First Sunday of Lent 29th February / 1st March 2020

Parish Priest: Fr David Pascoe

0414 675 356 pascoed@bne.catholic.net.au

Associate Pastor: Fr Lucius Edomobi

0451 570 990 edomobil@bne.catholic.net.au

Parish Secretary: Sharron Macrae

admin1.cabcath@bne.catholic.net.au

Finance Officer: Kath Rawlinson

finance.cabcath@bne.catholic.net.au

Parish Office Information

30 Beerburrum Road,

Caboolture, 4510

5495 1028

Postal Address

P.O. Box 483,

Caboolture, 4510

Parish Office Hours

Monday – Friday

8.30am – 12pm

2.00pm -4pm

Living Waters Parish Website Please use current website.

Archdiocesan Prevention &

Protection Policy

The Archdiocese of Brisbane

holds that children, young people

and vulnerable adults are a gift

from God with an intrinsic right

to dignity of life, respect and security

from physical and emotional harm.

They are to be treasured, nurtured

and safeguarded by all.

Safeguarding Is Everyone’s Responsibility

Safeguarding Officer:

Sharron Macrae admin1cabcath@bne.catholic.net.au

ARCHBISHOP’S LENTEN MESSAGE 2020

As we come to Ash Wednesday we think of the ocean of ashes in which

we have drowned as the fires have engulfed the land. Ours is a land of fire. Fire is

part of the ecology of Australia, and it has been for thousands of years. But this

was something different, with a touch of the apocalyptic about it. It was not only

the number of fires, but our sheer powerlessness to stop them. The efforts of the

fire-fighters were heroic, but they too must have felt powerless before the blazes

they faced. Flora and fauna were devastated; communities, families and individu-

als had their lives shattered. It will take a long time to recover and rebuild, and

the Church has to accompany all these people in every way possible as they seek

to recover and rebuild.

Then came the floods, which seemed to sweep away whatever was left after

the fires. We had prayed for rain, and God knows we needed it. But in some plac-

es the rains seemed almost too much, and the floods again faced us into our pow-

erlessness before the force of nature.

On top of all this came the threat of the coronavirus, which may be receding

but is certainly not behind us. It may have begun in China but the data shows that

it has spread far and wide as these pandemics do; and Australia hasn’t been

spared.

Medical science is scrambling to respond, and that’s good. But this virus

seemed to come out of the blue and left us initially feeling bewildered and power-

less, even to understand the virus, let alone cure it.

So as we begin the journey of Lent, events have confronted us with a sense of

powerlessness and fragility. Illusions of omnipotence or invulnerability have been

shown for what they are: a lie. The truth is that we are often powerless and al-

ways fragile. But the greater truth to which Lent looks is that there is a God who

comes to meet us precisely where we are most powerless and fragile. That’s what

the Cross of Jesus means. When he dies on Calvary, Jesus goes to the very heart

of all human powerlessness and fragility. He becomes so powerless that he lies

finally a corpse on the ground. He becomes so fragile that He’s crushed by the

brutalities of a violent world. But from the ashes He rises in the moment of East-

er, for which Lent is a preparation – a preparation which takes us down into the

dark place of our powerlessness and fragility, the place where we’d rather not go.

We go down to that dark place through Lent, renewing our faith in the God

who raised Jesus from the dead. This was the God who breathed life into the dark

tomb of Jesus and led him forth into the light. All the false gods are masters of

the lie of omnipotence and invulnerability. They leave us with nothing but the

ashes; they are the lords of despair; and Lent is a time to dethrone the false gods.

But the true God is with us – with the fire-fighters battling the blaze, with

the communities and families who have lost so much, with the many who are

struggling to offer solidarity and support. The true God is with the farmers who

have suffered years of drought, and with those who have been stricken by flood –

and also with the many who have reached out to people tempted to despair be-

cause of drought or flood.

Continued over

Archbishop Mark’s Lenten Continued….

Lent is the time given to us to open our hearts to the

power of Easter. On Ash Wednesday we take the ashes

upon ourselves in recognition of the truth that we are

often powerless and always fragile. But by the time we

get to Easter, we have come to a deeper sense that we

are empowered in our powerlessness, that we are made

strong in our weakness. Knowing that we can walk

from the tomb with Jesus; we can rise from the ashes

with him to sing the song of Easter. Fires may rage and

floods come, but the voice of hope is always heard.

Nothing and no-one can silence

Most Rev Mark Coleridge

Archbishop of Brisbane

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STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Will be held every Friday during Lent at Little Flower beginning at 5pm

and at St Peter’s at 7pm. This is a wonderful opportunity to gather

together in prayer and reflection on the journey Christ took for us to Easter.

