WE PRAY FOR The elderly and the sick Marius Fernando; Dantina Frederico; Stella Mammone; Gino Salvo; Rosa Di Pietro; Lucia Bordin; Ursula McWhinney; Justin Diviny; Stephanie Jouhari; Anna & Garry Henneken; Nicholas Gillman; Jillian Eolzella; Peter Moore; Alan Easton ANNIVERSARIES In Faith, Hope and Love, let us pray for repose of the souls of James Marchant; Mary Coghlan; Ben & Felisa Nolasco; Carmen Miranda; Elizabeth Ryan; Maurice , John & Frank Sheehan; Henry Urgel ; Alice Feeney RECENTLY DECEASED We remember in prayer, Minda Soriano; Valda Huf; Fr. Charlie M c Bride; Mons. Tony Toms May they rest in peace. SUNDAY ONLINE MASS will be available via our Parish Webpage www.stmonicasparish.com.au Every Sunday by 10.30am SUNDAY LITURGY @ Home; Please click on each link below to find guided reflection for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time For Adults: For Families with Young Children: We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, as the traditional caretakers of the land which is the St. Monica’s Catholic Parish. We acknowledge the Elders, past & present. May we, too, be good stewards of this land. ST. MONICA’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Moonee Ponds Presbytery: 22 Robinson St., Moonee Ponds 3039 | Telephone: (03) 9370 5035 Email: mooneeponds@cam.org.au | Website: www.stmonicasparish.com.au Parish Priest: Rev. Fr. Tony Feeney Assistant Priest: Rev. Fr. Andrew Choi Parish Office: Sonya Bading (closed until COVID-19 Restrictions lift) Pastoral Assistant: Abygaile Cukavac School Principal: Mr. Peter Moore — School Phone No: (03) 9375 1132 Green 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 11th October 2020 Friendship and solidarity key themes in Pope Francis’ letter A world that looks beyond a global pandemic with a new roadmap one can find in Pope Francis’ new encyclical, entitled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers and Sisters All) “It is a vision of the dignity of every human being from which flows the call to build a new culture of fraternity and dialogue,” said Archbishop Coleridge. “In his previous encyclical Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You), Pope Francis spoke of care for our common home. Here he speaks of care for each other, the family that dwells together in the common home.” Pope Francis writes early in the encyclical: “It is my desire that, in this our time, by acknowledging the dignity of each human person, we can contribute to the rebirth of a universal aspiration to fraternity. “Let us dream, then, as a single human family, as fellow travellers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.” (Continued on next page ) St. Monica’s is a Child Safe Parish. We hold the care, safety and well-being of children, young people and vulnerable adults as a central and fundamental responsibility of our community. A big ‘Thank you’ to those of you who registered your opposition to the present governments ‘Migrant Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020, which was intended to see the banning of mobile phones from people being held in Immigration Detention Faculties. ’ It is unlikely that the Bill will now be debated before November 9. Let us continue to express our opposition to the Bill.
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WE PRAY FOR The elderly and the sick
Marius Fernando; Dantina Frederico; Stella Mammone; Gino Salvo; Rosa Di Pietro; Lucia Bordin; Ursula McWhinney; Justin Diviny; Stephanie Jouhari; Anna & Garry Henneken; Nicholas Gillman; Jillian Eolzella; Peter Moore; Alan Easton
ANNIVERSARIES In Faith, Hope and Love, let us pray for repose of the souls of
James Marchant; Mary Coghlan; Ben & Felisa Nolasco; Carmen Miranda; Elizabeth Ryan; Maurice , John & Frank Sheehan; Henry Urgel ; Alice Feeney
RECENTLY DECEASED We remember in prayer,
Minda Soriano; Valda Huf; Fr. Charlie Mc Bride; Mons. Tony Toms
May they rest in peace.
SUNDAY ONLINE MASS will be available via our Parish Webpage
www.stmonicasparish.com.au Every Sunday by 10.30am
SUNDAY LITURGY @ Home; Please click on each link below to find
guided reflection for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time For Adults: For Families with Young Children:
We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation, as the traditional caretakers of the land which is the St. Monica’s Catholic Parish. We acknowledge the Elders, past & present. May we, too, be good stewards of this land.
Parish Priest: Rev. Fr. Tony Feeney Assistant Priest: Rev. Fr. Andrew Choi Parish Office: Sonya Bading (closed until COVID-19 Restrictions lift) Pastoral Assistant: Abygaile Cukavac School Principal: Mr. Peter Moore — School Phone No: (03) 9375 1132
Green 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 11th October 2020
Friendship and solidarity key themes in Pope Francis’ letter A world that looks beyond a global pandemic with a new roadmap one can find in Pope Francis’ new encyclical, entitled Fratelli Tutti (Brothers and Sisters All) “It is a vision of the dignity of every human being from which flows the call to build a new culture of fraternity and dialogue,” said Archbishop Coleridge. “In his previous encyclical Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You), Pope Francis spoke of care for our common home. Here he speaks of care for each other, the family that dwells together in the common home.” Pope Francis writes early in the encyclical: “It is my desire that, in this our time, by acknowledging the dignity of each human person, we can contribute to the rebirth of a universal aspiration to fraternity. “Let us dream, then, as a single human family, as fellow travellers sharing the same flesh, as children of the same earth which is our common home, each of us bringing the richness of his or her beliefs and convictions, each of us with his or her own voice, brothers and sisters all.” (Continued on next page )
St. Monica’s is a Child Safe Parish. We hold the care, safety and well-being of children, young people and vulnerable adults as a central and fundamental responsibility of our community.
