PARISH NEWS
PARISH OFFICE
The Parish Secretary is away until 9 June. During this time, the parish office will be manned by volunteers. To assist us during this period, we request that any notices and names for the sick list and death anniversaries be forwarded to the parish office by 3:00pm on the Wednesday prior to the weekend. We thank you for your cooperation.
HEALING MASS IN JUNE
Please note that Healing Mass for June will be held next Saturday, 10th June.
ROSTERS FOR JUNE, JULY & AUGUST FOR:
- LECTORS & EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS
- PIETY STORE
- COMMUNION TO THE SICK
are available for collection in the hall.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR PARISH
| 10 June | Healing Mass, 2:00pm – 4:30pm |
| 17 June | First Multicultural Mass Planning meeting at 10:15am in the Meeting Room off hall |
| 18 June | Corpus Christi Feast – Procession of Monstrance before 10:30am Mass |
| 25 June | St. Peter Apostle Parish Feast Day celebrations – 10:30am Mass |
STEWARDSHIP RENEWAL
Stewardship renewal will take place at the end of June. New envelopes will be available for collection on the 17/18th June. If you would like to change your current pledge or mode of giving, please contact the parish office via email at stpeters@westnet.com.au or hopperscrossing@cam.org.au or on 9749 4300 on or before 31st May 2017. If you would like to join our Stewardship program, please take a registration card from the foyer / or near the sacristy where the oils are displayed, complete the Stewardship side of the card and drop it into the collection bags during Mass or in the Mass offering slot near the sacristy. You can also drop it off at the parish office or give it to Fr. Pius or Dcn. Charles after Mass.
REGISTRATION OF PARISHIONERS
If you are not already a parishioner and would like to be registered as one at St. Peters, please complete a registration card available from the foyer and as above, drop it in the collection bags during Mass or in the Mass offering slot near the sacristy or at the parish office, or give it to Fr. Pius or Dcn. Charles after Mass. Please remember that being baptised in this parish or attending Mass regularly does not automatically make a person a parishioner. The person needs to be registered on the parish census program.
VENERATION OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA STATUE – 2ND APPARITION TUESDAY 13TH JUNE
To celebrate the 2ND Apparition at Fatima, the Statue of Our Lady will be available for veneration on Tuesday 13TH June between 8:00am and 9:30am in the Side Chapel of the Church and again in the evening between 7:00pm and 7:30pm in the Community Centre. All welcome.
MULTICULTURAL MASS
Please note that the first Multicultural Mass Planning Meeting for this year will be held on Saturday, 17 June 2017 at 10:15am in the meeting room off the church hall. All are invited to attend to help support the Eritrean community make the celebration a joyous one.
FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI – SUNDAY 18TH JUNE, 10:30AM
To celebrate this Feast, a procession of the Monstrance will take place around the school oval starting at 10:30am in the Church. Mass will follow.
ST. PETER THE APOSTLE PARISH FEAST – SUNDAY 25TH JUNE, 10:30AM
All Parishioners are invited to attend this special event and are kindly requested to bring a plate of savoury or sweet finger food to be shared after Mass.
A reminder for all Parish Group Leaders to please arrange for their banners to be processed into Church. Banner bearers are to assemble in the hall by 10:15am ready to process in for the start of Mass.
IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE SCHOOL
| 9 June | No School – Curriculum Day |
| 12 June | No School – Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday |
| 30 June | Last of Term 2. School Finishes at 1:00pm. |
| 17 July | Term 3 commences at 8:45am |
| 3 Aug | No School – Curriculum Day |
POPE FRANCIS’S INTENTIONS FOR JUNE
That national leaders may firmly commit themselves to ending the arms trade, which victimizes so many innocent people.
TWEET FROM POPE FRANCIS
Let us pray for our Coptic brethren in Egypt who were killed because they did not want to renounce the faith.
Pope Francis (@Pontifex) | Twitter
RECENTLY DECEASED
We pray for Rosa Scrofani, Orazio Baffi, Robert Cannard, Nicola Lettieri, Inez Nicoletti, Mary Pajar, Genoveffa Martelli, Jack Piper, Connie Squillace and all who passed away recently.
DEATH ANNIVERSARIES
We pray for Mariakutty Kodakkathanath, Mary Crough, Santan Fernandes, Mary Borg, Garnette DeRozario, Olive, Gerald & Glen Gaffey, Ken, Allan & Dawn Hartshorn, Rita & Charles Frost, William Keating, Richard Green, Pauline Restall and all whose anniversaries occur at this time.
PRAYERS FOR THE SICK
We pray for Leo Linehan, Angela O’Brien, Mary McMinn, Lydia (Aleida) Van Susteren, Peter McGlade, Gary Spotswood, Stan Walkden, Diane Cameron, Sean Donaldson, Kristian Romois, Vera Fernandez, Edith Street, Georgette Maalouf, Carmen Mifsud, Bob Meehan, Dominic D’Lima, Cynthia Middleton, Milton Roberts, Elizabeth Slee, Trevor Rush, Jamilton Dabu, Rose & Lewis Farrugia, Lisa Hassan and all who are ill in our Parish.
ROSTERS
Money Counters 11 June 17
| Les Jones / Tini & Barrie Hope / John Allen |
Readers – 10/11 June 17
| 6:00pm | Davy Fernandez |
| 8:30am | Lerna Vasquez |
| 10:30am | Sunil Vaz |
| 5:00pm | Jeslin Shaji |
Extraordinary Ministers of Communion 10/11 June 17
| 6:00pm | S Martis / J. Tramontana / E. Mills / Praful A. |
| 8:30am | R. Johnson / K. McLoughlin / S. Gomez / B. Jones |
| 10:30am | V. Firman / Sally DiB / S. Colla / F. Caruana |
| 5:00pm | C. Skinner / A&M Etiennette / Volunteer |
Music Ministry 10/11 June 17
| 6:00pm | Footsteps |
| 8:30am | Shirley & Group |
| 10:30am | Youth Band |
| 5:00pm | Shepherds of Christ |