Catholic Communities of: St Matthew’s Bridgewater Our Lady of the Rosary, Stirling East St Joseph’s Lobethal St Matthew’s Birdwood

ASCENSION OF THE LORD — YEAR B 12TH/13TH MAY, 2018

ADELAIDE HILLS PARISH THY KINGDOM COME God’s Word should stir up a discomfit and restlessness in us, because it shares a Parish House vision that is far from fulfilled in our world. As we listen to the scriptures pro- 1 Wembley Avenue (P O Box 718) claimed to us each week, we hear a vision in which: all people are treated equally; BRIDGEWATER S A 5155 the forgotten and outsiders are welcomed and valued; respect is shown the least; Telephone (08) 8339 1608 women are considered equals; love and comfort is given to the castoffs and exiles Email: [email protected] and we hear a voice speaking on behalf of the voiceless. Jesus’ proclaims a reign Website: adelaidehillsparish.com.au that reflects God’s vision for us. When we gather we pray, "Thy kingdom come." In other words, "Let it be here as you want it to be." And, "Let us be part of ful- Parish Priest filling your vision." Fr Alfred (Fred) Farrugia Jesus prays today: "I have given them your word." It is not just so we can "get to email: [email protected] heaven" in the next life, but the word he gives us is for now, in this life. It is a word of strength and comfort, if we need it. It is also a word of discomfort, to open our eyes to what is not yet in our world and needs our attention. Pastoral Coordinator Jesus prays to his Father about us: "I gave them your word and the world hated Renee Johnston them, because they do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the email: [email protected] world." Why, what’s wrong with the world? Isn’t it a lovely place, created by God that reflects the care and love of the Creator? Parish Secretary That’s not the world Jesus is speaking about. The "world" in St. John’s gospel has Therese Franco special meaning. He is not speaking of the people God has created, nor the natural email: world God declared "good" in Genesis. Jesus has a specific "world" in mind: it is [email protected] the world that rejects Jesus’ values; those who oppress, torture, ignore the poor, take advantage of the frail, violate innocence and deprive people of their rights. St Catherine’s Catholic School: In other words, it is the world that crushed Jesus and attempted to wipe out his Principal: Jason Mittiga message. Telephone: (08) 8339 2222 That’s the world Jesus was leaving his disciples in. It is where we have to live his www.stcaths.catholic.edu.au truth, that strives to overcome us and what we believe. It has great power and is determined to harm us. On our own, we don’t stand a chance. But we are not on Child Safe Contact Person our own, he has prayed for us and has given us his Spirit, to fire us up and enable us to face the world that rejects him. Therese Hudson Jesus also gives us his presence in the Word proclaimed and his body and blood, email: at this celebration, to comfort and strengthen us for the task he has commis- [email protected] sioned us. Telephone (08) 8301 6629

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The Adelaide Hills Catholic Parish serves the communities of St Joseph’s Lobethal St Matthew’s Bridgewater, Our Lady of the Rosary Stirling East, 8.30 am: 2nd & 4th Sundays of the month St Matthew’s Birdwood, St Joseph’s Lobethal and St Catherine’s Catholic School. St Matthew’s Bridgewater Our parish lives the Gospel through a strong and 6pm Saturday Evenings 10.30 am Sunday enduring faith. We strive to be a vibrant community that welcomes all, celebrates diversity, Our Lady of the Rosary East Stirling reaches out to those in need and cares for God’s 5.30 pm Sunday creation.

