St John Henry Newman of the Oratory is well known for his great intellectual works and his pastoral sermons. Perhaps less well known are the struggles he faced in holding fast to the truth that he found in the Catholic Church. His conversion to Catholicism was at the sacrifice of his position in society, his friends, his colleagues, his income, and even opposition from his family.
In light of some of the difficulties currently facing the Church we can look to Newman's essay "The Development of Christian Doctrine" in which he gives us principles to assess genuine development of doctrine from error, explaining those principles originally outlined by St Vincent of Lerin. Genuine developments in understanding of doctrine must maintain continuity with the original deposit of faith, ensuring that the core beliefs of the Church remain intact. That it should exhibit a logical and coherent progression from earlier teachings, avoiding abrupt and radical shifts.
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Let us pray
O God, who bestowed on the Priest Saint John Henry Newman the grace to follow your kindly light and find peace in your Church; graciously grant that, through his intercession and example, we may be led out of shadows and images into the fulness of your truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
In light of some of the difficulties currently facing the Church we can look to Newman's essay "The Development of Christian Doctrine" in which he gives us principles to assess genuine development of doctrine from error, explaining those principles originally outlined by St Vincent of Lerin. Genuine developments in understanding of doctrine must maintain continuity with the original deposit of faith, ensuring that the core beliefs of the Church remain intact. That it should exhibit a logical and coherent progression from earlier teachings, avoiding abrupt and radical shifts.
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Let us pray
O God, who bestowed on the Priest Saint John Henry Newman the grace to follow your kindly light and find peace in your Church; graciously grant that, through his intercession and example, we may be led out of shadows and images into the fulness of your truth. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
🌹Remembrance Day Ball
🌹Saturday, 11th November at 6.30 p.m
🌹Mary Immaculate Church Hall, Ipswich Rd. Annerley
Time is running out to secure your early bird tickets!
Book before tomorrow Wednesday 25th October
🎟️Ticket Prices: $90 Adult Early Bird
$120 Adult (after 25/10)
$15 Child
$250 per family
Tickets Include:
🎶 Live 21 piece jazz band
🍴Cocktail style dinner
🥂Drinks
💃Dancing
Payment details:
Bank transfer to account:
Nicole King
BSB: 084391
Acc. No. 839959225
Reference: RDB23 plus family name
Cash payments also accepted
Bookings essential prior to event
Nicole King - 0413544192
Ella Leach - 0432383373
🌹Saturday, 11th November at 6.30 p.m
🌹Mary Immaculate Church Hall, Ipswich Rd. Annerley
Time is running out to secure your early bird tickets!
Book before tomorrow Wednesday 25th October
🎟️Ticket Prices: $90 Adult Early Bird
$120 Adult (after 25/10)
$15 Child
$250 per family
Tickets Include:
🎶 Live 21 piece jazz band
🍴Cocktail style dinner
🥂Drinks
💃Dancing
Payment details:
Bank transfer to account:
Nicole King
BSB: 084391
Acc. No. 839959225
Reference: RDB23 plus family name
Cash payments also accepted
Bookings essential prior to event
Nicole King - 0413544192
Ella Leach - 0432383373
👑 Vespers for Christ the King 👑
🎶 Magnificat, Orlando di Lasso
🎶 O Salutaris, de la Rue
🎶 Christie Resurgens, Byrd
A Plenary Indulgence will be available as we publicly recite the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
5:00pm today.
🎶 Magnificat, Orlando di Lasso
🎶 O Salutaris, de la Rue
🎶 Christie Resurgens, Byrd
A Plenary Indulgence will be available as we publicly recite the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
5:00pm today.
🎶 Byrd and Weelkes: 400 Years 🎶
Five solo voices from One Equal Music will perform Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices & Ne Irascaris Domine along with an assortment of Weelkes’ English Anthems.
Wednesday 8 November 7:00pm
Mary Immaculate Church Annerley
A free unticketed performance.
Beautiful sacred music has the power to move hearts. A wonderful opportunity to bring along friends to share with them the beauty of sacred music.
Five solo voices from One Equal Music will perform Byrd’s Mass for Five Voices & Ne Irascaris Domine along with an assortment of Weelkes’ English Anthems.
Wednesday 8 November 7:00pm
Mary Immaculate Church Annerley
A free unticketed performance.
Beautiful sacred music has the power to move hearts. A wonderful opportunity to bring along friends to share with them the beauty of sacred music.
Today is the day!
Our Advent Lessons and Carols is on this evening at 7:00pm with a little something for everyone including motets, carols and readings!
Trinity Carol Roll (C15th) - Hayl, Mary Ful of Grace
Brahms - O Heiland
Byrd - Virga Iesse
Stanford - Magnificat in C
Oratory Vespers Schola & Mary Immaculate Choir
⛪ Mary Immaculate Church Annerley
🕖 Wednesday 20 December @ 7:00pm
Let us make the most of these few remaining days of Advent!
Our Advent Lessons and Carols is on this evening at 7:00pm with a little something for everyone including motets, carols and readings!
Trinity Carol Roll (C15th) - Hayl, Mary Ful of Grace
Brahms - O Heiland
Byrd - Virga Iesse
Stanford - Magnificat in C
Oratory Vespers Schola & Mary Immaculate Choir
⛪ Mary Immaculate Church Annerley
🕖 Wednesday 20 December @ 7:00pm
Let us make the most of these few remaining days of Advent!
On the third day of Christmas we also celebrate St John the Apostle!
St John was not just an Apostle, but an intimate friend to Jesus. He is the Prince of Virginity, for he offered his whole soul and body as a sacrifice to our Lord. His chastity gave him a special place of nearness and intimacy with God, so much so that he was the beloved disciple of Our Lord.
