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Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church (Established: 18th January 2006) “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world ablaze!” - St. Catherine of Siena
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3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) – 16 December 2018
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say,
Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The
Lord is near.” (Phil 4:4-5)
RESPONSORIAL PSALM:
Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he sent me to bring Good News to the poor.
Alleluia!
Today’s Scripture Readings Zep 3:14-18; Ps 12; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18
Next Sunday (Advent 4-C)
Mi 5:1-4; Ps 79; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 1:39-45
PRAYER REQUESTS
For the sick
Paul Kiuimdjian, Dylan Smith, Crisanta Rosaldo, Rodolfo Catibog,
Jaime & Jerry Montenegro, Emily Woodford, Luka Ivan Jukic, Mary
Rapinett, Ann Broughan, Christine Gauci, Alida Beric, Melani
Landicho, Eric Pascual, Rebecca Gucela, Tess Villaflor, Archie Cruz,
Lester Claudio, Beatrice and Jan Peeters, Angelo Galea, Angelo
Giacobbe, Cely Aldana, Jibrine Jok, Jacqueline Espina
For the dead (Submit to the Parish Office not later than 12 noon every Thursday)
6.00pm: (RIP) Isadora Bongcaron, Joseph Camilleri, John Baldaccino |
9.00am: (RIP) William Caruana| 10.30am: (RIP) Shyrll Gomez, Veronica
Ross, Roberto Bascuna Sr
CHURCH COLLECTIONS Stewardship: $2,617.00 Presbytery: $817.35
REFUGEE SUPPORT: $146.00 was donated last week
Melbourne Overseas Mission: $945.90
CAROLINE SPRINGS PARISH PARISH PRIEST: Rev. Fr Richard Rosse DEACON & PASTORAL ASSOCIATE: Rev. Chris Creo PARISH COORDINATOR: Mr Robert Durai
POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 3014, Caroline Springs, Vic. 3023, Australia
CHURCH, PRESBYTERY, and OFFICE 28 College St., Caroline Springs Phone 83619822 Fax 83619844 Emails carolinesprings@cam.org.au csparish@bigpond.com Website: www.stcatherinecarolinesprings.org.au OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 9.30am–5.00pm
SUNDAY MASS TIMES Saturday 6.00pm (Vigil Mass); Sunday 9.00am and 10.30am
WEEKDAY MASS TIMES, SERVICES & ACTIVITIES Monday: Liturgy of The Hour-Morning Prayer (No Mass) 9.30am Tuesday: 7.00pm Wednesday - Saturday: 9.30am Friday: 8.00am (During School Times)
CONFESSIONS: Saturday 8.45 - 9.15am & 5 - 5.30pm Tuesday 6.00 - 6.30pm
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Tuesday: 6.00pm - 7.00pm
ROSARY: Wednesday - Saturday 9.00am
HEARTS ON FIRE PRAYER MEETING Friday: 7.30 - 9.00pm
HOLY HOUR FOR MOTHERS Last Wednesday of the Month: 7.30 - 8.30pm
LECTIO DIVINA Fortnightly (Monday): 10.00 – 11.00am
LEGION OF MARY Mondays: 7.30 – 9.00pm
YOUNG MEN OF GOD Every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the Month: 7.30 - 9.00pm
PARISH YOUTH GROUP Every 2nd & 4th Sunday of the Month: 6.00 - 7.30pm (CRC Hall)
BAPTISMS Contact the presbytery as soon as possible and allow at least six weeks for preparation etc.
WEDDINGS A minimum of 4 months’ notice is needed for weddings in the parish (couples must attend a marriage preparation course).
SCHOOLS IN OUR PARISH
CHRIST THE PRIEST PRIMARY SCHOOL (Prep-Yr. 6): 54 Caroline Springs Blvd. | Phone: 93618600 (ACTING PRINCIPAL: Mrs Kerin Thorneloe)
ST GEORGE PRECA PRIMARY SCHOOL (Prep-Yr. 6) 22-48 Lancefield Drive | Phone: 8390 7352 | 7378 5500 (PRINCIPAL: Mr Jim Sheedy)
CATHOLIC REGIONAL COLLEGE CAROLINE SPRINGS (Year 7-10) 10 College Street | Phone: 9217 8000
(PRINCIPAL: Mr Jamie Madigan)
CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD Sundays during the 10.30am Mass
ADAPTING LITURGY FOR A PARTICULAR
CULTURE
The competent territorial
ecclesiastical authority… must, in
this matter, carefully and prudently consider which
elements from the traditions and
culture of individual peoples might
appropriately be admitted into divine
worship.
THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH Mon 17/12 10.15-11.15am Cash Handling Task Group
Meeting (Presbytery)
7.30-9pm Legion of Mary Meeting
Tues 18/12 12nn-1pm SGP – End of Year Mass
7-8pm RCIA Rite of Acceptance
& Fellowship
7.30-9pm 10.30am Choir Practice
Wed 19/12 7.30-9pm 1st Rite of Reconciliation
Thu 20/12 7-8pm Guidelines Review Task
Group (GRTG) meeting
7.30-9pm CAROLS –
All Choir Rehearsal
Fri 21/12 7.30-9pm Advent Reflection
Sat 22/12 11am-1pm Xmas Pageant Practice
4.45-5.45pm 6pm Choir Practice
PIETY STALL Only 1 week until Christmas. Christmas Cards ($2.50 a pack),
Nativity Sets, Small Gifts are all available. Full Christmas
Catalogue to order from.
COLUMBAN CALENDAR 2019
Not just a calendar – it’s a liturgical diary
and a collection of art too! $10
HEARTS ON FIRE PRAYER MEETING
The ‘Hearts on Fire’ Charismatic Prayer Group has completed
the 2018 season for this year, and will resume again on
Friday 1 February 2019 at 7.30pm.
2018 ADVENT-CHRISTMAS TIMETABLE
Friday, DECEMBER 21 (7.30pm)
ADVENT REFLECTION
Reflecting on the Gospel and the upcoming Plenary
Council 2020
Wednesday, DECEMBER 19 (7.30pm)
First Rite of Reconciliation
Saturday, DECEMBER 22 (After Mass)
Parish Christmas Raffle Draw
(Please bring a plate to share)
Christmas
Christmas Eve (24 Dec)
Christmas Pageant (7pm)
Vigil Mass (7.30pm)
Carols (11pm)
Midnight Mass (12.00am)
Christmas Day (25 Dec)
Usual Sunday Masses
(No Church services in the evening)
New Year
New Year’s Eve (31 Dec) – TBA
New Year (1 Jan) Mass – 9.30am
ST VINCENT DE PAUL GIVING TREE We would like to remind everyone to bring your gifts for
the Giving Tree by Monday so St Vincent de Paul could
prepare them for distribution to families by Christmas.
The Teachings of the Church
CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY (SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM)
CHAPTER 1
III. The Reform of the Sacred Liturgy
D) Norms for adapting the Liturgy to the culture
and traditions of peoples
40. In some places and
circumstances, however, an
even more radical adaptation
of the liturgy is needed, and
this entails greater difficulties.
Wherefore:
1) The competent territorial
ecclesiastical authority
mentioned in Art. 22, 2, must, in
this matter, carefully and
prudently consider which
elements from the traditions and
culture of individual peoples
might appropriately be admitted
into divine worship. Adaptations
which are judged to be useful or
necessary should then be
submitted to the Apostolic See,
by whose consent they may be
introduced.
2) To ensure that adaptations
may be made with all the circumspection which they demand, the
Apostolic See will grant power to this same territorial ecclesiastical
authority to permit and to direct, as the case requires, the necessary
preliminary experiments over a determined period of time among
certain groups suited for the purpose.
3) Because liturgical laws often involve special difficulties with respect
to adaptation, particularly in mission lands, men who are experts in these
matters must be employed to formulate them.
E) Promotion of Liturgical Life in Diocese and Parish
41. The bishop is to be considered as the high priest of his flock, from
whom the life in Christ of his faithful is in some way derived and
dependent.
Therefore all should hold in great esteem the liturgical life of the
diocese centered around the bishop, especially in his cathedral church;
they must be convinced that the pre-eminent manifestation of the
Church consists in the full active participation of all God's holy people in
these liturgical celebrations, especially in the same eucharist, in a single
prayer, at one altar, at which there presides the bishop surrounded by
his college of priests and by his ministers.
42. But because it is impossible for the bishop always and everywhere to
preside over the whole flock in his Church, he cannot do other than
establish lesser groupings of the faithful. Among these the parishes, set
up locally under a pastor who takes the place of the bishop, are the most
important: for in some manner they represent the visible Church
constituted throughout the world.
