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WE JOURNEY TO JESUS WITH AN OPEN MIND,
OPEN HEART, OPEN WILL!
SUNDAY MASS TIMES
Queen of Peace: Altona Meadows - Saturday 6pm,
Sunday 8am & 11am
St. Martin de Porres: Laverton - Sunday 10am
Stella Maris School Hall: Point Cook - Sunday 9am
Reconciliation: Saturday 10-10.30am Queen of Peace
5th Sunday of Lent
21st March 2021 - YEAR B
PARISH NEWS
Community
St. Martin de Porres
Syro-Malabar mass every Sun-
day at 4.30pm.
Queen of Peace
Portuguese mass second Sun-
day of the month at 4pm.
Piety Stall: 1st & 3rd Sunday.
Preca House Contact Info
Ph: 9360 0199
Email: [email protected]
Parish Team:
Fr. John Healy - Parish Priest
Franca Zanoni - Baptism &
Nursing Home Co-ordinator
Grace Gingco - Parish Bursar
Robert Saliba - Admin. Assistant
Elaine Koch - Volunteer & Parish
Co-ordinator
Office Hours & Address:
Monday: Closed
Tues, Wed, & Thurs: 9am - 4pm
Friday: 9am - 3pm
62A Everingham Rd. Altona
Meadows 3028
PO Box 68, Laverton 3028
For all enquiries including Baptism
please contact the Parish Office.
9369 6877
[email protected] Or visit our website…
www.lavertonparish.org.au
Important Notices
Weekday mass times this week
Tuesday 23rd March: 9.15am mass at St. Martin de Porres
Saturday 20th March: 9.15am at Queen of Peace
Reconciliation: Every Saturday from 10am-10.30am at Queen of Peace.
Fr. John’s Calendar this week:
21st March: Confirmation Preca Community 2.30pm at Queen of Peace.
23rd March: Mass at St. Martin de Porres 9:15am
Funeral 11am
Board Meeting at Emmanuel College 7pm
24th March: Mass at St Mary of the Cross 9am
Safe Guarding Workshop 11am
25th March: Mass at Lumen Christi 9.15am (school only)
26th March: Mass at Stella Maris 9.15am (school only)
27th March: Wedding 3pm
Wedding 5.30pm
Mass Bookings: Please continue to book for weekend masses, via email or
phone (details below). When signing in at mass please print your name clearly.
If you do not tick that you are returning to mass next week your name will be
removed from the list.
Stations of the Cross: Will be
back on this Friday at Queen
of Peace Church at 7pm
KID’s CORNER EASTER MASS TIMES
PALM SUNDAY
27th March - 6pm at Queen of Peace
28th March - 8am at Queen of Peace
9am at Stella Maris
10am at St. Martin de Porres
11am at Queen of Peace
PALM BRANCHES WILL BE BLESSED DURING EACH MASS
RECONCILIATION
31st March - 7pm - 8pm at Queen of Peace
HOLY THURSDAY - Mass of the Lord’s Supper
1st April - 7.30pm at Queen of Peace
The Church will be open up until 10pm.
There will be no washing of the feet this year.
GOOD FRIDAY
2nd April - 10am Stations of the Cross at St. Martin’s
3pm Good Friday Service at Stella Maris
3pm Good Friday Service at Queen of Peace
EASTER VIGIL
3rd April - 7pm Mass at Queen of Peace
Blessing of the Easter Fire and the celebration of Baptism,
Eucharist & Confirmation for our RCIA candidates.
EASTER SUNDAY
4th April - 8am at Queen of Peace
9am at Stella Maris
10am at St. Martin de Porres
11am at Queen of Peace
FIRST READING
A reading from the prophet Jeremiah.
See, the days are coming - it is the Lord who speaks - when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and the House of Judah, but not a covenant like the one I made with their ancestors on the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt. They broke that covenant of mine, so I had to show them who was mas-ter. It is the Lord who speaks. No, this is the covenant I will make with the House of Israel when those days arrive - it is the Lord who speaks. Deep within them I will plant my Law, writing it on their hearts. Then I will be their God and they shall be my people. There will be no further need for neighbour to try to teach neigh-bour, or brother to say to brother, ‘Learn to know the Lord!’ No, they will all know me, the least no less than the greatest-it is the Lord who speaks - since I will forgive their iniquity and never call their sin to mind. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be God
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
R. Create a clean heart in me, O
God.
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON
Give me justice, O God, and plead my
cause against a nation that is faithless.
From the deceitful and cunning rescue
me, for you, O God, are my strength.
GOSPEL
COMMUNION ANTIPHON
Everyone who lives and believes in me
will not die for ever, says the Lord.
Holy Trinity Catholic Parish acknowledge
the Kurung-Jang-Ballok Aboriginal Peo-
ple of the Woiwurrung Clan as the Origi-
nal Owners who have walked upon and
cared for this land for thousands of years.
