77 Carbine Street, Donvale Vic 3111 Telephone: 9841 8354 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.ourladyofthepineschurch.org Parish Office Hours: Mon, Wed and Friday; 8.45am to 4pm Parish Priest: Fr Jerald Cecil Mariadas. Tel: 0452 567 623 Assistant Priest: Fr Peter Thanh Van Tran . Tel 0402 651 979 The Parish of Our Lady of the Pines deeply respects the Pastoral Associate: Mr. John Lazzari Wurundjeri people as the original custodians of this land Our Lady of the Pines Parish Ascension of the Lord – Year B 16th and 17th of May 2015 CENTERING PRAYER MEDITATION SAVE THE DATE Conducted weekly by Sr Loretta on Fridays, Hot August Night 10am to 11am in Our Lady’s Chapel, St Pius X Saturday 22nd August Parish, Heidelberg West. At Beau Monde International - Live band and All Welcome! Any further information contact Dinner Get your friends together for a fun night. Sr Loretta 9455-1030. Limited tickets Lyn Sowersby 0417035824, Old and Obsolete Spectacles Clare Davis 0409932597 Pentecost Sunday Do you have any old and obsolete spectacles Next Sunday the 23rd and 24th of May is Pentecost lying around the house, just getting in your Sunday. On the 24th of May, we will be having a way? Why not put them to good use. special mass to say Thank You to our Ministers to Marlene Delzoppo, on behalf of Diane and the Sick and Elderly. We invite all ministers to Wayne Lucas from Dwayn’s Jewellers would attend this Mass. like to collect this. Diane and Wayne travel annually to Pasinan in VALE – Fr Vincent Noel East Java and they take with them Rice and Kierce, O.Carm any old spectacles which they help fit to any 21 Oct 1935 – 8 May 2015 villagers who needs them. With a sense of great sadness If you have any old spectacles that are surplus and disbelief Whitefriars to requirements, please bring them in next College would like to inform weekend, there will be a box in the foyer to help our Community that Fr Noel Kierce died on Friday 8 May. facilitate this. Fr Noel passed away Thank You. peacefully in his sleep. The College Community Chaplaincy Appeal expresses our deep sympathy to Fr Noel’s family and to the This weekend is the Archdiocese of Carmelite Community. Fr Noel Melbourne’s Chaplaincy Appeal. The presence has been a devoted of Catholic Chaplains provides hope and comfort for those in hospitals, those in prisons, servant to the Carmelites and their ministries for over sixty on long bouts of time at sea, and those who are years . away from the Church. There was a mass of Thanksgiving on the 13th of May at The presence of Catholic Chaplains is also a 7.30pm at Whiterfriars A guard of honour was held at the college On Thursday the crucial witness to our faith, a crucial dimension 14th of May at 9.00am when Fr Noel was driven through the of our service of love and a vital testimony to college grounds for the last time. the value of live in all its stages. Fr Noel’s funeral was held on Friday the 15th of May at Our If you are able to support this appeal in any Lady of Mount Carmel Middle Park. way, there are envelopes available on yours Fr Noel was a true inspiration to many. seats or in the foyer. May he now rest in peace.

SUPPORTING MINISTRIES SYNOD on the Family Baptisms: In October, 2015, the will be holding a Second Sunday of the month at 12.00pm Synod on the Family in Rome. will be and Fourth Sunday of the month at represented at the Synod by Archbishop Coleridge 10.00(during Mass) (Sacrament of Baptism) and Bishop Hurley. At our recent OLOP AGM, it was Please contact Trish Keley – 9841 5890- discussed that this was an excellent opportunity to email:[email protected] provide our Australian representatives with a response Weddings: as to how we, as grassroots Catholics, view such By appointment only, matters such as The status of “family” in the Catholic Please contact the Parish Office. Church, the marginalised in our Catholic community, Funerals: the capability of clergy to deal with the issues of Please contact the Parish Office. For bereavement support, “family”, our Catholic goals for family and the please contact relationship between the Catholic Church and those Glenda Haswell on 9841 7765 marginalised, and the effect. or Emmy Oakley on 9841 5651 or There are copies of the survey available for those who Parish Office on 9841 8354 would like to be involved in the foyer. Please return Sacraments 2015 these to the Parish Office as soon as you can. Enquiries can be made to the parish office at the beginning of term one 2015. Dr Sr Mary Glowrey R.C.I.A: The Parish of St Gregory the Great, Doncaster will be Enquiries regarding becoming a Catholic hosting a speakers’ evening on the life of Dr Sr. Mary please contact Fr Jerald or Mary Ann Glowrey whose cause for canonisation has been Payne on 9842 6474 opened. She may become the second from Australia. Mary Glowrey graduated from medicine at Melbourne University. She was the first woman appointed as a doctor at St. Vincent’s Hospital. She founded the Catholic Women’s League in Australia and Catholic Health in India. The evening on Tuesday 26th May 2015 will commence with a light supper of pizza and drinks at 7.00pm with an opportunity for questions after the presentation. To assist with catering, please contact the Parish Office by Friday 22 May—telephone 98482395 or email [email protected].

Our Lady of the Pines Playgroup Thursdays at 9.30am to 11.30am in The Meeting Place. Everyone is Welcome: BABIES, TODDLERS, PRE-SCHOOLERS, PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, CARERS.

