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In the Galilean country,
the people have seen a great light.
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The Lord is my light and my help;
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
Before whom shall I shrink?
There is one thing I ask of the Lord,
for this I long,
to live in the house of the Lord,
all the days of my life,
to savour the sweetness of the Lord,
to behold his temple.
I am sure I shall see the Lord’s goodness
in the land of the living.
Hope in him, hold rm and take heart.
Hope in the Lord!
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I appeal to you, my brothers and sisters, make up the
dierences between you.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Jesus preached the Good News of the kingdom
and healed all who were sick.
Alleluia!
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He went to Capernaum, that the prophecy of Isaiah be
fullled.
REFLECTION by Dianne Bergant CSA
Discipleship is not something that we take upon
ourselves. We are called to it. Some people are very
conscious of this call. They are aware of it in their
aspiraons and dreams; they recognise it in the events of
their lives. They hear the call as clearly as Simon, Andrew,
James and John heard the voice of Jesus. For others, the
call to discipleship is not so clear. They may experience an
undened restlessness, a dissasfacon with their lives.
People can respond to the call in one of two ways. They
can consider the mere suggeson of discipleship an
intrusion into their plans, or they can drop what they are
doing, leave their former concerns behind and follow
Jesus.
There is a misunderstanding about being called and
leaving everything behind. Although the gospel says that
the four men le their occupaon of shing in order to
follow Jesus, this kind of ‘leaving behind’ was not, and
sll is not, required of all, for it is in the ordinary events of
life that our salvaon unfolds. For most people, this is
precisely where they are to funcon as disciples. Sll,
disciples of Jesus are called to leave behind certain ways
of living as they follow him. They are called away from
lives of peness and division. They are called away from
the kind of faconalism that seems to have threatened
the unity of the Corinthian community. They are called
away from narrow-mindedness and mean-spirited
compeon. It is much easier to leave nets than to leave
the web of one’s prejudices.
… The first called
What must it have been like for those rst four disciples Jesus called? The fact that they were shing means that they had not
been chosen to connue studying the Torah beyond childhood and had not been chosen by a rabbi to be his followers. Even as
young men, these four were has-beens and had no hope of a rabbi asking them to be his disciples. Suddenly, Jesus appears and
calls them to follow him. A life that had passed them by suddenly opened up before them! Of course they dropped everything and
followed.
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Catholic Parishes of Mudgee, Gulgong and Kandos
P. Leoa J. Thatcher
M. Golino M. McGregor
TBA C. Holland
P. Leoa
D. Cunningham G. Myles
L. Nicholson A. Myles
L. Nicholson A. Myles
C. Furney M. Cassidy
M. Dunnachie
M. Dorney M. Gilbert
A. Baker L. Browne
Tues. 27th Jan L. Hawkins
C. Furney A. McLean
I. Byrne R. Disher
P. Cannon E. de Vries
G. Hennessy M. Gilbert
K. Isbester A. Blavevic
G. English Children’s Liturgy
I. Browne L. Browne
Mon. 2nd Feb L. Nicholson
Mon - E. Goodlet
Tue -
Wed - J. Cooper
Thu - I. Browne
Fri/Sat - I. Browne
Sun -
Parish Oce Closed
Parish Oce closed unl 10.30am
—Mudgee
Combine Schools Mass and Commissioning at
St Mahew’s Secondary School Chapel
6.00pm Alpha Program—Mudgee
9.30am St Marys Cra Group
5.20pm —Mudgee
5.45pm — Mudgee
9.30am - Mudgee
11.30am Exposion of the Blessed Sacrament
12noon Angelus & Rosary
12.30pm - Mudgee
5.20pm Reconciliaon
6.00pm - Mudgee
8.30am Rosary - Mudgee
9.00am - Mudgee
10.30am - Gulgong
11.00am —Kandos
Registraons are now open for the
:
To register, please visit the and
select from the menu or use the QR code.
Return to school
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K-6 students commence
Year 7, Year 11 and Year 12 students
commence. All new students for Years 8, 9 and 10 aend
orientaon morning
Year 8, Year 9 and Year 10 students commence
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All students return
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For prayer with the Word of God
Let us pray that praying with the Word of
God be nourishment for our lives and a
source of hope in our communies,
helping us to build a more fraternal and
missionary Church.
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If you have any Safeguarding concerns, please contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Ocer on (02) 6334 6440 or
email safeguarding@cdob.org.au
We welcome to the Mudgee Parish:
Levi John Coleman
son of Blake and Mikayla
and
Maxwell Henry Rheinberger
Georgia Grace Rheinberger
Henry William Rheinberger
children of Bre and Kiera
Gulgong
The Catholic Women's Group will be holding their rst
meeng for 2026 on Tuesday, 3rd February at 2pm in the
Convent. All Welcome.
