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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 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

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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 at St Mary’s Reconciliation We warmly welcome into the family of God’s Church the children baptised this weekend: (Confession) 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 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 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 in May for an end to the pandemic 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 Philip & James, Apostles

St 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 , a different met first Andrew and another (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 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 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 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 still do not know me? To Epistles (1 Cor 15:7; Gal 1:19; 2:9, 12) (cf. also Jude 1:1)) – the have seen me is to have seen the Father.’ (Jn 14:8-9) cousin of Jesus who as first bishop of Jerusalem hosted the Council of Jerusalem, who wrote the New Testament Late accounts tell us that Philip evangelised in Greece, Epistle of James, and who was martyred in Jerusalem by then in Phrygia in Anatolia, being martyred there in stoning about AD 62. ______SAINT OF THE WEEK 14 May: Feast of , Apostle

St Matthias was the apostle chosen to replace Judas, who his resurrection.’ Two disciples were nominated: Joseph had hanged himself. (Mt 27:5) In the days between the Barsabbas, and Matthias. After praying, they drew lots Ascension and Pentecost, Peter addressed the gathered for a sign of which one was chosen by God, and the lot disciples, about 120 of them: ‘We must therefore choose fell on Matthias to become one of the Twelve. (Acts 1:15- someone who has been with us the whole time that the 26) Nothing else is known about him for sure, but various Lord Jesus was travelling around with us…from the time traditions have him preaching in Judaea; Cappadocia [in when John was baptising until the day when he was modern Turkey]; near the Caspian Sea; and in Ethiopia; taken up from us – and he can act with us as a witness to and being martyred either by crucifixion or beheading. SAINTS OF THE WEEK 4 May: of and Wales

In 1534, King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509-47), refused an annulment of his first marriage by the Pope, proclaimed himself ‘Supreme Head of the Church in England’, beginning the history of . Suppression of the monasteries followed (1536-41). This was in the context of the Protestant , which had launched from 1517. Henry himself was still Catholic at heart, but under his son Edward VI (reigned 1547-53) and daughter (reigned 1558-1603), the took on many typically Protestant beliefs. But England had been Catholic for almost a thousand years: St , sent by Pope St Gregory the Great, had landed in Kent in 597, beginning the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons; and before the pagan Anglo-Saxons had invaded Britain, the Catholic Faith was already widespread among the Romano-Britons. So the ancient Faith was only worn away gradually, and numerous Catholics were martyred – already under Henry, but especially under Elizabeth; among the first to die were renowned scholar and former Lord Chancellor Sir , and the bishop , both beheaded in 1535. (On the other hand, under Henry’s Catholic daughter, Mary I (reigned 1553-58), 283 Protestants were executed, mostly by burning, as she tried to restore the Catholic religion.) When Pope St Pius V in 1570 declared Elizabeth I deposed, the situation of Catholics, and priests particularly, became especially difficult, as they were liable to be seen as traitors by those who held Elizabeth to be the true queen. The main form of execution was hanging, drawing and quartering. Persecution would continue, less intensely, under the Stuart dynasty from 1603, with the last martyrs dying in the hysteria of the fictitious ‘Popish Plot’ (1678-81). Pius XI canonised John Fisher and Thomas More in 1935 (Feast: 22 June); Paul VI canonised 40 English Martyrs in 1970; and 242 others have been beatified. (There are also Irish martyrs St Oliver Plunkett, and 22 others beatified; and Scottish St .)

