ENTRANCE ANTIPHON (IF NO SINGING) Of you my heart has spoken: Seek his face. It is your face, O Lord, that I seek; hide not your face from me.

FIRST READING— Genesis 12:1-4

RESPONSORIAL PSALM RESPONSE:

1. The word of the Lord is faithful and all his works to be trusted. The Lord loves justice and right and fills the earth with his love. R

2. The Lord looks on those who revere him, on those who hope in his love, to rescue their souls from death, to keep them alive in famine. R

3. Our soul is waiting for the Lord. The Lord is our help and our shield. May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you. R

SECOND READING — Timothy 1:8-10

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus; Praise and honour, Lord Jesus Christ. From the shining cloud the Father’s voice is heard: this is my beloved Son, hear him. Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus; Praise and honour, Lord Jesus Christ.

GOSPEL — Matthew 17:1-9

P R I E S T S A N D P R I N C I P A L S C O N F E R E N C E Fr. Paul will be attending the annual conference of Priests, Principals and Catholic Schools Office Leaders in Coffs Harbour from Wednesday 11th March—Friday 13th March.

I N T E R N A T I O N A L W O M E N ' S D A Y — 8 T H M A R C H The 2020 campaign theme is #EachforEqual International Women's Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women's equality.

International Women's Day (IWD) has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. Today, IWD belongs to all groups collectively everywhere. IWD is not country, group or organisation specific.

D I F I N T E R E S T R A T E The current interest rate payable to DIF investors is 1.40%. For more information, go to www.dif.org.au

R E G U L A R P A R I S H A C T I V I T I E S

RECONCILIATION: Kingscliff: Saturday: 5:00 – 5:30pm Pottsville: Sunday: 7:00 – 7:25am

LEGION OF MARY: Meet each Wednesday at 8:30am after Mass, in the parish meeting room.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL : Meet on the 2nd & 4th Friday of each month, after the 8:00am Mass, in the parish meeting room.

ROSARY: Kingscliff: Before each Mass. Pottsville: Before Sunday Mass.

EXPOSITION & BENEDICTION: Kingscliff: 1st Friday of the month, 8:00am Mass will be followed by Exposition and conclude with Benediction at 9:00 am. Pottsville: Each Tuesday at 8:00am.

MEDITATION: Meet on the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month, 9:15am-10:00am in the parish meeting room.

