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Wilston & Gordon Park Parishes
St Columba’s, Wilston - St Carthage’s, Gordon Park
joined in joyfully praising and worshipping God
5th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME — 8th FEBRUARY 2015 — Year B
THE PATIENT CROSS OF SALVATION
Dear child of God, we have a lesson of life to learn/be reminded of today. The book
of Job is a didactic book – a story with a moral. It is a book with a lesson to teach. It
tells the story of a good-living, upright man, who was blessed by God with the possessions of this world as well as a large family. But ill-fortune struck him and he not
only lost his possessions and family but was himself struck with bodily sores.
MASS TIMES
MONDAY
9.00am Mass Immaculate Conception
5.00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament followed by
5.30pm Mass St John the Baptist
TUESDAY
9.00am Mass St Columba’s
Earlier, Satan had told God that Job’s fidelity and uprightness would last only as long as the temporal blessings he had remained. But, this was not the case, Job remained faithful. After a long period
of mental and bodily suffering and Job did not change his mind, he was finally given back his family,
WEDNESDAY
9.00am Mass St John the Baptist
5.30pm Mass
Immaculate Conception
and twice the possessions he had lost.
The lesson for us to learn is that the belief prevalent among the Jews/some people today that God
rewards the good in this life and punishes the wicked was not and is still not well-founded. We
have seen that Job was not a sinner and yet he suffered much in this life. The story of Job was proof
that this commonly held belief was wrong. It is interesting to note the author did not solve the
problem – of human pain. But, with the example of Christ’s sufferings and cruel death before us,
we can now see the value of suffering in this life, and the full meaning of the didactic story of Job.
6.00pm Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament Immaculate Conception
6.30pm Mass St Carthage’s
Filipino Community
THURSDAY
9.00am Mass St Columba’s
ticeship, for the eternal life that awaits us after death, we are able to see our earthly sufferings in
FRIDAY
6.30am Mass St Columba’s
their proper perspective. Someone may suffer for past sins, yes – God’s loving way of giving the
9.00am Mass St John the Baptist
opportunity of making atonement for one’s offences. The other is that it could be laid on one’s
9.00am Mass St Carthage’s
Followed by the Rosary
[1st Friday-Healing Mass]
Therefore, with our new knowledge and certainty that this life is only a preparation, and appren-
shoulders to atone for fellow human beings who are incapable of bearing their saving cross.
Granted that very often and that many, if not most of the pains and hardships people have to suffer
are caused by wicked people, yet all these happens with God’s knowledge. Hence, we Christians
should with example of Christ before us, be able to accept them with goodwill and bear them patiently because we know God could prevent it but if he allows it, he intends to produce good out of
it.
If we carry our cross patiently, it will be turned into our crown of glory when we meet Christ at the
moment of our death.
5.30pm Mass Immaculate
Conception [followed by Benediction on
1st Friday of the month]
1st Friday—6.30pm St Carthage’s Mass &
All Night Vigil Filipino Community
SATURDAY
12noon Rosary St John the Baptist
5.00pm Confession St Columba’s
Fr Patrick
5.00pm Confession
Immaculate Conception
6.00pm Vigil St Columba’s
Pastors
Fr Michael Grace
Administrator
Fr Patrick Chukwu
Associate Pastor
Paul Eloagu
Deacon
Fr Terry Madden
Pastor Emeritus
Gordon Park
Parish Office
PARISH OFFICE
23 Lovedale St
PO Box 278
Wilston QLD 4051
Ph: 07 3352 1730
Fx: 07 3356 2014
ST CARTHAGE’S OFFICE
115 Beaconsfield Tce
Gordon Park QLD 4031
Ph: 07 3109 0650
Fx: 07 3357 3072
Mon—Thur 9am—12 noon
OFFICE STAFF
Finance: Cherylann Baxter
Finance Assistant: Majella Adams
Administration: Heather Smith
Administration Assistant: Sally Mollo
6.00pm Vigil Immaculate Conception
SUNDAY
7.30am Mass Immaculate Conception
8.00am Mass St Carthage’s
9.00am Mass St John the Baptist
9.30am Mass St Columba’s
Volunteer Assistant: Parry Colborne
kbcc@bne.catholic.net.au
carthage@bne.catholic.net.au
parrycolborne@optusnet.com.au
www.parishes.bne.catholic.net.au/kbcc
5.00pm Confession St John the Baptist
5.30pm Mass St John the Baptist
St Carthage’s — Confession
By Appointment
Immaculate Conception —
Rosary before weekday Masses
St Carthage’s, Gordon Park
St Columba’s, Wilston
If you have only God, you have more than enough
He helped
her up and
the fever
left her
and she began to wait
on them.
Australia Day Honours List
We congratulate John Burke for his award of Member of
the Order of Australia for his services to Medicine. John’s
work in Paediatric Nephrology and his work on the Mater
Hospital Board and Mater Medical Research Institute over
many years were recognised. John’s son Andrew, wife
Zara and son Joseph are members of St Carthage’s community and we join in celebrating all that is good and
meritorious in this award.
