this week’s diary twenty third sunday in ordinary time
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Dear Parishioners, Happy Father’s Day to all our fathers. We would not be here without our fathers. We thank all the fathers who are present here are Church with us this weekend. We remember all our fathers wherever they are in the world today and we remember those of our fathers who have died. Our relationship with our father is quite unique – for some we pray with thanks, for some we pray with sadness, for others we asked for forgiveness, for others we pray they be forgiven for their faults – whatever our prayer is for our fathers we pray for them today.
Next weekend we will take up the Annual Catholic Campaign collection. Over the last few weeks we have been mentioning the different areas the Annual Catholic Campaign will assist – retired and sick Priests, our seminarians, school children and youth, and Centacare. Centacare is the caring arm of our Church who surprisingly assist 89,000 people each year in our Archdiocese. While there is government assistance for quite a lot of this care, there is no government funding for our pastoral work in our prisons, hospitals, psychiatric pastoral care and care for indigenous communities. If you are visited by a hospital chaplain while in hospital, a prison chaplain if you are in prison, a psychiatric carer if you are in a psychiatric hospital, or if you are assisted by an indigenous chaplain, then the Annual Catholic Campaign is assisting in these ministries. Envelopes will be on the seats next weekend for your financial help for our Annual Catholic Campaign.
We will be celebrating significant Wedding Anniversaries on Friday, 14th
October at 7.00pm. For anyone whose anniversaries end in “0” or “5” then you are very welcome to attend. Anyone whose spouse cannot attend will be very welcome. This is always a very special Mass attended also by family members and friends if you wish them to attend. Please call the Parish office and let them know that you wish to attend.
Every Mass you attend in Paloma and you sit on the seat, that seat has been individually moved especially for you. A very big thank you to everyone who puts out the seats for every Mass on weekdays and weekends – we thank you. Also thank you to those who put the seats away after every weekday Mass and after the weekend Masses. Every weekend about 340 seats are put out and at the end of the weekend they are stacked up. Thank you to everyone who move the seats every weekday and every weekend. Every day during the week Paloma is used for other Parish and community activities.
I am happy to see so many people at Mass every weekend. Even though we are celebrating Mass in Paloma we still have very good Mass attendances with between 1800 and 2000 people every weekend. During the week I received a report on how many people access our Parish website. During the month of August 1341 people accessed our Parish website. The report shows some days between 100 and 120 people accessed the website. We often forget that there are so many people interested and involved in our Parish.
Next weekend after the 10.30am and 6.00pm Sunday Masses, our Spanish Prayer Community will be selling a whole range of Tacos to help raise some money for the refurbishment and restoration of our Church. Please come prepared to share some Tacos after Mass next weekend.
God Bless, Fr Dan
This week’s diary
Monday, 5th September
8.15 am Morning Prayer - S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank
Tuesday, 6th September
8.15 am Morning Prayer S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Bible Study - S/bank 7.00 pm Adoration
Wednesday , 7th September
8.15 am Morning Prayer S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Rosary - Sunnybank 6.30 pm Mass - Acacia Ridge
Thursday, 8th September The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8.45 am Morning Prayer - S/bank 9.00 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Mass - Acacia Ridge 7.30 pm Meditation - S/Bank
Friday, 9th September
8.15 am Morning Prayer - S/bank 8.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Adoration and
Benediction - S/bank 9.45 am Legion of Mary - Media 6.30 pm Mass - Acacia Ridge
Saturday, 10th September
8.30am Mass - Acacia Ridge 10.30am Novena & Benediction -
Sunnybank 11.00am Reconciliation - S/bank 1.30 pm Charismatic Prayer Group
- Sunnybank 5.00 pm Reconciliation - S/bank 6.00 pm Mass - Sunnybank 6.00 pm Mass - Acacia Ridge
Sunday, 11th September
6.30 am Mass - Sunnybank 8.00 am Mass - Sunnybank 9.00 am Mass - Acacia Ridge 9.15 am Mass - Sunnybank 10.30am Mass - Sunnybank 6.00pm Mass - S/bank Youth
Priests
Fr Dan Ryan (Parish Priest: Sunnybank) Fr Terence Nueva (Parish Priest: Acacia Ridge - 3277 2252 / 3274 5513 Email: [email protected]) (Hall Office)
Fr Ladu Yanga (Associate Pastor) Fr Dominic Orih (Associate Pastor)
Parish Office (adjacent to OLOL Church, Sunnybank)
Monday to Thursday, 8.30 am - 4.00 pm; Friday 9.00am - 4pm. Ph: 3345 3766 Fax: 3344 3343, Mass Times: 3345 1831
Post: PO Box 32, Sunnybank, QLD 4109.
