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Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Lesmurdie 207 Lesmurdie Road, Lesmurdie 6076

Parish Priest: Fr Ken Asaba

Assistant Priest: Fr Cyprian Shikokoti

Ph 9291 6282

Fax 9291 8952

Email: [email protected]

New Website: www.ololesmurdie.org.au

Parish Office Tue. to Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Parish Secretary:

Mrs Mary Syme

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year B 9th September 2012

PARISH CELEBRATIONS

Saturday 6.00 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Sunday 9.30 am, 5.30 pm at OLOL

Sunday 8.00 am at Our Lady of Grace – Pickering Brook

Children’s Mass 1st Sunday of month 9.30am Youth Mass last Sunday of month at 5.30pm

WEEKDAY MASS TIMES

Tuesday – Friday 9.15 am at OLOL (Rosary before Mass)

Tuesday: 10.30 am at Villa Maria (Rosary after Mass)

1st

Tuesday 9.15 am at Villa Maria Only (Rosary before Mass & Anointing during Mass)

Mon – Fri 8.00 am at Mazenod College during School Term

RECONCILIATION

Tuesday – Friday before Mass at OLOL Saturday 11.00 am – 12.00 pm;

5.30 pm – 6.00 pm at OLOL Sunday before Mass at Our Lady of Grace –

Pickering Brook

DEVOTIONS

Miraculous Medal Novena: Thursday 8.45 am at OLOL Exposition and Adoration:

Friday following Mass at OLOL Sacred Heart of Jesus:

1st Friday following Mass at OLOL

BAPTISMS: Contact Parish Office WEDDINGS: Contact Father

Thoughts on the Gospel

Jesus treated this healing as a demonic pos-session. He spat on the ground as a warning against evil spirits. He touched the man on the ears and the tongue to infuse God's power. As a result, the man was able to truly hear and understand. And the chains that held his tongue (demons bound his tongue) were loosened. The man could speak clearly, for no demon could now touch him. Jesus freed the man from more than a physical ailment. He restored the man's moral character and social contacts. Jews in the time of Jesus assumed physical ailments (like the one the man suffered from) were the result of sin, either personal or ancestral. Such an ailment reflected moral deficiencies. It also placed barriers between the man and a normal social life. We must not overlook whose voice, whose command, healed the man. The man responded to Jesus' word: "Be opened!" The man heard and felt Jesus. His power healed the man. Now, the man could hear the truth. And he could clearly speak the truth. Mark inferred that the man was freed from his demons and rose to proclaim faith.

PARISH MEETINGS THIS WEEK 3rd September– 8th September 2012

Monday 10 --------------------- 4.15 pm After-school Catechism

Tuesday 11 --------------------- 6.30 pm St Brigid’s 1st Reconciliation

------------------------------------- 7.30 pm Maintenance meeting

Wednesday 12 ---------------- 10.00 am Lourdescraft

Thursday 13 -------------------- 10:00 am Legion of Mary

Friday 14 ------------------------ 7.30 pm MMP Cenacle

SPECIAL INFORMATION AND WIDER COMMUNITY EVENTS.

FIRST RECONCILIATION: The Sacrament of First Reconciliation for St. Brigid's College Candidates, Year 3, will be celebrated in our Parish Church on Tuesday 11 September 2012 at 6.30pm. Please pray for our children as they prepare for this important sacrament of love, peace and healing.

FR. KEN ON RETREAT: Fr. Ken will be on Clergy Annual Retreat from Monday to Friday next week. Please refer all matters to Fr. Cyprian or to the Parish Office. NEW PRAYER GROUPS STARTING SOON: Two new prayer groups will be starting soon in the Parish. One is a rosary group for young families, which will be held in various homes around the parish at 7.30pm. The other one is the Divine Mercy Chaplet, which will be said perhaps every Wednesday in the Church at the end of Mass. We are looking for expressions of interest in these groups. Please contact Christina Robertson for the new rosary group on 0434 850 714 or Rosie Conway Smith for the Divine Mercy Chaplet group on 0449 299 431. Or ring the Parish Office on 9291 6282 to submit your name and contact.

WHITE ELEPHANT STALL: please note change of date to 20th October - 8 am - 3 pm. We want your stuff! Our parish rag and bone lady, Colleen will be at the parish centre every Wednesday taking delivery of your unwanted gifts and crockery given to you by your old Aunty years ago. We plan on selling all day Devonshire teas on the day. If you can make scones we would love to hear from you. Please call Colleen on: 0417566185 and home phone 9257 1717, or email [email protected]. Thank you for your support!

