4 Drake St, Mornington - PO Box 41 Mornington 3931 Parish Office: Ph: 5975 2200, Fax: 5977 2050

Email: mornington@cam.org.au, Web: stmacartansparish.com.au Parish Priest: Fr Joe Bui Duc Tien (buiductien@hotmail.com)

Assist. Priest: Fr Joel Peart (Joel.Peart@cam.org.au) Secretaries: Francesca McLoughlin, Marie Mills, Catherine Larken

(9am-3:30pm Monday to Friday)

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT - Year C

St Macartan’s Catholic Parish

THIS WEEK— PARISH EVENTS

Sunday 13th December

5pm Youth Mass (all welcome) followed by Youth Group in the Community Centre

Monday 14th December

1pm Canasta Cards (CC)

7:30pm RCIA 2015 Program (CC)

Tuesday 15th December

10am Minister Unto God Prayer Group (CC)

Wednesday 16th December

9:30am Little Mac’s Playgroup (CC)

10am Legion of Mary Prayer Group (CC)

11:45am St Mac’s School end of year Mass in School Hall

Thursday 17th December

7:30pm Parish Reconciliation

Friday 18th December

9:15am Anointing Mass

Benediction after 9:15am Mass 10am-10pm Eucharistic Adoration

1am Liturgy Meeting (SR) 1pm Solo Cards (CC)

Sunday 20th December

5pm Youth Mass (all welcome) followed by Youth Group in the Community Centre

12th-13th December 2015

MASS TIMES: Saturday: Vigil 6pm. Sunday: 9am , 11am & 5pm (Youth Mass) 1st Sunday of the Month: 4pm Filipino Mass. Weekdays: Mon-Sat :9:15am

RECONCILIATION: After 9:15am Mass on Wednesdays and

Saturdays (Our Lady's Novena during Mass) BAPTISMS: After 11am Mass on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month. Next Baptismal Meeting—8pm Wednesday 3rd February 2016 in the Church. Please call the Parish Office (Tel: 5975 2200) to register. WEDDINGS: Please contact the Parish Office

Sing for joy in the Lord

Recently Deceased: Bill Marshall, Fr Justin Woodford Anniversaries: David Church, Mary Kennedy, Mary Stella Aquilina, Noel Hirst, Margaret Zara. Pray for the sick and their Carers: Roldan Son, Bella Smith, Noah Guest, Olivia Grover, Merla Calubiran, Edith Masseig, Cheryl Vercoe, Phyllis Harvey, Ingrid Messner, Charlotte Beck, Jim McHugh, Rachael Sanderson (Davies), Paul & Lauren Evans, Barbara, Lisa, Dawn, Michael, Kevin John Vinen, Teena Riley (Drake), Mora Wright-Sly, Peter McHugh, Sorcha Casey, Adam Riley, Cassie Whyte, Joy and Ron, Mary Cowan, Geoff Wines, Pam Drysdale, Jake Baillie, Andrew Bourke, Peter Alexandra, Bob Barrett, Jack Barrett, Sr Barbara Bochat, Eileen Bain, Laurie Drake, Alice Bradley, Ellen Slack

First Reading Zep 3:14-18

A reading from the prophet Zephaniah

Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem! The Lord has repealed your sentence; he has driven your enemies away. The Lord, the king of Israel, is in your midst; you have no more evil to fear. When that day comes, word will come to Jerusalem: Zion, have no fear, do not let your hands fall limp. The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult with joy over you, he will renew you by his love;

he will dance with shouts of joy for you as on a day of festival. The Word of the Lord

Responsorial Psalm Is 12:2-6 R. v.6

(R.) Cry out with joy and gladness: for among you is the great and Holy One of Israel.

1. Truly, God is my salvation, I trust, I shall not fear. For the Lord is my strength, my song, he became my saviour. With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. (R.)

2. Give thanks to the Lord, give praise to his name! Make his mighty deeds known to the

peoples! Declare the greatness of his name. (R.)

3. Sing a psalm to the Lord for he has done glorious deeds, make them known to all the earth! People of Zion, sing and shout for joy for great in your midst is the Holy One of

Israel. (R.)

Second Reading Phil 4:4-7

A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Philippians

I want you to be happy, always happy in the Lord; I repeat, what I want is your happiness. Let your tolerance be evident to everyone: the Lord is very near. There is no need to worry; but if there is anything you need, pray for it, asking God for it with prayer and thanksgiving, and that peace of God, which is so much greater than we can understand, will guard your hearts and your thoughts, in Christ Jesus. The Word of the Lord

Gospel Acclamation

Alleluia, alleluia! The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he sent me to bring Good News to the poor.

