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During early January our parish office hours will be modified. The office will be closed on Tuesday 31 Dec and Wednesday 1 Jan, Tuesday 7 Jan and Thursday 9 Jan 2014. Normal hours (Mon to Frid 9am to 5pm) will commence from 13 January 2014.

Become a foster carer and provide a secure and loving temporary home for a child in need. Foster carers can be single people, couples with or without children, or families with grown up children. Anglicare’s Foster Care Program provides training, equipment and 24 hour professional support to caregivers. We also pay a foster care allowance ($140-$224 per week per child) to help cover costs. Phone Anglicare on 9301 5200 and be part of the real spirit of Christmas.

The Festival will be held next Sunday 22 December at 7.30pm at OLMC Church. Readings will be from the Old and New Testament beginning with the Fall of Adam and Eve and concluding with God’s coming at Bethlehem. Well-known hymns and carols will follow each of the Readings which have been used for 400 years in England.
A sausage sizzle, champagne and orange juice will be served after 5.30pm Mass for those who would like to stay. All we ask is for some assistance moving the pews in the church around and lots of singing.

The editor said our Pope has become a new voice of conscience “For pulling the papacy out of the palace and into the streets, for committing the world’s largest church to confronting its deepest needs and for balancing judgment with mercy. Pope Francis is TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year, “ wrote managing editor Nancy Gibbs.

“Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly–young and old, faithful and cynical– as Pope Francis.”
“In his nine months in office, he has placed himself at the very centre of the central conversations of our time: about wealth and poverty, fairness and justice, transparency, modernity, globalization, the role of women, the nature of marriage, the temptations of power.”

Thursday evenings at Sunbury football Club, Riddell Road, where all are friends. Santa came last Thursday and gave a lucky bingo player $2000. Ray Lethlean, a parish volunteer for 21 years retired last Thursday. Thanks for your great generosity , Ray. Parish Bingo resumes on Thursday 16 January at 8pm.

These offerings are given to support the 230 active and 92 retired priests of the Melbourne Archdiocese.

The Festival will be held next Sunday 22 December at 7.30pm at OLMC Church. Readings will be from the Old and New Testament beginning with the Fall of Adam and Eve and concluding with God’s coming at Bethlehem. Well-known hymns and carols will follow each of the Readings which have been used for 400 years in England.
A sausage sizzle, champagne and orange juice will be served after 5.30pm Mass for those who would like to stay. All we ask is for some assistance moving the pews in the church around and lots of singing.

The week before  Christmas Day, the Liturgy of the Church changes. At this point, the Advent focus shifts to the Christmas story and the Virgin Mary. These days serve to prepare more directly for the Lord’s birth. It is the best time to hold carols services and to begin to use Christmas carols in the liturgy. During this Christmas Novena weekday Mass will be celebrated in the evening to allow those employed to attend.

We offer our prayers and sympathy to Frank Ricciardo and his two sons Nunzio and Anthony as Maria Ricciardo entered eternal life last Thursday. Vigil Prayers and Rosary will be prayed on Wednesday at 7.30pm at St Anne’s Church and followed by Funeral Service next day at 11.30am and committal at Sunbury Cemetery. Both of Maria’s parents died in Sicily during the war when Maria was nine years old and she, the eldest child, was then the carer for her siblings.