30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME -

YEAR A

29 October 2017

Sacred Heart

Catholic Parish

PARISH CHURCHES Church of the Sacred Heart

Murwillumbah Street, Murwillumbah

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

River Street, South Murwillumbah

St. Brigid’s Church Broadway, Burringbar

St. Columba’s Church Convent Lane, Uki

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PARISH STAFF

Parish Priest

Fr. Anthony Lemon

Parish Manager

Mary-Ann Thackray

Parish Secretary

Beth Gorton

Pastoral Associate

Barbara Grant —————————————————

PARISH OFFICE

Monday to Friday 9.00am - 3.00pm Phone: 02 6672 1118

Website: www.shpmurwillumbah.com.au

Email: shpmbah@norex.com.au

Mail: PO Box 45 Street: Queensland Road,

Murwillumbah NSW 2484

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PARISH SCHOOLS

Mt. St. Patrick College

Murwillumbah Street, Murwillumbah

Ph: 02 6672 2340 mspcmbah@lism.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Mr. Paul Clohesy

Mt. St. Patrick Primary School

Mooball Street, Murwillumbah

Ph: 02 6672 1821

murp@lism.catholic.edu.au Principal: Mr. Brendan Ryan

St. Joseph’s Primary School

Greville Street, South Murwillumbah

Ph: 02 6672 1867

smurp@lism.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Mr. Jason Clarke

The greatest love The rabbis in Jesus’ time identified 613 commands (248

positive [you shall] and 365 negative [you shall not]) that were prescribed in the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament. Given the impossible burden this posed, this prompted much argument as to which were the most important.

When, in the gospel today, the Pharisees, through a lawyer, ask Jesus which is the greatest commandment, they do it to trick him, knowing that he is unschooled in the intricacies of Jewish Law.

Jesus’ reply is disarmingly simple and straightforward. Jesus is in no doubt about the first and greatest commandment. It is to love God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. But Jesus immediately goes on to state that the second commandment is to love your neighbour. Notice that he distinguishes these two commands, but he does not separate them.

Indeed, he indicates that, in a sense, they constitute a single command. His point is very clear: love of God and love of neighbour go hand in hand and, together, encapsulate what God requires of us.

But Jesus then adds a punch line that is a real challenge to his interlocutors: “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” In other words, these two commandments are not simply the greatest or the most important. But all other laws (those 613 or any others that might be promulgated) fall under these two. Those two commandments are the core. They are like the pillars from which all else hangs and to which all others must adhere.

Here then we come to the very heart of Jesus’ teaching about how we are to live our lives and express our discipleship. It is love that is commanded of us as his followers. This love is to be expressed in mercy, compassion and forgiveness, in generosity of heart and magnanimity of spirit, in our individual lives and in our life together as a community.

Today’s reading from the Book of Exodus puts before us some very concrete demands of love of neighbour: we are not to wrong or oppress a resident alien. This surely prompts us to reflect in particular on our response, individually and collectively, to refugees and asylum seekers.

We are also urged not to abuse any widow or orphan, nor the defenceless or the vulnerable, the poor or oppressed. To meet these very practical and concrete demands of love of neighbour is an essential aspect of our Christian lives.

Jesus’ teaching is so very simple and yet so profoundly challenging. Just as he challenged his listeners then, he challenges us today to reflect on our behavior in terms of our love of neighbour, and how we might do better, and on our love of God and how we might grow in loving God with all our heart, soul and mind.

Emeritus Professor Anne Hunt OAM © Redemptorists 2017

Reprinted from the Sunday Majellan with permission

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL MARY MACKILLOP

CONFERENCE meets each Wednesday

at Parish Meeting Centre. New members welcome.

“Come Grow With Us”.

Phone: Marie Donaghy 6672 2933

ROSARY STATUE Pam Willock

COUNTERS:

29 Oct: T & P Zambelli

05 Nov: J Morgan & L Green

12 Nov: G & K Bewes

19 Nov: P & R Marr

26 Nov: M & M Cooper

31 Nov: P & L McMahon

03 Dec: U O’Grady & B Brodbeck

10 Dec: C & J Anderson

31st SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME

- Year A 4/5 November

Sacred Heart Murwillumbah

6.00pm Saturday

Sacred Heart Murwillumbah 8.00am Sunday

Acolyte J Reynolds T Zambelli

Altar Servers B Piccini

B Cracknell, W Gradisnik P Kee

B Kirby, J Farrell

Readers YOUTH F Wright (C) P/F

B Nolan R L Green R

Ministers of Communion

L Hosking (C) N Macartney, M Mumford

D & B Guinea

M Chiesa (C) I & B Dusi

M Reynolds, MA Thackray

Hospitality YOUTH F Berg & B McGrouther

Procession of Gifts YOUTH B Cook & partner

Children’s Liturgy J Dixon V Hughes

The Sacred Heart Church

‘Prayer Chapel’ is open for

private prayer on weekdays.

THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH 29 OCTOBER - 5 NOVEMBER

CHURCH CLEANING SANCTUARY & ALTAR Sacred Heart Church: 29 Oct & 5 Nov: B Gorton, M ReynoldsM Trevithick

OLPS Church, Sth M’bah

November: D Banner

Sunday 30th SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME - Year A

8:00am Mass - Sacred Heart Church

No 10am Mass in Parish this weekend (5th Sunday)

Tuesday 4.15pm - 5.15pm Adoration - Sacred Heart Church

5.30pm Mass - Sacred Heart Church

6.00pm Rosary - Sacred Heart Church

Wednesday ALL SAINTS DAY

12noon - 5.15pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament - Sacred Heart Church

5.30pm Mass - Sacred Heart Church

Thursday ALL SOULS DAY

8.30am Mass - Sacred Heart Church

9:00am - 12noon Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament - Sacred Heart Church

Friday 9.30am Mass - MSPPS Grandparents Mass - Sacred Heart Church

10:00am Mass - M’bah Nursing Home - Fr. John Darbyshire

10:00am Communion Service - Heritage Lodge - L Hosking

There is NO 12.15pm Mass today

2.45pm - 3.45pm Adoration - Sacred Heart Church

Saturday 9.00am Rosary - Sacred Heart Church

6.00pm Vigil Mass - YOUTH - Sacred Heart Church

Sunday 31st SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME - Year A

8:00am Mass - Sacred Heart Church

10.00am Mass - St. Columba’s, Uki

PARISH “CUPPA” Sunday 12th November

with Anderson Family Group

Readings next week: (Year A) 31st SUNDAY in ORDINARY TIME Malachi 1:14 - 2:2, 8-10; 1 Thess 2:7-9, 13; Mt 23:1-12

RECENTLY DECEASED: Jimmy Budd, Les Daley, Vincent Cormick, Phoebe McNamara, Patricia O’Connor, Reggie Connolly, Elsie Farrell, Neville Kavanagh.

ANNIVERSARIES: Dagger Haigh, Ken McDonald, Gus Dignan.

NOTICE BOARD

CALENDAR

~NOVEMBER ~ 06 Rosary & Prayers - OLPS, Sth M’bah 08 9am Mass - Greenhills Lodge 09 THE DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA 09 Compassionate Friends Support Meeting 10 MSPC Year 12 Formal 12 32ND SUNDAY IN ORD. TIME - YR A 9am Cuppa in Hall 10am Mass - OLPS, Sth M’bah 12 noon - Baptisms 14 Baptism Preparation Meeting 16 Finance Council Meeting 18 Wedding: Sacred Heart Church Laura Gilbert & Keegan Thompson 19 33RD SUNDAY IN ORD. TIME - YR A 10am Mass - St Brigid’s, Burringbar Baptism - Burringbar 21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 25 Christmas Carnival & Nativity Tableau 26 OUR LORD, JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE - YR A 10am Mass - OLPS, Sth M’bah Baptisms

~DECEMBER ~ 01 10am Mass - M’bah Nursing Home 02 Vigil Mass - YOUTH - Sacred Heart 03 FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT - YR B 10am Mass - St Columba’s, Uki

CATHOLIC PAPERS - $2 each

Catholic Leader & Catholic Weekly on sale today

PLEASE PRAY FOR: SACRAMENTS

RECONCILIATION - Sacred Heart: Saturday : 5.30pm - 5.50pm

Sunday: 7.30am - 7.50am

BAPTISMS: Sacred Heart Church - 12.00pm

2nd and 4th Sundays of each month

(At least four weeks notice required)

Baptism Preparation Evening:

7.00pm Parish Administration Centre

on 2nd Tuesday of each month.

Next Evening - Tuesday 14th November

2017 HSC EXAMS Please remember in your prayers the Year 12 students

as they continue their HSC exams this week.

