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Parish Priest: Fr Thanh Tran [email protected]
Parish Secretaries
Dominique Hockey
Carol Leathem
Parish Office Hours Tuesday - Friday 9am—3pm
Baptisms Please contact the Parish Office.
Weddings By appointment and after Preparation
Children’s Ministries Kathy Menzies
St Schols Community Centre 03 9808 1006
www.stscholscc.org.au
St Scholastica’s Primary School Principal: Jenny Rohan 9808 7279 [email protected]
Outside School Hours Care
Camp Australia
1300 105 343
St Scholastica’s Kindergarten 9808 9724
Director: Catherine Findlay [email protected]
Administrator:
Katherine Presley [email protected]
348 Burwood Highway,
Bennettswood VIC 3125
ABN 95 499 516 268
Phone: 9808 1006
Fax: 9888 7573
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stscholasticaparish.com.au
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C
8th & 9th October 2016
The Rosary had its origin in the liturgical mentality of former ages. Even at the present time it is called "Mary's Psalter." There still are Catholics who consider the 150 Hail Marys a substitute for the 150 psalms for those persons who neither have the time, the education, nor the opportunity to pray the Hours of the Divine Office. Thus "Mary's Psalter" is a shortened, simplified "breviary" — alongside the common Hour-prayer of the Church. — The Church's Year of Grace, Dr. Pius Parsch The Rosary is Christocentric setting forth the entire life of Jesus Christ, the passion, death, resurrection and glory. Of course, the Rosary honours and contemplates Mary too, and rightly so, for the same reason that the Liturgical Year does likewise: "Because of the mission she received from God, her life is most closely linked with the mysteries of Jesus Christ, and there is no one who has followed in the footsteps of the Incarnate Word more closely and with more merit than she" (Mediator Dei). Meditation on this cycle of Joyful, Sorrowful, Glorious and Luminous Mysteries makes the Rosary not only "a breviary or summary of the Gospel and of Christian life," but also a compendium of the Liturgical Year. Therewith the Rosary stands revealed as a dynamic teacher and nurturer of Christian faith, morality, and spiritual perfection, fostering in various ways faith, hope, charity, and the other virtues, and mediating special graces, all to the end that we may become more and more like unto Christ. — Mariology, Juniper B. Carol, O.F.M.
Walking With Families: Pope Francis and the Art Accompaniment
Life, Marriage & Family Sunday 9th October 2016
Whether we are married, single, widowed, divorced, consecrated or in the priestly
ministry, we all have a role to play in strengthening and encouraging families and
understanding the depth of its mission for the Church and for society.
Please feel free to take home a booklet to read at your leisure and help reinforce the
importance of family values.
The strength of the family lies in its capacity to love and to teach how to love.
OCTOBER: MONTH OF THE HOLY ROSARY
WEEKLY CALENDAR 2016 Monday 10 October 08.00am Communion Service 07.30pm Vinnies GA
Tuesday 11 October 08.00am Mass ~ Exposition 11.00am Funeral for Elizabeth Caughey 12.00pm Seniors Luncheon 07.30pm Prayer Group - McAndrew Room
Wednesday 12 October 10.00am Exposition 10.30am Rosary 11.00am Mass followed by cuppa in GA 12.00pm Office closed 01.30pm Legion of Mary GA 07.10pm Rosary 7.30pm Novena
Thursday 13 October 08.00am Mass 08.00pm Burwood discussion group Mc Andrew room
Friday 14 October 08. 00am Mass
Saturday 15 October 09.00am Mass ~ Confession 06.00pm Mass 07.15pm Vietnamese Mass
Sunday 16 October 09.00am Mass 11.00am Mass 05.30pm Mass Saturday 19 November Vietnamese Mass 7.15pm
ROSTERS
Day Mass Time
2nd Sunday of the month 9th October
Readers Special Ministers
Saturday 6.00 pm Pat Ovens Charlie Mellican Noela Corby John Corby
Sunday 9.00am Margot Westwood Betty McDonald Murray McCormack Anna Gaetano
11.00 am Bev O’Neill Jill Bartley Albert Johnson Kath Johnson
5.30 pm John Doherty Sonny Nguyen Michael Chan Margaret Sweeney
Day Mass Time
3rd Sunday of the month 16th October
Readers Special Ministers
Saturday 6.00 pm Dianne Smith Lindy Leigh Fred Hillas Franklin Rozario
Sunday 9.00am Sylvia Chuah Susan Jenkins Daniel Leong
11.00am Ren Maliakal Stuart Bell April Lewis Ewena Ellis
5.30 pm Mernellie Pilcher Sonny Nguyen Margaret Sweeney John Doherty
Remembering Our Community Sick Justine Hunt, John Garton, Laurie Piggot Anniversaries Martin Schobben, Jack Kelly, Nicola Feleppa, Amedeo, Maria & Giuseppa Feleppa, Giovanni Vergona, Ivan Johnson, Shannon Ball, Esterina Babiere
Thomas Nguyen Van Thoan, Maria VuTu Anh and Norma Therese Thomas
RIP Sr Mary Xavier , Brother Len Newman & Fr Thao Nguyen
New to St Scholastica’s? WELCOME We’re glad you came to join with us
In our worship time today, We hope that you have felt God’s love
In a new, refreshing way For you’re so welcomed in this place
And we hope you’ll come again, To join with us in fellowship
And to make some special friends. Please take one of our new Parishioner packs from
the table at the main entrance to the Church
Divine Mercy Picture As you will see we have a new addition in the Church, the beautiful Divine Mercy picture. Donated by a family in our parish for us all to enjoy. Thank you very much.
