THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF IVANHOE

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1 THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF IVANHOE Parish Administrator: Father Paul Newton 63 Wilfred Rd, Ivanhoe East Parish Secretary: Mrs Ruth Villani Parish Office Address: 4 Waverley Ave, Ivanhoe 3079 Parish Office Hours: Monday Friday 9:15am - 5:15pm Parish Phone: Parish Fax: Parish catholicparishofivanhoe@bigpond.com Parish Website: Bookings: Baptism and Weddings. Enrolments for First Reconciliation, First Eucharist and Confirmation Parish Secretary th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR C Welcome: July 2016 LATEST PARISH NEWS & EVENTS We welcome Fr Paul Newton to the Catholic Parish of Ivanhoe as Parish Administrator from 15 July to 25 November We wish him well in his time with us and look forward to being with him in our ongoing faith journeys, as well as working with him to support and serve one another in the life and worship of our parish. Wintertime Luncheon Sunday 10 July: The Luncheon was an opportunity to gather together, as well as being an opportunity to informally thank Fr Jacob for being with us since the beginning of the year and to farewell and wish him well in his new role as Parish Priest at St Andrew s, Clayton South. We sincerely thank the Social Group who organised, facilitated and prepared for this parish gathering, and those who contributed to this successful event - musical entertainment, caterers, servers who offered platters of food, and to Mother of God School for the use of the Marian Centre. Photos available on the parish website. Mary Immaculate Hall: Contact: Parish Secretary Playgroup: am Wed & Thurs Contact: Liz Shearer liz.shearer1@gmail.com Parish Primary Schools: St Bernadette s Primary School Principal: Ms Kathryn Lowe Address: 53 Stanley Street Ivanhoe West 3079 Phone: Mary Immaculate Primary School Principal: Ms Kerry Willcox-McGinnes Address: 9 Rockbeare Grove Ivanhoe, 3079 Phone: Mother of God Primary School Principal: Ms Louise McGrath Address: 66 Wilfred Road Ivanhoe East 3079 Phone: St Bernadette s Church Mother of God Church Mary Immaculate Church 89 Bond St, Ivanhoe 56 Wilfred Rd, Ivanhoe E Waverley Ave, Ivanhoe

2 PARISH WEEKLY CALENDAR 2016 Tuesday 19 July: 9:15am: Mass at Mother of God Church 4.15pm: Christian Meditation at Mary Immaculate Hall 6.00 & 7.00pm Eucharist Family Workshop, Cunningham Centre, Stanley St, Ivanhoe 7.30pm: St Bernadette s School Parents & Friends Wednesday 20 July: 9:15am: Mass at Mary Immaculate Church Thursday 21 July: 9.00am: Liturgy Group at Parish Office Friday 22 July: 9.15am: Mass at St Bernadette s Church & Transition Prep, St Bernadette s School Saturday 23 July: 10.00am: Reconciliation at St Bernadette s Church 6.00pm: Mass at St Bernadette s Church Sunday 24 July: 9.00am: Mass at Mary Immaculate Church 10.30am: Mass at Mother of God Church ROSTERS FOR THIS WEEKEND: July 2016 St B s Church: Sacristan Reader Special Ministers 6:00pm Saturday J. Gray C. Dixon B. Jowett, A. Pellizzari MI Church: Leader Reader Mass Coordinators 9:00am Sunday K. Bator J. Wignall M. Gilbo MOG Church: Sacristan Reader Special Ministers 10:30am Sunday J. Taylor T. Barker G. Reardon, F. Tosolini, C Bellio Altar Society: A. Moloney Choir: J. O Brien - ROSTERS FOR NEXT WEEKEND: July 2016 St B s Church: Sacristan Reader Special Ministers 6:00pm Saturday J. Gray S. Moorhen Sr Carmel, T. Nibali MI Church: Leader Reader Mass Coordinators 9:00am Sunday C. Nguyen G. McAllister E. Ballao MOG Church: Sacristan Reader Special Ministers 10:30am Sunday M. Hoban M. Hoban T. Barker, R. Beltrame, I. Chiera Altar Society: MOG School Choir: P. Verrocchi COUNTERS July 2016 St B s Church: J. Manders B. Jowett MI Church: M. Rocco P. Shannon MOG Church T. Barker P. De Silva PRAYERS OF THE COMMUNITY We remember Leo Milesi, Ian Hall, Ken Owen, Enrico Defabion, Maria Mascia, Sheila Kinden, Nazha Shamieh and Brenda McMahon who are in need of prayer at this time. We remember all who provide care and support for those in need. DEATHS AND ANNIVERSARIES We remember those who have died recently. We also remember Bruno and Maria Erbrederis whose anniversaries occur at this time. May they rest in peace. TRINITY LANE: PARISH NEWS Coming soon to 133 Ford St, Ivanhoe will be a new 23- apartment independent living retirement community called "Trinity Lane". Developed by Villa Maria Catholic Homes (VMCH), Trinity Lane will feature one and two bedroom apartments that will be finished to the highest standards. The development has been architecturally designed to become a haven for residents as they enjoy immaculate landscaped surroundings and become part of a new community of fellow retirees. Public sales start this month, but as a local parishioner you are invited to attend special previews which will be held at 133 Ford St, Ivanhoe on Saturday 16 th July from 5-6pm and Sunday 17 th July from am. Parishioners will be able to view a model of the site and speak to a Sales Consultant. You can even reserve your very own place within this elegant new community. To RVSP your attendance or to find out more about Trinity Lane call or live@trinitylane.com.au Melbourne Catholic Magazine - July copy: Cost $4.00 per copy Interview with Fr Joe Caddy, recently appointed Episcopal Vicar for Social Services Photographs of the architectural beauty of Sacred Heart Church in St Kilda New column by the Melbourne Associate Vice Chancellor of Australian Catholic University. The cover features a bird's-eye view of Melbourne's cityscape anchored by the William Barak apartment tower on Swanston Square.

