Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish · Fr Quintin Culpeper PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Mrs Trish Stapleton [email protected] PASTORAL MINISTERS VOLUNTEERS Mrs Bronwyn Dunks E: [email protected]

St Bernard’s Church 4 Klumpp Rd., U M G.

St Martin’s Church Cnr Logan & Chester Rds

Eight Mile Plns, Bne.

St Catherine’s Church 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart.

PARISH PRIEST Fr Patrick Molony

ASSOCIATE PASTOR Fr Stephen Kumyangi

PRIEST IN RESIDENCE Fr Hyacinth Udah

GREENSLOPES HOSPITAL CHAPLAIN

Fr Quintin Culpeper

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE Mrs Trish Stapleton [email protected]

PASTORAL MINISTERS VOLUNTEERS Mrs Bronwyn Dunks E: [email protected]

YOUTH & YOUNG PEOPLE Edwin Pereira E: yaya.umg @bne.catholic.net.au

PARISH MANAGER Mignon Telford E: [email protected]

PARISH OFFICE Michelle Baldi Lorraine Neagle Phone: (07) 3849 7158 Emergency: 3830 5178 Fax: (07) 3849 8742 E: [email protected] Website:http://umgwcatholic.org.au/ F: Like us: http://www facebook.com/umgwparish

DEANERY www.parishes.bne.catholic.

net.au/south/index.html

ST VINCENT DE PAUL Welfare: 3010 1096

ST BERNARD’S SCHOOL 1823 Logan Rd., U M G Phone: 3849 4800

ST CATHERINE’S SCHOOL 388 Newnham Rd., Wishart Phone: 3349 7188

CLAIRVAUX MACKILLOP COLLEGE

24 Klumpp Rd., U M G Phone: 3347 9200

NEWSLETTER 1/2 April 2017

FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT/A READINGS: Ezekiel 37:12-14; Romans 8:8-11

GOSPEL: John 11:1-45

Upper Mt Gravatt Wishart Parish

Guided by the Holy Spirit, we aim to be an evangelising, faith-filled parish whose members care for one another and are welcoming and inclusive.

Unbind him ... Let him go free!

On this last Sunday in Lent Lazarus is given to us to help us think about the tombs in which we lie hidden and the life to which we are called. The bad spirit seduces most of us into having some form of secretive life. It might be a secret we can’t tell, a sin we can’t confess or a memory we want to bury. At its worst it can be a lifestyle or a pattern of unethical behaviour we have divorced from the rest of our lives. We may even con ourselves into believing that all of this is normal and ‘not so bad’.

These tombs often look similar. They seem small on the surface, but as we get away with our secrets we bury ourselves in them more deeply. We jealously guard the entrance, displacing energy to defend our tombs and we’re ashamed if anyone rolls away the stone and sees the mess inside.

But this Sunday Jesus stands at the entrance of our tombs and calls us out of them. We’re asked to face down the bad spirits that keep us locked in secrecy, to move away from shame, embrace repentance, recognise the price to be paid for being true to what’s best in ourselves and we’re invited to know the light and life of Christ’s healing and forgiveness.

No one can pretend that this journey is easy, but it’s what Lent is all about: the journey from the tomb of our own particular deaths, through penance to the new life of Easter. May this Eucharist allow us to see the Lord stand at our tomb and gently call us by

name, ‘Come forth’. And at His word may we be unbound and let go free.

Adapted from Richard Leonard SJ LiturgyHelp.com

Stations of the Cross

FRIDAYS IN LENT 9.00 am St Martin’s Church, Eight Mile Plains 7.00 pm St Bernard’s Church, Upper Mt Gravatt

GOOD FRIDAY 10.00 am St Bernard’s Church,

Upper Mt Gravatt 10.00 am St Catherine’s

Church, Wishart [Outdoors]

Holy Week

Next weekend we celebrate Passion [Palm] Sunday, which begins Holy Week. This week is a time for renewed re-focus on our lives as Christians and what this means for each of us. We pause and reflect on the life, death and resurrection of Christ and our calling to follow Him. Our parish takes time out each morning in Holy Week to celebrate the Prayer of the Church.