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Every Wednesday night. 7.10pm Rosary 7.30pm Novena and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Please join us in prayer and song to Our Lady. PLEASE REMEMBER TO GIVE ANYTHING (INCLUDING NAMES TO BE PRAYED FOR) TO GO IN CHIMES BY WEDNESDAY. THANK YOU Baptism at St Scholastica’s It is a requirement of the parish that a Baptism infor-mation night must be attended prior to having your child baptised. Contact the parish office on 9808 1006 to make a booking into one of the monthly sessions. Next session: Thursday 3rd November 2016 @ 7.30 pm in the gathering area.
Thank you to all the people involved in our first Social luncheon for 2016 it was a great success.
Reader required We take this opportunity to thank Nita Tan for her time she has been a reader at our 5.30pm Mass, Nita has now resigned from this position. We now need to fill this position if you are available to help us out with this role its only on the fourth Sunday of the month. Please contact Peter Westwood 9803 6534 CELEBRATING WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES AT ST SCHOLS
Fr Thanh would like to invite all couples celebrating their wedding anniversaries to receive a blessing and prayer during the 9 am Mass every First Sunday of the month. Next one is 6 November 2016 If you would like to receive the blessing and share this very special moment with St Schols community please contact the parish office to leave your details. Readers If you would like to purchase a copy of the Break Open The Word for 2017, please come to the parish office, to pay $20 and order your copy. No later than 21 October 2016, thank you. Divine Mercy Calendar 2017 We have for sale the pocket size calendar for $6 or the large wall calendar for $10. Both calendars are available to purchase now after each Mass. A BIG Thank You to the St Scholastica’s Parish Community from the kindergarten. With your assistance we collected 252 kilograms of useable clothing which was collected by Living Fundraisers. These items help to support SIDS and Kids research and services and provide employment and affordable clothing to those in need locally and overseas. We raised $50.40 for the kindergarten fundraising. 2016 Enchanted Garden Art Show St Scholastica's Primary School presents the 2016 Annual Art show. Everyone is invited! Thursday 13th October in the Hall 5.30pm—8.00pm Family ticket $10 Single Adult Ticket $10 Single Child ticket $5 BBQ will be available to purchase on the night. Theological study in 2017: Yarra Theological Union (Box Hill) is holding information sessions for anyone interested in Theological Study for 2017. Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses are available. You can even study by Auditing with no assessment or credit. Everyone Welcome! Sunday 16
th October
2pm – 4pm. 98 Albion Road, Box Hill Intercessory Prayers We have an intercessory team who pray for specific prayer requests. Should any one in the parish like to do this, they can send requests directly to the parish office either via email [email protected] or they may be written and given to the parish office staff who will pass them on to the intercessory team.
