Friendly notification to Parents, Youth and Children.
Our next Choir Practice is on 1st May –Tuesday between
6.30 to 7.30PM @ St Anne’s Church.
This practice will equip us to sing at the 10.30AM Sunday Service on 6th May 2012.
Love to see as many as possible for the practice.
God Bless!
Garnet Jacob
97408328/0411286428
The Childrens Liturgy of the Word started last Sunday at 10.30am Mass and will continue during school term time. Children will be welcome to join the leaders in front of the altar after the opening prayer of the Mass. After being blessed by the priest, the group will then gather in the Meeting room for the Gospel reading, a chat and sharing of stories and an activity relating to the Gospel.
Our leaders will present the Gospel in a variety of ways, such as the use of figurines to play out the readings. Music and actions will also be part of the Children’s Liturgy in order to appreciate the Word of the Lord. Children will return to the congregation to take the Gifts up as a group then return to their families. Children may have activities to show their families, or be able to take the activity home to work on. Please discuss these with children so they can tell you what they have experienced. Today some of their work will be displayed in the foyer.
Children aged 3 and under are also welcome with parental supervision please. Any parents who are interested in helping with Children’s Liturgy, please contact Joanne on 0448 566 270.
A meeting to discuss and plan liturgy without a priest will be held on Wednesday 2nd May at 10am in the meeting room in St Anne’s Church.
Please collect the current Altar Care rosters for St Anne’s and Our Lady of Mount Carmel churches. Thank you for helping to keep our Churches looking beautiful for our worship.
Fr Dispin John will run a computer session for those interested in running the computer during Mass. The session will be on Tuesday 10 April at 7.30pm in OLMC Church.
Please collect the current rosters for St Anne’s and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Altar Care rosters from both churches. Thank you for helping to keep our Churches looking beautiful for our worship.
Volunteers are invited to be on a roster to clean with special equipment our altar of American Cherry Wood and the wooden floor.
Please contact Raeleen on 0402 071 815.
The audio/visual facilities at OLMC Church are being improved with the installation soon of a computer and data projector costing $1650 to be paid from our Thanksgiving Offering.
The audio/visual facilities at OLMC Church are being improved with the installation soon of a computer and data projector costing $1650 to be paid from our Thanksgiving Offering.
We are in need of the skills of someone who knows how to repair our beautiful but damaged Nativity scene. Our maintenance team are in the process of fixing our beautiful statues, but needs help from someone who knows how to mould fibreglass or plaster. Nurses repairing broken limbs may be able to assist. If you have the necessary skills, please contact Jo Wiegerink on 9744 5788. If these beautiful statues cannot be repaired, we will need to look at replacing them which will be quite costly.
The Parish will be conducting a Lenten Reflection ‘TOWARDS THE LIGHT’ program.
You will have a choice f one of three sessions which will be run each week.
Everyone is invited to register so that enough resources can be obtained. The cost of the 64 page booklet is $8.
Tuesdays 7.30pm to 8.15pm.
Sundays 9.40am to 10.30am
Sundays 4.45pm to 5.30pm
The Parish Liturgy Group is preparing to help us parishioners use the Lentern Season as an opportunity to re assess the direction of our lives.
Watch this space for further information and invitation.
The Parish needs people to help at the 7pm Christmas Mass at Rupertswood Stadium.
We need Ushers, Ministers of Communion, and Car-Park Attendants.
If you can assist please contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060.
A very brief and much condensed report of the recent Parish Assembly can be found on our Parish Reports page.
Just click here.
Fr Michael has come to reside and minister among us during September and October. As stated last Sunday, he is an experienced educator in the faith having been involved full time in the Catholic Education Office and later as the Director of Continuing Education of the priests of Brisbane. For the past 16 years, he has been the Australian Director of the apostolic group promoting a better world.
As announced last Sunday, Fr Michael will speak over the next five Sundays about formation on the liturgy fulfilling the Pope’s exhortation when he received the new Mass texts from Cardinal Pell that we should approach the texts “with a renewed mentality.”
Father Michael’s presence here allows me to work for 14 days at the international meeting for the Community for a better world in Rome where we will review the group’s work over the past four years and plan for the next four years. Then I shall take some of my 2010 annual leave and this year’s leave for a holiday. In November I will be part of a group of 29 Australians on a liturgical study tour led by lecturers from Yarra Theological Union, Box Hill. We will begin our study in Cologne and conclude in Milan, visiting parishes, monasteries and theological institutes specialising in liturgy.
………………..Fr Kevin
The latest letter with the gospel theme acceptance of others, is now printed and will be delivered to our homes by our “Parish Posties”. The letters are written by Jill Gibbs of the Community for a better world who has been at our last two Parish Assemblies. Presently, Jill is in palliative care in St Vincent’s Brisbane. However, she has her laptop in her room and is still producing letters for us and for a parish in NSW. She sends her love and prayers– let us keep her in our prayers. She has been a full time worker for the Church since 1966, firstly a missionary nurse in PNG and then in the renewal of world and church. She was based at the international centre in Rome for 18 years.
The Church teaches flowers should not be placed on the top of the altar (General Instruction of Missal No. 305). The reason for this is “the altar on which the Sacrifice of the Cross is made present under sacramental signs” (No 296)Flowers do not relate well to the sacrificial aspect of Eucharist. In addition, vases may stain and damage the beautiful American Cherry wood of our altar.
As we approach the Eucharistic Table of the Lord to receive the Body and the Blood of Christ, we sing if possible and one communicant from the front we make a bow of our head in humility (not a profound bow from the waist) and then look at the Host and express our faith by saying “Amen”. This is as the Australian Bishops have taught. Genuflecting is a health hazard to our fellow communicants as there is the possibility of tripping the person behind when we stick our leg out behind us to genuflect. There is no need to bow again when receiving the Cup of the Blood of Christ as Christ is already present within us at this stage.
Pope Benedict has exhorted us to develop “a renewed mentality” as we use the new texts. To prepare us internally, Father Michael Fallon will give us formation at all Masses for five Sundays from 11 September. Fr Michael was ordained a priest for the Church of Brisbane in 1968. Later he obtained a Masters in Religious Education at Catholic University of America. Then he was involved in assisting teachers in RE at the Catholic Education Office Brisbane. Later, he was the Director of Continuing Education for the Clergy in Brisbane. Then he was a Parish Priest. He came here in 2005 for our parish renewal week. Fr Michael will be residing and ministering in our Parish for a couple of months.
At the Liturgy Planning meeting last week, we decided on the music for the new texts and we will begin this after the school holidays. From the first Sunday of Advent, the new texts are to be used in the English speaking world. We need several teams to operate the computer for the screens showing the new texts. Please contact the Parish Office so a roster can be drawn up.
Please contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060 if you are able to assist with setting up the Saturday 6.00PM Mass on a rostered basis.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury 
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