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Grovely Presbytery 67 Dawson Parade, Keperra 4054
Mitchelton Presbytery 11 Suez Street, Mitchelton 4053
St William’s School 67 Dawson Parade, Keperra 4054
Ph 3355 5122 Fax 3354 3330
St Andrew’s School Cnr Hogarth & Upper Kedron Roads
Ferny Grove 4055 Ph 33516886 Fax 3851 1054
Our Lady of Dolours School 2 Willcocks Street, Mitchelton 4053
Ph 3355 7763 Fax 3855 2641
Mt. Maria College 54 Prospect Rd, Mitchelton 4053
Ph 3550 3400
YYY Radio FM 87.6 Ph 0466 964 664
Email: [email protected] www.yyyfmradio.org
Clergy: Fr. Nigel Sequeira PP Phone: 3355 2667
Fr. Lucius Edomobi Residing at O.L.D. Presbytery Phone 3355 1349
Rev. Peter McDade, Deacon
Administration Coordinator: Mrs. Katrina Bailey (Mon - Fri) Phone: 3355 2667 Ext 1 [email protected] Newsletter items to: [email protected]
Pastoral Associate: Local Safeguarding Rep: Mrs. Sue Allen (Wed - Fri) Phone: 3355 2667 Ext 2 [email protected] Sacramental Coordinator: Mrs. Marie-Louise Singson (Mon - Wed) mornings & Thurs Phone: 3355 2667 Ext 3 [email protected]
Finance Officer: Mr. Tris van Twest (Mon - Fri) Phone: 3355 2667 Ext 4 [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE 67 Dawson Parade, Keperra 4054
Ph 3355 2667 Email: [email protected]
www.gsmparishes.com.au Hours: Mon 8am - 1pm; Tues - Fri. 8am - 4pm
Today’s readings are about the Holy Eucharist, the Food that gives us life forever. The first reading tells us that the Wisdom of God has prepared a feast. Wisdom is depicted as a gracious hostess inviting the people to a fine banquet. "Wisdom" becomes the symbolic image of the search for God's will. As this reading suggests, Faith opens up the fonts of wisdom to nourish us. “Wisdom spreads out a banquet to which we all are invited. The meat and wine that she offers is insight and understanding, and we would be fools to turn down her invitation. In the Responsorial Psalm (Ps 34), we thank God for His care and His close association with us His people which invites and enables us to “taste and see the goodness of the Lord.” In the second reading, Paul advises us to show our gratitude to God and to be Spirit-filled with our conversations, always trying to discern and do the will of God. Jesus emphasizes the eternal-life dimensions of eating His Body and drinking his Blood. "Eternal life" is complete and lasting happiness, satisfying our deepest longings and realizing all our dreams. We must become like children to hear and accept this invitation. For in every Eucharist, it is the folly of the Cross that is represented and renewed. To the world, it is foolishness to believe that the crucified Jesus rose from the dead. And for many, as for the crowds in today’s Gospel, it is foolishness - maybe even madness - to believe that Jesus can give us His Flesh to eat. Yet Jesus repeats himself and is emphatic in today’s Gospel. There is repetition of the words “eat” and “drink,” and “my Flesh” and “my Blood.” To accentuate and stress what Jesus asks us to believe, John in these verses uses not the ordinary Greek word for eating but a Greek word – trogein – that refers to a crude kind of eating, almost a gnawing or chewing. When we receive Holy Communion we accept a great challenge. We accept the triumphs and the tragedies, joys and the pains necessary to build up the Kingdom of God wherever we have been called to serve. That is why, at the end of the Mass, we are sent out to announce the Gospel of the Lord through the witness of our service and exemplary lives, radiating Jesus’ love, mercy, forgiveness and spirit of service all around us. What a power we would be for the world around us if each one of us could say that and mean it!
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time 19th August 2018
I Am the Living Bread
John 6:51-58
LITURGY TIMES
20th August - 26th August
Grovely St William’s
Monday 9:15am Mass St Bernard, abbot
1:00pm Funeral Mass for Kevin Bamback
Wednesday 6:15pm Adoration - Silent prayer before the exposed Eucharist until
7:00pm Mass The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Thursday 9:00am St Rose of Lima, virgin
Friday 7:00am Mass St Bartholomew
Saturday: 7:00am Mass St Louis
5:00pm - 5:45pm Reconciliation
Next Weekend Masses
Saturday: 6:00pm Vigil Mass
Sunday: 6:30am, 8:00am, 9:30am, 5:30pm.
