by Fr Marcus Goulding | Sep 7, 2024 | Uncategorized
Domenico Maggiotto (1713-1794), “Christ Healing a Deaf and Mute Man” The crowds bring a deaf and mute man to Jesus for healing. They ask Jesus to “lay his hand” on the disabled man. Instead, the Lord takes the man away from the crowds, breaths on him, sticks his...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Aug 31, 2024 | Sunday Musings
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, There is a certain rhythm to the life of a parish across the year. From February to May, the parish was a hive of activity with Lent and Easter, the launch of our under-18 youth group, Alpha, RCIA and adult faith formation...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Aug 24, 2024 | Sunday Musings
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, First, I have some news to share. On Friday 16th August, I received notice from Gudrun that she has accepted a new full-time role with Cultura as a refugee case manager in the Geelong region. This means that Gudrun’s time as our...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
In his first year at Corpus Christi College, the diocesan seminary for Victoria and Tasmania, Rhys Lowther was sent to visit a nursing home. There, he got to know an old nun, who gave him a copy of True Devotion to Mary by St Louis de Montfort. ‘She looked me in the...
by Fr Marcus Goulding | Aug 3, 2024 | Sunday Musings
The fourth of August is the feast of the Frenchman, St John Mary Vianney, the patron saint of parish priests. St John was born on the eighth of May in 1786 and died on the fourth of August in 1859. He lived during a time of great political, cultural, and religious...
