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Mental Health Week 2017 - Mass Saturday 14 October at 11.00am

Mental Health Week is celebrated nationally from 8 October to 14 October 2017.
Catholic Social Services Victoria, in collaboration with the St Pius X Parish West Heidelberg, is marking the occasion across the Catholic community with a Mass for all those touched by mental health issues on Saturday 14 October at St Pius X Church, 491 Waterdale Rd, West Heidelberg.

CSSV Newsletter September 2017

Responding to sexual abuse; ensuring our children are safe, Human Dignity honoured in living life, not taking it, Hearing Healing Hope - National Catholic Social Services Conference 21-23 February 2018. Click here to read more in our September Newsletter.

On 1 September there was a Joint Message of Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for the World Day of Prayer for Creation. Some of the key messages of the statement include: (i) Our human dignity and welfare are deeply connected to our care for the whole of creation and (ii) the human environment and the natural environment are deteriorating together, and this deterioration of the planet weighs upon the most vulnerable of its people.

Read the full statement, here.

Social Services Sunday (Sunday 17 September 2017) in the Archdiocese of Melbourne is an occasion for parishes to reflect on Pope Francis' call to reach out in compassion and service with both words and action.

Click here for Pope Francis' recent call to parishes: “Let us pray for our parishes, that they not be simple offices, but that animated by a missionary spirit, may be places where faith is communicated and charity is seen”.

Read more for supporting material - homily notes, etc - to assist parishes mark this day.