FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK – 7-12 October
Monday: Our Lady of the Rosary Wednesday: St Denis and St Leonardi Friday: St John XXIII
THE UNDERDOG COMES ‘UP FOR THE CUP!’ – 6th October, 2019
With football finals season and the Spring Carnival upon us, the tales of teams coming up as the Underdog, who ‘Come up for the Cup’, are sure to enter our conversations. The ‘UNDERDOG’ genre is always a popular theme. We’ve seen it in: M
HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE
We invite all Year 12 students for a blessing at the 6.00pm Mass on the Sunday 13th October as they commence their HSC in coming weeks. We wish them well and keep them in our prayers.
WELCOME MORNING TEA FOR FR TOM
A big “Thank You” to Anne Manenti and her team for the wonderful morning tea to officially welcome Fr Tom into St Patrick’s as our Administrator.
CATECHISTS NEEDED AT ST AMBROSE
Our neighbouring parish, St Ambrose, provide Catholic faith education to 245 children in three public schools in their area Strathfield North, Concord West and Victoria Avenue Public Schools. They are in need of a few extra catechists to lighten th
Blessing of the Animals at St Pat’s, October 20, 10.30-12.30
Yes, our parish of St Pat’s is going to host a wonderful event: the Blessing of your pets. This is in honour of St Francis of Assisi, who cared for all creation.This special blessing is an 800 year old tradition, performed in many churches around
FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK – 30 September – 5 October
Monday: St Jerome Tuesday: St Therese of the Child Jesus Wednesday: The holy Guardian Angels Friday: St Francis of Assisi
Summary: Social Justice Statement 2019–2020 Making it Real: Genuine Human Encounter in our Digital World – 29th September, 2019
Today we celebrate Social Justice Sunday. This year, the Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement is titled: ‘Making it Real: Genuine human encounter in our digital world’. It shares Pope Francis’ challenge to us to ‘boldly become cit
FAITH EDUCATION SURVEY
A big thank you to all who recently at all our Masses completed our Parish Faith Education Survey. We had 101 submissions which have been analysed and tallied and our Faith Education Group are in the process of preparing a program for the coming ye
FEAST DAYS THIS WEEK – 23 – 28 September
Monday: St Pius of Pietricina Thursday: St Cosman and St Damian Friday: St Vincent de Paul Saturday: St Wenceslaus and St Laurence Ruiz
