The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy his name!
Welcome to the Catholic Parishes of
St Mary’s Mudgee, St John the Baptist Gulgong,
St Dominic’s Kandos/ St Malachy’s ylstone.
Mrs K
9.00am
1.00pm
Acts of the Apostles 9:26-31
He explained how the Lord appeared to Saul and spoke to him on
his journey.
Ps 21:26-28. 30-32. R. v.26
My vows I will pay before those who fear him.
The poor shall eat and shall have their ll.
They shall praise the Lord, those who seek him.
May their hearts live for ever and ever!
All the earth shall remember and return to the Lord,
all families of the naons worship before him.
They shall worship him, all the mighty of the earth;
before him shall bow all who go down to the dust.
And my soul shall live for him, my children serve him.
They shall tell of the Lord to generaons yet to come,
declare his faithfulness to peoples yet unborn:
‘These things the Lord has done.’
1 John 3:18+24
His commandments are these: that we believe
and that we love one another.
All who live in me, and I in them, bear much fruit.
Gospel Reflection
By Greg Sunter
The Leconary of this Easter season draws out some of the
‘classic’ gospel passages, parcularly some of the discourses from
the Gospel of John. Like many ‘famous’ or familiar passages, it can
be true that familiarity breeds contempt – we think we are so
familiar with the passage that we don’t need to pay it much
aenon.
At rst glance, it appears that there is a certain ruthlessness about
the image of the vinedresser pruning the vine: perform or perish!
However, the process of cung away and pruning branches is an
incredibly nurturing acon; it is removing the unproducve
porons of the plant so that the vine has an even beer
opportunity to produce fruit in the next season. It an act of love;
not an act of economic raonalism. Within our own lives we are
called to make decisions about which of our thoughts and acons
are life-giving (fruit-bearing) and which are unproducve;
negave; crippling; life-diminishing. If we are able to ‘prune’ our
life-diminishing thoughts and acons we allow ourselves the
freedom and the ability to really ourish. Feelings of jealousy,
greed, resentment, self-doubt and lack of condence can limit our
ability to be fully alive just as addicve and harmful behaviours
can physically take away our ability to perform at our best.
I am reminded of the old Karate Kid movie when the boy, Daniel,
is introduced to the art of bonsai. He is told to close his eyes,
imagine the perfect tree and then start clipping and shaping the
plant to make real the perfecon that lies within it. It is only
through a process of cung away and pruning that we can
nurture ourselves to realise the beauty of our potenal.
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C. Gaudry R. Saliba
M. McGregor C. Golino
C. Holland R. Saliba
B. Petersen M. Mclean
D. Delahunty M. Cassidy
A. McLean O. O’Brien
C. Furney M. Gilbert
Violet & Willow F Patrick C
M. Dunnachie
J. Goodlet Children’s Liturgy
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A. Baker R. Gawthorne
29th April L. Nicholson
D. Cunningham A. Myles
L. Nicholson L. Croake
J. Thomet M. Dunnachie
I. Bryne K. Cassidy
Nicko And Han W Sabella W
S. Walker O. O’Brien
K. Isbester Children’s Liturgy
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I. Browne R. Gawthorne
6th May R. Croake
Mon—E. Goodlet
Tue—R. Gawtorne
Wed—J. Cooper
Thu—I. Browne
Fri— I. Browne
Sat— I. Browne/Fr Owen
Sun—R. Gawthorne
Parish Oce opens at 10am
12 noon Regina Coeli
9.30am - Mudgee
12 noon Regina Coeli
3.30pm First Holy Communion Parent Meeng—
Gulgong
10.40am ANZAC Liturgy—SMCS Secondary Campus
12 noon Regina Coeli
5.30pm Reconciliaon
5.45pm -Mudgee
9.30am - Mudgee
12 noon Regina Coeli
5.30pm Extraordinary Finance Commiee and Parish
Council Meeng
10.30am —Opal Nursing Home
11.30am Exposion of the Blessed Sacrament
12 noon Regina Coeli
12.30pm - Mudgee
11.00am Bapsms
4.30pm Reconciliaon
5.00pm - Mudgee
9.00am - Mudgee
10.30am - Gulgong - Commitment Mass for First
Holy Communion
11.00am - Kandos
JOKE JUNCTION…..
Why doesn’t the elephant use the computer?
Because it is afraid of the mouse!
Saturday Vigil Mass will move to 5pm from 4th May.
is on Sunday 5th May. Church Street will be
closed from 4am. Please enter the church via the
Market Street gate.
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We pray that the dignity and immense value
of women by recognised in every culture, and
for the end of discriminaon that they
experience in parts of the world.
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-Due to ill health etc we are appealing for
people to come forward and assist as Sacristans, to help
prepare the church for Mass. Please consider helping with
this ministry. Just give your name to Merilyn Carney or
Carolyn Holland.
Training will be provided.
