The Transfiguration of the Lord Embracing the communities of Year B, 1 August, 2021 Cherbourg, Durong, Goomeri, Murgon, Proston and Wondai Unity sity … ¾ one rt r Baptm! August is the month of Transfiguration the Immaculate Heart It is said that the only constant in But is that a problem? of Mary life is change. In other words, the only thing that doesn’t change is that We reached out into the streets to Pope’s Prayer Intention for August the men. We journeyed with them things will change. When I arrived Universal intention: The Church at Corpus Christi Community – and invited them to come and Let us pray for the Church, that she Greenvale, it was run down. The care live with us. Their alcoholism was may receive from the Holy Spirit the and hygiene were not one would understood and no attempt was grace and strength to reform herself expect is a facility run for the care made to reform them – they were in the light of the Gospel. of the dying and homeless. accepted. The hymn, “Come as you are”, was the anthem. All staff caring for the men were volunteers. Each of the three wards But over the years the health care Masses Times – this week (wings) was overseen by a Mercy increased leaps and bounds. The Tuesday, 3 August sister. But these sisters were not professional care and protocols Gayndah, noon nurses, but retired teachers (the meant that the men were better youngest being in her mid-seventies). and more professionally cared for. Wednesday, 4 August The rest of the volunteers were from The place looked wonderful and Wondai, 5.00pm all walks of life. I myself had just left the smell of unwashed homeless people was gone. It had changed. Thursday, 5 August the army after fourteen years. But Murgon, 5.00pm the appearance of the place was Was it better, or had it betrayed its not what it was: it was a place of roots? The answer is that it changed. Friday, 6 August acceptance. Homeless alcoholics As with all change there is a cost Castra, 9.00am and a benefit. It was different. The at the end of life were treated with Saturday, 7 August important things was what lay under dignity and love. Instead of super Proston, 9.00am the structure – the men. Were they clean hospital rooms, the men’s Wondai, 5.00pm rooms were their own It was about respected and loved? Was the dignity. On man, Joe, thought that dignity of each of God’s children Sunday, 8 August hygiene was overrated. The state of treasured? Today we celebrate the Murgon, 8.00am his room spoke to this. Transfiguration. In the Transfiguration Durong, 10.30am the essence of Jesus is shown to all Goomeri, 6.00pm After I left, government money came and the triumph of love guaranteed. into the community. The staff were the professionally qualified people Fr Bryan Pipins SJ Today’s readings and volunteers were discouraged. Daniel 7:9-10,13-14; Peter 1:16-19 A volunteer would reduce overtime Mark 9:2-10 and the penalty rates of the qualified Response: staff. When I returned to the community I despaired that what The Lord is king, the most high over I treasured in the community had all the earth. gone. Gospel Acclamation: Years later it is vastly different again. Alleluia, alleluia! This is my Son, It is a sterile nursing home for old my beloved, in whom is all my delight: men. Protocols are in place and all listen to him. Alleluia! regulations are followed strictly. It is Next Sunday: Kings 17:8-16; not the place in which I lived in 1994. Colossians 3:12-17; Matthew 6:25-34 The Congregation of Clerics Regular became known as the Theatines, after the title of one of the co-founders, Giovanni Pietro Caraffa, the Bishop Parish Directory, of Chieti (Theate in Latin), who later Saint Joseph’s Parish became Pope Paul IV. Parish Priest: Rev Fr Bryan Pipins SJ The order took their vows of poverty, Tel: Parish Office,0499 006 959 chastity and obedience seriously. Parish e-mail: [email protected] Saint Cajetan – At the age of 42, Cajetan founded 24 Angel Avenue, MURGON a hospital for 'incurables' in Venice, PO Box 60 Murgon 4605 6th August and worked to comfort and heal the Parish website: sick during times of 'pestilence'. As with most things, the Catholic murgon.brisbanecatholic.org.au Church has a saint for these times. Likely, many of the sick he tended to Saint Cajetan, the patron saint for were victims of the bubonic plague, the unemployed, knew something which resurfaced frequently in the Collection for 25/7/2021 of poverty and pestilence. town of Venice, an international Loose .................................. $455.10 trade hub. He was the son of a nobleman, Planned Giving ................ $461.70 worked for a pope, became a priest, In 1533, the pope sent Cajetan to Total .................................... $916.80 was a conduit of miraculous healings, Naples, where he founded another Direct Debit BSB 064-786 founded a bank, and was a friend to oratory. The corresponding church, Account 100011987 the poor. San Paolo Maggiore, became Saint Cajetan was born on 1 October, an important hub of Catholic 1487 in Vicenza, Italy. He was the reformation. We pray for those who are sick: youngest of three sons born to While in Naples, Cajetan became Noa van Elswijk; Annette McCory; Gaspar, Count of Thiene, and dangerously sick, and offered his Val Iacono. Maria Porto, a devout woman who sufferings for the conversion of consecrated Cajetan to the Blessed the people of Naples, reportedly Virgin Mary at a young age and saw refusing to be transferred from the If you know anyone in need, to it that he received a religious planks of wood that served as his please contact Cecily Fry, education and upbringing. His father bed, so that he had more suffering to President, St Vincent de Paul died when he was just two years old. offer. He died on August 6th 1547, Conference, on 0437 864 667 In his 20s, Cajetan received degrees the feast of the Transfiguration, and in both civil and canon law from is buried in the San Paolo Maggiore the University of Padua, and shortly Basilica in Naples. Saint Vincent De Paul thereafter moved to Rome, where According to some accounts, the News – Winter Appeal he worked in the court of Pope Julian spiritual, political and social strife We are conducting our Winter II and assisted at the Fifth Lateran in the city of Naples ceased shortly Appeal during the month of July Council. after Cajetan’s death, confirming to and would appreciate help with When Pope Julius II died, Cajetan many the holiness of his life. giving out extra food, blankets and resigned his position in order to warm clothing. All proceeds from study for the priesthood, and he was this appeal will be spent here in this ordained in 1516 at the age of 36. Breast Screening Clinic, parish. There are three ways to help: Soon after he became a priest, Murgon 1) Put a donation in the Poor Box Cajetan and a small group of labelled 'Winter Appeal' Breast Screen Queensland like-minded priests founded the 2) Buy a raffle ticket at the Vinnies recommends that women aged Congregation of Clerics Regular, store in Murgon between 50 and 74 have a breast a community of priests seeking to 3) Give a donation to the stall we screen every two years. Women live like the apostles. are running on 30 July ie. cooking, in their 40s and over 74 are also Like their contemporary, Martin jams, pickles, winter items. Drop eligible for free breast screens in this Luther, Cajetan and his companions them into the shop before 30th programme. The screening van will were seeking to reform the Church, and then come and browse on be in Murgon for two visits. and especially the clergy – but the day. unlike Luther and his followers, they Murgon Hospital,1-3 September Hope you can help us in some way, believed this reformation could take Cherbourg Hospital, 14-16 September Kind regards, Cecily Fry place from within the Church itself..