WELCOME TO OUR LITURGY: St Paul tells us that the spirit works in all sorts of different ways in different people. The Spirit’s gifts are all necessary to build God’s kingdom but they may appear challenging, awkward, and unattractive, and the temptation is to reject or ignore people with such gifts.  The prophets must have been people like this and look what happened to them!  Lord, open our eyes to see your Spirit at work in all these different ways, and to support and affirm all who work for your glory.

First Reading:
Acts 2: 1 – 11

1     When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.
2     And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
3     And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them.
4     And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
5     Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven.
6     And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
7     And they were amazed and wondered, saying, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans?
8     And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?
9     Par’thians and Medes and E’lamites and residents of Mesopota’mia, Judea and Cappado’cia, Pontus and Asia,
10     Phryg’ia and Pamphyl’ia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyre’ne, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
11     Cretans and Arabians, we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC: Some headlines from the June 5– 18 issue of NZ Catholic: Awards honour dedication and compassion to the homeless…..Catholic groups pull out of Budget protest…..Australian bishop’s resignation details outlined….The incongruity of atheist military chaplains. On sale now

N.T.P.A: One in Christ: The Sacraments of Initiation. Bishop Peter and his team will be presenting the Shaun Hurley Memorial Lecture 2 on Sunday 19 June at St Joseph’s Hall. Session 1 commences at 11.30am with a shared lunch at 12.30. A further session will be from 1.15pm until 2.45pm.

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.

CATHOLIC WOMENS LEAGUE: members are reminded of their 48th birthday in the supper room at St Joseph’s after 112.05 Mass on Thurs 16 June. Our guest speaker will be Cervantee Wild from Sacred Heart Girls College who recently travelled to Gallipoli for ANZAC commemorations.

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
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WELCOME TO OUR LITURGY:  The disciples must have been shattered;  their Lord had risen from the dead and returned to them, but now he was going away again leaving them afraid and uncomprehending.  Jesus left them with a clear commission but they didn’t have the ability to carry it out.  It is the same for us, we too are commissioned but we cannot do it in our own strength.  The disciples needed the Holy Spirit and so do we.  Let us pray, not only today but each day till Pentecost, for a fresh infilling of the Spirit to enable us to bring Jesus anew into our world.

First Reading:
Acts 1: 1-11.

1     In the first book, O The-oph’ilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,
2     until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.
3     To them he presented himself alive after his passion by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days, and speaking of the kingdom of God.
4     And while staying with them he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me,
5     for John baptized with water, but before many days you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.”
6     So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7     He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
8     But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Sama’ria and to the end of the earth.”
9     And when he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight.
10     And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes,
11     and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”

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ROSTERS:  for June are now available.  Please check to see if there is one for your family.  Thank you.

CUP OF TEA:  today, served by the Morris Family Group.

NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC:  Some headlines from the June 5– 18 issue of NZ Catholic:  Awards honour dedication and compassion to the homeless…..Catholic groups pull out of Budget protest…..Australian bishop’s resignation details outlined….The incongruity of atheist military chaplains.  On sale now

N.T.P.A:  One in Christ: The Sacraments of Initiation. Bishop Peter and his team will be presenting the Shaun Hurley Memorial Lecture 2 on Sunday 19 June at St Joseph’s Hall.  Session 1 commences at 11.30am with a shared lunch at 12.30.  A further session will be from 1.15pm until 2.45pm.

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.

“LET’S PRAY”:  Prayer, Contemplation and Liturgy Symposium.
To be held at the Diocesan Centre, 33 Amesbury St, Palmerston North, 11-13 August.  Keynote Speakers are:  Donna Orsuto (Director of the Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas, Rome), Stephen Kirk (Catholic Australian composer, musician and singer), Joy Cowley (wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and writer) and Abbot Brian Keogh (leader of the Southern Star Abbey, Kopua).  Numbers are limited.  All are welcome!  For registration forms and details go to www.pndiocese.org.nz  or contact
Wendy Silver  06 354 1780 ext 833

MISSION RESTHOME OPEN DAY:  today from 1-2pm.  Come and see our new two bedroom villa available for rent now.  10 Pukaka Street, (drive through Sacred Heart College), ph 757 5520.

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.  Drop it into the church or to Molly Hammersley.
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