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This weekend, as our celebraon of the Christmas

Season comes to an end, we celebrate the Feast of the
Bapsm of the Lord.

Can you remember what it was like to bring your child
or another family member for bapsm? Or perhaps
you can remember your own?? Jesus, like each one of
us and like many others we know, celebrated bapsm,
although for Jesus it was a lile dierent.

We celebrate bapsm as a way of ritualising our entry
or iniaon into the community of faith and
acknowledging our belief in our rebirth as members of
Christs body. But what about Jesus? Aer all, he was
already the Son of God did he need to be bapsed?
In short, yes. Not because he needed to be reborn
from the beginning of me, he was the only begoen
Son of Godbut because he needed to be iniated.
Jesus was also fully human, just like each one of us,
and just like us, Jesus needed to associate with the
community of faith to idenfy with the community
who were called to be about promong the Kingdom
of God.

Soon aer Jesus was bapsed, John was arrested and
so Jesus had to step up and become the leader of
this community of believers, seng the example of
how we are to live as those dedicated to bringing
about the Kingdom. Jesus primary message was one
of service to others, a call to be acve in mission
which is a duty of our bapsm a consequence of the
fact that we are bapsed members of the Body of
Christ.

Mission is something we are called to do constantly so
that in our every day lives, we too can be part of that
community formed so long ago that was about
promong the Kingdom of God.

Unl next week FrAndrew
Parish
Fr Andrew Doohan (ParishPriest)
Mr Greg Byrne (PastoralAssociate)
Mrs Sharon Fowle (Administraon)
Sr Kathryn McCabe (AboriginalCatholicMinistry)

The ParishOce is at the rear of the Parish Hall and is
staed on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10am to 4pm.

33 Lake Street, Forster NSW 2428
PO Box 67, Forster NSW 2428
P: (02) 6554 6304
F: (02) 6554 6425
E: forstertuncurryparish@gmail.com or
fr.andrew.doohan@bigpond.com (FrAndrew)
W: www.forstertuncurrycatholic.org.au

HolyNameParishSchool(K6)
Mr Mark Mowbray (Principal)

41 Lake Street, Forster NSW 2428
PO Box 243, Forster NSW 2428
P: (02) 6554 6504
F: (02) 6554 8895
E: admin@forster.catholic.edu.au

Items for inclusion in Bridgeside Bullen should be
sent to the Parish Oce or Fr Andrew, preferably by
email or wrien note, by midday on Thursday.

Bapsms are celebrated on Sundays, either during
any of our Sunday Masses or aer the 9am Mass.
Bapsmal Preparaon meengs are held on the
second Monday of each month at 7pm in the Meeng
Rooms of the Parish Hall at Forster. Please contact the
Parish Oce for more details, or visit the Parish
website.

Weddings are celebrated by arrangement and with at
least three (and preferably more) months noce.
Please contact Fr Andrew for more details, or visit the
Parish website.
Sunday 13th January, 2013
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, Year C
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the Media Centre for the latest media releases and
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Have you ever considered becoming more involved in
our Mass? If you are available to proclaim the Word of
God, be a Commentator, a Sacristan or a Minister of
Communion please contact the Parish Oce as soon
as possible. We really need your help.

If you are unsure of what is involved and would like to
know more, please speak with Fr Andrew.
Tur Pnnisu Dinnv(for the week ahead)
Tue (15/1) 9am Chrisan Meditaon (Bob
65555914)
3:30pm Holy Hour @ Tuncurry
4:30pm Mass @ Tuncurry
7pm Chrisan Meditaon (Bob
65555914)

Wed (16/1) 9am Mass @ Forster
11:15 Novena to Our Lady of
Perpetual Help @ Forster

Thu (17/1) 9am Mass @ Forster

Fri (18/1) 9:30am Mass @ Forster

Sat (19/1) 8:30am Reconciliaon @
Tuncurry
9am Mass @ Tuncurry
4:45pm Reconciliaon @ Forster
(unl 5.15pm)
6pm Vigil Mass @ Tuncurry

Sun (20/1) 7am Mass @ Tuncurry
9am Mass @ Forster
6pm Mass @ Forster
WrtcoMr 1o oun Visi1ons
A warm welcome to the visitors to our community for
Christmas and the summer holidays. We hope your
stay is both enjoyable and safe.
Pnnisu Orricr DuniNc JnNunnv
Our Pastoral Associate, Greg Byrne, is taking Annual
Leave during January. The Parish Oce will therefore
not always be staed as normal. Please be assured
that all emails and telephone messages will be
aended to, although there may be a slight delay in
responding. We would ask for your understanding and
forbearance.
IN voun cunni1v, rtrnsr rnnv ron:

RecentlyDeceased:Fr Anscar Chupungco osb

Anniversaries:Barry Barnes

andallthosewhoaresickinourparish.
JnNunnv Mnss Scuroutr CunNcrs
Fr Michael Kelly, who has been assisng with Masses
during January will not be with us next weekend due
to a prior commitment.

