PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.

81 Percy Street, Warwick.

Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Phone: (07) 4661 1033

Fax: (07) 4661 4232

Email: stmaryswck1@bigpond.com

Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick.org.au St Mary’s Catholic Parish

Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227

Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly

PARISH SCHOOLS St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 warwickkin-dy@bne.centacare.net.au St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Margaret Grew Phone: 4661 1872 smwarwick@twb.catholic.edu.au Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 acwarwick@twb.catholic.edu.au

PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.

Assumption Place, 163 Palmerin Street (via Church car park, Acacia Avenue), Warwick.

Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm

Phone: (07) 4661 1033

Fax: (07) 4661 5442

Email: warwick@ctwb.org.au

Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick

St Mary’s Catholic Parish

Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto

Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227

Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly

Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan

PPC Chairperson Michael Gaffney 0401 787 416

Parish Schools St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 warwickkindy@bne.centacare.net.au St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Emma Timmins Phone: 4661 1872 smwarwick@twb.catholic.edu.au Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 acwarwick@twb.catholic.edu.au

St Mary’s Catholic Parish Warwick EMBRACING THE COMMUNITIES OF:

St Mary’s, Warwick, Our Lady of Dolours, Greymare, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Gladfield and

Our Lady of Fatima, Karara

The God Who is Revealed in Christmas

Christmas is God’s answer to human longing, God’s response to the

centuries of prayers that lay hidden in our groaning, in our sighs, each of

them a plea, mostly silent, for a divine intervention.

But God’s answer didn’t exactly meet our expectations even as it

surpassed them. What was born with Jesus’ birth wasn’t exactly what the

world expected.

Why would God choose to be born into the world in this way?

Because you can’t argue with a baby! Babies don’t try to compete, don’t

stand up to you, don’t try to best you in an argument. And that is the

Saviour who was born in Bethlehem, and that is how God is still basically

in the world. The power of God revealed in Christmas is the power of a

baby, nothing more, nothing less.

The power of Christmas is like the power of a baby, it underwhelms in

such a way as to eventually overwhelm. There is a greater power than

muscle, speed, charism, unstoppable force. But we have always been

slow to understand this. Even John the Baptist expected the messiah to

come with that kind of power.

When he heard reports of Jesus gently inviting sinners in rather than

casting them off, John was scandalized. John hadn’t wanted a gentle,

vulnerable, peace-preaching messiah. But, to his credit, once he saw how

Jesus’ power worked, he understood, accepted a deeper truth, stepped

back in self-effacement, and pointed people in Jesus’ direction with the

words: He must increase and I must decrease. I’m not even worthy to

untie his scandal strap!

We too are slow to understand. We want the kind of messiah we see at

the end of every Hollywood thriller. But that’s not the Christmas story, nor

the power revealed in it. An infant lying in the straw in Bethlehem didn’t

outgun anyone. He just lay there, waiting for anyone good or bad to come

to him, see his helplessness, feel a tug at his or her heart strings, and then

gently try to coax a smile or a word out of him.

That’s still how God meets us.

Ron Rolheiser

7th/8th December 2019 2nd Sunday of Advent

Year A

PLEASE PRAY FOR

RECENTLY DECEASED Marcelle Maroon, Des Leeson, Ted Donegan (Bargara)

ANNIVERSARIES Raymund Cleary, Mary & Edward O’Mara, Harold & Patricia Baguley, Lauraine Bourke, William Holland, Keith Locke, Kingsley Locke, Rev Msgr Michael McKenna, Rev Frs Justin King, Joseph Callaghan & James Wiemers, Ian Graham, James & Edna Mullins, Tom & Wilma Crawford, Patrick Kelly, Basil Nolan (Jnr), Basil & Rita Nolan, Jack & Winifred Henry, Kay Warsfold, Jack Telford, Tom Dunn, Harold Booth, Don McGinness, Mary Bourke, Viv Cuskelly, Basil Byrne, Jim & Monica Nolan, Lorna Bradfield, Bob Keogh, George & Nell Butler, Vince Plummer, Peter & Hannah Morrisey and all relatives and friends.

