SUNDAY: 8:30am, 10:00am. Children's Liturgy during school term MONDAY: 9:15am Liturgy of the Word with Communion 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

Liturgy Times

Pastoral Team: Fr Paul Smithers paul.smithers@sydneycatholic.org Twitter: @frpaulsmithers Instagram: frpaulsmithers Deacon 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

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Regina Coeli Parish Beverly Hills - In the Archdiocese of Sydney

12th Sunday in Ordinary Time

25 June 2017

~ Have a happy week, Fr Paul

Dear friends, Recently I read an article by Fr Tom Elich of the Archdiocese of Brisbane regarding the funeral liturgy. I though it was insightful and worth outlining some of the points he makes. In his article he makes the point that the purpose of a funeral liturgy is not to “celebrate the life of the deceased. Liturgy is prayer, it is directed to God. It cele-brates God’s grace and providence under which we live, the blessings we have received. It celebrates God’s mercy and compassion which does not hold our faults against us. It celebrates the death and resur-rection of Jesus by which the hope of eternal life is given us. Some-times in sorrow we lament; on anger or anguish we cry out for God’s help. But a Catholic funeral is addressed to God in prayer.” Fr Tom also deals with the question of eulogies, and the tendency to give too much time to this part of the liturgy. I agree with Fr Tom. He states that “the expectation that this is an integral part of the funeral liturgy is created by funeral directors.” He goes on to say that the fu-neral liturgy is not a one size fits all. “It is a particular person, a loved member of a family with a circle of friends… for whom we celebrate

the liturgy. This is why a member or friend of the family may [which means you do not have to] say a few brief words of remembrance of the deceased. The aim of the Church’s funeral liturgy offers prayers that are positive and offer consolation to the bereaved. The deceased is named in these prayers and the Liturgy is offerd for their eternal rest. Copies of the full article are available in the foyer. Congratulations to those children who received First Holy Com-munion last weekend. I am particularly grateful for the support of Elizabeth Gooley, Carmel Crawford, Michelle Marshall, Jessica Mar-kos, Chris Egan, Chloe Pizzuti, Danielle Taranto and Deacon Gerard. Registration for Confirmation is now open. Application forms have been distributed and are also available at the church and on the parish website. During the month of July there will be some changes to weekday Mass times while I am on annual leave. Further details next week.

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Parish Secretary

Mrs Margaret

Doherty-Brady

9554 8155

Tuesday to Friday

8.30am-3.30pm

"In the school of the Lord's service we are beginners all our lives." - St Benedict.

Rosary Statue

Mr & Mrs V Cardoz

Ph: 9591 9402

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 25 June 12 Sunday in

Ordinary Time

8.30am

10.00am 11.30am

Mass

Mass Baptisms

Mon 26 June 9.15am Liturgy of the Word with Holy Com-

munion OFFICE CLOSED

Tues 27 June

8.30am

9.15am

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament

Mass (Yr K/buddies at Mass)

Wed 28 June St Irenaesus

7.00am Mass

Thurs 29 June Ss Peter & Paul

9.15am

2.00pm

Mass

Afternoon Tea - Parish Centre

Fri 30 June 9.15am Mass

Sat 1 July 9.00am

5.00pm

Mass

Reconciliation & Benediction Reconciliation Mass

Sun 2 July 13 Sunday in

Ordinary Time

8.30am

10.00am 12.00pm

Mass

Mass Fr Paul on annual leave

Mass Intentions

Saturday 24/06 9.00am Vigil 5.00pm

St Vincent de Paul Society

Missa Pro Populo

Sunday 25/06 8.30am 10.00am

Caterina Tesoriero RIP Ann

Jospehine Agius RIP Linda Guesry RIP Ann

Maria Giuseppa Mascolo RIP Ann

Tuesday 27/06 9.15am Bernie Crawford RIP Ann

Wednesday 28/06 7.00am

Thursday 29/06 9.15pm Norm Coleman RIP

Friday 30/06 9.00am Donato Tozzi RIP

Saturday 01/07 9.00am Vigil 5.00pm

Sunday 02/07 8.30am 10:00am

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In Loving Memory Linda Guesry, Norm Coleman, Bernie Crawford, Missa Pro Ppoulo, Caterina Teso-

riero, Josephine Agius, Maria Giuseppa Mascolo, Donato Tozzi, Carmen S Aquino,

Mary Partlin, Nadim Barakat, Svenn Braamark, Tony Shiner, Maroun Shiner, Gracia & Antoine Mahfouz, Habib Hobeika, Robert & Filomena Garofano, Gerard Lohan,

