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HOLY NAME OF MARY PARISH HUNTERS HILL
ST PETER CHANEL WOOLWICH
We acknowledge the Walumatagal people — the first custodians of this place
9 November 2014
Calendar
NOVEMBER
11 & 12 First
Reconciliation
Ceremonies,
HNM 6.30pm
13
Baptism Prep
Session Chapter
Hall 7.30pm
14
Liturgy Group
Meeting Parish
House 7.30pm
15
Mass of the
Little Angels
HNM 8.00 am
16
Villa Maria Year
6 at SPC Mass
20
Anointing Mass
Chapter Hall
11.30am
20
23
25
Pastoral Council
Exec Meeting
Parish House
7.00pm
Kinder Class
Mass HNM 10.00
am
Social Justice
Group Meeting
Parish House
7.30pm
27
Parish Pastoral
Council and
General Parish
Meeting Parish
Hall 7.30pm
28
La Paroisse
Restaurant
Parish House
6.30pm
DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA
REFLECTION…………BUILDINGS, SCAFFOLDS & COSMETICS !
This weekend the Church celebrates the dedication of the Lateran Basilica. The Basilica was built on the
Lateran Hill in Rome in 324 by Constantine and its dedication has been celebrated on this date since the
12th Century as “the mother and head of all the Churches in the City and in the World.”
It’s a symbol of the unity of faith that we share with believers all around the world and a reminder that with
all our differences of culture, age and points of view, we share one faith in Jesus and one Spirit of Love
breathes through us all.
Old buildings need to be repaired, maintained and sometimes even re-built. In much the same way, our
living, breathing faith requires similar repair, maintenance and re-building.
St Augustine once noted that “not to go forward is to go back!” In other words, our tradition, while it has lots
of memories, practices and teachings that have come to us from the past, is a tradition of living people who
believe in a living God.
Now living things are born, grow, change, die and are born again as something new. This pattern is built
into the very fabric of our lives. Each one of us is at our own unique point of this cycle of life. So too is each
community.
The Church in our time is experiencing a period of some disruption and turmoil along with renewed hope.
It’s as if there is scaffolding around us and bits are being chipped off us, some bits are being replaced and
some restored to their pristine state. There are many people on the scaffolding, debating which bits of the
Church are in need of repair, replacement or retention.
The picture isn’t always pretty. The scaffolding is hardly a work of art, nor are the debates, but they are
essential in order for the work to be accomplished.
In the midst of this repair and restoration, it is possible that we devote all our attention to the scaffolding and
debating, and how ugly it appears, thus missing the purpose of it all.
It’s also possible that we focus on our little bit of the Church that needs re-working, or the bit we are most
concerned about, and we forget to look at the whole Body of Christ, and again we’ll be disappointed and
our repair work will come up short, and possibly divide rather than unite.
The celebration of the Lateran Basilica is a timely invitation for us to take in this big picture, the picture of a
community of faith that stretches back to the time of Jesus, that includes people of all nations, that will give
birth to many generations into the future. Our personal restoration work, attentive to personal and present
concerns, will only be effective if we include the wider Church’s life and mission in our reflection and action.
This past week, we have been alerting couples being married at Holy Name of Mary in the coming two
months to the scaffolding that will affect the appearance of the Church at the time of their wedding. Some of
them were just delighted to be still getting married here. Some of them were disappointed but gracious and
grateful for the financial concessions the parish offered them. Some revealed how central the cosmetic
aspect of the wedding day is to them. They each had lessons to teach us.
Today, image often replaces substance and this perspective can leave no room for the deeper riches that
life and faith have to offer. Our society’s obsession with ego and image does not cope well with the scaffolding that our life sometimes requires.
As the whole Church continues with her own restoration, we’ll be stuck for a while yet with plenty of scaffolding and debate while the Body of Christ is made new again.
Father Kevin
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What’s on?
HOW WELL DO YOU
KNOW YOUR PARISH?
