SUNDAY MASSENTRANCE ANTIPHON:Let the hearts that seek the Lord rejoice. Turn to the Lord and his strength; constantly seek his face.FIRST READING: Exodus 22:21-27.RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 18.RESPONSE:I love you, Lord, my strength.1. I love you, Lord, my strength; O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my saviour. ℟2. My God, my rock where I take refuge; my shield, my saving strength, my stronghold. cry out, ‘Praised be the Lord!’ and see, I am saved from my foes. ℟3. The Lord lives, and blest be my Rock! May the God of my salvation be exalted. The Lord gives great victories to his king, and shows merciful love for his anointed. ℟SECOND READING: 1 Thessalonians 1:5-10.GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:Alleluia, alleluia! If a man loves me, he will keep my words, says the Lord, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him. Alleluia.GOSPEL: Matthew 22:34-40.COMMUNION ANTIPHON:We will ring out our joy at your saving help and exult in the name of our God.

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POPE FRANCIS draws Chapter 8 of his Apostolic Exhortation (The Joy of Love/Amoris Laetit iae) to a conclusion by

reflecting on the logic of pastoral ministry.Perhaps ant icipat ing something of the

con t rove r s y w h i ch th i s Chapter would arouse , the Pope is unambiguous about the importance for the Church to proclaim “the full ideal of marriage, God’s plan in a l l i t s grandeur” (307). The whole purpose of the two Synods on marriage and family life, as well as this Exhortation is “to strengthen marriages and thus to prevent their breakdown”.

The logic of pastoral ministry is such that while proclaiming the ideal “there is a need to accompany with mercy and patience the eventual stages of personal growth as these progressively appear”. Pope Francis acknowledges that many people “prefer a rigorous pastoral care which leaves no room for confusion” (308). But he is not one of them. He prefers to find grace in the messy reality of human weakness and in the logic of pastoral tenderness.

Pope Francis widens the discussion from the particular case of those divorced and remarried to everyone. The mercy and tenderness of God knows no exceptions. Anyone, in any kind of diff iculty, can rely on divine mercy: “The Son of God… goes out to everyone without exception” (309) and again: “The Church... is the house of the Father, where there is a place for everyone” (310).

The mystery of mercy is so great that we have diff iculty in taking it in, as the Pope states: “At times we f ind it hard to make room for God’s

unconditional love in our pastoral activity” (304). We can be anxious not to water down the Gospel; but Pope Francis suggests that the worst sort of “watering down” of the Gospel is to hedge in God’s merciful love with “so many conditions

that we empty it of its concrete meaning and real signif icance”.

It is the Pope’s wish that his Exhor tation w o u l d p r o v i d e a f ramework to avoid “a cold bureaucratic morality” and instead to promote a style of pastoral ministry “ever ready to understand, forgive, accompany, hope and above al l integrate” (312). Such a s t y le of min is t r y remains sensitive and

serene since it is rooted in God’s merciful love.There is no subst i tute for reading and

ref lecting on Pope Francis’ Exhortation for ourselves. Looking back on chapter 8, which has caused so much discussion, attracted so much criticism and led to demands for clarif ication, we would do well to notice our own “gradualism”. The Pope leads us from an attractive image of growth in moral awareness, to appreciate the implications of the Gospel revelation of divine mercy. Showing us how conscience matures, how it is formed and inf luenced, the Pope applies the logic of the Gospel to highly complex situations.

Discovering grace at work in weakness means that divine mercy cannot be restrained by our feeble and rash judgments. The logic of Pope Francis should lead to a whole new way of thinking, judging and speaking about people whose lives are still a “work in progress”.

The Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary by Saint Alphonsus Liguori have maintained their popularity through two centuries and more. Their beauty is to be found in their simplicity, their consistency, and their deep devotion to Jesus and Mary. Redemptorist Pastoral Publications in South Africa presents this revised edition of the Visits in the sure hope that the timeless words of St Alphonsus will help to “increase our faith” (Luke 17:5).

Live the Word T H E W E E K A H E A D

(KEY: SOLEMNITY; FEAST; Memorial; (Optional Memorial)Colour = Liturgical colour of the day or feast)

Mon 30 Oct Liturgy of the DayRomans 8:12-17; Psalm 68; Luke 13:10-17Like the woman in today’s Gospel reading, be open to your own poverty, be honest about your weakness, and understand that you cannot fix everything. Long for the gentle touch of Jesus to set you free.

Sun 5 Nov ALL SAINTSRevelations 7:2-4.9-14; Psalm 24; Matthew 5:1-12We are never alone. We walk together with the holy ones gone before us, and the angels, through life. We are surrounded by them. Be inspired by their lives as you walk towards eternal love in the heart of God.

