CATHOLIC PARISH OF St Brigid’s HEALESVILLE, St Aloysius YARRA GLEN & Our Lady of the Snows MARYSVILLE 15 High Street, Healesville, 3777; PO Box 73, Healesville 3777 Ph: 5962 4026 Fax: 5962 2028 www.stbrigidshealesville.cam.org.au

PARISH PRIEST: Fr Arsenio Tuazon email: lilydale@cam.org.au or phone 9739 5977 Lilydale DEACON: Rev Phil King email: philipking51@gmail.com PASTOR EMERITUS, Fr John Dupuche (In Pastoral relationship with Healesville & Lilydale) PASTORAL WORKER: Debbie Edwards 5962 4026/9739 5977, 0448 664 731 email: deb.edwards4@y7mail.com SECRETARY: Paula Pearce email: healesville@cam.org.au

ST BRIGID’S PRIMARY SCHOOL Principal: Vicky Wissell 5962 4200 MOUNT LILYDALE MERCY COLLEGE Principal: Philip Morison 9735 4022

PARISH GROUPS

RCIC & RCIA Anybody wishing to find about what Catholics believe.

Contact Debbie, our Pastoral worker. RCIC - Baptism Is someone in

your family interested in finding out about the Sacrament of Baptism?

Please contact Debbie 0400 310 703 if you have any questions.

CATECHIST PROGRAM For children attending non-Catholic schools,

who are wishing to participate in the Sacraments this year, please con-

tact Debbie for more information.

Spirit of Christ Prayer Group Enquires: Tony on 0418 323 947

Meditation Group Mondays 9.15am - 10.15am There will be a

short break - meditation will be resuming on the 9th April.

Enq: Anna 5962 4308

Care Group 1st Friday of month 1.30-3.30pm

Playgroup is not running at this time

Hall Bookings Call Marie Snell 5962 3794

Youth-led Family Masses to be held once a term. All secondary

students who would like to join the team are encouraged to contact

Paula on 0423 508 355 for more information.

Youth-led Dinner at Darrons Secondary school students are invited

to be involved in cooking and/or serving a 2-course dinner to those who

are financially disadvantaged or socially isolated approx. 6 times/year.

Contact Andrea: 0417 088 231 for more information.

Weekly Mass Times 1st Wednesday 7pm 2nd & 4th Thursday Rosary 6.30pm St Aloysius’, Yarra Glen

2nd,3rd,4th,5th Wednesday 7.30pm St Brigid’s, Healesville

1st,2nd,4th,5th Thursday 9.15am St Brigid’s, Healesville

3rd Thursday 10.30am

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Family Drug Help 1st & 3rd Tues

Lilydale 1300 660 068

“Vulnerable children of the World”

Mary 5962 3287

Bereavement Group 3rd Thurs of the

month at 11.30am contact Mary 5962

3287

Elisha Care Garden & Building Jason

0429 117 849

Men’s Breakfast 1st Saturday of the

month

Pamphlets & Newsletters: If you

would like to leave literature in the Church

please check with the Parish Office before-

hand.

Lookout for the Safety of children:

LOOKOUT is a local community

group concerned with keeping chil-

dren safe from abuse and being

there for adult victims. Next Meeting

Golden Wattle House, Joffre St 1-3pm

Monday 23rd April

WEEKLY COLLECTION

Church: $ 374

Presbytery: $ 237

Caritas: $1292

ROSTER 6 MAY 2018

READER: J DRUMMOND

COMMUNION: SNELL

FIELD

CUPPA: VOLUNTEER

CLEANING: HYSTED

COUNTERS: FRITSCHE

Please Pray For: For Those who are Recently deceased

Richie Youngberry, Vina King (Deacon Phil’s mum)

For those who are Sick

Megan, Carmel Megee, Bernie Jansen, Tony Grieve,

Maree Campitelli, Deacon Phil, John, Glenn, Lyn Francis,

Concetta Rizza, Dorothy Barber, Maureen Fogarty, Fio-

na, Val Christie, Annie Preuss, Michelle Ryan, Damian,

John, Suzan Sosic, Robbie Ireland, Joyce Slattery, Alison,

Heather, Julie Bates, Garry Dettman, Bradley Jordan,

Jeanette Henkel, Richard Galbraith, Annette Fromholtz,

Debbie Huby, Geoff Lucas, Sandra Donkin, Wendy Bar-

nett, Marg Pomeroy, Dorothy Fraser, Carmel O’Hely,

Glen, Ernst Fries, Fred Bullas, Fred Coullas, Mitchell

Wilson, Evie Gleeson, Indy Dawes, Rade Krstic, Megan

Williams, Michael Christie, Joan Hollow, Michael Wood,

Bill Howie, Jennie, Michael & Stephen Youngberry,

John Mulholland, Rhiannon Days, Val Savitt, Ron Gar-

land, Jaz Nueber, Patricia Beggs, James Cooney, Robert

& Mary Bariola, Tilly Van der Zee, John Lauman

For those whose Anniversaries are in APRIL

Tanya Grizic (03.04.06), Emil Weklak (11.04.11), Paul Nielsen (07.04.08), Shane O’Meara (14.04.69), Fr Tim Tolan (15.04.08), Frank Wilson (16.04.06), Beryl Perrin (19.04.06), Brendan Hammond (23.04.12), Edgar Snell (26.04.93), Violet Brooks (26.04.08), Alan Thompson (26.04.00), Jean Malcolm (26.04.17), Janine McIntyre (28.04.07), Reg Fraser (Good Friday 1997), Anna and Jim McGettigan

