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25.01.2022 The challenge is out there - the beep test is a killer!

25.01.2022 This week's Parish newsletter celebrates the first Sunday of Advent with a brief explanation of the season and the Advent wreath. You can read more here: https://stagnesparish.org.au//28-29-November-1st-Sunday-of

22.01.2022 Jesus healed all these people Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Matthew (15: 29-37) today, which tells of Jesus healing many people in the hills near the Sea of Galilee then feeding the large crowd with just seven loaves and a few small fish. Fr Paul says Matthew, like Mark, has two stories about the feeding of large crowds. There is the feeding of the five thousand and then there is today’s Gospel, the feeding of the four thousand. Sometimes they are confused as one and the s...ame event. The feeding of the crowds makes it clear that Jesus is the Messiah. The Messiah is the messenger and representative of God. In providing this food for so many, Jesus provides food in a way that only God can. Jesus is also wiping away all the tears, all the discomfort and sorrow through the many healings he conducts in the Gospel. Again, it all points towards Jesus being the Messiah, the messenger and representative of God. And so, identifying who Jesus is, Fr Paul invites us to reflect on this as our Advent journey continues.

21.01.2022 Happy the eyes that see what you see Fr Paul reads from the Gospel of Luke (10: 21-24) today, in which Jesus tells his disciples, ‘Happy the eyes that see what you see’. Fr Paul says today’s Gospel is a beautiful expression of the mutual love and affection between father and son and, at the same time, it is an invitation to share in that intimacy.... As Advent begins the Gospel readings are chosen to help us get our values straight. God’s choices are not according to human values. If this Gospel is an invitation, what are we being invited to? We are being invited into the life of the Trinity. We hear at the beginning of the Gospel the Holy Spirit and the Father both mentioned along with the Son. Fr Paul says, mindful of this invitation to be intimate with the Trinity, through Advent we are challenged to accept this invitation.

20.01.2022 Try this for an environmental Christmas gift courtesy of St Joseph's Regional College.

20.01.2022 A great environmental lesson for our young ones.

19.01.2022 As part of the first week of Advent, Bishop Greg Homeming talks about the Season as a "re-dedication of oneself to God" in an address recorded at St Mary's Catholic Church in Casino

16.01.2022 Well done to all involved - a great way to finish the month of Movember.

16.01.2022 A great Advent resource courtesy of Understanding Faith.

16.01.2022 Feast of St Andrew the Apostle Fr Paul reminds us that today we not only celebrate the Feast of St Andrew the Apostle but also the beginning of our Church’s new liturgical year. He then reads from Matthew’s Gospel (4: 18-22) about Jesus inviting two sets of brothers Simon and Andrew, and James and John to follow him and be his disciples. Andrew was born in Bethsaida in Gallilee and, as we hear in today’s Gospel, he worked as a fisherman. Fr Paul says it is thought Andrew may... have been a disciple of John the Baptist first. We know Andrew was one of the first to follow Jesus. In one of the Gospels, Andrew introduces his brother, Simon Peter, to Jesus. We celebrate Andrew because he was one of the twelve disciples and he has been widely venerated since ancient times. As we reflect today on this feast of St Andrew, Fr Pauls says we might ask him to pray for us. At the end of today’s reflection, Fr Paul adds a postscript about the Church’s liturgical year, saying: Our Church each weekend celebrates the readings we have, which are in a three-year cycle (Year A, Year B, Year C). Having just completed the liturgical year readings for Year A, we now enter into the readings for Year B. These readings will continue throughout the year until Advent next year. We also make a change for our weekday Masses, which has a two-year reading cycle. We have Year 1 and Year 2 and just having finished the Year 2 cycle we now return to the Year 1 readings.

11.01.2022 The school library is a great way for anyone to get into reading.

10.01.2022 Thanks to everyone involved in putting together the Christmas hampers especially after the tough year everyone has had.

10.01.2022 The leaders of tomorrow getting advice from the leaders of today.

02.01.2022 The coming Christ Fr Paul reads from Luke’s Gospel (21: 34-36) in which Jesus tells his disciples not to be weighed down by the cares of life but rather to stay alert and pray. In the Gospel today, Fr Paul says, we hear about three things and all relate to how important it is to spread the good news. The three things are sobriety, prayer and ‘the trap’.... Taking a moment and reflecting on sobriety: what is meant here is the concentration and perseverance of spreading the Good News. It is saying not to get caught up by other things in our world. It is about avoiding distractions that come our way. The second thing we focus on is prayer, which must be a permanent part of being a follower of Jesus. Jesus, himself, expressed and witnessed to the importance of prayer in his own life and so it must be part of ours. Fr Paul says we then come to what’s called ‘the trap’, which relates to the coming of the Lord. It will be like a trap that suddenly snaps closed. In other words, the coming of the Son will happen suddenly so don’t take things for granted. As we spread the Good News in our times here and now we always need to be mindful of these three things sobriety, prayer and the trap. Fr Paul invites us to think on these three things as we go about our day today.