Saint Catherine of Siena Catholic Church (Established: 18th January 2006) “Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world ablaze!” - St. Catherine of Siena

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3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C) – 16 December 2018

“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say,

Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The

Lord is near.” (Phil 4:4-5)

RESPONSORIAL PSALM:

Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:

Alleluia, alleluia!

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he sent me to bring Good News to the poor.

Alleluia!

Today’s Scripture Readings Zep 3:14-18; Ps 12; Phil 4:4-7; Lk 3:10-18

Next Sunday (Advent 4-C)

Mi 5:1-4; Ps 79; Heb 10:5-10; Lk 1:39-45

PRAYER REQUESTS

For the sick

Paul Kiuimdjian, Dylan Smith, Crisanta Rosaldo, Rodolfo Catibog,

Jaime & Jerry Montenegro, Emily Woodford, Luka Ivan Jukic, Mary

Rapinett, Ann Broughan, Christine Gauci, Alida Beric, Melani

Landicho, Eric Pascual, Rebecca Gucela, Tess Villaflor, Archie Cruz,

Lester Claudio, Beatrice and Jan Peeters, Angelo Galea, Angelo

Giacobbe, Cely Aldana, Jibrine Jok, Jacqueline Espina

For the dead (Submit to the Parish Office not later than 12 noon every Thursday)

6.00pm: (RIP) Isadora Bongcaron, Joseph Camilleri, John Baldaccino |

9.00am: (RIP) William Caruana| 10.30am: (RIP) Shyrll Gomez, Veronica

Ross, Roberto Bascuna Sr

CHURCH COLLECTIONS Stewardship: $2,617.00 Presbytery: $817.35

REFUGEE SUPPORT: $146.00 was donated last week

Melbourne Overseas Mission: $945.90

CAROLINE SPRINGS PARISH PARISH PRIEST: Rev. Fr Richard Rosse DEACON & PASTORAL ASSOCIATE: Rev. Chris Creo PARISH COORDINATOR: Mr Robert Durai

POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 3014, Caroline Springs, Vic. 3023, Australia

CHURCH, PRESBYTERY, and OFFICE 28 College St., Caroline Springs Phone 83619822 Fax 83619844 Emails carolinesprings@cam.org.au csparish@bigpond.com Website: www.stcatherinecarolinesprings.org.au OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 9.30am–5.00pm

SUNDAY MASS TIMES Saturday 6.00pm (Vigil Mass); Sunday 9.00am and 10.30am

WEEKDAY MASS TIMES, SERVICES & ACTIVITIES Monday: Liturgy of The Hour-Morning Prayer (No Mass) 9.30am Tuesday: 7.00pm Wednesday - Saturday: 9.30am Friday: 8.00am (During School Times)

CONFESSIONS: Saturday 8.45 - 9.15am & 5 - 5.30pm Tuesday 6.00 - 6.30pm

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Tuesday: 6.00pm - 7.00pm

ROSARY: Wednesday - Saturday 9.00am

HEARTS ON FIRE PRAYER MEETING Friday: 7.30 - 9.00pm

HOLY HOUR FOR MOTHERS Last Wednesday of the Month: 7.30 - 8.30pm

LECTIO DIVINA Fortnightly (Monday): 10.00 – 11.00am

LEGION OF MARY Mondays: 7.30 – 9.00pm

YOUNG MEN OF GOD Every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the Month: 7.30 - 9.00pm

PARISH YOUTH GROUP Every 2nd & 4th Sunday of the Month: 6.00 - 7.30pm (CRC Hall)

BAPTISMS Contact the presbytery as soon as possible and allow at least six weeks for preparation etc.

WEDDINGS A minimum of 4 months’ notice is needed for weddings in the parish (couples must attend a marriage preparation course).

SCHOOLS IN OUR PARISH

CHRIST THE PRIEST PRIMARY SCHOOL (Prep-Yr. 6): 54 Caroline Springs Blvd. | Phone: 93618600 (ACTING PRINCIPAL: Mrs Kerin Thorneloe)

ST GEORGE PRECA PRIMARY SCHOOL (Prep-Yr. 6) 22-48 Lancefield Drive | Phone: 8390 7352 | 7378 5500 (PRINCIPAL: Mr Jim Sheedy)

CATHOLIC REGIONAL COLLEGE CAROLINE SPRINGS (Year 7-10) 10 College Street | Phone: 9217 8000

(PRINCIPAL: Mr Jamie Madigan)

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD Sundays during the 10.30am Mass

ADAPTING LITURGY FOR A PARTICULAR

CULTURE

The competent territorial

ecclesiastical authority… must, in

this matter, carefully and prudently consider which

elements from the traditions and

culture of individual peoples might

appropriately be admitted into divine

worship.

