Fred Thomas Drive, Takapuna. Come along and bring a friend. contact: Basil Rassam on 443 5755. “An invitation to all. Work to Live. A hui talanoa, celebration, sharing stories, and planning action to reduce inequality and poverty in South Auckland. Friday 7th November, 6 – 8pm. Te Puke o Tara Newbury Street Otara In celebration of Eucharist and in your own personal prayer, please remember: Recently Deceased: Roger Hoe, Val Mutch, Brian Maynard, Henk Leenderts, Liz Hilton Others who have died: Colleen Quinn (5th Ann), Leonie Griffin (2nd Ann), Jack Johnson (17th Ann), John Bos (4th Ann), Anna Yeoh (2nd Ann), Maurice Murray (4th Ann), Bert Brydon (13th Ann), Edith Hayden (18th Ann), Jennifer Pritchard (31st Ann) For the sick: Maureen Stephens; Mick Neenan; Florence Ho, Pat Hamlet, Lynette Castle, Joan Schischka, Kristen Smith, Joseph Ross, Joan Wass, Marie Traue, Joan Arnott, Warren Holt, Scott Pirie, Peggy Smyth, Josephine Aoun, Lisette Wesseling, Lovest Reynolds, Agnes Duffy, Sarah Dwyer, Heidi McGowan, John Clapham, Jack Roux, Cassie Moody, Peter & Margaret Honnan, Shirley Moore, Carla Enright, Cade Lucinsky, Dr. Vipul Upadhyay, Virginia Keith, Brian Dodd, Francis McNabney, Sebastion Bell, Rosie Rowan, Bert Woolcott, David Maguire, Ilona Demjen, Thomas Chant, Delia Morris, Nola Goosman, Jane Millard, Eileen Waldmeyer, Dang, Lydia Schweder, Phil Kemble, Ferdinand Sombrero, Nola Wolfe, Glen Wedlock, Hercille Kirchner, Louise Noble-Campbell, Katie Murray, Joan Carne, Caroline Egan, Toni Egan, Maura Poots, Priscilla Stuart Please contact the Parish Office to add or remove names in the prayer list. Thank you. CLEANING: Gaye Miles, Debbie Jenkins, Bridget Sutherland, Kathy Long FLOWERS: Jackie Charkow, Jeannette Wylie LAWNS: Phil Clarke, John Walshe CHILDREN’S LITURGY: No Children’s Liturgy BEACHLANDS: Co-Ordinator: Bryan Tutty Hall Preparation: Cummins & Tutty Our Lady Star of The Sea Catholic Church, Howick ROSTER 1/2 NOVEMBER 2014 READERS 5.00: Karl Cummins, Bryan Tutty 6.30: Kevin McCormick, Elizabeth Stolten 8.00: Diane Church, John Cole 9.30: Joseph Xulue, Beatrice Copestake 5.30: Steve Carne, Loraine Elliott EUCHARIST 5.00: Celine & Edmund Lee 6.30: Brandon & Eunice Tam, Wilma Viegas, Aylwin Suva, Trish & Noel Vaughan, Ine Whitley, Joseph Chiu 8.00: Holly Cho, Norma Crestanello, Sheryl De Souza, Sandie D’Mello, Paul Dwyer, Gerard Fletcher, Soji & George Joseph 9.30: John Downie, Erling Aronsen, Phillipa Bennetts, Carole Brajkovich, Peter Cary 5.30: Anthony Mukhtar, Ami Cooper, Fran Carne, Nathan D’Mello, Melanie Fairweather GIFTS 6.30: Trish & Noel Vaughan, 8.00: Teresa Jeffrey, Edward Borkin 9.30: Muller Family 5.30: Carne Family COLLECTORS 6.30: Johanes Gouw, Rex O’Brien 8.00: Jeanine Tomasso, John Walshe 9.30: Anthony Spencer, Mark Spencer 5.30: Kieran Henkin, Patsy Dwyer GREETERS 6.30: Irene Vas, Karen Noble-Campbell 8.00: Debbie & Andre Jenkins 9.30: Bernadette Pereira, Mark Spencer 5.30: Margaret Quiding ALTAR SERVERS 6.30: Dominic & Christian Stolten, Agape Rante 8.00: Nigel D’Mello, Jude Payne, Nathan Thachankary 9.30: Lewis Ng, Kelly Mascarenhas, Grace Mascarenhas 5.30: Bridgette Carne, Liam Bailey, Mariel Ponio 3pm Blessing of Graves & Benediction: Daniel Bousfield, Amelia De La Vega, Justin Gumafelix DATA PROJECTOR 6.30: Maugan Stevens 8.00: Ria George 9.30: Misha Pieters 5.30 Mary Ponio ANNOUNCERS 6.30pm: Karen Noble-Campbell 8.00: Jeanine Tomasso 9.30: Bernadette Pereira MUSIC 6.30: Theotokos 8.00: Organ 9.30: 5.30: Organ COUNTING: Pauline Chant, Mary love, Anneke Zieleman Office & Parish Centre: 18 Par khill Road, PO Box 38-276, Howick Church: Cor ner of Picton & Par k Hill Roads Parish Priest: Fr Tony Dunn Parish Secretary: Linda Van Heer den Office Hours: Mon - Fri: 10.00am -12.30pm; 1.00pm - 3.00pm Phone: 534-8710 Email:[email protected] Fax: 535 7563 Web