BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Third Sunday of Advent - Year A [OF] & [EF] 10th/11th December, 2016 Readings for next Sunday 17th/18th December, 2016 1st: Isaiah 7:10-14 2nd: Romans 1: 1-7 Gospel: Matthew 1: 18-24 Parish Office 14 Ferndale Street, Annerley 4103 PO Box 3131, Tarragindi 4121. Office Hours:- 9:00am - 1:00pm Monday, Wednesday & Friday Phone: 3848 1107 Fax: 3848 1855 Email: [email protected]Web: www.annerleyekibinparish.com www.facebook.com/ annerleyekibinparish www.twitter.com/AnnerleyEkibin Parish Priest : Fr Andrew Wise Parish Team Ms Shirley Sadler (Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer) Miss Ria McIntyre (Assistant Sacramental Co-ordinator) Mr Richard O’Neil:0427 484 679 † Mary Immaculate Church 616 Ipswich Road, Annerley † St John Fisher Church 17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi † St Elizabeth’s Chapel 61 Effingham Street, Ekibin St Elizabeth’s Primary School Phone 3848 0828 Mary Immaculate Primary School Phone 3848 8965 Our Lady’s Secondary College Phone: 3848 7462 St John Fisher Hall 17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi Phone 3848 1107 (Office hours) Brisbane Oratory in Formation Oratory House - 3392 9247 16 Ferndale Street, Annerley http://brisbane-oratory.org/ Fr Adrian Sharp (Moderator) Fr Andrew Wise Fr Scot Armstrong Br Shawn Murphy Br Tyson King Br Conor Power Br Matthew Buckley Frassati (Young Men) David Powick (0409 711 786) Flores Teresianes (Young Women) Elise Hewitt (0400 204 995) Frassati Youth (High School age) Abbie Powick (0477 055 778 ) [email protected]St Vincent de Paul Helpline Phone: 3010 1096 Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753 From the Parish Priest Dear Parishioners, You may recall some time ago I announced that a grant had been approved for Mary Immaculate Primary School to fully landscape the area between Mary Immaculate church and school. I am happy to report that these extensive landscaping works will begin on Monday. There will only be pedestrian access down to the parish meeting room, SVDP rooms and toilets from then on, while the work takes place. Towards the end of the project (in early February), there will be a number of days when even this pedestrian access will be restricted and we will have to make other temporary arrangements at that time. There could also be some unwanted noise during weekday Masses but I have been assured that this will be kept to a minimum. You will notice new indicating signs near the confessional to determine where the line for those waiting for confession starts and the direction to wait in order from that point. Please observe these arrow signs in patient consideration for one another while waiting for confession. This also gives me the opportunity to remind everyone once again of the great importance of going to confession before Christmas and in preparation for the new year. Confession times are on Page 3 of this Newsletter. There will be a working bee to spring clean Mary Immaculate church in preparation for Christmas, after Mass next Saturday, 17th December. Please come to give a hand for an hour or so if you can as we all know the reality of the truism that ‘many hands make light work’. Also, just a final reminder about the Thank you Christmas Drinks for all our Parish and Oratory volunteers. This will be on Thursday 15th December in the Parish Office. The idea is that all our volunteers are warmly invited to simply drop in for a Christmas drink and finger food anytime between 5:00pm and 8:00pm and stay as long or as briefly as they wish. The Oratory community looks forward to seeing you all there. Our reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent follows. Fr Andrew Wise Christmas Timetable 2016 Saturday 24 th December 8:15am Mass (last Advent Mass) Mary Immaculate Confessions after Mass, as well as before, as usual. Christmas Eve 24 th December 5:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church 7:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church 6:00pm: 1 st Vespers of Christmas [EF] Mary Immaculate church 8:00pm: Vigil [Solemn OF+] Mary Immaculate church 11:30pm: Carols Mary Immaculate church Midnight: [Solemn High Mass EF] Mary Immaculate church Christmas Day 25 th December 7:30am: Mass [OF] Mary Immaculate church 9:00am: Mass [EF, Sung] Mary Immaculate church No evening Mass Mary Immaculate church Light looked down and beheld Darkness: ‘There will I go’, said Light. Peace looked down and beheld War: ‘There will I go’, said Peace. Love looked down and beheld Hatred: ‘There will I go’, said Love. So came Light and shone. So came Peace and gave rest. So came Love and brought Life. And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us. Laurence Housman Let us prepare the way in our lives and our families to receive and share the gifts of the Lord’s Light, Peace and Love this Christmas and always.
