Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury
Scroll down for more information
Come to St Anne’s Church on Saturday 25 June at 7.30pm for a spirit filled and moving Praise and Worship session. We have been granted the privilege of this experience not to be missed.
The night consists of the opportunity to receive Sacrament of Reconciliation and also moments of reflection interwoven with beautiful and uplifting contemporary hymns. Supper will be offered afterward. Come along and enjoy this powerful and moving spiritual experience. All welcome.
DEBT AT 3RD DECEMBER 2015 $112 075
AVERAGE SHORTFALL FROM THANKSGIVING PROGRAM IS $398 PER WEEK or 9%
A PARISH FINANCIAL REPORT:
INCOME
Thanksgiving $187 779
Rent (inc rent from Schools) $194 925
Bingo & Other Income $35 534
Total Income $418 238
OUTGOINGS
Staff Costs (excluding priests) $131 332
Repairs & Maintenance $75 455
Loan Repayments $59 038
Insurance $20 566
Archdiocese Levy $16 288
Architects & Consultants $14 444
Electricity, Gas, Water $13 873
Other Costs $84 879
Total Expenditure $415 875
NOTE NEW TIMES
Training for young people wishing to join the Altar Server Team will be held at 11am on 18th and 25th June in St Anne’s Church. Candidates should be at least 10 years of age and have received their first Eucharist. Enquiries Michael McConville 0417332186
The Life, Marriage & Family Office warmly invite all expectant mothers and their families to the Mass for Expectant Mothers. The Mass will be celebrated by Archbishop Denis Hart at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Sunday 5 June at 11.00am. Registrations can be made online at http://www.cam.org.au/lifemarriagefamily/Mass-for-expectant-mothers or alternatively by contacting 9287 5587 or Lmf@cam.org.au. Registration closes Friday 27 May. Expectant mothers who register will receive a small token of recognition.
CATHOLICCARE provides programs and services to parishioners, their families, friends and community networks. A new poster on the noticeboard is themed “I have come so that you may have life and have it to the full” (John 10:10) Please visit www.ccam.org.au for more information.
At the Easter Vigil on Saturday 26 March, we celebrated the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist with our Elect, Narelle and Janice as they came to full communion with the Catholic Church. After the Mass we shared supper with them and their families in St Anne’s Church foyer.
Cards are available at the back of our churches for you to place the names of those who cannot be with you at Easter time for whatever reason. Please write the names of your loved ones on the card and place in the boxes. Our community will remember them and pray for them during Holy Week.
It was great but humbling at the same time to see so many parishioners come to our Celebration of the Mercy of God last night. A special thanks to Fr John Papworth SDB, Fr Will Matthews SDB, our assisting priest Fr Bert Fulbrook SDB and our parish priest Fr Kevin, who all provided the sacramental portion of the Celebration.
(even the queue-jumpers were forgiven by very patient parishioners)
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL COMMUNITY CELEBRATION OF THE MERCY OF GOD
Wednesday 16 March– 7.30pm St Anne’s Church
On Wednesday, 16 March, we will be ‘celebrating’ the sacrament of reconciliation as a community who believe that God is full of mercy and compassion. Big or small, our sins are swallowed up in the ocean of God’s merciful love. We can observe this Jubilee Year of Mercy in no better way than to participate in the communal celebration of the second rite of reconciliation offered to us as we prepare to celebrate the death and resurrection of Christ, the paschal mystery, through which we gain our salvation.
Fr Bert Fulbrook sdb
100 YEARS OF THE SISTERS PRESENCE IN SUNBURY Congratulations and grateful thanks to Fr. Kevin, Sr. Jose, the organizing committee, many helpers and parishioners for all the preparations for the outstanding celebrations on this occasion. We felt very humbled when Fr. Kevin, after such an inspiring homily asked for a standing ovation. The welcome we received from everyone gave us such a feeling of being “at home” among such a wonderful group of people. We were very impressed with the work and thought that went into the “Honour Board”. The footprints representing the journey of the Sisters over 100 years enabled us to appreciate the Sisters who walked this journey before us. Mary MacKillop’s Spirit is truly alive there. In Mary’s words “We have much for which to be thankful.” 1873. ………...Sisters Maureen Cahir, Mary Rowan, Margaret Brown, Rosalie Corrigan.
CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR DIAMOND JUBILEES
Congratulations to Sisters Maureen Cahir and Mary Rowan, on your 60 years of religious profession as a Sister of St Joseph. Both of you have been among us over these sixty years at various times living out the charism of your founders St Mary MacKillop and Fr Julian Tenison Woods. May the Lord continue to bless you.
