Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury
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Srs of St Joseph are raising funds for Mary MacKillop International Mission Fund Australia and the Peruvian Mission from collecting used stamps. If you could bring any used stamps to the Parish Office for on forwarding to the Josephites it would be much appreciated. Please leave a 1cm border around the stamps.
The Emmaus Charismatic Prayer Group meets at St. Anne’s Church at 10.15am on Thursdays.
All welcome, including children.
For further info/transport please contact Lambert & Elaine van der Weerden on 9744 4029.
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.
CATHOLIC STEWARDSHIP FROM SUNDAYS READINGS
This Sunday we celebrate the greatest event in all of history – Christ’s resurrection from the dead. It is the greatest mystery of all time and, therefore, today is the highest celebration of the liturgical year.
As Christian disciples, we not only rejoice in the reality of the resurrection, but, as St. Peter tells us in his speech in the first reading today, we are commissioned to proclaim the good news. We proclaim Christ to the world by the way we live our lives. Filled with sheer gratitude and joy for what Christ has done, we put Him first in our lives, committing to love and serve Him before all else. We recognize our time, talents, and treasure as gifts from Him, and we use them to give Him glory.
Then, those who bear witness to our lives see the beauty of Christ in us, and we invite them to live to love and serve Him as well.
This is what it means to be a disciple. We rejoice in the good news, and we proclaim it to all the world!
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It is 50 years this October since the bishops of the world gathered at the Vatican for an ecumenical council. Pope Benedict has called for a Year of Grace from October to renew the Church as the Council Fathers taught. An excellent article on Vatican II is by Professor Richard Gaillardetz of Boston, USA, posted on http://www.cathnews.com on 11 March 2012. He writes of the dynamics of the Second Vatican Council how the bishops listened to one another respectfully, were humble learners and were open to the world.
…..Kevin McIntosh
Our Easter Offerings are given to support the bishops of Melbourne, priests in parishes and our ninety-three retired Melbourne priests, including priests who served in Sunbury, Fathers Jim Feehan and Alan Mithen.
Happy Easter from all at Caritas Australia!
Celebrate that your generosity to Project Compassion continues aid and development work reflective of the life of Jesus Christ, and shaped by the tradition of Catholic Social Teaching principles, in over 35 countries around the world.
You have offered new life to your brothers and sisters struggling with poverty and injustice. Thank you for supporting Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion 2012 appeal.
If we want peace, we must work for justice.
Click on the image below to go to the Caritas website.
Last Wednesday, our local Federal Member Rob Mitchell M.H.R visited and presented our parish with three flags; Aboriginal, Australian and Torres Straits. He met some members of the Parish Social Justice group, inspected paintings on indigenous themes by our school children and the plaque of acknowledgement of the original owners of our land erected in 2002.
Social Justice was the theme of our teachers’ professional development last month and is being developed in the schools curriculum.
More volunteers to care for our donkey are sought for a roster to continue the care given by Gary & Jack Reddan who have been complimented by the RSPCA for having such a well conditioned donkey.
We thank Gary & Jack for their many years of service.
Volunteers please contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060.
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.
Click on the link below to view a Commentary by Fr Barron on the Catholic website Xt3. While the have a look around at what else is on offer.
Ashfield Neighbourhood will be hosting morning tea this Sunday 1 April.
Everyone is invited to join in for a cuppa and a chat.
Please bring a plate to share.
See you there!
Please keep our youth in your prayers as they grow to be active Christians in our Church and feel God’s presence and love in their daily lives.
1 April 2012 – Palm Sunday
Good Friday will be the day on which the annual collection for the support of sacred places in the Holy Land will be collected. Thank you all for your continued generosity in ensuring the sacred sites which hold the memory of the Incarnation and the early Church throughout the Holy Land are maintained for the prosperity of all and for future generations to appreciate as we have.
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.
The Emmaus Charismatic Prayer Group will not meet on Holy Thursday.
Meetings will resume on Thursday April 12 at St. Anne’s Church at 10.15am.
All welcome, including children.
For further info/ transport please contact Lambert & Elaine van der Weerden on 9744 4029.
This Service will take place at 10am in the Memorial Hall and St Mary’s Hall.
Our parish is one of the financial sponsors donating $600 towards the costs.
PASSION (Palm) SUNDAY – Week 6 Australian Indigenous
1 April
Liturgy of the Palms: Mk 11:1-10 OR Jn 12:12-16
Liturgy of the Passion: Mk 14:1-15:47 OR Mk 15:1-39
As the Lenten season approaches its end, the Gospel readings relate the events leading to Jesus’ suffering and death – the culmination of the work he was born to do – and we look towards the great and glorious Resurrection of Christ.
During the past five weeks we have heard and reflected upon stories from Timor Leste, the Thai-Burma Border, Zimbabwe, the Philippines and Peru. These are stories of people living in poverty and injustice, lacking access to basic services and often denied the opportunity to exercise the rights that we all have as human persons.
In Australia, our Indigenous sisters and brothers also face many similar struggles. In a prosperous country where most of us claim adequate nutrition and health care as a fundamental right, Aboriginal Australians in remote communities have shortened life-spans because of high rates of diet-related illness – particularly diabetes.
The Project Compassion story this week comes from such a community, near Broome in Western Australia. With its local partners, Caritas Australia is supporting a community-owned program which promotes and educates for health care and healthy living.
Caritas Australia works for justice – for the kind of world that God desires.
Caritas works in partnership – building ‘right relationships’ between all of God’s people.
In justice and right relationships lies the path to peace.
If we want peace, we must work for justice.
The glorious celebration of new life is almost upon us. It brings hope for change and renewal for all of us.
We can show our solidarity with communities living in poverty, our compassion to those struggling against discrimination and stigma and our preparedness to challenge injustice. As Pope Benedict XVI said: “Our hearts cannot be at peace as long as we see our brothers and sisters suffering”.
If we want peace, we must work for justice.
Click on the image below to go to the Caritas website.
Srs of St Joseph are raising funds for Mary MacKillop International Mission Fund Australia and the Peruvian Mission from collecting used stamps. If you could bring any used stamps to the Parish Office for on forwarding to the Josephites it would be much appreciated. Please leave a 1cm border around the stamps.
The Parish Donkey will be present at all Masses at St Anne’s this weekend to lead us in the Procession of Palms.
We thank Gary and Jack Reddan for their daily care of our donkey.
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