Mass Times

Forster-Tuncurry Catholic Parish

Mass registrations are now online through our website:

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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, 7 August

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

Sunday, 8 August
St Mary of the Cross (Mary MacKillop)

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

COVID-19 Mass Attendance Rules & 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

There is, of course, many points in the Readings for this Sunday, but there is one image that ‘speaks’ to me.  It’s funny, realistic and illustrates an unfortunate human trait.

The whole community of the sons of Israel began to complain against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness and said to them, 'Why did we not die at the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt, when we were able to sit down to pans of meat and could eat bread to our heart's content!  As it is, you have brought us to this wilderness to starve this whole company to death!'                                                       Exodus 16

I’m sorry but I just can’t help laughing!  How a group of people, the Chosen People, are having a whinge at Moses and God.  God has just brought them out of Egypt by parting the Red Sea, and destroying the Egyptian army!  He sent the Angels of Death to kill their first born but Pass-over their homes.  He sent 7 plagues to convince the Egyptians that He was the one true God.  He raised up the greatest leader in Hebrew history, Moses, to lead them!

Their response?  Whinging - we would have died in Egypt but at least we wouldn’t have been hungry when we were killed!  And whose fault is it?  Moses!  Through whom God had saved his people time and again!

Can you see this pack of humans at their worst?  They sound just like my kids when they were young - no matter what you gave them, or did for them, they always wanted more.  I can still hear: “There’s never anything to eat in this house” and then a slammed door.

Have a good week.

Denise Ryan
Ministry Coordinator