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PARISH RENEWAL TEAM

Supporting parishes that are seeking to renew their communities as places of encounter with the living Christ and centres of evangelisation and outreach in love and mercy.

Parish Renewal Team

The Parish Renewal Team supports parishes which are seeking to renew their communities as places of encounter with the living Christ and centres of evangelisation and outreach in love and mercy.

The team does this principally by providing practical support for parishes seeking to engage strategies for spiritual and structural renewal outlined in the Archdiocesan Mission Plan Go Make Disciples.

The Parish Renewal Team provides practical support through the personal accompaniment of Parish Priests, clergy, and the lay faithful in parishes according to the specific needs of their communities, as well as through providing opportunities for formation through broader events, such as the Parish Renewal Conference and Didaskō.

Please contact the Parish Renewal Team to arrange a time to meet with a team member or to see what opportunities they can provide you and your parish community, to foster and strengthen evangelisation and discipleship in your parish

Parish Renewal Conference

The second Parish Renewal Conference: For Such a Time as This occurred on 3 August 2024 at the Liverpool Catholic Club. It was an opportunity for clergy and the lay faithful to gather to be inspired and equipped for God’s mission today, renew our parish communities, and make them centres of evangelisation.

It was a profoundly grace-filled day, from Archbishop Fisher’s opening plenary to Bishop John Adams’ story of parish transformation, the workshops, moments of prayer, and meeting fellow Catholics on the journey of parish renewal from across Australia and New Zealand.

Read more about the conference or watch the video highlights

Renewed for Mission

We want the best for our parishes: to be more alive, more prayerful, more Christ-centred, more joyful, more spiritually nourishing, more beautiful, more welcoming, more like a family into whose company we can invite our friends. This transformation is possible but only when we make evangelisation and renewal our first priority, as a united community, with the help of the Holy Spirit.

Renewed for Mission is a great step to re-set our priorities and get started on inviting everyone – those in the pews and those elsewhere – to know Christ more deeply and to be part of his family, the Church.

Renewed for Mission Days present the fundamentals of Christology, missiology, ecclesiology, the kerygma, and prayer, to aid us in living the evangelising mission of the Church at the local level.

Contact the team today to learn more about how a Renewed for Mission Day can support your parish and find out when the next one will be hosted.

Called & Gifted Discernment Process

God has a unique plan for you to share in His mission—a plan that only you can fulfil—and He has given you the spiritual gifts, or charisms, that you need to fulfil it! If you have been Baptised, it is not a question of whether you have any charisms, but which charisms you have been given.

The Parish Renewal Team invites the clergy, religious, and lay faithful of the Archdiocese of Sydney to gather in-person to discern their charisms, with the Catherine of Siena Institute’s Called & Gifted Discernment Process.

The process is designed to help Christians discern the presence of charisms in their lives. Charisms are special abilities given to all Christians by the Holy Spirit to give them power both to represent Christ and to be a channel of God’s goodness for people.

Commencing Saturday, 14 September.

Didaskō Adult Faith Formation

From the Greek word meaning ‘to teach’, Didaskō aims to provide individuals and parish groups with the opportunity to learn more about the beauty and riches of our Catholic faith.

For many, formation in the Catholic faith ceased at secondary school (or even earlier), and since then may only have been supplemented by the passive listening to a Sunday homily, personal reading, or perhaps some podcasts.

Didaskō provides an opportunity to deepen and mature your understanding of God and His Church through a series of live online short courses. Each short course consists of three online sessions that provide quality formation and the opportunity to ask questions and contribute to engaging discussions with the lecturer and other participants. All courses are delivered by academics from the University of Notre Dame Australia, who are leaders in their field and have a passion for teaching the faith.

Dates: Thursdays 10, 17, and 24 October 2024
Time: 7:30pm – 8:45pm
Mode: Online via Zoom
Cost: $35 per person, valid for one login for an individual (+ booking fees)

$100 for Parish Groups, valid for one login for a group gathering in-person, and not for multiple logins (+ booking fees)

Presented by Dr Augus Brooke, a philosopher with an interest in Ancient philosophy, particularly Aristotle, and metaphysics. This short course will explore the influence of Ancient Philosophy on Christian thought and practice, particularly on the development of the liturgy of hours and breviary from early Christianity through to the late medieval period. The course will investigate – in an introductory way – the relationship between prayer, virtue and vice, and the experience of eschatological time in everyday life.

You Are Called

More information coming soon.

Fundamentals of Flourishing 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 build invitational, vibrant, and Christ-centred parishes. It will also be an opportunity to share ideas and receive encouragement to joyfully press on in your parish service.
Come along to any or all workshops!

Dates and Topics
Wednesday, 21 August: The Art of Christ-Centred Conversation
Wednesday, 28 August: Sharing Your Faith Without Fear
Wednesday, 4 September: Authentic Invitation and Welcome
Wednesday, 11 September: Five Tips for Running Effective Parish Events
Wednesday, 25 September: Capstone

Time: 7:15 – 8:30 PM, doors open at 7:00 pm
Venue: St Martha’s, 38 Renwick Street, Leichhardt NSW 2040
Parking: Free on-site parking available