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St Damian’s Parish Bundoora

Locality: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9467 2797

Address: 5 settlement Road bundoora Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 https://youtu.be/T32CtI4icnQ

24.01.2022 Getting to know St Damians Parish Council as we get closer to Feast Day. This Weeks article from Paul Bezzina

23.01.2022 Today we celebrate the feast of martyrs St Andrew Dng-Lc and companions. Vietnam has a long and rich Christian heritage, but for hundreds of years they suffer...ed extreme persecution for their faith, and this included St Andrew. He was born in 1795 in northern Vietnam to a poor family and at the age of 12, his parents moved to the city of Hue where he received an education from a lay catechist, which was usually denied to poor children. He converted to Catholicism and upon being baptised, took the name Andrew and became a catechist himself. He was eventually ordained a priest and worked in the missions with the priests of the Foreign Mission Society of Paris. On more than one occasion, St Andrew was saved from prison thanks to the help of Christian communities around the country. Yet he did not fear death for Christ. ‘Whoever dies for the faith,’ he said, ‘goes up to heaven.’ He was eventually killed for his faith in 1839. Almost 150 years later, Pope John Paul II canonised Andrew along with a group of 116 martyrs from the 18th and 19th centuries. This group includes bishops, priests and lay Catholics young and old. In his homily, Pope John Paul II said to the Christians of Vietnam that the blood shed by these martyrs was ‘a source of grace to progress in the faith. In you, the faith continues to be transmitted to new generations ... This faith remains the foundation of all those who are faithful to their land and at the same time want to continue to be true disciples of Christ.’ Let us pray tonight for all those who continue to experience religious persecution around the world, and give thanks to the merciful Lord for the gift of faith. Sts Andrew and companions, pray for us!

23.01.2022 Daily Reflection. (Thursday 3rd September in the 22nd week of Ordinary Time.) The aim of the Christian is to encounter God, surrender to Gods will and to become a disciple. It is a recognition that our limited human wisdom is mere foolishness in front of God. We can never come to encounter God through our own wisdom or through the study of Philosophy or Theology, these only feed our human hunger for knowledge. A true encounter with God happens in the simplicity of our daily ...life when we accept to set aside our wisdom and meet God in humility. The best way to meet God is through his word where we learn to discover Gods will for us. Our poor human wisdom, Philosophy and Theology, if they are not based on an encounter with God and on a deep desire to understand and live Gods will, can only divide us and the community we participate in. Through our human arguments we are only able to take up different positions about human arguments about God. Starting from the community in Corinth and going down through the centuries, to our own day, we have often experienced division in the Body of Christ, because we approached God with our wisdom, instead of encounter in faith and surrender. Paul warns the Corinthians that arguing about the different teachers and the different realities in life can only cause further division. After all Peter, Apollo and Paul are only servants of the gospel and servants of the community. They have been sent by God to help the community to grow in faith. God still sends his servants to our Church today, helping us to encounter God in our daily life. Throughout the centuries, it has been always the same Holy Spirit that has guided and enlightened the Church through its different phases because we all belong to Christ and Christ belongs to God. We have only one purpose in life, to develop in us the image and likeness of God we received when we were created. We are invited to make use of the different means God sends us along the way, as long as we keep focused only on God. It would be very silly of us to turn one of these messengers into an idol and start worshipping him instead of God. This is what the community of Corinth seems to be doing, and at times we too fall into the same mistake. Our aim is to keep focused only on God.

22.01.2022 https://youtu.be/qP8irm2Ppeo Good Morning Everyone. Attached a message from Archbishop Peter Comensoli.... Also I will add link to Mass at St Patricks Cathedral for tomorrow mass tomorrow. enjoy your Saturday.

21.01.2022 Hello All as our numbers have increased for mass. We have set up Trybooking so you can book for the weekend Mass https://www.trybooking.com/BNCBC Please share with Friends and Family. All bookings for Mass need to be booked either on Trybooking or you can phone ... the parish office 9467 -2797 See more

20.01.2022 Updated Covid-19 Instructions

18.01.2022 This Weeks Newsletter for Sunday 6th September. Happy Fathers Day Everyone

18.01.2022 Thank you to Ann

17.01.2022 This Week’s Newsletter

16.01.2022 Gospel by Fr Vincent Le

16.01.2022 This Weeks Newsletter

15.01.2022 Sunday Masses will be livestreamed as per normal and broadcast on free-to-air television on C31 (channel 44 on digital TV).

14.01.2022 Newsletter for 13th September 2020

13.01.2022 Virtual Prayer on Sunday at 2.00pm. https://www.facebook.com/871540266296899/posts/3204220873028815/?extid=xxehdyfTDlUhadbl&d=n

13.01.2022 https://youtu.be/HZ8CuUAiev0

12.01.2022 Whats happening at St Damians

12.01.2022 This Weeks Gospel by Fr Vincent Le

11.01.2022 Hello All This should have been in this weeks newsletter except we didn’t have enough space.

10.01.2022 Keeping Up With St Damians

09.01.2022 On the eve of spring, Melbourne Catholics join with people of faith from all over Victoria to remember our suffering world. With open hearts, we entrust the world to the tender loving care of our Heavenly Father. As Archbishop Peter A Comensoli encourages us, Let us continue to reach out to each other where we can, and show patience and tenderness in our homes and within our families. In every action - every moment of encouragement, we are inviting the Lord Jesus to be at home with us and to enter into our lives. Let us look forward with hope-filled hearts, assured of the Lords tenderness and mercy. #lightinthedarkness

09.01.2022 We thank our sponsers please support them if you can.

08.01.2022 This Weeks Newsletter for Sunday 30th August 2020

06.01.2022 Keeping up with St Damian’s Parish

06.01.2022 We thank our Sponsors please support their business if you can.

05.01.2022 This Week’s Newsletter 22nd November 2020

05.01.2022 A prayer for a global pandemic Lovebears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.... Love never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:7-8) Loving God, strengthen our innermost being with your love that bears all things even the weight of this global pandemic even the long haul of watching for symptoms of patiently waiting for this to pass watching and waiting, keeping our gaze fixed on you, and looking out for our neighbours near and far. Instil in our shaken souls the belief and hope that all things are possible with your creative love for strangers to become friends for science to source solutions for resources to be generously shared so everyone, everywhere, may have what they need for your perfect love that knows no borders may cast out any fear and selfishness that divides. May your love that never ends be our comfort, strength and guide for the wellbeing of all and the glory of God. Amen. We say: May your love that never ends

05.01.2022 Mass Tomorrow 8am at St Patricks Cathedral

05.01.2022 Page 1: By Paul Bezzina (St Damians Parish Council Member)

03.01.2022 Mass Tomorrow at 11am https://youtu.be/Kkzrhrlf4qQ

03.01.2022 Keeping up to date with St Damians Parish. Happy Fathers Day to all our dads, grandfathers .

02.01.2022 Tonight it was great to see so many faces at Mass that we haven’t seen in a long time. If you would like to book for Next Weekend please book details below .

02.01.2022 Combined Catholic Raffle only a couple of days left to purchase tickets.

02.01.2022 Thank you to our sponsors

01.01.2022 Gospel By Fr Vincent Le

01.01.2022 This Week’s Editorial by Fr Vincent Le

01.01.2022 https://drive.google.com//1n8jaQ3frLjB8IKHqIfOGoD1_D/view Happy Fathers Day Everyone , sent into the Parish from Gavan & Ellen. Gavan singing My Papa on a previous Fathers Day.

01.01.2022 Page 2: By Paul Bezzina