St Patrick’s Parish Emerald Welcomes You

Established in 1888 4th Sunday of Lent Year C

30th & 31st March 2019 Parish Administrator: Fr Raj Kodavatikanti

This Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Rejoice Sunday. Anticipating Easter joy, today’s readings invite us to rejoice by being reconciled with God through repentance and the confession of our sins and by celebrating our coming home to be with our loving and forgiving God.

St. Paul invites the Corinthian Christian community to rejoice because has reconciled them with God by his suffering and death.

Today’s Gospel celebrates the joy of the prodigal son on his “homecoming” where he discovers his father’s forgiving and overflowing love. It is also the story of the rejoicing of a loving and forgiving father who celebrates the return of his prodigal son by throwing a big party in his honour, a banquet celebrating the reconciliation of the son with his father, his family, his community and his God. Let us admit the truth that we are an assembly of sinful people, repentant, and now ready to receive God's forgiveness and to experience Jesus’ Personal Presence in the Holy Eucharist as our loving and forgiving God.

Let us return to our Heavenly Father with repentant hearts: As prodigal children, we face spiritual famine. All of these evils have proliferated because we have been squandering God’s abundant blessings, not only in our country and in our families, but also in our personal lives. Hence, let us repent and return to our Heavenly Father’s home.

Holy Mass enhances our “pass over," from a world of sin to a world of reconciliation. At every Mass, we come to our loving Heavenly Father’s house as prodigal children acknowledging that we have sinned (“I confess to Almighty God.”). In the Offertory, we give ourselves back to the Father, and this is the moment of our surrendering our sinful lives to God our Father. At the consecration, we hear God’s invitation through Jesus: “… this is My Body, which will be given up for you... this is the chalice of My Blood … which will be poured out for you…” (equals - ALL I HAVE IS YOURS). In Holy Communion, we participate in the banquet of reconciliation, thus restoring our full relationship with God and our fellow human beings.

Fr Raj

The Catholic Diocese of abides strictly with the principles and procedures of Towards Healing. The Diocese is committed to healing for victims by providing a sensitive and compassionate response to complaints. Contact the Response Coordinator on Ph 1800 830113. email: [email protected] ST. PATRICK’S PARISH Page 2

Emerald & District Mass Times Church March/April Roster EASTER CELEBRATIONS Church Cleaning: Saturday 30 March 6pm 5th: Jackie McGavin, Loyola McKinlay, Maria Sunday 31 March 8am Holy Thursday - April 18 Mahony Sunday 31 March 8am * Emerald 5.30pm Monday 01 April NO MASS Springsure 7.30pm Church Linen: Marie Mahony Tuesday 02 April 12 noon April: Jackie McGavin Wednesday 03 April 7am Good Friday - April 19 Thursday 04 April 8am Ground Maintenance: Michael & Ben Heinemann, Emerald 3pm Friday 05 April 9am Kevin Pokarier Emerald Churches Together Ecumenical, Saturday 06 April 6pm Bush Chapel, Botanical Gardens - 5pm Sunday 07 April 8am * THIS WEEKEND 30/31 March Springsure Ecumenical Service - 9am Sunday 07 April 10.30 * Anakie Sacristan: 6pm: John Miller Sunday 07 April 8am Springsure Holy Saturday - April 20 Monday 08 April NO MASS 8am: Peter Agius Emerald 6pm Commentator: Tuesday 09 April 12 noon 6pm: Kevin Bickhoff Wednesday 10 April 7am Easter Sunday - April 21 8am: Marie Mahony Thursday 11 April 8am Emerald 8am Readers: Friday 12 April 9am Springsure 10.30 am 6pm: Catherine Nolan, Peter Lawler * Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion Rolleston 12.00 noon 8am: Bill Mahony, Jackie McGavin Communion Ministers: Gemfields 6pm Dates for the Diary 6pm: Sue McCosker, Catherine Nolan, Rod Devlin, Blackwater Celebrations Grainne Cullivan, Volunteer please 8am: Yvonne Farrell, Bill Mahony, Anthea April Holy Thursday - April 18 Cullinane, Peter Agius, Volunteer please 5 Last day of Term 1 Blackwater 7pm 5 Stations of the Marist College * Altar Servers: 12 Avalon Mass 10am 6pm: Volunteers please Good Friday - April 19 8am: Volunteers please 23 School Resumes Term 2 23 Anointing Mass 12 noon followed by Blackwater 3pm Children’s Liturgy: 6pm: Megan Courtney, Lachlan Boyle shared lunch. 8am: Shona Gibson, Stephen Hunt 25 Anzac Day Office closed Holy Saturday - April 20 Holy Goods Shop: 25 Anzac Day Mass 9am Blackwater 6pm 26 Avalon Mass 10am Anointing Mass

