Parish Priest’s Email Address: [email protected]First Sunday in Lent 9th / 10th March 2019 Bread and Stones In the Gospel Reading, Jesus has not eaten for forty days in the desert and he feels the whole forty days’ worth of hunger. That’s a lot of hunger! Satan comes to him in the desert and urges him to turn stones into bread so that Jesus has something to eat. Now there’s nothing good about hunger, and there’s nothing bad about bread. On the contrary, Jesus himself commands us to pray for bread daily. Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s urging gives us a pattern for our lives. And there is no question about the fact that Jesus has the power to provide bread for himself. He can turn water into wine, and he can stop being hungry by turning stones into bread. As far as that goes, Jesus himself tells us that if a son asks his father for bread, no good father will give him a stone (Lk11:11). So Jesus could get bread from stones just by asking his Father, who is God and good, to give him bread. Why doesn’t Jesus do so? And what are we to make of the line with which Jesus refuses Satan’s suggestion: “people do not live by bread alone?” If I suggest that you might like some ham, what sense does it make for you to tell me that people do not live by ham alone? Notice, though, that that line does make sense if what you are telling me is that you are full. In another Gospel, Jesus says, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. ” (Matt 4:4) Jesus himself is the Word of God, and he came into the desert filled with the Spirit of God (Lk 4:1). Even though he is hungry after so long a fast, then, there is another sense in which he really is full. Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s urging gives us a pattern for our lives. In our suffering, when those things we think we need in order to live are denied us, we do not have to be desperate. When we are hungry for what we do not have because our Father God has not given it, we still have the Word of God, which comes into us and can fill us. Jesus, who is the cornerstone of the Church, is our bread at the same time. And so we can be like him: full—even when, in the stony parts of our lives, we are hungry, too. Eleonore Stump
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In the Gospel Reading, Jesus has not eaten for forty days in the desert and he feels the whole forty days’ worth of hunger. That’s a lot of hunger! Satan comes to him in the desert and urges him to turn stones into bread so that Jesus has something to eat.
Now there’s nothing good about hunger, and there’s nothing bad about bread. On the contrary, Jesus himself commands us to pray for bread daily.
Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s urging gives us a pattern for our lives.
And there is no question about the fact that Jesus has the power to provide bread for himself. He can turn water into wine, and he can stop being hungry by turning stones into bread. As far as that goes, Jesus himself tells us that if a son asks his father for bread, no good father will give him a stone (Lk11:11). So Jesus could get bread from stones just by asking his Father, who is God and good, to give him bread. Why doesn’t Jesus do so? And what are we to make of the line with which Jesus refuses Satan’s suggestion: “people do not live by bread alone?” If I suggest that you might like some ham, what sense does it make for you to tell me that people do not live by ham alone?
Notice, though, that that line does make sense if what you are telling me is that you are full. In another Gospel, Jesus says, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Matt 4:4) Jesus himself is the Word of God, and he came into the desert filled with the Spirit of God (Lk 4:1). Even though he is hungry after so long a fast, then, there is another sense in which he really is full.
Jesus’ rejection of Satan’s urging gives us a pattern for our lives. In our suffering, when those things we think we need in order to live are denied us, we do not have to be desperate. When we are hungry for what we do not have because our Father God has not given it, we still have the Word of God, which comes into us and can fill us. Jesus, who is the cornerstone of the Church, is our bread at the same time. And so we can be like him: full—even when, in the stony parts of our lives, we are hungry, too.
