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St Joan of Arc Parish Haberfield
Parish Priest: Fr Phillip Zadro
Presbytery Office: 97 Dalhousie St Haberfield NSW 2045
P: 02 9798 6657 E: [email protected] W: www.stjoanofarc.org.au
Parish Secretary: Tuesday – Wednesday 9.30am—2.30pm
3rd September, 2017
YEAR A 22ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
A reading from the prophet Jeremiah 20:79 You have seduced me, Lord, and I have let myself be seduced; you have overpowered me: you were the stronger. I am a daily laughing-stock, everybody's butt. Each time I speak the word, I have to howl and proclaim: 'Violence and ruin!' The word of the Lord has meant for me insult, derision, all day long. I used to say, 'I will not think about him, I will not speak in his name any more.' Then there seemed to be a fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones. The effort to restrain it wearied me, I could not bear it. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Responsorial Psalm 62:2-6. 8-9 R. My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God. O God, you are my God, for you I long; for you my soul is thirsting. My body pines for you like a dry, weary land without water. R. So I gaze on you in the sanctuary to see your strength and your glory. For your love is better than life, my lips will speak your praise. R. So I will bless you all my life, in your name I will lift up my hands. My soul shall be filled as with a banquet, my mouth shall praise you with joy. R. For you have been my help; in the shadow of your wings I rejoice. My soul clings to you; your right hand holds me fast. R. A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 12:1-2 Think of God's mercy, my brothers, and worship him, I beg you, in a way that is worthy of thinking beings, by offering your living bodies as a holy sacrifice, truly pleasing to God. Do not model yourselves on the behaviour of the world around you, but let your behaviour change, modelled by your new mind. This is the only way to discover the will of God and know what is good, what it is that God wants, what is the perfect thing to do. The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Gospel Acclamation Ephesians 1:17. 18 Alleluia, alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our heart, that we might see how great is the hope to which we are called. Alleluia! A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew 16:21-27 Jesus began to make it clear to his disciples that he was destined to go to Jerusalem and suffer grievously at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, to be put to death and to be raised up on the third day. Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. 'Heaven preserve you, Lord,' he said. 'This must not happen to you.' But he turned and said to Peter, 'Get behind me, Satan! You are an obstacle in my path, because the way you think is not God's way but man's.' Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life? 'For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and, when he does, he will reward each one according to his behaviour.' The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
© LabOra Worship Liturgy Brisbane 2017
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Reflection “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him… take up his cross and follow me.”
Thinking people have always wondered what a truly good person would be like and how everyone else would interact with such a
person. Usually the prognosis is not a good one. In one famous example from the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the future for a
truly moral person is said to hold: “flogging, torture on the rack, imprisonment in chains, having his eyes burnt out, and every ordeal
in the book, up to and including being impaled on a stake. Then at last he’ll realise that one’s goal should be not actual morality, but
the appearance of morality.” So even the religious thinkers before the time of Jesus thought that a truly good person would be turned
upon by the rest of humanity. The Old Testament echoes this thinking. In the Wisdom of Solomon, when considering the life of a
righteous man, the unjust say about him: “the very sight of him is a burden to us… let us test him with insult and torture… let us
condemn him to a shameful death”.
So, far from being an escapist view of the world, or a sort of emotional security blanket, the religious concept of living always had a realistic, unflinching view of fallen humanity. The pride, dislocation and envy described is a true portrait of people at their worst.
However, we also believe that, despite the Fall, humanity is still basically good. We also believe that God still loves us and thinks our
humanity worth redeeming. Even if we have given up on humanity, God has not.
Jesus is that righteous and truly good man dreamed of by Plato and foretold by the Old Testament. Joined to his divinity, his humanity
is entirely untouched by defect or evil. It was his goal in life to heal and restore our fallen humanity. This, he knew, would cost him his
life. It was through his priestly offering of himself that this would be accomplished. Jesus is saviour, priest and victim. All the
sacrifices of the Old Testament pointed towards the one definitive sacrifice of Calvary. The priesthood of the Old Testament was a
foreshadowing of the high priesthood of Christ when at last he came. John the Baptist spoke for them all when he said of Jesus: “He
must increase, I must decrease.”
Pride and its consequences, dislocation and violence, are at the heart of humanity’s rebellion against God. Pride, dislocation and
violence have become the inherited spiritual traits of the human race. Only God has the power to heal such a disaster, and only someone fully human could do it meaningfully. It was to heal us from the inside, as it were, that Jesus took on our humanity and
suffered such a terrible death. God could have restored and healed everything by a simple act of will, but out of love for us, what can
be termed solidarity, God became one of us and lived out the consequences to the full.
