INVITATION FROM FR MICHAEL, Parish Priest OLHC Narre Warren

Pope Francis has dedicated 2024 as the Year of Prayer, in anticipation of the Jubilee Year of 2025. To celebrate the Year of Prayer, I would like to invite all families from Mary MacKillop School Primary school to pray the Rosary together with your Parish family on the 23rd of October 2024 from 7pm to 7:30pm.

The Parish Rosary is prayed every Wednesday night online via Zoom and you are invited to join in from the comfort of your own homes. My hope is that this will encourage many of our school families to pray together in the month of the Rosary in a way that could lead to regular family prayer, which always bears much fruit in those relationships.

If anyone participating has a particular intention that they would like to be prayed for, please feel free to put them in the chat room once logged in.  Families interested in participating are asked to send an email to Lize Privitera at lprivitera@marymacnarre.catholic.edu.au

In compliance with safeguarding procedures, a reply email will contain the Parish Zoom link. Families are requested not to share the link with others.  Thank-you for considering this request.

 Fr Michael

Emily D’Sylva (OLHC Parish Pastoral Associate)

As John Paul II explained, the repeated prayers in the Rosary help us get more in touch with the deepest desires in our souls for God. The Rosary provides us with a time and place to connect with our inner self. The Rosary is a meditative prayer. This simple prayer, in fact, helps us to contemplate all that God in his love has done for us and allows us to understand that our life is united to that of Christ. In prayer, we bring everything to God, our struggles, our wounds, our fears, but also our joys, our gifts, our loved ones … all to God. By praying, we allow God to enter our time, to welcome and transfigure all that we experience.

Think of the Rosary as being like the ocean: there’s something in it for everyone. The deep- sea explorer and the child making sandcastles on the beach can fully enjoy the same ocean while playing at different levels. And this is true with the Rosary… just a two-and-a-half- minute break and you can pull out your Rosary beads and pray a decade in order to regroup with the Lord and be nourished spiritually. That’s all a decade takes: one Our Father, ten Hail Marys, and one Glory Be.

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle B

Sunday, September 22, 2024

Mark 9:30-37
Jesus teaches his disciples that the greatest are those who serve all.

In next Sunday's Gospel, we learn that some of Jesus’ first disciples argued about which of them was the greatest or the most important. Even they wanted to be famous! Jesus teaches them something surprising about what it means to be great in God’s eyes. Jesus doesn’t want us to compare ourselves to one another. Instead, he says that we should be focused on one thing only. To be great in God’s Kingdom is to be the servant of all.

Thursday 24th October 11.30am Grandparent’s Mass   

Parents, friends and families can save the date to celebrate grandparents. Morning tea and mass will be celebrated.  More information in early Term 4. Watch this space!                 

Photos of grandparents and families can be sent to lprivitera@marymacnarre.catholic.edu.au A PowerPoint presentation will be created and presented during the mass.

Term 4 Mass and Reconciliation timetable