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For those recovering from surgery, illness and the sick NORTHERN END BIRDWOOD LOBETHAL Anna Versteeg, Margaret Conlon, Shirley Forster, Mitch- Sunday 20th May Sunday 27th May ell Vears, Karl Reiters, , Felicetta Wells, Elwyn Muldoon, 8.30am 8.30am Ken Oliver, Francis McEvoy, Susie Runnegar, John Whelan. Bill & Helen Cramond, Maureen O’Donnell, Welcoming Frances Marshall, Natalie Homann, Brendan Roberts, Children’s Liturgy Werner Wermuth, Dante Scorpecci (02), Noah Baker, Readers Michael Guthrie Margaret Smitherman Carmen Sylvester Sue Streich Ian Crossing May Anniversaries: Daphne Penglase, Merle Hicks, Phyllis Special Minister Eileen 0’Dea Roz Crossing Richards, Brenden McCarthy, Jim Welsh, William Feijen, Kaye McCarthy Meg Crossing Gene Dearman, Jerry Soper, Susan Doddridge, Petr Begg, Cleaning P Morley/B Davis Connie Golding Colin James Flynn, Carol Taus, Gordon Surguy, Jack Mun- dy, Alan Smee, Christine Mundy, Sheelah Sareein, Kings- ley Moyle, Josephine Anne Fisher, Mary Vicora Taylor, BRIDGEWATER Saturday 19 May Sunday 20th May Anton Myer, Paul Hassett, Anton Van Der Brink, Andrew 6.00pm 10.30am Mules, Angelo Scamoni, Anya Siebert, Graham Conlon, Sacristans Kathy Lloyd Gina Kelly Austin Healey, Thelma Jenner, Doris Ross, Pam Thompson, Welcome Rosalie Jenner Krystyna Rowland Recently deceased: Sr. Carmel Slattey, Zenon Sobecki, Introduction Karen Dutton Paul Robinson Shirley Harrisoin. Reader 1 Marcia Phillips Mandy Murfitt UPCOMING PARISH ACTIVITIES Reader 2 Mary Homann Sam Sachse Music Damien Mansfield Folk Group Special Ministers Barbara Sutton Ann Tulloch MAY Anne Teteris Les Tulloch Sunday 13th Ascension and Mother’s Day Rosalie Jener Phil Schultz Tuesday 15th OLOR Community Meeting Wednesday 16th Parish Pastoral Council Karen Dutton Thursday 17th Bridgewater Community meeting Christine Farrugia Sunday 20th Pentecost Sunday 27th Holy Trinity/Family Mass Children’s Liturgy TBC Tuesday 29th Liturgy Group meeting Tea and Coffee Serena Pike

