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Message from the Parish

 
25th/26th January 2025 ~ 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

“Year of Hope”

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ,

This weekend we give thanks for the gift of our country as our common home. We also ask guidance on our reconciliation journey, as we pray for healing and peace for all across our Great South Land.

Lord God of all creation, we give you praise and thanks for the gift of our land and our home, Australia. Bring us together as one, reconciled, healed and forgiven, in Jesus Christ let us be together as one.

As we have recently begun our Jubilee year as pilgrims of hope, we look forward to several opportunities to journey together as a parish community throughout this year, through our regular liturgies and events, and some new prayer offerings and gatherings planned. We have also been gifted with places of pilgrimages all around the world.

In the Archdiocese of Adelaide three places have been designated as pilgrimage sites for the whole Jubilee year: St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide, St Joseph’s Church at Penola and St Aloysius Church at Sevenhill.

The Rosary Group regularly gather in the church just before morning Mass or Liturgy of the Word, and Rob has shared more about it in this edition. We are also invited to explore and experience Ignatian Spirituality over 7 sessions beginning in late February and continuing throughout Lent and Easter, encountering Jesus and drawing deeper into God’s amazing and unchangeable love for each one of us. More details are also included in this edition. We hope to conclude the program with an opportunity to retreat at Sevenhill.

I am excited about the path Our Lord is guiding us along this year, offering us ways through which we can walk together in faith and in life. I look forward to our journeying together.

 

Petranel

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