WELCOME TO OUR LITURGY:  Living Bread.  This is the greatest gift of all, a gift so vast that we can’t fully comprehend it, and our hearts and minds can never encompass it.  No wonder Jesus’ contemporaries couldn’t understand.  At times we can become disillusioned with the Church.  Why do we stay?  Because of the Eucharist!  Jesus’ gift of his very self.  How could we go away?  St Paul tells us we who eat the same bread are part of the same loaf, united and called to be, with Jesus, one body.

First Reading:
Deuteronomy 8: 2 – 3, 14 – 16

2     And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3     And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but that man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.
14     then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,
15     who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock,
16     who fed you in the wilderness with manna which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
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ROSTERS:  for July are now available.  Please check to see if there is one for your family.  Thank you.

CUP OF TEA:  will be served next Sunday, after Mass, by the Dombroski Family Group.

NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC:  Some headlines from the June 19– July 2 issue of NZ Catholic:  Hibernians rocked by alleged fraud. Bishop objects to anti-Catholic insert in newspaper. Prominent NZ lawyer calls for Vatican III.  Australian Jesuit writes a best-seller. .  On sale now

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP:  Novena at St Joseph’s Church every Thursday at 5.30pm.

KNITTERS:  A group of New Plymouth ladies still knit for the babies at Family Life International, Auckland.  www.fli.org.nz  If you have any unwanted wool to spare we will happily use it;  a little or a lot.  Leave it at the church or with Sr Mary.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL:  Can you help!! Due to a keen demand for winter clothing, the St Vincent de Paul Opportunity Shop at Fitzroy is running low on stock. If you have any surplus articles of winter items the Opportunity Shop would be most grateful to receive them. Please have a good look to see what you can spare and drop them of at the shop between 10am and 3.30pm Monday to Friday

CARITAS– WINTER UPDATE:  The Winter Update is now available in the Church porch.

MASS STIPENDS:  Having a Mass offered by a priest for loved ones is a very Catholic tradition. You can help Missionaries by sending us your requests and we will arrange with a needy Missionary Bishop to have Masses offered by his priests for your intentions.    The customary stipend $10-00. See our website for the wonderful story of Fr Michael Useni. www.missionz.co.nz    It is a good way to connect with Missionaries and contribute to their daily needs. Send Mass Stipends to Missionz PO Box 12322, Thorndon Wellington 6144

PROJECT RACHEL:  Do you know someone who is carrying grief and sorrow from past abortions?  Share with them the good news of God’s love.  Call
Project Rachel for a confidential referral to a Project Rachel Support person at  0800 737 733,  or  0272737732.  Confidentiality assured.

PARISH SINGERS & MUSICIANS:   The National Pro-Life Songwriting Contest this Year will be held in Auckland.  Join us in promoting Respect for Life – by composing your own song!  Cash prizes plus tickets to 2012 “Parachute” Festival.  For more information see http://voiceforlife.bravehost.com/index.html
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WELCOME TO OUR LITURGY:  This Sunday is a day of prayer for refugees and migrants.  The readings are full of the love and compassion God has for all people, and St Paul talks of the need to help one another and to live in peace and unity.  Let us pray today for all those who have had to leave their homes and countries and ask God to inspire us to help them.

First Reading:
Exodus 34: 4-6, 8-9.

4     So Moses cut two tables of stone like the first; and he rose early in the morning and went up on Mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.
5     And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6     The LORD passed before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,
8     And Moses made haste to bow his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
9     And he said, “If now I have found favor in thy sight, O Lord, let the Lord, I pray thee, go in the midst of us, although it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thy inheritance.”

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC:  Some headlines from the June 19– July 2 issue of NZ Catholic:  Hibernians rocked by alleged fraud. Bishop objects to anti-Catholic insert in newspaper. Prominent NZ lawyer calls for Vatican III.  Australian Jesuit writes a best-seller. .  On sale now

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP:  Novena at St Joseph’s Church every Thursday at 5.30pm.

DOVE WOMEN’S RETREAT DAY:  Do you know how it feels to be loved by God? Register now for a Day of Refreshment; theme “Come to the Father’s Heart”; and come to know the extraordinary love that God has for you.  Hosted by Dove National team; Saturday 25 June 9.30am-9.30pm St Joseph’s Church Hall 38 Victoria St Hawera.  For more info on all 10 Days of Refreshment, or to register go to www.dove.org.nz or phone Andree 06 343 2439.

KNITTERS:  A group of New Plymouth ladies still knit for the babies at Family Life International, Auckland.  www.fli.org.nz  If you have any unwanted wool to spare we will happily use it;  a little or a lot.  Leave it at the church or with Sr Mary.

ST VINCENT DE PAUL:  Can you help!! Due to a keen demand for winter clothing, the St Vincent de Paul Opportunity Shop at Fitzroy is running low on stock. If you have any surplus articles of winter items the Opportunity Shop would be most grateful to receive them. Please have a good look to see what you can spare and drop them of at the shop between 10am and 3.30pm Monday to Friday

MASS STIPENDS:  Having a Mass offered by a priest for loved ones is a very Catholic tradition. You can help Missionaries by sending us your requests and we will arrange with a needy Missionary Bishop to have Masses offered by his priests for your intentions.    The customary stipend $10-00. See our website for the wonderful story of Fr Michael Useni. www.missionz.co.nz    It is a good way to connect with Missionaries and contribute to their daily needs. Send Mass Stipends to Missionz PO Box 12322, Thorndon Wellington 6144

PROJECT RACHEL:  Do you know someone who is carrying grief and sorrow from past abortions?  Share with them the good news of God’s love.  Call
Project Rachel for a confidential referral to a Project Rachel Support person at  0800 737 733,  or  0272737732.  Confidentiality assured.
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