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Tuesday

Wednesday

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Friday

School Mass

No Mass

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9:15 am

7.00 pm

9:15 am 12 noon

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Sunday Reconciliation

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5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

6:00 pm

8:00 am 10:00 am

First Sunday of Lent Year B 18th February 2018

SEASONS Newsletter of the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Mount Eliza

313 Canadian Bay Rd Mount Eliza Vic. 3930

Phone: 9787 7777 Fax: 9787 9734 Email: MountEliza@cam.org.au

Web: www.stm-mteliza.org

Pastoral Leadership Team

Fr. Laurie (Parish Priest) Lys Crowe (Pastoral Associate)

Peter Whyte (School D Principal)

Ange Virgona (Chairperson)

Jacinta Griffin Carolyn Gascoigne

Sue Carr Paul Stinear Justin Crawford

PPLT Email: MountEliza.PPLT@cam.org.au

PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft

C=Church

MPR=School Multipurpose Room

SSR=School Staff Room

Diary

This Sunday

Movie Group, The Post, 12:30pm, Mornington Cinema

Monday

St Vincent de Paul meeting, 9:30am, U

Poetry Group, 1:30pm, PCC

Tuesday First Reconciliation class, 4pm,

PCC

Wednesday

PPLT 7:30pm, PCC

Choir practice, 7:30pm, C

Thursday

Liturgy Team, 7:30pm, PCC

Sunday 25th February

Bring & Buy Stall at all Masses

Social Club Pizza Night, 5pm, PCC

Lent 2018 Our Parish theme this year will echo the Project Compassion theme “For a

Just Future”, particularly focussing on the words of Pope Francis: “We can only build the future by standing together, including everyone”.

Each week we will highlight the Project Compassion stories of people that have been helped over the years by the support of Project Compassion. At our Masses each weekend, we won’t have a hymn at the end of Mass, in-stead praying the Project Compassion 2018 Prayer together.

On the 1st Sunday of Lent, we focus on Janaki from Nepal.

A Just Future Starts with Empowerment

Janaki is a young entrepreneur from Nepal, who has turned her life around. Growing up in a world of poverty and disadvantage, coupled with a forced marriage at the age of twelve, she was in a very vulnerable position. Even more so when her husband died just two years into their marriage. She’s now running her own successful sewing business and has become an inspira-tional community leader.

In 2015, Janaki joined a youth club formed by Caritas Australia partners, Cari-tas Nepal and the Ekata Foundation Surkhet, as part of the Children and Youth Empowerment Program (CYEP) which provides youth with job skills and income-generating projects. She took a loan from the youth club to pur-chase her first sewing machine.

Nine years on, Janaki has 11 sewing machines and is running her own busi-ness, teaching others and is considered a community role model.

“My confidence level has raised,” Janaki says. “I appreciate all those respect-ed peoples of Australia who are supporting this wise cause. Through their help, women who experience domestic violence and who are financially vul-nerable are getting new hope in their life. I thank them from bottom of my heart.”

PAGE 2 SEASONS FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR B

First Sunday of Lent - Year B

The recently deceased…

Howard Bowler (Don McKenzie’s

brother in law)

those whose anniversaries fall at this time…

Claire Sullivan, Michael Hauser, Helene Seymour,

Catherine Kost, Alex Hamilton

and the sick...

Michael Blick, Ann Shackleton, Frank Nolan, Marcia

Fiume, Leonie Purcell, Gerard Carra, Judy Pessato,

Maureen Anstey, Fr. Michael Walsh, Shane Dobson,

Adrian Gobel, and all of the sick at the George Vow-

ell Centre & Ranelagh Gardens Nursing Home.

and the parishioners of St Thomas More Parish,

Tequinomata, East Timor, St Therese Parish,

Bathurst Island and Our Lady of the Sacred

Heart Parish, Alice Springs.

We pray for...

Financial Matters

Stewardship

Received last weekend .......................................... $2,904

Pledged last weekend ............................................ $2,683

January Average ...................................................... $3,570

Presbytery

Received last week ................................................ $1,126 Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our par-

ish.

