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Bishop Vincent's homily for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday)
'Building a society that models Jesus’ outreach to the rejected'
21 April 2024...
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Bishop Vincent's homily for the Thirs Sunday of Easter, Year B
'Becoming the witnesses of hope despite despair and indifference'
14 April 2024...
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In the largest showing since the pandemic, more than 1200 young people from Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains and beyond, participated in Catholic Youth Parramatta’s Good Friday Night Walk. ...
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The newest member of the Diocese of Parramatta’s governing body, the Curia, has a long association with the Sisters of Mercy and extensive experience in lay decision-making within the Church. ...
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They might not all be as familiar with the liturgy as regular churchgoers, but the inmates of John Moroney Correctional Centre who attended Mass on Holy Thursday were no less thankful to be receiving communion. Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, visited the prison to celebrate...
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Bishop Vincent's homily for the Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) Year B
'Faith that integrates doubts and expresses in service'
7 April 2024...
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At the end of Easter Sunday Mass at St Joseph’s Parish, Kingswood, Parish Priest Fr Andrew Fornal OP had a major announcement for his congregation. “Christ is risen, Alleluia!” he exclaimed to applause. Such was the joy experienced at St Joseph’s and by hundreds of thousands of other...
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As Billy Osborne sat outside St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta on the eve of being welcomed into the Catholic Church he was overwhelmed with emotion. His journey to this point had been a long one, he said, but now that he was so close to receiving the three Sacraments of...
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It is not the strength of numbers and social prestige that define who we are. Rather, it is the power of the risen Lord that unites us to be a force of leaven and even a subversive community with an alternative vision of life. We are prepared to be...