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PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.
81 Percy Street, Warwick.
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Phone: (07) 4661 1033
Fax: (07) 4661 4232
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick.org.au St Mary’s Catholic Parish
Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227
Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly
PARISH SCHOOLS St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 [email protected] St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Margaret Grew Phone: 4661 1872 [email protected] Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 [email protected]
PARISH OFFICE PO BOX 118, WARWICK.
Assumption Place, 163 Palmerin Street (via Church car park, Acacia Avenue), Warwick.
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4pm
Phone: (07) 4661 1033
Fax: (07) 4661 5442
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stmarysparishwarwick
St Mary’s Catholic Parish
Parish Priest Fr Franco Filipetto
Semi-retired Priest Fr Terry Hickling 4661 8227
Administration Officer Kathleen Cuskelly
Parish Pastoral Associate Patrice Riordan
PPC Chairperson Michael Gaffney 0401 787 416
Parish Schools St Mary’s Kindergarten Director: Marie Sullivan Phone: 4667 1075 [email protected] St Mary’s (Primary) Principal: Emma Timmins Phone: 4661 1872 [email protected] Assumption College Principal: Kort Goodman Phone: 4660 4000 [email protected]
St Mary’s Catholic Parish Warwick EMBRACING THE COMMUNITIES OF:
St Mary’s, Warwick, Our Lady of Dolours, Greymare, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Gladfield and
Our Lady of Fatima, Karara
HOLY FAMILY From a very young age, Mary, Joseph and Jesus were held up to me as ‘The Holy Family’ They seemed very different to our family and the noisy, feisty reality of my own upbringing as the only brother to five elder sisters. But these are the thoughts of children. For the older person contemplating the Christmas mystery there is more than enough in the storyline to shred the nerves and fuse even the most unresponsive synapse. Indeed ‘Christmas peace’ is a classic biblical oxymoron! For a start there is Mary’s pregnancy. A young girl, maybe fourteen/fifteen – perhaps a better time than later to engage wholeheartedly in something so wild. It is both fantastic and crazy, both wonderful and subversive, that the fate of the world would hang on the love response, the ‘yes’ of a teenage girl Mary shines in this natality: her coming of age is our age of becoming. The lowly place, the maid-servant, out-glories the Temple and becomes the acceptable ark of grace for the New Covenant. Lovely. But Joseph doesn’t believe it Joseph, like his namesake in Genesis, is a gifted dreamer. Hope in the future enables us to change in the present, and both Joseph and Mary exemplify faith in believing what should not be possible. Addicted as we are to control, predictability and (so-called) rationality, this radical dependency is the lived divinity of the poor that is so anxiously avoided by the rich. There is displacement – bureaucracy interferes with the family, as it does the world over. They go to Bethlehem, ‘the house of bread’. No room at the Inn, they lay him in a manger... a feeding trough. These are not accidental symbols for a community that, in Luke’s time, is increasingly estranged from the synagogue. Joseph and Mary in this sense represent domus ecclesiae, the humble domestic church, long before its steepled transformation. The shepherds, so often the last to know, are the first to hear from the angels, who are always the first to sing: ‘Joy to the world!’ The star that attracts the Magi, the wise from the ends of the earth, also attracts the unwise Herod from much nearer home. How must Mary and Joseph have felt? In turmoil from their own displacement and fleeing for safety, but aware, as parents of a newborn, of the particular sorrow entailed by the loss of infant life. ‘ So what became of these broken-hearted asylum seekers? An age-gap couple with a dependent Mary and Joseph have stayed in the religious and artistic imagination ever since. But if I have a Christmas wish for the Holy Family. I would love to hear more poems of the Holy Family that go beneath the glitz, through the turmoil and fathom the depth; poems that in turn could become prayers that capture their hope, that capture their faith, that capture their love. Dr Anthony Towey teaches at St. Mary’s University, Strawberry Hill.
