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Please keep the children of Mater Dei Par-ish in your prayers as they prepare for the Sacrament of Confirmation on 16th May.
PARISH DIRECTORY
PARISH PRIEST: FR. ISIDORE ANANTHARAJ [email protected]
MATER DEI CATHOLIC CHURCH 1008 King Georges Road, Blakehurst 2221, NSW
ST. RAPHAEL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 84 George Street, South Hurstville
www.materdei-straphael.org.au
Parish Secretary: Neeti Office hours: Tues, Wed & Fri 9am - 2pm
Phone: 9546 2605 - Fax: 95472323 Email: [email protected]
Parish Ministry Coordinator: Michael Fernandes
Office hours: Tues, Wed & Fri 10am – 1pm Phone: 0437517758
Email: [email protected]
Pastoral Ministry Coordinator: Br. Ben Krupowicz Phone: 02 95462544
email: [email protected]
Fr. Jan Chrzczonowicz Phone: 0412786245
Mater Dei Primary School: (02) 95467298 Principal: Mrs Anne Melrose
St. Raphael Primary School: (02) 95464898 Principal: Mrs. Annette McKenzie
COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND
TYPE St Raphael’s Mater Dei
First 475.85 221.65
Second: loose 284.90 284.40
Envelopes 365.00 435.00
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” - Norman Vincent Peale
Catechist Required Our Parish urgently requires Catechists for teach-
ing catechism in Blakehurst Public School once a week for half an hour
on Wednesdays. If you are able to assist , please contact the Parish Office.
18 March - The Day of the Unborn Child wiill be led by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP. It is a day of celebration and remembrance of the dignity of the unborn, whose lives have been ended by the violence of abortion. Join us to witness the sanctity of human life! For more information: Call (02) 9002 0354 / www.lifeandfamily.com.au or email on [email protected]
Home Rosary St Raphael Monday 7:30PM 30-04-2018 Mrs Najat Geha 10/136 Moreshead Dr, Hurstville Grove 07-05-2018 Teresa & Gail Dawson 38/344 West Botany St, Brighton Le Sands Home Rosary Mater Dei 01-05-2018 Marquerite and Denis Derrig 32 Waratah St Kyle Bay 8:00 P.M. 08-05-18 Cheddar Street Nursing Home Cheddar Street Blakehurst 11:00AM
MASS TIMES
Mater Dei St. Raphael
Saturday 6.15pm 5.00pm
Sunday 10.00am 8.30am
Tuesday 8.00am -
Wednesday 8.00am -
Thursday - 9.15am
Friday 8.00am 9.00am
RECONCILIATION: (also by appointment)
Saturday - 4.30pm
EXPOSITION
Friday - 7:30 pm —8:30 pm
Saturday - 4pm —4:45pm
Please Pray for:
Recently Deceased: Fr Jose Maria, Maria
Diblasio,John Chinnery,Kim DeSantos, Con
Efremidis, Catherina Trimarchy, Wendy Grant,
Peter Woo-Hee Chow, Meryl Gallagher, Patri-
cia Collins,John Zammit,
Also pray for: All Souls in Purgatory
Mass Offered:Jeffrey George Bishop, Mary
El Khouri & Karam El Khouri, Elias Hadad,
Arturo Caruso, Lidia Caruso
Sick: Athena Emmanouilidis, Marisa Mundweil,Bernadette Petersen, Shirley Bar-buto, Therese & George Mir, Joan Kervin, Dawn Edwards,Edna Edwards, Penny, Jean-ette McGloin, Pavo Bosnjak, Steven McGrath, Sr Vianney Hatton SBS,Betty Swinbourne,Sue McDermott,Tony Ostojic, Tim Birch, John Viera, Adriana, Brian & Barbara Waterman
St Raphael’s Church 90th Anniversary Celebration (11th Nov 2018)
Volunteers are invited to join the committee to organise the 90th Anniversary cele-bration at St Raphael’s Parish. Next meeting will be held on Wednesday 30th May’18 at 7:30pm in SR meeting room. Please contact the council president Minh Nguyen 0417431786 or the Parish office 9546 2605 if you would like to help. All are welcome.
Bookkeeper Required - St Gabriel's, Bexley & St Mary MacKillop,
Rockdale City Parish Bookkeeping position now available. Role is based at
Rockdale and is for 8 hours per week, day/s negotiable. Please call Samantha
on 9567 1558 for more information or send your expression of interest and a
current resume to [email protected]
5.00pm 8.30am 6.15pm V 10.00am
Acolytes / SS Greg Driver Michael B Volunteers Volunteers
EMHC Sus i Fabro Kathy, Rosemary,
Florence Margueri te Derrig
Readers Saab Fami ly Yenson Fami ly VolunteersNina Mi lazzo
Luisa Galea
Altar Servers Volunteers Volunteers Volunteers Volunteers
Children’s Liturgy Kel ly & Delaney No Li turgy
Music CD Music Norma Kim Kim
5.00pm 8.30am 6.15pm V 10.00am
Acolytes / SS Greg Driver Max, Norman Tony Oscuro Paul Watson
EMHC Sus i Fabro Annie, Ros ie Margueri te Derrig
Readers Lovat Fami lyZakhem Fami ly,
Wendy Lou
Sonia Magpi l ly
Frances Oscuro
Gai l A, Angela H,
Luisa Galea
Altar Servers Volunteers Volunteers Volunteers Volunteers
Children’s Liturgy Diana Baladi
Mater Dei
Ministry 5th & 6th
May 2018 (1st Sun)
St. Raphael’s Mater Dei
Please arrange for a replacement if you are unable to serve in your ministry - Michael Fernandes 0437 517 758
Ministry 28th & 29th
Apr 2018 (5th Sun)
St. Raphael’s
A collector of rare books ran into an acquaintance
who told him he had just thrown away an old Bible
that he found in a dusty, old box. He happened to
mention that Guten-somebody-or-other had printed
it. “Not Gutenberg?" gasped the collector. "Yes, that
was it!" "Oh gosh!” despaired the collector. “You've
thrown away one of the first books ever printed. A
copy recently sold at auction for half a million dol-
lars!" "Oh, I don't think this book would have been
worth anything close to that much," replied the man.