Accordingly, the Mass Schedule for the remainder of
January (i.e. the next two weekends) will be amended
to the following:

Saturday 6pm Mass @ Tuncurry
Sunday 7am Mass @ Tuncurry
9am Mass @ Forster
6pm Mass @ Forster

We realise that this may mean those rostered for
ministries at the 6pm Vigil Mass at Forster may not be
able to switch to the 6pm Sunday Mass at Forster. If
you can that would be great; if not we understand and
well manage as we go along.
WrtcoMr!
We welcome to our community of faith those who will
be bapsed with water and the Holy Spirit this
weekend:

Koby James, Sophie Jade & Lucy Leigh, the children
of Mathew & Jennifer Pither.
AovnNcr No1icr
Given the relavely short period of me between the
end of the Christmas Season and the beginning of the
Season of Lent, there are a number of Diocesan
celebraons which you may wish to be aware of:

As has become the custom in recent years, Bishop
Bill will be travelling around the Diocese on the
Fridays of Lent to preside over a series of Lenten
Liturgies of Hope and Healing. Our Parish will be
hosng the rst of these on Friday15thFebruary in
the School Hall beginning at 7pm. All are invited to
join with Bishop Bill as we pray for healing and
hope during the Season of Lent.
The annual Chrism Mass will be celebrated on
Tuesday 26th March in the Cathedral Church
beginning at 7pm. Again, all are welcome to join
with the Bishop to celebrate this important event in
the yearly life of our Diocese.
Oun Pnnisu Cottrc1ioNs
a) The Parish Collecon, providing for the needs of
the parish and its ministry, is taken up during the
presentaon and preparaon of the gis (the
oertory). This is the envelope collecon.

b) The Diocesan Clergy Collecon, providing for the
remuneraon and support of the clergy of the
diocese, will be taken up aer communion (during the
Thanksgiving Hymn or a similar me).
SitrNcr iN 1ur Li1uncv
We observe silence during our liturgy (on Sundays and
weekdays) at the following mes:

1. During the Penitenal Act, aer the Presider invites
us to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred
mysteries, in order to recollect ourselves;
2. During the Collect, aer the invitaon of the
Presider to Let us pray, again in order to recollect
ourselves; and
3. During the Liturgy of the Word, at the conclusion of
the rst & second reading and the homily, in order
that we might meditate on what we have heard.
Wrrkonv Missnts
The new versions of the Weekday Missal have now
been published, and it may be possible for the parish
to place a bulk order (depending on demand). At this
stage the cost is the region of $80.00 each. Please
leave your name on sheet provided if interested.
Cn1uotic Lrnorn & Cn1uotic Wrrktv
The Catholic Leader (Brisbane) and Catholic Weekly
(Sydney) newspapers are available at the rear of the
churches at a cost of $2 each.
IN1rncrssonv Pnnvrn Gnour
To request prayers for someone, or to join the Group,
please contact Bob Cashman on 6555 5914 leaving
your name and contact details.
A Nrw HvMN Tur Fncr or Cunis1
For the Year of Grace, and other quite mes of prayer.
Music:FinlandiaJSibelious,Text:MichaelHerry

Jesus, in prayer your people come before you,
We seek your face,
your healing hand to hold.
Here at your feet,
we wait in quiet sllness,
You know our need,
the sigh of evry heart.
Here now in prayer,
your Spirit gently draws us;
May we become for all the face of Christ.
Scnir1unr RrnoiNcs

