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Granville Catholic Church Record

Vol. 5. No. 17 April 26, 2020 Third Sunday of Easter, Year A

The Official Bulletin of Holy Trinity Church at Granville and Holy Family Church at East Granville

LEST WE FORGET

ANZAC DAY

“For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him? And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today? But take care and watch yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children’s children” (Dt 4:7-9). It is from this passage from the Book of Deuteronomy and made popular by R u d y a r d K i p l i n g ’ s p o e m “Recessional” that we have the epitaph “Lest we forget.”

The word “lest” means much more in the English language than “unless.” It is more a warning to us that we should not, must not forget. Just as the writer of the book of Deuteronomy warns that we must not let these things slip from our minds so we must honour the memory of those who have gone before and remember the sacrifices they made to which we are the heirs. To honour the fallen is not to glorify war. It is, instead, and act of mercy and the fulfilment of our Christian duty to pray for the repose of the souls of those who have died and to commend them to the peace of almighty God.

Lest we forget that freedom is not a given but something for which we must have the courage to defend against those who would take it from us. Only in freedom can the human spirit choose for or against. Only in freedom can we make a choice to love. It is freedom that God gave to us when He created us in His image and likeness—a freedom to choose to love Him, or to not. Let us pray for all who have died in battle and let us not forget the freedom forsaken for our peace. May almighty God grant them eternal rest and may the passing peace on earth for which they fought be granted to them as eternal peace in heaven.

HOLY FAMILY CHURCH

Holy Mass

Tuesday, 9:15 a.m.

Wednesday, 9:15 a.m.

Thursday, 9:15 a.m.

Friday, 9:15 a.m.

Saturday, 9:15 a.m.

Sunday, 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Confessions

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m.

Sunday, 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Wednesday, 6:00 p.m.

Holy Rosary

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

Rosters Altar Society Group 7: A. Manu,

H. Vakauta, V. No flowers during Lent

Readers

8:30 a.m. Rosette Chidiac

5:00 p.m. Claudette Takchi

Counters J. Kerin and G. Kerin

Bus Driver John McIntyre

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

Holy Mass

Monday, 9:15 a.m.

Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, 8:15 a.m.

Thursday, 8:15 a.m.

Friday, 8:15 a.m.

Saturday, 8:15 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, 10:00 a.m.

Confessions

Saturday, 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.

Holy Mass and Adoration

of the Blessed Sacrament

Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.

First Friday of the month, 7:00 p.m.

Traditional Latin Mass

Thursday, 7:00 p.m.

Ghanaian Chaplaincy Mass

Second and last Sunday of the month,

11:30 a.m.

Vietnamese Chaplaincy Mass

Sunday, 5:00 p.m.

Children’s Liturgy

Sundays, 10:00 a.m.

Rosters Church Cleaning Group 3: Thi Vi Vu

and the Vietnamese community

Readers

Vigil Sarah Vella, Rebecca Hanson,

Rosette Chidiac

10:00 a.m. Belinda Martin,

Jasmine Miranda, Sisters

Children’s Liturgy Wanda and Kristina

Counters J.

E. D’Cruz, N. Raffoul

THE PARISH OFFICE

Address 200 The Trongate, South Granville, N.S.W. 2142

T 0497 190 444

E [email protected]

Parish Priest Rev. Fr. Andrew Bass PP

Business and Projects Manager John Portelli

Director of Music John Portelli

Acolytes Co-ordinator Jim Newell

Catechist Co-ordinators Joe Elias Lana Leatherby

Sacraments and T.Y.M. Co-ordinator Rosette Chidiac

Online and Social Media Co-ordinators Rosette Chidiac John Portelli

Piety Shop Elsie Bugeja Wanda Krasinski Claudette Takchi Christine Tembo Thorie Tembo Annette Wirz

Missionary Sisters of Mary, Queen of the World — Australia Sr. Justina Pham ｜ T (02) 9637-1827

Principal of Holy Family School Cheryl Fortini

Principal of Holy Trinity School Philip Mahony

Acting Principal of Delany College Paul Easton

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK

Janelle Allan, John Anjoul, Marlene Ashton, John Augustus, Frank Azzopardi, Ann Blesson, Antonia Bonaci, Vincenzo Colosimo, Lucy Farrugia, Carmel Galea, Samir Gibrine, Evangeline Grabato, John Graham, Mary Grech, Francina Hard, Thomas Hayek, Elizabeth Hicks, Peter Higgins, Ruth La Rosa, Kay King, Jacob Lee, Josephine Magro, Ester Matos, Sid Morgan, Scott Moulton, Tony Moussa, Ben Nursoo, Sarah-Joy O’Connor, Flory Pinto, Don Provest, Anna Saunig, Therese Smeal, Phil Thompson, Ricardo Tognini, Miriam Welangoda, Lorraine Vella, Sam Wardan.