Morning Prayer

Please come to the East wing of St Bernard’s Church Mon-Thurs & Saturday 8.00 am,

Good Friday 9.00 am before the 10.00 am Stations.

Holy week and easter liturgies

A take home flyer will be distributed today with times of all the Holy Week and Easter Ceremonies. They are also available on the church tables. Please take a few flyers to circulate in your local area.

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BAPTISMS Congratulations to Charlee Fraser, d a u g h t e r o f

Damian & Danielle. She will be baptised this weekend in St Bernard’s Church. We also congratulate Eva Vos, daughter of Troy and Rebecca. She will be baptised on Sunday at St Catherine’s Church.

READERS ROSTER -9 April St Bernard’s: Marj & John

McCrystal, Margaret Beiers; Vera

& Patrick McNevin, Beth

McDonnell; Carol Wilson, Joan

Green, Isabelle Kime; Youth.

St Martin’s: Cristy Gardner,

Carol Fuhrmeister, Kathlyn

McCarthy.

St Catherine’s: Mary Cusack,

Darryl Petersen, Novita Jurry;

Kathleen Sisson, Lisa Quinlivan,

Veronica Kirn.

New Ministers training We are constantly in need of new ministers and therefore will train regularly. However, this is the last time until after Easter. Extraordinary Ministers of Communion [EMCs]: 7pm, 6 April, St Bernard’s Community Centre.

Easter Vigil Candles We are looking for volunteers who may be able to collect some candles and lids to prepare them for the Easter Vigil. The candles need alfoil wrapped around the base then placed in a drip tray [plastic lids] Please contact the parish office to collect these items.

Little Kings Movement for the Handicapped The Movement caters for people with disabilities in social and spiritual activities. There is no Government funding and the Movement is staffed by volunteers. The Movement is truly ecumenical and there is no charge for any of the services provided. Envelopes are available on the church tables. Please return the them to the collection plate this weekend.

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Parish Music Practice FOR EASTER LITURGIES

7.30 pm Tuesdays in LENT: St Bernard’s Church. 3.30 pm Saturdays, 8 April, St

Catherine’s Church. Members from all St Catherine’s music groups are invited to practice for

Good Friday and the Easter Vigil.

YOUTH NEWS Our prolif ic Youth Ministry, YAYA, is meeting again on Friday 7 April, 7pm at St Catherine’s Hall Wishart, for an epic night of fun, games and free food. The usual Easter media shenanigans aside, we’ve been encouraging the youth to take a deeper, more meaningful look at the essence of Easter: Forgiveness. We’ll re-enact the Stations of the Cross. A life enactment of this will be presented at St Catherine’s Church at 10am on Good Friday. Stay safe ‘n’ hope to see you at our Friday YAYA hangout night!

A MOST WORTHY CAUSE: THE

PEOPLE OF SOUTH SUDAN

NEED OUR HELP

Members of the Lifelong Learning/Social Justice Group have been deeply moved by the account of

Father Stephen’s recent visit to his homeland in South Sudan, and the plight of the people there. Their needs are enormous. CAN WE HELP? I am sure we can. It was proposed at our meeting recently that we take up a special collection at all Masses on Easter Sunday – 2 Easter Vigils on Saturday evening and 5 Sunday Masses. You will recall that because Christmas Day fell on a Sunday in 2016, the usual special collection which has always been directed to support a Social Justice issue somewhere in the world was postponed. Now is our opportunity. In the past twenty years we have given most generously to support people facing hardship e.g. to the people in the Kiribati Islands whose livelihood was eroded by rising sea levels due to climate change, to the needs of students in South Africa, to flood victims in Charleville and drought victims in Longreach, to a parish in the British Virgin Islands, to support for refugees and asylum seekers through the Romero Centre, to a parish in Harare, Zimbabwe, to provide educational material to a local state school devastated by fire just before one Christmas, and to many other organizations and peoples in need. WE CAN DO IT AGAIN. Watch this space for more information.

