Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Primary School students in Grade Prep have invited us back for another lunch on Friday 16 November at 12.30pm .
For bookings contact Frances Arians 9744 1999.
Afterwards, we are gathering at the Ballcourt Hotel for the Annual Christmas Lunch.
Cost $17.50.
Bookings by 10 December to Frances on 9744 1999.
Christmas sing a long at Goonawarra Nursing Home will be on Thursday 13 December at 2.30pm.
Please come and join in.
VICTORIAN PARLIAMENTARY ENQUIRY AND NATIONAL ROYAL COMMISSION INTO CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE
The first focus is our compassion for the victims. Many of you will know a victim abused by a church person or someone else. Some of my friends are abuse victims and the devastating effects of the abuse can be seen 40 or 50 years later.
My hearing first hand from victims has made me realise how debilitating such abuse is.
The great English Cardinal Newman (1801-1891) wrote “We must face the facts.. we can’t change the facts; we must face the truth.”
“Facing the Truth”, the submission to the Victorian Enquiry from the Victorian Catholic Church has been accepted by the Enquiry and can be viewed on the special website www.facingthetruth.org.au The website has an 8 page executive summary with graphs and the whole report of 155 pages. There are updates on this website.
The Church has three goals:
1. To assist the healing of the victims. In Melbourne, the Church provides special counselling.
2. To deal promptly and effectively with those guilty of abuse.
3. To prevent further abuse in the future.
As we mentioned in March this year, there has been another revision of the Code of Conduct for caring for children in the Melbourne Parishes. Our Parish is implementing this Code, especially in regard to “Working With Children Checks” (WWCC).
In our two primary schools, we are teaching children to be aware, to speak up and be assertive. The FBI states the best defence against predators is assertive children as abusers prey on quiet, isolated children. We have recently installed a higher fence around St Anne’s School. All visitors to our schools must sign in. All classroom helpers and contractors must have a WWCC.
As Jesus taught, “The truth will set you free.”
……..Kevin McIntosh
Thank you to the generous parishioners of Sunbury for their kind donation of $665.25 for the Catholic Deaf.
We will send this money to them this week.
She wishes people to celebrate each year on December 8, between 12-1pm in St Anne’s Church, the hour of graces for the whole world.
With this exercise, one will receive numerous spiritual and bodily graces.
All are welcome.
For those who wish to learn to pray the rosary, check out a beautiful and helpful website at www.therosary3.com.
Since its foundation in 1969, Melbourne parishioners have supported our own mission fund to help developing nations. This has marked our Archdiocese for its exceptional generosity. Currently, the major beneficiaries are people in Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ghana, Pakistan, Botswana, Nigeria and Peru. Archbishop Denis Hart commends the fund to your continuing support.
Baptism of School Aged Children
Sunday 16 June 2013 & Sunday 24 November 2013
Please contact the Parish Office no later than 6 weeks prior to these dates to arrange preparation.
For further information, please contact Richard Hallett on 9744 1060 (Tues & Wed) or email richard.hallett@cam.org.au
On Sunday the 2 December 2012 at the 8.30am Mass, we will welcome two people interested in becoming Catholics, into our parish community.
Angelo Damianos and Tierry Wurcel are Inquirers at present but through the Rite of Acceptance on Sunday, the 2 December, they will enter the Catechumenate and continue to learn about Jesus and the teachings of His church.
Please keep them in your prayers as they commit to continuing their faith journey.
Christmas on the Greenwill be held on the Sunbury Village Green on Saturday 8 December from 4.00pm-9.30pm.
There will be lots of Christmas Carols and family oriented activities. There will even be an inter- active display of a stable with real animals.
If anyone is able to help with the Collection of money on the day, please see the organisers at the event, or contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060.
Scholarships are being offered for students entering Years 7, 9 and 11 in 2014.
The closing date for applications is 8 February 2013.
For registration and information see Xavier’s website www.xavier.vic.edu.au/scholarships or contact The Registrar, Mrs Di Odgers at Xavier on 9854 5307.