And therefore the liturgical life of the parish and its relationship to the
bishop must be fostered theoretically and practically among the faithful
and clergy; efforts also must be made to encourage a sense of community
within the parish, above all in the common celebration of the Sunday Mass.
Follow this link to read the full document:
https://tinyurl.com/vat2-
UPDATING PRAYER FOR THE SICK LIST WE are updating the Prayer Request List in our Bulletin for sick
parishioners. Please notify the Parish either via email or our
website Feedback tool if you want us to retain their names in
the Bulletin for next year. Thank you for your understanding.
CARITAS GLOBAL GIFTS Protect the Miracle of Motherhood this Christmas
Send a Christmas message to those you love, and help save
the lives of mothers and babies in vulnerable communities.
Share a message of compassion this Christmas.
When you choose a
Global Gift card to give to
family or friends this
Christmas, you are
supporting women give
birth safely with access to
expert care before and
after babies are born.
Order Global Gift cards online at
www.globalgifts.org.au or
call us on 1800 024 413.
JOIN THE PARISH PRAYER NETWORK
BE a Parish Prayer Partner.
We invite all parishioners to
join the Parish Prayer
Network.
Registered parishioners
can create prayer requests and show others that they are
praying for them. To join, go to our website and register.
When registering please put the Country Code (+61) for your
phone number. Once registered, you can access the
parishioner secure area for the prayer network activities.
The Parish Prayer Network is different from the Prayer
Request for the Sick that we put in the Bulletin.
POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION
FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER:
EVANGELISATION In the Service of the Transmission of Faith
That people who are involved in the service and
transmission of faith may find, in their dialogue with culture,
a language suited to the conditions of the present time.
PONDER
POPE Francis in Evangelii Gaudium (2013) noted that in the
presence of God, during a recollected reading of the text, it
is good to practise Lectio Divina—the reading of God’s word
in prayer, asking that it ‘enlighten and renew’ us. The
following questions may help with this:
Lord, what does this text mean to me?
What is it about my life that you want me to change in
response to this text?
What troubles me about this text?
Why am I not interested in this?
What do I find pleasant about this text?
What is it about this word that moves me?
What attracts me?
Why does it attract me?
REFLECT
KARL Rahner observed:
‘Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God.
Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and
waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. Every
year we roll up all our needs and yearnings and faithful
expectation into one word: “Come!” And yet, what a strange
prayer this is! After all, you have already come and pitched your
tent among us. You have already shared our life with its little joys,
its long days of tedious routine, its bitter end. Could we invite you
to anything more than this with our “Come”? Could you approach
any nearer to us than you did when you became the “Son of
Man”? In spite of all this we still pray: “Come.”’ —Karl Rahner,
Encounters with Silence, St Augustine’s Press, 1999.
Perhaps the invitation for the third week of Advent is to
reflect on what is part of our ‘O Come’. For what do our hearts
long? O ...
PARISH OFFICE CLOSURE
PLEASE note that the Parish Office closure will be closed
over the Christmas and New Year period commencing
commenced end-of-business of the 24 December. Office will
re-open on Monday, 7 January in a limited capacity as
Deacon Chris and Robert will be taking their annual leaves.
Normal office operation will resume on 28 January. Thank
you for your understanding and cooperation.
NEW MINISTRY ROSTERS EMAILED! WE sent to all volunteers the NEW ROSTERS via email. If you did
not receive the email, kindly go to our website and sign-up to
the VOLUNTEER MAILING LIST. We also printed hardcopies for
those who do not have access to emails, those who requested to
have a hardcopy and several extra copy available in the foyer.
CHRISTMAS RAFFLE TICKETS will be sold from this weekend onwards. $2.00 each
or 3 for $5.00. Raffle will be drawn on Saturday, 22
December, after the 6.00 Pm mass.
Please bring a plate to share.
1st Prize $250.00 Coles Myer Voucher
2nd Prize Christmas Hamper
3rd Prize BBQ
CHRISTMAS PAGEANT & VIGIL MASS 2018 CALLING all young parishioners from Prep to Grade 8 to
participate in this year’s Vigil Mass (choir and Christmas
pageant) on 24 December from 7.00pm. All those interested
in participating or helping out, please see Robert after Mass.