Next Week’s Roster

Mass Time Lector Commentator

6 pm Kath Dobson Bernard Dobson

8 am Colleen Hurren Sue Carr

10 am Leonie Bourke Peter Griffin

Mass Time Ministers of the Eucharist

6 pm

Margaret Jamieson (Book)

Michael Robertson (Gifts)

Noel Davies (Gifts)

8 am Tricia Woods (Book)

Del Seletto (Gifts)

Jim Bourke (Gifts)

10 am Rob Storr (Book)

Adrian Coughlan (Gifts)

Judy Jones (Gifts)

10 am No Children’s Liturgy

Counters Richard Lindner

Don McKenzie

Yvonne Minton

First Reading: Genesis 9:8-15

I will recall the covenant between myself and you… the

waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all

flesh.

Responsorial Psalm Your ways, O’ Lord, are love and truth, to those who

keep your covenant.

Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:18-22

The water of the flood is a type of the baptism which

saves you now.

Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

No one lives on bread alone, but on every word that

comes from the mouth of God. Praise to you, Lord

Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

Gospel: Mark 1:12-15

He was tempted by Satan, and the angels looked after

him.

Next week’s readings:

Gen 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18 Rom 8:31-34 Mark 9:2-10

Morning Tea Your hosts this week will be Lou-Ann

and Stuart Gibson. You are all warm-

ly invited after 10am Mass to linger for a cuppa and an opportunity to get to know

some other members of your parish community

better. Next week’s hosts will be Bernice Clut-

terbuck and Sarah Harland.

Contemplative Prayer “Let tiny drops of silence fall gently

through your day”

Silent prayer in the Church each

Wednesday from 8:30am to 9:15am, fol-

lowed by Mass.

Wedding Congratulations

This Saturday, 17th February, we have

the wedding here of

Bernadette Osborne and Peter Williamson.

Congratulations to them both.

PAGE 3 FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT YEAR B SEASONS

What’s Happening Here...

The next meeting of the St Vincent de Paul

Society will be held on Monday 19th of February at

9:30am in the Undercroft. All welcome.

Sunday 18th February - The Post, Mornington Cin-

ema, 12:30 pm.

Monday 19th February—The Poetry Group will

meet at 1.30pm in the Parish Community Cen-

tre. Our friendly host will be Aileen Calley, and you

are all welcome.

Sunday 25th February - Pizza Night in the Parish

Community Centre at 5pm. BYO nibbles and drinks.

Enquiries to Colleen on 9787 2479.

Tuesday 6th March - Monthly Meeting including

AGM, in the Undercroft after 10am Liturgy of the

Word. New members always most welcome.

Tuesday 16th March—Picnic at Seawinds, Arthurs

Seat State Park (M159 D12) from 11am onwards,

This is a combined Walking Group/Club activity.

Those who do not wish to walk will find much to en-

joy in the lovely park and gardens. More details later.

3 year old Mass Next Sunday – 25th February – as

part of our Godstart Programme, all

the children who have been Baptised at

our Parish and turn 3 in the first half of this year, and

their families, have been especially invited to the

10am Mass, to celebrate their 3rd birthdays with us

all. Please bring along a plate of food so we can

share morning tea together with them.

RCIA Rite of Election This Sunday afternoon our RCIA

candidates – Colleen Kemble

and her children Chloe, Layla

and Bryce, and Melanie &

Brett Paton and their daughter

Amy – together with their Parish

Sponsors – Christie Leppitsch and Sonya, Silvio &

Selena Muser – and the RCIA Team – Fr Laurie, Lys

Crowe, Denise & Mark Renouf, Maree Taverna, Ange

Virgona and Dot Wines – will all be going to St Pat-

rick’s Cathedral to join with all the other Parishes in

the Archdiocese and their RCIA candidates as they

are all presented to Archbishop Denis Hart in this

next step on their journey to completing the Sacra-

ments of Initiation at Easter.

The Welfare Officers in February are Tom and Ma-

ree Shelton.

