- Thomastown Parish

Published on May 31, 2024

Friday is the First Friday of June, so Sister Anna and Fr. Dan will bring

Communion to the homebound on Friday. If not among those we call to monthly and

you would like to receive Communion at home, please let us know.

Baptism Mass – we invite the families of children baptised in 2023 to join us for Mass next Sunday, 9th June, at 10.30am. Your children – they are our future.

Reflection

They did not accept the mystery (of the Incarnation). … They thought it was scandalous that the immensity of God should be revealed in the smallness of our flesh, that the Son of God should be the son of a carpenter, that the divine should be hidden in the human, that God should inhabit the face, the words, the gestures of a simple man. This is the scandal: the incarnation of God, his concreteness, his “daily life”. And God became concrete in a man, Jesus of Nazareth, he became a companion on the way, he made himself one of us. “You are one of us,” we can say to Jesus.
What a beautiful prayer! It is because one of us understands us, accompanies us, forgives us, loves us so much. An abstract, distant god is more comfortable, one that doesn’t get himself involved in situations and who accepts a faith that is far from life, from problems, from society. Or we would even like to believe in a ‘special effects’ god who does only exceptional things and always provokes strong emotions. Instead, brothers and sisters, God incarnated himself: God is humble, God is tender, God is hidden, he draws near to us, living the normality of our daily life.
Pope Francis