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St Bernard’s Church 4 Klumpp Rd., U.M.G.
St Martin’s Church Cnr Logan & Chester Rds
Eight Mile Plns, Bne.
St Catherine’s Church 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart.
PARISH PRIEST Fr Patrick Molony
ASSOCIATE PASTOR Fr Stephen Kumyangi
PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Mrs Trish Stapleton [email protected]
PASTORAL MINISTERS VOLUNTEERS Mrs Debbie James E: [email protected]
YOUTH & YOUNG ADULTS E: yaya.umg @bne.catholic.net.au
PARISH MANAGER Mignon Telford E: [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE Michelle Baldi Lorraine Neagle Phone: (07) 3849 7158 Emergency: 3830 5178 Fax: (07) 3849 8742 E: [email protected]
Website:http://umgwcatholic.org.au/ F: Like us: http://www facebook.com/umgwparish
DEANERY www.parishes.bne.catholic.
net.au/south/index.html
ST VINCENT DE PAUL Welfare: 1800 846 643
ST BERNARD’S SCHOOL 1823 Logan Rd., U M G Phone: 3849 4800
ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart Phone: 3349 7188
CLAIRVAUX MACKILLOP COLLEGE
24 Klumpp Rd., U M G Phone: 3347 9200
NEWSLETTER 10/11 March 2018
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT/B READINGS: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Ephesians 2:4-10
GOSPEL: John 3:14-21
Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish
Guided by the Holy Spirit, we aim to be an evangelising, faith-filled parish whose members care for one another and are welcoming and inclusive.
...a world of difference between judging and condemning.
In recent years the Our Catholic tradition teaches us that a context is very important in trying to work out if someone is to blame for what they say and do, but that a person’s particular circumstances never change the fact that the words or actions are in themselves wrong. We hold that while all human beings have equal value and dignity, we do not believe that everyone’s opinion and actions are of equal worth. We believe that ‘right judgment’ is a gift of the Holy Spirit and that it’s best exercised with humility and compassion.
When I hear people say I should not judge others, I assume they are telling me that I should not condemn other people. There is a world of difference between judging and condemning. To judge is to make an assessment. To condemn is to damn. As Christians we judge because we have to keep discerning how the things of the world can be reconciled with the things we hold to be true. Condemnation is the prerogative of God alone, who sees all, knows all and loves all. In today’s Gospel, however, John tells us that even God has forfeited the right to condemn the world, but has sent Jesus to be the world’s light, life, truth and saviour.
The Gospel reminds us that if we feel condemned for what we have done and said, then it’s because we have condemned ourselves, not because God condemns us. John tells us that even when we find ourselves lost in the darkness of our most destructive behaviour, the saving love of Christ is always available to us, inviting us to come out of the darkness into his light.
What a great metaphor the light and dark is for making the best judgments in our own lives. Alarm bells should always ring when we find ourselves not wanting anyone else to know what we have said or done. Secrecy is often the ally of sin and the more open and transparent we are, the more confident we can be that we are walking as children of the light.
May this Lenten Eucharist enable us to let go of the desire to condemn others and ourselves, and to receive again the compassionate, just and humble gift of right judgment that helps us to see the darkness for what it is, and keeps us walking in the light of Christ.
© Richard Leonard SJ LiturgyHelp.com
ST VINCENT DE PAUL
‘What is good has been explained to you,
O my people;
this is what God asks of you;
Only this, To act justly, Love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.’ Micah: 6:7-8
St Bernard’s and St Catherine’s SVdP Conferences
both urgently require new members who can
assist current members with their home visits
to needy people in our local area.
Compassionate persons who are occasionally able
to give a short amount of their time to assist, are asked to contact
Jim McDougall, St Bernard’s (0429 393 044) or
John Quang, St Catherine’s, (0416 886 175).
