St Christopher’s Cathedral Parish, Canberra
The Commemoration of
All the Faithful Departed
1/2nd November 2014
Weekend Mass Times
St Christopher’s Cathedral (SCC)
Cnr Franklin & Furneaux Streets,
Forrest (Manuka) ACT
Sunday: 8.00am, 11.00am,
5.30pm
Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn
Archbishop: Most Rev Christopher Prowse DD STD
Vicar General: Mgr John Woods
Acting Administrator: Fr Varghese Vavolil
St Peter Chanel’s Church: Fr Peter L’Estrange SJ
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON: Just as Jesus died and has risen again, so through Jesus God will bring
with him those who have fallen asleep; and as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be
brought to life.
RESP. PSALM. R: The
Lord is my light and
my salvation.
St Peter Chanel’s Church (SPC)
Cnr Weston & Loch Streets,
Yarralumla ACT
Saturday: 6.00pm Vigil
Sunday: 9.30am
Weekday Mass Times
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Monday: 12.15pm
Tuesday to Friday: 6.45am,
12.15pm
Saturday: 12.15pm
St Peter Chanel’s Church
Tuesday: 5.30pm
Thursday: 10.00am, following
9.30am Adoration
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Alleluia, alleluia! This is the will of my Father, says the Lord, that I
should lose nothing of all that he has given to me, and that I should raise it up on the last
day. Alleluia!
COMMUNION ANTIPHON: I am the Resurrection and the Life, says the Lord. Whoever believes
in me, even though he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will not die for
ever.
As a parish we pray for…
Those to be baptised Grace Rezo
Reconciliation
Those to be married Makis Marmaridis & Lucy Stackpool
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Those who are ill Betty O’Brien, Helen Burt, Hazel Lamdin, Frances Beattie, Terry Conlan, Henry Friend, Gwen Winchester, Elizabeth Hall, Melanie Swan, Ana Marko, Timothy Batinich, John Wilson, Rachel Capps, Fr Phil Harding
Thursday: 6.00 - 6.30pm
Saturday: 11.00am - 12noon
St Peter Chanel’s Church
Tuesday: 6.00 - 6.30pm
Saturday: 5.15 - 5.45pm
Perpetual Novena to Mary
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Wednesday: 6.00pm
Anointing Mass
First Thursday of the month at St
Peter Chanel’s Church, 10.00am
Mass for the Anointing of the
Sick.
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Baptisms by appointment on
second and fourth Sundays at St
Christopher’s and on third Sundays at St Peter Chanel’s.
Weddings by appointment on
Saturday afternoons.
Anniversaries of death Gerald Billings, Anna Maria Murphy, Genevieve & David
Crossin, William Stanislaws James Duffy
Recently deceased Raymond Fry, Ido Costaganna, Sr Mary Esler RSM
Special intentions Families Thompson, Bekar, Calago, Degracia, Pasigna, Mahinay, Cezar,
Pipito, Gabriel & James (RIP); Ralph, Allan & Leo Biggs (RIP)
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Holy Days this week
Mon 3 Nov
Tue 4 Nov
Fri 7 Nov
Sun 9 Nov
St Martin de Porres
St Charles Borromeo
Day of Penance
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Optional (green)
Memorial (white)
(green)
Feast (white)
Parish Office: Cathedral Presbytery, 55 Franklin Street, Forrest ACT 2603
Tel: (02) 6295 9555, Email: [email protected], Website: www.stchristophers-act.info
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9.00am-12.15pm, 1.15-5.00pm; Parish Secretary: Jacinta Smallhorn
OUR PARISH
PARISH MINISTRIES
Director of Music
Jaki Kane
School of Religion
Muriel Joseph
PPC Chair
Keith Baker
Pastoral Care Practitioner
Elizabeth Porra
Young Adults Leaders
Jonathan Lee & Genevieve Nicoll
Accounts
Linda Casella & Karina Widjaja
Lector/EMHC Coordinators
Edwina & Mark Hyman
Maintenance Manager
Pieter van Gent
Devotional Groups
in our Parish
Serra Club
Encouraging and affirming vocations to
Priestly and Consecrated life
NOVEMBER: MONTH OF THE HOLY SOULS During the month of November
the 12.15pm Mass on Fridays at the Cathedral will be set apart for your intentions.
November Mass Offering envelopes have been placed for collection in both churches. You may inscribe the names of your dear departed on an envelope with your offering and put it in the collection basket or hand it in at the Parish Office. The All
Souls chapel at the back of Cathedral is open from around 6.30am-6.30pm every day
for you to pray for your departed family and friends, and is a quiet place to be still
and reflect.
‘FIRST FRIDAY’ ADORATION As customary at the Cathedral on the first Friday
of the month, Adoration will take place this Friday 7th November from 12.452.00pm, following the 12.15pm Mass. All welcome to join in and pray, particularly
for Vocations.
MGL ORDINATIONS TO DIACONATE & PRIESTHOOD All are welcome to
attend the upcoming Ordinations to the Diaconate of MGLs Isuru Weliwatte and
Lenin Thenamirtham, and to the Priesthood of MGL Izak Belyanan, at St Christopher’s Cathedral on Friday 14th November at 7pm.