Web: www.olol.com.au Email: [email protected]
Deanery website: http://www.parishes.bne.catholic.net.au/south/
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: 4th September 2016
Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Sunnybank & Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Acacia Ridge
Acacia Ridge, Algester, Archerfield, Calamvale, Coopers Plains, Kuraby, Macgregor, Parkinson, Robertson, Runcorn, Stretton, Sunnybank, Sunnybank Hills
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 121 Mains Road, Sunnybank Our Lady of Fatima Church, 350 Mortimer Road, Acacia Ridge
Next Sunday - Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Exodus 32: 7-11, 13-14; 1 Timothy 1: 12-17; Luke 15: 1-32
Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Year C
Introduction: In today’s Mass, we learn something of the cost of discipleship and what it means to pay the price. For those who follow Jesus, it means leaving everything, taking up our cross, and following him. For Philemon, to whom Paul writes in the Second Reading, it means forgiveness and welcoming back the runaway slave, Onesimus. The cost is high: how ready are we to pay this price?
First Reading: Wisdom 9: 13-18 In this reading, part of King Solomon’s prayer for wisdom, Solomon reflects on the limitations of human wisdom and our need for the gift of divine wisdom. With such a gift, we are saved.
Second Reading: Philemon 9-10, 12-17 Paul’s appeal to Philemon on behalf of the slave Onesimus.
Gospel: Luke 14: 25-33 Jesus teaches us the fundamental demand of discipleship: taking up our cross and following him on the path he walks. To underscore the point, Jesus then tells the crowds accompanying him two parables about not starting what you cannot finish.
YEAR OF MERCY FROM POPE FRANCIS I am thinking of those for whom, for various reasons, it will be impossible to enter the Holy Door, particularly the sick and people who are elderly and alone, often confined to the home. For them it will be of great help to live their sickness and suffering as an experience of closeness to the Lord who is the mystery of his Passion, death and Resurrection indicates the royal road which gives meaning to pain and loneliness. Living with faith and joyful hope this moment of trial, receiving communion or attending Holy Mass and community prayer, even through the various means of communication, will be for them the means of obtaining the Jubilee Indulgence. My thoughts also turn to those incarcerated, whose freedom is limited. The Jubilee Year has always constituted an opportunity for great amnesty, which is intended to include the many people who, despite deserving punishment, have become conscious of the injustice they worked and sincerely wish to re-enter society and make their honest contribution to it. May they all be touched in a tangible way by the mercy of the Father who wants to be close to those who have the greatest need of his forgiveness. They may obtain the Indulgence in the chapels of the prisons. May the gesture of directing their thoughts and prayer to the Father each time they cross the threshold of their cell signify for them their passage through the Holy Door, because the mercy of God is able to transform hearts, and is also able to transform bars into an experience of freedom. [Misericordiae Vultus]
VOCATION VIEW: Jesus says clearly; "Anyone who does not take up the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple." You and Jesus can carry your cross together. Then, you can follow!
Thanksgiving Mass - St Teresa of Calcutta Saturday 10 September commencing at 11.30am
You are invited to a Thanksgiving Mass for St Teresa of Calcutta to be held at the Cathedral of St Stephen. Light refreshments will be served following the Mass. Cathedral car park will be available.
Our Lady Help of Christians, Hendra invites applications for the part-time position of
Finance Secretary (10 hours/week - 5 hrs Tuesday, 5 hrs Thursday)
Full position description is available from the Parish Priest Ph 07 3268 3040 or Email [email protected] To apply , please email or send your current resume and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the position to [email protected] or to the Parish Priest, PO Box 3109, Hendra, QLD 4011. Applications should include the name of two (2) referees one of which preferably should be a Parish Priest. Commencement ASAP.