This week Isaiah 42: 14, 67 or 40:15, 911.
Acts 10:3438 or Titus 2:1114, 3:47
Luke 3:1516, 2122
Next week Isaiah 62:15
1 Corinthians 12:411
John 2:111
Wontowior Mnnnincr ENcouN1rn
A weekend for married couples. Take me out of your
busy schedule to invest in your most precious asset:
Your Marriage! This is a unique opportunity to
recharge your relaonship baeries, refocus on each
other and fall in love all over again! The weekend will
take place from 15th17th March at Mt Carmel
Retreat Centre, Varroville, NSW. For more
informaon, visit the website www.wwme.org.au; for
bookings contact Ardell & Bill Sharpe on 02 4283 3435
or wsharpe@bigpond.net.au.
PntMs ENcouN1rn JounNrv
Palms Australia is a Catholic organisaon that has
been placing skilled Australian volunteers on mission
in communies across Africa, Asia and the Pacic for
over 50 years. This year, join Palms on an Encounter
journey to visit volunteers in the eld, and learn how
Australians can work in solidarity with overseas
communies to reduce poverty. Four trips are
available: Kiriba 1325 April; TimorLeste 30 June13
July; TimorLeste 22 Sept5 Oct; Kiriba 1225 Nov. As
you will travel with a small group, spaces are limited.
For more informaon contact Sarah on 02 9518 9551
or sarah@palms.org.au or visit www.palms.org.au.
SoMr TuiNcs CnNNo1 Br Snio
Lengthy explanaons are always abnormal and should
never occur as an immediate prelude to the act itself.
The assembly needs sustained preparaon and
formaon of various sortsevangelical, homilecal,
catechecal, and ascecal. It is when these are lacking
that lastminute recourse is had on the part of slothful
ministers to verbose explanaons of what is about to
happen. The risk this runs is that of turning the liturgy
into a learning experience, as it is called. In a culture
such as ours the educaonal temptaon is dicult to
resist. But liturgy which is stylish and eecve in
incremenng logos leads not to the brink of clarity but
to the edge of chaos. It deals not with the abolion of
ambiguity but with the dark and hidden things of God.
When it comes to liturgy, precision can be bought at
too high a price, and some things cannot be said.

AidanKavanagh
Readers ThisWeekend NextWeekend
6pm Tuncurry Frank Hayman
Colleen Cashman
Bob Cashman
Mary Greig
Paul McFadden
Geraldine Mullin
6pm Forster Barbara Dolahenty
Michael Siddle
Ley Bartle
Michael Siddle
Lou Hope
Monica Hunt
7am Tuncurry Cecile Malone
Cushla Drake
Edna Tucker
Ley Bartle
Tony Knight
Cushla Drake
9am Forster

Barbara Kermode
Kris Koch
Trevor Turner
Marie Keep
Sharon Fowle
Greg Byrne
Ministers of Communion ThisWeekend NextWeekend
6pm Tuncurry Owen Carroll, Jeanee Goodacre,
Monica Hunt, Carolyn Ollie, Monique
Piscopo, Tony & Maureen Stevens,
volunteersrequired
Barbara Dolahenty, Neil & Maureen Pye,
Monique Piscopo, Margaret Smith, Glen
Strong, Robyn Milligan, volunteers
required
6pm Forster Ley Bartle, Michael Siddle, Barbara
Dolahenty, Neil & Maureen Pye, Glen
Strong, Margaret Smith, Robyn Milligan,
volunteersrequired
Michael Siddle, Owen Carroll, Jeanee
Goodacre, Monica Hunt, Tony &
Maureen Stevens., volunteersrequired
7am Tuncurry Tony Knight, Mary Greig, Robert Moran,
Mark Mowbray, Edna Tucker, Kathryn
McCabe, volunteersrequired
Ley Bartle, Tony Knight, Mary Greig,
Robert Moran, Mark Mowbray, Edna
Tucker, Kathryn McCabe
9am Forster Greg & Lauranne Byrne, Barbara
Dolahenty, Alan & Coral McCarthy, Josi
Beech, Elle CairnsCowan, Michael
Amato, Viv Allen
Alan & Coral McCarthy, Greg Byrne &
Lauranne Byrne, Viv Allen, Barbara
Dolahenty, Michael Amato, Josi Beech,
Elle CairnsCowan
Church Cleaners (for the week ahead)
Tuncurry Group 1
Forster No Group
Collecon Count
This Sunday Team 1
Next Sunday Team 2
Responsorial Psalm
Response: Oh, bless the Lord, my soul!

Lord God, how great you are,
clothed in majesty and glory,
wrapped in light as in a robe!
You stretch our the heavens like a tent.

Above the rains you build your dwelling.
You make the clouds your chariot,
you walk on the wings of the wind,
you make the winds your messengers
and ashing re your servants.

How many are your works, O Lord!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your riches.
There is the sea, vast and wide,
with its moving swarms past counng,
living things great and small.

All of these look to you
to give them their food in due season.
You give it, they gather it up:
you open your hand, they have their ll.

You take back your spirit, they die,
returning to the dust from which they came.
You send forth your spirit, they are created;
and you renew the face of the earth.

Gospel Acclamaon
Alleluia, alleluia!
John said: He who is to come is migher than I;
he will bapse you with the Holy Spirit and with re.
Alleluia!