Beth McDonnell for UMGW Social Justice/Lifelong Learning Group

PROJECT COMPASSION

Semiti grew up in an informal, or ‘squatter’, settlement in Fiji. More than a quarter of Fiji’s people live in these settlements, with little hope of finding

permanent housing and land. Children have few opportunities for education, and unemployment levels are high. There is little access to public services such as roads, water supply, electricity and garbage collection. Now Semiti is working together with other residents of informal settlements to make positive changes. He is the Director of the People’s Community Network (PCN), which Caritas Australia supports. They work in committees on issues relating to health and hygiene; care of the elderly and of women who need empowerment; education needs; and unemployment. Semiti and other informal settlement residents tell how PCN helps them work together as neighbours, in solidarity. They have formed common bonds, and have grown in resilience and in dignity. Please help Semiti and his Fijian community by giving to Project Compassion. Envelopes and boxes available at our parish churches.

Mass for the Forgiveness of Sins Tuesday 4 April 9.15 am St Bernard’s Tuesday 4 April 7.00 pm

St Catherine’s Friday 7 April 9.30 am

St Martin’s

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5 0 T H W E D D I N G ANNIVERSARY Congratulations to John and Monica

Grant who will celebrate their 50th

wedding anniversary next Saturday

8 April. They will receive a blessing

from Fr John at the St Bernard’s 6.15 pm

Mass this Saturday evening. We wish

them every blessing and much happiness

in the future.

SEWING MACHINES The Loreto Sisters are

looking for sturdy sewing

machines in good

working condition for

their community Development Centre in

Gariuai, a remote village in East Timor.

The project aims to provide an income

for rural women from a subsistence

farming community. A shipment for

East Timor is leaving Brisbane in April.

If you can help with this request please

phone the parish office 3849 7158.

BRSBANE CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY Will meet Tuesday, April 4, at 5:30 pm

in the Hanley Room of the Francis Rush

Centre, beside St Stephens Cathedral,

175 Elizabeth St. Brisbane. Father Denis

Martin, Diocesan Archivist, will speak

on: "From Darra to the Holy Name

Cathedral site." Visitors welcome - gold

coin donation would be appreciated.

SVdP - FUNITURE Vinnies Storage Facility at

Lawnton is in urgent need of

quality furniture donations to

be used for assistance clients, with

excess being sold in our Centres of

Charity. Any donations of good quality

beds, mattresses, lounges, chest of

drawers, bedsides etc and white goods

(no older than 3 years). For pick up

please call 1300 55 1894. Thanking you

in advance & God Bless.

CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL BRISBANE Monthly Prayer Meeting, St Stephen’s

Chapel, in the grounds of the Cathedral

1st Wed. of each month, (5 April) 10.45

am - 12.15 pm. Join us for Praise and

Worship, followed by tea and light

lunch. Contact Maureen 3172 9248.

WE PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED Especially Margaret Smith, Betty Clare,

Erika Felfer, Joan Burcher (Sr Chloe’s

sister), Andrew ‘Joy’ Peries (husband of

Dolly), Don Armstrong, Graham

Wilson, June McMah, Eileen Corbett,

Keith Pattinson, Mary Berry and Libby

Widdupp who have died recently, also

Johnny Handley, Kevin Burnett, Brian

Lawton, Bishop Guise Thong, David

Masse, Phillip Rooney, Dr Hilary &

Cleta Desouza, Rita Galea, Simon Tinh,

Laura Sim, Charles & Scott Sullivan,

Monnie Sherman, Betty Russell-Hall,

Dorothy Johnson and Keith Roff whom

we remember at this time.

