Weekly Bulletin - Catholic Diocese of Ballarat

Examen
2nd Sunday of Lent – Year B
1st March 2015
1. Give Thanks. I thank God for this day, for my life, for all I am and have, and for His Word.
2. Pray for Light. I ask the Father to let me see my day as the Holy Spirit sees it, and to show me what I need to see.
3. Find God. I look at my day in the light of the Spirit. What I have done? Did I do what I had planned? What happened that
wasn’t planned? How did I respond? What did my heart tell me?
4. Anything Wrong? Have I been anxious? Sad? Focused on myself? Does something in a relationship need to be addressed? Have
I been ungrateful?
5. What Now? What do I need from God today? What do I need to do today? Tomorrow?
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As we celebrate, we acknowledge the Indigenous owners of the land on which The Church of The Immaculate
Conception is built, the Tjapwurong people, and we respect the presence of the spirits of their ancestors among us.
FIRST READING
Gn 22:1-2. 9-13. 15-18
The sacrifice of Abraham, our father in faith.
Mass of the Oils - The Mass of the Oils will be celebrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Ballarat at 6.30 p.m. on Monday, March 30. All
welcome
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Ps 115:10. 15-19. R. 114:9
Ministers of the Eucharist Training
(R.) I will walk in the presence of the Lord in the land of the living.
Thankyou to those who have volunteered to become new Ministers of the Eucharist. ALL Ministers of the Eucharist (new and old)
are asked to attend a training session. The same session will be offered four times in the hope that most people can attend a session.
Especially for those who take communion to the hospital and its residential care centres, attendance is necessary so that you will
comply with the hospital’s legal obligations. The one hour session will be offered at the following times:
1. I trusted, even when I said: ‘I am sorely afflicted.’
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Friday March 13, 9.15am
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Friday March 13, 4pm
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Saturday March 14, 5pm
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Sunday March 15, after 10.30 Mass
Promenade of Sacred Music—Thursday April 16 – Sunday April 19 Hamilton Venues – info:
www.promenadeofsacredmusic.com.au
Alcoholics Anonymous - Open community meeting – Meeting Room at Rear of Bank of Bendigo, Saturday March 21 2pm. Info:
goldfieldstogrampians@outlook.com
Family Mass - The next Family Mass will be on Sunday March 8, 5pm.
Anointing of the Sick – Available after all Masses
1st Rite Reconciliation – Available after all Masses. Please bring your bulletin with you to discuss the Examen.
Library - Feel welcome to borrow from the bookshelf in the foyer in Ararat.
Prayers for the Sick - Names will be taken for yourself or your next of kin and published on the bulletin for a month.
Children and the Toilet - Please accompany all children who need the toilet during Mass.
O precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful. (R.)
2. Your servant, Lord, your servant am I; you have loosened my bonds.
A thanksgiving sacrifice I make: I will call on the Lord’s name. (R.)
3. My vows to the Lord I will fulfil before all his people,
in the courts of the house of the Lord, in your midst, O Jerusalem. (R.)
SECOND READING
Rom 8:31-34
God did not spare his own Son.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
See Mt 17:5
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
From the shining cloud, the Father’s voice is heard:
this is my beloved Son, hear him.
Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ!
GOSPEL
Mk 9:2-10
This is my Son, the beloved; listen to him.
Copyright ICEL. Used with permission
PARISH PRAYER
Loving God, Good Shepherd of us all,
gather us and form us into a welcoming Parish family.
Touch our hearts with your love so that we, in turn, may reach out in love
to one another, In a neighbourly community.
We ask this through Jesus Christ Our Lord.
Amen.