6pm: Volunteer please 8am: Volunteer please * See notices for more information Easter Sunday - April 21 Duaringa 9am Musicians: 6pm: Jun, Alvin, Cathy, Lorraine (Administered by Rockhampton Diocese) 8am: Vanessa, Monica, Christine Counters: No Counting dRegular Prayer Gatherings ŠLegion of Mary, Church, Gemfields Catholic NEXT WEEKEND 6/7 April Mondays, 9am Community News Sacristan: ŠGood Shepherd Prayer Group, community meet for Liturgy 6pm: John Miller Church, Wednesdays, 7.00pm of the Word with Holy Communion on the 8am: Peter Agius ŠEucharistic Adoration, Church, first Sunday of the Month and Mass on the Commentator: Fridays, 5.30pm - 6.30pm third Sunday of the Month at the Anakie 6pm: Jackie McGavin ŠRosary at the Grotto, Sunday, Community Hall at 10.30am. Lay Leaders: 5.30pm 8am: Neil Dale, Janice Moriarty All are welcome Readers: Most Welcome 6pm: Anna Wolff, John Miller 8am: Thomas Case, Yvonne Farrell St Patrick's Parish Communion Ministers: Parish Office: St Patrick’s Primary School: 6pm: John Chapman, Kevin Bickhoff, Rod Devlin, 33 Yamala Street, PO Box 47 Principal: Mr Chris Ferguson Grainne Cullivan Ph: 49 821 066 41 Yamala Street 8am: Anthea Cullinane, Sharon McDonald, Simon Ph: 4982 2485, Fax: 4982 4229 McKinlay, Peter Agius, Bill Mahony E-mail: [email protected] Altar Servers: Bulletin E-mail: stpatsbulletin @gmail.com E-mail: [email protected] 6pm: Volunteers please Parish Administrator: Fr Raj Kodavatikanti St Brigid’s Primary School: 8am: Volunteers please M:0418 821066 Principal: Mr Mick Roach Children’s Liturgy: E-mail: [email protected] Gregory Highway South 6pm: No Liturgy School Holidays Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 3pm Ph: 4982 0411, Fax: 4982 0422 8am: No Liturgy School Holidays Parish Secretary: Mrs Francie Hartley and E-mail: [email protected] Holy Goods Shop: Mrs Cathy Chapman ph 4982 1066 Marist College Emerald: 6pm: Peg Layton Other Churches administered by Principal: Mr Mark Green 8am: Anthea Cullinane St Patricks: Jeppesen Drive Musicians: Gemfields Catholic Community, Ph: 4982 3400, Fax: 4982 3033 6pm: Jacinta, Edwind, Maria Ph: 4985 4154 - Mrs Ann Hatte E-mail: [email protected] 8am: Roslyn, Kev, Mila St Vincent de Paul: Ph: 4982 1726 Counters: Bernie Frawley, Anthony Iwuchukwu Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Springsure Ph: 0488 100322 - Mrs Maria Hoare Neighbourhood Centre: 17 Yamala St St Theresa’s Rolleston, Ph: 4982 1696 Fax: 4982 3710 Second Collection Ph: 4984 3192 - Mrs Pam Dallas E-mail: [email protected] Project Compassion Mary Immaculate Blackwater CentaCare: 141 Egerton Street Ph:4982 5362 - Srs Colleen and Carmel (across from Coles, behind high house) (Administered by Rockhampton Diocese) Ph: 4982 4358

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Please Especially Pray For Sick: Theo Cassimatis (Theo’s café), Alan Cozens, Cathy Dale, Lyn Polley, Valma Burridge, Remma Casquejo, Kayci, Ashley & Chase Kerkow, Jack Wakling, Jim Moriarty, Mary Hornery, Lawrence McNamee, Jessie Hallam, Louise Van Zanden, Alex Cannan, Jordon Cassidy, Margaret Daniels, Arogyamma (Mary) Kodavatikanti.

Deceased: Trevor Moloney, Audrey Congreive, Rodney Jarro, Albert Parsons.

