Weekday Masses

Monday

Tuesday, Liturgy of the Word with Communion

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday, Liturgy of the Word with Communion

No Mass

9.15 am

No Mass

No Mass

9.15 am

Sunday Masses

Saturday Sunday

6:00 pm 8:00 am

10:00 am

Reconciliation

Saturday 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Twenty Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time 11th September 2016

SEASONS Newsletter of the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Mount Eliza

313 Canadian Bay Rd Mount Eliza Vic. 3930

Phone: 9787 7777 Fax: 9787 9734 Email: MountEliza@cam.org.au

Web: www.stm-mteliza.org

Pastoral Leadership Team

Fr. Laurie (Parish Priest) Lys Crowe (Pastoral Associate)

Peter Whyte (School D Principal )

Anne-Marie Hyde (Chairperson) Ange Virgona Bill Hunt

John Bruitzman Jim Bourke Maree Taverna

PPLT Email: MountEliza.PPLT@cam.org.au

PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft

C=Church

MPR=School Multipurpose Room

SSR=School Staff Room

Monday

St Vincent de Paul Meeting,

9.30am, U Music Group, 2pm, PCC

Tuesday Sip ’n’ Sew Group, 2pm, PCC

Parish Education Board, 7.30pm, SSR

Friday Walking Group meet 9am @

Frankston Station

In today’s Gospel, Luke prefaces his collection of three parables of for-giveness with an introduction that serves as an interpretative key.

“The tax collectors and the sinners were all seeking the company of Jesus to hear what he had to say, and the Pharisees and the scribes complained. ‘This man’ they said ‘welcomes sinners and eats with them’!

The popular titles of the stories that follow show how well known and loved they are: the lost sheep, the lost coin, the prodigal son. (The lection-ary offers the option of either including or discarding the parable of the prodigal son.)

The occasion for Jesus’ story-telling is his table-fellowship with the ritu-ally unclean - tax collectors and sinners. It has been argued that Jesus was executed because of the company he kept at table. His habit of accepting invitations to dine with such unworthy people is what gives his stories their force. Jesus is practising what he preaches.

Both Matthew and Luke record the parable of the lost sheep, but only Luke characteristically, complements it with a story in which a woman is the principal actor. Contemporary studies offer fresh perspectives on these perhaps all-too-familiar stories. Should the one we call “The Prodi-gal Son” be re-named “The Prodigal Father” or “The Dutiful Son” or “The Father and Two Sons”? Certainly we must pay as much attention to the father’s interaction with his older son as with his younger. The fact that the parable comes to no definitive conclusion invites us to stay with the questions it raises about repentance, forgiveness and fellowship. From ‘Break Open The Word’ 2016

This Man Welcomes Sinners & Eats With Them

The Light You cannot

change others, no

But you can see them with new eyes

Christ eyes Who sees all with respect

and understanding.

To Our Visiting

Priest

Fr. Theo Rush

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We pray for...

Liturgy - 24th Sunday In Ordinary Time

Financial Matters Stewardship

Received last weekend ...............................$5,222

Pledged last weekend .................................$5,595

Average received in August ......................$3,330

Presbytery

Amount received last week ......................... $952 Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our

parish.

First Reading: Exodus 32:7-11, 13-14

The Lord relented and did not send the evil he had

threatened.

Responsorial Psalm

I will rise and go to my father.

Second Reading: 1 Timothy 1:12-17

Christ came to save sinners.

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! God was in Christ, to reconcile the

world to himself; and the Good News of reconcilia-

tion he has entrusted to us. Alleluia!

Gospel: Luke 15:1-32

There will be joy in heaven over one sinner who does pen-

ance.

Those whose anniversaries fall at this

time…

Maurice Doyle, John Maxwell, Myrtle

Haines, Matthew Kelly, Monica Prendergast, Patricia

Ginnane

And the Sick...

John Murphy, Gordon Foulis, Robyn Davies, Les

Malseed, Len Crowe, Jose Gomes, Des Leyden, Pat

Crowther, Margaret Beale, Angela Butler, Sue Kelly,

Maria Kelly, Jan Deakin, Will Murray, Sr. Tarcissius,

Frank Nolan, Jo King, Paula Stuart, Jacki Waite,

Kathryn Hart, Fr. Michael Walsh, Shane Dobson, Ken

& Mary Allen, Ray Grant, Rob Nicholls, Adrian Gobel,

Rachael Sanderson (nee Davies), and all of the sick at

the George Vowell Centre & Ranelagh Gardens Nurs-

ing Home

and the parishioners of St Thomas More Parish,

Tequinomata, East Timor.

