The Catholic Parish of Parish Office: A/H Emergenc y: Parish Priest: St John 23rd 9852 0580 0403 766 468 Fr John M cSween ey Assistant Priest: Fr Robert William Email: [email protected] Office: 9852 0581 Email: [email protected] Office: 9852 0525 Saturda y Vigil: 6.00pm Sunda y Masses: 7.30am, 9.00am,10.30am and 6.00pm. Baptisms: By appointment on Sunday at 12.00pm Reconciliation: First Rite: Saturday 5.00pm - 5.45pm & After any W eekday Mass. Weekda y Masses: Mon, Tue, W ed, Thurs, Fri and Sat at 9.00am Ever y Tuesda y (2/4 Tuesda y) FIRST FRIDAY Expo sition at 6.30pm . Evening Prayer of the Church at 7.00pm Rosary 7.15pm Novena Mass to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at 7.30pm . Hol y Hour: 7.30pm вЂ“8.30pm Novena Mass to the Sacred Heart Of Jesus And Exposition And Benediction. Sacrament of the Sick: Schools Holy Cross, Glenwood. John XXIII, Stanhope Gardens St MarkвЂ™s College, Stanhope Gardens First Saturday during 9.00am Mass: Principal: A c t i n g P ri n c i p a l : Marina Hardy Jayne Campbell 02 9629 8742 02 9852 0500 O f f i c e H o u r s: 8. 3 0 am - 4 . 00 pm ( M o n d ay t o T h ur s d ay ) 8. 3 0 am вЂ“ 3. 0 0 pm ( F r i d ay ) P ar i s h C o u n c il P r e si d en t : B ar t S ar l a b u s: [email protected] Office: 9852 0580 P ar i s h S e cr et ar y: T a ny a G a tt 98 5 2 05 8 0 ( M o n d ay - F r i d ay ) [email protected] P a st o r a l A s so c i at e/S a cr am e n t al Co o r d in at o r : S u e A n dr us k i n J .P . 9 8 52 0 58 3 ( M o n , T u es , W e d & T h ur s ) S ac r am e n tal @j o h n2 3r d . or g. a u F i n a n c e: M i l a Ll am as 9 8 5 2 0 5 80 ( T hu r s da y & F r i d ay ) ac c o u nt s @j o h n 23 r d . or g. a u RCIA Co-ordinator: Sue Andruskin 98 5 2 05 8 3 S ac r am e n tal @j o h n2 3r d . or g. a u GTK www.gtkyouth.com Youth Leaders Krizzia Tiga: [email protected]: C.J. Sarlabus [email protected] House Keepers Theresa Cassar and Brenda Recchia Parish Mission Statement вЂњThe Parish of Saint John XXIII is a faith community with the Eucharist as its heart. We are inspired by John XXIIIвЂ™s prophetic opening of the windows of the Church. We welcome the fresh air of the Holy Spirit, inviting every person to share in the responsibility of enriching the life and faith of our community by sharing their gifts and talents.вЂќ Dedication of the Lateran Basilica: 8/9 NOVEMBER 2014 Most people think that St PeterвЂ™s Basilica in Rome is the main church of Catholicism. Certainly itвЂ™s one of, if not, the biggest cathedral in the world. And so many liturgies of importance occur in St. PeterвЂ™s. But, in actual fact, St. John LateranвЂ™s is the PopeвЂ™s church as Bishop of Rome. Thus, today we celebrate the Feast of the Dedication of St John LateranвЂ™s Basilica, the вЂњmother churchвЂќ of Catholicism if you like! The readings for this Feast are about вЂњspiritual buildingsвЂќ: In our first reading Ezekiel speaks of the water flowing from the temple of the Lord. This water = spiritual nourishment; and it never fails, for it comes from the sanctuary (that is, from God Himself). JohnвЂ™s Gospel records Jesus building on the this prophetic image. Jesus moves the centre of worship from a physical building (the Temple) to the human person as the locus (centre) of spiritual worship. And Paul builds on this, for he calls the Corinthians вЂњGodвЂ™s buildingвЂќ, вЂњGodвЂ™s TempleвЂќ. My friends, we are the locus of worship of God. Whenever we gather to pray, we are together the spiritual edifice (the church) which gives true worship to God. If this is the case (and it is!) then we have to do all we can to live lives worthy of this great vocation. We are called to holiness, for in our daily living we give witness to GodвЂ™s goodness. We are the Temple of the living God!! _________________________________________________________________________________________ п‚· п‚· п‚· п‚· I had a great holiday and have returned refreshed. I look forward to continuing to be pastor of this exciting & growing parish community. We continue to pray for Most Rev. Anthony Fisher op, who will be installed this week as Archbishop of Sydney. We also pray for the College of Consultors of the Diocese who will meet on Thursday to elect the Administrator of the Diocese, who will lead us until a new Bishop is appointed. We congratulate Frs John Boyle (Castle Hill) and Ron MacFarlane (Marayong), who have just been named вЂњMonsignorвЂќ! Let us continue to pray for one another. God bless you all. Fr John PARISH NEWS From the Parish Council Bart Sarlabus Chair From the first Weekend of October, Saturday Reconciliation will be from 5.00 - 5.45pm. вЂњWe are more than just material beings, but souls, flame that rises up to heaven.