Palm/Passion Sunday 29th March 2015 The first day of Holy Week plunges us into the mystery of Christ and His human/divine purpose. We dance the liturgy in, wave palms, sing Hosannas. Then in fifteen minutes we are crushed with sadness. Triumph and tragedy—hallmarks of the Paschal Mystery characterise our whole week. Clergy: Fr. Frank Lourigan PP Fr. Robert Doohan Residing at O.L.D. Presbytery Ph 3355 1349 Rev. Peter McDade, Deacon Pastoral Associate: Mrs. Tracie Gallagher (Wed - Fri) Phone: 3355 1665 pcgrovely@bne.catholic.net.au Sacramental Co-ordinator: Mrs. Marie-Louise Singson Monday & Tuesday mornings sc.grovely@bne.catholic.net.au Enqs. 3355 1665 Parish Secretary: Mrs. Michelle Giuliani (Tues - Fri) grovely@bne.catholic.net.au Finance Officer: Mr. Tris van Twest (Mon - Fri) finance.grovely@bne.catholic.net.au Assistant Secretary: Mrs. Gail Bowley Mon: am, Thurs: pm, & Fri. 8—4 Newsletter items to: bulletin.grovely@bne.catholic.net.au Passion and palms are not a contradiction here: sorrow over against joy, thorns versus palms, tragedy in conflict with triumph. Passion and palms are not enemies; they make up a single mystery. We call it the paschal mystery. An inseparable twosome, an unbreakable two-in-one: the dying/rising of Jesus. Not sadness this Sunday, gladness next Sunday. Passion/Palm Sunday weds triumph to tragedy, kingship to shame, hosannas to curses, joy to sorrow. It suggests what Good Friday will trumpet to the far ends of the earth: Our king triumphs not simply on Easter; he triumphs on Calvary. The tragedy is triumph; the sadness is gladness. Does this sound like nonsense? I’m not surprised. Every Christian mystery sounds like nonsense: a God who is One and Three; a Son of God who wears human flesh; a wafer that tastes like bread but is Christ’s body and blood, soul and divinity. It collides with our experience, our way of viewing reality. So, too, for the paschal mystery—Lent, Holy Week, Easter; we must try to see it as God sees it, knowing all the while that we can never grasp it in our earth-bound existence, never make complete human sense of it. But eyes opened by faith can catch a glimpse of it, touch it without ever exhausting it. Holy Thursday Masses: 7pm Mitchelton & The liturgy is trying to initiate us gradually, progressively, ever Grovely more intensely into the paschal mystery, into the twin reality of Jesus dying and rising. Not the sheer history: dying on Friday, rising on Sunday. More the mystery: In Jesus’ very dying there is rising; life comes through death, not simply after death. Good Friday Stations Heavy stuff? Perhaps. Dry bones? I think not. For, at its of the Cross: best, our liturgy ritualises, symbolises, sacramentalises what 10am Mitchelton & goes on, or ought to go on, in the rest of our lives. At its best, Samford liturgy gives expression to the faith experience of the Christian people, and liturgy helps mould that experience. might Passion/Palm say to our Christian living? PARISH OFFICE 67 Dawson Parade, Keperra 4054 Ph 3355 2667 Fax 3855 3455 Email: grovely@bne.catholic.net.au www.gsmparishes.com.au Hours: Mon 8am—1pm; Tues—Fri. 8am—4pm 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 67—69 Osborne Rd. Mitchelton 4053 Ph 3550 3400 YYY Radio FM 87.6 Ph 3855 0030 Email: operations@yyyfmradio.org www.yyyfmradio.org Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion: 3pm Mitchelton, Grovely & Oxford Pk So, what Let’s lock the answer into a single sentence: Like the life of Christ, our Christian life is a journey to Jerusalem, and that journey is a dying/rising in his image. To live as a Christian means to be ceaselessly shaped into Christ, and that means I am gradually, progressively, ever more intensely moulded into the paschal mystery. My life, too, is a living/dying. Not swinging like a pendulum from one to the other; not manic in the morning and depressive in the evening. The two are wed together: In our dying is our living; in our dying is our rising. This is not some vague mysticism. By “dying” there are two concrete, down-to-earth realities. In journeying with Christ to Jerusalem, in trudging continually to life through death, we must die in two ways. We die to sin and we die to self. The liturgies of Thursday, Friday and Saturday take us into the story and mystery that can Easter Vigil Masses: transform us and our lives. Ours to let go. 6.30pm Mitchelton & So if we want to celebrate both liturgy and life these eight days, three suggestions: (1) Don’t divorce passion and palms, Good Friday and Easter. They are inseparable. In Christ’s death there is life. (2) Act today, and all week, like risen Christians. We have already risen with Christ. Then rejoice … today! (3) Let our security blanket go. Let all our