart, Our Lady and Stations of the Cross. In 1910 the basic rectangular building underwent major extensions which included a sanctuary, bishop's sacristy, priests' and altar boys' sacristy and Our Lady's chapel. A Romanesque onyx high altar purchased from France was installed in the new sanctuary, which features impressive stained glass windows and a large statue of Mary Help of Christians. A Blackwood chair, with a carved decorative canopy, was obtained and Bishop Corbett donated a polished wooden pulpit. This pulpit was later transferred to St Mary's Church, in the neighbouring town of Maffra.

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longer dominated the centrally placed statue of Mary and the high altar was brought forward to become the main altar. The tablets of the Gospel writers were relocated to the wall flanking the bishop's chair, the floor level of the sanctuary was raised considerably and carpet was placed over the mosaic floor. A new Shrine of Our Lady was built to give prominence to an icon blessed by Pope Leo 13 in 1890. A bronze bas-relief of Blessed Mary MacKillop by Annemieke Mein was placed in the foyer and draws many visitors to the cathedral. The sculpture features a small piece of wood 1997 - St Mary’s Cathedral from Mary MacKillop's coffin, sealed under epoxy resin. In the 1930s the Stations of the Cross were Other works included reducing the width of the relocated to St Joseph's Church, Korumburra, wooden pews, repairs to the slate roofing tiles, and were replaced by the present hand-painted improved drainage in an effort to combat rising ceramic stations set into concrete slabs. damp, construction of internal toilets and a small Under the third Bishop of Sale, Richard Ryan, kitchenette. further additions were made including a high The cathedral contains the remains of four of its marble pulpit, marble altar rails and a mosaic bishops. Bishop Corbett lays in the main section floor in the sanctuary. of the church beneath the front rows of pews on He also purchased three of the four angels which the right hand side. Buried in Our Lady's Shrine flanked the altar at the 1934 Eucharistic Congress are Bishops Richard Ryan, and in and had these placed on the Arthur Fox. parapets of the cathedral. Bishop Jeremiah Coffey's grave lies in the At this time the old red brick building was also cathedral grounds between the east wall of the cement rendered and painted. cathedral and Pearson St. frontage. Few changes were made over the next 50 years Following an extensive assessment of the until the sixth Bishop, Eric D'Arcy renovated the condition of the Cathedral, a restoration plan was sanctuary area. He did so by removing the high launched in November 2010. Works needed to pulpit, altar rails and having the canopy removed bring the Mother Church of the diocese back to from the bishop's chair. its former splendour was estimated to cost around $1 million. Bishop Four marble tablets depicting the Gospel writers, launched an appeal to raise funds towards the which had been on the high pulpit, were placed restoration. The same evening a pictorial history across the front of the altar. of the Cathedral was launched Three The next major change was carried out in 1993 Springtimes: Chronicles of St Mary's Cathedral under the seventh Bishop, Jeremiah Coffey. This Sale, by noted historian Peter Synan. included the assembly area extension on the Following the move of the Bishop's residence and north side with its curved glass windows. all diocesan staff to Warragul in July 2012, the Our Lady's chapel and the northern confessional cathedral has remained in Sale and is used by the were demolished to make way for the extension. Bishop for all major liturgical celebrations of the The tabernacle was cut down in size so that it no year. (From cdsale.org.au)

SUNDAY PRAYER SERVICE we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, For Families and Households During O God, almighty Father. Social Isolation Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, The Introductory Rites you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us; Gathering you take away the sins of the world, The Lectionary/Roman Missal or a Bible may receive our prayer; be placed on a table together with a candle you are seated at the right hand of the Father, and a cross. have mercy on us. A short hymn might be sung. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, Sign of the Cross you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, Leader: with the Holy Spirit, In the name of the Father, and of the Son, in the glory of God the Father. and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. All: Opening Prayer Amen. Leader: Greeting Let us pray. Leader: All pause for silent prayer. Blessed be Jesus who makes us one, Almighty God and strengthens us into our hands by the power of his Spirit. you have placed many blessings and gifts. Help us to use them wisely All: so that we may become your faithful servants. Blessed be God forever. with the Holy Spirit, for ever and ever. Introductory Remarks All: Leader (in these or similar words): Amen. Friends in Christ, although we cannot celebrate the Eucharist this The Liturgy of the Word (as above) day, we gather in God’s name Reflection on the Word for when two or more come together A short period of reflection may be observed. God is always with us. We worship in union with the whole Church Profession of Faith keeping this day of the Lord holy. Leader: Opening Rite In union with the whole Church let us profess our faith. GLORIA All: Leader: I believe in God, With peoples everywhere, the Father almighty, let us glorify our God (in joyful song). Creator of heaven and earth, All: and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, Glory to God in the highest, At the words that follow, up to and and on earth peace to people of good will. including the Virgin Mary, all bow. We praise you, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, we bless you, born of the Virgin Mary, we adore you, suffered under Pontius Pilate, we glorify you, was crucified, died and was buried;

he descended into hell; Leader: Loving God, as our creator you entrust us on the third day he rose again from the dead; with gifts. Hear our prayers and help us to he ascended into heaven, be faithful in sharing our gifts with others as and is seated at the right hand of God the Father we wait to enter the joy of your kingdom. almighty; We ask this through Christ our Lord. from there he will come to judge the living and the All: Amen. dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Lord's Prayer the holy , Leader: the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, At the Saviour’s command the resurrection of the body, and formed by divine teaching, and life everlasting. Amen. we dare to say: All: Prayer of the Faithful Our Father, who art in heaven, Leader: Dear friends, with faith in our hearts, let us hallowed be thy name; bring our prayers before God. thy kingdom come, Reader: That by expressing Christ’s love for all, thy will be done the Holy Church will be faithful to on earth as it is in heaven. God’s teaching. Give us this day our daily bread, (pause) and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; In your mercy: and lead us not into temptation, All: Lord, hear our prayer. but deliver us from evil. Reader: That local organisations who work with For the kingdom, the power and the glory are the disadvantaged will be supported by yours, generous volunteers. now and forever. (pause) Amen. In your mercy: The Concluding Rite All: Lord, hear our prayer. Reader: That all married people will remain in love Blessing and faithfulness to each other. (pause) Leader: In your mercy: May the Lord be with us and protect us All: Lord, hear our prayer. now and for ever. Reader: That our parish community will watch for the coming of Christ by staying awake All make the sign of the cross during the and ready. blessing. (pause) All: In your mercy: Amen. All: Lord, hear our prayer. Reader: That the sick and housebound will be Dismissal blessed and find comfort and healing Leader: through Christ, especially N. Let us go and announce the Gospel of the Lord. (pause) or In your mercy: Let us go in peace, glorifying the Lord. All: Lord, hear our prayer. Reader: That all who have died will be embraced or by the love of God in his heavenly Let us go in the peace to love and serve the Lord. kingdom, especially N. All: (pause) Thanks be to God. In your mercy: All: Lord, hear our prayer.