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Mass for the
Forgiveness of Sins
Monday 12 March 7.00 pm St Martin’s Church EMP Wednesday 14 March 7.00 am St Catherine’s WISHART 7.00 pm St Bernard’s UMG
Stations of the
Cross
Fridays in Lent 9.00 am St Martin’s Church EMP 7.00 pm St Bernard’s Church UMG. Good Friday 10.00 am St Bernard’s [Indoors] 10.00 am St Catherine’s [Outdoors]
Mini Liturgy
Meetings Reminder
TRIDUUM PLANNING - Trish’s Office Mon 12 March 10 am, St Martin’s Tues 13 March 4 pm, St Bernard’s
Thurs 15 March 10 am, St Catherine’s.
Faith 18
Pilgrimage in Hope
7 - 8.30 pm Thursdays in Lent
Hope in the Generations: Thurs. March 15, Salisbury Parish - Steven & Eloise Bird (Youth Workers). Images of God in the different
generations
Hope in the LORD: March 22,
Chrism Mass in the Cathedral.
YAYA Gathering
(Youth and Young Adults) Our M arch Youth gathering will be next Friday 16 March at 7 pm, St Bernard’s Aspinall Centre. Come along and join the company of other youth in our parish and enjoy the fun and refreshments. Email: [email protected].
READERS ROSTER 17/18 March 2018
Please arrive 20 mins before Mass
St Bernard’s: John Cassidy,
Amanda & Denis Fitzpatrick; Irene
Lam, Nathalie Dudson, Jim
McDougall; Navodya Heath, Veena
Rasquinha, Shalomi Arachchige;
Michele Alexander, Tito Ah Toon,
Christina Stewart.
St Martin’s: Diane Broe, Jacob &
Jasmine Cheruvankalayil.
St Catherine’s: Joanne Blanchfield,
Novita Jurry, Tricia Tully; Carly
Jeffery, Edwin Pereira, Mia
Jeffery.
Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish
The Easter Triduum With people leading such busy lives and looking forward to Easter holidays, many
may be tempted to choose to attend just one of the big liturgies of the Triduum – perhaps Good Friday because of the moving veneration of the cross; or the Easter Vigil, because it is the main celebration of the period, although St Bernard’s Easter Vigil Mass will start later than normal (6 pm St Bernard’s - NB not 5 pm; 6.15 pm St Catherine’s) and lasts much longer!
But to miss any of the three liturgies of the Easter Triduum is like missing one act of a three-act play. The Triduum is best understood as one three-day-long liturgy, or as one liturgy with three different moments. This is illustrated clearly when we consider how the liturgies of this period begin and end. The Mass on Holy Thursday evening begins in the usual way but there is no blessing or dismissal at the end. Instead there is a procession of the Blessed Sacrament to the place of reservation. People depart in silence. The Good Friday liturgy begins with a silent procession, a period of silent prayer, and the opening prayer. It finishes with the prayer over the people. Again there is no final blessing or dismissal. Again people depart in silence. The liturgies of Holy Thursday and Good Friday give the sense of being unfinished. They leave us up in the air, waiting for something more. And there is more! At the Easter Vigil we gather around a fire in silent darkness for the blessing of the fire and the lighting of the paschal candle. The liturgy concludes with the joyful paschal dismissal: “Go in the peace of Christ, alleluia, alleluia” as we process out into the dark or Easter dawn, to the sounds of the triumphant Easter hymn.
Please take home a Project Compassion box and/or a set of donation envelopes and support Caritas Australia this Lenten
season as we celebrate 50 years of Project Compassion.
EVANGELINE'S Story
When Evangeline left high school she had a limited vision for her future. But the training she received while working at the Djilpin Arts Ghunmarn Culture Centre helped her develop new skills and ignited her passion for the promotion and preservation of her Aboriginal culture.
“This opportunity has helped me turn my life into something more
positive. It makes me more confident and more independent.” Evangeline
Let us pray...
