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Our Lady of Fatima Rosebud Melbourne Australia

Locality: Rosebud, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 5986 5954

Address: 16 Hinton St. 3939 Rosebud, VIC, Australia

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24.01.2022 WEEK 17 IN ORDINARY TIME Friday St. Dominic (Memorial) Readings: Jeremiah 26:1-9; Matthew 13:54-58 According to the Sophist philosophers, there are two things that prevent true knowledge: the obscurity of the human mind and the shortness of life. An obscured and biased mind blinds us from reality. ... The experience of prophet Jeremiah and Jesus in today’s Gospel readings is typical of all biases in society. After the Temple sermon, people demand Jeremiah’s death. Instead of his words leading them to conversion and faith, their inherent biases led them to arrogance. Likewise, instead of focusing on the good words and actions of Jesus, people dissect his background, his family, history and occupation. Today, we are challenged to open our eyes to see good in our fellow beings, in their actions, in their oractices and in their intentions.

20.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Thursday Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Matthew 16:13-23 Today’s First Reading is an assurance of God’s continuous presence with us. It also reminds us to the new things God is about to do in our midst. ... God is ready to set aside a relationship that was destroyed by infidelity. He is ready to restore a broken relationship. On our own part, we must be ready to accept this new covenant. Peters’ professions of faith in today’s Gospel is based on his lived experience of Christ as the Messiah. However, out of human weakness, Peter rejects the cross. For Jesus this attitude was an obstacle to God’s plan for him. Emotions often block the true perception of reality. An authentic disciple of Jesus should be led not by emotions but by personal conviction.

19.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Monday Sts. Pontian & Hippolytus(Optional) Readings: Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28c; Matthew 17:22-27 Today’s Gospel sets before us a number of practical lessons for our daily living. While it was not necessary that Jesus should pay the tax, he paid up in order to teach us to be responsible citizens. ... Since Peter was a fisherman, he asked him to get the money from the mouth of a fish in order to teach us how to pay tax from our earnings. Sometimes we do good to others either when we are asked or when it benefits us. Today we are called to do good to others even when we are not obliged to do so. Doing good will always increase our credibility and help us to live harmony and peace.

17.01.2022 19TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Readings: 1 Kings 19:4-8; Ephesians 4:30-5:2; John 6:41-51 On this Sunday the Church invites us to focus on Jesus who continues to draw us to himself so that we can be nourished and strengthened like Elijah in the desert. ... The first Reading is a sort of encouragement for us because many of us are in the same boat. So, we can all identify with the prophet and his predicament. Unfortunately, the same Elijah who was courageous enough to face Ahab, suddenly became fearful and discouraged. However, when he thought that all hope was lost, God divinely intervened by feeding and strengthening him for his journey. In the Second Reading, Paul reminds us that as children of God, each one of us bears the mark of the Holy Spirit. Jesus draws us to himself every day through the Eucharistic table in order to nourish and strengthen us for our journey.

17.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Friday Readings: Ezekiel 16:1-15, 60, 63; Matthew 19:3-12 Israel as the faithless bride of the Lord, was an image already made familiar by Hosea and Jeremiah. Ezekiel (today’s First Reading) applies this image to the whole history of Israel. Moreover, he depicts this history as an act of infidelity and warns them against complacency. It was the same complacency that led the people away from the original plan of God from the beginning. ... Jesus reaffirms, in today’s Gospel, the origin and the nature of marriage as planned by God: What God has joined together, let no one separate. With the rising divorce rate, we are challenged to see marriage as a vocation and not just a social practice. Marriage in the first place is a call to a stable way of life and a call to a deeper commitment to another person.

17.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Tuesday Readings: Jeremiah 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Matthew 14:22-36 Jeremiah’s prophesies in today’s First Reading, brings up the rays of hope as they pierce through the pervading gloom and apparent doom of the city. The prophet envisions the splendour of Jerusalem and enjoins the people to look up to God will hope and see how the Lord will again restore the land. ... In the same vein, Jesus in today’s Gospel, challenges his disciples to be optimistic and face up to difficult situations who courage. He calls Peter to come, yet, Peter’s negative thinking and the fear of the adversity of the external circumstances distracted him. We also fail in our daily life to achieve great things because we fail to focus on the one who has called us. We often live in our past failures and negative thoughts and they invariably prevent us from going forward.

