St Mary MacKillop Parish Birkdale

25/05/2026

Our Children's liturgy has been running since December last year. It has been an amazing ministry that is growing and supporting our Parish. The current Children's Liturgy runs on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, we would love to offer this ministry every Sunday but need your help.

We are looking for 3 more volunteers to help with the
children once a month during Mass for 15-20 mins. The children will go through to the Parish centre and have their own Liturgy and hear the Gospel. There will be an activity provided we just need volunteers to help with the children.
You don’t need any teaching experience just a willingness to engage with the kids, answer questions and have fun! Please don’t worry about being a “good enough” Catholic to help with our children. Jesus says for us to “come as we are”. He doesn’t want us in our perfection, he wants us just as we are, here now in our daily hustle and busyness. He gives us the grace to do what needs to get done, we just need to open our hearts.

Mass can be long with lots of talking, praying, standing,
sitting, kneeling. For our littlest Parishioners who are still learning to sit still and be reverent, that can be challenging. Children’s Liturgy helps kids encounter Jesus in an engaging, age-appropriate way while having fun with their Mass friends. We are hoping that
through this Ministry, families will feel welcome and encouraged to come to Mass.

For more information and to sign up please contact Catherine
in the Parish office at [email protected]
I promise this will be a for filling and rewarding ministry to be apart of.

25/05/2026

22/05/2026

7 June - pop the date in your diary. Come and walk with Jesus for the Feast of Corpus Christi

09/05/2026

10 May 2026 - Sixth Sunday of Easter - Year A
"I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you." John 14:18-20

Reflect today on the desire in your heart to belong, to be loved, and to be part of a family. Recognise that this longing finds its ultimate fulfillment in the family of God. Though we await the fullness of this communion in Heaven, we can experience it even now. Commit yourself to respond to Jesus? invitation by embracing your place in His family through prayer, the sacraments, and daily acts of love. Recognize that He is in the Father, we are in Him, and He is in us. Embrace this reality, allowing the gift of faith to draw you more deeply into the divine family
to which we are called.

05/05/2026

We are completing a survey to help support our Parishioners who wear hearing aids. Your input is important so we get the system that best supports you. Please complete the survey below at Mass this weekend. If you are attending a different Mass but would still like to complete it please call the Parish Office 07 -3822 2139

02/05/2026

3 May 2026 - Fifth Sunday of Easter - Year A
"Where I am going you know the way." Thomas said to him, "Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?" Jesus said to him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:4-6
Reflect today on anything you struggle to understand. See yourself as one of the Twelve, listening to Jesus speak, but failing to comprehend. Do not be discouraged; instead, allow the fullness of Jesus? divine Truth to sink in gradually. Spend time in prayer, read the Gospels, be open, and listen from the depths of your heart. Seek out His gentle voice and know that He is your Way, Truth, and Life. Let Him lead you and reveal to you the mysteries of His divine Wisdom so that you, too, know the way to the Father in Heaven.

30/04/2026

Calling all Young Adults in our Parish!

Reclaim. is a collaborative monthly gathering of young adults that seeks to breathe new life into the Catholic YA space each first Tuesday of the month.
In May, it's all about embracing the Divine Office, including Vespers led by the Holy Spirit Seminarians.

Registration not necessary, all young adults welcome!

Find and follow Reclaim Brisbane on socials to keep up to
date with all that's coming up.
When: Tues 5 May | 6pm
Where: Hanly Room, Cathedral Precinct

Follow Reclaim on Insta Reclaim Brisbane.

28/04/2026

Reminder -
Parent information Session for the Sacrament of 1st Holy Communion is tonight (29 April) 6:30pm in the Parish Centre at St Mary Mackillop Church, Birkdale
All children who have completed the Sacrament of Confirmation are invited to join the programme.

Any questions please contact the Parish Office 07 -3822 2139 or email [email protected]

25/04/2026

26 April 2026 - Fourth Sunday of Easter - Year A
"When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognise his voice. But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers." John 10:4-5

Reflect today on the fact that God calls out to you day and night. Do you recognise His voice? Or do you, like the Pharisees, turn away from Him? Following the Good Shepherd begins with an intimate familiarity with His divine presence in our lives. We must become as familiar with Him as an infant is with its mother or as sheep are with their faithful shepherd. Failure to recognize the Good Shepherd's voice
leaves us lost and unable to care for ourselves. Jesus desires to lead us, care for
us, and bring us to the abundant pastures of new life. Become familiar with Him
and listen to His voice alone, and like the blind man, you will begin to see in ways
you never have before, through the eyes of faith.