Announcements
Neophyte Mass - Tuesday, May 30th, 2023 at 7:00pm at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral.
Evening Prayer for First Communicants - Francis Xavier Cathedral at 5:00pm on Sunday June 11th, 2023, The Feast of Corpus Christi.
Ordination to Priesthood of Deacon Devereaux King on Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral at 7:00pm.
WELCOME
We take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to all those who will be visiting us. We are pleased that you have come to worship with us. The doors and hearts of our parish family of FAITH are always open, and we invite you to contact us at any time.
“Sharing in the Mission of the Church”
We are most grateful to those persons who have already donated to the 2023 Archdiocesan Annual Appeal, and we thank you for your kindness and support. To our other members who still wish to make a financial contribution, envelopes will be in the Church during the weekend masses, or in the Parish Office Monday to Friday during office hours.
We are most grateful for generosity.
In both human and divine relationships, there can be no romance without a reverent listening to the other. When we make room in our lives for silence, the heaven and earth within us find each other. Then the Word of God is able to put down deep roots. These listening roots sense our desire for bonding with the Holy One.
Pope Francis meditated on the calming of the storm from the Gospel of Mark during the prayer service over which he presided on the steps of St Peter's Basilica on Friday evening. Here is the full text.
“When evening had come” (Mk 4:35). The Gospel passage we have just heard begins like this. For weeks now it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything as it passes by; we feel it in the air, we notice in people’s gestures, their glances give them away. We find ourselves afraid and lost. Like the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected, turbulent storm. We have realized that we are on the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together, each of us in need of comforting the other. On this boat… are all of us. Just like those disciples, who spoke anxiously with one voice, saying “We are perishing” (v. 38), so we too have realized that we cannot go on thinking of ourselves, but only together can we do this.
