SUNDAY: 8:30am, 10:00am. Children's Liturgy during school term TUESDAY: 8:30am Adoration, 9.15am Mass WEDNESDAY: 7:00am THURSDAY: 9:15am FRIDAY: 8:30am Adoration, 9.15am Mass SATURDAY: 9:00am (Adoration and Reconciliation after Mass) 5:00pm (Vigil Mass) SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 9:30-10:00am; 4:25-4:50pm

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Pastoral Team: Fr Paul Smithers paul.smithers@sydneycatholic.org Twitter: @frpaulsmithers Instagram: frpaulsmithers Fr Gerard Woo Ling Parish Office Address: 2 Yarallah Place Beverly Hills Postal Address: PO Box 100 Beverly Hills NSW 2209 Telephone: 9554 8155 Email: reginaparish@gmail.com Web: reginacoeliparish.org.au

1 | Welcome to Regina Coeli Catholic Church

Regina Coeli Parish Beverly Hills - In the Archdiocese of Sydney

25th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

24 September 2017

Dear friends,

Congratulations to Sybil Sydes who will receive the Life Member Award today at the Cathedral for her service as a parish catechist. Thank you and

God bless you Sybil.

This Sunday we celebrate Social Justice Sunday. Pope Francis has

called for an economic system that places men and women at the very centre

– one that meets the needs of all people and is just and sustainable. He de-nounces economic structures that take a purely utilitarian view of human

beings, treating them as mere elements of production, to be thrown away if

they are not seen as useful or productive.

The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Social Justice Statement for 2017–18 is

titled ‘Everyone’s Business: Developing an inclusive and sustainable econo-my’. The Bishops call for an economy that is founded on justice and offers

dignity and inclusion to every person.

The Bishops’ Statement is built around the Gospel for Social Justice Sun-

day, 24 September 2017. Jesus tells the parable of the workers in the vine-

yard, where all are active contributors and are recognised for their human

dignity. Australia has experienced a quarter of a century of continuous economic

growth, but the benefits of this good fortune have not been distributed

equally. In our workplaces, conditions and security of employment have been

eroded, while those who are unemployed subsist on incomes well below pov-

erty levels. Australia is experiencing a housing crisis. And our Indigenous brothers and sisters struggle with economic and social burdens that most

Australians cannot imagine.

~ Have a happy week, Fr Paul

The Regina Coeli Office will operate from 5 Tarrilli Street from

Wednesday 4 October. The process to move the phone system and all the

furniture will be done in stages over the coming week. Please be patient as we slowly get set up in our new Parish Office. As a result there may be a

delay in getting back to you if you leave a message on the phone. The new

Parish Centre will have offices for the secretary, parish priest, bookkeeper

and sacramental coordinator. There will also be a small meeting/board

room and a larger meeting room for bigger gatherings. The new centre will

also boast a modern kitchen and two toilets. I am most grateful to the many people who have been helping throw out and pack up the parish office in

preparation to move. As we get settled into our new parish centre you may

have further suggestions to make it a really great place to meet.

2 |

Parish Secretary

Mrs Margaret

Doherty-Brady

9554 8155

Tuesday to Friday

8.30am-3.30pm

. In the Eucharistic Prayer, thanks is given to God for the whole work of salvation, and the offerings become

the Body and Blood of Christ.

Rosary Statue

Mrs J Maher

27 Roseview Ave

Ph: 9759 7136

Please pray for...

