The Almighty works marvels for me. Holy his name!
Welcome to the Catholic Parishes of
St Mary’s Mudgee, St John the Baptist Gulgong,
St Dominic’s Kandos/ St Malachy’s ylstone.
We acknowledge the custodians of the land
on which we live, work and pray.
We walk on Wiradjuri country.
May we con to love and respect the land as they have.
Mrs K
9.00am
1.00pm
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The Church’s new year begins on the rst Sunday
of Advent. May this year nd us ready and waing
for the power of the Holy Spirit to renew our local
church.
In the coming year, I have asked your parish to
hold an assembly. This will not be a one-o event, but the
beginning of a process aimed at widening the circles of
parcipaon in each parish and eucharisc community.
We are developing ways to help parishes prepare for, celebrate
and follow up these assemblies, each in its own way. Please
contact your parish priest if you are willing to help. I hope that
each parish will think about what it could do beer; consider
what it should stop doing; and imagine what it could start doing.
This path begins in Advent, with a parish penitenal service to
prepare the way for the coming assembly. This will serve as an
early announcement of the work that is about to start, as well as
an orientaon in a spirit of humility and openness to the grace of
God.
As Pope St John Paul II put it, The recognion of past wrongs
serves to reawaken our consciences to the compromises of the
present, opening the way of conversion to everyone.
I encourage all parishioners to parcipate in their local
penitenal service; and give their support to this work of
renewal.
+Michael McKenna
The Bishop’s Pastoral leer is available at the back of the church
at online: hps://issuu.com/diobxobs/docs/pastoral_leer_2025
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Please scan the QR code to sign your children in if they are aending Children’s Liturgy.
JUBILEE YEAR OF
HOPE
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Distribuon of items to descendants of donors
The recent sale of St Mahew’s Church Botobolar was for the
church only. None of the items in the church formed part of
the sale.
There are many items in the church that I would like to return
to the descendants of the donors of those items.
To facilitate the return of these items, I plan to open the
church and enable present and former Botobolar residents
who worshipped in St Mahews to collect any items that your
descendants donated to the church.
I invite you to meet at St Mahews on:
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Please communicate this informaon to any family or friends
that you are aware of that may wish to be present at this
meeng.
If it is not possible to be at the meeng in person, you may
wish to nominate a local resident to act on your behalf to
collect the item that your forbear donated.
For more informaon, contact me on 6372 2122 or
pp.mudgee@cdob.org.au
Fr Paul Devi VG PP
WWW.MUDGEE.CATHOLIC.ORG.AU
Catholic Parishes of Mudgee, Gulgong and Kandos
J. Thatcher D. Kelly
M. Golino M. McGregor
M & E Carney TBA
J. Thatcher Priest
C. Furney M. Dunnachie
D. Delahunty B. Redden
L. Nicholson O. O’Brien
D. Cunningham M. Cassidy
C. Carberry A. Blazevic
G. English Children’s Liturgy
E. Potgieter L. Browne
Mon. 1st Dec K. O’Brien
A. McLean R. McKeown
M. Dorney K. Cassidy
Help Needed P. Cassidy
G. Hennessy R. Croake
D. Delahunty M. Dunnachie
K. Isebester Children’s Liturgy
A. Baker L. Browne
Mon. 8th Dec L. Nicholson
Mon - E. Goodlet
Tue -
Wed - J. Cooper
Thu - I. Browne
Fri/Sat - I. Browne
Sun -
First Week of Advent
Oce opens at 10am
First Week of Advent
9.30am Mudgee SMCS Year 6 & Kindy
9.30am St. Mary’s Cra and Friendship Group
10.00am ’Distribuon of items
5.15pm Reconciliaon—Mudgee
5.45pm Mudgee
First Week of Advent
9.30am Mudgee SMCS Year 2
10.00am Bapsm Preparaon—Mudgee Parish Centre
First Week of Advent
10.30am Opal Nursing Home Mass
11.30am Exposion of the Blessed Sacrament
12 noon Angelus and Rosary
12.30pm —Mudgee
First Week of Advent
11.00am Bapsm
5.30pm —Mudgee
6.00pm —Mudgee
8.30am Rosary
9.00am Mudgee
10.30am Gulgong
11.00am Kandos
6.00pm Word and Faith Group Mudgee Parish Centre
ALPHA
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To register: Call the Parish Oce
on 6372-2122 or online at
www.alpha.org.au/try
Try
Alpha
www.alpha.org.au/try
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be asking you to
recommit to a ministry OR to sign up for a new ministry
OR BOTH.
Please ll in a Ministry Form at the back of the Church or
online hps: //forms.gle/gcDYacx2av5cpw3p8
What type of ministry would you like to do in 2026?
How can you help your Parish in 2026?
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Donaons gratefully received
(Phone with details for a receipt)
Mudgee CCCC Luncheon
BSB: 032653 Account: 358452
WWW.MUDGEE.CATHOLIC.ORG.AU
If you have any Safeguarding concerns, please contact the Diocesan Safeguarding Ocer on (02) 6334 6440 or
email safeguarding@cdob.org.au
For the recently deceased especially:
We remember the anniversaries of:
Denis Donelly, Warren Carberry, Dean Williams,
Margaret Sampson, Angela Colaiacomo, Lorna Smith,
John Quinlan, Allan Graham.
