There are live-stream masses from St Justin's Church.
Monday – Friday: 9.15 am - Live-stream mass
Saturday: 6.00pm - Live-stream mass
Sunday: 10.30am - Live-stream mass
Please fine St Justin's Wheelers Hill on Facebook and YouTube.
As of 11.59pm Wednesday 08 July 2020 the following will apply for places of worship for 6 weeks, or otherwise directed.
if you live in the Melbourne metropolitan area and the Shire of Mitchell you must stay at home. People may leave their home for four reasons:
- Shopping for food or other essential items
- To provide care giving, for compassionate reasons or to seek medical treatment
- For exercise (outdoor exercise only, with only one other person or members of your household)
- Work or study, only if you cannot work or study from home
PLEASE NOTE: The Government has indicated that police patrols will be present in the Hot Zone Postcode areas to restrict travel to the four reasons listed above
Additional restrictions have also been put in place:
- Weddings in a restricted zones will be limited to 5 people (the couple, two witnesses and the celebrant).
- Baptisms in a restricted zone are to be postponed where possible, unless there is an urgent and grave pastoral need. (Can. 857; 860). In that instance, numbers will be limited to 5 people (the child, couple and godparents within the total of 5 limitations) + celebrant.
- Funerals held in a restricted zone will be restricted to 10 people plus those required to conduct the funeral.
- A wedding or funeral held in a private residence outside of a restricted postcode will be limited to five visitors, plus the celebrant.
- Religious services and private worship will need to be streamed online as places of worship will be closed in restricted postcodes except to hold weddings, funerals or public services such as foodbanks.
- For those liturgies permitted above, all density, number and hygiene regulations must be adhered to, including the recording of participant contact details (first name and phone number).
Except for the exemptions noted regarding Weddings and Funerals, all public Masses, Liturgies and communal devotions (whether indoors or outdoors) are temporarily suspended for 6 weeks or until further notice.
Also affected by this closure are church buildings, adoration chapels and other church buildings used for public prayer and religious services.
Priests may celebrate Mass privately in a closed church, including for the purposes of live streaming. In doing so all precautions such as physical distancing and hygiene measures must be modelled and met. Masses in family homes or other such private or domestic locations are not permitted until further notice.
How to support St Justin's Parish
Dear Parishioners,
Thank you for the continuing support given to our Parish especially during these difficult times.
Thank you very much.
If you wish to support the parish, you can make a donation to our House and Church Account information are in the parish bulletin and website or you can drop your thanksgiving envelopes to the Parish House.
To make donation you can click to the link below.
CDFpay for St Justin’s Parish, Wheelers Hill