DN DOMINIC BYRNE: PRIESTLY ORDINATION All are welcome to attend
Deacon Dominic’s Ordination to the Priesthood at St Christopher’s Cathedral on
Friday 21st November at 7pm.
MISSION SUNDAY
Thank you for contributing to the World
Mission Sunday appeal last weekend. If
you would still like to
make a donation, envelopes are available at
the church entrance
and can be taken
home or placed with
your donation today
in the collection plate.
Cathedral Young Adults
Animating parish and Archdiocesan life
through prayer and event participation
Jesus Youth
Catholic charismatic youth reaching out
to other young people
Good Shepherd Prayer Group
Renewing spiritual life through regular
charismatic prayer and seminars
Syro-Malabar Rite
Our Catholic brothers and sisters following the East Syrian Rite liturgy
Legion of Mary
Sharing the faith through charitable
works and Marian spirituality
Spanish community
Meeting for Mass in Spanish together
one Sunday every month
African community
Meeting for Mass together one Sunday
every month
St Vincent de Paul
Assisting people in need and combatting
social injustice in our community
Christian Meditation
Meeting regularly for silent contemplation in an ecumenical context
For contact details of any of these
groups, inquire of the Parish Office.
LITURGICAL MINISTRIES ROSTER
Lectors
Mass
1/2 November
Extraordinary Ministers of Eucharist
8/9 November
1/2 November
8/9 November
6.00pm
(SPC)
July Blundell
Sheila van Gent
Tan Roberts
Frances Bulbrook
Margaret Phelan
Mary Debus
Sue Buckingham
Margaret McKinnon
8.00am
(SCC)
Phil Pocock
[Assigned]
Patrick Jones
Mineke Peerboom
Betty O’Brien
Phillip Pocock
9.30am
(SPC)
Gloria Osborne
Lynn Chan
Colliss Parrett
Jaye Longland
11.00am
(SCC)
Edwina Hyman
Ceciley Matthews
Multicultural Mass
Jacqueline Hipwell
Mark Hyman
Ceciley Matthews
Edwina Hyman
5.30pm
(SCC)
Damien Balachandran
Marcelle Disanayake
Youth Mass
Wilfred & Margaret
Lawrence
Mary Lou & Robert
Davies
Helen Jacobs
Terry Murphy
OUR ARCHDIOCESE & BEYOND
ARE YOU BEING CALLED? Vocations Discernment
Weekend: A relaxed and prayerful weekend open to all
single men and women (in Year 11 or older) who want to
reflect on their direction in life - especially on discerning a
call to Priestly or Religious life. This weekend will have
presenters such as recently ordained Fr Paul Nulley and Sr
Therese Mills mgl, and will take the form of a pilgrimage
journey from St Christopher’s Cathedral to the Archbishop’s House and then to the scenic monastery at Galong.
Cost is $50 (concessions available). Dates: Friday 21st
November - Sunday lunch 23rd November; rsvp 17th
November. See the flyer in the church foyer for more information, or contact Fr Emil Milat (02) 4474 2024 /
[email protected], or visit the Archdiocesan
website www.cg.catholic.org.au and click on ‘Vocations’.
‘GUINNESS AND GOD’ Tuesday 11th November:
“How pornography is ruining your life”. Melinda Tankard Reist, the co-founder of Collective Shout, is an author
and speaker on the objectification of women and girls.
She will be exploring the impact of pornography on our
daily lives and culture. Venue: King O’Malley’s Irish Pub
in Civic. Dinner and some live music from 6.30pm, talk
starting at 7.30pm. For more info email
[email protected] or call 6163 4300.
ST BENEDICT’S, NARRABUNDAH warmly invites all
to a Healing Mass, with special attention to praying for
the healing of mental health and addictions of all kinds.
When: Friday 7th November, 5.30pm. “I came that you
might have life, and have it to the full” (Jn 10:10).
A FUNDRAISING CARD DAY with proceeds to L’Arche Genesaret will be held on Monday 1st December at
the Canberra Bowling Club, Hobart Avenue, Forrest from
10am to 2pm. Cost: $20 per head, including tea, coffee,
lunch, wine/juice. If you would like to attend and can
arrange a table of 4 to play a card or board game, please
contact Di 6241 2658 or Mary 6258 1739. RSVP by 26th
November.
CHRISTIAN MEDITATION The Australian Christian
Meditation Community (ACMC) invites you to take part
in “Christian Meditation - the Heart of Creation” with
Fr Laurence Freeman OSB in December: Friday 5th
(7.30pm-9.30pm) and Saturday 6th (9.30am-3.30pm) at the
Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Blackall
Street, Barton ACT. Registration in advance for 5-6th December in Canberra via the flyer available in the church
foyer; also available from Rod and Susan Page (02) 6281
2378, or by accessing the ACMC website:
www.christianmeditationaustralia.org/pdf/
NationalConference2014.pdf.
