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Sacrament of Confirmation
We have over 30 children who will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation next Saturday 10 June 2017 at 2pm.
We would like to thank our Sacramental Team, our St Mary’s Star of the Sea School community, parents and families for your support and prayers during this
preparation time and look forward to a memorable day as the children receive the promises of God, the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
We arrive at the fiftieth day - the completion of the
Easter Season, and the completion of the Paschal Mystery -
Jesus has died, is risen, has ascended to heaven and now gives
birth to his Church, by sending the Spirit upon the apostles.
This feast of the gift of the Spirit is so significant for us, because
it marks the handing on of Jesus’ ministry to the Church.
In the Church we are guaranteed the presence of the Lord, in his
sacraments, in his ministers, in the Blessed Sacrament and in his
Celebrated Word. It also marks the fulfilment of our thoughts
about baptism throughout this season: the gift of the Spirit
which we receive in Confirmation is the ‘seal’ of our baptism,
guaranteeing and confirming all that baptism achieves.
Pentecost Sunday – 4 June 2017 Year A
MON 5 JUNE Queens Birthday Observance
Weekday Mass 9.00am (NO 6.45am Mass on this day)
TUE 6 JUNE Weekday Mass 6.45am
Morning Prayer Group 10am Corroboree Room
Marian Movement of Priests Cenacle 6pm Church
Devotion to St Michael & the Angels 7pm Church
WED 7 JUNE Weekday Mass 6.45am
SMSS Year 6 Reconciliation
Fr Janusz to visit SMSS Year 5 students
Baptism Preparation Course 7.30pm Presbytery Meeting Room
Legion of Mary 7.30pm Old Church
THU 8 JUNE Weekday Mass 9.15am
Marian Devotion Croatian Prayer Group 11am Church
FRI 9 JUNE Weekday Mass 9.15am SMSS Year 6 students and families attending
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament till 10.30am Church
Bible Studies 8pm Presbytery Meeting Room
SAT 10 JUNE Meditation 8am Presbytery Meeting Room
Weekday Mass 9.00am followed by
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Reconciliation 9.45am and 4pm
Confirmation Ceremony 2pm Church
MASS TIMES: 5.00pm Vigil Mass and Spanish Mass 6.30pm
SUN 11 JUNE
HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY
MASS TIMES: 8.00am, 10.00am and 6.00pm.
We pray for the repose of the souls of the recently deceased: Ed McGrath, Mary Sakr,
Keith Hillier, Riccardo Addonizio, Maria Vojnouska, Kelvin Cowan, Modesta Lopez,
Anna Giuliano, Bill Spillane, Abraham Thomas and George Coaker.
We remember those relatives and friends who have departed this life:
Antonio & Caterina Lazzaro, Concetta & Rosa Sama, Joseph Chao, Mary Wong,
Herbert & Dora Christensen, George & Josephine Cowell, Trevor Gaynor, Fr Ron Harden,
Florence May Jones, Frank & Lillian Lucas, Ken Lucas, Alan & Kathleen Mercer, Jennifer Meredith,
Antonino Picone, Joseph George Sakr, Vittorio & Angela Scali and the Tracey and Kelly families.
We also pray for: Paul Mok and Germalina Amper May whose anniversaries occur about now.
We pray for the sick in our community: Nathan Nguyen, Georgie Craven, Huong Anne Nguyen,
Ellie Humphries, Terese Bull, Anne Grout-Smith, Gordana Petkovic, Belinda Gonzalez,
Myrna Gonzales, Carmello Agostino, Marie Louis, Tom Carson, Elizabeth Sydenham,
Elizabeth Morgan, Maria Villella, Joseph Park, Rosemary Craven, Lynette Costa, Atelaite Alamoti,
Lourdes Camilon and Patricia Shiels.
We also pray for the Holy Souls in Purgatory and for those who have no one to pray for them.
This weekend, we welcome the Catholic Mission Ambassador Paul Kennedy
who will be speaking at all our Masses.
In Bujuni, a remote parish deep in the heart of Uganda, bringing life into the world
is often fraught with danger. Many women take great risks to get to the nearest
affordable maternity ward at St Luke Bujuni Health Centre.
Despite the tireless work of Sister Mary Goretti and her small staff, the health
centre does not have the capacity to deal with the influx of high-risk pregnancies
amongst the many expectant mothers. Sadly, the potential consequences can be
tragic. With your support through Catholic Mission, Sister Goretti is hoping to
expand St Luke’s and provide essential services for women and children.
Please give generously to support women & children’s health through Jesus’
life-giving mission today. Freecall: 1800 257 296 catholicmission.org.au/uganda
CATHOLIC MISSION APPEAL
© The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the Alleluia and Gospel Verses, and the Lenten Gospel Acclamations, and the Titles, Summaries, and Conclusion of the Readings, from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved.