Carthusians Saint , Prior of the Charterhouse, St priest, 1594; St Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, layman, 1595; St Robert Robert Lawrence, Prior of the Beauvale Charterhouse, & St Augustine Southwell, Jesuit priest, 1595; St , Jesuit priest, 1595; St Webster, Prior of the Axholme Charterhouse; and St , John Griffith, Franciscan friar, 1598; St John Rigby, layman, 1600; St Brigittine , all 4 May 1535. St John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 22 , laywoman, 1601; St , Jesuit lay-brother, 1606; June 1535; St Thomas More, 6 July 1535; St John Stone, Augustinian St , Jesuit priest, 1608; St John Roberts, Benedictine friar, 1539; St , priest, 1577; St , Jesuit priest, 1610; St John Almond, priest, 1612; St , priest, 1581; St , Jesuit priest, 1581; St , Jesuit priest, 1628; St Edward Barlow, Benedictine priest, priest, 1 December 1581; St , priest, 1582; St John Payne, 1641; St Alban Bartholomew Roe, Benedictine priest, 1642; St Henry priest, 1582; St Richard Gwyn, layman, 1584; St , Morse, Jesuit priest, 1645; St , priest, 1654; St Philip laywoman, 1586; St , laywoman, 1588; St Edmund Evans, Jesuit priest, 1679; St John Kemble, priest, 1679; St Lewis, Gennings, priest, 1591; St Polydore Plasden, priest, 1591; St Swithin Jesuit priest, 1679; St John Lloyd, priest, 1679; St John Plessington, Wells, layman, 1591; St Eustace White, priest, 1591; St John Boste, priest, 1679; St John Wall, Franciscan priest, 1679.