For Roshea and Nikki preparing for Baptism, Confirmation and First Holy Communion at the Easter Vigil. Please keep them, their families and all who support them, in your prayers at this very special time.
Holy Week
Sign-up Sheets
Extraordinary Ministers of Communion, please check the table in your church to sign up for these Liturgies.
BAPTISM Congratulations to Miller Clarke, daughter
of Joel & Fiona. She will be baptised this Sunday in St Bernard’s Church.
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Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish
CIRCLES OF LIFE QLD Women’s Forum “Our Land”
7 pm, 14 May 2018
VENUE: The Greek Club,
26 Edmonstone St., West End.
Speakers:-
Murrawah Maroochy Johnson - Activist and winner of the 2017 Bob
Young Brown environmentalist award.
Hugh Mackay - Hugh is a psychologist,
sociologist, social researcher and multi-
award winning author who tackles the
big questions.
Beverly Muckan - Acknowledgement of
Country.
Kathleen Noonan - Regular favourite.
Tickets: charitydos.com.au/do/21613.
CATHOLIC PSYCHIATRIC PASTORAL CARE Is seeking Catholics with the
ability to relate personally and
spiritually to those suffering
from mental illness. Volunteer training
courses run Wednesdays 9 am - 3.30 pm
from 2 May to 21 Nov. Upon graduating
volunteers commit to eight hours
ministry per week. Applications close
Friday 20 April. Reply: Fr Jim Smith, 58
Morgan St., Fortitude Valley Q 4006.
P: 3252 5461. E: [email protected].
POTENTIAL AND PURPOSE Catholic Charismatic Renewal Bne’s
DISCIPLESHIP DAY at 688 Nudgee
Rd, Northgate, Saturday 17 March
from 9.30 am – 3.30 pm. A day of
Praise and Worship, talks and reflection.
ALL welcome. BYO lunch. Morning tea
provided. Enq: Miriam 3202 6856 or
VOCATION ENQUIRY EVENING 27 March, 6 pm - 9.30 pm. The
Capuchin Friars are inviting single
Catholic men (18-35) who are discerning
a possible religious or priestly vocation
to come for an enquiry evening at our
Assumption Friary, 245 Gladstone Road,
Dutton Park. RSVP to Fr Thomas:
0432362052. More info: https://
www.capuchin.org.au/event/brisbane-
vocation-enquiry-evening/.
WE PRAY FOR THOSE
WHO HAVE DIED Especially Mary Geraghty, Joseph
Seeto, Hilman Willico, Jodie Hodgson,
Daphne Christmas, Oswin Viegas, Alan
Cloughley, Terry Cramer and Barbara
Kerrigan who have died recently, also
Peter McNevin, Joseph George, Mary
Emilie Hermo, Mark Druery, Brian
Lawton, Romulo Cabalse, Bill Glasson,
Mabel Bull, Sidonie Stormonth, Winnie
Gillowhy, Elizabeth Dinh, Hana Paglar,
Robert Thomas, Nina Orazio, Joseph
Ho, Rita Galea, Simon Tinh, Laura Sim,
Gus Sim, Hilary & Cleta Desouza,
Dorothy Meecham, Olga Doniger, Don
Armstrong, Stacey Ashen, Graham
Wilson, Gwen Paull, Margaret Toth
and Vince Corbett whom we remember.
EASTER CHOIR PRACTICE Practice for the Easter
ceremonies Tues. 13 March
7 pm, St Bernard’s Church.
All interested singers and musicians are
warmly invited to attend.
AUSTRALIAN CATHOLICS Please feel free to take a copy of the
Autumn Edition of the ‘Australian
Catholics’ Magazine. Prophetic voices:
Planting the Seeds of God’s Kingdom.
Sponsored by St Bernard’s SVdP.
CHRISM MASS
Archbishop Mark Coleridge invites you
to the annual Chrism Mass, Thursday
22 March @ 7.00 pm, The Cathedral
of St Stephen. A celebration for the
entire Archdiocese.
