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Parish Office Hours: 9:30am - 2:30pm (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday) Phone: (07) 4162 5121 (during and aſter hours and for emergencies) Email: [email protected] Website: hps://www.kingaroynanangocatholic.org.au Local Safeguarding Representave Contact: [email protected] Fr Chukwudi Chinaka: [email protected] 29th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME Year B 16th/17th October, 2021 FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK Dear friends in Christ, I greet you all in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! We hope and pray that everyone is healthy and hearty. As we edge towards the end of this liturgical year, we connue to be reminded through the scriptures the core of who we are. This weekend, in our gospel, we see that famous story of the sons of Zebedee (James and John) asking Christ for ‘special’ places at His right and leſt hands in His glory. Jesus reminded them that to be close to Him means that they need to be ready to ‘become’ like Him who is the servant “who came to serve and not to be served and to give His life as a ransom for many. ” He used that golden opportunity to teach them that for one to be ‘great’ in the true sense of the word means to be ready to ‘serve’ others. Greatness does not come from ‘lording’ it over others or making your ‘authority’ felt by others. Christ made it clear that this is the atude of pagans and must not be seen among believers. So let us pray this week for the grace to be humble enough to always serve others and liſt them up rather than looking down on them and showing them how we are beer than them. This is what it means to be a Chrisan (Christ- follower); one who loves and serves! Where are the Men of our Parishes? Our Overnight Camp on the 22 nd of October is sll happening. We have had a bit of a change to our inial plan. We were heading out to East Cooyar but that has changed due to circumstances beyond our control. We will now be heading to a farm in Crawford. This evening will be a very casual evening of blokes coming together and spending quality me together (eang, drinking and chang), while geng a bit of inspiraon from St Joseph who is the patron saint of men and fathers (as we come towards the end of this year of St Joseph). Please contact us ASAP for details of this camp (venue, me, what to bring etc). A few people have expressed interest which is good. We hope to have a few men there for this awesome night. We men tend not to give ourselves enough opportunies to just relax. We need to know definite numbers ASAP for catering purposes. The Alpha course in Blackbu concluded last Wednesday. We thank all those who parcipated in the program. It was awesome. I was blessed to witness the spirit at work within the group the few mes I joined them. They spent 8 weeks together on this journey sharing faith, food and fun. People blessed each other with their stories and faith and great bonds were formed as sisters and brothers on the journey of faith. It was great to hear people voicing out what they have learnt from the course and what a blessing it had been to them. They are now looking forward to pung it all into pracce in the community. We hope that different groups can come together to run this awesome program. It could be a group as small as 5 in a house or alternang. Alpha is also run in work places. Let us know if you are interested and we will guide you. Catholicism series is sll running in Kingaroy every Wednesday evening. These are just ways of nurturing our faith and walking with other people on this journey. The 20 th of November has been set aside as the day for us to appreciate God and each other. That will be the day for us to come together to celebrate a Thanksgiving Mass for my me of ministry in the Archdiocese of Brisbane. It will also be a me for me to thank you all for being a part of my story. I am really looking forward to that day to look into your faces and let you know what you all mean to me. The greatest giſt we can give to each other is to liſt each other up to God in the Eucharist. Please lock it into your diaries! We are looking at having this awesome celebraon at St Patrick’s Catholic School Hall in Nanango at 10am. The choice of the venue is so that we can all fit with a bit of social distancing. This event is for all our communies not just for Nanango! There will be Anoinng Masses on Friday the 29 th of October at Kingaroy 9am and Nanango 12pm. We would also like to celebrate those who are celebrang significant wedding anniversaries this year. We couldn’t have it last year due to covid. So, this includes those from last year. If you are marking or have marked 10, 20, 25, 40, 50 or above in 2020 or 2021, please let us know so that we can celebrate you as a parish community. If this is you, can you please send your photos to the office ASAP (one of your wedding day and one of what you look like now). Blessings, Fr Chukwudi MASS / LITURGY TIMES - 29th WEEK in ORDINARY TIME Tuesday 19th October, Kingaroy 5.30pm (Mass) Wednesday 20th October, SMCC 8.00am (Mass) Thursday 21st October, Kumbia 5.30pm(Liturgy) Friday 22ndOctober, Kingaroy 9am (Mass) Nanango 12pm (Mass) Our Parishes acknowledge the Tradional Custodians of the Land on which we stand, the Wakka Wakka people and pay our respects to the elders past, present and emerging. 30th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME Saturday 23rd October, Kumbia 6pm (Vigil Mass) Sunday 24th October, Nanango 8am (Mass) Kingaroy 10am (Mass) Kingaroy 5pm (Mass)