We might hesitate to consider the application of all this to our own lives. However, Jesus makes it clear in his teaching what the
application is: “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me.” Left to
ourselves, this would be daunting, even impossible, task. However, through the help of grace we can respond generously to this
challenge. The sacrament of baptism conforms us spiritually to the cross and death of Christ, so we already have a disposition to
follow him. The Eucharist makes present his sacrificial death on Calvary, so that we can be strengthened by the power of Christ
himself. Through his victory over suffering and death, we are given the strength to bear our own cross. When we fail in this calling,
the sacrament of reconciliation is there to heal us and restore us.
Does this mean we should seek out suffering and sorrow? Surely not. We are here to flourish, but in doing so suffering will inevitably come our way. It is how we react to it that is crucial. We can accept and integrate it as part of our vocation to be fully human, or we
can try to avoid it and resent it. In trying to become a fully good person we will come up against many difficulties. Some will be
rooted in our own sins, others will be external temptations and difficulties. However, it is to this great vocation that Jesus is
summoning us today.
The Living Word
The Archbishop of Sydney in his commitment to ensuring
the safety of children, young people and vulnerable adults
in our community established, in November 2015, the Safeguarding and Ministerial Integrity Office (Safeguarding
Office).
The role of the Safeguarding Office is to communicate the child protection policy and raise awareness regarding our
collective responsibility to protect the safety and well being
of children and the vulnerable. The policy applies to all of us, within the Archdiocese, who
may be expected to have contact with children in the
course of our respective ministry. That includes myself as Parish Priest, our Parish Secretary and all volunteers.
Therefore, together we all need to know and understand how integral our roll is in safeguarding children and those
that find themselves in a vulnerable situation.
The Safeguarding Office recommends that all volunteers attend an induction session on the child protection policy
and sign a code of conduct for working with children.
EUCHARISTIC FAST. Those who receive holy communion are to abstain for one hour beforehand from all food and drink with the exception of water and medicine. This does not apply to the elderly, the sick and those who care for them, or to priests celebrating a second or third Mass on a given day. It most strongly recommended that the faithful receive holy communion in the course of a Eucharistic celebration. CCL 918-919
Do you know what this is?
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In keeping with the Privacy Act names cannot be published in our Parish Bulletin
without the permission of the persons themselves or their next of kin. Please specify
on your Mass Envelope your intention to include the person’s name in this Bulletin
or contact the Parish Office on 9798 6657
HAPPY FATHER’S DAY
Vigil 5.00pm: For deceased Fathers
9.00am: For the people of the
Parish
(Pro Popolo)
6.00pm: For Fathers
Grandfathers
Great-Grandfathers
ROSTER for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary time Scripture Readings for next week: First Reading: Ezekiel 33:7-9
Second Reading: Romans 13:8-10
Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20 Scripture Readers for next week:
Saturday Vigil: Kevin Ingham, Marea Dorman
Sunday 9.00am: Maria De Grazia, Tracey Baxter
Sunday 6.00pm: Maria Greenaway
Mina Nohra Ministers of Communion for next week:
Saturday Vigil: Enrica Bova, Maria Del Vecchio
Sunday 9.00am: Grace Mediati, Peter Doyle
Sunday 6.00pm: Carmelina De Francesco Children’s Liturgy for next week:
Sunday 9.00am Dominique Marturia
LORD, WE PRAY WELCOME HOME THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
Recently Deceased: Nina Pavan, Sebastiana Pettinato,
Rocco Fedele, David Ricigliano, Fulvio Mele, Sarina
Tringali, Sr Patricia Shinners, Silvestro Tiano, Concettina
Cavallaro, Sarina Torrisi, Alim Lin, Gaetano Caldarola Rest in Peace: Mario Callegar, Graziella Lo Giudice,
William Edouard Clair, Gaspare D’Onofrio, Antonio
Digiantomaso, Assuntina Perri, Domenico & Olimpia
Spadaro, Maria Andreacchio, Tony Attard, Antonio
Cardillo, Pietro Banno, Immacolata Angilletta, Bruno
Brancatisano, Giuseppina Di Nallo, Rosa Tindiglia, Luigi
Barbarti, Dominic & Catherine Sidoti, Mark Ingham,
Lattari & Aversa families, John & Kathleen Huie, Pietrina
& Francesco Natoli, Carmel Natoli-Aiello, Maria Pia
Perez-Natoli, John & Moya Phillips, Mons Dino
Fragiacomo, Fr Frank Furfaro & All Souls in Purgatory. In your love and concern please pray for the following
