- 1. Celebrating Fr Bernard's 30th Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthoo
- (Parish News)
- ... Gordan's 30th Anniversary of Ordination to the priesthood! Thank you, Fr Bernard, for your unwavering dedication, service and ministry into our parish and diocese. Your commitment has touched countless ...
- Created on 11 April 2024
- 2. Reconciliation & First Holy Communion 2024
- (Sacramental Program)
- ... in their faith formation. Receiving the Sacraments is a very blessed time in our journey of faith, and it is the means by which baptised children can complete their journey into full membership of the ...
- Created on 27 March 2024
- 3. What is the Advent Wreath?
- (Parish News)
- ... “adventus” which refers to the Coming of Christ. In the liturgical season of Advent we contemplate the Coming of Jesus at Christmas, the coming of Jesus into our lives everyday and the expectation of the ...
- Created on 23 November 2023
- 4. Confirmation 2024
- (Sacramental Program)
- ... component in their faith formation. Receiving the Sacraments is a very blessed time in our journey of faith, and it is the means by which baptised children can complete their journey into full membership ...
- Created on 26 October 2023
- 5. Christ in you - Logo
- (Pastoral Plan)
- ... us to welcome all the people who may walk into our lives, be present in our churches for special occasions, or meet us in our family home or workplace. The wounds in Christ’s hands remind us to imitate ...
- Created on 14 January 2023
- 6. Parish Vision | Prayer | Hymn
- (Our Parish)
- Parish Vision We are called to reveal the Light of Christ to the world. Parish Prayer Merciful God, you have called us out of darkness into the Light of Christ. We gather as the parish community ...
- Created on 25 November 2021
- 7. The Church is the People of God Roadmap for the Diocese of Wollongong | As of 14 October 2021
- (COVID-19)
- ... precious gifts entrusted to us by God. We must take reasonable care of them, taking into account the needs of others and the common good.” (n.2288) When following these guidelines, the faithful must ...
- Created on 22 October 2021
- 8. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. At times in our life, perhaps many times, when confronted with the mystery of suffering or ...
- Created on 16 September 2021
- 9. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Feast – The Birth (Nativity) of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- (Reflections)
- ... closer to some age-related milestone. What we celebrate is that this person came into being, that by God’s gracious gift, this person stands with us. We rejoice with that person simply because they are. ...
- Created on 06 September 2021
- 10. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... community) “doing theology”. That is, bringing the reality of the Christ-event into dialogue with the current experience of believers, and allowing that to inform and transform that experience in Christ. ...
- Created on 29 August 2021
- 11. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of 19th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... – 11 August 1253). Clare was born in Assisi and was the eldest daughter of the Count of Sasso-Rossa. As you can imagine she was born into a family of prestige, comfort and wealth, that would have been ...
- Created on 09 August 2021
- 12. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Feast of the Transfiguration
- (Reflections)
- ... The God of Universe breaks into the human history in an unprecedented way in the life of Jesus. The ‘friendship’ we come to know in Jesus is a ‘friendship’ with the Holy (Holiest) One, and so we should ...
- Created on 03 August 2021
- 13. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... into Jewish territory to seek Jesus’ assistance. At the time of Jesus, biblical and traditional belief was that salvation would come to the world through the People of Israel. So, we have in this narrative ...
- Created on 31 July 2021
- 14. Reflection by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... comes from today’s First Reading (Ex 34:29-35). When St Jerome was translating from the Hebrew into the Latin he took the Hebrew word qāran to me ‘horns’. This was not in itself unusual, as the root-word ...
- Created on 22 July 2021
- 15. Reflection by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... allows is to enter more deeply into the richness they offer: ‘a metaphor or simile drawn from nature and common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient ...
- Created on 22 July 2021
- 16. How to Support Our Parish
- (Parish Support)
- ... collections at Sunday Mass. As we move more and more into a cashless society, many parishioners prefer to contribute to parish planned electronically. If you are not already part of your parish planned ...
- Created on 03 June 2020
- 17. Prayers to Our Lady
- (Year of Mercy)
- ... into heaven. 3. The apostles receive the Holy Spirit. 4. Mary is taken up (assumed) into heaven. 5. Mary is crowned queen of heaven. Mysteries of Light 1. Jesus is baptised. 2. Jesus works his first miracle ...
- Created on 19 December 2015
- 18. What is the Year of Mercy ?
- (Year of Mercy)
- ... Holy Trinity. Mercy: the ultimate and supreme act by which God comes to meet us. Mercy: the fundamental law that dwells in the heart of every person who looks sincerely into the eyes of his brothers and ...
- Created on 18 December 2015
- 19. Life in Christ - Our Children’s Sacramental Programme
- (Sacraments)
- Every person baptized (or received) into the Catholic Church is entitled to receive the Sacraments of the Church. Our Parish works with you, the parents, in the Christian upbringing of your children. ...
- Created on 27 October 2015
- 20. Parish Logo
- (Our Parish)
- ... the sea. However, it also represents the water of baptism and life, and when connected to the Paschal Candle, we recall the lighting of the candle and how it is plunged into the newly blessed Easter water ...
- Created on 27 October 2015