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH Mon 17/12 10.15-11.15am Cash Handling Task Group

Meeting (Presbytery)

7.30-9pm Legion of Mary Meeting

Tues 18/12 12nn-1pm SGP – End of Year Mass

7-8pm RCIA Rite of Acceptance

& Fellowship

7.30-9pm 10.30am Choir Practice

Wed 19/12 7.30-9pm 1st Rite of Reconciliation

Thu 20/12 7-8pm Guidelines Review Task

Group (GRTG) meeting

7.30-9pm CAROLS –

All Choir Rehearsal

Fri 21/12 7.30-9pm Advent Reflection

Sat 22/12 11am-1pm Xmas Pageant Practice

4.45-5.45pm 6pm Choir Practice

PIETY STALL Only 1 week until Christmas. Christmas Cards ($2.50 a pack),

Nativity Sets, Small Gifts are all available. Full Christmas

Catalogue to order from.

COLUMBAN CALENDAR 2019

Not just a calendar – it’s a liturgical diary

and a collection of art too! $10

HEARTS ON FIRE PRAYER MEETING

The ‘Hearts on Fire’ Charismatic Prayer Group has completed

the 2018 season for this year, and will resume again on

Friday 1 February 2019 at 7.30pm.

2018 ADVENT-CHRISTMAS TIMETABLE

Friday, DECEMBER 21 (7.30pm)

ADVENT REFLECTION

Reflecting on the Gospel and the upcoming Plenary

Council 2020

Wednesday, DECEMBER 19 (7.30pm)

First Rite of Reconciliation

Saturday, DECEMBER 22 (After Mass)

Parish Christmas Raffle Draw

(Please bring a plate to share)

Christmas

Christmas Eve (24 Dec)

Christmas Pageant (7pm)

Vigil Mass (7.30pm)

Carols (11pm)

Midnight Mass (12.00am)

Christmas Day (25 Dec)

Usual Sunday Masses

(No Church services in the evening)

New Year

New Year’s Eve (31 Dec) – TBA

New Year (1 Jan) Mass – 9.30am

ST VINCENT DE PAUL GIVING TREE We would like to remind everyone to bring your gifts for

the Giving Tree by Monday so St Vincent de Paul could

prepare them for distribution to families by Christmas.

The Teachings of the Church

CONSTITUTION ON THE SACRED LITURGY (SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM)

CHAPTER 1

III. The Reform of the Sacred Liturgy

D) Norms for adapting the Liturgy to the culture

and traditions of peoples

40. In some places and

circumstances, however, an

even more radical adaptation

of the liturgy is needed, and

this entails greater difficulties.

Wherefore:

1) The competent territorial

ecclesiastical authority

mentioned in Art. 22, 2, must, in

this matter, carefully and

prudently consider which

elements from the traditions and

culture of individual peoples

might appropriately be admitted

into divine worship. Adaptations

which are judged to be useful or

necessary should then be

submitted to the Apostolic See,

by whose consent they may be

introduced.

2) To ensure that adaptations

may be made with all the circumspection which they demand, the

Apostolic See will grant power to this same territorial ecclesiastical

authority to permit and to direct, as the case requires, the necessary

preliminary experiments over a determined period of time among

certain groups suited for the purpose.

3) Because liturgical laws often involve special difficulties with respect

to adaptation, particularly in mission lands, men who are experts in these

matters must be employed to formulate them.

E) Promotion of Liturgical Life in Diocese and Parish

41. The bishop is to be considered as the high priest of his flock, from

whom the life in Christ of his faithful is in some way derived and

dependent.

Therefore all should hold in great esteem the liturgical life of the

diocese centered around the bishop, especially in his cathedral church;

they must be convinced that the pre-eminent manifestation of the

Church consists in the full active participation of all God's holy people in

these liturgical celebrations, especially in the same eucharist, in a single

prayer, at one altar, at which there presides the bishop surrounded by

his college of priests and by his ministers.