VOCATIONS ENQUIRY DAY will be held at St Charles’ Seminary, Guildford on next Sunday 16 September, for men 17 years of age and above. If you are wondering about “why a man would go to the Seminary...:” there will be people to talk to about this and more. The day begins with prayer at 9.30 am, Mass at 11.30 am followed by traditional Sunday lunch. You are warmly invited to join with the Seminary Community for this inquiry day. Phone Helen 9279 1310 or email [email protected] as soon as possible as they need to finalise catering.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ANNUAL STREET APPEAL: Dear parishioners and friends, our annual street appeal is on Friday 14th September between 7 am and 6 pm. We are urgently seeking volunteers to hold a tin for an hour or two. If able to assist please call Errol on 9291 8301. Or, otherwise, you can just from up at our office, rear of the monastery on the morning of Friday 14th September from 7 am onwards. Tins must be returned before 6 pm. Always yours sincerely, Bro Errol Wilson. SVDP.

THE KENYA PROJECT: This initiative within our Parish is aiming to send a group of parishioners to Kenya next summer (late 2013 or early 2014) for approximately 2 to 3 weeks. So far we have already more than 18 people on the list. Trip participants will be staying within Eregi Parish in Kakamega, the hometown of Frs. Ken and Cyprian. Some activities of interest while in Kenya would be volunteering at the local teacher's college, primary and secondary schools, health centre, and participating in church activities and in local groups, and if possible a 2 –3 days safari to see the lions. Itinerary and participant numbers are yet to be confirmed, so if interested please contact Christina Piasecki on 0447012572, or add your name and phone number on the list in the foyer.

Knights of the Southern Cross—Men’s Night out: All men of the parish are invited to dinner in the Parish Centre on Friday 12th Oct. Keynote speaker is Luke Adams (ex Mazenod, Swan District footballer recently in the news for head injury). Possible cost $25. Numbers are restricted - so book early. Come along and have a good night . Des Hart can be contacted for more information on 0419915394.

St Mary McKillop Garden Party: The Sisters of St Joseph have organised a garden party at the St Joseph’s Convent, 16 York St South Perth. Sunday 21st October 2.30—4.30 pm. Cost $20. Stalls, Guest speakers and refreshments will be provided. See poster in foyer for more inform9+ation.

The Catholic Social Justice Council invites all parishioners to a Forum on the Gift of Family- Social Justice Perspective on Thursday the 13th of September from 7-9pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St Highgate. The speakers will be Chris Twomey from the Western Australian Council of Social Services and Patricia Booth from the Australian Family Association. The forum will set the tone for the 2012/2013 Social Justice Sunday Statement which will be celebrated on the 30th of September in Parishes across Australia. Light refreshments will be provided and all are welcome.

COLLECTIONS:

2nd September 2012

1st Collection: $879.60

2nd Collection: $1633.35

Coming Feast Days

September 13 St John Chrysostom

September 14 The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

September 15 Our Lady of Sorrows

11/9} Bruekers, 75 Chislehurst Rd, 18/9} Lesmurdie, 9291 6210 25/9 Walsh, 210 Grove Rd, Lesmurdie 9291 6735

2/10 Conti, 22b/17 Lourdes St, Lesmurdie, 9291 7847

9/10 Hardeman, 4 Kalbarri St Lesmurdie 9291 7695 16/10 Wilson, 6 Karralika Way, Lesmurdie, 9291 8301

Pilgrim Virgin Statue

Please pray for:

The Sick: Dianne Majda, Nina Conti, Tim Taylor, Louise

Miller, Fr Brian Maher OMI, Philip Everett, Peter Smith, Val Miller, Ron Sprehe, Keith Hawkins, Christine Marshall, Madeleine Meek, Estelle Collins, Robyn Ellis, Ken Fitzgerald, Joshua Crestwell, Nicole Rullo, Louise Ryan, Catherine McMillan, John Sherry, Fr George Ryan OMI, Peter Murray, John Sherry, Vernon Bastian, Geraldine Spiccia, Michael Fernandes, Peter Hollenberg, Sean O’Connor, Janine Webster, Clem Eaton, Ursula Davin, Margaret Denham,

Leonora Piumatti , Barry Moss and all those who have

asked for our prayers.

