World Youth Day Pilgrim Blessing This Weekend |
This weekend at Stella Maris 10:30am 9th July young people from our Young Adults Group will be sent forth as World Youth Day Pilgrims. These people will go to Lisbon to deepen and celebrate their faith with young Catholics from around the world. We will bless their journey and pray for them as a community. Please continue to pray for our pilgrims: Luke, Lucy, Sophie, Shanel, Ron, Jes and Nicholas and for those pilgrims going from the Neo-Catechumenal Way |
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READINGS AT MASS THIS WEEKEND:First Reading Zec 9:9-10 Rejoice O Zion. Responsorial Psalm Ps 144:1-2. 8-11. 13-14. R. v.1 (R.) I will praise your name for ever,my king and my God. Second Reading Rom 8:9.11-13 Life in the Spirit brings life everlasting. Gospel Acclamation See Mt 11:25 Alleluia, alleluia! Blessed are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the mysteries of the kingdom.Alleluia! Gospel Mt 11:25-30 Christ will refresh the weary.
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Catholic Articles, Events and Media |
St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor 15th July |
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Image Source: Catholic Ecology
St Bonaventure (1218 - 1274) Bonaventure was born at Bagnoregio in Etruria in about 1218. He became a Franciscan in 1243 and studied philosophy and theology at the University of Paris. He became a famous teacher and philosopher, part of the extraordinary intellectual flowering of the 13th century. He was a friend and colleague of St Thomas Aquinas. At this time the friars were still a new and revolutionary force in the Church, and their radical embracing of poverty and rejection of institutional structures raised suspicion and opposition from many quarters. Bonaventure defended the Franciscan Order and, after he was elected general of the order in 1255, he ruled it with wisdom and prudence. He is regarded as the second founder of the Order. He declined the archbishopric of York in 1265 but was made cardinal bishop of Albano in 1273, dying a year later in 1274 at the Council of Lyons, at which the Greek and Latin churches were (briefly) reconciled. Bonaventure wrote extensively on philosophy and theology, making a permanent mark on intellectual history; but he always insisted that the simple and uneducated could have a clearer knowledge of God than the wise. He was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V. The information about St Bonaventure above is supplied by Universalis - Universalis is an Application you can use to access readings for Mass, prayers of the Divine Office, common prayers and information about the Saints - all in your pocket on your phone! You can download the App or view in your browser online!Download the Universalis App HereAccess Universalis Here |
Cross removed from Calvary as ACT Govt executes hospital takeover
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Canberra Catholics and staff of Calvary Public Hospital grieved as the compulsory acquisition of Calvary by the ACT Government took effect on 3 July. Read More...
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| A WINTER REFLECTION AFTERNOON |
Saturday 29th July at St Joan of Arc Brighton
Mass at 1 pm followed by reflection with Anna Krohn AM
For more information click here A Winter Reflection Afternoon |
6 Must-See Holy Sites Near Lisbon, Portugal |
Source: Verso Ministries
Our young people are going to World Youth Day in Lisbon 2023. These are the top holy sites near Lisbon, Portugal which they may visit whilst they are there. Read the Article Here
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Formed: The Catholic Faith. On Demand. |
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