Parish News 

Newsletter and Reflection

The newsletter this week speaks about the council election this year. For us two parishioners are standing for council election. Giorgio Migliaccio for Springvale South and Eden Foster for Yarraman. Please keep them in your prayer. We wish them all the best. You can read the newsletter here. The same is attached. The reflection for this weekend is in the newsletter.

VCE and Remembrance book

This year is very difficult for all of us. We want to pray for our VCE students as they prepare to sit for exams.  Please click here and fill the form if you have a VCE student in your family.

We are also collecting the names for Remembrance book. This book will be displayed in a prominent place at the altar during Mass for the month of November. Please click here to fill the form.

You will also see this on our website. Alternatively you can email the parish also.   

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.

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.

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Have a safe weekend.

Parish Team,

Frs. Martin and Brian