PARISH OF ST. THERESE, DENISTONE

Presbytery and Office

8 Inkerman Rd, Denistone 2114 Tel: 9809 2925, Fax 9809 5546

Website: www.sttherese.org.au

Parish Priest: Fr Roberto Castillo

Parish Secretary: Gayle White admin@sttherese.org.au

Office hours Tues-Fri 9am-3pm St Therese’s School

448 Blaxland Rd, Denistone 2114 (02) 9874 0412

School Principal: Mr Adam Nolan

MASS TIMES:

SATURDAY VIGIL: 6:00 pm

SUNDAY: 8:00 am and 9:30 am

MONDAY No Mass

TUESDAY 8am Mass

WEDNESDAY through to SATURDAY 9.00 am Mass.

FRIDAY: 9.00 am Mass.

Exposition & Benediction every Friday after Mass

RECONCILIATION Saturday 5pm – 5.45pm or by appointment.

Baptism: Every Sunday at 11am or 11.30am. Please contact Parish Office.

Marriage: By appointment.

Anointing of the sick: Please give names to Father Roberto Castillo

32ND

SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Year C) 5

th / 6

th November 2016

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON:

Let my prayer come into your presence. Incline

your ear to my cry for help, O Lord.

FIRST READING: 2 Maccabees 7:1-2. 9-14

A reading from the second book of Maccabees

The king of the world will receive us into life

eternal at the resurrection.

There were seven brothers who were arrested with

their mother. The king tried to force them to taste

pig's flesh, which the Law forbids, by torturing them

with whips and scourges. One of them, acting as

spokesman for the others, said, 'What are you trying

to find out from us? We are prepared to die rather

than break the Law of our ancestors.'

With his last breath the second brother exclaimed,

'Inhuman fiend, you may discharge us from this

present life, but the King of the world will raise us

up, since it is for his laws that we die, to live again

for ever.'

After him, they amused themselves with the third,

who on being asked for his tongue promptly thrust it

out and boldly held out his hands, with these

honourable words, 'It was heaven that gave me these

limbs; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from

him I hope to receive them again.' The king and his

attendants were astounded at the young man's

courage and his utter indifference to suffering.

When this one was dead they subjected the

fourth to the same savage torture. When he neared

his end he cried, 'Ours is the better choice, to meet

death at men's hands, yet relying on God's promise

that we shall be raised up by him; whereas for you

there can be no resurrection, no new life.'

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 16:1. 5-6. 8. 15

RESPONSE: Lord, when your glory appears,

my joy will be full.

Lord, hear a cause that is just,

pay heed to my cry.

Turn your ear to my prayer:

no deceit is on my lips. Response.

I kept my feet firmly in your paths;

there was no faltering in my steps.

I am here and I call, you will hear me, O God.

Turn your ear to me; hear my words. Response.

Guard me as the apple of your eye.

Hide me in the shadow of your wings.

As for me, in my justice I shall see your face

and be filled, when I awake,

with the sight of your glory. Response.

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SECOND READING: 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - 3:5

A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the

Thessalonians

May the Lord strengthen you in everything good

that you do or say.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our

Father who has given us his love and, through his

grace, such inexhaustible comfort and such sure

hope, comfort you and strengthen you in everything

good that you do or say.

Finally, brothers, pray for us; pray that the Lord's

message may spread quickly, and be received with

honour as it was among you; and pray that we may

be preserved from the interference of bigoted and

evil people, for faith is not given to everyone. But

the Lord is faithful, and he will give you strength

and guard you from the evil one, and we, in the

Lord, have every confidence that you are doing and

will go on doing all that we tell you. May the Lord

turn your hearts towards the love of God and the

fortitude of Christ.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Revelation 1:5. 6

Alleluia, alleluia!

Jesus Christ is the firstborn of the dead;

glory and kingship be his for ever and ever.

Alleluia!

GOSPEL: Luke 20:27-38

A reading from the holy Gospel according to

Luke

He is not a God of the dead but of the living.

