Welcome to St Patrick’s Parish

On the 5th Sunday of Easter

18 May 2014 (Year A)

5 Drynan St, Summer Hill. NSW 2130 Tel: 9798 6016 Fax: 9798 3838 Email: parish@stpatrick-summerhill.org.au website: www.stpatrick-summerhill.org.au

Office hours: Tues 9.30am-3.30pm, Wed: 9.30am-2.00pm, Thurs: 9.30-2.00pm Parish Priest: Fr Gerald Gleeson

ggleeson@stpatrick-summerhill.org.au

Morning Masses this week : Tues, 8.30am, Wed, 9am Thurs, 9am, Fri, 9am Weekend Masses: Vigil: Saturday 6.00 pm Sunday 8.00am, 10.00am Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sat 5-5.30pm Christian Meditation: Wed after Morning Mass and 6.30 pm Wednesday night in the Cottage. Holy Hour: Fri 8.00-9.00 pm

Please remember in your prayers: Recently Deceased: Istvan Komaromi, Hetty Ten Bosch, Choo Ja Lee, Alma

Vencloviene, Ronald Walsh, Alzbeta Cernaiova, Sabbah Sabbah, Elizabeth Tan

Anniversary: Meg Curr, Elizabeth Ann Goff, Don Cook, Darryl Churchmichael,

Kamal Tohme

Remembrance: Helen Farrah, Rosa Sleiman, Rosa Khoury, Margaret Flint,

Alvaro Fazzini, Malcolm Brune, Catarina Timminello, Harry, Elsie and John Nash,

Helen Farrah, Leonie Newell, Kay Parsell, Purgatory Souls

Sick: Michael Furlong, Milda Karp, Myung Sun Kim, Ellen Kendall, Robert

Oliveira, Brian Hatton, Peter Wells, Patricia Byrne, Fr. Peter Brock, Paulette Khoury, Lynne Field, Sosia Malek, Jeanette Humphries, Maureen Hetherington, Margaret Cain, Alf Fazzini, Charlie Maiden, Denis & Simon Del Faurio, Fr Michael Walsh, David Castelletti, Jo Eaton, Carolina Gregorio, Edith Candava, Amanda Baillie, Ann Fitzgerald (Ireland), Maria Karafiol, Margaret Austin, Ann Roche, Carmel Kerr, Melvin Bennett, Hira Fenton, Thelma Campbell, Catherine Nicols, Clement Tid-Ang, Jonathan O’Bryan, Alejandro Alayo, Michael von Mengersen, Kevin Cooper, Mary Fitzpatrick, Thelma Topple, Hayley Camp, Boulos Sleiman, Marilou Veran, Norman Stephenson, Gabrielle Smith, Ian Boland, Fran Miller, Emma de Silva, Paul Brock, Nicholas Ong, Bill Triggs, Harry Balchin, Hazel Bartley, Gary Kigma, Ron Check, Grace Favaloro, Agnes Lopes, Thomas Biviano, Patrick Maher, and sick members of our Parish and any other special intentions.

We pray for the carers in our community.

Liturgy of the Word First Reading: Acts of the Apostles 6: 1-7.

They elected seven men filled with the Spirit and wisdom.

Response to the Psalm:

Lord, let your mercy be on us,

as we place our trust in you.

Second Reading: St Peter 2: 4-9. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia, alleluia!

I am the way, the truth, and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father, except through me.

Alleluia!

Gospel: John 14:1-12. I am the way the truth and the life.

Next week: Act of the Apostles 8:5-8.14-17. Peter 3:15-18. John 14:15-21.

MEETINGS IN THE PARISH COTTAGE at 9.00am. New Members Always Welcome. 1st Sunday: Social Justice Group 2nd Sunday: SVdeP 3rd Sunday: CWL 4th Sunday: SVdeP 4th Wednesday: Scripture Reflection 7.30pm Fridays 9.30am: Friday Coffee Club

Jesus assures us of an authentic life ‘Jesus assures us that “in Him” our

journey will lead to authentic life – “I am the Way.’ In a world filled with the voices of false hope and self-indulgence, where are we to find

“truth”, a truth that we can “see for ourselves?’ – “I am the Truth. To have seen me is to have seen the Father.”

Where shall we find the “place” where a truly loving welcome brings an end to our seemingly endless wandering? – “I shall take you to my Father’s house.” And, in the end, what manner of “life”

may we look forward to? - Something that is beyond the imagining of the human heart, nothing less than sharing all things with God – “I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”’ Extract from a reflection on the Gospel by Fr John Thornhill.

