CATHOLIC PARISH OF St Brigid’s HEALESVILLE, St Aloysius YARRA GLEN & Our Lady of the Snows MARYSVILLE 15 High Street, Healesville, 3777; PO Box 73, Healesville 3777 Ph: 5962 4026 Fax: 5962 2028 www.stbrigidshealesville.cam.org.au

PARISH PRIEST: Fr Arsenio Tuazon email: lilydale@cam.org.au or phone 9739 5977 Lilydale DEACON: Rev Phil King email: philipking51@gmail.com PASTOR EMERITUS, Fr John Dupuche (In Pastoral relationship with Healesville & Lilydale) PASTORAL WORKER: Debbie Edwards 5962 4026/9739 5977, 0448 664 731 email: deb.edwards4@y7mail.com SECRETARY: Paula Pearce email: healesville@cam.org.au

ST BRIGID’S PRIMARY SCHOOL Principal: Vicky Wissell 5962 4200 MOUNT LILYDALE MERCY COLLEGE Principal: Philip Morison 9735 4022

PARISH GROUPS

RCIC & RCIA Anybody wishing to find about what Catholics believe.

Contact Debbie, our Pastoral worker. RCIC - Baptism Is someone in

your family interested in finding out about the Sacrament of Baptism?

Please contact Debbie 0400 310 703 if you have any questions.

CATECHIST PROGRAM For children attending non-Catholic schools,

who are wishing to participate in the Sacraments this year, please con-

tact Debbie for more information.

Spirit of Christ Prayer Group Enquires: Tony on 0418 323 947

Meditation Group Mondays 9.15am - 10.15am There will be a

short break - meditation will be resuming on the 9th April.

Enq: Anna 5962 4308

Care Group 1st Friday of month 1.30-3.30pm

Playgroup is not running at this time

Hall Bookings Call Marie Snell 5962 3794

Youth-led Family Masses to be held once a term. All secondary

students who would like to join the team are encouraged to contact

Paula on 0423 508 355 for more information.

Youth-led Dinner at Darrons Secondary school students are invited

to be involved in cooking and/or serving a 2-course dinner to those who

are financially disadvantaged or socially isolated approx. 6 times/year.

Contact Andrea: 0417 088 231 for more information.

Weekly Mass Times 1st Wednesday 7pm 2nd & 4th Thursday Rosary 6.30pm St Aloysius’, Yarra Glen

2nd,3rd,4th,5th Wednesday 7.30pm St Brigid’s, Healesville

1st,2nd,4th,5th Thursday 9.15am St Brigid’s, Healesville

3rd Thursday 10.30am

COMMUNITY GROUPS

Family Drug Help 1st & 3rd Tues

Lilydale 1300 660 068

“Vulnerable children of the World”

Mary 5962 3287

Bereavement Group 3rd Thurs of the

month at 11.30am contact Mary 5962

3287

Elisha Care Garden & Building Jason

0429 117 849

Men’s Breakfast 1st Saturday of the

month

Pamphlets & Newsletters: If you

would like to leave literature in the Church

please check with the Parish Office before-

hand.

Lookout for the Safety of children:

LOOKOUT is a local community

group concerned with keeping chil-

dren safe from abuse and being

there for adult victims. Next Meeting

is at Badger Creek Hall

WEEKLY COLLECTION

Church: $ 398

Presbytery: $ 201

Special:

ROSTER 25 MARCH 2018

READER: YOUTH-LED

COMMUNION: SNELL

FIELD

CUPPA: YOUTH

CLEANING: HANLEY FAMILY

COUNTERS: FIELD

Please Pray For: For Those who are Recently deceased

Matthew Fitzpatrick, Gillian Henderson, Marie Gooding,

For those who are Sick

Vina King (Deacon Phil’s mum), Tony Grieve, Fr Robert

Coghlan, Maree Campitelli, Deacon Phil, John, Glenn,

Lyn Francis, Concetta Rizza, Dorothy Barber, Maureen

Fogarty, Fiona, Val Christie, Annie Preuss, Michelle

Ryan, Damian, John, Suzan Sosic, Robbie Ireland, Joyce

Slattery, Alison, Heather, Julie Bates, Garry Dettman,

Bradley Jordan, Jeanette Henkel, Richard Galbraith,

Annette Fromholtz, Debbie Huby, Geoff Lucas, Sandra

Donkin, Wendy Barnett, Marg Pomeroy, Dorothy Fra-

ser, Carmel O’Hely, Glen, Ernst Fries, Fred Bullas, Fred

Coullas, Mitchell Wilson, Evie Gleeson, Indy Dawes,

Rade Krstic, Megan Williams, Michael Christie, Joan

Hollow, Michael Wood, Bill Howie, Jennie, Michael &

Stephen Youngberry, John Mulholland, Barbara Car-

lyon, Rhiannon Days, Val Savitt, Ron Garland,

Jaz Nueber, Patricia Beggs, James Cooney, Robert &

Mary Bariola, Tilly Van der Zee, John Lauman

For those whose Anniversaries are in MARCH

Sr Nell Russell (03.03.16), Ronald Donchi (05.03.83),

H. Weda (12.03.03), Rene Chandler (13.03.96),

Helen Srafford, (16.03.08), Frank McDonald (12.03.04),

John Doensen (17.03.17), Ziggy Nadolski (18/3/11),

Claudio Latin (20.03.13), Mary Snell (22.03.12),

Antionio Bariola (24.03.99), John Field (23.03.42), Mary

Wood (23.03.03),

Upcoming Dates

March

18th Family Mass Gr 1&2

22nd School Reconciliation 7pm

23rd Anointing Mass 11am

31st Project compassion ends

April

2nd Yarra Glen Mass 7pm

13th Mother’s Day

16th First Eucharist parent night 6.30pm hall followed by Mass at 7.30pm

A word from our Pastoral Worker, Debbie:

