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St Madeleine Sophie Barat Parish

Locality: Kenthurst, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9654 2260

Address: 28 Annangrove Rd 2156 Kenthurst, NSW, Australia

Website: http://stmadeleine.org.au

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25.01.2022 Worth watching...TRUTH in the Word of God A reminder to build our lives on the strength of these four Pillars: Eternity... Morality Accountability Charity See more

21.01.2022 A letter from our Archbishop regarding Religious Freedom... Thank you for signing the petition to help open our churches in New South Wales, ensuring that places of worship were treated fairly. While the confirmation of several COVID-19 cases in Catholic churches is a good reminder that we need to remain vigilant and follow the directions of NSW Health, it is important that these directions make sense by treating all public venues equally, including churches.... By signing the Open Our Churches petition, you made your voices heard and told the NSW Government that people of faith weren’t looking for special treatment, but equal treatment. It was and remains a matter of religious freedom. There is another opportunity to defend religious freedom in NSW. It is not illegal, for example, for a café owner to refuse service to me because I am a Catholic, or refuse to serve you for the same reason. As you read this, there is an inquiry running into NSW anti-discrimination laws. The question that is being asked is whether it should be illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of their religious belief or activity. It may come as a surprise to you that currently, it is not against the law to discriminate against someone on the basis of their religious belief. It doesn’t seem fair, does it? Please join with me in praying for our civic leaders, especially those who are charged with the conduct of this inquiry: that they may act with justice, and with the desire to ensure fair and equal treatment for all. Please share this with friends and family who might not be aware of this current test for religious freedom in our state. Yours sincerely in Christ, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP

19.01.2022 Charles Lewis: Some sound advice for our next Pope - By Charles Lewis August 12, 2020 - Tweet We need to stop from time to time to contemplate what it means to be Catholic in this aggressively secular society of ours. It is easy for our beliefs to be swamped by the detritus of a powerful popular culture that looks upon us with bare tolerance at best and derision at worst....Continue reading

17.01.2022 The Catholic bishops of Australia have released the Social Justice Statement 2020-21, on the critical subject of mental health, in the lead-up to Social Justice Sunday on August 30. The statement, To Live Life to the Full: Mental health in Australia today, encourages faith communities, governments and individuals to make mental health a priority. Bishop Terry Brady, Bishop Delegate for Social Justice on the Bishops Commission for Social Justice, Mission and Service, has calle...Continue reading

15.01.2022 Have a laugh... One Sunday a cowboy went to church. When he entered, he saw that he and the preacher were the only ones present. The preacher asked the cowboy if he wanted him to go ahead and preach. The cowboy said, 'I'm not too smart, but if I went to feed my cattle and only one showed up, I'd feed him.' So the minister began his sermon. One hour passed, then two hours, then two-and-a-half hours. The preacher finally finished and came down to ask the cowboy how he liked the sermon. The cowboy answered slowly, 'Well, I'm not very smart, but if I went to feed my cattle and only one showed up, I sure wouldn't feed him all the hay.'

14.01.2022 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Believe, you are well and safe. Personal health and safety are the priority in these troubled times. The viral infection seems to take its sway rapidly and we are in need of adhering to the directives in view of flattening the curve. The diocese of Parramatta has advised us the following in view of keeping our community safe. Masks are now highly recommended to be worn at all Masses".... As you will have seen, NSW Health, supported by the Premier of NSW is highly recommending everyone in NSW to wear masks in any situation with the potential for COVID-19transmission. Places of worship have been mentioned specifically. We are therefore officially recommending all worshippers in the Diocese of Parramatta wear a mask to Mass. This would be as people arrive on parish grounds, during Mass or the service and afterwards as they leave. During Communion, the mask may be removed, but it should be in place at all other times. Priests and readers who cannot wear a mask to conduct their duties at Mass, must observe appropriate social distancing at all times. We understand the inconvenience that masks may pose, but the health of our parishioners and the wider community is our highest concern. We sincerely thank you for understanding, and for playing your part in keeping our community safe. Fr.Vince

13.01.2022 Food for thought...

12.01.2022 Reflective Ministry -WORD AND MISSION - is a program of 12 Tuesday evenings (from 7pm to 9pm, starting 18 August) focusing on Scripture and Pastoral Skills. Registration required (ONLINE PARTICIPATION). Please send an email to [email protected] for further enquiry.

