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Saturday 31st July 2021 Issue 232/2021
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Parish Office 8 Villiers Street Chinchilla QLD 4413 Phone: (07) 4662 7031 or 0429 547 711 Parish Administrator Fr Gonzalo Garcia Duran www.olhcchinchilla.org olhcchinchilla@bigpond.com Pastoral Parish Council Chairman Mr Bob Dickman Parish School St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School Mrs Melissa Hobson School Principal Ph: (07) 4662 7850 chinchilla@twb.catholic.edu.au Parish Safeguard Representative Noelle Nevin Ph: 0428 197 132 Diocese's Professional Standards & Safeguard Officer Fr Peter Dorfield Executive Officer Ph: (07) 4638 1379 Mass Times Weekdays Tuesday - Friday 9 am Schedule Weekend Mass During August 2021: Saturday 31st July - 6 pm Sunday 8th - 9 am Saturday 14th - 6 pm Sunday 22nd - 9 am Sunday 29th - 9 am Fr Gonzo Last Mass in Chinchilla Confessions First & Third Saturday of the Month 5 - 5.50 pm (Or by appointment) Senyor Santo Niño Novena Last Saturday of Each Month 3 pm - Saturday 28th August
If Bread must be baked in a fierce heat, [so] Bread then speaks of both joy and pain. Wine too speaks in this double way: On the one hand, it is a festive drink, perhaps our foremost symbol for celebration. Wine has nothing to do with basic nourishment or necessity. It is not a protein needed for health, but an extra that speaks of what lies beyond the hard business of making and sustaining a living. Wine speaks of friendship, community, celebration, joy, recreation, victory. We celebrate everything, not least of all love, with wine. But, like bread, wine has another side. Of what is wine made? Crushed grapes. Individual grapes are crushed and their very blood becomes the substance out of which ferments this warm, festive drink. No wonder Jesus chose it to represent his blood. It is helpful to keep this ambiguity in mind whenever we participate in the Eucharist. Bread and wine are held up to be blessed by God and to become the flesh and blood of Christ, and they are held up precisely in their ambiguity. On the one hand they represent everything in life and in the world that is healthy, young, beautiful, bursting with energy, and full of color. They represent the goodness of this earth, the joy of human achievements, celebration, festivity, and all that is contained in that original blessing when, after the first creation, God looked at the earth and pronounced it good. The Eucharist too gives off the smell of fresh bread. But that's half of it. The Eucharist also holds up, in sacrifice, all that is being crushed, broken, and baked by violence. The wine, fittingly, is also blood. At the Eucharist, we hold up both, the world's health and its achievements along with its depressions and failures, and ask God to be with us in both. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once put it this way: In a sense the true substance to be consecrated each day is the world's development during that day—the bread symbolizing appropriately what creation succeeds in producing, the wine (blood) what creation causes to be lost in exhaustion and suffering in the course of that effort.* What we see in the Eucharist, the goodness and joy of life and the pains and shortcomings of that same life, is the same tension that we need to hold up each day within our ordinary lives. How do we do that? By enjoying life and all its legitimate pleasures without guilt and without ever denigrating them in the name of God, truth, and the poor, even as we go and stand where the Cross of Christ is forever being erected, namely, where the excluded, the poor, the sick, the unattractive, the lonely, the hungry, the crushed, and the bleeding find their place. We properly live the tension of the Eucharist, the ambiguity of bread and wine, whenever we honor both the smell of fresh bread and the process by which it came to be. What that means is that we must fully honor the beauty of nature, the grace of an athlete, the energy inside music, the power and sacramentality inside sex, the humor inside a good comedian, the vibrant feel of health, and the color and zest that lie everywhere inside of life itself, even as we are conscious of and in solidarity with all that is being excluded from or victimized by these wonderful energies which ultimately take their origin in God. In John's gospel, water becomes wine and wine becomes blood and blood and water both eventually flow out of the pierced side of Jesus. That happens too in the Eucharist and it happens in our lives. The task is to hold them both in our hands, as happens at Eucharist, and then offer them up to God. Ron Rolheiser
MASS READINGS First Reading - Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15 How is your trust in God when God calls you to new journeys in your spiritual life or ministry? Responsorial Psalm R. The Lord gave them bread from heaven. Second Reading - Ephesians 4:17, 20-24 Paul urges them to “ … put on the new self.” Do you think God is ever finished creating you? Is this something you do (or God does) just once, or do you (or does God) do it continually? Gospel - - John 6:24-35 “Our ancestors ate manna in the desert.” What is the food you need for your life’s journey? Why do you think Jesus comes to us as bread or even as food/nourishment?
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL 18th Sunday - Ordinary Time - Year B For our Pope, who understands the spiritual hunger of Christ's flock: that the Church may be nourished and renewed in his care. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. For bishops, priests and deacons and all who feed God's people with the bread of life: that they, too, maybe fed. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. For all who feel empty inside: that believers may reach out with new hope and meaning to those who are spiritually impoverished in our world. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. For governments and global leaders: that there may be a greater political will to eradicate the causes of material hardship and physical hunger. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. For ourselves: that in serving those in need, we, too, may be bread for the world. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. We bring before the Lord anyone we know personally who is suffering in mind, body or spirit at this time. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer. For those who have died recently: we ask the Lord's grace and comfort for those who are in mourning or sorrow. (pause) Lord in your mercy ... Hear our prayer.
