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Sunday 11th January, 2015

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord

Bridgeside Bulletin

The weekly Bullen of the

Catholic Parish of Forster Tuncurry

Holy Name of Jesus Parish Church

33 Lake Street, Forster

St Mary, Star of the Sea Church

Cnr Kent & Peel Streets, Tuncurry

Proclaiming Christ to the communies of Forster, Tuncurry and the surrounding districts

Parish

Fr Andrew Doohan (Parish Priest)

Mr Greg Byrne (Pastoral Associate)

Mrs Sharon Fowle (Administraon Associate/Bullen)

Sr Kathryn McCabe (Aboriginal Catholic Ministry)

The Parish Oce is at the rear of the Parish Hall and is

normally staed on Monday, Thursday and Friday

from 10am to 4pm.

Items for inclusion in Bridgeside Bullen should be

received by midday on Thursday.

33 Lake Street, Forster NSW 2428

PO Box 67, Forster NSW 2428

P: (02) 6554 6304

F: (02) 6554 6425

E: [email protected]

W: www.forstertuncurrycatholic.org.au

Fr Andrew’s email: [email protected]

Celebrang the Sacraments

Reconciliaon is available on Saturday mornings at

Tuncurry from 8:30am unl the beginning of the 9amMass, on Saturday aernoons at Forster from 4:45pm

unl 5:15pm.

Bapsms are celebrated on Sundays, either during any

of our Sunday Masses or aer the 9am Mass. The next

Bapsmal Preparaon meeng will take place in the

Parish Hall’s meeng rooms on Monday 9th February

2015 commencing at 7pm. Please contact the Parish

Oce for more details, or visit the Parish website.

Weddings are celebrated by arrangement and with atleast three (and preferably more) months noce.

Please contact Fr Andrew for more details, or visit the

Parish website.

A Sacramental Preparaon process runs each year in

the Parish for children wishing to complete the

celebraon of the Sacraments of Iniaon as part of

the Parish community. Please contact the Parish Oce

for more details, or visit the Parish website.

The Parish hosts the Rite of Chrisan Iniaon of

Adults process for those adults wishing to be bapsed

or be received into the communion of the Catholic

Church. Please contact the Parish Oce for more

details, or visit the Parish website.

Search for us on Facebook as ‘Catholic Parish of

Forster Tuncurry’

Follow us on Twier: @catholic

Holy Name Parish School (K -6)

Ms Brooke Schumann (Acng Principal)

41 Lake Street, Forster NSW 2428

PO Box 243, Forster NSW 2428

P: (02) 6554 6504

F: (02) 6554 8895


W: www.forster.catholic.edu.au

St Clare’s High School, Taree (7-12)

Mr Peter Nicholls (Principal)

Davis Street, Taree NSW 2430

P: (02) 6552 3300

F: (02) 6552 3656


W: www.tareesc.catholic.edu.au



T P D…(for the week ahead)

First Week of Ordinary Time

Monday 12th January

Tuesday 13th January

9am Chrisan Meditaon (Bob 6555 5914)

11am Funeral Liturgy for John Rodey @ Forster

3:30pm Holy Hour @ Tuncurry

4:30pm

Mass @ Tuncurry

5:30pm Chrisan Meditaon (Bob 6555 5914)

Wednesday 14th January

9am Mass @ Forster

9:30am menALIVE group @ Forster

11:15am Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help @

Forster

Thursday 15th January

9am Mass @ Forster

Friday 16th January

9:30am Mass @ Forster

Saturday 17th January

Memorial of St Anthony

8:30am Reconciliaon @ Tuncurry

9am Mass @ Tuncurry

4:45pm Reconciliaon @ Forster (unl 5:15pm)

6pm Mass @ Tuncurry

Sunday 18th January

7am

Mass @ Tuncurry

9am Mass @ Forster

5pm Mass @ Forster

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Secular Franciscan Fraternity

The Secular Franciscans Fraternity will next meet on

Wednesday 4th February 2015, coming together for

Mass at 9am, followed by a cuppa at 9:30am and then

the meeng 10am to 12pm.

