Christmas is so much more than a day.
Mackay Catholics can enjoy the secular traditions along with the special significance of Catholic rituals.
Christmas is a season, the season of Advent with four special Sundays leading up to Christmas Day itself.
The community warmth experienced over the four weeks is what manifests the ‘Spirit of Christmas’.
Mackay Southside Catholic Parish Council endorses a special Advent emphasis in all of their churches this year.
In achieving a community experience, they encourage more distant Catholics to rediscover the specialness of Christmas and their specialness in being there.
The Council invites parishioners to pause during Advent and come along and enjoy a light supper together at one of the weekend masses as a perfect way to communicate the importance of Christmas.
Our wish for all is that the joyful light of the season will burn as bright as it ever has and that, this Christmas, everyone will once again have the opportunity to share that joy at Mass.
Let us remember that Christmas also lives in our hearts, in the faces of our families and loved ones, in the hope and pure joy that springs from the birth of the Christ child.
Southside Catholic Church cluster includes St Patrick’s (city), St Mary’s (south), St Anne’s Sarina, St Michael’s and St Francis (west).
Contributed with thanks to Chris Karas.
Mackay Southside Catholic Parish Council invites parishioners to communicate the importance of Christmas by coming along to enjoy a light supper together during Advent at a weekend mass.
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