St Francis Xavier Lurnea

January 28-29 Bulletin

John Coppola — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:29:38 +0000

From Fr Peter’s Desk

John Coppola — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:28:14 +0000

Our Parish Website

Some Statistics:

Crunchy numbers: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,600 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

In 2011, there were 40 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 116 posts. There were 65 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 24mb. That’s about a picture per week.

The busiest day of the year was December 24th with 334 views. The most popular post that day was Mass Times. (Saving me 334 phone calls.)

Most visitors came from Australia. The United States & The United Kingdom were not far behind.

These are the posts that got the most views on St Francis Xavier Lurnea in 2011.

1 Mass Times
2 Contact Us
3 Funeral Mass Booklet 4 Weekly Bulletins
5 Parish History

Thank you to Enda Scully and John Coppola for their work in establishing and maintaining the website. There is more to come in 2012 so please visit the site occasionally!

From Fr Peter’s desk

John Coppola — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:30:39 +0000

Today we are in danger of being drowned in bad news. Jesus began his ministry by announcing good news. What was this good news?
That the kingdom of heaven had come.

The kingdom stands for the fulfilment of the promises, The fullness of God’s blessings,
In short, the new order of things.
Forgiveness is available. Recovery is possible.

God’s love is unconditional
and is available to us in Christ.
All we have to do is recognise our need,
and seek his help with humility and sincerity. Unless we repent we cannot hear the good news.

Weekly Bulletin

John Coppola — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:27:42 +0000

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From Fr Peter’s desk

John Coppola — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 07:12:23 +0000

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather.
I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized.
If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goeth