1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
3. catholicism

Wedding Celebrations within the Parish
We wish to congratulate the following couples who will be celebrating their weddings at the Basilica during
February and wish them all the best for their future. Let us keep them in our prayers.
Lucy Lynch & Drew Gallyot
Norella Triventi & Frank Amato
Zoe Golds & Daniel Bloomer
Julia Paparella & Paul Abelha
Meghan Stasinowsky & Daniel Doheney
Gabrielle Buhagiar & Owen Wrightson
Rebecca Gibbons & Anthony Kelly
Bronwyn Kent & Ryan Taddeo
Events within the Parish
St Patrick’s Primary School, Reconciliation – Wednesday 4 March at 9am
Shalom Prayer Group Mass – Wednesday 11 March at 9.30am
St Patrick’s Primary School, St Patrick’s Day Mass – Tuesday 17 March at 9am
St Patrick’s Day – Tuesday 17 March
St Patrick’s Primary School, Reconciliation – Wednesday 18 March at 9am
Pipe Organ Plus Concert – Sunday 22 March at 2.30pm
St Patrick’s Primary School, Mass – Wednesday 25 March at 9am
Palm Sunday – Sunday 29 March
Stations of the Cross in English – every Friday until Easter after the 12.10pm Mass
Stations of the Cross in Italian – every Friday until Easter after the 7pm evening Mass
Sacred Heart Sodality
We wish to invite all friends of the Sacred Heart Sodality to join us at Mass every 4th Sunday of the
month at 8.30am. Next Mass will be held on Sunday 22 March 2015. New members are always
welcome. For further information please contact the Parish Office.
Children’s Liturgy
Children’s Liturgy is held every Sunday during school term at the 8.30am Mass in the
Children’s Chapel, located just inside the side foyer of the Basilica. All Children
Welcome!
St Patrick’s Morning Tea
Come along and enjoy morning tea with fellow parishioners after 8.30am Mass on Sunday 1 March 2015.
ALL WELCOME!
Planned Giving Program
The Planned Giving program is an important part of the parish, as it allows us to maintain the Basilica and
Presbytery and their grounds and also the Parish Admin Centre. Without this ongoing weekly financial
contribution the parish would not be able to continue its day-to-day work.
If you are not already a member and would like to become a member of the Planned Giving Program please
complete one of the cards that are available in the side foyers of the Church and return them to the Parish
Office or place them on the collection plate during Masses.
Holy Week and Easter Timetable
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL 2015
(Colour of Vestments: PURPLE)
Mass at 12.10pm
2nd Rite of Reconciliation at 7pm
HOLY SATURDAY 4 APRIL 2015
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE OR GOLD)
No Blessed Sacrament and No Midday Mass
9.30am to 10.30am Reconciliation English
11am to 12noon Reconciliation English
4pm Polish Blessing of Food
4.30pm to 5.30pm Reconciliation English
7pm Vigil Mass
HOLY THURSDAY 2 APRIL 2015
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE)
No Midday Mass
7pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
8pm to 9pm Reconciliation
8pm to 10pm Adoration
GOOD FRIDAY 3 APRIL 2015
(Colour of Vestments: RED)
No midday Mass
11am Stations of the Cross at the Basilica of St Patrick
11.30am to 12.30pm Reconciliation English
11am Stations of the Cross at St Anne’s Church, North
Fremantle
3pm Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
4pm to 5pm Reconciliation English
EASTER SUNDAY 5 APRIL 2015
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE)
Masses: 7am, 8.30am, 9.45am (Italian), 11am and 5pm
8.15am St Anne’s, North Fremantle
Weekly Services in the Fremantle Parish
Masses during the week
St Patrick’s Basilica
Monday to Saturday: 12.10pm
Wednesday and Friday evenings: 7pm
Convent
Weekdays (except Public Holidays): 7am
Weekend Masses
St Patrick’s Basilica
Saturday Vigil: 6pm
Sunday: 7am, 8.30am, 9.45am (Italian), 11am, 5pm
St Anne’s, North Fremantle
Sunday: 8.15am
Holy Spirit Chapel, Notre Dame
Sunday: 6pm
For enquiries regarding Baptisms and Weddings
please phone the Parish Office
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
St Patrick’s Basilica
Thursday: 8am to 12noon
First Friday: 11am to 12noon
Saturday: 10.30am to 12noon
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
St Patrick’s Basilica
Saturday: 9.30am to 10.30am,
11am – 12noon, 4.30pm to 5.30pm
First Friday: 11am to 12noon
For Vocations and World Peace
St Patrick’s Basilica
Novena to Our Lady every Wednesday
after the 7pm Mass
Devotion to the Divine Mercy
St Patrick’s Basilica Friday: 6.30pm
Dominic Perissinotto’s Pipe Organ Plus Concerts – Four Sundays in 2015
Sundays 22 March – 17 May
30 August – 22 November
Pipe Organ Plus in 2015,
features our own Basilica
Organist and Director of Music,
Dominic Perissinotto, joined by
numerous other musicians.
