24th May 2015

SEASONS Newsletter of the Catholic Parish of St. Thomas More, Mount Eliza

PCC=Parish Community Centre U=Undercroft

C=Church

MPR=School Multipurpose Room

SSR=School Staff Room Diary

Monday

St Vincent de Paul Meeting, 9.30, U

Tuesday Social Club Committee Meeting,

9.45am, PCC Confirmation Prep, 6.30pm, PCC Stewardship Parish Meeting,

7.30pm, C

Wednesday RCIA, 6.30pm, PCC

Thursday Liturgy Team, 7.30pm, PCC

Friday

Taggarts for Breakfast, 9.30am, Mornington

Weekday Masses

Monday

Tuesday, Liturgy of the Word

with Holy Communion

Wednesday

Thursday, (followed by Rosa Mystica)

Friday, School Mass

No Mass

9.15 am

9.15 am

7.00 pm

9.15 am 12.15 pm

Sunday Masses

Saturday Sunday

6:00 pm 8.00 am

10:00 am

Reconciliation

Saturday 5 - 5:30 pm

313 Canadian Bay Rd Mount Eliza Vic. 3930

Phone: 9787 7777 Fax: 9787 9734

Email: MountEliza@cam.org.au

Web: www.stm-mteliza.org

Pastoral Leadership Team

Fr. Laurie (Parish Priest) Lys Crowe (Pastoral Associate) Peter Whyte (School D Principal )

Anne-Marie Hyde (Chairperson) Peter Leamon Ange Virgona John Bruitzman

Bill Hunt Maree Taverna Jim Bourke

Pentecost Sunday

Stewardship Program 2015 Weekend 3 - Values Engagement Weekend

Our Stewardship Program continues this week as we focus on how Our Parish Com-munity values engagement.

Parishioners, Peter Leamon, Mary Martin and David Wirth will speak at Masses over the weekend and will share with us the importance of our Parish in their lives. They will discuss their own experiences and encourage us all to be actively involved in parish life by joining and participating in our parish groups and ministries. We thank them for sharing their stories.

PARISH INFORMATION MEETING

All parishioners are reminded of our Parish Information Meeting this coming Tues-day, the 26th at 7.30pm in the Church. The Parish Information Meeting is the key meeting of our Program. We will gather as a parish community to celebrate our achievements and plan for the future. Light refreshments will also be provided. If you have not already accepted, please complete the RSVP cards available at all Masses over the weekend.

STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM PRAYER Lord, we thank you for calling us to be your Church.

Through our Baptism we are called to service and to witness. In the Eucharist we sustain and strengthen that call.

By serving others we follow your example and proclaim our beliefs. By our Christian generosity we demonstrate our love and care.

Lord, help us always to worship you as you deserve, to grow in faith and service

and to give without counting the cost. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen

Parish Directory

Copies of the 2015 Parish Directory (containing information about all our Par-

ish groups) are now available. Please take a copy home with you today.

COMMISSIONING OF PPLT AND MORNING TEA

This weekend at the 10 am Mass the new Parish Pastoral

Leadership Team, for the next 2 years, will be commis-

sioned. To celebrate this, we will have morning tea after

Mass.

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First Reading: Acts 2:1-11

They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to

speak different languages.

Responsorial Psalm

Lord send out your Spirit and renew the face of the

earth.

Second Reading: Galatians 5:16-25

The fruit of the spirit.

Gospel Acclamation:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of

your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Alleluia!

Gospel: John 15:26-27, 16:12-15

The Spirit of truth will guide you into all the truth.

PENTECOST SUNDAY SEASONS

We pray for...

Liturgy - Pentecost Sunday

30th & 31st May Rosters

Mass Time Lector Commentator

6 pm Sat Judi Hannan Anne-Marie Hyde

8 am Sun Dennis Cleary Pat McConvill

10 am Sun Peter Griffin Joanne McEvoy

Baptisms These are held on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of each month at 11:15 am or at any of the Parish Masses on the 2nd, 4th

or 5th Sundays. A compulsory preparation night for parents takes place on the first Tuesday of each month in the

Parish Community Centre at 7:30 pm. Children to be baptised, and their families, are then invited to a Welcome

Mass prior to Baptism where they are introduced to the Parish Community and welcomed by them. In order for

this to happen, preparation needs to begin at least 4-6 weeks before the Baptism, with a call to confirm parents’

attendance at the Preparation Night.

When children of school age are to be baptised an extended preparation time is required. It is important to re-

member that Baptism is about the initiation of a child into a community of Faith or a community of Disciples. There

is no such thing as a ‘private’ Baptism... it is something done by the whole Church.

Those who have died recently

Rodney Vanderwert

those whose anniversaries fall at this

time

Kathleneen Marshall, Maria DeJong, Roger

Pearson, John Herbert, Frances Taylor

the Sick

Jacki Waite, Rory Wilson, Dee Rourke, David Rees,

Dawn McGann, George Blowers (Queensland) and all

of the sick at the George Vowell Centre & Ranelagh

Gardens Nursing Home.

and the parishioners of St Thomas More Par-

ish, Tequinomata, East Timor.

Morning Tea This week the PPLT warmly invite

you to linger after 10am Mass for a

cuppa and an opportunity to get to

know some other members of our

parish community better. Your hosts next week are

Kate/Jimmy Hadley and Margaret Gallagher.

Mass Time Ministers of the Eucharist

6 pm Sat Sharon Collins (Book)

David Wirth (Gifts)

Mary Cameron (Gifts)

8 am Sun Raye Darrer (Book)

John Gallagher (Gifts)

Marie Alaimo (Gifts)

10 am Sun Lois Bracken (Book)

David Dole (Gifts)

Michael Canning (Gifts)

Counters Julian Collins

Maurie Hutchinson

Larry McEvoy Thanksgiving

Amount received last week .........................$2796

Average April ...................................................$3262

Pledged per week ..........................................$3086

Presbytery

Amount received last week .........................$1252

Thanks to all of you who give so generously to support our par-

ish.