See if anyone in your pew
knows this parishioner. His
name next week. Last week’s
photo: Caitlin
Pfafflin
CARDS ON THE TABLE
Three topics on the Synod on
the Family
Married couple tell Synod
‘Family life is messy’
http://tinyurl.com/kkndhtx
CATHOLICISM SERIES
Continues this Wednesday
LA PAROISSE
RESTAURANT
Come and share with your fellow parishioners, in breathtaking
and high-definition cinematography as the truth, goodness,
beauty of Catholicism are illustrated in a cinematic experience.
Journey with Fr. Robert Barron
to more than 50 locations
throughout 16 countries. This is
an amazing 10 part film series
with one episode of 45 minutes
duration shown each Wednesday
evening commencing at 7.30pm
each Wednesday for four more
weeks in the Chapter Hall at Holy
Name of Mary Church. Come
and be inspired.
(Arranged by Nicholas Chaplin)
Book in for a meal cooked by
Father Kevin and meet some of
your fellow parishioners. Bookings through Sylvia at the parish
office and our dates are:
,
OUR PARISH SOCIAL
21 Nov, 12 Dec, 6.30pm
MASS OF THE LITTLE
ANGELS
JUSTICE GROUP:
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Throughout the year, the HNM
Social Group have been busy
Our annual Mass for all those
discussing social justice issues
people who have lost children
within our parish and within the
prior to, during or after birth, will
wider community.
be held on Saturday 15 November at 8.00 am at Holy Name of
One of the many issues we have
Mary Church.
highlighted is Australia’s increasCWF APPEAL THIS WEEK- ingly harsh treatment of refugees.
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One way that we can all help the
plight of these refugees is by providing unopened, in date goods to
the Asylum Seeker Centre.
The Asylum Seekers Centre is a
not-for-profit organisation that provides practical and personal support for asylum seekers living in the
community. Please support our
group and the centre by bringing
your donations to Mass this weekend, 23 November and 7 December. All donations help!
A list of suitable things to
donate:
Foods and Toiletries
Baby Food (for 6 months; vegetarian
and meat (chicken, beef), Baby rusks, ,
Breakfast Cereal, Canned beans,
Chilli flakes and powder, Coffee
(instant), Cooking oil, Condiments
(honey, jam), Dried fruit, Dried lentils
(red), Flour (small packages), Long life
milk, Muesli bars, Nuts and sunflower
seeds, Noodles (instant), Pasta, Rice ,
Tea, Tinned fish, fruit, vegetables,
Tomato paste
Baby wipes, Conditioner, Deodorant,
Disposable razors, Laundry Powder
(small packages), Nappies (for babies
& toddlers), Shaving cream, Sanitary
napkins, Shampoo, Shower Gel / Body
Wash, Toothpaste, Washing liquid,
Washing powder.
JOUBERT SINGERS
Vivaldi’s Gloria will be performed at
Hunters Hill Town Hall, Sunday
23rd Nov. at 3pm.
Tickets $35 / $25.
Enquiries 0412 620 191.
Bookings www.stickytickets.com.au
FUND-RAISING PROGRESS
Thanks to all of you who have
already given or pledged generously to our Fund—Raising program. The total received thus far
is $47,445.00
JOB VACANCY
The Marist Brothers Community at
Hunters Hill are looking for an experienced Registered Nurse. Part time,
approx 15hrs/wk across 3 week
days. Dementia and aged care exp
preferred.
Corinne McPhee 0407 469 339
[email protected]
Anthony Micallef 9218 400
VINNIES’ CHRISTMAS CARDS
ON SALE
S.V.D.P. Christmas cards $6-00
per pack of 10 and calendars $ 8-50
ea. will be on sale as from next
weekend (15th)
As from 22nd there will be a box at
the rear of the church with stickers
attached nominating a person who
requires a gift, please take one and
return with the gift no later than 14th
December as distribution is on
the 15th.
Thank you for your continued support
over the years.
THE JOY OF MARRIAGE
All engaged and married couples are
invited to a talk given by a Missionary
Couple from the Verbum Dei Community. Friday 21 November 7pm.
