Shrine Of Our Lady Of Mercy - Penrose Park

Just a few days to go...

URGENT CALL TO ACTION
Dear Friends, our Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy - Penrose Park is now threatened by one of Australia’s biggest sand mines to be built on our boundary, just metres from our Sacred Grotto. Penrose Park attracts thousands of national and international pilgrims a year.
We are extremely concerned about this huge mine on our border. This is a 47 hectare open-cut pit (about the size of our Penrose Park) to 39 metres below the water table, which will reduce and po...llute our and our neighbours water supplies. Noise, blasting and light pollution 24 hours a day will ruin our peace and tranquility and interupt our worship. Dust will affect our health and damage our shrines. Clearing 63 hectares of native bush will harm our native flora and fauna and critically block this section of the Great Western Wildlife Corridor.
Please help us in this fight. 1st: Make an individual submission objecting this project URGENTLY at http://www.majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov .au/index.pl… 2nd: Join the SAVE OUR SANDS ALLIANCE and get information on how to make a submission to oppose the mine. Send an email to saveoursandz@gmail.com 3rd: If you live in the area come to the PUBLIC MEETING 6.30 pm, Friday 15th June St Paul's Catholic Primary School Hall 24 Garrett St., Moss Vale
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First Holy Communion and Corpus Christi with the Eucharistic Procession to four altars. We have received many blessings and graces. One of them is the air conditioning in the Shrine church. May God bless all the pilgrims who visit our Shrine. Many blessings Fr. D. PS. Thanks to everyone who made this day possible

First Saturday Formations Days at Penrose Park - "Renewal of Faith. Learning in the Immaculate Heart of Mary"

Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy will proudly participate in the initiative of OZ Rosary. Let us flood Australia with Hail Marys.
We will offer the Rosaries prayed in our celebration of monthly Fatima Day for the intentions of OZ Rosary.
10am Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament... 10.20am Rosary (I) 11am Pontifical Holy Mass 1.30pm Rosary Procession to the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes - Holy Rosary (II) 3pm Conclusion
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You are invited to join our Pentecost Vigil to celebrate coming of the Holy Spirit. It will be a special evening of prayer and adoration.
Programme: 6pm - Holy Mass - Vigil of the Pentecost (please be aware that there will be prolonged Liturgy of the Word) - it will not be a short Mass :) followed by a light supper in the marquee (BYO to share - tea and coffee provided). Afterwards a battery torchlight Rosary procession to the Grotto, returning to the church for adoration and prayers until 10pm.

"Renewal of Faith. Learning in the Immaculate Heart of Mary"
Programme: 9am - Formation talk 1 10am - Adoration and Confessions... 11am - Holy Mass followed by time for lunch (BYO) 1.30pm - First Saturday Devotions (Rosary, meditation) followed by Formation talk 2 3pm - Coffee, tea - social and Q&A time
Our Lady said on July 13, 1917: ”God wishes to establish in the world devotion to Her Immaculate Heart and that She would come to ask for the communion of reparation on the first Saturdays….”
What do you have to do? The devotion of First Saturdays, as requested by Our Lady of Fatima, carries with it the assurance of salvation. However, to derive profit from such a great promise of Our Lady, the devotion must be properly understood and duly performed. The requirements as stipulated by Our Lady are as follows:
- sacramental confession, - receiving the Holy Communion, - five decades of the rosary, - meditation on one or more of the mysteries of the rosary for fifteen minutes, - to observe all these practices on the first Saturday of five consecutive months.
These four conditions must be completed in the spirit of reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary
When Lucia asked why do we need to celebrate the five first Saturdays? Our Lord answered: My daughter, the motive is simple, there are five kinds of offences and blasphemies uttered against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: 1. blasphemies against the Immaculate Conception; 2. blasphemies against her virginity; 3. blasphemies against her Divine Maternity; 4. blasphemies of those who openly seek to foster in the hearts of children indifference or even hatred for this Immaculate Mother; 5. offences of those who directly outrage her in her holy images.
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Fatima Day is the main feature of our shrine - well known and esteemed monthly celebration in honour of Our Lady and her message from Fatima.
This Day will be very special as it will contain many features: it is a solemnity of the Ascension of Our Lord it is a proper Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima... it is also Mothers Day
and our Principal Celebrant will be: Most. Rev. Peter W. Ingham DD Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Wollongong
Programme: 10:00 am Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Rosary Possibility for confession on the Shrine's grounds
11:00 am Pontifical Holy Mass
1.30pm Eucharistic procession towards the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes with special devotions and spiritual encouragement address to our pilgrims
3pm Conclusion
Come along to celebrate this day with us.
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Swapping the habit for the graduation gown today! Thank you to everyone who has helped and supported me on this journey towards the Licentiate of Sacred Theology / Master of Theology. Big thanks to my professors, the CIS and the SCD staff and my Pauline community. Fr. D.

And there it is. From the next 1st Saturday (5th May) there will be cyclical formation retreat days “Renewal of Faith. Learning in the Immaculate Heart of Mary”. More info soon
Many blessings Fr. D.

Our Journey through the Sacred Paschal Triduum

Easter Vigil
Christ is Risen! Indeed He's Risen! Alleluia!

Good Friday in our Shrine. Many thank to those participating in the Re-Enactment of the Lord's Passion in the Shrine's grounds and the Liturgy of the Lord's Passion in the Shrine church. Fr. D.

Preparing for Good Friday. Many thanks to our decorator. May God bless you hundredfold for your time, effort and dedication. Fr. D.

Today we celebrate Palm Sunday. As we enter into Holy Week and meditate on the Passion of Our Lord may we see our own struggles in the light of Jesus’ sufferings with a hope of the dawn of the resurrection.
We pray that you will have a blessed time in the days approaching Easter.
Fr. D. and Community

Program for the day:
9am Holy Mass in English (Shrine Church) followed by exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament and Holy Rosary (Joyful Mysteries)
10am Holy Mass in Polish (Old Monastery Chapel)
... 11am Holy Mass in English (Shrine Church) followed by exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament (Adoration with Hymns and Passages from the Diary of St Faustina)
1pm Holy Rosary (Glorious Mysteries)
1.30pm Reflection on the Divine Mercy, Solemn Blessing of Divine Mercy Images (please bring your own image or purchase one from our Piety Shop on the adjoining property)
2.30pm Invocations in honour of the Blessed Sacrament and St. Faustina’s Prayer to be merciful to others
3pm The 3 o’clock Prayer and Solemn Divine Mercy Chaplet, Act of Consecration to the Divine Mercy
3.30pm Benediction and individual blessing with the Most Blessed Sacrament followed by veneration of the Divine Mercy Image and relics of St. Faustina
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Sunday of the Resurrection, 1st April 2018 Masses: 9am - Holy Mass in the Shrine Church (in English),
10am - Holy Mass in the Old Monastery (in Polish)... 10.00 - Msza Swieta w Starym Klasztorze (po polsku)
11am - Solemn Holy Mass in the Shrine Church (in English)
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Great place to go for prayers and meditations or just to have a picnic fellowship with friends and family. It was worth the 2 1/2 hour drive (one way).

Great place to go for prayers and meditations or just to have a picnic fellowship with friends and family. It was worth the 2 1/2 hour drive (one way).

Great place to go for prayers and meditations or just to have a picnic fellowship with friends and family. It was worth the 2 1/2 hour drive (one way).

Great place to go for prayers and meditations or just to have a picnic fellowship with friends and family. It was worth the 2 1/2 hour drive (one way).