IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Sun, 5 May, Making Connection weekend. Sun, 5 May, Farewell for the Priests, 12Noon at the Good Sams Hall Tue 7 May, PPC Meeting, 7.30pm at the Parish Centre Sat/Sun, 11/12 May, Rite of Welcome (Confirmation Students) Tue 14 May, KSC Meeting, 7.30pm at The Crystal Brook Parish Centre Sun, 19 May, Cemetery Walks, 1pm at Rita Blieschke Shelter.

Our Parish Vision: A Parish that reaches out and embraces All with love, sensitivity and charity. A Catholic community that endeavours to live the joy of the Gospel.

Holy Trinity Church

Crystal Brook

LITURGICAL NOTICES Tuesday, 9.30am Mass at Holy Trinity Friday, 9.30am Holy Hour with Liturgy of the Word with

Communion

Reconciliation: Before Sunday Mass.

Rosary: Before Mass or Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion.

LITURGY Acolyte Commentator Reader Prayers of the faithful Gifts Eucharistic Minister Altar servers

5 May B Clarke

P Pilkington J Cooke J Cooke

D & A Redden J O’Dea

All Welcome

12 May J O’Dea

M Fogarty J Fogarty J Fogarty

G & E Haggerty G Wells

All Welcome

Altar Preparation: 5 May - 18 May M Kerin & F Duffield 19 May - 1 June V Kirchner & J Kirchner Church Grounds: D & J Huxtable …... Comm Round: J Fogarty

MINISTRIES FOR 11/12 MAY 2019

Mass Commentator Readers Eucharistic Ministers

8.00pm 10.30am 5.00pm

T Preece G Hay M Gadaleta

J Mullin, E Mertens B Arbon, K Taylor F DeGiglio, M Capurso

M Forster, C Conaghty L Halfacre, M Langston

Sr Mary

Mass Commentator Readers Eucharistic Ministers

6.00pm 10.30am 5.00pm

L Clyde AM Orvad Sr Mary

F Pepe, N Raftery W Brooks, F Sanchez J Willson, D Willson

T Preece, E Mertens P Waters, M Capurso K Pole

WEEKEND MASS TIMES 4 Cathedral Saturday 6pm, Sunday 10.30am St Anthony’s Sunday 5.00pm Crystal Brook Sunday 8.30am

RECONCILIATION ST MARK’S CATHEDRAL: Thursday 7.00pm, Saturday 5.30pm. ST ANTHONY’S: Saturday 10.30am; HOLY TRINITY: before Masses.

WEEKDAY MASSES / LITURGIES

Monday: 8.00am St Anthony’s Tuesday: 8.00am Cathedral 9.30am Holy Trinity

Wednesday: 9.10am Cathedral 10.30am St Joseph

Thursday 7.30pm Cathedral

Friday 12 noon Cathedral Saturday: 11.00am St Anthony’s

Communion to the Sick WEEK 1

COUNTERS: Blessings of the Fleet Team NEXT WEEK: R & V Palumbo, M & L Palumbo

MINISTRIES FOR 4/5 MAY 2019

Children’s Liturgy

School Holiday Next week: E Spolding

HOLY TRINITY MINISTRIES

ROSTER REMINDER Exposition/Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Every Friday:

9.30am Holy Trinity Church (with LWHC) 11.30am Cathedral before the 12 noon Mass

ALL WELCOME.

Prayer Intention: That the Lord will continue to bless Frs Francis’ and Harold’s ministries and their new parishes.

