<p> As we come and worship, we remember the wurundjeri people, the original custodians of this land ST JOSEPH THE WORKER FIRST READING Isaiah 35:4-7 ______NORTH RESERVOIR ______Then the ears of the deaf shall be opened and the tongues of the dumb speak. 79 Wilson Boulevard, North Reservoir 3073 Parish House/Office Tel: 9460 3013 Fax: 9460 8832 RESPONSORIAL PSALM SALMO RESPONSORIALE Email: [email protected] Praise the Lord, my soul! Loda il Signore, anima mia. www.stjosephtheworker.org.au School Tel: 9469 7800 Fax: 9462 2949 SECOND READING St James 2:1-5 SUNDAY MASS TIMES: Fr Emmanuel Bonello–Parish Priest WEEKDAY MASS TIMES: Has not God chosen the poor of the world to inherit the kingdom? Mb: 0431 643 674 Sat 6.00pm - English Sr Estelita Manabo-Pastoral Associate Mon. 9.10am Comm. Service GOSPEL ACCLAMATION CANTO AL VANGELO Sun. 9.00am - Italian Ms Marisa Steele -Acting School Principal Tue. 10.00am Italian Alleluia, Alleluia! Alleluia Alleluia, Sun. 10.30am – English Mrs Liz Pistoni – Parish Secretary Wed. 9.10am - English Jesus preached the Good News of the kingdom and Egli annuciava il Vangelo del Regno e Thur. 9.10am - English healed all who were sick. Alleluia! guariva ogni sorta di infermita’ nel Maltese Mass Fri. 9.10am - English Sat. 8.30am - English popolo. Alleluia. st 1 Saturday of the Month 6.00pm Sat. 8.30am - English GOSPEL Mark 7:31-37 Sat. 8.30am-English He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak. Baptisms – Sunday 12.00pm Reconciliation: Sat. 10.30am Marriages - By Appointment THANKS TO THOSE WHO GAVE LAST WEEK 1st Collection - Thanksgiving Offering…………………………..$657.00 - Loose Money…………………………………….$166.00 23rd Sunday, Year B 6 September 2015 2nd Collection - Presbytery………………………………………..$279.00</p><p>PLEASE NOTE THAT THOSE WHO ARE ROSTERED ON TO READ OR GIVE COMMUNION AT MASS Letting God In ARE KINDLY ASKED, IF POSSIBLE, TO ARRIVE 10 MINUTES BEFORE MASS STARTS There are many kinds of knowing. We can know something in our heads, like how to make a LECTORS - THIS WEEK 06/09/2015 SPECIAL MINISTERS pancake, or how a movie ends. Then there’s another kind of knowing, one we experience deep in our 6.00pm (SAT) – Maltese Mass (Selected) Maltese Mass (Selected) hearts. This kind of knowing relates to special moments in our lives when God touches us deeply 9.00am (SUN) – C Brunetti & G Barbaro D Biasibetti, P Leggiero & O Strangis and we move to a new level of awareness. This will often happen during periods of hardship or 10.30am (SUN) – Sr T Fitzsimmons & E Bartlett A Filippone, J Frangiosa, L DeMarco struggle. J Kearney & R Gatto We learn that the freshest water often flows out of the hardest rock. The hard places of our lives often yield the greatest wisdom, if we can let them become our teacher, we are all, to some degree, LECTORS – NEXT WEEK 13/09/2015 SPECIAL MINISTERS like the man healed by Jesus in today’s gospel. He is certainly in a hard place. He can do nothing for 6.00pm (SAT) G Canavan & D Pullicino M Mizzi & R Iuele himself. He needs the crowd to ask Jesus to come and heal him. We see how God’s healing spirit 9.00am (SUN) – L Calafiore & F Pascuzzi T Mirigliano, S Lobartolo & R DeZan acts through Jesus’ feelings, and his eyes and touch. This miracle of his healing touch is extended to 10.30am (SUN) – C Antonio & J Kearney A Gatto, J Iaria, J Kearney, S Miano the man in those places wherein he is imperfect and deficient, in other words, Jesus addresses the & S Rottura sources of the man’s suffering. It’s not fashionable these days to admit failure and neediness, but doing so, even if only in our own hearts, can help to empty our soul of ego. We can convince ourselves that God calls only the noble, MONEY COUNTERS 07/09/2015 D Herbert & S Dakin the sinless, the strong, certainly not people as flawed and needy as we are. This sort of ‘knowing’ 14/09/2015 J & J Kearney, E