1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
3. catholicism

Parish Priest: Fr M ick M acAndrew
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1st 2nd 4th & 5th weekends
Phone: 02 6452 2062
Mobile: 0419 010 870
Saturday Vigil 6pm - Sunday 10am
Tues 5.30pm (Exposition 5pm)
Wed 7.30am
Thursday 10am Friday 7.30am
Reconciliation:
Saturday 5-5.30pm
Parish Secretary:
Mrs Sharon Nesbitt
Office Hours:
Mon Wed & Fri: 9am- 12.30 pm
Phone:
02 6452 2062
Fax:
02 6452 4446
Email:
coomaparish@bigpond.com
3rd Weekend of month
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
Saturday Vigil 6pm - Sunday 10am
Sacramental Program
Phone:
02-6452 2062
Email:
coomaparish@bigpond.com
St Patrick's Parish School
Principal:
Mrs Frances Robertson
Cnr Murray & Vale Street, Cooma
Phone:
02 6452 1721
Fax:
02 64523974
Weekday M ass
Tuesday 5.30pm
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8am, 2nd & 4th Sunday of the month
6W$QGUHZ¶V Nimmitabel:
10am 3rd Sunday & 8am 5th Sunday of
the month
Liturgy of the Word with Communion
6pm, 1st, 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month
www.stpatricksparishcooma.org.au
All Saints Numeralla:
5.30pm 4th Sunday of the month
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8am 1st Sunday of month
Parish Pastoral Council:
Contact Parish Office
simon_buckley@bigpond.com
Rosters Acolyte Usher Sat 14th ± 6pm Kathleen Bashford Sun 15th -­10am Barry Tobin Sat 21st ± 6pm Carol Byrne Sun 22nd -­10am Pauline Radosavljevic Reader/ Commentator Sat 14th ± 6pm Kathleen Bashford/Mark vanOmmen Sun 15th -­10am Marg Hassall/ Charlotte Neilsen Sat 21st ± 6pm Elaine Mooney/ Mary Bennett Sun 22nd -­10am Agna Muddle/ Simon Buckley Sat 14th -­ 6pm Paul Everett Sun 15th -­ 10am Eva Tangye Sat 21st -­ 6pm Lou Mackay Sun 22nd -­ 10am Mark Rixon Eucharist Ministers Sat 14th -­6pm Robin Fletcher Denise McKenzie Sun 15th -­10am Carol Rixon Joan Simpson Sat 21st -­6pm Margaret Quodling Mary Bennett Sun 22nd -­10am Leah Baker Sue McPhie Cleaners Mass Servers Sat 21st Feb L Redden L Bracher Sat 21st -­6pm Lachlan Hemphill Ethan Stacey Sun 22nd-­10am Grace Nesbitt Sat 28th Feb C Byrne D Heffernan J Upton Morning Tea Sun 15th Carol & Mark Rixon Sun 22nd Kathleen Bashford Children¶V Mass 2 Sunday of Lent nd
1st Mar 10am Carol Byrne NEXT WEEKENDS READINGS First Sunday of Lent /B 1st Reading-­ Genesis 9:8-­15 2nd Reading-­ 1 St Peter 3:18-­22 Holy Gospel-­ Mark 1:12-­15 Hospital Sun 15th Sun 22nd Kathleen Bashford Bev Fitzgerald Shirley Redden &DWULWDV$XVWUDOLD ³)RRGIor LifH´project
compassion, Contribution resources are available
in the Church entrances. We also have a large
contribution box available for any loose donations
throughout Lent in the entrance. Important Dates: Feb 2015Sat
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Sun 15th 10am
Liturgy of the word with Holy
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Mass at Nimmitabel
Ash Wednesday 18th Feb 2015 7.30am Cooma 9.30am Bombala 12pm Nimmitabel 4pm Adaminaby 5.30pm Cooma Fri 20th
9.30am Mass at Yallambee Lodge
11am Anointing and Communion at
Sir William Hudson Nursing Home
Sat 21st 5pm
Reconciliation
6pm
Vigil at Cooma
nd
Sat 22
8am
Mass at Adaminaby
10am Mass at Cooma
5.30pm Mass at Numeralla
Mon 23rd 10am Catechist Training Day Nimmitabel
Christian Meditation every Saturday at 4pm
For information please contact Terri Rick on ph: 0466
993 240, or Marie Hamono on ph: 0415 718 969.
CATECHIST TRAINING DAY
Monday 23rd February 2015 AT Nimmitabel Old School
Morning Session 10 am to
12 Noon
Shane Dwyer will be giving
the input and all are welcome
even if you are not a
catechist.
There will be further input for Catechists after
lunch.
Cost: Donation
ALL WELCOME
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Conference will include keynote addresses from
Archbishop Christopher Prowse, Professor Greg
Craven (ACU) and Tim & Lara Kirk, separate
catechetical activities for primary and secondary
students, an expo of the many offerings from
various groups, movements and agencies across
the Archdiocese. We will gather under the
theme: ³HPEUDFH± The Joy of the Gospel in
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website embrace2015.org.au.
Pope Francis Evangelii Gaudium
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the same way that a mother speaks to her
child, knowing that the child trusts that what
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A good mother can recognise everything that
God is bringing about in her children, she
listens to their concerns and learns from them.
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guides both mother and child in their
conversations; therein they teach and learn,
experience correction and grow in appreciation
of what is good.
Something similar happens in a homily. The
same Spirit who inspired the Gospels and who
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regarding Lenten Season
Dear Friends,
The Lenten season is soon to begin- Ash
Wednesday is 18th February 2015.
As we return to our normal routines, let us prepare
in our various communities for this season that
recalls our Baptism and stresses its penitential
dimension. It is a time of conversion as we prepare
for the saving events of our salvation at Easter.
LENTEN DISCUSSION GROUPS commence this
Monday evening or Tuesday afternoon sessions, all
are most welcome to join in: Ph Terri 0466 993 240
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compassion, please take an envelope or box for
contributions throughout Lent
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Saturday 21st February Everyone welcome. Please Pray For: Recently Deceased: Gwen Ryan, Bonny Yarrington,
Monica Gerrard, Jim Robinson, June
Bowerman, Gwen Witton, Godfrey Cole.
Anniversaries
Terry Redden, Kevin Green, Pattie Stewart,
Geoff Fitzgerald, Fraser Watson.
Anniversary- occur around this time
Bob and Gladys Flynn
Sick: George Timmins, Fr. Peter Murphy,
Jenny Shatrov, Pat Oliver