Mass Times

Forster-Tuncurry Catholic Parish

Mass times at the Holy Name Church - Saturday 5.00 pm & Sunday 8.00 am, 10.00 am and 12 noon. 

Attendance is through registration only - phone 6554 6401 or email forster-tuncurry.parish@mn.catholic.org.au before 3pm Friday.  Please provide name, phone or 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.  You are strongly encouraged to use the QR code linked to the Service NSW app to check in and out of the church.

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, 1 May

6:00 pm Taree Mass
6:00 pm Harrington SCAE

Sunday, 2 May
5^th Sunday of Easter

7:30 am Old Bar SCAE
7:30 am Wingham Mass
9:30 am Taree Mass

COVID-19 Mass Attendance Regulations:

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 codes may do it manually.  Our volunteers are willing to assist.

Please do not attend the Mass if you are unwell, displaying COVID-19 symptoms or have been in contact with a COVID-19 affected person.

Easter Liturgy

Prayer Point – Fifth Sunday of Easter:  2 May

I am a gardener of mixed results and little time, but I do love to get outside and dig in the earth.  It’s time to prune so that the plants will flower, especially well in Spring.  As I do so I am sometimes reminded about Jesus’ teaching about ‘bearing fruit’ and being a ‘part of the vine’.

“I am the true vine and my Father is the vinedresser…
and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes to make it bear even more.

You are pruned already, by means of the word that I have spoken to you.

As a branch cannot bear fruit all by itself, but must remain part of the vine, neither can you unless you remain in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches.
Anyone who does not remain in me is like a branch that has been
thrown away - he withers;
these branches are collected and thrown on the fire,
and they are burnt.

If you remain in me and my words remain in you,
you may ask what you will and you shall get it.
It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit,
and then you will be my disciples.'       

John 15:1-8

I particularly like ‘you may ask what you will and you shall get it’!!!!

Have a great week,

Denise Ryan
Ministry Coordinator

Staff Attend Reflection Day with Bishop Bill

The Catholic Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, along with all Dioceses in Australia, is currently undertaking a review of our 21^st century Australian Church; a review which will help us, as a diocesan community and nation, to respond to the challenges we face at this time in our history. The review is focusing on identity and community, worship and prayer, formation and education, mission and outreach.

Launched in 2019, and interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the review is using the process of a synod which invites participation by all members of the church.  A number of our St Clare’s community have accepted the challenge to become formal members of the process.  Along with 50 others, they met with Bishop Bill at Forster this week. 

 Jason Koenig, Deacon Vince, David Hutchison, Bernadette Boere, Bishop Bill, Sr Ellen,
Laura Boere & Fr Greg