Bartlett, C McMahon & S Dakin needs to be left behind, for as the song says, ‘There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in’. Spiritual growth usually happens in the depths of failure and the valleys of helplessness. Today’s gospel shows us, if we still need convincing, that Jesus walks among the humble, the needy and the YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR THE FOLLOWING lost. He is at home in such company. RECENTLY DECEASED Like the deaf man, when we accept our weaknesses and needs, we invite God in. They can become Fr Frank MARTIN, Anthony DE BATTISTA, Caterina DAMIANO, , Maria ROMEO, Vincenzo DE CUNTO, the door by which God’s spirit touches us. Our God of love can embrace our imperfections as he embraced those of the deaf man, the sinner and the thief. Yet it takes a pretty strong kind of faith, a ANNIVERSARIES deep level of knowing, to believe that God welcomes us just as we are, and responds to who we Dolores AGIUS, Bartalomeo & Giovanna LA GRECH, Bartolo & Giuseppina RANDO, Guido TRAPANI, really are. We all need God to touch our minds, hearts and bodies with healing love. When we Giuseppe MARINO, Giuseppe TARANTO, Francesco CONTE, Francesco & Giuseppe TORCASO, really look into our hearts, we find out that we are among the little ones, the poor, the sick, the needy, Silvano Gianni PEDRON, Luciano GRANIERI,Antonio RISOLI, Gerardo & Antonio ALBERTI, and the lost, who are so close to the heart of God. Jean Vanier reminds us that ‘It is a deep Domenico RUGGIERO, Matteo RICCIO,Giuseppe AMATO, Michelangelo Giovanni & Michael BUTERA, Vincenzo & Fidelma CIPOLLA, Alfredo CIPOLLA, Domenico & Anna ZOCCHIUZZI, experience knowing that we are loved and held by God in all our brokenness and littleness’. Antonio VILLELLA, Felice BRUNO, Gennaro FALVO, Giovanni , Luigi & Pasquale VILLELLA, Cont…. Amen to that! Details and RSVP: [email protected] or 9926 5727</p><p>HAPPY FATHER’S DAY Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers and men in our parish that they and their families, will always FATHER’S DAY APPEAL FOR SICK AND RETIRED recognise with joy the value of their role in the family. Thank you to all fathers and men for their service PRIESTS OF MELBOURNE in family and community. May God bless them with every goodnes and kindness. </p><p>This weekend Father’s Day we will have a special leaving collection to ITALIAN COMMITTEE contributing to the Priests’ Retirement Foundation which cares for the Retired and Sick Priests. There are Martedi 8 Settembre, breve riunione dei membri del comitato per la preparazione della festa della 87 retired priests, 68 of them are age between 75 & 90, 15 between 66 & 75. Most of them have served in Madonna del S. Rosario, ore 9.00am in cappella. Segue S. Messa ore 10.00am. parishes for nearly 50 years and over. Some healthy over 80 are still helping out. “Caring for those who la Santa Messa sara’ celebrata in onore della nascita’ della nostra Madonna, e per tutti i nostri cari papa’, cared” is the motto of the Priests retirement Foundation established by Archbishop Frank Little in 1990. nonni, mariti defunti. Portate una loro fotografia che sara’ posta intorno all’altare. Tutti benvenuti. The Father’s Day appeal for sick and retired priests has been practised since 1907. </p><p>FUNERALS Envelopes for the appeal are availabe in the church on the seats. You can put your contribution in the Rosary for Maria Romeo will be recited on Wednesday 9 September at 10.30am followed by Funeral envelope and hand it out at the leaving collection. Feel free to take the envelope and send by post your Mass. cheque or credit contribution direct to the Priest Retirement Foundation. Contributions of $2 or more are Rosary for Vincenzo De Cunto will be recited on Thursday 10 September at 10.15am followed by tax deductable and will be recorded. Written