BRISBANE ORATORY IN FORMATION

PARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBINPARISH OF ANNERLEY EKIBIN Palm Sunday - Year A [OF] & [EF]

8th/9th April, 2017

Readings for next Sunday

16th April, 2017

1st: Acts 10:34, 37-43

2nd: Colossians 3: 1-4

Gospel: John 20: 1-9

Parish Office

14 Ferndale Street, Annerley 4103

PO Box 3131, Tarragindi 4121.

Office Hours:- 9:00am - 1:00pm

Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Phone: 3848 1107

Fax: 3848 1855

Email: annek@bne.catholic.net.au

Web: www.annerleyekibinparish.com www.facebook.com/ annerleyekibinparish

www.twitter.com/AnnerleyEkibin

Parish Priest : Fr Andrew Wise

Parish Team

Ms Shirley Sadler (Parish Secretary) Mrs Kathy Ducker (Finance Officer)

Miss Ria McIntyre

Mrs Teresa Martin

(Assistant Sacramental Co-ordinators)

Mr Richard O’Neil:0427 484 679

† Mary Immaculate Church

616 Ipswich Road, Annerley

† St John Fisher Church

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

† St Elizabeth’s Chapel

61 Effingham Street, Ekibin

St Elizabeth’s Primary School

Phone 3848 0828

Mary Immaculate Primary School

Phone 3848 8965

Our Lady’s Secondary College

Phone: 3848 7462

St John Fisher Hall

17 Messines Ridge Road, Tarragindi

Phone 3848 1107 (Office hours)

The Brisbane Oratory in Formation

Oratory House - 3392 9247

16 Ferndale Street, Annerley

http://brisbane-oratory.org/

Fr Adrian Sharp (Moderator)

Fr Andrew Wise

Fr Scot Armstrong

Br Shawn Murphy

Br Tyson King

Br Conor Power Br Matthew Buckley

Frassati (Young Men)

Dylan Shogren (0449 994 929)

Flores Teresianes (Young Women)

Elise Hewitt (0400 204 995)

Frassati Youth (High School age)

Abbie Powick (0477 055 778 ) frassatiyouthbrisbane@gmail.com

St Vincent de Paul Helpline

Phone: 3010 1096

Homeless Hotline: 1800 474 753

From the Parish Priest Dear Parishioners, We begin the holiest week of the year this weekend with our Palm Sunday Masses. The Lord humbly rides into His own city to confront the full force of the powers of evil on our behalf and to defeat them through the power of the sacrifice of His cross and glorious Resurrection. Let us accompany the Lord with great love, devotion and faith through Holy Week in the knowledge that he undergoes everything for love of each one of us personally. Moreover, if we follow the Lord in the mystery of sharing His cross, we will also share His Resurrection forever. Please do make every effort to participate in our Holy Week liturgies and go to confession before Easter Sunday if you have not already done so.

There will be one collection during the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday to support our four Brisbane Oratory in Formation seminarians in their studies. Holy Thursday marks the establishment of the ministerial priesthood in the Church as Christ gives His apostles the priestly power to “do this in memory of me”.

A reminder that Good Friday is a day of fasting and abstinence from meat.

Finally, a reminder to please bring a plate of food to share for our Resurrection Supper in the Marymac Centre after the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. Thank you.

Our Reflection for this week is an interesting piece from Monsignor Charles Pope about why Jesus died in His thirties.

Fr Andrew Wise

Why did Christ die in his early thirties rather than as an older man? This would have permitted Him more time to teach and to set forth His Church. St. Thomas Aquinas answered the question in the following way:

Christ willed to suffer while yet young, for three reasons. First of all, to commend the more His love by giving up His life for us when He was in His most perfect state of life. Secondly, because it was not becoming for Him to show any decay of nature nor to be subject to disease …. Thirdly, that by dying and rising at an early age Christ might exhibit beforehand in His own person the future condition of those who rise again. Hence it is written (Ephesians 4:13), “Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and

of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fullness of Christ” (Summa Theologica III, 46, 9 ad 4).

Speculations such as these strike some as purely arbitrary. Others consider the reasoning to be a post hoc justification: Christ died at the age of 33, so let’s make something up to try to explain it. St. Thomas’ reasoning, however, is not based on wild speculation. There are premises to his reasoning.

First, there is the premise that God does nothing arbitrarily and we do well to allow even seemingly minor details in Scripture (e.g., the time of day) to teach us.

