WEEKEND MASS — 29 & 30 April Saturday 6.00 pm Kempsey Sunday 7.30 am South West Rocks Sunday 9.30 am Kempsey Kempsey Saturday, 29 April 6.00pm Mass Sunday, 30 April 9.30am Mass Ministers of Eucharist Beryl Boccanfuso Bea Gray Paula Tamblyn Tony Corley Readers Kevin Lewthwaite Jerry Van Der Veer Offertory Procession Bea Gray Jill Bishton Hospitality Rita McCudden - Tech / Commentator Patricia Cullen Margaret Patterson Children’s Liturgy Sunday only St Joseph’s Music Peter Fletcher Recorded Music Cleaning John and Glenda Hudson Second Sunday of Easter, Yr A 1st Reading: Acts 2:42-47 Responsorial Psalm: Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting. 2nd Reading: 1 Peter 1:3-9 Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia! Alleluia! You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me; happy those who have not seen me, but still believe! Alleluia! Gospel: John 20:19-31 FROM THE CATACOMBS: FROM THE CATECHISM: “There are those who say seeing is believing. I am telling you that believing is seeing.” Episcopuss Wisdom Returns! “If you want to go quickly go alone. If you want to go far go together.” South West Rocks Sunday, 30 April 7.30am Mass Reader 1 st Lynn Wise Reader 2 nd Margaret Henshaw Reader 3 rd Peter Eakin Offertory Procession M Henshaw V Borg Minister of Eucharist Lynn Wise Cleaning - CRESCENT HEAD - 11 May Reading: A Blewitt Linen: G Steinmetz Flowers: S Kyle Offertory: Terrasson Family Cleaning: R Western MASS TIMES ROSTERS WEEKDAY MASS 24 - 28 April Monday NO MASS Tuesday 9.00am ANZAC Mass Kempsey Wednesday 8.00am Mass Smithtown Smithtown Thursday 9.30am Mass Kempsey 6.00pm Mass Willawarrin Kempsey Willawarrin Friday 9.30am Mass Kempsey Kempsey Location Date Time Willawarrin 27th April 6.00pm OTHER MASS SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 5.00 pm to 5.45 pm Kempsey Sunday Before Mass South West Rocks Tuesday 5.50pm to 6.20pm Kempsey Wednesday Before Mass Smithtown St Joseph’s Primary Kemp Street Kinder to Year 6 Aſter School Care Vacaon Care Ph: 6562 5501 St Paul’s College Sea Street Kempsey Years 7 to 12 Ph: 6562 7200 Vincent Court Care of the Aged Leith Street Kempsey Ph: 6562 6062 All Saints, Kempsey St. John’s, Willawarrin Star of the Sea, Crescent Head St Patrick’s, Smithtown Our Lady Star of the Sea, South West Rocks 52-58 Marsh St (P.O. Box 3007) West Kempsey NSW 2440 Phone: 6562 5182 Fax: 6562 5716 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mvcp.org.au Welcome to the Catholic Communies of the Macleay Valley 23 April 2017 Second Sunday of Easter, Year A REFLECTION: Thomas was granted the gift of seeing the Risen Lord bearing the wounds of His crucifixion. Thomas was invited to touch them. Responding, he simply cries out: ‘My Lord and my God.’ Thomas does not declare his belief in the Resurrection as such. That was all too apparent. Rather, he declares his faith in the identity of the risen Jesus Christ: ‘My Lord and my God.’ Pope Francis says we can only join Thomas in this faith by touching the wounds of Christ. Those wounds are to be found in the body of someone wounded. This can be in a myriad of ways. We have to bend down and touch those wounds in whatever means of healing is available to us. Otherwise we simply engage in philanthropy at a distance. We end up believing in a semblance of God, but not God embodied in the Risen Lord Jesus Christ always bearing his wounds. Sometimes we struggle with our faith – after all, it is an astounding claim that Jesus of Nazareth is God embodied for us. You, or any other person intrigued by Jesus, are invited to touch the wounds of Christ and let the patience of God take care of the timing of the response of faith. We could pause for a moment, praying to be counted amongst those who receive the Blessing promised to those who have not seen the Risen Lord as such, but who touch his wounds and proclaim, ‘My Lord and my God.’ © Fr Michael Tate