The Sydney Marian Centre, promoting authentic devotion to Our Lady as approved by the Catholic Church-particularly under the title of ‘Help of Christians’, Australia’s principle patroness.
Society for Eucharistic Adoration, a lay organisation founded in Sydney in 1993 to promote and encourage all forms of Eucharistic Adoration and in particular perpetual adoration, wherever it is feasible. Members undertake to make a weekly holy hour in any church or chapel.
The society was established in the Archdiocese of Sydney in 1967 and is affiliated with the Mother Shrine of Lourdes in France. Devotions are regularly held at Earlwood, the Headquarters of the Society. Lourdes Water (imported from France) is provided for the sick and other religious objects are obtainable from the Information Centre at Earlwood, which is open Mon. and Fri. Membership is approx. 2,500 and masses on First Friday of every month at 10.30 are said for living and deceased members.
Consonant with the juris praecepta of the Justinian Code – “Honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere” – the general purpose of the Society is to extend amongst students the highest ideals of culture, justice, and morality. The aims of the Society are to:
The Cursillo is “little course in Christianity” which is intended to give a deeper insight to our relationship with God, our vocation in the church and the importance of an Apostolic Christian Community.