YEAR A FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT

VICTOR HARBOR/GOOLWA CATHOLIC PARISH Vol 8 : No 19

VISION AND MISSION STATEMENT Our vision is to build a faith community, centred on the loving relationship of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, expressed in personal lives and in communal Parish activities.

IT IS OUR MISSION TO: • Endeavour to develop relevant and prayerful Eucharistic celebrations. • Foster the experience of a personal relationship with God. • Provide faith formation opportunities for parishioners. • Care for each other and the environment, particularly the sick, FIRST READING GOSPEL ACCLAMATION lonely, aged and disabled within Ezekiel 37:12-14 Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus our Parish. The Lord says this: I am now going to Christ! I am the resurrection and the life, Care for our environment towards open your graves; I mean to raise you says the Lord; whoever believes in me • from your graves, my people, and lead will not die for ever. Glory and praise to a sustainable future. you back to the soil of Israel. And you you, Lord Jesus Christ! will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from GOSPEL WE WILL: your graves, my people. And I shall put John 11:1-45 • Reach out to those in need in the my spirit in you, and you will live, and I There was a man named Lazarus who local community. shall resettle you on your own soil; and lived in the village of Bethany with two you will know that I, the Lord, have said sisters, Mary and Martha, and he was ill. • Be committed to Catholic Social and done this – it is the Lord who It was the same Mary, the sister of the Justice principles. speaks. sick man Lazarus, who anointed the • Pray and work together with Lord with ointment and wiped his feet Christian Churches and all people RESPONSORIAL PSALM with her hair. The sisters sent this of goodwill. With the Lord there is mercy message to Jesus, ‘Lord, the man you and fullness of redemption. love is ill.’ On receiving the message, • Protect and engage with young Jesus said, ‘This sickness will end not in people in our local area. SECOND READING death but in God’s glory, and through it Romans 8:8-11 the Son of God will be glorified.’ • Strengthen bonds with indigenous People who are interested only in Jesus loved Martha and her sister and people in our region. unspiritual things can never be pleasing Lazarus, yet when he heard that Lazarus to God. Your interests, however, are not was ill he stayed where he was for two in the unspiritual, but in the spiritual, more days before saying to the disciples, since the Spirit of God has made his ‘Let us go to Judaea.’ The disciples said, home in you. In fact, unless you ‘Rabbi, it is not long since the Jews possessed the Spirit of Christ you would wanted to stone you; are you going back not belong to him. Though your body again?’ Jesus replied: may be dead it is because of sin, but if ‘Are there not twelve hours in the Christ is in you then your spirit is life day? A man can walk in the daytime itself because you have been justified; without stumbling because he has and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus the light of this world to see by; but from the dead is living in you, then he if he walks at night he stumbles, who raised Jesus from the dead will give because there is no light to guide life to your own mortal bodies through him.’ his Spirit living in you. (Continued page 4)

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SPECIAL INTENTIONS (These THE HOLY FATHER’S 2020 PRAYER names will be removed after one INTENTIONS: MARCH month. To keep names on this For Evangelisation: Catholics in China list please contact Parish Office) We pray that the Church in China may persevere in Tawonga is a 10-year-old girl, Barbara Bond, John Wallace, its faithfulness to the living with a disability. She lives in Father John Langtry, Michelle L, Gospel and grow in unity. a village in northern Malawi in a Adrian and Margaret Langtry, region plagued by food insecurity

Brian Smallacombe, and poverty. For most of her life, CENTENARY NEWS Bailey Smallacombe, her parents have struggled to put meals on the Russell Crichton, Bill Longworth, Over this past week I have been table. Tawonga often had to miss school Daniel Holliday, Mark & Lola Kelly, congratulated by many people on the because she was too sick from hunger. The success of our Centenary lunch. Any Mary Davis, Claire Hamish, family also faced discrimination in their organiser as you know is only as good as the Joan Pillion, Angelo Fantasia, community due to her disability. Since helpers they are surrounded by, and I was Jane Lloyd, West Family, participating in a Caritas supported surrounded by the best. Joseph Barry Kearsley, program, Tawonga’s life has transformed. Her Lyn McCabe I was first approached by Ian Reid in June family now grows enough food to provide three 2018 to organise a lunch for approximately meals a day, ending the struggle of RECENTLY DECEASED 150 parishioners and dignitaries. As Ian said malnutrition, and helping her thrive at school Ian Ferguson, Frances Durdin, to me “it’s going to be a “big shindig”. I don’t You can donate through Parish boxes and Geoff Bannon. Mary Hackett think he realised just how big it would be and envelopes, by phone 1800 024 413 or online. how much work it would take. www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion

Originally it was going to be a formal sit down lunch with a marquee set up and open LEADLIGHT WINDOW GOOLWA ASSISTANCE DURING THE to all. It didn’t take long to conclude that we CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK It is lovely to see the connections between the couldn’t safely accommodate a windows in our two parish Churches. formal lunch for so many. After some We are conscious that there may be “discussion” it was decided to have finger times when members of our parish From the plaque next to the Goolwa window community will need help in this time of food, but not just any finger food. After all I the Coronavirus pandemic. was surrounded by the best, and they didn’t The pointed arched window symbolises the disappoint. If you think that you might have the transition from the old Cadell Street Church virus or have been exposed to the The last 12 months have seen so many to the present Church in Gardiner Street. virus, the first step is to contact your discussions, recipes read and cooked, a This is encased by the border with the new doctor. sandwich making course conducted, church cradling the tradition and culture of the You may then be asked to spend some decorations made, seating arrangements past. time in social isolation in your home worked out, not only for the dignitaries but for The fish is an ancient Christian symbol and either because you are suffering from our own parishioners who needed a little the three fish in this window represent the the virus but don’t need to go to extra help. It was for this reason that Holy Trinity and also relate to Our Lord’s in- hospital or if someone you have been 5 children from Investigator College, who struction that we become “fishers of men”. in contact with, e.g., family, friends or also happen to belong to our parish, were neighbours, has contracted the virus. These fish are jumping for joy as also should asked to serve the food so that everyone we in receipt of the many blessings bestowed In this case you may need help with could relax, keep safe and enjoy the day. shopping, a meal or you just might upon us. need to talk to someone. There are too many names to mention, so I Green and gold, Australia’s colours, are found would like to thank everyone who helped in in our local landscape along with the blue of The following people have offered to be any way to make our lunch the wonderful the ocean – the creations of God the Father, points of contact for anyone in the success that it was. I think Ian would have whilst the rays of light reflect His mercy and parish who needs help: been so proud that we got to enjoy his “BIG blessings. Father Vinh 0429 098 892 SHINDIG”. Pat Clingan Parish House: 8552 1084 Central to the window are the Holy Cross, GOOLWA: Anne Turner 0459 648 004 CONGRATULATIONS Jesus’ Crown of Thorns, the Host and the Joe and Maire Ryan 0401 671 476, I was present at the Centenary Chalice. Paul Kennelly 0402 852 825 Behind are the stars of the Southern Cross, VICTOR: Pat Clingan 0410 593 617 Mass and lunch and would like to which identify us as the Church in Australia, John and Wendy Baker 0419 046 147 congratulate the Parish Pastoral Council for Fran Hanna 0415 124 010. the superb management of this event. It was and the blue waves placing us in the river port MIDDLETON, PT ELLIOT: a splendid event and with no detail of Goolwa adjacent to the Great Southern Ray Klecko 0438 364 870. overlooked it appeared that all areas ran as Ocean. planned. The new Windows look sensational, Each star has 7 points symbolising the gifts of MISSION CONTACT and I found the story of the Windows just the Holy Spirit; In our parish we have many small intriguing. I hope at all parishioners are able Wisdom – Understanding – Counsel- networks of people who look out for Knowledge – Fortitude – Piety – Fear of the each other. Please keep in contact by to enjoy the Windows and be inspired by Lord. Hovering above the Cross is the guiding phone or email and give any help you them. Congratulations for a job well done. feel able to give safely. A grateful parishioner. light of the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove.

REQUEST FROM FATHER PHILIP MARSHALL

OUR NEW have also no doubt been looking forward to the Pope’s announcement of a new We call on our communities to pause for

Archbishop. I pray that I will be the pastor prayer at 8am every Friday until at least that the Church in Adelaide needs at this Pentecost. This pause can be for just a time.” few minutes to pray for:

Bishop O’Regan said the announcement • An end to the pandemic

comes on a special day . “As someone • Healing for people suffering from who has a deep Josephite spirituality, it the illness feels quite fitting – even providential – that

