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MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 4th August, 2019

  • 2 August 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  This weekend St Luke’s Gospel asks a challenging question: “What price do we put on material riches?” We are reminded that human, social and spiritual values are more precious than material values. Our worth as human beings is not measured in... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 28th July, 2019

  • 26 July 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  There are places, times and situations when it seems impossible to pray – Or so we think! In fact, for we believers in Jesus, everywhere we are, every moment of our day and every situation in which we find ourselves is a place, a time and a situa... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 21st July, 2019

  • 19 July 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  In today’s Gospel story we are immersed in a conflictual story. Is it better to ensure that everything is in order in our relationship with Jesus or to simply give thanks to Jesus? It is the ancient story of Martha and Mary. One commentator sugge... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 14th July, 2019

  • 12 July 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  Today, in Chapter 10 of St Luke’s Gospel, we meet a smart Jewish lawyer who asks Jesus what He means when He says we should “love our neighbour”. The lawyer asks, “who is my neighbour”? In response to the question, Jesus tells him the sto... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 7th July, 2019

  • 5 July 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  Our Church is often over-enthusiastic in preaching the attractiveness of Jesus and the attractiveness of our Catholic faith. Nevertheless, Jesus and His Church are not attractive to everyone. Today’s Gospel story describes a situation where Jesus... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 30th June, 2019

  • 28 June 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  In St Mark’s Gospel story today we hear two powerful stories about healing.  Two people are healed.  One is a young girl, the daughter of a rich and influential religious leader.   The other is an insignificant woman with no status at all in ... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 23rd June, 2019

  • 21 June 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  Today we celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ.  We once called it the “Feast of Corpus Christi”. There was a priest, who was also a man of science, called Teihard de Chardin.  He wrote many books in the 1950’s and was, by som... read more

MESSAGE FROM MONS JOHN – 16th June, 2019

  • 14 June 2019
  • Rev Mgr John Usher
  • Parish News

  When most of us were tiny children we were taught how to make the sign of the Cross.  With our right hand we touch our forehead, our breast and our shoulders.  As we do this we say “In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spi... read more

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Contact Parish

33 Gale Street
Mortlake NSW 2137

Deanery: Deanery 4

Phone: (02) 9743 1017
Email: parish@stpatsmortlake.org.au

Parish Priest: Reverend Father Thomas Stevens

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