St. Benedict’s Feast Day Last Sunday our Parish celebrated the Feast of St Benedict. The main Celebrant for the Eucharist was Fr Richard Green who so kindly traveled from Moss Vale. Fr Jarek, Fr Wojtek & Fr Eric con-celebrated. Many Parishioners, friends & families attended the Mass in The Shrine dedicated to St Benedict followed by Luncheon in the… Read More
First Mass at Smithfield of Fr. Joseph Maria Buckley On the weekend of the 23/24th June, we were Blessed to have the newly Ordained Fr Joseph Maria Buckley Celebrate at all Masses for the first time here at our Parish of St Gertrude’s. At the 10:30am Mass, we congratulated Fr Joseph Maria and presented him with a gift from our Parish. After Mass, a… Read More
Pauline Vocation Day On the 20th of July the newly Ordained Fr. Joseph Maria Buckley will be leading a vocations day at St. Gertrude’s Parish focused on young men that are trying to discern their vocation. We invite all the young men of the parish to come. We ask everyone else to pray for the success of the… Read More
Live Stream of the Ordination of Br. Joseph Maria The Ordination of Br. Joseph Maria will be lived streamed on YouTube.… Read More
Ordination to the Diaconate of Br Jeremy Santoso OSPPE On the 8th of May 2018 Br Jeremy Santoso OSPPE was ordained a deacon at our Seminary in Poland. We would like to congratulate him on this extraordinary occasion and we look forward to his return to Australia.… Read More
Excursion to Mary MacKillop Place Parents and friends of St Gertrude’s Catholic Primary School and Parish community are invited to attend an excursion to Mary MacKillop Place that is being organised by our Family Educator – Alida Bila. When: Tuesday 26th June 2018 Cost: $35/adult and $20/child For more information please see the attached letter below. Excursion to Mary MacKillop… Read More
Ascension Sunday and Mothers Day Mass Today at 10:30 am Mass Fr Jarek gathered the Children around the Altar and focused his homily on the Ascension with a visual display using helium balloons. During the Homily the children interacted with wisdom & understanding of the meaning of the Ascension. After the final blessing each child was given a balloon. They joined… Read More
Mother’s Day Luncheon The Parish Mother’s Day Luncheon hosted by the Italian FCI group last Friday was an exceptional success. Guests enjoyed a 3 course lunch, dessert, drinks & Crostoli especially made by FCI Members. A special thank you to Fr Jarek, Fr Wojtek & Br Zachary and all 150 guests. Lots of photos attached! … Read More
Funeral of Fr. Jose Maria – Spanish Chaplain The Funeral of Fr. Jose Maria Enedeguila, the Spanish Chaplain of our community will be on Friday the 27th of April 2018 at 11am. There will also be a vigil mass at 7:30pm the night before.… Read More
Altar Severs Thank You Pizza Night To thank all the altar servers (and also our youth choir) that helped out during the Easter Ceremonies we had a pizza night. We created a short video of it.… Read More