St Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church in Croydon, New South Wales | Religious centre

St Joseph's Maronite Catholic Church

Locality: Croydon, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 9744 8514

Address: 7 Acton St 2132 Croydon, NSW, Australia

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

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23.01.2022 A Homily by Fr Eli Yammine Fourth Sunday of The Cross | Matthew 24:45-51 11th October, 2020

20.01.2022 Our CAFF Talks are back!! Join us this Wednesday night the 11th of November for a talk on Blessed Maria Taigi

17.01.2022 Every person carries within his heart a blueprint of the one he loves. What seems to be "love at first sight" is actually the fulfilment of desire, the realisation of a dream. God also, from all eternity, had within Himself a blueprint of the one He loves. A blueprint of perfection. This blueprint, this blueprint is who we call Mary. She is the one whom every man loves when he loves a woman whether he knows it or not. She is what every woman wants to be, when she looks at h...erself, whether she knows it or not. So what makes Our Lady the blueprint of perfection? What makes her the desire of every man and the model for every woman? This one simple line. Thy will be done. Mary said yes to God and never stopped saying Yes. She said yes to God at the annunciation when she knew it risked her own life and reputation. She said yes to God when it required getting up in the middle of the night to nurse Him. She said yes to God when it meant standing by Him at the foot of the cross. She said yes to God when she received Him again in the Eucharist. She was mostly unnoticed in life by everybody but God. But now she is called Ark of the Covenant, Star of the Sea, Terror of Demons, Help of Christians, Queen of heaven and earth. But you know what’s the most honoured title she has?. Mother. Mother of God and our Mother. Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman who fears the Lord shall be praised. Amen.

13.01.2022 Happy Feast Day to Our Lady of the Rosary

11.01.2022 Starting this weekend, attendance to regular weekend Masses will no longer be managed via booking. Rather, the first 100 to attend will be permitted to enter. We thank you for your cooperation to date.

05.01.2022 St. Catherine Laboure ... Feast Day 28th November St Catherine Labouré was born on the 2nd of May 1806 at Fainles-Moutiers, a picturesque village of Burgundy, France. She was the ninth child in a happy family of eleven. God made known the choice of this soul by marking her at an early age with the seal of suffering, for when she was only nine years old she lost her mother. Saint Catherine Labouré responded to the divine call by entering the Community of the Daughters of Char...ity of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris. Here, during the first months of her novitiate, she was favored with a number of apparitions of the Blessed Virgin, who confided to her the mission of having the Miraculous Medal made. Until shortly before her death Saint Catherine kept a strict silence concerning these apparitions, speaking of them only to her confessor, according to the instructions of Our Lady. During 46 years Saint Catherine witnessed the wonders and miracles wrought through the Medal. During all this time, carefully guarding her secret of the apparitions, she humbly performed her commonplace duties, devoting herself especially to the care of the infirmed men of Enghien, a suburb of Paris. For this she is called the patroness of seniors. On the 31st of December 1876, Saint Catherine left this earth for heaven, to contemplate there her Immaculate Queen whose love and beauty had captured her heart on earth. Her body was exhumed 57 years later and found in perfect condition. Even death respected her who had enjoyed the extraordinary privilege of resting her hands on the knees of the Blessed Virgin for more than two hours during one of the apparitions. Saint Catherine was canonized by Pope Pius XII on July 27, 1947. The simplicity of Saint Catherine's life endears her to everyone. She became a saint by doing her commonplace duties well, for God. This "Saint of Ordinary People" has the secret of sanctity for us all. Excerpted from Central Association of the Miraculous Medal

03.01.2022 Come and join us this Wednesday the 25th of November for a Caff Talk on Our Lady of Good Success! Talk starts 7:30pm in church hall downstairs

01.01.2022 Our Lord, beaten, bloodied and bruised, hanging from the cross, looks down into the heart of every man and says to Him, this is what it took to get my beloved to heaven, how else do you think you are going to get yours there? The hallmark of masculinity is self sacrifice and self-denial, and if a man is not willing to deny Himself, then he is no man. and in the history of the Church, there has been no greater example of self-sacrifice and self denial, besides our Lord, than... Saint Joseph. A silent man, who never spoke in the Gospels, but whose love and sacrifice spoke more than he ever could. A man who sacrificed while: Labouring and sweating in the carpentry shop. While protecting and providing for a vulnerable Mother and Child on the way to Egypt. While finding out that Mary was pregnant before they had come together and deciding not to shame her but rather to put her away quietly. Like Mary, Saint Joseph was also chosen. Chosen from all eternity to be the perfect example of manhood for Jesus to look up too. Chosen to be the husband of the most perfect woman ever created, chosen to be the head of the holy family and chosen to be the most perfect human representative of the Heavenly Father. So we know, that the greatest male Saint who ever lived was not a deacon, not a priest, not a bishop, not a pope, not a hermit, not a monk. He was a husband, father and worker. Amen.