Category: Spirituality

Prayer, meditation etc

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LENT IS COMING

The Parish Liturgy Group is preparing to help us parishioners use the Lentern Season as an opportunity to re assess the direction of our lives.
Watch this space for further information and invitation.

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EMMAUS CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP

The Emmaus Charismatic Prayer Group will resume meeting at St. Anne’s Church at 10.15am on Thursday February 2nd.
All welcome including children.
For further info/transport please contact Lambert & Elaine van der Weerden on 9744 4029.

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THE YEAR OF GRACE

Archbishop Philip Wilson, has announced the forthcoming “Year of Grace” to span the time from Pentecost 2012  to Pentecost 2013. In a letter to all Catholics he said,

“We call the Catholic people in Australia to a Year of Grace. Like the disciples a the first Pente- cost, we commit ourselves to start afresh from Christ. We invite you to join us in this journey of prayer so that this ‘Pentecost’ year will  be for our nation and all Australians truly a ‘year of grace’. Planning for the Year of Grace has already begun in every diocese in the country,  so that the Catholics   of   this   nation   may   respond   to   this   fresh invitation to ‘contemplate the face of Christ.”

For further info visit www.yearofgrace.catholic.org.au.

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SUNBURY CHAPLAINCY

A special Chaplaincy Service will be held at 7.30pm on Sunday 4 December at Sunbury Baptist Church (Gap Road). At this service, we will be commissioning Alicia Drowley, the Chaplain at Sunbury Downs College and farewelling Tim Cohen who has been Chaplain at Sunbury College for two years. Tim will soon commence a full time position at Castlemaine Secondary College (the position at Sunbury College will be part time next year). We would love to see as many as possible at this special Service to support our Chaplains. Please bring a small plate of supper to share.

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FOUNDATIONS IN ADVENT

Thursday 10 & 17 Nov7.45pm-9.30pm at Thomas Carr Centre, 278 Victoria Pde, Melb.
Before you get caught up in the parties and presents, take some time to review the year you’ve had and reflect on what Christmas is really about.
The Archdiocesan Office for Youth invites you to a two-part Advent retreat with each evening being a mixture of reflection, catechesis and small group discussions.
Register now.
Send your name and contact details to aoy@cam.org.au or call our office on 9412 3324. For more info, visit cam.org.au/youth.

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VALE JILL GIBBS

Jill Gibbs

Jill Gibbs died this weekend. Please pray for the repose of her soul.

There is an article in the Brisbane Catholic Leader about Jill Gibbs. Click on the photo to be sent there.

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WORLD MISSION DAY APPEAL ON 23 OCTOBER

 “The universal mission involves everyone, everything and always. The Gospel is not an exclusive possession of those who have received it, but it is a gift to be shared, good news to be passed on to others. And this giftcommitment is entrusted not only to some, but to all the baptised, who are ` a chosen race… a holy nation, God’s own people’ (1 Peter 2:9), in order that they may proclaim his marvellous works.”…. Pope Benedict XVI

The Holy Father’s message for World Mission Sunday 2011.

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INVITATION FROM THE SISTERS OF NAZARETH

The Sisters of Nazareth invite young women who are open to discerning a vocation to religious life and wishing to share a “live in” experience from Friday 21October to 23 October.
It will be held at Nazareth House, 218 Mill St, Ballarat.
Please reply to sister Rosalie O’Malley CSN on 0450 355 014.

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EMMAUS CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP

The Prayer Group meets at St Anne’s Church at 10.15am on Thursdays. CCR is conducting a Ladies Day at the CCR Centre, 101 Holden St, North Fitzroy on 29 September from 10-3pm so the meeting will be cancelled on that day.
All ladies welcome to join us.
For further info/ transport contact Lambert & Elaine van der Weerden on 9744 4029.

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HEALING MASS

 Fr Augustine Vallooran, Director of the Divine Retreat Centre in India will be in Melbourne in September. Come and join us in worshipping our God as Fr Augustine proclaims the Word of God in a healing Mass on Wed 21 September 7pm at Mary MacKillop’s Church 152 Odessa Ave, Keilor Downs.
Experience the healing touch of our Lord. Leave blessed.

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EMMAUS CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP

The Prayer Group meets at St Anne’s Church at 10.15am on Thursdays. This week’s meeting will include exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. All welcome, including children. For further information/ transport please contact Lambert & Elaine van der Weerden on 9744 4029.

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EVANGELISING LETTER

The latest letter with the gospel theme acceptance of others, is now printed and will be delivered to our homes by our “Parish Posties”. The letters are written by Jill Gibbs of the Community for a better world who has been at our last two Parish Assemblies. Presently, Jill is in palliative care in St Vincent’s Brisbane. However, she has her laptop in her room and is still producing letters for us and for a parish in NSW. She sends her love and prayers– let us keep her in our prayers. She has been a full time worker for the Church since 1966, firstly a missionary nurse in PNG and then in the renewal of world and church. She was based at the international centre in Rome for 18 years.

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OUR COMMUNION PROCESSION

As we approach the Eucharistic Table of the Lord to receive the Body and the Blood of Christ, we sing if possible and one communicant from the front we make a bow of our head in humility (not a profound bow from the waist) and then look at the Host and express our faith by saying “Amen”. This is as the Australian Bishops have taught. Genuflecting is a health hazard to our fellow communicants as there is the possibility of tripping the person behind when we stick our leg out behind us to genuflect. There is no need to bow again when receiving the Cup of the Blood of Christ as Christ is already present within us at this stage.