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Our Lady of Lourdes Children's Corner Our Lady of Lourdes Children’s Corner The Second Sunday of Advent - Preparing the Way—Mark 1:1-8 Parish Priest: Fr Henry Huu Duc Tran Office Hours: Monday-Friday: 9am - 3.00pm Pastoral Care of the Sick: Bathista Emmanuel 0405833655 Telephone: 9622 2920 Parish Office Team: Mrs Erika Hien, Alison Issanchon Parish Website: www.olol7hills.com.au Kim Dang, Sarah Lenthall Parish School: Our Lady of Lourdes 8869 6800 Parish Office Email: [email protected] Principal: Ms Keiran Byrnes Sacrament Co-Ordinator: Mrs Artelle Lenthall Parish Church: 7 Grantham Rd, Seven Hills 2147 WEEKDAY MASS Tuesday-Friday 8.00am RECONCILIATION Saturday 4.30-5.30pm WEEKEND MASS Saturday Vigil 6pm BAPTISMAL PREPARATION 20th January 2021 7.30pm All are welcome to join us for Our Lady of Lourdes, Seven Hills, Sydney, NSW, Australia Facebook LIVE-STREAM WEEK- END MASSES celebrated by Fr. Henry Huu Duc Tran on Saturdays 6PM (Vigil), Sundays: 8AM, 9:30AM and 5PM (Vietnamese) AEDT (UTC +11): https://www.facebook.com/OLOL7Hills/ Let us Pray for the Sick Angelina Lee, Chula Abey, Leonila Ahillon, George Alagiah, David Barrow, David Benjamin, John Bourke, Lina Cabaero,.Barrie Cham- berlain, Gabriel Chung, Myrna G Cruz, Paul Daniel, Therese Do, KEEP COVID SAFE Ronald Gomez, Milroy Gunewardene, Anthony Janicska, Wendy & Klaus, Lawrence Family, Carmenu M, Gerard Marcello, Maria V, Mark We must continue to: McGilligan, Mary Mifsud, Blago Milicevic, Laurel Morris, Anna Mun, Patricia Oreo, Lekisha Grace Panlilio, Roger & Kimberley Payoe, Wiranjan Peiris, MASKS Please wear your Salome Pillay, Debra Price, Camy Ratnam, Susantha Seranayake, Bernie Si- mask to, during & after vapatham, Rose Stambouliah, Denis Symon, Lourdes Tibig, Sue Tipaldo, Natalie Mass. Woodward. If you would like to add to our Sick List or know of any Parishioner that is unwell please contact Father Henry or the Parish Office on 9622 2920. We can also ar- range for Holy Communion or a visit if required. John the Baptist SANITISE Use hand sanitizer upon entry and exit. Let us Pray for the Deceased Recently Deceased: Philomena Corera, Mary Grech, Garetan Motha, Lee Fran- cis Pisch, Stephen Pisch, Gladys Pitel, Bungon Sangchalouy, Verna Soris. Anniversaries: Ivan Elisher, France Angseesing, Carolina Borg, Lionel Bosen, Mary Camenzuli, Cecelia Dagvit, John Falzon, Teodoro Garcia, Martha Joseph, DISTANCE Please maintain social distancing at Barbara Loria, Felicidad, Felina & Apolinario Maglaya, Pauline Meilak, Patrick Molloy, Paula Mula, Aurora Nonato, Lakshman Perera, Rohan Senanayake, Gabri- all times. Including el Singh, Jim & Alison Vella. when lining up for 1.5m Holy Communion. Remembrance: Maria Fusco, Pauline Meilak, Lourda Motha, Mary and Muscat family, Gladyse Pitel,Roseline Ratnam. SIGN IN By Law, EVERYONE must SIGN IN. If the church Planned Giving Program has reached the MAX. On behalf of the Parish Community, I would like to thank you so much for your capacity of 100 people, ongoing support, which has been very vital to keep our Parish going strong. please proceed to Hall. Current projects being including the Hall Kitchen renovation, Parish Meeting Room painting, Parish Office and Meeting Room Roof painted, Church roof cleaned and ceiling repaired and painted. MARKED Please sit behind the ON-LINE BANK DONATIONS WHITE TAPE or in SEATING BSB: 067 950; family designated Account Number 000552; areas. Account Name: Seven Hills Catholic Church. (please include your NAME and ENVELOPE NUMBER in the reference de- scription, or write DONATION if you haven't joined the Planned Giving Prog. IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING ANY FLU LIKE SYMPTOMS PLEASE STAY HOME AS THE MASS IS IN-PERSON BANK DEPOSIT (at a Bank Institute/Branch) STILL AVAILABLE ON LIVE-STREAM THROUGH Seven Hills Catholic Church OUR OLOL FACEBOOK PAGE. BSB: 062 315 Acc Id # - 00901486 PLEASE HELP US KEEP OUR PARISHIONERS AND AGENT # - 660 VISITORS TO THE CHURCH SAFE. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. 8 FIRST READING A reading from the Prophet Isaiah 40:1-5; 9-11 Console my people, console them’ says your God. ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her that her time of service is Pope Fracis’ December prayer intention: For a life of prayer ended, that her sin is atoned for, that she has received from the hand of the Lord double punishment for all her crimes.’ A In a video message for his December prayer intention, Pope Francis speaks about the power of prayer to voice cries, ‘Prepare in the wilderness a way for the Lord. Make a straight highway for our God across the desert. Let every change reality and our hearts, and prays that, through a life of prayer, we may nourish our relationship with Jesus Christ. valley be filled in, every mountain and hill be laid low, let every cliff become a plain, and the ridges a valley; then the glory of By Vatican News staff writer the Lord shall be revealed and all mankind shall see it; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.’ Go up on a high mountain, joy- ful messenger to Zion. Shout with a loud voice, joyful messenger to Jerusalem. Shout without fear, say to the towns of Judah, The Pope Video for December, the last one in 2020, has just been released with the prayer intention that Pope Francis is en- ‘Here is your God.’ Here is the Lord coming with power, his arm subduing all things to him. The prize of his victory is with him, trusting to all the Catholic Church through the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (which includes the Eucharistic Youth his trophies all go before him. He is like a shepherd feeding his flock, gathering lambs in his arms, holding them against his Movement – EYM). In a year marked by the global Covid-19 pandemic, the Holy Father shares with us the secret of Jesus’ life, “the key for us to breast and leading to their rest the mother ewes. be able to enter into dialogue with the Father”: prayer. Through a life of prayer, it is possible to have a personal and profound relationship with Jesus Christ and to change our RESPONSORIAL PSALM Mercy and faithfulness have met; hearts. Prayer—listening to Jesus, contemplating Jesus, speaking with Him as with a friend—transforms our lives. It is the (R.) Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your justice and peace have embraced. path to drawing closer to the Father. salvation. Faithfulness shall spring from the earth and justice look down from heaven. (R.) I will hear what the Lord God has to say, The Pope’s prayer during the pandemic a voice that speaks of peace, The Lord will make us prosper The Pope himself is a man of prayer, and The Pope Video bears witness to this with images taken from the most emotive peace for his people. and our earth shall yield its fruit. moments of 2020: the prayer service for the pandemic in an empty St. Peter’s Square; a pilgrimage of the crucifix of San Mar- His help is near for those who fear him Justice shall march before him celo in Via del Corso, in the middle of Rome; and moments of recollection before the Byzantine icon of Salus Populi Roma- and his glory will dwell in our land. (R.) and peace shall follow his steps. (R.) ni at the Roman Basilica of St. Mary Major. Jesus Christ: a live marked by prayer SECOND READING For Pope Francis, prayer cannot be reduced to just a space or moment of interior contemplation. “By praying, we change re- A reading from the second letter of St Peter 2 3:8-14 ality. And we change our hearts,” he says in The Pope Video. There is one thing, my friends, that you must never forget: that with the Lord, ‘a day’ can mean a thousand years, and a thou- Prayer always produces a change. “We can do many things, but without prayer, it does not work,” he says. In the General sand years is like a day. The Lord is not being slow to carry out his promises, as anybody else might be called slow; but he is Audience on 4 November, he also took advantage of the opportunity to explain Jesus’ life of prayer. “During his public life, being patient with you all, wanting nobody to be lost and everybody to be brought to change his ways. The Day of the Lord will Jesus constantly availed himself of the power of prayer. The Gospels show this to us when he retired to secluded places to come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire and fall apart, the earth and all that it pray. These are sober and discreet observations that allow us only to imagine those prayerful dialogues. They clearly demon- contains will be burnt up. Since everything is coming to an end like this, you should be living holy and saintly lives while you strate, however, that even at times of greater dedication to the poor and the sick, Jesus never neglected his intimate dialogue wait and long for the Day of God to come, when the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat. What we are with the Father.” waiting for is what he promised: the new heavens and new earth, the place where righteousness will be at home. So then, my friends, while you are waiting, do your best to live lives without spot or stain so that he will find you at peace. Prayer as the heart of the Church’s mission Today, the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network connects millions of Catholics around the world from diverse countries, cul- GOSPEL ACCLAMATION tures, and social and ecclesial contexts, through prayer: not just through The Pope Video, but also through the prayer plat- form Click to Pray and the Camino del Corazón, a path of prayer for the mission.
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