PARISH COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH
Youth Group
The Kingston-Channel Parish Youth Group continue to meet on Wednesdays in the Sisters of Charity Centre from 4:00pm -5:30pm. Further activities this term have included ‘the potter and the clay’ sculpture reflection, a Laudato si’ walk and meditation at Boronia beach, Christmas activities including making cards for the Paediatric Ward of the Royal Hobart Hospital and a ‘Kahoots’ Christmas Quiz. Look out for us returning in Term 1, 2021!
Sacraments
Congratulations to the 37 Sacramental Candidates who made their First Reconciliation over 2 nights on the 1st and 3rd December. These students will make their Confirmation and First Eucharist in 2021 with Father Mike Delaney.
The students from St Aloysius to receive this Sacrament of Penance were:
Phoebe Ashlin
Charlotte Bean
Isabella Birchall
Grace Coles
Zach Darke
April Direen
Grace Kinder
Max Kull
Rosalina Martinez
Jacob McPherson
Nicolas Ramos
Tom Rider
Ruby Rigney
Bella Swan
Juliet Windsor
Jack Batchelor
Jack Brown
Lily Gordon
Callista Hogan
Scarlet Juaban
Annie Knott
Byron Larkin
Lucinda Lockwood
Samuel Monaghan
Kirra Morley
Philip Morley
Nicholas Placogiannakis
Levi Saunders
Lindsay Ulrych
Jacob Wolfe
Christmas Masses and Parish Nativity
This year, due to Covid, the Archdiocese is running a booking system for attendance at Christmas Masses. If you wish to attend Christmas Mass in the Kingston-Channel Parish please contact the Parish office on 6229 1280 (Wed-Fri, 9:30am-1:30pm). This year there will be an additional Mass at 8:30am on Christmas morning at the Church of Christ the Priest. This is to allow for a greater spread of numbers to accommodate social distancing at what is a very busy time.
Christmas Masses (at Christ the Priest, Kingston unless otherwise stated) are as follows:
24th Dec - 6:00pm - Family Mass & Children's Nativity - the church is fully subscribed so the Nativity and Mass will be live streamed to the Sisters of Charity Centre.
24th Dec - 10:30pm - Night Mass - Carols start at 10:00pm
25th Dec - 8:30am - Held at St Mary's, Snug
25th Dec - 8:30am
25th Dec - 10:00am
If your child would like to be a part of the Parish Children's Nativity, please contact Polly Marriott on pauline.marriott@catholic.tas.edu.au. Rehearsals are Wednesday 23rd December 4:00pm and arrival at 5:00pm on Thursday 24th December.
Please note, the 6:00pm Christmas Family Mass is already fully subscribed. However, if you would like to attend you are able to watch this Mass from via live stream to the Sisters of Charity Centre. Please contact the Parish Office or put your name on the list at the back of the church after weekend Masses to secure a place.
Cloak of Kindness
After the recent vandalism of the statue of Our Lady in the prayer garden, the Kingston students of St Aloysius Catholic College have all contributed to a 'cloak of kindness' by writing and drawing messages of love and compassion. Mary has been wrapped in this beautiful cloak until repairs are able to be carried out. Thank you to Laura Lane (Kingston Teacher) for the idea and for Hannah Donovan (Parish Associate) for bringing it to life.
Parish Associates
At the end of term, we say a huge thank you and farewell to Parish Associate Robert Elkerton who is moving to Melbourne to continue his university studies. Hannah Donovan will be continuing her Parish Associate role in 2021 and will be joined by another former student, Dan Prichard. We look forward to building on the successes of Hannah and Robert this year and strengthening College-Parish connections and youth engagement opportunities.
Advent Appeals
For the final two weeks of the term, we have been running two Advent appeals. This concludes our charitable giving for the year and I would like to thank everyone for their generosity and kindness so far in what has been a challenging year for many.
This Advent we are supporting 2 charities: Vinnies Christmas Hampers and the Kingborough Helping Hands Sharing Tree. Both of these organisations assist those who are lonely, vulnerable and disadvantaged in our local community.
This has been promoted as a great opportunity to discuss the true meaning of Christmas with your children and model the Spirit of Jesus by giving for the sake of giving to those who need it most.
