The Catholic Parish Of Hastings...to an exciting 2017. School resumes on Monday 30 January. Book packs have been available from OfficeMax since before Christmas and we hope you have

Immaculate Conception

Paki Paki Sunday Mass 8am

Our Lady of Lourdes

85 Te Mata Rd Havelock North Sunday Mass

8.30am Weekday Masses

Mon Liturgy of the Word

Tues/Wed 9am Thurs/Fri 10am

Sat 9am

Sacred Heart 425 Heretaunga St East

Hastings Sunday Mass

9:30am Weekday Masses

Wed - Friday 12.05pm Sat 8am

The Catholic Parish Of Hastings Te Pārihi Katorika ki Heretaunga

www.hastingscatholic.org.nz Email: [email protected]

Office hours : Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm 425 Heretaunga St East Hastings

Ph: 878-7774

Parish Team Parish Priest: Fr Vince ‘Onesi

Assistant Priest: Fr Nathaniel Brazil Pastoral Assistant: Deb Lucy 0273554830

Parish Secretary: Marjorie Griffiths Finance & Property Manager: Geoff Hansen Youth Ministry: Faaki Tuanaki 0211644218

Catechist: Tongan & Pacific Islands: Tevita Faka’osi 0272757086 Passionist Family Co-Ordinators: Allan & Jo Brady 876-9507

Hospital Chaplain: Deidre Russ 878 8109 ext. 2718

29th January 2017

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

St. Peter Chanel 817 Gordon Rd. Hastings

Vigil Sat: 5:30pm Sunday Mass 10am Weekday Masses

Tues- 6pm Wed - Aubert Centre

9am Thurs 9am

Fri - Madonna 9.15am

Eric Liddell was a great and committed runner. He was also a great and committed Christian. In the 1924 Olympics in Paris these two commitments came into conflict. The heats for the 100 metre race were scheduled on a Sunday. Eric refused to run. He had made a promise to honour Sunday as the Lord’s Day – and he would honour his promise. Britain’s bright hope for a medal was called a traitor by those who thought he had got his priorities wrong. However, Eric scraped through into the final of his weaker event, the 400 metres. He ran. He won. He set a new world record. After his shock gold he said humbly, “The first half I ran as fast as I could. The second half I ran faster with God’s help.” It is reliance on God that is held up and blessed in the Beatitudes today. When we know our need of God, when we honour our baptismal promise to follow his Way, he will “champion” us. That may put us at odds with the values of the world but, with God’s help, we can all run faster.

[G.M.]

Happy New Year to all our Parishioners,

we pray that 2017 will bring you much Joy and Happiness.

Best Wishes to all students and staff who are starting back at school this week,

may your year be prosperous and productive.

Parish Vision Do you have a suggestion or have an idea of what our Parish Vision could be?

‘Parish Vision’ boxes will be in every church foyer for the next 3 weekends. We encourage and welcome

your thoughts and suggestions.

Baptism Preparation - Every 1st Sunday of the month at 3pm in Sacred Heart Church

Foyer

Marist Third Order—Every 1st Sunday of the month at 2pm Catholic Parish of Hastings

office

HOSPITAL SINGING— 2nd Sunday 6pm (meet main entrance of Hospital)

MORNING PRAYER— Monday - Friday 7.40am & 9am Sacred Heart

BIBLE FOR STARTERS— 2nd & 4th Tuesday only, 7.30pm SH Office

SUNDAY READINGS— Tuesdays 10 –11am at Sacred Heart

ROSARY—Thursday 9.45am Our Lady of Lourdes, Saturday, 7.30am Sacred Heart

EXPOSITION: Tuesday 9am-1pm Madonna, Thursday 8.30am SPC, Friday 9am OLOL

BENEDICTION: Sunday 4pm Sacred Heart

RECONCILIATION: Friday 11.30am SH, Saturday 9.30 OLOL & 5pm SPC (or by

appointment)

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION: Wednesday 7pm Sacred Heart (Day Chapel)

Readings for Next Sunday: Year A: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Is 58:7-10; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16;

FILIPINO MASS -

First Friday of the month 6pm Sacred

Heart

INDIAN MASS

Last Saturday of the month starting

with Rosary at 8.30am at St Peter

Chanel

TONGAN MASS

Last Friday of the month 5pm St.