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Knights of the Southern Cross Meat Tray Raffle

The Knights of the Southern Cross will hold their meat tray raffle at all masses across the

Parish this weekend. Tickets are the usual $1.00 each or 6 for $5.00.

Please support them by buying a ticket or 6. All money raised goes to supporting very

worthy causes across our community.

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S.V.D.P. “CUPPA & A CHAT”

The Little Flower conference of the S.V.D.P. invite you to drop into their Frederick Ozanam Centre for afternoon Tea and a chat this Tuesday at 2pm. No commitment. Just a social chin wag and a cuppa!

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Liturgical Rosters are now available at the back of our churches. Please collect one if you’re in one of these Ministries as they will take effect

from next weekend.

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All our Lenten Discussion Groups have begun or are beginning this week. For our

Parishioners at St Michael’s the group will meet this Tuesday 3rd March at 8.30am in the Hall and afterwards meet for morning tea at the ‘3 C Café’ in town. If you haven’t

joined a group and would like to please contact the Parish Office as soon as possible.

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News from the Vocations Office

Limited copies of the 2020 edition of Vocare is

available at the back of our churches this week along with

some prayer cards for Vocations. If you missed out on

one please remember to keep in your prayers the seven

young men who have joined the Canali Program to

discern God’s calling in their lives.

NEW SUNDAY MASS TIMES FOR 2020

Little Flower, Bribie Island St Peter’s, Caboolture

Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm Saturday Vigil: 6.00pm

Sunday: 8.00am Sunday: 10.00am

5.00 pm

St Mary’s, Woodford Sunday: 8.00am

Beachmere Community 1st / 3rd Sundays 10.30am

St Michael’s, Kilcoy 2nd / 4th Sundays 10.00am

Daily Mass Times For 2020

Monday 8.00am St Mary’s

Tuesday 8.30am Little Flower

Wednesday 9.30am St Peter’s / 5.30pm St Michael’s

Thursday 9.15am Little Flower

Friday 7.45am St Columban’s / 8.00am St Mary’s

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK

This Sunday - 1st Sunday in Lent (Yr A)

Gen 2:7-9,3:1-7; Romans 5:12-19; Matt 4:1-11

Weekday Readings:

Monday Lev 19:1-2;11-18; Matt 25:31-46

Tuesday Isaiah 55:10-11; Matt 6:7-15

Wednesday Jonah 3:1-10; Luke 11:29-32

Thursday Esther 14: 1,3-5,12-14; Matt 7:7-12

Friday Ezek 18:21-28; Matt 5:20-26

Saturday Duet 26: 16-19; Matt 5:43-48

Next Sunday – 2nd Sunday in Lent (Yr A)

Gen 12:1-4; 2 Timothy 1:8-10; Matt 17:1-9

PARISH BAPTISMS

10.30am - 1st, 2nd & 3rd Saturdays of each month. Parent Baptism Meetings 6pm 3rd Tuesday of the month.

For further enquiries please phone the Parish Office or email: admin1.cabcath@bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH CALENDAR

Sat 29th Feb / Sun 1st March - 1st Sunday in Lent

Mon 2nd Mar 10.00am 20 Decade Rosary St Peter’s

Tues 3rd Mar 2.00pm Cuppa & Chat Fredrick Ozenham Centre

Wed 4th Mar 9.30am Christian Meditation ‘ Our House’

Wed 4th Mar 3.30pm Bible Study Fredrick Ozenham Centre

Wed 4th Mar 5.30pm Men’s Choir Practice Little Flower

Thur 5th Mar 10.00am Mother’s Prayer Group Mary McKillop Hall

Thur 5th Mar 10.00am El Shaddai 21 Hayes St, Caboolture.

Fri 6th Mar 9.30am - 11.30am Craft Group Mary McKillop Hall

Fri 6th Mar 5.30pm - 7.30pm “How Sacraments Work”

A public lecture by Fr Paul Turner—Hanley Room in the Cathedral. A Parish

booking has been made - no cost though names are requested.

Sat 7th / Sun 8th March - 2nd Sunday in Lent

Tues 10th Mar “Chatter” Social Group will meet at 9.30am in the Black Bear

Café at Morayfield. All welcome.

Installation of Fr David - 4pm Sunday 29th March, 2020

We are very excited to announce the installation of Fr David as the

Parish Priest of our Living Waters Catholic Parish. Archbishop Mark

will officiate at a special Mass to be held in the Mary McKillop

Performance Centre (St Columban’s College Caboolture). Please put

the time and date into your diaries.

Refreshments afterwards in the Bobbio Restaurant.

PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL BE NO 5PM MASS THAT NIGHT

Please Remember In Your Prayers

Those Who Have Died Recently

Michael Schaeller, Patricia Bernard, Michael Paul Doran,

Mary King, Beatrice Evans, Harry Micallef, Jeanette NG,

Lucy Powell, Bernie Daly, Margaret Pascoe, Monnie Lawler,

Mary Daley, Shirley Cumner, Aubrey Robinson, Anatalia Aranas,

Millicent Smith, Alison Kearney, Tom Allan.

Anniversaries of Those Who Have Died

Miriam Duncan, Jim Taylor, Kathleen Brooker, Denis O’Connell,

Peter Vance, Wayne Hinds, Bruce Anderson, Anna Saric,

Bernard Pattell, Trevor Meehan, John Nunn, John Anderson,

Mari Carmen Cabrera, Maree Hazbourne, Jim Montague,

Henrietta McLennon, Harold Gillan, Greg Cox, Reg King, Neil

Weekes, Ron McCarthy, Aaron Joku, Betty Rutkin.

Our Sick

Des Forbes, Kay Berge, Denis Berge, Neil Clunes,

Catherine Ferguson, Francis Fulzon, Lisa Griffiths,

Sr Maureen Hickling, Nicole Harvey, Laurie Holdsworth,

Lionel Henschell, Alison Jones, Susie Jeude, Gill Leach,

Bob Lewis, Basil Moran, Michael O’Shea, Carmel O’Brien,

Nicole Parker, Alison Peall, Elva Polito, Gene Rosenblatt, Bernie

Sheppard, Gerry Toussant, Betty Towel, Amanda Thacker,

Gerry Van Dinter, Marie Webster, Mark Wheatley,

Charlie Fletcher, Raymond Genn, Jane Handsley,

Judy Holman, Anna O’Callahan, Adele Scott, Laura Stewart,

Rex Sutherland, Lew Walshaw.

Response:

Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned.

Gospel Acclamation:

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!

No-one lives on bread alone, but on every word that

comes from the mouth of God.

Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ, King of endless glory!

Our Schools

St Peter’s Primary School

30 Beerburr30 Beerburrum Road, Caboolture Ph: 5495 2266 Outside School Hours Care Ph: 5495 8806

Principal: Mr Peter Surawski

St Columban’s College

100 McKean Street, Caboolture. Ph: 5495 3111. Principal: Mr Michael Connolly

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Centacare Services

2/47-49 Lear Jet Dr, Caboolture QLD 4510 Ph: 1300 236 822

Providing a wide array of support services locally.

STOPline - Safeguarding Children & Vulnerable Adults Phone: 1300 304 550 / Email: AOB@stopline.com.au Office for Safeguarding Services: P: 07 3324 3752

E: safeguarding@bne.catholic.net.au PO Box 282, Brisbane QLD 4001

Next Weekend’s Mass Schedule

2nd Sunday in Lent

Sat 7th March 6.00pm Mass Little Flower (Fr Lucius)

Sat 7th March 6.00pm Mass St Peter’s (Fr David)

Sun 8th March 8.00am Mass Little Flower (Fr Lucius)

Sun 8th March 8.00am Mass St Mary’s (Fr David)

Sun 8th March 10.00am Mass St Peter’s (Fr Lucius)

Sun 8th March 10.00am Mass St Michael’s (Fr David)

Sun 8th March 5.00pm Mass St Peter’s (Fr Lucius) Sacrament of Reconciliation

Individual Reconciliation will be available to Parishioners

at 5pm at Little Flower & St Peter’s each Saturday night.

Otherwise by appointment

PARISH COLLECTIONS

Across the Parish your gifting this week was - $5156.45 Thank you for the continued support of your Parish.

World Day of Prayer - Friday 6th March

This year’s theme is “Rise, take up your mat and walk’ and comes from the writer country of Zimbabwe.

Bribie Island: 1.30pm Baptist Church, 7-9 Cotterill Avenue

Beachmere: 10.00am Uniting Church, 43 Moreton Terrace

Caboolture: 10.00am Anglican Church, 165 King Street

Kilcoy: 10.30am Uniting Church, 79 William Street

Woodford: 6.30pm Anglican Church, Archer Street

Please join in anyone one of the services that are

closest to you; you would be more than welcome.

ACCOMMODATION NEEDED

I am a mature lady seeking to rent a house or share half of a house in or near Woodford. I live a quiet life, enjoy gardening and can assist with lawn mowing and maintenance of garden. I need to relocate as soon as possible. Please phone and leave message for me on 0490 880 581 or preferably send text with

your contact number so I can phone you. The St Vincent de Paul Caboolture Conference is in urgent need of new members. Basic computer and reception skills desirable.

Please phone Andrew on 0429182738.