16.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Friday - St. Lawrence (Feast) Readings: 2 Corinthians 9:6-10; John 12:24-26 Before events were committed into writing and before the invention of photography, the memories of the past heroes were preserved by repeatedly recalling stories about them. Through this recalling the memory of the Deacon Lawrence with the almsgiving service by the Pope. ... When Pope Sixtus II was martyrs, Emperor Valerian ordered Lawrence to hand over the wealth of the Church to him. Lawrence asked for two days to collect all the wealth. On the appointed day, he appeared before the emperor presenting him a mass of lame, blind, and poor people, and told him, Here is the wealth of the Church, the true treasures we have in the Church. St. Paul in our first reading exhorts us to be cheerful givers. St. Lawrence not only distributed the alms generously to the poor, but gave his very life to Christ in the most generous and cheerful manner.

16.01.2022 18TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Readings: Exodus 16:2-4, 12-15; Ephesians 4:17, 20-24; John 6:24-35 Today we recount how the Israelites revolved against Moses and despised God because of their hunger for physical food. They quickly forgot all the great things that God had done for them. ... God, however, proved to be a great provider by feeding them with manna from heaven. In the Gospel, Jesus performs the miracle of the multiplication of bread and fish out of necessity. However, the crowd has been taken up only by the material things they could get from Christ. So, rather than first accepting Christ and the word of God he preached, they allowed physical hunger to overshadow their spiritual hunger. When we pay too much of attention to material things, we tend to forget the goodness of God in the past. So, rather than counting our blessings we might end up counting our woes, and blaming God for our misfortunes.

12.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Wednesday The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Solemnity) Readings: Revelation 11:19a, 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Corinthians 15:20-27; Luke 1:39-56 The opening verse of today’s First Reading, begins this way: The sanctuary of God in Heaven was opened and the Ark of the Covenant could be seen in it. ... In the Old Testament the Ark of the Covenant was a sign of God’s presence among His people. This passage is mentioned because Mary is the Ark of the New Covenant. She bore in her womb, the Son of God, the Word made flesh, for nine months. When Christ goes up to take his place at the right hand of God the Father, Mary, the Ark of the New and Eternal Covenant, follows him in glory and splendour. Today’s responsorial Psalm confirms this further: On your right stands the Queen in garments of gold. Therefore, far from being an imposition of the Church, the Dogma of the Assumption of our Lady, declared in 1950 by Pope Pius XII, is part of the bedrock of the Christian faith, because it is profoundly biblical.

11.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Saturday Readings: Ezekiel 18:1-10, 13b, 30-32; Matthew 19:13-15 After the fall of Jerusalem, the exiles fall into despair, and as such put the blame for their failure on their forefathers and on God Himself. ... In today’s First Reading, the prophet Ezekiel corrects such an assumption and calls for personal responsibility for sin. If we take responsibility for our actions and inaction, we would take care to be at our best. Jesus in today’s Gospel, also emphasises the need to be at our best in taking care of the weak. The repeated testimony of the Gospels shows Jesus’ love for the sick, the needy and children. He had a special affection for these groups of people because they are always in need of help. Today, we are invited to return to our childhood virtues and become Christopher Christ bearers and be true to our Christian vocation.

09.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Monday The Transfiguration of the Lord Readings: Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14; Mark 9:2-10 The feast of Transfiguration is a prefiguration of the splendour of Heaven. ... God is ready to do anything good to save us as long as we continue to walk with his Son Jesus. All that we need to do is to continue to respond, to walk faithfully, and to listen to Christ attentively. In today’s Gospel, God revealed the gift He is about to offer us. This gift is Jesus Christ. He reminds only one thing from us: Listen to him! Listening to Jesus means transforming our lives and changing our ways. It means living according to the word of God we hear every day, walking with God, trusting Him no matter what our circumstances, obeying His will and, paying attention to what the Church teaches.

07.01.2022 WEEK 17 IN ORDINARY TIME Thursday St. Eusebius of Vercelli (Optional) Readings: Jeremiah 18:1-6; Matthew 13:47-53 God communicates His message through the prophets using symbols. Hence, the life of the prophet is the living embodiment of the Lord’s message. Through Jeremiah, God calls His people to submission to Him who like the potter can shape them. We are invited to count ourselves as nothing because God, but to allow God to count us as something and shape us according H...is design. Likewise, the Parable of the Net directs our attention to the nature of the world as it embodies people of all kinds. Instead of focusing on the negative aspects of life and blaming the circumstances, tools and people for our failure, we are challenged to accept diversities as part of life and learn to make the right choices in life.