Peter Chanel

Thank you to all our wonderful parishioners who helped celebrate Fr Manoj’s final mass on Sunday 15th January. Thank you to everyone who bought food to share in the fellowship time after the Mass. Fr Manoj was blessed to have some the Dominican sisters come from Palmerston North to meet him. The award for ‘cook of the day’ goes to Fr Vince for his yummy sausages! Fr Manoj is now settled into St Mary’s parish in Palmerston.

Meetings this week:

Wednesday 1st Feb: Hibernian Society

7pm at Club Hastings

Thursday 2nd Feb: Liturgy 5.30pm at the

Parish office

Mass Times

From Tuesday 31st January Mass times, will resume back to normal.

Please refer to the Mass times, under the Church Community photos on the front page.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL , SACRED

HEART CONFERENCE : Annual

General Meeting to be held Tuesday

February 14th beginning 5:15 pm at the

shop in Avenue Rd, this will be followed

by the monthly meeting. All welcome

The Gift Of Giving: Thank you parishioners for your generosity when giving foodstuffs and presents for our special Christmas Food Parcels. We delivered 89 parcels and over 400 presents; making it possible for these less fortunate families in Flaxmere, Hastings, Havelock North and Central Hawkes Bay to have a Christmas. The joy seen on children’s faces, and on those of many mothers was a delight to see. Many mothers saying “the Christmas food and the children’s presents were likely to be the only food and presents their children would see this Christmas”. Again many thanks parishioners. We and the recipients are most grateful. St Vincent de Paul, Conferences St Peter Chanel, Sacred Heart, Our lady of Lourdes and Central Hawkes Bay.

David and Rangi Donnelly who celebrated their 50th

wedding anniversary yesterday. May God Bless you both

with many more happy years together.

Congratulations to Claire and Matt Rogers on the

birth of their new son Oscar who was born on New

Years day. A little brother for Aaron and Evie.

Reminder for all Ministries If you cannot do your ministry on the day you are rostered. Please find a replacement. When you are not present and have not arranged a replacement it makes it difficult for the coordinators to do their ministry when having to find replacements on the day. We thank everyone for their co-operation in this matter.

YOUTH CORNER

Kia Ora everyone.

LIFE TEEN CAMP 21 youth and 4 chaperones attended the camp last week.

The theme for this year was ‘Unfinished’. We are not

finished with our journey with God, we may think we

have done so much for the Church, families, work, etc.

but we are not finished yet. This theme and the in-depth

explanation of it, comparing to different Scripture verses,

made us strong to keep going with whatever we are doing

in this life. The growth of our young people's Faith is

really encouraging and promising that their participation

in this great life changing camp should be a continuous

event to take part in. New campers were really touched

by the presence of the Holy Spirit, those who had

attended before learnt new experiences and were able to

help new people in some of the activities. The travel

went well and they all enjoyed those flash vans! Thanks

to Mr Preston Epplett for organizing them. I would like to

take this opportunity to acknowledged and thank those

who have supported our Youth Ministry with this event

especially the Parish staff, committees, Charities - SVdP,

Catholic Charities, & sponsor - Baywide Electrical, the

youth group & families and to the wonderful parishioners,

for your generous giving, that enabled our young people

to attend this best ever camp! Thank you so much for all

your support in different ways and may God continue to

bless you all with your families.

At the coming youth masses, the youth will be sharing

their experiences (Glory Stories) with parishioners.

Faaki Tuanaki

Youth Group Only a week to go before we start

up again. Parents please encourage your youth to come

along.

New Zealand Red Cross

2017 Street Appeal

CAN YOU HELP?

To support the Red Cross Street Appeal with giving a little of

your time. The Appeal runs from 9-11 March and they are

asking for our support on the 10th March.

SPC ROSTERS

5th February – 30th April

All rosters for the following ministries: Ministers of Communion,

Greeters, Lectors, Leaders and Altar servers, are available for

collection from the back of the church.

OLOL Cleaning Roster is also available from the church foyer

If you know of someone who is celebrating a special

birthday, or a couple celebrating a wedding anniversary or

the birth of a child please contact Deb at the parish office on

878 7774 or 0273554830. With your permission we would

like to advertise this special event/milestone in our parish

newsletter.