Our Lady Marcia Phillips Cleaning Pam Broadbridge/Jo Burton MASS TIMES DURING THE WEEK Flowers Gloria Howe Counting Alan Miller/Bill Robertson Hutt Street Monday Mass - Bridgewater 8.00am MEN’S BREAKFAST Tuesday Liturgy—St Catherine’s 9.15am The next Men’s Breakfast meeting is Wednesday Mass - Birdwood 9.00am scheduled for Saturday 23rd June 2018 at Thursday Mass - Bridgewater 8.00am the Tree House, St Catherine’s Catholic School, Stirling. Speaker: Tom Kenyon, Friday Mass - Bridgewater 11.00am Former Member of the South Australian Saturday Reconciliation (Parish House) 12.00 –12.30pm Parliament. Topic: “Politics and Christianity – How Can They Coexist?” Start Time: 7.30am for an 8am start and finish by 9am approximately. Cost: $10 per adult and accompanying IMPORTANT NOTICES sons – no charge. For further details speak to Dan DeFazio: Mobile: 0418 838 057 Email: [email protected] or SPECIAL COLLECTION -BIRTHING KITS Paul Somers: Mobile: 0421 527 363 Email: paul- Around 300,000 women and 3 million new- [email protected] borns die each year from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Most of ST VINCENT DE PAUL these deaths occur in developing countries. The next Stirling Conference Meeting will th To help address this, we provide an opportunity on Moth- be held next Tuesday 15 May, 2018 at er’s Day to be generous to this good cause by helping to 7pm, at Sue Arthursons Home, 17 Rudd Pa- distribute Birthing Kits to vulnerable women to help enable rade, BRIDGEWATER. Interested parish- a clean and safer birthing environment. ioners always welcome. Leonie Holmes HAPPY MOTHER”S DAY guidance of Timi and Michelle Chua were joined by oth- Happy Mother's Day! To all mothers, grand- er Philippino communities from Murray Bridge and Ade- mothers, godmothers, and any women who laide who organised the catering especially the roast embody motherly attributes, thank you for pig donated by Ed and Nasi Ablig. Thanks to Greg and who you are and all you do for us. You make Connie Golding who donated the wine and the Lobethal the world a joyful, loving place. To all the female pa- community for helping in the decoration of the church rishioners who are like mothers to me because of the and the catering. hugs, smiles, affirmation, meals you drop off, and so much more, thank you. I love you and I wouldn't be the MEETINGS THIS WEEK man and priest I am without your love and influence in OLOR COMMUNITY MEETING on Tuesday th my life. To the four females on my staff who are like 15 May at the OLOR church at 7.00p.m. up- mothers to me, thank you. I'm sure you want to strangle date of the final expenditure of the OLOR me at times, like a son, but I love you. Fr Fred restoration project. All welcomed. PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL on Wednes- th LEONARD FAULKNER RIP day 16 May at St Catherine’s Catholic School at Stir- Retired Adelaide Archbishop Leonard ling at 7.00pm. Agenda Year of the youth, nomination Faulkner is being remembered as a man of of Deputy Chairperson, new hall at Bridgewater and the Sacristans Kathy Lloyd Gina Kelly the people – a South Australian country new Social Group. Welcome Rosalie Jenner Krystyna Rowland boy who could dine with the Queen and BRIDGEWATER COMMUNITY MEETING on Thursday Introduction Karen Dutton Paul Robinson th fight for the most marginalized – after 17 May at the Parish Meeting room at 7.00p.m. Reader 1 Marcia Phillips Mandy Murfitt passing away aged 91 last Monday. Emeri- Reader 2 Mary Homann Sam Sachse tus Archbishop Faulkner served as Adelaide’s seventh THE BRIDGE Music Damien Mansfield Folk Group Catholic Archbishop for 16 years from June 1985 to Please take a copy of the latest edition Special Ministers Barbara Sutton Ann Tulloch 2001. In that time he was the first in of The Bridge from the back of the Anne Teteris Les Tulloch to give lay women a governing role in the church, and church. Interesting to read the article Rosalie Jener Phil Schultz established a Diocesan AIDS Council. He was passion- by Fr Fred about what does it mean to be Karen Dutton ately involved in supporting migrants and refugees, as a parishioner and also the restoration of the OLOR and Christine Farrugia well as Aboriginal communities within the Catholic renovations at St Joseph’s Church Lobethal. Church and beyond. “He listened and never judged,” SA Children’s Liturgy TBC Council of Churches ecumenical facilitator Geraldine PENTECOST Tea and Coffee Serena Pike Hawkes said. “He felt the grief of any who were margin- Next Sunday we remember, we celebrate, Our Lady Marcia Phillips alized.” Archbishop said “We grieve his we believe in the presence of the Holy Cleaning Pam Broadbridge/Jo Burton death deeply, but we also give thanks for his life and his Spirit within us and among us on this feast Flowers Gloria Howe outstanding service to the gospel and to all whom he of Pentecost. Pentecost is a time to re- th member what God has done, to celebrate Counting Alan Miller/Bill Robertson led,” The funeral will be held on Mon 14 May at what God is doing and to affirm our belief that, “The Hutt Street 11am. in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral before his burial at West Tce Cemetery at 2pm. Spirit’s power working in us can do more than we can hope for or imagine.” Ephesians 3:20. During the week- THANK YOU FROM STIRLING CWL BRANCH: end masses we will celebrate, thank and renew our min- Thank you to everyone involved in making the istries within our parish centres. CWL Stirling Annual Ecumenical Luncheon a success. The CWL Mothers’ Day Raffle was MARIAN PROCESSION drawn “AND the Winner is Barb Evans” and This weekend is your last chance to indicate the raffle raised $370, and the Trading Table was well if you would like to attend the Marian pro- supported raising $270. The Guest Speaker, Linda Mat- cession. Please put your name at the back of thews from Catherine House was informative and appre- the church. ciative of all the gifts/donations from guests to be tak- en back to the ladies at this wonderful caring place. Great day enjoyed by everyone. Weekly Income 6th May 2018

