St Leo The Great Parish

MASS TIMES: 

Saturday - Vigil: 5-pm

Sunday: 10.30am & 5.00pm

All Weekday Masses: 9.30am

Reconciliation: Saturday after 9.30am Mass & Sunday before 5.00pm Mass

Weddings and Baptisms by appointment

St. Leo’s Parish Prayer

Heavenly Father, bless our parish family 

at St. Leo the Great Church. 

Help us follow the example of our patron, 

who loved you and the Church. 

May the life of St. Leo the Great 

inspire us to be faithful to your truth 

and secure in your peace and your love. 

With your grace, may we be faithful 

disciples of Christ and ardent servants 

of the Gospel.   

Amen

St. Leo the Great

Pray for us

St John Paul  II  

Pray for us

St Mary McKillop 

Pray for us

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME- Year C  - 6 July 2025

We have skipped a few weeks since we last followed the Ordinary Time cycle before Lent.  We pick up Luke’s gospel at Chapter 10 and read it in a semi-continuous way until November.  This year the cycle is interrupted by three feast days; The Exaltation of the Holy Cross (14 September), All Saints (1 November) and The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica (9 November).

At This point in Luke’s gospel, Luke begins to arrange the story of Jesus’ ministry, his teachings and actions, around a great ‘Journey to Jerusalem’.  This has a theological purpose - everything is to be seen in light of Jesus’ death and resurrection, Discipleship (following Christ) is a recurring theme.

The sending of the seventy-two disciples is a good example of ‘missionary discipleship’.  Note that they come back rejoicing.  It may be hard work but, as Pope Francis writes, it does bring happiness.  He sees a Church as a joy-filled ‘community of missionary disciples’. It is filled with joy; it knows how to rejoice always.  It celebrates at every small victory, every step forward in the work of the evangelisation.  Evangelisation with joy becomes beauty in the liturgy, as part of our daily concern to spread goodness... Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of the joy of evangelisation”  (The Joy of the Gospel 24,83).  

From  Break Open the Word