Parish Announcements

Parish Information

Location: 185 Billinghurst Crescent, Upper Coomera Qld 4209
Postal Address: PO Box 219 Upper Coomera QLD 4209
Office Hours: Mon - Fri from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Contact Numbers: Telephone: (07) 5529 9144 | Fax: (07) 5529 9644

Mass / Service Times

Monday: Holy Mass at 10:00 am at Arcare (Helensvale Road)
Tuesday: Rosary at 6 pm - SMC (St. Mary's Chapel)
Wednesday: 5pm - Adoration followed by Holy Mass at 6pm
Thursday: Holy Mass at 9:30 am
Friday: Holy Mass at 9:30 am
Reconciliation : Every Saturday 5pm or by  appointment
Please remember the sick in your prayers
Parishioners and Friends: Eugene Mangion, Marthies Mangion, Michael Quinn, Josette Kishtoo, Dr.
James Reidy, Nat Bryett, Olivia Pratt, John Van Arken, Tom McGuire, Graeme Gould, Val Iacono, Rob
George, Hilary O’Leary, Gino Lemarie, Tony Smith, Robyn Smith, Monica Smith, Lolesio Ah Loe, Rob
George, Sarah Lyne, Rachel Deem, Anne Daly, Jules Byrnes, Yvonne Evarts, Brian Rafferty, Colin Bear,
Vicky Stinco, Charles Webber, Maria (Hepi) Clake, Josephine Taikato, Lynne Stone, Gerda Moeller, Monica
Love, James Brandon, Sharon McCourt.

Please pray for eternal rest to be given to:
Recently deceased: John Lynch, Derek Parkinson, Christine Tan, Rev. Fr. D’Crus , Colin Ward, David
Attard, Mary Coy, James Raymond Murray, Bryan Leo Barnes, Francis Griffin, Ken Simmonds, Angela
Melisa Anthony,
Anniversaries and Remembrances: Martha Manickum, Beryl Robertons, John Hepi, Jacques Philippe
Desbleds, Giovani Alinci, Olga Ferdinand, Teofilo Balanlay, Josephine Hepi, Joseph Hepi, Clara Joseph,
Claire Fletcher, Brian Emery, Vitaliana Bajamundi, Michele Potessu, Juliano Delon
If you wish to have a loved ones name mentioned in the Parish bulletin for Anniversary, Remembrance or
prayers for the sick, please contact the Parish office.
Note: All prayers for the sick, anniversary & death notices will remain in the bulletin for one month. Envelopes
to request Masses to be offered for the sick, dying, deceased or special intentions are available in the foyer. Mass
cards are available from the Piety Stall

Readers and Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist

The new roster is available for collection . Please pick up your copy from the table at the entrance of the Church if you have not done so already. Thank you.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Dear parishioners and visitors, what great news from the Queensland Premier. We can

gather as a community of faith and celebrate the faith we share in the Risen Lord. However,

as we gather please may we keep in mind that the outbreak is not over and we are expected

to adhere to these recommendations.

• Registering for Mass is required using the Check In QLD QR Code or Sign In

Sheets.

• Standing not allowed.

• When all the seats are occupied, seats will be placed at the undercover and the foyer.

• Parishioners are required to process to receive Holy Communion while social

distancing.

• Parishioners are encouraged to use the donation machines. No more procession to

the altar for offertory.

• Designated Parishioners wearing their mask will go round with the offertory

baskets.

• Masks will be mandatory in Church. Face masks must be worn at all times during

Mass and can only be removed while receiving Holy Communion.

• Clergy and readers who are socially distanced from others may remove their masks

while reading or speaking and then put it back on.

• Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist must wear a face mask while

administering Holy Communion.

• Indoor venues including places of worship will return 1 person per 4 square metres

inside and 1 person per 2 square metres outdoors.

• Funerals and Weddings held indoors: One person per 4 square metres up to the

limit allowed in the space or 100 people, whichever number is lower.

