Ministry & Parish News
Mass Times
Forster-Tuncurry Catholic Parish
Holy Name Church current Mass times are:
Saturday – 5 pm
Sunday – 8 am, 10 am and 12 noon
Due to current restrictions regarding the number of attendees we can have at Mass, attendance is by registration only. To register, phone 6554 6401 or email forster-tuncurry.parish@mn.catholic.org.au. Please provide names of those attending, address, phone, email and preferred Mass time.
To watch the 8 am Sunday Mass live stream please send us your email address to receive the link.
The Holy Name Church is open from 9 am- 3 pm Monday - Friday for private prayer.
Further updates can be viewed on the Forster-Tuncurry Parish Website:
Taree Catholic Parish
Our Lady of the Rosary Church Taree current Mass times are:
Saturday - 6 pm
Sunday – 9:30 am
Saturday
6:00 pm Taree Mass
6:00 pm Harrington SCAE
Sunday
7:30 am Old Bar SCAE
7:30 am Wingham Mass
9:30 am Taree Mass
COVID-19 Mass Attendance Regulations:
- Parishioners need to book via the Parish office, 6552 1084 Tuesday to Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The volunteers at the church door can tick your name if attending the following weeks service. It is a legal requirement to provide name and contact details.
- If you are unable to attend you will need to rebook via the office.
- Please do not attend the SCAE or Mass service if you are not feeling well.
QR Codes: There are QR codes placed in every entrance of the church. Please kindly scan the QR code before entering and show the confirmation details to our volunteers at the door. People who are unable to sign in using QR code may do it manually. Our kind volunteers are willing to assist.
Prayer Point: 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time – 7 February
A reading from the holy Gospel according to Mark 1: 29-30
On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went with James and John straight to the house of Simon and Andrew. Now Simon's mother-in-law had gone to bed with fever, and they told him about her straightaway. He went to her, took her by the hand and helped her up. And the fever left her and she began to wait on them.
That evening, after sunset, they brought to him all who were sick and those who were possessed by devils. The whole town came crowding round the door, and he cured many who were suffering from diseases of one kind or another; he also cast out many devils, but he would not allow them to speak, because they knew who he was.
In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there. Simon and his companions set out in search of him, and when they found him they said, 'Everybody is looking for you.' He answered, 'Let us go elsewhere, to the neighbouring country towns, so that I can preach there too, because that is why I came.' And he went all through Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out devils.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Is it “Ordinary Time” in our little world? Certainly not! We’ve just started back into “School Time”!
There are so many rich images in this Gospel. I love ‘seeing’ Peter’s mother-in-law being sick. But then Jesus cures her and she can go back to ‘waiting on them’ - very ordinary in the extraordinary.
I can see the whole town crowding around the door begging to be cured, and he did. Again ordinary/extraordinary!
But then, in the night, he goes to a lonely place to pray. That’s extraordinary! For him, though, that’s ordinary and gives him the courage, energy, love and the means of hope for the Galileans.
Jesus gives us hope in the midst of our ordinary life.
Have a great week.
Denise Ryan
Ministry Coordinator