Dominic, these concerts and
the
Basilica
organs
are
acclaimed internationally, and
they are your opportunity to
hear them in in full flight. See
the Series Flier in the foyers, or
visit www.pipeorganplus.com
to download a PDF of the flier.
Tickets available at the door.
Rosters for March 2015
If you are unable to attend on your rostered day please find a replacement. If you see a problem with the roster then please contact
the Parish Office on 9335 2268 and ask that the information be passed on to Angie Emanuele.
Readers
Date
28 February/
1 March
(1)
7/8 March
(2)
14/15 March
(3)
21/22 March
(4)
28/29 March
(5)
Saturday Vigil
6:00pm
J Swindells
T Petrucci
Sunday
7:00am
K Wilson
Sunday
8:30am
P Cattalini
C Pruiti
Sunday
11:00am
M Jardine-Clarke
D Randazzo
Sunday
5:00pm
Sr L Chua
G Lynn
J Gilmour
L Jensen
J Gilmour
P Pettigrew
J Leahy-Kane
J Swindells
T Petrucci
Position Vacant
M Lacey
C Brown
M-A Yeats
P Colgan
S Sutton
U Stephenson
P Cattalini
C Pruiti
B Dwyer
M Sticca
C Pruiti
L Lanzara
A Parker
P Smith
M Jardine-Clarke
D Randazzo
L Saunders
L Tomlinson
A Greenwood
Sr L Chua
B Sands
Sr L Chua
Sr L Chua
Sunday
11:00am
B Dwyer
M Thompson
A M Cross
M Smith
D Randazzo
P Grootelaar
M Sheridan
M Thompson
B Dwyer
B Earl
M Thompson
A Parker
B Dwyer
P Grootelaar
D Randazzo
M Sheridan
B Dwyer
M Thompson
A M Cross
M Smith
Sunday
5:00pm
Position Vacant
L Tomlinson
Sr Fely
K Miller
M Clune
K Wilson
Communion Ministers
Date
Saturday Vigil
6:00pm
G Basile
F Gilmour
J Gilmour
Sunday
7:00am
S Bottoli
Sunday
8:30am
Position Vacant
C Pruiti
B Tuana
J Leahy-Kane
M Dullard
J Gilmour
S Bottoli
14/15 March
(3)
G Basile
F Gilmour
M Dullard
S Bottoli
21/22 March
(4)
G Basile
M Dullard
J Leahy-Kane
B Yong
28/29 March
(5)
G Basile
F Gilmour
J Gilmour
S Bottoli
M Yates
C Brown
P Cattalini
T Ducali
M Yeats
D Yeats
P Cattalini
Position Vacant
T Ducali
C Pruiti
A M Cross
Position Vacant
Position Vacant
C Pruiti
B Tuana
28 February/
1 March
(1)
7/8 March
(2)
Position Vacant
A Greenwood
Sr Melanie
L Tomlinson
Sr L Chua
Sr L Chua
A Greenwood
Position Vacant
L Tomlinson
Sr Fely
Music Ministry
Dominic Perissinotto – Organist and Director of Music
Date
28 February/
1 March
(1)
7/8 March
(2)
Liturgy
SECOND SUNDAY
OF LENT
14/15 March
(3)
FOURTH SUNDAY
OF LENT
(Laetare Sunday &
St Patrick’s Day)
FIFTH SUNDAY OF
LENT
21/22 March
(4)
28/29 March
(5)
THIRD SUNDAY OF
LENT
PASSION SUNDAY
Saturday 6:00pm
Laura Pitts
Annaliese Eames
(organ)
Delia Price
Sunday 8:30am
Brianna Louwen
Sunday 11:00am
The Basilica Choir
Sunday 5:00pm
Grace Feltoe
Gabrielle Scheggia
The Basilica Chamber
Singers
Stephen De Filippo
Stephen De Filippo
Kate Oliver
Eva-Marie Middleton
The Basilica Choir
Kate Oliver
Annaliese Eames
(organ)
Brianna Louwen
Laura Pitts
Andrew Brown (organ)
The Basilica Chamber
Singers
Alexandra Eimear Foley
The Chapel Choir
Dir Paul Sealey
Kate Oliver
Annaliese Eames
(organ)
Alexandra Eimear
Foley
Fremantle Catholic Community
Monthly Bulletin
‘The Patrician’