Alleluia!

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION “The Master is here and wants to see you” (John 11:28)

The Adoration is on each Friday from 10.00am-10pm in Church. PRAYER MOVES MOUNTAIN. OUR PARISH NEEDS MORE

PARISHIONERS TO BE WITH THE LORD ON BEHALF OF THE PARISH ON FRIDAY FOR ADORATION! PLEASE COME!

Gospel Lk 3:10-18

A reading from the holy Gospel according to Luke

When all the people asked John, ‘What must we do?’ he answered, ‘If anyone has two tunics he must share with the man who has none, and the one with something to eat must do the same.’ There were tax collectors too who came for baptism, and these said to him, ‘Master, what must we do?’ He said to them, ‘Exact no more than your rate.’ Some soldiers asked him in their turn, ‘What about us? What must we do?’ He said to them, ‘No intimidation! No extortion! Be con-tent with your pay!’ A feeling of expectancy had grown among the people, who were beginning to think that John might be the Christ, so John declared before them all, ‘I baptise you with wa-ter, but someone is coming, someone who is more powerful than I am, and I am not fit to undo the strap of his sandals; he will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His winnowing-fan is in his hand to clear his threshing-floor and to gather the wheat into his barn; but the chaff he will burn in a fire that will never go out.’ As well as this, there were many other things he said to ex-hort the people and to announce the Good News to them. The Gospel of the Lord

Communion Antiphon

Say to the faint of heart: Be strong and do not fear. Behold, our God will come, and he will save us.

SACRIFICIAL GIVING (2nd Collection) Weekly Pledge: $5476

Average p/w Oct $5114

PRESBYTERY COLLECTION (1st Collection) Last weekend: $1790

ADVENT CHRISTMAS CALENDAR Advent Rite of Forgiveness: 7:30pm Thursday 17th December Mass for the Anointing: 9:15am Friday 18th December

* * * CHRISTMAS MASSES * * * Children’s Mass: 5pm Christmas Eve, Thursday 24th December Family Mass: 7:30pm Christmas Eve, Thursday 24th December Late Evening Vigil Mass: Carols commence at 10:30pm, Mass begins at 11pm, Thursday 24th December Christmas Day: 9:00am and 10:30am, Friday 25th December Feast of the Holy Family: 6pm Saturday 26th December 9am and 11am Sunday 27th December Please note: there will be NO 5pm Mass on 27th.

THIS WEEKEND WE WELCOME 2 NEW MEMBERS WHO JOIN OUR

PARISH COMMUNITY THROUGH THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:

Olive Burley,

Mary Ai-My Nguyen

THIS WEEKEND’S LEAVING COLLECTION IS FOR THE ST VINCENT DE PAUL

CHRISTMAS APPEAL.

In addition, food collection bins are available in both foyers for food dona-

tions, such as breakfast cereal, spreads, vegemite, peanut butter, pasta, pasta sauces, canned fruits, soups, biscuits

and other plain foods. Plain Christmas foods are also gratefully received .

MINISTER UNTO GOD PRAYER GROUP….. Meet on Tuesdays at 10am in the Community Centre. Eve-rybody is warmly invited to join us. God bless!

PIETY STALL COLUMBAN CALENDARS AND CHRISTMAS STOCK HAVE NOW ARRIVED IN THE PIETY STALL. YOU ARE WELCOME TO POP IN AFTER MASS AND HAVE A LOOK.

NEW PARISHIONERS The St Macartan’s community

would love to welcome any new parishioners. Please fill in a

slip (available in the foyers) and place in box provided.

We will be in touch.

HIGH SPIRITS The High Spirits program has

now concluded for 2015. It will return in February next year.

For more details, please Email

highspiritsmorning-ton@gmail.com

LITTLE MAC’S PLAYGROUP EMAIL: littlemacsplaygroup@gmail.com Little Mac’s Playgroup is for pre-school chil-dren and their carers. It is held in the Com-

munity Centre every Wednesday (during term time) from 9:45am to 11:30am. Gold Coin dona-

tion. Further details, contact Gabriela 0448 947 748 or

Janine 0432 419 189.

CHOIR NOTICE!!

St Macartan’s Choir practice on Thursdays in the church after 9:15am Mass. New Members of all ages welcome. Enqs: Louise 5975 2773.

PARISH CALENDAR 2016

St Macartan’s Parish Calendar with Feast Days, Parish main events & activities;

School Terms and others. The Calendar is available at the front Foyer

HELP NEEDED WITH OUR CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS

PLEASE could you take a moment and sign the clipboards to indicate at which Mass you will be able to assist over Christmas and save us hours of phone calls. Your help would be very much

appreciated. Thank you.