Blessed Humphrey Middlemore, Carthusian monk, 19 June 1535; Bl. William Exmew, Bl. Humphrey Pritchard, layman, 1589; Bl. William Spenser, priest, 1589; Bl. Richard Carthusian monk, 19 June 1535; Bl. Sebastian Newdigate, Carthusian monk, 19 June Yaxley, priest, 1589; Bl. Christopher Bales, priest, 1590; Bl. Alexander Blake, layman, 1535; Bl. John Haile, priest, 19 June 1535; Bl. Richard Bere, Carthusian monk, 1537; Bl. 1590; Bl. Francis Dicconson, priest, 1590; Bl. Edmund Duke, priest, 1590; Bl. Miles John Davy, Carthusian, 1537; Bl. Thomas Green, Carthusian, 1537; Bl. William Gerard, priest, 1590; Bl. Richard Hill, priest, 1590; Bl. John Hogg, priest, 1590; Bl. Greenwood, Carthusian brother, 1537; Bl. Thomas Johnson, Carthusian, 1537; Bl. Walter Richard Holiday, priest, 1590; Bl. Nicholas Horner, layman, 1590; Bl. Edward Jones, Pierson, Carthusian brother, 1537; Bl. Thomas Redyng, Carthusian, 1537; Bl. John priest, 1590; Bl. Anthony Middleton, priest, 1590; Bl. George Beesley, priest, 1591; Bl. Rochester, Carthusian monk, 1537; Bl. Robert Salt, Carthusian brother, 1537; Bl. Roger Dicconson, priest, 1591; Bl. Sydney Hodgson, layman, 1591; Bl. Laurence Thomas Scryven, Carthusian, 1537; Bl. James Walworth, Carthusian monk, 1537; Bl. Humphreys, layman, 1591; Bl. Brian Lacey, layman, 1591; Bl. John Mason, layman, John Forest, Franciscan friar, 1538; Bl. John Beche, of Colchester, 1539; Bl. John 1591; Bl. Ralph Milner, layman, 1591; Bl. William Pike, layman, 1591; Bl. Montford Eynon, priest, 1539; Bl. Hugh Faringdon, Abbot of Reading, 1539; Bl. Adrian Fortescue, Scott, priest, 1591; Bl. Robert Thorpe, priest, 1591; Bl. Thomas Watkinson, layman, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem, 1539; Bl. Roger James, Benedictine, 1539; Bl. John 1591; Bl. James Bird, layman, 1592; Bl. Joseph Lambton, priest, 1592; Bl. William Rugg, Benedictine monk, 1539; Bl. John Thorne, Benedictine monk, 1539; Bl. Richard Patenson, priest, 1592; Bl. Thomas Pormort, priest, 1592; Bl. William Davies, priest, Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, 1539; Bl. , priest, 1540; Bl. Richard 1593; Bl. Antony Page, priest, 1593; Bl. Edward Waterson, priest, 1593; Bl. Thomas Fetherston, Archdeacon, 1540; Bl. William Horne, Carthusian lay brother, 1540; Bl. Bosgrave, layman, 1594; Bl. John Carey, layman, 1594; Bl. John Cornelius, Jesuit priest, Edward Powell, 1540; Bl. David Gonson, layman, 1541; Bl. Margaret Pole, Countess of 1594; Bl. William Harrington, priest, 1594; Bl. John Ingram, priest, 1594; Bl. Edward , laywoman, 1541; Bl. German Gardiner, layman, 1544; Bl. John Ireland, priest, Osbaldeston, priest, 1594; Bl. Patrick Salmon, layman, 1594; Bl. John Speed, layman, 1544; Bl. John Larke, priest, 1544; Bl. John Felton, layman, 1570; Bl. Thomas Plumtree, 1594; Bl. George Swallowell, layman, 1594; Bl. William Freeman, priest, 1595; Bl. priest, Chaplain to the Rising of the North, 1570; Bl. John Story, Chancellor to Bishop Alexander Rawlins, priest, 1595; Bl. George Errington, layman, 1596; Bl. William Bonner, 1571; Bl. Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, layman, Leader of the Rising Gibson, layman, 1596; Bl. William Knight, layman, 1596; Bl. Henry Abbot, layman, of the North, 1572; Bl. Thomas Woodhouse, priest, 1573; Bl. John Nelson, priest, 1577; 1597; Bl. William Andleby, priest, 1597; Bl. Edward Fulthrop, layman, 1597; Bl. Bl. Thomas Sherwood, layman, 1579; Bl. Everard Hanse, priest, 1581; Bl. John Bodey, Christopher Robinson, priest, 1597; Bl. Thomas Warcop, layman, 1597; Bl. John Britton, priest, 1583; Bl. Thomas Cottam, Jesuit priest, 1582; Bl. William Filby, 1582; Bl. layman, 1598; Bl. Ralph Grimston, layman, 1598; Bl. Peter Snow, priest, 1598; Bl. Thomas Ford, 1582; Bl. Robert Johnson, priest, 1582; Bl. Richard Kirkman, priest, 1582; Thomas Hunt, priest, 1600; Bl. John Norton, layman, 1600; Bl. , priest, Bl. William Lacy, priest, 1582; Bl. Lawrence Richardson, 1582; Bl. John Shert, priest, 1600; Bl. Thomas Palasor, priest, 1600; Bl. Thomas Sprott, priest, 1600; Bl. John Talbot, 1582; Bl. James Tompson, priest, 1582; Bl. William Hart, priest, 1583; Bl. John Slade, layman, 1600; Bl. , priest, 1600; Bl. Christopher