PARISH WEEKDAY MASSES & RECONCILIATION

*HOLY SPIRIT Auchenflower: 9am Mondays & Fridays, *ST IGNATIUS Toowong: 5.30pm Tuesdays & Wednesdays and 9.15am Thursdays.

SUNDAY MASS TIMES:- *ST IGNATIUS Toowong 6.00pm (Vigil); 7.00am & 5.00pm. from 5.15pm, or by appointment.

*HOLY SPIRIT Auchenflower: 8.30am.

We respectfully acknowledge the

Turrbal people, as the traditional owners

and caretakers of the land which is the

Toowong Catholic Parish.

We acknowledge the Elders, past and

present. May we, too, be good stewards of

this land.

A New Commandment ?

A Bishop was testing the suitability of a group of candidates for the Sacrament of Confirmation.

“By what sign will others know that you are Catholics?” he asked.

There was no reply. Evidently no one had expected the question.

The Bishop repeated the question. Then he said it once again, this time making the Sign of the Cross to give them a clue to the right answer.

Suddenly one of the candidates got it. “Love”, he said.

The Bishop was taken aback. He was just about to say, “Wrong”, then checked himself in the nick of time!

(from “The Prayer of the Frog” compiled by Anthony de Mello, 1988)

It is prior to his death and well before any Resurrection appearance that Jesus lays this new commandment of Love on his disciples. Actually, it is just after Judas has quit the scene and Jesus is aware that things are developing in a negative way and they will need all the love they can muster to endure what lies ahead.

Love is a powerful force: something not only appreciated by Christians. During the week, I came across this poem by Iqbal (1873-1938), a Muslim, who is regarded in Pakistan today as one of the great liberators of the human race.

Learn to Love

The luminous point whose name is the Self Is the life-spark beneath our dust. By Love it is made more lasting,

More living, more burning, more glowing. From love proceeds the radiance of its being

And the development of its unknown possibilities. Its nature gathers fire from Love,

Love instructs it to illumine the world. Love fears neither sword nor dagger,

Love is not born of water and air and earth. Love makes peace and war in the world,

The Fountain of Life is Love’s flashing sword. The hardest rocks are shivered by Love’s glance:

Love of God at last becomes wholly God. Learn thou to love and seek to be loved:

Seek an eye like Noah’s, a heart like Job’s!

The gift of the Risen Christ is Peace; the new Commandment is Love; the greatest possession of the Christian is the Spirit. Do you find that in yourself as an Easter people or do you still rely on the Sign of the Cross.

5th Sunday Easter 19th May 2019

Year C

Holy Spirit Church Harriett Street, Auchenflower

St Ignatius Church Kensington Terrace, Toowong

PARISH WEEKDAY MASSES & RECONCILIATION

*HOLY SPIRIT Auchenflower: 9am Mondays & Fridays, *ST IGNATIUS Toowong: 5.30pm Tuesdays & Wednesdays and 9.15am Thursdays.

SUNDAY MASS TIMES:- *ST IGNATIUS Toowong 6.00pm (Vigil); 7.00am & 5.00pm. from 5.15pm, or by appointment.

*HOLY SPIRIT Auchenflower: 8.30am.

Readings: Fi�h Sunday of Easter: Acts 14:21-27. Revela�on 21:1-5. John 13:31-55.

Next Sunday: Sixth Sunday of Easter: Acts 15:1-2, 22-29. Revela�on 21:10-14, 22-23. John 14: 23-29.

Entrance An�phon:

? Spoken Response: I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.

Sung Response: I will give you Glory, O God my King. (Version 3)

Gospel Acclama�on: Alleluia, alleluia! I give you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you.

Alleluia!

O sing a new song to the Lord, for he has worked wonders; in the sight of na�ons he has

shown his deliverance, alleluia.

Open Day

Tuesday 28 May, 9—10.30am

Visit us on our Open Day for a personal tour!

