Here are the announcements for the First Sunday of Lent, the 18th of Feburary:
OUR LADY OF LOURDES (Sunday 11th February)
Thank you to all who participated and brought people for the anointing of the sick.
FATIMA DAY (Tuesday 13th February)
Thank you to Rev Dr Casimir Zielinski OSPPE for accepting the invitation to be main celebrant and homilist for Fatima day. It was a great and successful day.
ANNUAL LEAVE
Welcome back Fr Richard. Br Matthew is currently on holiday and will return 11th March.
DIOCESAN LENTEN PROGRAM
These will soon be available for purchase to help guide people through the season of Lent. This is a great resource prepared for people by the Diocese of Wollongong. Price for the booklets will be $10 each.
THE LENTEN SEASON
The stations of the cross will be prayed each Friday & Saturday after the 11am Mass during which confession will also be available.
PASSION PLAY
The annual reenactment of the Lord’s Passion (Passion Play) will take place in the Shrine, commencing at 11am on Good Friday 29th March. Please note, this is free and open to all, no bookings need to be made. Food & drink will also be available for purchase. Good Friday is also a day of Fasting and abstinence, Pilgrims are allowed to picnic on site but we ask that NO meat is consumed or BBQed on the day.
WORKING BEE
Thank you to all who came and participated in the working bee. It was a good day and a lot of work was done. The next working bee is advertised on the front page of this bulletin.
MORNING TEA AFTER 8AM MASS
Morning tea will be up at the old Monastery after the 8am Mass today. Thank you to all who have brought along something to share.
PASCHAL PRECEPT
A reminder that all Catholics are obliged to go to Confession and Holy Communion at least once a year between Ash Wednesday and Trinity Sunday (26th May).
BAPTISMS
Congratulations to Emma Rose Slee and Thomas Gabriel Mertin who are being Baptised in the Shrine today.