MONTHLY ROSTER
AUGUST
Grounds
P Gearon team
Brass
L Gadsby
Linen
M Weir
Floral
Meals On Wheels
M Keating, L Gadsby, C Weir, M Weir
Computer Streaming
D Borck
Bulletin Typing
michelle.nitz@twb.catholic.edu.au
WEEKEND MASS
8th August Sunday 9am
Welcome
L Erbacher
Readers
L and B Erbacher
Organist
Gifts
Lenihan Family
Eucharistic Minister
J Bourke
COVID Safe Helpers
P and N Gearon
Collection Counters
M and S Burke
Eternal God, in wisdom and love you created our earth to sustain and give us life. We turn to you now in faith, hope and love, asking you to look with favour on our drought-stricken land, on our starving animals, on our failing crops. Strengthen, sustain and give new heart to our farmers and to all who are affected by drought; be with those who support them. In your loving providence, send abundant rain and restore our parched earth. Father of all compassion, hear our prayer through Jesus Christ your Son, in whom the promise of new life has dawned, and through the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord the giver of life: Renew your faithful people; Renew the face of the earth. Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Mary, help of Christians - Pray for us. St Mary of the Cross MacKillop - Pray for us.
Sick: Frances Ledwith, Therese Keane, Gerald Collins, John Eley (Beenleigh), Sister Mary O'Sullivan OSU, Elaine Jahnke, Grace Ogilvie. Anniversaries: Lola Eichmann, Fr Peter Schultz, Fr Mark Cosgrove. If you wish to add someone to the sick list, please contact the bulletin typist, after seeking permission from the person or a family member. Thank you.
Fr Gonzalo Garcia Duran - 07 4662 7031 Vocation Directors for the Diocese of Toowoomba vocations@twb.catholic.org.au
JULY Social Friendship We pray that, in social, economic and political situations of conflict, we may be courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship.
NO ONE IS BORN A PRIEST...
!! EVENT CANCELLED: Peter Kearney Concert Peter Kearney Concert "Signs of Hope - People of Faith" scheduled for3/8/21 at St Patrick's Cathedral Centre has been cancelled due to COVID restrictions. MASS FOR YOU AT HOME 50TH ANNIVERSARY Sunday 1/8/21 will mark the 50th anniversary ofMass for You at Home. It becomes the first program on commercial television in Australia to reach the 50-year milestone. As was the case when it first went to air in 1971, Mass for You at Home is produced for people who are unable to attend their local worshipping community on Sunday.Mass for You at Homeis today a production of the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong, in partnership with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. It is broadcast on Channel Ten across the country at 6am on Sunday, and is also available online and on Foxtel. Locally, 9:00am Sunday Mass is live streamed from St Patrick's Cathedral Toowoomba and can be viewed through thediocese's website, Facebook or YouTube. SOCIAL JUSTICE STATEMENT 2021—2022 This year’s Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement will be launched on 5/8/21 (Thursday) with the theme "Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor". The statement affirms that “we human beings need a change of heart, mind, and behaviour” and draws from Scripture, from the theological tradition, from Catholic Social Teaching, and from the wisdom of the world, including the insights of the First Nations. The statement will beavailable for download from the ACBC Office for Social Justice websitefrom launch day. The ACBC Office for Social Justice have also provided liturgy notes for Social Justice Sunday 29/8/21. Notes are alsoavailable from the ACBC Office for Social Justice website. THE GOOD OIL 2021 WRITERS' AWARD Entry is now open for The Good Oil 2021 Writers’ Award, an initiative of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan which aims to support and encourage the development of emerging and published writers. Entrants are asked to write on the theme Inclusivity, which is embodied in the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37). Entries close at midnight AEST on 22/8/21 (Sunday). For further information and to download the entry form and guidelinesvisit the Sisters of the Good Samaritan's website. UPDATE: Resources for Discussion Surrounding VAD Legislation - "Palliative Care First" The following resources have been developed to support parishes in joining the discussion surrounding voluntary assisted dying bill (euthanasia). There has also been an update to include images for inclusion in newsletters or social media.Download resources here..
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
Dear God, You created me with a specific purpose for my life; this is my vocation. Please help me to hear, understand, and follow Your call with my whole heart, especially when it seems most difficult. We ask that You inspire people whom You call to the priesthood and consecrated life to courageously follow your will. Send workers into Your great harvest so that the Gospel is preached, the poor are served with love, the suffering are comforted, and Your people are strengthened by the sacraments. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Only when they rest in God can they find the certainty and the freedom to become all that they can be. Contemplation has its place at the heart of Christianity, a place that allows people to experience how "everything belongs. Conctact Dahl Borck if you want to borrow this book from the library.
Farewell to Fr Gonzo! Father Gonzo will celebrate his final mass in our parish on Sunday 29th August at 9 am. We invite you to stay after mass to share morning tea together. Please bring a small plate to share. A message book for Fr Gonzo will be on the back table in the church for the next few weeks. Please take the time to write a farewell message to Fr Gonzo as he begins his new placement in Stanthorpe.
Our Lady Help of Christians' Parish is committed to supporting the right of everybody to be and feel safe. If you believe anybody is at immediate risk of harm you should phone 000 and report the matter to police. Other concerns about the safety of children or vulnerable persons may be raised with our Parish Safeguarding Representative (Noelle Nevin - 0428197132), with the Diocesan Professional Standards Office (07 4638 1379 or profstandards@twb.catholic.org.au), or with the Queensland Professional Standards Office (1800 337 928 or http://psoqld.catholic.net.au/).
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION 2021
Teams: 2x Bowlers 2x Non Bowlers Please place names or teams on board as soon as possible. Chinchilla Bowls Club - 4662 7319 Ken & Elva Henningsen - 0407 627 391
CHARITY BOWLS DAY "All Cancers, All Colours" Sunday 1st August Chinchilla Bowls Club Arrive at 11:30 am, games begin 12 pm Multi-Draw Raffle $100 Note Afternoon Tea Provided Prize For Best Dressed Team
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