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The Catholic Leader - still only $2. On sale at the doors. In this week’s issue:
* Church figures and Bravehearts speak out for children in immigration detention following
damning Human Rights report
* Archbishop Coleridge comments on the Church’s position on capital punishment and on the
crisis facing two Australians in Indonesia
* Pope Francis’ 2015 Lenten Message
* Church leaders outline their hopes and expectations of Queensland’s new State Government
* All Hallows’ principal appointed to be new executive director of Queensland Catholic
Education Commission
* Fijian couple gives first-hand account of how Project Compassion donations change lives in
their community
* Young Brisbane Catholic woman denounces film ‘50 Shades of Grey’
* Queensland’s new Catholic Women’s League state president to rally more lay women to pray
for an end to human trafficking
* Former long-serving Gregory Terrace principal talks of life at the ‘intersection ... of the Gospel
story of 2000 years ago and the Edmund Rice story of 200 years ago’
* Talking point: Terry Lees on living life in the moment ... ‘in the strength of the living Christ’
PLUS: A regional focus on Townsville Diocese.
LENT 2015
Weekday Mass Mon-Fri: 8.00am; 10.00am;
12.30pm; 5.10pm; Saturday: 11.30am
Morning Prayer of the Church
Mon – Fri: 8.30am (St Stephen’s Chapel)
Choral Vespers
Sunday 3.00pm—St Stephen’s Chapel
Way of the Cross Friday: 10.30am
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Mon – Fri: 10.30am-12.15pm
Benediction Mon – Fri: 12.15pm
Sacrament of Penance
Individual Rite Mon-Fri: 10.30-11.30am;
1.00-1.30pm; 4.30-5.00pm
Saturday: 10.00-11.00am
Communal Rite [2nd Rite]
Monday: 30 March – 5.10pm
Lenten Prayer Reflection Sheets
Available in Blessed Sacrament Chapel
Rite of Election Sunday 22 February - 3.00pm
Chrism Mass Thursday 26 March 7.30pm
Passion (Palm) Sunday 29 March
Copyright Notices
Responsorial Psalm. Joseph Gelineau
Mass parts. ICEL
Dismissal Rite. Christopher Walker.
GIA 1996
Used with Permission. WOL Licence 361
Used with Permission. WOL Licence 361
Used with Permission. WOL Licence 361
Lenten Season Again?
There is the human tendency to ask the question:
Why do we have the Lenten season every year? Yes,
why don’t we cut Lent and go straight to another
Christmas celebration with the concomitant cake eating
and merry making? As good as these questions and
the answers they warrant may seem, one thing is clear:
Life, unfortunately, is not a long Christmas; the Jesus
that was born at Christmas had to grow up and head
towards Calvary where he will be crucified, and where
he will, after three days, rise to life. Through his death
and resurrection, Jesus restores to us what we lost and
needed. None of us is a finished product; we are all
works in progress, we are sinners in need of God’s
mercy, we are still on the journey of faith, and that’s
why the season of Lent is necessary for us every year.
In his 2015 Lenten Pastoral Letter, On the Road
Together, the Archbishop sets the tone for this year’s
Lenten season:
The Church is not the community of the sinless,
with the great throng of the sinful outside. Both within
the Church and outside, human beings – all of them –
are a mixture of sin and grace, life and death. What
makes believers different is that they are flawed human
beings who put their faith in Jesus Christ as the only
one who can lead them finally and fully out of the
clutches of the demonic into the embrace of the divine.
It’s faith that allows God’s grace to enter and shape
their lives. That’s why Lent is not just a time to focus on
sin and repentance but also a time to renew our faith in
the one who alone can give us the discerning eye that
truly knows what is sin and what is grace, what is life
and what is death.
It’s also a time to renew our faith in the family and
to find ways of deepening the experience of family.
Might one of the disciplines of Lent be a renewal of
family prayer in a way that respects the rhythms of
family life now? Another of those disciplines might be a
renewed focus on the family meal, again respecting the
rhythms and pressures of life at a time when it’s not
always easy to gather the family around one table. I
invite every family in the Archdiocese to think of how,
through these days till Easter, you might pray together
as a family and share a meal together as a family.
These are simple things but they are moments of
grace; and they would be a real contribution as the
whole Church journeys along the road that leads from
one session of the Synod to the next and along the
road that leads from Ash Wednesday to Easter.
May the forty-day journey of Lent
bring us all unspeakable joy
and healing—Amen!