"It was scribbled all over in the margins by some guy
named Martin Luther."
Charitable Works Fund Appeal - next weekend on 5th
& 6th May - CWF is a centralised fund that supports the charitable and pastoral activities of the Archdio-cese of Sydney. You are welcome to pick an envelope today and bring them in next weekend. Please sup-
Parishes of Mater Dei Blakehurst &
St Raphael’s South Hurstville BULLETIN 29th Apr 2018
Entrance Antiphon: Cf. Ps 97:1-2
O sing a new song to the Lord, for
he has worked wonders; in the sight
of the nations he has shown his de-
liverance, alleluia.
First Reading: Acts 9:26-31
Saul joins the apostles.
Responsorial Psalm:Ps 21:26-28. 30-
32. R. v.26
I will praise you, Lord, in the assem-
bly of your people.
1. My vows I will pay before those
who fear him. The poor shall eat
and shall have their fill. They shall
praise the Lord, those who seek
him. May their hearts live for ever
and ever! (R.)
2. All the earth shall remember and
return to the Lord, all families of the
nations worship before him. They
shall worship him, all the mighty of
the earth; before him shall bow all
who go down to the dust. (R.)
3. And my soul shall live for him,
my children serve him. They shall
tell of the Lord to generations yet to
come, declare his faithfulness to
peoples yet unborn: ‘These things
the Lord has done’ (R.)
Second Reading:1 Jn 3:18-24
We are in God and God in us.
Gospel Acclamation :Jn 15:4-5
Alleluia, alleluia! Live in me and let
me live in you, says the Lord; my
branches bear much fruit. Alleluia!
Gospel : Jn 15:1-8
Jesus the vine, the Father, the vine-
grower.
Communion Antiphon:
Cf. Jn 15:1,5
I am the true vine and you are the
branches, says the Lord. Whoever
remains in me, and I in him, bears
fruit in plenty, alleluia.
Fifth Sunday of Easter
- Year B
Reflection We are too familiar with today’s gospel. Christ is the vine and we are the branches, sometimes in need of a good pruning. But God’s purpose is not to produce a perfect vineyard. It is to produce a full-bodied wine at the end of history. There is a foretaste of this at every Mass. The wine we offer – ‘fruit of the earth and work of human hands’ – becomes the spiritual drink which best serves the purpose of our Heavenly Father. How does this happen? For the Jewish people observing an animal whose throat is cut, it is obvi-ous that the life drains out with the blood. ‘Life’ and ‘blood’ became syno-nyms. So, when the Jewish Jesus says of the wine in the chalice at the Last Supper: ‘This is my blood’, amongst other things he is saying: ‘This is my life force, this is my very life given unreservedly for you.’ So, when we drink from the chalice at Holy Communion, the life of the Risen Lord courses through our bodies just as the sap of the vine courses through its branches. We share the same ultimate vitality so that our bodi-ly existence builds into the Body of Christ. He becomes truly ‘full-bodied’ as the Divine Vigneron desires. We could take a moment to pray that we respond to the pruning and the tending and the pressing by our Heavenly Father so as to contribute our distinctive character to the vintage at the end of history, the spiritual drink of the Kingdom of Heaven. @ Fr Michael Tate
Saint of the Week - St Joseph, the husband of the Virgin Mary and
adoptive father of Jesus, was a descendant of King David
and a carpenter by trade. During his betrothal to Mary he
became distressed when he heard that she was with child,
but an angelic vision reassured him that this was all part of
God’s plan. After Jesus’ birth he was warned in a dream to
flee with his family to Egypt, in order to escape from King
Herod. Joseph showed great faith in his willingness to do
whatever God asked of him. St Joseph is the patron saint of
many causes including families, expectant mothers, workers & people in doubt.
The Bishop’s Blend: Looking to network and learn how to live your faith in the work-place? Then join the Most Reverend Bishop Richard Umbers, on Tuesday, 22nd May 2018 at 7:00am at the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel Sydney for The Bishop’s Blend, a quar-terly breakfast series for young professionals. Online booking is essential. For more info and to purchase tickets register at https://bishopsblendfourthedition.eventbrite.com or contact us at [email protected]
UNITED IN FAITH, GUIDED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT NOURISHED BY THE
EUCHARIST, COMMITTED TO PROCLAIMING THE
GOSPEL.WE STRIVE TO LIVE AS GOD ASKS “to act justly, to love tenderly and to walk humbly with our God’ (Micah 6:8)
Mass to mark 200 years of the Blessed Sacrament in Australia - 200
years ago, Father Jeremiah O’Flynn – the unofficial Catholic chaplain to
Australia – was arrested and shipped back home because his credentials
had not arrived. By accident or design, he left behind a pyx containing the
Blessed Sacrament. Next Sunday, 6 May, the Australian Catholic Bish-
ops will come together to concelebrate a Mass marking the 200th anniver-
sary of the Blessed Sacrament being preserved in Australia. 12pm, St
Patrick’s Catholic Church, Grosvenor Street, The Rocks. All are welcome.