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, ARARAT, ST. BERNARD’S, LAKE BOLAC,
THISWEEK
WEEK 12th/13th
28th/1st
THIS
SAINT PATRICK'S, WILLAURA
PARISH PRIEST:
Fr Andrew Hayes
304a Barkly Street, Ararat Vic 3377 , PO Box 92, Ararat Vic 3377
FACILITATOR:
FACILITATOR:
FACILITATOR:
SAT:
SUN: Greg
Carroll
SAT: Angela
Carmel Reynolds
Brennan SUN:
Margaret
Olle
SAT: Geoff White SUN: Peter Brennan
READERS:
READERS:
READERS:
SAT: Gleynce North SUN: John Brennan
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
ararat@ballarat.catholic.org.au
www.ballarat.catholic.org.au
PRINCIPAL ST. MARY'S SCHOOL:
Mr Tom Hogan
SAT:
Joyce
SUN:Vin
Terry
Arnold
SAT:Anne-Maree
Glenyce North
SUN:
Hooper
Mr John Crowley
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
PRINCIPAL MARIAN COLLEGE:
NEXT WEEK 7th/8th
EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS:
Events at Willaura
March 22nd - Closing
Mass 12 Noon Bring lunch
to Share
SAT: R. Jerram, G. North, H. Collins
OFFICE HOURS:
ST. MARY’S PARISH OFFICE:
Ph:
5352 5460
Wednesday: 8.30 am - 4.30 pm
ARARAT MASS PROGRAMME FOR THIS WEEK
TUESDAY 3rd
11.30 am
Funeral of Hazel Gleeson
WEDNESDAY 4th
5.00 pm
Ararat
THURSDAY 5th
9.30 am
Ararat
FRIDAY 6th
6.00 pm
Hopkins Correctional Centre
SAT: M. Stapleton, Sr. Maree, P. Davis
SAT: T. Gemmola, R. Jerram, H. Collins
SUN : B. Stoneman, G. O’Loughlan, N. Billings- SUN : M. Olle, C. Bulger
SUN
ley : B. Stoneman, G. Oloughlan
COUNTERS:
COUNTERS:
COUNTERS:
A & V Joyce
SUN: Jerram Family
G.Carmichael, B. Holland, P.McAloon
28th Feb/1st March 2015
RECENT DEATHS:
Hazel Gleeson
MON: Ron
Jerram,
Ted Lane Harry & Anna
GOLDEN
GATE
COMMUNION
GOLDEN GATE COMMUNION
GOLDEN GATE
COMMUNION Elizabeth
FLOWERS:
LENT
Derek & Maureen
FLOWERS:
No Flowers for lent
CHURCH
CLEANING:-
FLOWERS: LENT
Shirley
Pickering,
Kaye Chamings
CHURCH
CLEANING:
Shirley Pickering Kaye
CHURCH CLEANING:- Margaret Olle
Chamings
WELCOMERS
WELCOMERS
WELCOMERS
SAT:
Duane & Mary Stapleton
SAT: Duane & Mary Stapleton
SAT: Marg
Jerram
SUN:
Lupe&&Ron
David
Anderson
SUN: Lupe & David Anderson
SUN: Brian & Margaret Joyce
SATURDAY 7th
SUNDAY 8th
6.00 pm
8.30 am
10.30 am
5.00 pm
Ararat
Lake Bolac Assembly of the Word
and Communion
Ararat
Family Mass Ararat
ANNIVERSARIES:
Julie O'Brien, Brian Toner, Bill
Campigli, William Kneebone,
Gwen Clark, Teresa Cairns, Fr.
Matt McGloin , Jason Bond, Fr.
Gerard Gasper CSsR, Fr. Gerard
Gasper CSsR, Margaret Sinnott,
Fr. Wladyslali Ziolkos, Pat Kenny
LAKE BOLAC
READER:
R. Phillips
PRAYERS:
V. Reid
LAKE BOLAC—Assembly of the Word &
Communion
READER:
T. Higgins
EUCHARISTIC MINISTER: R. Liston
PRAYERS:
J. Aldous
CLEANING: J. Aldous
EUCHARISTIC MINISTER: I. Meek
CLEANING:
MEETINGS & EVENTS
A VOCATION VIEW
If you need an example of a person responding to a vocational
call, look at Abraham - called in old age to leave his country,
father a child, then asked to sacrifice the child. What faith!
Vocation is a risky response to a unique call from God.
SICK:
Parish Offering envelopes. -Collection money to support the running and care of the Parish comes from
those Parishioners who belong to the Planned Giving programme.
Barry Wilson, Shirley Billet,
Bernard Joyce
For those who don’t belong to the PGP there isn’t any means by which you are able to support the
running of the parish via the collection at Mass.
Hence the Parish Finance and Admin Committee have produced specific envelopes marked “Parish
Offering “ to give those who don’t belong to the PGP the opportunity to support the Parish.
The envelopes are in bundles of 15 and we urge you to take a bundle or two to help us meet the Parish
needs.
We thought if a number of Parishioners took up the offer whether it be weekly, fortnightly, monthly, six
monthly or one off, it would certainly help meet the shortfall we are facing this financial year.
Lenten Groups
Lenten Discussion groups will be held this week on Wednesday evening at 5.30 pm mass. The Discussion groups will be held in the Parish
Community Centre.
The latest issue of Kairos in now available at the back
of the church. $2 each.
Featuring “Time Out with Sculptor Leopoldine
Mimovich”
Envelopes are available in the church or by contacting Emma in the Parish Office.
Support of our Parish Priest and the Presbytery will still be via envelopes attached to the PG envelopes
and all the loose collection collected at Mass.
Planned Giving -The Planned Giving (which supports the Parish) is currently $7000.00 behind in the
gifted amount anticipated at the end of February this year. We would be most grateful if those who are
behind could catch up.
World Day of Prayer– Uniting Church Willaura will be holding a service for the World Day of Prayer on
Friday March 6th beginning with morning tea at 10 am. ALL MOST WELCOME.
Salvation Army Ararat will be holding a World Day of Prayer service at 1.30 pm on Friday March 6th.
Next meeting of St.
Vincent De Paul Society
will be held on Tuesday the
3rd March at 7.00pm.