Prayers to end Abortion: Prayers are invited every Friday for an hour before Mass at St Mary's Chapel to end abortion. This will be done in conjunction with those who go to pray and be advocates for the unborn outside the Abortion Clinic at Tweed Heads every Friday. Communion: Communion Ministers take Holy Communion to the sick in their homes and in various Nursing Homes in the parish. If you have a family member who is unable to come to Mass and wishes to receive Communion, please contact the parish office. Hospital Visits: If you or a family member are in hospital and would like to be Anointed or receive Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Office on 66260 200. This is an important ministry for which we are never too busy to attend too. A Priest, Deacon or one of our Parish Pastoral Visitors will visit you. It is important when a family member enters the hospital, that their next of kin list them as Catholic, so that the Catholic Hospital Chaplain and Parish Pastoral Visitors know they are there. DIOCESAN INVESTMENT FUND Head Office: Farrelly House Magellan St, Lismore 1800 802516. Agent: Cathedral Parish Office, Liturgy Roster for 19th October The 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Saturday 6pm: Commentator:………… ….. S Harris Reader:…………….…...Br J McCabe Reader:..………………….....D Wynn Ex’nary Minister.:…… ……..F Griffin Servers:…...A & M Butler, E Dunn, A Pezzutti Children’s Lit:………J & M Sheridan Sunday 9am Commentator:...………………M Ford Reader……...…..…..……R Shearman Reader:……………….……L Wallace Ex’nary Minister:….……M Doolan Servers:…M. McKendry & R Naliman Counters….……….S Harris & B Gow Sunday 6pm Commentator:.......…..……....B Walsh Reader:...………..…….Marist Brother Reader:..…………...................J Smith Ex’nary Minister:…………... R Grant Servers:..... J & V Bush, G McMaster, J Moase BAPTISM: AT LEAST ONE MONTH’S NOTICE IS REQUIRED to enable families to attend the Baptismal Program which takes place on the 1st Sunday of each month at 11.15am or on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 5.30pm in the Parish Centre. Please phone the Parish office to book in for a Baptismal Program. Baptisms take place on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Sundays of the month at 11.15am. WEDDINGS: By appointment: please contact Parish Office for all bookings. ST. CARTHAGE'S CATHEDRAL BULLETIN Mass Times: St Mary’s Chapel: Dunoon: Goolmangar: Nimbin: Carmelite Monastery: Confessions: Vigil Sat 6pm, Sunday 9am & 6pm. Tues 5.20pm; Wed, Thurs& Fri 12.20pm. 1st & 3rd Sunday, 9.30am. 2nd & 4th Sunday 9.30am. 5th Sunday 9.30am. Sun -Fri 7am (Sat 8am) Sung Mass (EF) 3rd Sunday 11am Saturday 12-12.30pm in the Cathedral, and after most weekday Masses in the Chapel. Fr Nicolas Maurice, Administrator. Fr Roland Agrisola, Assistant Priest. 6 Leycester Street, (PO Box 2) Lismore Ph: 02 6626 0200 Fax: 02 6621 2301 Web Page: www.stcarthages.org.au Email: [email protected] the 28th Sunday in Ordinary time, 12th October 2014 ______________________________________________________ FIRST READING: Is 25:6-10 RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 22. R. v.6 (R.) I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. SECOND READING: Phil 4:12-14.19-20 ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! May the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ enlighten the eyes of our heart that we might see how great is the hope to which we are called. Alleluia! GOSPEL: Mt 22:1-14 Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the people: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a feast for his son’s wedding. He sent his servants to call those who had been invited, but they would not come. Next he sent some more servants. “Tell those who have been invited” he said “that I have my banquet all prepared, my oxen and fattened cattle have been slaughtered, everything is ready. Come to the wedding.” But they were not interested: one went off to his farm, another to his business, and the rest seized his servants, maltreated them and killed them. The king was furious. He dispatched his troops, destroyed those murderers and burnt their town. Then he said to his servants, “The wedding is ready; but as those who were invited proved to be unworthy, go to the crossroads in the town and invite everyone you can find to the wedding.” So these servants went out onto the roads and collected together everyone they could find, bad and good alike; and the wedding hall was filled with guests. When the king came in to look at the guests he noticed one man who was not wearing a wedding garment, and said to him, “How did you get in here, my friend, without a wedding garment?” And the man was silent. Then the king said to the attendants, “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the dark, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.” For many are called, but few are chosen.’ Mass and Liturgy Weekday Masses: Monday: Mary’s Grange 9.00am Wednesday: St Joseph’s10.30am Friday: St Vincent’s 10.30am Holy Hour & Benediction: Sunday in the Cathedral after the 9am Mass concluding with Benediction. Feast Days this Week: Wed: St Teresa of Jesus Fri: St Ignatius of Antioch Sat: St Luke Feast of St Teresa of Jesus (of Avila): On Wednesday the Carmelite Family worldwide will begin celebrating a Centenary Year to mark the 500th Anniversary of the birth of St Teresa of Jesus (of Avila). There will be a special Mass at the Carmelite Monastery at 10 am Please note there will be no 7am Mass on that day. The ‘Friends of Carmel’ Auxiliary will be holding a stall after the Mass. All welcome! Rosary: Pauline Buckland, 4.30pm Unit 26 St Matthew’s Jubilee Ave, Goonellabah Come and pray the Rosary! "Ask and you shall receive" Please pray for the following: Recently Deceased: Leah Hughes, Patricia Kenny, Ellen Reardon, Norma Lynch, Francis Spinaze, Sr Mary Blanch, William Godfrey, Lenore Quinn, Enid Quirk, Eileen Dillon, Anniversaries: Aileen Sims, Vergenia & Malou Castillo, Dennis Ramsay, William Tooley, Jack Kenny Leslie Clifford Conlon, Thomas Croke, Deceased: Clem & Grace Cawley, Dick & Audrey Chute, Peter Swan. Special Intentions: Michael & Gwen Zietsch, Kathleen & Clare Gallagher Rex Baldwin, Cooper Sweeney, Betty Kinkead, Doris Murphy Morning tea: Come and have a cuppa after the 9am Mass this weekend, hosted by the Cody team in the parish centre. Everyone welcome Meetings in the Parish Centre  Tues 14th Playgroup 10am – 12noon  Wed 15th Hospitality Info night - 6.30pm  Thurs 16th Oct Finance Council - 6pm Journey through the Bible - 6pm Adult Faith Formation - 7pm Pastoral Council: Nominations are being called for the Pastoral Council. Nominations forms are at the back of the Church If you are interested in joining the Pastoral Council or know of someone who maybe please fill out the form and return to the Parish Office. Understanding the Mass: The Preparation of the Gifts (Part I) With the Preparation of the Gifts, the chief part of the Mass, namely, the Liturgy of the Eucharist, begins. “At the Preparation of the Gifts, bread and wine with water are brought to the altar, the same elements, that is to say, which Christ took into his hands” when he instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal says, “First, the altar, the Lord’s table, which is the centre of the whole Liturgy of the Eucharist, is prepared by placing on it the corporal, purificator, Missal, and chalice...” (73) From this point forward, the altar is the centre of activity and attention. The priest goes to the altar and remains there until the prayer after communion. The altar, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church, “represents the two aspects of the same mystery: the altar of the sacrifice and the table of the Lord. This is the more so since the Christian altar is the symbol of Christ himself, present in the midst of the assembly of his faithful, both as the victim offered for our reconciliation and as food from heaven who is giving himself to us.” (no. 1383) What are the objects used or placed on the altar during the Liturgy of the Eucharist? They are the sacred vessels, the Roman Missal and missal stand and the cloths. The sacred vessels used are the paten, chalice, ciborium and cruets, ewer and basin. The paten is the holy plate, on which the bread is prepared and consecrated, changed into the Body of Jesus Christ. The chalice is the holy cup, in which wine is prepared and consecrated, changed into the Blood of Jesus Christ. The ciborium is a chalice with a lid, in which smaller bread is prepared and consecrated, especially if there are many people communing to Communion. It is also used for the Hosts kept in the tabernacle. The cruets are the jugs which hold the wine and water. They are usually made of glass. The ewer and basin are the jug and the bowl for the washing of the priest’s hands. In the cathedral, they are used for more solemn celebrations. The linens used at Mass with the sacred vessels are the corporal, the purificator, the pall, and the finger towel. The corporal is a square-shaped linen, put at the centre of the altar, on which the paten and chalice (and ciborium) are placed with the prepared bread and wine. The purificator is a white cloth used as a towel to clean the chalice and the paten. The pall is made of linen, around a square piece of cardboard, used to cover the chalice during Mass. The finger towel is used to dry the priest’s hands. A chalice veil and a burse, usually of the same colour as the vestments, is used in the cathedral. A burse is a large, flat wallet in which the folded corporal is kept.