The Departed whose Anniversaries are this week: George Walter Human, Harold Booth, Biagina

Naso, Anthony Smith, Bert Radford, Colin Smith, James Maloney, Julie Menage, Louise Claire, Matthew Gard, Norah Maloney, Oswald Nash, Herb Halliday, Robert Henry Page, Dorothy Girardeau, Aileen Slight, Vic Ansell, Marjorie Grenvold, Andrew Curtis, Florence Langride, James Langride, Neil Marmion, Sydney Mansell, Maureen Walsh, Barry Grover

Marriage this week: Holly Smailes to David del Simone

YOUTH GROUP NEWS "Youth group is organizing a "Variety Show" in which our youth will entertain our parishioners and share their amazing talents. Please come along and encourage our youth on Sunday Sept 23rd 2012. Doors open 6.45pm - Show starts at 07.00pmEntrance fee: $5/ticket (Kids under 5 are free) or $20 for a family of 4 or more (includes supper, coffee/tea) (All funds raised will go towards the purchase of a soccer/hockey table)"

YOUTH GROUP SUMMER CAMP - YES, we are going on camp again; this time to Eagle's Nest in Gidgegannup from Sat 26th Jan—Mon 28th Jan 2013! If you would like to join us, please register your interest by e-mailing us on [email protected] The costing has now been done—and to participate in this fabulous camp it will cost you only $70.

SEPTEMBER 15th 16th 16th

6PM 9.30 AM 5.30 PM

PROCLAIMER Ellita Hart M Piasecki

ACOLYTES Ron Howard Terry Walsh (Danny Ross) Cyril Tolson

ALTAR SERVERS J Wright S Hellemans

COLLECTION Down & Ann Page Fonseca family Kazakoff family

SPECIAL MINISTERS

Mary Allingame, Des Hart, Chris Gibson, Mary Moffit

Jayden Ross, L Lowry plus 2 VOLUNTEERS

Gina Price, Veronika Kozera, Christina Piasecki, S Burke,

WELCOMER Morris Pavlinovich Mitch Sala Tenna

CHILDREN'S LITURGY T Latt

MUSIC Mary Syme S Spencer/H Newton Shirley Spencer

MORNING TEA Kathy Williamson

CHURCH CLEANER Katherine Zuvela

READINGS FOR THIS SUNDAY

First Reading Is 35:4-7

Then the ears of the deaf shall be opened and the tongues of the dumb speak.

Say to all faint hearts,

‘Courage! Do not be afraid.

‘Look, your God is coming,

vengeance is coming,

the retribution of God;

he is coming to save you.’

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,

the ears of the deaf unsealed,

then the lame shall leap like a deer

and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy;

for water gushes in the desert,

streams in the wasteland,

the scorched earth becomes a lake,

the parched land springs of water.

Responsorial Psalm Ps 145:7-10. R. v.1

(R.) Praise the Lord, my soul!

1. It is the Lord who keeps faith for ever,

who is just to those who are oppressed.

It is he who gives bread to the hungry,

the Lord, who sets prisoners free. (R.)

2. It is the Lord who gives sight to the blind,

who raises up those who are bound down,

the Lord who loves the just,

the Lord, who protects the stranger. (R.)

3. The Lord upholds the widow and orphan,

but thwarts the path of the wicked.

The Lord will reign for ever,

Zion’s God, from age to age. (R.)

Second Reading Jas 2:1-5

Has not God chosen the poor of the world to inherit the kingdom?

My brothers, do not try to combine faith in

Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the making

of distinctions between classes of people. Now

suppose a man comes into your synagogue,

beautifully dressed and with a gold ring on, and

at the same time a poor man comes in, in

shabby clothes, and you take notice of the

well-dressed man, and say, ‘Come this way to

the best seats’; then you tell the poor man,

‘Stand over there’ or ‘You can sit on the floor by

my foot-rest.’ Can’t you see that you have used

two different standards in your mind, and

turned yourselves into judges, and corrupt

judges at that?

Listen, my dear brothers: it was those who are

poor according to the world that God chose, to

be rich in faith and to be the heirs to the

kingdom which he promised to those who love

him.

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia!

Jesus preached the Good News of the

kingdom and healed all who were sick.

Alleluia!

Gospel Mk 7:31-37

He makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.

Returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went by way of Sidon towards the sea of Galilee, right

through the Decapolis region. And they brought

him a deaf man who had an impediment in his

speech; and they asked him to lay his hand on

him. He took him aside in private, away from the

crowd, put his fingers into the man’s ears and

touched his tongue with spittle. Then looking up

to heaven he sighed; and he said to him,

‘Ephphatha,’ that is, ‘Be opened.’ And his ears

were opened, and the ligament of his tongue was

loosened and he spoke clearly. And Jesus ordered

them to tell no one about it, but the more he

insisted, the more widely they published it. Their

admiration was unbounded. ‘He has done all

things well,’ they said ‘he makes the deaf hear

and the dumb speak.’

Next Week’s Readings 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time—Year B

First Reading Isaiah 35:4-7

Second Reading James 2:1-5

Gospel Mark 7:31-37