Sunday January 16th
Transforming the church When you think, ‘they should/shouldn’t, the church ought to, if only there were….’, the incredibly painful answer is that ‘I should, I ought to, if only I were’. The miracle of that turnaround IS the transformation Jesus called his disciples to and it’s no different today. Every time we hold back on condemning another, every time WE personally make a move towards one who others hold in contempt, then every time the Church is transformed. No business plan can evaluate love. I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. John: 13: 34-35 We thank God for the ministry of Mothers’ Union in South Sudan where safe spaces for survivors of gender-based violence are created and participants are transformed by love and become of pool of educated and sensitized people able to give to their communities. |
MU DIOCESAN PRESIDENTElaine Longford
Monday and Tuesday
9.30am - 2.30pm Friday 12 noon - 3.00pm (Now closed for Christmas and January 2022) The MU Office and Shop St Paul's Frankston Parish Hall 1 High Street, Frankston. Phone: 9783 5062 Email: mumelb@tpg.com.au PLEASE NOTE: our postal address is PO Box 11265, Frankston 3199 |
St Mary's Sunbury MU packs17 handbags filled with female toiletries for them to be distributed by 'Share the Dignity to homeless women fleeing domestic violence.
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Crafty Members at Moorabbin upholding MU Ideals.
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Joyce and Esther are both members of St David’s Mother Union Moorabbin Melbourne for the past 35 years and their age are now 98. In our covid -19 lockdown they have continued to support the ideals of MU, by Knitting tiny beanies that are worn by newborn especially premature babies which are taken to the hospitals. Esther continued in making jams, chutney, and relishes. And having sold them to family and friends and parishioner at this time she has donated $460.00
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Rowena has been applying her crafts sewing for our trading table and the fete in the future who is also in her 80s e.g. handtowels, casserole holders’, aprons bags for shopping.
Bev beautiful multi-coloured rugs in squares have been sent to nursing homes and hospitals for many years and she is in her 80s. |