Oxford Park St. Joseph’s
Sunday 9:30am Mass
10.45am Anointing Mass at Moonah Park
Mitchelton Our Lady of Dolours
Monday: 8:30am Mass St Bernard, abbot
Tuesday: 8:30am Mass St Pius X, Pope
Friday 8.30am Mass St Bartholomew
Saturday 3:45pm - 4:30pm
Reconciliation
Next Weekend Masses
Saturday: 4:30pm Mass
Sunday: 8:00am Mass
Samford Sacred Heart
Thursday 6:00pm St Rose of Lima, virgin
Next Weekend Mass
Sunday: 8:00am Mass
This Week’s Readings 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Prov 9:1-6 Eph 5:15 - 20 Jn 6:51 - 58
Next Week’s Readings 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Joshua 24:1-2 Eph 5:21 - 32
Jn 6:60-69
GROVELY-SAMFORD & MITCHELTON
MITCHELTON NEWS
Family Rosary:
12th August: Rosita & Harry Espiritu Santo
Counters this week: Group D - Dermott O’Moore
Counters next week: Group E - Leo Brown
Rosary: Rosary will be prayed in the home of Harry & Mary Moyler, 44 Matthau Place, McDowell, at 7pm on Tuesday 21th August. Counters this week: John & Marie Rooney, Damian Carter, Dermott O’Moore, Leo Brown
GROVELY CHURCH SHOP
We have a new selection of cards for various occasions, and these have been handcrafted and donated by a kind parishioner. Write your own message inside. They are in stands on the counter, and are priced at $3 each.
GROVELY NEWS
SAMFORD NEWS
YOUTH LED MASS Our Youth will be leading the 5.30 pm Mass at St. William’s this Sunday
19th August. All are welcome. A hot supper will be provided after Mass.
Sunday 26th August is Multicultural Sunday. We look forward to having with us at our 8:00am Mass at Samford, members of the Papua Catholic Community Group of Brisbane, who will swell our Samford choir to celebrate this special event with our community.
MULTICULTURAL SUNDAY
We celebrate the cultural diversities of our communities.
Sunday Mass 9.30am
27th August at St. William’s
Followed by morning tea
Please bring a plate of your traditional morning tea to share
Everyone is encouraged to wear traditional costume and participate in the liturgy. If you have your national flag and would like to have it hung in the church during Mass please call Sue Allen, Pastoral Associate on 3355 2667 Ext 2
Both Lives Matter For the second time in two years, the Queensland Parliament will debate whether to make abortion legal. The draft bill will allow abortion until the day that a baby is born – late-term abortions will be legal in Queensland as long as two doctors agree that it “in all the circumstances, the termination should be performed”. This will mean that social reasons will be enough for a legal abortion of a full-term baby. We want to ensure that Queenslanders understand this new bill and have time to consider it. We believe both lives matter and the bill should not go ahead. We need your help. Please consider signing the petition in the back of the church today. This form has been sent to us by the Archbishop’s Office. They are collating the information.
VERSE FOR VINNIES Dear Patrons unfortunately due to a computer crash we have lost the accumulation of emails that patrons have given us over the last seven years. We will have to restart building these contacts so patrons can receive notices of the upcoming fund-raising concerts. We would appreciate if patrons would send us an email mentioning Verse for Vinnies so we can include them in our bank of contacts. Our email is [email protected]
Dear Parishioners In last weeks newsletter the combined St Vincent de Paul Conferences of St Williams Grovely and Our Lady of Dolours Mitchelton are asking for your help to assist in providing toiletry items to those in need in our local area. For those responding to our appeal you will find a basket to place your donation at the back of the churches of Grovely, Mitchelton and Samford. Thank you.
MORNING TEA AT SAMFORD Morning tea will be held after the 8.00am Mass at Sacred Heart Church, Samford next Sunday 26th August. Group A are rostered.
RI Teachers needed at Patricks Road School & Samford School. Patricks Road timeslot is 9.25 til 11am Thursday morning, 3 year 6 classes. Samford's timeslot is 8.50 til 10.20, 3 year 3 classes. The schools are eager to have these classes covered. For more information please call Dorothy Dent 0408874855
We pray for: Colyn Bierton, John Weier, Joyce Powell, Kathleen Edden, Fr David Catterall, John Campbell, Gunther Friedrich, Mike Hogan, Hannah Kroehnet, Linda Moffatt, Ron Needham, Jen Nilon, Jim O’Leary, John Rhule, Margaret Nixon.
