Prayer groups

Aim

To share in community spirit and gather in devotion around Our Lady's sacred image.

Contact

Michael                                   Ph: 4982 8834

Meetings

Weekly, every Saturday morning, at 10.00am, at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Hamilton.

Activities

Each Saturday at the Sacred Heart Cathedral at Hamilton at 10.00 am, there is a liturgy for a Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.  The Redemptorist Priests conducted a Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour from their monastery in Mayfield for many years until 2003, when the monastery was closed, and our Parish Priest began conducting the Novena at the Sacred Heart Cathedral.

The Novena is a popular devotion.  Each week many people bring their petitions to the Novena and also their prayers of thanks for favours received.  Any Saturday will find about 150 people coming to the Novena from all over the Diocese.

A shrine, with an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour has been established in the west transcept of the Cathedral. Petitions and Thanksgivings may be placed in boxes at the shrine or sent to the Parish Office for sending to the Novena. Petitions may be read out unless the petitioner has indicated that they should remain private. If you would like to submit a Petition or Thanksgiving using a form, please download and print the Novena Petition and Thanksgiving form, complete it and sent it to the Parish Office: 25 Farquhar St The Junction 2291. Alternatively, you may submit your Petition or Thanksgiving using the online form which goes to the Parish Office and is then sent to the Novena. You may indicate on the form if you want it to remain private. 

The original icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour is a welcoming image of Our Lady bearing in her arms Jesus, the Word Incarnate, as the little King who is Lord of Lords, was painted in Crete in the fifteenth century. It was placed in a private chapel for safekeeping after Napoleon's invasion of Rome (1799) and placed back into public veneration in 1866 at the Redemptorists’ church of Sant’ Alfonso, near St. Mary Major’s basilica in Rome. 

Novena memories over sixty year are an important part of our Region's Catholic heritage.

Aim

To know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and be a changed    person for life.

Contact

Wayne  Ph:  4961 1145

Meetings

St Francis Xavier’s Church, Carrington, Monday, 7.30pm  Healing Mass on the first Friday of the month, 7.30pm.

Activities

Pray together, feel the power of the Holy Spirit and the laying on of hands.  Healing Mass celebrated.

Meetings at other nearby locations:  St Patrick's Church, Wallsend, Wednesday, 7.30pm, with Healing Mass on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.  St John the Evangelist Church, Lambton, Tuesday 7.30pm.

Aim

To bring people together to pray and to learn the power of prayer.

Contact

Ethna Ph: 4961 2079

Meetings

Weekly, every Wednesday morning, at 9.30 am, at the CRCC, except during Christmas holidays.

Activities

Members pray the Rosary for many intentions including the Church, the Holy Father and priesthood, families, sick people as well as prayers of thanksgiving.  We arrange Mass offerings at times for people who are sick or who have died.

We also enjoy recreation, and occasionally have coffee together.

Aim

To pray together as a community.

Contact

Patricia Ph: 4963 4541

Meetings

Weekly, on Tuesdays from 7.00 pm to 8.00 pm at 8 Janet St, Merewether.

Activities

The Holy Family prayer group meets to offer praise and meditation and intercession in front of the Blessed Sacrament for one hour.

Each meeting is special and we are blessed to have Sister Margaret Mary's chapel as a venue.

Aim

To continue on after Lenten groups.

Contact

Gwen Ph: 4957 9072

Meetings

Last Thursday of the month at 9.30 am at St Laurence O'Toole meeting room, Broadmeadow.

Activities

An easy-going group which prays together, discusses the Gospel of the Sunday and recent interesting talks.

There is no rigid pattern.  People contribute as much as they want to.

Aim

To pray together as a community supporting each other in living our Mercy values.

Contact

Sister Val Ph: 4927 6238

Meetings

Four times a year as arranged within the group.

Activities

The Sisters of Mercy meet with colleagues and associates to celebrate our Mercy heritage, to grow in love and knowledge of Catherine McAuley, foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, through prayer, reflections on scripture and Catherine’s life story and writings, and through mutual encouragement of our Mercy values.

Aim

To comply with Our Lady’s request at Fatima in 1917 to pray the Rosary more.

Contact

Julie Anne Ph: 4963 2387

Activities

A number of families in Newcastle Parish operate a Rosary roster.  Each participating family displays a small statue of Our Lady of Fatima owned by the Parish in their home and prays the Rosary for a week, and then passes the statue to the next household on the roster.