Prayer

St Patrick's Church Walcha

Weekend Mass Time: Sunday - 10am

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 St Valentine's Day 

All love is a reflection of God's love for us. St Valentine was a bishop of the early church. He performed 

Christian marriages for young couples. There was a prohibition on all marriages at the time except those recognised by the state. 

1 Corinthians 13 

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Words from Catherine McAuley

Our charity is to be cordial. Now cordial signifies something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Pilgrimage of St Therese of Lisieux and her Parents Relics.

The relics of St Therese, who is one of the most popular saints of modern times, also known as the 'little flower', will be visiting Australia. The relics of her parents, St Louis and Zelie Martin, will also be with St Therese's relics.

The relics of St Thérèse and her parents Louis and Zélie Martin will be at St Mary & Joseph Cathedral in Armidale on Thursday 20th February the program is - 12:00 noon ETA, 1:00pm Mass,  2:00 – 5:00pm Public Veneration, 5:00pm Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, 5:00 – 7:00pm Adoration, 7:00pm Mass 8:00pm Veneration, 8:30pm Relics depart Cathedral

More details can be found at

https://www.catholicmission.org.au/relics-of-saint-th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se-of-lisieux