вЂќ вЂ“St. John XXIII, 30 May 1962 Volunteers are needed! Please consider offering yourselves to minister in one of the parish groups including the RCIA, the Baptism Preparation programme, the ChildrenвЂ™s Sacramental Programme, or Community Outreach. ItвЂ™s all systems go with the production of the Wall of Remembrance plaques and refurbishing of the wall surrounds. As far as funding is concerned, we continue to receive pledges and donations, and we are holding a leaving collection at the Nov. 8 and Nov. 9 weekend Masses. We are really grateful for your generosity and are confident of meeting the Nov. 30 dedication date! The 2015 Columban Art Calendar is now available at the Piety Stall for $7.00. When you purchase the calendar, you are participating in GodвЂ™s Mission and assisting Columbans in meeting the needs of the poor. PASTORAL ASSOCIATE & SACRAMENTAL CO-ORDINATORвЂ”SUE ANDRUSKIN Please pray for our children who are presently preparing for the Sacrament of Reconciliation. The children are working with their parents under the guidance of the facilitators who have volunteered to help these families. We are most grateful for the help that they are giving, showing the children true models of JesusвЂ™ love. If you require the services of a Justice of the Peace to sign a document for you, please note that this service will no longer be available at the parish office after the end of November. Call Sue to make an appointment before then. The Sacramental calendar for 2015 can now be seen on the Sacramental notice board in the church foyer and also on the parish website www.john23rd.org.au . If you know of families wanting to know the dates for the sacraments next year, could you please advise them. If you know of anyone who needs help from our Community Outreach group please contact Sue, [email protected] or phone 9852 0583. We invite everyone to join the SJ23 Prayer Group in its monthly Praise and Worship Night this Saturday, 15 November from 7:30 to 9 PM. The theme is вЂњAdvent RecollectionвЂќ and the guest speaker is Fr. Ming Barawid. We reiterate our invitation for volunteers for the new Parish Hospitality team who will be the вЂњfaceвЂќ of the community at masses, sacramental programs and other pastoral activities in 2015. Please sign up at the Parish Office. The last training program for young SJ23 Altar Servers (10 years old+ and must have received the sacraments of Confirmation and Communion) will be held on 3 Sunday afternoons (Nov. 16, 23 and 30). Please register your childвЂ™s interest with the Parish Office. The Holroyd family will host the Nov. 11 rotation of the SJ23 weekly rosary devotion at 3 Muswellbrook St, Glenwood. Host families for Dec. 9 onwards are needed. Have a great week! Bart Y O U T H AN D Y O U N G AD U L T S C O R N E R GTK (Getting to Know God, Others and Yourself) YOUTH GROUP every 2nd and 4th Sunday: School Years 4-9: Meet St MarkвЂ™s Staff Room. When? at 4.30pm for afternoon tea. 5.00pm Break open the word.5.30pm Welcome others to mass. 6.00pm is the Youth Mass and after mass veg out and something to eat till7.30pm. Leave from Church. www.gtkyouth.com / Krizzia Tiga: [email protected]: C.J. Sarlabus [email protected] COLLECTIONS 1st Collection: $2,656.60 Funds go to Diocese and helps support Priests) 2nd Collection: (Pays Parish Debt and on going running costs. If you can, please put a little extra on the Second Collection.) Loose: PG Envelopes: PG by EFT: Total Collections : $2,305.00 $2,091.10 $2,041.00 $6,437.10 We pray and rememberвЂ¦... Born to Eternal Life: Arturro Cobarrubias, Rizalina Cala, Manuel Batongbacal. Sick: Jude Vittorio Faelnar, Rosalina Linsao, Belen Ortiz, Lisa Echevarria, Cristina Maguddayao, Paul Aquilina, Noella Tsang, Nikhil & Ahhil, Cynthia Ferrer, Jun Arizala, Ron Barzaga, Gerry Galam, David Whitelaw, Nikhil Parvathaneni, Jerzy Kuziak, Gay Z Coco, Oscar Nieves, Edwardo Ho, Nonita Zamora, Josie Zidar, Pumida Alexander, Erlinda Zamora, Pixs Damayanthi Perera, Vicky Medaglia, Elmer Samaniego, Cynthia V Cano, Luci Jabson, Nora Medina, Baby Edward Taylor, Liza Sehob, Celine van de Bosch, Aida Lustre, Felomina Docena, Cynthia Villafuerte Cano, John & Rhronda Devereaux, Andreas Bengough, Felomina Decena, Ronaldo Zamora, Dwayne Xavier Erasmo, Felomina Docena, Shona Modrich, Lourdes Subijano, Anthony Joseph, Marlon Marcelo, Rhronda Devereaux. Thanksgiving: Rajendra Dasi & Family. We welcome into our church Thiago Nicolas Fernandez Bently Francis Dino Crescini Jack William Haig Monique Louise Marshall Alex Alves Please pray for these children. YOUNG AT HEART Novena Mass to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Monday 17th November Tuesday nights beginning with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Seven Hills RSL at 6.30pm, Evening Prayer of the 12noon or GGC 11.30am Church at 7.00pm, Rosary at 7.15pm For further details please call Merrilyn 9629 4552/ and Mass and Novena prayers at 0413 424 552 7.30pm. OVER 55вЂ™S Saturday 6th December Riverstone Memorial Park 12 noon 23 Market Street, Riverstone $15 per head (Bring along $10 Kris Kindle gift) For further details and to book contact Fran 0458 460 968 Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend A Marriage Enrichment experience for married couples. During the weekend, couples have a unique opportunity to reconnect, rekindle and refresh their relationship. Invest in your most precious asset вЂ¦ your marriage! Dates: Friday 7 November to Sunday 9 November 2014. Venue: Mount Carmel Retreat Centre, Varroville. Inquiries & bookings: Ardell & Bill Sharpe tel (02) 4283 3435 or [email protected] www. wwme.org.au Find us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ WWMEasternUnit DWF Appeal in November The Diocesan Works Fund Appeal with the theme вЂ�Faith at WorkвЂ™ is being held in parishes and Catholic schools during November. This appeal gives us the opportunity to act together as a diocesan family to support ministries and services that no single individual or parish can offer. For example, it supports catechists who teach the faith in state schools, seminarians who are preparing for the priesthood, the All Saints of Africa Centre in Blacktown for recent refugees and migrants, and Catherine Villa supported accommodation for young mothers. Donations can be made through envelopes available from your parish or school or online at: www.faithatwork.org.au "Would you like to do something special this Advent? A new prayergroup is starting here at St. JohnXXIII Parish!! When: Friday evening 28th November Time: 7pm Where: In the Church Kitchen area We will look at the Sunday Mass Readings starting with the 1st Sunday of Advent then recite the Rosary afterwards. For more info call: Pauline Camilleri 0407 417 039...or just turn up!! Everyone is welcome!!" LOST PROPERTY Please check lost property at back of church. All lost property not collected will be given to St Vincent de Paul. Life Faith Initiative: Your Faith, Your Life Spirituality Together: The Institute for Mission offers all, from young adults upwards, a series of enjoyable nights connecting God, our spirituality and our lives in the world. Bring a friend and accompany each other on your faith journey. Dates: From 7.30pm-9.30pm on 27 October & 24 November 2014, and 9 February 2015. Venue: Our Lady of the Rosary Parish Shrine, 8 Greyfriar Place, Kellyville. RSVP: three days prior tel (02) 9831 4911, [email protected] www.facebook.com/ifmconnect NOVEMBER MASS INTENTIONS Envelopes for November Mass Intentions are placed at back of Church please fill out and return so they can be placed in book. Dedication of the Lateran Basilica - YEAR A В© Labora Liturgy 2014 printed with permission Gloria The waters of a river give joy to God's city, the holy place where the Most Glory to God in the highest, and on High dwells. God is within, it cannot earth peace to people of good will. be shaken; God will help it at the We praise you, we bless you, we adore dawning of the day. you, we glorify you, we give you The Lord of hosts is with us: thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty the God of Jacob is our stronghold. Father. Lord Jesus Christ, Only Be- Come, consider the works of the Lord, gotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, the redoubtable deeds he has done Son of the Father, you take away the on the earth. sins of the world, have mercy on us; Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 3:9-11. 