The weekly Bulletin of the Catholic Parish of Forster Tuncurry

Proclaiming Christ to the communities of Forster, Tuncurry and the surrounding districts

Sunday 2nd August, 2015 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

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REFLECTION from Fr Greg

Dear Parish Family,

August
Please note:
Fr. Greg will be away for 3 weeks
on holidays in the US
There will be no weekday or aged care
st
Masses until week beginning 1 Sep

No Mass at Beaumont
Gardens

No Mass at Kularoo

Pastoral Team Meeting

Forster 4:30pm

Adelaide Youth Festival

Information Evening
Forster 7pm

10 Baptismal Preparation
Forster 7pm

11 Special Needs Mass

Forster 7pm

12 Finance Committee Meet

Forster 5pm

12 RCIA Enquiry Evening

Forster 7pm

15 Anniversary of the
Consecration of Holy
Name of Jesus Church
Forster
16 International Lunch
Forster 10:30am

19 Pastoral Council
Forster 5:30pm

19 RCIA Enquiry Evening

Forster 7pm

Every time I hear a siren sound past the house here I say a little prayer for the people
involved. Sirens never bode well and they mean that somebody is suffering.
Ambulances mean someone is hurt or experiencing some illness and suffering. The
Fire engines mean that something is on fire and maybe a home is under threat,
someones life is at risk. The Police siren says that someone is in trouble, causing
harm or being harmed. And all those men and women who are part of those services
need our support with all the things they have to face. Whichever or whatever,
someone needs a prayer, my prayer. It is a little thing but I hope each time that it is
making a difference to someone. I never get to know of course but I think it is a little
action and moment that is important. Its something to think about though. So many
of our acts of kindness go unnoticed and unremitted but we know that they have
enormous potential to ripple out into the community. Its the paying forward of Gods
Grace. What I have received, I offer in return. Anyway I say a prayer each time I hear a
siren.
This week, we gathered all the young people preparing for the next stage of their
Sacrament journey. Well many of them - a couple of accidents closed the Lakes Way
and that prevented some from getting through. If you havent to date signed up to be
a prayer partner for these kids can I encourage you to do so. Our prayer makes a
difference and I know they and their families appreciate the gesture. Great comfort
and encouragement comes to us when we know we are being prayed for, dont you
think? It says so much on the value in which we hold these young people as the next
generation of the faithful. If we dont take the time to remember them in prayer and
support them in faith we are doomed as a church. Our prayer puts it all in Gods
hands and it allows us to trust in the abundant Grace that comes from the love of God
and the God heart!
When we gathered I had an opportunity to talk with the parents. Much of what we
talked about is known to them and it is what they are sharing with their children
simply by enrolling them in our process for sacraments. I went through the four parts
of the Mass and the four presences of Christ when we gather. And how they all link,
and link to our life out in the world. Our prayers and experiences are gathered with
the opening prayer and by the end those experiences are healed and developed if
they need it, and our lives are fed as we are sent out or better, commissioned to
share faith and life in the world. The word we use is transformed! And I think it is
important to hear and use the words of the church in relation to the Eucharist:
transubstantiation, consecration, Body and Blood, words that convey the heart and
soul of who we are as a church and community.
See you in three weeks after my holidays.
Best wishes

Greg

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Adelaide Youth Festival

International Lunch 16th August

Recently Deceased

2 years ago, Emily Fowle attended

the first national youth festival
which was held in Melbourne she
levitated home! She had an
awesome experience of God which
has remained with her. Some of
you may remember her talk which
she presented at Masses following
the event. Well, the Festival is on
again for the second time, and will
be held in Adelaide. The response
to this event from our region last
time was poor with only 2
attending, one from Tuncurry and
one from Taree. Emily will be
attending again this year. In her
own words she is psyched.
Please consider helping or
encouraging a family member or
friend to make this trip a reality. I
promise you will have an angel for
at least 2 weeks afterwards! As Fr
Greg mentioned, the young are the
future of our church. We really
need have more of our youth
attend.
We will be hosting an information
evening at Forster church for the
Adelaide event on Thursday 6th
August, 7pm. For more information
please contact Samantha Hill on
0414 278 069 or email
Sam.Hill@mn.catholic.org.au, or
talk to Sharon in the office.

