Our Faith - Religion - Prayer
St Patrick's Church Walcha
For Baptism or Marriage enquiries phone Monsignor Ted Wilkes 67784070.
Monsignor Ted Wilkes would like to invite parishioners to Sunday Mass 10am.
Covid-19 restrictions for Mass are in place.
Congratulations Campbell & Ellie On Your Confirmation
Bishop Michael Kennedy Visit
On Friday Bishop Kennedy visited St Pat's. The children enjoyed talking with the Bishop. The staff also had the opportunity to share morning tea with the Bishop and Monsignor Wilkes.
Our Sympathy
We extend our Sympathy to the Thornbury family as Hunter's great-grandmother has passed. May she rest in peace.
Sacrament Dates for 2021
2021 First Reconciliation Year 2 Catholic Students - A date to be confirmed in Term 4.
Catherine McAuley's Anniversary November 11 marks 180 years since Catherine McAuley’s death.
PRAYER
May the God of strength be with us, holding us in strong-fingered hands; and may we be the sacrament of God’s strength to those whose hands we hold.
May the God of peace be with us, stilling our hearts when they hammer with fear or doubt or confusion; and may the warm mantle of God’s peace cover those who are troubled or anxious.
May the God of dreams be with us. With all the dreamers - like Catherine - who have gone before, may we come to trust in God’s dream for us.
May we open ourselves to become what God envisioned at our birth and may we have the courage to live into the reflection of God that we are.
Knowing Catherine Adapted from Constitutions of the Sisters of Mercy of Ireland, p5
Catherine McAuley, a woman of prayer and compassion, opened the house on Baggot Street in 1827.
She died there, in an upstairs room, around 7.30pm on November 11, 1841.
Today, we gather as a global Mercy community, as people of prayer and compassion, in remembrance of her life, in gratitude for her legacy, and in prayerful hope as we look towards the future of Mercy.
At the end of her life, looking to the future, Catherine said, "If the Order is my work, the sooner it falls to the ground the better; if it is God’s work it needs no one."
In the ten years of her religious life, Mother Catherine founded ten convents in Ireland and two in England.
Since then the Sisters of Mercy have spread to many corners of the world: to North America (New Foundland) in 1842 to Australia (Perth) in 1846 to South America (Buenos Aires) in 1856 to Africa (Bechuanaland) in 1896, and to Asia (India) in 1953.
A quote from the writings of Catherine McAuley - "Shall we all meet in heaven? O what joy to even think of it."
