Our Parish - Thomastown Parish

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Chapel Hill

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Mong Chapel

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Church of the Assumption

Events

	Masses subject to change. Please refer to weekly newsletter.
Saturday	6.00pm Vigil Mass Confessions after 6pm Mass when requested
Sunday	10.30am Mass
Monday	9.20am Mass
Tuesday
Wednesday	9.20am Mass 10.00-11.00am Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament ....time of quiet prayer sitting with the Lord.
Thursday
Friday	9.20am Mass

About this Church

St. Columba’s Hospital Chapel

No Mass during the pandemic

Reflection

“The sun will be darkened.” How does Pope Francis say we can help bring light back to the darkened sun? And what can we learn from the fig tree?
Dear brothers and sisters, that is the word that makes hope blossom in the world and relieves the suffering of the poor: tenderness. Compassion that leads you to tenderness. We need to overcome our self-absorption, interior rigidity, which is the temptation nowadays, that of the “restorationists”, who want a Church completely orderly, completely rigid: this is not of the Holy Spirit.
We have to overcome this, in order to make hope blossom amid this rigidity. It is up to us to overcome the temptation to be concerned only about our own problems; we need to grow tender before the tragedies of our world, to share its pain. Like the tender leaves of a tree, we are called to absorb the pollution all around us and turn it into goodness.
It is useless to keep talking about problems, to argue and to be scandalized – all of us can do that. What we need to do is imitate the leaves that daily, imperceptibly, turn dirty air into clean air. Jesus wants us to be “converters” of goodness: people who breathe the same heavy air as everyone else, but respond to evil with good (cf. Rom 12:21). People who act: by breaking bread with the hungry, working for justice, lifting up the poor and restoring their dignity. As the Samaritan did.
Pope Francis