Recently Deceased: Romulo Chicote

Memorials: Marie Mullin, Joylene & Ebony Cunningham, Catherine & Harold Cunningham, Maurie & Michael Capurso, Michael & Vincenza Bellifemini, Joseph Amato, Christina Freer, Michael, James & Leigh Camporeale, Loraine King, Antoineta Mavilio

The Sick: Dave Boucher, Jo Connelly, John DeGiglio, Alf Crotty, Peg Ardill, Anna Roeters, Nicholas Amato, Harold Antrobus, John Gorman, Robbie Rushworth, Tom Brewer, Dianne Quin, Rachelle Roldan, Domenic Albanese, Kelly Hellyer, Peter Bellifemini, Bernadette Ganley, Bernice Ward, Ben Taylor, Alvin Villamor, Colin & Shirley Rohlac, Philip Gourd, Frank LaForgia, Evelyn & Emil Pellegrini, Frs Chris Warnock, Gavin O’Sullivan and Jaromir, Mary Bowers, Jo Weerts, Jack Shepley, Rita Johnson, Leon Navarro, Rita Duggan-

Welcomer

F Fahey D Potter S Capurso

Welcomer

John & Elaine L Rich J & D Willson

PLEASE PRAY FOR

† Our deceased loved ones: Constantino Fusco, Maurice Kerin, Myrt Arbon, Thomas Arbon, Hap Head, Kath Dempsey, Jack Slattery,

Veronica Spry, Doris Mudge, Eileen Clarke, Jack Francis, Ronda Smallacombe, Lily Bruggy, Pat Cousins, Catherine Dillon, Bernard

Scanlan, Marnie Jones, Liz Fogarty, Nelle Howie, Jack Dooley, Thomas Navin, Mick Slattery, Bruce Powell

† Our sick relatives and friends: Pat Marks, Tim Lockyer, Jim Melville, Phillip J McDonald, Jesse Frick, Georgia Dohnt, Jeffrey Williamson,

Kevin Kerin, Jade Haggerty.

FAREWELL FOR OUR PRIESTS

You are invited to attend the farewell for Frs Francis and Harold on this Sunday, 5th May, starting at 12noon at

the Good Samaritan Hall, St Mark’s College.

Please join us and bring a plate to share. A leaving Collection will be taken up today for the farewell gifts, in case you haven’t got the chance

before. Thank you for your generosity. All welcome CRYSTAL BROOK CATHOLIC WOMENS GROUP MAY MEETING

Reminder to collect items suitable for this year's Christmas boxes. Items can be given to Elaine or Annette C any time.

Meet and Greet - MAY - Knights, volunteers.

MOTHERS DAY CUPPA AFTER MASS, SUNDAY MAY. 12TH. Men to host. Please bring a plate.

Healing Ministry, Sunday May 5th, 4 p.m., St Silas Anglican . See notice in porch for more information.

CEMETERY WALK 2019

SOME INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN

Sunday, 19th May, starting 1pm At Rita Blieschke Shelter - Port Pirie Cemetery Cost $7.00 payable on the day. All Welcome For booking phone: Louise Carmody 0418859838

Blessing of the Fleet Committee Meeting

Monday 6th May at 7.30pm SHARP

at St Anthony’s.

Making Connections within our community. This weekend we will be undertaking an effort to re-connect with all our parishioners who come to Mass here in our catholic community. During this year, we want to continue a way of being ‘church’ with all families who have been coming here for many years, and also with those who are relatively new. We believe that our faithful parishioners are the ‘heart’ of our Catholic Community and our desire is that each truly begins to experience a real sense of belonging, welcome and hospi-tality. So today is ‘Making Connections’ weekend and we shall be inviting all those attending Mass to complete a parish Connection Card. These Connection Cards will allow the parish leadership to design and plan meaningful ways to be relevant as ‘Church’ now and into the future. It will assist us to build upon the formation that has already begun, and assist update our Parish Census register. This initiative will apply to ALL parishioners – old & new. Parishioner Connection Cards will be available at all Masses. Our aim is that all parishioners complete a Connection Card at this time.

