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Celebration, flags, colour, music and mingling at St Canice’s on the Feast Day of St Ignatius inspires a sense of ‘Festa’. Freshly cut banana trees on the columns and at the doorways of the church bring a sense of Railaco to our doorstep here in Elizabeth Bay.

Inside, the church is decorated with flowers; with shiny leaves of the banana tree, huge bunches of bright yellow sunflowers and the red of the Leucadendron remind us of the Timor-Leste flag, and of our sister parish of the Railaco Jesuit Mission.

here do the lines for ‘good liturgy’ and ‘grand performance’ transect? Of course, my driven self strives to achieve both these objectives, and I’m grateful for the occasional opportunity to ‘perform’ and ‘do liturgy’ down at my local Jesuit parish of St Canice’s.   ow, three months later, we celebrate the Feast of St Ignatius, …