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SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER –VILLAGE GREEN
Starts 7.00PM (organised by Sunbury Christian Churches and sponsored by Sunbury Community & Local Businesses).

Free sausage sizzle from 6.00pm provided by the Sunbury Kiwanis Club.  BYO seating.  Candles and drinks for sale by St John’s Ambulance.  Performances by Salesian College Band, local primary schools, combined churches chorale & band, Sunbury Girl Guides.

Father Anton was with us for World Youth Day in 2008 and returns with Father Patrick.  Father Anton is now Principal of a Boarding Secondary College for boys interested in the priesthood.  Father Patrick is in parish work.  They are staying with us for a couple of weeks.

Thanks to all the wonderful parishioners who supported Joe and myself through my long hospitalisation.  Thank you for your prayers, best wishes, gifts, cards, flowers, visits, telephone calls and most of all your valued friendship.  Special thanks to Fr Kevin.
……Joan Koren

On Sunday 28 November at 10.30am at St Anne’s Church we will be especially celebrating Lucy’s eight years as principal at St Anne’s. This will be followed by Morning Tea in Parish Centre. All welcome.

Tuesday 7 December at Tobin Brothers Chapel, 22 Barkly St. Sunbury. Further info. on noticeboard St Anne’s Church. RSVP by Friday 28 November to 9373 7000 or email:
Christmas@tobinbrothers.com.au

SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER –VILLAGE GREEN 7.00PM

(organised by Sunbury Christian Churches and sponsored by Sunbury Community & Local Businesses).
Free sausage sizzle from 6.00pm provided by the Sunbury Kiwanis Club.
BYO seating.
Candles and drinks for sale by St John’s Ambulance. Performances by Salesian College Band, local primary schools, combined churches chorale & band, Sunbury Girl Guides.

Your donation will assist deaf people to live life to the full…..’I have come so that you might have life – life in all its fullness’ – John 10:10-11.

Welcoming Strangers is the title of a talk by Cardinal Wilfred Napier of Durban, South Africa at Genazzanno College Hall, 301 Cotham Road, Kew on 22 November at 7.45pm.
Organised by the Council of Christians & Jews.
Cost $10 incl. supper.

The four Small Christian Community groups in the parish will be concluding the 2010 calendar year with a combined Mass and supper on Monday 22 November at 7.30pm in St Anne’s Church and afterwards in the Parish Centre.
All welcome.
Please bring a plate of food to share.

The Parish Coordinating Team has endorsed the establishment of a neighbourhood garden on parish land next to St Anne’s. Anyone interested in helping to make this idea become a reality is asked to contact Jo Wiegerink on 9744 5788.

A link to the article by Tracie Holden, who is an author of Spirit of OLMC parish. Just click on the link below and get all the information and photos that Kairos was unable to print.

Sunbury parish remembers and celebrates.

Friday 19 November Sunbury Village Green 6.00pm—8.00pm. We invite you to come along to share your stories, thoughts and hopes with others. A silhouette will be available for either signing, writing your story or dedicating to someone you know who has a mental illness/health issue. These will be planted in the green. Presented by Sunbury Community Health Centre.

After 216 days in hospital and ‘seven trips to the operating theatre’ following a fall on Easter Monday, Joan Koren has returned home.

As John enters eternal life, he continues to gather people together. Hundreds attended his Vigil Prayers, Funeral Mass and Committal at the cemetery last Friday. Amidst the sadness of his departure at a relatively young age, Catholics gathered to pray and to remember. He was Principal of Catholic Regional College, Keilor North and Sacred Heart College, Kyneton. Both Colleges worked together providing refreshments, printing, choir and a portable address system. Our parishioners worked for hours in the kitchen to cater for the five hundred in the Parish Centre after the burial.
43 of John’s 45 first cousins attended the Mass concelebrated by nine priests. Later comments heard were ‘I was proud to be a Catholic today’ – ‘everything went so well’

Fr Kevin

• Edition 20 of Kairos featuring St Mary of the Cross plus a 2-page spread on our parish and an article on the Centennial Ball. Several parishioners requested copies so please make sure that you collect your copy from the Gift Shop.
• Edition 21 (this week’s) of Kairos.
• The 2011 Columban Calendar for only $7.00 each. Buy one of the best religious calendars in the world and you will be helping our missionaries at the same time.

Car boot sale will be held by Sunbury Uniting Church on the Village Green on Saturday 20 November from 8.30am. There will be outside car sites and inside craft stalls. Site prices—outside $20, inside craft stalls $20.
Outside sites still available but be quick.  Many inside craft stalls, Devonshire tea/coffee, sausage sizzle, fresh fruit / veg stall.  If you don’t want to sell, come and buy – this is a great Christmas opportunity.  For the kids – jumping castle, pony rides, fairy floss and popcorn!
Further info/bookings ring Helen on 9744 7031 or 0407 506 507.

Melton Parish has advised us that there is an ‘unwelcome’ visitor who stalks presbyteries, targets churches—open doors, monies at the back of the church, handbags, and he cases his target. He is known to police.

MacYAK is a network of young adults and Sisters of St Joseph centred at the MacYAC gathering place at 155 Melbourne Avenue, Glenroy.
It provides an opportunity for young adults (18-35 year old) to share life, prayer,reflection, vision and outreach to those in need.
Applications for the live-in community are available from http://tiny.cc/haen5
Come and find out more at the Information Night – Sun 14 November or Mon 15 November – from 7.00pm. Further info contact Sr Rita Malavisi 9306 8903 or 0419 299 065 or Sr Janette Murphy 0411 406 152.
Mary MacKillop wrote: ‘Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart’.

Nineteen of us gathered last Wednesday for our first meeting. We began by studying our new three-year target to develop relationships of friendship and faith in our parish, and to use our gifts for the good of all.
We then read Pope John Paul Il’s teaching on the spirituality of communion which is to underpin all our pastoral efforts. The Pope’s words in 2000 are very inspiring.
We studied the roles of the P.C.T. and neighbourhood teams and the representation of the neighbourhoods on the P.C.T.
The following neighbourhoods have representation on the P.C.T:

• Ashfield (Gaby Plummer)
• Boardman (Marlene Bramwell)
• Langama (Joanne Spiteri)
• Gum Tree Hills (Julie Reddan)
• Jacksons Hill (Irene Campbell)
• Killara (Annette Byrne-Phillips)
• Kismet (Michael McConville)
• Paynes (Aileen & Terry Sweeney)
• Rolling Meadows/Goonawarra (Melissa Diblasi)
• Sherwood (Tom Allen)
• Strathearn (Amanda Ferraro)
• Studley Park (Mary Macdermid & Jo Wiegerink)
• Sunbury West—Tony Kiley.

We looked at beginning some of the proposals agreed on at the Parish Assembly on 16 October. We finally set the six dates for gathering in 2011.
Much energy was in the room and we finished at 9.00pm.
…………………………………..Fr Kevin

The Fiesta will be held at Ferraro Receptions, 14 Onslow Avenue, Campbellfield on SATURDAY 20 NOVEMBER at 6.30pm.
This event will again feature great food, dancing, drawing of the major raffle etc.
Tickets $45 each (incl. food, drink & music) are available by contacting the following: Foundation Office—9386 3948 or Foundation Secretary—9380 8759.