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News from St Benedict’s February 2017

St Benedicts Bishop Peter, Margaret Florian, Gebran Azzi, Nancy Kazzi, Lisa Welsman, Karen Brown, Father Bernard

St Benedict’s Christmas Celebrations We had many wonderful celebrations over the Christmas period and anyone who thinks that the true meaning of Christmas has been swamped by modern life should check out St Benedict’s. Particularly our ‘Spirit of Giving’ Christmas Dinner on Christmas night, a get together to which those on their own are specially […]

GALSTON UNITING CHURCH

Sunday Family Service 10 am I know it’s been said before, but can you believe it is December??? As we reflect on the past year, there has been many occasions to celebrate. This year we have had the opportunity to say good bye to some wonderful people – & though we miss them daily, we […]

GALSTON UNITING CHURCH

Sunday Family Service 10 am So, spring has well & truly sprung… there’s so many beautiful gardens looking wonderful! As ever, I’m very much looking forward to November & the ‘season of celebrations’ begins. Sunday 20 th at 2pm we will be launching our next program of Galston Concerts with a ‘Galston Gala’, featuring a […]

News from St Benedict’s November 2016

Cooking barbecue St Benedicts

Our Lady of Fatima Feast Day – Sunday 9 th October This was a very successful event with parish children acting out the story or Fatima, when in 1917 the Virgin Mary appeared six times over a number of months to three Portuguese children who were herding sheep near the then-tiny town. Ninety-nine years later […]

Glenorie Mission Church

“If you become a Christian your life will run smoothly. You will prosper financially, have no illness or accidents and will do the right thing in every situation. If bad things are happening to you then you are not following God properly and He is punishing you for your sins”. How wrong are these statements […]

Hill Life Church

Each month I’m blessed with an opportunity to reach our local community via the Galston, Glenorie and Hills Rural Community News, a privelege they have generously extended and something I’m very grateful for. In fact I’ve been quite surprised by the reach of this monthly rant with many commenting they regularly read this collection of […]

News from St Benedict’s October 2016

St Benedict’s Parish Fete We’re still celebrating the success of the annual St Benedict’s fete that was held at the end of August. Due to the hard work and generosity of so many people, the event raised close to $35,000 but, most importantly, everyone had a wonderful time on the day. Special mention must be made of the […]

GALSTON UNITING CHURCH

Sunday Family Service 10am So Spring has sprung – time to get back out into the garden! Which also means we’ve just hosted our annual ‘Blessing of the fleet’ service for our local RFS folks. As ever, it was a great day & we’re so grateful to all the ‘minions’ (thanks Steve!) who were able […]

Glenorie Mission Church

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon.” Isaiah 55: 6-7. These words describe an opportunity […]

Glenorie Mission Church

Is the Bible relevant today? Isn’t it just an old book about things irrelevant to a modern intellectual, science-based society? Can there be any truth in a book of religion?  Isn’t  religion itself just made up by mankind to try and explain things they didn’t understand or perhaps to make them feel good?  After all, in this post modern world we […]