IN MEMORIAM

Deceased Sisters of the Missionary Sisters of Mary, Queen of the World, Maria Tran Thi Bay, Kathleen Bradbery, Paul Bradbery, Carmel Collins, Eileen Dean, Carmeline Fernandes, Mathias Fernandes, Maria Gambin, George Lewis Hooper, Lex Irons, Laszlo Kazmer, Franz Lieb, Nouhad Khoury, Joe Lebnan, Maryse Mariasson, Roy McDonald, Aileen McIntyre, Charles Micallef, Hana Nakhoul, Joseph Nammour, Jean Newell, Tony Newell, Sheila Frances Pidgeon, Peter Rahme, Peter Torrie Robertson, Charlie Saliba, Colleen Thompson, Alfred Vassallo, Margaret Vassallo, Thomas Vassallo, Mr. Xavier, Joanne Younan, Dib Zaiter.

SOCIAL MEDIA

Holy Trinity Granville Holy Family East Granville

granvilleparish.org.au eastgranvilleparish.org.au

Holy Trinity Parish App Holy Family Parish App

@holytrinitygranville

N O T I C E S

Since the twinning of the two parishes we have worked together to build up our community. We have worked to strengthen the bonds that we share and so form one community. Now we are being asked to bring that good work to its fulfillment and to properly re-unite ourselves as one parish under one name. As we look to the future and seek to move forward we are invited to consider how we can do this so as to continue to build on what we have already achieved together. We have already done so much to cultivate and to nurture our shared community and now we look confidently to how we can constructively contribute to the future. As announced a survey has been prepared for you to share your personal views on how we can constructively develop this process and continue the work we have begun. The link is available through our Facebook pages and on our websites (granvilleparish.org.au and eastgranvilleparish.org.au).

With our churches closed and wi th ever increas ing soc ia l distancing and isolation, social media is now more important and more necessary than ever. In the Granvi l le Cathol ic Community we are fortunate that we already have an extensive and well established social media network with our Facebook pages, our parish websites, Instagram, Flickr, and our parish apps. And we are making more use of these than ever as a way to continue to serve the parish and to help people to continue to participate and to feel a part of our community. If you know of someone who is unable to use social media then help them by printing the prayers and devotions posted so that they can continue to pray with the parish. Throughout the day you will find links to our daily Mass, prayers and devotions, the latest parish updates, as well as trivia about the Saints and other interesting facts about our faith.

Recently we launched our Granville Catholic Community YouTube channel. On this channel you will find daily Mass from Holy Family Church and Holy Trinity Church so that you can continue to hear Mass and to feel a part of the parish. To find the channel either visit youtube.com or open the YouTube app and search for “Granville Catholic Community.” And make sure you subscribe to the channel s o t h a t y o u w i l l r e c e i v e notifications about the latest content. The sacrifice of the Mass is the source and the summit of our faith and of our lives. It is the moment that heaven and earth meet and that we behold the glory of God and receive his unbounded grace. In the Blessed Sacrament, the real presence of Christ—Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity—we come into holy communion with Him. But as we cannot, at the m o m e n t , r e c e i v e H o l y Communion, you are encouraged to make a spiritual communion and to unite yourself with Christ and to know His grace.

@catholiccardco

As we are still all at home

and unable to visit our

churches we continue with our

initiatives to find ways for us all

to keep on engaging with our

faith and with each other.

Chloe Zaiter has brought us

and is leading our Catholic

Self-Isolation Challenge on our

Facebook pages.

It’s a 30-day challenge

where every day is assigned a

Catholic-themed challenge to

help keep our faith at the

forefront of our minds through

isolation. The challenges range

from offering a specific prayer,

learning about particular Saints,

connecting virtually with others

or connecting virtually with the

parish.

So far we have over 100 people who have taken up the challenge so why not be a part of it yourself! To join in the 30-day Catholic Self-Isolation Challenge visit either our Holy Family Facebook page or our Holy Trinity Facebook page and click on “Groups” where you will find a link to the challenge. Each day you will find a new task to complete within the day from completing a photo

challenge to making a Catholic music playlist and sharing it to writing something about your favourite Saint and posting it. It’s a way to explore our faith and to share what you love with others so get involved!

To join in the challenge visit Holy Trinity’s Facebook page (facebook.com/HolyTrinityGranville)

or Holy Family’s Facebook page (facebook.com/holyfamilyeastgranville) and click on “Groups”

Dear Granville Catholic Community, I wish you and your families a Happy and Blessed Easter through these unprecedented and uncertain times. I'm sure that this has been hard for many of us, especially with the churches being closed during Holy Week,

but we must persevere and keep the faith alive. I have created a 30 Day Challenge focused on the Roman Catholic Church, the Saints, and our Faith

as a way for us to stay connected, reflect and pray together as a community. A week-by-week breakdown and corresponding resources will be posted to help with this challenge.

I pray that you enjoy this, and in turn, invite your families and friends to join us as we try and navigate this journey together.

Ad Jesum per Mariam, Chloe

T H E M O N T H O F

THE HOLY SPIRIT The month of April is dedicated to the Holy Spirit. To believe in the Holy Spirit is to profess that the Holy Spirit is one of the persons of the Holy Trinity, consubstantial with the Father and the Son: “with the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified” (The Nicene Creed). The Holy Spirit is the Person of love in the life of God. He is also like a breath, an aspiration of infinite love, from which we draw the breath of life. On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spir i t communicated such an abundance of life to the Church that to symbolise it “there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting” (Acts 2:2).

