FOLLOW THE PILGRIMAGE OF THE RELICS EACH DAY
Archdiocese of Adelaide
Colonel Light Gardens Parish
Day 11-12 [next]
Diocesan Contact:
Mrs Imelda Radibratovic
Tel) 08 8210 8117
Fax) 08 8232 3740
Email) advertise@adelaide.catholic.org.au
Website) adelaide.catholic.org.au/therese
Adelaide Archdiocese
(Adelaide & Colonel Light Gardens)
St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral and St Therese’s church at Colonel Light Gardens will remain open around the clock when St Thérèse of Lisieux’s relics arrive in Adelaide.
Organisers say there will be continual devotions, Masses and quiet prayer time over a 24-hour period at the churches during the Adelaide section of the national tour.
School children and parishioners are expected to line Sir Donald Bradman Drive as the St Thérèse cortege, accompanied by police escort, makes its way from the airport to Colonel Light Gardens parish.
The relics are contained in an ornate jacaranda wood and silver reliquary transported in a Holden Zafira people mover.
Schools are being encouraged to send students to the 10.30 am Mass at the Cathedral on Thursday, February 14.
Masses will be in English with involvement from ethnic communities. Confession will be offered at specific times and a priest will be on duty for pastoral care throughout the pilgrimage.
Security will be tight during the tour and people are not allowed to touch the relics.
11 Feb 2002 - Monday - In transit
12 Feb 2002 - Tuesday
(Shrove Tuesday)
St Therese's Parish,
3 Oxford Circus,
COLONEL LIGHT GARDENS 5008
Tel: 08 8276 1131
10 am: Formal devotional welcome and reception of relics
11 – 11.45 am: Confessions
Noon: Mass
1 – 3 pm: Readings from scripture and from St Thérèse’s life. Quiet devotional time.
3 pm: Mass
4 – 5 pm: Confessions, quiet devotional time, scripture readings and readings from St Thérèse’s. writings.
5 pm: Evening prayer
6 pm: Mass and devotional time
7 – 8 pm: Confession
9 pm: Mass and devotional time
11 pm: Benediction and quiet devotional time
Wednesday February 13
Ash Wednesday
9 am: Ash Wednesday Mass at St Therese’s
10.30 am: Ritual departure of the relics
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04-Feb-2002
Therese a pathway to peace
In his letter to the February Southern Cross, Archbishop Philip says Thèrése of Lisieux and our own Blessed Mary MacKillop remind us that we have to fight against the illusion that evil is an all-powerful force in the world.
"So many people are now involved in preparing for celebrations associated with the visit of the relics of St Thèrése in a few weeks time.
The visit and all that is associated with it is oriented entirely towards trying to promote a few days of fervent prayer in association with a Saint who has much to teach us about accepting God’s will for ourselves in our lives and discovering that what we might often see as restrictions or blockages in our lives are in fact the pathways God has given us to do good and have a big influence on others.
So I would suggest one of the themes we should take up in this time of the visit of the relics is we should make it a moment of profound prayer to God in union with St Thèrése for peace in the world.
By what we see on television or encounter through the media we could be forgiven for thinking that there is a God of War who has won and that violence and hatred really are powerful forces that have the final word.
Saints like Thèrése and our own Blessed Mary MacKillop remind us that this is not true, that we have to fight against the illusion that these are the powerful forces in the world and that we can’t do anything about them.
What we know is that God is powerful and has made his powerful appearance among us in Jesus Christ and we believe that if we pray and ask God to help us then God will help us.
So while we have a big responsibility to be peacemakers in the world in union with God by the way we live and the values we choose, we as Christians also have another pathway of allowing God’s work to be done in the world and that’s by the pathway of prayer.
When we come to the visit of St Thèrése our minds will be filled by the images of the Holy Father praying with the leaders of world religions in Assisi and we hope that will be reproduced soon in our community under the auspices of the Heads of Christian Churches."
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