Welcome to St Patrick’s Parish

On Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

20th March 2016 (Year C)

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-4.30pm, Wed: 9.30am-4.00pm, Thurs: 9.30-4.00pm Parish Administrator: Fr Sam Lynch

Morning Masses this week: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 9.00 am, Weekend Masses: Vigil: Saturday 6.00 pm Sunday 8.00am, 9.00 10.00am Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sat 5.00pm Christian Meditation: Wed after 9am Mass; Wed at 6.30pm in the cottage Holy Hour: Not this week

Please remember in your prayers: Recently Deceased: Dirce Baldan, Carolina Gregorio, Edward Curr Anniversary: Fr Jim McLaren, Margaret Callan, Maria Baxter, Len Kelly, Fred Wright, Kathleen O’Keeffe, Leone and Michele Newell, Stanislava Jurjonas, Kristina Bilaitis, Alfonsa Pranckus, Ona Meiliunas, Rymante Gell Remembrance: Gabriel Kirkpatrick, John Luu, members of the Newell family, Caterina Tumminello, Purgatory Souls Sick: Francesco & Giuseppino Tropiano, John Balnaves, Marilyn Khoury, Fred Agius, Stephen Campbell, Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Tim O’Reilly, Helen Cooney, John Todd, Mark Naven, Evelyn Little, Michael Bartos, George Khoury, Grace Muldoon, Peter Wells, Patricia Byrne, Marie Kirk, Lisa Kirk, Fred Frost, Deirdre Meissl, Paul O’Keeffe, Declan & Brett Atkin, Louise Mary Thill, Robert Oliveira, Maria Garcia, Maureen Hetherington, Thelma & Alex Campbell, Maree Chalker, Bishop Geoff Robinson, Michael Furlong, Mary Fitzpatrick, Ian Boland, Maria Harding, Suzanne Wilkinson, Ivan Rego, Fr Michael Walsh, Margaret Austin, Fran Miller, Emma de Silva, Paul Brock, Bill Triggs, 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. Mass Intentions: Sunday 20 Mar 8am: For Parishioners of St Patrick’s Summer Hill Sunday 20 Mar 10am: Carolina Gregorio (recently deceased)

Liturgy of the Word First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7.

I did not cover my face against insult and I know I will not be ashamed.

Response to the Psalm:

My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11. He humbled himself to become like us and God raised him on high.

Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

Christ became obedient for us even to death, dying on the cross.

Therefore God raised him on high and gave him a name above all other names.

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

Gospel: Luke 22:14-23:56. The passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Luke.

Next week: Acts 10:34,37-43, Colossians 3:1-4, John 20:1-9.

MEETINGS IN THE PARISH COTTAGE at 9am. New Members Always Welcome. 1st Sunday: Social Justice Group 2nd Sunday: St Vincent de Paul 3rd Sunday: CWL 4th Sunday: St Vincent de Paul Friday Coffee Club: After 9.00am Mass

Luke’s account of the Lord’s

passion has been put together with

great care, as this faithful disciple

of Jesus makes reference in the

course of his narrative to many of

his favourite themes: the example

of Jesus’ prayer during his ordeal

(on Calvary; for Peter); the good

news of a merciful and forgiving

God (‘Father forgive them’; ‘Today

you will be with me in paradise’);

the attitudes of true discipleship

(‘The leader must be as one who

serves’; the presence of the disciples, men and women, on Calvary – ‘at a

distance’); the great titles of the Church’s confession of faith in the Saviour are

skilfully woven into the narrative, often on the lips of those who are rejecting him

(‘Son of Man’, ‘Son of God’, ‘Christ of God’, ‘King of the Jews’, ‘Chosen One’; and

significantly it is the gentile centurion who is given the final word, ‘This was a great

and good man’).

The liturgies of Holy Week will teach us, not with fine oratory, but by recounting the

great events in which the divine Truth found expression in our human history. Let

this recognition set the tone for our participation in the liturgies of these days.

