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Baptisms at St Mary’s TIMES: At St Mary's Church, Bungendore, baptisms are usually
on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 10:00 am. Please speak to
Deacon John or the parish office if this is not a suitable time for
your family.
MAKING A BOOKING FOR A BAPTISM:- You can phone the
Bungendore parish office on 6238 1247 between 11am and 5pm
on Wednesdays. The "Request for Baptism" form can be
downloaded from St Mary’s website,
www.stmarysbungendore.org.au/ completed and emailed to St
Mary’s Parish [email protected]
BAPTISM PREPARATION SESSION: At St. Mary’s, Baptism
preparation takes place in an informal conversation with either Fr
News from the Archdiocese and beyond 3-15 March – Stations of the Cross Exhibition
At the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton.
Sixteen artists were given a different Station of the Cross to reflect on and produce an artwork. The exhibition will be opened by Professor Sasha Grishin AM FAHA 3 March 6pm.
More information http://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/accc/ events/single/stations-of-the-cross-exhibition2.
8 March – “Getting on the RightTrack to Building a
Welcoming Community!”
Are you interested in hosting conversations in your community about the human impact of government policies on people seeking asylum?
From 7.30 – 9.30pm at the Quakers Meeting Room (Cnr Bend and Condamine Streets, Turner) the #RightTrack Community Conversation Project will be explained and participants invited to facilitate or host community conversations. Registration or enquiries [email protected] 0431 451622
8 – March “International Women’s Day”
A new initiative to support and encourage women will be launched at Merici College on International Women's Day. The national program is being developed by women, inspired by the words of St Catherine of Siena: "Be who God wants you to be and you will set the world on fire." Find out more at: www.catholicwomensmentoring.org.au
11 – March “Amicus”
"Amicus”, a support group for widowed, divorced and
separated Catholics: Next gathering lunch , River Bank of Queanbeyan 12noon. Contact Patricia: 0412 351548.
22 – March Concerned Catholics of Canberra
Parishioners, clergy, and friends are invited to the 3rd public
forum of Concerned Catholics of Canberra-Goulburn. Francis
Sullivan, CEO, Truth Justice and Healing Council, will provide
an analysis of the Royal Commission's final report.
Contact: Rog Page [email protected]
Plaques for Memorial Wall
We are now taking orders for
plaques for the memorial wall.
Please contact the office for
more details. The following
format will be the one used.
Peter or Deacon John. The parish asks that you participate in a
preparation session if this your first child or if you have not
previously participated in such a session for any other children.
When you contact the office to organise a date for the baptism we
will help you to arrange a suitable time for this preparation to
happen.
PRESENTATION MASS: You will also be asked
to attend a Presentation Mass. This is where
you and your child will be welcomed to our
parish community. If possible, the godparents
are invited to attend this Mass to be part of this
service. From Sunday 7th January our weekend
Mass is at 8:30am on Sundays.
The St Mary's Autumn Fair planning stage is now under way and
your help is needed to make it as much a success as previous years.
We will be accepting applications for stalls for the very reasonable
fee of $30, from people wishing to sell locally made goods and
services.
We will need plants for the plant stall, cakes etc. for the cake stall,
books, CDs & DVDs for the book stall, and random objects of
reasonable quality for the white elephant stall, including good
quality second-hand clothes.
Volunteers to work at the parish stalls on the day will be greatly
appreciated, as will volunteers to staff the gate and run the
chocolate wheel.
Volunteers will also be needed for one or two grounds tidy-up
working bees before the fair.
Offers of participation in the entertainment program are also
welcome.
Donations of prizes for the raffle will also be gratefully accepted.
Please spread the word amongst your friends, family and workmates
about a great way to spend the day on the 14th April 2018.
We will have posters for
you put up very shortly.
News about St Mary’s Fair
A Warm Welcome to Thomas Munday
and his Mum and Dad, Elizabeth and Robert.
Thomas is being baptised later this morning.
St Mary’s Bungendore
part of
Queanbeyan Mission
28 Turallo Terrace Bungendore
Website: www.stmarysbungendore.org.au/
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Entrance Antiphon
My eyes are always on the Lord, for he rescues my feet from the snare. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and poor.
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First reading
Exodus 20:1-17
God spoke all these words. He said, ‘I am the Lord your
God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of
the house of slavery.
‘You shall have no gods except me.
‘You shall not make yourself a carved image or any
likeness of anything in heaven or on earth beneath or in
the waters under the earth; you shall not bow down to
them or serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a
jealous God and I punish the father’s fault in the sons,
the grandsons, and the great-grandsons of those who
hate me; but I show kindness to thousands of those who
love me and keep my commandments.
‘You shall not utter the name of the Lord your God to
misuse it, for the Lord will not leave unpunished the
man who utters his name to misuse it.
‘Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy. For six
days you shall labour and do all your work, but the
seventh day is a sabbath for the Lord your God. You
shall do no work that day, neither you nor your son nor
your daughter nor your servants, men or women, nor
your animals nor the stranger who lives with you. For in
six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth and
the sea and all that these hold, but on the seventh day he
rested; that is why the Lord has blessed the sabbath day
and made it sacred.