CHERISH LIFE March for Life
Sunday 18 March.
1.30 pm gather, 2 pm march, 4 pm
conclude, Queens Park, Cnr Elizabeth
& George Sts, Brisbane. Join the
March for Life to let our Government
know we do not want abortion on
demand. Wear white if possible to
represent the innocent unborn.
COMMUNITY FORUM 'Open Community Forum: fair go for
refugees and people seeking asylum'
Saturday 17 March, Lourdes Hill
College, Hawthorne, 2 pm to 4.30 pm.
Speakers include Kon Karapanagiotidis
OAM (CEO and founder of the Asylum
Seeker Resource Centre) and Mojgan
Shamsalipoor (Young woman seeking
safety in Australia), among others.
Following the speakers a Q&A session
will be held. Refreshments available
until 5.30pm.
RSVP to E: [email protected].
IONA PASSION PLAY IPAC, Iona College, Lindum.
Matinees: Sat. March 24 &
Sun. March 25 at 2.00 pm.
Evenings: Sat. March 24 &
Good Friday March 30 at
7.00 pm.
Tickets Early Bird $15-$19. At the door
$20-$22. Children (5-14) $7.
P: 3333 1993. E: [email protected].
CATHOLIC LEADER Syrian family flees homeland and
Brisbane Catholic school
community opens arms to them
Pro-life supporters gear up for
month of tireless campaigning to
ensure abortion not legalised in Qld
Catholic women find strength in
rural Queensland
WORKING BEE After all the beautiful rain our lawns are green and the gardens flourishing ...but!!!
our hard working volunteer gardeners need some help to tidy up the grounds for Easter. The communities of St Bernard’s & St Catherine’s are having working bees on Saturday 24 March from 7 am to approx 9 am. Bring along some gardening gear and help make our parish welcoming for all who attend our churches at Easter. We really need to show our community spirit, with a good number of people coming along to help lighten the load for all concerned. See you there.
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4th SUNDAY OF LENT/B - 11 March 2018 ♫ PROCESSIONAL: A TRUSTING PSALM
Refrain: Lord let your mercy be on us
as we place our trust in you.
1. The word of the Lord is faithfulness and love.
This love can never be measured
God's beauty is like nothing we have ever seen
so let us place our trust in God. (Refrain)
3. The word of the Lord is fire burning strong
Whose love can never grow weary.
He will seek and save the lost until we all return,
so let us place our trust in him. (Refrain) Words & Music: Bates, Kevin SM © 1989 Marist Fathers Corrimal NSW
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FIRST READING: 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23
RESP. PSALM: LET MY TONGUE BE SILENCED...
Response: Let my tongue be silenced, if ever I forget you!
1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept, remembering
Zion; on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. R/
2. For it was there that they asked us: our captors, for songs, our
oppressors for joy. “Sing to us,” they said, “one of Zion’s songs. R/
3. O how could we sing the song of the Lord on alien soil? If I forget
you, Jerusalem, let my right hand be withered. R/
4. O let my tongue cleave to my mouth if I remember you not, if I
prize not Jerusalem above all my joys. R/ Text: English translation of Psalm Responses from lectionary for Mass © 1997..
Music: Smith, Colin D © 1995 Revised 2016Willow Pub. ONE LICENSE #A-641326.
SECOND READING: Ephesians 2:4-10
♫ GOSPEL ACC: Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ. God loved the world
so much; he gave us his only Son, that all who believe in Him
might have eternal life. Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus
Christ. Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus Christ. M: Mason, Paul © 2004 T: Excerpts from the English Translation of The
Roman Missal © 2010 ICEL. Willow Pub. ONE LICENSE #A-641326
GOSPEL: John 3:14-21
♫ COMMUNION: SEED SCATTERED AND SOWN
Ref: Seed, scattered and sown, wheat, gathered and grown, bread
broken and shared as one, the living bread of God.
