FEAST OF DIVINE MERCY Divine Mercy Hour 3.00pm - 4.00pm
Chaplet of Divine Mercy Adoration
Opportunity for the Sacrament of Reconciliation
Benediction
Often people forget that Easter is not just a day, but a season - the longest in the Church’s year, in fact! We are given fifty glorious days to prolong our baptismal joy, fifty glorious days of basking in the light of the risen Saviour. It seems a shame that after the efforts we put into Lent we don’t celebrate Eastertide with the same enthusiasm.
The readings of this Season have their origins in the instruction given to converts in the early Church. In Lent, the readings were the basis of catechesis on the forthcoming baptism. During Easter the readings are “Mystagogy” - a type of teaching where the newly baptised (“neophytes”) learn through taking part in the celebration of the sacraments and hearing the word. On the Sundays we hear who Jesus is, and on weekdays hear about Baptism and the Eucharist. This “Mystagogy” is not just to nourish the neophytes, but to help all of us deepen our life in the risen Lord Jesus. this Sunday we are with the disciples in the Upper Room, where eight days after the Resurrection Jesus comes among them - as he comes among us.
Divine Mercy Sunday—23 April 2017 Year A
MON 24 APR Weekday Mass 6.45am
TUE 25 APR ANZAC DAY MASS 9.00am (No 6.45am Mass)
Marian Movement of Priests Cenacle 6pm Church
Devotion to St Michael & the Angels 7pm Church
WED 26 APR Weekday Mass 6.45am
Legion of Mary 7.30pm Old Church
THU 27 APR Weekday Mass 9.15am
Marian Devotion Croatian Prayer Group 11am Church
FRI 28 APR Weekday Mass 9.15am
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament till 10.30am Church
Bible Studies 8pm Presbytery Meeting Room
SAT 29 APR Meditation 8am Presbytery Meeting Room
Weekday Mass 9.00am followed by Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Reconciliation 9.45am and 4pm
MASS TIMES: 5.00pm Vigil (Blessing & Commitment Mass) 6.30pm Spanish Mass
SUN 30 APR MASS TIMES: 8.00am, 10.00am and 6.00pm.
We wish to inform our Parishioners of the recent passing of “Mr Bill Spillane”
A funeral service will be held on Monday 24th April at 12.30pm
at Woronora Crematorium West Chapel Sutherland
and afterwards at: Tree Tops Restaurant,
at the Grandviews Bowling Club, 821 Forest Rd, Peakhurst.
School Reunion St Josephs Girls High School Kogarah 1973
(School Certificate) to be held on
Saturday 10th June 2017 at Oatley Hotel from 4-6pm.
For more details, please contact Dorothy Galloway (nee Hoare)
[email protected] or Christine Vince (nee Hoare)
Dear Parishioners,
Last week, during Holy Week and our Easter Triduum celebrations, we had the unofficial unveiling of our new Audio and Visual System recently installed by one of our parishioners,
Anthony Nguyen with the help of a few volunteers, Tony Miuccio and Pawel.
We have received quite a lot of great feedback and with that again, a huge thank you to our Parish groups for your generous donations; our Cantonese, Italian, Mandarin
and Spanish Communities together with the many individual donations received.
Thank you very much! Blessings to all, Fr Janusz.
Congratulations to Caitlin Tan who won our St Michael’s
Easter Hamper last weekend on Ticket Number 339904!
Thank you to all for your continued
support.
We pray for the repose of the souls of
the recently deceased: Ed McGrath,
Anne Woodward, Brenda Dismaya,
Kevin McGillicuddy,
Cheuk Yuk Leung Wong,
Herminio Saquitan, Terry Saldhana, Victor Care
and Nick Mally.
We remember those relatives and friends who
have departed this life: Herbert & Dora
Christensen, George & Josephine Cowell,
Trevor Gaynor, Fr Ron Harden, Florence May
Jones, Ken Lucas, Frank & Lillian Lucas,
Manwaring Family, Alan & Kathleen Mercer,
Jennifer Meredith, Antonino Picone,
Joseph George Sakr, Joseph & Cecilia Teo,
Anthony Teo and the Tracey & Kelly Families.
We pray for: Domenic D’Autilio, Helen Carson,
Mary Wong and Helena Magdalena Melati
whose anniversaries occur about now.
We pray for the sick in our community:
Tom Carson, Sr Pauline, Georgie Benjamin
Craven, Atelaite Alamoti, Lourdes Camilon,
Ellie Humphries, Joseph Park, Patricia Shiels,
Patricia Toscano, Pamela Cleary, Zlata Hrestak,
Cathy Rogers, Ta Nguyen and Pat Fraser.
We also pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
and for those who have no one to pray for them.
© The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and Gospel Verses, and the Lenten Gospel Acclamations, and the Titles, Summaries, and Conclusion of the Readings, from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.