SPECIAL MINISTERS OF

COMMUNION TO THE SICK.

Would you kindly make sure that the sick/elderly you visit know that we are having a Mass and

anointing on Friday 18th December at 9:15am? If transport is needed, please phone the Parish

Office on 5975 2200 or

Sr Gen on 0407 777 736.

Thank you very much for your devoted care of our sick/frail parishioners. May God’s special

blessing be yours this Christmas.

THURSDAY EVENING AT 7:30PM

PARISH RITE OF RECONCILIATION.

The Mens’ Breakfast will resume on Saturday 30th January. The Community Centre will be unavailable after Christmas and throughout Jan-uary as the Children First Foundation will be in residence. We will be asking for help to prepare the Centre nearer the time. Thank you.

GIVING SUNDAY 12/13 DECEMBER

Parishioners are encouraged to bring a gift (ie, toys, clothing or money) for those less fortunate and place it under the Christmas Tree. If you would like to donate a gift and do not have it with you today, you may place it under the tree early next week. The fits will be collected and distributed by St Vincent de Paul. Thank you.

MINI FETE - THANK YOU

Thank you to all who supported us and our Mini-Fete again this year. A BIG THANK YOU to the lovely couple for their donation of antiques and thank you to the Parish Office staff and Max for all their help. We are also very grateful to Mark Miller (Man In A Van) who transported all our goods to the Community Centre free of charge (if anyone needs a removal man, contact Mark on 0419 744 371). We raised a total of $600.00 and the proceeds went to the following:

Donation to Fr Joe’s HOPE Foundation.

Donation to a local family in need.

Donation to the Homeless

Donation to East Timor

We enjoyed the hard work and everyone had lots of fun! All who came enjoyed the many bar-gains. God bless you all. Anne and Geraldine

Thank you to Anne and Geraldine for their hard work, commitment and sense of fun in organis-ing and running the Mini-Fete last weekend. All beneficiaries are very grateful.

CHILDREN FIRST FOUNDATION ANNUAL VISIT!

The Children First Foundation kids will be back again this year to enjoy their annual beach hol-iday. There will be about 10 guests, including children and carers.

If anyone would like to help by doing laundry or providing a meal or store cupboard goods, please call Francesca on 0432 299 361.

Thank you.

YEAR OF MERCY December 8th 2015

to 20 November 2016

MORNINGTON COMMUNITY

CHRISTMAS LUNCH

Are you alone on Christmas Day? Come and join us for a free traditional festive lunch at Senior Citizens Hall, Flinders Drive, Morning-ton on Christmas Day, 12noon—2pm.

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL - contact Mornington Com-munity Info Support Centre, 320 Main St, Mornington. Tel: 5975 1644

Summary PPC Meeting November

Syrian refugees support in assisting family to assimilate into community address given by Katrina & Andy from Redar Australia

Family Picnic day to be held at Devil bend Na-ture Reserve—date to be confirmed.

Children’s Christmas Mass plans going well its expected up to 50 children to be involved

No Interest was shown from Parish in the combined car Raffle

New Altar servers roster to be in place Feb/March

Administration procedures for PPC discussed

Shared Insight review members to consider which 4 items from each category

Children, Youth, Mature aged and community these to be discussed next meeting

Discussion regarding regional College Padua and parish involvement

Discussion on Fr. Joel’s Involvement , he will work with PPC members to programme Chil-dren’s Liturgy, and Youth Groups activities

Men’s group Final night Richard reported was successful and will resume in Feb/March

Sign at front of church to be changed to re-flect youth Mass

Presentation to Former PPC a combined din-ner to be arranged for the Old and the new PPC members Date and venue to be ar-ranged.

Adoration discussion on fulltime adoration

Next meeting 21st January 2016.

SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES PETITION

Many thanks to Parishioners who chose to sign the petition organised by the Brigidine Sisters as part of their Brigidine Asylum Seek-ers Project (BASP), Your petitions have been passed on to BASP at Albert Park. Hopefully, together with other members of the Commu-nity, both Catholic and Non-Catholic, the Bor-der Force will show more compassion to the refugees/Asylum Seekers and, in particular, to the children at Broadmeadows Detention Cen-tre who the Sisters are prevented from taking on excursions during the holidays. Likewise, the treatment of their parents when the chil-dren have to go to the Children's' Hospital.

To the anonymous Parishioner who wrote "there are refugees and refugees!!!" , may we say there are Catholics and Catholics, there are Australians and Australians, there are peo-ple who stand up for social justice and then there are others who hide.