C. Smith

CHURCHES

St. Anthony’s Kingscliff

16 Pearl St, Kingscliff

Sts. Mary and Ambrose 1 Charles St, Pottsville

Phone: 02 6674 1284

Fax: 02 6674 4309

Office Hours: Monday —Thursday 9am-3pm

Office email: parkings@bigpond.com

www.stanthonysparishkingscliff.org

Facebook: St Anthony’s Catholic Parish Kingscliff

PARISH PRIEST

Fr. Paul McDonald

PASTORAL ASSISTANT

Catherine Holliday

pa@stanthonysparishkingscliff.org

PARISH BUSINESS

MANAGER

Paul Crouch

PARISH SECRETARY

Noni Lubans

parkings@bigpond.com

SCHOOLS

St. Anthony ’s Kingscliff

ph: 02 6674 1368

Principal: Lynne Pull

St. Ambrose Pottsville

ph: 02 6676 0099

Principal: Brian Laybutt

RETIRED IN THE PARISH

Fr. John Darbyshire

8th March, 2020 Second Sunday of Lent, Year A

LITURGICAL CALENDAR

THIRD SUNDAY OF LENT, YEAR A, 2020 EXODUS 17:3-7; ROMANS 5:1-2, 5-8; JOHN 4:5-42

Banal. Humdrum. Boring. Commonplace. Dull. Trivial. Uninteresting. Unremarkable. Quotidian. Life can sometimes be described by any one of these terms. Quite often we can experience even the most fundamental, the most profound things, like prayer, like the Mass, as banal and unremarkable. Prayer can feel so much like interior self-exposure to empty nothingness and Mass can be so mundane that you struggle to see the point. Except you have some vague but persistent conviction that you should be at church to honor Jesus. That you should persist in the struggle to set yourself before God, to open the depths of your heart to his presence, to pray. You’ve heard the words of consecration thousands of time: “This is my body … This is my blood …” At one level, they are like any other words said by any other person at any other time on this planet: breath is pushed through vocal chords and quickly changing shapes made by tongue, teeth and lips in order to form sounds in a precise order. The difference, though, is that these words are the very words of Jesus Christ, spoken at a specific moment in time, on the night of his betrayal, the night of his arrest. The night before his death. And yes, Jesus of Nazareth, was a man, like any other man who ever lived: he was born, he did some stuff and he died. He even did some rather remarkable stuff and said some rather remarkable things: healings, exorcisms, parables, warnings, blessings. He was fascinating and charismatic—even on a merely human level. But what does your heart tell you to see in him? What does your heart tell you to hear in his words, repeated countless times and in countless places over millennia, words repeated today, in your presence, at the altar? Does your heart tell you to see in him everything worth having, everything good and holy and true? Does your heart tell you to see in him and in his words the very love of God himself? An invitation to life and truth, to joy, to eternity, to resurrection, to a coming kingdom, to justice and peace, to life unending, to bliss, to a new heavens and new earth? What does your heart tell you to recognise in his passion and death? What does your heart say to you about the empty tomb? He is alive and reigns now. He has “destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light,” said St Paul. Even more remarkable: he is including you in this plan, this “grace bestowed … in Christ Jesus before time began.” In Jesus, he is thinking of you; he has been thinking of you all along.

WEEKEND MASS TIMES

VIGIL: KINGSCLIFF 6:00pm

SUNDAY:POTTSVILLE 7:30am

KINGSCLIFF 9:00am

WEEKDAY MASS TIMES

TUESDAY: POTTSVILLE 9:15am

WEDNESDAY: KINGSCLIFF 8:00am

THURSDAY: KINGSCLIFF 9:00am

FRIDAY: KINGSCLIFF 8:00am

RECONCILIATION TIMES

SATURDAY: KINGSCLIFF 5:00—5:30pm

SUNDAY: POTTSVILLE 7:00—7:25am

W Chris Hackett © Majellan 2020

What does your heart say?

P R O J E C T C O M P A S S I O N ‘ G o F u r t h e r T o g e t h e r ’ Twenty-seven-year-old Phany was a struggling farmer and was forced to leave her daughter to take up construction work in the city. Her life has been transformed since joining a Caritas supported program, learning crop growing skills and better water management, to combat drought.

Please donate to Project Compassion 2020 and help mothers like Phany continue to uplift their communities, and provide food for their families. Let’s Go Further, Together. You can donate through Parish boxes and envelopes, by visiting www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion or phoning 1800 024 413.

U P D A T E D C O R O N A V I R U S N O T I C E F R O M B I S H O P G R E G O R Y Since the Australian Government has indicated that there has been transmission of Covid-19 Virus within Australia, I must, in accord with specialist medical advice, make some rulings concerning the celebration of Mass in our Diocese. In order to prevent the passing of the virus from hand to hand

there will no sign-of-peace until further notice; To prevent the possibility of the transmission of droplets from

one person to another during the reception of Communion, all Communion will be given on the hand and not on the tongue until further notice;

As indicated in the Ad Clerum of 31 January 2020, the Chalice will not be shared with the congregation;

In these circumstances, parishioners who are feeling unwell are relieved from the obligation of attending Sunday Mass. Sick people should not attend Mass.

I remind all extra-ordinary ministers of Holy Communion to sanitise their hands with sanitising gel before distribution;

Holy Water will not be used at the entrances of churches. Let us pray for the protection of our people and the end of this virus.

Bishop Gregory Homeming OCD

P A R I S H N A M E B A D G E O R D E R Forms are at the back of each church. Please carefully print your name on the form at the back if you would like to order a badge. Orders must be in by 22nd March.

T H E S E A S O N O F L E N T A good Lenten practice is to do something

extra in prayer (e.g. taking the opportunity to attend Stations of the Cross), something

involving fasting (whether limiting our intake of food or giving up something non-food

related), and something involving almsgiving (giving money or goods to the needy or doing extra acts of charity, such as Project Compassion).

