On Tuesday we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord or Candlemas. We’ll be blessing candles at this Mass.
On Wednesday we are celebrating the Feast of St Blaise. We’ll have the blessing of throats at Mass.

Saturday 6pm Vigil at SJP
Sunday 9.00am at SJP
and 6.30pm at Santa Maria

Tuesday 9am at SJP
Wednesday 9am at SJP
Thursday 9am at SJP
Friday 9am at SJP    8am at Santa Maria
Saturday 9am at SJP (Anointing of the Sick)

The Sunday evening Mass at Santa Maria is open to parishioners and visitors - parking is available in the Junior-Middle School car park off Moreing Road.

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We celebrated Mass this morning in thanksgiving for the gifts God has given our country and praying that we would be good stewards of God’s gifts.
I must confess to a certain ambivalence about Australia Day Mass. We are called to incarnate the Gospel in our land and this will take a particular form because of the peculiarities of culture and land. But we Christians are citizens of heaven, pilgrims on this earth; we are brothers and sisters to all the baptised in God’s catholic church. This is more fundamental and important than distinctions of class, race or citizenship. Every Mass is a celebration of the Church universal as well as the church of a particular place.
In case this unity of the baptised seems rather insular I would point out that it is not for its own sake; it is a witness to the unity of the human family under God our Father.
Anyway a sense of history makes one realise that the idea of the nation-state is a modern one. Through history many temporal powers have sought to lay claim to our obedience; the nation is just the latest manifestation of this.

The photograph below is of Father Jim Shea, S.J., Provincial of the Maryland Jesuit Province, blessing a copy of a painting of St Joseph Pignatelli. You may recognise the picture - it hangs in the presbytery and was painted by a parishioner many years ago. We sent a photo across to Jamey Brogan, the Director of Campus Ministry at Wheeling Jesuit University, USA, at his request. The print now hangs in the university chapel.

Sunday evening Mass resumes at Santa Maria College Chapel on 31 January. The Mass is at 6.30pm. All welcome.

Saturday 6pm Vigil at SJP
Sunday 9.00am at SJP

Tuesday 9am at SJP
Wednesday 9am at SJP
Thursday 9am at SJP
Friday 9am at SJP
Saturday 9am at SJP

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