2 King St, Manly Vale 2093 phone 9949 4455

Email : parishoffice@northharbourcatholic.org.au

Website: www.northharbourcatholic.org.au

14th Sunday Ordinary Time (year A) 09 July 2017

Readings this Sunday Zechariah 9:9-10 Romans 8:9 11-13 Matthew 11:25-30 Responsorial Psalm “I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.

Readings next Sunday Isaiah 55:10-11 Romans 8:18-23 Matthew 13:1-23

IN THE CARE OF THE AUGUSTINIANS

“I am gentle and humble of heart” The word ‘humility’ comes from the Latin for ‘soil’. Humility is not about being shy or quiet or taking a back-seat; it is about recognising our origins and not becoming so ‘learned and clever’ that we get too big for our boots. To be like ‘mere children’ is to have that sense of wonder and awe at things bigger than ourselves. What experiences produce a response of awe in you?

The Catholic Community of North Harbour

POSITION VACANT PRIORY COOK

Permanent part time 4 days per week

Tuesday - Friday, 11 am – 2 pm, commencing Tuesday July 25, St Kieran’s Priory is looking for a suitable person to cook the main meal each day for the Augustinian community of 5 priests.

The successful applicant will be required to shop, cook, serve & clean up the lunchtime meal each day and to prepare & cook a further meal that can be heated up for Sunday.

Applicants should email their application to parishmanager@northharbourcatholic.org.au or leave it at the parish office.

Dear Fellow Parishioners,

In this parish where we might carry out four or five baptisms each Sunday of the month, whenever it is my turn to celebrate this special sacrament I often invite the little children in the pews to come up around the font and help me bless the water that we are about to pour onto the heads of their infant

relatives. They come up and dip their hands in the water and stir it around and then I ask them to hold out their hands over the water as together we ask God to bless it. Some people are taken aback by this involvement because they think that the priest is the only one allowed to give a blessing. But doesn’t Jesus in today’s Gospel say “I bless you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for hiding these things from the learned and clever and revealing them to mere children”?

St. Paul in his letter to the Romans tells us “The Spirit of God has made his home in you (is living in you), giving life to your mortal bodies”. So when any of us stretch out our hands to bless the water – or anything else - it is the Spirit of God living in us (especially in the hearts of little children) who is blessing the object over which we are praying. Pope Francis echoes this

perspective when he constantly ask those who gather in St. Peter’s Square to pray a blessing over him. Jesus takes it a step further by telling us it’s alright for us to bless God and add to his joy in creating us. God can and does receive something from us. We actually make a difference to God and who God is. St. Augustine tells God in his Confessions “You love us so much it is as if we were the only ones”. Each of us is a unique source of delight for God in a way no other person can be. Perhaps we are meant to take this yoke of friendship upon our shoulders and learn from the humble King (who enters our lives not in pomp and circumstance but riding on a donkey), that we actually do make a difference to God and who God is in his relationship with each one of us? In order to be open to the overtures of the Lord we must take on the qualities of mere children, with the simplicity and trust that only they display.

Just as the little children bring about a real blessing

over the water in the font, so we bring a blessing to

God’s holy name by being the people God wants us

to be - through the Spirit living in us - enabling us to

contribute and intensify the blessings God wants to

shower upon the world - through us.

This is the chief appeal time for Augustinian Volunteers Australia and the excellent work done with aboriginal young people and refugees around Australia through our organisation. Our volunteers make a difference in the lives of young marginalised Australians. Many of them feel

isolated living at the edge of our society. Working in cross-cultural settings in Australia we help these young people participate in Education, Employment and Community Development. You can donate at the City2Surf Everyday Hero site above. Contact Paul Wilson at paul.wilson@osa.org.au for more information.

Donate now at:

https://city2surf2017.everydayhero.com/au/augustinian-volunteers-2017

PARISH ASSEMBLY—ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Sunday 23RD July 11am in the parish centre

Everyone is welcome to attend.

New members elected

New chair person elected

Report on parish finances and plans for

the coming year.

16/7/17)

REQUIREMENTS OF A PARISH COUNCILLOR

* Is able to attend 8-9 meetings a year * Has the ability to think in terms of the whole parish * Can work in a collaborative manner * Has a vision for the future of the parish * Is alert to the needs of the church whilst relating with the wider community

PARISH CALENDAR

JULY 23 11am Parish Assembly SK Mon 24 10am Grandparent’s liturgy SK Wed 26 Joachim & Ann, Parents of Mary AUGUST Sun 13 Marriage Sunday City2Surf Tue 15 Assumption 9.15am Mass SC 10am Mass SK Wed 16 10am Anointing Mass SK

Roster for next weekend, 3rd Sunday 16th July 2017

It is your responsibility to swap with someone if you can’t make it.