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BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION
PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Third Sunday of Advent - Year A [OF] & [EF]
From the Parish Priest Dear Parishioners, You may recall some time ago I announced that a grant had been approved for Mary Immaculate Primary School to fully landscape the area between Mary Immaculate church and school. I am happy to report that these extensive landscaping works will begin on Monday. There will only be pedestrian access down to the parish meeting room, SVDP rooms and toilets from then on, while the work takes place. Towards the end of the project (in early February), there will be a number of days when even this pedestrian access will be restricted and we will have to make other temporary arrangements at that time. There could also be some unwanted noise during weekday Masses but I have been assured that this will be kept to a minimum.
You will notice new indicating signs near the confessional to determine where the line for those waiting for confession starts and the direction to wait in order from that point. Please observe these arrow signs in patient consideration for one another while waiting for confession. This also gives me the opportunity to remind everyone once again of the great importance of going to confession before Christmas and in preparation for the new year. Confession times are on Page 3 of this Newsletter.
There will be a working bee to spring clean Mary Immaculate church in preparation for Christmas, after Mass next Saturday, 17th December. Please come to give a hand for an hour or so if you can as we all know the reality of the truism that ‘many hands make light work’. Also, just a final reminder about the Thank you Christmas Drinks for all our Parish and Oratory volunteers. This will be on Thursday 15th December in the Parish Office. The idea is that all our volunteers are warmly invited to simply drop in for a Christmas drink and finger food anytime between 5:00pm and 8:00pm and stay as long or as briefly as they wish. The Oratory community looks forward to seeing you all there. Our reflection for the Third Sunday of Advent follows.
Fr Andrew Wise
Christmas Timetable 2016 Saturday 24th December 8:15am Mass (last Advent Mass) Mary Immaculate Confessions after Mass, as well as before, as usual. Christmas Eve 24th December 5:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church 7:30pm: Vigil [OF] St John Fisher church 6:00pm: 1st Vespers of Christmas [EF] Mary Immaculate church 8:00pm: Vigil [Solemn OF+] Mary Immaculate church 11:30pm: Carols Mary Immaculate church Midnight: [Solemn High Mass EF] Mary Immaculate church Christmas Day 25th December 7:30am: Mass [OF] Mary Immaculate church 9:00am: Mass [EF, Sung] Mary Immaculate church No evening Mass Mary Immaculate church
Light looked down and beheld
Darkness:
‘There will I go’, said Light. Peace looked down and beheld War:
‘There will I go’, said Peace.
Love looked down and beheld Hatred:
‘There will I go’, said Love.
So came Light and shone.
So came Peace and gave rest. So came Love
and brought Life.
And the Word was made Flesh
and dwelt among us. Laurence Housman
Let us prepare the way in
our lives and our families to
receive and share the gifts
of the Lord’s Light, Peace
and Love this Christmas and always.
PARISH DATE CLAIMERS Saturday 17th December Christmas Oratorio at Mary Immaculate Church. Please see notice below. Friday 27th January Elizabethan Social Club Australia Day Function & AGM. Pies, peas, etc., from 10:00am. $7.00. Bookings: Joan on 3848 3251 or Philomena on 3349 2809.
WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Corazon SALAO, Rina COOK, Alan HANCOCK, Fr Terry MADDEN, Jozef SCHUTZMAN, Michael GRATTEN and Margaret McKILLOP. Those who are sick: Esther ADENEY, Luke ADENEY, Theresa BAGLEY, Gabrielle BENTLEY, Monique BENTLEY Neil BETTS, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Stewart BOYD, Joan BRAMMER, Noelene BURGESS, Jeremy CARROLL, Robyn CLEMENTS, Jim CLIFFORD, Hilary COLLINS, Rochelle COWARD, Marietta CRUZADO, Diane ELLIS, Rowena ENNIS, David FARRELL, Jane FARRELL, Madge FARRELL, Tereza FERENC, Joan FLEW, Mary FORRESTER, Anne FRANETTOVICH, John FRANK, Gwen GAIR, Helen GIAQUINTA, Dulcey HARVEY (Ingham), Jan HEGARTY, Peter HEGARTY, Keith HOGG, Marlene JOHNSTON, Dominic KENNEDY, Robyn KINNES, Ryan MacGARY-WALSH, Cherril MALONEY, Bernard McALARY, Marie McMAHON SGS, Marie MITCHELL, Harry MOHR, Kathryn MORRIS, Robyn O’DWYER, Valerie & Kevin ORTON, Brian QUARRY, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Dorothy RYAN, Nick SHANAHAN (Jnr), Florence SNELL, Mary STUART, Heather TERRILL, Charlie WINTER, Fr John WORTHINGTON SM, Gary WYLIE, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK .
All the faithful departed.
COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,485.70 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVE. FOR WEEK
$1,988.05 Thank you from a grateful Parish
Sat 17 Dec (7.30pm)
Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley:
Join us as the Oratory Choir & Artes Christi including a choir & orchestra of 50 musicians present a special evening of Advent music including Adam Lay Ybounden, This is the Record of John and HANDEL'S MESSIAH. Last Christmas, Artes Christi sang at the Vatican, Notre Dame Paris & across Europe so we are delighted to welcome them back to Brisbane after they sang here in 2012-14. The movements of HANDEL'S MESSIAH will include And the Glory of the Lord, Surely, For Unto Us, The Hallelujah Chorus & many others. The evening will last for 70 minutes. Entry by donation (suggested $10+), supporting the Oratory Choir and Artes Christi. For more info on the concert visit www.theword.org.au
Mary Immaculate School Centenary
Mary Immaculate School, Annerley is about to turn 100! On April
30th, 2017, the school will officially commemorate its 100th
birthday. We are inviting all past students, parents, and staff to
join with us in celebrating this momentous event. Save the dates
of Saturday, April 29th and Sunday 30th April, 2017. We would
love for as many as possible to join us in celebrating on this
weekend with an “Under the Stars” late afternoon/evening event
on Saturday 29th April with guest of honour,
Mr Hugh Lunn. On Sunday 30th April, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
will celebrate a Thanksgiving Mass in honour of our Centenary.
Following Mass we will be having a Sunday Roast lunch on the
school oval. Again you are most welcome to join us. Both events
will be ticketed. Watch this space for more details.
We are also asking if you have any memorabilia: photos,
newsletters, etc., please email me, Leanne Delaney at
38488965. We are also trying to discover the oldest living
student of Mary Immaculate, if you think you know who this
might be, please contact at the email address above.
St John Fisher Church Giving Tree: Please take a tag from the tree and return the item requested by Sunday, December 18th. Hampers will be distributed to families and individuals in need during the week before Christmas. Also - purchase your Christmas cards and Columban Calendars at SJF: Packs of 5 cards for $2.00, Calendars are $8:00. Mary Immaculate Church Giving Tree: Please take a card or two from the tree, at MI
church, purchase the secret item and place it under the tree for collection by SVDP. We are happy to receive the items at any time up until Sunday 18th December. Thank you for your support again this year. Parish Hampers prepared from Giving Tree donations will be distributed on Wednesday, 21st December. On sale now at Mary Immaculate Piety Stall: Christmas cards (5 for $2.50, 8 for $3.00, 10 for $5.00) and 2017 Columban Calendars $8.00.
Creating a Will creates peace of mind for you, your family and your loved ones. Let this be the year you get it done or
have it updated. Once you have provided for your loved ones in your Will, perhaps you would consider making a gift to our Parish to preserve programs and services that are meaningful in your life? To find out how to include a gift in your will to the Annerley Ekibin Parish and/or Brisbane Oratory in Formation Endowment F u n d p l e a s e g o t o : h t t p s : / /catholicfoundation.org.au/articles/donate-perpetual-fund/, choose ‘designation’ and select Annerley Ekibin Parish and/or Brisbane Oratory in Formation.