SICK Carmel Ryan, Kevin Booth (Bris) Michelle Canil (Canada), Catherine Watson, Warren Giles, Clare Giles, Jeannette White, Paul Fogarty, Doreen Morris (nee Upton), Con Lo Giudice, Rod McLennan, Nita Monteron (P’pines), Jessica Sondergeld, Mary Darr, Fr Don Murray, William Walker (Canada), Harvey Delacour (Bris), Basil Doherty, Des White (Gold Coast), Moya Schaefer, Graham Ryan, Maureen Bayly (Bris), Jim O’Farrell, Lorna Smith (Bris), Geoff Willett, Ron Rettke, Leila Eades, Dean Adams (A’de), Scott & Dylan Grady, and residents of Akooramak, The Oaks, patients at the Warwick Hospital and all those who receive Home Communion.

MASS TIMES

THIS WEEK 7TH/8TH DEC

St Mary’s

Sunday 8:30am

Saturday 6pm

Killarney

Sunday 8am

Lay-Liturgies

Yangan

Saturday 6pm

Gladfield

Sunday 9:30am

WEEKDAY MASS/

LITURGY TIMES Monday Funeral Mass for

Marcelle Maroon 2pm

Tuesday Mass 9am

Wednesday Mass 7am

Thursday Mass & Anointing

at Akooramak 10:45am

Friday Mass 9am

Saturday Mass 9am

No Mass or Lay Liturgy if

there is a Funeral Mass

FEAST DAYS Mon Immaculate

Conception of BVM

Fri St Lucy

Sat St John of the Cross

NEXT WEEK

14TH/15TH DEC

St Mary’s

Saturday 6pm

Sunday 8:30am

Yangan

Saturday 6pm

Gladfield

Sunday 10am

Lay-Liturgies

Killarney

Sunday 8am

Reconciliation

St Mary’s

Saturday 9:30am

after Mass

THIS WEEKEND

7th/8th December 2019

NEXT WEEKEND

14th/15th December 2019

Ministries Vigil 6pm 8:30am Vigil 6pm 8:30am

Bell Ringers

Brian Collins Mal Brownlie Brian Collins Mal Brownlie

Welcomers Kajewski family Mal Brownlie & Gloria Duffy Gina & Matthew

Noble, Trish Seaby

Shirley Owens &

Marcia Hughes

Readers Bernice Furness WR

Charles Shann

Nick Nolan

Margaret Lawton .WR

Michael Gaffney

Emma Timmins

Sharon Young WR

Ina Kelly

Bernice Furness

Pat Sheil WR

Pauline Pickering

Michael Ryan

Prayer of Faithful

Meryl Kelly

Louise Cox Bryan Slattery Sue Harris

Gifts Kajewski family Andrew O’Dea family Lyons family Nancy Ford

Ministers of Communion

Maria Ryan

Ian & Helen Kelly

Susan Ryan

Richard Tartan

Patti Hemmings

Gloria Litster

Barry Scanlan

Sally Carr

Pauline Pickering

Gerry & Judy

Morrisey

Lynette & Mary Noble

Maria Ryan

Val Gray

Maree Ryan

John Telfer

Con Lo Giudice

John Forkan

Powerpoint Megan & Natalie Blake Gerard Fernandez

Glen Jhon Cruda

Kaitlyn Newley Gemma King

Musicians Debbie FIL-Harmonix,

Kathleen & Patrice

Men’s Choir

Kathleen & Patrice

Michael, Rey & Val

Children’s Liturgy

Rowena O’Dea

Angela Hamilton

Morning Tea Assisi Place

Brian & Mary Bourke Mary Goyne & Lesley

Grayson

Altar Servers

Lily Nolan

Basil Nolan

Thomas Madsen

Harry Hume

Lachlan Corney

Patrick Swift

Hamish Swift

Oliver Swift

Ryan Totman

Jia O’Dea

Regan Henderson

Hugh O’Dea

WEEK COMMENCING 8th December WEEK COMMENCING 15th December

Akooramak Jimmy O’Leary & John Telfer Maree Ryan & Nea McGinness

Home Communion Philippa Doherty & Shirley Owens Dianne Dawes & Maria Ryan

Money Counters Group 5—Vince Hemmings 4661 5528 Group 6—Mark Brennan 0419 647 751