Kelly Williams, Andrew Adams (Newcastle), Millicent Gourley
(South Africia), Fr Jim Wilkins
Noel Dorney, Rose Roberts, Jean Lee,
Thomas Rheinberger, Irene McEwen, Noelene Goodwin,
John Denlay, Edmund Fitzgerald, Rae Hopkins, Leslie Wolfe,
Maureen Consadine, Allan Dickie, Michael Rowlands,
Chrisne Kilgour, Taidyn Roberts, Barry Simpson,
Minnie Mealy, Elias & Terese Sadaka, Ross Lloyd,
Therese Billmon, Siobhan Woods, Leslie Wolfe,
Joyce Gallagher, Malcolm Jones, Eva & George Jozicic, Ana &
Michael Glavacevic.
Warwick Gleeson, Fr. Paul Jennings MSC, Luzviminda Vicedo,
Monica Monds, Michael O’Shea, Belinda Holden,
Maggie Swientek, Michael Maloney.
Ron Muscat, Carla Perroo, Carmen Archer, Trish Buckley,
Joe Saliba, Doreen Wurth, Horace Saliba, June Ritar,
Paula Ryan, Tony Spina, Elizabeth Donelly, Tony Harris,
Tracy Donelly, Angela Marakovic, Zvonko Glavacevic,
Trevor Roberts (England), Iris McBeath, Graham Hawkins,
Josephine Debaksta, Tomislav Marakovic (Sydney),
Lynne Daly, Carmel Thompson, Kim Barry, Dennis Petersen,
Rodrigo Jaboneta, and all those in our Nursing Homes.
Prayer meeng will be held at 10am on 6th May at
Rylstone followed by a cuppa.
Donaons are being accepted for a new organ for
St. Malachy’s church, Rylstone. Donaons will be
acknowledged. Please contact Fr. Owen or the Parish
Oce.
Save the Date
St Vincent de Paul thanksgiving Mass on 4th August at
11am at Kandos.
Celebrang over 90 years of Caring in our area.
We welcome into our Mudgee Parish:
Florence Shirley Warwicker
daughter of Andrew and Dakota
Lily Samantha Baxter
Marley Francis Baxter
children of Kevin and Nicole
MILITARY ITEMS found recently in the grounds of St.
Mary’s. Please contact the Parish oce for more
informaon.
When you invest with CDF, you receive your interest at
maturity and the CDF will also donate based on 2.50% of
your annual investment to Parish of your choice within the
Catholic Diocese of Bathurst.
(eg $100,000 12month Term deposit = a donaon of
$2,500 from the CDF to your Parish)
For more informaon:
www.cdathurst.org.au
Historical Context ‘’
The image of the vine has its origins in Psalm 80 where the
naon of Israel is likened to a vine: ‘You brought a vine out
of Egypt; you drove out the naons and planted it. You
cleared the ground for it; it took deep root and lled the
land.’ (Ps 80:8-9) However, the people of Israel have
forgoen who they are and
who it was that planted them
in their country – it is like the
rootstock of a graed plant has
taken over and gone wild.
Jesus’ presence as the ‘true
vine’ reminds them of what
they are called to be.
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by Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart
Branching Out
A major theme of the Scripture readings is ‘Jesus is our vine’.
In today’s rst reading, Saul (now Paul, aer his conversion and
bapsm) tries to join the disciples of Jesus. Saul had previously made a
habit of persecung Chrisans, and the disciples are sll afraid of him.
However, Barnabas intercedes and says that Paul has seen and talked
with the Lord and is now spreading the Gospel of Jesus. But speaking
about Jesus is dangerous. There is an aempt on Paul’s life. The
disciples send him away for protecon. The new church, despite its
struggles, is growing and thriving.
Psalm 21 is a praise and promise psalm. The psalmist calls on families,
naons and all the earth to praise God. This psalm also reads as a
public commitment to fulll a promise of service and to pass on the
message of salvaon to future generaons.
The second reading says that it is not enough just to talk about Jesus,
faith must be expressed through acon. We hear again God’s great
commandments – to have
faith in Jesus and to love one
another.
In the reading from John’s
Gospel, Jesus uses the image
of the vine and branches to
show how important it is to
stay connected to him, to keep
growing in faith. God is the
vine grower. Jesus is the vine.
We are the branches. The vine
also represents the Chrisan
community. The Chrisan
community is fruiul if it
proclaims and witnesses the
Gospel to others. Those who
hide their faith are like dead
branches that need to be
pruned.
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Newman" that is not from
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as cybercriminals adapt their methods and nd new ways to
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Living the Gospel
Bearing fruit
The vinedresser of this passage cuts
away the dead branches and prunes
back those that are not bearing fruit. In
what way do we bear fruit? When we
strive to reach our fullest potenal in
whatever we do, we bear fruit. When we
act out of movaon for the other
person rather than ourselves, we bear
fruit. When we strive to bring about the
reign of God in our small part of the
world, we bear fruit. Somemes we too
need to have some of our thoughts and
acons pruned so that we might beer
bear the fruit that we are truly capable
of producing.
