FIRST READING: Ezekiel 33:7-9 Thus says the LORD: You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Israel; when you hear me say anything, you shall warn them for me. If I tell the wicked, "O wicked one, you shall surely die, " and you do not speak out to dissuade the wicked from his way, the wicked shall die for his guilt, but I will hold you responsible for his death. But if you warn the wicked, trying to turn him from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but you shall save yourself. THE WORD OF THE LORD.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM : Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 Response: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts. Come, let us sing joyfully to the LORD; let us acclaim the rock of our salvation. Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us. For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: "Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works." Response: If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

SECOND READING: Romans 13:8-10 Brothers and sisters: Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another; for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery; you shall not kill; you shall not steal; you shall not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law. THE WORD OF THE LORD.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Alleluia, Alleluia. God was in Christ, to reconcile the world to himself; and the Good News of reconciliation he has entrusted to us. Alleluia.

GOSPEL: Matthew 18:15-20 Jesus said to his disciples: "If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.' If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again, amen, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." THE GOSPEL OF THE LORD.

St. Andrew’s Parish is a child safe Community.

ST. ANDREW’S PARISH Incorporating the Communities of Werribee Central, Wyndham Vale, Werribee South, Werribee North, Tarneit West, Upper Point Cook

and Little River

105 Greaves Street Nth.

P.O. Box 872

WERRIBEE VIC 3030

ABN No. 28681862552

Email: werribee@cam.org.au www.standrewswerribee.org.au

Tel: 9741 4144

Fax: 9741 4433 Parish Office Opening Hours:

Mon. – Thurs. 9am – 4pm

Fri 9am – 12.30pm, 2pm – 4pm

Liturgy: Mass Times Saturday 6pm Vigil Sunday 8, 9.30, 11am, 5pm Reconciliation Saturday 9.30am and 5pm

PARISH TEAMS

Pastoral Team:

Fr. Frank Buhagiar PP

Fr. Darien Sticklen

Fr. Shymon

Thekkekalathungal Marthese Temming Pastoral Care in

Werribee North Community

Louisa Sullivan Pastoral Care in Wyndham Vale

Sherry Vivera Pastoral Care in Werribee South/

Werribee Central

Therese Kennedy Home Based RE Coordinator

Benita Dahanayake Home Based RE Coordinator

Norma Marot Baptism Prep. & RCIC

Administrative Team: Birgit Minness (Coordinator)

Cora Ilagan

Jen Climie (Finance)

South Sudanese Deacon:

Rev. George Piech Meat

9741 4144 (1st/3rd Tue)

PARISH SCHOOLS

St. Andrew’s Primary

School – Ph. 9741 3686

Principal:

Michael Gavaghan

Corpus Christi Primary

School – Ph. 9741 8440

Principal: Linda Roynic

Bethany Primary School –

Ph. 9742 9800

Principal:

Marlene Monahan

Our Lady of the Southern

Cross Primary School –

Ph. 9974 8500

Principal: Jennifer Poon

St. John the Apostle PS –

Tarneit West

Ph. 9748 9003

Principal: Simon Dundon

MacKillop Catholic

Regional College –

Ph. 8734 5200

Principal: Rory Kennedy

Thomas Carr Catholic

Regional College –

Ph. 8734 2444

Principal:

Dr. Andrew Watson

TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – 10TH SEPTEMBER 2017 We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we stand, the Wathaurong People. We pay our respects to them for their care of the land. May we walk gently and respectfully upon the land.

MAY YOUR KINGDOM COME IN OUR HEARTS

PRIESTLY ORDINATIONS – This weekend, the Church in Melbourne welcomes two

new priests. Fathers Toan Nguyen and Anil Mascarenhas are being ordained on Saturday morning at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Please pray for our new priests and for many more vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life from our Parishes and communities in Melbourne.

The Jubilee Cross will be in our Parish of St. Andrew’s from 18th to 24

th September 2017. VOLUNTEERS

ARE REQUIRED TO WALK THE JUBILEE CROSS on Tuesday, 19th September 2017 after 9am Mass

to Mercy Place and on Wednesday, 20th September 2017 at 12.45pm to St. Thomas Anglican Church for

a combined ecumenical service. Please contact the Parish Office on 9741 4144, if you can to help carry the Jubilee Cross.

PRAYER AT HOME: One of the greatest prayers about being a peace maker is the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. O divine master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and in dying that we are born to eternal life.