address: www.howickcatholic.org.nz Beachlands Mass Centre: Beachlands Community Hall 49 Wakelin Rd, Beachlands 26 October 2014, 30th Sunday In Ordinary Time Masses for Sunday Saturday: Sunday: Beachlands Howick Howick 5.00pm 6.30pm 8.00am 9.30am 5.30pm Weekday Masses Mon, Tue, Thur & Fri: 9.15am Mass Wednesday: 9.00am Mass Saturday: 8.00am Mass Reconciliation - Rite I Saturday: After 8.00am Mass 1st Friday : After 9.15am Mass Weekly Rosary: Weekdays after Mass Novena: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Wednesdays after 9.00am Monthly 1st Friday: Adoration 10.00am - 3.30pm 1st Sunday: Divine Mercy 2.50pm 3rd Friday: Healing Mass 9.15am In Parish Centre: St Vincent de Paul Committee: Meeting every first Wednesday at 10.00am (downstairs). Food bank open every Wednesday after 9.00am Mass. Need help? Please contact: David on 273 8859 or Patsy on 534 3940 Interested in becoming a Catholic? An enquiry group meets every 2nd & 4th Tuesday at 7.30pm in the Parish Centre or contact the parish office. THIS WEEK’S READINGS Ex. 22:20-26; Ps. 18; 1 Thes 1:5-10; Matt. 22:34-40 NEXT WEEK’S READINGS Is. 25:6-9; Ps. 26; Rom. 5:5-11; Matt. 11:25-30 PARISH NOTICES Fit For Mission This weeks Fit For Mission quote from the Diocese: “An authentic faith which is never comfortable or completely personal, always involves a deep desire to change the world to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.” What did you do this week to make the earth a better place? What value did you transmit to those you met? MONTH OF HOLY SOULS November is the month we remember our deceased family and friends. Names of family and friends may be placed in the book of remembrance which will be in the church during the month of November. Please print name clearly and include date of death if possible. The book of remembrance will come up with the offertory procession at each Mass and be placed in front of the altar during the month of November. A cross will also be placed in the sanctuary during November where you will find two baskets of pebbles. You are invited to write the names of your deceased loved ones on the pebbles and at the end of the month they will be placed in the graveyard. BLESSING OF THE GRAVES When we are baptised we become part of a living organism; the Risen Body of Christ. Our hope of resurrection hinges on that truth. Death, we hope, intensifies that incorporation into Christ. The blessing of the graves reinforces our prayerful communion with our dead and reminds us of our common baptism into Christ. They need our prayer, as we do theirs. Prayer is the bridge over the River Styx that carries our memories, our love and forgiveness to them and theirs to us. You are encouraged to join the parish for this time of prayer on the 2nd November at 3pm. Pastor’s Column.... The late Cardinal Fulton Sheen tells the story of a seminar he was taking on the existence of God. He was reflecting on God as the first cause, based on the simple logic, that if you see an effect, you assume there was something to cause it. You are watching TV at night alone, you hear the back door bang, if you are of a practical temperament you think a gust of wind caused it, if you are inclined to fevered imaginings, you may fear a crazed, knife wielding maniac has just broken into your house. The Cardinal was arguing that you cannot logically have an infinite number of causes; ultimately something started the ball rolling. A woman interjected and said; " No Cardinal you are wrong. The earth was carried here and rests on the back of a giant turtle." "Oh," said the Cardinal, "And where did the turtle come from?" With a look of triumph the woman remarked: "You can't catch me out Cardinal - its turtles all the way down." Thinking about God is challenging and worth the challenge, since as St Paul said, quoting the ancient Cretan