It is not uncommon for
children to want a bike for
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the education they need for a positive future. Visit www.catholicmission.org.au/gifts to find out how
Sunday 18th December 7:30am Mass [OF] MI 9:00am Mass [EF] MI 8:30am Mass [OF] SJF
5:00pm Mass [OF+] MI
OF = Ordinary Form | OF+ = Ad orientem | EF = Extraordinary Form]
MI = Mary Immaculate SE = St Elizabeth’s SJF = St John Fisher
CONFESSION TIMES: Mon 6:45pm (MI) Wed 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Thu 9:40am - 10:00am (MI Fri 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Fri 7:30pm - 8:30pm (During Holy Hour) Sat 7:15am - 8:00am (MI) Sat 4:45pm - 5:15pm (MI) Sat 5:15pm by request (SJF) Sun During 9:00am Mass where possible (MI) The Angelus and the Rosary are prayed half an hour before the early Masses, Monday to Friday, at SE & SJF.
All night Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Thursday at St Elizabeth’s Chapel beginning at 6:00pm and ending at 6:45am on Fridays.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on Saturdays from 7:15am - 8:00am at Mary Immaculate Church.
Rosters for next week
MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 10th December, Private: For a Special Intention 8:15am Mass at MI: For Sofia Chappuis, Birthday Sunday, 11th December, 7:30am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 9:00am Mass at MI: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Monday, 12th December, 7:00pm Mass at MI: For Pregnancy Crisis Incorporated and for the protection of all children in the womb Tuesday, 13th December, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased >
St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Second Sunday of Advent: Wilston 7:30am
> 7:00am Mass at MI: For members of the Garrett, Bisshop & Schrader Families, living and deceased Wednesday, 14th December, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the Repose of the Soul of Amy Robertson, Anniversary Thursday, 15th December, 7:00am Mass at MI: For the Repose of the Soul of Vincent Bliss, recently deceased (22nd November) Saturday, 17th December, 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Sunday, 18th December, 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the Special Intentions of the priests and seminarians of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased
PLEASE NOTE: Weekday Mass Omitted For This Week
Monday, 12th December, 6:00am Mass at SE
SUNG VESPERS on SUNDAYS: Every second
and fourth Sunday of the month Vespers, the
evening portion of the Divine Office, is sung in MI church at 4pm in the Extraordinary
Form.
St Elizabeth’s Chapel Adoration will finish for the year after Thursday, 22nd December and resume on Thursday, February 2nd 2017.
Rosters for next week
MINISTERS OF THE WORD
Sat (SJF) 5:30pm Kay Holmes
Sun (MI) 7.30am Brian McMahon, Noel Everding
Sun (SJF)9.00am Louise Brooks, Anthony Smallhorn
Sun (MI) 5.00pm Anna Herbert, Liam Herbert
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION
Sat (SJF) 6:00pm: Bert Jacobs, John Lesina, Prem Nair, Kevin Rowen, Valmai Winter
Sun (MI) 7:30am: Bertha Clark, Joan Coghlan, Paul Coghlan, Ester Evangelista, Charles Grugan, Kathleen Grugan
Sun (SJF) 9:00am: Peter Menagh
Sun (MI) 5:00pm: Liam Herbert (also available as a reserve. Please phone 0417 727 480)
COUNTERS
Monday, 12th December, 2016
Paul Coghlan, Joan Coghlan, Bernie O’Hara
CHURCH CARE
Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro
Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah
Laundry (SJF) Pat Smith
Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah
Volunteers Needed: More Ministers of the Word are urgently required for the 7:30am Sunday Mass at Mary Immaculate Church. Please contact the Parish Office on 3848 1107 if you can help.
Calling All Carol Singers for St John Fisher Christmas Vigil Masses
Can you hold a tune? Would you like to join us in song as we celebrate the joy of Christ’s birth at SJF Church
this year? Singers for both the 5:30pm & 7:30pm Vigil are needed. Please arrive in time to begin Carols 15 minutes before Mass.
