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St Peter's is the base for several other ministries, in the parish and beyond. These include:
Hospital Chaplaincy
Young People's Ministry
Breakfast Program
Pastoral Care
Hospital Chaplaincy
The chaplaincy service offered by St Peter's to the local hospitals continues to be much appreciated — particularly by families and clergy from country and interstate parishes. Their referrals, in fact all referrals, to patients are most helpful in allowing me to carry out my work as chaplain efficiently. For example, whenever I turn up at St Vincent's Hospital, I receive a list of all the Anglicans/Church of England patients, and the list could be up to four or five pages long. Obviously it would be impossible for me to visit them all. And in my experience, not all of them wish to be visited anyway. So the referrals are essential in allowing me to prioritize, and use my limited time more profitably.
The restructuring of the Pastoral Care Department at St Vincent's Hospital has been completed. Roger Prowd, an Anglican priest, has been appointed as the new manager. Roger will head all three streams of pastoral care needs of the Sisters of Charity's institutions: acute care (St Vncent's), palliative care (Caritas) and aged/residential care (St George's).
As of last year, my ministry has expanded to include the Freemason Hospital. This has been a useful move since quite a number of regular parishioners who are Anglicans choose the Freemason for their medical/surgical needs.
Fr Tat Hean Lie,
Hospital Chaplain
Young People's Ministry
Following on from our successful Children's Ministry program at the 9.30 am Family Mass on Sundays, we are trying to develop a ministry with young people from middle primary to lower secondary school. The main idea of the program is not to run separate services for young people but to allow them to contribute to the life of the parish — especially at the 9.30 am Family Mass.
The program will be co-ordinated by Nick Browne who is a member of vestry and a lay minister licensed by the Archbishop. Nick has tertiary qualifications in both education and theology and has extensive experience both as a teacher of religious education and a volunteer youth leader.
We would like any interested young people to complete and return the form from the link below, to enable us to plan the ministry program for 2010. Please return the form to the parish office at 15 Gisborne Street Melbourne 3002. If you have any questions or would like to explore some of these ideas further, you can contact Nick on 0427 332 340,
email: brownen [at] trinity [dot] vic [dot] edu [dot] au.
Click here for the form to be completed by interested people.
Pastoral Care
St Peter's is known for the beauty of its Liturgy and music, but it also has a long tradition as a caring church community.
With a strong belief in inclusiveness, where each person is important and valued, the current Ministry team places an emphasis on the pastoral care and support of a parishioners. The sick are provided with sacramental ministry in hospital or at home and, whenever possible, those who, because of age or infirmity are no longer able to come to church, are visited and encouraged to still feel part of the parish community that, in many cases, has sustained them through much of their active life, and to which they may have contributed in many practical ways.
If someone is uncharacteristically absent from Sunday worship for a week or so, a phone call is always appreciated.
Parishioners, too, support and care for each other in many ways. The sick are prayed for daily, and all parishioners who have died since the church opened its doors in 1847 are remembered and prayed for on the anniversary of their death, and so pastoral care is provided through all stages of life and beyond.
Sr Jenny and Sr Avrill, CHN,
Pastoral Assistants
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