Catholic Parish Milton

30/10/2026

Evening consolation and blessings for all of us who feel like the day has disappeared into the ether without anything much achieved!

Thanks to Sketches in Stillness for the positivity!

28/10/2026

Our wonderful Scripture teachers who generously volunteer their time, joined us at our Kindergarten Orientation today. They would like everyone to know that Special Religious Education is the same thing as Scripture. When completing enrollment paperwork, you can opt in for SRE (Scripture) lessons. If you missed it on the enrollment forms, please contact our office staff to opt in 😊. Thank you.

28/10/2026

More beautiful Mary Oliver words, with superb image of Sister Moon! 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻

From yesterday's double rainbow to the full "Hunter's Moon" of this week, Mother Nature is turning on a show for us as we prepare to celebrate the great feasts of All Hallows and All Souls. These feasts invite us into the "thin places" were the veil between heaven and earth is very thin. May we be attentive to the these heavenly gifts as they appear over the next few days as they so often lead the way into stillness, contemplation and grace...

Moon and Water

I wake and spend
the last hours
of darkness
with no one

but the moon.
She listens
to my complaints
like the good

companion she is
and comforts me surely
with her light.
But she, like everyone,

has her own life.
So finally I understand
that she has turned away,
is no longer listening.

She wants me
to refold myself
into my own life.
And, bending close,

as we all dream of doing,
she rows with her white arms
through the dark water
which she adores.
~ Mary Oliver

27/10/2026

Twelve Catholic bishops gathered in the Oval Office to pray over President Trump, just days before the midterm elections.

One bishop explained that the gathering was not political. They were simply following Scripture’s call to pray for those in authority.

And indeed, we are called to pray for our leaders.

But we are also called to speak truth to them.

What troubles us is not that these bishops prayed for the president. It is what appears to have been missing from their public witness.

Where was the concern for the poor? For immigrant families being torn apart? For those suffering beneath the violence of war? For the marginalized whose dignity is threatened? For Christianity being distorted into an instrument of political power?

These are not partisan concerns. They are Gospel concerns.

We cannot know everything said behind closed doors. But we know what the world was shown.

A president surrounded by bishops. Hands extended in blessing. An image shared in the final days before an election.

Images carry messages. Silence carries messages, too.

For more than two centuries, women religious have served the Church without the institutional power granted to its hierarchy.

We founded schools and hospitals. Welcomed immigrants. Cared for the sick and dying. Stood beside those society abandoned. And when conscience demanded it, challenged the very institutions to which we belonged.

Not because we occupied the highest places in the Church.

But because the Gospel demanded it.

Moral authority is not measured by how close we stand to power, but by how faithfully we stand with those who have none.

The Church does not need more photographs of religious leaders standing beside the powerful.

It needs more courageous witnesses standing beside the powerless.

The hierarchy gave women religious little institutional authority.

History gave us something greater: moral authority.

And that authority comes with a responsibility:

To speak when silence would be easier.

To stand where love demands.

And to remember that our first allegiance is not to a president, a political party, or even an institution.

It is to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

27/10/2026

A new document issued on 22 October from the Vatican emphasises the need for music and musicians in liturgy! This is especially in relation to handing on faith in a 21st century world:

"In fact, as Pope Leo XIV observed, “Music is like a bridge that leads us to God. It is capable of transmitting feelings, emotions, even the deepest stirrings of the soul, lifting them up and transforming them into an imaginary stairway connecting earth and heaven.” Through music, the faith finds unique avenues of expression that purely verbal proclamation, on its own, does not always reach. These considerations prompt us to urge artists and writers who are believers to make a special creative effort to manifest the beauty of the Christian faith and spiritual experience." (para. 99)

You can read the whole of Venite ad me (Considerations on the Transmission of the Faith in an Epochal Change) here: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20261022_venite-ad-me_en.html

27/10/2026

27/10/2026

Informative reading! 🙏🏻💜🙏🏻

What is All Souls' Day? 🙏🕯️

As we approach All Hallows’ Eve on 31 October, we invite you to take a moment to revisit the meaning and Catholic traditions of this sacred triduum: All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. Beginning this Saturday, the Church invites us to honour the saints in heaven and to pray for our deceased loved ones and all the faithful departed. We encourage you to make this a time of prayer, remembrance and hope, whether by attending Mass, visiting a cemetery, lighting a candle or offering prayers for those who have gone before us. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4i5lSIN