VOCATION VIEW: How much would the world be changed if everyone were completely forgiving? Probably totally!

Jesus' stories of forgiveness are so loved because they are so needed. Re-tell them! Re-live them!

RECENT DEATHS: Grant eternal peace, O Lord to: Beatrice Rook, Paola Villari, John O’Connor, Glenda Nolan, Angela Castillo, Giacomina Melicci, Don Maiden, Alberto Cortez

ANNIVERSARIES: Harry and Mary Stewart, Colin Warren, Vera Foley, Juana Santiago - Ison

REMINDER: Parishioners please note that names for Recently Deceased, Anniversaries etc. to be included in the Sunday Bulletin must be at the Parish Office no later than Wednesday afternoon and please address envelopes to the Admin Staff. The names for Prayers for the Sick will be

deleted at the beginning of each year. If you have a name you would like included, please contact the Parish Office.

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK: Br. Helmut Knab CMM, Helen (H) Kelly, Pauline Jones, Andrew Roberts, Paula Miller, Julie Morgan, Rosaleen McKenna, Jeanette Ballentine, Lisette, Henriette, Paul Carlton, Lynne Worsley, Theresa Ng, Sr. Reena, Milton Roberts, Fortunato Valiente, Harish Narayan, David Young, Tom Shone, Natalie Berry, Mark Lauron, Paul Kent, Hainz Schegigtz, Zeahn Hayes, Mary Crawford, France Ethan Jadoc, Clemencia Melkie, Raywin Roberts, Frank Fazio, Palepina Alofi, Leanne Peardon, Leonila Moso, Mr & Mrs. Walters, Julie Cassar, John McCarthy, Larissa Rathnathurai, Joyce, Jack Keane, Antonietta, Margaret Roberts (Hobart), Patsy De Abreu, Bill Squires, Amasha Gunawardana, Elisabetta Sgro, Margaret Harrison, Sean Kilgarry, John Hewett, Anne Housden, Amelia Malferrari, Mathew Merlino, Rohan Fernando

COMMUNION TO THE SICK AND ELDERLY: We try to be aware of all who through illness or disability are unable to attend Mass regularly. If you

know of anyone who would benefit from Communion being brought to them, please contact the Parish Office on 9741 4144.

LITURGY THIS WEEK: Penola Hub

Daily: 8.30am Adoration and Prayer

Mon: 9.00am Liturgy of the Word with Communion Tues: 9.00am Mass Wed: Feast of St. John Chrysostom

9.00am Mass Thurs: The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

9.00am Mass Fri: Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

9.00am Mass Sat: Feast of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian

9.00am Mass (St. Andrew’s Church) 9.30am Confessions 5.00pm Confessions

PARISH COMMUNITY MASSES – 10AM

Werribee Central/South Sun, 17th

Sept Corpus Christi Primary School

Tamil Mass Sun, 17th

Sept Penola Hub 5pm

Little River Community Sun, 24th

Sept

St. Michael’s Church

South Sudanese Mass Sun, 24th

Sept St. Andrew’s Church 2pm

All parishioners and school families

welcome to attend.

GOSPEL REFLECTION: Harden not your Heart

‘O that today you would listen to his voice. Harden not your hearts.’ From a spiritual point of view, hardness of heart is one of the worst things that can happen to anyone. To adopt a hard-hearted attitude is to maim oneself. A hard heart can’t feel, can’t respond, can’t love. A hard heart can’t experience joy. A hard heart is a closed heart. A hard heart is a barren heart. A soft heart, on the other hand, is a blessing. A soft heart can receive and can respond. It can be saddened but it can also be deliriously happy. Softened by the rain of God’s grace, and warmed by the sun of his love, the human heart can be turned from a desert into a garden. Flor McCarthy, SDB

CAR RAFFLE BOOKS are now available for collection in street alphabetical order after all masses this weekend under the Presbytery veranda.

If you would like a book and have not been allocated one, please contact the Parish Office. It would help to keep postage costs down if as many envelopes as possible are collected,

so please take yours and also some others to deliver in your area. Thank you for your assistance.

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED - to help with the selling of Car Raffle Tickets after all weekend Masses. If you can help, please put your name and phone number on the roster on the Altar steps. Thank you.

YOUNG ADULTS GROUP: Our next meeting will be from 7-8pm on Tuesday, 26th

September 2017 in

the the Penola Hub. Young people aged 14-35 are invited to come and join us.

