Special offers just announced - Volunteers and HomeStay

Hello everyone,

Sydney has requested that we assist them by circulating this message
throughout our networks.

Volunteer for WYD08 in Sydney

By becoming a volunteer you will help thousands of people enjoy Sydney
and the activities of WYD08 as well as help Sydney celebrate the
arrival of Pope Benedict XVI.

Special offer

Not only do you get to be part of the largest event in Australia's
history, just by volunteering you will:

· Have WYD08 registration paid for you to participate at
events you are not volunteering at, you'll also receive a special
volunteer's uniform

· On completing your commitment to work volunteer shifts, you
will receive an exclusive invitation to a special audience with Pope
Benedict XVI, where he will thank the 8000 volunteers for their work
and dedication before he leaves Australia

· Automatically go into the draw to win 2 tickets for the BridgeClimb

This offer is valid Friday 13 June, so don't miss out!

www.wyd2008.org/volunteer

HomeStay Hosts during WYD08 week (relevant to Macarthur area in
Diocese of Wollongong)

This is your chance to play an important and rewarding role in
Sydney's hosting of the world's biggest youth event.

Special offer

Not only do you get to be part of the largest event in Australia's
history by welcoming young pilgrims into your home, just by becoming a
HomeStay host you will automatically:

· Get guaranteed access to Randwick Racecourse for the Final Mass

· Go into the draw to win:

- 2 tickets for BridgeClimb

- 2 seats in the VIP area at the Opening Mass

- 2 seats in the VIP area at the Final Mass

- 2 seats on pilgrim boats in the Papal Boat-a-cade

This offer is valid Friday 13 June, so don't miss out!

We are asking Homestay Hosts to volunteer to host pilgrims from
overseas - or from outside Sydney - from 14 July to 21 July 2008.

Pilgrims will be 18 years or older. Homestay Hosts are asked to
provide bed and breakfast (cold or hot) on a complimentary basis.

To become a HomeStay Host you can apply in one of two ways.

Register online or call 1300 993 793.

We look forward to your support for this important and exciting event.

www.wyd2008.org/homestay

Kind Regards

Selina Hasham

Information and Liaison Officer

World Youth Day Sydney 2008

t. +61 2 9390 5918

m.+61 (0) 419 639 742

f. +61 2 9390 5905

www.wyd2008.org

"You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and
you will be my witnesses." Acts 1:8

Leatherjackets Night Out!

Greetings Leatherjackets!

 

Finally details for our night out!

 

When: Friday, 30th May

Time: 7pm

Where: Rashay's Cafe and Restaurant, 339 Hume Highway, Liverpool

Cost: $34.95 meal

  Starters: Herb and Garlic Bread

  Entree: Selection of chicken strips, garlic butter prawns, salt & pepper squid, calamari sticks and wedges

  Mains: Barramundi - oven baked with lemon and dill sauce, salad and chips

  or        Surf & Turf - grilled scotch fillet with prawns, served in a bearnaise sauce with mash and vegetables

 

Desserts and drinks available. BYO wine ($2.50pp).

 

RSVP: Me by Tuesday 27th ($10 deposit).

 

Hope you can make it!!!

 

See you in the pool

Sean

 

UTS: Cardinal George Pell - 28 May

Cardinal George Pell - 28 May
Annual Lawyers and Ethics Eminent Speakers' Series,
University of Technology, Sydney
Haymarket Campus, Quay St (near Entertainment Centre car park)
Moot Court, Faculty of Law

The Annual Lawyers and Ethics Eminent Speakers' Series has been instituted within UTS:LAW in order to raise the profile of moral and ethical issues amongst university students in the 21st Century. Each year, an eminent intellectual with a public profile is invited to address students and staff on a challenging topic that raises questions and debate about the moral dimension of practicing law in Australia.

Cardinal George Pell will be presenting on the topic "Conscience: Do Lawyers need one?". He holds a Licentiate in Theology from Urban University, Rome (1967), a Masters Degree in Education from Monash University, Melbourne (1982), and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Church History from the University of Oxford (1971). He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, and was Visiting Scholar at Campion Hall, Oxford University, in 1979 and at St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, in 1983. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund's in 2003.

1:00 Welcome by Dean Jill McKeough

1:15 Cardinal George Pell address, "Conscience: Do Lawyers need one?"

