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Granville
Catholic Church Record
Vol. 5. No. 8 February 23, 2020 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
The Official Bulletin of Holy Trinity Church at Granville and Holy Family Church at East Granville
In the Beginning In the Community
Our Trinitarians Youth Ministry We are active in many aspects of
celebrate their eighth anniversary this the parish including serving at Mass,
week, marking eight years of youth the music ministry, and children’s
discussions, dinners, socials and liturgy as well as the parish’s many
fundraisers. other liturgical and social events.
Established in 2012, the group Our dedication to our fundraising
aimed to draw together the younger and participation in our parish has
members of our parish, from year 7 seen us travel nationally for the
and above. Our first meeting saw Australian Catholic Youth Festival in
four members attend and now we’re 2015 and 2019, and internationally
joined by over twenty members and with thousands of other youth to
there has been growing interest from Krakow and Panama for World Youth
young adults bringing along greater TRINITARIANS Day in 2016 and 2019. And we hope
discussion and also great role models to create many more memorable
for our younger members. Y O U T H moments in the years to come.
Every month the Trinitarians meet
Thank You
at the parish office at Holy Family M I N I S T RY All of our achievements would
Church and discuss faith based topics
not have been imaginable without
relevant to us. These gatherings are a GRANVILLE the support of the parish. In
great opportunity for our younger
particular, we are very grateful for the
8
parishioners to speak their thoughts,
leadership of Rosette Chidiac, the
ask questions and come to know our
faith. We have regular activities that
C E L E B R AT I N G founder of the Trinitarians, whose
commitment and dedication has seen
help them put their faith into action
the group grow over these seven
and consider how they can live their
years. And our meetings would not
Catholic faith in their day-to-day
be the same without the support of
lives. This is usually followed by
Sr. Susanne, as she brings along her
dinner and games. It has been great
guitar and encourages us to sing and
to witness the new friendships and
pray. We also thank the Trinitarian
the growing confidence of many of
parents who do all the hard work
our members over these years.
whilst we have our fun—they drop
In the Parish off, pick up, drive us around and
In these eight years, the s u p e r v i s e a l l o u r e ve n t s a n d
Trinitarians have contributed to many meetings. It is through this support
memorable moments for our parish. that we can continue to thrive and
Our fundraising has brought forth the grow.
generosity of the parish particularly The Trinitarians meet on a
with some of our more unique ideas monthly basis, usually on Friday
such as trapping our youth evenings, and we are always keen to
coordinator in a toy cage or cooking welcome new faces.
a pancake breakfast. We have So keep your eye on our parish
supported many parish events and Facebook and Instagram pages and
are always eager to pitch in where
possible. YEARS join us at our next event or to keep
up with all that is happening.
THE PARISH OFFICE HOLY FAMILY CHURCH HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Address Holy Mass Holy Mass
200 The Trongate, Tuesday, 9:15 a.m. Monday, 9:15 a.m.
South Granville, N.S.W. 2142 Wednesday, 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 9:15 a.m. Wednesday, 8:15 a.m.
T 0497 190 444
E granville@parracatholic.org Friday, 9:15 a.m. Thursday, 8:15 a.m.
Saturday, 9:15 a.m. Friday, 8:15 a.m.
Sunday, 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Saturday, 8:15 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.
Parish Priest
Confessions Sunday, 10:00 a.m.
Rev. Fr. Andrew Bass PP
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. Confessions
Business and Projects Manager
Sunday, 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Saturday, 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
John Portelli
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Holy Mass and Adoration
Director of Music
Wednesday, 6:00 p.m. of the Blessed Sacrament
John Portelli
Holy Rosary Tuesday, 6:30 p.m.
Acolytes Co-ordinator
Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. First Friday of the month, 7:00 p.m.
Jim Newell
Traditional Latin Mass
Catechist Co-ordinators
Joe Elias Rosters Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Lana Leatherby Ghanaian Chaplaincy Mass
Altar Society Group 3: S. Koopelian
Sacraments and T.Y.M. Co-ordinator and A. Brown Second and last Sunday of the month,
Rosette Chidiac No flowers during Lent 11:30 a.m.
Online and Social Media Co-ordinators Readers Vietnamese Chaplaincy Mass
Rosette Chidiac Sunday, 5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. Janet Stephens
John Portelli
5:00 p.m. Daniel Azzi Children’s Liturgy
Piety Shop Sundays, 10:00 a.m.
