St John The Baptist Parish Ferntree GullyCatholicCare Appeal 2023
11 August 2023
Passionist Family Groups – Celebrating 35yrs in our Parish
11 August 2023The Family Group aims are simple:
• to allow people to get to know each
other,
• to support each other in joy and
sorrow,
• to accept and love each other, and
• to seek and find Christ in others.
• Each family group tries, in its own way, to
realise the basic ideals of Christian living, to be
A Family for All.
Activities are simple, low cost or no cost. Members
of a group are invited to meet once a month to share a social activity, whether in a member’s home or a park or a parish venue, bringing along food and drink to share.
If you are new to the Parish and would like to join up with an existing Family Group in your street or area, please contact the Parish Office on 9758 1029
Holy Father Pope Francis Apostolic Journey to Portugal with Young People, WYD 2023
9 August 2023Dear brothers and sisters, good evening!
It gives me much joy to see all of you! Thank you for having made the pilgrimage to be here! I think of the Virgin Mary, who also travelled, in order to visit Elizabeth: “Mary set out and went with haste” (Lk 1:39). We might ask, why did Mary set out and go with haste to visit her cousin? Certainly, Mary had just learned that Elizabeth was pregnant, but so was she; so why go, if no one had asked her to? Mary does something that was not asked of her, and that she did not have to do. Mary goes because she loved, and “whoever loves flies, runs and rejoices” (The Imitation of Christ, III, 5). That is what love does to us.
Mary’s joy is twofold: she had just received the angel’s message that she would welcome the Redeemer of the world, and she was also given the news that her cousin was pregnant. This is interesting: instead of thinking about herself, she thinks of the other.
You can view video of the event by clicking on this Youtube link: https://youtu.be/WWURKpQsb7s 
Feast of St Mary (MacKillop) of the Cross
4 August 2023Feast of Australia’s St Mary of the Cross – Tues 8th August, 2023
MaryMacKillop Feast Day Flyer
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