The AGM will be on Tuesday, 3rd March at 2pm in the
Convent.
Kandos
The Prayer Group at St Malachy’s Rylstone will resume on
Monday, 2nd February. The Prayer Group will meet
weekly.
are needed in our local public
schools on every Friday. We will support you and
training will be provided. For more informaon, please
contact Jackie at 0411-612-180 or register your interest at
hps://standards.bathurst.catholic.org.au/
Mudgee
Due to the restoraon work underway on the stained glass
windows and surrounds in St Mary’s, the church will be
closed unl further noce from Monday to Friday each
week. The church is a worksite on weekdays and only
authorised personnel are able to enter.
Saturday Vigil and Sunday morning Masses will be in the
church.
Funerals will be arranged on a case-by-case basis, in
consultaon with the contractors.
The stained glass windows at both eastern and western
ends have been taken out and transported to Rick Allen’s
Heritage Decorave Glass studio in Moss Vale for repair.
The sandstone surrounding the windows is signicantly
deteriorated. Work on restoraon of the sandstone will
begin next week and may take some me.
For the recently deceased especially:
We remember the anniversaries of:
Ana Varga, Rosemarie Thomson, Agnes Turczak, David Brown
Elaine Morrissey, Arthur Tatham, Carmel McDonald,
Shirley Middleton, Maureen Hutchinson, Tammy Bull,
Olga Bremmer, Euriol Hill, Brian Kelly, Doug Rayner,
Johanna Breitkopf, Carlo Colaiacomo.
For the deceased:
Michael Michaelides, Cynthia Edwards, Bev Darby, Ron Muscat,
Terence Ryan, Moira Hennessy, Elias and Terese Sadaka,
For the Sick, Special Intenons and Thanksgiving:
David Russell, Connie Vasallo, Bey Clark, Mary Morton,
Eleni Roberts, Tony Spina, Kieran Micallef, Elizabeth Donelly,
Lynne Daly and all those in our Nursing Homes.
Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart
If Jesus Were to Show Up Today
A major theme of the Scripture readings is ‘Light for the
darkness’.
In the rst reading, we see a dramac change. The land has been
lled with gloom, anguish and distress. Now, a great burden has
been lied from the shoulders of the people. They are lled with
joy and rejoicing. The dierence is so great, it can only be
described as the contrast between day and night. The light of
God’s goodness dispels the darkness of sin. God brings hope.
The theme of light connues in the psalm: ‘The Lord is my light
and my salvaon.’ The presence of God lis up spirits and brings
hope. Why be afraid when God is on one’s side?
In the reading from Paul’s First Leer to the Corinthians, we learn
that the early Chrisans were bickering. They were arguing over
which earthly leader was the best and pledging allegiance to
them rather than uning in Jesus. Paul tells them that they are
wasng their me. Division is destrucve. The Corinthians are
reminded that they are bapsed in Jesus’ name and that Jesus –
and no one else – made the ulmate sacrice for them: he
poured out his life in compassionate love.
At the start of his ministry, Jesus recalls the words from Isaiah
heard in the rst reading. Jesus is the fullment of our hopes.
Jesus is the light who brings us out of darkness. From the rst
day, Jesus is a teacher, a preacher and a healer. Not only did
Jesus teach about the Kingdom of God, he did the works of the
Kingdom; he cured the people of what ailed them.
Near the Sea of Galilee, Jesus called the rst disciples. They were
out shing. Jesus invited them, saying, ‘Come aer me and I will
make you shers of men.’ The paern of conversion takes place.
Jesus proclaims the coming of the Kingdom, calls for needed
change, and extends the invitaon to join his ministry.
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Catholic Parishes of Mudgee, Gulgong and Kandos
Fr Paul Devi VG
Po Box 14, Mudgee NSW 2850
pp.mudgee@cdob.org.au
Rev Charles Applin
02 6372 2122
oce.mudgee@cdob.org.au
www.mudgee.catholic.org.au
02 6372 1742
Mrs Angela Myles
www.stmasmudgee.catholic.edu.au
Krise Newman
Krista O’Brien
10.00am—4.00pm
9.00am—4.00pm
1.00pm—2.00pm
02 6374 1582
Mr Badley Toole
www.allhallowsgulgong.catholic.au
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To register: Call the Parish Oce on
6372-2122 or online at www.alpha.org.au/try
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When the song of the angels is slled,
when the star in the sky is gone,
when the kings and the princes are home,
when the shepherds are back with their ocks,
the work of Christmas begins:
to nd the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry,
to release the prisoner,
to rebuild the naons, to bring peace amongst people,
to make music in the heart.