3 NOTICEBOARD Experience Taízé: Friday, 29 July, pm at St Pius X Church, 419 Waterdale Rd, Heidelberg West: Service of Prayer, Song and Contemplation. Come and experience this calming, quieting, welcome respite from the hustle and bustle of life. All are welcome! Light supper after prayer provided. Assistant to Youth Minister: The Youth Minister at St Gregory s Parish, Doncaster is asking for someone who would be an assistant at Youth Group meetings on Friday evenings (every second week). The person would ideally be enthusiastic for youth ministry, be able to work in a team, and committed to the Catholic ethos. Working with Children and Police Checks will be required. Please send expressions of interest with two references and resumé to Doncaster@cam.org.au Hosts needed to accommodate International Students: Up to three Students per home (Single furnished rooms) Evening meals required. Rates vary from $ to $ per week. All payments are Tax Free. Please contact Sandra for more information: Sandra@homestay-australia.com or: Homestay Australia Pty Ltd Thank you.- Homestay Australia Pty Ltd Early bird prices - musical & volunteers needed: For Musical Production: JOHN PAUL II, September 2016 Come and join the fun and help us to stage this uplifting theatre production especially in the area of Front-of-House / ticket sales / backstage crew / props and scenery making. Contact Director: or cogthearegroup@gmail.com early bird price: An Evening with Massimo Faggioli: Thursday 21 July, 7.30pm at St Carthage s Church, 123 Royal Parade, Parkville. Prof Massimo Faggioli is regarded as one of the most significant commentators on the Catholic Church in the post-vatican II era. His books have received significant acclaim: Vatican II: The Battle for Meaning (2012), Sorting out Catholicism: A brief history of the new ecclesial movements (2014), A Council for the Global Church: Receiving Vatican II in history (2015). For his Melbourne appearance, Professor Faggioli will talk on the theme: The Catholic Church and Francis in the international situation today. All welcome. Cost: $20 Volunteer Speakers Needed - 13 and 14 August: Every year during the CatholicCare Church Appeal - our annual parish-based fundraiser - staff, board, volunteers and donors speak about the work of CatholicCare at parishes across the Archdiocese of Melbourne. They volunteer their time to help communicate the importance of CatholicCare s work in helping to meet the needs of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in our communities. All it takes in an hour of your time (or you re most welcome to present at more than one Mass!) to stand in front of a church community and deliver a three-minute presentation, for which we will provide a script. There are many benefits for speakers, including the opportunity to: champion programs & services of your advocate for a fair and equal society for families demonstrate shared values and mission inspire philanthropy in others The Church Appeal is our major fundraising activity in the year and you can make an enormous difference to CatholicCare s fundraising results. Please register your interest and speak on the weekend of 13-4 August CatholicCare, 383 Albert St, East Melbourne Phone: Web: ACU Short Course - Interfaith Perspectives on Mercy: 3, 10, 17 and 24 August, 6 8pm Christ Lecture Theatre, Australian Catholic University (ACU), 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy Pope Francis has proclaimed 2016 as the Year of Mercy. Within this context, ACU explores mercy from the perspective of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, with experts from the ACU School of Theology. ACU invites registrations for this upcoming short course, which is open to the public. Cost: $80 for those requiring a certificate of attendance. $40 for attendance only. Alternative methods of payment are available. Registration: shortcourses Click on the Melbourne page. Registration is essential by 1 August. Details: shortcourses.ftp@acu.edu.au Six30 Holy Hour: For Vocations: Thursday 4 August, pm at Sacred Heart Church, Rathdowne Street, corner Pelham Street, Carlton. National Vocations Awareness Week is the first week of August. To celebrate this week in the Jubilee Year of Mercy, the Vocations Office invites you to Six30 Youth Holy Hour, Thursday 4 August at Sacred Heart Church, Carlton. You are most welcome to join us in prayer for vocations & to give thanks for the gift of consecrated life to the Church. First Collection Thanksgiving: Envelopes: $1, Loose cash: $ Total: $2, Special Collections:

