Category: Volunteers Needed

Our thanks go to those who have volunteered on a roster to clean our two churches each week. It is estimated your service has saved our parish $13,000 this year , commercial cleaners would have had to be engaged otherwise.

On Thursday 20 December from 7pm, we will be asking for people to assist with the set up for the Christmas Eve Mass at Lakeside Stadium, Rupertswood.
Last year we set up in 20 minutes.

Christmas sing a long at Goonawarra Nursing Home will be on Thursday 13 December at 2.30pm.
Please come and join in.

Christmas on the Greenwill be held on the Sunbury Village Green on Saturday 8 December from 4.00pm-9.30pm.
There will be lots of Christmas Carols and family oriented activities. There will even be an inter- active display of a stable with real animals.
If anyone is able to help with the Collection of money on the day, please see the organisers at the event, or contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060.

Many thanks to Fr Bert Fulbrook and Fr Will Matthew from the Salesians for celebrating our weekday and weekend Masses. Also, thank you to Fr Brian McMahon for celebrating Baptisms for our children for the last 2 weeks. And finally, thank you to Fr Tom Cleary from the Columban priests for celebrating Mass last weekend at 10.30am.

SING-A-LONG at Goonawarra Aged Care from 2.30pm on Friday 2 November.
Please come along and join in the fun.

Our parish working bee will be held on Saturday 3 November from 9am to 12noon. Please bring your tools and your good humor and help keep our parish looking beautiful.

It is proposed to have a new style of vestment and sewers are needed.
If you can help, please contact the Parish Office on 9744 1060.

SING A LONG at Goonawarra Aged Care from 2.30pm on Friday 5 October.
Please come along and join in the fun.

(P.S. Roy Rogers won’t be available)

WORKING BEE at St Anne’s Church on Saturday 6 October from 9-12.
Please bring your tools and your good humor and help keep our Parish looking beautiful.

Thanks to the generous people of Sunbury for your donations to the Priest Retirement Foundation. Our Parish is sending $1655.30 to support those who have dedicated their lives to our Faith.

The annual retreat for those considering the diocesan priesthood is on 21-22 September at Mulgrave.
Enquiries on 9926 5733 or email vocations@cam.org.au.

New Melbourne Priests were ordained yesterday. Revs Michael Gallagher from Nunawading; Andrew McCarter from Reservoir; Benneth Osuagwu from Nigeria; Jerome Santamaria from Hawthorn and Kevin Williams from Frankston.
Please continue to pray for these men as they begin their parish ministry.

During the last twelve months, thirteen retired priests entered eternal life and now there are 95 retired priests who need care, including two who served us here in Sunbury: Fathers Jim Feehan and Alan Mithen. To meet the cost of caring, active priests give voluntarily $1.2 million a year to support their retired and frail brothers in the priesthood. Today, the laity in all parishes are being asked to give $0.5 million to support their retired pastors.
This year, the following have retired from parish ministry: Fathers Barry Caldwell, Brian McMahon, Kevin Mogg, George O’Connor, Des Panton and Peter Rankin.

 The Annual Ordination Ceremony is on next Saturday at 10am in St Patricks Cathedral where eight priests will be ordained, including three married  men.
Four have studied at Corpus Christi College, Carlton and four have studied at Anglican Colleges.
All welcome .

Did you know your Parish Bingo session “Major Bingo” is celebrating its 20th year? The bingo has been a regular fund raiser over this time.
The biggest and best bingo in the district is conducted Thursdays 8pm at the Sunbury Football Social Club in Riddell Rd.
Come along, have some fun and meet new friends.
You might even win some money!
The current volunteers are looking for new people to join and help with the running of the weekly sessions. If you are interested, come along any Thursday or contact Gary on 0419 301 760.

Training for young people wishing to become Altar Servers will be held at 11am on Saturdays 11 and 18 August in St Anne’s Church. Applicants must be 10 years of age and have received or about to receive Eucharist.
Any inquiries can be directed to 9744-2674.

Next week we begin National Vocations Awareness Week. We focus on each person’s vocation, especially our primary vocation– the call to holiness. The call to holiness is to become all that God has created us to be, to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, and soul and to share our gifts and talents for the common good of all society. We pray that our young people will hear the call to dedicate their lives to God and make a commitment to serve God’s people. If we have already committed to a particular vocation, such as single or marriage, or priesthood or consecrated life we also pray for God’s grace to rededicate ourselves and continue to live out this call in our life.