OTHER ROSTERS

ROSTERS

CHILD SAFE PARISH: Ours is a Child Safe Parish. All children, young persons and

vulnerable adults, visiting or resident, have a right to feel safe and be safe. If you are

concerned by any form of abuse that is immediate, you should call 000. A significant risk or

harm, whether or not you have formed this belief on reasonable ground, should immediately

be raised with our Parish Child Safety Officer – 4661 1033.

PRAYER & LITURGY Adoration each Friday from 9:30am to 12noon at Our Lady’s Altar

Rosary is prayed in the Church before each weekday Mass

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help 5:30pm on Wednesdays

FIL-Harmonix to sing on 2nd Sun of each month. Practice on Sun 27th Oct after Mass

The Men’s Choir to sing on 3rd Sat of each month with practice at 9:45am that morning.

General Choir Practice on 4th Sat of the month at 9:40am. New members welcome.

The Word Among Us Magazine for JANUARY is available for collection from Office.

Mass & Anointing for Advent has been rescheduled to Sat 21st December at 9am

PARISH GROUPS MEET-

INGS at the PARISH CEN-

TRE

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

meets on Tuesdays in Room 1 at

7pm.

HOLY CYA YOUTH

GROUP meets on 2nd Friday

of the month from 5:30 to

7:30pm for Gr’s 6-12.

Contact Patrice 4661 1033

LITTLE TREASURES PLAY

GROUP

Wednesdays (during school

terms) from 9am to 11am . Find us

on FaceBook. Cost $2 per family.

Contact Patrice 4661 1033

PARISH GROUPS

MEETNGS AT ASSUMPTION

PLACE

CHARISMATIC PRAYER

GROUP meets on Mondays at

9:45am. Contact Trish 4661 3133

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION

GROUP meets on Fridays at

9am. Contact Trish 4661 3133

FATHER’S PRAYER GROUP

meets on Tuesdays from 4:30-

5:30pm.

LAY CARMELITES

meet on 3rd Tuesday of each

month at 9am

Contact Pam Eather 4661 3917

MEN ALIVE GROUP meets on

Thursdays at 7-8pm. Contact Kev

4661 3133.

MOTHER’S PRAYERS

GROUPS meet on 1st & 2nd

Thursdays at 9am & other

Thursdays at 9:30am in Church

(Maria 0427 644 108) and Fri-

days at 10am (Maree 0438 617

347)

PARISH LADIES meet on 1st

Tuesday of each month at

9:30am.

New members are warmly

invited to join this group.

Contact Rita 4661 8144 or

Bernice 4661 1107.

THE CRAFTY CIRCLE, “TO

INSPIRE OR BE INSPIRED”,

young at heart, like-minded hook-

ers & crafters will meet on alter-

nate Sundays from 1-4pm. $2 per

head bring a plate to share for

afternoon tea.

Contact Patrice 4661 1033

PARISH EVENTS

Christmas Masses If you wish to read,

sing, be a gift bearer, a special minister or

welcomer, please indicate your preferences

on the sheets on the tables near the doors.

The Church will be open to all during the

week from 9am to 5pm but locked after

Masses on the weekends.

Christmas Down Under 2019 Calling for

volunteers to help at Christmas Down Under

from Monday 16th December to Thurs-

day 19th December, from 10am to 1pm each

day. This is a multi-denominational group

who comes together each year to bring the

real meaning of Christmas to families in a

free, fun interactive way. Roles include

helping with craft, storytelling, taking pho-

tos and welcoming families into the

space. If you can help, please contact Mary-

anne Driver on 0428 841 164 or let the par-

ish office know. A Working with Children

Blue Card is required.

SVDP Bus Trip There will be no trips in Dec & Jan. They will resume in Feb 2020.