Anniversaries: Jodie Hodgson, Lovasz Maria, Marcus Elisabeta, Coral Bennett, May Ryan, Fr Bruce Little, John Coughlan, Pauline McLaughlan, Malcolm Stevens, Daada Iwuchukwu, Dallan Golledge, Max Brown, Jim Quinlan, Ray Palm, Aaron Whelan, Bernie Smith, Vera Ross, Albert Witt, Alfred Daniels, Hugh Donelly, Jim Gallagher, James Gallagher, Mary Gallagher, Gerard Pearce Jnr, Jim Rowley Roberts, Joey Hughes, Marie Jensen, Joseph Schemlowski, Jim and Mary Brosnan, Peter Moore, Lou Petho, Sue Pascoe, Margaret Willis, Mary Sullivan. Please contact the parish office if you are aware of people or families within our community requiring our prayers and/or support. Stations of the Cross Pre-Easter Working Bee Lenten Program 2019 Saturday, 6 April Fr Raj and the Filipino community Church and Parish Grounds “Compassion” invite you to 7am to 10am Reflecting Sharing Walk the Stations of the Cross Please help us prepare our Church to be held at Marist College on Living the Good News Friday, 5th April commencing at for Easter celebrations. 5pm, concluding at 6.30pm Please bring gardening and cleaning tools. (Stations will begin at the school’s official carpark) Working bee followed For more information contact: Jun by morning tea. 0401 600978 or Alvin: 0402 484736

Invitation is extended for people to Lenten Groups will be held at the following present at Stations. places: Marist Messages: Monday evening - 25th March Ÿ There will be NO Stations = Our Year 7 students head to 7.00pm - 9.00pm of the Cross at the Church Carnarvon Gorge for their camp, and Rod/Elma Devlin: 6 Statesman Drive: Phone 0420 422 103 our Year 10 students head to work places throughout the Central Tuesday morning - 26th March Highlands and further afield for 9.30am -11.00am Mass Understandings Peggy Leyton: 17 Baker Street: Phone work experience next week. Mission Impossible? “The Lord Be with You” 4982 2370.

= Enrolments for Year 7 2020 open on Throughout salvation history, these sacred Monday 29 April. Monday morning words – ‘the Lord is with you” – are spoken = Please visit our website for more 9.00am - 11.00am when God calls people to difficult missions Young Women’s Lenton Group which stretch them well beyond their news; Esther McKinlay 0468 916769 or “comfort zones.” They are pushed to the www.maristcollegeemerald.com.au Anthea Cullinane 0404 484180 point that they can no longer rely on their or find us on Facebook. own talents, strengths, and abilities, and as All are most welcome to join us for the six a result, they begin to realize, at a more Best Wishes, Mark Green – Principal sessions or for as many as you are able to profound level, how much they really need attend. God. It is then that the Lord says He will give them the one thing they will need the most: His presence with them through their Fourth Sunday of Euthanasia Submissions many trials and sacrifices. Whenever we Lent The Parliamentary hear “the Lord be with you”, we should be reminded that we, too, are called to an Michaela is a 21-year-old trainee at Health, Communities, Disability important mission. We as Christians are Purple House, a dialysis center in the Services and Domestic and Family called to serve in God’s plan of salvation, to Central Desert for people suffering from Violence Prevention Committee (the bring the Gospel to the world around us. kidney disease. With the support of Whether it be desiring to bring Christian Caritas partners, Michaela is helping to Health Committee) has called for values into our workplace, parents trying to build a social enterprise, a connection submissions on aged care, end-of- raise Godly children, or married people to culture and a new outlook for the life and palliative care and voluntary striving to love their spouse with patient, chronically ill. forgiving, selfless love, we at times may feel assisted dying. Voluntary assisted Please donate to Project inadequate, overwhelmed, or not “gifted” dying, also known as euthanasia is Compassion 2019 and help provide enough to carry out our vocation as well as assisted-killing. essential health care, employment we would like. Throughout the Mass, we and training for First Australians like are reminded that we do not face the Cherish Life QLD encourages you to Michaela. challenges of our mission alone. We are send in a personal submission on reminded of the one thing that will help us Lives change when we all give 100%. this critical matter. Submissions are fulfil our vocation the most – the Lord is You can donate through Parish boxes and due by 15 April. Please visit https:// with us. envelopes, by visiting www.cherishlife.org.au/issues/ Paraphrased from ‘A Biblical Walk through the www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion or Mass” by Edward Sri phoning 1800 024 413. euthanasia-in-queensland for information on how to send yours. Every submission counts. St Vincent De Paul Emerald are Emergency Out of Hours Help/Relief currently looking for Volunteers. Out of hours help for persons in crisis

