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Thank you to our the wonderful children of St. Mary’s who attended Mass last Sunday to celebrate the Feast Day of Blessed Mary.
A big thank you to our singers and Altar Servers. Bianca, Lilly, Jikaya, Austin, Mia, Noah, Mitchell, Shekinah, Kasharna, Makaysha, Seamus, Levi, Lachlan and Kaiden.
Season of Creation: September the 1st to October 4th
“Let Justice and Peace flow.” Theme for 2023. Each year the Season of Creation is a time for us to reflect and act to caring for our beautiful world. It is not just the Catholic Church but other churches who support this season.
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“Future generations will never forgive us if we miss the opportunity to protect our common home. We have inherited a garden; we must not leave a desert for our children.”
This is a Joint statement from Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury
Creator of All,
From your communion of love life sprung forth like a mighty river and the whole cosmos came into being.
On this Earth of overflowing love, the Word was made flesh and went forth with the life-giving waters proclaiming peace and justice for all creation.
You called human beings to till and keep your garden. You placed us into right relationship with each creature, but we failed to listen to the cries of the Earth and the cries of the most vulnerable.
We broke with the flowing communion of love and sinned against you by not safeguarding the conditions for life.
We lament the loss of our fellow species and their habitats, we grieve the loss of human cultures, along with the lives and livelihoods that have been displaced or perished, and we ache at the sight of an economy of death, war and violence that we have inflicted on ourselves and on the Earth.
Open our ears to your creative, reconciling and sustaining Word that calls to us through the book of Scripture and the book of creation.
Bless us once again with your life-giving waters so that the Creator
Spirit may let justice and peace flow in our hearts and overflow into all creation.
Open our hearts to receive the living waters of God’s justice and peace, and to share it with our suffering brothers and sisters, all creatures around us, and all creation
Bless us to walk together with all people of good will so that the many streams of the living waters of God’s justice and peace may become a mighty river all over the Earth.
In the name of the One who came to proclaim good news to all creation, Jesus Christ.
Amen.
The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated in Term Four. A date has yet to be decided as Father has been on holidays. I expect to have the date set by early next term. The candidates for the Sacrament of Reconciliation must be baptised and in Grade Three or above.
Kind Regards
Sue Benc