16-17 you take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at A reading from the first letter of St the right hand of the Father, have Paul to the Corinthians mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone are the Lord, You are God's building. By the grace you alone are the Most High, Jesus God gave me, I succeeded as an arChrist, with the Holy Spirit, in the chitect and laid the foundations, on glory of God the Father. Amen which someone else is doing the building. Everyone doing the building First Reading: Ezekiel 47:1-2. 8-9. 12 must work carefully. For the foundation, nobody can lay any other than A reading from the prophet the one which has already been laid, Ezekiel that is Jesus Christ. The angel brought me to the enDidn't you realise that you were God's trance of the Temple, where a temple and that the Spirit of God was stream came out from under the living among you? If anybody should Temple threshold and flowed eastdestroy the temple of God, God will wards, since the Temple faced east. destroy him, because the temple of The water flowed from under the God is sacred; and you are that temright side of the Temple, south of the ple. altar. He took me out by the north The word of the Lord. gate and led me right round outside Thanks be to God. as far as the outer east gate where the water flowed out on the righthand side. He said, 'This water flows Gospel Acclamation: 2 Chronicles 7:16 east down to the Arabah and to the Alleluia, alleluia! sea; and flowing into the sea it makes its waters wholesome. Wher- I have chosen and sanctified this house, says the Lord, that my ever the river flows, all living creatures teeming in it will live. Fish will name may remain in it for all time. be very plentiful, for wherever the Alleluia! water goes it brings health, and life teems wherever the river flows. Gospel: John 2:13-22 Along the river, on either bank, will grow every kind of fruit tree with A reading from the holy Gospel leaves that never wither and fruit according to John that never fails; they will bear new fruit every month, because this Just before the Jewish Passover water comes from the sanctuary. And their fruit will be good to eat and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, and in the Temple he found people the leaves medicinal.' selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. MakPsalm: Ps 45:2-3. 5-6. 8-9 ing a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, R. The waters of the river gladden the city of God. cattle and sheep as well, scattered God is for us a refuge and strength, the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over and said a helper close at hand, in time of distress: so we shall not fear though to the pigeon-sellers, 'Take all this the earth should rock, though the out of here and stop turning my mountains fall into the depths of the Father's house into a market'. sea. Then his disciples remembered The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. the words of scripture: Zeal for your house will devour me. The Jews intervened and said, 'What sign can you show us to justify what you have done?' Jesus answered, 'Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up'. The Jews replied, 'It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary: are you going to raise it up in three days?' But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said. The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. Nicene Creed I believe in one 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 Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the 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 life of the world to come. Amen. 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