INVITATION TO SENIORS WELLNESS & CARE EXPO Attached is your invitation to join us for a Seniors Wellness and Care Expo at Brookland Village on Monday 26 September, from 10am -3pm. This FREE event encourages seniors to learn from the experts to live an optimal life into the future. The expo offers
seniors a great opportunity to gain some lifestyle
tips from the experts about how to age well, offering information booths, inspirational speakers, free health screening, seated massage and a live cooking demonstration with the opportunity to sample the food along with a wine and cheese tasting as well as light refreshments and lucky draw prize . We will also be showcasing fashion, where you can learn all about how to make the best of your look. We look forward to seeing you there and encourage you to take a look around the village to see why “there is so much more to life at Brookland Village”. For more information please contact us on 3345 9143 or email [email protected]
Your Prayers Are Asked For:
recently deceased: Noel Bonchol, Sr Margaerite Liddy, Joe Antao, Diana Calvisi, Treser Aurlsoothy, Brian, Peter, Anthony Co.
those with anniversaries & others who have died: John Palmieri, Lily Chase-Currier, Kenneth Nolan, Ronald Nolan, Natividad Lema, William Hagedorn, Anna Hagedorn, Vic Mednis, Mariamma Mathew.
those who are unwell: Nerio Felixberto, Gavan Duffy, Natalie Taylor, Kylie Wood.
the Continuing Sick: Peggy Ayre, Elvie Agoncillo, Jason Carroll, Anthony Clark, John Callaby, Dean, Jan Fooks, Mary and George Goode, Betty Grace, Kathleen Horne, Norma Ives, Stephen Ives, Audrey Lennox, Win Murray, Carmel Malley, Jim Neehouse, Jenny Reed, Lorraine Smith, Mary Timbol, Istvan Vadasi, Dennis Vandenberg, Robert Weatherley, Merle Huston, Kathleen Horne, Stephen Jillet, Alice O’Grady, Annaleese Stewart.
$500,000
$450,000
$350,000
$300,000
$250,000
$400,000 $362,608
$150,000
Reshaping
the
Future
Sunnybank
$200,000
$100,000
$25,000
$50,000
$200.000
$300,000
Remember Us In your Will
Preparing a Will is the best way to ensure that the people you care about are properly provided for. When preparing your Will, your heart and mind turn first to your family and loved ones. Once they are provided for, a Will is a unique opportunity to make a significant gift to the people and organisations you care about.
Please prayerfully consider including a gift to our Parish. Your gift will help carry forward the gospel message to future generations.
For more information about how you can leave a legacy to Sunnybank or Acacia Ridge Parish, call the Parish Office on 3345 3766.
A New Our Lady of Lourdes Church Wish List will follow in the next few weeks.
Buy A CUBIC METRE
for $100 x 2,985m³ Target $298,500
599cubic metres already given ($59,900)
CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP
Our Lady of Lourdes, Sunnybank, Saturdays, 1.30- 3.00pm
Meeting dates: 3rd and 17th September; 1st, 15th and 29th
October; 12th and 26th November; 3rd and 17th December.
$350,000
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MASS CELEBRATION Friday, 14th October 2016 at 7.00pm
Parishioners from both Parishes who are celebrating their wedding anniversary this year with the year ending in ‘0’ or ‘5’, are invited to come along to a Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes, followed by Supper in the Avocado Room.
Please bring a plate to share (finger food). Contact the Parish office if you would like to be involved. RSVP 7th October 2016.
Active Refugee and Migrant Integration in Australia
(ARMIA)
ARMIA is urgently looking for more Volunteer Teachers, especially for Maths and English, to support refugee students with learning difficulties school and university/TAFE. ARMIA has vacancies (students) for free multicultural sewing classes on Wednesdays (9.00am-1.00pm) and Saturdays (10.00am-1.00pm).
.Contact ARMIA on 3344 1149 140 Mains Rod, Sunnybank www.armia.com.au
Singles and Solos Brunch A group for single and solo people of middle age who meet on the first Sunday of the month . Our next gathering is on Sunday, 4th September, 2016 at the Sunnybank Community & Sports Club, 470 McCullough St, Sunnybank. We will meet inside at the Fresco’s Café and Lounge Bar at 10.30am.