From sermon by Fr John Thornhill

MINISTRY 6PM 8AM 10AM

THIS WEEK—19/20 MARCH 2016 PALM SUNDAY

PRIEST FR SAM LYNCH FR SAM LYNCH FR MARK PODESTA

ASSISTING WITH HOLY

COMMUNION

ELIZABETH O’CARRIGAN RACHEL WATSON MAUREEN AUSTIN

SANDRA GEORGE BETTY AWIT

PETER BUCKLEY

ELIZABETH MARSHALL ROS McNAMARA ALMA MARTINEZ

READERS

NARRATOR

SR DENISE EDMUNDS LYNNE FIELD

PATRICIA O’KEEFFE

NORM TOWELLS MARIETTA QUILL

JOHN O’HALLORAN

KATE CURR STEPHANIE LONG

JUDY DYNAN

MUSICIANS RON CAVES FRANK CHESWORTH SR DENISE/CHOIR

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

MAUREEN ROONEY/

LIZ TYDD KATHLEEN DOHERTY

COUNTERS HOWARD & MARGARET BLAIR AND MICHELLE BARNES

NEXT WEEK—26/27 MARCH 2016 EASTER SUNDAY

PRIEST FR MARK PODESTA FR SAM LYNCH/

FR MARK PODESTA FR MARK PODESTA

ASSISTING WITH HOLY

COMMUNION

7.30 PM EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY WEEK ROSTER

8.00AM/9.00AM EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY WEEK ROSTER

10.00AM EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY

WEEK ROSTER

READERS EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY WEEK ROSTER

EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY WEEK ROSTER

EASTER VIGIL REFER TO HOLY WEEK ROSTER

MUSICIANS SR MEGAN BROCK/CHOIR ROBERT EMMETT SR MEGAN BROCK

CHILDREN’S LITURGY

8.00AM MAUREEN

ROONEY & LIZ TYDD KATHLEEN DOHERTY

COUNTERS CHRISTINE ALGIE & PETER GLASS

Easter Ceremonies Times Holy Thursday Mass 24 March, 7.30pm Good Friday 25 March

-Stations of the Cross 10.00am -Ceremony 3.00pm Easter Vigil 26 March, 7.30pm Easter Sunday Masses, 27 March: 8.00am, 9.00am, 10.00 am

CWL Summer Hill CWL Silver Circle No.11 Wk 4 1st $20 No3 J Ristuccia 2nd $10 No.12 M Golds

Choir Practice for the Easter Ceremonies. Wed 23 Mar. at 7.30-9pm

St Patrick’s Primary School Summer Hill Enrolments are still welcome for 2017. If you would like to learn more about our Primary School and the opportunities available to your child, please call our school office on 9798 7478 to make an appointment with the Principal, Mrs Jo Flynn.

Holy Week Reflection All parishioners, parents and children are invited to our Church at 8.15am on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for a Holy Week Reflection with our Family Educator

Please take you copy of the Easter Harp

Saturday 19 March is the Feast of St Joseph. On that date the Sisters of St Joseph at Lochinvar celebrate 150 years since their foundation in Penola. Congratulations to the Sister of St Joseph in our Parish—Sister Denise Edmunds, Sister Megan Brock and Sister Michele Connolly.

Angel Voices – Friday 08 April 7.30pm. With a program of music including Mozart, Handel and Vaughan Williams, St Mary Cathedral Choir will bring its seraphic singing to the Angel Place concert hall, offering an experience which is guaranteed to soothe your soul and touch your heart. Two renowned performers will join the Choir for this special evening: soprano Amelia Farrugia, one of Australian opera’s biggest stars; and virtuoso trumpeter Paul Goodchild. Regular concert goers and first timers alike will find something to love in this performance. Angel Voices is your chance to hear this celebrated choir singing its natural repertoire, in the crystal clear acoustic of City Recital Hall. Tickets on sale now at www.cityrecitalhall.com

Date Claimers 2 Apr Trivia Night—St Patrick’s Primary School 7.15pm Parish Hall 3 Apr Max Taylor Concert

Project Compassion 2016—

Please return your Project Compassion Boxes or Envelopes next

Sunday

Dhaniram's story - India

Advocating for change Dhaniram is driven to help create change in his village. Through the grass-roots Hamara Haq (‘Our Rights’)project, run by Caritas India and supported by Caritas Australia, he’s gained the skills to help his community claim what’s rightfully theirs and develop their plan for a better future. Dhaniram lives with his family in a region of Central India known locally as the Tribal Belt. For generations, the tribes people have been marginalised and discriminated against. Today, they’re amongst the poorest of the poor in India. “It was because of his [Dhaniram's] untiring efforts that the 84 villagers... now have houses of their own under Indira Awas [entitlement scheme]”

Noorul, Caritas India Project Coordinator

Good Friday Collection 2016 The annual collection for the support of the church in the Holy Land takes place on Good Friday. The collection promotes the missionary work of the Church in the Holy Land by providing welfare assistance to local Christians in areas such as health, education , employment and housing.