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Queen Street, Bombala NSW 2632
Fr Mark Croker Parish Priest- Snowy Monaro Parishes
(02) 8331 7609 urgent messages 0428 190 759
02- 8331 7608 Postal Address: PO Box 186 COOMA NSW 2630

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Lent 2024 message

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis LENT 2024

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Archbishop Prowse

Euthanasia

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Archbishops Christmas Message 2023

Love Always Triumphs Archbishop 2023

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EUTHANASIA IN THE ACT

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Parish Newsletters

Bombala Delegate Bulletin 17th Mar 2024

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Bombala Delegate Bulletin 10th Mar 2024

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Bombala & Delegate Bulletin 3rd March 2024

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Planned Giving

 

Palm Sunday 24th March -  4th Sunday schedule

Three Parishes Together  Easter 2024

2nd Rite of Reconciliation- to prepare for Easter

Cooma – Tuesday 19th March 2024 at 7pm

Jindabyne offered after Vigil Mass 24th March  Bombala offered after Mass

 

Holy Thursday 28th March

Cooma 6pm   Delegate 5.00pm  Bombala 7pm

 

Good Friday 29th March

Cooma –10am Stations of the Cross/

Jindabyne Stations of the Cross10am(Leader)/

Berridale (Leader)

Bombala – Stations of the Cross 9.30am (with a Leader ) Delegate 12 Noon with Leader

Nimmitabel 12pm (with a Leader)

Cooma 3pm Passion       Jindabyne 3pm Passion

 

Holy Saturday – 30th March

Cooma 6pm        

Nimmitabel 6pm Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion

Bombala 6pm 

Delegate 6pm Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion

 

Easter Sunday – 31st March  

Adaminaby 8am  + Cooma 10am

Berridale 8am Mass + Jindabyne 10am 

 

Collection envelopes are available by contacting the Cooma Parish Office. 

Direct Debit giving can also be arranged to support our parish running costs.

From July 1st, no more tax deductions will be available for Planned-Giving. 5% of Planned-Giving in each parish was previously given to the Schools Building Fund, the only tax deductible component of your offering. That Fund is no longer attached to our parishes. Tax deductibility remains for special Archdiocesan donations, e.g. The Annual Retired Priests’ Collection. In 2023 tax receipts from parishes will not be necessary.

Please contact John Vincent if you are unsure of this explanation.                                                                       

We sincerely thank you for your ongoing financial support in our Gospel mission.

HOLY LAND - GOOD FRIDAY COLLECTION 2024

The annual collection for the support of the church in the Holy Land will take place on Good Friday, March 29th. This collection promotes the missionary work of the Church in the Holy Land by providing welfare assistance to local Christians in areas such as health, education, employment, housing. Parishes, and orphanages. It is also used to maintain over 70 churches and shrines associated with the life of Jesus. Due to the ongoing war, the Church and people of the Holy Land are still struggling with reduced income due to fewer pilgrims and lower church attendance around the world. In 2023 Australian Catholics were once again extremely generous and we were able to send to the Holy Land nearly $1.4 million [$1.4 million (2022), $1,126,098 (2021), $406,023 (2020) and $1.3 million (2019)]. The reality for the Holy Land mission is that they will continue to face challenges financial and spiritual and so we again ask Catholics around the world again to be as generous as possible, with their financial support as well as the spiritual support. Please remember the Christians of the Holy Land on Good Friday. Thank you.

Message of His Holiness Pope Francis LENT 2024

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 2023 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE


LOVE ALWAYS TRIUMPHS

The birth of Jesus, the Light of the World, always triumphs over the darkness.

The hope and light of the First Christmas in the Gospels is proclaimed from the darkness of the night.  There is a star that guides.  There is the joyful light that the shepherds, the Magi, and all creation encounter in the humble stable.

The surrounding “night” is not simply due to the fact of no sun.  It is because there is no Son (of God) in the hearts of some.  There are those who plot the killing of the Christ Child.  Jesus himself is clothed in cloths and placed in a wooden crib – all suggesting a future death on Calvary.  There is no hospitality for the “Prince of Peace” here. 