Another premise is based on the nature of perfection. Perfection can be harmed by either excess or defect. Consider the case of age: A young person may lack physical and intellectual maturity (youth being a “defect” in age), but there comes a time when age becomes problematic in the other direction as time takes its toll on the body and the mind becomes less sharp (old age being an “excess” in age). Thus, there is a period of time when one’s age is in the “perfect” range: harmed neither by excess nor defect.

In St. Thomas’ time one’s thirties was considered to be that time of perfection. This is arguably still so, though we do seem to take a lot longer to reach intellectual and emotional maturity these days.

St. Thomas notes that because Jesus died while in the prime of His life, the sacrifice was greater. His apparent lack of any disease or physical imperfections also increased His sacrifice. This is a model for us. We are to give the best of what we have to God in sacrifice; not merely our cast-offs, or things of which we might say, “This will do.” To Page 2

PARISH DATE CLAIMERS

Saturday 29th April/ Mary Immaculate Primary School Centenary Celebrations. Please contact the

Sunday 30th April school for details on 3848 8965 or go to https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?

eid=268305 to buy tickets for weekend events. Watch this Newsletter!

Monday 8th May Josephites Associates Meeting at 10:00am at Majellan House, Yeerongpilly. Please phone Jay on 3848 8923 or Claire on 3848 3998 for further information. Saturday 20th May Baptism Preparation for Parents at 9:00am in the Music Room (under MI church). Please contact the Parish Office to book.

WE PRAY FOR: Those who are recently deceased: Peter THORNTHWAITE, Beverley HASSON, Noel TENNISON (Castlemaine, Victoria), Fr Dan MOORE (Ireland) Tiernan McCANN (Ireland), Mary BERRY, Helen O’NEILL, Margaret (Joan) DRUERY, Sean McCANN (Ireland), Mary Ann VAN DER WEIDE and Neil BETTS. Those who are sick: Luke ADENEY, Baby CHARLIE, Helen BAILEY, Ksenia BORODIN, Rex BOWEN, Joan BRAMMER, Peter BROPHY, John BROPHY, Shannon EMSLIE, Jane FARRELL, Tereza FERENC, Joan FLEW, Anne FRANETTOVICH, Gwen GAIR, Bronte GREER, Judy HARRIS, Marlene JOHNSTON, Brian McMAHON, Marie MITCHELL, Valerie & Kevin ORTON, Ron ROFE, Joan ROONEY, Rosa Maria SANTOS, Matt VASIL, Charlie WINTER, Josephine & Bill WRIGHT and Matthew ZEMEK.

All the faithful departed.

COLLECTIONS LAST WEEKEND: $2,456.25 ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTIONS AVERAGE FOR WEEK: $2,077.40. Thank you from a grateful Parish.

2017 HOLY WEEK TIMETABLE

From Page 1: The Lord once lamented, through Malachi, If I am a Father, then where is my honor? When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the Lord of hosts (Mal 1:8). And thus what might seem to some to be an unremarkable detail (Jesus’ age) actually provides important teachings to the sensitive soul. Christ gave His all, His best—and He did so when He was in the prime of His life. We too are summoned to increasing perfection.

Jeff Cavins exciting Timeline Bible Study continues at the Little King’s Movement for the Disabled, 31/33 O’Keefe Street, Wooloongabba. Bible Study begins after prayers in the Chapel: 7 pm for 7:15 start. For more details phone Mystical Rose Praesidium 0473 208 086

Day Time/Ceremony Venue Notes

Tuesday

11th April

7:30pm – 8:00pm Stations of the Cross

& confessions

MI

Wednesday

12th April

7:30pm – 8:00pm confessions MI

Holy Thursday

13th April

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [OF]

Watching with the Lord until 9:00pm

SJF

7:00pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper [EF]

Watching with the Lord until midnight

MI [EF] Sung Compline at 9:30pm

Good Friday

14th April

9:00am Stations of the Cross & Prayers [OF] SJF Followed by confessions

Veneration of the Cross for those not

attending at 3:00pm

10:00am Stations of the Cross & Prayers [OF] MI Followed by confessions

Veneration of the Cross for those not

attending at 3:00pm

3:00pm Solemn Commemoration of the

Lord’s Passion [EF] (approx. 2 1/2 hours)