dying be a new living. Not without pain; but let the pain be permeated with Easter promise. There is no dying that does not bear within it the seeds of fresh life. Let go! Let the Liturgy take us!! Let live! Grovely All Sunday Masses as usual LITURGY TIMES Social Justice Group 30th March — 5th April Grovely St William’s Monday: Mass 9.15am Wednesday: 6.00—6.55pm Reconciliation during Exposition 6.15pm Silent Prayer before the exposed Eucharist until 7.00pm Mass Holy 7.00pm Mass of Lord’s Supper Thursday: Adoration until 9.30pm Good 3.00 Liturgy of the Passion Friday: Saturday: No 7am Mass 11.00am—12 noon Reconciliation The Second Collection amounted to $6395.70 We thank all who contributed Counters this week: 1st Coll: Sue Skehan 2nd Coll: Tony & Sharon Agar Rosary will be prayed in the home of Suhar & Asaad Jarjees, 7 Greenfern Pl. Ferny Grove at 7pm Tuesday. Thank You: Bill Baulch and family would like to thank the many people who assisted at Ann’s funeral and the cuppa afterwards. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Next Weekend Masses Easter No 6.00pm Mass Saturday: 6.30pm Easter Vigil Mass Easter 6:30am, 8.00am, 9.30am Sunday: 5:30pm Mitchelton Our Lady of Dolours Monday: 8.30am Mass Tuesday: 8.30am Mass Social Club: Morning tea and bingo in the Daley Centre this Wednesday at 10am. Lift to Mass: Can anyone offer a regular lift to 9.30am Mass for a senior male parishioner who resides at Arana Hills? Please call the Parish Office if you can assist. 9.00—9.30am Reconciliation Wednesday: 8.00am Mass at Mt Maria College Holy 7.00pm Mass of Lord’s Supper Thursday Adoration until 9.30pm Good 10.00am Stations of the Cross Friday: 10.45—11.30am Reconciliation 3.00pm Liturgy of the Passion Next Weekend Masses Holy No 4.30pm Mass Saturday: 6.30pm Easter Vigil Mass Easter 8:00am Mass Sunday: Samford Sacred Heart Thursday: 7.00pm No liturgy Good Friday 10.00am Stations of the Cross Next Weekend Mass Sunday: 8.00am Mass Readings for this Week Palm/Passion Sunday (Yr B) Is 50:4-7 Phil 2:6-11 Mk 15:1-39 Next Week’s Readings Easter (Yr B) Acts 10:34, 37-43 Col 3:1-4 Jn 20:1-9 HOLY THURSDAY—Please maintain the mood of silence and prayer outside the church altar of repose after Mass. GOOD FRIDAY—Readers, Leaders of Prayer will be from the youth of our community. We gather in the mood of the day and leave in the same reverent silence as last year. EASTER VIGIL—(Begins at 6.30pm) Our ceremony will begin with the blessing of the Easter Fire. We gather around the fire for this ceremony and then process inside following behind the Paschal Candle. Reserved Seats—The first few rows of seats will be reserved for our R.C.I.A. candidates. If you would like to place something on your seat to identify it for you as you gather around the fire, please do so. Supper—All are invited to share supper under the sails afterwards. An opportunity to catch up with friends and meet and congratulate the new members of the community. Please bring a plate to help with the catering. Let’s Be a Welcoming Community We often host many visitors at this special time of the year. We can all help visitors feel at home and welcome, however—we do need a number of “official” welcomers also. A warm welcome often takes nothing more than a smile and a warm “hello”. Please put your name on the roster (under the Stations) if you can assist. Page 2 Many of us never encounter the prison system and are content to let authorities deal with those unfortunate enough to do so. At the moment Queensland prisons operate under a zero tolerance policy. It seems from the large numbers of reoffenders that this policy is ineffective. Many inmates entering the system are likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds and often suffer from abuse and mental illness. Many keep returning for little is done to help restore their sense of self worth and dignity. Prisons have become a storeplace to shuffle many who are disadvantaged out of sight. Encouragingly, recent indications from those who conduct Queensland’s prisons offer hope that the government’s prevailing zero tolerance towards offenders, including our youth, may be changing. Alternatives to imprisonment may be more effective in some cases. Minor matters such as traffic offences and non-payment of fines, which are currently punished with prison sentences, could be dealt with outside the prison system. . Hopefully, such offenders could repay their debt to society and experience true freedom within a less threatening and dehabilitating structure. Welcomers & Ministers of Communion Still some needed for the Triduum celebrations. Please add your name to the rosters available at the back of the church. Helpers needed Friday 9am We need able bodied people to assist