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We apologise that this web site has not been updated.
Our Parish Secretary, Liz, was diagnosed with breast cancer two weeks before Christmas and was operated on Christmas week. She is undergoing extensive treatment from now through until October and consequently is not working her usual hours.
She will endeavour to teach someone how to update the web site, when she is able.
In the meantime, please keep Liz in your prayers.
She is extremely grateful to all parishioners for their continuing prayers, meals, phone calls, cards, visits, messages of support and care and concern for herself and her family.
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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT
YEAR C
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In the reading from the First Book of Kings, a poor widow, who had barely enough food for herself and her son, welcomed the prophet Elijah as a man of God, shared her food with him and received her reward in the form of a non-stop supply of food. Today’s psalm is the first in the final group of Hallel psalms (joyful recitation of psalms at Jewish morning service). In it, God is praised for his loving-kindness toward the needy, including widows.
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St. Catherine Laboure Church, located on the corner of Gymea Bay Road and President Avenue. The existing church is only 16 years old but features many of the original items used when the parish began as a hall.
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| OUR PATRON SAINT
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St Catherine Laboure
was born in 1806 on a farm in Burgundy, France, the ninth of 11 children. She did not go to school but learnt later to read and write. She was very devout and wanted to become a nun. She prayed to know God’s will as to what convent to enter. Upon a visit to a hospital which was run by the Sisters of Charity, she saw a picture of St Vincent de Paul in the parlour and she said she heard the words, “My child it is a very beautiful thing to take care of the sick. God is asking something from you.” Her widowed father opposed the idea of her joining the convent and sent her to work as a waitress in his brother’s restaurant in Paris. She ran away and joined the Sisters of St Vincent de Paul at Chatillonsur-Seine. After her postulancy she was received as Sr Catherine. Soon after, the Virgin Mary began the famous apparitions to her on 8 July, 1830. In Catherine’s own words, Our Lady said “Behold the symbol of the graces I shower upon those who ask for them!. Then an oval frame formed around the Blessed Virgin and I read the letters of gold: “O Mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.” On the other side were the hearts of Jesus and Mary. Our Lady said, “Have a medal struck according to this model. All who wear it will receive great graces.” Catherine died in 1876 and was canonized by Pope Pius XII on 27 July 1947. The Feast of The Miraculous Medal is 27 Nov and the Feast of St Catherine Laboure is 28 Nov.
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Mass Times |
| Saturday Vigil |
6pm |
| Sunday |
7.30am, 9.30am, 6pm |
| Monday - Saturday |
9am |
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Parish Priest
Assistant Priest
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Monsignor Brian Rayner
Fr Walter Szczepaniak |
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