“An experience of Catholic Culture” Catholic Theological College Study Tour & Pilgrimage on 15 Nov to 14 December 2013.
Ireland– England– Spain– Italy.
Tour leaders: Rev Prof Austin Cooper omi AM & Dr Frances Baker rsm.
Information session: Thursday 6 December 2012 between 5-7pm.
RSVP & further information: Dr Frances Baker rsm
Phone 9412 3303 or email fbaker@ctc.edu.au
CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP FROM SUNDAYS READINGS
Today we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. He is the greatest king there is yet He does not sit on a golden throne. He hangs on a cross. As the King of Kings, Jesus hows us what true greatness is. It is loving and serving one another, giving ourselves in love for one another, and using the gifts God has given us to glorify Him.
In today’s gospel, Jesus tells us, “For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.” Likewise, we are called to use the lives God has given us to testify to the truth. We are called to bear witness to the gospel by the way we live our lives, giving of our time, our talents and our treasure to serve the Lord by serving one another. Then, people will surely see God in us, and we will call others to Him.
Copyright © 2012 www.TheCatholicSteward.com
Our parish working bee will be held on Saturday 1 December from 9am to 12 noon. Only 3 people came to the last working bee in November. Please help keep our parish looking beautiful by giving a few hours of your month. Please bring your tools.
Last Wednesday, 15 team members (five apologies) met and took up again the proposals from the Annual Parish Assembly. Some members offered their research on what other parishes are doing in hospitality, on what other schools are doing with breakfast clubs, on the needs of AIDS victims in remote PNG and on how technology could assist communication within our Parish.
Recent new initiatives were mentioned; the breakfast club at St Anne’s and the Preps at OLMC having lunch for the Evergreens (Seniors). Our next meeting is in February 2013.
RSJ associates are meeting at 11am on Wednesday 28 November in St Anne’s Meeting Room for a meeting and shared lunch. All welcome.
The Mary MacKillop Centre will host a special Christmas event on Tuesday 27th November from 1-8pm in support of Sisters of St Joseph Peruvian Project. Hand crafted goods, which make great Christmas gifts, will be on sale and all proceeds go to the Peruvian Project. Christmas carols will be sung from 1-2pm and Peruvian food will be available after 5pm. Come along and support the women of Peru and their families at Christmas.
General Instruction of Roman Missal (2011) No. 281) Holy Communion has a fuller form as a sign when it is distributed under both kinds. For in this form the sign of the Eucharistic banquet is more clearly evident and clear expression is given to the divine will by which the new and eternal Covenant is ratified in the Blood of the Lord, as also the relationship between the Eucharistic banquet and the eschatological banquet in the Father’s Kingdom.
Saturday 1 December– Carols singing with Santa at 3 Aged Care Homes in Sunbury between 9.15am-12.30pm. Address will be circulated closer to the date.
Practice 29th Nov between 6.30 to 7.30PM at St Anne’s Church.
RSVP 23 Nov.
Saturday 15 December after 6pm Mass– ‘Parish Carol Night’ at St Anne’s Parish Centre. Pilipino group will sing a few traditional carols, followed by our church choir groups who will lead us to sing some carols. Youth and children will sing a few carols with action. Santa will visit with lollies. Traditional Christmas food brought by parishioners will be shared. Children who would like to dress up like Mary, Joseph, Shepherds, Angels, Elf etc please give me your names by 29th Nov 2012.
RSVP 7 Dec.
RSVP gljsjacob@gmail.com
The topic for the final conversation for 2012 will be “Refugees” with Bruno Lettieri, with guest speakers.
On Monday 26 November at 6.30pm.
$10 entry or $5 for secondary students.
RSVP 0422 298 643 or blettieri@scr.vic.edu.au.
Please pause to remember our HIV positive brothers and sisters this World AIDS Day December 1. HIV positive people can be highly stigmatised, and can easily fall into poverty and depression. HIV affects 34 million people globally. On this day, let us support those who live with HIV/AIDS, and remember those who have passed away.
World AIDS Day Mass at St. Francis Church, Lonsdale Street Melbourne.
Friday November 30 at 5.30pm.
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