with setting up extra rows of chairs outside the Church. These are required for visitor over-flow at Easter celebrations. Contact Michelle (Parish Office—3355 2667) if you are able to help. Good Friday Liturgy: ROSEMARY NEEDED For our Good Friday Liturgy. Delivery to the Office on 1 & 2 April Help also needed to cut up the rosemary: 9am Good Friday morning. Bring your secateurs. Contact Michelle if you are able to provide rosemary or help with preparation. Supper after Easter Vigil: Please bring a plate to share. Thank you to all who volunteered over the Triduum. Please check that we have you on the correct time. We still need a few more helpers! Please print your first name & surname clearly, on the roster under the Stations. Mitchelton & Grovely - Samford Stations of the Cross: The complete set of Stations of the Cross is now hanging for our prayer and reflection. It is the emergence in icon style of the deep spirituality and fine artistic skill of Dianne Minnaar and the creative but practical skills of Grahame Shelley and his band of helpers. We will use these images (projected) for the Samford Stations this Good Friday morning at 10am. The Bishop will formally bless them when he visits in July. Recently: Ann Speed (Lisa Leahy’s mother), Maureen Gleeson (Louise Stone’s grandmother), Jock King (Catherine Plunkett’s husband), Gerard O’Reilly, Jenny Graham, Braydon Smith, Jim Walsh, Ann Baulch, Douglas Fordyce, Patricia Wilkes, John Boughen, Elwyn Stewart, Charlie Beswick, Trudy McCarthy. Incidentally, quality prints will be available for sale after Easter to inspire and raise some money to pay for this magnificent addition to our church breath of spirit. A funeral service for Ann Speed was held at St. William’s on Friday. Our prayers and sympathy are with her daughter Lisa Leahy and the family. Communion for the Sick: If you are too ill to attend Mass and would like to have the Eucharist brought to your home then please let the Parish Office know your situation or contact Chris Ellis on 3289 3475. Prayer Group – Come for as long as you can! 9 - 10am Tuesday at Sacred Heart Church, Samford 1st half hour – Rosary and Chaplet; 2nd half-hour – Adoration. Anniversaries: Joan Fitz-Herbert, Mary Anne Gale, John Cahill, Tim Merrell. Please let us know when your loved one’s name may be removed from the list) We pray for: Camille Anderson, Rita Bennett, Antoinette Brennan, Marie Courtney, Paola Curatore, Noelene Ellis, Dennis Farrell, Joyce Flynn, Carmel Hales, Margaret Lally, Mary-Lou McCallum, Rebecca Mellifont, Bernadette Morgan, Jessie Neill, Lorraine Tottenham, Lina Yang, Katelin Yarde. Collections: 1st: Coll. $ 221.40 2nd Coll. $1257.75 Counters: This week: Group G—Rosemary Bierton Next week: Group H—Barry Giddens Family Rosary: This week: Shirley Cunnington Next week: Quang & Hoa Pham The Catholic Leader - $2.00 • https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=U1wLpEuiH1g - watch Fr. Nigel, now parish priest of Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Nanango. • Mass with battered Port Vila community part of Caritas worker’s bitter-sweet experience in Vanuatu after cyclone • Same-sex marriage battle reaches crucial stage • Nepalese visitor tells the story of his journey from child labourer to Caritas leader Page 3 Thanks to all who picked up a prayer partner letter last weekend. Please keep the families of all the children in your prayers and contact your prayer partner soon by sending them a greeting letter. If your prayer partner has not included their address, just deliver the letter to me at the Parish Office and I will send it on. The lists of the Confirmation candidates and the first communicants will go up closer to the celebration dates so watch out for it: May 1: Confirmation May 2—3: First Communion in all churches, May 9—10: First communion in all churches. Marie-Louise F. Singson Sacramental Coordinator It is Mark’s version of the Passion of our Lord which we read today. “Of all Gospel narratives Mark’s is the most stark and brutal. Jesus is abandoned not only by his disciples but also, it seems, by God. Three times he pleads with his disciples to be ‘with him’ in the Garden. Three times he pleads with his Father to allow this cup to pass. As he dies, three different groups mock him: the crowd, the authorities and even the criminal crucified with him. As he dies on the cross, even nature goes dark. When he cries to God in abandonment it is no longer to ‘Abba, Father,’ but simply to ‘God’. “The forces ranged against him seem overwhelming. One of his own disciples betrays him, the Jewish authorities collude for his downfall, Pilate is weak, the people are turned into a murderous crowd, and the Roman soldiers indulge in gratuitous brutality as sport. Yet out of that very sinful group comes the one who gives the declaration that is the central point of this Gospel. The brutal centurion who supervised his torture and execution recognises: ‘In truth, this man was the Son of God.’ ” Taken from www.prayasyoucan.com.au Follow us on www.stwilliams-afe.com The annual collection for the support of the church in the Holy Land takes place on Good Friday. This collection promotes the missionary work of the Church in the Holy Land by providing welfare assistance to local Christians in areas such as health, education, employment and housing. Parishes, schools, orphanages and medical centres throughout the Holy Land also rely on assistance from the Good Friday collection. The collection is also used to maintain 74 churches and shrines associated with the life of Jesus. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. We have a number of metres of cloth used for our environment during Holy Week and the Triduum. If you can help with ironing, please phone the Parish Office on 3355 2667. Mitchelton & Grovely - Samford Unpredictable global weather patterns are having a devastating effect on Indonesian farmers who rely on the land (and weather) for their livelihoods. 1st Rite of Reconciliation (individual) Our Lady of Dolours Mitchelton Tuesday Good Friday St. William’s Grovely Sacred Heart, Samford Holy Thursday April 2 31 March 3 April 9.00—9.30am 10.45—11.30am Wednesday Holy Saturday 1 April 4 April 6.00—6.55pm 11.00—12 noon Good Friday 3 April 10.45—11.30am To combat these changes, Vinsen enrolled in the Sustainable Agriculture Program (supported by Caritas Australia) along with a group of farmers from his village. Together they’ve learnt to terrace land, harness water and grow sustainable food for life – regardless of the changing weather. Our Lady of Dolours Mass 7.00pm St. William’s Mass 7.00pm (Adoration until 9.30pm at both churches) Good Friday April 3 Stations of the Cross - in morning Liturgy of Passion - Main Liturgy Our Lady of Dolours Sacred Heart Our Lady of Dolours St. William’s Oxford Park (Irish Room) Until recently, the weather in Vinsen’s small farming village in West Timor has been quite stable. However, in the last few years changing weather patterns have made harvests unpredictable and unprofitable. 10.00am 10.00am 3.00pm 3.00pm 3.00pm Holy Saturday April 4 Our Lady of Dolours 6.30pm (Vigil) Mass - No 4.30pm St. William’s 6.30pm (Vigil) Mass - No 6.00pm Easter Sunday April 5 Regular Mass times all Churches Grovely - 6.30am; 8am; 9.30am; 5.30pm Samford - 8am Mitchelton - 8am Oxford Park (Irish Room) - 9.30am Please donate to Project Compassion 2015 and help farmers in remote West Timor grow sustainable crops for life, regardless of changing weather patterns. You can donate through Parish boxes and envelopes, by visiting www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion or phoning 1800 024 413 Around the Archdiocese Thinking about Easter Eggs? Pray for our four elect and candidates in their final week leading up to Easter Baptism and Reception into Full Communion with the Church. They spend Palm Sunday on Retreat—pray for them as they ready themselves in faith for Easter. Elect: Neisha Bessell Candidates: Kaye Beattie, Kevin Andrews & Ferdinand Mercado. Did you know that you can buy Fair Trade chocolate eggs at the following stores: Big W ,Bi-Lo, Chocolate to die for (Brisbane), Cocoa Farm Chocolate Coles, David Jones, Justice Products, Mrs. Flannery’s Natural Grocers Myer, Oxfam, QUT Gardens Point Campus, Student Guild Services (Brisbane),,Starbucks Target and Woolworths. The Parish Office will close at midday on Holy Thursday (2nd April) to prepare for Easter Liturgies.. All items for the newsletter will need to be submitted by midday Wednesday 1st April. • K.S.C. Members are reminded that the next monthly meeting of the Branch will be a combined meeting with Branch 1. The meeting will take place on Thursday 9 April at St Michael’s Church Hall 250 Bank Street Dorrington, at 7.30pm. Visitors are always welcome. • Australian Christian Meditation Community Qld Invites you to join us for a Community Day. Come aside to spend some time to deepen your understanding of Meditation and God’s Gift’s, and join with others walking the contemplative path. Saturday 18 April at Holy Spirit School Hall, 36 Villiers St, New Farm. 9.30am (morning tea) - 2.15pm. Suggested donation: $10 – includes morning tea. Save our earth: bring mug/ cup for own use. ALL ARE WELCOME. Enqs contact: Johanna Lawrence Email: johannal1@optusnet.com.au Phone: (home) 33141404: (mob) 0432 327 666. Download the free Parish App today! Search: Catholic Communities Windows Phone Page 4
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