Office: 9am - 4pm Tuesday - Friday
Call Us: 03 9412 8493 | 0448 101 401
May the newborn Christ fill your heart with peace, your home with joy, and your life with hope. Wishing you a blessed and holy Christmas.
House Blessing Requests…...
If you would like to request a house blessing please email or text your details (including your full name and address) and a preferred day, date, and time to the parish office: merndawhittlesea@cam.org.au or 0448 101 401. Please allow enough notice to ensure we can accommodate all request
Inclusions for the weekly Newsletter…..
If you would like any notices, anniversaries or prayers for the sick included in the Sunday newsletter we kindly request that you email, text or call with details: merndawhittlesea@cam.org.au or 0448 101 401 prior to 4pm WEDNESDAYS. [for short notice sick or recently deceased inclusions please approach the priest prior to the commencement of mass]
Offerings
It is customary to make an offering for house blessings or prayer requests. There are offering envelopes at the rear of the church, or you may use a plain envelope and write on the front; place the envelope into the collection tray during mass. Alternatively, you may use the EFTPOS machine as mass or make a direct deposit:
Mernda Whittlesea PRESBYTERY Account [please reference your NAME and OFFERING (the name will appear as Archdiocese of Melbourne Catholic Development Fund, Mernda Whittlesea Parish)]
BSB: 083 347
Acc: 12 568 2420
We are going to be using our website during this period to provide information, update our Parish Life and our continuing growth in faith. Given our situation, this will be our main source of information.
Families across Christ The Light parish are warmly invited to take part in the Pilgrim Statue of Mother Mary – Prayer Journey, a special initiative running from May to August 2026
COG Theatre Group invites our parish to a special Lenten production.
44 Mernda Village Dr, Mernda VIC 3754
Sat 5:30pm, Sun 8 am, 10:30am
at Nazareth Centre,
St Joseph's Primary School
44 Mernda Village Drive
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Wed & Fri 09:15 am, Sun 5pm
Adoration every Sun 4pm - 5pm
at St Josephs' Church,
1490 Plenty Rd, Mernda
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Reconciliation on :
Sat 4pm Nazareth Centre
2-20 Fir St, Whittlesea VIC 3757
Tuesday 9:15AM
Thursday 9:15AM
Sunday 10AM
124 Whittlesea-Kinglake Rd Kinglake 3763
Sunday 8:30AM
As disciples of Jesus, that our parish of Doreen, Kinglake, Mernda and Whittlesea be a welcoming, vibrant, faith-filled and worshipping catholic community. In a spirit of joy and compassion we will reach out to all in the service of the Good News of God’s love and in our stewardship of our created world.
Community - Proclamation - Outreach - Worship.
The central symbol of our Christian faith. The ultimate revelation of the Good News of God's Love for Humanity
A symbolic representation of Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, after whom our parish is named.
They represent the richness and diversity of the members of our parish community - 'For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among them.'(Mt 18:20)
Coming from Christ they radiate through the members of the parish who, as missionary disciples, are reaching out with joy and compassion bringing the Light of Christ to the world.
Christ instituted the sacraments of the new law. There are seven: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion,Reconciliation, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders and Matrimony. The seven sacraments touch all the stages and all the important moments of Christian life:1 they give birth and increase, healing and mission to the Christian’s life of faith. There is thus a certain resemblance between the stages of natural life and the stages of the spiritual life.
Through the sacrament of baptism the faithful are incorporated into Christ and into his Church.
In the sacrament of reconciliation , the Christian faithful obtain from the mercy of God pardon for..
The celebration of the Eucharist is the centre of the entire Christian life, in which Jesus Christ is...
Those who have been baptised continue on the path of Christian initiation through the sacrament of..
By the sacrament of marriage, Christians signify and share in the mystery of the unity and fruitful love ..
Through the anointing of the sick, the Church commends to the suffering and glorified Lord ..
The parish liaises with the funeral home/director in relation to organising funeral services.
It is our joy to welcome you to Christ The Light Catholic Community, if you have been attending the parish for a while but have not yet registered, please take a moment to send us your details.
