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PROJECT COMPASSION LAUNCH

Your donations to Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion make a real difference to communities in need. Please take home a Project Compassion box and/or a set of Lenten envelopes and give generously to the appeal during Lent. Your donations allow Caritas Australia, the Catholic agency for International Aid and Development, to alleviate poverty and bring hope and justice to disadvantaged communities throughout the world.

THE TONGAN COMMUNITY MASS

… will be celebrated in our church this Sunday, 19th February, at 1.00pm.

RCIA: TEACHING ON THE SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

… on Tuesday, 21st February, after the 7.00pm Mass followed by a cuppa in the Hall. All welcome!

ASH WEDNESDAY

A reminder that Ash Wednesday is Wednesday, 22nd February. Mass - with distribution of ashes - will be celebrated at 9.00am and 7.00pm. Serpentine: Ashes will be distributed at 9.00am Mass on Sunday, 26th February.

LENT

Lent is a penitential season of prayer, self-denial and almsgiving. In this way the whole Church prepares for Easter with those who are to be baptised.  Any celebrations during Lent (eg marriage) must take account of the spirit of penance; musical instruments are only used to sustain singing and floral decorations are very simple.  

Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of fast and abstinence.  The law of fasting binds those who have completed their eighteenth year, until the beginning of their sixtieth year; the law of abstinence binds those who have completed their fourteenth year.  

In Australia and New Zealand, Catholics are obliged to receive Holy Communion at least once a year: between Ash Wednesday and Trinity Sunday.  In Lent, the Alleluia is omitted at Mass and at the Hours, even in celebrations of solemnities and feasts.

STATIONS OF THE CROSS

… will begin on Friday, 24th February, at 7.00pm.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - PERTH CAMPAIGN

… 22nd February - 1st April. Please join the campaign by prayer, fasting and vigil. More information, call 9402 0349 or 0415 382 541 or visit www.40DaysForLife.com/PerthWA