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115 Ardross Street, Ardross WA 6153
PO Box 1831, Applecross, 6953
Tel: 9364 1120 Fax: 9316 9587
E: [email protected] www.stbenedicts.net.au
Parish Priest: Fr Nelson Po Parish Deacon: Dcn Mark Rucci Parish Secretary: Colleen Geldenhuys
“The Love of Christ must come before all else.” (Rule of St Benedict)
St Benedict’s News
WELCOME, NEW PARISHIONERS TO THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF APPLECROSS
Please fill-in a Membership Form which is available from the turn stand in the foyer of the Church and post or
hand-in to the Parish Office. Thank you
18th NOVEMBER 2018, 33rd SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME, YR B
Entrance Antiphon: Jer 29:11,12,14
The Lord said: I think thoughts of peace and not of affliction. You will call upon
me, and I will answer you, and I will lead back your captives from every place.
First Reading: Dn 12:1-3
A reading from the prophet Daniel
When that time comes your own people will be spared.
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 15:5. 8-11. R.v.1
(R.) Keep me safe, O God: you are my hope.
Second Reading: Heb 10:11-14, 18
A reading from the letter to the Hebrews
By a single offering he has achieved the eternal perfection of those who are
sanctified.
Gospel Acclamation: Lk 21:36
Alleluia, alleluia!
Be watchful, and pray constantly, that you may be worthy to stand before the
Son of Man.
Alleluia!
Gospel: Mk 13:24-32
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark
He shall gather his elect from the four winds.
Communion Antiphon: Ps 72:28
To be near God is my happiness, to place my hope in God the Lord.
25 NOV—PARISH ANNUAL REPORTS & MORNING TEA @ 10.30AM
29 NOV—SENIORS HIGH TEA @ 9.45AM
1-2 DEC—CHRISTMAS CRAFT STALL AFTER ALL MASSES
4 DEC—MASS OF THE ANOINTING @ 9AM
7 DEC—FIRST FRIDAY FRIENDS @ 11AM—ADVOCARE TALK
15 DEC—PARISH BUSY BEE @ 8AM
15 DEC—CHRISTMAS CAROLS @ 7PM
18 DEC—RECONCILIATION FOR ADVENT—1st RITE @ 7PM
23 DEC—PARISH MORNING TEA AFTER 9.30AM MASS
24 DEC—OUTDOOR MASS @ 6PM
24 DEC—MIDNIGHT MASS WITH CAROLS @ 11.30PM
25 DEC—MASSES @ 7.30AM & 9.30AM (CHURCH CLOSED AFTER MASS)
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PARISH SAFEGUARDING OFFICERS: Karl Brown, Marina Ciccarelli, Frances Meyerkort, Alana Coffey, Ondine Komnick, Rodney Dowling
HOLY HOUR & BENEDICTION EVERY FRIDAY MORNING @ 7.30AM
SAT: 6PM SUN: 7.30AM SUN:9.30AM SUN: 6PM
ACOLYTE B MEYERKORT R DOWLING W VAN ALEBEEK P MOORE
ALTAR SERVERS D & H NEWMAN T & O DOWLING E & A TARANTO
E TRUEMAN M & S ELHAJ
COMMENTATOR E SANTIMANO E MUENCHOW M CICCARELLI M CINANNI
COLLECTORS I COORAY
S DONOVAN T YOUNG
T BOLAND
R BUNN
P BELVISO
C JOSEPH
READERS E O’CONNOR
L REGO
S HOBDAY
M ANDERSON
G WAKE
J PHILLIPS
C GELDENHUYS
B KERMAN
EMOCH
C CARDOSO
S CARRICK
S CHEN
G CLAY
C CARDOSO
M ANDERSON
J LEE
M TARANTO
R THORN
P TRUEMAN
G WAKE
L ORIFICI
K BOWNES
G & M CINANNI
W DORAY
C GELDENHUYS
PARISH ROSTERS — 24 & 25 NOVEMBER 2018
MASS TIMES
Mon: Communion Service @ 7am
Wed/Fri: 7.00am
Tues/Thurs: 9.00am
Sat: 7.30am
Sat Vigil: 6.00pm
Sun: 7.30am, 9.30am & 6.00pm
If Public Holiday falls on Mon/
Wed/Fri, Mass/Communion
Service will be celebrated at
7.30am
Reconciliation: Sat: 4.30pm-5.30pm
ST BENEDICT’S NEWS:
ALTAR SOCIETY: MRS C GELDENHUYS & MRS D ALLEN PILGRIM STATUE: N & M NIMMO COUNTERS: H. OAKLEY, J TAN, A BANKS, J LITTLE & B O’BRIEN CHILDREN’S LITURGY: L. BIANCUZZO & C MORRIS
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Mon: 7.30am—5pm Tues/Thurs: 9.30am—5pm Wed/Fri: 7.30am—5pm Sat: 8am—12noon
Rosary Groups: For the Sick: Mon—7pm For Priest & Vocations: Sat—8am Cenacle: Thurs—9.30am