It is fitting we celebrate his feast in the midst of Christmas, for surviving all the other Apostles, he was requested by the Church to write down his Gospel to respond to heretics who denied the divinity of Christ. Thus his Gospel teaches us the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh.
It was at the foot of the cross, when he took Mary as his mother, and Mary took him as her Son, thus he became Christ's brother.
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Mercifully, O Lord, enlighten thy Church: that being taught by blessed John, thine Apostle and Evangelist, she may come to thy eternal rewards. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
St John was not just an Apostle, but an intimate friend to Jesus. He is the Prince of Virginity, for he offered his whole soul and body as a sacrifice to our Lord. His chastity gave him a special place of nearness and intimacy with God, so much so that he was the beloved disciple of Our Lord.
It is fitting we celebrate his feast in the midst of Christmas, for surviving all the other Apostles, he was requested by the Church to write down his Gospel to respond to heretics who denied the divinity of Christ. Thus his Gospel teaches us the Word was God, and the Word was made flesh.
It was at the foot of the cross, when he took Mary as his mother, and Mary took him as her Son, thus he became Christ's brother.
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Mercifully, O Lord, enlighten thy Church: that being taught by blessed John, thine Apostle and Evangelist, she may come to thy eternal rewards. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
🙏 Ash Wednesday 🙏
14 February
Ashes are imposed at all Masses
5:30am Low Mass (Latin)
6:30am Mass (English at St John Fisher)
7:00am Low Mass (Latin)
9:00am Mass (English)
6:30pm High Mass (Latin)
with
Byrd's Emendemus in melius
Allegri's Miserere
Mary Immaculate Church
14 February
Ashes are imposed at all Masses
5:30am Low Mass (Latin)
6:30am Mass (English at St John Fisher)
7:00am Low Mass (Latin)
9:00am Mass (English)
6:30pm High Mass (Latin)
with
Byrd's Emendemus in melius
Allegri's Miserere
Mary Immaculate Church
Please join us in praying for the establishment of the Brisbane Oratory!
🙏 This year we are inviting you to join us to pray for the establishment of the Brisbane Oratory with a Novena to St Philip in the lead up to his Feast Day.
⛪️ You can join us in the church for the public prayers, for which there is a partial indulgence. You can even just join in one of the days to be part of the Novena.
🏘 You can also join us from home by saying the prayers. Copies of the prayer are available in Mary Immaculate Church and at the link.
🙏 This year we are inviting you to join us to pray for the establishment of the Brisbane Oratory with a Novena to St Philip in the lead up to his Feast Day.
⛪️ You can join us in the church for the public prayers, for which there is a partial indulgence. You can even just join in one of the days to be part of the Novena.
🏘 You can also join us from home by saying the prayers. Copies of the prayer are available in Mary Immaculate Church and at the link.
For our Musical Oratory, musicians of the Brisbane Oratory will present:
🎶 Bach Cantatas
🎶 Hildegard
🎶 Pentecost Chants
Featuring:
Conductor - Tomasz Holownia
Alto - Eleanor Adeney
Violin - Warwick Adeney
and instrumentalists
A free unticketed event.
Run time approximately 50 mins.
Wednesday 22 May at 7:00pm in Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley.
🎶 Bach Cantatas
🎶 Hildegard
🎶 Pentecost Chants
Featuring:
Conductor - Tomasz Holownia
Alto - Eleanor Adeney
Violin - Warwick Adeney
and instrumentalists
A free unticketed event.
Run time approximately 50 mins.
Wednesday 22 May at 7:00pm in Mary Immaculate Church, Annerley.
What is the 40 Hours Devotion?
During the Forty Hours devotion the Blessed Sacrament is solemnly exposed for adoration and prayer.
The devotion started in Milan in 1527 as a way for the community to make reparation for sin and to ask for God’s special protection.
The Forty Hours is in imitation of the forty days of fasting of the Lord in the desert, and the time of unceasing prayer called for in Scripture.
Over time it also became a devotion of thanksgiving for the mystery of the Eucharist.
It is an opportunity for us as a community to bring our personal petitions to God, but also to pray for the community, the Bishops and the Pope, for the good of the whole Church, and for the graces of conversion for the world.
The 40 Hours Devotion is like a parish retreat, and we strongly encourage all parishioners and visitors to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament during the 40 Hours Devotion, and attend some of the special events happening at this time.
During the Forty Hours devotion the Blessed Sacrament is solemnly exposed for adoration and prayer.
The devotion started in Milan in 1527 as a way for the community to make reparation for sin and to ask for God’s special protection.
The Forty Hours is in imitation of the forty days of fasting of the Lord in the desert, and the time of unceasing prayer called for in Scripture.
Over time it also became a devotion of thanksgiving for the mystery of the Eucharist.
It is an opportunity for us as a community to bring our personal petitions to God, but also to pray for the community, the Bishops and the Pope, for the good of the whole Church, and for the graces of conversion for the world.
The 40 Hours Devotion is like a parish retreat, and we strongly encourage all parishioners and visitors to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament during the 40 Hours Devotion, and attend some of the special events happening at this time.
Feast of the Assumption
Thursday 15 August
Mary Immaculate Church:
6:30am Mass (Latin)
9:00am Mass (English with Hymns)
6:30pm High Mass (Latin)
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Biebl: Ave Maria
Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
St John Fisher Church:
6:30am Mass (English)
Thursday 15 August
Mary Immaculate Church:
6:30am Mass (Latin)
9:00am Mass (English with Hymns)
6:30pm High Mass (Latin)
Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Biebl: Ave Maria
Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
St John Fisher Church:
6:30am Mass (English)