- 1. Reconciliation & First Holy Communion 2024
- (Sacramental Program)
- An invitation to all parents and children [ Download PDF] 1 April 2024 Dear Parents and Carers, In collaboration with St Brigid’s and Good Samaritan Parish Schools, we invite all parents and children ...
- Created on 27 March 2024
- 2. Our Parish Pastoral and Finance Councils
- (Our Parish)
- Pastoral Council A Parish Pastoral Council promotes and supports the evangelising mission of a Parish, working in collaboration with the Parish Priest/Parish Administrator to foster the spiritual and ...
- Created on 17 March 2024
- 3. Confirmation 2024
- (Sacramental Program)
- An invitation to all parents and children [Download PDF] 1 November 2023 Dear Parents and Carers, In collaboration with St Brigid’s and Good Samaritan Parish Schools, we invite all parents and ...
- Created on 26 October 2023
- 4. Christ in You, Lumen Christi Parish Pastoral Plan
- (Pastoral Plan)
- ... We have these riches because Christ is present within us by his loving grace, a love and a grace that seeks to be shared as a joy for the whole people. In his letter to the Colossians, St Paul writes ...
- Created on 06 February 2023
- 5. Pastoral Plan Calendar of Events
- (Pastoral Plan)
- ... After this Lenten period of reflection, the Pastoral and Finance Councils will consult with Bishop Mascord to finalise and publish the Pastoral Plan on 10 December 2023 (Second Sunday of Advent). ...
- Created on 14 January 2023
- 6. Christ in you - Logo
- (Pastoral Plan)
- ... affirmation by St Paul of the reality of Christ’s presence in the lives of Christians. Christ is present in all things: as Creator, holding all things together as he is united with his Body, the ...
- Created on 14 January 2023
- 7. The Church is the People of God Roadmap for the Diocese of Wollongong | As of 14 October 2021
- (COVID-19)
- ... these restrictions and our actions as we move more freely in our church communities, we must always act with a sense of love to our neighbours. The Catechism teaches that “Life and physical health are ...
- Created on 22 October 2021
- 8. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- The Feast of Sts Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels Today’s Responsorial Psalm In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart, ...
- Created on 29 September 2021
- 9. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women, ...
- Created on 27 September 2021
- 10. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- Link to today’s readings: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092221.cfm From today’s Responsorial Psalm: So now consider what he has done for you, and praise him with full voice. Bless the ...
- Created on 19 September 2021
- 11. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... cunning plan then is to select a verse or couple of verses from the readings of the day, or from one of the prayers of the Mass of the Day, and pair them with a song / hymn. I hope you find it useful. ...
- Created on 19 September 2021
- 12. 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
- 13. The Eternal Peace Grotto at Saint Francis Xavier Cathedral, Wollongong Columbarium
- (Columbarium)
- ... for our faithful departed. Niches with commemorative plaque are now available for purchase for $1,950.00 each (incl. GST). A Parish Remembrance Plaque is located on the Northside of the grotto. It provides ...
- Created on 08 September 2021
- 14. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time Feast – The Birth (Nativity) of the Blessed Virgin Mary
- (Reflections)
- ... is it that we do when celebrate a birthday, when we greet them with the words: Happy Birthday! We celebrate not the achieving of another year of vintage, though for some this is an achievement, nor a step ...
- Created on 06 September 2021
- 15. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... 6-7, & 9, with v. 8 (In God is my safety and glory) serving as the response.[1] Psalm 62, like Ps 61, expresses our confidence in God’s divine protection, and it is from this vantage point that we bring ...
- Created on 05 September 2021
- 16. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... and everything on earth” have been reconciled to the Father”. It is in this letter that we find this wonderful promise: “You have been buried with him in baptism, by which also you have been raised up ...
- Created on 31 August 2021
- 17. 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
- 18. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Friday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St Monica
- (Reflections)
- ... home was a garden of saints, such was not the case. Monica’s husband (Patricius) was a pagan with a temper and ‘wandering eye’ (shall we say), and Augustine’s saintliness was only to develop in his more ...
- Created on 26 August 2021
- 19. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... actually accompanied Jesus on his journeys, who mourned his death as the death of someone they had sat at table with, and who celebrated his resurrection as the return of one with whom they had walked ...
- Created on 23 August 2021
- 20. Reflections by Fr Anthony Crook RAN | Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
- (Reflections)
- ... to attend to the Word for what it is – the Word of God – and therefore be subject to it, rather than it subject to us. I remember some years ago, about twenty probably, chatting with some Religious Education ...
- Created on 09 August 2021