About Sacramental and RCIA ministries are at the very heart of parish life. Whether journeying with families to the sacraments or accompanying adults into the Catholic Church, your ministries are essential to the life of your parish. This morning is a time for prayer and renewal — spiritually and personally — as we acknowledge the […]
By virtue of our baptism, we are all called to share Christ’s love and mercy with a sad and confused world, individually and as parish communities. This workshop series will dive deeper into the natural and supernatural skills that will give you confidence to take up this call so that we may strengthen our parishes […]
By virtue of our baptism, we are all called to share Christ’s love and mercy with a sad and confused world, individually and as parish communities. This workshop series will dive deeper into the natural and supernatural skills that will give you confidence to take up this call so that we may strengthen our parishes […]
About Sacramental and RCIA ministries are at the very heart of parish life. Whether journeying with families to the sacraments or accompanying adults into the Catholic Church, your ministries are essential to the life of your parish. This morning is a time for prayer and renewal — spiritually and personally — as we acknowledge the […]
All Saints Catholic Parish hosted Australia’s biggest morning Tea. Photo: Alex Woolnough Parishioners and dignitaries flocked to All Saints Catholic Parish in Liverpool to help raise crucial funds for cancer research as part of the Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. On a chilly Friday morning, around 200 attendees gathered in the Parish Hall at […]
Jubilate Deo choir singing for the Jubilate Deo Mass. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 The outlook for an inspiring choral experience on the feast of St Anthony of Padua at St Mary’s Cathedral last week was hardly auspicious. It was, after all, Friday the 13th. Uniformed school children filled the pews—all of them—right […]
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CATHOLIC CHURCH, AUSTRAL, 15 JUNE 2025 Some years ago, a friend of mine was discussing the Holy Trinity with his Jehovah’s Witness sister and others who were strongly opposed to this Catholic doctrine. His interlocuters insisted that Catholics don’t really believe in the Trinity, because whenever someone asks about it, they […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, MEMORIAL OF ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, 13 JUNE 2025 Human beings have been described as ‘rational animals’, ‘joking animals’, ‘linguistic animals’ and ‘religious animals’. But we are also ‘musical animals’, with compositions more diverse and complex than any bird, cricket or whale. We use music to express, entertain, educate, connect, heal. […]
Jesus ascending to heaven. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. This is the edited text for the Homily for Mass of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Year C St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 1 June 2025. There are many stories from the Middle Ages about court jesters teaching their masters a thing or two. In one, […]
The Mifsud Family. Photo: Suplied. There was a time when mother of nine, Yvonne Muller’s would bring her youngest, Tione, then aged one, to the Walk with Christ Procession to join a modest crowd of maybe 500 Catholics to walk to the cathedral. It wasn’t just a seemingly lonely experience but a fearful one. “The […]
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