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Deep listening has become a familiar and valued practice across the Diocese of Parramatta, and at St Thomas Aquinas Parish, Springwood, it’s now taking even deeper root. As part of their efforts to shape a new Parish Pastoral Plan, the parish’s Pastoral Council and parish administrator, Fr Chris del Rosario,...
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The annual Commissioning Mass is a moment of recognition, prayer and sending forth for the many laypeople who serve faithfully in their local parishes as Readers, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, and Ministers of the Altar. ...
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This year, the Catholic Church is celebrating a Jubilee Year, a sacred time of renewal and spiritual growth. Pope Francis has chosen the theme "Pilgrims of Hope," calling the faithful to embrace hope amid today’s challenges. ...
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Holy Thursday marks a liturgical threshold – a moment suspended between love and betrayal, intimacy and abandonment, service and sacrifice. This year, I crossed that threshold in an unexpected place: a prison chapel, where I accompanied Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, as he celebrated a...
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More than 55 women gathered at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents in Kellyville, for an At the Well Gathering – an evening of prayer, dinner and heartfelt conversation. In partnership with a local women’s ministry, ‘Women of St Clare’, this gathering offered something increasingly rare: a space where...
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There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’,...
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You are warmly invited to join us for the Holy Spirit Seminary Commencement Mass on Sunday, 2 March, at St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta....
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Catholic Youth Parramatta (CYP) gathered youth leaders from across the Diocese for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner, celebrating a year of service, community, and dedication....
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What can women like Martha, Mary Magdalene, and Ruth — whose lives unfolded more than 2000 years ago — teach us today? And how should I go about reading the Bible? These questions set the tone for Catholic Youth Parramatta’s gathering for women, At The Well: Fearless and Faithful,...
Deep listening has become a familiar and valued practice across the Diocese of Parramatta, and at St Thomas Aquinas Parish, Springwood, it’s now taking even deeper root. As part of their efforts to shape a new Parish Pastoral Plan, the parish’s Pastoral Council and parish administrator, Fr Chris del Rosario,...
The annual Commissioning Mass is a moment of recognition, prayer and sending forth for the many laypeople who serve faithfully in their local parishes as Readers, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion, and Ministers of the Altar. ...
This year, the Catholic Church is celebrating a Jubilee Year, a sacred time of renewal and spiritual growth. Pope Francis has chosen the theme "Pilgrims of Hope," calling the faithful to embrace hope amid today’s challenges. ...
Holy Thursday marks a liturgical threshold – a moment suspended between love and betrayal, intimacy and abandonment, service and sacrifice. This year, I crossed that threshold in an unexpected place: a prison chapel, where I accompanied Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, as he celebrated a...
More than 55 women gathered at the Shrine of the Holy Innocents in Kellyville, for an At the Well Gathering – an evening of prayer, dinner and heartfelt conversation. In partnership with a local women’s ministry, ‘Women of St Clare’, this gathering offered something increasingly rare: a space where...
There was a blessed and eerie feeling to our Ash Wednesday celebration in Brisbane this year. As I said to the congregation, there is nothing like a pending tropical cyclone to reinforce those words ‘Remember you are dust, and unto dust you will return’,...
You are warmly invited to join us for the Holy Spirit Seminary Commencement Mass on Sunday, 2 March, at St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta....
Catholic Youth Parramatta (CYP) gathered youth leaders from across the Diocese for their annual Thanksgiving Dinner, celebrating a year of service, community, and dedication....
What can women like Martha, Mary Magdalene, and Ruth — whose lives unfolded more than 2000 years ago — teach us today? And how should I go about reading the Bible? These questions set the tone for Catholic Youth Parramatta’s gathering for women, At The Well: Fearless and Faithful,...