Welcome to Kangaroo Island Catholic Community (Part of the Fleurieu and Kangaroo Island Cluster of Catholic Parishes) SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - YEAR C Vol 7 : No 09 KANGAROO ISLAND CATHOLIC PARISH Parish House: 22 Giles Street, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223 Phone: 8553 2132 Postal address: PO Box 749, KINGSCOTE, SA 5223 Email: [email protected] Web: www.kicatholic.org.au NOARLUNGA DOWNS CATHOLIC PRESBYTERY FIRST READING all of them. The particular way in Phone: 8382 1717 Isaiah 62:1-5 which the Spirit is given to each About Zion I will not be silent, about person is for a good purpose. One PARISH TEAM CONTACTS Jerusalem I will not grow weary, may have the gift of preaching with PARISH PRIEST until her integrity shines out like the wisdom given him by the Spirit; Fr Josy Sebastian (8382 1717; dawn and her salvation flames like a another may have the gift of in emergency - 0452 524 169) torch. preaching instruction given him by the same Spirit; and another the gift Fr Roy John (8382 1717) The nations then will see your of faith given by the same Spirit; integrity, all the kings your glory, another again the gift of healing, PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL and you will be called by a new through this one Spirit; one, the Mr Peter Clark (8559 5131) name, one which the mouth of the power of miracles; another, Lord will confer. You are to be a prophecy; another the gift of PARISH NEWSLETTER crown of splendour in the hand of recognising spirits; another the gift Mr Peter Clark (8559 5131, the Lord, a princely diadem in the of tongues and another the ability to [email protected]) hand of your God; interpret them. All these are the (All items for the newsletter must be no longer are you to be named work of one and the same Spirit, received no later than Tuesday ‘Forsaken’, nor your land who distributes different gifts to evening.) ‘Abandoned’, but you shall be called different people just as he chooses. ‘My Delight’ and your land ‘The MASS CENTRES Wedded’; for the Lord takes delight GOSPEL ACCLAMATION • KINGSCOTE: Our Lady of in you and your land will have its 2 Thess 2:14 Perpetual Help, Cnr Giles/Todd Sts wedding. Alleluia, alleluia! Sunday - 9.30am God has called us with the gospel Like a young man marrying a virgin, to share in the glory of our Lord • PARNDANA: Uniting Church, so will the one who built you wed Jesus Christ. Cook Street you, and as the bridegroom rejoices Alleluia! 2nd Sunday - 2.30pm in his bride, so will your God rejoice in you. GOSPEL • PENNESHAW: St Columba’s John 2:1-11 Anglican Church, Cnr North RESPONSORIAL PSALM Terrace and Fourth Street Ps 95:1-3, 7-10 There was a wedding at Cana in 1st Sunday - 1.30pm Proclaim his marvellous deeds Galilee. The mother of Jesus was to all the nations. there, and Jesus and his disciples had SPONSORSHIP also been invited. When they ran out KANGAROO ISLAND SECOND READING of wine, since the wine provided for TRANSFERS (0427 887 575) 1 Corinthians 12:4-11 the wedding was all finished, the generously donate transport for our There is a variety of gifts but always mother of Jesus said to him, ‘They visiting Priests. the same Spirit; there are all sorts of have no wine.’ Jesus said ‘Woman, service to be done, but always to the why turn to me? My hour has not CHILD PROTECTION same Lord; working in all sorts of come yet.’ His mother said to the Child Protection Unit 8210 8159 different ways in different people, it servants, ‘Do whatever he tells you.’ is the same God who is working in There were six stone water jars (Continued page 4) January 19/20, 2019 • Page 1 12 1. Peace MarchKangaroo on Palm Sunday Island 25th March Catholic Parish Mass Roster PARISH NOTICES 27th Jan: Readers: A Clark, A Gibbs. Mass next week : Fr. Josy. Gifts: Clark family. Kingscote 9:30 AM Sp. Ministers: K Florence, K Hammatt. Confession available 30 min before mass. Cleaning / Coffee: A Clark. Parish Council next week after Mass. WorlD Youth Day ADelaiDe Mass: Please pray for………. 5:00 pm SunDay 27 January at SacreD Heart Josephine Sexton, Skyla Davidson, Noeline College Somerton Park. Thomas, Charles and Sue Gorman, John Slagter, Cheryl Scopazzi, Pat Hadland, Christian Hadland. World Youth Day Adelaide is fast approaching, but Mei Kuen Sexton and Elizabeth Schoolbread. it’s not too late to be part of the action. Sacred Heart College in Somerton Park will come alive on Fr. Jim Honner. Sunday January 27 for an event featuring live May all our sick parishioners, relatives and performances from some of Australia’s best friends know the healing love of Christ through musicians, a range of workshops and speaker our actions and His healing presence. panels discussing topics including environmental Jesus did this as the beginning of his protection and social justice, food vans, a rock- signs at Cana in Galilee climbing wall, merchandise, a live broadcast from and so revealed his glory. 