Thank you to everyone who had donated Christmas presents to

the Gifting trees/boxes that were placed in the churches before

Christmas.

Invitation to Cornwall Park Concert – ConFusion – this Sunday 3 – 5pm St Bernadette’s Family Group are going to the above concert on Sunday and wish to invite any other parishioners who would like to join us. Look out for the familiar faces set up in the shade.

BENEDICTION

To start next Sunday 5th February 4pm at Sacred Heart

Bible Discussion Group

This group meets on Tuesdays from 10-11am in the Sacred Heart Eucharistic Chapel and focuses on the readings of the following Sunday. We find the Sunday Mass is greatly enriched by this hour’s preparation. Why not taste and see? Just arrive, you’ll be

most welcome.

WE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Recently deceased: Hilary Poppelwell, Mary Blackburn,

Olivia Watson (+Charles Aunty) John Brennan (+Charles

Father),

Please pray for the Souls of: J.M. (Madge) Fouhy, Frank Crist, Essie & Tom King, Mary O’Farrell, Betty Bourke 7/12, Brian Fennessy 15/12, Joe, Jo-Anne & Glyn Davies, Brian & Laurie Butler. Fr Denis King, Fr Jim McNeil, Joseph Pollard (24/1), Tan Tiong Beng, Fay Young,

Please keep in your prayers those in our parish and

communities who are sick especially:

Pat Hutchinson, Anne Thomson (McQuade), Casey Gair

(Ivy Roberts grandson), Vi Bond, Ron Bell, Colleen Setter,

Rosa Ogden, Philip Hay (USA), Belinda Morrison

PRAYERLINE: When in need of prayers for special intentions please phone any one of the following people:

Fay Evans 878 8643, Eleanor McFlynn 878 9928, Trish Webley 8778172 or Margaret Frater 877 7571.

Names for the sick will be rotated monthly. Please let

the parish office know if you wish for the name to stay.

on the Prayer List. We thank you for your support.

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St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School News

Thank you to all our families and the wider Parish Community

who supported us during the 2016 school year. We look forward

to an exciting 2017. School resumes on Monday 30 January.

Book packs have been available from OfficeMax since before

Christmas and we hope you have been able to collect yours for

your child/children. On 9 February there will be a Combined

School Mass with St. John’s, St. Mary’s and ourselves at 9.30am

at St. John’s College. After Mass we will be having a blessing of

our new earthquake- strengthened and remodelled block at

12.30pm. All Parishoners/ex St. Joseph’s pupils/Staff are

welcome to come along and celebrate this special occasion.

Please ring the office and let us know if you are attending for

catering purposes.

Sandra Connor (Principal)

Visit our new website -www.sportsground.co.nz/stjoeshastings.

Sacred Heart College News

School opens this week with new staff and students joining us for our Jubilee 150 years of Sacred Heart Life. Please keep the college and community in your prayers. Our year 9 and 13 students start back on Wednesday 1st February and all other years back on the Thursday 2nd. 150th Jubilee Planning is under way. Any enquiries please contact Janine O’Connel (Chairperson) [email protected] St. Mary’s Catholic Primary School News We start the year on a very positive note with confirmation that our E.R.O. report was excellent. Staff have spent four days this week getting ready for the new year with two days of professional development with Dr. Murray Gadd and Mrs Rita Palmer both literacy advisors. We now look forward to the students returning to school and welcoming new students to our school. We are grateful for the wonderful holidays that we have all had and know that we are blessed in so many ways. Your prayers support

throughout the year is anticipated and appreciated. God bless.

Teresa Neilson D.R.S.

Look for St. Mary’s on Facebook. ‘St Mary’s Catholic Primary

School Hastings”

From Fr Kevin Neal- We are going to celebrate my being a

priest for 25 years at the 9.30am Mass on Sunday 5 February.

It will be a normal Sunday Eucharist and people are, of course,

invited if they can get to it. It will be followed up by a ‘swept up’

morning tea. If there are any questions please email the parish

office: [email protected] and mark it Steph.

DON’T FORGET YOUR 2017 Columban Calendar These are still available from the Parish office. Cost: $12 each

Bishop Charles, after a lot of prodding, now has his own Facebook page! To like his page and see what he is up to in India go to www.facebook.com/BishopCharlesDrennan

RCIA

Starts tonight at 5.30pm in the Parish office.