Sharon will be taking a minute of your time

this weekend to mention International
th
Lunch on Sunday 16 August. If you have
decided to participate, please take a
minute to include details on the sheet
provided at the rear of the church. It
doesnt have to be a huge offering; it could
be a starter, aperitif, finger food or a
bounty; whatever suits. Detail the country
you would like to represent at the rear of
the church. Get together with friends. Bring
along furnishings to theme and brighten up
your stand (tables provided).
The event will take place in the Parish Hall
th
on Sunday 16 August after 9am Mass
with food available from 11am. Not
interested in cooking? Then come along
and join us in sampling the culinary delights
available on the day.

Elizabeth Achten, Stanley Wilson.

RCIA Enquiry Nights for

anyone wishing to learn more
about the Catholic Faith through
the RCIA process, will be held on
th
Wednesday nights 12 and
th
19 August in the meeting room,
Forster Parish Hall at 7pm. Please
extend an invitation (and give a
brochure) to a friend or family
member who may be interested.
Brochures explaining the RCIA
process are on the table at the
back of the church. For more
information contact Anne Moloney
6555 8918.

A (not so) Fowle Affair

A winter warming, Parish Family Day will be
held at Sharon Fowles home on Saturday
nd
22 August. If you interested in coming
along, please RSVP to 0407 006 666 to
receive further details.

Got an unwanted, working washing

machine OR a refrigerator?
Sr Kathryn is seeking to secure a working
washing machine AND is also looking for a
refrigerator, if you have one which is no
longer required or know of anyone who
might assist, then please contact Sr Kathryn
on 6554 6470.

Parish Badges Add youre name to

the list
Parish badges are available for purchase at
$8 each. If you are interested in purchasing
one please include your name clearly on the
list available at the rear of the church.

Anniversaries
Eileen McMullen, Ciotoli Natalina, Ken Burns..

Sick in the Parish

Mary French, Lauranne Byrne.

This weekend we witness the baptism of Koby

Coombe, son of Matt and Belinda.
May the gift of baptism Koby receives
strengthen him for the journey of life and faith
he will share with us. Please remember the
Coombe family in your prayers.

Patient Trust
Prayer of Teilhard de Chardin

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

We are quite naturally impatient in everything
to reach the end without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the way to
something unknown, something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability
and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature graduallylet them grow,
let them shape themselves, without undue haste.
Dont try to force them on,
as though you could be today what time
(that is to say, grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit
gradually forming within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.

I am the Bread of Life. He who comes to me will never be hungry; he who believes in me will
never thirst. Lord, send us priests after your own heart to give us the Food of everlasting life
Your very Self in the Eucharist. Consider a call to the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
For more information regarding Vocations contact Fr Brian Mascord on 4979 1112.

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

.of the Word

of Communion

6pm

A: Valarie Ross

Tuncurry

B: Michael Siddle

Kathryn McCabe, Geraldine Mullin, Carolyn Olliffe,

Maureen Pye, Owen Carroll.

7am

A: Pat Cornish

Tuncurry

B: Edna Tucker

9am

A: Anne Hartman

Forster

B: Chris Waters

Michael Amato, Natasha Brotherton, Elle CairnsCowan, Barbara Dolahenty, Sharon Fowle.

.of the Word

of Communion

6pm

A: Bob Cashman

Tuncurry

B: Valarie Ross

Jeanette Goodacre, Maureen Stevens, Owen

Carroll, Pat Hooker, Tony Stevens.

7am

A: Maria Armitage

Tuncurry

B: Lorraine Clark

9am

A: Kris Koch

Forster

B: Lee Sullivan

Lorraine Clark, Cecile Malone, Genevieve

Williamson, Mark Mowbray, Peter Wicks.

Genevieve Williamson, Graham Griffiths, Mark

Mowbray, Norm Chapman, Peter Wicks.
Alan McCarthy, Barbara Kermode, Elle CairnsCowan, Josie Beech, Michael Amato.

Text: Excerpts from the English

Translation of the Roman Missal
2010, International Commission on
English in the Liturgy (ICEL); Music:
From the Mass of St Francis 2010,
Paul Taylor. All rights reserved. Used
with permission. Australian Agent
LicenSing Online Lic No. 624844.

First Reading

Exodus 16:2-4. 12-15

Manna from heaven.

Responsorial Psalm
Response: The Lord gave
them bread from heaven.
Second Reading

Gospel Acclamation
Alleluia, alleluia!
No one lives on bread alone,
but on every word that
comes from the
mouth of God.
Alleluia!

Ephesians 4:17, 20-24

First Reading

Lay aside your former way of

life.

1 Kings 19:4-8
Second Reading

Gospel

Ephesians 4:30 5:2

John 6:24-35

Gospel Reading

Jesus is the bread of life.

