Serving The Communities Of
Star of the Sea, Crescent Head
St Patrick’s, Gladstone/Smithtown
All Saints, Kempsey
Our Lady Star of the Sea,
South West Rocks
St John’s, Willawarrin
Parish Office
52-58 Marsh Street
West Kempsey, NSW 2440.
9.30am-3.30pm, Tuesday-Friday.
P: 02 6562 5182
W: www.mvcp.org.au
Facebook: www.facebook.com/
macleayvalleycatholicparish
Postal Address:
PO Box 3007
West Kempsey, NSW 2440.
Parish Priest: Fr James Foster
Schools
St Joseph’s Primary School, Kempsey
Principal: Guy Campbell
P: 6562 5501
W: www.kmpplism.catholic.edu.au
St Paul’s College, Kempsey
Principal: Kevin Lewis
P: 6562 7200
W: www.kmpslism.catholic.edu.au
Aged Care
Vincent Court
Acting Manager: Sara Campbell
88 Leith Street Kempsey, NSW 2440
P: 6562 6062
W: www.vincentcourt.org.au
NDIS
Centacare
Team Leader: Theresa Falconer
11 Leith Street Kempsey, NSW 2440
P: 6562 3918
W: www.stagnesparish.org.au/
centacare
APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRINCIPAL AT
ST PAUL’S COLLEGE KEMPSEY
Thank you to all those parishioners and members of the community who have
been praying for the recruitment and selection process of the new Principal
over the last few months or so. Included with this week’s parish newsletter is a
letter from the Diocesan Director of Lismore Catholic Schools, Sally Towns,
announcing Mr David Johns has been appointed from 2021 after an extensive
nationwide recruitment and selection process. We extend our congratulations,
prayers and best wishes to David and look forward to welcoming him, with his
family, to our parish family. David has shared a letter from himself to our
parish family:
Dear Parishioners I would like to introduce myself as David Johns, the new Principal at St Paul’s College Kempsey for 2021. Kevin Lewis has gifted me an amazing school and I am fortunate to step into a role surrounded by a committed staff, aspirational students and a supportive local community. I have been teaching/leading school communities for over 30 years across Australia and overseas and currently hold the position of Assistant Principal at St John Paul II College in Canberra. I will be moving to St Paul’s College with my wife Amie who is a Registered Nurse along with my youngest of three children, Grace who will be commencing her HSC. My other children, Bethany and Jacob have concluded school and are working/studying in Wollongong and Newcastle. The welcome I have received to date has been overwhelming and I am very excited to meet the many ‘moving parts’ that make up the College. I look forward to meeting you all. I am drawn to the words of St Paul in his message to the Christians of Ephesus- he states ……in every way I have shown you that by hard work ….we must help the weak, and keep in mind the words of Jesus who said ‘it is more blessed to give than to receive’…... I hope in my time as Principal I can stand with the College community and demonstrate every day the many virtues that St Paul wishes from us all. Kind Regards David Johns
22 November 2020, Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Then it will be their turn to ask, “Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty, a stranger or naked, sick or in prison, and did not come to your help?” Then he will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you neglected to do this to one of the least of these, you neglected to do it to me.” And they will go away to eternal punishment, and the virtuous to eternal life.’
Preface of the Feast
Eucharistic Prayer II
Memorial Acclamation III
© The scriptural quotations are taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright
1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton Longman and Todd Ltd and Doubleday & Co Inc. The Grail
Translation of the Psalms © 1962, The English translation of the Psalm Responses, the
Alleluia and Gospel Verses, from the Lectionary for Mass © 1997, 1981, 1968, ICEL. All
rights reserved.
FIRST READING: Ezekiel 34:11-12. 15-17
The Lord says this: I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view. As a shepherd keeps all his flock in view when he stands up in the middle of his scattered sheep, so shall I keep my sheep in view. I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness. I myself will pasture my sheep, I myself will show them where to rest – it is the Lord who speaks. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall watch over the fat and healthy. I shall be a true shepherd to them.
As for you, my sheep, the Lord says this: I will judge between sheep and sheep, between rams and he-goats.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 22:1-3. 5-6. R. v.1
(R.) The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
1. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. Fresh and green are the pastures where he gives me repose. (R.)
2. Near restful waters he leads me, to revive my drooping spirit. He guides me along the right path; he is true to his name. (R.)