DIOCESAN EVENTS Global Gifts Be an angel this Christmas: buy a Global Gift—Water, Food and/or Sustainable Livelihoods. Order online at www.globalgifts.org.au See Poster & brochures .

MAGAZINES-ALL AVAILABLE ON TABLES AT DOORS Catholic Leader-The Catholic Leader commemorated 90 years of journalism, covering the lives, news and events of Brisbane archdiocese. http://catholicleader.com.au/subscribe Trends—September 2019 Little Blue Books—Advent & Christmas Reflections “LOOK” Children’s Activity Sheets for Sundays

PARISH CENSUS Please take and complete a Parishioners’ Details Card (on the pews)

and, either place on the collection plate, put in box or return to the Parish Office over the

next couple of months. It is important that we have a record of the details of all our catholic

parishioners and we would appreciate your co-operation in this matter.

HORIZONS AUSTRALIAN CATHOLICS MAGAZINE November 2019 edition Summer 2019 Edition

both available at the door

SVDP REVERSE ADVENT CALENDAR

Each day add an item to a box. Donate the

contents to St Vincent de Paul to distribute to

local farmers this Christmas.

December 1 – packet of nuts

December 2 - tinned fruit

December 3 - packet of water icypoles

December 4 - long life custard

December 5 - pancake mix

December 6 - jar of applesauce/packet gravy

December 7 - lemonade

December 8 - packet of crackers/pretzels

December 9 - packet of chips

December 10 -coffee/tea

December 11 - packet of popcorn

December 12 – cordial/poppers

December 13 – jelly December 14 – chocolate December 15 – Voucher Please drop off, by 16th Dec, to the Parish Office or Ozanam House, King Street, Mon, Wed, Fri between 1:30-2:30.

St. Patrick's Parish, Allora Christmas Eve Vigil Tues 24 Dec 9pm. NO LITURGY on Sun 22nd Dec at 9am. There will be Mass instead of Liturgy on Sun 29th Dec, 9:30am to thank God for the blessings of the past year & pray for help & guidance in the coming year.

First Reading Isaiah 11:1-10 He judges the poor with justice.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 71;1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17. R. cf. v. 7 Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of peace for ever. Second Reading Romans 15:4-9 Christ, the hope of all people.

Gospel Acclamation Ps. 84:8 Alleluia, alleluia! Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths: all people shall see the salvation of God. Alleluia! Gospel Matthew 3:1-12 Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.

Parish Visitation Group

If you or anyone you know would

like a visit from this Group,

please contact the Parish Office or

Fr Franco to arrange this.

REFLECTION

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“You may have to fight a battle more than once

to win it.”

National Prayer for Drought Eternal God, in wisdom & love You created our

earth to sustain us & give us life. We turn to

You in faith, hope & love, asking You to look

with favour on our drought-stricken land, on

our starving animals, on our failing crops.

Strengthen, sustain & give new heart to our

farmers & all who are affected by drought; be

with those who support them. In Your loving

providence, send abundant rain & restore our

parched earth. Father of all compassion, hear

our prayer, through Jesus Christ Your Son, in

Whom the promise of new life has dawned, &

through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord

the giver of life; Renew the face of the earth.

Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Mary Help of

Christians—Pray for us. St Mary of the Cross

MacKillop—Pray for us. Amen.

GOD’S KINGDOM IS NEAR. John the Baptist urged

the people to prepare for the coming of the kingdom

by repenting of their sins. Their baptism by John in

the Jordan river was an important ritual act of

sorrow. But they also had to express their sorrow by

reforming their lives. The sacrament of

reconciliation, and right living , are excellent means

through which we can prepare for the feast of

Christmas.

Communion/Visits to Aged Care Facilities If

you would like your relative/s, in these facilities, to

receive Communion or be visited by our Parish

Priest/Parishioners, please advise the Parish Office

and arrangements will be made accordingly.

We wish the ten members of our

Youth Group and their two leaders our

best wishes for their trip to WA to

attend the Australian Catholic Youth

Festival this weekend. Please keep

them all in your prayers.