Please RSVP to email: ptoowong@bne.catholic.edu.au or

call us on 3371 1094

Woolworths “Earn & Learn” 2019 It’s on again. Let’s get collecting. Shop at Woolworths and collect Earn & Learn stickers from the 1st May for sports equipment for the school (you will receive 1 sticker for ever $10 you spend).

Please drop your stickers off in the collection boxes located at the school office or at back of both churches. Thank you.

© Morton Music. The Psalm Response text is set to music by permission of International Commission on English in the Liturgy. All Rights Reserved. The institution named in the box is licensed to make copies for its own use only. Toowong Parish SET 018

Kevin Siddell

ST IGNATIUS PRIMARY SCHOOL Sacrament of First Eucharist

Enrolments are currently being accepted for children in Year 4 & above, who have completed the Sacrament of Confirmation.

ENROLMENTS CLOSE this Monday 20th May.

Please contact the Parish Pastoral Associate & Sacramental Co-ordinator (Monday—Thursday) on 3870 7818 or email pw.toowong@bne.catholic.net.au

PARENT INFORMATION SESSION: Tuesday 21st May @ 6.00pm, REPEATED Thursday 23rd May @ 6.00pm St Ignatius Parish Office

RITE OF ENROLMENT: Sunday 26th May 8.30am Mass – Holy Spirit Church or 5.00pm Mass – St Ignatius Church

Thursday 13th June – 6.30pm Holy Spirit Church Communal Rite of Reconciliation The Gift of God’s Mercy Liturgy (First Holy Communion Candidates)

Saturday 15th June – 5.00pm St Ignatius Church Communal Rite of Reconciliation The Gift of God’s Mercy Liturgy (First Holy Communion Candidates)

ARCHDIOCESAN INFORMATION

30th National Volunteer Week, 20—26 May 2019. Making a World of Difference. There are many people who are paid, and rightly so, for their work in the church and in the social services sector. But it’s our volunteers who are the heart of everything we do—who make the church, and community go round. As we prepare to celebrate National Volunteer Week, thanks to all the volunteers who are the heart and soul of what we do. Whether it be in parishes or prisons, hospitals, courts or respite and drop-in centres, without you we couldn’t do or be what Jesus Christ calls us to do and be. - Most Rev Mark Coleridge. Archbishop of Brisbane.

~Please take a postcard with this message from rotary stands (both churches).

Celebration of 90th Anniversary of Hendra Catholic Community Mother of Mercy Parish (Hendra, Northgate & Hamilton) All parishioners, present and former are most warmly invited to attend the 90th Anniversary of the celebration of the first Mass in the new Catholic community of Hendra which became Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Parish. Mass at 9am to be held on Sun 9 June at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Hendra with Bishop Ken Howell main celebrant. Followed by celebratory refreshments in courtyard. Please RSVP by Fri. 7 June to P: 3268 3040.

Please note: Any inclusions for the Parish newsletter should be marked to the attention of Parish Secretary & received, by email or note, at Parish Office no later than 12noon Thursdays. Thank you.

PARISH INFORMATION

PARISH COLLECTIONS: $3,369.90, Other: $300; * Caritas Australia ‘Projection Compassion’ 2019: $3,033.90,

*’Brotherhood’ Concert on 9/5/19 (for ‘Jesuit Mission’): $1,214.55.

Your Prayers Are Requested For

SICK Judy Galarza, Elizabeth Anna, Cirino Quagliata, Jenny Reed, Philip Donaldson, Bridgit Gowdy, Cathy Mamata, Fr Peter Conroy, Chris Morris, Val Tancred, Margaret Anderson, Isla Duns, Tandina Gabriel, Beth Albury, Margaret Twomey, Fr Guy Carlson sj, John McKenzie, Rhoda Yates, Oscar Louie, Paul Giles, Michael O’Brien, Rieka O’Sullivan, Maddie Bateman Duffy, Yvonne and Frank Cassidy, Jocelyn Rabaa, Louis Nunan, Carmen Luisa Maria, Mark Knight, Joanne Edwards, Thomas Agoni, Yvonne Rademaker, Betty Andrews, Dan Winkel, Sebastian Agoni, Carolyn Doyle, Maria Duque, Marianne Andrews, Emily Ingle, Susi Rieder.

