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Message from the
Parish Priest -
Monsignor Brian Arahill

Welcome to St Michael's Parish Website.

I hope you will spend some time browsing and find something to interest you. Most weeks there is something new so do bookmark the site and visit often.

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Can I recommend you check out REVELATIONS - our Parish Magazine which is published 3 times a year. (The links to the various editions are on the left.)

Blessings,

 

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time
7 February 2010

Readings this Sunday
Isaiah 6:1-8
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Luke 5:1-11

Text Box:  
Peter is not the only one who has "worked hard all night and caught nothing." We know what it is like to have struggled to keep a relationship together, only to have it crumble; tried to support our families during these times of cutbacks; taught our children the faith, only to have them give it up when they left home; come towards the end of our hard-working lives to find ourselves limited by physical or financial constraints, etc. We know exactly how Peter and his companions felt. 

Jesus' words were so moving that Peter was willing to act against his experience, honed by years of fishing, and to trust Jesus' word. When he tells Peter, "Put out into the deep and lower your nets for a catch...," after an initial hesitation Peter does it. 

Our lives are busy. The things that concern us and keep our minds preoccupied during the night, are not superficial matters, they are an important part of our lives and we need to tend to them. But we can use some help to keep us focused and guide our decisions. While we know there are no easy and quick solutions to the important issues we face, still we do want to keep our heads about us; we want a sense of priorities and direction. In other words, we want to continue hearing Jesus' invitation to follow him as we toil through, the sometimes, very dark periods of our lives.

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ORDINARY TIME

We are in the Church Season called Ordinary Time characterised by the priest  (usually) wearing GREEN vestments at Mass.


"I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

John 10:10


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My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end.

Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.

But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope that I have that desire in all I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road though I may know nothing about it.

Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Merton

 

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