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Stations of the Cross are at 7.30pm, every Friday in
Lent.
Communal Reconciliation: 7.30pm, Monday 10th March.
(Please Take This Home and read it as your preparation)
For this sacrament)
You have the opportunity to celebrate the sacrament
of Penance, on Monday night 10th March, at 7.30 PM.
You may approach any priest. You may wish to say something
like, this “I am sorry for all my sins and ask forgiveness
especially for ……, make a brief, simple statement for
which you seek forgiveness.
Private confession is one of the pillars of the spiritual
life.
“You are as sick as your sickest secret!” That’s an
axiom popular among people in 12 step programs. They
know that until one faces oneself, in searing honesty,
before another human being and acknowledges openly his
or her sins, there will always be addictions, rationalizations,
and lack of transparency. This is a pivotal and non-negotiable
step in every 12-step program. Without it, at a certain
point, all real growth stops.
The church has always had its own version of this step.
We call it confession, the sacrament of reconciliation.
Fewer people are going to confession these days. This
is an unfortunate development because private confession
is one of the pillars of the spiritual life. At a certain
point in one’s growth, there is no progress without
it. The critics of the sacrament of reconciliation are
right in saying that God is not tied to one vehicle
as an avenue for the forgiveness of sins. They are wrong,
however, when they denigrate the importance of a good
private confession.
Simply put, confession is the sacrament of the mature,
and one grows mature by confessing one’s sins. One may
not need to confess one’s sins explicitly to another
human being in order to have them forgiven; but one
does have to confess them explicitly if he or she hopes
to live a transparent life, free of dark skeletons in
the closet, and to make progress in the spiritual life.
The Chrism Mass for the blessing of our sacred oils
will take place in St Steven’s Cathedral on Thursday
13th March,7.30pm
The Archbishop invites as many parishioners as possible
to take part in this great celebration .All will be
welcomed at the Cathedral.
Very URGENT NEED of more Eucharistic Ministers for
home visitations and for children to serve on the Altar.
BRIZ STAY
We need families to host young pilgrims from our sister
parish in Wewak from the 10th to the 14th of July.
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Report
from St. Michaels Saint Vincent de Paul
On behalf of St. Vincent
de Paul I would like to thank all Parishioners for their
very generous donations towards the Christmas hampers.
We will be distributing these Hampers over this pre
Christmas period.
From January 05 until 20th of December we received
a total of $1885.45 in donations from you very
generous people, our expenditure was $1770.25 made up
of 59 food vouchers for 177 people.
As you know we service Ronald McDonald house
at Herston and that is a very heartbreaking undertaking
there aren't a lot of happy outcomes there. It is our
biggest work load.
So on behalf of your local conference I thank you most
sincerely and God Bless you each and every one
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