42. But because it is impossible for the bishop always and everywhere to

preside over the whole flock in his Church, he cannot do other than

establish lesser groupings of the faithful. Among these the parishes, set

up locally under a pastor who takes the place of the bishop, are the most

important: for in some manner they represent the visible Church

constituted throughout the world.

And therefore the liturgical life of the parish and its relationship to the

bishop must be fostered theoretically and practically among the faithful

and clergy; efforts also must be made to encourage a sense of community

within the parish, above all in the common celebration of the Sunday Mass.

Follow this link to read the full document:

https://tinyurl.com/vat2-

UPDATING PRAYER FOR THE SICK LIST WE are updating the Prayer Request List in our Bulletin for sick

parishioners. Please notify the Parish either via email or our

website Feedback tool if you want us to retain their names in

the Bulletin for next year. Thank you for your understanding.

CARITAS GLOBAL GIFTS Protect the Miracle of Motherhood this Christmas

Send a Christmas message to those you love, and help save

the lives of mothers and babies in vulnerable communities.

Share a message of compassion this Christmas.

When you choose a

Global Gift card to give to

family or friends this

Christmas, you are

supporting women give

birth safely with access to

expert care before and

after babies are born.

Order Global Gift cards online at

www.globalgifts.org.au or

call us on 1800 024 413.

JOIN THE PARISH PRAYER NETWORK

BE a Parish Prayer Partner.

We invite all parishioners to

join the Parish Prayer

Network.

Registered parishioners

can create prayer requests and show others that they are

praying for them. To join, go to our website and register.

When registering please put the Country Code (+61) for your

phone number. Once registered, you can access the

parishioner secure area for the prayer network activities.

The Parish Prayer Network is different from the Prayer

Request for the Sick that we put in the Bulletin.

POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION

FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER:

EVANGELISATION In the Service of the Transmission of Faith

That people who are involved in the service and

transmission of faith may find, in their dialogue with culture,

a language suited to the conditions of the present time.

PONDER

POPE Francis in Evangelii Gaudium (2013) noted that in the

presence of God, during a recollected reading of the text, it

is good to practise Lectio Divina—the reading of God’s word

in prayer, asking that it ‘enlighten and renew’ us. The

following questions may help with this:

Lord, what does this text mean to me?

What is it about my life that you want me to change in

response to this text?

What troubles me about this text?

Why am I not interested in this?

What do I find pleasant about this text?

What is it about this word that moves me?

What attracts me?

Why does it attract me?

REFLECT

KARL Rahner observed:

‘Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God.

Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and

waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. Every

year we roll up all our needs and yearnings and faithful

expectation into one word: “Come!” And yet, what a strange

prayer this is! After all, you have already come and pitched your

tent among us. You have already shared our life with its little joys,

its long days of tedious routine, its bitter end. Could we invite you

to anything more than this with our “Come”? Could you approach

any nearer to us than you did when you became the “Son of

Man”? In spite of all this we still pray: “Come.”’ —Karl Rahner,

Encounters with Silence, St Augustine’s Press, 1999.

Perhaps the invitation for the third week of Advent is to

reflect on what is part of our ‘O Come’. For what do our hearts

long? O ...

PARISH OFFICE CLOSURE

PLEASE note that the Parish Office closure will be closed

over the Christmas and New Year period commencing

commenced end-of-business of the 24 December. Office will

re-open on Monday, 7 January in a limited capacity as

Deacon Chris and Robert will be taking their annual leaves.

Normal office operation will resume on 28 January. Thank

you for your understanding and cooperation.

NEW MINISTRY ROSTERS EMAILED! WE sent to all volunteers the NEW ROSTERS via email. If you did

not receive the email, kindly go to our website and sign-up to

the VOLUNTEER MAILING LIST. We also printed hardcopies for

those who do not have access to emails, those who requested to

have a hardcopy and several extra copy available in the foyer.

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE TICKETS will be sold from this weekend onwards. $2.00 each

or 3 for $5.00. Raffle will be drawn on Saturday, 22

December, after the 6.00 Pm mass.

Please bring a plate to share.

1st Prize $250.00 Coles Myer Voucher

2nd Prize Christmas Hamper

3rd Prize BBQ

CHRISTMAS PAGEANT & VIGIL MASS 2018 CALLING all young parishioners from Prep to Grade 8 to

participate in this year’s Vigil Mass (choir and Christmas

pageant) on 24 December from 7.00pm. All those interested

in participating or helping out, please see Robert after Mass.

