Talk at St Ignatius Feast Day 4 August 2024 I’ve just returned from a very full week in East Timor spending valuable time both in Railaco and chatting around the dining table with many other Jesuits at the Jesuit Residence in Dili. The conversations were quite revealing and touched on
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Continuing the good work in Railaco
Since those early days, we in this little Jesuit parish of St Canice’s have raised over $1.1 million. Our friends and neighbours in Railaco are so grateful.
21 years on, this long-standing relationship is evolving.
In the coming year, we will continue to fund the children’s feeding Program for the little children from low-income families in three remote communities around Railaco.
Our major efforts will be focussed on providing a good secondary education in our parish secondary school Nossef for Railaco’s rural youth.
St Ignatius Day – Community comes together
“Why can’t all Sundays capture the essence of days like this?”
Our little community of St Canice’s comes out on a sunny Sunday morning in numbers, not only to celebrate the feast of St Ignatius but to support our sister parish in Railaco East Timor. After Mass, we mingle and chat with old friends over morning tea.
St Canice’s Parish Bulletin: 30 July 2023
In this week’s Parish Bulletin, Fr Joaquim, Superior of the Jesuits in East Timor writes on the growing relationship and collaboration between St Canice’s and the East Timor Province.
“That’s My Daddy”
My life changing Railaco Experience by Dan Elias . . .
Thank you, Fr Sacha.
Good morning and thank you for welcoming me into your beautiful parish to share what were incredible and humbling experiences on my recent visit in Railaco, Timor-Leste.
Being a proud father of two young children, I look at life not only through my eyes, but with my children’s future in mind. Returning from Railaco, I say to them:
“Alessandra and Jayson, Daddy’s eyes and heart were opened beyond belief. I now wish to show you how to live your lives with your eyes wide open. Don’t be ok with just being fortunate and comfortable, learn to make your small contribution to those who so desperately need it.”
Celebrating Ignatius and Railaco Jesuit Mission at St Canice’s
Celebration, flags, colour, music and mingling at St Canice’s on the Feast Day of St Ignatius inspires a sense of ‘Festa’. Freshly cut banana trees on the columns and at the doorways of the church bring a sense of Railaco to our doorstep here in Elizabeth Bay. Fanfare of organ, trumpet and violin introduce our Entrance Hymn, ‘Christ is Made our Sure Foundation’. It reminds us of the ‘sure foundation’ St Canice’s laid in establishing our sister parish relationship with the Railaco Jesuit Mission 18 years ago.
Most importantly, Fr Sacha Goldman SJ celebrates the Eucharist with a gentle dignity. That prayerful act – whether richly involved like today, or simple – is the centrepiece of all that we hold dear.
Special Liturgy St Ignatius Feast Day 31 July
The captivating aspect about our St Canice special liturgies in the past is that they have been well-choreographed, unique local expressions of this cultural aspiration – quality music and congregational singing, indigenous tribute, local educational involvement – and as one with our near neighbours at the Railaco Jesuit Mission in East Timor.
St Ignatius Feast Day – July 2017
Students from three of Sydney’s Jesuit Colleges came to St Canice’s this weekend to join in the parish Feast Day celebrations. Thanks to your collective generosity, we’ll be sending more than $10,000 to Fr Bong in Railaco to support the humanitarian works of our sister parish.