RECENTLY DECEASED: Greg Winters, Heather Castel, Joseph Sebastian, Sr Lourdes Moylan rsm.

ANNIVERSARIES: Joy O’Neill, Patricia Bornhurst, Fr John Drury sj, Maureen O’Rourke.

WEDDINGS: Hai Nguyen & Vivian Dinh, Bernard Wong & Rita Liao.

BAPTISMS: Theodore Romero, Tully Holberton, Noah Reid.

DAILY SCRIPTURE READINGS 5th Week Easter (1)

1st Reading Gospel

Mon. Acts 14:5-18. John 14:21-26. Tues: Acts 14:19-28. John 14:27-31. Wed: Acts 15:1-6. John 15:1-8. Thu: Acts 15:7-21. John 15:9-11. Fri: Genesis 3:9-15, 20. Luke 8:19-21. Sat: Acts 16:1-10. John 15:18-21.

A Baptismal Prayer

Heavenly Father, In your love you have called us to know you, led us to trust you, and bound our life with yours.

Surround this child with your love, protect it from evil. Fill it with the holy spirit and receive it into the family of your church, that it may walk

with us in the way of Christ, and grow in the knowledge of your love.

MAY

18 Funeral: 10am—St Ignatius

Wedding: 1pm—St Ignatius

19 5th Sunday Easter

Baptisms: 8.30am—Holy Spirit and 10.30am—St Ignatius

Wedding: 2.30pm—St Ignatius

5pm Youth Mass—St Ignatius (followed by sausage sizzle)

20 Enrolments close for Parish’s Sacrament of First Eucharist

CWL meeting following 9am Mass –H/S

21 6pm Parish Sacramental Preparation Program: ‘First Eucharist’ - Parent meeting—Parish Office

7.45pm SVdP meeting—Horstmann Rm

23 6pm Parish Sacramental Preparation Program—‘First Eucharist’: REPEAT: Parent meeting—Parish Office

25 Holy Hour’ Adoration and Benediction (following 6pm Vigil) - St Ignatius

26 6th Sunday Easter

24 Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians

HAPPY 90TH BIRTHDAY TO BERNIE KUNKEL

for Thursday 23 May.

We wish him many happy returns for the day.

PARISH YOUTH MASS & SAUSAGE SIZZLE this Sunday young / youth parishioners and students from St Ignatius and Stuartholme Schools will be participating in the 5pm Mass plus music students from St Laurence's College. After Mass the PPC will provide a sausage sizzle with cost being a gold coin donation. All are welcome.

ST. IGNATIUS PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE GROUP will be fundraising this weekend holding a

baked goods stall after the 6pm Vigil Saturday (St. Ignatius) and a baked goods + plant

stall after the 8.30am Sunday Mass (Holy Spirit). Funds raised will go to support refugee

youngsters with their sport activities (Pushing Barriers) and Indigenous children (via Murri

School, Acacia Ridge). Don't miss out on our short bread and Neenish tarts! Thank you

for all contributions and support.

CWL TOOWONG BRANCH meeting on Monday 20 May after the 9am Mass at Holy Spirit. New members welcome. Enquiries: Del Doherty 3371 7746.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL, TOOWONG meeting at 7.45pm on Tuesday 21 May in the Horstmann Room.

‘HOLY HOUR’ EUCHARIST ADORATION will be held on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month, following 6pm Vigil Mass at St Ignatius Church for 1 hour, concluding with benediction at 8pm. Please join us for silent prayer on Saturday 25 May.