Elsie Bugeja Counters R. La Rosa and B. Bradbery
Wanda Krasinski Lawry
Rosters
Claudette Takchi Bus Driver John McIntyre
Christine Tembo Church Cleaning Group 1: L. Hale,
Thorie Tembo D. Portelli, L. Toman, W. Krasinski,
Annette Wirz SOCIAL MEDIA F. Nassif, A. Quinlan, B. Francis,
Missionary Sisters of Mary, L. Franco, G. Massih, M. Norman,
Queen of the World — Australia granvilleparish.org.au J. Galea
Sr. Justina Pham ⎜ T (02) 9637-1827 eastgranvilleparish.org.au Readers
Principal of Holy Family School Holy Trinity Granville Vigil Ana-Louise Vella,
Cheryl Fortini Holy Family East Granville Rosette Chidiac, Sisters
Principal of Holy Trinity School 10:00 a.m. Rosza Kazmer,
Holy Trinity Parish App
Philip Mahony Raphaella Chidiac, Belinda Martin
Holy Family Parish App
Acting Principal of Delany College Children’s Liturgy Raphaella and
Paul Easton @holytrinitygranville Reanne
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK IN MEMORIAM
Janelle Allan, John Anjoul, Marlene Ashton, John Augustus, Robert Aitken, John Aungle, Maria Tran Thi Bay, Kathleen
Bradbery, Paul Bradbery, Charles Bugeja, Dick Cahill, Gwen
Frank Azzopardi, Ann Blesson, Antonia Bonaci, Vincenzo
Cahill, Vincent Cahill, Caruana family, Carmel Collins, Antonios
Colosimo, Eileen Dean, Lucy Farrugia, Carmel Galea, Samir Daboul, Dib family, Christine Derwin, Youssef El-Hasbany, Maria
Gibrine, Evangeline Grabato, John Graham, Mary Grech, Gambin, Gravina family, George Lewis Hooper, Kelvin Huitt,
Youssef Jabbour, Nouhad Khoury, Hane Kizana, Pierre Kizana,
Francina Hard, Thomas Hayek, Elizabeth Hicks, Peter
Raymond Kizana, Joe Lebnan, Francis Lobo, Gabriel Lobo,
Higgins, Ruth La Rosa, Kay King, Jacob Lee, Josephine Magro, Frouzine Malkoun, Mouna Malkoun, Ofimia Malkoun, Yaacoub
Ester Matos, Sid Morgan, Scott Moulton, Tony Moussa, Ben Malkoun, Maryse Mariasson, Charles Micallef, Sam Moussa,
Nursoo, Sarah-Joy O’Connor, Flory Pinto, Don Provest, Anna Samantha Moussa, Moussa family, Joseph Nammour, Jean
Newell, Tony Newell, Sheila Frances Pidgeon, Peter Rahme, Peter
Saunig, Therese Smeal, Phil Thompson, Ricardo Tognini, Torrie Robertson, Charlie Saliba, Colleen Thompson, Wehbe
Miriam Welangoda, Lorraine Vella. Family, Joanne Younan, Dib Zaiter, Zammit family.
N O T I C E S
Lenten Devotions Palms and Pancakes
for Shrove Tuesday
Our Lenten devotions begin this
week and include two times for
This Tuesday we celebrate
Stations of the Cross on Fridays. At
Shrove Tuesday with the burning of
Holy Family Church the Stations of
palms and the burial of the
the Cross will be prayed at
“Alleluia”. The palms burned are
6:00 p.m. and at Holy Trinity
Church the Stations of the Cross M A S S T I M E S those that were blessed on Palm
Sunday last year and the ashes from
will be prayed at 7:00 p.m.
these are the ashes imposed on our
And there are times throughout
foreheads on Ash Wednesday. If
the week for the Sacrament of
Penance. Confessions are heard on
Holy Family Church you have palms from last year to be
added to those to be burned please
Saturdays at Holy Trinity Church
bring them along on Tuesday
from 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m., on
Sundays at Holy Family Church
9:15 a.m. evening. And if you would like to
help with cooking pancakes for the
from 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m., and with Holy Family Primary School
pancake supper afterwards please
on Wednesdays at Holy Family
let Fr. Andrew know. We are always
Church from 6:30 p.m. to 6:50 p.m. 6:00 p.m. looking for more people to help
(apart from Ash Wednesday).
cook pancakes and to bring them
So make sure to make the most
along on the evening as well as to
of this Lent.
