The Parish office will be closed from Monday 23/12/24 1pm and reopen Monday 13/1/2025
See HERE for Christmas & Holiday Mass times.
Family Beach BBQ
The Children and Families Team warmly invites you to a Young Families Beach BBQ on Saturday, December 14th, at Happy Valley from 11am to 1pm. Join us for a morning of fellowship and fun as we come together to celebrate our parish community! We’ll have games and activities for the kids and a free sausage sizzle BBQ. All are welcome, especially families with infants, primary or high school aged kids!
New Recycling Option
You can now drop off empty blister packs into designated recycling bins provided at all Chemist Warehouse pharmacies across
Australia! They can be of any brand as long as they are empty and free from any plastic bag or cardboard box packaging. Recycling is especially important for preserving aluminium because it’s a finite natural resource that is extracted in an energy-intensive process. The good thing is it can be recycled infinitely without losing quality, making recycling essential for conserving this valuable material.
(Blister packs cannot be recycled at home through your council’s kerbside recycling service as the aluminium and plastic materials requires specialised machinery to separate the materials before they can be recycled.)
Drop off at Chemist Warehouse, 2 Sydal St. Caloundra (near Bunnings). Don’t forget to use the Parish scheme id C11072500 code when recycling your Containers for Cash. From your Parish Laudato Si Care 4 Creation Group (LSC4C)
If you would like to join this group please contact Bob Cullen via cp*******************@bn*.au
Children’s Liturgy
Please note that children’s liturgy has now finished for the year and will recommence in Term one 2025.
“Jesus is the Reason for the Season”
In tracking the lights in Caloundra don’t forget with the focus on the activity and the reminder “Jesus in the Reason for the Season”, you are welcome to visit Bishop Brian’s Christmas Lights any evening after 6.30pm – 5 & 7 Buderim St Currimundi.
Community Life
Community Life Ministry team has continued to focus throughout the wider parish this year “by facilitating experiences of connection, participation and belonging.” We have been continuing to encourage the wearing of name badges, providing hospitality after mass, celebrating Volunteers Day and relevant feast days for each community location and building the spirit of community in the varied mass locations in the OLR parish.
Our major focus currently is highlighting and elevating the vital role of mass greeters throughout all locations. The greeter is usually the first point of contact as people walk through the door hopefully feeling a sense of welcoming and belonging whether they be a parishioner at that mass who is long-term or new or a visitor. When this happens our parish mission “to be a vibrant community that actively accompanies people to encounter Jesus” truly comes alive at the entry doors thanks to our valued Greeters.
The role of Greeters has now become even more important with the expected changes to the Mass roster throughout our extensive parish. It is now very timely to call together our current Greeters and any interested persons from throughout the parish.
Meeters & Greeters
The one hour sessions will be at OLR Caloundra church on:
Saturday, Dec 14th at 3:30pm,
Sunday, Dec 15th at 7:30am and 10:30am
For more information, please contact cp**************@bn*.au
Parish Dinner Dance 26th April 2025
It’s been a while since our last big celebration. The parish is inviting all parishioners and friends to celebrate an evening filled with great food, entertainment and good fellowship. With the congregation now consisting of people with ancestry coming from over 24 countries, we want to take this as an opportunity to celebrate its cultural diversity and get together as single people of God. Let’s bring colour on the night and don your best frock. Mark the date and watch this space in the future for details.
Have you signed up? Why Flocknote?
Parishioners and visitors are invited to scan the QR code to sign up and register with the parish. If you have any questions, please see Father Josh, Francis or Gerard. Please note that if you received the old MailChimp eNewsletter, you will automatically be included in the new
Flocknote eNews group.
Click the link HERE to register.
Merindah Summer Camp 2025
A Year of Invitation
My Lord and my God, you never cease to invite me to know, love and follow your Son, Jesus. Give me the grace and courage to be a channel of your love so that my “yes” to you becomes an invitation to others. I offer up my entire self – heart, mind and will – to your purpose for me. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
On the Journey
We pray for all who have recently died and the souls of our deceased priests, religious and parishioners Rest in Peace.
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