Vine, fruit of the land, wine, work of our hands, one cup that
is shared by all; the living cup, the living bread of God.
1. Is not the bread we break a sharing in our Lord?
Is not the cup we bless the blood of Christ outpoured? (Ref.)
2. The seed which falls on rock will wither and will die.
The seed within good ground will flower and have life. (Ref.)
3. As wheat upon the hills was gathered and was grown,
so may the church of God be gathered into one. (Ref.) Text: Based on 1 Cor 10:16-17; Mark 4:3-6. Music: Feiten, Dan © 1987
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♫ SONG OF PRAISE: Instrumental
♫ RECESSIONAL: TREE OF LIFE
1. Tree of Life and awesome myst’ry, in your death we are reborn,
though you die in all of hist’ry, still you rise with ev’ry morn, still
you rise with ev’ry morn.
2. Seed that dies to rise in glory, may we see ourselves in you, if we
learn to live your story we may die to rise anew, we may die to
rise anew.
4. Give us eyes to see you clearly, make us children of your light;
give hearts to live more nearly as your gospel shining bright, as
your gospel shining bright. Text & Music: Haugen, Marty © 1984 GIA Pub. ONE LICENSE #A-641326
MASS TIMES 12 - 18 March 2018
St Bernard’s:
Tues: 9.15 am Wed. 7.00 pm - Mass Forgiveness of Sins
Thurs. 7.00 am
Fri. 8.00 am
Sat. 5.00 pm - Vigil Mass
Sun. 7.00 am, 9.30 am, 6.15 pm
St Martin’s:
Mon. 7.00 pm - Mass Forgiveness of Sins
Fri. 9.30 am
Sunday 8.00 am
St Catherine’s:
Mon. 9.15 am
Wed. 7.00 am - Mass Forgiveness of Sins
Sat. 6.15 pm - Vigil Mass
Sun. 8.30 am
RECONCILIATION St Bernard’s - Sat. 4.15 pm
DENOTES CHANGE
THIS WEEK Mon. 12 March 2018
HeartFIT - 11.30 am, St B’s Community Centre.
SVDP Meeting - 5 pm, St C’s Community Centre.
Mass for Forgiveness of Sins - 7 pm, St Martin’s
Church, EMP.
Tues. 13 March 2018 Craft Group - 10 am, St B’s Community Centre.
Ecumenical Service - 10 am, Mt Gravatt Hostel,
Agay St., Mt Gravatt.
YAYA Lenten Program - 7 pm, St B’s Comm. Ctre.
Easter Choir Practice - 7 pm, St Bernard’s Church.
St Catherine’s Community Meeting - 7 pm, St
Catherine’s Hall.
Wednesday 14 March 2018
Mass for Forgiveness of Sins - 7 am, St
Catherine’s Church, Wishart.
Blessed & Broken - 10.30 am, St B’s Comm Ctre.
SVdP Meeting - 5 pm, Aspinall Centre, Rm 1.
Mass for Forgiveness of Sins - 7 pm, St Bernard’s
Church, UMG.
Beside Restful Waters - 7.30 pm St Bernard’s Ch.
Thurs. 15 March 2018
Play Group - 9.15 am, St B’s Community Centre.
Arcare Mass - 10 am, Warrigal Rd., EMP.
Faith 18 - 7.00 pm, Salisbury Parish.
Friday 16 March 2018
Play Group - 9.30 am, St Catherine’s Hall.
Stations of the Cross: - 9 am St M’s; 7 pm St B’s.
HeartFIT: - 10 am, St B’s Community Centre.
YAYA - Youth gathering 7 pm, Aspinall Centre.
Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish
5th SUNDAY OF LENT/B - 18 March 2018
READINGS: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Hebrews 5:7-9.
GOSPEL: John 12:20-30.