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      • New chapter begins for Luddenham-Warragamba Parish with Fr Shinto Francis

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        “We not only host a variety of races, cultures and traditions, we also endeavour to demonstrate the richness, vitality and beauty of diversity like the first Pentecost we celebrated last week,” Bishop Vincent said....
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        Having spent four years in seminary formation as a Vincentian in his earlier life, Jeff – a former psychologist, psychotherapist, spiritual director and pastoral supervisor – joined the Diocese’s Holy Spirit Seminary in 2023. ...
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        Distinguished by teams yet gathered as one, players and cheer squads shared and celebrated the gift of life and the call to virtue through a round-robin competition of Oz tag, basketball, soccer and volleyball....
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        Having spent four years in seminary formation as a Vincentian in his earlier life, Jeff – a former psychologist, psychotherapist, spiritual director and pastoral supervisor – joined the Diocese’s Holy Spirit Seminary in 2023. ...
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        Antony Lawes
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        Archbishop Ryan Jimenez said it was not enough to aim for tolerance, but rather for true communion, which was “a shared life marked by encounter, dialogue and mutual transformation, rather than merely coexistence of cultures”. ...
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        Antony Lawes
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          A new believer who found faith in the midst of profound grief, and a parishioner of more than four decades whose son will be ordained a priest this year, were among those welcomed into the Church at a deeply moving Easter Vigil Mass at St Nicholas of Myra...
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