Thank You
To Adrian Pauley for spotting the above item in the local
Newspaper and sending the story. Do YOU have a story?
The Little King’s Movement
On Sunday 15th February we will take up their annual collection. Please show your usual generosity to this very
worthy cause.. Keep them in your prayers.
Live it ! Love it ! Share it !
Love to sing!!! Join the
Choracles. No audition
necessary.
Practice
Wednesday night, before the 3rd Sunday of
the month. 7.30pm – 9.00pm Then supper. First practice
for 2015 the 11th Feb.
Peter Gardiner gardiner_peter@hotmail.com
Centenary Photo Viewing
Many of you have asked to view the
Photos taken at our various Centenary
Functions in 2014. This will be held on
Saturday 14th Feb, and Sunday 15th Feb after Mass. Will
be about 15 minutes. All welcome!!! Interested? Leave
your name on the list at the back of the Church. Please
phone Jen Gardiner 3357 5109 or email seaweedeyes@bigpond.com
Trivia Night planned Friday 20th
March, at 7.30 pm.
Come as a team, or make up a
team on the night – 8 to a team
maximum. Dress up – all come a Penguins, or dressed in
orange!!
Whatever takes your fancy. (optional).
Should be a great night. Lots of prizes, lots of fun!!!
BYO plus a Gold Coin donation.
Please leave your name on the list at the back of the
Church. Please phone Jen Gardiner 3357 5109 or email
seaweedeyes@bigpond.com
St. Columba’s
Pastoral Parish Council
The year's first meeting of the Parish
Found
Council has been set for Tuesday
Left in the Parish Hall on election day is a rather unusual 10th February 2015.
pair of gold coloured fold up reading glasses with the
brand “Kanda” on the small, flat, gold coloured metal This year's goals will include the continued promotion of
carry box. Please ring Parry Colborne on 3857 2994 if they the Pastoral Plan and the consolidation of the good work
commenced last year on the various sub groups formed
are yours.
to effect the continued growth of the Parish community.
ROSTERS
If a parishioner feels that they have ideas to assist in this
New rosters are on the long chair in the Parish Office. journey, contact with the Council can be made through
Please collect today.
the Parish Office or directly with me on
gardiner_peter@hotmail.com.
Happy Birthday: to Michelle Oliver on Monday
9th February and to Sarah Murphy on
ASH WEDNESDAY MASS TIMES
Wednesday. Have a really great day on your
18th February
birthdays.
Wilston—6.30am
Gordon Park—7.30pm
VOCATION VIEW
The afflicted Job in the Old Testament thinks that his life is like dust in the wind, his restlessness depicting the sorrow and sadness
afflicting society today. Are we prepared for the task ahead? To heal the broken-hearted, to bind up all their wounds. How do
you choose to respond?
* * * NOTICE BOARD * * *
PASTORAL NOTES…..
“It’s already getting to look like Ordinary time.” “Ordinary time” has no melody in it. Nobody sends cards for
“ordinary time.” Nobody sings, “I’ll be home for ordinary time.” Nobody hums. Yet, ordinary time is where
life is lived. People are born in ordinary time and grow up in ordinary time, marry in ordinary time, and have
families in ordinary time. People age in ordinary time and experience new turns in their life in ordinary time.
And people die in ordinary time.
In every person’s life, there comes a time when the glow of marriage, a new job, a new school, of conversation, of a new baby, start to wear out and then we get down to business, living out the substance of our
commitments. That is our “ordinary time” where we live and grow. “Ordinary time” is not filled with decorations, sentiment, charming songs, lights decorating houses; but it is filled with reality --- the reality of sin and
grace.
Lent begins on the 18th day of February with Ash Wednesday; a day of fasting and abstinence...
SICK / VISITATION LIST DeaASH WEDNESDAY MASS TIMES
con Paul is compiling a list of
18th February
parishioners who would like a
visit and/or communion so that
Wilston—6.30am
these parishioners can be visGordon Park—7.30pm
ited regularly or as requested.
So names, addresses and phone numbers are required. This inSt Columba’s Primary School Wilston is
formation will be kept absolutely confidential. Please contact the
now calling for Prep Enrolments for 2016.
Parish Office 3352 1730 or email kbcc@bne.catholic.net.au
If you have a child born between 1 July
2010 and 30 June 2011 they are eligible
LENTEN PROGRAMMES will be held once
for Prep in 2016. Please register your inagain. Please contact the Parish Office to
terest by contacting Majella at the school office on 3356 9866
express your interest in participating in
or email mgill@bne.catholic.edu.au .
any of the Parish groups. Or put you name
on the list at the church entrance. Details
of times and locations will appear in the
POSITION VACANT: Regional Tribunal invites
next bulletin.
applications for the Full Time position of OfMary Hanifin will be hosting one of the Lenten Groups at her
fice Manager (37.5 hours per week: Monday
home at 48 Carberry St Grange. Commencing Thursday 19th
to Friday). For further information please
February at 7.30pm. Program Books are provided at an ‘at cost’
contact Cindy Hayer on 3324 3143 or to apply
price of $7 ea. Please call Mary on 3356 8145 to advise of your
for this position, please e-mail your current
attendance.
resume and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the
The KBCC YOUTH MINISTRY GROUP is holding a position to hroffice@bne.catholic.net.au.
separate Young Adults/Youth Lenten Program
Wednesday nights commencing Ash Wednesday.
