28th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A

28th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME YEAR A

INTRODUCTION:

Life without feasts and celebrations is dull and boring. Feasts are joyful occasions. Friends who have not seen each other for a long time meet again. Food and drink are in good supply and there is singing and dancing. But we no that food and drink are not enough for a feast. Unity, peace and love make a feast a real feast. Disunity, quarrels and tears spoil a feast. God is our eternal feast. Our celebration together is a foretaste of this feast, where tears will be wiped away and where death will be no more.

GOSPEL: Mathew 22: 1 – 14

Jesus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those invited: “Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast.” ‘Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, ‘The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find.’ The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to meet the guests, he saw a man there not dressed in a wedding garment. The king said to him, ‘My friend, how is it that you came in here without a wedding garment? ‘But he was reduced to silence. Then the king said to his attendants, ‘Bind his hands and feet, and cast him into the darkness outside, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.’ Many are invited, but few are chosen.”

BIBLE DIARIES 2024

Those who are interested in buying a Bible diary for 2024, may pre-order, just write you name on the list provided at the porch.

OCTOBER

Month of the Holy Rosary

DEDICATION TO OUR LADY

The month of October is dedicated to our Lady. We honour her & give thanks for her protection of the church in answer to the praying of the Rosary.
We will pray the Rosary EVERY DAY both at RPP and St Jude @ 17:30.

WORLD MISSION SUNDAY 22/10/2023(next Sunday)

Open-air Mass at the Spar parking lot in Francis Rd.
We will proceed in procession from the RPP parking-lot at 8am. During the procession to Spar we will recite the rosary.
NB: There WILL BE Mass on Saturday evening (21/10) at 5:30pm at RPP for the elderly, all other parishioners are encouraged to attend Mass on Sunday.

NB: PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN DRINKING WATER!!

2ND COLLECTION DURING OCTOBER

For the Pontifical Misson Society

ST ANTHONY’S CHILD & YOUTH CENTRE

Are celebrating 60 years of providing shelter, ensuring that children receive health care, nutritious meals & proper education. They are requesting donations in kind or cash, for the event.
If anyone would like to donate:

First National Bank Branch Code:27032
Account Number: 53145434999

POPE’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR OCTOBER:

FOR THE SYNOD

We pray for the Church, that she may adopt listening and dialogue as a lifestyle at every level, and allow herself to be guided by the Holy Spirit towards the peripheries of the world.

SICK & ELDERLY

Please pray for the sick & elderly of the parish, family & friends especially:
Fr John–Allen Green OFM, Nokuthula Kubheka, Penny Powell, Jean Smith, Dolly Bimbrish, Simon Zulu, Alvin Govender, Siva Naidoo, Mavis Makhubo and Fidelma Hanlon.

YEAR PLANS

All groups and sodalities are requested to start preparing Year Plans for 2024. These plans are to be handed in before the end of the year.