‘Honour your father and your mother so that you may
have a long life in the land that the Lord your God has
given to you.
‘You shall not kill.
‘You shall not commit adultery.
‘You shall not steal.
‘You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbour.
‘You shall not covet your neighbour’s house. You shall
not covet your neighbour’s wife, or his servant, man or
woman, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is his.’ ______________________________________________________________________________
Responsorial Psalm
R: Lord, you have the words of everlasting life._
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Second reading 1 Corinthians 1:22-25
While the Jews demand miracles and the Greeks look for
wisdom, here are we preaching a crucified Christ; to the
Jews an obstacle that they cannot get over, to the pagans
madness, but to those who have been called, whether
they are Jews or Greeks, a Christ who is the power and
the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness is wiser than
human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than
human strength. ______________________________________________________________________________
Gospel Acclamation
Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory! I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord; whoever believes in me will never die. Praise to you, O Christ, king of eternal glory!
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Gospel John 2:13-25
Just before the Jewish Passover Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers’ coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, ‘Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father’s house into a market.’ Then his disciples remembered the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, ‘What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?’ Jesus answered, ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.’ The Jews replied, ‘It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?’ But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.
During his stay in Jerusalem for the Passover many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he gave, but Jesus knew them all and did not trust himself to them; he never needed evidence about any man; he could tell what a man had in him.
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Communion Antiphon
The sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for her young: by your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are they who dwell in your house, for ever singing your praise.
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Year B 3rd Sunday of Lent 4th March 2018
The dramatic intervention, whereby Jesus drove
the merchants and money changers from the
Temple, may well have triggered the events
which led to his death. As the gospel of Luke
puts it, Jesus – knowing that his end was
drawing near – ‘resolutely looked toward
Jerusalem’ (9:51). It is in the holy city that he must meet the
fate that was becoming inevitable. For all faithful Israelites, the
journey to Jerusalem was a journey to the Temple. How old
Israel loved the Temple! It was the place of God’s presence.
Their faith in that presence was so vivid, that to take part in the
Temple worship was ‘to see the face of God’, as the Psalms put
it.
The prophets of Israel sometimes performed gestures that had a
lesson for the people. What Jesus did – disrupting the normal
proceedings of the Temple precincts – was more than a lesson
in reverence. It pointed to the new order of things he was to
inaugurate. True worship was only darkly foreshadowed in the
old Temple’s ceremonial. In John’s gospel, we remember,
Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that true worship will not be
tied to some particular sanctuary; it will be worship ‘in spirit
and truth’ (4:24). Now he promises a ‘sign’ to confirm his
prophetic gesture: ‘Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I
will raise it up’. When he had risen from the dead, his disciples
recognised that ‘he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his
body’.
The first reading from Exodus, proclaiming the commandments
which were an essential part of the covenant God made with
his people in the desert, matches the gospel in today’s liturgy,
because it calls us to a worship that is authentic – through the
renunciation of the false securities we are tempted to put in the
place of God.
With Jesus leading us, we look towards what lies
at the end of our journey. The reading from the
letter to the Corinthians points to the Cross, the
astounding inauguration of the new order of
things which will take place at the end of the Saviour’s journey
to the Holy City. In this new order of things, we can all
worship the Father ‘in spirit and in truth’: through the Paschal
Mystery – our sharing in the life and worship of the Risen
Lord. We are able to share in his gift of himself to the Father,
as he becomes for us ‘the power and the wisdom of God’. In
the drama of the Cross, ‘God’s foolishness’ is to prove ‘wiser
than human wisdom’; and ‘God’s weakness’ is shown to be
‘stronger than human strength’.
From a reflection by Fr John Thornhill on the Emmaus
website.
Reflection Questions From ‘GOOD NEWS in tough times’
What is your initial reaction to the ‘upsetting’ Jesus that we
see in todays Gospel? Why do you think you feel this way?
In our own daily lives, what are the ways in which we can
boldly stand out against the popular corruptions of our time?
How can we make this Lenten time a period for God to truly
transform us? What can we do to invite God into places in our
lives that we’ve held onto before?
Reflection
St Mary’s Fair Saturday 14th April 2018
Stalls, Raffles, Delicious Food, Entertainment,
Farmers’ Market, Devonshire Tea/Coffee,
Jumping Castle, Trash & Treasure
Project Compassion
Bayan
Jordan
Bayan is a 12 year old Syrian girl, living with her family in Jordan. An ambitious student,
Bayan has her sights set on a career as an ophthalmologist. As a quiet, young refugee
she struggled to overcome the trauma of growing up in a conflict zone and faced the
prospect of missing out on schooling. With Caritas Australia’s support, Bayan is an aca-
demic high-achiever who is flourishing in a stable school environment. Please donate to Project Compassion 2018 and help equip young people to suc-
ceed in the future, bringing stability to vulnerable youth, providing just futures for
others like Bayan.