MINISTRY 6PM 8AM 10AM

THIS WEEK—17/18 MAY 2014

ASSISTING WITH HOLY

COMMUNION

SHIRLEY CAVES

GERRY ROWAN MARIA ZENTAI

CATHERINE BUCKLEY

JOHN O’HALLORAN PAULINE GARLAND

LORRAINELADIA

HOWARD BLAIR MARGARET BLAIR

READERS PATRICIA O’KEEFFE ANGELA TRIGGS

LEO KANE SUE KANE

JUDY DYNAN CARMEL BALOGH

MUSICIANS RON CAVES JANIE FITCH Sr MEGAN BROCK

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

MAUREEN ROONEY /

LIZ TYDD VOLUNTEERS PLEASE

COUNTERS GERRY & MOUN ROWAN AND NADIA SABBAH

NEXT WEEK—24/25 MAY 2014

ASSISTING WITH HOLY

COMMUNION

BARBARA THOMPSON

TERESITA BORTHWICK ELIZABETH O’CARRIGAN

JO FOX

DES FOX BETTY AWIT

CARMEL BALOGH

KATE CURR JUDY DYNAN

READERS CHRISTINE VACCARELLA

VIRGINIA WATTS SHANE RUDD

MARIETTA QUILL STEPHANIE LONG LORRAINE LADIA

MUSICIANS THE BAND JANIE FITCH Sr MEGAN BROCK

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

ANNETTE HAGGERTY CARMELINA & ADRIAN

EUSSEN

COUNTERS NORM AND JANELLE TOWELLS

C.W.L. Silver Circle No. 6 will commence Monday May 26th. Please contact Anne Wells 9798 6655 or Cecily Ristuccia 9798 5059 if you would like to be in it. Cost $20.00 for 10 weeks. All proceeds to Josephite’s Trafficked Women’s Project.

25 May is World Communications Day. To celebrate the occasion, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Office has created a digital storytelling project entitled ‘Stirring Hearts’. Each story is told using digital media and tell 12 digital stories on YouTube. Please visit www.stirringhearts.org.au

Friday Coffee Club is going to see the Miss Fisher Costume Exhibition, at Old Government House Parramatta, on Friday 23 May. We will be leaving from the Church at 9.00am. If you are interested in coming please call the parish office by Tuesday 20 May, as bookings are essential. Cost $35 includes entry and High Tea.

On 21st May, St Mary’s Cathedral will be hosting a performance of a 16th Century Venetian Coronation Mass, which will be sung by the choirs of St Mary’s and St James’ accompanied by Australian Baroque Brass. Please follow this link for ticketing information http://www.cityrecitalhall.com/events/id/1616/Songs-of-Splendour/

Sacrament of Confirmation—2014 If your child is in Year 6 or above, and you wish them to receive the sacrament of Confirmation this year, preparation sessions commence on Mon 26 May at 7.00pm in the Hall. The Sacrament of Confirmation will be celebrated on Sunday 15 June at 12.00pm. If you would like an enrolment form please see Fr Gerry or call the Parish office on Tues, Wed or Thurs.

Reflection Morning at Hunters Hill, Holy Name of Mary Parish Hall—14 June, 9.30am-12.30pm“Grief and Loss: The Tasks of Grieving” Sr Eileen Quade rsm. All welcome, no booking required.

Formation & training workshop for Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion—please see the Noticeboard for details.

Please pick up your Giving envelopes from the front of the church. If you w ould like to commence contributing to the envelopes please see Fr Gerry after Mass or call the Parish Office on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday.

Date Claimers 15 June Max Taylor Concert, 7.00pm Parish Hall

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Catholic Adult Education will be holding an intensive course at our Parish Hall on “Apocalypse Now: The

Book of Revelation” led by David Schulz on Friday evening 27 June to Sunday 29 June (Fri 7-9.30pm, Sat 9 am–4.30pm and Sun 11am to 4pm.) For registration please go to: www.caec.com.au (Term 2 courses)

‘We need to be realistic and not assume that our audience understands the full back-ground to what we are say-ing, or is capable of relating what we say to the very heart of the Gospel which gives it meaning, beauty and attrac-tiveness.’ Para 34 from Evangelii Gaudium, Pope Francis, Nov. 24, 2013