St Matthews and St Vincents Parish South Belconnen

01/01/2025

Please make Monsignor John Woods welcome as he arrives this weekend. Here is some archive footage we found. Blessings for this Jubilee Year of

In the late 1980’s, it wasn’t unusual to see Canberra Raiders chaplain Msgr John Woods hurtling up and down Seiffert Oval alongside the professional footballers. “Once it started to rain […]

29/12/2024

Mass for the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God, 1 January 2025, will be 9.30am at St Matthew's Church, Page.
Blessings to one and all for the New 'Calendar' Year. Blessings of waiting for those awaiting Lunar New Year.
Image courtesy of Monastery Icons.

28/12/2024

This weekend we celebrate the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We ponder these treasures as Mary did, watchful for glimmers of everyday holiness in our own lives and families. If you look to the east, you may see the Magi on their journey towards the crib for the Epiphany.

22/12/2024

Looking forward to seeing you at our Christmas Masses. If not, whether at home or travelling, you will be in our prayers.

22/12/2024

Some photos are filtering through from Fr Simon's farewell. Thank you to the PPC, their helpers and all involved. It showed the beautiful and diverse share in the body of Christ in our part of Belconnen.

19/12/2024

https://cathnews.com/2024/12/20/bishops-call-for-renewal-of-prayer-charity-and-love-during-jubilee-year/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Bishops%20call%20for%20renewal%20of%20prayer%20charity%20and%20love%20during%20Jubilee%20Year%20%20Religious%20leaders%20gather%20to%20support%20Jewish%20community%20%20Fr%20Tony%20takes%20the%20helm%20at%20Stella%20Maris%20Australia&utm_content=Bishops%20call%20for%20renewal%20of%20prayer%20charity%20and%20love%20during%20Jubilee%20Year%20%20Religious%20leaders%20gather%20to%20support%20Jewish%20community%20%20Fr%20Tony%20takes%20the%20helm%20at%20Stella%20Maris%20Australia%20CID_c40de95577a9912bd92b7d14cec9760f&utm_source=Cathnews%20Newsletter&utm_term=Bishops%20call%20for%20renewal%20of%20prayer%20charity%20and%20love%20during%20Jubilee%20Year

This Christmas, Australia’s bishops have reminded the faithful of the hope that the Christ child brings to a suffering world and called for a renewal of prayer, charity and love in action during the Jubilee Year.

06/12/2024

* Email Update*
Late yesterday we were advised that our web-based email access (to devices like phones) is still down.
The only way to access our email is through Microsoft Outlook in the CG Online intranet "Matrix" on devices where that software is installed.
The other issue it that some accounts have not yet been reauthenticated. Those are still down even in CG Online.
The office email was reauthenticated but has limited access. So, any emails sent after 5pm last Thursday (the end of Jacinta's working week) might not have been seen.

02/12/2024

Some email addresses are back, with the parish office one operating again.

29/11/2024

There is a Taize inspired community who meet in Canberra.

Brother Roger of Taizé
“Christ is communion…He did not come to earth to start one more religion, but to offer to all a communion in God…’Communion’ is one of the most beautiful names of the Church.”
Roger Schütz, known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother. In 1940 Schütz founded Taizé, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France.
During World War ll Roger bought an empty house, where for two years he and his sister, Genevieve, hid refugees, before being forced to leave Taizé, after being tipped off that the Gestapo had become aware of their activities. In 1944, he returned to Taizé to found the Community, initially a small quasi-monastic community of men living together in poverty and obedience, open to all Christians.
It is now composed of more than one hundred brothers, from Catholic and Protestant traditions, who originate from about thirty countries across the world.
Taizé slowly became one of the world’s most important sites of Christian pilgrimage. Some 100,000 young people from around the world make pilgrimages to Taizé each year for prayer, Bible study, sharing, and communal work.
Brother Roger was sadly stabbed to death by a mentally ill woman in 2005. Although tragic, the brothers have continued to carry on the work Brother Roger started.

This icon was painted in 2019 and I finally have a good picture of it

Prints and Digital Downloads: https://kellylatimoreicons.com/collections/signed-print/products/brother-roger-of-taize

29/11/2024

The CAM network is migrating servers and so Archdiocesan email may experience some outages once more!