There is more information and a short video on www.caritas.org.au/
projectcompassion .
Please pray for our sick Peter Fogarty
Margaret Mikkelsen Patrick Wright
Donn Oates (Barbara Rayner’s
Dad) Jill Hamley
Patricia Young Erwin Feeken
Tony Boys Alyssa Pettersen
Bill Yates Kevin Summerfield
Debbie Oxford Wilson Patricia Ryan
Maureen Boss Val Young
Mary-Anne Webster Frank Shugg
Theresa, Simon, James & Mary (Deacon John’s mum,
brothers & sister) David McCamley
Zelma McManus (Mary-Anne Curran’s mother)
Emanuel Mallia
Ray Jewell
Recently Deceased:
Ron Jurd (father of Michaela Fogarty)
Ross Craze Nancy Barry
(Mary Coombe’s cousin)
Anniversaries: Anne Catherine Hennessy
Patrick Valentine Smith Emily Rose Heath
Thomas Cunningham Lawrence Flynn
Cyril Gordon Smith Effie Boys
Michael Hovar
Ministries Roster
Sunday 4th March 2018 8:30am
A: Bernadette Boss
E. Min: Bob Yates & Meagan Sheather
R: Tess Montesin & ????
Gifts: Almond family
Altar Servers: Thomas K. & Hayley P.
Ministries Roster
Sunday 11th March 2018 8:30am
A: John Windsor
E. Min: Pauline Segeri & Bob Yates
R: David Bishop & Mike Cramsie
Gifts: Rob Warner & family
Altar Servers: Natalie G. & Kathleen D.
Church Cleaning : March: Penny Ford
plus some extra help please
Thanks to Louise Mears & Maria Gwynne
for cleaning the church in February.
Please join us today
for a cuppa in
the hall after Mass Next one: 1st April 2018
(with Easter Egg hunt)
BUNGENDORE PARISH TEAM
Fr Troy Bobbin PP (resident in Queanbeyan) Fr Peter Day Associate Priest Bungendore / Braidwood (resident in Queanbeyan) Father Peter is happy to visit people in Bungendore; please arrange with Deacon John or the Parish Office Deacon John Lim (resident in Bungendore) 0499 508 449 Secretary - Mary
Finance - Maureen Parish Pastoral Council -
PHONE: 6238 1247
EMAIL: [email protected] POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 28 Bungendore NSW 2620 OFFICE OPEN: - Wednesday 11am - 5pm Office is next to the hall on the side away from the church.
BUNGENDORE PARISH MASS TIMES Weekend Mass: Sunday 8.30am Weekday Mass: Wednesdays 9.00am; Anointing Mass - 1st Wednesdays Hoskinstown: 1st Sunday 11am Gundaroo: 3rd Sunday 9am
Church Opening hours
St Mary’s is open most days from 9am to 5pm
for prayer and quiet reflection.
St Mary’s Crafty Made-ins
Our craft ladies would love your kind donations of crafty items for our stall at the fair. We’d also like any old teapots to enable us to display tea-cosies in 3D.
Contact Jenny Amey [email protected] .
St Mary’s Hall Bookings Hall bookings can be made by emailing [email protected]
Current regular bookings for the hall are Monday, Wednesday, Friday 5:30—7pm and the Seniors from 10am to 2pm on Tuesdays.
There are also some bookings for Sundays after baptisms. “Good News in Tough Times" Parish discussion Group
We are using this Archdiocesan resource as the
basis for our Lenten Discussion group at 7pm on
Thursday evenings in the Parish Hall. Bungendore Seniors
Bungendore seniors group meets in the hall at St
Mary’s on Tuesdays from 10am to 2pm for
activities, morning tea and occasional outings. See
poster in church porch for more info.
Bible study Postponed until after Easter. Geraldine Doogue talk—November 2017
The video of this is now up on St Gregory’s Parish
website
https://www.stgregorysparishqueanbeyan.com/
A Warm welcome to all the families bringing
their children for the Reconciliation program
Sacramental programs for baptised school-age children This year we are running sacramental
programs for school-age children for the
sacraments of Reconciliation (First
Confession), Eucharist (First Communion) and
Confirmation. Children need to be in at least
Year 3 to participate in the programs for
Reconciliation and Eucharist, and in at least
Year 6 to participate in the program for
Confirmation. The Reconciliation program will
happen during March, the Eucharist program
will run in the second half of May and the first
half of June, and the Confirmation program
during August, with the Confirmation Mass on
Saturday September 8th. More details about
the Reconciliation and Eucharist programs are
now up on the parish website. Reconciliation Program Parent meeting after Mass today;
Preparation sessions for the children during
Mass Sundays 4th,11th, 18th March;
Combined Parish and First Reconciliation
Penitential Service Wed 21st March 6:30pm; Children’s Liturgy Children’s liturgy is on again this week. Nicole Murphy is the leader today. Church Cleaning
Any new volunteers for the church cleaning roster will be extremely gratefully accepted.
