1. religion and spirituality
2. christianity
3. catholicism

Wedding Celebrations within the Parish
We wish to congratulate the following couples who will be celebrating their weddings at the Basilica during
April and wish them all the best for their future. Let us keep them in our prayers.
Cristiana Canelas and Samuel Ambrogio
Events within the Parish
Wednesday 1 April at 7pm, 2nd Rite Reconciliation
Thursday 2 April Holy Thursday
Friday 3 April Good Friday
Saturday 4 April Holy Saturday
Sunday 5 April Easter Sunday
Saturday 25 April Anzac Day
Sacred Heart Sodality
We wish to invite all friends of the Sacred Heart Sodality to join us at Mass every 4 th Sunday of the
month at 8:30am. Next Mass will be held on Sunday 26 April 2015. New members are always
welcome. For further information please contact the Parish Office.
Children’s Liturgy
Children’s Liturgy is held every Sunday during school term at the 8:30am Mass in the
Children’s Chapel, located just inside the side foyer of the Basilica. All Children
Welcome!
St Patrick’s Morning Tea
Come along and enjoy morning tea with fellow parishioners after 8:30am Mass on Sunday 12 April, 2015.
ALL WELCOME!
ANZAC Day – Saturday 25 April – 12:10pm Mass
Please join us for the 12:10pm Mass in the Basilica on Saturday 25 April for a celebration of the 100th
Anniversary ANZAC Day. We remember what is arguably Australia's most important national occasion, on the
anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First
World War. Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915, as we remember
Australians who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations. The spirit of Anzac, with
its human qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have meaning and relevance for our
sense of national identity.
This special Mass will commence at 12:10pm with the Last Post, followed by a minute silence and Reveille.
The Basilica Choir, joined by members of the Royal School of Church Music, will present music specifically
chosen for the occasion, throughout the Mass, including the ‘Kyrie’ and ‘Agnus Dei’ from Gabriel Faure’s
Requiem and John Ireland’s Greater Love Hath No Man.
Holy Week and Easter Timetable 2015
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL
(Colour of Vestments: PURPLE)
Mass at 12.10pm
2nd Rite of Reconciliation at 7pm
HOLY THURSDAY 2 APRIL
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE)
No Midday Mass
7pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper
8pm – 9pm Reconciliation
8pm – 10pm Adoration
GOOD FRIDAY 3 APRIL
(Colour of Vestments: RED)
No midday Mass
11am Stations of the Cross
at the Basilica of St Patrick
11.30am – 12.30pm Reconciliation English
11am Stations of the Cross at St Anne’s Church
3pm Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion
4pm – 5pm Reconciliation English
HOLY SATURDAY 4 APRIL
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE OR GOLD)
No Blessed Sacrament and No midday Mass
9.30am – 10.30am Reconciliation English
11am – 12noon Reconciliation English
4pm Polish Blessing of Food
4.30pm – 5.30pm Reconciliation English
7pm Vigil Mass
EASTER SUNDAY 5 APRIL
(Colour of Vestments: WHITE)
Masses:
St Patrick’s Basilica: 7am, 8:30am, 9:45am (Italian),
11am, 5pm
St Anne’s, North Fremantle: 8:15am
Weekly Services in the Fremantle Parish
Masses during the week
St Patrick’s Basilica
Monday to Saturday: 12:10pm
Wednesday and Friday evenings: 7pm
Convent
Weekdays (except Public Holidays): 7am
Weekend Masses
St Patrick’s Basilica
Saturday Vigil: 6pm
Sunday: 7am, 8:30am, 9:45am (Italian),
11am, 5pm
St Anne’s, North Fremantle
Sunday: 8:15am
Holy Spirit Chapel, Notre Dame
Sunday: 6pm
For enquiries regarding Baptisms and Weddings
please phone the Parish Office
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
St Patrick’s Basilica
Thursday: 8am – 12noon
First Friday: 11am – 12noon
Saturday: 10:30am – 12noon
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
St Patrick’s Basilica
Saturday: 9:30am – 10:30am,
11am – 12noon, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
First Friday: 11am – 12noon
For Vocations and World Peace
St Patrick’s Basilica
Novena to Our Lady every Wednesday
after the 7pm Mass
Devotion to the Divine Mercy
St Patrick’s Basilica Friday: 6:30pm
Rosters for April 2015
If you are unable to attend on your rostered day please find a replacement. If you see a problem with the roster then please contact
the Parish Office on 9335 2268 and ask that the information be passed on to Angie Emanuele.