Financial Matters

What’s Happening Here

PAGE 3 PENTECOST SUNDAY SEASONS

The next meeting of the Morning Star

Conference, Mt Eliza will be held in the Undercroft

on Monday, 25th May commencing at 9.30 am.

Members are reminded that the procedures specified

by the Society for the conducting of elections will be

enacted at this meeting. Accordingly, nominations for

the position of President must be lodged with the

Returning Officer by 9.25 am on the 25th May 2015.

Parishioners are welcome to attend this meeting.

However, voting on agenda items is restricted to full

members only.

Census Cards Sincere thanks to all who completed our Census

Cards over the last few weekends. The excellent re-

sponse was pleasing and helps us to keep our Parish

records as up-to-date as possible. If you have not

completed a Census card yet, there are some availa-

ble at the table in the porch of the Church. We

would be most grateful if you would fill out a card

and return it to the Sacristy before you leave the

Church today.

STM Social Club (New Members Welcome)

Fun & Friendship For All

New Members Welcome. Please contact Christine

5975 6687 or Carol 9775 2315.

The Welfare Officers for May are Bill and Barbara

Hunt 5975 2818.

The Film Group will meet to see A Royal Night

Out (This film is based very loosely on VE Day) -

Sunday 31st May. For information contact Christine

5975 6687.

Taggarts for Breakfast. Friday, 29th May @ 9.30am,

$17 per head.

Thursday, 11th June meet 10am at Tyabb Packing

House followed by lunch.

Drop In Night at the Parish Community Centre ,

Sunday, 21st June between 5pm - 6.30pm

The Coolstores, 475 Moorooduc Hwy, Doppiozero

Pizzeria, Thursday, 25th June.

To book any of the above, call Carolyn 9775 2315.

Rosa Mystica Please join us this (and every) Thursday at

7pm in the Church for Holy Mass followed

by Marian Devotion and Eucharistic Ado-

ration.

Contemplative Prayer Group “Let tiny drops of silence fall gently through

your day”.

Silent prayer in the Church each Wednes-

day from 8:45 am - 9:15 am followed by

Mass.

Children’s Liturgy Gabrielle Dole will lead the children in

an exploration of this week’s Gospel.

Please encourage your children to join

her.

St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria

Good Works

Nametags: The Parish Pastoral Leadership Team

invites you to wear a nametag to Mass! This is just

one way of us getting to know each other better.

You can BYO or we will have some stick-on ones

available each week.

St Thomas More Playgroup Come to the St Thomas More’s Playgroup with your

kids to meet new people and for your children to

meet future classmates and make new friends.

We meet on Friday mornings (during School Terms)

from 9am to 11am in the School Gym.

Parents, toddlers and babies all welcome.

Bring a plate of food to share.

The leaders are Louise Sharvin 0467 204 879 and Na-

tasha Reid 0411 870 501.

Celebrate Pentecost As the different traditions of the

Christian Church in Mt Eliza come

together and celebrate our unity

in….. Christ

Where: St James the Less, 105 Koetong Parade, Mt

Eliza

When: Sunday, 24th May @ 2pm

PAGE 4 PENTECOST SUNDAY

What’s Happening Elsewhere…

Sponsorship Of Timor L’este (East Timor) Students

Please Give Them Hope I am appealing for generous sponsors for the 6 gifted, poor, students graduating from Patrick Browne Secondary

School, who hope to attend Don Bosco Laga, Timor L’Este ,commencing Year 10. Six generous sponsors have

already committed, and I need another 6.

These gifted students will not be able to continue their secondary education if they do not receive sponsorships.

They will most likely become workers in their family vegetable gardens or join the great mass of unemployed Ti-

mor L’Este youth.

By sponsoring you will give them hope.

Sponsors will receive a photo of a child allocated to them as well as reports on their academic progress. You will

also be able to communicate with them through Fr Manuel Ximenes in Laga.

Sponsorship is $US300 per year for three years depending on the student’s academic progress. If you are interest-

ed in finding out more contact Les Harper on 0408 123 562 or by email: lesharper@optusnet.com.au

Marriage Encounter Weekend Invest in your most precious asset......

Your Marriage!

Forget life’s tensions and interruptions and rekindle

the closeness, intimacy, love and romance that

brought you together. Recharge your relationship

batteries and explore the precious nature of your

marriage, allowing you both to share your feelings,

hopes and dreams with each other in ways that

normal, daily living tends to inhibit.

There is no group sharing. Couples and a priest present

the weekend. It is based around Catholic values but

couples of all faiths are welcome.

Weekend Dates: 19th -21st June

21st -23rd August

23rd -25th October

Starts 7pm on Friday. Ends 5pm Sunday. Accommoda-

tion and all meals provided.

For more information / bookings call Marianne &

Marcel on 9733 0997 or email vicbook-

ings@wwme.org.au Website: www.wwme.org.au

The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace Frankston Music Society presents -

A Musical Tribute.

Sunday, 31st May, 2.30pm at the

Frankston Arts Centre. Bookings

FAC 9784 1060. Adults $25, 14yrs

and under $12.

Footy Is Back To celebrate the launch of the 2015 AFL season,

the AFL have donated to the STM School Parents

Association a limited number of general admissions

tickets to Collingwood V North Melbourne at

the MCG on Sunday 31st May 2015 at 3.20pm.

We are offering these tickets at the heavily dis-

counted price of $15ea. Tickets are for sale at the

school office. Children’s tickets are free on a Sun-

day.