ST. ANDREWS TENNIS CLUB AGM on Tuesday, 19th

September 2017 at 7.30pm in the Club Rooms in Corpus Christi Drive, Werribee. Open invitation to all interested Senior & Junior players. All most welcome to attend. Enquiries: Secretary John Alessi, Tel. 9741 4560

6.00pm 8.00am 9.30am 11.00am 5pm

LECTORS Vic Valencia Darren Giese Sashi Jeyarajah Grace Iaria Maryanne Pernice

MUSIC Volunteer None Volunteer Couples for Christ

International Ann Fichera’s

Group

COUNTERS This Week: Next Week:

Sun 10 Sept: Team 4: R. Carlton, P. Dulhunty, B. Pomeroy, S. Domingo Sun 17 Sept: Team 5: F. Lombardo, S. Pante, K. McGuane, R. Fernandes

CHURCH CLEANING

Cleaning: Vacuuming:

Mon 11 Sept: Team 1: S. Vivera Fri 15 Sept: Team 5: A. Ucala, R. Nykuy Mon 11 Sept: Team 3: L. Croos

ALTAR CLOTHS This Week: Next Week:

Sun 10 Sept: Otilia Lesoa Sun 17 Sept: Cora Ilagan

OUR LADY’S STATUE

This Week: Next Week:

Sun 10 Sept: Tony and Frances Bucci, 52 Chirnside Ave, Werribee Sun 17 Sept: Volunteer

MINISTRY ROSTERS FOR WEEKEND OF 16th / 17th September 2017

PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO LEGALISE ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA Fellow Parishioners, Thankyou for the response and actions so far in our letter-writing Campaign against the

Proposed Legislation to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia. We have been given more time, and, hence, shall be continuing with this for another week or so. Indications, from last weekend, show a need for more

participants in this important exercise. For those who have not yet done so, please take a writing pack home and write to our Parliamentarians in support of the “NO” Campaign? Letters may be returned next weekend.

Thankyou again. John Hennessy, Campaign Co-ordinator.

VOLUNTEERS – PLEASE NOTE: CHILD SAFE ENVIRONMENT DIRECT TRAINING BOOKINGS NOW OPEN A child safe and child friendly culture is one in which awareness is maximised and risk minimised. As champions of this culture, all Parish staff, leaders, volunteers, priests and deacons should attend the Direct Training sessions. As part of the Archdiocese commitment to creating and maintaining a child safe environment, bookings for the ‘Direct Training’ sessions are open. They will focus on child safety and the Victorian standards and legislative requirements. St. Andrew’s Parish is hosting one of these sessions for our Parish and neighbouring Parishes on

Thursday, 14th

September 2017 at 7pm in the Penola Hub, 33 Mortimer Street, Werribee All volunteers are encouraged to attend. Refreshments provided. Bookings: www.ccam.org.au/childsafe

The Parish Office can assist with the booking process if necessary. Sessions will also be offered by our Child Safe Team in the near future for anyone unable to attend this session. Thank you.

DEAR PARISHIONERS, His Grace Archbishop Denis Hart informed me on Tuesday, 5th September 2017 of the

following changes re. Assistant Priests.

On Thursday, 16th

November 2017, Fr. Shymon will be transferred to Christ The Light Parish of Mernda (near Doreen) as Assistant Priest to Fr. Martin Ashe P.P.

Rev. Deacon Anil Roshan Mascarenhas is being ordained to the Catholic Priesthood with Rev. Deacon Toan Nguyen, Saturday, 9

th September 2017 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. I will be attending the

ordination on behalf of our Parish of St. Andrew’s. Fr. Anil will arrive at our Parish on Thursday, 16th

November 2017 as Assistant Priest.

Please continue to pray for Fr. Shymon and Fr. Anil as they take up their new pastoral role in the two Parishes of the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Mernda and Werribee. Fr. Frank P.P.

PLEASE NOTE – The fact that Fr. Frank is retiring as Parish Priest of St. Andrew’s at the start of next year:

Fr. Frank turns 75 on 25th

January 2018 and from that day he will be known as Pastor Emeritus. “What is a Pastor Emeritus?” “Emeritus is an honorary title bestowed upon one who has retired from a position (pastor, priest, professor, or other professional position) as a way of honoring the individual’s service. Emeritus comes from the Latin word emereri, which means to earn one’s discharge by service. Bestowing the title “Pastor Emeritus” upon a retiring priest is a way for the church leadership to honor his service to the Church.”