Prayer Group: Mary Mother of Sorrows: Thurs @ 1pm in Fr Albert Lynch Room
Catholic Women’s League (CWL) Meet the 2nd Tuesday of the Month in the Fr Albert Lynch Room @ 1.30pm
Baptisms: Sundays @ 11.30am
Marriages: By appointment
BENEDICTCARE CO-ORDINATORS
Anne - Meals 0477 284 906 Cora - Meals 9364 8951
Rosemary - Visiting 9364 3961 Lourdes - Visiting 0492 929 391
Silvana— Transport 0418 910 256 Margaret - Transport 9364 8146
Elizabeth - New Parishioners 9364 9386
Layne—Home Help/Handyman/ Garden 9315 2323
THIS WEEKEND ‘Our’ LifeLink agencies provide practical care and professional assistance to more than 34,000 Western Australian families and individuals in need each year. We could not hope to continue to do this without your generous support for my appeals” said Archbishop Costelloe.
CHRISTMAS CRAFT STALL 1 & 2 DECEMBER AFTER ALL MASSES. PLEASE SUPPORT—FUNDS GO TO LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
PRAY FOR THE SICK Please keep the following people in your prayers:
Frank Humphris, Tom Lyons, Myrtle Nimmo, Winifred Trinidad, Peter Colleran, Kathleen Howell, Sr Carla, Beryl Kerman, Truus Botman and all others who are not included in this list.
REFLECTION: by Richard Leonard SJ In today’s Gospel we get a very vivid picture of how the end of the world might break in upon us. It’s clear that Mark thought it was going to happen in the lifetime of some of his hearers. It didn’t, and many generations later we’re still waiting. This is not to say that the reign of God doesn’t regularly break in upon us. Wladyslaw’s playing shows how music can do it. We believe that every day more good is done in the world than evil; else this world would destroy itself. And we hold that the source of all love is Christ. So, every time we are kind rather than cruel, patient rather than in-tolerant, generous rather than selfish, beautiful rather than ugly, the reign of God bursts into our lives. One translation of verse 27 in today’s Gospel reads, ‘Then he will send out the angels and gather together his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven’. The whole idea of ‘the elect’ has exercised the imagination of several generations of Christians ever since this verse was written. The Protestant Reformation was, in part, based on who Christ elects to be his own, how we get elected, and how we stay that way. John Calvin was especially interested in this question and he rightly linked the goodness of our lives with those elected by Christ. But Calvin and many Catholic scholars have interpreted the meaning of this text too narrowly. Remembering that Mark thinks the end of the world is soon, that his community is being persecuted for their Chris-tian faith and that Christianity has not spread all that far by the time he writes this Gospel around 65 AD, it’s some-what surprising to read that the elect might be made up of people who come from the ends of the earth. We can safely assume that at this time not many people, beyond the Mediterranean basin, had heard about Christ. Even if this more generous and inclusive reading is not what Mark means when he refers to this world, it would be mean-spirited of us to imagine that all he means in reference to the elect in heaven are only those professing Christians who had died in his lifetime. The more consoling reading of who is in the elect, is to understand it as including anyone, anywhere, whose life ena-bles faith, hope, love, beauty, justice and peace to break in upon the world. And so what makes being a Christian so special? We know who’s doing the electing and why, and we have each other as we struggle to live out Christ’s reign every day – until he comes again.
