Central Otago Pastoral Area of Alexandra, Omakau and Roxburgh Presbytery
Parish Team
Sisters of Mercy
7 Killarney Street Alexandra Tel (03) 4488202 Fax (03) 448 8303
[email protected]
Fr Pat McGettigan Sr Elanor Pelvin Tel: 448 6304 Brian McLean (Parish Chairperson) Trina Eastwood (Sst Gerards’s School Principal) Susan Mulholland (St John’s School Principal, Ranfurly) (03) 444 9514 Wayne Soper (Parish Caretaker) Catholic Social Services 0800 277 669 (toll free) (03) 448 5385 (Mon-Wed)
Parish Secretary Sally Ferreira (Tues & Fri 9am-3pm)
7th Week Ordinary Time —Year A—19 February 2017 MASS TIMES Weekends Alexandra Sunday: Roxburgh Sunday Omakau Saturday Ranfurly Sunday
9.00am (all year) 11.00am (all year) 6.00pm (all year) 4.00pm
Queenstown Saturday 6.30pm Sunday 9.00am Arrowtown Sunday Garston Glenorchy Cromwell Sun)
11.00am (2nd Sun) 11.00am ( 4th Sun) 11.00am (1st, 3rd, 5th
Weekday Masses Alexandra Tuesday: 5.00pm (side chapel) Wednesday: 9.00am (side chapel) Thursday: 9.00am (side chapel) Friday 12.00pm (Church) Saturday 9.am (Side chapel) Roxburgh Wednesday 5.15pm (Parish Centre) RECONCILIATION Alexandra Saturday:
Next week’s readings: 1st Reading: Isaiah 49: 14-15 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 4: 1-5 Gospel: Matthew 6: 24-34
11.00am
9.00am (2nd, 4th Sun) 9.00am (1st, 3rd, 5th Sun) 11.00am (2nd, 4th Sun)
Wanaka
1st READING: Levit 19: 1-2, 17-18— We are to be holy as God is holy. 2nd READING: 1 Corinthians 3: 16-23 — The spirit of God lives among us for we are God’s temple. GOSPEL: Matthew 5: 38-48 - We are to be perfect just as our heavenly Father is perfect.
11.30am-12.00pm (otherwise on request)
As parishioners let us pray for those who have died recently: and whose anniversaries occur at this time: Robert McGettigan, Jack O’Kane May they rest in peace. Dates to Remember
22 Feb 23 Feb 24 Feb 3 March
10am. World Day of Prayer at St Aidan’s Anglican Church.
18/19 March
Catholic Women's League is having Diocesan conference here in Alexandra. All welcome!
ANNOINTING OF THE SICK Alexandra Friday: 12.00pm (1st Fri. in the month) Roxburgh Wednesday
5.15pm (1st Wed. In the month)
7.15pm—8.45pm. Mission group from Wellington will be conducting a number of seminars at St John the Baptist, Alexandra over 3 days. 7.15pm—8.45pm. Mission group from Wellington will be conducting Seminar session 2. 7.15pm—8.45pm. Mission group from Wellington will be conducting Seminar session 3.
ROSTER FOR NEXT SUNDAY Alexandra
Greeters
Intro / PoF
Readers
Gifts / Offertory
Eucharistic Ministers
Ministers to the Sick
G Chapman S Brouwer
C Sawyers
A Kinney
P O’Connor Sr Eleanor
K Fahey C Grieve B McLean
K Fahey C Grieve B McLean
Sacristan
Altar Servers
Power Point
Children’s Liturgy
Cleaning
T Schaumann
TBA
P Mulvihill
M Ward
B Harvey R Bond M Irving
Gifts / Offertory Reader
OHP
Eucharistic Minister
Cleaning
W Donnelly
W Maclean
Joan
G Flannery
W Donnelly Cleaning
Omakau
ROXBURGH
Greeter
Reader / Proclaimer
Gifts / Offertory
Eucharistic Minister
OHP
Altar Preparer for March Dyson Family
Margaret McKinnel
Michelle Clarke
Robb Family
William Clarke
Dorothy Dunlay Elizabeth Reid
Alexo: Liz Anderson Bonus No: 29
Roxo: Church
Roxburgh News: Birthday: Mitchell Roos World Day of Prayer: Friday 3 March at 2pm in Anglican Church.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to The Farmers Market in any way. We made an amount of $6234. $1000 of which will has already been distributed to the Central Otago Friendship Network, and the rest will help the Community Pantry at St Enoch’s Church, The Salvation Army Food bank, and the Baptist Church Food bank. Thank you for the kind parishioner who provided us with a guitar for an Omakau Parishioner to play at the Omakau Masses. Love your enemy—The Difficult Commandment Love your enemy. Now, Jesus, that’s a hard one. What about the idiot who rammed our car in the supermarket park, smashing the bumper, and leaving not as much as a note of apology; And the people next door who play ear-splitting music; and the couple down the road who don’t look after their children? If people are deliberately offensive, how can you expect us to love them? Love your enemy, you say, that’s a commandment, you say, well, what do you say about the guy who spray-painted obscene graffiti on the wall of our church—your church? Love you enemy? All right, I think I’ve got the message. When they shoved nails through your hands, you said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” in the worst of situations,
you blessed your enemies, and saw them as your friends. I accept you actually did that. But you are You. I’m just me. Where would I get that kind of love? Okay, Jesus, Don’t say it. I already know the answer. Though for the Day As our relationship with God deepens, so does our capacity for the love that is poured into us in such abundance, that it must overflow into the world. Joy Cowley
