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St James 2022 Holy Week and Easter Timetable

March 20, 2022 St James Apostle Parish Easter, Event, Holy Week, Information, Mass Easter,Holy Week,Timetable

Tues 12 Apr

9:00am – Daily Mass
6:30pm – Rehearsal – Holy Thursday in the Church
7:30pm – Rehearsal – Good Friday in the Paulist Centre (Gym)
7:30pm – Chrism Mass – in the Cathedral
8:00pm – Rehearsal – Easter Vigil in the Church

Rehearsals are for everyone involved in the liturgies for the Triduum

Wed 13 Apr

9:00am – Daily Mass
6:30pm – First Rite of Reconciliation in the Church until 8:00pm

Thurs 14 Apr – Holy Thursday

7:30pm – Mass of the Lord’s Supper – with Washing of the Feet in the Church
10:30pm – Keep Watch With Me – Overnight Adoration in the Church until 7:30am

Fri 15 Apr – Good Friday

10:00am – Stations of the Cross at St James Church and Grounds
3:00pm – Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in the Paulist Centre (Gym)

Sat 16 Apr – Easter Saturday

9:00am – Holy Saturday Rite – RCIA Commissioning and Anointing of Candidates and Catechumens. All welcome to attend.
7:30pm – Easter Vigil in the Church

Sun 17 Apr – Easter Sunday

6:00am – Dawn Mass in the Church
7:30am – Mass in the Church
9:00am – Mass in the Church
10:30am – Mass in the Church

No evening Mass on Easter Sunday

Keep Watch With Me – An Overnight Adoration Event

March 20, 2022 St James Apostle Parish Event, Holy Week, Information Adoration,Overnight Adoration

Keep Watch With Me is an overnight vigil with the Lord in Adoration from 10:30pm on Holy Thursday until 7:30am on Good Friday.

If you belong to a Parish Ministry, please wait for your Coordinator to organize a time for your group.

Individuals not part of ministries are able to mark down their availabilities on the sheet provided in the Narthex.

Fr Jude’s Easter Message 2020

April 11, 2020 St James Apostle Easter, Easter 2020, Holy Week

Fr Jude’s Easter Message 2020

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Easter Message 2019

April 20, 2019 St James Apostle Parish Easter 2019, Holy Week, Information, Letter, News Easter,Easter Message 2019

Dear Parish family and friends of St James,

The Easter story does not end with Mary in grief. It tells us of her encounter with the Risen Lord who calls out her name and sends her out on a mission of proclaiming to others the Good News of the Resurrection. Perhaps we too need to hear our names called and our personal relationship with the Lord affirmed. In the midst of our despair and uncertainty, we need to hear the affirmation of our Lord with crystal clarity: “Be not afraid.”

Be not afraid to die to that which is not worthy of Christ, that which is like the old wineskins unable to contain the new wine God is pouring. We as a church—the people of God—must constantly pattern ourselves on the death and resurrection of Christ.

As we mourn the death of the old ways of being church, we are not without hope. The risen Christ shows us the way forward. He also empowers us to be agents of change and partners with him in the furtherance of God’s reign.

God’s way often involves the pain of letting go, of beginning again, of going forward with hope and trust. The Church needs to die to that which is not of Christ in order to rise again to all that Christ and his Gospel stand for.

We need to die to a worldly culture of power, dominance and privilege and rise to the Gospel-inspired culture of simplicity, vulnerability and powerlessness;
We need to die to being an experience of exclusion and condemnation and rise to being an encounter of radical love, inclusiveness and solidarity;
We need to die to worldly trappings, triumphalism, clericalism and rising again to the power of the vulnerable trust, servant-leadership, discipleship of humble service.

As Paulist Missionaries we were reminded of this in the writings of our founder Joseph De Piro when he insisted that we were to be servants of the poor and for the poor. To abandon our culture of comfort and reach out to those most in need.

Let us endeavour to live the rhythm of Christ dying and rising in the Church and in all facets of our lives.

Then we can be certain that the loving God will bring about renewal and transformation as he brought Jesus Christ to life from the dead.