Eleonore Stump
DATE CLAIMERS:
Sat 16th/Sun 17th March SECOND SUNDAY IN LENT
Sat 16th Mar El Shaddai Anniversary Mass & Fellowship (Bribie)
Sun 17th Mar 12.00pm Filipino Mass & Fellowship (Cab)
Mon 18th Mar 7.30am SVdP Meeting (Fredrick Ozenham Centre)
Wed 20th Mar 10.30am Anointing St Pauls (Cab)
Thur 21st Mar 9.15 am Anointing Mass (Bribie)
Thur 21st Mar 7.00pm KSC Meeting (Cab)
Fri 22nd Mar 9.30am Anointing Sunnymeade (Cab)
Sat 23rd/Sun 24th March THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT
Mon 25th Mar 10.00am Hospitality Meeting (Bribie)
Tues 26th Mar 4.00pm Anointing Seasons (Bribie)
Wed 27th Mar 9.30am Anointing Mass (Cab)
Thur 28th Mar 7.00pm Pastoral Council Meeting (Bribie)
Sat 30th/Sun 31st March FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Wed 3rd April 10.30pm Anointing Arcare (Cab)
Wed 3rd April 7.30pm Pastoral Council Meeting (Cab)
Fri 5th April 1.00pm Anointing Regis (Cab)
Sat 6th/Sun 7th April FIFTH SUNDAY IN LENT
Mon 8th April 7.30am SVdP Meeting (Bribie)
Mon 8th April 6.30pm Easter Communal Reconciliation (Cab)
Tues 9th April 6.30pm Easter Communal Reconciliation (Bribie)
NEXT WEEKEND MASSES
St Peter’s: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 7am, 10am, 5.30pm
Little Flower: Saturday 6.00pm
Sunday 8.30am
Beachmere: Sunday 8.30 am (24 Rogers Street)
RECONCILIATION
St Peter’s: Individual: 5.00 pm Saturday evening
Little Flower: Individual: 5.00 pm Saturday evening
PARISH BAPTISMS
St Peter’s 10.30am 1st & 2nd Saturdays of each month
Little Flower 10.30am 3rd Saturday of each month
St Peter’s this Week:
Mon 9.00 am Mass
Wed 9.30 am Mass
Fri 7.45am Mass St Columban’s Chapel
SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK
This Sunday - First Sunday in Lent ( Yr C)
Deut 26:4-10; Romans 10:8-13; Luke 4:1-13
Weekday Readings:
Monday Lev 19:1-2,11-18; Matt 25:31-46
Tuesday Isaiah 55:10-11; Matt 6:7-15
Wednesday Jonah 3:1-10; Luke 11:29-32
Thursday Esther 14:1,3-5,12-14; Matt 7:7-12
Friday Ezek 18:21-28; Matt 5:20-26
Saturday Deut 26: 16-19; Matt 5: 43-48
Next Sunday - Second Sunday in Lent ( Yr C)
Gen 15:5-12,17-18; Phil 3:17-4:1; Luke 9:28-36
Response:
Be with me Lord, when I am in trouble.
Gospel Acclamation:
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory!
No-one lives on bread alone, but on every word
that comes from the mouth of God.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ,
King of endless glory! Little Flower this Week:
Tues 6.00 pm Mass
Wed 9.00 am Liturgy
Thurs 9.15 am Mass
Fri 9.00 am Mass
News from St Peter’s
SUNDAY
7.00 am Mass of 1st Sunday of Lent (St Peter’s Church)
8.30 am Mass of 1st Sunday of Lent (Beachmere)
10.00 am Mass of 1st Sunday of Lent (St Peter’s Church)
5.30 pm Mass of 1st Sunday of Lent (St Peter’s Church)
MONDAY
9.00am Mass (Church)
12.30 pm 20 Decade Rosary (Church)
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
9.30am Mass (Church)
THURSDAY
10.00 am Mothers’ Prayer Group (Parish Centre Meeting Room)
10.00 am El Shaddai 21 Hayes St. Ph. Susie 0404 844 395.
6.00 pm Anointing Mass (Beachmere)
FRIDAY
7.45 am Mass (St Columban’s Chapel)
9.30 - 11.30am Craft Group (Hall)
7.00 pm Stations of the Cross (St Peter’s Church)
7.00 pm Stations of the Cross 24 Rogers St., Beachmere
SATURDAY
5.00 pm Individual Reconciliation (Church)
6.00 pm Mass of the Second Sunday in Lent (Church)
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News from Little Flower
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SUNDAY 8.30am Mass of 1st Sunday of Lent (Church)
MONDAY
TUESDAY
9.00 am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (Church)
6.00 pm Mass (Church)
WEDNESDAY
9.00 am Liturgy (Church)
9.30 am Christian Meditation (Our House)
3.30 pm Bible Study Group Frederic Ozanam Centre
5.30 pm Men’s Choir Practice (New Men’s voices welcome) (Church)
THURSDAY
9.15am Mass (Church)
FRIDAY
9.00 am Mass (Church)
SATURDAY
5.00 pm Individual Reconciliation (Church)
6.00 pm Mass of the Second Sunday in Lent (Church)
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