ill members of our community: James Tuite, Rosa
Santos, Brian Croke, Monica Christensen, Elisha Lau,
Aitken Family, Liz Smith, Pat Rankine, J Robilliard, Jerry
Andre, Donna Neeley, Adeline Ashing, Anne Simington,
Annelise Buda, Giovanni Luci, Stephan Ferenc, Giancarlo
Budda, Mario Bianco, Tony Sulfaro
The Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Holy
Communion for St Joan of Arc Parish young people:
Children attending St Joan of Arc School
First Reconciliation: 7pm Wednesday, 25th October, 2017
First Communion: 10.30am Sunday, 20th & 27th August, 2017
Children attending Schools other than St Joan of Arc School
First Reconciliation: 7pm Wednesday, 6th September, 2017
First Communion: 10.30am Sunday, 26th November, 2017
(Preparation classes start Sundays 4 weeks before sacrament date -
Please contact Greg Hill, our Sacramental co-ordinator at
[email protected] for more information and to register)
We invite you to share in the Sacraments of:
EUCHARIST:
Saturday Vigil: ……………………………………..5.00pm
Italian Mass:……………………………...6.15pm
Sunday Mass: ..……………………….9.00am & 6.00pm
Tuesday (Preferred day and time for 1 month & 1 year of
anniversary of death Masses - must be booked)…...7.30pm
Wednesday, Thursday ………………………………9.00am
Friday …………………………………………9.15am
RECONCILIATION
Saturday 4:30pm
BAPTISM
Celebrated on the SECOND and FOURTH Sunday of the
month at 11.00am MARRIAGE
Arrangements for a wedding must be made at least four months
in advance. Attendance at a Pre-Marriage Course is encouraged. ANOINTING OF THE SICK
We are pleased to administer the Sacrament of the Sick to those
in need. The Eucharist will also be brought to those who are ill
or housebound upon request. Please notify the Presbytery if
members of your family or other parishioners are in need of the
Eucharist. CHILDREN’S LITURGY
During 9am Mass Sundays during school term St Joan of Arc School
Principal: Bernard Carey
Office Phone 9798 9780 St Joan of Arc Villa
Manager: Gerry Renouf
Office Phone: 9799 8753
FEAST DAYS
Friday 8th September The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Dear Parishioners, My name is Grace and I am the Concord Deanery coordinator for the upcoming Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF). If you would like to know more about ACYF or have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact me on 0476 143 279 or [email protected], or view the ACYF website here: http://youthfestival.catholic.org.au/ Yours in Christ through Mary, Grace Ukich Youth Ministry Coordinator | ACYF Concord Deanery Coordinator “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.” Jn 10:10
ACT NOW TO DEFEND MARRIAGE
A change in the marriage law has consequences
for all Australians, and particularly for people of
faith. It is crucial that you have your say. Visit
www.coalitionformarriage.com.au for more
information, to volunteer or to donate.
Vote No, to keep marriage as a unique
relationship between a woman and a man.
FEAST OF PADRE PIO
Mass 11am Sunday
10th September, 2017
St Joan of Arc Church Celebrant: Fr Phillip Zadro
“Pray, wait, and do not worry. Worrying is useless. God is
merciful and will listen to your prayer... Prayer is the best
weapon we have; it is the key to the heart of God. You
should speak to Jesus, not only with your lips but with
your heart. In reality, in some occasions you should speak
to Him with the heart….”
Padre Pio
There will be light refreshments, following Mass, in the Mother Teresa courtyard.
Calling all Year 4,5 and 6,
You are all invited to our First Youth Mass
on Sunday 10th September at 6 pm
at the St Joan of Arc Church.
This will be a very special celebration of us as a
community . There will also be pizza after Mass.
Please rsvp by emailing Anne Gray
for catering purposes
PARISH MAINTENANCE
In coming weeks painting and repairs to the outside of church
and presbytery will begin. You may have noticed that some
external timber has rotted and many of the painted surfaces
seriously need repainting.
The inside of the presbytery will also be repainted.
The cost of the work will be around $80,000. We don't need
to borrow to pay for this but it will leave the parish account
balance quite low. Your continued generosity to the second
collection will support the parish in this and in recurring
operating expenses.
CHILD PROTECTION WEEK
4—10 September 2017 The theme this year is ‘See Me, Hear Me’, giving a voice to children and young people in relation to what they need adults to do to help keep them safe.
Priests’ Retirement Foundation Appeal Sunday 3rd September, 2017
- Caring for our Carer - The Priests' Retirement Foundation covers needs such as: ●Convalescence care ●Nursing home and hostel care for frail priests ●Assistance in transitioning to retirement ●Health insurance ●Medical and dental expenses ●Assistance with board and lodging expenses
Please support our retired priests.