Fr Anthony Ekpo
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
22 February 2015
Most Rev Mark Coleridge BA DSS
Archbishop of Brisbane
Very Rev David Pascoe
Dean
Rev Anthony Ekpo
Rev Leonard Uzuegbu
Rev Bob Harwood
Associate Pastors
Rev Odinaka Nwadike
Deacon
Sr Gabriel Williams OSU
Sacramental Coordinator
Br Patrick Tobin
Sacristan
Mr Bob Crapnell
Mr Lloyd Eickenloff
Assistant Sacristans
Dr Ralph Morton
Director of Music
Mr James Goldrick
Assistant Director of Music
Ms Carmel Devery
Office Co-ordinator
Mr Terry Tolhurst
Mrs Nicola Vincent
Administrative Assistants
Mr Vince Crisci; Mr Isaac Morton;
Mr Patrick Yzelman; Mr John Cusack;
Mr Peter Van Wienen
Facilities & Maintenance
CATHEDRAL LITURGIES THIS WEEK
SUNDAY
8.00am, 10.00am, 12 noon & 7.30pm
WEEKDAY MASS TIMES THIS WEEK
MONDAY-FRIDAY
8.00am, 10.00am, 12.30pm, 5.10pm
SATURDAY
11.30am
MORNING PRAYER
This week we meet married couple Eric and Ma in Fiji who had an unprofitable farm and
limited diet before they received training supported by Caritas Australia. Now they have a
successful farm, a sustainable income and food for life. Please donate to Project
Compassion today and help people in isolated areas of Fiji gain the skills they
need to grow food for life. www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion 1800 024 413
Project Compassion 2015 our donation will support programs around the world that
provide vulnerable people with the skills and opportunities they need to establish food for
life. Please take home a Project Compassion set of Lenten donation envelopes and give
generously to the appeal this Lent.
Commencing this Sunday 22 February at 3:00pm, the cathedral will be instituting a
service of Choral Vespers. This ancient service, led by the Cathedral Schola, combines the
singing of plainsong psalms with readings and prayers, through the intercession of the
Blessed Virgin, and culminates in the singing of the Magnificat, the canticle of Mary. You
are warmly invited to join in this service.
This Sunday’s Vespers will be held in the
St. Stephen’s Chapel. 3:00pm. Magnificat secundi toni - Orlande de Lassus Scapulis suis George Malcolm
Lenten Prayer booklets These popular publications are available today for $2 each from
the Sacristy. They are an excellent resource to assist people with their daily prayer. “Little
Back Book”, “Five Minutes with the Word” and “The Word Among Us”.
RCIA: Rite of Election This Sunday afternoon, 22 February, around 110 people who are
preparing for full initiation into the Catholic Church at the Easter ceremonies will gather
with their godparents, catechists and families at the Cathedral of St Stephen for the Rite of
Election. At this ritual, the Church acknowledges the readiness of the catechumens for the
sacraments of initiation and the catechumens, who now become ‘the elect’, declare their
commitment to enter into a period of intense spiritual preparation for initiation at Easter.
Our thoughts and prayers are with them during this special time in their journey of faith.
Invitation Over the next weeks we shall be recruiting for new Liturgical Ministers. We ask
you to take time to consider Ministry as an expression of your Baptismal Commitment one
aspect of which is serving the Community of faith. Please give this invitation serious
thought. There will be more information regarding Ministers of the Word, Ministers of
Communion and Hospitality in the coming weeks.
Mass for the Deaf. St Michael's Church, 250 Banks Street, Ashgrove, will host an AuslanSupported Mass on Sunday 1 March at 8.30 am. A warm invitation is extended to all who
would like to attend this Mass, with morning tea afterwards. 2015 Auslan Masses: 7 June,
13 September, & 22 November. Enquiries to [email protected].
“Living Biblically in a secular World” - Archbishop’s formation series beginning 18
March—Please see back page or electronic noticeboard for details.
FRIDAY
8.30am in the Chapel
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
MONDAY—FRIDAY 10.30am—12.15pm
BENEDICTION
MONDAY—FRIDAY
12.15pm
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
MONDAY—FRIDAY 10.30-11.30am; 1.00-1.30pm; 4.30-5.00pm
SATURDAY
10.00am-11.00am; 4.30pm-5.30pm
ST PATRICK’S CHURCH, FORTITUDE VALLEY
SUNDAY MASS
9.00am, 12noon
ST JOSEPH’S, KANGAROO POINT
SUNDAY MASS
9.00am
ST BENEDICT’S, EAST BRISBANE
SATURDAY
6.00pm
MAY THE SOULS OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED REST IN PEACE:
Edward MICO, John MOORE, Jim Mc GRAW, Fr Jim HYNES, Ross GIRGENTI, Allan MICHAEL,
Ken RUSSELL, Michael CHUNG, Fr Bill MURPHY, Jack HOWELL, Beverley McPHEE, Stepano CHOI,
Stepano KIM, Joseb KIM, Hugh HILLIS, Christina HILLIS Thomas HILLIS, Neil GIBBONS, Maria WASKIN,
Ivan WASKIN, Greta GIBBONS, Austin GIBBONS, Letty BATTEN, Fred BATTEN, Joyce WEALE James
HAMMERTON, Muriel HAMMERTON, Suzanne WEIR, Desmond HUGHES, Doreen TIMMINS, Edgar
TIMMINS, Dusty SPRINGFIELD, Sabino INFANTE, Kurt VON HERRLINGER, Holy Souls, Niicola & Cecilia
DENIS, Val STOROR, J Mario ESPIRITUSANTOS, Abelardo PAYEN, Aquilina ELO, Priscilla CARRIDO,
Francisca BERNALES, Almaquio BERNALES, Florencio BUSCANO, Zosima BUSCANO, Kerry DURANT,
Peter DURANT, Nino BUSCANO, Regina & Filomeno ROSANES, Ajy ROSANES, Ranulfo PAMPARO Jnr,
Tess PAMPARO, Adita STAYTE, Elidio BUCOY, Aurelia BUCOY, Luigi COSSETTINI, Antonio FLORES,
David THOMPSON-LEWIS,
Deceased members of the ROSANES, RANADA, VICENTE, OIRA, EDWARDS, LUDOVICE & ALIANZA
families. The fallen 44 Filipino Policemen.
