Our Lady's Assumption Catholic Parish in Mandurah, Western Australia | Church

Our Lady's Assumption Catholic Parish

Locality: Mandurah, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9581 2061

Address: 8 Stevenson Street 6210 Mandurah, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.olaparishmh.org.au

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25.01.2022 Volunteers Needed!

22.01.2022 Parish Priest Speaks Volunteers Mass Held A big thanks to the volunteers for coming to the last Sunday’s Mass and to the morning tea thereafter in the parish centre. I thank the PPC social committee members for organizing the cakes and biscuits.... First Latin Mass We are happy to inform you that we are going to celebrate our first Latin Mass in our church on Friday 4th of December at 5.00 pm. Come and experience its rich universality. The traditional Latin Mass not only provides a visible and unbroken link from the present day to the distant past, it also constitutes an inspiring bond of unity across the globe. Christmas Party We invite you all to our Parish Christmas Party on Friday 11th Dec at 5.30 pm in our Church yard. There will be Carols, Music, Santa, Barbeque, and BYO. Let us take this opportunity to come and enjoy and wish one another a Merry Christmas! Fr. Johny Arattukulam, O.C.D.

22.01.2022 Our Parish Priest Speaks Statistics of the Catholic Church - Part 1 Priests: The number of priests decreased by 0.3 percent during this five-year period, confirming a trend already underway. Between 2013 and 2018, priestly numbers increased by 1,400 in the first two years, and then decreased in the following three years. At the end of 2017, there were 414,582 priests. Encouragingly, they increased in Africa (+14.3 percent) and Asia (+11 percent). In America they remaine...d constant (about 123,000). They decreased in Europe (-7 percent) and Oceania (-1 percent). The distribution of priests in the various continents sees a prevalence of European priests (41.3 percent), whose numbers have decreased greatly in the last three years, followed by American priests. The Asian clergy make up 16.5 percent of the total, the African clergy 11.5 percent and that of Oceania 1.1 percent. Permanent Deacons: A rapidly evolving reality in all continents is that of permanent deacons, who rose from 43,195 in 2013 to 47,504 in 2018, an increase of about 10 percent. Religious Brothers: On the other hand, the number of professed non-priest religious has continued to decrease over the years, and from 2013 to 2018 it decreased by almost 8 percent, from 55,000 to less than 51,000. The exceptions are Africa and Asia, where there has been a certain increase. Major Seminarians: With regard to the major seminarians there is also a tendency toward a slow decrease. Candidates for the priesthood in the world decreased by 2 percent in the period considered, from 118,251 in 2013 to 115,880 in 2018, with strong decreases in Europe (-15.6 percent) and The Americas (-9.4 percent). The continent that shows an encouraging opposite trend is Africa (+15.6 percent). Nuns: The drop in the number of professed nuns is cause for concern. They have decreased by 7.5 percent in the 5 years considered. The total number has decreased from 694,000 in 2013 to less than 642,000 in 2018. The decline concerns Europe, Oceania and The Americas, with decreases between -15 percent and -12 percent. On the other hand, there were increases of +9 percent in Africa and +2.6 percent in Asia, so that the relative percentages of European and American religious decreased in the total numbers. (From the Pontifical Yearbook 2020 and the Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae 2018.)

21.01.2022 Peel Catholic Youth Hi everyone. Just a quick reminder that RSVP closes on the 8th of October. If you want to participate with us, just click the link below to RSVP or scan the code on the poster. ... https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSdr.../viewform Hope to see you guys there! - Peel Catholic Youth

21.01.2022 Advent Program: Come Lord and Heal Us. This program will focus on the traditional Scriptural/liturgical themes of Advent, and integrate some of Pope Francis’ recent catechesis on healing the world’ in this time of Pandemic. Now available in the Parish Office $2/copy

20.01.2022 Our Weekly's bulletin is out! Check it out on our website: https://olaparishmh.org.au/ Bulletin: https://olaparishmh.files.wordpress.com//nov-28-29-2020.pdf

18.01.2022 Our Parish This Week

18.01.2022 Parish Priest Speaks Women Altar Ministers Ready We are making history by allowing 10 of our women to become Altar Ministers. They have completed their training and I thank Deacon Michael for his formation to them. The 10 wise maids are Elma Coverley, Eleonor Della Bosca, Trudy Wilkinson, Lucia Anning-Chan, Cindy Bovell, Mary Mclean, Rosemary Van Schoor, Grace Lazaroo, Beneth Eddison and Cynthia Galindo. They have started serving the weekday masses and they will be of...ficially installed by Fr. Tony Chiera, Vicar General, on 20th December at 9.30 am Mass. Let us wish them every success. Art work from MCC I am happy to state that the Art club of Mandurah Catholic College has gifted to our Parish their beautiful work done by the students of Year 7 to 10. It is a Contour Window painted stained glass on Biblical stories. Congratulations to the junior artists and we thank the MCC team for their generosity for giving us this precious product. Let us find a suitable place to fix this beautiful art work. Have a beautiful weekend! Fr. Johny Arattukulam, O.C.D.

16.01.2022 Grief support Ministry The next grief support group will be held from 10a.m. to 12noon, 8th October (Thursday) at the Parish Centre. Anyone who is grieving the death of a loved one is warmly welcome to attend.

13.01.2022 Our Parish Priest Speaks The Tenants of the Vineyard We remember the last two weeks Sunday Gospels were all about God’s vineyard. The Parable of the Tenants helps us to understand how we the tenants of the vineyard should behave. Adam and Eve were not the real owners of the Eden garden and they were the caretakers of the vineyard. God said to Adam, Take care of all of creation; It doesn’t belong to you, it belongs to Me. In the vineyard of God, we are the guests and the vineyard are given into our hands, because God loves us, no other reason. He really doesn’t want to make a profit; He just wants us to be content and happy and grateful. All He expects is a thank you!

