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Be the Light
'Let Your Light Shine Before Others'
Project Compassion
We are still going ahead with a modified coin line competition tomorrow for students who are at school. Remember to bring in your coins to help support Project Compassion during Lent.
The Annunciation
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Annunciation. On the feast of the Annunciation, we remember when the Angel Gabriel appeared to Mary and asked her to become the Mother of God. We know that despite all of the difficulties that would mean for Mary, she said “yes”, without hesitation. Her determination and resolution should be inspiration for us to persist and be faithful with our Lenten resolutions.
Please find the following link - A Faith Reponse to Covid 19, offering us all hope and comfort at this uncertain time.
https://mailchi.mp/gpbs/faith-response-to-covid-19-for-catholic-schools?e=a42d02582d
A message from Fr James
Peace be with you all!
May the king of peace, Lord Jesus bring comfort and peace to us at this trying times. As I mentioned to you we are walking through unknown paths but with hope. Sadly we won’t be able to celebrate mass as a parish family for an unknown time. I want to assure you all I will keep each one of you and the entire world in my daily masses. I will walk with you in prayers.
Let us unite in prayer and keep everyone connected. Please be connected to each other through phone calls, emails, social media platforms and in whatever way you can.
The more we come close to God the more we come close to each other. The more we love God the more we love our brothers and sisters. Continue to make our homes truly a ‘Domestic Church’ let parents lead the family in prayers taking the role of Catechist.
Churches will be open for visits and personal prayers
God bless you all
Your Pastor
Fr James T Antony CMI
A Prayer from Archbishop Christopher
Heavenly Father,
We praise and thank you for your loving presence, especially in the Lent/Easter season.
We offer heartfelt thanks, dear Lord, particularly for our recent rains.
Once again, we come to you in our need. As your children we are in need of your healing and protection. Just as we have been recovering from our dangerous bushfire summer, we have now been thrown into a fearful coronavirus (COVID 19) autumn. We are tired and frightened. We feel a sense of panic and future uncertainty on a global scale.
Be with us now, Loving Master. Without you all is nothin - only empty hearts and a total reliance on our own feeble resources. But with you “there is mercy and fullness of Redemption” (Psalm 130/7). With you there is “the loving mercy of the heart of our God (who) will give light to those who sit in darkness, those who dwell in the shadow of death, and guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1/79).
It seems that so many public gatherings are now postponed or cancelled. There is virus death, the sick, and the anxious. We are spending more time on our own, or with family or friends.
We pray for the sick and those looking after them. Help us to offer practical help to those who struggle. Let us use these times, O Lord, for your greater glory, especially during Lent and Easter.
Let us pray more, and truly listen to you more in loving silence, stillness and simplicity.
Almighty Father, you always journey with us in life’s challenges.Help us to meet you often in the scriptures and our sacraments. Increase in us faith, hope and trust. Protect us from this coronavirus. Remove it from our common home.
Heal those who are sick and dying. Mary, Help of Christians, as always we fly to you in our need. Be close to us and point out your Son, Jesus, to us in this pandemic.
St Therese of Lisieux and her parents, Saints Louis and Zelie Martin, pray for us.
We make this and all our prayers through Jesus, Our Lord and Saviour, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever,
AMEN