Happy Easter to all!

Fr Jude Pirotta mssp

Easter Thank You

April 20, 2019 St James Apostle Parish Easter 2019, Holy Week, Information Easter,Thank You

Thank you to all who assisted in preparing and celebrating for the Holy Week and Easter liturgies, especially the Parish Staff who continue to make a wonderful contribution to serving our community, as do many generous and committed volunteers in our thriving parish at all levels, ages and stages. Gratitude goes especially at this time to those who helped make Palm Sunday and the Easter celebrations more life-giving, and all who participated: the Parish Council, Altar Servers, Carpenter’s Club, Environment Helpers (both outside and inside the Church), Music Ministry, Ushers, Carparking Attendants, Liturgical Ministers, Counters, Youth Ministry, RCIA Team, those who donated chocolates for the community, those who donated palm and olive branches, All Green Nursery for donating palm branches, people working behind the scenes and all who have been involved. We say a heartfelt thank you to all: we couldn’t manage without you. We are always looking for new ideas to keep our liturgies vibrant, meaningful, and reaching out to all. And may all our parishioners at St James persevere with eyes that love so that they may experience the many resurrection moments in their lives. I wish you and your families the peace and mercy of the Risen Lord this Easter.

As we celebrate today, I ask you to continue praying for all our priests, and especially for myself, so that I may continue to have the courage to serve the community faithfully.

May the grace of the Easter season fill your hearts with new faith in God, whose plans for us are, as the prophet Jeremiah said, peace and not disaster.

Fr Jude Pirotta mssp

Easter Vigil – 2018

April 3, 2018 St James Apostle Easter, Easter 2018, Holy Week, Photo Gallery Baptism,candle,Easter,fire,flame,photos,Vigil

Easter Message 2018 – Fr Jude Pirotta

March 31, 2018 St James Apostle Parish Easter, Holy Week, Letter Easter,Fr Jude

Dear Parishioners and friends,

The Easter story does not end with Mary in grief. It tells us of her encounter with the Risen Lord who calls out her name and sends her out on a mission of proclaiming to others the Good news of the Resurrection. Perhaps we too need to hear our names called and our personal relationship with the Lord reaffirmed. In the midst of our despair and uncertainty, we need to hear the affirmation of our Lord with crystal clarity: “Be not afraid”.

Be not afraid to die to that which is not worthy of Christ, that which is like the old wineskins unable to contain the new wine God is pouring. The church must constantly pattern itself on the death and resurrection of Christ.

As we mourn the death of the old way of being church, we are not without hope. The risen Christ shows us the way forward. He also empowers us to be agents of change and partners with Him to further God’s reign.

God’s ways often involve the pain of letting go, of beginning again, of going forward with hope and trust.

Let us endeavour to live the rhythm of Christ dying and rising in the church and in all facets of our lives. There we can be certain that the loving God will bring about renewal and transformation as He brought to Jesus Christ to life from the dead.

Thank you to all who assisted in preparing and celebrating for the Holy Week and Easter liturgies, especially the Parish Staff who continue to make a wonderful contribution to serving our community, as do many generous and committed volunteers in our thriving parish at all levels, ages and stages. Gratitude goes especially at this time to those who helped make the Easter celebrations more life-giving, and all who participated: the Parish Council, Altar Servers, Carpenter’s Club, Environment Helpers (both outside and inside the Church), Music Ministry, Ushers, Carparking Attendants, Liturgical Ministers, Counters, Youth Ministry, RCIA Team, those who donated chocolates for the community, people working behind the scenes and all who have been involved. We say a heartfelt thank you to all: we couldn’t manage without you. We are always looking for new ideas to keep our liturgies vibrant, meaningful, and reaching out to all. And may all our parishioners at St James persevere with eyes that love so that they may experience the many resurrection moments in their lives. I wish you and your families the peace and mercy of the Risen Lord this Easter.

May the grace of the Easter season fill your hearts with new faith in God, whose plans for us are, as the prophet Jeremiah said, peace and not disaster.

Yours in the Risen Lord,

Fr Jude