Some Sadducees - those who say that there is no

resurrection - approached Jesus and they put this

question to him, 'Master, we have it from Moses in

writing, that if a man's married brother dies

childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up

children for his brother. Well, then, there were

seven brothers. The first, having married a wife,

died childless. The second and then the third

married the widow. And the same with all seven,

they died leaving no children. Finally the woman

herself died. Now, at the resurrection, to which of

them will she be wife since she had been married to

all seven?'

Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take

wives and husbands, but those who are judged

worthy of a place in the other world and in the

resurrection from the dead do not marry because

they can no longer die, for they are the same as the

angels, and being children of the resurrection they

are sons of God. And Moses himself implies that the

dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where

he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of

Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now he is God, not of

the dead, but of the living; for to him all men are in

fact alive.'

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

There is NO marriage in heaven.

COMMUNION ANTIPHON:

The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall

want. Fresh and green are the pastures where he

gives me repose, near restful waters he leads me.

READINGS FOR NEXT WEEK:

Mal 3: 19-20;

2 Thess 3: 7-12;

Lk 21: 5-19.

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• Archbishop to clergy conference: into the future of the

Church in Sydney

• Bishop Terry writes to prisoners: ‘Jesus spent time in jail’

• Fifties crooner who kept the faith,

• Embittered husband visits Lourdes,

• Marilyn Rodrigues: a real renaissance of marriage.

Is on sale at the front of the church.

THIS WEEKEND 5 / 6 NOV 2016

32ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY 6.00PM SUNDAY 8.00AM SUNDAY 9.30AM

Acolyte D D'MELLO J RAPER T DABBAH (M&H)

Minister of HC VOLUNTEER D ELLIS K PERERA

Minister of HC VOLUNEER J KWONG P CRONIN

Reader V PERERA A STANTON FAMILY MASS

Wardens L SEETO J DUFFY VOLUNTEER

Offertory VOLUNTEER FAMILY VOLUNTEER FAMILY FAMILY MASS

Projection VOLUNTEER NIL P. TREACY

Altar Servers GROUP 1: Robert Morfuni

Natasha Vithana No rostered group GROUP 5: Brittany and Jessica Khoury, Rebecca

Dearing Katherine Spencer

Welcomers S CHAMISA D BRENNAN

Counters Group 10: G WAITE V MAMO C MAMO JOHN WOODLAND

Altar Flowers J KEYSER NOVEMBER ALTAR LINEN: MAUREEN PEARCE

NEXT WEEKEND 12 / 13 NOV 2016

33RD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SATURDAY 6.00PM SUNDAY 8.00AM SUNDAY 9.30AM

Acolyte T DABBAH A BOURUNCLE J RAPER

Minister of HC VOLUNTEER K PERERA (M&H) P CRONIN

Minister of HC VOLUNTEER VOLUNTEER K GLEESON

Minister of HC D D'MELLO (C)

Reader B CLARK P TREACY N BRIERLEY

Wardens P BURGE N MORRIS VOLUNTEER

Offertory DABBAH FAMILY VOLUNTEER FAMILY D BRENNAN

Projection T. MORFUNI NIL VOLUNTEER

Altar Servers GROUP 2: Nicole and Nichelle Parakelem No rostered group VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Welcomers A CHAN D BRENNAN

Counters Group 11: P. HO B TANG J KOVACIC

Altar Flowers K PERERA / S CHAMISA NOVEMBER ALTAR LINEN: MAUREEN PEARCE

PARISH NEWS & NOTICES: Please remember in your prayers all who have recently died especially John HAIDLEY and Norman CORDEIRO. We also pray for all

who have anniversaries especially Jane HARTMAN.

RECONCILIATION: Please remember that the THIRD session of the programme is THIS Wednesday the 9TH November at 7pm. It will be held upstairs in the school at St Therese School.

