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: precameadows@tpg.com.au

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

Laverton@cam.org.au 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.