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Catholic Youth Group Toowoomba

Locality: Toowoomba, Queensland

Address: 302 North St 4350 Toowoomba, QLD, Australia

Website: http://sacredheartparish.com.au

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25.01.2022 Please keep them in your prayers

23.01.2022 Today’s Feast: The Transfiguration of the Lord The Transfiguration of the Lord can sound embarrassingly magical. Jesus goes up onto a mountain and his clothes b...ecome dazzlingly white. Prophets appear and talk to him. And then it is all over and Jesus tells his disciples to say nothing. We should hold on to the absurdity of the incident. There is simply no reason for all this to have happened. In particular, there is no reason to put it into a gospel the evangelist makes no capital out of it, it is simply there. And this is the strength of the Transfiguration as an historical incident. There is no reason for anyone to have invented it. It is not central to the Christian case. It is not used to win arguments. There is only one reason to put it into the Gospel, and that is because it happened. It is one of those cases of the evangelists writing things down without knowing why they were important, and their very puzzlement is what makes the story so convincing. Why, then, did it happen? Surely so that we could see and understand that Jesus is at once one of the prophets and the one that was prophesied by them; and that he is God, and lives for all eternity in a blaze of dazzling and unapproachable light. The true miracle of the Transfiguration is not the shining face or the white garments, but the fact that for the rest of the time Jesus hid his glory so well. Detail from The Transfiguration, the last painting by Raphael (1483-1520).

22.01.2022 Eternal rest grant into him oh Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon him, may he rest in peace

20.01.2022 Today’s Saint: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (1656 - 1680) Known as the Lily of the Mohawks and the Geneviève of New France, she was born in the Mohawk fortress o...f Ossemenon in what is now New York State, the daugher of a Mohawk warrior and a Catholic Algonquin woman whom he had saved from captivity at the hands of the Iroquois. When she was about four, smallpox killed her parents and her brother and left her scarred and with impaired eyesight. She was adopted by her uncle, the chief of the Turtle clan, and had many offers of marriage. She received some knowledge of Christianity from Jesuit missionaries when she was 11, and she determined to live the life not only of a Christian but of a Christian virgin: a heroic determination at the time. She was baptized when she was 20 and eventually, to escape persecution and death threats, she fled to an established Christian community at Kahnawake in what is now Québec. She advanced in union with God, with bodily mortification and intense prayer, and died at the age of 24. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 22 June 1980 and canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on 21 October 2012. See more

19.01.2022 Please keep him in your prayers

15.01.2022 Memorial of John Mary Vianney, priest St. John Mary Vianney (French: Jean Baptiste Marie Vianney), also known as the Curé of Ars, was a farm hand who in his you...th taught other children their prayers and catechism. It took several years of seminary study before he was ordained as he was not a very good student, and his Latin was terrible. He was assigned to the parish of Ars, a tiny village near Lyons, which suffered from very lax attendance. John Vianney began visiting his parishioners, especially the sick and poor, and spent days in prayer, doing penance for his flock. Gifted with discernment of spirits, prophecy, and hidden knowledge, John was tormented by evil spirits, especially when he tried to get his two to three hours of sleep each night. Thousands came to hear him preach, and to make their reconciliation because of his reputation with penitents. He spent 40 years as their parish priest. John Vianney was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1925. He is the only diocesan priest ever to be canonized. He is the patron saint of clergy throughout the world. See more

10.01.2022 St. Gregory the Great, father of worship and mission-minded pope, pray for us!

07.01.2022 Please keep Pope Emeritus Benedict in your prayers

07.01.2022 God bless him he is an amazing man!

07.01.2022 Great words from St Bonaventure

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04.01.2022 Almighty, ever-living God, your only-begotten Son Jesus Christ made Mary Magdalen the first herald of Easter joy. Grant that, following her example and her prayers, we may, in this life, proclaim the living Christ, and come to see him reigning in your glory. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.Amen.

04.01.2022 Today’s Saint: Maximilian Kolbe 1894-1941 Raymund Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894. His family was very poor, but they were rich in spirit. In 1914, his father ...was captured and killed by the Russians for fighting for Polish independence. Young Raymund had a great faith and strong devotion to the Blessed Mother. He went to school to be a Franciscan priest and was ordained in 1918, taking the name Maximilian Maria. After studying in Rome, Maximilian returned to Poland in 1919. He used modern printing presses to spread the Good News through monthly, and eventually daily, religious publications. He also spent six years as a missionary in Japan. During World War II, Father Kolbe hid as many as 2,000 Jewish people and Poles, who were also persecuted, in his Polish monastery. In 1941, Maximilian was arrested by the Nazis, who soon sent him to Auschwitz concentration camp. This was a terrible place where the Nazis killed many people. In July of that year, several prisoners escaped, and as punishment, the camp commander picked 10 men to be starved to death. Franciszek Gajowniczek, a husband and father, was one of these sentenced to death. Father Maximilian Kolbe offered his life in the man's place. Each day, he celebrated Mass for the other starving prisoners and prayed and sang with them. When he outlived many of the other men, he was killed by lethal injection. On October 10, 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Maximilian Kolbe as a martyr of charity. Present at the ceremony was Franciszek Gajowniczek, the Auschwitz prisoner whose place Maximilian had taken in giving his own life. Gajowniczek lived for 54 years after St. Maximilian Kolbe had taken his place in death.

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02.01.2022 Happy feast of St John Vianney

01.01.2022 Today’s Saint: Saint Joseph of Calasanz (1557 - 1648) He was born in Aragón, received an excellent education and was ordained priest. After working in his o...wn country for some time he went to Rome, where he worked for the education of the poor and founded a religious congregation for that purpose. His idea was that every child should receive an education. As one might expect, he was the object of much envy and calumny. He died in Rome in 1648. "The Last Communion of St Joseph of Calasanz" (1819) by Francisco Goya (1746-1828).

01.01.2022 Lord God, you gave Saint Dominic to the Church of his day as a great preacher of your truth. We pray that he will help us in our time by his merits, his teaching, and his unfailing prayer.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,one God, for ever and ever. Amen.