March 2015 Volume 10 Number 2
___________________________________________________________________________________
There is a lot of loneliness, as we know, that can be spoken about. But there is also `unspeakable loneliness’.
When you are lonely in certain ways, no matter the pain, you can still put out a hand and someone will take it,
hold it, offer empathy, and the loneliness itself can lead to a deeper sense of being loved and valued. That is
often the case with the loneliness you feel when you lose a loved one in death, with the loneliness you feel
when you lose a special intimacy with your children as they grow up and into their own lives and interests,
with the loneliness you feel as you age and lose the taut health and attractiveness of a young body and the
place that gives you in the world.
There is a loneliness that can be spoken of because its pain is greater than its shame. It drives you to your
knees, but also more deeply into humanity. Nature equips you to deal with this. This kind of loneliness hurts
you but it does not damage you. It can be talked about, no small thing: Anything can be borne if it can be
shared.
But there is a loneliness that cannot be shared, which is “unspeakable” because it is experienced in a way that
is so private and humiliating that, were you to speak of it, you would further damage an already over-fragile
sense of self that has been made so fragile by the loneliness itself.
You experience this kind of loneliness whenever you are alone in something in a way that you cannot share
with anyone else because the loneliness itself feels like a private sickness, like a thing of shame, which makes
you so vulnerable that any attempt to share it with someone would only make things worse and be a further
humiliation.
You experience this especially in rejection, betrayal, abuse, powerlessness, and the feelings you have when
you doubt your own attractiveness, intelligence, goodness, strength, and emotional stability. Not only are you
then alone and outside of something or someone you want, but you are left with a wound, a humiliation, a
sense of not measuring-up, an insecurity, and a shame, that is only deepened should you talk of it. There is a
pain that is “unspeakable”.
There is a solution to “unspeakable loneliness”: it needs to be spoken, to be shared, to be made public. To
speak the unspeakable is a risk, an anguish, an irony, but, when the unspeakable is spoken, what once felt
shamefully private and sick can become a badge of courage and a distinguishing mark of healthy citizenship
inside the human condition.
Parish Office
Basilica of St Patrick
47 Adelaide St, Fremantle WA 6160
Phone: (08) 9335 2268 Fax: (08) 9430 6076
Parish Office email: parishoffice@oblates.com.au
Parish Priest email: amaher@oblates.com.au
Parish Web Page: fremantlestpatricks.org.au
Office Hours: Monday to Friday: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Closed Weekends and Public Holidays