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Happy Tuesday everyone – The image on the cover of today’s Parish Blog post looks a bit scratchy! It’s because it’s a copy of a copy … It’s a screen shot snapped while playing back the Facebook live stream of last weekend’s Mass. And it was the part of the Mass when we did a…

Dear friends – Yesterday was the feast of ‘Mary Help of Christians’ – which has special significance for Australia. As many would have long known, it is under this particular title that Mary is recognised (from a Catholic Christian perspective and contribution to Australia) as patron of our nation. You may have seen that during…

Welcome from us in the Emu Plains area to anyone from other places joining us in prayer this weekend. And welcome to anyone from other faith backgrounds too. We are blessed to have you with us. In our Christian tradition it’s this weekend on which we recall the Ascension of Jesus to heaven after his life,…

Dear friends – Today’s Parish Blog post is a letter to the parish to see if there are people who would be keen to share some leadership to have the church open for a few periods each week. This letter is in written form – and is also shared via a voice recording if you…

Dear friends – The image on the cover of our Parish Blog reflects a theme of the Mass prayers that I thought I’d focus on today. This Parish Blog post is not the full Mass (see Wednesday for full Mass) – but has the readings of the day for each of us to reflect on…

The cover image of today’s blog post – and the few other images in Today’s Parish Blog post – are simply picking up on yesterday’s featured theme: the fifth anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking document for the Church on the care of creation – Laudato Si. I really encourage you to spend a little time…

Yesterday’s Parish Blog post used the expression that we can all be shepherds to others and shepherds to God’s creation. That’s a good intro to today’s theme – which is an acknowledging of the 5th Anniversary of Pope Francis’ groundbreaking document; Laudato Is – On the Care of our Common Home.  We were reminded in a recent blog post here (Tuesday 5th May) where that…

Dear friends – Today’s blog post is a message to the Catholic Christians of Australia from the bishops. They wrote it the other day while they were at their periodic gathering and it was published today. This time they had to have their gathering online. As we know people often associate the image of a ‘shepherd’…

MARY and the month  of  MAY – The simple image on the cover of this weekend’s Parish Blog post reminds us of the tradition of honouring Mary in May. It seems that our tradition of doing this has some inspiration  way back among the ancient Greeks who dedicated the month of May to Artemis, the…