Sat 4 Nov St Charles Borromeo, Bishop Romans 11:1-2.11-12.25-29; Psalm 94; Luke 14:1.7-11God’s offer of forgiveness never expires. God never rejects us, no matter how often we sin. With God there is always a choice – if we are humble and contrite and determined to try harder.

Fri 3 Nov (St Martin de Porres, Religious)Romans 9:1-5; Psalm 147; Luke 14:1-6If we look at our lives honestly, we can see how much we owe to others – and also how we have failed at times to use wisely the help we were given. Give thanks for God’s grace working in and through others.

Thu 2 Nov ALL SOULSJob 19:1,23-27; Psalm 23; Matthew 5:1-12The book of Wisdom contains that wonderful promise: “The souls of the just are in the hand of God”. Use this image as you pray today for all who have passed through this life.

Wed 1 Nov Liturgy of the DayRomans 8:26-30; Psalm 13; Luke 13:22-30Paul intimates that perhaps too often we get in our own way when we pray. Maybe we need to stop try-ing so hard and allow God to pray within us according to the desires of God’s heart. Be still. Listen. Wait.

Tue 31 Oct Liturgy of the Day Romans 8:18-25; Psalm 126; Luke 13:18-21Yeast begins small processes that bring about big results. Jesus’ ministry began small, but continues to in-spire billions. Our actions can make a difference in the lives of others. Be open to being part of the process.

HOLY REDEEMER PARISH

Parish Priest: Fr Gerard McCabe C.Ss.R � parishpriest@holyredeemer.co.za

Assistants: Fr Scott Davidson C.Ss.R and Fr Charles Mulenga C.Ss.R

28 / 29 October 2017 ~ THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

PAGE: 415 in New Sunday Missal. Year A. THEME: The Whole Law Is Summarised in Love

WEEKEND SUNDAY MASS TIMES :

SATURDAY: 6.00pm

SUNDAY: 7.00am, 9.00am, 11.00am and 6.00pm

FRENCH MASS: SUNDAYS: 1.30pm

DAILY MASS TIMES:

MON to FRI: 6.15am (or Communion Service)

MON to SAT: 8.30am

MORNING PRAYER: MON to FRI at 8.00am

ROSARY: WEDNESDAY after 8.30am Mass

CONFESSION TIMES:

THURSDAY: 7.00 to 7.30pm

SATURDAY: 9.00 to 10.00am & 5.00 to 5.55pm

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT:

MONDAY to FRIDAY: 9.00am to 9.00pm

except THURSDAY: 9.00am to 7.30pm

NOVENA & BENEDICTION:

TO OUR MOTHER OF PERPETUAL HELP

THURSDAY: 7.30pm

NORMAL WORSHIP TIMES

CONTACTS

Bergvliet Road, Bergvliet, 7945

021 712-2210 or712-1181

021 712-4271

9.00am to 3.00pm Monday to Friday

parish@holyredeemer.co.za

www.holyredeemer.co.za

ricardo1duncan@gmail.com

Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Bergvliet

Catholic Counselling

Network

Need somewhere to talk that is safe, where there is total confidentiality and where you will not be judged?

Contact one of our trained counsellors

Cynthia Wiese: 021 794-1601

Annette Milner: 021 715-8177

St. Vincent de Paul Society assists the areas poor.

If you need help / assistance / a visit contact the SVDP pres-ident on 083 450-5479. The matter will be dealt with in confidence.

WEEKLY DIARY MASS INTENTIONS

Oct 30 Mon Scripture circle 7.30pm Edna Cottle room Men’s group 7.30pm Parish centre

6.15am Mortuary List 8.30am Carole Johnson - Rip

Oct 31 Tues

Care & craft after 8.30 Mass Edna Cottle room Music ministry 7.30pm in boardroom RCIA 7.30pm Edna Cottle room Charismatic Praise & Worship 7.45pm Room 1

6.15am Private Intention 8.30am Fr. Gerard Mc Cabe -

Complete Rececovery

Nov 1 Wed Rosary after 8.30am Mass PLW 7pm Edna Cottle room Life Teen 7pm in boardroom

6.15am Private Intention 8.30am For All Souls

Nov 2 Thurs All Souls – Mass at 7.30pm (No Novena) Badminton after Mass Parish centre

6.15am Special Intention 8.30am Joy Dreyer - Birthday 7.30pm All Souls

Nov 3 Fri 6.15am Private Intention 8.30am Mika - For Recovery

Nov 4 Sat. Legion of Mary 9.15am Room 2 8.30am Dane Lingi - Birthday 6.00pm For All Souls

Nov 5 Sun ALL SAINTS Theme: Called toBe Holy PAGE: 1061 in New Sunday Missal. Year A

7.00am Parishioners 9.00am Robert Frewen - 60th Birthday 11.00am Father Gerard McCabe - Com-

plete Recovery 6.00pm Mortuary List

(A WORD FROM YOUR PARISH PRIEST— CONTINUED)

Our prayer on All Souls Day is that those for whom we pray may enjoy

the fullness of life in God: "Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord, may

they rest in peace".

