At O.L.M.C. School, the external cladding is finished and the ground floor rooms have been plastered. The top floor will be plastered this week. Last week 25 workers were on site some days.
CONGRATULATIONS
Congratulations to a new member of our Altar Servers team, Nix Hendricks.
New members always welcome.
Contact Michael McConville 9744 2674.
SUNBURY UNITING CHURCH FAMILY DANCE NIGHT
Sat 16 October 7.00pm to 10.00pm, cnr Brook & Barkly Streets, Sunbury.
Family $30 (2 adults & up to 4 children) Adults $14 Concession/Pensioner $8 Child $5 (under 18). Tickets from Sunbury Print & Copy Centre, Old Bakery Walk on Fridays and also at the door on the night.
Supper provided.
Money raised to go to Australian disaster relief.
LITURGY MEETING
Minutes
Some matters arising from the last minutes were:
- that some lectors may need to be reminded that a pause after the reading, for reflection is appropriate.
- Audio Visual preparations for the canonization viewing in the hall is underway.
General Business
It was decided that Mary MacKillop leaflets to be ordered ( 50c per copy) for distribution on the day. These are glossy double sided leaflets with her biography.
The 5.30pm Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church will be transfered to St Anne’s Church and music etc was arranged for the day. The readings chosen will be used at all Masses on the day and will be as follows:
- 1st Reading – Colossians 3 12-17
- Psalm : (sung) Like a Shepherd… AOV 160 (verses to be sung by cantor)
- Gospel: Matthew 6 25-34
Hymns as follows:
- Gathering Hymn: We are many parts…AOV 86
- Psalm : Like a Shepherd… AOV 160
- Offertory: Instrumental music
- Communion: Song of the Body of Christ….AOV 27
- Recessional: instrumental music
A team of volunteers will gather after the 10.30am Mass on the day to set-up the Parish Centre .
Saturday November 6th – gathering at the Sunbury cemetery for Prayer & Blessing for all souls at 9.30am and Bulla cemetery at 11am
Neighbourhood hosted Masses for sacramental children- Richard to organise
Advent Focus:- Jesse Tree, Our parish family tree/history over the last 100 years
Christmas masses:
- Christmas falls on a Saturday this year which means Sunday Masses will also be the next day. It was decided that the 6pm Sunday vigil mass be dropped as the Christmas masses will have been held
- Friday 24th at the Salesian Stadium at 7pm & St Anne’s at 10pm
- Saturday 25th at 8.30am & 10.30am
- Sunday 26th to continue as usual at St Anne’s at 8.30am & 10.30am & 5.30pm at OLMC
Next Meeting scheduled – Wednesday 17th November 7.30pm
ANNUAL PARISH ASSEMBLY
Our Parish Assembly will be held in the Parish Centre on Saturday 16 October from 9.30am to 2.00pm including a shared lunch. This is an occasion to plan for future initiatives in the mission of our parish to bring the Good News to all in our area.
SUBMISSIONS FROM NEIGHBOURHOODS
Neighbourhoods are asked to forward their proposals for the Annual Parish Assembly to the Parish Office by next Friday 8 October.
OUR CANONISATION CELEBRATION ON 17 OCTOBER
On the day of Mary MacKillop’s Canonisation, we will gather for a special Mass at St Anne’s Church at 5.30pm followed by a shared meal in the Parish Centre where, from 7.00pm, there will be a direct telecast on big screens of the Canonisation from Rome.
We join our local Sisters of St Joseph on this great day.
The 5.30pm Mass at O.L.M.C. is being transferred to St Anne’s Church for this great occasion.
We shall celebrate Mary MacKillop at all Masses that weekend with special readings and hymns.
CELEBRATION OF PRINCIPALSHIP
Lucy Jackanic
Last month about 140 of her colleagues in Catholic Education gathered at a function centre to congratulate Lucy Jackanic on her thirty years of principalship in our Catholic Schools. Staff of St Anne’s School organised the surprise celebration to which her mother and sister were also invited. A great night was had by all.
Father Peter Monaghan
Father Peter Monaghan of Salesian College was recently named City of Hume’s secondary teacher of the year. Fr. Peter has taught at the College for nine years during which time he introduced the VCAL program (Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning) as an alternative to VCE. Students from our two parish schools have priority entry to Salesian College which has a waiting list for next year.
THANK YOU
Thank you to a family who migrated to our parish in recent years for having donated a new vacuum cleaner for cleaning our church.
Thank you: Special Collection Apostleship of the Sea $771.00.
THANKSGIVING CONTRIBUTIONS
Statements to 29 August are now available.
To save on postage please collect yours from the table in the Gathering Space at St Anne’s Church.
Statements are in alphabetical order.