28th/29th December 2019 Feast of The Holy Family
Year A
PLEASE PRAY FOR
RECENTLY DECEASED Des White (Gold Coast), Marcelle Maroon
ANNIVERSARIES Michael Kelly, Darcy, Andrew & Hilda Mullins, Brian & Barb Cantwell, Kev Peters, Thomas & Kathleen McVeigh, Paul & Brendehn McConville, Greg & Merle Canavan, Mary Ryan, Ellen & Augustine Devlin, John Devlin, Joseph Devlin, Mary & Douglas Kelly, Beth Brewer, Raymund Cleary, Mary & Edward O’Mara, Harold & Patricia Baguley, Lauraine Bourke, William Holland, Keith Locke, Kingsley Locke, Rev Msgr Michael McKenna, Rev Frs Justin King, Joseph Callaghan & James Wiemers, Ian Graham, James & Edna Mullins, Tom & Wilma Crawford, Patrick Kelly, Basil Nolan (Jnr), Basil & Rita Nolan, Jack & Winifred Henry, Kay Warsfold, Jack Telford, Tom Dunn, Harold Booth, Don McGinness, Mary Bourke, Viv Cuskelly, Basil Byrne, Jim & Monica Nolan, Lorna Bradfield, Bob Keogh, George & Nell Butler, Vince Plummer, Peter & Hannah Morrisey and all relatives and friends.
SICK Rita Collins, Damien Robertson, Carmel Ryan, Kevin Booth (Bris) Michelle Canil (Canada), Catherine Watson, Warren Giles, Clare Giles, Jeannette White, Paul Fogarty, Doreen Morris (nee Upton), Rod McLennan, Nita Monteron (P’pines), Jessica Sondergeld, Mary Darr, Fr Don Murray, William Walker (Canada), Harvey Delacour (Bris), Basil Doherty, Moya Schaefer, Graham Ryan, Maureen Bayly (Bris), Jim O’Farrell, Lorna Smith (Bris), Geoff Willett, Ron Rettke, Leila Eades, Dean Adams (A’de), Scott & Dylan Grady, and residents of Akooramak, The Oaks, patients at the Warwick Hospital and all those who receive Home Communion.
MASS TIMES
THIS WEEK 28TH/29TH DEC
St Mary’s
Sunday 8:30am
Saturday 6pm
Karara
Sunday Mass 11am
Lay-Liturgies
Killarney
Sunday 8am
Yangan
Saturday 6pm
Gladfield
Sunday 10am
WEEKDAY MASS/
LITURGY TIMES Monday Mass 9am
Tuesday Mass 9am
Wednesday Mary, Mother
of God, New Year’s Day Mass
9am
Thursday Mass & Anoint-
ing at The Oaks 10:30am
Friday Mass 9am
Saturday Mass 9am
No Mass or Lay Liturgy if
there is a Funeral Mass
FEAST DAYS
Thurs Sts Basil the Great &
Gregory Nazianzen
NEXT WEEK
4TH/5TH JAN
St Mary’s
Saturday 6pm
Sunday 8:30am
Yangan
Saturday 6pm
Greymare
Mass 11am
Lay-Liturgies
Killarney
Sunday 8am
Gladfield
Sunday 9:30am
Reconciliation
St Mary’s
THIS WEEKEND
28th/29th December 2019
NEXT WEEKEND
4th/5th January 2020
Ministries Vigil 6pm 8:30am Vigil 6pm 8:30am
Bell Ringers
Brian Collins Mal Brownlie Dave Carr Michael Ryan
Welcomers Lynette & Mary Noble Mal Brownlie &
Gloria Duffy
Kajewski family Shirley Owens &
Marcia Hughes
Readers Karine Preston WR
Bryan Slattery
Meryl Kelly
Pat Sheil WR
Mary Jane Cook
Mary Goyne
Bernice Furness WR
Ian Kelly
Gil Totman
Margaret Lawton WR
Sue Harris
Jill Hume
Prayer of Faithful
Nick Nolan John Telfer Charles Shann Margaret Plummer
Gifts Young family Marcia Hughes Lyons family Nancy Ford
Ministers of Communion
Kev & Trish Seaby
Patrice Riordan
