This is just a reminder that we will be in one of the classrooms in Yorakal Block for the 6 p.m. Vigil Mass on 3 May, 2025, since the Electoral Commission will be using the Yanchep Beach Primary School Hall.
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HOLY WEEK 2025
Please phone or message Fr Thomas if you need more details.
Christmas Mass 2023
The Christmas Vigil will be held at Yanchep Beach Primary School at 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2023. Carols commence at 5.45 p.m. Wishing all parishioners a happy and holy Christmas!
A blessed and joyful Christmastide to all
This beautiful 15th century work of art depicts the Virgin Mary kneeling in veneration and contemplation of the Holy Child who is a source of illumination and a light to the nations. In the background an angel appears to shepherds tending their sheep on the hillside. Discover the significance of this painting at the link here: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/…/geertgen-tot-sint…
Geertgen tot Sint Jans, The Nativity at Night, c. 1490. National Gallery, London.
R.I.P. Peter Even
On Saturday, 14th May, our faithful friend and fellow parishioner, Peter Even, went home to meet The Lord, at the age of 91, after many months of quietly and stoically battling cancer. He had continued to attend Mass until the week before his death, and on the Friday evening prior to his passing, he received the Last Rites.
We extend our deepest sympathies to his family, who in December of last year, also lost their mother and grandmother, Johanna Christina, wife of Peter.
Peter’s Funeral Mass will be held at 09:30 a.m., Saturday 21 May 2022, at St Andrew’s Church, Clarkson, followed by burial at 11:00 a.m. at Pinnaroo Cemetery, Whitfords Avenue.
As we pray in the Eucharistic Prayer,
“Remember our brother who has fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy; welcome him into the light of your face.”
Welcome to Fr Thomas
On the Third Sunday of Easter, we welcomed Fr Thomas Zureich to our Catholic community of Yanchep/Two Rocks. Fr Thomas comes to us after serving in the wheatbelt towns of Corrigin/Kulin/Hyden, where, with the assistance of the Holy Spirit and the local community, he has worked very hard to repair and renovate the parish buildings, and revive the sacramental program. May Our Lord and our Blessed Mother accompany him with grace to help our local parish community to grow and thrive.
Easter Triduum Mass Times 2021
Here are the local Mass Times for the Easter Triduum.
| Holy Thursday | 1st April | LANCELIN | MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER | 5:30 p.m. |
| Good Friday | 2nd April | TWO ROCKS PRESBYTERY (3 Blaxland Ave) | STATIONS OF THE CROSS | 10 a.m. |
| Good Friday | 2nd April | TWO ROCKS PRESBYTERY (3 Blaxland Ave) | THE LORD’S PASSION | 3 p.m. |
| Holy Saturday | 3rd April | YANCHEP COMMUNITY CENTRE | EASTER VIGIL | 6 p.m. |
| Sunday | 4th April | GUILDERTON | EASTER MASS | 8 a.m. |
| Sunday | 4th April | LANCELIN | EASTER MASS | 10 a.m. |
Wishing you all a blessed Holy Week.
Remembering Pat Murphy 6.11.1932 – 17.09.2020
I do love the little coincidences that are a constant part of the life of a Christian. I had been thinking it was high time I published a tribute to Pat Murphy, one of our former parishioners, who died on 17 September this year. And so I started searching through my enormous collection of photographs to find one that I remembered taking of Pat and Bishop Sproxton, when he visited Yanchep. When I finally found it, I had one of those tingles of surprise and satisfaction to discover it is exactly 5 years to the day since I took that photo. I say “satisfaction” because that is the feeling one gets when it is confirmed to you that the cloud of witnesses is actually very close by, and giving you hints.
Pat was (and is still!) a very holy, gentle woman. She had a great love for the Sacred Heart of Jesus and was one of the ladies of the parish you could rely on to be at daily devotions, rain, hail or shine. She was also one of those self-effacing people who always had a kind word, and was willing to give the benefit of the doubt to you, if there was some doubt about your wholesomeness! I still remember the time when there was a bit of a kerfuffle going on, and she said to me, “I don’t think those things they said about you were true.” (I still haven’t found out what she meant, but never mind.) So I felt quite attached to Pat, and since her funeral, I had been thinking about a prayer card she once gave to me when I was desperately upset, and wondered where on earth I had put it. Well, within a week of her funeral, lo and behold, I was doing some tidying up and came upon C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity in a pile of paperwork, whereupon this prayer card of hers fell out, as I had been using it as a bookmark. That gave me another of those satisfying shivers (thanks, Pat!)
So I ask Pat, “Please pray for me and my family, as I pray for your period of purgation to be short, and your soul to be united as soon as possible with Our Blessed Lord in the company of the angels and saints.”
The verse that immediately comes to mind is 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14.
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Her grave is not far from my husband’s – should you wish to pay your respects, it is in the section 1672-1730, Tuart Court, Pinnaroo.
GK Chesterton and Anglo-Catholicism –a forerunner of the Personal Ordinariates
This week we have a guest post from Simon Dennerly. Simon, on behalf of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, has got together with the Dawson Society to host a series of talks on Chesterton’s fictional works. Our local literary expert, Daniel Matthys, gave us a spellbinding introduction last week. If you haven’t yet attended, it’s not too late to start.
Chesterton and the Ordinariates
by Simon Dennerly
What do G.K. Chesterton and the Ordinariates have in common? In a sense, everything. This has lead to a project to promote the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, by promoting G.K. Chesterton: using a model that is easily replicable.
Many people are aware Chesterton was an Anglican writer who converted to the Catholic Church: but that is only half the story. To a vast majority ‘Anglican’ automatically means ‘Protestant’, but while Chesterton wrote many of his great works while a member of the Church of England, few are aware he was a member of the Anglo-Catholic section of that institution and critical of Reformed Theology. Faith shapes one’s world-view, and Anglo-Catholicism is more than just liturgy, it is also an intellectual school. So when we talk of Chesterton’s conversion: it was not to ‘Catholicism’, as he already held Catholic…
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