For 171 years, the Eucharist has been the centre of our parish’s life, community and mission: may this celebration of the Breaking of the Bread heal our brokeness, deepen our love for Christ Jesus, bind us together in life-giving community and empower our mission to be Good News to the Poor
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
[Response] RENEW YOUR PEOPLE IN LOVE…
St Nicholas broke the Bread of the Eucharist at the Table of the Lord; and broke bread with poor of his society: may we and the whole Church rededicate ourselves to translating our love for the Christ we meet in the Eucharist into as deep a love for the Christ we meet in the Poor
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
St Nicholas preached the Gospel and broke the Bread of the Word for the people of Tolentino, drawing many to Christ: having received the Gospel from generations past may we find new ways of passing on the Gift of the Living Word of God to our young people so that they will shape the church moving into the future
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
Throughout these past 171 years our parish has welcomed migrants who have come to our shores and our city: may the whole Church be truly ‘Catholic’ where ‘all are welcome’ – a home to peoples of every race, language and culture, a world-wide community building bridges between peoples, struggling for justice and equality for the most marginalised and ridding the world of all forms of human trafficking and modern slavery
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
Giving thanks for our 171 years of mission and looking forward with hope to the years to come, we pray for a renewed vision of mission and healing, growing as a ‘communion for mission’; may we continue to build healing bridges uniting many cultures, races, identities and faiths, caring together for the poor, the marginalised and the excluded of the inner city more effectively
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
That our children and young people will grow up to care for the poorest, respecting people of all races, cultures and sexual orientation and valuing our multi-racial society; that opposing all racial violence and every form of prejudice, our schools and colleges will rejoice in the diversity of our one Human Race
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
St Nicholas was used so extensively by God to bring healing to the sick and the poor: for all who have been wounded in mind and heart by abuse, injustice and poverty; we pray especially for ….
St Nicholas prayed deeply for the dead: we pray for those violently killed in South Africa, for all who perished in the Bahamas;
we pray also for all the faithful departed of our parish in its 171 years history and for … whose anniversaries are at this time
LORD HEAL OUR WORLD…
Mary, Mother of all the abandoned ones, help us to recognise Jesus in every person…. HAIL MARY…
We pray in silence for God’s empowerment of our parish family in service and mission…