SUNNYBANK/ACACIA RIDGE FRIENDSHIP GROUP I am extending an invitation to all parishioners, male and female, at Sunnybank and Acacia Ridge to join and become part of the Friendship Group. It would be a real boost to our membership to have some younger people interested in joining us. Our guest speakers always give us good information which we can apply to our daily lives. Our bus trips are relaxing and enjoyable and we find ways to keep people’s interest when we do not have a guest speaker. So I would encourage you to consider joining us and getting to know more of your fellow parishioners in a congenial atmosphere. To help any interested persons why not bring a friend along to either the next general meeting or on the next bus excursion to Marion Valley.
Enquiries can be made to Peter Hoole (President) 32728421 or Dawn Angus (Vice President) 37119465.
The Spanish Prayer Community will be selling Mexican Tacos after the 10.30am Mass and 6.00pm Mass on Sunday, 11th September - 3 tacos for $10.00; Desserts $5.00; and soft drinks $1.00. Proceeds are to support the church restoration. Contact Marta: 0433 526 703
PARISH STAFF & CONTACTS
Pastoral Associate Stella Noskoff rsj
Parish Manager Karrin Halliday
Secretary
Michelle DeAmbrosis [email protected]
Accounts
Tam Nguyen [email protected]
Caring Coordinator Bernadette Christian
Unite Youth/Young Adults Coordinators
Steven & Eloise Bird 0403 182 617
Sunnybank Parish
Groundsperson Natalie Langer
Housekeepers: Therese Prygiel Louise Weston
Paloma Reception Centre
3345 3766
Centacare - Sunnybank Aged Care
Community Program Manager Jennifer Vanarey
3216 9554
OLOL School, Sunnybank
Principal - Mark Badke 3345 0700
OLOL OSHC
Co-ordinator - Sarubh Malviya 3344 3064
OLOF School, Acacia Ridge Principal - Damian Gambley
3275 1152
St Stephen’s School, Algester Principal - Phil Manitta
3711 4911
St Stephen's OSHC Co-ordinator - Victoria Hickling
3711 9291 [email protected]
St Thomas More College, Sunnybank
Principal - Peter Elmore 3323 4600
Soubirous Place
Coordinator - Sr Brigid Courtney RSM
3344 3481
The next EDGE will be Friday
the 9th of September.
7-9pm Paloma
All in grade 6-8 welcome!
EDGE is a youth group for those in grade
6-8, new people are ALWAYS welcomed.
It is a place where young people can
grow up together. Have fun, make
friends, learn about the faith in a fun
and relevant way and explore issues that
impact them.
Sunday 11th September 7-8:45pm
Social Night
All in grade 9-12 welcome!
Youth and Young
Adult Ministry
Raising money to renovate and build our new church!!
We’re almost there! We almost have enough for our Youth Pew!! Thank you to all those who have donated, please keep
putting money into the little church moneybox at the back of Paloma.
Roster for the Next Youth Ministered
Mass Sunday 11th September
MUSICIANS: K. O’Kelly, P. Avinante, M. Primacio, S. Gomez
SINGERS: C. Tran, N. Tran, L. Sharrock, I. Sharrock
READERS: S. Eastgate, M. Holani, G. King
OFFERTORY: K. Hall, M. McKendry
ALTAR SERVERS: K. O’Kelly, S. Lamuri, D. Do
SPECIAL MINISTERS: M. McKendry, L. Kadell, C. Ranatunga, J. Frassetto, T. Ranatunga, S.
Robb, S. Leaso
BBQ: TACO NIGHT!!
Date Claimer
On Saturday the 8th of October two amazing men from America will be here to share their wisdom and enthusiasm of
youth ministry.
In the evening there will be an XLT night for all youth and young adults.
More details to come in the coming weeks!
New Youth Ministered Mass
Rosters for September to
November now available at
the back of Paloma. If you
are on the roster please
take one home with you.
Taco’s will be on sale next Sunday after the 10:30am & 6:00pm Mass! Pre-order are welcomed so order
your today!
3 taco’s for $10 chicken, beef or vegetarian!
Drinks and Desserts will also be on sale. All money raised will go
towards the Church Renovations. Call Marta 0433 526 703 to place
your order today!
God, bless all the fathers in the world.
Guide them to be good role models
and loving to all their children.
Help them to be a father like You are.
Give them grace and patience
to handle situations in a loving way.
Amen!
We pray that all Father’s and father-
figures are blessed in a truly special
way today! Thank you for all you do!!