Pope Francis has chosen today, • Those researching a vaccine St Joseph’s feast day, to call me to this new mission,” he said. “I will certainly be • Our political and community Pope Francis has appointed leaders as they try to provide Patrick O’Regan, currently Bishop asking St Joseph to intercede for me and for the Church in Adelaide.” wise leadership of the Diocese of Sale in , as the 12th Archbishop of Adelaide. It was Australian Catholic Conference • Our health workers as they are at announced on March 19th, the Feast of president Archbishop Mark Coleridge said the front line St Joseph. Bishop O’Regan has “shown himself to be a man of unusual gifts, one of which is his Bishop O’Regan said his appointment deep sense of pastoral care for the peo- comes at a critical moment for Catholics ple entrusted to his care and another of in Adelaide and across the country. “With which is his quirky sense of humour”. Adelaide set to host the first assembly of the historic Fifth Plenary Council of Aus- “Bishop Pat’s brothers within the Confer- ence join him in praying for his new mis- tralia later this year, this is an exciting sion as shepherd of the Church in Ade- time for the Archdiocese of Adelaide,” he laide, which has known difficulties in re- said. “I look forward to playing my part alongside the people of the Archdiocese cent times but which can now look to the future more peacefully,” Archbishop in welcoming to Adelaide the Church from Coleridge said. CathNews right across Australia.”