Upcoming Dates

May

2nd Yarra Glen Mass 7pm

13th Mother’s Day

16th First Eucharist Parent night 6.30pm hall followed by Mass at 7.30pm

17th Marysville Mass 10.30am

17th NAPLAN testing at school

20th Family Mass 3/4 Presentation for First Eucharist

20th Chaplaincy Sunday Sp Coll

A word from our Pastoral Worker, Debbie:

One of the most exhilarating experiences of my entire life has been the amazing sensation of lying down on a surf board and catching a huge wave all the way in to the shore. I love the absolute abandonment, absolute commitment, absolute absorption in the moment of riding a wave to the sand. Very often a wave that has enabled that experience initially came at me as a terrifying challenge, looming above the water and careening straight at me, inescapable and seriously dangerous. So often, it has flashed through my mind that I either catch this wave and hang on, or I wind up on the 6 o’clock news as the old lady smashed to bits in the surf! There is a skill, learned and practised, to picking the right wave, at the right time, hanging on to the board to avoid being dumped, and in using your whole body to steer the board as you hurtle forward, choosing the right path to hold the wave for maximum momentum. The resulting ride is breathtaking, and all I usually ever want to do is to wade straight back out there and do it all again. However… there is the ‘push up’ required to get back on my feet (gravity!! ergh!!!), feeling my way through the invisible pot holes with my feet, fighting against the waves to reach the right place to catch another one, and the terrifying moment of hoping that this next impossibly enormous mon-ster wave isn’t the one that I mess up, when whiplash becomes my new companion! But it is sooo worth it! There are other learned and practised exhilarating challenges I face each and every day that do compare, both in satisfaction and in terror rating. Marriage and parenthood have to be up there on the ‘white-knuckle-o-meter’, being a Pastoral Worker and doing a good job is right there too. And allowing God to throw open new challenges to me, sensitively listening to his prompts, and accepting his invitations with faith, can be every bit as scary a ride as catching those big waves. Waves just happen, nature takes care of that. Life happens, ‘things’ happen… good things, happy things, insane things, impossible things, desperately uncomfortable and emotionally devastating things. God accompanies us through it all, even if we don’t recognise it, and I have learned to let go and to let him do his stuff, or rather, my stuff! Through each moment of living life to the full, God accompanies us, using the world around us, the people and situations we encounter, and each wave of life that barrels at us, to reveal himself to us. If we shut our eyes to his presence, we may risk missing the opportunity to embrace the exhilaration of being his companion. When we hang on tight and trust in him, no matter what is coming at us, we grow in knowledge of his friendship, not just learned through books, or other people’s experiences, but through our own powerful ‘being’. This sense of self in God’s love feeds and nourishes us, and radiates outwards from us, affecting others, and centring our own sense of belong-ing in life itself. Life in God’s love can be scary, but, a bit like my waves, it is sooo worth it! The last thing I would want to do when riding a wave is to shut my eyes to the power of the moment. The last thing I want to do when riding each wave through life is to shut my eyes to the powerful presence of God.

Gospel & Life

Meeting every fortnight. Upcoming dates: Tuesday 1st May and 15th

May. 2-3pm in the Presbytery. All warmly welcome.

Enq. Elissa 9730 2813.

Richie Youngberry - Recently deceased The date for Richie’s funeral is yet to be determined, however the Parish will be

assisting with the catering. Please phone Maree J (5962 5894) if you can

help in any way - thank you!

HOLY SPIRIT PILGRIMAGE

to Holy Land and Holy Places in Italy 3rd-20th Sept, 2018 plus optional

Extension to Egypt & Jordan (20th - 27th Sept, 2018);

or Only Holy Places in Italy (3rd-13th Sept, 2018);

or Only Holy Land (12th-13th Sept, 2018).

Spiritual Directors: Fr Emmanuel-tv and Fr Jude CSSP.

For more info/itinerary, Contact: fremmanueltv@hotmail.com,

0417999553, (08)93413131; (08)93413079,

or jude.agorchukwu@cam.org.au; 0400759391, (03) 97899672

Congratulations

A huge congratulations to Rod & Heather on the recent arrival of

their first grandchild!

Mid-week Masses for the next two weeks:

2nd May Yarra Glen Debbie 7pm

3rd May Healesville Debbie 9.15am

9th May Healesville John B 7.30pm

We are a

Child Safe

Parish

Please remember to

keep baby Jean Bernice

in your prayers.

Tanya, Michael, Brinn,

Endo & Alby are so

grateful for the support

of their parish family.

Dinner at Darron’s Youth

Team

Secondary school students are in-

vited to be involved in cooking

and/or serving a 2-course dinner

to those who are financially disad-

vantaged or socially isolated as

part of the Dinner at Darron’s

Community Meal program

organised by HICCI.

Our next cook and food

service is May 7 and 8th

The Youth Team will be

responsible for organising a

Tuesday evening dinner

approximately 6 times a year.

If your child may be interested,

please phone Andrea 0417 088 231.

Youth-Led Mass

Congratulations to all those

involved in our first Youth-led

Mass for Palm Sunday.

It was a great success!

If you would like to be involved

with our next Mass in Term 2

please contact Paula 0423 508 355