Parish Calendars
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Faith Resources
Grow deeper in your faith Bible in a Year In 2021, Ascension Press ran the Catholic Bible in a Year Podcast featuring Fr Mike Schmitz and Jeff Cavins. It was the world’s number 1 Religious Podcast with over 250 million downloads. It will run again throughout 2023 – and while a new podcast is released …
Liturgy Guides
These guides will provide you with a week-by-week guide to the Liturgy, indicating the days of the week, if there are any feast days or memorials, the liturgical colours, and the options available. The references to the scriptures are also included. The Sunday Intercessions will also be found below.
Christmas
Christmas provides an opportunity to reflect on the birth of the infant Jesus – the God-child who shows us the very face of the unseen God. Christmas at St John’s in 2022 will be celebrated with two evening Masses, Midnight Mass, as well as two morning Masses. Christmas Eve, Saturday 24 December 6pm – Christmas …
Background to the Tongan Disaster Appeal
On 15 January 2022, there was a huge underwater volcanic eruption which covered the island of Tonga in thick volcanic ash and caused a tsunami which flooded the northern side of the main island of Tonga. As a poor Pacific Island, the people of Tonga have relied pretty much on food items grown in the …
Healing Mass – 1 Oct 2022
10am in St John’s Hall On the International Day for Older persons, and on the Memorial of St Therese, it was lovely to gather together to celebrate a Mass for the Anointing of the Sick and the Aged. The next Mass will be on 10 December. Our wonderful hospitality team provided a lovely morning tea …
200 year Thanksgiving Day #2
Photos by Moira @ Luke Fuda Photography
200 year Thanksgiving Day #1
Images credit: Frank Bugeja
In Thanksgiving for 200 years
200 yearsof Catholic Life at St John’s Our Parish celebrated the 200th anniversary of its first Mass in 2022.Historian Jeff McGill paints a brief portrait of those two centuries. The first Mass: Sunday 1 September 1822 “Wintry, wet, and stormy” is how early Campbelltown historian J.P. McGuanne described the first day of spring in 1822. …