Sacramental Coordinator

Mrs Elizabeth Gooley

9554 8155

reginasacramental@gmail.com

Tuesday and Thursday

11.30am - 3.30pm

School Principal

Mr Chris Egan

Asst. Principal

Mr Peter Busch

REC

Ms Daniella Taranto

The Week Ahead

Sun 24 Sept 25 Sunday in

OT

8.30am

10.00am 11.30am

Mass

Mass Baptism: Alessio Ventresca, Ilaria Elisabetta Giordano

Mon 25 Sept OFFICE CLOSED

Tues 26 Sept 9.15am

Mass

Wed 27 Sept 7.00am

Mass

Thurs 28 Sept 9.15am

1.00pm

Mass

Afternoon Tea - Parish Centre

Fri 29 Sept 8.30am

9.15am

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass

Sat 30 Sept 9.00am

4.20pm 5.00pm

Mass & Reconciliation & Benediction

Reconciliation Vigil Mass

Sun 1 Oct 26 Sunday in

OT

8.30am

10.00am 11:30am

Mass

Mass Baptism: Darcy Makoto, Sienna Lam,

Mass Intentions

Saturday 23/09 9.00am Vigil 5.00pm

St Vincent de Paul Society

Joseph Lin Kee Choo & Anna Tin RIP Ann

Sunday 24/09 8.30am 10.00am

Margherita Falsone, RIP Ann

People of the Parish

Tuesday 26/09 9.15am Josephine Agius RIP

Wednesday 27/09 7.00am Peter Bowe RIP

Thursday 28/09 9.15am Dawn De Maria RIP

Friday 29/09 9.15am Sick of the parish

Saturday 30/09 9.00am 5.00pm

Sunday 01/10 8.30am 10.00am

Whether you are looking to buy your first home, refinance or invest, we’re here to negotiate the right home loan for you. Contact Glen for assistance. Book in for an obligation free

meeting. Glen Chater Financial Adviser

In Loving Memory Joseph Lin Kee Choo, Anna Tin, Margherita Falsone, Josephine Agius, Peter Bowe,

Dawn De Maria, Donato Tozzi, Maria Mandich, Neville Zacka, Anthony Nguyen,

Norm Farrell, Joyce Hansen, Rosario Bombaci, Bartolo Tesoriero, Tony Tesoriero, Carmelo Algozzino, Martin Mifsud, Stephen Xuereb, Marc David Sollazzo, Anna

Maria Cicuto, Edmund Banfield, Frederika Streiff, Buyung Elias, Pauline Elias, Christina Salim, Alexander Arifin, Agnes Arifin, Ken Fleeton, Herman Holtz, Anna &

Joseph Pham, Peter Repole, Pat Simpson, Elaine Brooksby, Antoni Pomes, Mary Meaney, The Waters’ Family, Connie Fedele, Darren Seymour, Mark Phillips, Giovan-

ni Battiato, Frances Spinella, Catherine Lin Siew Ngiik, James Campisi, Chris

Franchella, Neville Gittany, Gail Moore, Theresa Nguyen, Giuseppe Leotta, Alfia Laspina, Rosa Ferlito, Terzino Ventresca, Delfina Morassut, Sandra Cesarano, Jason

Connolly, Paul & Vienna-Marie Agius, Gabriella Pittino, Columba Doherty, Aileen Host, Thomas Tran, Audrey English, Edward Cantwell, Irene McCarthy, Carl John

Sollazzo. Joseph Ovens, Ugo Buracchi, Romeo Vassalo, Thomas Mendes, Salvatore Licari, Joe Costa, Gino Morassut, Vicko Hrdalo, Kate Hrdalo, Joe Poolice, Ivan and

Mara Puyic, Patty Woods, Clarice Redshaw, Chris Pezzutti, Bob Pettit, James Roe-

buck, Peter Pezzutti, Maria Addolorata Tesoriero, Nicolino Poreu, Madeddu Filomena Gonario, Sam Xerri, Sidney Falson, Valerie Zacka, Dea Mattiussi, George & Linda

Darrell-Edwards, Maria Cristofaro, Dominico Cristofaro, Tim Mitchell, Donato Carne-vale, Mary McGregor, Gloria Vieira, Manuel Vieira, Elizabeth Tesoriero, Theresa May

Cantwell, Lambert Glaudemans, Vicky Brown, John Brogan, Frank Meaney, Maria

Serravalle, Loretto Davenport, Pat Smith, Roberto and Filomena Garfano, Judith Farrell, Pasquale Raglini, Dan Hall, Graham Daniel, Mildred May Mitchell, Mark