2:00 Question & answer session

 

Mary, Mother of God - Links

Mary, Mother of God - Links

 

Vatican - http://vatican.mondosearch.com/search_en.aspx?query=mary

EWTN - Fr. William G. Most http://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/marymenu.htm

Catholic.org http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=4967

New Advent http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm

 

AUGUSTISSIMAE VIRGINIS MARIAE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE LEO XIII ON THE CONFRATERNITY OF THE HOLY ROSARY 

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_12091897_augustissimae-virginis-mariae_en.html

 

DEIPARAE VIRGINIS MARIAE ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS XII ON THE POSSIBILITY OF DEFINING THE ASSUMPTION
OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AS A DOGMA OF FAITH TO THE PATRIARCHS, PRIMATES, ARCHBISHOPS, AND OTHER ORDINARIES
AT PEACE AND IN COMMUNION WITH THE APOSTOLIC SEE

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_01051946_deiparae-virginis-mariae_en.html

 

APOSTOLIC LETTER ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II TO THE BISHOPS, CLERGY
AND FAITHFUL ON THE MOST HOLY ROSARY

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_apl_20021016_rosarium-virginis-mariae_en.html

 

 

Catechism:

Mary
Christ's Mother by the power of the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 723-26
the Church and
        active example and type of the Church, 967
        Church reaches towards perfection in, 829
        place in the mystery of the Church, 773, 963-72
        spiritual motherhood, 501

Mary in the economy of salvation
        Annunciation, 484, 490
        assent, 148, 490, 494
        Assumption, 966
        conception by the Holy Spirit, 437, 456, 484-86, 495, 723
        the Immaculate Conception, 490-93
        mediatrix of grace, 969
        predestination of, 488-89, 508
        preserved from sin, 411
        virginity, 496-98, 502-07
        visitation to Elizabeth as God's visitation to His people, 717
        works of the Holy Spirit, 721-26

Mary as exemplar
        of holiness, 2030
        of hope, 64
        of obedience of faith, 144, 148-49, 494
        of prayer in the "Fiat" and "Magnificat," 2617, 2619
        of union with the Son, 964
        and witness of faith, 165, 273

titles of Mary
        Advocate, Help, Benefactress, Mediatrix, 969
        Assumed into heaven, 966
        Eschatological icon of the Church, 967, 972
        Ever Virgin, 499-501
        Full of grace, 722, 2676
        Handmaid of the Lord, 510
        "Hodigitria" or "She shows the way," 2674
        Immaculate, 491-92
        Mother of Christ, 411
        Mother of the Church, 963-70
        Mother of God, 466, 495, 509
        Mother of the living, 494, 511
        The New Eve, 411
        "Panagia" or All Holy, 493
        Seat of Wisdom, 721

veneration of Mary
        faith concerning the veneration of Mary based on faith concerning Christ, 487
        liturgical feasts of, 2043, 2177
        in the liturgical year, 1172, 1370
        not adoration, 971
        prayer to, 2675-79
        respect for the name of, 2146

 

 

 

WYD Trivia Night at Mary Immaculate Parish

WYD Trivia Night at Mary Immaculate Parish

WHEN:      Saturday 24th May @ 6:30pm

WHERE:     Mary Immaculate Parish Hall, Emerald Drive, Eagle Vale

COST:       $10 each or $70 table of eight

BOOKINGS: Petrina on 0422 063 329 

More details below...  

 

 

FaithWorx - Mother's Day Saints Special - Mary, Mother of God

Join us this Sunday night for a Mother's Day Special

Mary, Mother of God

 

 

The Church's teaching concerning Mary and great devotion to her is very often misunderstood and even attacked by non-Catholic Christians, and is sometimes poorly understood even by Catholics.

The Catholic Church teaches that by a free decision of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary was elevated to become the Mother of His Son Jesus Christ and Jesus' worthy associate in redeeming mankind. She was prepared for this role by being preserved by God's grace from all sin, original and personal, throughout her entire life, and was rewarded at the end of her life for her cooperation with God's plan by being taken up, body and soul, into Heaven, where she reigns with her Son as Queen of the Universe, and whence she distributes to men all the graces which, with, through and under her Son, she helped to merit on Calvary.

On Mother's Day, in this month of Mary, join us to explore these teachings in more detail. What is the basis for the Church teaching about the Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, the immaculate conception, the assumption, and prayer to Mary and the Saints?

 

Sunday 11th May 6:30pm-8pm
St John the Evangelist Hall, Meeting Room
Cost: Gold coin donation

 

Wett Ones Carnival 31 May

Greeting LeatherJackets!

I will be sending in the entries tomorrow for the Wett Ones carnival
at Sydney Uni on Saturday 31 May. If you haven't already, can you
email me the events and times that you want to enter and give me the
money when you next see me.

Thanks
Sean