S T A T I O N S O F T H E C R O S S

Each Friday during the Season of Lent, Stations of the Cross will be held at St. Anthony’s Church at 7:00pm. This is a fitting devotion to add to our prayer life during Lent.

B I S H O P G R E G O R Y ’ S L E N T E N T A L K S 2 0 2 0 This years Lenten talks will focus on Holiness. The second talk will begin at 6pm at St Carthage’s Cathedral (Lismore) on Tuesday, 10th March. Talks will also take place on the two following Tuesday evenings. The first talk from Tuesday, 3rd March is now available on the diocesan website: www.lismorediocese.org

2 0 2 0 L E N T E N P R O G R A M M E The 2020 Lenten Program Be Opened commenced last week with sessions being held on: Tuesday at 10:00am in the parish meeting room Tuesday after 9:15am Mass at Pottsville Tuesday at 7:00pm in St. Anthony’s sacristy Men’s group—Wednesday at 7:00pm in the parish

meeting room There are still vacancies, so if you would like to join a group you can do so by ringing Carmel Atkinson on 02 6674 5791 or email: cat34020@bigpond.net.au. There is also an opportunity to do the program privately. Books can be purchased from the Piety Stall at $8.00 each.

P L E A S E R E M E M B E R I N YO U R P R AY E R S

T H O S E W H O H A V E D I E D , E S P E C I A L L Y T H E R E C E N T L Y D E C E A S E D Stefan Bele, Joe Rika, Margaret Talbot, Patricia Channell

T H O S E W H O S E A N N I V E R S A R I E S A R E A T T H I S T I M E Ted and Ilma Wirth, Ann Stagg, Frank Bermingham, Mary and John Potts, Maureen Crawford, Alex Ross, Lillian Mulhall, Keith Lazenby, Grace Tranter

A L S O

Jim Hession, Apolinar Plaza, Jun Rasdas, Gilberto Gonzales, Muriel and Dick Reading, Grace and Glad Reading, Kath Kearney, Mary Kelly, Michael Kelly, Margaret Kelly, Bernard Clarke, Les and Maria Andrews, Jack Byrne, Eugene, Simon and family, Fr. Tom McEvoy, Noreen Conlon, Marlene Condon, Alex Ross, Caroline Cranwell, John Perkins, Cosimo Care, Andres Plaza, Charlie Miranda, Alfred Smith, Mitchell family, Smith family, Ray O’Keefe, Jim Kelly, Pat Kelly, Pat Ping Kee, Brian McDonald, Frances McMahon, Lesley Hayes, Allen MacLennan, Gwen Quirk, Doreen Murray, Jo Clay, Maree Everingham, John Akers

T H O S E W H O A R E S I C K

Archer Bermingham, Michael Murphy, Sister Lecia Coombe RSM, George Prichard, May Kremmer, Jacquie Lawford, Paul O’Doherty, Breeda Flannery, Sonia Mathews, Christopher Martin, Gerard Paulson, Sean Hunt, Ann Browne, Angela Kenny, Benjamin Latimer, Greg Robb, David Gibson, Charles Samson Plaza, Michael Gibson, Zita Platt, Paula Kearney, Tyson Hughes

Sick List names removed after a considerable time. Please advise Parish Office if you wish names to remain.

