Parish Bulletin, 9 May 2021
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PARISH OF ASCOT VALE ST MARY’S CHURCH, 123 ST LEONARDS ROAD, ASCOT VALE ST MARGARET’S CHURCH, BARB STREET, MARIBYRNONG Parish Priest: Rev Fr Justin Ford Assistant Priest / Lithuanian Chaplain: Rev Fr Joseph Deveikis Presbytery / Parish Office: 123 St Leonards Rd, Ascot Vale (Postal: PO Box 468 Ascot Vale 3032) Telephone: 9370 6688 Website: www.stmaryschurch.org.au Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Tue & Fri, 10am – 3pm. Secretary: Carmen D’Rosario Principal, St Mary’s School: Mr Paul Hogan T: 9370 1194 Principal, St Margaret’s School: Mr Gavin Brennan T: 9318 1339 Weekend Mass Times 6th Sunday of Easter – 9 May 2021 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm St Mary’s Mother’s Day Prayer Sunday: God our Creator, we pray: 8.30am St Margaret’s for new mothers, coming to terms with new responsibility ; 10.30am St Mary’s for expectant mothers, wondering and waiting; 6.00pm St Mary’s (Spanish) for those who are tired, stressed or depressed; for those who struggle to balance the tasks of work and family; Live streaming of our 10:30 for those who are unable to feed their children due to poverty; Sunday Mass is continuing, for those whose children have physical, mental or emotional disabilities; accessible on our parish website. for those who raise children on their own; Weekday Mass Times for those who have lost a child; for those who care for the children of others; Mon 10.00am St Mary’s for those whose children have left home; Tue 9.00am St Mary’s and for those whose desire to be a mother has not been fulfilled. Wed 9.00am St Mary’s Bless all mothers, that their love may be deep and tender, 7.00pm St Mary’s and that they may lead their children to know and do what is good, Thu 9.00am St Mary’s living not for themselves alone, but for God and for others. Fri 9.15am St Margaret’s Amen. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sat 9.30am St Mary’s Baptisms at St Mary’s Reconciliation We warmly welcome into the family of God’s Church the children baptised this weekend: (Confession) Noah Anthony Drysdale ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Saturday Wedding at St Mary’s 10.00–10.30am St Mary’s We congratulate Joseph Rossello & Deana Palmisano, married at St Mary’s on Saturday. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5.30–5.45pm St Mary’s Mass Count for the first four weekends of May Eucharistic Adoration The diocesan Mass Count of those attending will be carried out at each weekend Mass. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Tue 9.30–10.30am St Mary’s Confirmation next two Saturday evenings Sat 10.00–11.00am St Mary’s Confirmation will be conferred on Year 6 children from St Margaret’s School next weekend Baptisms at St Mary’s at the Vigil Mass, 6:00 pm Saturday 15 May; and the following Saturday 22 May, Year 6 children from St Mary’s School. The celebrant will be Bishop Terry Curtin, Auxiliary Group baptisms will be held Bishop with responsibility for our Northern Region. The congregation at these Masses will at 12:00 noon every Sunday approach the limits permitted by the density quotient, so you are encouraged to consider until the end of June, attending one of the Sunday morning Masses in preference to the Confirmation Masses. with a maximum of 6 babies We welcome the Bishop, and pray for all our Confirmation candidates. in each ceremony. Baptism Information Sessions QR Codes for Registration on entering church are held in St Mary’s Church The Government now requires us to use QR Codes for at 7:30 pm on the first Thursday registration. Those without a smartphone to register of each month. Those desiring themselves can have their details recorded at the church door – on every occasion both first name and phone the baptism of their child should number – and the Registrars will subsequently enter this attend one of these sessions. in the QR Code system using their own smartphones. Weddings at St Mary’s So, to keep having our Masses open to the public, we For information on weddings ask as many people as possible with smartphones to volunteer as Registrars. (You can scan the adjacent QR please ring the parish office. Code to register yourself in future, without queueing.) Hymns: Entrance – CWB 451 As we gather at your table Offertory – CWB 626 This is my will, my one command Communion – CWB 469 Christians, let us love one another Reflection – What a friend we have in Jesus Recessional – CWB 408 Hail, Queen of heav’n __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What a friend we have in Jesus 1. What a friend we have in Jesus, 2. Have we trials and temptations? 