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St Anthony’s Parish Picton
Bargo – Balmoral – Buxton – Couridjah –
Douglas Park – Lakesland – Menangle –
Picton – Pheasants Nest – Tahmoor –
Thirlmere – Wilton – Yanderra
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Parish Priest : Father John Ho
20 Stratford Road, Tahmoor NSW 2573.
Parish Bulletin
FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT —YEAR B
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:
Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her. Be joyful, all who were in mourning; exult and be satisfied at her consoling breast.
FIRST READING: Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23
A reading from the book of Chronicles
The wrath and the mercy of the Lord are revealed in the exile and liberation
of his people
RESPONSORIAL PSALM:
Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!
SECOND READING Ephesians 2:4-10
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Ephesians
When we were dead through sins, he brought us to life.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
God loved the world so much, he gave us his only Son,
That all who believe in him might have eternal life.
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
GOSPEL: John 3:14-21
God sent his Son into the world that we might be saved through him.
COMMUNION ANTIPHON:
Jerusalem is built as a city bonded as one together. It is there that the
tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name of the Lord.
NEXT WEEKS READINGS:
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT—YEAR B
Jer 31:31-34; Heb 5:7-9; Jn 12:20-33
Sunday 15 March 2015
WEEKEND MASS TIMES:
St Anthony’s Church - Tahmoor
Saturday Vigil - 6.00 pm
Sunday - 7.30am & 9.30am
WEEKDAY MASS TIMES:
Tuesday-
5.30 pm—Tahmoor
St Patrick
Wednesday- 8.00am—Tahmoor
Thursday8.00 am—Tahmoor
10.30 am—Queen Victoria Hospital
St Joseph, Husband of Mary
Friday9.30 am—Picton
Reconciliation (Confession)
Saturday 5.15– 5.45 pm Tahmoor and before
Sunday masses
Stations of the Cross:
7.00pm on every Friday during lent
Adoration: Tuesday
1st Tuesday
4.30pm—5.15pm
9.00am—9.45am
St Patrick’s Church—Menangle
6.00 pm Mass on the First Sunday of the month.
Douglas Park—Sunday 9.00am Mass
SCRIPTURE QUESTIONS
1.
Where was the last place you
saw the sign - "John 3:16"?
2.
Share how you experience
God's love for you.
3.
How would you describe
“eternal life" ?
4.
What does it mean for you to
believe in Jesus?
OFFICE HOURS
Tuesday - Friday
9.00a.m. - 3.00p.m.
Parish Phone 4683 2230
Fr John’s Mobile 0408 671920
Parish Fax: 4683 2248
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stanthonyspicton.org.au
Facebook: www.facebook.com/Pictonparish
STEWARDSHIP CORNER
All that we have and all that we are
comes from the Lord. “We are truly
his handiwork,” says St Paul in
the second reading, “created in Christ
Jesus to lead a life of good deeds
which God prepared for us in advance.”
CHILDRENS LITURGY:
VISION STATEMENT:
This Week— O Upton & D Spiteri
Next Week—Youth Mass—
Saturday Vigil
As Members of St Anthony’s Parish, we share the
responsibility of building up the spiritual and material welfare of our community by promoting DIARY DATES:
God’s values of love, justice and peace and ex- 
Wednesday 18 March, PPC Meeting, 6pm in the
tending this message of goodwill beyond our imdemountable.
mediate boundaries.
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Saturday 21 March, Youth Mass, 6pm at Tahmoor.
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Tuesday 24 March, AIM Meeting, 7.30pm in the
PRAY WITH THE POPE IN MARCH
demountable
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Wednesday 25 March, Disability Workshop, 7pm
We pray that those involved in scientific re-
search may serve the well-being of the whole
human person. We also pray that the unique
contribution of women to the life of the
Church may be recognized always. Amen
PRAY FOR THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED:
Lord grant them eternal peace & joy and to their families
and friends strength and comfort
RECENTLY DECEASED: Josip Basanovic, Catarina Oanh
Nguyen, Liam Harding
ANNIVERSARY: Mirko Celan, Tony Byrne, Robert Wright,
Lisa ‘Grace’ Gordon, David Cook, Jayke Rutherford, Helen
Axiak, Paul Wise
MEMORIAL: John Marsden, Maria Pham Thi Mung.
FOLLOW POPE FRANCIS:
“ In the roughest moments, remember: God
is our Father; God does not abandon his
children.”