Readers
Date
4/5 April
(1)
11/12 April
(2)
18/19 April
(3)
25/26 April
(4)
Saturday Vigil
6:00pm
J Swindells
T Petrucci
G Lynn
J Gilmour
L Jensen
J Gilmour
P Pettigrew
J Leahy-Kane
Sunday
7:00am
K Wilson
Position Vacant
K Miller
M Clune
Sunday
8:30am
P Cattalini
C Pruiti
M Lacey
C Brown
M-A Yeats
P Colgan
S Sutton
U Stephenson
Sunday
11:00am
M Jardine-Clarke
D Randazzo
B Dwyer
M Sticca
C Pruiti
L Lanzara
A Parker
P Smith
Sunday
5:00pm
Sr L Chua
L Saunders
L Tomlinson
A Greenwood
Sr L Chua
B Sands
Sr L Chua
Communion Ministers
Date
Saturday Vigil
6:00pm
G Basile
F Gilmour
J Gilmour
Sunday
7:00am
S Bottoli
11/12 April
(2)
J Leahy-Kane
M Dullard
J Gilmour
S Bottoli
18/19 April
(3)
G Basile
F Gilmour
M Dullard
S Bottoli
25/26 April
(4)
G Basile
M Dullard
J Leahy-Kane
B Yong
4/5 April
(1)
Sunday
8:30am
L Seal
C Pruiti
B Tuana
A M Cross
M Yates
C Brown
P Cattalini
T Ducali
M Yeats
D Yeats
P Cattalini
A M Cross
T Ducali
C Pruiti
A M Cross
L Seal
Sunday
11:00am
B Dwyer
M Thompson
M De Klyver
M Smith
D Randazzo
P Grootelaar
M Sheridan
M Thompson
B Dwyer
B Earl
M Thompson
A Parker
B Dwyer
P Grootelaar
D Randazzo
M Sheridan
Sunday
5:00pm
Position Vacant
L Tomlinson
Sr Fely
Position Vacant
A Greenwood
Sr Melanie
L Tomlinson
Sr L Chua
Sr L Chua
A Greenwood
Music Ministry
Dominic Perissinotto – Organist and Director of Music
Date
Thursday 2 April
(1)
Friday 3 April
(1)
Saturday 4 April
(1)
Sunday 5 April
(1)
11/12 April
(2)
Liturgy
Saturday 6:00pm
MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER
Sunday 8:30am
Thursday 7:00pm
Sunday 11:00am
Sunday 5:00pm
The Basilica Choir
GOOD FRIDAY
Friday 3:00pm
The Basilica Choir
EASTER VIGIL
Saturday 7:00pm
The Basilica Choir
18/19 April
(3)
THIRD SUNDAY OF
EASTER
25/26 April
(4)
FOURTH SUNDAY
OF EASTER
EASTER SUNDAY
SECOND SUNDAY
OF EASTER
Gilbert Rodgers
Claudia Sosin
Annaliese Eames
(organ)
Fleur Brockway
Stephen De Filippo
Claudia Sosin
Andrew Brown (organ)
Alexandra Eimear Foley
Andrew Brown (organ)
Gabrielle Scheggia
Jenna Roberston
Eva-Marie Middleton
The Basilica Chamber
Singers
Andrew Brown (organ)
The Basilica Choir
Dominic Perissinotto
(conductor)
Andrew Brown (organ)
The Basilica Chamber
Singers
No music
Claudia Sosin
Annaliese Eames
(organ)
Delia Price
Stephen De Filippo
Fremantle Catholic Community
Monthly Bulletin
‘The Patrician’
April 2015 Volume 10 Number3
___________________________________________________________________________________
Some years ago, my sister, Helen, an Ursuline nun, died of cancer.
A nun for more than thirty years, she much loved her vocation and was much loved within it. For most of
those thirty years, she served as a den-mother to hundreds of young women who attended an academy run
by her order. She loved those young women and was for them a mother, an older sister, and a mentor. For
the last twenty years of her life, after our own mother died, she also served in that same capacity for our
family, organizing us and keeping us together. Through all those years she was the active-one, the
consummate-doer, the one that others expected to take charge. She relished the role. She loved doing things
for others.
Nine months before she died, cancer struck her brutally and she spent the last months of her life bed-ridden.
Now things needed to be done for her and to her. Doctors, nurses, her sisters in community, and others, took
turns taking care of her. And, like Jesus from the time of his arrest until the moment of his death, her body too
was humiliated, led around by others, stripped, prodded, and stared at by curious passers-by. Indeed, like
Jesus, she died thirsty, with a sponge held to her lips by someone else.
This was her passion. She, the one who had spent so many years doing things for others, now had to submit to
having things done to her. But, and this is the point, like Jesus, she was able in that period of her life, when
she was helpless and no longer in charge, to give life and meaning to others in a deeper way than she could
when she was active and doing so many things for others.
There's great lesson in this, not the least of which is how we view the terminally ill, the severely handicapped,
and the sick. There's a lesson too on how we might understand ourselves when we are ill, helpless, and in
need of care from others.
The cross teaches us that we, like Jesus, give as much to others in our passivities as in our activities. When we
are no longer in charge, beaten down by whatever, humiliated, suffering, and unable even to make ourselves
understood by our loved ones, we are undergoing our passion and, like Jesus in his passion, have in that the
opportunity to give our love and ourselves to others in a very deep way.
Fr Ron Rolheiser, OMI
Parish Office
Basilica of St Patrick
47 Adelaide St, Fremantle WA 6160
Phone: (08) 9335 2268 Fax: (08) 9430 6076
Parish Office email: [email protected]
Parish Priest email: [email protected]
Parish Web Page: fremantlestpatricks.org.au
Office Hours: Monday to Friday: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Closed Weekends and Public Holidays