philosopher Epimenides, "In Him we live and move and have our being." Acts 17: 28 We are then challenged by St Thomas Aquinas when he wrote: "Because we cannot know what God is, but rather what He is not, we have no means for considering how God is, but rather how He is not." (ST, 1, Q.3, prologue) From this we can discover five attributes of God: Simplicity, Perfection, Infinity, Immutability and Unity. We can indirectly get hints of what God is. It is Revelation that tells us Who God is: Father, Son and Holy Spirit - one God, Three Persons. It was the anonymous author of the spiritual classic; "The Cloud of Unknowing," who rightly said that in this life we may not ever grasp God with our minds, however we can always reach Him with longing darts of love." We have all come from God, we are here to freely chose to accept God's friendship and our destiny is to immerse ourselves in His life of infinite Beauty, Goodness and Truth. Surely it is insanity not to love Him with our whole heart, our whole mind and soul? St Augustine says it succinctly: "You are great, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is your power and your wisdom is without measure. And man, so small a part of your creation, wants to praise you; this man, though clothed with immortality and bearing the evidence of sin and the proof that you withstand the proud. Despite everything, man, though but a small part of your creation, wants to praise you. Cont/..... You yourself encourage him to delight in your praise, for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you." That is why churches should be temples of encounter with the living God, oases of silence and beauty, where the Real Presence of Jesus is reverenced and where people can pray, listening to" the only Word spoken by the Father, a Word spoken eternally in silence". (St John of the Cross). As Vatican II teaches: "Without the Creator, the creature vanishes" (GS 36) If love is evaluated by what we do, not so much by what we say, is it too much to ask that we give God, our Father, one hour out of the 168 that make up our week, to worship, thank, ask and adore Him in the Eucharist, in and through His Son Jesus, into whose Risen Being we are incorporated through Baptism. God Bless you all, Father Tony SCHOOL GALA Despite the wet weather the recent Gala Day was a great success with a grand total of approximately $58,000 raised. Thank you to the many parishioners who supported us with donations, purchased cowpat lottery tickets or your presence at school on Gala Day, helping out at stalls or spending!! Your spirit of generosity is very much appreciated. The Gala is a Community day and a wonderful celebration of the school/parish family working together. Thank you. SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CHRISTMAS CARDS These are still available from the parish office during office hours. AT HOME WITH THE WORD & DAILY MASS CALENDARS Last chance to put your order in for the above. Please bring completed forms, with payment to the Parish Office by Sunday 26th October. MISSIONZ COLLECTION Thank you for your generosity. Amount collected from last week’s collection amounted to $2177.90 COMMUNITY NOTICES Good Shepherd College invites you to the launch of a book by Fr. Mervyn Duffy sm on Tuesday 28 October, 7.30pm at St. Columba Centre, 40 Vermont Street, Ponsonby. More information on noticeboard. Baptised & Fit for Mission. Sunday 9 November 1.00pm to 5.15pm (concludes with a light meal at 5.15pm and Mass at 6.30pm.) Hosted by Bishop Patrick Dunn & Diocesan Presenters. St. Mark’s Parish, Pakuranga Rd. Registrations essential. Register by Monday 3 November at [email protected] or call (09) 576 7959. More information on noticeboard. Mass Of Remembrance With Bishop Patrick Dunn Friday 21st November at 7:00pm, St Mary’s 117 Onewa Rd, Northcote. For