‘THE WAR TO END ALL WARS: Our Responsibility
to Those who Died’ A public forum to consider Australia’s World War I commemoration and whether
it pays appropriate respect to those who died believing
in a better world. DATE: Tuesday 4th November at
7.30–9.30pm, followed by tea/coffee. VENUE: Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture, 15 Blackall
Street, Barton ACT. Enquiries: Maureen Cummuskey:
6249 7824 / [email protected]; or
Sue Warehamph: 6253 1117 /
[email protected].
RETREAT DAY AT ST CLEMENT’S on the Spirituality of Charles de Foucauld - conducted by Fr Peter Ryan
CSsR: 7-9th November. To book: Jacqueline Donohue
on 6251 3950 or Maria Noronha on 0413 617 390.
ENGLISH TEACHER NEEDED Volunteer retired
secondary school English teacher needed, preferably
with ESL experience, to teach East Timorese novices of
Missionaries of God’s Love. More information, contact:
Fr Ken Barker, [email protected] 0403 044 394.
ALL DOMINICAN REUNION LUNCH You are invited to the Canberra All Dominican Reunion Lunch,
to be held on Saturday 15th November at The Southern
Cross Club, 92-96 Corinna Street, Phillip, at 12noon in
the main dining room. Enquiries to Mrs Mary Cruickshank(nee Glover): 6254 4084 /
[email protected]; or Mrs Barbara Gardiner
(nee Snowden): 6251 1331 /
[email protected].
St Martin de Porres: Feast Day 3 November
According to the sources, God
endowed St Martin de Porres
with many graces and wondrous
gifts, such as aerial flights and
bilocation. He also possessed
spiritual wisdom, demonstrated
in his solving his sister’s marriage
problems, raising a dowry for his
niece inside three days, and resolving theological problems for
the learned of his Order and for bishops. A close
friend of St Rose of Lima, he died on 3rd November
1639 and was canonised on 6th May 1962.
(http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=306)
Readings of the Day - All Souls’ Day
First Reading: Isaiah 25:6-9 The Lord will destroy Death for ever.
On this mountain, the Lord of hosts will prepare for all peoples a banquet of rich food. On this mountain he will remove the mourning veil covering all peoples, and the shroud enwrapping all nations, he will destroy Death for ever.
The Lord God will wipe away the tears from every cheek; he will take away his people’s shame everywhere on earth, for
the Lord has said so. That day, it will be said: See, this is our God in whom we hoped for salvation; the Lord is the one
in whom we hoped. We exult and we rejoice that he has saved us.
Second Reading: Romans 5:5-11 Having been justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s anger through him.
Hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. We were still helpless when at his appointed moment Christ died for sinful men. It is not easy to die even for a
good man – though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die – but what proves that God
loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners. Having died to make us righteous, is it likely that he would
now fail to save us from God’s anger? When we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, we were still enemies;
now that we have been reconciled, surely we may count on being saved by the life of his Son? Not merely because we
have been reconciled but because we are filled with joyful trust in God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom
we have already gained our reconciliation.
Gospel: Matthew 11:25-30 You have hidden these things from the learned and have revealed them to mere children.
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted
to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and
those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from
me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden
light.’
Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation (ICEL); and The
Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981 & 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved.
On Praying for the Dead
On the Feast of All Souls, we pray for the souls of all those who have died. There are many choices of readings for this
day, all focussing on our belief in the resurrection of the dead and Jesus’ promise of eternal life. The Gospel story of the
raising of Lazarus offers us many important insights about this aspect of our faith.
Jesus was good friends with Lazarus and his sisters Martha and Mary. Lazarus had fallen ill, and Martha and Mary had
sent word to Jesus. Jesus delays his journey to them, however, and when he arrives in Bethany, he finds that Lazarus is
dead and has been buried for four days.
The scene described at Bethany is a sad one; Lazarus and his family have many friends who have come to mourn his
death. Martha goes out to meet Jesus when he arrives. She cries with him, saying that if Jesus had been there, Lazarus
would not have died. Yet she remains confident that God will do whatever Jesus asks. Jesus consoles her with the promise that Lazarus would rise from the dead. Martha affirms her belief that there will be resurrection of the dead in the last
days. Jesus promises her even more; he says that he himself is the Resurrection and the life for all those who believe in
him. Martha professes her faith in this, acknowledging that Jesus is Christ, the Son of God.
This is the profession of faith we continue to make, and it is the promise on which we base our hope for eternal life
for ourselves and for all those who have died. In his death and Resurrection, Jesus has conquered death for all those
who believe in him.
We believe that we continue to share a relationship with those who have died. When we pray for the souls of the
faithful departed, we are praying for those whose souls are journeying through purgatory, being prepared for eternal life
in heaven. We believe that our prayers for them will help to speed their journey to eternal life with God in heaven.
(http://www.loyolapress.com/all-souls-day-preparing-the-readings.htm)
St Christopher’s Cathedral Parish encompasses the areas of Barton, Causeway, Deakin, Forrest, Fyshwick, Griffith, Kingston, Manuka,
Parkes, Red Hill, Yarralumla