MI Including confessions

7:30pm Tenebrae, including confessions

(approx. 2 hours)

Chanting of psalms from the Divine

Office with an ancient candle ritual

Holy Saturday

15th April

5:30pm Easter Vigil [OF]

Please bring a candle with a holder

MI Followed by Supper in

Marymac Centre

Please note there will be no Easter Vigil Mass at St John Fisher Church

Easter Sunday

16th April

7:30am Mass [OF] MI

9:00am Mass [EF] MI Missa cantata

8.30am Mass [OF] SJF

Please note there will be no evening Mass on Easter Sunday

THE ORATORY WINTER BALL, Saturday 22 July 2017, 6:30pm, Portside Wharf, Hamilton.

Early-bird ticket prices close at the end of this month, so don’t miss out.

To book, go to www.trybooking.com More information from Father Adrian, 0427 109 054, sharpa@bne.catholic.net.au

Singers are required for the 7:00pm Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper at St John Fisher Church. Would you like to lend your voice to this sacred liturgy? If so, please contact Christine on 0418 730 966.

Parish Diary & Mass Times: 10th - 16th April

HOLY WEEK: Please see full Timetable on Page 2 Monday 10th April

6:00am NO MASS SE

7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Tuesday 11th April

6:00am Mass [OF+] SE

7:00am Mass [EF] MI

9:00am Mass [OF+] MI

7:30pm Stations of the Cross MI Includes confessions

Wednesday 12th April

6:30am Mass [OF] SJF

9:00am Mass [EF] MI

7:30pm Confessions MI

Thursday 13th April Holy Thursday 7:00pm Mass [OF] SJF Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00pm Mass [EF] MI Mass of the Lord’s Supper Friday 14th April Good Friday

9:00am Stations of the Cross [OF] SJF

10:00am Stations of the Cross [OF] MI

3:00pm The Passion of Our Lord [EF]MI Includes confessions

7:30pm Tenebrae MI Includes confessions

Saturday 15th April

5:30pm Easter Vigil [OF] MI Supper follows

Easter Sunday 16th April 7:30am Mass [OF] MI 8:30am Mass [OF] SJF 9:00am Mass [EF] MI

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS NO 5:00PM MASS TODAY OF = Ordinary Form | OF+ = Ad orientem | EF = Extraordinary Form]

MI = Mary Immaculate SE = St Elizabeth’s SJF = St John Fisher

CONFESSION TIMES: Mon 6:45pm (MI) Wed 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Thu 9:40am - 10:00am (MI Fri 9:40am - 10:00am (MI) Fri 7:30pm - 8:30pm (During Holy Hour) Sat 7:15am - 8:00am (MI) Sat 4:45pm - 5:15pm (MI) Sat 5:15pm by request (SJF) Sun During 9:00am Mass where possible (MI) The Angelus and the Rosary are prayed half an hour before the early Masses, Monday to Friday, at SE & SJF.

All night Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place each Thursday at St Elizabeth’s Chapel beginning at 6:00pm and ending at 6:45am on Fridays.

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament takes place on Saturdays from 7:15am - 8:00am at Mary Immaculate Church.

Rosters for next week

MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, 8th April, Private: For a Special Intention 8:15am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 5:30pm Vigil at SJF: For the Repose of the Soul of Gladis Lutvey, anniversary Sunday, 9th April, 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the People of the Parish: Pro populo 5:00pm Mass at MI: For the Holy Souls Monday, 10th April, 7:00pm Mass at MI: For the Intentions of the Donor Tuesday, 11th April, 6:00am Mass at SE: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: For the repose of the soul of Lynette Larkin, anniversary of birth

St Gregory’s Latin Mass Community: Second Sunday of Passiontide (Palm Sunday):

Wilston 7:30am

Wednesday, 12th April, 6:30am Mass at SJF: For the repose of the soul of Fr David Peter Hutton, Cong. Orat., recently deceased 9:00am Mass at MI: For Shannon Emslie, ill health Holy Thursday, 13th April, 7:00pm Mass at MI: For the Pope and the Bishops 7:00pm Mass at SJF: For the repose of the soul of Cecil Shorthouse, anniversary of birth Holy Saturday, 15th April, 5:30pm Easter Vigil at MI (AS): For the Oratory and the Parish community 5:30pm Easter Vigil at MI (AW): For the People of the Parish: Pro populo Easter Sunday, 16th April, 7:30am Mass at MI: For a Special Intention 8:30am Mass at SJF: For the repose of the soul of Cecil Shorthouse, anniversary 9:00am Mass at MI: For the Benefactors of the Brisbane Oratory in Formation, living and deceased

PLEASE NOTE:

Weekday Mass omitted for this week:

Special Holy Week Schedule

The Parish Statue of Our Lady has been circulating within the Parish in recent months. If you would like the Statue in your home for one or two weeks, please contact the Mystical Rose Legion of Mary Praesidium on 0412 938 596.