FAREWELL MESSAGE

The 1 Red class of St Mark’s College wrote on the card that they gave me: “Fr Harold we will miss your smile at Mass” made me smile all the more. God’s gift of the priesthood to myself and hopefully to all that I come to meet is something that we will all be thankful to the Lord for. I am humbled, blessed and inspired by all God’s people in all walks of life. It is an enormous gift that if understand fully and profoundly anyone would not exchange for anything else in the world. Unworthy as we are (the priest), we try our best to become an experience of God’s love in the world that we are sent to. We pray that we will only proclaim Jesus, live Jesus and share Jesus to all.

I would like to extend my gratitude again and again to all. The short amount of time I spent in Port Pirie, Crystal Brook, Redhill, Port Broughton and Burra parishes, school and community has allowed me to experience pockets of graces, rains of generosity, tsunamis of kindness, bonfires of warmth, wifi’s of joy, and rivers of love. The experiences affirmed and confirmed my vocation to the priesthood. It has been a tradition every time I leave a parish to ask for forgiveness if I offended anyone which is never and will never be my intention in my life. I only pray and hope that it is only the love of Christ that I preach and live in my lifetime which is always difficult and so I continuously ask for your prayers.

Rest assured of my prayers and may God’s blessings be upon each one of you especially those who are finding it tough. Always remember that God loves you, Jesus cares for you and the Holy Spirit is with you. May the intercession of the Blessed Mother always remind you that you are never alone in your journey in the world. Amen. Let us never stop telling the world of God’s Love. Thank You very much, Maraming Salamat po and Grazie mille!

Fr Harold

ROSARY IN MAY

During the month of May, the Rosary will be prayed

on Fridays after the Cathedral Mass.

Everyone is welcome to join.

Spiritual or Religious: What’s the difference? Written by Shane Dwyer

The word ‘spirituality’ is all the rage today. It has become one of those commonplace ideas that gets used by all sorts of people in all sorts of contexts. Today you can scarcely watch an interview with a celebrity without them humbly noting that, while they may not be religious, they are ‘spiritual’. And let’s face it, it sounds fair enough. Being religious – that is to say – identifying yourself as belonging to a particular religion, is not something that sits easily in the world in which we live. It sounds like you’re limiting your options and unnecessarily restricting yourself. Instead, ‘we all really know’ that there are many forms of truth out there, and we are beyond identifying ourselves with just one of them…Isn’t that right? So when Hollywood celebrities describe themselves as ‘spiritual’ we applaud them for being so open-minded…so in touch with themselves…so nice…so beyond religion. The fact is all human beings are instinctively spiritual. Therefore, to claim to ‘be’ spiritual is a little like claiming to have limbs, a heart, or a brain. All these things are true or otherwise you would be dead. The same is true of being spiritual. Even those who deny the significance of things spiritual have some idea of what people mean when they talk about such things. Whether we embrace it or not, human beings instinctively have the capacity for spiritual awareness. So why not just be ‘spiritual’ and ignore religion altogether? One of the reasons is this: religion provides us with the ability to make sense of the spiritual dimension of life. It gives us a structure within which we can name our experience, and a way of ritualising that experience. It also connects us with others who are seeking to understand and deepen their awareness of those experiences. Religion provides us with a vocabulary and a community. Without it, what we are left with is just our own subjectivity, open to the whims and vagaries of life. Of course religion has its problems. That is inevitable, as all reli-gions are impacted upon by the weakness and inconsistencies of their adherents. That does not make what they have to teach us any less true. As a Catholic I often have to reflect on this point in the current context. I have come to see that when Catholics fail it isn’t be-cause they have been taught to do so by the religion they profess. In fact, it’s the opposite: Catholics fail when they ignore the teachings they have been taught. The same is true of any of the great faiths of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism…All are vulnerable to distortion by the people who iden-tify with them. But rather than rejecting religion, isn’t the way forward to find what’s authentic within the religious quest and allow it to guide us on the journey towards becoming the people of love we have been created to be?

To the Cathedral Choir

and to the visiting choir,

Couple For Christ Music

Ministry for providing

beautiful music for today’s

liturgy.