PARISH OF ST. THERESE, DENISTONE

Presbytery and Office

8 Inkerman Rd, Denistone 2114 Tel: 9809 2925, Fax 9809 5546

Website: www.sttherese.org.au

Parish Priest: Fr Roberto Castillo

Parish Secretary: Gayle White admin@sttherese.org.au

Office hours Tues-Fri 9am-3pm St Therese’s School

448 Blaxland Rd, Denistone 2114 (02) 9874 0412

School Principal: Mr Adam Nolan

MASS TIMES:

SATURDAY VIGIL: 6:00 pm

SUNDAY: 8:00 am and 9:30 am

MONDAY No Mass

TUESDAY 8am Mass

WEDNESDAY through to SATURDAY 9.00 am Mass.

FRIDAY: 9.00 am Mass.

Exposition & Benediction every Friday after Mass

RECONCILIATION Saturday 5pm – 5.45pm or by appointment.

Baptism: Every Sunday at 11am or 11.30am. Please contact Parish Office.

Marriage: By appointment.

Anointing of the sick: Please give names to Father Roberto Castillo

18TH

SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year C)

30th

/ 31st July 2016

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:

O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make

haste to help me! You are my rescuer, my help;

O Lord, do not delay.

FIRST READING: Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23

A reading from the book of Ecclesiastes

What do people gain by all their work?

Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of

vanities. All is vanity!

For so it is that a man who has laboured wisely,

skilfully and successfully must leave what is his own

to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This, too,

is vanity and great injustice; for what does he gain

for all the toil and strain that he has undergone under

the sun? What of all his laborious days, his cares of

office, his restless nights? This, too, is vanity.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 89:3-6. 12-14. 17

RESPONSE: In every age, O Lord, you have

been our refuge.

You turn men back into dust

and say: 'Go back, sons of men.'

To your eyes a thousand years

are like yesterday, come and gone,

no more than a watch in the night. Response.

You sweep men away like a dream,

like grass which springs up in the morning.

In the morning it springs up and flowers:

by evening it withers and fades. Response.

Make us know the shortness of our life

that we may gain wisdom of heart.

Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever?

Show pity to your servants. Response.

In the morning, fill us with your love;

we shall exult and rejoice all our days.

Let the favour of the Lord be upon us:

give success to the work of our hands. Response.

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SECOND READING: Colossians 3:1-5. 9-11

A reading from the letter of St Paul to

Colossians

Seek the things that are above where Christ is.

Since you have been brought back to true life

with Christ, you must look for the things that

are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at God's

right hand. Let your thoughts be on heavenly

things, not on the things that are on the earth,

because you have died, and now the life you

have is hidden with Christ in God. But when

Christ is revealed - and he is your life - you too

will be revealed in all your glory with him.

That is why you must kill everything in you

that belongs only to earthly life: fornication,

impurity, guilty passion, evil desires and

especially greed, which is the same thing as

worshipping a false god; and never tell each

other lies. You have stripped off your old

behaviour with your old self, and you have put

on a new self which will progress towards true

knowledge the more it is renewed in the image

of its creator; and, in that image there is no

room for distinction between Greek and Jew,

between the circumcised or the uncircumcised,

or between barbarian and Scythian, slave and

free man. There is only Christ: he is everything

and he is in everything.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Matthew 5:3

Alleluia, alleluia!

Happy the poor in spirit;

the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

Alleluia!

GOSPEL: Luke 12:13-21

A reading from the holy Gospel according to

Luke

To whom will all this wealth of yours go?

A man in the crowd said to. Jesus, 'Master, tell

my brother to give me a share of our

inheritance.' 'My friend,' he replied 'who

appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of

your claims?' Then he said to them, 'Watch, and

be on your guard against avarice of any kind,

for a man's life is not made secure by what he

owns, even when he has more than he needs.'

Then he told them a parable: 'There was once

a rich man who, having a good harvest from his

land, thought to himself, "What am I to, do? I

have not enough room to store my crops." Then

he said, "This is what I will do: I will pull down

my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my

grain and my goods in them, and I will say, to

my soul: 'My soul, you have plenty of good

things laid by for many years to come; take

things easy, eat, drink, have a good time." But

God said to him, "Fool! This very night the

demand will be made for your soul; and this

hoard of yours, whose will it be then?" So it is

when a man stores up treasure for himself in

place of making himself rich in the sight of God.'

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON:

You have given us, O Lord, bread from heaven,

endowed with all delights and sweetness in

every taste.

READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Wis 18: 6-9;

Heb 11: 1-2, 8-19;

Lk 12: 32-48.