Please note All requests to have a Mass offered for someone, or newsletter requests for the name of recently deceased family members, prayers for the sick and anniversaries, need to be given to the parish office in writing. Forms and Mass request envelopes are available from the sacristy at all 3 churches, or from the Parish Office. Completed forms/envelopes can be given to the priest or handed in at the office.
Recently: Marie Roe, Patricia Burke, Mary Harrison, Joan Lynam, Mary Wilson, Madeline Jameson, Claudia Fernan , Roslyn Fischer, Gloria Rivas de Martinez, Noel Wright, Kevin Bamback.
Anniversary: Merv Lamke, Jean McLean.
Funeral: The funeral Mass for Kevin Bamback will be held on Monday 20th August at 1.00pm at St William’s Church. Our prayers and sympathy are with John, family and friends.
GROVELY-SAMFORD & MITCHELTON NEWS
Adult Faith Education
Great opportunity - The video of all presentations of the 14th eConference, titled “Synodality in Practice:Listening to the Spirit and Leading Change” is free until August 22. Copy and paste this into your browser https://www.bbi.catholic.edu.au/short-courses/eConference-Video Much of this content is excellent background for when the parish kicks off its plan for responding to the Plenary Council – until this happens, this AFE item will continue to disseminate information, while the website above will give you valuable background information from reputable speakers. 5 presentations and a Q&A session.
Archbishop Mark Coleridge – “Leaders that listen: Synodality in Practice”
Mrs. Lana Turvey-Collins (Plenary Council Facilitator) - “Synodality in Practice: Preparing for the Australian Plenary Council”.
Professor Massimo Faggioli - “Structures of Synodality: Insights from Pope Francis”.
Dr. Gemma Cruz – “Synodality, Community and the Margins’.
Professor Richard Lennan – “Change and the Church’s Tradition”.
Q&A – Some really searching questions for the panel of speakers.
You can access this as often as you like until next Wednesday. After that the access has to be via a DVD purchased from Broken Bay Institute sometime after the middle of September. Peter Pellicaan’s presentation is not until Sept. 12, Daley Centre, 7.30pm to 9pm, but here is some background about him. “After having spent over ten years as a Protestant Pastor, Peter came into the Catholic Church with a fresh enthusiasm for the beauty, goodness and truth found in the Holy Catholic Church. He is passionate about Evangelisation as well as encouraging Catholics to rediscover the wonder of their faith, in order that they might re-engage in it and be able to articulate it for others”.
Amidst Pope Francis' call to welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants and refugees, we need to pray for many asylum seekers in Australia presently.
Recently the Australian Government announced it would be cutting basic material and case management support for those seeking asylum, while living here. This month approximately 1500 individuals and families will lose their income support from the Australian Government, with an estimated 5000 more at the end of 2018. Asylum seekers have no other right to access life sustaining payments, due to their citizenship status. In this situation, and unable to find work, how would you look after yourself or your family? How would you keep a roof over your head? How would you educate yourself to communicate in English (especially to find work)? How would you cope with the emotional affects of your trauma, without access to mental health care? It will create a desperate situation for many. You can take part in a National Week of Prayer and Action with CAPSA (The Catholic Alliance for People Seeking Asylum), which seeks to promote dignity for refugees in Australian and on nearby shores. Lord, No one is a stranger to you and no one is ever far from your loving care. In your kindness watch over refugees and asylum seekers, those separated from their loved ones, those who are lost, and those who have been exiled from their homes. Bring them safely to the place where they long to be, and help us always to show your kindness to strangers and those in need. Australian Catholic Social Justice Council Carers Connect Morning-Tea! The St William's Social Justice Group invites all carers to a relaxing, friendly morning tea, from 10am on Wednesday 22 August in the Daley Centre. Please share this invitation and warm welcome on our behalf to any carers you may know in our community. Any questions please call the parish office on 3355 2667
Schools 4 Schools 2018 Progress Report Six weeks into our campaign, our TLC Group has 36 boxes (23 of clothing and footwear) of donations for the 5 Schools in our Sister Parish, St John de Brito in Liquica , Timor-Leste. The TLC Group are still hoping for: • Laptops (in good working order ) • Teaching aids like .EDUCATIONAL
games, puzzles, toys to help develop and grow our extended family’s children.