JUBILEE OF MERCY: SCRIPTURAL RETREAT DAY, BURWOOD Saturday 15 October, 9am–4pm Emmaus College Hall, St Benedict's, 295 Warrigal Road, Burwood. This day-long retreat commences at 9am with Mass, followed at 10am by a cuppa and registration. From 10.30am topics covered will include: ‘How to make a good confession/reconciliation’, ‘The mercy of God triumphs over judgement’, and ‘The merciful gaze of Jesus the Good Shepherd’. Reconciliation will be offered between 2pm and 4pm, the Divine Mercy chaplet will be recited at 3pm before the Blessed Sacrament, and there will be additional times for adoration during the day. Cost: $40. Extra donations gladly accepted. The money raised is to help set up for the first time in Australia Grief to grace: Healing the wounds of abuse, a spiritual retreat for anyone who has suffered degradation or violation through physical, emotional, sexual or spiritual abuse. BYO: Pen and Bible, lunch (no microwave available). Tea and coffee provided. Details and bookings: Sr Majella on 9808 9708 or [email protected] or PO Box 72 Burwood 3125
SOLO CATHOLICS LUNCH AND WALK Sunday 16 October, 12.30pm Jells Park kiosk, Waverley Road, Wheelers Hill Lunch at the Jells Park kiosk will be followed by a visit to and afternoon tea at the nearby Monash Gallery of Art (free entry). All single Catholics welcome.
Details: Sharon on 0404 042 906
YARRA THEOLOGICAL UNION: INFORMATION SESSION Sunday 16 October, 2–4pm 98 Albion Road, Box Hill All interested persons are welcome at this afternoon information session, exploring ways of transforming faith and life through study at Yarra Theological Union. Undergraduate and postgraduate courses are offered, with fee help also available. Cost: Free. Details: 9890 3771 or [email protected] or www.ytu.edu.au. No booking required.
WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKEND Invest in your most precious asset......Your Marriage! Forget life’s tensions and interruptions and rekindle the closeness, intimacy, love and romance that brought you together. Recharge your relationship batteries and explore the precious nature of your marriage, allowing you both to share your feelings, hopes and dreams with each other in ways that normal, daily living tends to inhibit. There is no group sharing. Couples and a priest present the weekend. It is based around Catholic values but couples of all faiths are welcome. 2016 Melbourne weekend dates : 11-13 Nov Starts 7pm on Friday. Ends 5pm Sunday. Accommodation and all meals provided. Information/Bookings: PH: Marianne & Marcel (03) 9733 0997 Email: [email protected] Website:www.wwme.org.au
Pianist Available for hire contact Kay on 409783868 or Www.acciaccatura.webs.com
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C - 9 October 2016 Entrance Antiphon If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But with you is found forgiveness, O God of Israel. First Reading: 2 Kings 5:14-17 A reading from the second book of the Kings Naaman returned to Elisha, the prophet, and acknowledged the Lord.
Naaman the leper went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a little child.
Returning to Elisha with his whole escort, he went in and stood before him. 'Now I know' he said 'that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. Now, please, accept a present from your servant.' But Elisha replied, 'As the Lord lives, whom I serve, I will accept nothing.' Naaman pressed him to accept, but he refused. Then Naaman said, 'Since your answer is "No," allow your servant to be given as much earth as two mules may carry, because your servant will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice to any god except the Lord.'
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
Psalm: Ps 97:1-4 R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.
Sing a new song to the Lord for he has worked wonders. His right hand and his holy arm have brought salvation. R.
The Lord has made known his salvation; has shown his justice to the nations. He has remembered his truth and love for the house of Israel. R.
All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Shout to the Lord all the earth, ring out your joy. R.
Second Reading: 2 Timothy 2:8-13 A reading from the second letter of St Paul to Timothy If we hold firm, we shall reign with Christ.
Remember the Good News that I carry, 'Jesus Christ risen from the dead, sprung from the race of David'; it is on account of this that I have my own hardships to bear, even to being chained like a criminal - but they cannot chain up God's news. So I bear it all for the sake of those who are chosen, so that in the end they may have the salvation that is in Christ Jesus and the eternal glory that comes with it.
Here is a saying that you can rely on:
If we have died with him, then we shall live with him. If we hold firm, then we shall reign with him. If we disown him, then he will disown us. We may be unfaithful, but he is always faithful, for he cannot disown his own self.
The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Gospel Acclamation: 1 Thessalonians 5:18 Alleluia, alleluia! For all things give thanks to God, because this is what he expects of you in Christ Jesus. Alleluia!
Gospel: Luke 17:11-19 A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke It seems that no one has returned to give thanks to God except this foreigner.
