On each of the Saturdays of Lent, there will be a one hour working bee at St Aloysius' from 11am - Noon, to help prepare for the ceremonies of Holy Week. Why not include this in one's Lenten programme? The work will be guided by our sacristans, who would appreciate your assistance. The first working bee will be held on Saturday 20th February.

A Guest Book has been placed at the entry of the Church and visitors are most welcome to acknowledge their visit to St Aloysius.

Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreats for single Catholic women aged 18-35 will be held in 2010, designed to offer spiritual refreshment and vocation discernment. Vocation Retreats will be held at Saint Joseph’s Convent Regents Park NSW from 28th-30th of May, or, 20th-22nd of August. For more information visit www.nashvilledominican.org & Encountering Christ Retreats will be held at The Hermitage Old South Road Mittagong NSW from 26th-28th of February, or, 22nd 24th of October. For more information visit www.thehermitage.org.au/index.html. For enquiries about either retreat email sydney@op-tn.org

The full restoration of Altar rails across the main sanctuary of St Aloysius’ (replicating the original rails which are still in front of the side altars) is currently in preparation. Donations to assist this worthy project are requested  (donors will be acknowledged). Cheques should be made out to ‘Latin Mass Melbourne’, and accompanied by a note that the donation is to be directed to the restoration of the Altar rails.

Please remember to bring old palms in by Quinquagesima Sunday if possible; they will be burnt to provide the ashes for Ash Wednesday. A box will be provided at the back of the Church to receive the palms.

Website Addition: A new facility has been added to our homepage for those who wish to provide their email details for updates. This only takes a few seconds to complete, and will enable significant cost savings for mailouts and correspondence. If you have an email address, please assist us by using this new service.

Facebook invitation: The apostolate now has a group on Facebook simply called "Latin Mass Melbourne". The group will be used to help promote work, activities and events happening throughout the year. Everyone is encouraged to join this group and to invite their families and friends as well. It’s a wonderful way of promoting St. Aloysius' to the wider community.

Monastery of San Benedetto, Norcia: Fr Tattersall was able to visit this impressive monastic foundation, at the very site of the birthplace of Sts Benedict and Scholastica, after the Roman clergy conference. The community was founded in Rome in 1998, and moved to Norcia in 2000. It is principally an English-speaking community (composed of Americans, British, Irish and an Indonesian), and celebrates the old Benedictine Office, and the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite for its daily Conventual Mass. There are brochures on the monastery available in the vestibule. The monks’ website is: http://osbnorcia.org/