4 CATHOLIC PARISH OF IVANHOE PRIMARY SCHOOLS St Bernadette s Primary School Principal: Kathryn Lowe Address: 53 Stanley Street Ivanhoe West 3079 Phone: Mary Immaculate Primary School Principal: Kerry Willcox- McGinnes Address: 9 Rockbeare Grove Ivanhoe 3079 Phone: Mother of God Primary School Principal: Louise McGrath Address: 66 Wilfred Road Ivanhoe East 3079 Phone: Beyond Borders Benefit: Saturday 23 July, 7.30pm, Great Hall, Xavier College, 135 Barkers Rd, Kew St Dominic s East Camberwell and St Bridget s Greythorne are working together, with help from the Brigidine Asylum Seekers Project and CatholicCare, to support asylum seeker families who need a helping hand while their claims for asylum are being assessed. The help provided includes accommodation, furniture and food, hospitality and social support. The two parishes will host the Beyond Borders Benefit, an international theme night with trivia, music, games, auction items and raffle to support this work. Parishes are encouraged to advertise the event and form a table for a fun evening. Cost: $25 per head. Tea and coffee provided, BYO drinks and nibbles. Bookings: or the parish offices. Nativity Setting Wanted: set- The team at St Thomas the Apostle, Blackburn, is wondering if any parish has an unwanted nativity ting. If so, Sr Marg Burchell or Susan Collins would be delighted to hear from you. Please call if you can help. Women s Policy Action Tank Forum: Putting Women at the Centre: Tuesday 16 August, 8.30am for 9.15am start. Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Spring St, East Melbourne What happens when we put women at the centre of our policy thinking and processes? This forum will cast a gender lens over policy design and implementation in selected key areas impacting women s wellbeing. Panels will explore themes of justice and economic security as they manifest for women. This event is being held in conjunction with the Power to Persuade Symposium on Monday 15 August at the same venue. Details: Cost: $110 single day, $200 two days. Registration: VISIT THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF IVANHOE WEBSITE SUBSCRIBE NOW: This newsletter is kindly sponsored by LONERGAN Caring professional Funeral services at reasonable rates. FUNERAL Secure Pre-paid Funeral Plan available SERVICE

5 THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF IVANHOE 16 th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: YEAR C No July 2016 Entrance Antiphon: See, I have God for my help. The Lord sustains my soul. I will sacrifice to you with willing heart, and praise your name, O Lord, for it is good. First Reading: Genesis 18:1-10 The Lord appeared to Abraham at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day. He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them, and bowed to the ground. My lord, he said, I beg you, if I find favour with you, kindly do not pass your servant by. A little water shall be brought; you shall wash your feet and lie down under the tree. Let me fetch a little bread and you shall refresh yourselves before going further. That is why you have come in your servant s direction. They replied, Do as you say. Abraham hastened to the tent to find Sarah. Hurry, he said, knead three bushels of flour and make loaves. Then running to the cattle Abraham took a fine and tender calf and gave it to the servant, who hurried to prepare it. Then taking cream, milk and the calf he had prepared, he laid all before them, and they ate while he remained standing near them under the tree. Where is your wife Sarah? they asked him. She is in the tent, he replied. Then his guest said, I shall visit you again next year without fail and your wife will then have a son. This the Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God Responsorial Psalm: Ps 14: 2-5 (R.) The just will live in the presence of the Lord. 1. Lord, who shall dwell on your holy mountain? He who walks without fault; he who acts with justice and speaks the truth from his heart; he who does not slander with his tongue. (R.) 2. He who does no wrong to his brother, who casts no slur on his neighbour, who holds the godless in disdain, but honours those who fear the Lord. (R.) 3. He who keeps his pledge, come what may; who takes no interest on a loan and accepts no bribes against the innocent. Such a man will stand firm for ever. (R.) Second Reading: Col. 1:24-28 It makes me happy to suffer for you, as I am suffering now, and in my body to do what I can to make up all that has still to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. I became the servant of the Church when God made me responsible for delivering God s message to you, the message which was a mystery hidden for generations and centuries and has now been revealed to his saints. It was God s purpose to reveal it to them and to show all the rich glory of this mystery to pagans. The mystery is Christ among you, your hope of glory: this is the Christ we proclaim, this is the wisdom in which we thoroughly train everyone and instruct everyone, to make them all perfect in Christ. The Word of the Lord: Thanks be to God Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia, alleluia! Happy are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance. Alleluia! Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 Jesus came to a village, and a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. She had a sister called Mary, who sat down at the Lord s feet and listened to him speaking. Now Martha who was distracted with all the serving said, Lord, do you not care that my sister is leaving me to do the serving all by myself? Please tell her to help me. But the Lord answered: Martha, Martha, he said, you worry and fret about so many things, and yet few are needed, indeed only one. It is Mary who has chosen the better part; it is not to be taken from her. The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ Prayers of the Faithful: Let us remember that we are called to share our gifts: Lord hear our prayer. Communion Antiphon: The Lord, the gracious, the merciful, has made a memorial of his wonders; he gives food to those who fear him. 17 th Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 st Reading: Genesis 18:20-32 Resp. Psalm: 137: 1-3, nd Reading: Colossians 2:12-14 Gospel: Luke 11:1-13