Pope Francis
EMBRACING ABILITY – WORKSHOP ON INCLUSION &
HOSPITALITY Wednesday 25 March 7pm-9pm Parish
Centre, St Anthony’s Parish, 20 Stratford Rd TAHMOOR
This workshop focuses upon how we can embrace the
ability of all people who come to participate in the
worship and communal life of our parish communities,
especially people with disability and their families. For
more information and registration contact:
[email protected]
PRAY FOR THE SICK: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, Ian Macnamara, Stephanie Macnamara, Barba Asplet, Fr David Catteral, Alma Reynolds, Barry Smith, Jim Matthews, Elizabeth PALMS WANTED: If you have any suitable palms that could
be used for Palm Sunday, could you please bring them to
Linsell
the Church on the afternoon of Friday 27 March or on the
GREETERS:
THIS WEEK
NEXT WEEK
morning of Saturday 28 March, so they can be prepared for
Vigil:
L McSweeney
Youth
use on Palm Sunday.
S Ryan
Youth
7.30 am
J Coughlan
S Porter
PALM SUNDAY: If you have a Sunday Missal could you
9.30 am
A & D Ingrey
A Cox & S Tasker
please bring it to mass on Palm Sunday, so that you can
help play the part of the crowd.
READERS:
THIS WEEK
NEXT WEEK
Vigil:
C McSweeney
S De Zilva
D Turvey
O Upton
A Van Dantzig
Youth
Youth
J Maher
T Hancock
S Tasker
NEW MEMBERS NEEDED FOR PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL - PPC members commit to giving two years to this
7.30 am
Ministry of the Parish, and they can only give two consec9.30 am
utive terms. Most of the PPC members must stand-down
at this time, and we are therefore asking all parishioners
to give prayerful consideration to who they would like to
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER
have doing this work for the Parish.
THIS WEEK
NEXT WEEK
You are invited to recommend as many parishioners as
Vigil:
M Chaumont
A Buckley
you wish.
M Cronin
T Earnshaw
You
may also recommend yourself.
M Cronin
B Nolan
7.30 am
S Cichocki
L Amato
This is NOT a preferential system. All those whose
A Cordingley
D Turvey
names are put forward will be invited to consider their
9.30 am
A Vannan
A Vannan
willingness to accept nomination. The number of times
A Cox
A Schutt
that any person is recommended will have no influence
P Wyatt
S Spiteri
on the final membership of the council.
There is NO NEED to ask a person before recommending
CLEANERS WEEK COMMENCE: 15.3.15
WEEK COMMENCE: 22.3.15
them for the Pastoral Council.
C Dunn & M Garvie
Every person recommended will be invited to attend a
FLOWERS THIS WEEK 14.3.15
NEXT WEEK 21.3.15
discernment session in the next few weeks (Date to be
NO FLOWERS DURING LENT
advised) at the end of which they will be asked to accept
or decline nomination.
SACRISTY WEEK COMMENCE: 15.3.15 WEEK COMMENCE 12.3.15
Recommendation Forms are available in the Foyer and in
G Dobson
M Gilbert
the leaflet rack. Completed forms need to be returned
MORNING TEA 7.30 am next week:
T Cichocki & A Connell to the Parish Office or posted in the PPC box before 17th
March.
9.30 am next week:
K Devine
The next YOUTH MASS @ St. Anthony,s Church , Tahmoor
is @ 6-00 pm on Saturday , March 21st . Come along and
join in the celebration with all your fellow friends from
your past years in Primary School. There will be GREAT
singing, HUGE band and refreshments after Mass.
some drawing things if you like to draw, a cushion perhaps if you
feel the need, all else is here. For more details and booking
please contact Petrina 42 36 0533. And visit our website
www.jamberoo.org.au
JESUS SAVES – WE CONDEMN
When I was a young man in university, I felt condemned.
I was successful in my career, but empty on the inside. Despite all my hard work, life seemed meaningless. I worked
YOU ARE GOD’S WORK OF ART As God’s work of art, you are hard at uni, but not at being a Christian. In fact, I fell away
to be shared, to reveal God to others. You have a vocation.
from God at university, I stopped going to church. I never
God is calling you. Need guidance? Contact Fr Richard Heaprayed or read the Bible. I didn’t even think about serving
ley, Vocations Director, on 0401 621 591, priestpeople who suffered.
[email protected].
You see, I condemned myself – to a self-centred, Godless life
that felt empty because I was so empty.
ENROLMENT—ST ANTHONY’S PICTON—Enrolment packages
for Kindergarten 2016 will be available from the school office Sometimes we think God is busy watching for opportunities to
condemn us. But Jesus clears up all that in this week’s Gosfrom this Monday 17 February. If you have a child who will
pel. God doesn’t look for opportunities to condemn us, but to
commence school next year please collect an application
package from the school office. Completed applications
save us from lives without meaning and to save us for life
should be returned to school by Friday 27 March 2015.
eternal. We condemn ourselves if we ignore Jesus’ recipe for
Should you know of any new families who might be consider- living. Through sin and selfishness, we can build our own prising enrolment for next year would you please pass on this
on.
information. For any enquiries please phone the school on
But God wants to free us. So God sent Jesus to show us the
46771689.
way. Isn’t it great to know that God’s only desire is for us to
live full lives now and into eternity? And even if we spend
COME, CELEBRATE THE 500TH BIRTHDAY OF ST TERESA
most of our life looking in the wrong places, God withdraws
OF JESUS(AVILA), THE FOUNDRESS OF THE DISCALCED
the offer of salvation.