19th July, 11am at the Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne. Cost $25 per person including

movie, lunch and raffle tickets. Book through the parish office

by 16 July.

VINNIES CRAFT STALL

The Craft Stall will be outside 9.30am mass this weekend, with lots of Winter Woollies FOR SALE and many more hand crafted items.

Year-end receipts are available in the foyer for

everybody who has contributed to the planned

giving, Charitable Works Fund or Caritas

(Project Compassion) and are not expecting

their receipt via email.

Unfortunately due to technical issues at the Broken Bay Diocese

we have been unable to email the year end receipts. Hopefully

they will have the problem fixed next week and we will be able to

email the giving receipts to everybody then.

If you haven’t collected your planned giving envelopes for the

2017/18 financial year please contact the office and we will make

arrangements to deliver them to you.

Chris Burrows—Parish Manager

Thank you to all who

have contributed to

our Winter Appeal

REGULAR PARISH mass times REGULAR PARISH mass times St Cecilia’s, Balgowlah SUNDAY 9.00AM WEDNESDAY 9.00AM St Kieran’s, Manly Vale Saturday vigil 5.30pm SUNDAY 7.30am, 9.30am & 6.00pm Weekdays 8.30am except Wednesdays St Augustine’s Chapel, Brookvale Wednesdays 8.15am during term time

reconciliation St Kieran 5 – 6pm Saturday or by appointment.

Baptisms St Cecilia 10.30am Sun. by appointment 9.00am Mass on 1st Sundays of the month St Kieran 11.30am Sun. by appointment 9.30am Mass on 1st Sundays of the month

Baptism preparation is required for 1st baptisms. Contact parish office 9949 4455 marriages Require 6 months notice and include Pre-marriage Course as part of the preparation

CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF NORTH HARBOUR PERSONNEL Office (Mon – Fri: 9am – 4pm) 9949 4455 Clergy: Fr Paul Maloney OSA Parish Priest Fr Senan Ward OSA Assistant Priest Fr. Minh-Tan Hoang OSA Assistant Priest Fr. David Austin OSA In residence Fr Francis Belcina OSA Youth Ministry Fr Luca Park OSA Assistant Priest Administration: Chris Burrows Parish Manager Anne Ross Parish Secretary Jane Filacuridi Parish Secretary Jacky Worthington Compliance

Visiting sick at home - If you, or if you know of anyone who is unable to attend Mass because they are unwell and

would like a home visit please contact the parish office to organise for Communion or Anointing.

Pastoral Ministers (contacted through Parish Office 9949 4455) Janette Davidson Family & Sacramental Ministries Adriana Bowyer Catechist Co-ordinator Rosemary McKinnon Counsellor 0400 495 076 TBA Music Ministry

We acknowledge the Gayamagal and Canalgal people, the traditional

custodians of this land and pay our respects to the elders past and

present, including those who may be with us today.

RECENTLY DECEASED May Fitzgerald Antonino Livoti

Giovanni Calabria Ann Lyndon

ANNIVERSARIES

Lyn Martin Maurice Courtenay

Rhonda Bourke Tom Meates

Francesco Calo Ann Manchee

Fr Peter McHugh osa

PRAYER REQUESTS

“Come to me! I will give you rest.” (Matt 11:28)

From St Augustine

O Body of Christ, holy Church, let all your bones say, :Lord, who is there like You?”

Commentary on Psalm 34, 14

The Fr Chris Riley van will collect goods from 19 Lovett Street,

Manly Vale on Monday 31 July 2017 Cash donations, and new or good condition second-hand items

including crockery are accepted. No books please.

SICK Anne Towner Elsa Wunder Louise Allara Ricki Hayes

Aurora & John Francis Franz Hakvoort Maria Ogaar Rosemary McKinnen

Belinda Johnston Irene Hurrell Mary Nixon Sean Bellenger

Carolin Bariol Jarryd Timm Michael Armstrong Simone Young

Catherine Saltwell Jim Smyth Michelle Grabham Stephen Ward

Chris McAuliffe Joe Corroto Moira Watkins Veronica Laverty

Daniel Lister John Noonan Neil Reynolds David Martens Dave Miles John Ziegler Nicholas O’Bryen Dorothy Smith Kath Zenetic Nixon Ball Eddie Sharp Kathleen Bunting Norma Hayman

Elaine Smith Kevin Smith Maria Ogaar Louis Hilton Pat Reen