10.01.2022 October Month of the Holy Rosary Everyone is welcome to come along and join in saying the Rosary everyday at 7:05am in our Church. We will also be having the evening special devotion of the holy Rosary from 22nd October to 31 October at 5.30pm.

10.01.2022 Announcement re Safeguarding Officers Dear Parishioners, Our Lady's Assumption Parish Mandurah is committed to the safety and security of all children and young people. At present, we have two Safeguarding Officers and we are seeking expressions of interest for more volunteers for this position. ... If you are interested and would like to know more about this role, please contact the Parish Office (9581 2061). Safeguarding Officers, Elma and Jill See more

08.01.2022 Special Ministers of Holy Communion Could all special ministers please let me know of their availability for the next four months from November to February. Also would you please let me know if you are available for any of the masses over Christmas. At the present time we will still be requiring only one special minister for each mass, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Could you please let me know by 6th October of your availability, by email: [email protected], or by cont...acting the Parish office. Many thanks for giving so generously of your time. -Bernadette Scharf

07.01.2022 Parish Priest Speaks First Sunday of Advent This week we begin a new liturgical year, a new Church year with the 1st Sunday of Advent. We can say that today we wake up to a new Church year. The season of Advent prepares us for Christmas. So, the 1st Sunday of Advent is like the alarm clock ringing. The 4 weeks of Advent to slowly wake us up to Christmas. These coming weeks we are going to have many things that will demand our attention. From the commercial things, we j...ust started the busiest shopping time of the year, to the family and social functions that we have to attend. It is a busy time and it goes fast. But there is one thing that should be the center of our attention these coming weeks and that is the coming of Jesus on Christmas day. Let’s us reshape our hearts and minds so that we may bring Christ’s peace and joy to our world. Let us live in expectation of doing God’s will and then we will be doing good things. Congratulations On last Saturday we had a Sacrament of Confirmation service during the Mass in which two of the candidates received the Sacrament from me. They are Amanda and Kate and let us congratulate them for coming forward to accept Jesus and the Holy Spirit in a deeper way. I too thank Alex and Jenny Popov for preparing them. Fr. Johny Arattukulam, O.C.D.

06.01.2022 Our Parish Priest Speaks Statistics of the Catholic Church - Part 1 I hereby give a statistics survey of our Catholic Church published recently by the Vatican. This would help us to form an idea of the changes that have occurred in the dimensions of the Church itself and its members. The comparisons were made between 2013 and 2018, that is, for the first 5 years of the pontificate of Pope Francis. ... Bishops: The number of bishops in the world has increased from 5,173 to 5,377 (3.9 percent). The biggest increases (more than 4 percent) were in Oceania, the Americas, Asia and Europe, while in Africa they increased 1.4 percent. Catholics: With regard to baptized Catholics, between 2013 and 2018 there has been a reduction in the relative numbers in European and North American countries and an increase in all other geographical areas. Catholics in the world in those years increased by almost 6 percent, from 1.254 billion to 1.329 billion, an increase of 75 million. At the end of 2018 Catholics made up just under 18 percent of the world population. This percentage has remained almost unchanged over the years surveyed. To be more precise, the highest percentage is found in the Americas, with 63.7 Catholics per 100 inhabitants, followed by Europe with 39.7 Catholics per 100 inhabitants, Oceania with 26.3 and Africa with 19.4. The lowest incidence is that of Asia (3.3 Catholics per 100 inhabitants), due to the significant number of non-Christian believers on this continent. The distribution of Catholics among the various continents differs greatly from that of the population. In the Americas, for example, the population continues to be around 13.5 percent of the world total, while the number of Catholics has decreased by one percentage point, dropping to 48.3 percent of the world’s Catholic population. The number of Catholics in Asia has grown slightly from 10.9 to 11.1 percent but is much lower than the continent’s population (about 60 percent in 2018). Europe yields a population count 4 points lower than that of the Americas (9.6 percent), but its percentage in the Catholic world is lower than that of American countries (21.5 compared to 48.3 percent).

03.01.2022 Our Parish Community First Photo: Jim Mather, President of St. Vincent de Paul- Mandurah, in front of our Church last week for the SVDP Mandurah Local Community Appeal. Second Photo: Our Parishioner assisted by Jill Mather in making the on-line donation.

02.01.2022 Hospitality Ministry Can you assist with Hospitality at our Weekend Masses? Let us meet people coming to Mass and make them feel welcome and accepted as they are. Let us help our parishioners experience God’s hospitality.... Welcome strangers and assist them to be seated in these strange times. Please register you interest with the Parish Office, and we will organise a coffee morning to discuss. Brendan Chestnutt, Chairperson PPC Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me." (Matthew 25: 40).

02.01.2022 Our Parish Community First Photo: Many thanks to Bernardeta Nowak for decorating the Church ceiling with this lovely cloth accent for the Confirmation weekend (12 & 13 Sept) Second Photo: Names of the Confirmation candidates on our church walls.

01.01.2022 PCY Team Leading and Formation Day! On the Friday 2nd of October our PCY Leaders completed a fun-filled day of Quests, Prayer, Formation and Planning. It was enjoyed by all!!

01.01.2022 Alpha Holy Spirit Day Away Do you have time on Saturday, 17 October between 11am-3.00pm to visit Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and be an intercessor for our Alpha Participants who will be attending a Holy Spirit Day Away at the Parish Centre. They will join you at intervals during this time. A list is available at the back of the church for you to sign up or you can contact the office on 08 95812061.