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Photos Christmas Midnight Mass

    Father Chris Jenkins SJ welcomed many visitors to all four Christmas Masses at St Canice’s. The church was decorated this year with a dozen Cypress Pines and beautiful flowers in yellow and white to celebrate the birth of Christ. At the Midnight Mass, in a small gesture to express

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Christmas at Canice’s 2014

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Pausing in Advent – by Caroline Coggins

At a recent Retreat I attended in Hong Kong earlier his year when I read the Annunciation what I notice are Mary’s pauses, her response to the angels’ avowal that she is favoured by God. But what she utters is that she is deeply perplexed. Imagine Mary, a young woman,

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Fighter who found community on the streets

Fr Steve writes in Eureka Street . . . “Elizabeth told me Sue had died. She had been dead in her Ashfield flat for 18 days before she was found. The heater was on. I don’t want to think about how she was when she was found. I don’t know

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The 2014 Parish Wrap

It has been a big year for our small community. While much of parish life has followed familiar patterns there have been some new shoots and events to celebrate. At the same time we have had to deal with some changes that we were perhaps not quite ready for and

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Christmas Letter from Chair of Parish Pastoral Council

A Letter from Caroline Coggins, Chair, Parish Pastoral Council I hope this newsletter gives you some insight into what has been happening in our parish.
Even then there is much, much more than I know about, much that is simple and simply done by our parishioners and the good people who

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