Parish News 

Dear Parishioners,

We are excited to see parishioners to day for our Mass.

Here is the latest update and Mass arrangements.

Religious Ceremonies:

Outdoor religious ceremonies: permitted with up to 20 people plus a faith leader. Must be adjacent to the place of worship. Indoor religious ceremonies: permitted with up to 10 people plus a faith leader.

Note: Indoor and Outdoor services are not to be held concurrently, it is only one group permitted at a time. Plus, Parish needs to have prepared a COVID-safe plan outlining how they will manage gatherings.

·  Private worship: allowed for a household, and two adults, and any of their children or dependents, plus a faith leader.

·  Weddings: Permitted in outdoor public spaces allowed with up to 10 people. The faith leader, a photographer, and children under 12 months not included in the cap.

·  Funerals: allowed with up to 20 mourners. Infants under 12 months and people required to conduct the funeral not included in the cap. A separate grouping of mourners may not come in to remove the coffin from the church.

·  Baptisms: may be celebrated under the latest outdoor and indoor religious gathering limits.

We had our special zoom Parish pastoral council last night to discuss what it mean to us and we have decided the following:

Weekday Mass, Tuesday to Friday at 9:30 am.

Bookings are open only via phone call, 9546 8276. From 9 am to 12 pm only. So that it gives us time to contact other parishioner to fill empty spots.

Sunday Mass 8:30 and 10:30

For Sunday 8:30 Mass will be inside with 10 people and will be live-streamed and 10:30 will be outside with 20 people.

Booking are open only via phone call, 9546 8276. From 9 am to 12 pm only for up to the end of November. We will update you what happens when the number is increased.

Please specify which Mass you want to attend, give us your mobile Phone number so that we can contact you in case the outside Mass is cancelled because of the weather.

Entry to the facility

Mass centre opens only before half an hour of the Mass time, as prescribed by the DHSS.

Since our premises are under renovation, you will see it is fenced off. Please do not enter any area where its fenced off. To enter the Hall for Mass, please go through the big hall and through the small hall, and enter via the door in front of the school office. We are speaking with the builders to allow us some space through the front side. Will update you later.

Conditions

• Please wear appropriate face covering as prescribed by the department of Health.
• Write your name, contact number as you enter the Mass facility for contact tracing purposes and sanitise.
• If you have any symptoms of fever, please stay at home, get tested.

You will hear more through our Friday newsletter.

Keep safe,

Parish leadership team.

Online Prayer Gathering

Our online prayer gathering via ‘the zoom program’ is going well. It is a time for reflection and social catch up. This happens every Thursday 10:30 am to 11:30 am. This will be led by Bernadette Carr. Click here to go the meeting room. You can find the link on our website as well. Bring one of your friends this time. Our group is growing, worth joining.

Census Card 2020 (Reminder)

We request you to take some time to fill out this Census Card. (click the blue underlined letters) It will help us to update our family records and will help us to determine who needs our attention most. It will only take 5-6 minutes. In case you have made a  mistake you can correct anytime through the link. We are receiving good responses.  

At home retreat/ Reflection

At home retreat have started from this week onwards. Please find them daily on our website. It takes 10-15 minutes to do this retreat. Click here to access.

Mass for the Weekend

Please check our YouTube page for Masses. Click here for this Sunday’s Mass, the link will become active at 8:55 am on Sunday. Please subscribe and click on the bell icon to get notified whenever we go live.

Business hours

The office is closed, until further notice. Please do not come to the office, the staff are working from home. Call us anytime on 95468276, if not answered leave your message and contact number, will return your call as soon as possible. If your call is not returned in two business days, it might be either your message/ number was not clear to us or you have not left a number to call you back. So please call back.  Alternatively, you can email us parishsecretary@stanthonysparish.net. 

Upcoming events

Carnival, our carnival group had a meeting on 1st of October. We discussed about, why we do this, when and how?

Very good ideas came from the team, like, onsite/ virtual tour of our new church, share a plate, deliver food, and so on… ending with carols. Whatever we do on site will be live streamed on parish YouTube channel. We are also conscious of the restrictions and limitations due to Covid -19. These are ideas only.

Now we want to know what you think, do you have any ideas? Do you want to join carnival team?

Speak to Susan on 0497 478 662 or email your ideas stanthonyspevents@gmail.com

Remembrance day Mass, With pandemic we will not be able to join for Remembrance Mass, but there will be some form of memorial liturgy around the normal time. We are working on it.

Have a safe weekend.

Parish Team,

Frs. Martin and Brian

Children’s Liturgy is online now

Please see the details below as to how you could join.

We will send you a link to join the classroom once we have your consent form.

Details to remember:

Time - 10.30 am to 11.00 am 

Link to submit a request form to join here 

I joined at the beginning to see how it’s done, and I was amazed at how much kids can do and learn on screen in front of them.

If you have any difficulty in getting online please alert Suzan, our Sacramental Coordinator Suzan.Gerreyn@cam.org.au

Thank you, Susan and Anthony and all those organisers.