Bishop O’Regan was born in Bathurst in ONLINE RESOURCES Almighty and all loving God, 1958. He was educated at St Joseph’s IN TIME OF CORONAVIRUS Father, Son and Holy Spirit Primary School in Perthville, the village in http://www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/ We pray to you through Christ the Healer which he grew up, and at St Stanislaus’ news-and-events/coronavirus-updates- College Bathurst. He undertook seminary for those who suffer training at St Columba’s College Spring- and-alerts from the Coronavirus Covid-19 wood and St Patrick’s College Manly, and in Australia and across our world. Mass streaming live from St Francis Xavier’s was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Cathedral each Sunday at 10.00 Bathurst in 1983. He was appointed Bish- We pray too for all who reach out op of Sale in December 2014, with his https://www.youtube.com/channel/ to those who mourn the loss of episcopal consecration in February 2015. each and every person who has died UCG8JH2Ixvf3Bf4rHrFO_vVw He holds a licentiate in sacred liturgy and as a result of contracting the disease. sacramental theology from the Institut ——————————————————- Catholique de Paris and is a member of Give wisdom to policy makers, the International Commission on English Skill to healthcare professionals and in the Liturgy. researchers, CHILDHOOD MEMORIES! Bishop O’Regan succeeds Archbishop Comfort to everyone in distress Philip Wilson, who resigned as Archbish- And a sense of calm to us all in these days of uncertainty and distress. op of Adelaide in July 2018. He thanked Bishop Greg O’Kelly SJ, who since then in addition to his role as Bishop of Port This we ask in the name of Pirie has served as Apostolic Administra- Jesus Christ Our Lord who showed tor of Adelaide and will continue to do so compassion to the outcast, until Bishop O’Regan’s installation – the acceptance to the rejected and date for which is still to be decided. love to those to whom “Bishop O’Kelly has been exceptionally no love was shown. generous and inspirational in overseeing Jeff’s only kneeling on one knee again Amen. the entire Church in South Australia dur- and saying half the Hail Mary! Archbishop Micahel Jackson ing this time and I know the people of Dublin and Glendalough Adelaide have appreciated his wise lead- ership,” Bishop O’Regan said. “They Suggested by Father Philip Marshall CORONAVIRUS UPDATE (Continued from page 1) Jesus wept; and the Jews said, ‘See how He said that and then added, ‘Our friend much he loved him!’ But there were Lazarus is resting, I am going to wake some who remarked, ‘He opened the him.’ The disciples said to him, ‘Lord, if eyes of the blind man, could he not he is able to rest he is sure to get better.’ have prevented this man’s death?’ Still The phrase Jesus used referred to the sighing, Jesus reached the tomb: it was death of Lazarus, but they thought that a cave with a stone to close the by ‘rest’ he meant ‘sleep’, so Jesus put it opening. Jesus said, ‘Take the stone plainly, ‘Lazarus is dead; and for your away.’ Martha said to him, ‘Lord, by sake I am glad I was not there because now he will smell; this is the fourth now you will believe. But let us go to day.’ Jesus replied, ‘Have I not told you him.’ Then Thomas – known as the that if you believe you will see the Twin – said to the other disciples, ‘Let glory of God?’ So they took away the THERE WILL BE NO us go too, and die with him.’ stone. Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and said: MASSES OR PUBLIC On arriving, Jesus found that Lazarus LITURGIES IN had been in the tomb for four days ‘Father, I thank you for hearing my already. Bethany is only about two miles prayer. I knew indeed that you EITHER OF OUR always hear me, but I speak for the CHURCHES UNTIL from Jerusalem, and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to sympathise sake of all these who stand round FURTHER NOTICE with them over their brother. me, so that they may believe it was When Martha heard that Jesus had come you who sent me.’ FOR MORE INFORMATION she went to meet him. Mary remained When he had said this, he cried in a PLEASE SEE THE NEWSLETTER sitting in the house. Martha said to loud voice, ‘Lazarus, here! Come out!’ ON OUR PARISH WEBSITE Jesus, ‘If you had been here, my brother The dead man came out, his feet and hands bound with bands of stuff and a www.victorgoolwacatholic.org.au/ would not have died, but I know that, cloth round his face. Jesus said to them, news.html even now, whatever you ask of God, he will grant you.’ ‘Your brother’ said Jesus ‘Unbind him, let him go free.’ to her ‘will rise again.’ Martha said, ‘I Many of the Jews who had come to VICTOR HARBOR/GOOLWA know he will rise again at the visit Mary and had seen what he did CATHOLIC PARISH HOUSE resurrection on the last day.’ Jesus said: believed in him. 32 Seaview Road (PO Box 464) ‘I am the resurrection and the life. VICTOR HARBOR SA 5211 If anyone believes in me, even \ Telephone: 8552 1084 (Please leave a though he dies he will live, and Jesus Christ, you traveled through message if the Office is unattended - we whoever lives and believes in me will towns and villages “curing every will get back to you asap) never die. Do you believe this?’ disease and illness.” At your command, Email: [email protected] the sick were made well. Come to our Web: www.victorgoolwacatholic.org.au ‘Yes, Lord,’ she said ‘I believe that you aid now, in the midst of the global are the Christ, the Son of God, the one spread of the coronavirus, that we may PARISH TEAM CONTACTS who was to come into this world.’ experience your healing love. (K Weber) • PARISH PRIEST When she had said this, she went and Fr Vinh-Quang Tran (8552 1084; called her sister Mary, saying in a low in an emergency - 0429 098 802) voice, ‘The Master is here and wants to THIS WEEK’S READINGS Email: [email protected] see you.’ Hearing this, Mary got up (30 March - 05 April) quickly and went to him. Jesus had not • Monday, 30: Mon, 5th week Lent (Dan 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62; Jn • PARISH MANAGERS yet come into the village; he was still at the place where Martha had met him. 8:1-11) Mr Ray Klecko (0438 364 870) When the Jews who were in the house th Mrs Pat Clingan (0410 593 617) • Tuesday, 31: Tues, 5 week Lent sympathising with Mary saw her get up (Num 21:4-9; Jn 8:21-30) Email: [email protected] so quickly and go out, they followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb • Wednesday, 01: Wed, 5th week Lent • PARISH NEWSLETTER to weep there. (Dan 3:14-20, 24-25, 28) Please forward items for the newsletter Mary went to Jesus, and as soon as she • Thursday, 02: Thur, 5th week Lent to the Parish Office - ph 8552 1084 or saw him she threw herself at his feet, (Gen 17:3-9; Jn 8:51-59) [email protected]) saying, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my th (All items for the newsletter must be received • Friday, 03: Fri, 5 week Lent (Jer no later than Wednesday evening) brother would not have died.’ At the 20:10-13; Jn 10:31-42) sight of her tears, and those of the Jews th who followed her, Jesus said in great • Saturday, 04: Sat, 5 week Lent PARISH TREASURER • distress, with a sigh that came straight (Ezek 37:21-28; Jn 11:45-56) Mr Merv Mallett (0412 103 443) from the heart, ‘Where have you put • Sunday 05: PALM SUNDAY (Is Email: [email protected] him?’ They said, ‘Lord, come and see.’ 50:4-7; Phil 2:6-11; Mt 26:14-27:66)

CHILD PROTECTION PASTORAL CARE Child Protection Unit 8210 8159 If you need a Priest for anointing of the sick or last rites Cathy May (Goolwa - 0401 584 237) contact: Noarlunga/Seaford (8382 1717), Willunga (0488 287 552), Parish Office (Victor Harbor 8552 1084) Victor Harbor/Goolwa (8552 1084), Kangaroo Island (0418 819 078).

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