all mothers, fathers and family members who have suffered the loss of a baby through miscarriage, still-birth or abortion. Also remembered at this Mass will be the frozen embryos from IVF programs, due to be discarded from November 22nd this year. For more information on the frozen embryos, visit Family Life International website www.fli.org.nz/prolifeevents or call Mark on 629 4361. “Abby Johnson” a former Planned Parenthood clinic director turned pro-life advocate will be sharing her powerful conversion story from being immersed in the abortion industry to being an influential life advocate. Be inspired and also get an inside view of what really drives the antilife agenda. Fr Jeremy Palman and Mrs Michelle Kaufman will also be speaking at the mini-conference on December 6th 2014 2pm – 5pm at the Bruce Mason Centre in Takapuna. FREE entry although collection taken. Refreshments served. For further info see www.fli.org.nz or phone 08003675433 The Catholic Discipleship College invites you to a series of evening retreats with Fr Dominique Faure. Monday 10 November – the Mystery of the Fatherhood, Wednesday 12 November – Adoration & Contemplation, Thursday 13 November – The Human Body in the Wisdom of God, Friday 14 November – The Mystery of Suffering. 6.30pm – Adoration, 7.30pm – Shared dinner (bring a dish to share), 8pm – Talk. CDC is at 103 College Road, Northcote. Please phone Anne Marie on 09 480 0548, or email: [email protected] to book. Check out our website: cdc.ac.nz for more details. Auckland Fiji Catholic Community Fair Sat 8th Nov 2014, 9:00am–4:00pm. St Pius Parish School Grounds, 101 Castledine Cres , Glen Innes. All Welcome. Amazing food, great music, books, clothing, entertainment, white elephant, quick fire, games/ toys, sweets and baking. A wonderful day of family fun , come and be part of this Inaugural Event and great Community. Loads of free parking. Contact : James Kado 0211672845 / Jason Kean 0212044849 ...YOUTH ACTION... Hi All The next Youth Event is our Youth families BBQ & Bonfire Night. This will be held on Saturday 8th November. An email with the details of this event will be sent to Youth Group members shortly. The next Youth Leaders meeting is in early November. We hope you will all be able to make it along this time. Youth Contacts: Fran and Steve on 530 8911 [email protected] Recent Papal Tweets: Pope Francis@Pontifex ‘To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.’ Diocesan Activity: Check out the noticeboard for the ’Diocesan Youth Events’ or go to www.akyouth.org.nz to keep up to date. Side-by-side Mentoring trains everyday people to be the link between our young families and our church and school communities. It affirms parents/carers in their most important role of raising children, and offers the love, wisdom and the experience of the faith community to support them. It is a voluntary ministry and so works around the time each mentor has available, as well as their preferred way of approaching and supporting people. An information evening for those interested will be held on Thursday 6 November at Pompallier Diocesan Centre, Poynton Room 7 - 8pm. To register please contact Delia on 360 3027 or Sr. Sian on 360 3056 Mercy Spirituality Centre 104 The Drive, Epsom. 09 638-6238 [email protected] Booking is essential Contemporary Reflections on Advent and Christmas with JOY RYAN-BLOORE (Christchurch), Friday eve – Sunday 31 Oct-2 Nov. Residential or non-residential. Introduction to Dreamwork with MARGARET BOWATER, 7-8 November Retreat Day -- In-Seeing with ANDREW PRITCHARD, Friday 21 Nov (for artists, writers and crafters). Edwina Gateley (USA) retreat Day in Auckland 15 February 2015. Early-bird fees apply. Booking is essential. Joshua Men’s Fellowship next monthly meeting. Wed 29 October 2014 - 7.30pm - 9.30pm St Josephs Centre,