Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury
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Please make a note of the following dates for those interested in attending Mass with Anointing at our Aged Care Facilities.
Tuesday 7 August 3pm Goonawarra Aged Care
Wednesday 8 August 11am Lions Hostel
Friday 17 August 1am Riddell Gardens
Everyone welcome.
Practice will take place every week during school term from 6.30pm at St Anne’s Church.
We have trained professionals giving free music lessons.
All welcome.
Trivia night and Auction in support of Sunbury Chaplaincy.
It will be held on Saturday 4 August at 7pm in Sunbury Downs College, Mitchells Lane, Sunbury.
BYO basket supper and drinks.
Cost $15 per person.
Call Helen on 0407 506 507 for bookings and further info.
“Human beings have a huge capacity to hurt others but also to heal.”
This Mass will be held on Wednesday 1 August at 10am.
Please come along and share in a cuppa afterwards.
Please contact the Parish Office if you need to arrange transport.
“Peace happens when we treasure everyone…and work together to find solutions in which everyone wins.”
The Lay Ecumenical Committee is in need of a volunteer from our parish. The role of the LEC is to run Sunbury community based gatherings, such as the aforementioned Christmas on the Green, the combined Easter service on the Green, Animal Blessing services, etc. The committee meet throughout the year on roughly a monthly basis. If you are community minded and would like to represent our parish on the LEC, please contact Alan Slocombe on 9744 3122.
As mentioned in last weeks newsletter, the combined Churches of Sunbury will be hosting Christmas on the Green on Saturday 8 December. For this event to be successful, we need to have 2 volunteers represent our parish. Only one Saturday per month is asked of the volunteers. If you would like to help make the event a success, please contact Alan Slocombe on 9744 3122.
Former parishioners, past students and friends are invited to the launch of the commemorative book ‘With Confidence and Love’ to be held during the Opening Night of the Photographic and Memorabilia Display on FRIDAY 27th JULY 2012 (7.30pm – 9pm) in St Therese’s Performing Arts Centre, Florence Street, Essendon.
Entry: $10 (includes champagne, wine, cheese etc)
Book: $25
Entry plus Book: Special price $30.
To assist with catering please make your booking by contacting the parish office (9379 2039) or by emailing your name and contact details to saintthereseshistory@gmail.com
In the past our community has given generously to Catholiccare. Our community has access to the services provided by this wonderful organisation through the outreach program.
It is run through the Sunbury Community Health Service and the hours of operation are: Mon, Tues, Thurs 9-5; Wed 11.30am-7pm.
Services provided range from individual, couple and family counselling, stress management, grief and loss, pain management and parenting.
Please contact 9744 4455 to arrange an appointment if you need to use this service.
Former parishioners and friends are invited to the launch of a commemorative book on the 27 July. On the weekend of 28-29 July , a photographic Exhibition will be held.
A Dinner Dance will also form part of the 90 year celebrations on Saturday 11 August from 7-11pm at St Therese’s Performing Arts Centre, Florence St, Essendon.
Costs $100 per person which includes pre dinner drinks and savouries, 3 course meal, beer, wine and soft drink.
Enquiries and bookings call John Hardwick on 9379 1869 or Jo Wallmeyer on 9337 7509.
Farewell and thanks to Pru Murphy who has resigned as the Bursar and Secretary at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School for the past 12 years.
May you enjoy this new phase of your life.
Orders are currently being taken for people who would like to order New Missals. Please leave your details for Dolly Causer at the Piety Stall so orders can be placed.
Last Friday in St Peter’s Square, Rome, the Choir of Westminster Abbey sang while Archbishop Tim Costelloe of Perth, our former regional bishop, celebrated Mass with Pope Benedict and other new Archbishops.
Former parishioners and friends are invited to the launch of a commemorative book on the 27 July. On the weekend of 28-29 July , a photographic Exhibition will be held.
CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP FROM SUNDAYS READINGS
In today’s readings, we contemplate death. This is a subject most of us would rather not think about.
Yet, the readings for today remind us that even though it can seem scary with all of its unknowns and its permanence, death is a wonderful and beautiful event in the life of a Christian. It is the point of departure for our complete glorification, for that which we were made, perfect unity with God. And so we see that, while the nature of death is not of God, “God did not make death, nor does He rejoice in the destruction of the living. For He fashioned all things that they might have being …” (first reading); God transformed it. Through His own death and resurrection, He opened the doors to eternal glory, and He invites us to unite ourselves with Him.
Today’s readings teach us that God, in His infinite goodness, can (and does) take something bad and turn it into something amazingly wonderful. Such is the case not only with death, but with so many things we experience in our lives. How much more, then, can God make us – made in His image and likeness – into the creatures He intended us to be? We live in a world wrought with sin, but God’s plans for our lives are ones of greatness. We simply must surrender to Him as His creatures, as His servants, and He will transform our lives. When we offer ourselves to the Lord, we are sure to be astounded by the work He will do in and through us.
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In the past our community has given generously to Catholiccare. Our community has access to the services provided by this wonderful organisation through the outreach program.
It is run through the Sunbury Community Health Service and the hours of operation are: Mon, Tues, Thurs 9-5; Wed 11.30am-7pm.
Services provided range from individual, couple and family counselling, stress management, grief and loss, pain management and parenting.
Please contact 9744 4455 to arrange an appointment if you need to use this service.
CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP FROM SUNDAYS READINGS
In today’s readings, we hear how the Lord takes what is small and makes it great – a branch from the cedar, which, when planted will “put forth branches and bear fruit. It will become a majestic cedar;” and a mustard seed, the smallest of the seeds, which becomes a huge plant. And so He builds up His kingdom. He calls all of us to be His disciples, and though, in the eyes of the world, we may be insignificant, His call is great. When we answer the call and give ourselves to Him completely – offering Him all that we are – He will use us for great things – to bring others to Him, to make disciples of all nations, to build the Kingdom of God.
It is out responsibility to listen to His call, to recognize the gifts He has given us, and, using them for His greater glory, to answer the call by surrendering ourselves to the Lord. Without Him we are nothing, completely insignificant, but with Him we are called to greatness.
Copyright © 2012 www.TheCatholicSteward.com
Next weekend morning tea will be hosted by Studley Park Neighbourhood.
All welcome.
Please bring a plate to share.
“It’s June. The days are shorter and colder. The flowers of autumn have gone and some trees are bare. In the cold grey of winter we naturally tend to get down in the dumps. We are flesh and blood. We are affected by the weather and let us be honest and not blame ourselves or worse, others. Rather let’s have a warm Sustagen.” (extract from Bishop Bill Wright of Maitland– Newcastle, June 2012)
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