6 REFLECTION A Queensland grazier, a Sydney stockbroker, and a woman barrister from Melbourne died and were standing in line, waiting for their chance at the entrance to Heaven. St Peter called the grazier first. We have only one simple requirement for entrance here, St Peter said, You must spell God. Easy enough, said the bloke from Queensland, G-O-D. And he entered Heaven. Next, St Peter called the man from Sydney. We have only one simple requirement for entrance here, he said. You must spell God. No problem, said the stockbroker, G-O-D. And he went in. Finally, the woman barrister approached St Peter. Good riddance to the world, she said. My whole life, I've tried to excel in a male-dominated society, only to continuously bump into the proverbial glass ceilings at every point. I can't tell you, St Peter, how glad I am finally to be rid of male chauvinism. Well, you'll certainly find none of that here, said St Peter. I'm sure you'll enjoy heaven, if you can meet this one simple requirement for entrance. You must spell Czechoslovakia. One of the things I find reassuring about today's Gospel is that the Church seems to have been wrestling with women's leadership since the very beginning. It's the issue that will not go away. When it comes to interpreting scripture, I am always pleased that I'm a Catholic. We're not fundamentalists or literalists. We believe that the truth of the scripture lies not just in the words themselves, but also in the careful interpretation of the text in history. The story of Martha and Mary is a complex narrative. It can be read on at least two levels. The first level is extraordinary enough: it focuses on Mary who assumes the position of the Rabbi's student and is defended against any attack on her right to be there. In first century Palestine, Jewish women were not permitted to be taught the Torah, but only instructed about how they should live their lives in obedience to its demands. They were not permitted to touch the scriptures nor to take part in public debate or official liturgical ritual. (Fitzmyer, Luke p.892) From this context we can see the sort of freedom Jesus envisaged for women, against the practice of his own day. On another level, however, this story focuses on Martha. The writer of Luke's Gospel tells us that we are in Martha's home and, that with Jesus as special guest at table, she is serving the members of her household with care and devotion. Martha comes across as strong and outspoken. Mary, meanwhile, is passive and silent. It is likely this story is criticising a call in Luke's community for women to move away from the leadership Jesus gave them and to adopt again the traditional roles to which the Jewish/Christians were more familiar. At the Vatican on 21 May 2000 the Pope told a group of Bishops from the USA: The genius of women must be ever more a vital strength of the Church of the next millennium, just as it was in the first communities of Christ's disciples. To that end today's story from such a community holds a key to our own dilemma. Just as Jesus broke through the gender boundaries of his own day, so too must we. We must renew our commitment to ending anything that degrades, exploits or dehumanises women throughout the world. But more, it's time for the Church to take some strong symbolic and practical steps to defend the leadership of women within our own Catholic community. For example, Church teaching does not stand in the way of re-admitting lay people, and this time lay women, into the College of Cardinals; women could continue to assume high profile positions in each Diocese and also leaderships roles within the Roman Curia, starting with those departments that deal with instructions and decisions that directly affect them; and the Church could welcome the ordination of women as Deacons. These avenues would enable women to have even more options for them to demonstrate and realise the full extent of their genius, as the Pope puts it. At this Eucharist, then, let us recommit ourselves to using, in the best possible way for the mission of the Church, the gifts, talents and strengths of over half our community. May we learn from the earliest Church, described in today's Gospel, that which is the better part and never take it away from her. Richard Leonard Liturgy Help.com.au