3. You have prepared a banquet for me in the sight of my foes. My head you have anointed with oil; my cup is overflowing. (R.)
4. Surely goodness and kindness shall follow me all the days of my life. In the Lord’s own house shall I dwell for ever and ever. (R.)
SECOND READING: 1 Corinthians 15:20-26. 28
Christ has been raised from the dead, the first-fruits of all who have fallen asleep. Death came through one man and in the same way the resurrection of the dead has come through one man. Just as all men die in Adam, so all men will be brought to life in Christ; but all of them in their proper order: Christ as the first-fruits and then, after the coming of Christ, those who belong to him. After that will come the end, when he hands over the kingdom to God the Father, having done away with every sovereignty, authority and power. For he must be king until he has put all his enemies under his feet and the last of the enemies to be destroyed is death. And when everything is subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subject in his turn to the One who subjected all things to him, so that God may be all in all.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: Mark 11:9-10
Alleluia, alleluia! Blessings on him who comes in the name of the Lord! Blessings on the coming kingdom of our father David! Alleluia!
GOSPEL: Mathew 25:31-46
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, escorted by all the angels, then he will take his seat on his throne of glory. All the nations will be assembled before him and he will separate men one from another as the shepherd separates sheep from goats. He will place the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right hand, “Come, you whom my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.” Then the virtuous will say to him in reply, “Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you; or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and make you welcome; naked and clothe you; sick or in prison and go to see you?” And the King will answer, “I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me.” Next he will say to those on his left hand, “Go away from me, with your curse upon you, to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you never gave me food; I was thirsty and you never gave me anything to drink; I was a stranger and you never made me welcome, naked and you never clothed me, sick and in prison and you never visited me.”
Following this sunday’s Missal: our lord Jesus christ, king oF the universe
Felipe & Pacita Nebrida, Ramon & Perpetua Dy,
Thomas Ong, Glady & S H Flanagan, Stephens
Family, Warren & Lynette Flanagan, James
Roberts, John & Alan Patterson, Richard & Sarah
Price, Rev Arnold Price, Meagan Tuck, Barry
Telford, Graham Jackson, Henry Family, Quinn
Family, Harper Family, Ron & Janene Harper, Jean & Ken Hare
Family, Hare Family, Bernie & Daphne Clarke, Roger, Jack,
Martin, Angie & Abbie Clarke, Anne Clarke, Frances Clarke, Brian
& Mavis Hayes, Hanrahan Family, Tedd Family, Graham Family,
Farley Family, Baldonado Family, Kyle Family, Elizabeth Acopio,
Fr Edward Crowley, Whiteley Family, Garing Family, Muldowney
Family, Rose Family, Cullen Family, Cassidy Family, Gersbach
Family, Spence Family, Sweet Family, Marshall Family, Fr John
Lavery, Margaret Holz, Fernando Family, Mellowship Family,
John & Leila Harrison, Patrick Doc Brady, Merle & Neve Brady,
Brian Hinchcliffe, Lovenfosse Family, Bannon Family, Roy &
Dorry McMaugh, Keith Forrest, William & Gladys Flanigan, Jack
& Beverly Flanigan, Kathleen McGown, Aileen Rosten, Sheila
& Sharon Fisher, Pat Smith, Frank Galvin, Capararo Family &
Friends, Keast Family, Dave & Kitty Mainey, John & Pat Mainey,
Linda Rowe, David & Dorothy Selvey, Sean Doghterty, Daley
Family, Peters Family, Lawler Family, Marcus Peters, Bolster
Family, Gray Family, Needs Family, Killmore Family, Orehovec
Family, Reisenbichler Family, Puttinger Family, Ben McClure,
Nathan Mumford, Doreen & George Lackenby, Sybil Snow,
Winfred Paine Hunter, Liam Barnes, Keyna & Hugh Campbell,