Pop in and check us out or phone the Parish Office on 9841 8354

Painting - Play dough – craft – stories- Our Lady of the Pines sing a longs. Church We pray for Better Health: Anniversaries: Rose Ling Phillip Lazaroo, Anthony Borg and Gwennie Bartlett Recent Deaths: Fr Vincent Noel Kierce

Evangelii Gaudium

“Among the vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children, the most defenceless and innocent among us. Nowadays efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this. Frequently, as a way of ridiculing the Church’s effort to defend their lives, attempts are made to present her position as ideological, obscurantist and conservative. Yet this defence of unborn life is closely linked to the defence of each and every other human right. It involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development.”

- Par 213 from Evangelii Gaudium, Francis, Nov. 24, 2013

MASS FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS Sunday 31 May, 11am St Patrick’s Cathedral, 1 Cathedral Pl, East Melbourne The Life, Marriage & Family Office warmly invite all expectant mothers and their families to the Mass for Expectant Mothers to be celebrated by Archbishop Denis Hart. Expectant mothers who register will receive a small token of recognition. RSVP: Friday 22 May Registrations: www.cam.org.au/lifemarriagefamily or [email protected] Details: 9287 5587

ST VINCENT DE PAUL CONFERENCE PRESTON 100 YEARS In July this year, the St Vincent de Paul Preston Conference will celebrate the Centenary of its founding in Preston. Founding members met for the first time at the corner of Wood Street and Plenty Road, which is today the location of the Preston Vinnies shop. Conference members are keen to make contact with past members, shop volunteers and their descendants to attend a Celebration Mass. Details: Pauline on 9484 2445 (evenings preferably) or email [email protected]

Rosters for Next Weekend Year B- Pentecost Sunday rd th 23 and 24 of May 2015 24th May 2015

HOSPITALITY TEAMS GOSPEL Lawlor, Perreau and Sharon Ng John 15:26-27; 16:12-15 READERS Jesus said to his disciples: "When the Advocate comes, Sat 6.00pm Rita Latimour and whom I shall send to you from the Father, he will be my Natalie Van Der Sluys witness. And you too will be witnesses, because you have Sun 10.00am Alex Alexander and Trish Gurney been with me from the outset. I still have many things to say to you but they would be too much for you now. But ALTAR SERVERS when the Spirit of truth comes he will lead you to the Sat 6.00pm Connor Watts complete truth, since he will not be speaking as from Sun 10.00am Alicia Borg and Ashley Webb himself but will say only what he has learnt; and he will CHILDREN’S LITURGY tell you of the things to come. He will glorify me, since all Sun 10.00am Sarah Keley and Julie Hoskin he tells you will be taken from what is mine. Everything the Father has is mine; that is why I said: All he tells you MASS DRIVERS Barbara Johnson will be taken from what is mine." PROJECTOR OPERATORS  Are there people to whom you still have "many things Sat 6.00pm Kelsey Beckford to say"? Is it important that such things are said? Sun 10.00am Josh K and Julian P  In what ways have you been led to the complete truth? COUNTERS Pat Goodwin, Martin Pirotta, Mark  How do you experience the Spirit present in your life? Keating and Godwin Bonavia  DI D YOU KNOW? LIBRARY • The disciples were in Jerusalem on the day of Sat : Rita Latimour Pentecost to celebrate the Jewish Harvest Sun : Corrine Ng Festival, which occurs 50 days after the Passover. This festival also celebrated the covenant made by God with the people of Israel on Mt Sinai. • The Christian feast of Pentecost is 50 days after Easter Sunday and marks the culmination and PARISH PRIEST closure of the Lent-Easter-Pentecost cycle. Fr Jerald Cecil- 0452567623 • The word for spirit in Hebrew is the feminine [email protected] 'ruah', meaning literally breath, wind or air.

Assistant Priest PRAYE R AT HOME Fr Peter Thanh Tran- 0402 651 979 Today's Gospel acclamation makes a wonderful prayer [email protected] for this week: Come Holy Spirit. Fill the hearts of your CHAIR OF PARISH SERVERS faithful; And kindle in them the fire of your love. Peter Given: 9841 8354 Email: [email protected] SYMBOLS AN D IMAG ES SCHOOL PRINCIPAL Red is the colour often associated with the Spirit. Red vestments are worn at Pentecost and red is often Peter Waldron 9842 2991 associated with Confirmation. Red symbolises the intense PASTORAL ASSOCIATE love or 'fire' of the Holy Spirit. Other symbols of the Spirit John Lazzari 0418 565 493 are tongues of flame, wind and a white dove. Each of Email: [email protected] these conveys something of the mystery of the Spirit of PARISH ADMINISTRATION God, which is beyond human understanding. Liza Jansz 9841 8354 Mon, Wed and Fri 8.45a.m.-4.00pm MAKI NG CONNECTIONS The Spirit is bestowed at Baptism and 'confirmed' for us. Galatians 5:22 lists the fruits of the Spirit as love, joy, MASS TIMES: peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, Saturday 6.00 pm (Vigil) gentleness and self-control. Try to live these fruits this Sunday 10.00 am week. Weekdays 12.15 pm Wed 9.00 am Thurs–Sat Extract from “The Summit” Journal of the Liturgical RECONCILIATION: Commission of Melbourne – Volume 37 Number 4 Saturday 10.00am - 11.00am or Appointment