While our focus is rightly on our dear departed, the good news about

All Souls Day is that already we ourselves are preparing for our

journey into God. St Alphonsus was greatly preoccupied with helping

people prepare for death, especially those who had some reason to

fear death. He devoted a lot of personal time to ministering to those

sentenced to death and he wrote a comforting volume called

'Preparation for Death'. His advice is part of the wisdom of the ages:

the best preparation for a good death is living a good life. If we are in

tune with Jesus despite our sins, we will be in tune with him when we

are called "home".

The Christian way is a way of dying-to-self so that when we come to

the hour of death, we are well used to letting go and ready to respond

to the call to die into God.

Fr Sean, CSsR

PEACE AT THE LAST

May He support us all the day long,

till the shadows lengthen and the evening comes,

and the busy world is hushed,

and the fever of life is over

and our work is done.

Then in His Mercy

may He give us a safe lodging

and a holy rest

and peace at the last.

(Blessed John Henry Newman)

A WORD FROM YOUR PARISH PRIEST

Well, not quite. The parish priest is recovering from his spinal

operation and Fr Scott and Fr Charles are steering the parish ship!

Meanwhile, a word anyway. During this coming week we begin the

month of November and on Thursday we will commemorate "All Souls

Day".

The Church prays for the departed in every Mass throughout the year,

following one of the earliest Christian traditions. Even in the early

Christian catacombs we find prayers for the dead; this was itself an

inheritance from Judaism (cf. 2 Maccabees 12: 41-42). The early

Christians loved to go the catacombs and pray for their departed

relatives and friends and especially to be close to the remains of the

first martyrs.

All sorts of traditions grew up surrounding this annual commemoration;

some older parishioners may recall that on this day (November 2nd)

the priest was permitted to celebrate Mass three times (as on

Christmas Day). In many countries there are elaborate ceremonies in

the cemeteries.

An important element in the background to All Souls Day is the belief

in some kind of immediate preparation for the fullness of eternal life.

In our tradition we have called this preparation "purgatory". The

presumption is that many of us live and die with "unfinished business";

sometimes people are catapulted into the next life not quite ready -if

we could ever be- to face the all-holy God. Some purification process

makes sense. The Church is not concerned -nor should we be- about

how or when or where purgatory is other than that it is a possible

stage of our journey into God.

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2nd COLLECTION

This week: None

Next week: Prison Ministry

ALL SOULS DAY. Thursday 2 November. Masses: 6.15am, 8.30am and 7.30pm. No Novena service. Confession as usual.

COLLECTORS ROSTER

Available for collection.

MORTUARY ENVELOPES Available in church porch. Please state names clearly.

A BIG THANK YOU

To the young people of Life Teen for their generous donation of ready-made sandwiches for the homeless.

DRIVER REQUIRED

For Parish lift scheme Musgrave Park area, once every 5 weeks for 11am Mass. Please phone: Rosalie Boyd 021-7127875.

SCRIPTURE CIRCLE MEETING

Monday 30 October at 7.30pm Venue - Edna Cottle

MUSIC MINISTRY MEETING

Tuesday 31 October 7.30pm

Venue - Boardroom

SENIORS CLUB MEETING

Thursday 2 November 10.00am

Venue - Parish Centre

YOUNG ADULTS MEETING Tuesday 7 November 7.15pm

Venue - Monastery

LITURGY GROUP MEETING Tuesday 7 November 7.30pm

Venue - Boardroom

BAPTISM INSTRUCTION

Saturday 11 November 1.00 to 4.30 pm. Venue - Parish Centre

BAPTISM CEREMONY

Sunday 19 November after 11am Mass.

Available from the Repository

• Liturgical Calendar for 2018

• New stock of Rosaries and various Rosary Chaplets such as The Seven Sorrows/Dolour Rosary; The Mission Rosary; The Peace Chaplet

• Living Faith for Oct - Dec

• Faith themed gift items

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

REPOSITORY

FR GERARD - UPDATE

As mentioned last week-end, Fr Gerard’s operation was successful. He is now able to move around.

Fr Gerard has been moved to an undisclosed care facility and as per his instructions, no visitations are allowed.

The weekly bulletin as well as the website will be updated continuously regarding his progress.

Fr Gerard will only be available from the 1st week in January 2018.

We pray to God for Healing, strength and Peace.

Child Protection Information Session for Holy Redeemer Parish

Michael Baker from the Archdiocese of Cape Town’s Child Safeguarding office will be holding an information session with regards to the Archdiocese of Cape Town’s adoption of the Child Safeguarding Policy, which has to be adopted by every parish in the Archdiocese. Mr Baker will explain the policy and inform all involved how the policy impacts on all in active ministry.