Colin Clarke, Marilyn Caley, Barbara Brunsoon, Mollie & Vic
Channells, Mainey Family, Powick Family, Cavanach Family,
Griffin Family, Harry & Addie Henry, Alan & Kevin Henry, Molly
Neilson, Gwen Harris, Lucas Family, Ethel & Norman Lane,
Bonnie & Harry Parkes, Ronnie & Victor Field, Irene & Fred de
Lazzarini, Maud & Bill Williams, Rob Andrew, John Pomeroy,
Bonner Family, Boss Family, Rowe Family, Usher Family,
Fletcher Family, Dunning Family, Ellis Family, Van der Veer
Family, Huisman Family, Cullen Family, Vale Family, Paul John
Kerrison, Wheelahan Family, Kerrison Family, Madeleine & David
Hoban, Hoban Family & Friends, Rose Mary Ann King, Bill Willis,
Brian Thompson, Claire Olsson, Leonisa Calderon, Marcelo
Torres, Elsie & Archibald Collins, Bob Nicol, Nick & Luba Borisko,
Betty & Richard Good, Marijan Slezak, Brian Burge, Mary &
James Burge, Peter Clarke, Christine Hayler, Gackle family,
Scott & Mark Magennis, Warwick Clarke, Kit & Bede Eakin,
Lenore Lindbeck, Aileen & Leo Rosten, Eileen & Stan Winterburn,
Shirley & Maurice Kelly, Shaw Family, Cavanagh Family,
Chapman Family, Murphy Family, Lockyer Family, Young Family,
Dodds Family, Lock Family, Ruscoe Family, Jill & John Watson,
Kevin, Maurice & Edna Ruscoe, Sidney, Joyce, Keith & Alan
Croad, Collette Hayes, Neta & Tom Ernst, Una & Ernie Hassett,
Marie Ernst, Darcey & Angiley Clarke, Barry & Laine Clarke,
Pat & Bertha Hollis.
BAPTISM PREPARATION NIGHT
Wednesday, 2nd December 2020, 6.30 pm
Parish Meeting Room
Please contact the Parish Office to advise
of your attendance
Our leaders for this meeting will be Ron Walker & Isabel Browne
Those who are Recently Deceased: Fr John Fitzwalter, Elizabeth Balengarry, Frank Clancy, Phillip Murphy, Owen Johnson, Colleen Adele Smith (nee Dodds). All those who have died from the COVID-19. Those whose Anniversaries are at this time: John Watson, Paul Kerrison, Rita Riggs, Celia Morris, Fr Geoffrey Brennan. Special Remembrance: All Souls in Purgatory Special Intentions: Tony Ward, Terry Kyle, Margaret Kyle, Jill Jeffery, Buck Graham, Bob Gray, Damian MacAndrews, Margaret Tyne, Toby Tyne, Kate Cullen, Paul Clarke, Margaret Henshaw, Carmen Knoblanche, Tina Colling, Helen Gethings, Mary Fetterplace, Myra Crowe, Karrin Clark, all those affected by COVID-19.
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UPCOMING MASSES AT WILLAWARRIN AND
CRESCENT HEAD CHURCHES
Crescent Head Wednesday 25th November 6pm
Willawarrin Thursday 26th November 6pm
Due to the limited numbers (1 person per 4 square
metres), we encourage you to pre-register at the
parish office in order to avoid disappointment.
CIRCLE OF FRIENDSHIP FAMILY GROUP
The group is to enjoy its final meeting for the year with a luncheon to be held at the West Kempsey Hotel on Saturday 12th December at 11.30 am. If you would like to attend, please text or phone Pat and Col Hassett on 65624295 or 0429624295 no later than 10th December. New members are always welcome.
ANNUAL KEMPSEY CHURCH SPRING CLEANING
Saturday 28th November, 8am - 10am Please give some time as many hands make light work!
COLUMBAN ART CALENDARS
The Columban Art Calendar 2021 is now available for purchase at the SWR Church.
PARISH OFFICE CLOSED
Please note that the Parish Office will be closed this coming Tuesday 24th November to allow staff to attend training.
Even a smile that we can share with the poor is a source of love. An outstretched hand can always be enriched by the smile of those who quietly and unassumingly offer to help, inspired only by the joy of living as one of Christ’s disciples.
Are you an ex-student of one of the
Macleay Valley Catholic Parish schools? On 17 November,
the Federal
Member for
Cowper (and ex-
student of St
Paul’s College)
Pat Conaghan MP,
launched Alumni
associations for
both St Paul’s and St Joseph’s. All ex-students are
invited to join including students who attended St Pius X.
Through the Alumni associations the schools want to
recognise and reconnect with the many thousands of
young women and men who were enrolled for all or part
of their primary and/or secondary education.
