St Thomas Catholic Parish Drysdale

10/06/2026

A message from Debbie
(Parish Sacramental Program Coordinator)

Sacramental Program - Sacrament of Reconciliation
Our Parish Sacramental Program candidates will be receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation on Monday 15th June for the first time.

Please keep them in your prayers as they make this Sacrament of Initiation and receive God's special grace to know they are loved and forgiven.

07/06/2026

06/06/2026

We warmly welcome you to join us for mass:

Saturday Vigil:
6:00pm St Philip and St James St Leonard’s

Sunday:
9:00am St Thomas Drysdale
9:00am St Patrick’s Portarlington
10:30am Lumen Christi Leopold

06/06/2026

Our Parish Bulletin for the weekend 6th/7th June 2026

Body and Blood of Christ Year A

St Vincent De Paul Annual Appeal
A leaving collection will be held in each of our parish churches for cash donations for the appeal.

Donations of non perishable food/winter clothing are most welcome.

30/05/2026

We warmly invite you to join us for mass:

Saturday Vigil:
6:00pm St Philip and St James St Leonard’s

Sunday:
9:00am St Thomas Drysdale
9:00am St Patrick’s Portarlington
10:30am Lumen Christi Leopold

30/05/2026

Our Parish Bulletin for the weekend 30th/31st May 2026

Trinity Sunday Year A

26/05/2026

‘In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanisation, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human,’ Pope Leo writes in his landmark encyclical on preserving the human person in the age of AI. ‘We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendour of which no machine can ever replace.’

Read more: https://melbournecatholic.org/news/magnifica-humanitas-pope-leos-ai-encyclical-warns-of-temptation-to-build-future-excluding-god

26/05/2026

Friends, as you may have seen, Pope Leo XIV has released his first encyclical: Magnifica humanitas – On safeguarding the human person in a time of Artificial Intelligence. In this important work, Pope Leo neither rejects technology nor fears progress. Instead, he invites us to ask a deeper question: What kind of humanity are we becoming? Magnifica humanitas is ultimately a call to ensure that innovation strengthens, rather than weakens, our relationships with one another and with God. I warmly encourage you to read it: bit.ly/MAGNIFICAHUMANITAS

📷: CNS photo/Lola Gomez

24/05/2026

🌹 We fly to thy protection, O Holy Mother of God 🌹

So starts the world’s oldest known Marian prayer, sub tuum praesidium.

With this invocation, the faithful pray that the Holy Mother of God places the Church beneath her protective mantle, so that evil may not prevail.

Mary, Help of Christians, on this day of devotion to you, mother of God and mother of us all, pray for us 🙏

🎨 The detail of fresco Mary Help of Christians in cupola of church Basilica Maria Ausiliatrice by Giuseppe Rollini (1889 - 1891). Renata Sedmakova (Shutterstock).