CARMELITES. When: Saturday 28 March 2015
Eventually I took the Lord up on the offer and decided to folWhere: OLMC Parish, 193 St Andrews Road, Varroville
low Jesus and shine his light for the world. And since then I’ve
Contacts: Phone 9603 7373 or email varrobeen free.
[email protected] | www.olmcvarroville.org.au
Do you have any sinful habits that are slowly condemning
Bring your friends for a very special day including:
you? If so, talk to God this week about finding help to break
10am Mass with Bishop Peter Ingham
them.
12noon Sausage Sizzle lunch
2pm
Concert till 4:30 pm (Entry by donation)
The Action Response
7pm
Dinner/Dance (Entry pre-purchased ticket $25 pp) Invite one person who is missing from your local community
to come to Mass with you between now and Easter.
YOU ARE INVITED TO “A DAY OF PILGRIMAGE” 12 th April
At Benedictine Abbey Jamberoo There are sites all over the
world to which seekers of God go “on pilgrimage”, and in so doing come to know more deeply the landscape of their own present journey.
You are invited to come to the Abbey for such a pilgrimage day.
We will share Eucharist ,at 9am, walk within our grounds, stop
and reflect, listen to some input, be silent, walk again, sing with
the Community at prayer and meet the God who will likewise be
on Pilgrimage with you.
Just bring your own lunch perhaps a journal or paper to write on,
This week we meet Sarita who was struggling to grow
enough food for her family on her tiny farm plot in Nepal. In 2007, with the assistance of a program run by
Caritas Nepal, she started a fish-raising business with
11 others. Now, they have a life-long source of food and
income.
Please donate to Project Compassion 2015 and help
people in rural Nepal create a life-long source of
food and income to benefit entire communities.
www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion 1800 024 413
(from GPBS—Gather Proclaim Break Send)
EASTER MASS & RECONCILIATION TIMES 2015
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday
Easter Sunday
7.30 pm
10.00 am Stations of the Cross
3.00 pm
The Passion
7.00 pm
Vigil
7.30 am &
9.30 am
Second Rite of Reconciliation:
Thursday 26 March at 7.00 pm
First Rite of Reconciliation:
Good Friday after 10.00 am Stations of the Cross &
after 3.00 pm The Passion
LAST WEEKEND:
1st COLLECTION
2nd COLLECTION
CODE:
Very Good
Good
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HELP
When patronizing our sponsors, please thank them for supporting our Parish
Bakery
Blinds & Awnings
Williams Blinds
Funerals
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HOT BREAD
* Verticals
* Security Doors
* Roller Blinds
* Awnings
* Venetians
* Roller Shutters
* Roman Blinds
* Panel Glides
* Plantation Shutters
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Tel:(02) 4677 2777
15 Henry Street
Fax: (02) 4677 2919
Picton NSW 2571
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Shop 4 Argyle
St,
Picton 2571
Tel: 4677 2800
Open 7 Days
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Pre – arranged funeral plans
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PICTON - 4677 1644
365-367 Argyle St
CAMDEN - 4655 6433
67 Broughton St
www.williamrgroves.com.au
Auto Mechanic
Mechanical Repairs
4683 2529
Tyres & Batteries
4683 2529
4681 0760
Cnr Bargo River Rd & Rememberance Dr
Tahmoor NSW 2573
Local Member
The Hon. Jai Rowell MP
Member for Wollondilly
Office : Shop 1- 117 Remembrance Dr Tahmoor
Phone : (02) 4683 2622
Mail : PO Box 1005 Tahmoor 2573
Email : [email protected]
Auto Mechanic
Funerals
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LOCALS
DIAGNOSTICS
SERVICING & REPAIRS
REGO & L.P.G. SAFETY CHECKS
403 HUME HIGHWAY (B.P.)
PICTON NSW 2571
PHONE: 4677 2555
FAX: 4677 1755
EMAIL: [email protected]
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Andrew Murphy 0418 612 054
Jane Eva 0419 296 508
Would you like to remember the
parish in your will?
Property, money, artwork, plants…
there are many ways
you can be remembered.
Please contact the parish office for
further info.
Phone: 4683 2230