We believe that the Alumni associations will help build
and strengthen our communities by giving our past
students the opportunity to network with each other and
hold school reunions.
Membership forms are available at each Mass this
weekend, from the Parish Office, or you join online at the
St Joseph’s or St Paul’s websites.
Welcome to our Family!
Happy 90th Birthday to Rita Lucas
Our Parish family wishes Rita a
most wonderful and blessed
90th Birthday this week!
We hope that you enjoy all your
special celebrations with your
family and friends!
Mass and Devotions: 23 November – 29 November 2020
Physical Distancing and COVIDSafe Practices Apply
Monday 23rd No Mass
St Columban & St Clement I
Tuesday 24th 5.30pm: Mass, Kempsey (register at church door)
St Andrew Dung-Lac & Companions
Wednesday 25th 8.00am: Mass, Smithtown (register at church door)
6.00pm: Mass, Crescent Head (recommend pre-reg)
St Catherine of Alexandria
Thursday 26th 9.30am: Mass, Kempsey (register at church door)
6.00pm: Mass, Willawarrin (recommend pre-register)
Friday 27th 9.30am: Mass, Kempsey (register at church door)
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
Saturday 28th
9.30am: Mass, SWR (register at parish office)
6.00pm: Mass, Kempsey (register at parish office)
St Catherine Laboure
Sunday 29th
7.30am: Mass, SWR (register at parish office)
9.30am: Mass, Kempsey (register at parish office)
11.00am: Mass, Kempsey (register at parish office)
The Catholic Diocese of Lismore Safeguarding Office If you or a person close to you has been abused by someone working or
ministering within the Diocese of Lismore, we ask you to contact us. We will
listen to you respectfully, offer support and discuss options you have
available to you. To contact the Safeguarding Office, please phone (02)
6621 9444 or email [email protected]
DIOCESAN INVESTMENT FUND
PAYS 0.45%
No fees or charges on your accounts.
Phone: 1800 802 516
Website: www.dif.org.au
THE Parrot’S parable:
“Try to be a rainbow in
someone’s cloud.“ – Maya Angelou
LiveStream
Masses
continue with
Bishop Greg,
every Sunday
8am,
via the
Diocese’s
YouTube
Channel
Livestreamed from
the
Carmelite
Monastery
Goonellabah
SUNDAY MASS ROSTERS: 28 & 29 NOVEMBER 2020
MINISTRY KEMPSEY SAT 6PM STH WEST ROCKS SUN 7.30AM KEMPSEY SUN 9.30AM
Ministers of the Eucharist Mick Eller Drew Tilbrook Guy Campbell
Readers Beatrice Gray Frances Pearce
Peter Needs
Maureen Richardson
Offertory Procession N/A during pandemic N/A during pandemic N/A during pandemic
Hospitality Frances Dykes Joy Rees Therese Tedd
Commentator Beatrice Gray Volunteer Joan Clarke
Music Recorded Music Volunteer Recorded Music
Children’s Liturgy - - N/A during pandemic
Cleaning KEMPSEY: Prasanth, Rijo & Sobin
SOUTH WEST ROCKS: C Coles & M Franklin
Sacrament of Reconciliation Times
Saturday Kempsey, 5.15pm-5.45pm
Sunday South West Rocks, 7am-7.20am
Tuesday Kempsey, 5.50pm-6.20pm
Wednesday Smithtown, Before Mass
A Short Prayer for these times
O Mary, you shine continuously on our journey as a sign of salvation and hope. We entrust
ourselves to you, Health of the Sick. We seek refuge under your protection, O Holy Mother of God. Do not despise our pleas – we who are put to the test – and deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.
Amen. (Pope Francis)
First Sunday of Advent - Year B
First Reading: Isaiah 63:16-17, 64:1, 3-8
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 79:2-3, 15-16, 18-19, R.v.4
Lord, make us turn to you, let us see your face and we
shall be saved.
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:3-9
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia!
Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your
salvation. Alleluia!
Gospel: Mark 13:33-37
NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS
PARISH BANK ACCOUNT DETAILS FOR DIRECT DEBIT
Macleay Valley Catholic Parish
BSB: 012 703
Account Number: 4221 27335
Remitter Name: your surname and envelope number
These are available at the entrance
of the Kempsey Church at every Mass.
CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY SHEETS & PENCILS