Byrne, Carl El-Khoury, Maria Mansour, Joseph Mealing, Maria Giuseppa Mascolo, Cono Reale, Caterina Tesoriero, Leonardo Battiato, Imelda Garcia, Fulvia Maria

Tonitto, Myriam Barbe, Maureen Whelan Please note: if you would like the name of a deceased person to remain on this list

please email the parish office. Fr Paul

Please remember those who are in ill health especially: Antonia Falzon, Liam Ajaka,

Luke Compton, Paul Camelotti, June Roebuck, Anne Thompson, Anne Maree Mi-chels, Jeanette Cardoz, Chris Byrne, Dr Antonio Braga, Anne Courtney, Erifili Vori-

as, David Shannon, Ann McDowell, Alice Nelson, Terry Wall, Paul Kensey, Mary

Emery, Micaela & Theresa Trujillo

Book keeper

Mrs Maria Awad

Business Manager

Mr Peter Crawford

3 | At the Preparation of the Gifts, the bread and the wine with water are brought to the altar,

the same elements that Christ took into his hands.

Life Ascending 2017 meetings will be held on:

Fri 6 October at 10:00am

Fri 13 October at 2:00pm

Thur 19 October at 7:30pm Fri 20 October at 10:00am

Life Ascending Annual General Meeting Tue 3 Oct at

11am in Peakhurst Church Hall. Lunch provided.

Regarding Transport, please phone Sr Patricia 9554 3227

Background on the Gospel Reading

In today's Gospel, Jesus moves from Galilee to

teach in Judea where he is sought out by great crowds and tested by the Pharisees on issues

such as marriage and divorce. Jesus also en-

counters a rich young man who is unable to ac-

cept Jesus' demand that he leave his posses-

sions to follow him. Jesus' response to the rich

young man sounds very much like the conclu-sion we will find in today's Gospel: the first will

be last and the last will be first.

On the surface, the parable of the workers in the

vineyard appears to be an offense to common

sense. Those who work a longer day ought to be paid more than those who work just an hour or

two. When viewed in this way, the landowner

seems unfair. That is because we are reading

into the parable our own preconceived notions of

how fairness and equality should be quantified.

A close read shows us that the landowner paid on the terms that were negotiated. The landown-

er, it seems, has acted completely justly. The

parable goes beyond that, however, and we come

to see that the landowner is not simply just, he

is exceptionally just. He is radically just. He has given those who labored in the field for a full day

their due pay. But he has also given a full-day's

wage to those who worked only a single hour. No

one is cheated, but a few receive abundantly

from the landowner just as we receive from God

more than what is merely justifiable or due. God, like the landowner, is radically just and abun-

dantly generous. The workers who complain are

made to look foolish as they lament the fact that

the landowner has made all workers equal. In-

deed, what more could one ask for than to be treated as an equal at work or anywhere else?

The parable reminds us that although God owes

us nothing, he offers abundantly and equally. We

are occasionally tempted to think that our own

actions deserve more reward, more of God's

abundant mercy, than the actions of others. But God's generosity cannot be quantified or parti-

tioned into different amounts for different people.

When we think that way, we are trying to relate

to God on our terms rather than to accept God's

radically different ways.

2017 HSC Students Mass & Blessing

All HSC students and their families are warmly invited

to attend an HSC Students’ Mass & Blessing to be cele-brated by Fr Paul Smithers at Regina Coeli Church, 70

Ponyara Road, Beverly Hills at the 5.00pm Vigil Mass

on Saturday, 14 October 2017.

Marriage Debate

Archbishop Fisher has issued a flyer to enable you to

express your view in the same sex marriage survey.

From the Archives…

Fr Bill Malone with Cardinal James Freeman on Fr

Malone’s 50th anniversary of priesthood.

