Parish News

It was wonderful to have Father Justel cooking pancakes for our school community on Shrove Tuesday. This is a meaningful example of 'service' and strengthening Parish and School connections.

Our Year 1 to Year 6 stduents also joined parishioners at Mass on Ash Wednesday. Father Justel spoke about the Lenten Regulations during the Mass.

LENTEN REGULATIONS 

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of Fasting and Abstinence from meat. 

On all other Fridays, except solemnities, the law of the common practice of penance is fulfilled by performing any one of the following: 

(a) Prayer – for example, Mass attendance; family prayer; a visit to a church or chapel; reading the Bible; making the Stations of the Cross; praying the Rosary; or in other ways. (b) Self-Denial – for example, not eating meat; not eating sweets or dessert; giving up entertainment to spend time with the family; limiting food and drink so as to give to the poor of one’s own country or elsewhere; or in other ways. Project Compassion is a major means of expressing our self-denial in Australia. 

(c) Helping Others – for example, special attention to someone who is poor, sick elderly, lonely or overburdened; or in other ways. 

All who have completed their eighteenth year and have not yet begun their sixtieth year are bound to fast. All who have completed their fourteenth year are bound to abstain (Canon 1252). 

The Season of Lent is a time of penance. During this season the faithful are exhorted to devote themselves in a special manner to prayer, to engage in works of piety and charity, and to deny themselves. 

Each of the faithful is obliged to receive Holy Communion at least once a year. This precept must be fulfilled between Ash Wednesday, Wednesday 5th March and Trinity Sunday, 15 June 2025 unless for a good reason it is fulfilled at another time during the year.

I would like to acknowledge our School Choir and student readers who were exceptional during this Mass.