Holy Trinity Church help prepare and serve them. The
Parish Pastoral Council evening will begin with Holy Mass
at Holy Trinity Church at 6:30 p.m.
With the close of the two year 8:00 a.m. followed by the burning of the
term of the parish pastoral council please note the earlier time palms and the burial of the
at the end of last year we are “Alleluia” at 7:00 p.m. and then a
pancake supper at 7:30 p.m.
preparing to form a new term and
are inviting parishioners to
7:30 p.m.
nominate themselves as members Request for Baby Clothes
for the Granville Catholic Ash Wednesday
Community. If you would like to inaugurates the If anyone is able to assist a
nominate yourself please speak holy season of Lent family with clothes for a boy aged 1
with Fr. Andrew, in person (not by as we prepare for the to 2 years old please speak with Fr.
phone or email), and an interview Andrew. Your help will be greatly
great solemnity of Easter
will be arranged. appreciated.
SHROVE TUESDAY
In Australia and Britain the day Not only was Shrove Tuesday a And this day is also marked with
preceding Ash Wednesday is last chance to gorge on such foods the ceremonies of the burning of
popularly known as Shrove Tuesday. but it was also a way to use them the palms and the holy oils of
It is also frequently called Pancake up before the fast began. baptism, chrism, and infirmum, and
Tuesday or Fat Tuesday as well as by In Britain the feast of these foods the burial of the “Alleluia.”
its Latin name, Mardi Gras, which would become pancakes, hence the The palms which are burned are
when translated from the French name Pancake Tuesday. The idea of those blessed last year on Palm
also means “Fat Tuesday.” Pancake Tuesday to celebrate the Sunday. These palms are gathered
But it is the name “Shrove” that eve of the Lenten fast gathered and burned, along with the holy
shows its religious origins. Shrove is momentum in the Middle Ages in oils blessed and consecrated at last
the past tense of the English verb England with pancake races and year’s Chrism Mass, to make the
“to shrive” which means to obtain pancake tossing, traditions which ashes which are imposed on our
absolution for our sins by remain in certain villages and heads on Ash Wednesday.
confession and penance. towns to this day. And with this the “Alleluia” is
Dating back to A.D. 1000, over With Shrove Tuesday taking buried as a mark that this word is
the years Shrove Tuesday not only place before the start of Lent on Ash never spoken during Lent, but
became a day for confession but a Wednesday, it is the day when we rather we await its “resurrection” at
time for Catholics to feast on eggs, are encouraged to go to confession the Easter Vigil when the Deacon
sugar and dairy products which are in preparation for the penitential announces to the Bishop, “I have
traditionally restricted during the season that will end 40 days and 40 brought you news of great joy. It is
Lenten fast. nights later with Easter Sunday. the Alleluia.”
Saints CATECHISM CATHOLIC
&
STUFF
of the
CATHOLIC
CHURCH
Trivia
Kissing the Altar
Shrove Tuesday I Want to See God
The priest kisses the altar in
Shrove Tuesday, also known as
2548 Desire for true happiness veneration, recognising it as the
Fat Tuesday or Mardi Gras, is the
frees man from his immoderate sacred place where Christ’s once
day before Ash Wednesday and the
attachment to the goods of this and for all sacrifice will be made
beginning of Lent. The word shrove
world so that he can find his present in the Sacrament of the
is a form of the English word shrive,
fulfi llment in the vision and Eucharist. Our Lord’s death is re-
which means to obtain absolution
beatitude of God. “The promise [of presented in the Holy Mass as a
for sins by making our confession
seeing God] surpasses all beatitude. celebration of the New Covenant
and doing penance. Thus Shrove
In Scripture, to see is to possess. Passover, just as the Old Covenant
Tuesday gets its name from the
Whoever sees God has obtained all Passover was made present each
custom for Christians to be
the goods of which he can year it was celebrated (see Exodus
“shriven” before the start of Lent.
conceive.” 12:27). St. Paul contrasts the
Eucharistic sacrifice to the pagan
2549 It remains for the holy people
sacrifice in 1 Corinthians 11. Our
to struggle, with grace from on
Lord is therefore not re-sacrificed
high, to obtain the good things God
at each Mass but rather, His one
promises. In order to possess and
sacrifice becomes present to us as
contemplate God, Christ's faithful
He is eternally presenting Himself
mortify their cravings and, with the
to God as the sacrificial Lamb of
grace of God, prevail over the
God (Hebrews 7:25; 1 Corinthians
seductions of pleasure and power.