But it is also for us that the Holy Spirit has come, for the group in the cenacle represented the whole Church. The Holy Spirit came to remain with the Church forever. This is the promise of Our Lord Himself. He dwells in the Church permanently and unfailingly, performing in it without ceasing His action of life-giv ing and sanct ificat ion. He establishes the Church infallibly in the truth. It is He Who makes the Church blossom forth with a marvellous supernatural fruitfulness, for He brings to life and full fruition in martyrs and confessors those heroic virtues which are one of the marks of true sanctity (“The Mysteries of the Rosary” by Dom Columba Marmion, O.S.B.).

Everything depends on the Holy Spirit's operation in us. The more we allow ourselves to be drawn and guided by the Holy Spirit, the closer we shall come to Our Lord and His mysteries and graces. The Holy Spirit must draw us to every good thought, word and deed. Even though we are endowed with all the supernatural virtues, we remain mere apprentices in the spiritual life. We know what we must do; and yet lack the virtue and the faculty to perform these things with ease. The Holy Spirit must guide us. He must seize our intellect and our wills and guide us in prayer, in work, in the decisions we have to make, and in the difficulties we encounter every day (“The Light of the World” by Benedict Baur, O.S.B.).

First Reading The Acts of the Apostles (2:14, 22-33)

On the day of Pentecost, Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd in a loud voice: ‘Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say: Jesus the Nazarene was a man commended to you by God by the miracles and portents and signs that God worked through him when he was among you, as you all know. This man, who was put into your power by the deliberate intention and foreknowledge of God, you took and had crucified by men outside the Law. You killed him, but God raised him to life, freeing him from the pangs of Hades; for it was impossible for him to be held in its power since, as David says of him: I saw the Lord before me always, for with him at my right hand nothing can shake me. So my heart was glad and my tongue cried out with joy: my body, too, will rest in the hope that you will not abandon my soul to Hades nor allow your holy one to experience corruption. You have made known the way of life to me, you will fill me with gladness through your presence. ‘Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us. But since he was a prophet, and knew that God had sworn him an oath to make one of his descendants succeed him on the throne, what he foresaw and spoke about was the resurrection of the Christ: he is the one who was not abandoned to Hades, and whose body did not experience corruption. God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to that. Now raised to the heights by God’s right hand, he has received from the Father the Holy Spirit, who was promised, and what you see and hear is the outpouring of that Spirit.’

Responsorial Psalm (Ps 15:1-2, 5, 7-11. ℟. v. 11)

℟. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

Preserve me, God, I take refuge in you. I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God. O Lord, it is you who are my portion and cup; it is you yourself who are my prize.’ ℟.

I will bless the Lord who gives me counsel, who even at night directs my heart. I keep the Lord ever in my sight: since he is at my right hand, I shall stand firm. ℟.

And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad; even my body shall rest in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay. ℟.

And so my heart rejoices, my soul is glad; even my body shall rest in safety. For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay. ℟.

Second Reading The First Letter of St. Peter (1:17-21)

If you are acknowledging as your Father one who has no favourites and judges everyone according to what he has done, you must be scrupulously careful as long as you are living away from your home. Remember, the ransom that was paid to free you from the useless way of life your

ancestors handed down was not paid in anything corruptible, neither in silver nor gold, but in the precious blood of a lamb without spot or stain, namely Christ; who, though known since before the world was made, has been revealed only in our time, the end of the ages, for your sake. Through him you now have faith in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory for that very reason – so that you would have faith and hope in God.

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia! Lord Jesus, make your word plain to us: make our hearts burn with love when you speak. Alleluia!

Gospel of John (20:19-31)

Two of the disciples of Jesus were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles from Jerusalem, and they were talking together about all that had happened. Now as they talked this over, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side; but something prevented them from recognising him. He said to them, ‘What matters are you discussing as you walk along?’ They stopped short, their faces downcast. Then one of them, called Cleopas, answered him, ‘You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been happening there these last few days.’ ‘What things?’ he asked. ‘All about Jesus of Nazareth’ they answered ‘who proved he was a great prophet by the things he said and did in the sight of God and of the whole people; and how our chief priests and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death, and had him crucified. Our own hope had been that he would be the one to set Israel free. And this is not all: two whole days have gone by since it all happened; and some women from our group have astounded us: they went to the tomb in the early morning, and when they did not find the body, they came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive. Some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported, but of him they saw nothing.’ Then he said to them, ‘You foolish men! So slow to believe the full message of the prophets! Was it not ordained that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?’ Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself. When they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on; but they pressed him to stay with them. ‘It is nearly evening’ they said ‘and the day is almost over.’ So he went in to stay with them. Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing; then he broke it and handed it to them. And their eyes were opened and they recognised him; but he had vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, ‘Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us?’ They set out that instant and returned to Jerusalem. There they found the Eleven assembled together with their companions, who said to them, ‘Yes, it is true. The Lord has risen and has appeared to Simon.’ Then they told their story of what had happened on the road and how they had recognised him at the breaking of bread.

Third Sunday of Easter, Year A The Readings