This pattern continues even today.

There is the continuing darkness of the wars in Ukraine, the Holy Land, Africa and other places.  Let us not forget that war is always a defeat for humanity – here darkness is chosen over the light of love and peace-making.

There is also the challenge in Australia of re-imagining our relationships with our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after the defeat of the Voice Referendum.

Also, with the upward trend of the cost of living, this Christmas will be tough for so many to provide the necessities of table and shelter for their loved ones.

Yet, in the midst of these many darknesses, dawns the triumph of Divine Love found in the birth of the Son of God – Jesus, love itself.

Let us in silence and adoration invite this Christmas light, that chases away the long darkness of loneliness and isolation, to triumph in our hearts, our families and our communities! 

Let Christmas joy have a practical expression in helping others. Please give generously to the Archbishop’s Christmas Appeal. It will assist greatly places of need throughout the world.

Happy Christmas and New Year to all!

                                                            Archbishop Christopher Prowse

                                                            Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn

                                                            Christmas 2023

 

Pastoral Letter - Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum

Pastoral Letter from Archbishop Prowse regarding the Moral and Ethical dimension of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum.

Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv1PIk9d5p8

PASTORAL LETTER


ARCHBISHOP CHRISTOPHER PROWSE

CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF CANBERRA AND GOULBURN

INDIGENOUS VOICE TO PARLIAMENT REFERENDUM

– SOME MORAL/ETHICAL REFLECTIONS -

Regarding the Voice to Parliament Referendum, the Bishops of Australia have encouraged us to consider the moral/ethical dimensions and not simply political arguments.

To assist us in forming our individual and collective consciences, may I offer the following very brief and initial reflections.

We are to ask: “How ought I/we vote? … What ought I/we DO?” This is a good place to start. However, if we leave the question simply at this we may well end up with an answer based on political arguments alone.

The deeper moral/ethical question probes our conscience further. It asks: “What ought I/we BE as Australians given this issue now before us?”

To answer this deeper moral question requires considerations on two levels simultaneously: social structures and human attitudes.

On the level of social structures, there is a strong argument for change. At present, simply being born an aboriginal person places an Australian seemingly in a highly marginalised position.

The Uluru Statement from the Heart (2017) expresses this succinctly. “Proportionally, we are the most incarcerated people on the planet. We are not an innately criminal people. Our children are alienated from their families at unprecedented rates. This cannot be because we have no love for them. And our youth languish in detention in obscene numbers. They should be our hope for the future.”

The entrenched nature of this crisis seems to indicate an intergenerational social structure that is diseased.

Good ethics would insist that a deeper diagnosis of this situation would involve the interplay of structures with human attitudes. This dual consideration assists us in discovering foundations for the common good – the doorway to true justice.

This requires dialogue and listening with our First Australians. It is in this area of attitudes that Aboriginal activist, Noel Pearson (27 October 2022, Boyer Lectures), identifies a major weakness in finding healing solutions. He says in a most disturbing refection: “We are a much unloved people. We are perhaps the ethnic group Australians feel least connected to. We are not popular and we are not personally known to many Australians. Few have met us and a small minority count us as friends. And despite never having met any of us …… Australians hold and express strong views about us, the great proportion of which is negative and unfriendly.”

 Regardless of the result of the 14 October 2023 Referendum and the social structural changes proposed, this area of conversion of attitudes would remain.

We all surely have a communal responsibility to ponder deeply on the type of Australia we want to become because of the Referendum. Let us educate our individual and collective consciences on the issues involved and vote according to these deep reflections.

As Pope St John Paul II so famously stated in the much quoted speech he gave to Aboriginal Australians in Alice Springs (29th November 1986),

You are part of Australia and Australia is part of you. And the Church herself in Australia will not be fully the Church that Jesus wants her to be until you have made your contribution to her life and until that contribution has been joyfully received by others.”

 Archbishop Christopher Prowse

Catholic Archbishop of Canberra and Goulburn

3rd October 2023

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