NICENE CREED
I believe in God, the Father
Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, of all things visible and
invisible. I believe in one Lord
Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten
Son of God, born of the Father
before all ages. God from God,
Light from Light, true God from
true God, begotten, not made,
consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were
made. For us men and for our
salvation he came down from
heaven, and by the Holy Spirit
was incarnate of the Virgin
Mary, and became man. For our
sake he was crucified under Pon-
tius Pilate, he suffered death
and was buried, and rose again
on the third day in accordance
with the Scriptures. He ascend-
ed into heaven and is seated at
the right had of the Father. He
will come again in glory to judge
the living and the dead and his
kingdom will have no end. I be-
lieve in the Holy Spirit, the Lord,
the giver of life, who proceeds
from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and Son is
adored and glorified, who has
spoken through the prophets. I
believe in one, holy, catholic and
apostolic Church. I confess one
Baptism for the forgiveness of
sins and I look forward to the
resurrection of the dead and the
lift of the world to come. AMEN
A reading from the letter to the Hebrews. During his life on earth, Christ offered up prayer and entreaty, aloud and in silent tears, to the one who had the power to save him out of death, and he sub-mitted so humbly that his prayer was heard. Although he was Son, he learnt to obey through suffer-ing; but having been made perfect, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation. The Word of the Lord. Thanks be God
DEATH ANNIVERSARIES Please remember in your prayers...
SECOND READING
Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ! If you serve me, fol-low me, says the Lord; and where I am, my servant will also be. Glory to you, Word of God, Lord Jesus Christ!
Tom Dillon, Tessie Natale, George Son-
nino, Mary Sonnino, Jim Featherston, R.M
Rock, Genevieve Brown, Geoff Hill, Joseph
Grech, Teresa Cassar, Domenico DeFina,
SQNLDR Ric Millar, Brenda Jobard, Fancia
Ganzon, Estella D’Angela, Rosa Schirripa,
Peter Tham, G. Doan, Timothy Donnelly,
Phero Thang Doan, George Tayeh, Antho-
ny Zammit, Paul Camilleri, Mary Collinge,
Maret Frankowski
Starting the 15th April we are beginning an amaz-ing series on being a follower of Jesus. The process is called ALPHA and involves 8 evening sessions. The format of the evening involves a shared meal, a
presentation and discussion. The program looks at such topics as: Who is Jesus?, The Bible, Prayer, The
Holy Spirit and others.
Fr. John is requesting offerings
of palm (large & small) and olive
branches for Palm Sunday. If you
would like to contribute your
branches please drop them off to
the Parish Office on Friday 26th
March. Thank you!
CONGRATULATIONS
To the Grade 4 children at St. Mary of the Cross
who celebrated the
sacrament of reconciliation
this week.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
A reading from the holy Gospel ac-cording to John. Among those who went up to wor-ship at the festival were some Greeks. These approached Philip, who came from Besthsaida in Gali-lee, and put this request to him, ’Sir, we should like to see Jesus.’ Philip went to Andrew, Andrew and Philip together went to tell Jesus. Jesus replied to them: ’Now the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. I tell you most solemnly, unless a wheat grain falls on the ground and dies, it re-mains only a single grain; but if it dies, it yields a rich harvest. Any-one who loves his life loses it;
GOSPEL
GOSPEL cont...
anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it for the eternal life. If a man serves me, he must follow me, wherever I am, my servant will be there too. If anyone serves me, my Father will honour him. Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say: Fa-ther, save me from this hour? But it was for this very reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name!’ A voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ People standing by, who heard this, said it was a clap of thunder; others said, ‘it was an angel speaking to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘it was not for my sake that this voice came, but for yours. ‘Now sentence is being passed on this world; now the prince of this world is to be overthrown. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I shall draw all men to myself.’ By these words he indicated the kind of death he would die. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ
EASTER MASS BOOKINGS!
Bookings are being taken
now for Easter masses. If
you would like to attend
mass throughout
Holy Week please
call or email the
Parish Office.
Thursday 25th March -
ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
THE CELEBRATION OF RECONCILIATION
I would like to thank our five school communities for the way they prepared the Grade
4 students for the celebration of Reconciliation. It was a joy to celebrate with them.
COVID has certainly had an impact on how we prepare for Sacraments. We were una-
ble to gather for our family nights last year. I have had a few questions about how we
celebrated your child’s First Reconciliation, these questions would have bee covered in
our family nights, so I thought I would give a brief explanation of how we celebrate Rec-
onciliation with the children.
In a group setting for us Reconciliation is always celebrated as a Second Rite, which
means we gather together for prayer, listen to God’s word and then during the liturgy
we celebrate individual Reconciliation. Under current guidelines we are to hear the rec-
onciliation of children in an open space in view of others. This is an Archdiocesan guide-
line. This means that as priests we are to never celebrate reconciliation with children in
a closed room. The focus of Reconciliation is about it being a celebration of God’s love,
unlike back in the 60’s and before it was often seen as a Sacrament we were afraid of.
Today we teach our children that it is a Sacrament were Jesus embraces us in his love,
that we are not to be afraid if we have made some wrong choices. The image I present
to the children is that of the “Forgiving Father/Prodigal Son” parable of Jesus. In cele-
brating Reconciliation we celebrate that like in the parable when the father embraced
his son when he came home so does Jesus embrace us in celebrating Reconciliation. It’s
about the children understanding that Jesus loves us so much that in hugging us he
wants to feel our heart beat and we his… Fr. John
To everyone who donated money
for the replacement of the Queen
of Peace Church plaques. We
raised a total of $6960. This mon-
ey will go towards the replace-
ment of the plaques as well as the installation of new securi-
ty cameras in the Peace Garden. Thank you all very much!
Holy Trinity Catholic Parish
Is committed to the safety, wellbeing
and dignity of all children, young peo-
ple and vulnerable adults in our com-
munity.
CONGRATULATIONS
To the candidates from the
PRECA Community who
will celebrate the Sacra-
ment of
Confirma-
tion this
weekend.