MASS & ADORATION TIMES

ALL SAINTS DAY WEDNESDAY, 1 NOVEMBER

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION from 12 noon - 5.15pm

followed by 5.30PM MASS in Sacred Heart Church

ALL SOULS DAY THURSDAY, 2 NOVEMBER

8.30AM MASS followed by

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION until 12 noon in Sacred Heart Church

LITURGY ROSTERS: New liturgy rosters are now available.

Please take your copy home with you

this weekend.

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible;

and suddenly you are doing the impossible. - Francis of Assisi

Parish Office Mail Box:

The Parish Office has a mail box, located at the Staff Entrance of the Parish Administration Centre.

This box may be used to drop off items or correspondence (eg. Mass Intention Envelopes, Christmas Carnival Raffle tickets, November Mass Intention envelopes) at times when the office is closed.

NOVEMBER - HOLY SOULS November is a special time for praying for the dead.

During this month people traditionally request “November Masses”

for deceased relatives & friends. Envelopes for these Masses are

in the Planned Giving pack of envelopes or on the table at the

Church entrance.

Prayers during November may also be requested for deceased relatives and friends by writing their names on the yellow cards (at

the Church entrance) and placing the card on the Church

noticeboard.

In 2 Maccabees 12:43-46 we read “It is therefore a holy and a wholesome thought

to pray for the Dead.”

INVEST WITH PEACE OF MIND www.dif.org.au Phone 1800 802 516 Paying 2.15%

Agents: Egan Simpson Solicitors: 15 Prince Street, Murwillumbah.

30TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - A

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: (Ps: 17) R. I love you, Lord, my strength. IF SUNG: R. I love you, Lord, my strength, with all my

heart.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION:

Alleluia, Alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them and we will come to them. Alleluia!

56th CHRISTMAS CARNIVAL & NATIVITY TABLEAU

SATURDAY 25 NOVEMBER RAFFLE TICKETS:

People on the Planned Giving Programme may collect their 2017 Christmas Carnival Raffle tickets, located on the table at the Church entrance.

Parishioners, not on the Planned Giving Programme, and who would like Raffle tickets, can pick up a book of tickets after Mass - located on the table at the Church entrance (Enter your name against the ticket number on the sheet provided), or from the Parish Office.

ONLY 4 WEEKS UNTIL CARNIVAL DAY!

CATHOLIC MISSION APPEAL - THANK YOU

Thank you for supporting this year’s Catholic

Mission Church Appeal through your kind gifts

and prayers—for joining in Jesus’ life-giving

mission and supporting women and children’s

health in Uganda and around the world.

Your generosity makes it possible for local

missionaries like Sister Mary Goretti to provide essential services for women and children in their time

of need. We invite you to consider partnering with us through a regular monthly gift and continuing your support of this life-giving work of mission.

Freecall: 1800 257 296

www.catholicmission.org.au/uganda

CARNIVAL STALLS WILL OPEN FROM 4:00 PM

THE NATIVITY TABLEAU WILL BE COMMENCE AT 7PM

IN THE GILBEY CENTRE.

THERE WILL BE NO VIGIL MASS ON SATURDAY EVENING.

FINANCIAL REPORT TO THE PARISH

FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2016

Included with this weekend’s bulletin is the financial summary for the parish for the year ended 31 December 2016.

This summary highlights the fact that our parish is in a position where our parish expenses significantly outweighs our parish income for the year. It should be noted that a

decision was made by the Parish Finance Council to not include schools based income and expenses (including the

planned giving donations to the Schools Building Fund) as has

been the case in previous years so that we can have a clearer picture of how the parish itself is faring financially.

Based on the outcome of the financial summary, we would like to ask parishioners who do not require a receipt for taxation purposes to consider transferring their donation from

the School Building Fund to a 100% donation to the General Parish Fund. At the moment approximately $21,500 from Planned Giving is pledged to the School Building Fund. If you

are happy to make this change, please contact the Parish Business Manager to advise of your wishes or complete a gifting card to update your pledge.

We wish to thank our existing contributors whose loyalty has helped maintain the parish over many years and invite those

parishioners who have not been part of the Planned Giving Program to consider joining the program.

If you have any questions regarding the enclosed financial summary or planned giving, please speak to one of our Parish Finance Council members or to our Parish Business Manager,

Mary-Ann Thackray.

Congratulations Anne Egan OAM This week, His Excellency, David Hurley, Governor of NSW, conferred upon Anne

The Order of Australia Medal in acknowledgment of Anne’s tireless service to her community.