Migrant & Refugee

Family Mass & Lunch

Prayer in Pyjama Workshops

The Drouin and Warragul Catholic Parish Communities warmly invite Foundation students and their parents to attend ONE of our …

Prayer In Pyjama Workshops

 These workshops will be held at:

St. Joseph’s Primary School Thursday 23^rd October 5pm – 6pm

St. Ita’s Primary School Wednesday 29^th October 5.30–6.30

All school families are welcome to attend any one of these workshops (Catholic and non-Catholics are invited).

This workshop is activity based and is an opportunity for Foundation families to gather, pray, learn, create and have fun together.

Children are invited to wear their pyjamas and bring their favourite cuddly bedtime toy.

The workshop is free unless families would like to donate a small amount to help cover the cost of materials used.

For more information contact Liz on 5623 1642,

or email: warragul.sacraments@cdsale.org.au

Children's Liturgy

A message from Deacon Mark

All Are Saved?

How we have indulged over the years in creating complexity out of simplicity! We get tangled up in the very myriad of rules and regulations which Jesus came to untangle for us. He brought us the best of Good News in his proclamation of the Kingdom. 1 Timothy reinforces the Good News that God wants everyone saved (1 Tim 2:1-8). And if that is what almighty God wants, then surely we are saved! Any sense that the Creator’s will is a barrier or hindrance to our salvation is turned on its head. But the final decision remains ours! Only we ourselves can be the obstruction. God wants everyone saved but, in our free will, we need to accept the offer of salvation.

How then do we accept? What are the rules? Jesus teaches that the rules are pretty simple. “Jesus is so simplistic and naïve as to reduce 613 clear Biblical commandments down to two: Love of God and love of neighbour,” (Luke 10:27) (Rohr, R. What do we do with the Bible? p57).

So often our love of God is reflected in our love of the poor and vice versa. We turn to our Creator, “praising the Lord who lifts up the poor” as our responsorial psalm urges us (Ps 112) and “lifting up our hands reverently in prayer (1 Timothy 2: 8) without anger or argument”.

Jesus himself tells us in this week’s gospel, “You cannot be the slave of both God and of money” (Luke 16:1-13) and the prophet Amos (Amos 8:4-7) starkly warns us against trampling on, swindling, deceiving, and oppressing the poor. If our actions set us apart from the Lord who lifts up the poor, we exclude ourselves from salvation but, if we turn to God, loving him and actively loving his children (our neighbours), we have every reason to hope for salvation.

Deacon Mark Kelly