Time for first session will be advised in next week’s
bulletin. This first session will be in the St. John the
Baptist Church. Subsequent venues may be shared
amongst the youth team members’ houses as we go along. These sessions will commence at 7pm. RSVP essential—please contact Bradley:
0409 721 577 or Jacinta: 0429 000 571
FOUND
Just before Christmas, a small leatherbound prayer book was left in St
Columba’s church. It has a cross inside
the front cover (in a cut-out section). There is no name nor
are there any holy pictures which may have helped find the
owner. If you know of anyone who has lost the prayer book, it
For those parishioners visiting from the Wilston or can be picked up at the entrance to the church – on the winGordon Park Parishes, there will be a few copies of dow ledge above the notices table.
your bulletin available at the church door each week.
Baptism Preparation this Tuesday night 7pm at St John the Baptist Parish Hall.
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Or just Google “kbcc catholic”. Why not receive the newsletter via email? Just let us know your email address and we will send you a link to the
latest newsletter in an email each week. Thank you.
St Columba’s - 14th February - 6.00pm
1st: S Carlin
Ps:
A Hoban
Altar Servers:
Music:
Gifts:
Ministers of Communion:
THOSE WHO ARE SICK
Julia Blewer
Barbara Bowers
Antoinette Brennan
Jacqueline Burgin
Betty Burgoyne
Wilma Burton
Clare Cameron
Betty Carden
Cara Connolley
June Crimmen
Bernard Grob
Kay Curran
Irene Daniels
St Patricia Davis, OLN
Louise Dudaniec
Mary Endicott
Mick Farrell
Lyn Groessler
Gary Hanson
Gerard Hickey
John Keating
Aranka Kennedy
Kyrle Kennedy
Donna Kelly
Fr Terry Madden
Pat Maloney
Paul Maloney
Terry Maloney
Colin Manton
Terry Mansfield
Danny McCarthy
Mary McCarthy
Tony McCarthy
Barbara McClelland
Pat McKay
Maree McPaul
Katherine Omdahl
Bill Pappin
Gloria Pattel
Angela Reilly
Paul Sherman
Galina Svalbe
Aileen Taylor
Brian Taylor
Annette Thrum
Pat Wells
ANNIVERSARIES
2nd:
R Musgrave
O Oxenham
P Marszalek
D Bardsley, J Gregory
M Cashman, Pat Jones, K Moroney,
J Netto, S Nolan
St Columba’s - 15th February - 9.30am
1st: C Castley
Ps:
Choracles
Altar Servers:
Music:
Gifts:
Ministers of Communion:
2nd:
S Craven
S Love, E Rossetti, L Sterling
Choracles
Children
A Bolger, P Cattanach, P Gardiner,
L Peauril, J Schaettgen
St Columba’s - 15th February
Children’s Liturgy: Choracles
Morning Tea:
Bates, Bell, Flynn, Tacey
Team 9
Cleaning—week commencing 15th February:
A Egan, S Keen, N Kozlovskis, J Rossetti
Counting:
Team 5
F Dohety, C Gooding, T Ponniah
ST CARTHAGE’S: 15th February 2015
SUNDAY 8.00am
Readers:
Theresa Davern, Adrian Pauley, Jane Foster
Contact person next week: Sarah Murphy 3357 7064
Altar Servers:
Connor Maguire, Samantha Maguire
Ministers of Communion
John Murphy, Jill Sammon, Gloria Brosnan
Children's Liturgy: Kathleen and Patrick Maguire
Hugh Banney
Frank Brosnan
Maurice O’Shea
Majella Titmarsh
Mona Carroll
Mavis Brosnan
Maureen Bourke
Morning Tea: Jill Sammon, Kathleen Maguire, Thank you.
Counters
This Week: Roberta Hoey & Pat Garvey
Next Week Clare & Adrian Pauley
Collection last week
$360
Budget $500
Liturgical Calendar
RECENTLY DECEASED
Monday
9
Tuesday
10
Wednesday
11
Thursday
12
Bill Carter
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Weekdays - Cycle 1
Friday
13
Job:
7:1-4, 6-7 I am filled with sorrow all day long.
Saturday
14
Psalm
Praise the Lord who heals the broken hearted
Sunday
15
Corinthians:
9:16-19, 22-23 Punishment will come to me if
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia! He bore our sickness
And endured our suffering.
Alleluia!
Mark:
1:29-39 He cured many who suffered from diseases of one kind or another.
Our Lady of Lourdes
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
If you can find the perfect church—join it!
Just be aware that once you are there, it will no
longer be perfect!!!