First Collection: $712.50 FEAST OF ST JOSEPH THE WORKER Planned Giving Pledge: $2245.00 It was really a wonderful Planned Giving Received: $2093.00 Loose Plate: $341.85 experience last Sunday If you would like to donate to the Thanksgiving program by Direct when we celebrated the Debit use the parish bank account details: feast of St Joseph the BSB: 085 005 Account 489502427 Worker at Lobethal. Account Name CCES ADEL HILLS The Lobethal Phillipino Refer payment as “donation” community under the ASCENSION OF THE LORD Spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called. There is one Lord, one faith, A reading from the Acts of the Apostles one baptism, and one God who is Father of all, over all, In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything through all and within all. Each one of us, however, has Jesus had done and taught from the beginning until the been given his own share of grace, given as Christ allot- day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had cho- ted it. It was said that he would: When he ascended to sen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heav- the height, he captured prisoners, he gave gifts to men. en. He had shown himself alive to them after his Passion When it says, 'he ascended', what can it mean if not by many demonstrations: for forty days he had contin- that he descended right down to the lower regions of ued to appear to them and tell them about the kingdom the earth? The one who rose higher than all the heavens of God. When he had been at table with them, he had to fill all things is none other than the one who descend- told them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for ed. And to some, his gift was that they should be apos- what the Father had promised. 'It is' he had said 'what tles; to some, prophets; to some, evangelists; to some, you have heard me speak about: John baptised with wa- pastors and teachers; so that the saints together make ter but you, not many days from now, will be baptised a unity in the work of service, building up the body of with the Holy Spirit. 'Now having met together, they Christ. In this way we are all to come to unity in our asked him, 'Lord, has the time come? Are you going to faith and in our knowledge of the Son of God, until we restore the kingdom to Israel?' He replied, 'It is not become the perfect Man, fully mature with the fullness for you to know times or dates that the Father has de- of Christ himself. cided by his own authority, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and then you will be The word of the Lord. my witnesses not only in Jerusalem but throughout Ju- Thanks be to God. daea and Samaria, and indeed to the ends of the earth.' As he said this he was lifted up while they looked on, Alleluia, Alleluia and a cloud took him from their sight. They were still Go and teach all people my gospel. staring into the sky when suddenly two men in white I am with you always, until the end of the world. were standing near them and they said, 'Why are you Alleluia! men from Galilee standing here looking into the sky? A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, this same Jesus will come back in the same way as you have Jesus showed himself to the Eleven, and said to them, seen him go there.' 'Go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News to all creation. He who believes and is baptised will be saved; he The word of the Lord. who does not believe will be condemned. These are the Thanks be to God. signs that will be associated with believers: in my name they will cast out devils; they will have the gift of Responsorial Psalm tongues; they will pick up snakes in their hands, and be God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: unharmed should they drink deadly poison; they will lay a blare of trumpets for the Lord. R their hands on the sick, who will recover.' And so the Lord All peoples, clap your hands, Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven: there at the right hand of God he took his place, cry to God with shouts of joy! while they, going out, preached everywhere, the Lord For the Lord, the Most High, we must fear, working with them and confirming the word by the signs great king over all the earth. R that accompanied it. God goes up with shouts of joy; the Lord goes up with trumpet blast. The Gospel of the Lord. Sing praise for God, sing praise, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. sing praise to our king, sing praise. R God is king of all the earth. Sing praise with all your skill. God is king over the nations; God reigns on his holy throne. R

A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Ephesians Next Week’s Readings: Pentecost I, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you to lead a life worthy of your vocation. Bear with one another charita- 1st Reading Acts 2:1-11 bly, in complete selflessness, gentleness and patience. 2nd Reading Galatians:5:16-25 Do all you can to preserve the unity of the Spirit by the Gospel John 15:26-27, 16:12-15 peace that binds you together. There is one Body, one