ST SIMON THE APOSTLE, ROWVILLE

(Except for Monday, which will be a church Mass Service only)

Thursday, June 4 2020

Fr. Kevin Dillon - St Simons, May 31 2020

Reflection hymn by Keith & Krystyn Getty 

Holy Spirit, living Breath of God

The announcement this week by the Victorian State Government that churches are now permitted to admit twenty people to religious services might be seen as “one small step”, as far as St. Simon’s Parish is concerned. But in its own way,
it is a “giant leap” in the direction which will hopefully and eventually give all who wish to attend Mass the opportunity
to do so. 

The change from ten to twenty attendees will be accompanied by some minor but important alterations to the schedule for Masses here. These will - again gradually - lead us further along the path of the provision of Mass as we would wish to be available always. Should the number of permitted attendees be altered by Government regulations, appropriate adjustments will be made accordingly. 

However, for the next three weeks (until Friday June 19) daily Mass will be celebrated Monday to Saturday at 10.15am. The Sunday liturgy Masses will be the Saturday
Vigil Mass (June 6 and 13) at 5.00pm (not 6 00pm) and on Sunday (June 7 and 14)
at 10.15am. 

As you would be aware, the daily Masses on our website (watched by many people from both within and outside our parish) are pre-recorded, and the pre-recorded Sunday Masses over the next fortnight will be celebrated on Thursday June 4 and on Wednesday June 10, both at 12 noon. 

Registration procedure (email: massrequest@stsimonsparish.com.au) will continue and will remain essential if the gradual return to the “open church” to which we were accustomed is to be achieved. 

As we know, “We’re all in this together”. As Victorians and as a parish we’ve made some significant ground in the past few weeks by doing our utmost to abide by the restrictions, even those which may sometimes seem inconsistent and even unfair. But we have achieved much through our respect for the total community of which we are each a part. Please God, we’ll continue to do so. 

Also, congratulations to Bishop Mr Edwards O.M.I. who has this week been appointed as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga. Bishop Mark is the son of parishioners Graham and Tineke Edwards. A former student of Mazenod College, he was ordained a bishop in 2014 and has since served as an Auxiliary Bishop in the eastern region and currently the western region of the Archdiocese of Melbourne. 

He has been publicly and rightly recognised as being “pastoral
and inclusive”. St. Simon’s Parish congratulates Bishop Mark, Tineke
and Graham, and all the Edwards family on this important appointment
by Pope Francis. 

The Wagga Diocese has been vacant for three years, and the appointment is being warmly welcomed by the people of this large
New South Wales diocese. 

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MY JESUS, I believe that You are present in this most holy sacrament, I love you above all things and I desire to receive You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and I unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.  
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Stage 2 Procedures

“The Pursuit of Happyness”

(2006 Movie) with Will Smith

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts
of thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of thy love. Send froth your Spirit
and they shall be created. And thou shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful,grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation,
Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

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