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St. Martin De Porres
158 Military Road, Avondale Heights, Vic 3034
Fr Nhân Le
9337 6016
Tuesday to Friday 9:30am - 12:30pm 1:30pm - 5:30pm

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Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord

31st March 2024

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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord

24th March2024

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5th Sunday of Lent

17th March 2024

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10th March 2024

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Holy  Week  Services  2024

Holy Thursday 28th March

7:30pm Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper 
Procession to the Altar of Repose
Silent Adoration to 10pm


Good Friday 29th March

10:00am Morning Prayer & Way of the Cross for Children
3:00pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion - English
5:00pm Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion - Vietnamese
7:30pm Via della Croce - Italian


Holy Saturday 30th March

10:30am – 12 Noon Individual Reconciliation
8:00pm Solemn Vigil Mass of Easter


Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord      31st March

8:00am & 9:30am Mass - English
11:00am Mass - Italian
12:30pm Mass - Vietnamese


 

‘The Dawning Light of the Resurrection’

EASTER 2024 | Message from Archbishop Peter A Comensoli

Friends, I sometimes reflect on the disciples of Jesus in what they had experienced between the time of Jesus’ death and resurrection.

It would have been darkness for them; a questioning of everything they had come to know and had hoped for. Confused and in grief, utterly shaken and probably quite fearful for their lives. We know they were at the threshold between death and life. But God did not want them to drift into oblivion; lost and forsaken.

God instead shook them into a new creation that would change them and everything for all time. With the resurrection of Jesus, the disciples were rocked out of complacency.

Because, at Easter, life had found a way.

The disciples were overjoyed, to be true, but it went far more than that. Nothing would ever be the same after the dawning light of the resurrection in their lives. Theirs was the experience of death defeated, filling them with boldness and conviction to go out.

And so it should be with us.

Easter is not a day in the calendar to wait for and then let slip by. Easter is an invitation to us into the story of Jesus’ resurrection – into the story of the disciples – the move from our darkness, into a new light.

The resurrection of Jesus gives us the means to transform our lives into something much better. When we embrace Jesus’ resurrection we truly can begin living—what a beautiful thought—we break free of all those things that bind us, that keep us in death. For Jesus’ victory over death becomes our victory for life.

Easter is meant to rock us and shake us, so as to empower us.

May it be so for you this Easter.


St Patrick's Mass Sunday 11am on TV C31 Channel 44

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The Parish of St Martin de Porres, Avondale Heights and the Diocese of Melbourne are committed to the care, wellbeing and protection of children, young people and vulnerable people in our community.

Child protection and the dignity of every person is the responsibility of everyone.


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