Peter Repol, Nicola & Angela Repol, Anthony Pham, James Campisi, Chris Franchel-la, 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, Anna Maria Cicuto,

Audrey English, Edward Cantwell, Irene McCarthy, Carmelo Algozzino, Tony Teso-

riero, Carl John Sollazzo. Joseph Ovens, Ugo Buracchi, Romeo Vassalo, Salvatore Licari, Joe Costa, Margherita Falsone, Gino Morassut, Vicko Hrdalo, Kate Hrdalo,

Joe Poolice, Ivan and Mara Puyic, Patty Woods, Clarice Redshaw, Chris Pezzutti, Frederika Streiff, Buyung Elias, Pauline Elias, Christina Salim, Alexander Arifin,

Agnes Arifin, Bob Pettit, James Roebuck, Marc David Sollazzo, Peter Pezzutti, Maria Addolorata Tesoriero, Nicolino Poreu, Madeddu Filomena Gonario, Sam Xerri, Sidney

Falson, Valerie Zacka, Dea Mattiussi, George & Linda Darrell-Edwards, Maria Cris-

tofaro, Dominico Cristofaro, Tim Mitchell, Giovanni Battiato, Elizabeth Tesoriero, Maria Mandich, Odette Sarah, 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, Joseph

Lin Kee Choo, Graham Daniel, Mildred May Mitchell, Mark Byrne, Carl El-Khoury,

Maria Mansour, Joseph Mealing, Cono Reale, Stephen Xuereb, Bartolo Tesoriero, Peter Repole, Leonardo Battiato, Imelda Garcia, Fulvia Maria Tonitto, Myriam Barbe,

Maureen Whelan, Roy Vincent McGregor, Mildred Formosa, Joan Byrne, Hugh Sad-ler, Francesca, & Salvatore Cocilovo, Pio Gonano, Alex Xuereb

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: Liam Ajaka, Maria Tesoriero, Neville Zacka, Luke Compton, Paul Camelotti, June Roebuck, Anne Thompson, Anne

Maree Michels, Jeanette Cardoz, Chris Byrne, Dr Antonio Braga, Anne Courtney, Erifili Vorias, David Shannon, Ann McDowell, Alice Nelson, Terry Wall, Paul Kensey,

Mary Emery, Micaela & Theresa Trujillo

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“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”

― Francis of Assisi

Life Ascending 2017—will meet on:

Fri 7 July at 10:00am Thur 20 July at 7:30pm

Fri 21 July at 10:00am and 2:00pm

Further information please phone Sr Patricia

9554 3227

Safeguarding Children Policy - Building a safe culture for all

Each Parish in the Archdiocese has a Parish Safe-guarding Support Officer (PSSO). Our PSSO is Eliza-beth Gooley. Elizabeth collaborates with Fr Paul to ensure that our parish is a safe place for children and vulnerable adults. If you have a concern regard-ing safety please contact Elizabeth or Fr Paul at the Parish Office. Visiting Priests All visiting priest from the Archdiocese of Sydney or from the Dioceses of Parramatta, Wollongong or Broken Bay must show their ministry card and sign in before they undertake ministry in the parish eg funeral, wedding. All other priests including priests from overseas must contract the Chancery to get permission to minister in the Archdiocese of Sydney. They must have a Working With Children number. Safeguarding Training for volunteers registration is now open. Please indicate on the clipboard which session you will attend. 7.00pm Wednesday 28 June (Hall)

St Vincent de Paul’s Men’s Conference

St Vincent de Paul Men’s Conference are in desperate need of new members. We meet Wednesday nights at

7:30pm (earlier on State of Origin nights) in the Parish Community Centre at 2 Yarallah Place, just across the

road from the Church. Our meetings usually last about an hour. No special talents are required, only a good heart. If you can spare some time, please come along and you will be made very welcome. To attend or to get

further information please contact Paul Morris on 0438 225 120.

Reflection For God is not an escape from life, not a ten or fifteen minutes cut out of my life, nor a relationship to be forged afresh every time, but a regular, disciple reminder that life is lived in the presence of God. It’s like a marriage relationship, not a flirtation carried out in a series of clandestine meetings. Prayer is marveling at God’s love as that is shown in Christ, and receiving and responding to that transcendent reality by whom we have been grasped, and whom we sense at our very centre. Michael Mayne - from: Prayer (2011)

Gospel Reflection

We read today’s Gospel in the context of last week’s Gospel in which Jesus sent the twelve disciples to

proclaim the kingdom of heaven. In between last

week’s reading and today’s reading, Jesus has pre-

dicted that the disciples will face difficulties in their

mission. Many people will not receive them well, even

within the land of Israel. Even family members will turn away from the disciples because of the disciples’

commitment to Jesus and the kingdom. Today’s Gos-

pel offers the disciples consolation against this diffi-

cult truth.