The menALIVE Group

Our Parish currently hosts a menALIVE group. They

will next meet on Wednesday 14th January aer the

9am Mass.

Women’s Bible Study Group

Our Parish hosts a Women’s Bible Study Group that

meets every Thursday evening from 7pm to 8pm. For

more informaon contact Natasha on 0407 589 935.

Chrisan Meditaon

Our Parish hosts opportunies for the pracce of

Chrisan meditaon on Tuesdays at two disnct

mes, 9am and 5:30pm. Phone Bob on 6555 5914 for

further informaon.

Maintenance & Gardening Group

The Parish is served by a very dedicated band of

volunteers who tend to the upkeep of the grounds

and gardens of our two sites. Their next reunion will

be on Thursday 22nd January. Contact Howard 6557

6826 for more informaon.

Singing Pracce

There will be no Singing Group get together unl theNew Year. Details to be conrmed.

Collecon of Foodstus for Homebase

The next collecon of foodstus in support of

Homebase will be on Sunday 1st February 2015.

Holy Hour

The Parish community observes a Holy Hour each

Tuesday aernoon in the Tuncurry Church from

3:30pm unl the beginning of Mass at 4:30pm.

Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help

The Novena is prayed every Wednesday in the Forster

church commencing at 11:15am and is followed by a

cuppa in the Parish Hall. For more informaon contact

Shioney on 6554 9468.

Evening Prayer & Benedicon

The Parish community celebrates on the rst Sunday

of each month at 5:30pm in the Tuncurry church. It

will celebrated on Sunday 1st February 2015. All

welcome.

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

The next Children's Liturgy of the Word for children

aged 4-12 will be on the 1st February 2015 at the 9am

Mass.

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Saturdays 6pm St Mary, Star of the Sea

Church, Tuncurry

Sundays

7am

St Mary, Star of the SeaChurch, Tuncurry

9am Holy Name of Jesus

Church, Forster

5pm Holy Name of Jesus

Church, Forster

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This weekend we witness the bapsm of

Oscar Atkinson, son of Leigh and Kylie,

Edward Was, son of John and Khung-Iam, and

Alice Was, daughter of John and Khung-Iam.

May the gi of bapsm they receive strengthen them

for the journey of life and faith they will share with us.

Please remember these children and their families in

your prayers.





M C L

In my homily last weekend, I’ve been told that I may

have given the impression that I was cricising

meditaon in all its forms. Such an interpretaon of

what I said is plainly wrong: I would hardly cricise

something that I myself pracce on a daily basis, and

which I would strongly recommend to anyone seeking

to deepen their spiritual life.

To be clear: when I was speaking about ‘meditaon’ in

my homily last weekend I was referring to the more

esoteric forms of non-Chrisan and ‘new age’

meditaon that aract people’s aenon as they

search for that which is transcendent.

The World Community for Chrisan Meditaon has

this to say ‘About Meditaon’:

Meditaon is a universal spiritual wisdom and a

pracce that we nd at the core of all the great

religious tradions, leading from the mind to the

heart. It is a way of simplicity, silence and sllness. It

can be pracsed by anyone from wherever you are on

your life’s journey. It is only necessary to be clear

about the pracce and then to begin – and keep on

beginning.

In Chrisanity this tradion became marginalised and

even forgoen or suspect. But in recent mes a great

recovery of the contemplave dimension of Chrisan

faith has been happening. Central to this now is therediscovery of a pracce of meditaon in the Chrisan

tradion that comes to us from the early Chrisan

monks, the Desert Fathers and Mothers, and allows us

to put into pracce the teaching of Jesus on prayer in

a radical and simple way.

John Main, a Benedicne monk of Ealing Abbey,

played a major role in this contemporary renewal of

the contemplave tradion. His teaching of this

ancient tradion of prayer is rooted in the Gospels

and the early Chrisan monasc tradion of theDesert.

