KEMPSEY - Macleay Valley Catholic Parish

All Saints, Kempsey
St. John’s, Willawarrin
Star of the Sea, Crescent Head
St Patrick’s, Smithtown
Our Lady Star of the Sea, South West Rocks
Liturgy of the Word
The Baptism of our Lord
WEEKDAY MASS - 11th to 15th January
Monday 11th NO MASS
Tuesday 12th
Wednesday
13th
Location
5.30pm Mass followed by
Exposition & Benediction
Kempsey
8.00am Smithtown Mass
Smithtown
Thursday 14th 9.30am Mass
6.00pm Crescent Head Mass
Friday 15th
Kempsey
Crescent Hd
9.30am Mass
Kempsey
Crescent Head 14th January Reading:
M Eller
Linen:
G Steinmetz
Flowers:
S Kyle
Offertory:
Eller Family
Cleaning:
R Western
1st Reading:
Location
Date
Time
Crescent Head
14th January
6.00pm
Willawarrin
28th January
6.00pm
Saturday
6.00 pm
Kempsey & SWR
Sunday
7.30 am
South West Rocks
Sunday
9.30 am
Kempsey
2nd Reading: St Paul 2:11-14;3:4-7
5.00 pm to 5.45 pm
Kempsey
Sunday
Before Mass
South West Rocks
Tuesday
5.50pm to 6.20pm
Kempsey
Smithtown
Weekly Roster
John said: He who is to
come is mightier than I;
he will baptise you with
the Holy Spirit and with
fire.
Alleluia!
He will be a servant, one who, though mighty, is gentle, one
who is chosen by the high God yet committed to the needy and the marginal, one
who is the proclaimed Son of God and who still attends to the least within the
human community.
He may have come from an insignificant village like Nazareth, but he was anointed
with the Holy Spirit and with power.
Episcopuss
Wisdom
Exits are on the
way OUT……...
Readers
Beryl Boccanfusso
Isabel Browne
Betty Green
Tony Corley
Paula Tamblyn
Margaret Goodwin
Offertory Procession
Peter Scott
Barbara Barbour
Tech / Commentator
Jill Bishton
Patricia Cullen
Malcolm Ptolemy
No Children’s Liturgy during school holidays
Activity Sheets available at back of church
Recorded Music
Recorded Music
Bruce & Roslyn Caldwell – Gloria McGee
Cleaning
The passage from Isaiah indicates the kind of messiah that
God intends Jesus to be.
FROM THE CATACOMBS:
Sunday 17th Jan
9.30am Mass
Music
This Christological feast brings to a close the Christmas
season that reveals who God is for us and who we are to be
for others in Christ. The baptism of Jesus inaugurates his
ministry as the messiah of God.
Alleluia, Allelluia!
Saturday 16th Jan
6.00pm Mass
Children’s Liturgy
Sunday only
The Baptism of our Lord –Year C
Gospel Acclamation:
“Whatever hour god has blessed
you with, take it with grateful
Hand”
Saturday
Hospitality
10th January, 2016
FROM THE CATECHISM:
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Ministers of
Eucharist
Fr Paul Gooley & Fr Joe Holloway
Oh, bless the Lord, my soul!
WEEKEND MASS - 16th & 17th January, 2016
Kempsey
Welcome to the Catholic Communities of the Macleay Valley
Responsorial Psalm:
Gospel: Luke: 3:15-16, 21-22
Other Mass Locations:
Wednesday Before Mass
Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11
52-58 Marsh St (P.O. Box 3007)
West Kempsey NSW 2440
Phone: 65625182 Fax: 65625716
Email: cathkemp@midcoast.com.au
Website: www.mvcp.org.au
South
West Rocks
Saturday
Sunday
Reader 1st
Saturday
Sunday
Reader 2nd
Saturday
Sunday
Reader 3rd
Saturday
Sunday
Offertory
Procession
Minister of
Eucharist
Cleaning
Saturday
Sunday
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday
Home Rosary
16th & 17th
January
2016
Anne Adams
M Henshaw
Anne Adams
M Henshaw
J Passmore
P Dikinson
P & N Reilly
M Henshaw
Anne Adams
Lynn Wise
M&C
Cunningham
Brady Family
For whom did the messiah of God come? He came for people who were broken
and suffering, blind or imprisoned. He came for people who are so easily pushed to
the margins, beyond our view, where the circumstances of their lives will not trouble
us – the homeless, the unemployed, the abandoned children, the helpless elderly, the
mentally and chronically ill. He also came to people who, like Cornelius, do not
belong to our inner circles, people who for any number
of reasons threaten us, people we might actually
despise. He came for the strangers among us, those
who have different cultural customs, those who worship
in different ways. He came for people we have pushed
out as well as for those we have refused to let in.