EASTER SIGN ON SHEETS Easter Ministries: We require

Extraordinary Ministers of Communion

and Junior Ministers for all Easter

Masses. Sign on sheets are available in

our parish churches. If you can help

please add your name to the lists.

MEDITATION PRAYER You are invited to Meditation and

prayer this Tuesday 4 April 12.45 pm,

St Catherine’s Hall. Enquiries Maria

3216 8118.

MORNING TEA Join us for Morning Tea this Sunday

2 April after Masses: 8 am St Martin’s;

8.30 am St Catherine’s; 9.30 am St

Bernard’s. New parishioners please

join us for a cuppa and make yourselves

known to our communities. St

Bernard’s 7 am community will have

their cuppa next Sunday 9 April.

LITURGY MEETING Because of the storm and heavy rain last

Thursday the Liturgy Committee has re-

scheduled its meeting to this Monday

3 April, at 4 pm, in St Bernard’s

parish office. All liturgy committee

members are asked to attend.

CHRISM MASS Archbishop Mark Coleridge

invites you to the Annual

Chrism Mass to be held in the

Cathedral of St Stephen on Thursday

6 April, commencing 7 pm. This is a

celebration for the entire Archdiocese

and all are welcome. The Chrism Mass

is a chance for the Archdiocese

representatively to gather with the

Archbishop who blesses the oils to be

used during the coming year.

MOOGERAH PASSION PLAY You are

invited to join

the 2500

people who

come each year to the Lake Theatre

beside Lake Moogerah, not far from

Boonah, Queensland, to watch a

performance of the Moogerah Passion

Play. It is a wonderful way of bringing

the message of the Gospel to people as

they watch the story of Jesus unfold

before their eyes. And what’s more,

it’s free! Performances are on Saturday

8, Sunday 9, Friday 14 and Saturday 15

April. All performances start at 5 pm.

Brochures and details on notice boards.

ASPLEY PARISH Invites applications for the part-time

position of Administration Assistant

(20 hours a week). Responsibilities

include: The day-to-day running of the

parish office including reception,

banking, database entry, document

preparation, photocopying & filing.

For a copy of the position description

E: [email protected].

Applications should include the name

of two (2) referees one of which

preferably should be a Parish Priest.

Details notice boards. Closes 7/04/17.

Bishop Elect Ken Howell, to be the

new Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane

Cyclone Debbie belts north

Queensland

Bishop calls on Australia to do more

for refugees, asylum seekers.

Eighty years professed and a life

devoted to God.

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT/A - 2 April 2017 ♫ PROCESSIONAL: FROM ASHES TO THE LIVING FONT

1. From ashes to the living font your Church must journey, Lord,

Baptized in grace in grace renewed by your most holy word.

2. Through fasting, prayer and charity Your voice speaks deep

within, returning us to ways of truth and turning us from sin.

3. Our graves split open, bring us back, your promise to proclaim;

to darkened tombs call out, “Arise!” and glorify your name. © Word of Life Int. Hommeerding A WLP Licence 1326

FIRST READING: Ezekiel 37:12-14

RESP. PSALM: WITH THE LORD THERE IS MERCY

Resp: With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption.

1. Out of the depths I cry to you O Lord, Lord, hear my voice!

O let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleading. R/

2. If you, O Lord, should mark our guilt, Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness: for this we revere you. R/

3. My soul is waiting for the Lord, I count on his word. My soul is

longing for the Lord more than watchman for daybreak. R/

4. Let the watchman count on daybreak, and Israel on the Lord.

Because with the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption,

Israel indeed he will redeem from all its iniquity. R/ © WOL Int. Smith CD WIL Ps 129 Lic 1326E