Please note statements for school families will be delivered via the schools…..Thank you.
POSITIONS VACANT
- Mission Integration Office, St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria
- Project Coordinator, The Bible Society Australia (Victoria)
- Executive Assistant to the Master, Catholic Theological College East Melbourne.
Further details at http://www.cam.org.au/jobs
POETS CORNER
Sunday 10 October 2.00 to 4.00pm St Anne’s Church.
Contact Val 9744 3372.
THE YOUTH GROUP
The Youth Group will meet next Sunday 26th September in St Anne’s Church at 6.30 to 7.30pm.
CENTACARE FAMILY SERVICES—CONCERT IN THE CATHEDRAL
Concert in the Cathedral at 2.30pm Sunday 3 October.
Tickets $35 / $25 concession.
Bookings: www.centacaremelbourne.org.au
All funds raised support Centacare’s Alcohol & Other Drug Family Service.
PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE(EUTHANASIA)
THE DEBATE
In recent weeks, there has been a fresh push for the legal right for certain people (specifically doctors) to be able to kill an individual when that is what the individual wants.
There is a fine article in ‘Eureka Street’ magazine published by Jesuit Communications by John Kleinsman, Director of the New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. The whole article is available http://www.eurekastreet.com.au entitled ‘Resisting the duty to die’.
The push for assisted suicide has arisen only in the affluent western societies where there is an opinion that the world belongs to those who are independent, strong and productive. It follows that in a society in which the sick, dying, disabled and elderly are undervalued, the ‘right’ to die will all too quickly become a ‘duty’ to die. People who feel
neglected, undervalued and invisible will understandably think they are a burden and will want to do the ‘right’ thing.
With our increasing ageing population, we need to give more support to help people accept greater dependence with age. Modern medicine can deal with pain generally and specialist care through the hospice movement is available. To protect the vulnerable members of our community, let us not legalise assisted suicide, but deal with any deep seated fear of the dying process.
As Christians we are blessed to have our faith that ‘if we die with Christ, we will rise with Christ’ (St Paul).
NEW CLASSROOMS AT O.L.M.C. SCHOOL
Next Friday, a new and larger supply of electricity will be cabled under Macedon Street to provide for the increasing needs of our school which will pay $20,000 for this work, as this cost is outside the B.E.R. Federal Grant.
Meanwhile the windows have been installed, brickwork is nearly finished and plastering will commence this week.
SING A LONG
Friday 1 October Goonawarra Nursing Home 2.30-3.15pm.
Please come along and help entertain the elderly residents. Enquiries: Irene 9744 1060.
LAST CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS FOR THE PARISH CENTENARY BALL
Sat 9 October at Calabria Club, Bulla. Five-course meal plus drinks, live band, cost $55.00 each.
Tickets on sale after each Mass this weekend OR may be purchased now by ringing Eileen Cardillo 54 285 354 or Sheila Stafford on 9740 9966.
OUR CANONISATION CELEBRATION
On 17 October, the day of the Canonisation of Mary MacKillop we, with our local Sisters of St Joseph, will celebrate a special Eucharirst in St Anne’s Church at 5.30pm, followed by a shared tea in the Parish Centre. From 7.00pm we will beam the Canonisation ceremony direct from Rome onto big screens in the Parish Centre and enjoy the event together. This will be a once in a lifetime event for us.
OUR CANONISATION CELEBRATION
On 17 October, the day of the Canonisation of Mary MacKillop we, with our local Sisters of St Joseph, will celebrate a special Eucharirst in St Anne’s Church at 5.30pm, followed by a shared tea in the Parish Centre. From 7.00pm we will beam the Canonisation ceremony direct from Rome onto big screens in the Parish Centre and enjoy the event together. This will be a once in a lifetime event for us.
ST MICHAEL’S CENTENARY EVENT
Today we gather in the Bulla neighbourhood to recall with thanksgiving the grace of God and the faith of our forebears who first celebrated the Eucharist within the present boundaries of our parish in 1852.
The earlier settlers in Bulla from Ireland gathered in two family homes—the Daniel’s and Cosgrove’s to celebrate Mass presided over by Father Patrick Dunne who came on horse from Coburg to the houses (Mrs Daniel, a widow with many children) in Oaklands Road just north of Somerton Road.
For 24 years, Catholics gathered in homes for Mass until St Michael’s Church was built in 1876. Then the priest came from Keilor—a shorter ride!
In our centenary year, we celebrate that the Bulla area was incorporated into the new parish of Sunbury a hundred years ago when the new parish of Sunbury was established in 1911.
Our pastoral plan of developing neighbourhoods within our parish is a return to the original structure of our parish when all the families in Bulla knew and supported each other.
……Fr Kevin
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury 
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