On a good note, thanks for your support, May God bless you for asking yourself "What would Jesus do?" and getting the compassion-ate answer. Geoffrey and Mary Lane

Readers 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm G O’Loghlin, A Winter B Dakin, T Dakin

9am T Houlihan, B Shannon P Girolami, D Ziino

11am I Hackett, T Roberts C Holmes, S Moon

Sp. Ministers 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm M Fletcher, S Fletcher, R Shaw, M

Turner, P Watt

J Holloway, R Holloway, B Limpins, C Wil-

liams

9am F Crea, D Frank, M Azzopardi, S Kraus, J

Lewis, C Houlihan, M Lewis, T Thomas

F Crea, P Girolami, A Hancock, P Hancock,

C Houlihan, J Lewis, M Lewis, T Thomas

11am A Flood, S Goddard, J Seal, B Sexton, E

Spaziani, J Spaziani, P Stanley

M di Petta, R di Petta, G Lane, M Lane, E

Spaziani, J Spaziani, E Virgona

Music 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm Peter Dawson & Singers Chris & Singers

9am Veronica & Justin Adriana & Choir

11am Chris & Singers Billie & Singers

AV Ops 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm B Handesyde, T Matthews J&B Barrett

9am G&D Wilson Terry & Marlene S

11am C Curtain G Michel

P’point Prs 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm Vron Vron

9am Vron Terry

11am Vron Vron

Altar Servers 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

6pm J & X Gordon S Morley, E Simmonds, A & L Demo

9am M Larken, W Strippel, N Passmore R & C Duyvestyn, J Willmot

11am S Giucastro H White, T & M Hannan

Count. Team 14th December 21st December

J Azzopardi, T Keating, M Andrew J McLean, P & K Stokes, T Walker

Cleaning 17th December 24th December

G Gordon, C Larken, F Taylor J George, P Wallace, A Skoljarev

Flowers 10th-17th December 24th-31st December

B Brady B Allen, M Barlow

Piety Stall 12th-13th December 19th-20th December

Sat: A Anderson Sun: A McKenna, C Larken (9am) A Wilson, S Goddard (11am)

Sat: A Gregg, G McDonagh Sun: T Thomas, S Anderson (9am) M & G Lane (11am)

C Liturgy 13th December 20th December

9am: R Fernando, M Kiernan

11am: K Raccanello

Children’s Liturgy will return in the New Year

Tea Trolley 13th December 20th December

R & M Muzyk C Donovan & B Scantlebury, R & C Scantlebury

ROSTERS

MACARTAN CLUB A Club for Retirees and Senior Parishioners. GM held on the 4th Friday of each month in the Com-munity Centre after the 9:15 am Mass. Parishion-ers and Potential New Members are always wel-come to attend meetings and events.

Calendar of Events for this Week: The Club will be in recess for Christmas and the New Year. We will be back at the end of January. We wish our Priests, Religious and Fellow Parish-ioners and their families a Very Holy and Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!!

St Macartan’s Primary School Marie Slattery (Principal) Ph: 5973 4550

Padua College - Sam Cosentino (Acting Principal) Ph: 5976 0100

Maintenance Co-Ordinator Max Fletcher (0417 307 845) Terry Walker (0412 661 123)

Parish Pastoral Council Contact Office: 5975 2200 High Spirits Co-Ordinator - Judy Hogan highspiritsmornington@gmail.com Macartan Club Joan Baillie (5975 6817)

Children’s Liturgy Co-Ordinator Richard Le Miere (0400 031 209) Youth Mass Co-ordinators Joe Sayah / Lana Little Macs Playgroup littlemacsplaygroup@gmail.com Gabriela (0448 947 748) Janine (0432 419 189) November Caretaker John Spaziani Parish Care Contacts Leonie Purcell (5975 0514) Music Co-Ordinator Veronica Ryan (5975 6981/0418 358 213)

ST MAC’S CAFE Open 7pm—9pm

EVERY Wednesday in the Community Centre.

FREE cuppa and food / good music and great company. OPEN TO EVERYONE!

We look forward to seeing you there!

MUSICAL THEATRE

GREAT CHRISTMAS PRESENTS!!

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF

starring fabulous Anthony Warlow at the Prin-cess Theatre, 13th January 2016, 1pm

3 tickets — $65.00 per person (correction, $65 NOT $70 as previously advised)

Any persons who have expressed interest in the above show, please call Patricia 5975 2613

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN

At Her Majesty’s Theatre

8 tickets—21st May 2016, 2pm matinee

$105.00 per person

ST MAC’S JUNIOR YOUTH GROUP HAS NOW CONCLUDED FOR THIS YEAR.

It will restart when school commences in February 2016.

We would like to wish everyone a happy and peaceful Christmas.