Morning Tea Your hosts this week will be Katie

Rodgers & Ruth Pusic.

You are all warmly invited after 10am Mass to linger for a cuppa and an oppor-

tunity to get to know some other members of

your parish community better. Your hosts next

week will be Kate/Jimmy Hadley & Margaret Gal-

lagher.

Melbourne Catholic The September edition of Melbourne Catholic is now

available in the foyer. Cost - $4.

Next Week’s Roster

Mass Time Lector Commentator

6 pm David Wirth Ann-Marie Hyde

8 am Keith Donovan Dennis Cleary

10 am Rob Storr Minda Wunder

Mass Time Ministers of the Eucharist

6 pm

Noel Davies (Book)

Anne Wirth (Gifts)

Sharon Collins (Gifts)

8 am Craig Judkins (Book)

Barry Hansen (Gifts)

Marj Hansen (Gifts)

10 am Gui Hone (Book)

Adrian Coughlan (Gifts)

Leonie Burke (Gifts)

10 am Children’s Liturgy

No one needed - School Holidays

Counters Corinna Landman

Don McKenzie

Jenny McCulloch

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What’s Happening Here...

The next meeting of the St Vincent de Paul

Society will be on Monday the 12th of Sep-

tember at 9.30am in the Undercroft.

All welcome.

STM Social Club

Fun & Friendship For All

New members welcome. Please contact Christine

5975 6687 or Carol 9775 2315.

You are all invited to the Music Group on Monday,

12th September, at 2pm in the Parish Community

Centre. This months Presenter will be Margaret Carr

5971 0237.

The Walking Group will meet at Frankston Station on

Friday, 16th September at 9am for the walk in Mel-

bourne. The walk will be in the Treasury and Fitzroy

Gardens. ‘Spring is here! Should it be a good day’ it

will be very pleasant. Do join us, keep fit and enjoy

yourself. For further information please contact Gui

9787 1449 or Christine 5975 6687.

Movie at Mornington Cinema, Saturday, 17th Sep-

tember at 7.15pm - The Beatles

Lunch at the Portsea Hotel Sunday, 18th September

@ 12 noon. Bookings through Carol on 9775 2315.

Pizza Night, Sunday, 25th September from 5pm. No

need to book - ‘just drop in’.

The next Frankston Arts Centre outing is to The

Carpenters Story, Friday, 14th October at 10.30am.

Cost: $20.

Cranbourne Gardens and Lunch, Thursday, 20th

October, Meet at the STM car park at 9.45am.

The Welfare Officers for September are Margaret

Carr 5971 0237 and Colleen McNamara 9787 2479.

Nametags: The Parish Pastoral Leadership Team

invites you to wear a nametag to Mass! This is just

one way of us getting to know each other better. You

can BYO, or we will have some stick-on ones available

each week.

Baptisms

These are held on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month at 11:15 am or at any of the Parish Masses

on the 2nd, 4th or 5th Sundays.

A compulsory preparation night for parents takes place on the first Tuesday of each month in the

Parish Community Centre at 7:30 pm. Children to be baptised, and their families, are then invited

to a Welcome Mass prior to Baptism where they are introduced to the Parish Community and

welcomed by them. In order for this to happen, preparation needs to begin at least 4-6 weeks

before the Baptism, with a call to confirm parents’ attendance at the Preparation Night. When children of school

age are to be baptised an extended preparation time is required.

It is important to remember that Baptism is about the initiation of a child into a community of Faith or a commu-

nity of Disciples. There is no such thing as a ‘private’ Baptism... it is something done by the whole Church.

Are You (Fairly) New To

Our Parish? We would love to invite you to a

meal at Fr. Laurie’s house to enjoy

the company of other parishioners, both old and

new.

Just fill in the form in the folder at the Church porch

and we will be in touch.

Sorry… We Do Not Have A Sponsor This Week As we do not have a Sponsor, this week’s Seasons is in black & white.

If you would like your business advertised here please contact the Parish Office on 9787 7777 for details & cost.

St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria

Our Next Archbishop Archbishop Denis Hart was required by Canon Law

to offer his resignation as Bishop on turning 75 in

April this year, to enable the appointment of a new

Archbishop by Pope Francis in due course.

Catholics for Renewal has established a simple on-

line survey for the faithful to assist the Apostolic

Nuncio in identifying the primary needs of the Arch-

diocese and the personal qualities of the next Arch-

bishop. The survey may be accessed at:

catholicsforrenewal.org.au

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