Who must attend?: All Catechists, Life Teen leaders, PPC Members, Redemptorist Community, Church personnel, Altar Server senior leaders, Music Ministry leaders and groups where children are involved.

Date & Time: Saturday, 4 November from 9:30 – 12:30

Monday, 6 November from 19:30 – 21:30

Where: Parish hall

Contact: Fr Scot Davidson or Brandon Paulse should you require more information

LUCKY DRAW HAMPERS - 23 Exciting hampers to be won

Books of 6 tickets for R30 will be available from next weekend and at the office during the week.

The organisers are appealing to the groups to please hand their hampers in to the Office by no later than 2.30pm on Friday 3

rd November. The draw will take place in the Atrium

on Sunday 17 December at 12pm. All welcome to attend!

Co-Workers of Mother Theresa Luxury Hamper

Charismatic Group Bath Time Treats

Senior Choir Household Cleaning Items Hamper

Craft & Care Group Baby Trousseau

Men 4 Change Grocery Hamper

Catechists - Jnr Toys Hamper

Life Teen Braai Hamper

Repository Group Picnic-ing with the Redemptorists: Something for Everyone

Ministers of the Eucharist Sundowners Hamper

Sacristans Dinner Voucher (Value /venue still to be advised)

Seniors Group x 3 Hampers 1) Baking Ingredients 2) Tinned Food 3) Grocery Items

Jos September Coke Hamper

Alpha Chocolate Hamper

Family Support Cape Christmas Hamper

Welcome Committee Bedtime Treats

Jenny Less Iced Christmas Fruit Cake x 2

Reception x 3 Hampers 1) Fossil wristwatch 2) Jewellery Hamper 3) Coffee Leisure Time

Monastery Kitchen /Sylvia Liquorice & All Sorts

St Vincent De Paul Wine Hamper

Monica Arendse Fr Anderson Lily Ball Edward Benjamin (Snr) Dylan Berry

Fr Duncan Blackie Jack Brownrigg Justin Brownrigg Gloriana Cloete

Alvin Cozett Magdalena Cozett Trevor de Beer Wilf de Hahn

Mr Doidge

Christian Engelbrecht Mary-Anne Esau

Desmond Fernandez Dawn Forsdyk Isabella Gabriel Jose Santos Gomes Keith Gomez

Kerry Heideman

Rita Hendricks

Dale Heynes

Dawn Heynes

Russell Heynes

Shirley Jordan Jean Kennedy

Marcel le Breton Gerald Louw

Fr Lunney

Geraldine Malander Fr Gerard McCabe

Kevin McCann

Eleanor McDuma Brian McEvoy

Elaine Neethling

Rosetta Orgill Monty Pasqualie

Shirley Pasqualie

Kathleen Pereira

Ernest Peskin

Sylvia Peters

Albert Petersen Carris Pietersen Lindsey Pietersen

Wynand Rinkwest Elaine Roode Lionel September Dorothy Slayne Vera Steyn

David Jude Van Schoor

Jack Whitwam Margie Wilhelm Eileen(Fr Gerard sister)

PRAY FOR OUR SICK

NOVENA TO OUR MOTHER OF

PERPETUAL HELP

Nornally Thursday evening at 7.30pm

No Novena this Thursday 2nd Nov All Souls. replaced by Mass

Place your special Prayer Intentions & Thanksgivings in the box at the back of the Church.

Also at www.holyredeemer.co.za

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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO JOIN THE SVDP

Meetings are held fortnightly at 6.30pm on a Tuesday. For further information or confirmation of meeting dates, please call 083 450-5479

ADORATION CHAPEL

Please Note: The Adoration Chapel is open as usual from 9.00am to 9.00pm Monday to Friday, except Thursday when the Chapel closes at 7.30pm for Novena.

• Do visit the Chapel at any time for prayer and reflection.

• Have you thought of joining the Adoration Group – new members are always welcome.

For further information please contact Carol Cornell on 073 194 7295

COLLECTION DRIVE FOR HELP THE RURAL CHILD

TOO MUCH STUFF, TOO LITTLE SPACE,

JOIN HELP THE RURAL CHILD CHARITY SHOPS:

The revolution against rural poverty has begun. Come and join us!

We will be having a massive drive at your parish. We need clothing for men, women and children,

books, bric-a brac and furniture to sell in our shops. The proceeds will go towards the running cost of the POP Centres at

Goedgedacht. www.goedgedacht.org. Drop all goods at the hall.

DROP OFF POINT – ENTRANCE TO PARISH CENTRE (FOYER)

WHEN: SATURDAY AND SUNDAY 4th and 5th November 2017

TIME: SATURDAY 09H00-14H00 and SUNDAY 09H00 – 14H00

TEL: 0711934945 FOR MORE INFORMATION

PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED

Maya West - RIP