receipts of $5 or more will be posted to contributors as soon Funeral Mass. as the Foundation office can process them. For this reason you need to write your name and address on the envelope. MEMORIAL MASS Friday 11 September 7.30pm – Rosa Sinopoli (1 mth) The Foundation remains grateful to the Catholic people of Melbourne who so generously respond having last year’s Father’s Day collection with an amount of $562,000 which is 20% of the whole cost FEAST ($3,000,000) to care for all the sick and ritered priests in one year. Other 40% is generated from the tax Tuesday 8 September – The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Presbytery income which comes from our second collection, Funeral, Wedding and Baptism offering and Christmas and Easter offerings. The rest comes from some investments established by Archbishop SOLENNE CELEBRAZIONE ALLA VERGINE DEL S. ROSARIO DOMENICA 4 OTTOBRE Little in 1990. Nella nostra parrocchia di San Giuseppe Lavoratore The Priests retirement Foundation which depends on your support, has in the last twelve months, assisted PROGRAMMA our Achbishop Hart in caring for about one hundred sick and retired priests, as the Archbishop himself Ore 2.00PM said in his message on the Appeal Envelope: “I would be most grateful if you can contribute to the Preghiere e Inni. Father’s Day Appeal for our retired priests. … Your generous donations have ensured a normal living for Processione con la statua our priests who have served actively in the Archdiocese, but who are now elderly and frail”. Recita del S. Rosario con i Misteri presentati dai bambini. </p><p>Ore 3.00PM MADONNA DI MONTEVERGINE ADELAIDE TRIP Santa Messa 4 day trip to Adelaide for Madonna Di Montevergine Religious festival concelebrata con Monsignor Carmelo Refalo da Malta, Departing: 25 September Return 28 September Padre Emanuele Bonello e Padre Giuseppe Yu. Twin share accommodation Preghiera di affidamento alla Madonna. Cooked breakfast Benedizione con il S.S.. Sacramento ai malati e famiglie. 3 dinners 1 morning tea Coach travel FEAST OF MARIA BAMBINA Cost: $480.00 per person. For bookings and enquiries please ring Angela Koutsodontis on 9462 1599 Reskeon Maltese Association Seniors Group, on behalf of the Missionary Society of St Paul, are organising the Feast of Marija Bambina on Tuesday 8 September, 7.00pm Mass at St Paul’s Chapel, Ievers St., Parkville (near the Maltese Centre). Anniversaries Cont….. On Sunday 13 September, the Feast of Maria Bambina at St Mary Star of the Sea Church, Howard St, Ermegildo DIAMANTA, Angela ROCCO, Rafaelo & Giuseppe CENTOFANTI, Michele CHIODO, Famiglia CALIGIURI,Vita & Vincenzo MONITTO, Pippo BELLOMO, Francesca BONGIOVANNI, West Melbourne. 2.30 pm Rosary, followed by Mass and Procession with the Statue accompanied by the Vito & Giuseppe DEL ZOTTI, Francesco PARLATI, Domenico PICCONE, Antonio DI GUGLIELMO, Malta Gozo Concert Band. On Saturday 12 September, the Bambina Dinner Dance, Firenze Receptions, Antonio GRAHOR, Matteo & Janez ZELE, Michele INZITARI, Berardino & Gaetano DI SALLE, McBryde St, Fawkner, 5 course meal, $52 a head. The Maltese Community and others are invited to Francesco DEL GIUDICE, Bartolo “Bob” PALAMARA, Saverio COLOSIMO, Giuseppe & Natale FATO, attend. Phone 9460-4404 Mobile 0409 961 928. Antonio & Beniamino PASCUZZI, Matteo NAPOLITANO, Nazaro SOCCIO, Domenico & Vincenzo CRUPI Francesco BARRESI, Franco SCARAMUZZINO, Giuseppe & Antonina CATALANO, AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS SOCIAL JUSTICE STATEMENT Domenico & Domenica VARRENTI, Michele & Luciano NICOLAZZO, Ferdinando BRUSCO PUBLIC LAUNCH - Tuesday 15 September, 1pm 131–141 Harbourside Esplanade, Docklands Bishop Vincent Long OFMConv will launch the 2015 Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement, ‘For Those Who’ve Come Across the Seas’. All are welcome.</p>