Symbolism in Our Parish

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The Church & Church Furniture

• The Church building is based on an Australian Colonial Homestead design. ​
• The Altar, lectern, chair and gift table are hewn from a big Blue Gum tree.
• Fr Rollo Enright and parishioner Owen Moynihan searched the Beaudesert and Boonah districts to find the most suitable tree and rocks.​
• All the Church furniture was made by Owen Moynihan.

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The Rocks

The BIG ROCK at the road entrance is Peter’s Rock.
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The BAPTISMAL ROCK (now the Holy Water Font) represents the Living Rock, giving forth the Living Waters.
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The FOUNDATION STONE expresses the desire of the parishioners to be set near Christ.

The rocks came from the end of Knight Street, Rochedale.

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The Figure of Peter

​SIMON PETER, the fisherman, whom Jesus called to be  a ‘fisher of men’.

Jesus said his kingdom was like a net cast into the sea. The artist was Sr. Pamela Bright, PBVM. ​

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Stations of the Cross
Fashioned in copper by parishioner Michael Murphy. ​

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Stained Glass behind Altar 

• Creation: Earth, sea, sky, living things.
• Human Hands: Man, made in God’s image, to be the steward and directing worker of God’s creation, offering to God the praise of Creation
• The Central Sun: To symbolise the life-giving, enveloping warmth and love of the Father.
• The Cross: To represent the Suffering Christ, the redeemer of God’s world after human sin.
• The Alpha and the Omega: To represent the victorious Christ at the Head of the Kingdom fully realised.
• The Flames of Fire: To represent the loving, life-giving presence of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in our world.

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The Words behind the Altar

                 ‘The WORD

       was made FLESH

                           ​HE lived among us’

These words are positioned to represent the Readings, the Celebration of the Eucharist, and the Tabernacle
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The Church and the rich symbols show the creativity  and the love of nature of  Fr. Rollo Enright ​