Message From Fr. Vin
June 20th 2010
TWELFTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME (Year C)
Who do you say I am? This piercing question posed by Jesus to his disciples challenges them to draw on all they have seen and heard, and to come to the conclusion to which both logic and faith mixed together leads them. The question is asked of us, and we must use the same means to arrive at the same answer: The Christ of God. But there is more that we must know about him:
The Son of man is destined to suffer to be rejected to be put to death and to be raised up on the
third day. If anyone wants to be a follower
of mine let them renounce them self and
take up their cross every day.
What ever we think in our minds about who Jesus is has no importance; unless we show who we think he is by our actions.
We continue on our journey of showing who and what we think Jesus is all about as we continue to respond to the many challenges of “ Leaving Safe Harbours” and of all that this entails in continuing to do our very best to be one parish.
Previous Newsletters and Minutes of Parish Council Minutes are available on request. On reading them it will be very clear that ANYONE within the boundaries of this parish should have my agreement to arrange anything in the name of the parish, or anything that people may assume is in the name of the parish, before they publish/arrange such events. This has been made very clear on more than one occasion. As always, I also discuss such decisions with the Parish Council.
I was well aware that St Mark’s School staff and St Andrew’s School staff had previous commitments, arranged well in advance of this past Friday’s Parish Auction, and I was glad to receive their apologies, a number of weeks ago, that they would be unable to attend.
However, an event took place on Friday evening within the boundaries of this parish, without the agreement of myself nor the Parish Council. This MUST NOT happen in the future and I am quite confident that the majority of parishioners will support this view.
On a much more positive note, the Celebrity Parish Auction held on Friday evening, organized, advertised and discussed, well in advance was a great success. More about this next week, but in the meantime, Thank You very much to all who organized and supported. Today at 4.00pm, all who perform any kind of ministry within our parish are asked to gather for prayer and reflection at 4.00pm at St Mark’s church, and for discussion afterwards in the Annex. Hopefully, we will continue to proclaim “You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God”.
Happy Fathers Day!!
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
Which crosses in your life do you find especially heavy?
What or who helps you bear them?
2. If asked by someone who did not know him, who would YOU say Jesus is?