COFFEE AND CHAT All ladies are invited to come along on Tuesday 28 May at 2pm in the Horstmann Room—if you have not come before please do and if you are a ‘regular’ please bring a friend with you.

YOUNG AT HEART Join us on Friday 31 May to attend a movie of choice at the morning session at the Regal Twin, Graceville / Eldorado Cinema, Indooroopilly. Followed by lunch nearby. Contact Ursula 3878 9002 or Pat 3378 2314 for details.

LATEST EDITION of Australian Jesuits COMPANIONS: WINTER 2019 is available from rotary stands (both churches). Please take a copy.

PARISH DATE CLAIMER: 2019 Women’s Night of Spirituality – Tuesday 30 July at Stuartholme Chapel.

www.stignatiustoowong.org.au Current Newsletter now on our website!

Queensland’s Privacy Scheme and the Commonwealth Government’s legislation deals with the manner in which private sector organisations may record, use, store and disclose information, including health information, collected from individuals. The Parish of Toowong is committed to upholding and implementing the Privacy Principles set out in both the legislations and Privacy Scheme and by the Archdiocese of Brisbane. A copy of the Parish's Privacy Policy is available to any parishioner by contacting the Parish Office on 3870 7818 during office hours.

Parish Office Staff

*Monica Florence (Tues-Fri) - Parish Secretary (including Newsletter)

*Pastoral Associate:

Allison King (Mon-Thurs.)

Parish Pastoral Council

Louise Wellington—Chair

Finance & Development

David Slater—Chair

Musical Director

Anthony Young

Liturgical Ministry:-

Roster Co-ordinators-

St Ignatius Church: * Ministry Roster: Liz Alvey & James Donaldson E:alveydonaldson@gmail.com

*Altar Server Convenor: Tony Castel 0438 192 298

Holy Spirit Church

*Rosters: Pat Lye 3300 1432 *Children’s Liturgy Roster: Amanda Lim

PRIMARY SCHOOL

Acting-Principal— Duncan Maitland

APRE— Rachelle Gibson

46 Grove Street, Toowong Qld 4066 .

Phone: 3371 1094 www.stignatiustoowong.

qld.edu.au

* OSHC— 3870 3270

PARISH OFFICE INFORMATION Phone: 3870 7818. Fax: 3870 7857. Office Hours: Monday to Friday 10am—3pm.

Email: toowong@bne.catholic.net.au Website: www.stignatiustoowong.org.au Facebook: St-Ignatius-Parish-Toowong

Postal Address: 30 Kensington Terrace, Toowong Qld 4066. We are part of the Brisbane West Deanery ~ website: www.brisbanewestdeanery.com.au ~ email: bwdeanery@bne.catholic.net.au

Emergency Contact If you require a priest in an emergency, please phone the parish priest on 0402 049 017.

The Archdiocese of Brisbane holds that children, young people and vulnerable adults are a gift from God with an intrinsic right to dignity of life, respect and security from physical and emotional harm.

They are to treasured, nurtured and safeguarded by all.

Australian Catholic Students Assoc. - St Jacques Berthieu Soirée

on Sat 8 June. This intimate event will take place in Tattersall's Club's O'Duffy

Library. Tickets: $25 (incl. a glass of wine or pot of ale on arrival for those

aged 18+), cheese and antipasto platters and dessert, professional photography by Maria Rose Anna Photography, a

short talk by Vocation Brisbane and you will have the opportunity to hear more about our national conference and ball

taking place in Sydney in July. Please join us to mingle with like-minded young Catholics. This event is suitable for students in yr 12, current or deferred

tertiary students (uni, college, TAFE, apprenticeship, etc.), university alumni

aged 35 & under, and clergy & religious. ~ NB. Dress Code applies at this venue.

* Purchase tickets, please refer to link: www.trybooking.com/BCRCW

Facebook event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/377933106153432

Info.: https://australiancatholicstudents. org/who-are-we