WELCOME BEFORE BAPTISM

Dear Parents, as you prepare for your child’s Baptism, the people of St. Andrew’s rejoice that you have chosen to baptise your child, and we pray that in the coming years you and your family will continue

to know and grow in the love of God that is everlasting.

RCIA - SACRAMENTS – What does it mean to be Confirmed? If I receive Anointing Of The Sick does that mean I’m dying? When I got married did the priest marry me? This week we take a look at the Seven Sacraments, especially the Sacraments of Initiation. RCIA is not only for those wanting to become Catholic but also for those wishing to deepen their Catholic faith. 7.30pm, Wednesday, 13th September 2017, Penola Hub.

EL SHADDAI CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP continues on Tuesday, 12th September 2017 from 1pm –

2.30pm, followed by afternoon tea in Penola Hub, 33 Mortimer St, Werribee. Speaker: Michael Power on CD, Theme: ‘From Head to Heart’. For all enquiries or a lift, please contact Frances via Parish Office on Ph. 9741

4144.

RINNOVAMENTO NELLO SPIRITO SANTO ITALIANO Ricorda che il nostro incontro continua Mercoledi 13

Settembre nella Penola Hub, 33 Mortimer Street, Werribee alle ore 10am fino le 12pm tema per l’incontro ESALTAZIONE DELLA SANTA CROCE. Siete tutti invitati e benvenuti grazie.

MARIA PELLEGRINA si trova a casa di D. M. Golia, Tel. no. 9748 2728 e la prossima settimana sara a casa di

S. Ioppolo, Tel. no. 9741 4794. Tutti siete benvenuti. Grazie.

POTS FOR PLANT STALL REQUIRED – One of our parishioners is busy propagating and growing plants for our

Plant Stall at this year’s St. Andrew’s Parish Fair. She would be grateful for any small empty pots she could use for her plants. If you can assist, please call Bev on 0400 116 796. Thank you.

POSTAL PLEBISCITE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE – The Australian Government has announced there will be a postal plebiscite on whether the definition of marriage in the Marriage Act 1961 should be changed to include same-sex marriage. Ballot papers will be sent out to households on Tuesday, 12th September 2017 and all votes must be received back by Tuesday, 7th November 2017. Vote No, to keep marriage as a unique relationship between a woman and a man. Archbishop Hart has written a Pastoral Letter to the Catholic community of Melbourne in relation to the upcoming postal ballot on same-sex marriage. He says, “Given the importance of this matter could I also ask you to encourage your people to vote on this very important issue.” The letter can be found on-line at: http://melbournecatholic.org.au/ or on the Altar steps.

NOTICE BOARDS – Please check flyers for various notices.

St. Andrew’s Parish is a child safe Community.

BAPTISM PREPARATION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN (RCIC)

There will be an enrolment meeting on Saturday, 23rd September 2017 at 4pm in the Penola Hub, 33 Mortimer Street, Werribee. As well as enrolling children, we will explain the program which will run on the following Sunday mornings: 15th October, 22nd October, 29th October, 12th November and 19th November 2017. These sessions will run from 9.45am to 10.45am, followed by attendance at 11am Mass. The children

will participate in the Children’s Liturgy of the Word during the Mass as part of their Christian learning experience. At least one parent is asked to attend each Sunday with their children. The last session will be held in the Church on Wednesday, 22nd November 2017 at 5pm to familiarise the children with the Church.

If you have any queries, please leave your name and phone number at the Parish Office on Ph. 9741 4144. Thank you. Norma Marot, RCIC Coordinator

SENIORS AFTERNOON TEA

St. Andrews Parish would like to host a monthly Senior’s Afternoon Tea to enable our seniors to meet and socialise. This would be suitable for all seniors, male and female. Transport is available for those unable to drive. If you are interested in joining others in this social gathering or know of someone who would benefit, we would be happy to hear from you.

We are also looking for volunteers who would be interested in helping with transport or with the food and set up on the day. We are hoping to hold the afternoon tea on the fourth Wednesday of the month, 2.00pm – 3.30pm, commencing 27th September 2017 to be held at the Penola Hub, 33 Mortimer Street, Werribee. If you are interested in this project, please contact Sophia Cooper on 9742 5823 or Marise McOwan on 9741 0386.