Our Trinity labyrinth at Holy Cross and St Margaret’s is taking shape. You can be a part of it by sponsoring some of the thousand pavers that make it up. At $3 per paver, your contribution can help this beautiful place of prayerfulness grow. Leave a lasting footprint on our sacred land, and help bring the love of God to fellow pilgrims in the Inner North.
Contact treasurer@holycrosshackett.org.au to make a donation.
The Holy Cross stitching group has been making knitted blankets for homeless people. This was a collective effort of the seven ladies in the group. The stitchers knitted squares and then sewed them together with a crocheted border. There are between 96 to 108 squares in the blanket. Contact admin@holycrosshackett.org.au for more information about the blankets and the work of our stitching group.
At Holy Cross, as we prepare for Easter, we have been thinking about chocolate as a consumer choice and as something we enjoy at the end of Lent to celebrate new life in the risen Jesus.
Easter is the biggest chocolate shopping time of the year. But what’s really going into the chocolate we buy? There’s more than cocoa, dairy and sugar, there are hidden costs for vulnerable people, impoverished communities, and the environment.
Be Slavery Free, Green America, INKOTA, Mighty Earth, and National Wildlife Federation surveyed the world’s biggest chocolate companies to find out what they are doing to eliminate child labour from their supply chains, ensure farmers make a living income from their work, and prevent environmental damage caused by deforestation.
They have given each company a score across different categories so that you can buy Easter chocolates from the heart knowing which ones could be tainted by child labour and deforestation.
Download the Easter Chocolate Shopping Guide here.
A warm welcome on this rainy autumn day to Holy Cross for our 9am Eucharist.
Click on the link to join us via Zoom. Have a blessed Sunday!
This year’s Lady Day Communion Service of the diocesan Mother’s Union will be held at 10am Wednesday 24 March at Holy Cross Hackett, with guest preacher Reverend Joan Smith.
It will be followed by lunch and the MU AGM. Bring a friend!
Join Holy Cross for Easter:
9am 28 March Palm Sunday;
7.30pm 1 April Last Supper;
2 April Good Friday
9am Service
2pm Meditation at the Cross;
4 April Easter Sunday
6am Dawn Vigil
9am Family Eucharist
Holy Cross walking group meetings regularly to walk together and experience the blessings of nature, the sites around Canberra and each others’ company.
The group meetings alternate Tuesday mornings at 9.15am at the Holy Cross Hackett car park, and travels together to the site of the walk.
Contact: office@holycrosshackett.org.au for more information.
The walking calendar for the first half of 2021 is:
- 16 March – Mulligan’s Flat (bring picnic tea)
- 30 March – Bonner walk
- 13 April – Crash memorial, Pialligo (bring morning tea)
- 27 April – Umbagong District Park, Latham (bring morning tea)
- 11 May – Lower Yerrabi Pond (bring morning tea)
- 25 May – Weston Park (morning tea @ café)
- 08 June – Queanbeyan walk (morning tea @ café)
- 22 June – Lake Burley Griffin from Carillon (bring morning tea & chair)
- 6 July – Planning meeting (bring morning tea)
The latest issue of Anglican News features stories from our parishioners meeting for the Diocesan Lenten Study God of Compassion, and active in Mothers Union, where our Diocese will host the next state conference, 1-3 April 2022.
More stories here on #ChangetheHeart, Nungalinya College, social media and much more. Anglican News March 2021 – pdf (1.9MB)