HEALING MASS:
First Friday of: March,
June, Sept & Dec at 7.00pm
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY:
Sunday 10.00am Mass
(except 5th Sunday and
holidays)
BAPTISMS:
Sunday at 11.15am
RECONCILIATION:
Sat: 9.45am-10.15am and
4-4.45pm
MARRIAGES:
Please contact the Priest
6mths prior to the
wedding.
ANOINTING OF THE
SICK AND DYING:
Call the Priest any time
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:
Like newborn infants,
you must long for the pure, spiritual milk,
that in him you may grow to salvation,
alleluia.
FIRST READING: Acts 2:42-47
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
The whole community remained faithful to
the teaching of the apostles, to the
brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to
the prayers. The many miracles and signs
worked through the apostles made a deep
Impression on everyone. The faithful all lived
together and owned everything in common;
they sold their goods and possessions and
shared out the proceeds among themselves
according to what each one needed. They
went as a body to the Temple every day but
met in their houses for the breaking of bread;
they shared their food gladly and generously;
they praised God and were looked up to by
everyone. Day by day the Lord added to their
community those destined to be saved.
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 21:8-9.
All: Give thanks to the Lord for he is
good, his love is everlasting.
1. ‘His love has no end.’
Let the sons of Aaron say:
‘His love has no end.’
Let those who fear the Lord say:
'His love has no end.'
2. I was thrust, thrust down and falling
but the Lord was my helper.
The Lord is my strength and my song;
he was my saviour.
There are shouts of joy and victory
in the tents of the just.
3. The stone which the builders rejected
has become the corner stone.
This is the work of the Lord,
a marvel in our eyes.
This day was made by the Lord;
we rejoice and are glad.
All: Give thanks to the Lord for he is
good, his love is everlasting.
SECOND READING: 1 Pt 1:3-9
A reading from the first letter of St Peter
Blessed be God the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who in his great mercy has given us a
new birth as his sons, by raising Jesus Christ
from the dead, so that we have a sure hope
and the promise of an inheritance that can
never be spoilt or soiled and never fade away,
because it is being kept for you in the
heavens. Through your faith, God’s power
will guard you until the salvation which has
been prepared is revealed at the end of time.
This is a cause of great joy for you, even
though you may for a short time have to bear
being plagued by all sorts of trials; so that,
when Jesus Christ is revealed, your faith will
have been tested and proved like gold – only
it is more precious than gold, which is
corruptible even though it bears testing by
fire – and then you will have praise and glory
and honour. You did not see him, yet you
love him; and still without seeing him, you
are already filled with a joy so glorious that it
cannot be described, because you believe; and
you are sure of the end to which your faith
looks forward, that is, the salvation of your
souls.
The word of the Lord.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Alleluia, alleluia!
You believe in me, Thomas, because you have
seen me; happy those who have not seen me,
but still believe!
Alleluia!
✝GOSPEL: Jn 20:19-31
A reading from the holy Gospel according
to John
In the evening of that same day, the first day
of the week, the doors were closed in the
room where the disciples were, for fear of the
Jews. Jesus came and stood among them. He
said to them, ‘Peace be with you,’ and showed
them his hands and his side. The disciples
were filled with joy when they saw the Lord,
and he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you.
‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’
After saying this he breathed on them and
said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. For those
whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven; for
those whose sins you retain, they are
retained.’ Thomas, called the Twin, who was
one of the Twelve, was not with them when
Jesus came. When the disciples said, ‘We have
seen the Lord’, he answered, ‘Unless I see the
holes that the nails made in his hands and can
put my finger into the holes they made, and
unless I can put my hand into his side, I refuse
to believe.’ Eight days later the disciples were
in the house again and Thomas was with
them. The doors were closed, but Jesus came
in and stood among them. ‘Peace be with
you’ he said. Then he spoke to Thomas, ‘Put
your finger here; look, here are my hands.
Give me your hand; put it into my side.
Doubt no longer but believe.’ Thomas
replied, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus said to
him: ‘You believe because you can see me.
Happy are those who have not seen and yet
believe.’ There were many other signs that
Jesus worked and the disciples saw, but they
are not recorded in this book. These are
recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing
this you may have life through his name.
The Gospel of the Lord.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON:
Bring your hand
and feel the place of the nails,
and do not be unbelieving but believing,
alleluia.
ST MICHAEL’S PARISH
10 Croydon Road, Hurstville 2220
Ph: 9587 2166
www.stmichaelhurst.org.au
PARISH CLERGY:
Parish Priest: Fr Janusz Bieniek CSMA
Assistant Priest: Fr Kenneth Kaimalan CSMA
PARISH STAFF:
Secretary: Leena Strickland-Langatuki
Accounts: Maria Awad
Sacramental Co-ordinator: Valerie Gonzaga