Priests:

Fr Karel Duivenvoorden Mobile No (0488 988 332)

Fr John McGrath (Retired)

Schools

St Thérèse’s - 4081 3400

Principal: David Adams- Jones

MacKillop Catholic College - 4081 7600

Principal: Luke Reed

Parish Admin:

Property Manager:

Safeguarding Coord:

Safeguarding Rep:

Vera Skinner

Terry Webb

denise-terry@hotmail.com

Kirby Will – 0427 798 740

Eddy Tutoe – 0478 904 600

OSHC

Bentley Park

Terry Rooke - 4045 4763/0438 219 584

Kindergarten – 0436 645 606

Mt Peter

Alice Holzberger – 0439 312 901

Early Learning Centre – 0438 620 587

Gordonvale Sunday Masses

Edmonton Sunday Masses

Saturday Vigil:

6.00pm

Sunday Morning

Sunday Evening

9.30am

5.30pm

Sunday Morning:

8.00am

Reconciliation:

By appointment no later than 15 mins before Mass.

For Mass times across the Diocese: 40511990 or www.cairns.catholic.org.au

EDMONTON CATHOLIC PARISH

St Thérèse Church

135 Robert Road, Bentley Park PO Box 41, Edmonton 4869 P: 07 4055 4315

E: edmonton.parish@cairns.catholic.org.au

www (under construction)

We acknowledge the Yidinji (Yidiny) people, our land’s traditional stewards and custodians.

A Welcoming Parish: Under the patronage of St Thérèse of Lisieux

Tues 24/12

Christmas Eve

5.30pm Vigil

7.00pm Vigil

Sat 28/12

Wed 25/12

Christmas Day

8.00am Mass

Sun 29/12

The Holy Family

Mass 9.30am & 5.30pm

Thurs 26/12

7.30am Mass

Mon 30/12

7.30am Mass

Fri 27/12

Tues 31/12

Wed 1/1

7.30am Mass

New Years Day - 7.30am Mass

Ministers of the Eucharist25/12

Next Week’s Ministers of the Eucharist 29/12

5.30pm Vigil

7.00pm Vigil

E & M Robertson, L Pecotich, D Fava J Willmett

S Hussey, T Jankowski L & E Beck J O’Brien

9.30am

Team 2 E & M Robertson, J O’Brien, M Fava & S Hussey

8.00am Wed

M Sheppard, L Amadio plus 2 more

5.30pm

Team 1 D & Stella Zappala

Readers25/12

Next Week’s Readers 29/12

5.30pm Vigil

7.00pm Vigil

P Lockington, M Shay, G Wood

J Fitzgerald, N Fiorenza, R Gaul

9.30am

Team 3 Anthony, Matthew & Lucas Kresevic

8.00am Wed

Will Family

5.30pm

Team 2 A Chellingworth & R Gaul

Music 25/12

Music – this month

5.30pm 7.00pm

Judy R/Vera

Maureen G/Vivien

29/12 9.30

5.30

Maureen/Vera

Judy/Ann C

8.00am

Margaret/Vera

05/01 9.30

5.30

John Shay/Daniel

Maureen/Chaz & Dyson

Cleaning For Week 29/12 J & E Fitzgerald

1st Week

2nd Week

3rd Week

4th Week

5th Week

Nancy, Lyn, Loletta & S Brassett

June, Louisa & Mary

10.00am Mass-

Christina, Joe & Lina

Nancy & Lyn, Loletta & S Brassett

R.I.P. Lord of Life raise up in glory all those who have died recently especially Geoffrey Ranson, Fr Bill Grundy, Fr John O’Connor, those for whom we are asked to pray and those whose anniversaries occur about this time: Doreen Maunder, John Wall, Mark Guazzo, Tom Shiels, Irene Shanahan, Lena Vaccaro, Felix Grasso, Walter Harding, Vera Rowbotham, Dan McGrath, Toni Casey, Anna Piccone, Keith Barratt, Varmir Graham, Mavis Noakes, John Casey, John Taylor, Patrick Chung Kim Sen, Percy Schembri, Floripes Phala, Allen Stagg, Kitty Thomas, Erin Whittaker, Elizabeth Veronese, Henry Knight, Graham Leard, Anafel Lomera, Mary Loftus and Karolina Setefano

BAPTISTERY PROJECT APPEAL (see the Brochure)

Please consider a donation. We need $66,000 and now have $42978.90 - we can now proceed with the project as we have secured 60% of needed funds.

Christmas Masses 2019

24/12 5.30pm Vigil

24/12 7.00pm Vigil

25/12 8.00am

Christmas Music:

24/12 5.30pm Vigil Judy R/Vera

24/12 7.00pm Vigil Maureen G/Vivien

25/12 8.00am Margaret/Vera

“The light of the Christmas star to you – The warmth of home and hearth to you – The cheer and good will of friends to you – The hope of a childlike heart to you – The joy of a thousand angels to you – The love of the Son and God’s peace to you. With Christmas love and New Year’s wishes,”

St Vincent de Paul Society

The 2nd collection next Sunday 29th September, will go to supporting our St Therese’s St Vincent de Paul Society Conference in the work they do in our Parish.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA

CHRISTMAS - the Great and Intoxicating Feast of Life’s Meaning: Human beings tell stories to make the meaning that we need to discover, in order to live well. The narratives of scripture, like that of the birth of Jesus, give greater returns each time we recall them, so freshly intertwined are they with the stories of our own lives. Our deepening spiritual experience, the raising and clarifying of consciousness that is the result of our meditation, is fed by the Word that is alive and active. It also leads us back to scripture with a new hunger and capacity for insight.

Christmas is a feast of meaning. Much of it is reflected in our cultural forms of celebrating at this time of year. But all these forms depend on the personal experience of what Christmas is most essentially about – the radical poverty and simplicity, the intoxicating proximity to God that our total dependence reveals. 

Let us hold each other in our hearts in this joyful season. May we be restored to the love of the earth that is desperately needed if we are to repair the damage we have inflicted on it. May our life as community increase the energy of peace that our divided world is striving for, as well as the justice on which peace depends – the very wisdom that the once newborn and daily born anew Jesus embodies; until he comes again. [Laurence Freeman OSB]

CHRISTMAS – the Heart Moving Towards Others

The cross and life vest blessed by Pope Francis, Dec 2019

“We must rescue and save because we are all responsible for the lives of our neighbour and the Lord will ask us to account for them at the moment of judgment,” the Pope said as he met 33 migrants and refugees brought to Rome on 4 December … including 14 children and teens … most from Afghanistan … including both Christians and Muslims.

Francis blessed a large resin cross constructed around a used orange life vest. The life vest, which the Pope had hung in an alcove by the guest elevators in the Apostolic Palace, was picked up by a migrant rescue organisation in the central Mediterranean Sea July 3.

Francis said he wanted the jacket to be part of a cross because the cross symbolises both suffering and redemption through the triumph of Jesus. “The unknown migrant, who died hoping for a new life, participates in this victory,” the Pope said.

Francis said he wanted to display the life vest ‘crucified’ on the cross to remind us that we must keep our eyes open, keep our hearts open and to remind everyone of the binding obligation to save every human life, a moral obligation that unites believers and nonbelievers.