• School stationery items like Exercise Books ,Pens ,Pencils etc
• Sporting Goods (simple) eg. Balls, Skipping Ropes etc
• Sporting Footwear - Runners / Boots • Back Packs - new or second hand in
good cond. • Religious Texts, Bibles, Stories etc (for
Convents and Girls Refuge/ Hostel ) • Linen (Towels and Sheets) (Cut off for donations end September)
Enquiries Michael Stevens 0407 785 940 or Martin Powell 0434 724 897.
Social Justice Group
GROVELY-SAMFORD & MITCHELTON NEWS
GROVELY 20th August - 26th August
Monday 10:00am Daley Centre Faith Circle
Tuesday 9.30am Daley Centre Playgroup
7:00pm Church St W Christian Meditation
Thursday 9.00am Library Grief Support Meeting
1.30pm Library Liturgy Team Meeting
SAMFORD 20th August - 26th August
Monday 6:00pm Church Samford Choir
Friday 9:00am Church John Main Meditation Prayer Group
Kath 3289 1245 Heather 3289 2393
MITCHELTON 20th August - 26th August
Monday OLD PPC Meeting
Tuesday 7:00pm Church Treble M Choir
7.30pm Library Social Justice Group
Celebrating 35 Years of Passionist Family
Groups in Queensland The QLD Family Group Team would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone who has been part of the Family Group Movement. Fr Brian Taynor, Fr Ray Sanchez, Tim Horlock and Paul Traynor will be celebrating with us.
Venue: The Fort, Fort Rd Oxley. Date: Saturday 15 September: 4pm Welcome & Gathering 5pm Mass 6pm Happy Hour 7pm Dinner (Please bring a plate to share). RSVP – [email protected] - Elaine 0414187458 [email protected] - Jeanelle 0400518314 Gwen 0407 175 508
PASSIONIST
FAMILY
GROUP
MOVEMENT
Abrahamic Faiths Concert featuring our Seminarians on Thursday 23rd
August 7:30pm at Griffith Uni.
Annual Evening of Jewish, Christian & Muslim Sacred Voices and Music Followed by Kosher-Halal Supper Free entry, all are welcome. RSVP: 13th August 2018 to 3735 7052 or email: [email protected] Free parking after 7pm.
YOUTH GROUP NEWS
Friday 31st August
A MOVIE NIGHT! will be held in the Daley Centre on Friday 31st August commencing at 6pm.
Bible Quiz To which city did God ask Jonah to take his message? Answer next Week
Last Week’s answer: What did Jesus do to each of the disciples during the Last Supper? Washed their feet (John 13:1-5)
Preparation for the Plenary Council 2020 begins with open Listening and Dialogue. It is the first step to preparing the agenda for the Plenary Council. Your experience of faith and the Church is important. Read about how you can #shareyourstory at plenarycouncil.catholic.org.au.
SACRAMENTAL NEWS
Parents - Enrolment for Reconciliation & First Communion and Reconciliation workshop
September 4th - Tuesday- 9:30 am & 7:30 pm Daley Centre
September 5th - Wednesday 7:30 pm Daley Centre
September 6th - Thursday 7:30 pm Daley Centre
Children - Reconciliation Children’s Workshops at St William’s Church October 15th Monday Group A 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm October 16th Tuesday Group B 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm October 18th Thursday - Group C 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Group D Mitchelton Group - TBA
2nd Rite Reconciliation Celebrations at St. William’s Church
October 22 Monday Group A 6:00 pm
October 23 Tuesday Group B 6:00 pm
October 25 Thursday Group C 6:00 pm
October 26 Friday -Mitchelton Group at Our Lady of Dolours Church
Parents November 13, 14 & 15 - First Communion workshops
A VOCATION VIEW: John's Gospel reveals God's promise
of the Word made flesh. This is
revealed through the sacrifice made
by Christ: "I am the living bread,
come down from heaven ... the
bread I give is my flesh for the life of
the world ...". Do this in memory of
Him.
A teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with their class of children. After explaining
to "honour" thy Father and thy Mother, the teacher asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?"
Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, "Thou shall not kill."
