November Remembering – This coming week we celebrate the feasts of All Saints (Nov 1) and All Souls (Nov 2). We are reminded that we are present to all our dead family and friends, and encouraged to purify our love for them by discharging the resentment and regrets that dog our memories of them, and to be grateful for the life that we have shared.
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Walking with Refugees and People Seeking Protection
Pope Francis has asked us to “welcome, promote, protect and integrate refugees and migrants. To start this conversation our North Sydney parish is running a Table Talk with guest speakers including a person seeking protection, as well as a professional who works with people seeking asylum and refugees. St Canice parishioners are most welcome.
Listen to a real life experience of seeking safety, share your own story, ask your questions in a safe, respectful space and consider how we can act.
Railaco Parish – One Year On
One Year On:
Scriptures for Families and Family Visits
Upon this inauguration last year, Railaco immediately began to focus its activities on pastoral and sacramental programs by visiting the families in order to expand the Catholic faith in the families. Besides pastoral and sacramental programs, the Parish also diversified its program to constructing chapels, halls, residences, and other edifices, in order to facilitate pastoral programs and community activities.The Railaco parish priest, Joseph Phuong SJ stresses the importance of the program that is to focus on “Bible for Families”.
Gaetan Pereira SJ
I was ordained a priest at Loyola College, Madras, South India in 1982. With the late General Father Pedro Arrupe SJ’s invitation for the “option for the poor”, I did work in remote educational institutions of the province, especially in St. John de Britto School and Shrine, Oriyur, South India for quite some time.
Thank you to our Canice’s Kitchen Volunteers
Thank you to our amazing volunteers, almost seventy of you, who turned up on Thursday the 18th of October for the Volunteer Party and Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of St Canice’s Kitchen.
Thank You Volunteers – 30th Anniversary Celebration St Canice’s Kitchen
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BULLETIN 21 OCT 2018
MISSION SUNDAY – This year’s Catholic Mission Appeal highlights the important work of Catholic Mission in Myanmar, the former Burma; through programmes aimed to improve education for children, specifically through teacher training and the implementation of alternative, child-centred education around the country, change is happening.
BULLETIN 14 OCT 2018
St Canice Feast Day –
May all in our parish of St Canice know that they belong And experience the support of true Christian community; And all, whatever their situation, feel included
And appreciated for who they are.
May the Eucharist we celebrate together
Be the source and the summit of our Christian lives, Nourishing us on our spiritual path,
Healing us in our struggles,
Challenging us in our daily living
And a real celebration of Christ living among us.
The Red Cross on our Logo
The appearance of a red ‘cross’ on the logo of our updated parish web page is an artistic touch to add to the conceptual image of Christians rowing across the water on a spiritual voyage that all Christians must take;
Or it can be interpreted as Christ on the sea of Galilee with the apostles.
Secularization can help the Church proclaim the Gospel
“Secular society also frees us from establishing in religion a tribal identity, a national identity or any other identity foreign to the spiritual experience that invites us to recognize each other as humans, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of the same Father,” Father Sosa said.
A secularized culture, he added, also can help the church recover the importance of proclaiming the Gospel, which is “a key dimension of the work of the church in these types of societies” and is a fundamental experience of those who give witness to “a personal encounter with Christ.”