SECOND READING: Romans 8:8-11

♫ LENTEN GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Praise and honour to

you, Lord Jesus Christ! Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus

Christ! I am the resurrection; I am the resurrection and the life;

who ever believes in me will not die for ever. Praise and honour to

you, Lord Jesus Christ! Praise and honour to you, Lord Jesus

Christ! © WOL Int. Mason P WIL Lic. 1326E

GOSPEL: John 11:1-45

♫ RCIA SCRUTINY - GOD TO ENFOLD YOU

God to enfold you, Christ to uphold you, Spirit to keep you in

heaven’s sight; so may God grace you, heal and embrace you, lead

you through darkness into the light. © Word of Life Int. Bell John WGRG Iona Comm. Lic 1326E

♫ COMMUNION HYMN: BREAD BROKEN, WINE SHARED

Chorus: Bread broken, wine shared;

Jesus, here, taking our lives,

opening our hearts, making us whole,

setting our loving free.

1. Take all our dreams, all that we are, all we could ever be.

Lord of all life, we want to be Yours, we take bread and eat.

2. Open our minds, open our hearts, let love set us free within.

Lord of all life, we want to be Yours, we pour wine and drink.

3. Make us alive, filled with Your hope, living what’s really true.

Lord of all life, we want to be Yours, we know this is You. © Word of Life Int. Horner Robyn WIL Lic. 1326

SONG OF PRAISE: Instrumental. Quiet music.

♫ RECESS: PRAISE TO YOU, O CHRIST

Refrain: Praise to you, O Christ, our Saviour,

Word of the Father, calling us to life;

Son of God who leads us to freedom:

glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ!

1. You are the Word who calls us out of darkness;

you are the Word who leads us into light;

you are the Word who brings us through the desert:

glory to you, Lord Jesus Christ! (Refrain)

MASS TIMES 3 - 9 April 2017

St Bernard’s:

Tues. 9.15 am - Mass of Forgiveness

Wed. No Mass - 1st Wed.

Thurs. 7.00 am

Fri. 8.00 am

Sat. 6.15 pm

Sun. 7.00 am, 9.30 am, 6.15 pm.

St Martin’s:

Friday 9.30 am - Mass of Forgiveness

Sunday 8.00 am

St Catherine’s:

Mon. 9.15 am

Tues. 7.00 pm - Mass of Forgiveness

Wed. 7.00 am

Sat. 6.00 pm

Sun. 8.30 am

RECONCILIATION St Bernard’s - Saturday 5.15 pm

St Catherine’s - Saturday 5.00 pm

THIS WEEK Mon. 3 April 2017

HeartFIT: - 11.30 am, St B’s Aspinall Ctre. SVDP Meeting - 5 pm, St C’s Community Centre. Liturgy Meeting - 4 pm, parish office. Baptismal Prep - 7.30 pm, Aspinall Centre.

Tues. 4 April 2017 Craft Group - 10 am, St B’s Community Centre. Easter Music Practice - 7.30 pm, St Bernard’s Ch.

Wed. 5 April 2017 Beside Restful Waters - 7 pm, St Bernard’s Church.

Thurs. 6 April 2017 Play Group - School holidays. Arcare Mass - 10 am, Warrigal Rd. Seniors - Hoy and morning tea, 10 am Aspinall Centre. Bring and buy. Extraordinary Ministers of Communion Training - 7 pm, St Bernard’s Community Centre. Chrism Mass - 7 pm, St Stephen’s Cathedral

Friday 7 April 2017 Play Group - School holidays Stations of the Cross - 9 am, St Martin’s. HeartFIT: - 10 am, St B’s Aspinall Centre. Stations of the Cross - 7 pm, St Bernard’s Ch. YAYA - Youth gathering, 7 pm, St Catherine’s Hall, Wishart.

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2. You are the one whom prophets hoped and

longed for; you are the one who speaks to us

today; you are the one who leads us to our

future: glory to you Lord Jesus Christ. (Ref.)

PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE

LORD - 9 April 2017 READINGS: Isaiah 50:4-7; Philippians 2:6-11 GOSPEL Matthew 26:11-54.