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St
John the Apostle ~ Kippax
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CANBERRA,
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Acolytes, Senior Servers & Altar Servers Roster1. If you are unable to carry out your ministry please arrange a substitute 2. Please arrive 30 minutes before Mass to ensure that all pre-Mass preparations are completed in time to process in 3. The following Acolytes/Senior Servers are trained to conduct Litugies of the Word with Communion: Phil Donoghoe (6259 2712); Brian Green (6254 9540); Maresa Laird (6254 9574); Joe Ots (6254 2627). At the last supper it was Jesus who took the bread, and broke it, and handed it to his disciples. As a special minister you are graced to be the one who hands to others the body and the blood of Jesus. People come to you, hungry and thirsty, for this amazing gift, and you have the privilege – a humbling one – to place Jesus’ body in their hands with the words ‘The Body of Christ’, and to offer them his blood, his life-blood, to drink, with the words ‘The Blood of Christ.’ You watch them as their hearts fill with longing and gratitude and faith in this gift from the heart of the risen Jesus who wants not only to be close to them, but to fill their veins, to dwell within them as in a temple and to bring with him his Father and the Spirit who is the bond of union between Jesus and his Father. Before offering people this sacred gift, you receive it yourself. Remember that in receiving his body and drinking his blood, you are making a commitment to do what Jesus did. You are saying "Yes" to his request that you love one another just as he loves you. Through your hands, through your commitment, through your ministry, Jesus asks the same commitment of those who come to you for the greatest gift you can ever give to anyone. You are offering them Jesus, the one who alone can satisfy their deepest hungers and their deepest thirst. Our baptismal vows commit us to give "all our heart and mind and soul and strength" to bring about the reign of God's love. It is a commitment to love the world with the love of the heart of God. We cannot be content till we see the whole world opening its arms to embrace God. Nothing less can satisfy the hunger and thirst in our hearts. In the meantime, let us open our hearts to receive Jesus, for it is he who, working in us, will, as Paul promises, "accomplish abundantly far more than we can ask or imagine"(Ephesians 3:20). Pope Benedict XVI spoke the following words at the Youth Convention in Cologne: ‘By making the bread into his Body and the wine into his Blood, Jesus anticipates his death, he accepts it into his heart, and he transforms it into an action of love. What on the outside is simply brutal violence – the Crucifixion – from within becomes an act of total self-giving love. This is the substantial transformation that was accomplished at the Last Supper and was destined to set in motion a series of transformations leading ultimately to the transformation of the world when God will be all in all. In their hearts, people always and everywhere have somehow expected a change, a transformation of the world. Here now is the central act of transformation that alone can truly renew the world: violence is transformed into love, and death into life … The process of transformation must now gather momentum. The Body and Blood of Christ are given to us so that we ourselves will be transformed in our turn. We are to become the Body of Christ … He is within us and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outwards towards others until it fills the world. ROSTER 2009 - 2010
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