THIS WEEKEND 30 / 31 JULY 2016

18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY 6.00PM SUNDAY 8.00AM SUNDAY 9.30AM

Acolyte T DABBAH J RAPER (M&H) K GLEESON

Minister of HC J KEYSER J KWONG J MORABITO

Minister of HC VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER P CRONIN

Minister of HC D D'MELLO (H)

Reader B CLARK P TREACY N BRIERLEY

Wardens VOLUNTEER N MORRIS K HOLDEN

Offertory DABBAH FAMILY VOLUNTEER FAMILY D BRENNAN

Projection J. MCLEOD VOLUNTEER( if there is music)

Altar Servers GROUP 3: Wilson Family No rostered group GROUP 7: Daniel, Rochelle, Gabrielle and

Rebecca Succar

Welcomers A CHAN D BRENNAN

Counters Group 7: P TREACY S DIMICHIEL M PEARCE

Altar Flowers J KEYSER JULY ALTAR LINEN: MIRA SAVIC

NEXT WEEKEND 6 / 7 AUGUST 2016

19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY 6.00PM SUNDAY 8.00AM SUNDAY 9.30AM

Acolyte D D'MELLO D ELLIS (M&H) J RAPER

Minister of HC C WHITE G HOGAN P CRONIN

Minister of HC J KEYSER S LOWER (M&H) J MORABITO

Reader V PERERA A STANTON FAMILY MASS

Wardens L SEETO J DUFFY VOLUNTEER

Offertory VOLUNTEER FAMILY VOLUNTEER FAMILY VOLUNTEER

Projection VOLUNTEER NIL P. TREACY

Altar Servers GROUP 1: Robert Morfuni Natasha Vithana No rostered group

GROUP 5: Brittany and Jessica Khoury, Rebecca Dearing Katherine Spencer

Welcomers S CHAMISA D BRENNAN

Counters Group 8: F KURNIAWAN A NAGANATHAN D TAN

Altar Flowers J KEYSER AUGUST ALTAR LINEN: MAUREEN PEARCE

PARISH NEWS & NOTICES: Please remember in your prayers all who have died recently especially Frank POMPEUS, Father Kevin SPILLANE, Amalia TORRES-STREETER (40 day Mass since her passing).

ROSTERS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH OF AUGUST: Whilst we are running the Confirmation program we will spontaneously ask confirmation candidates and their parents to participate more fully in Mass and help out maybe with the readings, offertory etc. So for all our usual rostered people do

not be offended if someone else is asked during this time to do your rostered duty.

PLEASE NOTE: New rosters are now available from the sacristy or can be viewed on the parish website.

This weekend our CONFIRMATION candidates will also be presented to the Parish this weekend at all Masses.

CONFIRMATION PROGRAM SESSIONS BEGIN THIS WEEK on Wednesday the 3rd August in the Early Learning Centre (upstairs) at 7pm.

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY on Monday the 15th August is a Holy Day of Obligation. It is when we celebrate our Holy Mother, having completed her course of earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory. This is the only day of obligation in Australia dedicated to celebrate the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church. I hope you all will fulfil this obligation with great love for our blessed mother.

Masses will be held on Monday at 9am and 7.30pm

NEW SETS OF ENVELOPES AND YOUR TAX RECEIPTS FOR 2015/2016 are ready

to be picked up from the paper table at the front of the Church. Your receipts are inside the envelope boxes including all the Caritas Australia donations, CWF and School Building Fund. Please collect them

ASAP, but do check to ensure that you take the

correct box that belongs to you. If you wish to help support the parish please contact the Parish Office to arrange for your set of Planned Giving envelopes.

MOTHERS PRAYERS: We invite all mothers, grandmothers, foster mothers, aunties and all women to come together to pray for our children on the 1st Thursday of the month at 2.30pm in St Therese Church, Denistone. Our next day of prayer will be this Thursday the 4th August 2.30pm. Everyone is welcome!

The next MONTHLY ROSARY PRAYER GROUP will be on Saturday 6th August at 2pm, 5 Gordon St EASTWOOD (the Wheeler Family home). All are welcome to join us to pray for all intentions. Come & witness the power

of prayer. Transport is available for any parishioner who requires transport to come. Just contact Elizabeth Wheeler on 0415-551-453.

Kick-off in Kraków: WYD reveals global Church

teeming with life

Millions mourn death of Neocatechumenal Way

co-founder Carmen Hernández

WORLD YOUTH DAY.

Here are five fast facts to understand the greatest youth event of the Catholic Church:

1. Pope John Paul II founded World Youth Day in 1985 and it soon became the world's largest gathering of people. The first celebration was held in Rome.

2. About 2,000,000 young Catholics from Poland and across the globe are expected to take part in activities culminating in a Sunday Papal Mass. About 3000 young Australians travelled to Krakow for this celebration.

3. World Youth Day is an effective recruiting tool for the Catholic Church – one in seven men who were ordained to the priesthood in 2015 had attended a World Youth Day event.

4. Poland has more than 40,000 security personnel ready to protect Pope Francis, who arrived Wednesday.

5. The next World Youth Day will be held in 2019 Please keep praying for our young people whilst they are away:

Merciful Father, we entrust to you in a special way,

young people of every language, people and nation; guide and protect them

as they walk the complex paths of the world today, and give them the grace

to reap abundant fruits from their experience

of the Krakow World Youth Day.

FAMILY MASS NEXT

SUNDAY at the 9.30am Mass will

be followed by ‘A CUPPA’.

Everyone is very

welcome to attend.

Our next PARISH COUNCIL MEETING will be

held on Thursday 4th

August at 7.30pm in the

presbytery. If you have any parish suggestions or

concerns please speak with either of the Father or any

council member. The parish councillors are: Fr

Roberto, Vern Keyser, Adam Nolan, Barbara

Clark, Thomas Dabbah, Helen Vaz, Dilak

Tampoe, Paul Treacy, Elizabeth Wheeler and Jenny McLeod.