NOTICE: As part of the Parish’s ongoing commitment to support the LAP Team caring for children living with HIV AIDS in Jakarta, a fundraising appeal will be held at all Masses on the weekend of the 18/19 February. We thank you for your continued support of this worthy cause. Mick Hetherington, Frank O’Connor, Julie Reddan and Tony Kiley.
Firstly a thank-you to St Anne’s Parish Youth Group for their support which culminated in a donation from money raised by the Parish Christmas Dinner Dance.
Secondly there is a report on their activities over the previous twelve months. If you read it you will find out about St Anne’s students have been interacting with the LAP children. Just click on the link below.
The local Regional Council of SVDP Society, who meet once a month in Sunbury, is in urgent need of a Secretary and a Treasurer. All training and equipment will be provided for these posts. You do not need to be a current member of the Society but will be required to complete a police check and Working with Children Check. Can you help? To volunteer or get more information please call the Regional President, Arthur Donovan on 0427 394 495.
In order to prepare the Convent for the celebrations planned for the 21 February, a working bee has been scheduled between 9am and 12 noon on Saturday 13 February at the Convent of St Joseph, 37 Macedon St, Sunbury.
Please bring the following tools and equipment, if you have them, otherwise just yourselves and everyone will be made welcome; gloves, rakes, spades and brooms. Thank you for your participation and for further information call Jo Wiegerink on 9744 5788.
This year in the 50th year of Project Compassion, we celebrate learning and Caritas’ work with local partners to ensure all children, women and men can harness the power of education, training and shared knowledge.
Please join us to hear how strong partnerships between the Australian and Malawian communities are transforming lives and bringing hope.
Martin Mazinga is the National Programmes Coordinator of the Catholic Development Commission in Malawi. Martin and his team at CADECOM are responsible for sustainable development opportunities for the most marginalised communities in Malawi. Martin is passionate about working with grassroots communities.
CLICK HERE FOR A BIO ON MARTIN
Thursday 11th February at 7.30 p.m.
St Joseph’s Parish Hall
49 Stanhope Street Malvern
RSVP Alicia Ocampo at aliciao@caritas.org.au or 9926 5706
SALESIAN COLLEGE SUNBURY IS HAVING AN OPEN DAY FRIDAY 12TH FEBRUARY AT 9.30AM
MEETINGS THIS WEEK
Wednesday 10 February: 5.30pm Parish Education Board
Wednesday 10 February: 7.30pm Parish Monthly Meeting
Thursday 11 February: 7.00pm Northern Region Youth Gathering—St Anne’s
Reflection on the Gospel-The Baptism of Jesus Year C, (Luke 3:15-16, 21-22)
Today’s feast marks the end of the Christmas Season and the beginning of Ordinary Time. Over the Christmas season, the liturgy invited us to reflect on and to experience the various comings of Christ in our world and to open ourselves to the action of God’s grace at work in our encounters with the living Christ. The readings from Luke’s gospel have taken us from the birth of Jesus to the story of his personal decision at age twelve to remain in God’s house, the Jerusalem Temple, listening to the teachers of the Law and astonishing them with his answers to their questions.
Now, as an adult and along with “all the people”, Jesus receives John’s water baptism. The crowds are wondering if John the Baptiser is the Christ or Messiah, God’s anointed one. John points the people away from himself and towards Jesus who “will baptise …with the Holy Spirit and fire”. Did Jesus also engage in a ministry of baptising the people “for the forgiveness of sins” or is John’s reference to Jesus’ activity of baptising with the Holy Spirit and fire a metaphor for the distinctive features of his future gospel ministry? In the Acts of the Apostles, Luke’s second volume, the presence of the Holy Spirit is marked by tongues of fire. Fire is a powerful symbol that functions as a threat on the one hand and as a source of energy and light on the other.
Jesus is God’s Chosen One, the Beloved, on whom God’s Spirit rests. In light of the first reading from Isaiah 42, the voice of God in the baptism scene commissions Jesus to bring forth justice, sensitively and without fanfare; to be a light to the peoples; to open the eyes of the blind and to set the captives free. Those baptised into Christ through the ages are baptised “with the Holy Spirit and fire” and are called to the same mission as Jesus and the same sensitive approach to the mission. The fire in our hearts sometimes flickers in the face of life’s challenges. We are sometimes guilty of crushing “the bruised reed” or extinguishing the flickering flame of hope. As we move into Ordinary Time with its often extraordinary demands, we might think about stirring the embers and fanning the flame of God’s love so that justice might prevail in our world and for our planet – justice without violence, if not without pain.
http://www.catholicreligiousaustralia.org/index.php/resources/gospel-reflections
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury 
You must be logged in to post a comment.