3. Are we weak and heavy laden, all our sins and griefs to bear! Is there trouble anywhere? cumbered with a load of care? What a privilege to carry We should never be discouraged; Precious Saviour, still our refuge; everything to God in prayer! take it to the Lord in prayer. take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit, Can we find a friend so faithful Do thy friends despise, forsake thee? O what needless pain we bear, who will all our sorrows share? Take it to the Lord in prayer! all because we do not carry Jesus knows our every weakness; In his arms he’ll take and shield thee; everything to God in prayer. take it to the Lord in prayer. thou wilt find a solace there. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pray the Rosary in May for an end to the pandemic Pope Francis has invited Catholics around the world to dedicate the month of May to a marathon of prayer for an end to the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular through the Rosary. The marathon commenced on 1 May with a broadcast of the Holy Father leading the Rosary, and will conclude in the same way on 31 May. In a special way, we pray for India at this time, with the current escalation of the crisis there. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Apostles’ Creed for the Easter Season For the Easter Season we are again using the liturgical option of reciting the Apostles’ Creed instead of the Nicene Creed. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SAINTS OF THE WEEK 3 May: Feast of Saints Philip & James, Apostles St Philip the Apostle was, like St Peter and St Andrew, a Hierapolis by either stoning or crucifixion (but there has native of Bethsaida in Galilee. Jesus after his baptism also been confusion with Philip the deacon, a different met first Andrew and another disciple (disciples of John figure (Acts 6:5; 8)). __________________________________________________________________________________ the Baptist); the following day, Andrew introduced his brother Simon Peter to Jesus; then ‘the next day, after Alongside St Philip we celebrate the Apostle St James, Jesus had decided to leave for Galilee, he met Philip and described in lists of the Apostles as the son of Alphaeus. said, “Follow me”.’ (Jn 1:43) Philip then brought (Mt 10:3; Mk 3:18; Lk 6:15; Acts 1:13) (James, known as ‘the Nathanael to Jesus: “We have found the one Moses wrote Less’, is distinguished from the Apostle St James ‘the about in the Law, the one about whom the prophets Greater’, son of Zebedee and brother of St John). wrote: he is Jesus son of Joseph, from Nazareth.” (Jn 1:45) Traditionally (though with debate even in the early At the feeding of the 5000, Jesus tested Philip by asking, centuries) today’s saint has been identified with James, ‘Where can we buy some bread for these people to eat?’, son of Mary ‘of Clopas’ (who was herself ‘sister’ of and Philip responded, ‘Two hundred denarii would only Mary the mother of Jesus (cf. Mt 27:56; Mk 15:40; 16:1; Lk buy enough to give them a small piece each’. (Jn 6:5-7) In 24:10; Jn 19:25)) and brother of Joses (Joseph), Simon and the days before the Passion, some Greeks wishing to see Jude (cf. Mt 13:55; Mk 6:3) (the ‘brethren of Jesus’ – close Jesus first approached Philip, who told Andrew, and the relatives of the Lord, as described using Old Testament two together went to tell Jesus. (Jn 12:20-22) (These are expression (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church n. 500)). the two apostles with Greek names, and maybe their knowledge of Greek enabled them to be intermediaries.) And both these James’s have traditionally been And at the Last Supper, it was Philip who asked Jesus, identified with James, ‘brother of the Lord’, later ‘Lord, let us see the Father and then we shall be surnamed ‘the Just’ (mentioned a number of times in the satisfied’; and Jesus responded, ‘Have I been with you Acts of the Apostles (12:17; 15:13-21; 21:18) and in St Paul’s all this time, Philip, and you