17 April 2022 – Easter Sunday – Newsletter
“Let him easter in us,
Be a dayspring to the dimness of us,
Be a crimson-cresseted east.”
Easter Everyone! ---
An Easter Prayer ---
Dear God, on this day of new beginnings,
we celebrate your goodness and
faithfulness. Once again, the story of the
empty tomb reminds us Easter is about
starting over when we thought all hope
was gone.
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10 April 2022 – Palm Sunday – Newsletter
On this day of Palm and Passion, we journey with Jesus.
He prepares the way, asks us to trust him, and sends us out to connect with others.
Morning by morning we wake in love, strengthened to meet the day ahead.
In the evening we rest in the comfort and confidence of everlasting love.
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3 April 2022 – Newsletter
In the first reading for today, the prophet Isaiah is addressing the Israelites who are exile in Babylon. In many ways, these people had given up on God. They seemed to think that God was done with them. They stopped looking for the hand of God in their present situation.
When we stop looking for God, it is nearly certain that we won’t find God.
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27 March 2022 – Newsletter
Invite you today to consider those with
whom you need to be reconciled as
individuals.
Call to mind the person/people you need to be reconciled to.
Are there any words or actions you have done that have contributed to the broken relationship?
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20 March 2022 – Newsletter
In the first five days since the invasion, Poland welcomed more than a quarter of a million refugees from Poland, crossing at eight border points between the two countries. That number has now soared above one million refugees.
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Alabaster
Alabaster
Lenten Prayer Vigil
on Saturday 26th March from 7.30pm to 9.00pm.
"Break it open, pour it out, pour it over Him!
Let the fragrance arise!"
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13 March 2022 – Newsletter
“All I am is all I have.
And all, all I have to give, and I give it all to Him.
It’s my fragrant oil, It’s my costly perfume.
I’ll take my alabaster box and I; I break it open.
Let the fragrance arise.”
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6 March 2022 – Newsletter
Welcome to the season of Lent.
Jesus is led into the wilderness where he spends 40 days fasting which is then followed up by a time of testing and temptation. I’m not sure after 40 days of fasting that I would have much resolve against temptation — and that is the point. When Jesus is tempted, he is in a place of great vulnerability.
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2 March 2022 – Ash Wednesday
God of the Desert,
we can journey confidently into Lent,
following Christ [...]
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27 February 2022 – Ukraine Appeal
Dear St. Joseph Family, Please join us to 'Pray for Ukraine' on Sunday 27 Feb. at 10am.
Thanking you.
Fr. George Koloth, CP
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