74 Rosebery Ave., Rosebery. 9313
7099
WYD INFORMATION EVENING
WYD—Krakow, Poland July 2016.
An information evening will be held
Wednesday 26th November in the
Parish Hall, St Dominic’s, 108 The
Crescent, Homebush West. Light
supper at 6:30 for 7pm start. RSVP
[email protected] for
catering.
SOME OF OUR GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
DURING A RECENT TRAINING SESSION
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Well Done...CONGRATS AND
THANKS ZONE
BAPTISMS THIS WEEKEND
Congratulations and a warm
welcome to Daniel Elsholz, Ricardo Cipri & Samuel Coleman
who will be baptized into our
Christian community this weekend.
NEW PARISHONERS
Welcome to the Gorringe family,
Lilijana, Christopher, Emma &
Andrea.
DONORS TO OUR REFUGEE
APPEAL
Beginning this weekend and the
weekends of 23 November & 7 December, we are asking for goods that
will make the life of people seeking
asylum here a little easier.
Already, parents and children of our
First Reconciliation group along with
one very generous parishioner, have
contributed a wonderful selection of
items we can pass on to the Refugee
Centre in Newtown.
Pray for... PRAYER ZONE
Please pray for all those who
are sick in our community.
We continue our prayers for
Norma Brosnan, Tess
O’Farrell, Dr Michael
Dwyer, John O’Connor
and Greg O’Donnell during
their current illnesses.
We pray too for those people
among us who suffer silently
and whose names we do not
yet know.
A heartfelt thanks to you all for your
great and spontaneous generosity.
POINT TO PONDER
To help us find and see God in our daily lives:
On this Feast of the Lateran Basilica, we lift our eyes and hearts beyond ourselves to the needs of the
whole Church.
The Season of Advent
This Week… Scripture Zone
1) What was the best thing I saw today?
Gospel Acclamation
2) What was the best thing I heard today?
3) What was the best thing somebody did for me today?
Alleluia, alleluia!
First Reading:
Ezek 47:1-2,8-9,12
4) What was the best thing I did for someone else
today?
We hear the vision of the Temple
in Jerusalem with its water as a
source of life.
5) What can I do tomorrow to improve on today?
Response:
The waters of the river gladden
the city of God.
(Thanks to Anthony Macks.)
Second Reading:
1 Cor 3:9-11,16-17
Villa Maria Primary School
Marist Sisters College
Principal: Mr. Kevin Turner
Phone: 98796100
Website: www.vmhuntershill.com
Principal: Ms Christina
Trimble Ph: 9816 2041
Web:
http://www.mscw.nsw.edu
For November we have a Memorial
Tree set up at school where we put
the names of those who have died
and for whom we wish to pray. It
reminds us of the family of believers who have gone ahead and
prepared the way before us.
We pray for the whole Church during this period between sessions of
the Synod on the Family. We pray
that the conversations around the
Church will be fruitful and liberating
in the lives of all those people who
look to the Church for leadership
and compassion.
Coming Soon
The Daily Examen that my son reflects on every day
at school is as follows:
NOVEMBER MEMORIAL
TREE
THE CHURCH AND THE
SYNOD
THE LATERAN BASILICA
OF ST JOHN—ROME
The community of the Church is
the Temple of God.
I have chosen and sanctified this
house, says the Lord, that my
name may remain in it for all
time.
Alleluia!
Gospel Reading:
John 2: 13-27
Jesus takes a stand about the
real purpose of the Temple and,
from this, speaks of the temple of
his own body.
Next Week…SCRIPTURE ZONE
First Reading: Prov. 31:10-13,19-20,30-31
Second Reading : 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
Gospel Reading : Matthew 25:14-30
A PARISH OF THE MARIST FATHERS
PARISH OFFICE:
3A Mary Street.
Hours: 9.00am – 5.00pm, Mon-Fri
PHONE: 9817 5325.
FAX: 9817 4615.
EMAIL: [email protected]
Web: www.hnom.com.au
Facebook: Holy Name of Mary Parish
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Holy Name of Mary:
Sat.6.00pm
Sun.8.00am, 10.00am, 6.00pm.
