Easter Vigil / Easter Sunday
4th / 5th April 2015
Parish Clergy
Fr Kevin Flanagan PP
Parish Office
Fran Kernaghan
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
9.00 am – 2.00 pm
Phone: 60251516
Fax: 60404016
Web: http://sacredheartnorthalbury.com/
Mass Times
SATURDAY VIGIL: 6.00 pm
SUNDAY: 9.30 am
WEEKDAYS: 9.30 am Monday,
Wednesday, Friday (in the church)
First Tuesday of the month: 11.00 am
Mass at Mercy Place.
RECONCILIATION
SATURDAY: 4.45 PM-5.45 PM
WEDDINGS—By appointment.
Preparation course: 6051 0222
BAPTISMS—By appointment.
Preparation Course: 0411 883 661
Inspiration from Pope Francis
There are Christians whose lives
seem like Lent without Easter. I
realise of course that joy is not
expressed the same way at all times
in life, especially at moments of
great difficulty. Joy adapts and
changes, but it always endures,
even as a flicker of light born of
our personal certainty that, when
everything is said and done, we are
infinitely loved. I understand the
grief of people who have to endure
great suffering, yet slowly but
surely we all have to let the joy of
faith slowly revive as a quiet yet
firm trust even amid the greatest
distress.
( Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel)
Easter Prayer
Lord, the resurrection of Your Son
has given us new life and renewed hope.
Help us to live as new people
in pursuit of the Christian ideal.
Grant us wisdom to know what we must do,
the will to want to do it,
the courage to undertake it,
the perseverance to continue to do it,
and the strength to complete it.
We pray for those who have gone before us marked with the sign of
faith especially:
RECENTLY DECEASED: Bill McNamee, Dr John Stoney, Errol Edmunds, David Tutt.
ANNIVERSARIES: Albert Maguire, Catherine McIntosh, Norm Frauenfelder, Mary Egan, Alice
Frauenfelder, Sandra Gillett, Frank Brown, Annie Brown, Patrick Scammell, John Norman, Frank
Percy, Angel Taravillo, Sr Baptista, Bob Gray, Rusty Stewart, Patricia Darbyshire, Edna
Stephenson, Phillip Percy, Pam O’Brian, Pamela Quin, Allan Roach, Joe Everett, Kathrina
Schieber, Kevin Corrigan.
Gather our loved ones into your arms. Quiet our doubt and anger and send us
your healing grace. Through Christ our Lord.
Rosters
Sat / Sun: 4th / 5th April
Ministry
Vigil
9.30am
Commentator
Lector 1
Lector 2
As per Roster for Easter
Vigil
As per Roster for Easter
Sunday
Eucharistic Ministers
As per Roster for Easter
Vigil
As per Roster for Easter
Sunday
Cantor
Musicians
Choir
Choir
Counters: Peter Toner
Cleaning Group: Group 4
Sat /Sun: 11th / 12th April
Ministry
Vigil
9.30am
Commentator
Lector 1
Lector 2
Cassandra Jones
Pat Hickman
Stephen O’Connor
Richard Parkinson
Michael Byrnes
Colleen Day
Eucharistic Ministers
Judy Lindsay
Pauline Mulquiney
Kevin Kennedy
Trish Parkinson
Cantor
Musicians
John Van Lint
Mary Minchin
Simon Goss
Val Hayes
Counters: Brian & Carmel Butts
Cleaning Group: Group 5
Wishing you every Easter blessing. May
you have safe journeying's, uplifting times
with your families and the grace of God’s
hospitality be upon you all.
Fr Kevin
Thanks to all who have made our Lenten
preparation and our Holy Week
Ceremonies a prayerful and reflective
experience.
First Communion Classes
Classes for children not attending Catholic Schools will be commencing next
term. Please call 6025 1516 if you wish
your child to begin these classes.
Lectors & Eucharistic Ministers
Easter Water
If you would like to take some Easter
Water home, small containers filled
with Easter Water are available near
the Commentator’s stand.
Easter Blessing Card and Easter Egg
These are available at the Church
Entrances. Please take one as you
leave or if you know of someone who
is unable to come to Mass please take
one for them.
Mass Times
Please note there will be no weekday Masses this coming week
Heartbeat
Because of the change of Mass times beginning Easter Sunday could your please
let Fran know whether you want to be put
down for 6pm vigil or the 9.30am Sunday
Masses.
Please take a copy of our Parish quarterly newsletter. Available from all
church entrances.
Together
Our diocesan newspaper for the
month of April has arrived also.
Thought for the Week
Lord of life,
We pray for all who bring your word of life as a light to
those in darkness.
For those who bring your word of peace to those enslaved
by fear.
For those who bring your word of love to those in need of
comfort.
Lord of love and Lord of peace, Lord of resurrection life,
be known through our lives and through your power.
Christ the Lord is risen to-day!
Easter Sunday —Year B
Readings: Acts 10: 34, 37-43; Col 3: 1-4; John 20:: 1-9
Responsorial Psalm
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Reflection on the Readings:
Alleluia Verse: Alleluia, alleluia!
Christ has become our paschal sacrifice;
Let us feast with joy in the Lord.
Alleluia!
Time to look forward “with hope”
“The days after Easter have a remarkable atmosphere. The Church’s mood is not one of
exuberant triumph, but one of wonder and calm. Faith must come to terms with the new creation
brought into existence by the Paschal Mystery. And it is impossible to forget the price that has
been paid: the one who ‘went about doing good’ has died ‘hanging on a tree’.
“Though they proclaim realities which are incomparable in their greatness and importance, the
Church’s liturgies do not strive to impress by creating effect. Only faith can fully appreciate the
motivation that brought them into existence; they are a reflection of the Church’s living response
to what God has done for us. A group of people who have come through a great ordeal or an
extraordinary experience will often find themselves in a mood of calm, reflection and gratitude.
The liturgies of Easter Week have such a mood.
“With Peter, in the first reading, we look back upon the gospel story that has led up to the great
event in which we have been given to share. Peter recalls the ministry of Jesus ‘anointed with the
Holy Spirit and with power’ and his tragic death; and as a privileged witness he announces the
Lord’s resurrection, to be ‘the judge of the living and the dead’, the one witnessed to by ‘all the
prophets’.
“With Paul, in the second reading, we look forward with a hope that has no bounds. The destiny
which is ours through the power of the Saviour’s resurrection invites us to ‘look for the things
that are in heaven’, because the life we now have ‘is hidden with Christ in God’.
“In the gospel reading - the story of Peter and the beloved disciple running to the empty tomb the Church of the Apostles acknowledges that faith does not come easily: only a generous
openness to God will find faith in the Risen Lord. This openness is linked especially with a
knowledge of God’s ways to be found in ‘the teaching of scripture’.
“The renewal of baptismal promises, which is customary at the Easter Day Mass, invites us to
reflect upon the immense implications of our sharing in the Saviour’s risen life, for the sake of the
whole world.”(From a sermon on the Gospel by Fr
All music used in worship at Sacred Heart,
John Thornhill SM)
North Albury, is used with permission.
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