HEALING MASS:
First Friday of: March,
June, Sept & Dec at
7.00pm
CHILDREN’S
LITURGY:
Sunday 10.00am Mass
(except 5th Sunday and
holidays)
BAPTISMS:
Sunday at 11.15am
RECONCILIATION:
Sat: 9.45am-10.15am and
4-4.45pm
MARRIAGES:
Please contact the Priest
6mths prior to the
wedding.
ANOINTING OF THE
SICK AND DYING:
Call the Priest any time
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:
The Spirit of the Lord has filled the whole
world and that which contains all things
understands what is said, alleluia.
FIRST READING: Acts 2:1-11
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
When Pentecost day came round, the apostles
had all met in one room, when suddenly they
heard what sounded like a powerful wind
from heaven, the noise of which filled the
entire house in which they were sitting; and
something appeared to them that seemed like
tongues of fire; these separated and came to
rest on the head of each of them. They were
all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to
speak foreign languages as the Spirit gave
them the gift of speech. Now there were
devout men living in Jerusalem from every
nation under heaven, and at this sound they
all assembled, each one bewildered to hear
these men speaking his own language. They
were amazed and astonished. ‘Surely’ they
said ‘all these men speaking are Galileans?
How does it happen that each of us hears
them in his own native language?
Parthians, Medes and Elamites; people
f r o m M e s o p o t a m i a , J u d a e a
a n d C a p p a d o c i a , P o n t u s a n d
Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the
parts of Libya round Cyrene; as well as
visitors from Rome – Jews and proselytes
alike – Cretans and Arabs; we hear them
preaching in our own language about the
marvels of God.’
The word of the Lord.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 46:2-3. 6-9.
Ps 103:1. 24. 29-31. 34. R. v.30
All: Lord, send out your Spirit and renew
the face of the earth.
1. Bless the Lord, my soul!
Lord God, how great you are,
How many are your works, O Lord!
The earth is full of your riches.
2. You take back your spirit, they die,
returning to the dust from which they
came.
You send forth your spirit, they are
created; and you renew the face of the
earth.
3. May the glory of the Lord last for ever!
May the Lord rejoice in his works!
May my thoughts be pleasing to him.
I find my joy in the Lord.
All: Lord, send out your Spirit and renew
the face of the earth.
SECOND READING: 1 Cor 12:3-7, 12-13
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to
the Corinthians
No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ unless he is
under the influence of the Holy Spirit. There
is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit;
there are all sorts of service to be done, but
always to the same Lord; working in all sorts
of different ways in different people, it is the
same God who is working in all of them. The
particular way in which the Spirit is given to
each person is for a good purpose. Just as a
human body, though it is made up of many
parts, is a single unit because all these parts,
though many, make one body, so it is with
Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised,
Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as
citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to
drink.
The word of the Lord.
SEQUENCE
Holy Spirit, Lord of light,
From the clear celestial height
Thy pure beaming radiance give.
Come, thou Father of the poor,
Come with treasures which endure;
Come, thou light of all that live!
Thou, of all consolers best,
Thou, the soul’s delightful guest,
Dost refreshing peace bestow;
Thou in toil art comfort sweet;
Pleasant coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
Light immortal, light divine,
Visit thou these hearts of thine,
And our inmost being fill:
If thou take thy grace away,
Nothing pure in man will stay;
All his good is turned to ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour thy dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
Thou, on us who evermore
Thee confess and thee adore,
With thy sevenfold gifts descend:
Give us comfort when we die;
Give us life with thee on high;
Give us joys that never end.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Alleluia, alleluia!
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your
faithful
and kindle in them the fire of your love.
Alleluia!
ST MICHAEL’S PARISH
10 Croydon Road, Hurstville 2220
Ph: 9587 2166
www.stmichaelhurst.org.au
PARISH CLERGY:
Parish Priest: Fr Janusz Bieniek CSMA
Assistant Priest: Fr Kenneth Kaimalan CSMA
PARISH STAFF:
Secretary: Leena Strickland-Langatuki
Accounts: Maria Awad
Sacramental Co-ordinator: Valerie Gonzaga
✝GOSPEL Jn 20:19-23
A reading from the holy Gospel according
to John
In the evening of the first day of the week,
the doors were closed in the room where the
disciples were, for fear of the Jews. Jesus
came and stood among them. He said to
them, ‘Peace be with you’, and showed them
his hands and his side. The disciples were
filled with joy when they saw the Lord, and
he said to them again, ‘Peace be with you.
‘As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.’
After saying this he breathed on them and
said: ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. For those
whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven: for
those whose sins you retain, they are re-
tained.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON:
Behold, I am with you always,
even to the end of the age, alleluia.