Open to all ways of wisdom but drawing directly from

the early Chrisan teaching John Main summarised

the pracce in this simple way:

“Sit down. Sit sll with your back straight. Close

your eyes lightly. Then interiorly, silently begin

to recite a single word – a prayer word or

mantra. We recommend the ancient Chrisan

prayer-word "Maranatha" (an Aramaic word;

see 1 Cor 16:22). Say it as four equal syllables.

Breathe normally and give your full aenon to

the word as you say it, silently, gently, faithfully

and above all - simply. The essence of

meditaon is simplicity. Stay with the same

word during the whole meditaon and from day

to day. Don't visualise but listen to the word as

you say it. Let go of all thoughts (even good

thoughts), images and other words. Don’t ght

your distracons but let them go by saying your

word faithfully, gently and aenvely and

returning to it immediately that you realise you

have stopped saying or it or when your aenonis wandering.”

Silence means leng go of thoughts. Sllness means

leng go of desire. Simplicity means leng go of self -

analysis.

What makes meditaon Chrisan? Firstly the faith

with which you meditate – some sense of personal

connecon with Jesus. Then the historical scriptural

and theological tradion in which we meditate.

Also, the sense of community it leads to: ‘when two orthree pray together in my name, I am there among

them.’ And the other means by which our spiritual life

is nourished – the other forms of prayer like scripture,

sacraments and worship. Meditaon does not replace

other forms of prayer. Quite the reverse it revives

their meaning.

Finally - but also primarily - we meditate to take the

aenon o ourselves. In the Chrisan tradion it is

seen as a work of love. Not surprising then if we nd

we become more loving people as a result of

meditang and this will express itself in all our

relaonships, our work and our sense of service

especially to those in any kind of need.

Meditaon is both solitary and communal. You can

connect with others who meditate and nd your

journey deepened and strengthened. There is a lot to

learn about this way – through our School, readings

and dialogue. But the boom line is always your

personal pracce. As John Cassian said in the 4thcentury: ‘experience is the teacher’.

Meditaon helps people of all ages and cultures to

nd a simple and praccal way to awaken and deepen

their spiritual life. Children can and like to meditate

and their example shows us all how simple and natural

it is.

For more informaon on the pracce of Chrisan

Meditaon, please visit the website of the World

Community for Chrisan Meditaon (www.wccm.org)or that of the Australian Chrisan Meditaon

Community (www.chrisanmeditaonaustralia.org) or

speak directly to me.

Fr Andrew



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Almighty God and Creator, You are the Father of all

people on the earth. I beseech You to guide all the

naons and their leaders in the ways of jusce and

peace. Protect us from the evils of injusce, prejudice,

exploitaon, conict and war. Help us to put away

mistrust, bierness and hatred. Teach us to cease the

storing and using of implements of war. Lead us to

nd peace, respect and freedom. Unite us in the

making and sharing of tools of peace against

ignorance, poverty, disease and oppression. Grantthat we may grow in harmony and friendship as

brothers and sisters created in Your image, to Your

honour and praise. Amen.

St Ephraim the Syrian

A W Ec Hv

For the early church this gospel incident provided

something of a puzzle. Why would Jesus, the sinless

One, submit to bapsm by John? Why be immersed in

the waters of the River Jordan as though he were a

repentant sinner?

The answer gives us great hope.

Right from the start of his public ministry, Jesuswanted to be idened with the great mass of

humanity, who are o course in their pilgrimage

through life and who have, at mes, chosen to fall

short of what it is to be fully human according to the

divine plan, i.e. who are sinful.

In other words, this being plunged into the waters of

the Jordan was for Jesus a great act of solidarity with

you and with me. Our Lord wanted to idenfy with

those of us who have become conscious of the

fracturing of our relaonship with God, and have

sensed the need to turn our lives in a beer direcon.

But was this no more than street theatre? No, this

great act of solidarity by Jesus is armed in wondrous

terms. Jesus clearly had a myscal experience

precisely as he emerged from his idencaon with us

in the waters of the River Jordan.

‘Suddenly the heavens opened.’ Heaven and earth are

communicang again! If heaven appeared closed to

humankind it is now open again in this great act ofsolidarity by our saviour.