Wharton, priest, 1600; layman, 1583; Bl. Richard Thirkeld, priest, 1583; Bl. James Bell, priest, 1584; Bl. Bl. Mark Barkworth, Benedictine, 1601; Bl. James Duckett, layman, 1601; Bl. Roger William Carter, layman, 1584; Bl. , priest, 1584; Bl. John Finch, 1584; Bl. Filcock, priest, 1601; Bl. Thurstan Hunt, priest, 1601; Bl. Robert Middleton, priest, 1601; , priest, 1584; Bl. Thomas Hemerford, priest, 1584; Bl. John Munden, Bl. John Pibush, priest, 1601; Bl. Francis Page, Jesuit, 1602; Bl. Robert Watkinson, priest, 1584; Bl. John Nutter, priest, 1584; Bl. Thomas Aufield, priest, 1585; Bl. priest, 1602; Bl. William Richardson, priest, 1603; Bl. Robert Grissold, layman, 1604; Marmaduke Bowes, layman, 1585; Bl. Hugh Taylor, priest, 1585; Bl. John , Bl. John Sugar, priest, 1604; Bl. William Browne, layman, 1605; Bl. Thomas Welbourne, priest, 1586; Bl. Robert Anderton, priest, 1586; Bl. Robert Bickerdike, layman, 1586; Bl. layman, 1605; Bl. Edward Oldcorne, Jesuit priest, 1606; Bl. , Jesuit priest, Robert Dibdale, priest, 1586; Bl. John Finglow, priest, 1586; Bl. Francis Ingleby, priest, 1607; Bl. , priest, 1607; Bl. Matthew Flathers, priest, 1608; Bl. George 1586; Bl. Richard Langley, layman, 1586; Bl. John Lowe, priest, 1586; Bl. William Gervase, Benedictine, 1608; Bl. Roger Cadwallador, priest, 1610; Bl. George Napper, Marsden, priest, 1586; Bl. John Sandys, priest, 1586; Bl. Richard Sergeant, priest, 1586; priest, 1610; Bl. Thomas Somers, priest, 1610; Bl. Maurus Scott, 1612; Bl. Richard Bl. Edward Stransham, priest, 1586; Bl. William Thomson, priest, 1586; Bl. Nicholas Smith, priest, 1612; Bl. Thomas Atkinson, priest, 1616; Bl. Thomas Maxfield, priest, Woodfen, priest, 1586; Bl. Alexander Crow, priest, 1587; Bl. George Douglas, priest, 1616; Bl. John Thulis, priest, 1616; Bl. Thomas Tunstall, priest, 1616; Bl. Roger 1587; Bl. John Hambley, priest, 1587; Bl. Thomas Pilchard, priest, 1587; Bl. Stephen Wrenno, layman, 1616; Bl. William Southerne, priest, 1618; Bl. Richard Herst, layman, Rowsham, priest, 1587; Bl. Robert Sutton, priest, 1587; Bl. Edmund Sykes, priest, 1587; 1628; Bl. William Ward, priest, 1641; Bl. Thomas Bullaker, Franciscan priest, 1642; Bl. Bl. Edward Burden, priest, 1588; Bl. Christopher Buxton, priest, 1588; Bl. Edward Edmund Catherick, priest, 1642; Bl. Hugh Green, priest, 1642; Bl. Thomas Holland, Campion, 1588; Bl. James Claxton, priest, 1588; Bl. , priest, 1588; Bl. priest, 1642; Bl. John Lockwood, priest, 1642; Bl. Thomas Reynolds, priest, 1642; Bl. William Dean, priest, 1588; Bl. Thomas Felton, Franciscan, 1588; Bl. Richard Flower, Arthur Bell, Franciscan priest, 1643; Bl. Henry Heath, Franciscan priest, 1643; Bl. Ralph layman, 1588; Bl. , priest, 1588; Bl. William Gunter, priest, 1588; Bl. Corbie, Jesuit, 1644; Bl. John Duckett, priest, 1644; Bl. Edward Bamber, priest, 1646; Bl. William Hartley, priest, 1588; Bl. John Hewitt, priest, 1588; Bl. Thomas Holford, priest, Philip Powell, Benedictine, 1646; Bl. Thomas Whitaker, priest, 1646; Bl. John 1588; Bl. , priest, 1588; Bl. William Lampley, layman, 1588; Bl. Richard Woodcock, Franciscan priest, 1646; Bl. Peter Wright, Jesuit, 1651; Bl. Edward Colman, Leigh, priest, 1588; Bl. , priest, 1588; Bl. , layman, 1588; layman, 1678; Bl. , 1679; Bl. , Jesuit priest, 1679; Bl. John Bl. Hugh More, layman, 1588; Bl. Robert Morton, priest, 1588; Bl. John Robinson, Gavan, Jesuit priest, 1679; Bl. John Grove, layman, 1679; Bl. , Jesuit priest, 1588; Bl. John Roche, layman, 1588; Bl. Edward Shelley, 1588; Bl. Richard priest, 1679; Bl. Richard Langhorne, layman, 1679; Bl. Charles Mahoney, Franciscan Simpson, priest, 1588; Bl. Robert Sutton, layman, 1588; Bl. William Way, priest, 1588; priest, 1679; Bl. Thomas Pickering, Benedictine, 1679; Bl. Nicholas Postgate, priest, Bl. Henry Webley, 1588; Bl. Robert Widmerpool, layman, 1588; Bl. Robert Wilcox, 1679; Bl. Thomas Thwing, priest, 1679; Bl. , Jesuit, 1679; Bl. Thomas priest, 1588; Bl. John Amias, priest, 1589; Bl. Thomas Belson, layman, 1589; Bl. Robert Whitbread, Jesuit, 1679; Bl. William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford, layman, 1680. Dalby, priest, 1589; Bl. Robert Hardesty, layman, 1589; Bl. , priest, 1589;

SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER, YEAR B – READINGS

FIRST READING Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 the love I mean: not our love for God, but God’s love for

us when he sent his Son to be the sacrifice that takes our A reading from the Acts of the Apostles sins away.

As Peter reached the house Cornelius went out to meet The word of the Lord. him, knelt at his feet and prostrated himself. But Peter ______

helped him up. ‘Stand up’, he said ‘I am only a man GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Jn 14:23 after all!’ Then Peter addressed them: ‘The truth I have now come to realise’ he said ‘is that God does not have Alleluia, Alleluia! favourites, but that anybody of any nationality who fears All who love me will keep my words, God and does what is right is acceptable to him.’ While and my Father will love them and we will come to them. Peter was still speaking the Holy Spirit came down on Alleluia!

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Peter were all astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit GOSPEL Jn 15:9-17 should be poured out on the pagans too, since they could hear them speaking strange languages and proclaiming A reading from the holy Gospel according to John the greatness of God. Peter himself then said, ‘Could Jesus said to his disciples: anyone refuse the water of baptism to these people, now they have received the Holy Spirit just as much as we ‘As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. have?’ He then gave orders for them to be baptised in Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you the name of Jesus Christ. Afterwards they begged him to will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s stay on for some days. commandments and remain in his love. I have told you

The word of the Lord. this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be

complete. This is my commandment: love one another, ______

as I have loved you. A man can have no greater love RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 97 than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my

R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power. friends, if you do what I command you. I shall not call you servants any more, because a servant does not know 1. Sing a new song to the Lord his master’s business; I call you friends, because I have for he has worked wonders. made known to you everything I have learnt from my His right hand and his holy arm Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I have brought salvation. (R.) commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that

2. The Lord has made known his salvation; will last; and then the Father will give you anything you has shown his justice to the nations. ask in my name. What I command you is to love one another.’ He has remembered his truth and love for the house of Israel. (R.) The Gospel of the Lord.

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3. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION

Shout to the Lord all the earth, We proclaim your Death, O Lord, ring out your joy. (R.) and profess your Resurrection, until you come again.

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SECOND READING 1 Jn 4:7-10 SPIRITUAL COMMUNION (for those unable to receive sacramentally)

A reading from the first letter of St John My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most

Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things, and I desire My dear people, let us love one another since love to receive you into my soul. Since I cannot at this comes from God and everyone who loves is begotten by moment receive you sacramentally, come at least God and knows God. Anyone who fails to love can spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were never have known God, because God is love. God’s love already there and unite myself wholly to you. Never for us was revealed when God sent into the world his permit me to be separated from you. Amen. only Son so that we could have life through him; this is

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Anniversaries: Antonio Escano; Anthony Catania; Rosa Casao; Ledinila Ramos; Maria Lien Thi Dang

Feast Days: 12 May – Sts Nereus & Achilleus, Martyrs; St Pancras, Martyr 13 May – Our Lady of Fatima 14 May – Feast of St Matthias, Apostle

Readings Next Week: Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord: Acts 1:1-11; Eph 4:1-13; Mk 16:15-20

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