26th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B

26th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR B

INTRODUCTION:

Today’s readings continue to warn us that our sinfulness is destroying our communities, the human family, and Earth, the supportive and nurturing home of us all. They challenge us to be active and prophetic in working for the New Creation in these times. The Responsorial Psalm guides us in prayer to ask for greater awareness of our “unknown faults” and of their grave seriousness, to ask for freedom from their destructive power no matter the cost.

GOSPEL: MK 9:38-43, 45, 47-48

At that time, John said to Jesus, “Teacher, we saw someone driving out demons in your name, and we tried to prevent him because he does not follow us.” Jesus replied, “Do not prevent him. There is no one who performs a mighty deed in my name who can at the same time speak ill of me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Anyone who gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ, amen, I say to you, will surely not lose his reward. “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were put around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut if off. It is better for you to enter into life crippled than with two feet to be thrown into Gehenna. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. Better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into Gehenna, where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched”.

ISIVUNO (Harvest) – aim is R50 000

17 November 2024-we aim to raise R50000. Contributions will be done in groups. Each group can decide for themselves how much each person will contribute.
Groups are as follows: Education, Health, (SAPS, Traffic & Correctional services) Social Welfare & Development, Private business owners, GEPF, Pensioners, Grantees, Unemployed, Private sector workers.
SODALITIES; Sacred heart, CWA, Children of Mary, Catechism children, All Males of the Parish &All Women of the Parish.

CATECHISM CLASSES RESUME THIS WEEK 04 OCTOBER

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

05/10 Sat: 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm Workshop for all existing Ministers and candidates at RPP. All Ministers are requested to attend
NGOME PILGRIMAGE – 30/11/2024
One-day pilgrimage. If you are interested, please put your name on the list, only then can we arrange for transport and calculate the cost per person.

Disability Parking

Please be mindful of the designated parking for persons with disabilities. Even if you are late for Mass, please leave the spaces FREE for persons with genuine disabilities

SEASON OF CREATION
1 SEPTEMBER – 4 OCTOBER
https://seasonofcreation.org/

“You formed us in your own image and entrusted the whole world to our care so that in serving you alone, we might have dominion over all creatures.”
Dominium calls for “responsibility”.
The Birth of Creation
Then the Spirit said:
“The habitats that grace the Earth
were there to hold you at your birth
and welcome you to the celebration
of creation’s transformation
from my fire that grew to be
a wondrous blue-green symphony.”

Closing of the Season of Creation – Friday 04/10 Feast of St Francis of Assisi @ St Jude, Mass at 5:30 pm.

TEENAGE BOYS (13yrs & older) – BOYS TO MEN

05/10 Sat: 8 am-2 pm. The Men of the Parish will be hosting a Boys to Men Session for teenage boys. Lunch will be provided. Cost R30 per person. Kindly confirm attendance with Fr Marek by 04 October 2024. Hope to see you there!

PONTIFICAL MISSION SOCIETIES

During October, the second collection is for the PMS. Each weekend there will be a second collection, each collection is for one of the societies. Please take a pamphlet, which explains these societies, from the back of the church.

BAPTISM OF BABIES

Classes for parents to start soon:
@ RPP contact Brenda 0763796891
@ St Jude contact Bryonni 0828497841

THANK YOU FROM THE MARJORIE GOVENDER FAMILY

Thank you, Fr Marek, family, friends and parishioners, for your love, support and prayers on the loss of our beloved Mum. God Bless.

POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR SEPTEMBER

For the cry of the Earth

We pray that each one of us will hear and take to heart the cry of the Earth and of victims of natural disasters and climactic change and that all will undertake to care for the world in which we live personally.

PARISH DIARY & MEETINGS
UPCOMING EVENTS

12/10 Sat: Workshop for all Catechism teachers @ RPP @ 10 am.
12/10 Sat: Rosary Prayer Procession into town @ 3 pm from RPP.
13/10 Sun: Confirmation there will be only one Mass at RPP @ 9 am.
20/10 Sun: Mission Sunday Mass @ the Spar Parking lot, the processin @ 8am from RPP & Mass @ 9am.
27/10 Sun: Feast of Patron Saint of St Jude, Mass will be @ St Jude @ 9 am. NO Mass @RPP.

SICK & ELDERLY

Please pray for the sick & elderly of the parish, family & friends especially:

Nokuthula Kubheka, Penny Powell, Jean Smith, Dolly Bimbrish, Alvin Govender, Mavis Makhubo, Norman Browne, Pier Turconi, Khohli Kunene, Barbara Amod, Jackie Gilmore, Rita Patrucco, Michelle De Simone, Audrey Vries, Sebenzile Molefe, Marge De Franca, Joyce Chetty & Nettah Liebenberg.