For those of the AQUINAS, ST PAUL and PERPETUAL ADORATION Book.
Readings
First
Second
Gospel
This Week
Genesis 9:8-15
1 Peter 3:18-22
Mark 1:12-15
Next Week
Genesis 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18
Romans 8:31-34
Mark 9:2-10
This weekend our Mass Presiders are: The Cathedral
6.00pm Saturday
8.00am
10.00am
12.00 noon
7.30pm
Fr Leonard Uzuegbu
Fr Bob Harwood
Dcn Odinaka Nwadike
Archbishop Coleridge
Fr Leonard Uzuegbu
Fr David Pascoe
St Patrick’s, Fortitude Valley
St Benedict’s, East Brisbane
St Joseph’s Kangaroo Point
9.00am
12 noon
6.00pm Saturday
9.00am Sunday
Fr David Pascoe
Fr Michael Rego SM
Fr Bob Harwood
Fr Anthony Ekpo
At the Solemn Mass, the Cathedral Choir sings the AGNUS DEI
Missa Secunda
At the 12:00pm Mass, the Cathedral Schola sings the AGNUS DEI
Missa Brevis
PROCESSIONAL HYMN
At the 12:00pm Mass,
the Cathedral Schola sings
STANFORD
Beati quorum via integra est,
qui ambulant in lege Domini.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way,
who walk in the law of the Lord.
Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us did fast and pray,
Teach us to overcome our sins,
And close by you to stay.
As you with Satan did contend
And did the vict’ry win,
O give us strength in you to fight,
In you to conquer sin.
As you did hunger and did thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and only live
By your most holy word.
And through these days of penitence,
And through your Passiontide,
For evermore, in life and death,
O Lord, with us abide.
Abide with us that, when this life
Of suffering is past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last!
Following the Dismissal, all depart in silence.
The 10:00am Solemn Mass is sung by the Cathedral Choir
The 12:00pm Mass and 3:00pm Vespers
is sung by the Cathedral Schola.
IVES
COMMUNION MOTET
POSTCOMMUNION HYMN
ORDER OF MASS
HASSLER
ST. FLAVIAN
HEINLEIN
Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.
Then if Satan on us press,
Jesus, Saviour, hear our call!
Victor in the wilderness,
Grant we may not faint nor fall!
Should not we Thy sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Strong with Thee to suffer pain?
Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by Thy side;
That with Thee we may appear
At th’eternal Eastertide.
INTROIT
Attende Domine, et miserere,
quia peccavimus tibi.
Ad te Rex summe, omnium redemptor,
oculos nostros sublevamus flentes:
exaudi, Christe, supplicantum preces.
PLAINSONG
Hearken, O Lord, and have mercy,
for we have sinned against Thee.
Crying, we raise our eyes to Thee, Sovereign
King, Redeemer of all. Listen, Christ,
to the pleas of the supplicant sinners.
THE PENITENTIAL ACT
At the Solemn Mass, the Cathedral Choir sings the KYRIE
Missa Secunda
At the 12:00pm Mass, the Cathedral Schola sings the KYRIE
Missa Brevis
HASSLER
IVES
LITURGY OF THE WORD
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
SANCTUS
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION
DISMISSAL RITE
Following the DOXOLOGY, all sing
UNIVERSAL PRAYER
℣. Let us pray to the Lord:
OFFERTORY MOTET
At the 12:00pm Mass,
the Cathedral Schola sings
At the Solemn Mass,
the Cathedral Choir sings
TALLIS
If ye love me, keep my commandments,
and I will pray the Father,
and He shall give you another comforter
that He may bide with you forever.
Ev’n the Spirit of truth.
PALESTRINA
Scapulis suis obumbrabit tibi Dominus
et sub pennis ejus sperabis, scuto
circumdabit te veritas ejus.
He shall cover you with his wings
and you shall be safe under his feathers;
His faithfulness shall be your shield
and buckler.