WELCOME

Good morning friends. The welcome mat is out. We're so glad you've come to visit us today. We hope you will want to write something on your blog of a spiritual or inspirational nature, and share it with us. If you need more information about how to do that, you can click HERE for instructions. Even if you do not have something you want to share we hope you will click on the links below to read

#180 -- Tattoo

Tell a true story about a tattoo or make one up. Do you have one? If so, what of? If not, what would you get if you had to get one? Best one you ever saw? Worst? Tell your tattoo stories!

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Markets - September 7th to September 13th

Saturday 12th September

Ballarat Lakeside Farmers' Market
Cardinia Ranges Farmers' Market
Caulfield Farmers' Market
Central Geelong Farmers' Market
Collingwood Childrens' Farm Farmers' Market
Croydon Farmers' Market
Healesville Organic Farmers' Market
Kyneton Farmers' Market
Metung Farmers' Market
Mont de Lancey Farmers' Market
Mornington Farmers' Market
Myrtleford Community Produce Market
Violet Town Community Market


Sunday 13th September

Aireys Inlet Farmers' Market
Girgarre Farmers' Market
Harvest Home Produce Market
Mulgrave Farmers' Market
Natimuk Farmers' Market
Whitehorse Farmers' Market
Williamstown Farmer's Market (*new*)

Welcome To Spiritual Sundays

We are so happy that you decided to stop by today, with it being a holiday weekend we know how busy life can be. If this is your first time to Spiritual Sundays and you would like to know a little more about it you can just go HERE and read the information you need. We hope that you enjoy reading all the different devotionals. I'm sure that you will read something or hear a song that will give

#179 - Key

The prompt this week is: key. What is the key to your problem? The key to your heart? Who is the key member of your group? What key on your ring is the most important? What key does the music in your head play in? What is the key issue that is the problem today? Do keys jingle? Do you lose your keys? What do you think of: key.

Visitors

Over the summer, many yachts come to Stronsay from all over. Often the visitors also want to see Papa Stronsay as well. We had one such visit from a couple who had sailed from Germany. Afterwards they invited us aboard their yacht.






Explaining how it all works.




Father Blessed their boat.


Goodbye, and may God protect you on your travels!

A place of Pilgrimage

On a recent Pilgrimage to Ireland, It was out great joy to be able to visit Skellig Michael, a great mountain island off the coast of County Kerry. It was once home to a community of monks, and is now a place of pilgrimage. We were able to get out to it, but the weather was too rough for the boat to land, so we saw it from the water.


The two Skelligs. Skellig Michael in the background was once home to about 12 monks, but now only the uninhabited Monastery remains as a sight of pilgrimage.


Skellig Michael.


Skellig Michael in the background.


Fr. Michael Mary, F.SS.R. sung Mass in the parish Church of Ballybunion for some friends in Kerry


On the return journey, needing somewhere to say Mass, we went to our good friend Fr. Wadsworth in Bury.


Our five students were already there for the night before departing the next day for the seminary.