Posts by Caloundra Parish

The Catholic Church in Australia celebrates National Vocations Awareness Week in August, coinciding with the feast of the country’s first saint: St Mary of the Cross MacKillop. National Vocation Awareness Week is a crucial opportunity to promote the importance of vocations and discernment among our parishioners, allowing people to explore their calling, and encouraging their…

Experiencing the Transfiguration Ourselves Every year, the Feast Day of Jesus’ Transfiguration takes place on 6th August and so every now and then it occurs on a Sunday, like this year. This means that we take a break from the rhythm of Jesus’ – and our – sequential journey through the Gospel of Matthew to…

This week in our Parish   Monday 7 August:  9.00am Mass Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra. 9.30am Adoration Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra.   Tuesday 8 August:   8.00am Adoration & Rosary Sacred Heart Church, Maleny. 9.00am Mass Sacred Heart Church, Maleny. 9:00am Mass  Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra. 9:30am Rosary  Our Lady of the…

Meet Graham Ladd How long have you been a parishioner?  I’ve been a parishioner at OLR for about 40 years, including serving the St Vincent de Paul Group for most of that time.   Where is your place of worship? My regular place of Worship is at the Good Shepherd Centre at Kawana attending 8.00am…

Hospitality       Stay for a cuppa after Mass on Sunday, or for wine & cheese at OLR on the Saturday night. OLR Sunday morning will be the carwash and sausage sizzle fundraiser from 8.00am-11.00am. Instead of the usual cuppa after Mass at Maleny, there will be a BEER and BEEF breakfast. Please bring your favourite beef dish…

  Pentecost Sunday Celebrations   Hundreds of parishioners from across the eight church communities of the OLR Parish gathered to celebrate two special occasions in a special mass for the Feast of Pentecost last Sunday on 28 May. The OLR Community celebrated the the Feast of Pentecost, but also the launch of the parish’s Strategic…

This is bigger than Calvary!   Join with over 228,000 Christians around our country to save Calvary Hospital in Canberra from being forcible acquired by the ACT Government. Calvary are standing against the forced law of offering Euthanasia in their hospital. If we don’t set a precedent, our Catholic Hospitals in Queensland could be next. Find…

Encountering Mystery “Moses went up the mountain…and the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with [God] there.”   That image of God descending as a cloud is perhaps apt in capturing the mystery of God and certainly the mystery of the Trinity which we celebrate this weekend. All of our…

This week in our Parish   Monday 5 June:  9.00am Mass Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra. 9.30am Adoration Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra.   Tuesday 6 June:   8.30am Exposition Sacred Heart Church, Maleny. 9.00am Mass Sacred Heart Church, Maleny. 9:00am Mass  Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra. 9:30am Rosary  Our Lady of the Rosary, Caloundra.  …