For the deceased:
Neville O’Brien, Yvonne Burke, Shirley Boyd, Anne Flynn Snr.
For the Sick, Special Intenons and Thanksgiving:
Bey Clark, Mary Morton, Terry Ryan, Eleni Roberts, Tony Spina,
Keiran Micallef, Elizabeth Donelly, and all those in our Nursing
Homes.
We welcome to the Mudgee Parish:
Matilda Anne Winning
Daughter of Mitchell and Emily
Kandos
Sunday 7th December Anoinng Mass and Christmas lunch.
$10 pp. Names and payment to Carol, Louise, or Maureen
by November 30th.
If you can make a dish for lunch let Carol know.
Gulgong
On Tuesday 9th December, at 9am, we will be cleaning the
church. All welcome to come along a help.
Mudgee
There will be a 9.30am Mass on Monday, 8th December for
Solemnity of The Immaculate Concepon of the Blessed
Virgin Mary.
We are asking everyone to
bring a plate to share.
BBQ Chicken, Salad or
Sweets
This is a “sit down” dinner.
BYO: Drinks, plates and
Cutlery
Please add you name to the list a the back of
the church if your are aending.
Jessie Tree
The Jessie Tree illustrates the genealogy of Jesus, starng from
Creaon, and highlights ancestors of Jesus and signicant events.
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ln the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the
wind from God swept over the waters. And God said, “Let there
be light” and there was light. And God made night and day, plants
and trees, creatures which live in the sea, birds that y and
animals to walk the land. God looked on all that was created and
saw that it was good. On the sixth day God created man and
woman in the image of God and saw that they were good. On the
seventh day God rested.
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God created the Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve.
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One day a snake convinced them to eat the fruit from this tree.
When God found out they were forced to leave the garden and
God was no longer their friend.
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God warned Noah that he was going to wipe mankind from the
face of the earth. God gave him specic instrucons for building
the ark by which Noah and his family would survive the coming
ood.
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Yahweh said to Abraham, ‘Leave your country, your kindred and
your father’s house for a country which I shall show you; and I
shall make you a great naon, I shall bless you and make your
name famous; you are to be a blessing! I shall bless those who
bless you, and shall curse those who curse you, and all clans on
earth will bless themselves by you.’
WWW.MUDGEE.CATHOLIC.ORG.AU
Catholic Parishes of Mudgee, Gulgong and Kandos
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Isaiah 2:1-5
The Lord will gather all naons in eternal peace in the kingdom of God.
Ps 121:1-2. 4-5. 6-9. R. see v.1.
(R.) Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.
I rejoiced when I heard them say:
‘Let us go to God’s house.’
And now our feet are standing
within your gates, O Jerusalem.
It is there that the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord.
For Israel’s law it is,
there to praise the Lord’s name.
There were set the thrones of judgement
of the house of David.
For the peace of Jerusalem pray:
‘Peace be to your homes!
May peace reign in your walls,
in your palaces, peace!’
For love of my brethren and friends
I say: ‘Peace upon you!’
For love of the house of the Lord
I will ask for your good.
Romans 13:11-14
The me has come, our salvaon is near.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvaon.
Alleluia!
Stay awake, you must be ready.
During this coming Advent season, Bishop Michael has
requested that each parish across the diocese hold a
Penitenal Service. This Penitenal Service will iniate a
new journey of renewal, Rebuild My Church, a diocesan
wide process leading to a Parish Assembly in 2026.
Walking together in faith and mission, the iniave
invites every parishioner to take part in renewing the life
of the Church through parcipaon, communion,
mission. As we commence this signicant journey,
parishioners are warmly invited to aend our Advent
Penitenal Service to be held on:
St John the Bapst, Gulgong
Tuesday, 16th December at 6.00pm
St Dominic’s, Kandos
Thursday, 18th December at 6.00pm
St Mary’s, Mudgee
Monday 22nd December at 6.00pm
Lord God,
Your Church joyfully awaits the coming of its Saviour, who enlightens our
hearts and dispels the darkness of ignorance and sin. Pour forth your
blessings upon us as we light the candles of this wreath; may their light
reect the splendour of Christ, who is Lord, for ever and ever.
Lord Jesus, you are the light of the world…
You are the light in our darkness …
Son of God save us from our sins …
Bring hope into the lives of all people…
The me of Advent is the four-week period of preparaon for the season
of Christmas. Advent begins the cycle of the Liturgical Year and focuses
on the coming of the Lord. The rst weeks oer a vision of the future,
looking to the end of me when Christ will come again. The nal weeks
point more specically to the birth of Christ. Christ, the promised one, is
awaited with joyful expectaon.
The First Sunday of Advent follows the nal Sunday of Ordinary Time and
the season concludes on Christmas Eve.