05.01.2022 WEEK 17 IN ORDINARY TIME Saturday St. John Vanney (Memorial) Readings: Jeremiah 26:11-16, 24; Matthew 14:1-12 In his faithfulness to his mission as the mouthpiece of God, Jeremiah remains fearless and committed to upholding the truth. He confronts anyone who compromises with it. ... In contrast, Herod failed to live up to his status as king in today’s Gospel as he compromised with the values. After having taken his brother’s wife, after having murdered St. John the Baptist, after having pleased his step-daughter and all his friends and nobles, he was a man constantly living in anxiety. He continues to live as a prisoner of his environment and vices. Our guilt will always follow and haunt us. We cannot run away from the evil that we have done. We can only confront it, confess it, make right what needs to be done, and do the necessary penance.

04.01.2022 20TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Readings: Proverbs 9:1-6; Ephesians 5:15-20; John 6:51-58 For a couple of weeks now, our readings, especially the Gospels, continue to tell us that Jesus is the bread of life.... This is simply to remind us of the importance of the Holy Eucharist in our Christian life. Eucharist means thanksgiving. So, filled with the Holy Spirit, we give thanks to God for inviting us to share in His wisdom, and in the Body and Blood of Christ. In our First Reading today, God Himself who is Wisdom, invites us to His banquet. However, only those who are humble accept of this invitation. In their pride the Jews in today’s Gospel refused to be fools in order to be made wise in the ways of God. By this, they shut themselves out of the banquet of the Body and Blood of Christ. At times some of us behave like the Jews. This is by assuming that we can analyse and understand the mystery of the Body and Blood of Christ with our limited human insight and the wisdom of this world. Paul would warn us: Be careful about the sort of lives you live, like intelligent and not senseless people

04.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Saturday St. Clare (Memorial) Readings: Habakkuk 1:12-2:4; Matthew 17:14-20 The prophet Habakkuk in today’s First Reading cried to God for allowing injustice in the nation. God’s people have become depraved and resorted to the oppression of the poor. They have lost faith in God. ... Jesus in today’s Gospel also condemns the loss of faith among the disciples. The disciple must be a person of great faith, able to silence the activity of the evil one. The man who came to Jesus throwing himself on his knees before the Lord because of his son, shows this kind of faith. The attitude and the words of this man show that his prayer is humble and sincere. He appeals to Jesus’ compassion. Saint Clare who feast we celebrate today is a perfect example of one who does not advance on her own merit but on Christ’s.

03.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Thursday St. Stephen of Hungary (Optional) Readings: Ezekiel 12:1-12; Matthew 18:21-19:1 Through the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant in today’s Gospel, Jesus challenges us to become aware of our own self. ... Unless we experience God’s unconditional forgiveness in our life, we will not be able to share this forgiveness with others. God is patient and does not find fault with us in order to punish us. He forgives us several times daily in spite of our repeated infidelity. Our forgiveness of others clears the path for God to forgive us. The only obstacle we can put in the way of God’s forgiveness is our inability to forgive the mistakes and faults of others. The servant who refused to forgive his fellow servant was blind to the reality of his own unforgiving spirit. We are called to reflect the merciful face of God to others.

01.01.2022 WEEK 19 IN ORDINARY TIME Tuesday St. Maximilian Kolbe (Memorial) Readings: Ezekiel 2:8-3:4; Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 God always favours the prophets with an experience of His power. For prophet Isaiah, his lips were touched by the transforming fire of the burning coal. For Ezekiel as we see in today’s First Reading, a scroll was given to him to eat. The content of the scroll is God’s word that needs to be absorbed, internalised and assimilated. With this, he spoke fearless...ly. Through the Parable of the Lost Sheep, Jesus in today’s Gospel invites us to be childlike in our attitude. With childlike attitude, St. Maximilian Kolbe offered to take the place of Franciszed Gajowniczek, the father of nine who was condemned to die. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he sheltered thousands of refugees, most of them Jews. In 1941, he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he helped and succoured the inmates.

01.01.2022 WEEK 18 IN ORDINARY TIME Wednesday St. Mary of the Cross (Solemnity) Readings: 1 Kings 17:8-16; Colossians 3:12-17; Matthew 6:25-34 Responding to a request from the Australian bishops’ Conference, a formal decree (dated 15 January, 2013) was issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, declaring St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop a second patron of Australia inspired by her evident holiness, generations of Australians had long since taken... Mary to their hearts. We admire her for her perseverance and courage in the face of the heavy crosses she herself endured (including illness, excommunication and the death by drowning od her beloved mother Flora in a shipwreck), for her service of the poor and marginalised and for her commitment to catholic education as foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Clothed in the heartfelt compassion, in generosity and humility, gentleness and patience, she embodied the way of life that St. Paul proposed to the Colossians in today’s Second Reading. Images of Mary are suggestive of her indomitable spirit, none more so than the late John Elliot’s larger than life-size scrulpture in Brisbane’s historic St. Stephen’s Chapel.