GUESS WHAT THE YOUTH GROUP
IS DOING THIS SUMMER?
Youth Camp! When: 18 -20 January 2019
Where: Iluka Retreat and Camps, Red Hill
Join the C.R.E.W so together we can be Catholics Ready
Equipped and Willing. Get in contact with us
(stcatherineyg@gmail.com) for more information.
Registrations close 10th December 2018
YOUTH GROUP FINAL GATHERING
Our final session is a Christmas PJ Party! We will have
pizza, games and a movie! Please come along to
celebrate the year
with us!
A gold coin
donation would be
greatly appreciated
to help us cover the
cost of food for the evening. Youth group will run longer
to accommodate the movie!”
CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS
WEBSITE EDITORIAL TASK GROUP DO you surf the internet? Have you visited our Parish
website? We are looking for volunteers to review and
suggest ideas for the Parish website.
No technical skills required although it would be good.
Just a keen interest and enthusiasm to make our web page
one of the best!!! Please contact the Parish Office to register
your interest.
RITE OF ACCEPTANCE WE also ask all Parishioners to prayer for Daniel Cook, Dennis &
Poom Lee, Renee Pisano, Clarissa Sanderson, Alexa & Erica
Xerri who will be concluding the first stage of the RCIA process
with the Rite of Acceptance and Welcoming of Confirmation
Candidates next Tuesday, 18 December.
Daniel, Dennis, Poom, Renee and Clarissa will be
accepted into the Order of Catechumens while Alexa, and
Erica will continue their preparation for the Sacrament of
Confirmation.
LIFE IN CHRIST FORMATION SERIES PLEASE note that Life in Christ Formation Series will take a
break this December and January and will resume on the
first Saturday of February 2019.
THIS WEEK’S ROSTER Nn
*6.00pm Vigil Mass*
[READERS] M Sequeira, R DeBrincat, N Rabara
[EMHC] M DeBrincat, P Gurrie
[GREETERS] V Borg, C Buttigieg
[COLLECTORS] J Anthony, A Edward, L Ferris, M DeBrincat,
C & S Elisha, R & V Bongcaron
*9.00am Mass*
[READERS] C Hinds, J Marshall, E Ong-Sim
[EMHC] R Moss, M Baric
[GREETERS] M Keecherer, A Debono
[COLLECTORS] L Micallef, A Morley, A Debono, J Carlos,
V Quintal, A Spiteri, J Buttigieg
*10.30am*
[READERS] A Romerosa, G Farrugia, R Giarratana
[EMHC] Mk Cruz, E Fernando, C Temporal
[GREETERS] L Cefai, E Dominado
[COLLECTORS] J Azzopardi, F Bartolo, M Carlos, E Dominado,
L Forneas, F Giarratana, C & V Ferrer
[CHILDREN’S LIT.] J Roman, D Joblin, T Matana, R Elisha
[COUNTERS] K Lacerna, C Temporal, M Bartolo
ALTAR LINEN A Curmi
NEXT WEEK’S ROSTER (Advent 4-C) *6.00pm Vigil Mass*
[READERS] F Pereira, D Quintal, D Shelton
[EMHC] C & C D’Rosario
[GREETERS] T Carnovale, A Edward
[COLLECTORS] P Gurrie, M Mazzullo, J Xavier, S Joyce
A & G Mosca, D & L Naig,
*9.00am Mass*
[READERS] R Elisha, M Shawcross, T Sambrooks
[EMHC] M Hautea, C Hinds
[GREETERS] C & M Reid
[COLLECTORS] S Abela, B Dau, E Hautea, M Baric, H Foehn,
R Moss
*10.30am*
[READERS] T White, T & N Zamora,
[EMHC] A Abela, F Bartolo, B Caballes
[GREETERS] A Forneas, S Gatt
[COLLECTORS] J Madigan, E Fernando, MR Peeters, C Quioc,
R Raymond, J Rojas, R Scerri, S Venansius
[CHILDREN’S LIT.] JN Guico, V Gervacio, T Darlow, P Soto
[COUNTERS] T & J White, J & Edna Dominado, M Bartolo
ALTAR LINEN F Florendo
* CHURCH CLEANING *
Sat 22 DEC A & M Vella, M Allison, A Adams, A Aywel, R Cefai,
A Curmi, A Debono