Contact: Jo Hellyer should you be able The Catholic Leader . April 2019 to assist. This week’s Catholic Leader now on sale at the PH: 07 4982 1726 Baptist Church 0455 374675 back of the church. $2.00 per copy. ST. PATRICK’S PARISH PAGE 4 This Weekend’s Prayers & Hymns PAGE 4 OPENING HYMN THE NICENE CREED TABLE OF PLENTY I believe in one God, Dan Schutte As One Voice Vol 2:20 the Father almighty, Chorus: maker of heaven and earth, Come to the feast of heaven and earth! of all things visible and invisible. Come to the table of plenty! SCHOOL CHAPLAIN I believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, God will provide for all that we need, SU Qld, a Christian inter-denominational the Only Begotten Son of God, here at the table of plenty. born of the Father before all ages. youth and children’s organisation, invites God from God, Light from Light, applications for the position of Chaplain at O come and sit at my table true God from true God, the following schools. Applicants may where saints and sinners are friends. have the option of working across more begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; I wait to welcome the lost and lonely through him all things were made. than one school. to share the cup of my love. For us men and for our salvation OUTBACK QLD Region he came down from heaven, ¾Emerald State High School ( and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate from the Virgin O come and eat without money; additional Chaplain 2 days a week ) come and drink without price. Mary, and became man. Applicants need to demonstrate their My feast of gladness will feed your spirit with faith and fullness of life. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, suitability to provide support and care to young people. Successful applicants may he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day have the opportunity to work in more than My bread will ever sustain you one school. through days of sorrow and woe. in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven Training and experience in youth work or My wine will flow like a sea of gladness and is seated at the right hand of the Father. pastoral care required, as well as a to flood the depths of your soul. He will come again in glory Working with Children Check (Blue Card). Copyright (c) 1992 OCP. All rights reserved. One License online. Used with permission. Licence No. 622478. to judge the living and the dead For more information, please contact: and his kingdom will have no end. Outback Qld Field Development PENITENTIAL RITE: I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, Manager I confess to Almighty God and to you, my who proceeds from the Father and the Son, brothers and sisters, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, Scott Radford that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and who has spoken through the prophets. [email protected] in my words, I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. For the role description and to apply, head in what I have done and in what I have failed I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins to: to do, and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead http://www.suqld.org.au/morehands through my fault, through my fault, and the life of the world to come. Amen through my most grievous fault; A Time to Celebrate and therefore I ask blessed Mary, ever– Virgin, I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS Traditional English Melody. AOV Vol 1:54 all the Angels and Saints, I heard the voice of Jesus say, Give Thanks and you, my brothers and sisters, ‘Come unto me and rest; to pray for me to the Lord our God. lay down, thou weary one,

lay down thy head upon my breast’. WELCOME THE WORD OF GOD I come to Jesus as I was, Speak, Lord Gary Ault weary and worn and sad; Speak Lord I’m listening I found in him a resting place, Plant your Word down deep in me and he has made me glad. Speak Lord I’m listening As the Marist Fathers Farewell Please show me the way I heard the voice of Jesus say, Copyright (c) 1970 GIA Productions. All rights reserved. One License online. ‘Behold, I freely give the living water; Gladstone Used with permission. Licence No. 622478 thirsty one, stoop down, and drink, and live’. The Marist Fathers have continually RESPONSORIAL PSALM Frank Andersen I came to Jesus, served the parish of Gladstone for 118 Rising Moon Page 65 and I drank of that life giving stream; years. I will walk in the presence of God my thirst was quenched, my soul revived, I will walk with you! and now I live in him. Please join us as we show our I will walk in the presence of God appreciation. I heard the voice of Jesus say, in the land of the living! Ž‡ƒ•‡•ƒ˜‡–Š‡•‡†ƒ–‡•Ǥ Copyright (c) 1985 Rising Moon, Scripture in Song. All rights reserved. One ‘I am this dark world’s light;  License online. Used with permission. Licence No. 622478 look unto me, thy morn shall rise, 23rd November 2019

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Please take one home and join Music Meeting Stations of the Cross with all our Parish in praying Sunday 31st March Friday 12th April for one another. 10am - Church Prayer Calendar is available on All Welcome 5.30pm - Church the back table.