This section of Matthew’s Gospel should be read in the context of Matthew’s intended audience, a Jew-

ish-Christian community. The Gospel alludes to the

dangers and persecutions that this community has

most likely already faced and will continue to face.

To reassure this community, Matthew recalls for

them the encouraging words of Jesus that we read today.

In this Gospel passage, Jesus might be understood

as putting suffering in perspective. The disciples of

Jesus are called upon to keep their focus on God.

Those who can harm the body do not have ultimate power; God does. Still persecution and suffering can

not be avoided or prevented. But Jesus reassures his

disciples that God knows and cares about what hap-

pens to his children.

We might not face the same type of persecution, but

we do experience difficulties as we endeavor to live a Christian life. Sometimes we let the opinions of oth-

ers prevent us from doing what we know to be right.

We need the reminder that what God thinks about

us is more important. We are reassured by the prom-

ise that God cares for us and protects us.

Australian Catholic Youth Festival

This 3-Day festival will be held in Sydney 7-9

December 2017. The event will attract 15,000 young people and is for young people aged

Year 9 to 30 years. It’s a Catholic Festival a

bit like World Youth Day! We look forward to

the whole Parish Community being in-

volved. For more information, see our website

www.acyf.org.au

Church Closing Time

Please be aware that for safety reasons, it is sometimes necessary to close the church at 3:30pm. This will

occur when there will be no one present at the presbytery until after dark.

First Reading Jer 20:10-13

A reading from the prophet Jeremiah

Jeremiah said: ‘I hear so many disparaging me,

“Terror from every side!

Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”

All those who used to be my friends

watched for my downfall,

“Perhaps he will be seduced into error. Then we will master him

and take our revenge!”

But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;

my opponents will stumble, mastered,

confounded by their failure; everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.

But you, Lord of Hosts, you who probe with justice,

who scrutinise the loins and heart,

let me see the vengeance you will take on them,

for I have committed my cause to you.

Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord,

for he has delivered the soul of the needy

from the hands of evil men.’

The Word of the Lord

Second Reading Rom 5:12-15

A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans

Sin entered the world through one man, and through

sin death, and thus death has spread through the whole human race because everyone has sinned. Sin

existed in the world long before the Law was given.

There was no law and so no one could be accused of

the sin of ‘law-breaking’, yet death reigned over all

from Adam to Moses, even though their sin, unlike that

of Adam, was not a matter of breaking a law. Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself

considerably outweighed the fall. If it is certain that

through one man’s fall so many died, it is even more

certain that divine grace, coming through the one man,

Jesus Christ, came to so many as an abundant free gift.

The Word of the Lord

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!

The Spirit of Truth will bear witness to me, says the Lord,

and you also will be my witnesses.

Alleluia!

Gospel Mt 10:26-33

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mat-thew

Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not be

afraid. For everything that is now covered will be

uncovered, and everything now hidden will be

made clear. What I say to you in the dark, tell in

the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from the house-tops.

‘Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but

cannot kill the soul; fear him rather who can de-

stroy both body and soul in hell. Can you not buy

two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the ground without your Father knowing. Why,

every hair on your head has been counted. So

there is no need to be afraid; you are worth more

than hundreds of sparrows.

‘So if anyone declares himself for me in the pres-

ence of men, I will declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in heaven. But the one who

disowns me in the presence of men, I will disown in

the presence of my Father in heaven.’

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 12th Sunday in ordinary Time

Responsorial Psalm

(R.) Lord, in your great love, answer me.

1. It is for you that I suffer taunts, that shame covers my face,

that I have become a stranger to my brothers,

an alien to my own mother's sons.

I burn with zeal for your house

and taunts against you fall on me. (R.)

2. This is my prayer to you,

my prayer for your favour.

In your great love, answer me, O God,

with your help that never fails:

Lord, answer, for your love is kind; in your compassion, turn towards me. (R.)

3. The poor when they see it will be glad

and God-seeking hearts will revive;

for the Lord listens to the needy

and does not spurn his servants in their chains. Let the heavens and the earth give him praise,

the sea and all its living creatures. (R.)