1079 Life FM and a youth-led Mass. Tickets are “They have no wine.” only $20 each and can be purchased online at “So what?” www.cathyouthadelaide.org.au/wyd or at the gate. For more information, please contact Peter “Do whatever he tells you.” From that instant she left it to him. Bierer at the Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults, or see the blue poster at the back of the To us: Church. “Do whatever he tells you. “Love God, love your neighbour, Frs Selva Raj Leenaiah and Jack Otto SJ have make a home for the Spirit.” generously accepted their appointments to serve Help us leave our Parishes under the leadership of Fr. Josy. everything to you, Lord. A full list of Archdiocesan appointments for 2019 approved by Bishop O’Kelly is available from Peter We are water. Clark Turn us into wine. Catholic D ! Ron Rolheiser column Ronald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He is a community-builder, lecturer and writer. His books are popular throughout the English-speaking world and his weekly column is carried by more than sixty newspapers worldwide. WENDY BECKETT – RIP audience but also brought scorn from must, like little children, be No community should botch its a number of critics. They mocked protected from the erotic so that deaths. The renowned her simplicity of language, criticized even while they’re supposed to be anthropologist, Mircea Eliade, her for not being more critical of the doctors of the soul they should be suggested this and its truth applies to art she presented, and were put off shielded from the deep impulses and communities at every level. No by that fact that she, a consecrated secrets of the soul. Sr. Wendy didn’t family should send off a member virgin, could so comfortably discuss buy that. Neither should we. Chastity without proper reflection, ritual, and sensuality and the nude human body. is not intended to be that kind of blessings. They found it difficult to digest that naiveté. this pious woman, a consecrated On December 26th, 2018, the family virgin, clad in a traditional religious Full disclosure: I had a personal link of art and the family of faith lost a habit, sporting thick glasses and to Sr. Wendy. Many years ago, when cherished member. Sr. Wendy buck-teeth, could be so much at ease I was young and still searching for Beckett, aged 88, famed art critic, with sensuality. Robert Hughes, of my own voice as a spiritual writer, committed woman of faith, and Time magazine, once mocked her as she sent me a large, beautifully- nurturing friend to many, died. Since a “relentlessly chatty pseudo-hermit framed, print of Paul Klee’s, famous 1970, Sr. Wendy had been living as a with her signature teeth” whose 1923 painting, Eros. For the past 29 consecrated virgin and hermit on the observations were “pitched to a 15- years it has hung on a wall behind grounds of a Carmelite convent in year-old” audience. Germaine Greer my computer screen so that I see it England, praying for several hours a challenged her competence to every time I write and it has helped day, translating religious tracts, and describe erotic art given the fact that me understand that it’s God’s color, going to daily Eucharist. she was a consecrated virgin. God’s light, and God’s energy that inform erotic longing. Early on, after choosing this way of Sr. Wendy mostly smiled at these life, she began to study art history, criticisms and countered them this In 1993, while visiting the started writing articles for way: “I’m not a critic”, she would monastery where Sr. Wendy lived, I magazines, and published the first of say, “I am an appreciator”. As to her had the opportunity to go out to a more than 30 books on art. In 1991, comfort with sensuality and the nude restaurant with her. Our waiter was she did a short BBC documentary on body, she would answer that just initially taken aback by her television and was an immediate hit because she was committed to traditional religious habit. With some with a wide audience. She soon celibacy did not mean that she was trepidation he timidly asked her: began to host her own BBC show, not fully appreciative of human “Sister, might I bring you some Sister Wendy’s Odyssey, which was sensuality, sexuality, and the beauty water?” She flashed her trademark so popular it sometimes attracted one of the human body – all of it.