Fr Geoffrey McIlroy

Mass Times

Monday - No Mass
Tuesday – Saturdays 9:15am
Saturday evening - 6:00pm (Sunday vigil)
Sunday 9:00am and 11:00am
Sunday 5:00pm (Youth Mass every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month)

Anointing/Healing Mass: 9:15am [1st Friday of each Month]

Every Friday & every Saturday from 9:45 (after 9:15am Mass)
3:30-4:30pm 2nd & 4th Sundays

Youth Clubs

ENCOUNTER

Youth Group: Primary school age 3pm-4:45pm before Youth Mass 2nd & 4th Sundays of each Month. Community House

Please contact the Parish Office for further information.

QUINN’S PLACE
For high school-aged children Year 7+ Fridays 5pm-9pm Community House & Hall
Please contact the Parish Office for further information.

Parish Office

4 Drake St, Mornington, VIC 3931
T: 5975 2200
E: mornington@cam.org.au

The Parish office is open 9am to 4pm Tuesday - Friday.

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Parents of Padua

Maybe some of you are unaware that you have your own youth group available for your younger children.

It's somewhere that you can drop them off and go and have some time away for a few hours on a Sunday afternoon. Now which parent wouldn't like that 😁👍

The Encounter Youth Group is for children 8 to 12 where they can enjoy organised activities, games, arts and craft, sport, cooking - fun for all.

It has a dedicated youth worker and has a roster for parents to help volunteer supervise and it follows strict child Safeguarding rules.

It meets every 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month, at 3pm to 4:45pm at 10 Drake Street, the church hall, under the palm tree. 🌴

Then straight afterwards at 4:45pm to 5:45pm, the youth can enjoy participating in the youth mass. Maybe reading, playing a musical instrument, singing, or just by being there.

All the children that come are in a safe environment and have plenty of fun, and learn to socialise and experience their faith too.

So, I remind you, this is your youth group, as you are part of the Parish, so come and utilise it. Let your children and any of their friends, come and have some fun on Sunday afternoons, 3pm to 5:45pm on the 2nd & 4th Sundays of each month.

To contact us email Kate at:

Morningtonparish.youth@cam.org.au

Or call the Parish office
5975 2200

Jubilee 2025

For locals wanting to participate in next year’s Jubilee and unable to travel to Rome, we have good news. In anticipation of the official opening of Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope, the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has revealed the 13 churches and shrines within the Archdiocese that will be designated Pilgrim Places for the purposes of the 2025 Jubilee, with the majestic St Patrick’s Cathedral serving as the principal Pilgrim Place.

The designated pilgrim places are:

· St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne

· St Mary Star of the Sea (Archdiocese Shrine of the Holy Family), West Melbourne

· St Mary MacKillop, Keilor Downs

· St Luke’s, Lalor

· St Mary Magdalene’s, Trentham

· Polish Marian Shrine, Aberfeldie/Essendon

· St Dominic’s, Camberwell East

· St Francis Xavier, Mansfield

· Sacred Heart, Croydon

· Divine Mercy Shrine, Keysborough

· Our Lady of Lavang, Keysborough

· St Patrick’s, Mentone

· St Macartan’s, Mornington

PLENARY INDULGENCES

Indulgences are a way to reduce the time a person spends suffering for sins, even after they have been forgiven. A faithful Christian can earn an indulgence for themselves or for someone who has passed away, as long as they meet certain conditions. Indulgences are a wonderful support on the great pilgrimage towards heaven. While indulgences do not absolve people of sin—that is for the sacrament of Reconciliation—they orient hearts towards God and are characterised by a mysterious interior renewal.

To receive a Jubilee plenary indulgence within the Archdiocese of Melbourne, individually or in a group, people can visit any Pilgrim Place, remain there for a suitable period of time, engage in Eucharistic adoration and meditation, then conclude their time of prayer with the Our Father, the Profession of Faith and the Hail Mary (or any other invocation to Mary the Mother of God).

By fulfilling these conditions while they are at a Pilgrim Place, the grace of the Jubilee Indulgence is granted. Normally only one plenary indulgence can be received per day, but for the duration of the 2025 Jubilee Year, pilgrims will be able to ‘pay it forward’ and obtain a second, on condition that they have carried out an act of charity offered for the souls in purgatory and received Holy Communion a second time that day.