6^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thoughts for the week

Continuing extracts from Pope Francis’ Exhortation 

THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL

                       

 

Some challenges of today’s world

52. …In our time humanity is experiencing a turning-point in its history, as we can see from the advances being made in so many fields. We can only praise the steps being taken to improve people’s welfare in areas such as health care, education and communications.

At the same time we have to remember that the majority of our contemporaries are barely living from day to day, with dire consequences. A number of diseases are spreading. The hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so-called rich countries. The joy of living frequently fades, lack of respect for others and violence are on the rise, and inequality is increasingly evident. It is a struggle to live and, often, to live with precious little dignity.

This epochal change has been set in motion by the enormous qualitative, quantitative, rapid and cumulative advances occurring in the sciences and in technology, and by their instant application in different areas of nature and of life.

We are in an age of knowledge and information, which has led to new and often anonymous kinds of power.

No to an economy of exclusion

53. Just as the commandment “Thou shalt not kill” sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say “thou shalt not” to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills.

How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

Can we continue to stand by when food is thrown away while people are starving? This is a case of inequality.

Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape… (cont. next week).

 

Remember in Prayer

Recently Deceased: John Hanrahan,

Fr Ralph Fitzgerald, Nicole Collins, Mary Sterrett, Marj Fern, Sr Anne(Monica) Gale,

 Leonie Macpherson, Mick Fitzgerald,

Suzanne Knight, Patricia Seymour,

Frances Hanrahan, Alan Whitty

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Saturday 15^th  

6.30pm Mass (Alan Whitty, Mick Fitzgerald)

Sunday 16^th 6^th Sunday in Ordinary time

9.00m Mass (pro populo – for all parishioners)

Monday 17^th

9.00am Mass (Jean Walton, Tomlinson Family)

Tuesday 18^th

9.00am Mass (Sr Anne Gale, Sue Knight)

Wednesday 19^th    

9.00am Mass (Sr Jean Murray, John Spence, John Bartlett)

11.00am Holy Communion to Homes

2.00pm: Blessing and opening new St Vinnies Store Corowa 

Thursday 20^th                 

9.00am CWL Meeting in the Hall

11.30am Novena

12.00n Mass (Michael Fisher, Bryan Carter, Brain Cleary)

Friday 21^st 

10.00am Mass & Anointing in Hall (sick) Shelia Sandral)

Saturday 22^nd The chair of St Peter

8.45am Rosary & Mass

6.30pmVigil Mass (Joan Fitzgerald, Eileen Schneider)

Sunday 23^rd  7^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

9.00am Mass (pro populo)

 

International Speaker on Medjugorje

Wayne Weible at St Patrick’s Hall,

Smollet St, Albury

Sunday 9^th March from 11.00am – 6pm

Enquires:- Maree 0474124094

Roster 22^nd  – 23^rd  Feb. 

Gifts:

6.30pm P Kerr A Pilgrim

9.00am M Drum

Lectors

6.30pm J & P Schnelle

9.00am A Campbell P Lemmon

Special Ministers:

6.30pm D & A Norman

9.00am D Collins M Tomlinson

Altar M Macqueen

Welcomers:

6.30pm P Dwyer F Brooks

9.00am C O’Shea

Altar Servers:

6.30pm D Forge & Z Lassey

9.00am J Kingston & L McKenzie

Collection:  M Drum

Counters:  M Kelly D Salmon

St Vinnies Meeting

Scripture teacher

 Finance Committee