West Wagga Catholic Parish in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia | Community organisation

West Wagga Catholic Parish

Locality: Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 6931 3601

Address: 5 Bardia Street 2650 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.WestWaggaParish.com

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25.01.2022 Welcome Jackson Joshua Rooney Rubio, now a Child of God. Jackson was baptised on the feast day of St Francis.

23.01.2022 We have masks available for sale at Masses this week, Australian made in Wagga, 3 layers with a place to insert a filter or tissue if desired. $15 each. Keep safe, God bless

21.01.2022 Margaret was well known in our parish. I’ll offer Mass for her at Holy Trinity.

19.01.2022 We are a Covid Safe Parish. For more details visit the parish website https://westwaggaparish.com/covid-safe/

15.01.2022 Soon to be Blessed Carlos Acutis. He has inspired me and I hope he inspires all of you! We are called to be saints- including teenagers!!! Computer wiz, lover o...f the Eucharist and Mary, and all around fantastic kid. He died in 2006 at the age of fifteen after a heroic battle with leukemia. He will be beatified on October 17 in Assisi. His body was exhumed recently and found to be intact. "I’ve never seen a holy person dressed in jeans and Nikes but it reminds us that Saints are STILL being made today!" J.Hanson See more

14.01.2022 If you see me riding to Mass during October, you will know why :) God bless

14.01.2022 Found at Holy Trinity, if you know the owner, please let me know.

13.01.2022 Tuesday 22nd September, 6pm, San Isidore. Mass will be offered for the repose of the soul of Margaret Boydell. We invite all those who knew Margaret to attend.

11.01.2022 UPDATED MASS TIMES Please continue to watch this space for any further updates. Vigil- 6pm San Isidore ... Sun- 9am, 10:30am, 5:30pm Holy Trinity Mon- Sat- 7am Holy Trinity Monday, Wednesday, Thursday- 6pm San Isidore Fri- 10:15am Holy Trinity

11.01.2022 Bring Masks to Mass

09.01.2022 To help those suffering in Lebanon

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08.01.2022 When I hear the words, "The last will be first and the first last", I think of Matthew Ayairga. He was the young man from Ghana who was among the 21 martyrs kil...led on the beach in Libya by ISIS for their faith in Jesus Christ. The astounding thing is that he wasn't even a Christian! He was, in fact, invited to go free. He was killed, however, because of his words which will be remembered forever: "Their God is my God. I will go with them. Matthew Ayairga is now certainly among the 'first' in heaven. I pray that with the Christian Faith given to me on a silver platter, I won't be found amongst the 'last'. Let us treasure this immense gift; our Faith. It is of infinite value. May God grant us the grace of final perseverance. See more

07.01.2022 A visual guide- if you always have one of these between you and the next family, you’re doing the spacing right.

06.01.2022 Please keep social distancing. This family has done the right thing in isolating. If within the previous 14 days you have been to a covid hotspot or been in contact with such a person please delay attending Mass. Likewise if you have symptoms or have had a covid test and are awaiting results. NSW Health is recommending wearing masks when attending Masses. This may be a good idea especially for the weekend Masses. Thank you for the diligent wiping of pews by parishioners after each Mass. We are doing a deeper sanitation after events which involve visitors not normally coming to our parish, eg funerals.

02.01.2022 We are recommending wearing masks at Mass. It may be made mandatory in the near future so please have washable or single use masks ready to use. God bless

01.01.2022 Today is the feast of St Thérèse of Lisieux, Doctor of the Church. Pope St Pius X called her ’the greatest saint of modern times’ a remark he made in a privat...e audience, more than a decade before she was even canonised. There are many ways to approach St Thérèse. Brother Marcel Van CSsR provides one such approach. Throughout his childhood, Van had vowed to be a saint, and to serve the Lord in whatever way the Lord asked. As he matured, however, he became more aware of his character defects, which he believed were prohibitive obstacles to sanctity. He loved God a lot, but he was too weak to be a saint. At age 14, Van visited the parish library and collected all the books he could find on the lives of the saints. He spread the books out on a table and asked God to guide him. He promised that he would read whichever book his hand fell upon. Then, with his eyes closed, he put his hand down at random. I opened my eyes. My hand was resting on a book I had never read before ‘The Story of a Soul’ by St Thérèse of Lisieux. Van quickly looked over the book and rolled his eyes. A Carmelite nun? He recorded his first impressions in his diary: From her infancy she had many ecstasies and performed miracles. She fasted on bread and water. She prayed all night and gave herself to discipline until she bled. After her holy death her body emitted a pleasant fragrance and many extraordinary things happened at her tomb. Finally she was canonised by the holy Church, blah blah blah. But the teenager also reproached himself: By acting like this, I have broken my promise! So Van kept his word, and began to read. He writes: I had scarcely read a few pages when floods of tears were flowing down my cheeks. What moved me so deeply was little Thérèse’s reasoning: ‘If God only stooped to the level of the most beautiful flowers the roses and the lilies, the symbol of the Holy Doctors His love wouldn’t be absolute, because it is Love’s nature to stoop to the farthest limit to the smallest violets and daisies. Just as the sun shines at the same time on the cedars and on every little flower as if it were the only one on earth, so does Our Lord take care of every soul as if there were no other soul like it.’ These lines changed Van’s life. Like St Thérèse, I can sanctify myself through all my little acts... A smile, a word or a look, provided that everything is done in love. From now on, sanctity will no longer frighten me. Van read the whole book in one sitting and went to bed with his thoughts racing and his heart soaring. The next morning, Van woke up and knelt before the altar and prayed. Again, he recorded everything in his diary: Jesus: you know that I love you and look only to respond to your wishes. You have aroused in my mind the desire to become a saint. You made me find, in a very simple manner, the Little Way by which you guided St Thérèse. Give me St Thérèse as my guide, so that she can teach me, for I am very ignorant. These prayers were apparently pleasing to God, because Van rapidly advanced in virtue and holiness, and joined the Redemptorists two years later. In 1955, he was arrested and tried by the Vietnamese Communists, who sentenced him to 15 years hard labour. His final years were spent in cheerful service to his fellow inmates, and in mystical conversation with St Thérèse and our Lord himself. He died in a concentration camp at the age of 31, and in 1997, his cause for beatification was opened. The example and intercession of St Thérèse can make a comparable impact on your life and mine. We may not receive mystical experiences or die a martyr’s death but then, Thérèse didn’t either, and are there many saints greater than her? Lord, give us St Thérèse as our guide, so that she can teach us, for we too are very ignorant. Join a Dial-in Rosary at midday. We’ll chant the Angelus, contemplate the Luminous Mysteries, and conclude with a Litany to St Thérèse. 12pm, at www.moynecatholic.org.au or right here on Facebook.