Richard Tartan
Lisa Watt
Maureen Dunn
Jimmy O’Leary
Marty Harris
Dianne Dawes
Penny Doyle
Susan ryan
Michael Dwan
Meryl Kelly
Bette McConville
Lisa Watt
Marty Harris
Maureen Dunn
Paul & Monica Maher
Maureen O’Dea
Powerpoint Helena Fretwell Deneve & Deiv Sorono Erin Walsh Gema King
Musicians Kathleen Michael, Rey & Val Kathleen Michael, Rey & Val
Children’s Liturgy
Morning Tea Assisi Place
Des & Bette McConville Lynette & Mary Noble
Altar Servers
Erin Walsh
Laura Scheiwe
Gabby Riordan
Seb Doyle
Cecil Snow
Beau Thornton
Noah Thornton
Andrew Curoopen
Izaak Barkel
Cecil Snow
Thomas Madsen
Harry Hume
Lachlan Corney
WEEK COMMENCING 29th December WEEK COMMENCING 5th January
Akooramak Nea McGinness & Mary Bourke Helen Lunn & Michael Dwan
Home Communion Val Murphy & John Devitt Judith & Len Doyle
Money Counters Group 3—Paul Maher 4667 9109 Group 4—Chris O’Brien 4661 3681
OTHER ROSTERS
ROSTERS
CHILD SAFE PARISH: Ours is a Child Safe Parish. All children, young persons and
vulnerable adults, visiting or resident, have a right to feel safe and be safe. If you are
concerned by any form of abuse that is immediate, you should call 000. A significant risk or
harm, whether or not you have formed this belief on reasonable ground, should immediately
be raised with our Parish Child Safety Officer – 4661 1033.
PRAYER & LITURGY Adoration each Friday from 9:30am to 12noon at Our Lady’s Altar
Rosary is prayed in the Church before each weekday Mass
Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help 5:30pm on Wednesdays
FIL-Harmonix to sing on 2nd Sun of each month except January
The Men’s Choir to sing on 3rd Sat of each month except January.
General Choir Practice on 4th Sat of the month at 9:40am. New members welcome.
The Word Among Us Magazine for JANUARY is available for collection from Office.
PARISH GROUPS MEET-
INGS at the PARISH CEN-
TRE
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
meets on Tuesdays in Room 1 at
7pm.
HOLY CYA YOUTH
GROUP meets on 2nd Friday
of the month from 5:30 to
7:30pm for Gr’s 6-12.
Contact Patrice 4661 1033
LITTLE TREASURES PLAY
GROUP
Wednesdays (during school
terms) from 9am to 11am . Find us
on FaceBook. Cost $2 per family.
Contact Patrice 4661 1033
PARISH GROUPS
MEETNGS AT ASSUMPTION
PLACE
CHARISMATIC PRAYER
GROUP meets on Mondays at
9:45am. Contact Trish 4661 3133
In recess till 13/01/2020
CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
GROUP meets on Fridays at
9am. Contact Trish 4661 3133
In recess till 10/01/2020
FATHER’S PRAYER GROUP
meets on Tuesdays from 4:30-
5:30pm.
LAY CARMELITES
meet on 3rd Tuesday of each
month at 9am
Contact Pam Eather 4661 3917
MEN ALIVE GROUP meets on
Thursdays at 7-8pm. Contact Kev
4661 3133.
MOTHER’S PRAYERS
GROUPS meet on 1st & 2nd
Thursdays at 9am & other
Thursdays at 9:30am in Church
(Maria 0427 644 108) and Fri-
days at 10am (Maree 0438 617
347)
PARISH LADIES meet on 1st
Tuesday of each month at
9:30am.