The messiah of God came for all
people without distinction.
St Joseph’s Primary
Kemp Street
Kinder to Year 6
After School Care
Vacation Care
Ph: 6562 5501
St Pauls College
Sea Street
Kempsey
Years 7 to 12
Ph: 6562 7200
Vincent Court
Care of the Aged
Leith Street
Ph: 6562 6062
Recently Deceased:
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Macleay menALIVE
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Weekend for Men
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Beverly Baddock
Gerald Jeffery
Alma Giddy
Therese Crotty
Albert Hillman
Jerrod Egan
John Single
Bill Blewitt
What are you doing on the
5th & 6th March, 2016?
Could you benefit from a
weekend featuring talks,
personal testimonies, opportunities for
discussion, and space to reflect? Since
menAlive commenced in 2003, thousands of
Catholic men have been encouraged and
inspired at weekends across Australia. Now, a
menALIVE weekend is being organised in
Kempsey, conducted by experienced leaders
from MAT.
Anniversary:
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Ainsley (Ena) Clarke
Warwick Clarke
Kit Eakin
Teddy Pond
Jim Tedd
Richard Brady
Enquiries
Leo Hauville
Ron Walker
6562 1083
6563 1762
Special Masses:
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Pregnancy Assistance
A Pregnancy Assistance
Line is available throughout
NSW 24hrs a day for the
cost of a local call for
country callers.
Ph 1300 792 798
Tiny Teddies
Playgroup
1st Thursday of
each month
9.30 to 1.30am
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The Underhill Family
Joyce Clarke
The Burge Family
The Merrell Family
Archbishop A Fisher
Jim Hanrahan
Lyle Stollery
SOUTH WEST ROCKS
Catholic Ladies Social Group
Wednesday 3rd February at 10.00am in
Boronia Gardens Hall, Lawson Street, SWR.
Please bring a plate to SHARE
Rosary & Adoration
Meet every Thursday from
8.00am to 9.00am In the SWR Church.
Prayer Group
South West Rocks Nursing Centre on the
3rd Wednesday of each month from 10.30am
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All of January there will be Saturday Vigil Mass
at SWR starting at 6.00pm as well as the usual
7.30am Sunday Mass
KEMPSEY:Rosary Cenacle: Thursday - 4.30pm
Rosary for our Country:
After 9.30 Mass on Fridays
at Mercy Chapel.
Rosary:
Sundays at 8.55am. For more
information please contact:Rhonda Henry on 6562 5386.
Catholic Leader &
Catholic Weekly:
On sale at South West Rocks and
Kempsey. $2.00 per copy.
Baptism Preparation Night:
The next preparation night will be on
Wednesday 3rd February 7.30 pm in the
Parish Meeting Room.
(located behind Kempsey Church)
St Joseph’s School Hall in Kemp Street
$2.00 per family
BYO Morning Tea
New Members Welcome
Please contact the Parish
Office to advise of your
attendance.
Our leaders for this meeting will
be Bruce & Maureen Morris.
Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the
Baptism of Our Lord. This brings to an end the
season of Christmas. The Church recalls Our
Lord's second manifestation or epiphany which
occurred on the occasion of His baptism in the
Jordan. Jesus descended into the River to
sanctify its waters and to give them the power
to beget sons of God. The event takes on the
importance of a second creation in which the
entire Trinity intervenes.
In the Eastern Church this feast is called
Theophany because at the baptism of Christ in
the River Jordan God appeared in three persons.
The baptism of John was a sort of sacramental
preparatory for the Baptism of Christ. It moved
men to sentiments of repentance and induced
them to confess their sins. Christ did not need
the baptism of John. Although he appeared in
the “substance of our flesh” and was recognized
“outwardly like unto ourselves,
he was
absolutely sinless and
impeccable.
He
conferred upon the water the power of the true
Baptism which would remove all the sins of the
world: “Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him
Who takes away the sin of the world”
Many of the incidents which accompanied
Christ's baptism are symbolical of what
happened at our Baptism. At Christ's baptism
the Holy Spirit descended upon Him; at our
Baptism the Trinity took its abode in our soul. At
His baptism Christ was proclaimed the “Beloved
Son” of the Father; at our Baptism we become
the adopted sons of God. At Christ's baptism the
heavens were opened; at our Baptism heaven
was opened to us. At His baptism Jesus prayed;
after our Baptism we must pray to avoid actual
sin.
Excerpted from Msgr. Rudolph G. Bandas