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THE PARISH OF Warrnambool West & Dennington

Churches

  • St Pius X
    80 Morriss Road, Warrnambool West
  • St John the Baptist
    263 Russell Street, Dennington

Presbytery

 

Postal Address
C/- Post Office
Dennington  VIC  3280
Address
76 Morriss Road
Warrnambool  VIC  3280
Phone (03) 5562 5033
Email: warrnamboolwest@ballarat.catholic.org.au

Parish Office

Mrs Louise Dryburgh is usually available in the parish office from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Phone (03) 5562 5033.

Mass Times

Dennington
Wednesday 10.00am

West Warrnambool
Saturday 6.00pm

West Warrnambool
Sunday 10.00am

 

 

Latest Parish Bulletin - 24 Feb 2019 Read More View Archives

Our Parish

St Pius X Parish was established in 1970. Its first Parish Priest was the late Father P.M. Bohan and it was then the only totally urban parish in the Diocese of Ballarat. Previously, the area was part of St Joseph's Parish, Warrnambool, as was St Pius X School which had opened in 1962. 

The neighbouring parish of St John the Baptist at Dennington was also part of the Warrnambool parish until 1965 when the late Father G.G. Payne became its first Parish Priest. (His name is commemorated at Dennington's G.G. Payne Reserve.) The Dennington parish school, now at 263 Russell Street, was established in the 1920s adjacent to the former church in Tylden Street.

The two parishes currently share one priest, but the involvement of an active laity enables them to continue to fulfil the hopes and dreams of their earliest days, as they endeavour to respond creatively to the challenges and opportunities of contemporary society.

  

Personnel

Parish Priest:  Fr Michael Linehan
Catholic Schools

St John's Primary School
Tylden Street
DENNINGTON  VIC  3280

Principal
Kathy Dalton

Phone:  (03) 5562 5362

Email:  principal@sjdennington.catholic.edu.au

Website: www.sjdennington.catholic.edu.au

St Pius X Primary School
32-34 Hoddle Street
WARRNAMBOOL VIC 328

Principal
Joseph Ewing

Phone (03) 5562 2506
Email: principal@spwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au
Website: www.spwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au

Resources

Homilies

7 C  2019

I’m pretty sure that we have all heard of the Golden Rule. My vague memory is that when I was a child it was expressed as “Do unto others as you would that they should do to you”, but today’s Gospel expresses it more succinctly and in a way that is easier to understand: “Treat others as you would like them to treat you.”

The first reading tells how the great hero, David, at this stage a fugitive from King Saul, and quite simply a bandit (you’d call him a bushranger except that it’s the wrong word for the time and place) …the reading tells how David spared Saul’s life when he could perfectly easily have killed him in his sleep. When David spared Saul, even though the biblical author says that he considered Saul to be the Lord’s anointed king whom it would be blasphemous to kill, you might say, because you know that the first reading is supposed to direct our thoughts to a theme in the Gospel, that David was treating others as he would like to be treated himself. He was acting, you could say, according to the Golden Rule.

We have all heard of the Golden Rule, but I wonder whether we are all aware that it is a commandment from Jesus. Even among those of us who are regular churchgoers, there are perhaps quite a few who, when we think of commandments, think only of the ten commandments given to Moses, but rarely (if ever) of the commandments given to us by Jesus.

Part of the problem may be that nowadays we are inclined to consider even the Ten Commandments more as the Ten Guidelines – Honour your father and mother if they appear to deserve it; Do not steal unless it’s from a really rich company. And if we are inclined to edit the commandments in that way perhaps we are inclined to see the Gospel imperatives too as optional extras, intended for people much holier than the likes of us.

Well, maybe we are being offered a goal or a target to aim for; but surely we should endeavour to be compassionate rather than uncaring; should try to avoid judging others; and if we pray “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us” surely we should be people who prefer forgiveness over animosity or resentment.

In the end, I suspect that we are being invited and challenged to develop a generous heart, a generous nature. We are invited, even, to be somewhat counter-cultural. If the culture tells us to retaliate first, to do unto others before they do unto you; if it tells us that the only way to treat a mug is as a mug, a generous heart and a generous nature may get in the way of that advice and interfere with it. So why bother?

Well, the Gospel has an answer: Give and there will be gifts for you: a full measure, pressed down shaken together and running over will be poured into your lap; because the amount you measure out is the amount you will be given back.

 

 

Professional Standards.

Our Parish Safeguarding Officer, overseeing and supporting our commitment to Child Safety, is Mrs Rachel Brown, telephone 0402 009 785.

Click here for the Parish Commitment Statement to Child Safety Policy.

Click here for the Parish Child Safety Policy.

Click here for the Parish Child Safety Code of Conduct.

Plenary Council 2020

Click on this site to have your say:

https://plenarycouncil.catholic.org.au/resources/have-your-say/

 

Parish Map
Church

St Pius X

80 Morriss Road, 80 Morriss Road

St John the Baptist

263 Russell Street, 263 Russell Street

We are the Catholic Church in the Ballarat Diocese
we gather in the name of Jesus from the Murray to the sea
in interwoven faith communities. Spirit filled
we celebrate and share our journey
reaching out to nurture all God's people.

Diocesan Vision Statement 2005

All Enquiries

PO Box 576
Ballarat, Victoria 3353

Phone +61 3 5337 7111

Where to find us

Catholic Diocese of Ballarat
5 Lyons Street South
Ballarat, Victoria 3353