St. Peter Chanel: Sunday – 9.00am.
WEEKDAY EUCHARIST
Holy Name of Mary:
Monday to Friday –9.00am.
Saturday – 8.00am.
St Peter Chanel: Wednesday 12.15pm
RECONCILIATON:
Holy Name of Mary: Saturday
5.15pm-5.45pm or by request.
PARISH TEAM:
Parish Priest:
Father Kevin Bates SM (PP)
(Ph: 0425 333 129) [email protected]
Priests Assisting:
Fathers Bill Ryder SM, Paul Pearce SM, JP
Willy Melteras SM
New or Returning
Parishioners…
Please come along to the Parish Office for a
warm welcome and to pick up a Parish
Information Kit .
Parish Secretary: Sylvia Gutierrez
Associate Secretary: Maggie Mullane
Gardener: Anne Gould
Sacramental Coordinator: Rosalia Foley
[email protected]
Parish Pastoral Council Chairperson:
Ann Freeman
[email protected])
Parish Pastoral Council Secretary:
Michael Brooks:
[email protected]
Repair & Maintenance: Anthony Russo
BAPTISM:
By arrangement. Parents please
contact the presbytery to book & arrange to
attend the Baptism Prep Program
BAPTISM PREPARATION EVENINGS
COMING UP:
Thurs 13 Nov, Wed 17 Dec, Tues 10 Feb,
Tues 17 March, Tues 14 April in the Chapter
Hall @ 7.30pm
MARRIAGE:
At least six months notice must be
given. The parish clergy will officiate
primarily for parishioners. Others are
welcome to be married in one of our
churches but generally need to arrange their
own Priest or Deacon
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PARISH PASTORAL GROUPS AND
CONTACTS
Counselling: Allison Cahill 0402 405 843.
& Deborah Khoury 0409 719 443
Villa Play Group: Trish Ireland 0406 574
365
Meditation Group: Gabrielle Woodcock,
9817 0097
Aged Ministry Group:
Margaret Gambley 9807 2160/
Joan Bautovich 0402 275 105
Grief Support Group:
Cecilia Brungs 0412 284 028
Young Adults and
Parish Youth Group:
Nicholas Fearnley 0401 722 839
Liturgy Group : Rob Turnbull 0431 290 714
Eucharistic Ministry Coordinator : Kate
Buckland 9817 2558
Altar Servers Coordinator:
Patricia Curtin 0407 932 902
Social Justice Group:
Sonia Zec 0413791775
Altar Society: Jane Keneally 0419221185.
Joan Bautovich 0402 275 105
RCIA: Janet Greene 9879 6515
Cleaners: HNM Mike Burfitt 9879 4197
SPC Elizabeth Spencer 9816 4180
Readers HNM: Barry Buffier 9817 8805
Readers SPC: Mark Volpato 9816 4431
Children’s Liturgy HNOM:
Susan Sharples 0419 991 620
SPC: Tee Davies 0407 827 957
St Vincent De Paul: Elizabeth Spencer
9816 4180 /
Men’s Group:Clinton McDonald
0450021011Gerardo D'Angelo 0418 294 063
Meeting dates 2014: 3 Dec, Parish Hall
Marist Laity Group: Cathy Gallo 9817 2959,
Josiane Espinosa 9807 9199
Welcomers’ Coordinator:
Rob Turnbull, 0431 290 714
Family Faith Educator: Marea De Angelis
Ph: 0419 448 201
Atrium of the Good Shepherd : Corinne
Korkor 0448 440 592
OUR PARISH PRAYER
Loving God,
you are the home for our hearts’ deepest longings.
We find our way as families and as individuals only in you, through our brother Jesus,
encouraged by the breath of your Spirit.
We thank you for all the blessings we enjoy in our parish family. May we continue to share our gifts of life
and love with glad and generous hearts.
May our world be somehow more alive because we have passed this way.
May Mary our parish patron continue to inspire us as we give new birth to your Word in our turn.
We make our prayer in Jesus’ Name. Amen.