John 6:41-51

Following some testing of everyones

Christianity, the rosters are now available
for pick up from the rear of the church.
Please ignore 1st August entries gee, its
hard to be human sometimes!
To ensure everyone gets a turn over a 3
month period, we have published them in 6
week lots. So there are 2 SHEETS to pick up
Aug/Sep & Sep/Oct.

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Baptisms
Celebrated most Sundays.

PARISH CONTACTS
Fr Greg BarkerParish Priest
gregory.barker@mn.catholic.org.au

Emergency Contact 0417 321 209

Mr Greg ByrnePastoral Associate
greg.byrne@mn.catholic.org.au
Mrs Sharon Fowle
(Administration
Associate/Bulletin)
Bridgeside Bulletin
Items for inclusion should be
received by midday on
Thursday.

Marriage
Celebrated by arrangement
and with at least three months
notice. Fr Greg 6554 6304
Sacramental Preparation
Greg Byrne 6554 6304

Forster-tuncurry.parish@mn.catholic.org.au

Sr Kathryn McCabe
Aboriginal Catholic Ministry
Loretta Heffernan
SRE Co-Ordinator

Baptismal Preparation
on 2nd Monday of each
month @ 7pm in Forster
Church Hall. Parish Office
6555 6304

Rite of Christian
Initiation of Adults
(RCIA) Parish Office 6554 6304

PARISH PASTORAL
GROUPS AND CONTACTS

Office Hours

Christian Meditation
Every Tues, 9am and 5:30pm.
Bob 6555 5914.

Tues, Wed, Thurs

9:30am to 1pm
Fri
10am to 4pm

Womens Bible Study Group

Every Thurs, 7pm to 8pm.
Natasha 0407 589 935.

Parish Office
Located at the rear of
the Parish Hall Forster:
33 Lake Street, Forster
NSW 2428
PO Box 67
P: (02) 6554 6304
F: (02) 6554 6425

menALIVE Groups
Day group meet second and
fourth Wed after 9am Mass at
Forster. Evening group meets last
Thurs of the month at 7:30pm at
Forster. Michael Amato 6554 5284
Social Justice
Last Wed, 5:30pm at Forster.
Tim Prescott 6555 8517.

CHURCH
LOCATIONS
Mary Star of the Sea
15 Peel Street, Tuncurry
Holy Name of Jesus
33 Lake Street, Forster

Singing Practice
Every Tues. Ken Heffernan
6557 6569.

SUNDAY MASS TIMES

Mary Star of the Sea, Tuncurry

WEEKDAY EUCHARIST (subject to change)

Mary Star of the Sea, Tuncurry

Sat 6pm, Sun 7am

No weekday Mass until 1st Sept

Holy Name of Jesus, Forster

Holy Name of Jesus, Forster

Sun 9am

No weekday Mass until 1st Sept

Secular Franciscan Fraternity

First Wednesday of the month
after 9am Mass at Forster.
Maintenance & Gardening Group
Third Thursday of the month.
Howard 6557 6826.
Childrens Liturgy of the Word
First and third
Sunday at 9am Mass.
Natasha 0407 589 935.
Novena to Our Lady of
Perpetual Help
Every Wed, 11:14am at Forster.
Shioney 6554 9468.
Pastoral Team
First Wed, 4:30pm at Forster.
Greg Byrne 6554 6304
Finance Council
Second Wed, 5pm at Forster.
Greg Byrne 6554 6304
Pastoral Council
Third Wed, 5:30pm at Forster.
Greg Byrne 6554 6304
Holy Hour
Every Tues, 3:30pm at Tuncurry

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
Holy Name Parish School (K-6)
Mr Chris Waters (Principal)
41 Lake St, Forster
PO Box 243
P: (02) 6554 6504
E: admin@forster.catholic.edu.au
W: www.forster.catholic.edu.au
St Clares High School
Mr Peter Nicholls (Principal)
Davis Street, Taree
P: (02) 6552 3300
E: admin@tareesc.catholic.edu.au
W: www.tareesc.catholic.edu.au

AGED CARE MASS TIMES

(subject to change)
Beaumont Gardens - 1st Tues
Kularoo Gardens 1st Wed
GLACIA House 2nd Tues

*** NO WEEKDAY or AGED CARE MASES UNTIL 1ST SEPTEMBER (Fr Greg Away)***
No Reconciliation
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RECONCILIATION

No Reconciliation until Saturday 5th September

Mary Star of the Sea, Tuncurry
Holy Name of Jesus, Forster