A big ‘Thank you’ to those of you who registered your opposition to the present governments ‘Migrant Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020, which was intended to see the banning of mobile phones from people being held in Immigration Detention Faculties.’ It is unlikely that the Bill will now be debated before November 9. Let us continue to express our opposition to the Bill.
PARISH OFFICE NOTICE :due to coronavirus, and for the health and well-being of our Parish Staff (not including the priests), the Office is now officially closed. Sonya will continue to work remotely and will respond to emails.
During this time, when visits to our Church are suspended, we are striving to ensure that our parishioners remain connected through new and creative pastoral programs. While we continue to help those in our community, the Parish continues to incur ongoing overhead costs and we need your help.
The good news is that Catholic Development Fund (CDF) and the Archdiocese of Melbourne have partnered to build an online parish payment portal, CDFpay for Parishes . This site enables you to make quick and easy online thanksgiving payments – you can set-up a recurring payment, if you haven’t done so already, or you can choose a one-off offering. The Moonee Ponds site is live and found via this link https://www.catholicdevelopmentfund.org.au/CDFpay (Click on Find my Parish down the bottom and enter Moonee Ponds in search box)
(Continued from page 1)….The Pope started work on the encyclical before COVID-19 struck. But he says that the need for local, national and international solidarity has become even more important now. The pandemic has created in many people a sense of the interdependence of communities and the fragility of human beings left to themselves. “Once this health crisis passes, our worst response would be to plunge even more deeply into feverish consumerism and new forms of egotistic self-preservation,” Pope Francis writes. “God willing, after all this, we will think no longer in terms of ‘them’ and ‘those’, but only ‘us’.” Archbishop Coleridge said the current divisions and conflicts all around are a road to nowhere. “The Holy Father speaks of ideologies that seek to divide rather than unite, policies that value certain people over others and economic systems that prioritise profit over people and the planet,” he explained. Archbishop Coleridge noted that many of those whom Pope Francis describes as often undervalued or treated inequitably – women, older people, unborn children, people who are trafficked, Indigenous peoples, people with disability, migrants and refugees – are similarly those left on the margin or cast aside in Australia. “In this country we may be tempted to think that the Pope is talking about elsewhere, but he’s not. True, he’s talking about the whole world – but he’s also talking about us,” the archbishop said. “Pope Francis offers a grand yet simple vision of human interconnectedness. We’re all connected to each other in ways we scarcely imagine. Our task now is to work out what this means in practice as we look beyond the pandemic. “In what he offers in this letter, the Pope can help with that. It’s impassioned yet tender, visionary yet practical, radical yet reasonable.” Click here to read Fratelli Tutti
Each Zoom meeting room will open 10 minutes before it commences. If you have any enquiry or problem to access Zoom, please email us: [email protected] We are looking forward to seeing you. PARISH PASTORAL TEAM
VIRTUAL CHILDREN’S LITURGY –hosted by the Children’s Liturgy Team
Monthly - 18 October (Sunday) at 11.30 am Registration through Eventbrite essential
(closes Friday, 16th Oct) Click here
THANK YOU A huge Virtual thank you to Mr. Joachim and Lindsay Min Fa for participating in our Virtual Choir
on Wednesday evening. To get involved please contact us on [email protected]
Safeguarding Committee Update The Parish Safeguarding Committee continue to work through and review the compliance obligations that all Parishes are now required to adhere to. All policies, procedures and practices that influence the life of the Parish are been looked at using the Self-Assessment Tool, which contained 10 National Standards that all Parishes are required to work towards. This must be forwarded to the Professional Standards Unit, within the Archdiocese of Melbourne by 30 November 2020.
Dates to Remember : October Week of 12th School students resume on site
13th Parish Pastoral Council Meeting
18th Mission Sunday
23rd (Friday) Grand Final Public Holiday
November 1st All Saints
2nd All Souls Day
3rd Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday
Celebrating World Mission Month
October is recognised in the Catholic Church as World Mission Month, a time when Catholics all over the world join to support and celebrate global missionary work. Catholic Mission, as the Australian arm of the Pontifical Mission Societies, plays a vital role. ‘What Catholic Mission and the international network of Pontifical Mission Societies can do, is to help some of the most vulnerable people in the world’, says Catholic Mission Victorian Director, Kevin Meese. ‘This year we focus on the essential work of priests, religious and lay missionaries in Cambodia, supporting people with disability and their families.’ Next Sunday 18th October is Catholic Mission Sunday and the launch of the Catholic Mission COVID-19 Appeal: Click here to find out more.