Last week we began to explore the physical words to say when coming to Father to request the Sacra-

ment of Reconciliation. Our encounter with God through this beautiful means to healing and hope be-

gins with the Sign of the Cross, the words “Bless me Father for I have sinned. It is 2 weeks, (or 6

months, or many years) since my last confession, and these are my sins.” A discussion continues, as

Father and I discuss what is worrying me, or challenging me, or defeating me. I am given a chance to say

sorry to God for the things I do that I do not seem to manage well, and for the choices I have made that

may have been damaging to myself, or to others I affect through my behaviour. I have an opportunity to

physically say the words “I am sorry”, perhaps with the traditional words “for these and all my sins I am

sorry”. At the conclusion of the discussion, Father asks me to complete a penance. This is a task that

encourages me to do something physical, an action that makes reparation for my poor choices. I use the

analogy with young children of someone who steals the Twisties from someone else’s lunchbox on a trip

to their bag in an empty hallway. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but…! They could simply feel

sorry for their actions, but completing the process of reconciliation should include doing something nice

for the child that missed out on their treat, or by replacing the item if possible. Father would never ask

anyone to make reparation in a way that would identify a sin! This is a really important part of maintain-

ing the Seal of the Confessional, so much a part of current public discussion. In my fictitious example,

the child may complete an unrelated act of kindness for the person they had wronged, or the Twisties or

another treat that the penitent child had been given could simply appear in the victim’s bag in an un-

guarded moment. Going back to my penance, Father may simply ask for prayers for the person against

whom I may have offended. (I don’t know, I am guessing, as I would never ask anyone else what hap-

pened in their visit to Father!) More to the point, each situation and each conversation is totally unique

and totally private. The Seal of the Confessional is a grave responsibility that comes with the honour of

Priesthood. Father then asks me to make an Act of Contrition. This is a ‘sorry prayer’, and can come

straight from the heart. The ‘right’ words don’t actually matter. Father will always help, but I can say the

one most of us learned as kids “Oh my God, I am very sorry that I have sinned against you, for you are so

good, and with your help I will try not to sin again”. Father then says the Prayer of Absolution “…

through the ministry of the Church I grant you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins, in the

name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”. I join with him in making the Sign of the

Cross again. Hearing this Prayer of Absolution is one of the prime reasons against the argument that I

don’t need to come to Confession to say sorry to God, I can just simply tell him I am sorry for my sins in

the privacy of my own heart, and skip the whole discomfort of Confession. We should each do that any-

way, each and every day. But through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I physically say the words ‘I am

sorry’, and I hear the words that say “I forgive you”. I am then free, in so many different ways, to ‘go in

peace’, with the assistance of the power of the healing love of God accompanying me, as I head back,

refreshed, to all of the struggles that daily life brings. Just as those whom Jesus healed were changed, I

cannot help but be changed by my encounter with him through the powerful Sacrament that he placed

in the hands of his closest friends as his first public action following his resurrection. What a gift. Do I

really want to leave it unwrapped, at the bottom of my wardrobe amongst last year’s thongs and the

shoes I wore to that wedding 20 years ago? Seems like a pity!

Lenten Program: Everyone is welcome - it is always friendly, thought-provoking, and a little oasis of prayer. Please join us.

2-3pm Tuesdays, in the Parish Hall. Enq. Elissa 9730 2813

Anointing Mass for the

Young & Elderly

Come and join us on Friday 23rd March at 11am, 15 High St, Healesville.

After our Mass we will gather in the Parish hall for a light lunch and time

to catch up with our fellow parishioners.

Could you please bring a plate of sandwiches or cakes to share.

Genevieve’s final concert before

she moves interstate All Welcome!

Saturday 7th of April at 7.30pm

I'm going to perform well known, loved arias and some of my

most spectacular repertoire, accompanied by Jane Metheson

on the piano.

Tickets are available through the Memo.

http://ach.yarraranges.vic.gov.au/Whats_On/

Popular_Opera_Arias#.Wqip1WpubIU

Thank you!

A huge thank you to the Yarra Glen Combined

Churches Op Shop for the very generous donation to the

Church and the Care Group.

We are a

Child Safe

Parish

Please remember to keep baby

Jean Bernice in your prayers.

Tanya, Michael, Brinn, Endo & Alby

are so grateful for the parish support

PALM SUNDAY “Hosanna to the King”

8.30am, Sunday 25th March

THE MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER

“Do this in memory of me”

7.30pm, Thursday 29th March

GOOD FRIDAY , THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS 10am, Friday 30th March ~ St Aloysius’, Yarra Glen

GOOD FRIDAY “Father, forgive them”

3.00pm, Friday 30th March

Dinner at Darron’s Youth Team

Secondary school students are invited

to be involved in cooking and/or

serving a 2-course dinner to those who

are financially disadvantaged or social-

ly isolated as part of the Dinner at

Darron’s Community Meal program

organised by HICCI.

The Youth Team will be responsible

for organising a Tuesday evening din-

ner approximately 6 times a year.

If your child may be interested, please

contact Andrea on 0417 088 231.

Youth-Led Mass

St Brigid’s is starting a Youth Team to

run a Youth-Led Mass once a term.

The first Youth-Led Mass will be on:

NEXT SUNDAY!

Palm Sunday - 25 March 8.30am

All secondary students who would like

to join the team are encouraged to

contact Paula on 0423 508 355

for more information.

We welcome our Grade 1 & 2

families from the school

today for their Family Mass