{"id":7273,"date":"2024-03-28T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T03:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/?p=7273"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T03:52:57","slug":"from-the-pastor-31-march-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/from-the-pastor-31-march-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Pastor \u2013 31 March 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Dear brothers and sisters,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;\u201cTill this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.\u201d (Jn 20:9)<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.&nbsp;<strong>What is the Easter Octave?&nbsp; <\/strong>Christians don\u2019t just feast Easter on one day: being joyful people, for Christians it is Easter every day for 8 days from Easter Sunday, and so each of those days we live and feast as Easter Sunday again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.\u00a0<strong>We are offering the most amazing program<\/strong> in our parish from 29 April.\u00a0 The Alpha course makes it very easy to meet the Risen Jesus and experience in my heart the love of God for me personally.\u00a0 We already have a number of people signed up.\u00a0 <strong>If you\u2019re looking for<\/strong> a change in life, as a Christian or non-Christian, join us as we do this together in a warm and welcoming way, via <a href=\"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/alpha\/\">https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/alpha\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.&nbsp;<strong>Fire &amp; Hope<\/strong>, a <strong>monthly youth group for 18-25s<\/strong> will be starting in the parish on 17 April at 730pm.&nbsp; Each meet will include a time of praise, formation and prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5.&nbsp;On 8 April at 7pm there will be a <strong>Mass of the Annunciation<\/strong> in the church with music provided by the Emmanuel Community.&nbsp; All welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6.&nbsp;Following your feedback we will be making the confessional more soundproof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7.&nbsp;The <strong>parish office will be closed 2, 3, 19, 23 April 2024.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8.&nbsp;Following the success of our Exodus group <strong>we are starting a Parish Men\u2019s Fraternity.<\/strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; Members will commit to at least 10 minutes of prayer every day, confession once a month, taking up one service in the parish, and a monthly meeting of a meal\/drinks, formation and prayer.&nbsp; Some guys are already keen to start.&nbsp; Interested men can contact Fr Josh via <a href=\"mailto:joshua.miechels@sydneycatholic.org\">joshua.miechels@sydneycatholic.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9.&nbsp;<strong>Please follow our Instagram page<\/strong> to receive daily parish updates, photos and reels: @stpeterchanelstjoseph.berala<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours in Our Lord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>J+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTill this moment they had failed to understand the teaching of scripture, that he must rise from the dead.\u201d (Jn 20:9)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7275,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7273\/revisions\/7275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeter-stjoseph.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}