STM Social Club Fun & Friendship For All

New members are always most welcome!

Membership fee is $20. All enquiries to:

Grevis 0414 527 172 or to Colleen 9787 2479.

Baptism Welcome At the 6pm Mass this weekend we

have the Rite of Welcome for Lexi

Power (Parents – Anthony & Susan)

and Harry Freeman (Parents—Peter & Kathryn),

and at 10am Mass for Adelyn Nicklen (Parents –

Anthony & Samantha) and Jak Moore (Parents Mat-

thew & Bernadette).

Antiques And Collectibles Fair Coming To STM Saturday 17th March 2018

We will need several teams of people to help

with both the set up on Friday 16th March,

and on the day.

This will be a major fundraiser for our Par-

ish. More details in the coming weeks.

For further information, or if you would like to

help, please contact Maree Taverna 0425 721 207

mareetaverna@hotmail.com or Michael Robert-

son 0409 165 536 mr1507@bigpond.net.au

Sunday Movies The Social Club issues an open invita-

tion to anyone in the parish who

would like to join them to see Sun-

day movies at Mornington Cinema

advertised in Seasons.

This week’s movie is The Post, showing at 12:30pm.

Let me know so that I can get Ian to put aside the

tickets for us, or you can just turn up.

Movie next week:

Sunday 25th Feb - Secret Country

Enquiries to Christine on 5975 6687 or 0431 696

084.

St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria

Choir Practice The next Choir practice will be held at

7:30pm in the Church on Wednesday

21st February.

More of what’s happening here….

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Lent: Our Time Of Reparation In Sorrow

For Child Sexual Abuse & For The Healing Of Victims The Australian Catholic Bishops have requested that “days of fasting and reparation in sorrow for child sexual

abuse and for the healing of victims and survivors be marked by prayer - in our homes and in our Catholic

communities”.

In our own parish the Thursday evening Masses during Lent will specifically reflect this issue.

I invite all parishioners to come together on these evenings to lament the past and pray for God’s healing and

forgiveness. As the Bishops have admitted “We cannot undo the past. With God’s help, we can make the fu-

ture better”. Fr. Laurie

Bring and Buy Stall ~ Homemade, Handmade, Home grown ~

Last Sunday of each month after each Mass

How does it work? Just bring along anything you have made - could be food or craft - or grown. Donate it to the stall before Mass.

After Mass the stall will be open, and people will be encouraged to buy! All proceeds to the Parish.

Anything leftover at the end of 10am Mass (except perishable food) will be stored to sell the following month.

Just remember... If you are bringing food of any kind – cakes, jams, chutneys etc, they must be labelled with all ingredients used,

the date they were made, and the name of who made it. It would be helpful if you could please price what you donate

(although there will be someone at the stall who can help you).

Those running the stall have the discretion to lower prices, if need be, in order to sell goods!

Dates for 2018 24/25 Feb, 24/25 March, 28/29 April, 26/27 May, 23/24 June, 28/29 July, 25/26 Aug, 29/30 Sept, 27/28 Oct, 24/25 Nov

ACRATH

In 2015, Pope Francis said that “every person ought to have the awareness that purchas-

ing is always a moral – and not simply an economic – act.”

Cocoa is a key ingredient of chocolate. Much of the chocolate sold in Australia is made

using cocoa beans picked by children, many of whom have been enslaved, or forced to

work in exploitative conditions. Most of these children have never even tasted choco-

late.

To buy slavery-free Easter chocolate, look for any of these three certification symbols on the wrappers:

Justice for Refugees

(a) Parishioners are invited to sign the two petitions available in the Foyer relating to Refugees. The first Peti-

tion is calling for ‘Justice for Refugees” and the second Petition is calling for ‘Truth, Compassion, Hope’.

(b) Parishioners are invited to take a brochure available in the foyer and to ‘Walk for Justice for Refugees’ on

Palm Sunday, March 25 commencing at the State Library at 2 pm.

FAIRTRADE, Rainforest Alliance and UTZ.

https://acrath.org.au/slaveryfree-easter for information and resources.