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Holy Trinity Church,
Parish office & presbytery
3 Strangways Street, Curtin ACT 2605
Monsignor John Woods
wodennorth@cg.org.au
(02) 6281 3999
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WALKING IN FAITH

Mary was a woman of faith.  Ok, but what does that mean?  The French philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal said, “Faith declares what the senses do not see, but not the contrary of what they see.  It is above them, not contrary to them.”  In the same vein is the assertion of Jesuit priest and palaeontologist Fr Pierre Teilhard de Chardin SJ that, “Faith has need of the whole truth.”  Faith and reason are two sides of the one coin.  Today’s First Reading designates insignificant Bethlehem as the Messiah’s birthplace.  Then our Second Reading calls us to prioritise an inward listening, or as St Benedict would have it, to listen “with the ear of your heart”.  Faith requires a receptivity which can be especially challenging for the strong and powerful.    Whereas for the truly receptive, life-giving obedience in faith is the graced fruit.  “The human life of Jesus, from its very first moment to its end on Calvary, will be a continual act of bodily obedience offered for the salvation of the world” (Brendan Byrne).  And so to today’s Gospel and Mary’s faith.  “Mary has surrendered in faith and obedience to the extraordinary role that [the angel] Gabriel has announced to her.  In faith, too, she has obeyed the angel’s additional command to go and seek out the ‘sign’ to be seen in the pregnancy of, at an advanced age, of her cousin Elizabeth.  Biblical faith does not presuppose signs already given:  it acts, goes on its journey, and then discovers signs that confirm what has been believed.  This is how Elizabeth’s pregnancy functions for Mary” (ibid).  When Mary greets Elizabeth with the customary ‘Peace’ (Shalom), the child in Elizabeth’s womb (John the Baptist) leaps for joy.  Already John is pointing to the Messiah’s coming.  “Hence Elizabeth confirms what Mary has hitherto simply believed:  that she is indeed pregnant with the infant Messiah whose role and destiny Garbiel had announced.  She now has the ‘sign’ that she was sent to find” (ibid).  Mary’s faith was the channel for salvation to flow into the world.  “It is people of faith who open up the word to God’s power” (ibid).  The Old Testament promises of Advent find their “point of focus in the faith of Mary, the beginning and model of all subsequent Christian believing” (ibid).  Indeed, Mary’s faith par excellence saw the Second Vatican Council reject a separate schema for her and choose rather to present her as the Mother of the Church’s faith in the Document on the Church (Lumen Gentium).  In other words, the faith of Mary is the model of our faith.  Lord, like Mary grace us to step out in faith and be open to discerning of the signs confirming it.

Fr John

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM - THESE DATES WERE FOR 2024 - DATES FOR 2025 WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON

In anticipation of your diaries filling up with appointments for the coming year, please note the following dates for the Sacraments of Initiation in 2024:

Term 1 – First Reconciliation      Parent Information Night – Tuesday, 6 February, 6pm via Zoom

Parent Sacramental Learning Opportunity – Sacrament of Reconciliation – Tuesday, 20 February, 6pm via Zoom

Sacramental Celebration – Tuesday, 7 May, 6pm, Holy Trinity Church

Term 2 – Confirmation               Parent Information Night – Tuesday, 14 May, 6pm via Zoom

Parent Sacramental Learning Opportunity – Sacrament of Confirmation – Tuesday, 21 May, 6pm via Zoom

Sacramental Celebration – Tuesday, 18 June and Wednesday, 19 June, 6pm, Holy Trinity Church

Term 3 – First Eucharist              Parent Information Night – Tuesday, 30 July, 6pm via Zoom

Parent Sacramental Learning Opportunity – Sacrament of First Eucharist - Tuesday, 13 August, 6pm via Zoom

Sacramental Celebration – Saturday, 21 September, 6pm, and Sunday, 22 September, 9.30am and 5.30pm, Holy Trinity Church


SYNTHESIS REPORT OF ARCHDIOCESAN ASSEMBLY

SYNTHESIS REPORT OF ARCHDIOCESAN ASSEMBLY, 19 OCTOBER:  Copies of the same are available at the exits or at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OTM-J3g9JNisEw4hVi0f-7iWyHdCyKq_/view?usp=drive_link.  Having read the report, you might consider a response by 15 December to hello@cg.org.au

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