On the way to Jerusalem Jesus travelled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered one of the villages, ten lepers came to meet him. They stood some way off and called to him, 'Jesus! Master! Take pity on us.' When he saw them he said, 'Go and show yourselves to the priests.' Now as they were going away they were cleansed. Finding himself cured, one of them turned back praising God at the top of his voice and threw himself at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan. This made Jesus say, 'Were not all ten made clean? The other nine, where are they? It seems that no one has come back to give praise to God, except this foreigner.' And he said to the man, 'Stand up and go on your way. Your faith has saved you.'
The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Communion Antiphon The rich suffer want and go hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no blessing.
29th Sunday 16th October 2016 First Reading: Exodus 17:8-13 Second Reading: 2 Timothy 3:14 - 4:2 Gospel: Luke 18:1-8
Scripture Commentary for 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
The connection between the First Reading, from 2 Kings 5:14-17 and the Gospel, Luke 17:11-19,
set for today is fairly clear. Both depict a person who has been cured from a skin complaint returning to acknowledge and give thanks to God. [The disease in each case is traditionally referred to as leprosy. However, it is now recognised that the terms used in the original languages could
refer to a variety of ailments of the skin. A sensitive preaching of today’s readings will avoid
speaking about ‘lepers’.]
What a pity, however, that the Lectionary does not see fit to give us the entire episode concerning the cure of Naaman the Syrian, since it is surely one of the most attractive stories emerging from
the Old Testament – one which Jesus himself alludes to in his inaugural preaching at Nazareth according to Luke 4:27. It would be good to read the entire narrative in 2 Kings 5:1-17. Naaman is
a great and powerful general. He wants to be cured and has his own ideas as to how the cure should come about. He is enraged when the prophet Elisha doesn’t even bother to come out of his house to meet him but simply sends out a message telling him to bathe seven times in the River
Jordan. How sensible and touching the advice of the general’s servants: ‘Father, if the prophet had commanded you to do something difficult, would you not have done it? How much more, when all
he said to you was, “Wash, and be clean”?’ (v 13). When Naaman swallows his pride and follows the instruction of the prophet, his flesh is restored ‘like the flesh of a young boy, and he was
clean’ (v 14).
This is where the part of the narrative set out in the Lectionary comes in. Naaman returns to the
prophet’s house, stands before him and makes his confession of faith in Israel’s God. Not only has he been cured of his physical ailment. He has undergone a profound conversion. He has abandoned
his preconceived ideas about the cure. He has put aside his national pride and submitted to the dictates of the Israelite prophet. Above all, this had led him to a knowledge of Israel’s God as the only God of the whole earth. Only one more thing does Naaman have to learn. No gifts in return –
either to God or God’s prophet – are required or accepted. Israel’s God distributes favours with
absolute freedom and generosity. The one thing necessary is grateful acknowledgement.
It is on this point, of course, that the Naaman story is at one with the healing episode told in the Gospel. On his long journey to Jerusalem, at the border between Samaria and Galilee, ten persons
afflicted with a skin complaint cry out to Jesus for mercy, keeping their distance as the Law obliged them to do. All ten are made clean when they follow Jesus’ instructions to go and show themselves
to the priest (cf. Lev. 13:49). For nine that is where the matter ends. But the tenth, who happens to be a Samaritan, returns loudly praising God. When he prostrates himself before Jesus and thanks him, Jesus remarks on the absence of the other nine. None of them returned to give praise to God
except this ‘stranger’! Once again, in this Gospel, as earlier in the famous parable (Luke 10:29-37) the audience is confronted with a ‘good Samaritan’. The appropriate behaviour of the foreigner, the
one on the margins, has shown up the shortcomings of those more centrally placed.
It is only this one who receives from Jesus the assurance: ‘Stand up and go on your way; your faith
has brought you salvation.’ The other nine, of course, experienced healing in a physical sense. But they did not really experience ‘salvation’ in the full sense presented by the Gospel. Beyond physical
healing or rescue, salvation for Luke above all means knowledge, coming to know God in a new way as a God who saves. The Samaritan who returns really comes to the ‘knowledge of salvation’
hymned in Zechariah’s Benedictus canticle (1:77).
As so often, Luke’s gospel compels its hearers to confront the human tendency to categorise and place labels on people. Here one who is doubly marginal – by reason of his illness, by reason of his
ethnic background – shows himself more disposed to really know Israel’s God and so experience salvation. The episode is not just about the healing of an afflicted person. For all else involved,
including ourselves, it is a summons to conversion.
© Brendan Byrne SJ