St Vincent de Paul was born to a French

peasant family in 1580. He was a highly

intelligent youth and was educated by the Franciscans for several years, before

being ordained at the age of 20. In 1605

he was captured by Turkish pirates who

sold him into slavery, but won his free-

dom after he converted one of his mas-

ters to Christianity. After returning to France, he served as a parish priest near Paris and be-

gan to establish charitable organisations that helped

the poor, nursed the sick and found work for the unem-

ployed. St Vincent founded the Congregation of the

Daughters of Charity with Louise de Marillac, and insti-tuted the Congregation of Priests of the Mission, also

known as the Lazarists. Today the Society of St Vincent

de Paul provides relief to people in need across the

world. Happy feast day to all in the St Vincent de

Paul society on the 27 September.

Rome Pilgrimage -

There are 17 registered to travel on the Regina

Coeli Rome Pilgrimage this November. If there are people still interested then they’ll need to be

ready to put in a deposit by no later than Monday

or Tuesday next week. Please contact Margarita

Buazon at Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney on

9307 8442. I am looking forward to our journey together. For those staying home you can follow

our pilgrimage on the Regina Coeli Facebook

page.

First Reading Is 55:6-9

A reading from the prophet Isaiah

Seek the Lord while he is still to be found, call to him while he is still near.

Let the wicked man abandon his way,

the evil man his thoughts.

Let him turn back to the Lord who will take pity on

him,

to our God who is rich in forgiving; for my thoughts are not your thoughts,

my ways not your ways – it is the Lord who speaks.

Yes, the heavens are as high above earth

as my ways are above your ways,

my thoughts above your thoughts. The Word of the Lord

Second Reading Phil 1:20-24. 27 A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Philippians

Christ will be glorified in my body, whether by my life

or by my death. Life to me, of course, is Christ, but

then death would bring me something more; but then

again, if living in this body means doing work which is

having good results – I do not know what I should choose. I am caught in this dilemma: I want to be gone

and be with Christ, which would be very much the bet-

ter, but for me to stay alive in this body is a more ur-

gent need for your sake.

Avoid anything in your everyday lives that would be unworthy of the gospel of Christ.

The Word of the Lord Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!

Open our hearts, O Lord, to listen to the words of your Son.

Alleluia!

Gospel Mt 20:1-16

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mat-

thew Jesus said to his disciples: ‘The kingdom of heaven

is like a landowner going out at daybreak to hire

workers for his vineyard. He made an agreement

with the workers for one denarius a day, and sent

them to his vineyard. Going out at about the third

hour he saw others standing idle in the market place and said to them, “You go to my vineyard too

and I will give you a fair wage.” So they went. At

about the sixth hour and again at about the ninth

hour, he went out and did the same. Then at about

the eleventh hour he went out and found more men standing round, and he said to them, “Why

have you been standing here idle all day?”

“Because no one has hired us” they answered. He

said to them, “You go into my vineyard too.” In the

evening, the owner of the vineyard said to his bail-

iff, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, starting with the last arrivals and ending with the

first.” So those who were hired at about the elev-

enth hour came forward and received one denarius

each. When the first came, they expected to get

more, but they too received one denarius each. They took it, but grumbled at the landowner. “The

men who came last” they said “have done only one

hour, and you have treated them the same as us,

though we have done a heavy day’s work in all the

heat.” He answered one of them and said, “My

friend, I am not being unjust to you; did we not agree on one denarius? Take your earnings and go.

I choose to pay the last-comer as much as I pay

you. Have I no right to do what I like with my own?

Why be envious because I am generous?” Thus the

last will be first, and the first, last.’ The Gospel of the Lord

The Gospel of the Lord© 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.

Liturgy of the Word

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

(R.) The Lord is near to all who call him.

1. I will bless you day after day and praise your name for ever.

the Lord is great, highly to be praised,

his greatness cannot be measured. (R.)

2. The Lord is kind and full of compassion,

slow to anger, abounding in love. How good is the Lord to all,

compassionate to all his creatures. (R.)

3. The Lord is just in all his ways

and loving in all his deeds. He is close to all who call him,

who call on him from their hearts. (R.)