Rosters for next week: Easter

MINISTERS OF THE WORD

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm No Easter Vigil

Sun (MI) 7.30am Brian McMahon, Noel Everding

Sun (SJF) 8:30am

Sun (MI) 5.00pm No 5:00pm Mass

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

Sat (SJF) 5:30pm: No Easter Vigil

Sun (MI) 7:30am: Bertha Clark, Joan Coghlan, Paul Coghlan, Ester Evangelista, Charles Grugan, Kathleen Grugan

Sun (SJF) 8:30am: Peter Menagh

Sun (MI) 5:00pm: No 5:00pm Mass

COUNTERS

Monday, 10th April, 2017 Paul Coghlan, Joan Coghlan, Bernie O’Hara

CHURCH CARE

Sacristy (SEC) Maria Monro

Sanctuary & Sacristy (MI) Mabel Saah Laundry (SJF) Pat Smith Laundry (MI) Mabel Saah

PLEASE ALSO PRAY FOR OUR

BRISBANE ARCHDIOCESE

SEMINARIANS The 2017 Prayer Calendar for our

Seminarians and Priests is now

available in both churches and St

Elizabeth’s Chapel. Pope Francis said:

“Behind and before every vocation to the priesthood

there is always the strong and intense prayer of

someone: a grandmother, a grandfather, a mother, a

father, a community”

Pick up your copy today.

Palm Sunday - Year A: 8th/9th April, 2017

MASS READINGS

First Reading: Isaiah 50: 4-7 The Lord has given me a disciples tongue. So that I may know how to reply to the wearied, he provides me with speech. Each morning he wakes me to hear, to listen like a disciple. The Lord has opened my ear. For my part, I made no resistance, neither did I turn away. I offered my back to those who struck me, my cheeks to those who tore at my beard; I did not cover my face against insult and spittle. The Lord comes to my help, so that I am untouched by the insults. So, too, I set my face like flint; I know I shall not be shamed.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Responsorial Psalm 21

(Said by all)

All who see me deride me. They curl their lips, they toss their heads. ‘He trusted in the Lord, let him save him: Let him release him if this is his friend.’

Many dogs have surrounded me, A band of the wicked beset me. They tear holes in my hands and my feet, I can count every one of my bones.

They divide my clothing among them. They cast lots for my robe. O Lord, do not leave me alone, My strength, make haste to help me!

I will tell of your name to my brethren And praise you where they are assembled. ‘You who fear the Lord give him praise; All sons of Jacob, give him glory. Revere him, Israel’s sons. Second Reading: Philippians 2:6-11 His state was divine, yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God but emptied himself to assume the condition of a slave, and became as men are; and being as all men are, he was humbler yet, even to accepting death, death on a cross. But God raised him high and gave him the name which is above all other names so that all beings in the heavens, on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

The Word of the Lord

Response: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation:

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory! Christ became obedient for us even to death, dying on the cross. Therefore God raised him on high and gave him a name above all other names.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless glory!

Gospel: Matthew 26:14—27:66

The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew will now be read in Parts.

Memorial Acclamation: Number Three: Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

ARE YOU A NEW PARISHIONER?

OR ARE YOU FROM ELSEWHERE IN BRISBANE BUT

REGULARLY ATTEND MASS HERE AND WOULD LIKE

TO BE REGISTERED AS A FRIEND OF THE BRISBANE

ORATORY? If so, please fill in the form below and place it

on the collection plate or mail to our Parish Office:

P.O. Box 3131, Tarragindi. 4121.

□ I am a new parishioner

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registered as a friend of the Brisbane Oratory

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DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY 2017: 23rd APRIL

Holy Hour, including confessions, commences at 3:00pm

at Mary Immaculate church on

Divine Mercy Sunday, with Benediction at

3:45pm.

Vespers [EF] follows at 4:00pm for those

who wish to stay.