Memorials
Remembering our dearly departed
Adelaide Armeni
Joan Balls
Nancie Barr
Thomas Barr
George Beaney
Antonio Bellavia
B Benjamin
J Benjamin
M Benjamin
R Benjamin
Douglas Bolsover
Jeanne Bolsover
Rupert Bolsover
Winifred Bolsover
Stanley Booth
L Breward
Edward Bright
Harry Bright
Jacqueline Maria Bunyan
Samuel Victor Burton
Brigid Butler
Harriett Caldwell
Joe Caldwell
Alfred Callus
Joan Callus
Gerald Carlisle
Bill Carruthers
Glenys Carruthers
Mary Casey
E & A Chester
Doris Clarey
Gonda Collopy
William Collopy
M Conaty
George Copson
Marcela Cortes
Albert Cotter
Amy Cotter
James Crispin
Johanna Crispin
Timothy Cross
Kathleen Cunningham
Bill Danhaer
Jean D'Araujo
Fr John Dermody
Mimi Doyle
Peter Doyle
Barbara Dunne
Sidney England
Gaynor Evans
Aloisa Feurhuber
Walter Feurhuber
Jessie Follett
Richard Follett
Bridget Fox
Edward Fox
Denise Fried
Alan Frost
David Richard Spencer Gill
Jenny Ginnerty
Michael Ginnerty
Frances Gosling
Noel Gosling
Mr & Mrs J Gould
Herbert Gower
Winifred Gower
Emily Grove
Kenneth Grove
Jim Hadley
Mary Hadley
A Hamilton
Shirley Hargreaves
Christine Harrold
Mary Harrold
Margaret Haywood
Thomas Arnold Hodge
Roy Hulbert
Roalene Israel
Bill Jackson
Jean Jackson
Marianne Jervis
Christine Jones
Ethel Jones
Jean Jones
Delia Kearney
John Kearney
Iris King
Adrian Marsham
Desmond Martin
Hugh Massy
Margaret Massy
C McCarney
K McEntee
Bishop James McGuinness
Bridget McKernan
Patrick McKernan
William McMillan
Joseph Meredith
Mary Meredith
James Merrion
Mary Merrion
Helena Mooney
Jack Mooney
James Mooney
Kenny Mooney
Patricia Mooney
Lydia Moore
John Murphy
Margaret Murphy
Maria Murphy
Eric Murray
Lydia Murray
Sr Naomi SSM
Edward Nicholls
Fr Simon Nolan
Charles Nutting
Barbara Oakes
Donald Oakes
T O'Donnell
Thomas O'Gorman
Patrick Joseph Oliver
Betty O'Neill
Frank O'Neill
Patricia Partridge
Maria Perks
Rosa Rameis
Doris Rampton
Peter Rampton
John Reedy
Mary Regan
Michael Regan
John Ritchie
Margaret Ritchie
Amelia Roe
Henry Roe
Olive Roe
Vincent Roe
Francis Rudkin
Jack Rudkin
Francesca Sciberras
L Shaw
Gerard Shiels
Joan Simpkin
Mr & Mrs J Smith
Ingeborg Smullen
James Smullen
Merlin Stearn
Andrew Stevens
Kevin Stonham
S W V Stonham
Beryl Sullivan
David Sullivan
J A Sullivan
John Sullivan
Margaret Sullivan
Robert Sullivan
Vincent Sullivan
Derrick Tailby-Bates
Moy Thomas
Alex Thompson
Kathleen Thompson
Margaret Thompson
Rose Thorlby
William Thorlby
Alice Toomey
Annie Toomey
John Toomey Jr
John Toomey Sr
Vera Trigg
Graham Twinn
Hilda Twinn
Jack Ussher
Gavin Watts
Gerald Watts
F Webb
Eily White
Irene Willars
Sidney Willars
Francis Williams
Mary Williams
Doris Williamson
Roy Williamson
George Wilson de Roze
Mr&Mrs GN Wilson deRoze
Jack Wilson
Elsie Wingrove
Frank Wright
John Wright
Kathleen Wright
Janet Zaman
Deceased members of the …
Barber family
Barratt family
Bind family
Callanan family
Carter family
Cassidy family
Cortes family
Crilly family
D'Araujo family
Dinsdale family
Doyle family
Goh family
Grove family
Hadley family
Holden family
Jones family
Lee family
Nealon family
O'Keefe family
Pyle family
Ritchie family
Thomas family
Trever family
Webster family
Wilkins family,
Decased family & friends of …
the Beebeejaun family
Maud Bright
the Bowers family
the Burman family
the Caldwell family
Tom & Kitty Corr
the Cortes family
Bill & Jill Dunphy family
the Foong family
Anne & Derek Furnell
the Johnson family
the Lobo family
Kate & Alf Marriott
the McEntee family
the Morrisey family
the Pieres family
the Toogood family
Please remember in your prayers all forgotten souls
May they rest in peace
Easter morn with lilies fair
Fills the church with perfumes rare,
As their clouds of incense rise,
Sweetest offerings to the skies.
Stately lilies pure and white
Flooding darkness with their light,
Bloom and sorrow drifts away,
On this holy hallow’d day.
Easter Lilies bending low
in the golden afterglow,
Bear a message from the sod
To the heavenly towers of God.
For many, the beautiful trumpet-shaped white flowers symbolize purity, virtue, innocence, hope and life—the spiritual essence of Easter.
History, mythology, literature, poetry and the world of art are rife with stories and images that speak of the beauty and majesty of the elegant white flowers.
Often called the “white-robed apostles of hope,” lilies were found growing in the Garden of Gethsemane after Christ’s agony. Tradition has it that the beautiful white lilies sprung up where drops of Christ’s sweat fell to the ground in his final hours of sorrow and deep distress. Churches continue this tradition at Easter time by banking their altars and surrounding their crosses with masses of Easter Lilies, to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and hope of life everlasting.
Since the beginning of time, lilies have played significant roles in allegorical tales concerning the sacrament of motherhood. Roman mythology links it to Juno, the queen of the gods. The story goes that while Juno was nursing her son Hercules, excess milk fell from the sky. Although part of it remained above the earth (thus creating the group of stars known as the Milky Way), the remainder fell to the earth, creating lilies.
Another tradition has it that the lily sprang from the repentant tears of Eve as she went forth from Paradise.
The pure white lily has long been closely associated with the Virgin Mary. In early paintings, the Angel Gabriel is pictured extending to the Virgin Mary a branch of pure white lilies, announcing that she is to be the mother of the Christ Child.
In other paintings, saints are pictured bringing vases full of white lilies to Mary and the infant Jesus. St. Joseph is depicted holding a lily-branch in his hand, indicating that his wife Mary was a virgin.
The legend is told that when the Virgin Mary’s tomb was visited three days after her burial, it was found empty save for bunches of majestic white lilies.
Early writers and artists made the lily the emblem of the Annunciation, the Resurrection of the Virgin: the pure white petals signifying her spotless body and the golden anthers her soul glowing with heavenly light.…
A mark of purity and grace throughout the ages, the regal white lily is a fitting symbol of the greater meaning of Easter. Gracing millions of homes and churches, the flowers embody joy, hope and life. Whether given as a gift or enjoyed in your own home, the Easter Lily serves as a beautiful reminder that Easter is a time for rejoicing and celebrating.
Christian perspective of the Easter Lily courtesy of
Breward's Dictionaru of Phrase & Fable.
Poem by Louise Lewin Matthews