GUESS WHAT THE YOUTH GROUP

IS DOING THIS SUMMER?

Youth Camp! When: 18 -20 January 2019

Where: Iluka Retreat and Camps, Red Hill

Join the C.R.E.W so together we can be Catholics Ready

Equipped and Willing. Get in contact with us

(stcatherineyg@gmail.com) for more information.

Registrations close 10th December 2018

YOUTH GROUP FINAL GATHERING

Our final session is a Christmas PJ Party! We will have

pizza, games and a movie! Please come along to

celebrate the year

with us!

A gold coin

donation would be

greatly appreciated

to help us cover the

cost of food for the evening. Youth group will run longer

to accommodate the movie!”

CALLING FOR VOLUNTEERS

WEBSITE EDITORIAL TASK GROUP DO you surf the internet? Have you visited our Parish

website? We are looking for volunteers to review and

suggest ideas for the Parish website.

No technical skills required although it would be good.

Just a keen interest and enthusiasm to make our web page

one of the best!!! Please contact the Parish Office to register

your interest.

RITE OF ACCEPTANCE WE also ask all Parishioners to prayer for Daniel Cook, Dennis &

Poom Lee, Renee Pisano, Clarissa Sanderson, Alexa & Erica

Xerri who will be concluding the first stage of the RCIA process

with the Rite of Acceptance and Welcoming of Confirmation

Candidates next Tuesday, 18 December.

Daniel, Dennis, Poom, Renee and Clarissa will be

accepted into the Order of Catechumens while Alexa, and

Erica will continue their preparation for the Sacrament of

Confirmation.

LIFE IN CHRIST FORMATION SERIES PLEASE note that Life in Christ Formation Series will take a

break this December and January and will resume on the

first Saturday of February 2019.

THIS WEEK’S ROSTER Nn

*6.00pm Vigil Mass*

[READERS] M Sequeira, R DeBrincat, N Rabara

[EMHC] M DeBrincat, P Gurrie

[GREETERS] V Borg, C Buttigieg

[COLLECTORS] J Anthony, A Edward, L Ferris, M DeBrincat,

C & S Elisha, R & V Bongcaron

*9.00am Mass*

[READERS] C Hinds, J Marshall, E Ong-Sim

[EMHC] R Moss, M Baric

[GREETERS] M Keecherer, A Debono

[COLLECTORS] L Micallef, A Morley, A Debono, J Carlos,

V Quintal, A Spiteri, J Buttigieg

*10.30am*

[READERS] A Romerosa, G Farrugia, R Giarratana

[EMHC] Mk Cruz, E Fernando, C Temporal

[GREETERS] L Cefai, E Dominado

[COLLECTORS] J Azzopardi, F Bartolo, M Carlos, E Dominado,

L Forneas, F Giarratana, C & V Ferrer

[CHILDREN’S LIT.] J Roman, D Joblin, T Matana, R Elisha

[COUNTERS] K Lacerna, C Temporal, M Bartolo

ALTAR LINEN A Curmi

NEXT WEEK’S ROSTER (Advent 4-C) *6.00pm Vigil Mass*

[READERS] F Pereira, D Quintal, D Shelton

[EMHC] C & C D’Rosario

[GREETERS] T Carnovale, A Edward

[COLLECTORS] P Gurrie, M Mazzullo, J Xavier, S Joyce

A & G Mosca, D & L Naig,

*9.00am Mass*

[READERS] R Elisha, M Shawcross, T Sambrooks

[EMHC] M Hautea, C Hinds

[GREETERS] C & M Reid

[COLLECTORS] S Abela, B Dau, E Hautea, M Baric, H Foehn,

R Moss

*10.30am*

[READERS] T White, T & N Zamora,

[EMHC] A Abela, F Bartolo, B Caballes

[GREETERS] A Forneas, S Gatt

[COLLECTORS] J Madigan, E Fernando, MR Peeters, C Quioc,

R Raymond, J Rojas, R Scerri, S Venansius

[CHILDREN’S LIT.] JN Guico, V Gervacio, T Darlow, P Soto

[COUNTERS] T & J White, J & Edna Dominado, M Bartolo

ALTAR LINEN F Florendo

* CHURCH CLEANING *

Sat 22 DEC A & M Vella, M Allison, A Adams, A Aywel, R Cefai,

A Curmi, A Debono