2019 COLUMBAN CALENDAR ON SALE
It is the 97th edition of the Columban Art Calendar, a Catholic Calendar well-known for its traditional religious paintings and liturgical information. It is the main fundraiser for the Missions
COST: $10.00ea
CHRISTMAS CAROLS NIGHT - HELP NEEDED The music ministry invites parishioners to join as singers or keyboardists and any other instrumentalists. No audition is required and practice on Wednesday 5th December & Wednesday 12th Decem-ber at 6.30pm in the church. All members must attend both practic-es, please. If you feel that you can contribute to this very important part of parish life, then please email us or turn up for the practice. We would love to build up our choir to ensure that our Christmas celebrations will be beautiful. Thursday, 29 November after the 9.30am
Mass in the Fr Albert Lynch Room, St Benedict’s Church RSVP—23 November to the Parish Office 9364 1120 or E: stbenedicts.net.au
All Welcome & No Charge
Comments: ‘Such delicious food’
‘Wonderful entertainment’
‘So much friendship’; ‘Beautiful’;
‘Greatly appreciated’
New Parishioners, and those not so new, who wish to update their census details: Please put your name and address in the space below and drop into the collection basket or email to the office. Thanks! Name____________________________________________Email____________________________
Residential Address_______________________________________ No of People in household______
PS: If you would like to join the Applecross Parish Planned Giving Programme and give your financial support to maintaining the parish buildings and grounds, please tick this box and Colleen, the Parish Secretary, will organise for a set of planned giving envelopes to be issued to you.
ARCHDIOCESAN & COMMUNITY NEWS
23 Nov PRAYING OUR EXPERIENCES Praying Our Experiences’ is about faith in our everyday through prayer, some input, optional sharing and personal reflection. Theme: 'Christian joy in the everyday.' Friday 23 November, 10.30 to 12pm and repeated at 7 to 8.30pm. Mary MacKillop Centre, 16 York Street, South Perth. Parking on York Street. Public transport – Bus 34 King Edward Street, nearest York Street. RSVP essential by Tuesday 20 November to: [email protected] or 08 9334 0999. 24 Nov SPECIAL BOARDERS’ REUNION – IONA PRESENTATION COLLEGE All boarders of Iona Presentation College are invited to a Special Boarders’ Reunion on Saturday 24 November, from 3-6pm. Cost $30, College Green. Bookings - www.trybooking.com/VWCK. Further info: 08 9285 5269 24 Nov ADVENT RETREAT DAY - ARISE, SHINE; FOR YOUR LIGHT HAS COME Saturday, 9.30-2.30pm, Redemptorist Monastery, 190 Vincent Street, North Perth. As we approach Advent, we pause to review the year that has been and ponder the one to come. Where has God’s invisible glory bathed and sustained our life this year? Where is the new light of the Christ child rising for us and for the world? Like all who were called to Bethlehem to see the glory of God born amongst them, let our hearts be drawn - ex-pectant and honoured, to welcome a new coming of God into our life. Cost, $10. Presenter, Dr Pina Ford. Further info or to register, visit http://cfe.org.au/courses-and-events/, email [email protected], or 08 9241 5221. 25 Nov CHORISTER FOR A DAY The Cathedral Choir invites boys from all over Perth aged between 6-14 to join us and sample what it is like to be a Cathedral Chorister - just for a day, Sunday, 25 November 11-2.30pm. Includes 11am Solemn Sung Mass, light lunch, singing activities - and get to meet the pipe organ. Register at [email protected]. Registrations close on Thursday 22 November 2018. Further info: Jacinta 08 9223 1377.
CHILDREN’S CORNER:
RECENTLY DECEASED: Don Tuxford
ANNIVERSARIES: Colleen Ronan, Joan Lange, Bill Gummer, Bill Reilly, Maria Daglish, Elizabeth Ritchie, James Hall all deceased benefactors of the parish and all departed family and friends.
Prayer—32nd Sunday of Ordinary Time
Presence At any time of the day or night we can call on Jesus. He is always waiting, listening for our call. What a wonderful blessing. No phone needed, no e-mails, just a whisper.
Freedom Lord, you created me to live in freedom. May your Holy Spirit guide me to follow you freely. Instil in my heart a desire To know and love you more each day.
Consciousness To be conscious about something is to be aware of it. Dear Lord help me to remember that You gave me life. Thank you for the gift of life. Teach me to slow down, to be still and enjoy the pleasures created for me. To be aware of the beauty that surrounds me. The marvel of mountains, the calmness of lakes, the fragility of a flower petal. I need to remember that all these things come from you.
The Word of God
During November a box will be placed on the altar during
all Masses. All are invited to place in this box the names
of deceased persons who will be remembered at all
Masses throughout November. Envelopes will also be at
the back of the church.