FAMILY LIFE CAN BUILD VALUES integral to a strong vocation – whether to priesthood, religious life or marriage. Teaching your children to value commitment, service and prayer will help them make strong vocation decisions as adults and live out those vocations with success and fulfilment.
Missionary parishes transform lives and yield a growing army of disciples for whom worship and sacraments come to life and whose ministry and service flourishes. You are invited to a series of interactive sessions with global leaders in missionary parish renewal. From the comfort of your home, be inspired by a hope-filled vision for your parish and discuss practical ideas with fellow leaders. Please make a booking for each session you wish to attend THE FINAL TWO SESSIONS Thursday 15 October 2020 “Growing missionary disciples in your parish” by: Sherry Weddell, Thursday 29 October 2020 “Making missionary disciples in our parish” by: Fr. Mauro Conte and Vanessa Comninos VENUE Via Zoom -link will be forwarded on registration COST Nil PROGRAM 7.15pm - Zoom room opens 7.30pm - Session starts 9.30pm - Session concludes REGISTER HERE https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing?eid=634789
You have prepared a banquet for me in the sight of my enemies. My head you have anointed with oil; my cup is overflowing.
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON To you I call; for you will surely heed me, O God; turn your ear to me; hear my words. Guard me as the apple of your eye; in the shadow of your wings protect me. FIRST READING (Is 45:1.4-6) A reading from the prophet Isaiah Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he has taken by his right hand to subdue nations before him and strip the loins of kings, to force gateways before him that their gates be closed no more:
It is for the sake of my servant Jacob, of Israel my chosen one, that I have called you by your name, conferring a title though you do not know me. I am the Lord, unrivalled; there is no other God besides me. Though you do not know me, I arm you that men may know from the rising to the setting of
the sun that, apart from me, all is nothing.
The word of the Lord. — Thanks be to God. RESPONSORIAL PSALM
(R.) Give the Lord glory and honour.
O sing a new song to the Lord, sing to the Lord all the earth. Tell among the nations his glory and his wonders among all the peoples. (R.) The Lord is great and worthy of praise, to be feared above all gods; the gods of the heathens are naught. It was the Lord who made the heavens. (R.) Give the Lord, you families of peoples, give the Lord glory and power, give the Lord the glory of his name. Bring an offering and enter his courts. (R.) Worship the Lord in his temple. O earth, tremble before him. Proclaim to the nations: ‘God is king.’ He will judge the peoples in fairness. (R.)
SECOND READING (1 Thes 1:1-5)
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Thessalonians
From Paul, Silvanus and Timothy, to the Church in Thessalonika which is in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ; wishing you grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
We always mention you in our prayers and thank God for you all, and constantly remember before God our Father
how you have shown your faith in action, worked for love and persevered through hope, in our Lord Jesus Christ.
We know, brothers, that God loves you and that you have been chosen, because when we brought the Good News to you, it came to you not only as words, but as power and as the Holy Spirit and as utter conviction.
The word of the Lord. — Thanks be to God.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia, alleluia! Shine on the world like bright stars; you are offering it the word of life. Alleluia! GOSPEL (Mt 22:15-21) A reading from the holy Gospel according to Matthew The Pharisees went away to work out between them how to trap Jesus in what he said. And they sent their disciples to him, together with the Herodians, to say, ‘Master, we know that you are an honest man and teach the way of God in an honest way, and that you are not afraid of anyone, because a man’s rank means nothing to you. Tell us your opinion, then. Is it permissible to pay taxes to Caesar or not?’ But Jesus was aware of their malice and replied, ‘You hypocrites! Why do you set this trap for me? Let me see the money you pay the tax with.’ They handed him a denarius, and he said, ‘Whose head is this? Whose name?’ ‘Caesar’s’ they replied. He then said to them, ‘Very well, give back to Caesar what belongs to Caesar – and to God what belongs to God.’ The Gospel of the Lord. — Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ. COMMUNION ANTIPHON Behold, the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, who hope in his merciful love, to rescue their souls from death, to keep them alive in famine.
Next week’s readings 29TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 18TH OCTOBER
This week we have the readings for next Sunday the 18th October for our Parishioners to make some time during the week to read and reflect on.
Did you know ? Points of interest and Catholic lore
The Herodians, mentioned in Matthew's Gospel,
appear only 3 times in the New Testament (Mark Chp 3 v 6, Mark Chp. 12v13 and Matt. Chp.22v16). As a group they have nothing to do with the Pharisees or the Sadducees, as they were supporters of the Roman rule imposed upon the people of Israel. In today’s Gospel story, the Herodians are trying to get Jesus to agree that the Jews do have to pay the Roman tax to Caesar, whilst the Pharisees present, having nothing to do with the Herodians, are trying to entrap Jesus into saying Jews do not have the tax imposed by Caesar (the Romans). Either way, it would seem, Jesus is being set up to lose, what answer he gave to his interrogators. One can only sit back and admire Jesus' agility as he avoids the trap that is being laid for him!
