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21st May 2017
Parish Directory St Canice Parish 28 Roslyn Street, Elizabeth Bay NSW 2011 www.stcanice.org.au Tel: 9358 5229 Fax: 9358 3170 [email protected] Parish Priest Chris Jenkins, SJ [email protected] Parish Manager: Lynelle Lembryk [email protected] 9358 5229 Parish Secretary Elizabeth Strutt [email protected] Chair of the Parish Pastoral Council Caroline Coggins [email protected] Tel: 0407 575 557 Director JRS Carolina Gottardo
Jesuit Refugee Service - Australia www.jrs.org.au 9356 3888 Jesuit Mission (National Office) www.jesuitmission.org.au Mass Times Sunday– 8:30am & 10:30am Tuesday to Friday– 7:00am Saturday– 9.00am Vigil- 6:00pm Public Holidays– 9:00am Reconciliation Before Vigil & Sunday Masses or on request Anointing Healing Mass
11:00am - First Friday of each month - otherwise by request
6th Sunday of Easter - Year A
Catholic Parish of St Canice We acknowledge the Gadigal people, the traditional custodians on whose land this Church was built.
Horizons of Hope
St Peter reminds us in our reading this week that we should always have our
answer ready for people who ask the reason for our hope.
Our Easter story is the reason for our great hope - by living as Jesus lived, we
have already passed from death to life with him - the more surely grounded
because we are not alone in it.
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech Willian Faulkner said many years ago: “We
tell stories to help us endure by lifting our heart.” We are called to tell our
beautiful story as a blessing for those who feel overwhelmed by today's world of
anxieties, giving them new ground to stand on. We believe that an evolving
creation is now the human flesh of the divine, incarnate God. The peace and
unity we pray for is already present in the world. Nightmarish though it may seem
at times, this is the year, this is the moment of waiting for the start of a faith-filled
imagination to guide us towards horizons of hope. Despair creeps in only when
we forget the story; hope grows in our memory of it.
Fr Chris
Entrance Antiphon
Proclaim a joyful sound and let it be heard; proclaim to the ends of the earth: The Lord has freed his people, alleluia.
Entrance Hymn: No 365 (Gather) Christ is Alive With Joy We Sing
Opening Prayer
Grant, almighty God, that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy, which we keep in honour of the risen
Lord, and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold to in what we do. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your
Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.
First Reading: Acts 8:5-8. 14-17
A severe persecution began against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered. Philip went down
to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Messiah to them. The crowds with one accord listened eagerly to what was said
by Philip, hearing and seeing the signs that he did, for unclean spirits, crying with loud shrieks, came out of many who were
possessed; and many others who were paralysed or lame were cured. So there was great joy in that city. Now when the
apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them. The two went
down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit; (for as yet the Spirit had not come upon any of them; they
had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus). Then Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received
the Holy Spirit. The word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 65:1-7,16,20
Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.
Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:15-18
In your hearts sanctify Christ as Lord. Always be ready to make your defence to anyone who demands from you an
accounting for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and reverence. Keep your conscience clear, so that, when
you are maligned, those who abuse you for your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for
doing good if suffering should be God's will, than to suffer for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the
righteous for the unrighteous, in order to bring you to God. He was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.
The word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them and we will come to them. Alleluia!
Gospel: John 14:15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you
another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees
him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you. "I will not leave you orphaned; I am
coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that
day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. "They who have my commandments and keep them
are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them."
The Gospel of the Lord.
Offertory Hymn: No 472 (Gather) Isiah 49, I Will Never Forget You
Communion Antiphon
If you love me, keep my commandments, says the Lord, and I will ask the Father and he will send you another Paraclete, to
abide with you for ever, alleluia.
Reflection Hymn: No 206 (Gather) Christians Let Us Love One Another
Recessional: No 404 (Gather) Christ Be Our Light
Let Us Pray For:
Recently Deceased: Charles Cowley, Angela Delarides, Maureen Coyle,
Marian Lembryk
Anniversaries: Margaret Kavanagh, Patrick Kavanagh, John Patrick Brien,
Ross Gladstone Jones, Elizabeth Johnson, Jean Sykes, Ted Sykes
Recently ill: Nola Rowe, Dulcie Kennedy, Sr Rita Hayes, Ling Yeo, Flynn Cawood, Pam Young, Valentino Close, Marcia McIlvenna, Wendy Watson, Peter Giles, Penelope Anne Quinn, Jayne Bernstan, Ronald Soussa, Albert Jacobs,
Sophie Napier, Helena Herington, Jeanette Budak, Veronica Rainbird, Joan Agbor
Next Week’s Readings: 27-28th May 2017
First Reading:
Acts 1:1-11
Second Reading:
Ephesians 1:17-23
Gospel:
Matthew 28:16-20
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Roster for Eucharistic Celebrations
27 - 28th May Vigil 6pm 8.30am 10.30am
Greeters H. Campbell S. Barnes M. Topui
Readers A. Hurst C. Sexton P. Campbell-
Hardwick
Ministers of the
Eucharist
As available
B. Anderson T. Hunt
M. Musgrave 1 other
as available
As available
Parish Calendar
Sunday 21st May Meeting 3 - First Holy Communion
Hall Annex, 9.30 - 10.30am
Wednesday 24th May First Reconciliation (First Communicants)
Church, 6pm
Sunday 28th May
Heart and Hand 2 - Concert of Opera and Song Church, 3 - 4.30pm
Meeting 4 - First Holy Communion
Hall Annex, 9.30 - 10.30am
Friday 2nd June Healing Mass: Church 11am
Join us for morning tea afterwards
Sunday 5th June Meeting 5 - First Holy Communion
Hall Annex, 9.30 - 10.30am
Sunday 11th June Meeting 6 - First Holy Communion 9.30 - 10.30am, Rehearsal in Church
Sunday 18th June First Holy Communion Mass
10.30am
Reminder - Heart and Hand 2 Concert NEXT WEEKEND
Cakes/Sweet things needed - Can You Help? Next Sunday we are holding our fundraising event - Heart and Hand 2 - Concert of Opera and Song - to raise money for our kitchen and Railaco East Timor. We are serving wine, tea and coffee at the event and thought it would be nice for our guests to also be offered something sweet to eat. We know there are many talented cooks in our parish and therefore we are asking for donations of cakes/sweets that can be served with the tea and coffee at the concert. If you are able to help out, please let Lynelle know in the parish office by either phoning on 9358 5229 or email [email protected].
Thank you so much for your continued support of our kitchen.
Parish Notices
You are invited to join us for an entertaining
afternoon of song to raise
money for the vital work of
Canice's Kitchen in Sydney's
King's Cross and to support
the Railaco Jesuit Mission in
East Timor.
St Canice’s Church
28 Roslyn St
Elizabeth Bay
Sun 28th May 2017
3pm - 4.30pm.
Tickets $20
Buy at the door
or online:
www.bit.ly/stcanice
During the week, 2 very special ladies will be celebrating their 90th birthday:
Nola Rowe and Pat Bracher
We wish them many blessings on this special occasion and thank them
for the significant contribution they have made to
parish life at St Canice’s.