5:7; 1 Corinthians 11:26;
Pancakes are associated with 2550 On this way of perfection, the Revelation 5:6).
Shrove Tuesday because they were Spirit and the Bride call whoever
a way to use up rich foods such as hears them to perfect communion
eggs, milk, and sugar, before the with God: There will true glory be,
fasting season of the 40 days of where no one will be praised by
Lent. Also, pancakes, in mistake or flattery; true honour will
Christianity, symbolise “four pillars not be refused to the worthy, nor
of the Christian faith—eggs for granted to the unworthy; God
creation, flour as the mainstay of himself will be the goal of our
our diet, salt for wholesomeness desires; we shall contemplate him
and milk for purity.” without end, love him without
The liturgical fasting emphasised surfeit, praise him without
eating plainer food and giving up weariness. This gift, this state, this
food that would give pleasure, such act, like eternal life itself, will
as meat, dairy products, and eggs. assuredly be common to all.
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A
The Readings
First Reading Gospel Acclamation
The Book of Leviticus (19:1-2, 17-18)
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Lord spoke to Moses; he said: ‘Speak to the Whoever keeps the word of Christ,
whole community of the sons of Israel and say to them: grows perfect in the love of God.
“Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. Alleluia!
“You must not bear hatred for your brother in your
heart. You must openly tell him, your neighbour, of his
offence; this way you will not take a sin upon yourself. Gospel of Matthew (5:38-48)
You must not exact vengeance, nor must you bear a Jesus said to his disciples: ‘You have learnt how it
grudge against the children of your people. You must was said: Eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I say this
love your neighbour as yourself. I am the Lord.”’ to you: offer the wicked man no resistance. On the
contrary, if anyone hits you on the right cheek, offer him
the other as well; if a man takes you to law and would
Responsorial Psalm (Ps 102:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13. ℟. v. 8) have your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if
anyone orders you to go one mile, go two miles with
℟. The Lord is kind and merciful.
him. Give to anyone who asks, and if anyone wants to
My soul, give thanks to the Lord, borrow, do not turn away.
all my being, bless his holy name. ‘You have learnt how it was said: You must love your
My soul, give thanks to the Lord neighbour and hate your enemy. But I say this to you:
and never forget all his blessings. ℟. love your enemies and pray for those who persecute
you; in this way you will be sons of your Father in
It is he who forgives all your guilt,
heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on bad men as well
who heals every one of your ills,
as good, and his rain to fall on honest and dishonest
who redeems your life from the grave,
men alike. For if you love those who love you, what
who crowns you with love and compassion. ℟. right have you to claim any credit? Even the tax
The Lord is compassion and love, collectors do as much, do they not? And if you save
slow to anger and rich in mercy. your greetings for your brothers, are you doing anything
He does not treat us according to our sins exceptional? Even the pagans do as much, do they not?
You must therefore be perfect just as your heavenly
nor repay us according to our faults. ℟.
Father is perfect.’
As far as the east is from the west
so far does he remove our sins.
As a father has compassion on his sons,
the Lord has pity on those who fear him. ℟. ✠
Lord,
Second Reading give us grace
The First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians (3:16-23) to inaugurate
Didn’t you realise that you were God’s temple and with holy fasting
that the Spirit of God was living among you? If anybody the defences
should destroy the temple of God, God will destroy
of Christian warfare,
him, because the temple of God is sacred; and you are
that temple. so that we
Make no mistake about it: if any one of you thinks of who are to fight
himself as wise, in the ordinary sense of the word, then
he must learn to be a fool before he really can be wise.
against spiritual wickedness,
Why? Because the wisdom of this world is foolishness may be helped
to God. As scripture says: The Lord knows wise men’s and strengthened
thoughts: he knows how useless they are, or again: God
is not convinced by the arguments of the wise. So there
by self-denial.
is nothing to boast about in anything human: Paul, Amen.
Apollos, Cephas, the world, life and death, the present
and the future, are all your servants; but you belong to ✠
Christ and Christ belongs to God.
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