NOVEMBER MASSES: Please use the envelopes provided and write the names CLEARLY and place them in any of the collections or give them personally to Fr Roberto. Every week there will be different names published. I also thank you for your offerings, Fr Roberto.

MONTHLY ROSARY PRAYER GROUP: Our next rosary gathering will be on Saturday the 12th November commencing at 12 midday with lunch (at 5 Gordon Street Eastwood) followed later with our usual Rosary prayers. Everyone is welcome and if transport is required please contact Elizabeth Wheeler on 0415-551-453.

NOVEMBER MASS INTENTIONS

SAINT THERESE – DENISTONE – 2016

“Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let

perpetual light shine upon them.

May the souls of the faithful departed, through the

mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.”

1. Mary & Tony Macfarlane

2. Elaine & Neville Braidwood

3. Braidwood, White & Pomfrett Families

4. Jan Flaton

5. George & Elizabeth Nobin & relatives of Moodley Family

6. Lawrence Woodland, Juanita Woodland, Sue Woodland,

Daniel Lathean, Jean Lathlean & families.

7. Elizabeth Stanton

8. Alec & Ester Ceccato, Bill & Tot Raper

9. The O’Brien, McNally & Harrigan Families. Gerry

McMahon - all rest in Peace

10. Eileen Eppel, Genevieve Eppel, William Eppel & Patrick

Eppel, Mary Dickson, Thomas Dickson, Thomas Dickson

(son) & Patricia Perry.

11. Anna & Joseph Wernard

12. Giuseppa Valenti & Pietro Valenti

13. John McNamara, William & Mary Gannon & all the other

deceased relatives

14. Jack Burke, Joyce Campbell & all relatives of Kelly Family

15. Father John O’donova, Mary & Jamelie Kayrooz, Mary

Mahboub, Aida Elias, Betty Bird, Ellen Cook; Kayrooz,

Morabito & Rohanna Families. Friends and relatives late

of Genesian Stella Maris Apostolate & St Therese

Parishioners

16. Lalla Arthur, Pauline Bocking. Anthony & Carmen Mamo

17. Mary Eileen Williams & Dorothy Berwick

18. John Pearce, Peg & Trevor Myatt & Myatt Family. Millier

& Jim Pearce & the Pearce & Hurtis Families. Doris & Cyril

Oscar, Frank Muniz & Jane Sherrard

19. Special intention

20. For all the deceased relatives and friends of the Duffy

family

URGENT NEED FOR CATECHISTS FOR 2017! We need at least ONE teacher and TWO helpers. If you would like to know more about this wonderful ministry please speak with Fr Roberto after Mass or call him on 9809-2925.

PARISH LUNCHEON is on Sunday the 13th November at Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club at 12 midday.

Please pay for your lunch ASAP and give the money to Fr Roberto after Mass, in a clearly marked envelope “Parish Luncheon” or put it into the secure presbytery letterbox at 8 Inkerman Road. Thanks.

We have booked for 116 adults and 7 children! It is so rewarding to see that so many people are coming to our end of year luncheon to begin our festive season as one community family.

WALK WITH CHRIST: On the 20th November at 2pm we will join the Walk with Christ procession, with the King of Mercy to conclude the Year of Mercy. If you are interested in taking part and being part of our parish contingent please write your name on the appropriate clipboard on the paper table. Once we have numbers we will be able to hire a bus again. So don’t be slow, write your name on the list ASAP. The BOOK OF LIFE is now on the table at the front of the Church. Please write your special prayers and intentions in it, as this will be carried by our parish representatives to St Mary’s Cathedral as part of the Walk with Christ Procession on Sunday the 20th November 2016.

PROJECTION AT MASSES – FOURTH SUNDAY (9:30) EACH MONTH: We still need one more volunteer to take on the responsibility of projecting the Mass parts and hymns once a month. If you wish to join the team or even just explore whether or not this ministry is for you, please speak with Fr Roberto or John Kenny (tel: 9807-1428).

“NO “CUPPA” this weekend.