Parish News 

Dear Parishioners,

Hope you are all keeping well. The announcement from the Premier regarding the restriction has been upsetting for some but I suppose this is for the safety of everyone.  The new infection rates are promising and we can hope to gather as families in some form soon.

We hold all of you who are struggling during this hard lockdown period.

Some important news and updates as follows:

Children’s Liturgy is online now

 Children’s liturgy is going online from this weekend. Children will meet with Anthony, our children’s liturgy coordinator on a secure online platform and discuss the day's scripture as they would normally do if they were meeting at church.

Parents who wish to have their children join children’s liturgy need to complete a form online.

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:

Start date - 13th September 2020

Time - 10.30 am to 11.00 am 

Link to submit a request form to join here (the point is we want to make a safe online environment for children)

As always, Children’s liturgy will be interactive. This will be a great opportunity for your child/ren to join. Please share it with families with child/ren. We have already received 19 sign ups.

Online Prayer Gathering

We began our online prayer gathering via ‘zoom program’. It was a good 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 the 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.

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.  

Newsletter and Reflection

The newsletter for this weekend gives prayer as we observe child safety week. In Child Protection Week, our whole nation is invited to ‘put children first’. In fact, that is the theme in 2020, which marks thirty years of Child Protection Week in Australia.

You can read the newsletter here. The same is attached.

Please check the attachment for reflection for this weekend, it invites us to pray for all us in this hard lockdown period.

Any names to be added in the newsletter or for Mass to be remembered must be sent in email or telephone us by Thursday 5 PM.

At home retreat/ Reflection

At home retreat have started from this week onward. Please find them daily on our website. It takes 15-20 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.

Please watch a message of hope from staff of both parishes here

Please watch a Father’s Day message from Tim Costello here

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 you call as soon as possible. Simultaneously, you can email us: parishsecretary@stanthonysparish.net

Renovation

It’s a bit slow because of the restriction put on the building industry. But the company is hopeful it will be eased soon and will be completing the project on time (middle of December 2020), Fingers crossed).

Share

Please share this email with your family and friends and other parishioners of St. Anthony’s. Please check with other parishioners

Let us know in anyway Parish can keep you engaged in this lockdown period.

Have a safe weekend.

Parish Team,

Frs. Martin and Brian