‘And he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove

and coming down on him.’ Please get rid of the idea

that there was actually a uering bird. As Sister

Perpetua Agatha Scholasca would have taught you in

primary school, ‘like a dove’ is an adverbial phrase.

Jesus was a Jew. He would have been steeped in the

rst lines of the Jewish scriptures which portray the

Spirit of God hovering over the waters of chaos. Hewould have also been aware of the great story of

Noah. When the dove uered over his ark he knew

that the earth was safe for humanity again.

So, when Jesus perceived the Divine lover of humanity

arming him in his public ministry, then he

experienced this divine Spirit of God as doing so ‘in

dove-like fashion’, ‘like a dove does’ – a sense of being

hovered over by this Divine presence.

And all this is a prelude to a heavenly intuion: ‘and avoice spoke from Heaven: “This is my Son, the

beloved, my favour rests on him.”’

In the Jewish tradion this sort of sensaon is called

the bat qol , the daughter of a voice, a whisper echoing

heaven.

All these sensaons had a great impact on Jesus,

leaving him with a deep sense of inmacy with his

heavenly Father which enabled him, humanly

speaking, to persevere throughout his ministry.

This Gospel has the same meaning and eect for us.

Each of us has shared in the bapsm of Our Lord. Each

of us has been incorporated into His

bapsm.

At whatever age we received bapsm,

the heavens were opened: divine love and power

streamed from heaven to earth;

the Holy Spirit, Divine lover of humanity, hovered

gently;

and deep down, at the inmate wellspring of life, the

Divine voice was heard:

‘You are my beloved daughter’ or ‘You are my beloved

son, my favour rests on you.’

That is our true, and truly personal, identy as

adopted brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.

Of course our Heavenly Father in his boundless

compassion nds other ways to communicate divine

life to billions who never get the opportunity to be

bapsed, or even to hear the gospel.

But, oh what a special privilege! What a great gi to

have been incorporated into the bapsm of Jesus

Christ.

We should wake up each morning with the Divine

voice ringing in our ears. What a dierence it would

make if we re-called each morning the heavenly

whisper at our bapsm and then re-echoed it

in our lives.

© Fr Michael Tate



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P Ic P G

Our Parish is blessed to have an Intercessory Prayer

Apostolate. This group is comprised of a loose knit

group of parishioners who simply pray during their

normal daily prayers for people on a list updated and

distributed each month.

There are no meengs and no cost whatsoever and

each member may remain anonymous if desired.

Because there are no meengs this group is very

suitable for all parishioners, especially some of our

housebound or incapacitated folk enabling them to

play an important and acve role within the life of the

parish community.

If you are interested in joining this group, just ring Bob

Cashman on 6555 5914 or leave your name and phone

number with the Parish Oce. To request prayers for

someone in need of prayer please contact Bob on6555 5914 leaving your name and contact details.

O O T P

The Chrisan Formaon Course

Unit 1.3 of this course will commence on Thursday

29th January at the St Laurence Centre,

Broadmeadow. For more informaon contact the

Tenison Woods Educaon Centre on P 4930 9601 E

[email protected].

‘Before We Say I Do’

Weekend marriage educaon course will be held on

Saturday 31st January, commencing at 9.30am in the

Toohey Room, Diocesan Oce, 841 Hunter Street,

Newcastle West. Two Saturdays (also 7th February)

from 9.30am – 4.30pm. For more informaon P 4979

1370 E [email protected] W

www.catholiccare.org.au.

“A Journey in the Heart”

Pilgrimage to India and Sri Lanka will begin on

Monday 2nd February, led by Fr Michael Whelan SM

(Aquinas Academy, Sydney). Inerary includes

Mumbai, Coorg, Bangalore, Shanvanam (Fr Bede

Griths’ Ashram), Colombo, Kandalama, Kandy,

Colombo. For further details, please contact Marie

Fonseca on 0418 265 117 or Andre Rasquinha on 0403

569 079. Website: www.spiceodyssey.net.au.

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Since Vacan II we have been proudly professing that

“WE ARE THE CHURCH”. If we truly believe this then

we must ask ourselves, “how am I contribung to the

life of the Church and is there more I could be doing?”