• It is still very important that marshals continue to record contact information so

that parishes can provided details if contract tracing is ever required

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Weekly Readings

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Weekly Reflection

Dear parishioners, visitors & friends,

It is indisputably true that the human nature has never been the same since the sin of our first parents- Adam and Eve. The first chapter of the Book of Genesis (1:26-31) describes the creation of our world as it relates to God’s purpose for the human person. We were created sinless and with perfect nature, when God said: “let Us make the man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them…. And God saw all that God had made, and behold, it was very good….” The beauty and goodness, which were inherent in creation and in the human beings God created, were lost due to sin. ‘Through Adam and Eve sin entered into the world and death through sin; in this way death came to all people, because all sinned— Romans 5:12. The transmissible nature of sin underpins the Catholic doctrine of original sin and our practice of infant baptism. In our Church, we baptise infants to welcome them into the Christian faith and to free them from the original sin they were born with. In the gospel of this weekend, as Jesus called the Twelve and began to send them out in pairs, He asked them to preach the message of repentance. Christ was not presumptuous when He asked the Apostles to preach the message of repentance. Jesus knew how human nature has been flawed by sin following on from the sin of Adam and Eve. The message of repentance seems just appropriate and ad rem. Christ began His own public proclamation with the call to “repentance”, (Matthew 4:17, Luke 5:32). The call for repentance is a clarion call. It is one we all need. We are born broken and we live everyday trying to mend what is broken in us. To pretend to live without sin is to mask one’s life and to assume a false identity. “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us,’ (1 John 1:8). While we may not always be guilty of any of the seven deadly sins like: “pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth, we can, however, be guilty of venial sins. Sin is simply an integral part of human life. It is not out of place that we begin our celebration of the Mass, which is always a celebration of the feast of heaven on earth, with acknowledgement of our sins. The penitential rite is not intended to make us wallow in guilt but rather to bring us home to ourselves and to usher us into the enduring and inexhaustible mercy and love of God. As Catholics, we are blessed with the sacrament of reconciliation, which gives graces so that we able to grow in virtue and avoid occasions for sins, if we cooperate with these graces. Without getting into any form of scrupulosity, it is spiritually healthy to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation regularly. There is nothing, which can give us more certain security of eternal salvation than a regular cleansing of the soul of any form of sin even venial sins. The late Spanish Archbishop, missionary, and founder of the Claretians, Saint Anthony Claret (1807 – 1870), gave, not an exhaustive list of sins, but a general approach to the examination of conscience. They include: “the sin of giving entrance into one’s heart to any unreasonable suspicion or unfair judgment against a fellow human person. The sin of introducing talk about another’s defects, or offending charity in any other way, even lightly. The sin of omitting, out of laziness, our spiritual practices or of performing them with voluntary neglect. The sin of having a disordered affection for somebody. The sin of having a vain esteem for oneself, or of taking vain satisfaction in things pertaining to us. The sin of receiving the holy sacraments in a careless way, with distractions and other irreverences, and without a serious preparation.

Impatience, resentment, any failure to accept disappointments as coming from God’s Hand all put obstacles in the way of the decrees and dispositions of Divine Providence concerning us. The sin of giving ourselves an occasion that can even remotely blemish a spotless condition of holy purity. The sin of seeking to pursue the road of virtue, not under the direction of obedience, but under the guidance of one’s own whims.’ As 21st century disciples of Christ, if we must be faithful to the propagation of Christ’s message of repentance, we will need to first and foremost realise our own need of mercy, healing and forgiveness. God bless you all. Fr. John Ikechukwu Echewodo Parish Priest

 

 

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Christmas 2016

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CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS 2016

All  events and holy mass  will be held at the St. Mary’s Worship Center, Upper Coomera

Saturday, 24th December (CHRISTMAS EVE)

4.30pm –  Carol Singing   | 5:00  – Holy Mass 

9.30pm –  Carol Singing  | 10:00 pm –  Holy Mass 

Sunday 25th December 2016 (CHRISTMAS DAY)

7.30am Holy Mass

9.30am Holy Mass

Saturday, 31st December (NEW YEAR’S EVE)

6pm – Holy Mass 

Sunday 1st January 2017 (NEW YEAR’S DAY)

7.30am Mass  |  9am Mass | 5pm Mass 

 

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Lenten Progam

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HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE 

SAINT MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH

COOMERA

Ash Wednesday – Mass at 7pm

Stations of the Cross – Every Friday at 7pm

Mass Times :

                (NO 5 PM EVENING MASS ON EASTER SUDAY)

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Christmas Message from Archbishop Mark Coleridge

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