Third Sunday of Advent - Year A: 10th/11th December, 2016
ADVENT WREATH PRAYERS: Third Candle
Celebrant: O ROOT OF JESSE, that stands for an ensign of the people, before whom the kings keep silence and unto whom the Gentiles shall make supplication:
Response: COME, to deliver us and do not delay.
Celebrant: O KEY OF DAVID, and Sceptre of the House of Israel, who opens and no man shuts, who shuts and no man opens:
Response: COME, and bring forth the captive from his prison, he who sits in darkness and in the shadow of death. Amen
SUNDAY MASS READINGS
First Reading: Isaiah 35:1-6,10 Let the wilderness and the dry-lands exult, let the wasteland rejoice and bloom, let it bring forth flowers like the jonquil, let it rejoice and sing for joy. The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; they shall see the glory of the Lord, the splendour of our God. Strengthen all weary hands, steady all trembling knees and say to all faint hearts, `Courage! Do not be afraid. Look your God is coming, vengeance is coming, the retribution of God; he is coming to save you.' Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed, then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy for those the Lord has ransomed shall return. They will come to Zion shouting for joy, everlasting joy on their faces; joy and gladness will go with them and sorrow and lament be ended.
The Word of the Lord
Response: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm 145
(Said by all)
It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever, who is just to those who are oppressed. It is he who gives bread to the hungry, the Lord, who sets prisoners free.
It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind, who raises up those who are bowed down, the Lord, who protects the stranger and upholds the widow and orphan.
It is the Lord who loves the just but thwarts the wicked. The Lord will reign for ever, Zion's God, from age to age.
Second Reading: James 5:7-10
Be patient, brothers, until the Lord's coming. Think of a farmer: how patiently he waits for the precious fruit of the ground until it has had the autumn rains and the spring rains! You too have to be patient; do not lose heart, because the Lord's coming will be soon. Do not make complaints against one another, brothers, so as not to be brought to judgment yourselves; the Judge is already to be seen waiting at the gates. For your example, brothers, in submitting with patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
The Word of the Lord
Response: Thanks be to God
Gospel Acclamation:
Alleluia, Alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he sent me to bring Good News to the poor. Alleluia!
Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11 John in his prison had heard what Christ was doing and he sent his disciples to ask him, `Are you the one who is to come, or have we got to wait for someone else?' Jesus answered, `Go back and tell John what you hear and see; the blind see again, and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised to life and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor; and happy is the man who does not lose faith in me.' As the messengers were leaving, Jesus began to talk to the people about John: `What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the breeze? No? Then what did you go out to see? A man wearing fine clothes? Oh no, those who wear fine clothes are to be found in palaces. Then what did you go out for? To see a prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet: he is the one of whom scripture says: Look, I am going to send my messenger before you; he will prepare your way before you. I tell you solemnly, of all the children born of women, a greater than John the Baptist has never been seen; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he is'.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Memorial Acclamation: Number One
Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.
ARE YOU A NEW PARISHIONER?
OR ARE YOU FROM ELSEWHERE IN BRISBANE BUT
REGULARLY ATTEND MASS HERE AND WOULD LIKE
TO BE REGISTERED AS A FRIEND OF THE BRISBANE
ORATORY? If so, please fill in the form below and place it
on the collection plate or mail to our Parish Office:
P.O. Box 3131, Tarragindi. 4121.
□ I am a new parishioner
□ I am from elsewhere but would like to be
registered as a friend of the Brisbane Oratory
Name…………………………………………………………
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Brisbane Oratory Music: Please contact Ronan if you would
like to audition for the mixed choir, the schola or the children's
choir (5yrs - 15yrs). Lessons in sacred music are also offered.
‘The formation of the whole people in singing, should be
seriously and patiently undertaken together with liturgical
instruction, according to the age, status and way of life of the
faithful and the degree of their religious culture; this should
be done even from the first years of education in elementary
schools.’ (Musicam Sacram,1967).
Contact: Ronan Reilly, Director of Brisbane Oratory Music:
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