Reflection St Brendan’S Catholic Church We Know That We Will All Have to Face Some - 34 Collins Street, Annandale
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Fourth Sunday of Lent, Year A We come together to hear the story that God loves us with a love that surpasses all understanding; to break the bread of the Eucharist, so that we might be broken as Bread in service to others; that through our belief in Jesus, we may joyfully go forth knowing that our lives have purpose and that we will live forever. SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Year B 14 February , 2021 Reflection St Brendan’s Catholic Church We know that we will all have to face some - 34 Collins Street, Annandale kind of suffering, and so we try to prepare St Michael’s Catholic Church ourselves for it. Yet when it comes, as - 69 Clarendon Road, Stanmore prepared as we try to be, it can overtake us Postal Address: with such fury that we fall back defenceless. 34 Collins Street, We look to others for support and Annandale 2038 assistance, and if we are fortunate, we find Parish Office Hours it. However, even in the most supportive of Tuesday, Thursday and Friday communities, suffering tends to alienate us 8:30am to 3.00pm from those who are healthy and secure. Suffering reminds us of our own finitude and the contingent nature of all of life. It threatens our sense of order. Email: [email protected] Jesus is not deterred by human suffering. He welcomes all who approach him; Website: his healing touch reincorporates those who have been ostracised; his loving www.stbrendan.org.au embrace reassociates those who have been alienated. In the reign of God, there are no outsiders. All belong to Jesus, and, therefore, all belong to each other. When the one afflicted is embraced by the community, the community is an authentic manifestation of the inclusive reign of God. St Michael’s School In suffering we witness human vulnerability and our desperate need of each Principal: Mrs Allison Travers other and of God. There, at the edge of life and on the fringes of the Telephone: 9569 7479 community, we may experience the tenderness and compassion of God. The Mass Times This Week loving touch of Christ that can heal our souls, if not our bodies. It is there that St Brendan’s: we may most authentically participate in the cross of Christ. Joined to him we Wednesday - 9.10am are anything but unproductive or worthless. Thursday - 9.10am © Dianne Bergant CSA Friday - 9.10am Sunday - 9.30am Loving God, at times we each in our differing ways feel as though we are outcasts – St Michael: alienated from you and each other. When that darkness comes upon us, send us your Spirit Saturday - 5.30pm to help us turn to Jesus. He knows our pain and isolation. May his love touch and heal us. We ask this in his name confident that you will hear us. Baptism Bookings Baptisms will be held only at St Brendan’s till further notice every third Sunday of the month at 11.00am. Please contact the parish for all Baptism enquiries. Project Compassion Sunday 14 February Marriage Please take home a Project Compassion box and/or a set of By appointment only. donation envelopes and support Caritas Australia this Six months notice required. Lenten season themed “Be More”. Rosary: The Rosary is recited at St As Saint Oscar Romero said, “Aspire not to have more, but Brendan’s on the last Sunday of the to be more.” month. Through your generosity and by aspiring to “Be More”, you PLEASE NOTE: An extended are assisting some of the world’s most vulnerable people version of the bulletin can be build better futures for themselves, their families and their found on the parish website. communities. Thank you for being more! You can donate through Parish boxes and envelopes, or by visiting www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion or phoning 1800 024 413. SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Year B 14 February, 2021 Entrance Antiphon Gospel: Mk 1:40-45 Be my protector, O God, a mighty stronghold to save me. A reading from the holy Gospel ac- For you are my rock, my stronghold! cording to Mark Lead me, guide me, for the sake of your name. The leprosy left him and he was cured. First Reading: Lv 13:1-2. 44-46 A leper came to Jesus and pleaded on A reading from the book of Leviticus his knees: ‘If you want to’ he said ‘you As long as he is unclean, he must live alone, outside can cure me.’ Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his the camp. hand and touched him. ‘Of course I want to!’ he said. ‘Be The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘If a swelling or scab or cured!’ And the leprosy left him at once and he was cured. shiny spot appears on a man’s skin, a case of leprosy of Jesus immediately sent him away and sternly ordered him, the skin is to be suspected. The man must be taken to ‘Mind you say nothing to anyone, but go and show Aaron, the priest, or to one of the priests who are his sons. yourself to the priest, and make the offering for your ‘The man is leprous: he is unclean. The priest must declare healing prescribed by Moses as evidence of your him unclean; he is suffering from leprosy of the head. A recovery.’ The man went away, but then started talking man infected with leprosy must wear his clothing torn and about it freely and telling the story everywhere, so that his hair disordered; he must shield his upper lip and cry, Jesus could no longer go openly into any town, but had to “Unclean, unclean”. As long as the disease lasts he must stay outside in places where nobody lived. Even so, people be unclean; and therefore he must live apart; he must live from all around would come to him. outside the camp.’ Communion Antiphon Responsorial Psalm: Ps 31:1-2. 5. 11. R. v.7 God so loved the world that he gave his Only Begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. (R.) I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation. © The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. Happy the man whose offence is forgiven, whose sin is The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and Gospel Verses, remitted. O happy the man to whom the Lord imputes no and the Lenten Gospel Acclamations, and the Titles, Summaries, and Conclusion guilt, in whose spirit is no guile. (R.) of the Readings, from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. The prayers are from the English Translation of the Roman Missal © 2010 But now I have acknowledged my sins; my guilt I did not International Committee on English in the Liturgy Inc. (ICEL). All rights hide. I said: ‘I will confess my offence to the Lord.’ And reserved. you, Lord, have forgiven the guilt of my sin. (R.) ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION Rejoice, rejoice in the Lord, exult, you just! O come, ring If you're watching Mass online or on TV, you can say this out your joy, all you upright of heart. (R.) prayer at the time of Communion. My Jesus, I believe that you are present in Second Reading: 1 Cor 10:31 – 11:1 the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians all things and I desire you in my soul. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Since I cannot now receive You Whatever you eat, whatever you drink, whatever you do sacramentally, come at least spiritually at all, do it for the glory of God. Never do anything into my heart. I embrace You as though offensive to anyone – to Jews or Greeks or to the Church You were already there, and unite myself of God; just as I try to be helpful to everyone at all times, wholly to You. Never permit that I should not anxious for my own advantage but for the advantage ever be separated from You. Amen. of everybody else, so that they may be saved. Take me for your model, as I take Christ. PLEASE NOTE: From this Friday, February 12, an unlimited number of people can attend Mass, provided that theone Gospel Acclamation person per 2m2 rule is observed. Now that the 2m2 rule Alleluia, alleluia! has been reinstated, Archbishop Anthony has lifted the A great prophet has appeared among us; dispensation from our Sunday Mass obligation. The God has visited his people. Catholic faithful are once again obliged to attend Mass on Alleluia! Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation when this is reasonably possible. If restrictions are once again A gesture of tenderness, a gesture of compassion tightened, and attendance at places of worship limited to one person per 4m2, the dispensation will once again be …. Let us ask you: when you help others, do you look in place. Those who are of great age, have health them in the eye? Do you embrace them without being conditions or are otherwise anxious about the risks of afraid to touch them? Do you embrace them with tender- COVID-19 are free to remain at home and find another ness? Think about this: how do you help? From a distance way of keeping the Sabbath holy .