There are many opportunies for service in our

Church community. In parcular we are at present in

need of Sacristans to set up for our weekend Masses

and also for Funerals during the week.

Interested people will receive the proper formaon,

training and support. Please rush to the Parish Oce

to display your willingness to be involved.

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The Diocese of Broome, WA, requires volunteers toassist with the work of the local Church on Aboriginal

Missions. There are various important voluntary tasks:

administraon, building maintenance, gardening,

shop stang, cooking, cleaning, etc. Placements are

preferred for a period of 6 months plus.

For further details and an applicaon form please

contact: Volunteer Coordinator, Anneliese Rohr on 08

9192 1060, E [email protected], W

www.bromediocese.org, M PO Box 76, Broome, WA

6725.

Text: Excerpts from the English Translaon of the Roman Missal © 2010, Internaonal Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL); Music: From the Mass of

St Francis © 2010, Paul Taylor. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Australian Agent—LicenSing Online Lic No. 624844.

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Both The Catholic Leader (Brisbane) and The Catholic

Weekly (Sydney) newspapers are available at a cost of

$2 each from our churches.

mailto:[email protected]


http://www.catholiccare.org.au/

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Ministers this Weekend ... ...of the Word ...of Communion

6pm Tuncurry A: Bob Cashman

B: Colleen Cashman

Margaret Smith, Maureen Stevens, Neil Pye, Owen

Carroll, Pat Hooker.

7am Tuncurry A: Lorraine Clark

B: Cecile Malone

Cecile Malone, Cushla Drake, Graham Griths, Kay

Griths, Mark Mowbray.

9am Forster A: Kris Koch

B: Barbara Kermode

Alan McCarthy, Anne Hartman, Coral McCarthy, Greg

Byrne, Josi Beech.

5pm Forster A: Monica Hunt

B: Chris Matuszny

Alex Matuszny, Lou Hope, Valarie Ross, addional

assistance required .

Ministers next Weekend ... ...of the Word ...of Communion

6pm Tuncurry A: Michael Siddle

B: Lou Hope

Kathryn McCabe, Lou Hope, Michael Siddle, Ruth

Pearson, Valarie Ross.

7am Tuncurry A: Maria Armitage

B: Marie Gapps

Cecile Malone, Edna Tucker, Genevieve Williamson, Kay

Griths, Norm Chapman.

9am Forster A: Trevor Turner

B: Judith Shand

Barbara Dolahenty, Barbara Kermode, Elle Cairns-

Cowan, Robert Moran, Sharon Fowle.

5pm Forster A: Maureen Stevens

B: Monica Hunt

Josi Beech, Maureen Pye, Owen Carroll, addional

assistance required.

Please note: The above informaon reects the rosters as originally published,

and doesn’t take account of any ‘swaps’ that may have been organised between individuals.

PLEASE CONSIDER VOLUNTEERING IF YOU RECOGNISE A SHORTFALL

Sc R T W

Today Isaiah 55:1-11

1 John 5:1-9

Mark 1:7-11

Monday

Hebrews 1:1-6

Mark 1:14-20

Tuesday Hebrews 2:5-12

Mark 1:21-28

Wednesday Hebrews 2:14-18

Mark 1:29-39

Thursday Hebrews 3:7-14

Mark 1:40-45

Friday Hebrews 4:1-5, 11

Mark 2:1-12

Saturday

Hebrews 4:12-16

Mark 2:13-17

Sunday 1 Samuel 3:3-10, 19

1 Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20

John 1:35-42

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Responsorial Psalm

Response: You will draw water joyfully from the

springs of salvaon.

Gospel Acclamaon

Alleluia, alleluia!

John saw Jesus approaching him, and said:

This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the

world. Alleluia!

I c, : Those recently deceased.

Colin John Rodey, Neil Cooper, Patricia Butt.

Those whose anniversaries occur about now.

Ken Aurisch, Antonia Formosa, Rose Formosa, Daniel

McNeill, Barry Barnes.

All those in our community who are sick.

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