Mass Times

Forster-Tuncurry Catholic Parish

Mass registrations are now online through our website:

Register Here

Mass times at the Holy Name Church - Saturday 5.00 pm, Sunday 8.00 am, 10.00am and 12 noon.  Attendance is through online registration only before 3 pm Friday.

Send us your email to receive the 8 am Sunday Mass live stream 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, 24 July

6:00 pm Taree Mass
5:00 pm Harrington SCAE

Sunday, 25 July
17^th Sunday in Ordinary Time

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

COVID-19 Mass Attendance Regulations:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The congregation is not permitted to sing.
4. Maintain physical distancing. Please wait for the volunteer/usher to take you to your seat.
5. It is now mandatory to wear a fitted face covering (mask) in the church unless with a physical or medical health condition that makes wearing a mask difficult. Anyone under the age of 12 years are exempted.

Prayer Point:  17^th Sunday in Ordinary Time – 25 July

“Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said, ‘There is a small boy here with five barley loaves and two fish; but what is that between so many?'

 Jesus said to them, 'Make the people sit down.'

 There was plenty of grass there, and as many as five thousand men sat down.

 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks and gave them out to all who were sitting ready; he then did the same with the fish, giving out as much as was wanted.

 When they had eaten enough he said to the disciples, 'Pick up the pieces left over, so that nothing gets wasted.'

 So they picked them up, and filled twelve hampers with scraps left over from the meal of five barley loaves.”

John 6:1-15

Picture a hungry crowd of people like you and me - feeling a bit lost, looking for a leader with a vision for the future, worried about COVID and work and family and everything else.  We decide to check-out Jesus because, well, there’s no-one else with much to say that’s worth listening to.  (Sounds familiar?).

We’re hungry, physically and spiritually, and hope that maybe Jesus can feed us.

To do that, Jesus uses all that we have:  five loaves and two fish.

Jesus uses just what we have and feeds 5000 people.  He doesn’t need any more than what we have and there are 12 baskets left over.  (In ‘Gospel speak’ 12 means super-abundance, much, much more than anyone needs in their lifetime).

There’s even enough for us to eat.

Have a great week

Denise Ryan
Ministry Coordinator

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