11.01.2022 Hymn to the Holy Spirit

10.01.2022 What a speech Pope Francis gave in yesterday's homily/sermon! READ IT AGAIN AND AGAIN: You can have flaws, be anxious, and even be angry, but do not forget that your life is the greatest enterprise in the world. Only you can stop it from going bust. ... Many appreciate you, admire you and love you. Remember that to be happy is not to have a sky without a storm, a road without accidents, work without fatigue, relationships without disappointments. To be happy is to find strength in forgiveness, hope in battles, security in the stage of fear, love in discord. It is not only to enjoy the smile, but also to reflect on the sadness. It is not only to celebrate the successes, but to learn lessons from the failures. It is not only to feel happy with the applause, but to be happy in anonymity. Being happy is not a fatality of destiny, but an achievement for those who can travel within themselves. To be happy is to stop feeling like a victim and become your destiny's author. It is to cross deserts, yet to be able to find an oasis in the depths of our soul. It is to thank God for every morning, for the miracle of life. Being happy is not being afraid of your own feelings. It's to be able to talk about you. It is having the courage to hear a "no". It is confidence in the face of criticism, even when unjustified. It is to kiss your children, pamper your parents, to live poetic moments with friends, even when they hurt us. To be happy is to let live the creature that lives in each of us, free, joyful and simple. It is to have maturity to be able to say: "I made mistakes". It is to have the courage to say "I am sorry". It is to have the sensitivity to say, "I need you". It is to have the ability to say "I love you". May your life become a garden of opportunities for happiness That in spring may it be a lover of joy. In winter a lover of wisdom. And when you make a mistake, start all over again. For only then will you be in love with life. You will find that to be happy is not to have a perfect life. But use the tears to irrigate tolerance. Use your losses to train patience. Use your mistakes to sculptor serenity. Use pain to plaster pleasure. Use obstacles to open windows of intelligence. Never give up .... Never give up on people who love you. Never give up on happiness, for life is an incredible show. (Pope Francis).

10.01.2022 Among Jesus’ many teachings we find this, rather harsh-sounding, invitation: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. I suspect that each of us has a gut-sense of what this means and what it will cost us; but, I suspect too that many of us misunderstand that Jesus is asking here and struggle unhealthily with this invitation. What, concret...Continue reading

01.01.2022 Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address has been called America’s greatest gathering of words. Lincoln’s message was given over 130 years ago on the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania named Gettysburg. The burial of the Union dead was still underway on November 19, 1863, when Lincoln delivered his speech. We should not forget that it was a cemetery that the president had been invited to dedicate that day. What makes the Gettysburg Address the greatest speech in American h...istory is the way in which Lincoln gave firm definition to that famous proposition written by Thomas Jefferson in the American Constitution, that Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The power of President Lincoln’s speech is carried out in those five simple words that all people are created equal. Now, we know, of course, that from the perspective of human judgment, people are certainly not created equal. We know that there are differences among us in personality, in intelligence, in natural talents, in bodily appearance and in physical strength and ability. We also know that some people are born, as they say, with a silver spoon in their mouth. These are the ones, of course, who are born with the advantages of wealth and privilege and family connections which open doors and make life comfortable and pleasant and enjoyable. No, the hard, cold truth is that we are not created with equal circumstances. But the point of the phrase, all men are created equal, is that this is indeed how God sees and loves, forever, all the men, women and children every single human person He has created, as His own, unique. individual child. God’s love is not withheld from any person, regardless of his or her circumstances. And we, as Christian people, are called to love each other with agape love just as our Father loves us. That is what our Father in Heaven calls us to do, and our obedience to Him is seen in the ways in which we treat all other human beings. In our Gospel lesson for today, Jesus tells a parable which reveals a truth of God that is very disturbing to the conventional, human way of seeing the world. (Fr. Tony) (http://frtonyshomilies.com/) Fr. Tony's Homilies Fr. Anthony Kadavil August 25, 2020 O. T. XXII (August 30 Sunday) OT XXII (A) (Aug 30) Eight-minute homily in one page Introduction: Today’s Gospel passage reminds us that Christian discipleship demands Read More O. T. XXII (August 30 Sunday) frtonyshomilies.com