St Patrick’s Catholic Parish
2 Moffat Street West (PO Box 243), Herberton QLD 4887
4096 2218 Fax: 40914975
Ph: (07)
Parish Priest: Gregory J. Moses Email: [email protected] Mobile: 0417 707 875
Deacon (Southern Tablelands): Alban Hunt Phone: 4096 6304
Pastoral Care: Sisters of Mercy Convent Phone: 4096 1450,
MSB College Principal: Mr David Finch Phone: 4096 1444 www.msb.qld.edu.au
Trish Inderbitzin Mobile: 0417 719 685
Fr. Barry Craig Parish Priest Malanda, Ph. 4096 5156.
Deacon Peter De Haas, Parish Leader, Ravenshoe, Ph. 4097 6180.
Thirteenth Sunday of the Year
2015. Parish19
Malanda Scholar in Residence Barry Craig Ph. 4096 6873.
Year B
28th June 2015
2 Moffat Street West (PO Box 243), Herberton QLD 4887 Ph: (07) 4096 2218 Fax:
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Welcome
Ravenshoe Accident and Cafe Fire:
Loose collection this week will be included
Tuesday:8.30
8.30am
ammass
massininchapel
chapel.
Tuesday:
with the diocese wide second collection
happening this weekend.
Friday:8.15
8.15am
ammass
massininchapel
chapel.
Friday:
Deanery Assembly: Saturday 4th July in
Fourteenth
Sunday
in
Ordinary
Time:
Sunday: 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: 11.15 am
mass in
Church.
Mareeba
this
time, starts 10 am. Main
11.15 am mass in church.
items for discussions: Liturgy Renewal,
Please pray our recently deceased
preparing for the upcoming Synod, whose
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our recently
deceased:
Patricia
Derek Worthy
(Maureen's first
husband),
Jane
Adams (Michael's
session
is Saturday
25th July, sister),
and
Nicole Dempsey,
Margaret Clarke,
Edvige
Francesca
Curcio, Dominico
Trimarchi,
Fr. Bill McCarthy,
Patricia
Hodge,
Fr.
Peter
McHugh.
our solidarity with Ravenshoe and Gulf
Giorcelli,
Michael
Mavis
Special
prayers
for Brander,
Trish Nash,
andCroft,
for Arthur, Cassie
and Josh
her family.
Savannah
parishes.
Jane Rodda, Frances Bernadette
Fitzgerald,
Alice
Lock,anniversaries
Carol Sanderson,
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for those
whose
occur: Sr. Catherine
Diocesan Kelly,
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2015: Fahey, Clement
Tom Worthington,
Ann
Cahill,
Elizabeth
Gibson,
Sr. Magdalen
Bowe,
Harold
Thomas Tucker,
Joy
MCHugh,
Harry
Fawcett. 25th
First Session: Saturday mornings
Lennon, Ellie Schuch.
July, on pastoral planning
And for our sick and indisposed: Leo Simonis (classmate
of Guido
and evening
myself), and
Sr. Mairead,
Second Session:
Friday
Also for those whose anniversaries
morning
23rd
-24th October.
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O’Connor,
Fr. John
Butcher,
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Barty, Ellie Schuch, Maree Nasser, Ralph Griebel,
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Frank Crane,
Katherine Swift,
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back Ruane,
this week
to the
MSB Boarders. much more than climate change, a
Hoban, Sean
John
Carey.
beautifully written and well crafted
document
concern for creation
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tentatively,
Sunday 9th November,
5.30 combining
pm.
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sick and
indisposed:
with concern for the poor.
Kemi Jackson, Ken Cahill, Elizabeth
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Newman,
John
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Mary
Mahon, our bell,
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make it usable once again.
Please pray for Christians in the Middle East. Also for our school. And for peace in the Ukraine
and in Syria and Iraq.
The stories of the daughter of Jairus and
the woman with the flow of blood are
stories of faith, with an obvious
comparison to the lack of faith of the
disciples in the episode of the storm at
sea. It seems that fathers and mothers
with sick children, and ordinary people
with all kinds of problems like this woman
with the bleeding, can have a lot more
faith than the accredited disciples, and
that with the incoming reign of God in the
person and ministry of Jesus this faith can
make all the difference and can be truly
life-giving. But there are as well a number
of special features to the stories which are
worth meditating on.
The first story is as much about love as
about faith, this desperate love of a father
and mother for their sick daughter, for
whose life he will do almost anything,
beyond all considerations of dignity and
honour and shame, all gone out the
window, this synagogue official kneeling
down at the feet of this itinerant son of a
carpenter and pleading with him,
whatever it takes. And keep up the faith
even when all seems lost. This in a
culture where it is said daughters were
valued less than donkeys. It is this
desperate love as much as the faith which
in the presence of the kingdom gets to be
life-giving.
Secondly, the story of the woman with the
flow of blood is also very much a story of
a person getting their life back as a
consequence of their desperate faith. A
flow of blood in this culture is a lot more
than an annoying medical problem. In her
society and culture it renders the woman
perpetually ‘unclean’, socially ostracised,
quarantined, and anyone who she
touches gets to be also unclean. She is
cut off from society, from her community,
from her religion, even from her family. “If
I can touch only the hem of his
garment…”, maybe he won’t notice,
maybe I’ll get away with it. Maybe also
this is partly why she is in fear and
trembling, as well as the extraordinary
happening beyond all possibility. “Who
touched me?” She thinks she has been
found out, whereas Jesus just wants to
know how come power is flowing out of
him without his even meaning to. In curing
her flow of blood, Jesus, given her faith,
really does give her back her life.
Let us pray then for parents with sick
children, and for ordinary people with all
kinds of problems, especially those who
feel cut off like that woman, that they also
may experience some of the life giving
power of the incoming Kingdom.
There are a few extra bits. Like the point
of Mark putting one story inside the other,
beyond just the dramatic effect. It is as if
Jesus is playing things a little bit by ear,
and that one story mediates the other.
Empowered by the woman’s powerful
faith and the power going out of him and
the wonderful turn-around in her life,
Jesus doesn’t hesitate when the news
comes that the child is dead, “Do not be
afraid, only have faith”, or as another
translation has it: fear is useless, trust is
what you need. In consequence of his
encounter with the woman, Jesus is
himself somehow or other gifted with the
wherewithal to take the next stage.
Finally, as always in Mark it is all very
pragmatic. The function of a cure is to
cure, the function of a saving of life is to
save life, no big deal, don’t make a fuss.
The kingdom comes to make a difference,
not to make a big noise. And it is
concentrated on the individual person, not
just some global humanity, this twelve
year old daughter of Jairus, this woman
with the flow of blood: who touched me?
Who touched me? In that moment, in that
encounter, the rest of the world doesn’t
exist, just Jesus and the woman, or
Jesus, the little girl and her mother and
father: “Your faith has restored you to
health: go your way in peace…” “Give
her something to eat…”