RECORDING Monday 9th Mar, 2020 John Mulhall, Angela Mulhall

RECORDING Monday 16th Mar, 2020 Geoff Condon, Sharyn McConnell

MASS ROSTER 7th/8th March, 2020 KINGSCLIFF SATURDAY 6PM

GUITARIST Sharon Campbell

FIRST READER Pip Brown

SECOND READER Robyn Denny

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Carmel Atkinson

OFFERTORY Irene Fuller, Carmel Bushell

HOLY COMMUNION Margaret Sheekey, Mary Keogh, John Mulhall

HOSPITALITY Joe Bonett

SACRISTY Kath Togo, Jane Bonett

POTTSVILLE SUNDAY 7:30AM

ORGANIST Sharyn McConnell

FIRST READER Celia Mulder

SECOND READER Carlo Trimboli

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Robyn Edwards

OFFERTORY Rob van Til

HOLY COMMUNION Marie Stott

HOSPITALITY Geoff Condon

FLOWERS N/A

SACRISTY Deborah Wilmoth

KINGSCLIFF SUNDAY 9:00AM

ORGANIST Irene Brinsmead

FIRST READER Angela Finkel

SECOND READER John Leach

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Maree Spamer

OFFERTORY Carolyn and Murray Spittle

HOLY COMMUNION Helen Gooley, Mary and John Rawson

HOSPITALITY Carmel and Michael Martin

SACRISTY Craig Moore

MASS ROSTER 14th/15th March, 2020 KINGSCLIFF SATURDAY 6PM

ORGANIST Tom Nethery

FIRST READER Kim Dixon

SECOND READER Joe Bonett

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Anthony Luxton

OFFERTORY Danny and Paula Black

HOLY COMMUNION Pip Brown, Carmel Atkinson, Trish Beck

HOSPITALITY Tricia King

SACRISTY Carmel Atkinson, Irene Fuller

POTTSVILLE SUNDAY 7:30AM

ORGANIST Emily Gronholt

FIRST READER St. Ambrose School

SECOND READER St. Ambrose School

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL St. Ambrose School

OFFERTORY St. Ambrose School

HOLY COMMUNION St. Ambrose School

HOSPITALITY St. Ambrose School

FLOWERS N/A

SACRISTY Jan Witney

KINGSCLIFF SUNDAY 9:00AM

ORGANIST Janet Blandford

FIRST READER St. Anthony’s School

SECOND READER St. Anthony’s School

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL St. Anthony’s School

OFFERTORY St. Anthony’s School

HOLY COMMUNION St. Anthony’s School

HOSPITALITY St. Anthony’s School

SACRISTY Craig Moore

K I N G S C L I F F T R I A T H L O N – A C C E S S T O C H U R C H

During the Kingscliff Triathlon on Sunday 22nd March the access to St Anthony’s Church for 9am Mass will be via Pearl Street in a south to north direction only.

S T . J O S E P H ’ S C O L L E G E O P E N E V E N I N G Come along to St. Joseph’s on Tuesday, 17th March at 6pm, enrolling for years 7-11. Year 7 enrolments for 2021 close Thursday, 7th May.

W E D D I N G S Congratulations to the following couples who were married in St. Anthony’s Church this Friday and Saturday: Alexander McLeod and Prudence Cottee; and Kurt Sorensen and Jessica Frisby.

B A P T I S M S We welcome Macy Middlebrook and Rafael French, baptised this weekend at St. Anthony’s Church. Let us, as a community, ask our Lord Jesus Christ to look lovingly on these children baptised today, and on their parents, God parents and on all the baptised.

SCHOOL/PARISH FAMILY MASS & MORNING TEA Next Sunday is the Commitment Mass for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. There will be morning tea after the Pottsville and Kingscliff Masses hosted by families from St. Ambrose and St. Anthony’s schools. The Parish Second Rite of Reconciliation will take place on Tuesday, 31st March at 6:00pm at St. Anthony’s Church with several Priests (Children will make their First Reconciliation).

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE FROM THE RELICS PILGRIMAGE Following the wonderful experience of hosting the relics of St Therese and her parents Louis and Zelie Martin in the Diocese, Catholic Mission has asked that anyone who would like to share their experience to send a short email to communications@catholicmission.org.au setting out how your participation affected you and what the experience meant to you. These will be included on the Catholic Mission website without any identifying information and then sent to Lisieux so they can have a record of how the pilgrimage was received in Australia.

M E E T I N G S / G R O U P S

R C I A Tuesday, 10th March at 6:30pm in the parish meeting room.

CHERRY FAMILY GROUP OUTING

Tuesday, 17th March at 11:30am at Kathy Cherry’s home in Wooyung. Come along for a St. Patrick’s Day lunch and singalong! Cost $5 for Kathy’s Irish stew, BYO drinks. RSVP to Kathy Cherry on 0427 484 727 or Peter Byrne on 0415 714 846.

PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING

Wednesday 18th March at 5:00pm in the parish meeting room (please note the change of date).

BAPTISM WELCOMER 8th Mar, 2020 Angela Finkel

NO BAPTISMS 15th Mar, 2020 School Mass