The Parish is a lively and friendly community with a number of active groups:
Resource Centre
The Resource Centre offers a service to parishioners where cards and gifts for religious occasions can be purchased. Among the items in stock are greeting cards for Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation etc, inspirational plaques and bookmarks, rosaries, bibles and missals.
Craft Group
The Craft Group meets in the narthex after the 9am Mass on Fridays. Great friendships are formed in a very supportive environment. Craft ideas are shared as are stories of our lives’ ups and downs.
After Mass Coffee
After Mass on the first Sunday of each month parishioners are invited to linger for a while and meet fellow parishioners over a cup of tea or coffee. It is an ideal way of making new friends in the parish community and catching up with old ones.
Interchurch Relations
St Bridget’s Parish is represented in the North Balwyn Inter-Church Council. Meetings are held quarterly.
Women’s Discussion Group
Meets on the fourth Thursday of the month. Details are notified in the parish bulletin and News at right. The group’s objective is to learn and share through discussions on topics related to family life.
Christian Meditation
MEDITATION, prayer of the heart, is praying without words and images. It is a journey from our heads to our hearts; a journey from our ego, our false selves that our minds have created, to our hearts, where God dwells, which will reveal our true, divine selves to us.
Popularised in the secular world because of its physical, emotional and mental health benefits, meditation teaches us to be in the present moment, to let go and let God do the work, and thus can have beneficial effects – lowering blood pressure, calming the nerves, lifting our mood/spirit.
But these are side effects of meditation. We meditate primarily to get to know ourselves and to know God, and thus to love God, ourselves and our neighbours as ourselves.
A Christian meditation group meets on Wednesday at 9.30 am. For venue, contact: Susie Hii by email: susie@hiikhoo.com.au
Refugee Action Group
St Bridget’s Refugee Action Group answers Pope Francis’ call for every Catholic parish to take in a refugee/asylum seeker family.
In partnership with St Dominic’s Camberwell our parish provides secure accommodation and support to a refugee family.
Donations are Tax deductible. Please contact Chris Barring-Gould (Treasurer) Chris.Baring-Gould@anglicarevic.org.au for information on how to make a Tax Deductible donation online.
The Group usually meets on the second Wednesday of the month in the church narthex.
Everyone is welcome. If you are keen to be involved but are unable to attend regular meetings add your name to the emailing list and participate when and as you are able.
Please contact: Robert Stewart: robert.stewart@bobstewart.com.au