New members are warmly
invited to join this group.
Contact Rita 4661 8144 or
Bernice 4661 1107.
THE CRAFTY CIRCLE, “TO
INSPIRE OR BE INSPIRED”,
young at heart, like-minded hook-
ers & crafters will meet on alter-
nate Sundays from 1-4pm. $2 per
head bring a plate to share for
afternoon tea.
PARISH EVENTS
The Church will be open to all during the week from 9am to 5pm but locked after Masses
on the weekends.
SVDP Bus Trip There will be no trips in Dec & Jan. They will resume in Feb 2020.
The Parish Office will be closed from 5pm 23rd Dec to 9am 6th Jan.
MAGAZINES-ALL AVAILABLE ON TABLES AT DOORS Catholic Leader-Next edition will be 12th January 2020. http://catholicleader.com.au/subscribe Trends—December 2019 “LOOK” Children’s Activity Sheets for Sundays
PARISH CENSUS Please take and complete a Parishioners’ Details Card (on the pews)
and, either place on the collection plate, put in box or return to the Parish Office over the
next couple of months. It is important that we have a record of the details of all our catholic
parishioners and we would appreciate your co-operation in this matter.
HORIZONS AUSTRALIAN CATHOLICS MAGAZINE November 2019 edition Summer 2019 Edition
both available at the door
With best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous
New Year
from Frs Franco, Terry & Parish Office Staff
First Reading Sirach 3:2-6, 12-14 Whoever fear the Lord honours his parents..
Responsorial Psalm Ps 127:1-5.R.cf.v.1 Happy are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Second Reading Colossians 3:12-21 Concerning the Christian life in the world.
Gospel Acclamation Col 3:15,16 Alleluia, alleluia! May the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, and the fullness of his message live within you. Alleluia! Gospel Matthew 2:13-15, 19-23 Take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt.
Parish Visitation Group
If you or anyone you know would
like a visit from this Group,
please contact the Parish Office
or Fr Franco to arrange this.
REFLECTION
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“People whose main concern is their own
happiness seldom find it.”
National Prayer for Drought Eternal God, in wisdom & love You created our
earth to sustain us & give us life. We turn to
You in faith, hope & love, asking You to look
with favour on our drought-stricken land, on
our starving animals, on our failing crops.
Strengthen, sustain & give new heart to our
farmers & all who are affected by drought; be
with those who support them. In Your loving
providence, send abundant rain & restore our
parched earth. Father of all compassion, hear
our prayer, through Jesus Christ Your Son, in
Whom the promise of new life has dawned, &
through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord
the giver of life; Renew the face of the earth.
Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Mary Help of
Christians—Pray for us. St Mary of the Cross
MacKillop—Pray for us. Amen.
FLEE TO EGYPT. The Gospel of Matthew highlights
the many difficulties faced by Mary and Joseph be-
fore and after the birth of Jesus. But Matthew high-
lights also the abiding presence of God, who is with
them on every step of their journey. We see in these
early episodes what Jesus will make explicit at the
end of the Gospel: “And know that I am with you al-
ways; yes, to the end of time.”
Communion/Visits to Aged Care Facilities If
you would like your relative/s, in these facilities, to
receive Communion or be visited by our Parish
Priest/Parishioners, please advise the Parish Office
and arrangements will be made accordingly.
DATE CLAIMER:
The Celebration of the Sinulog in honour of the Feast of
the Child Jesus (Sto. Nino de Cebu) will be held on Sunday
19th January at the 8:30am Mass commencing with a
Procession around the Church at 8:15am. After Mass, a Sinulog
dance will be performed in the Church grounds and will be
followed by a celebratory Morning Tea hosted by the Filipino
Community.
A nine-day Novena, at 5pm from 9th to 17th January 2020, will
precede the Sinulog. All are welcome.
