-
A large crowd of palm-waving worshippers, including women wearing saris, thronged Mary Immaculate Catholic Church in Quakers Hill, in the Diocese of Parramatta, on Palm Sunday to commemorate Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem. ...
-
The Church remembers Christ’s suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus in a spiritual and sacramental way during Holy Week and the Easter Triduum, but some people actually experience the Passion in a tangible and personal way in their very lives. Among them are members of the immigrant and refugee...
-
As Easter approaches, we’re invited once again into a season of renewal – a time to pause, to reflect, and to reconnect with what matters most. For girls aged 11-18, the Girls Day Out at Mount Schoenstatt Shrine and Retreat Centre offers just that kind of space. ...
-
On Saturday the 15 March 2025, close to 300 young people participated in LIFTED Sports Day. Despite the intense heat on the day, parishes and communities from all over Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains came together to compete in a round robin tournament of touch footy, volleyball, basketball...
-
Our Lord’s command to love others as he has loved us applies to every person and ministry in the Church, ordained and non-ordained. But no one can minister fruitfully in the Church if they have not first understood the lesson of Jesus washing his apostles’ feet....
-
News & Events Weekly Update
News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond...
-
The French philosopher and the Argentinian pontiff understood the dangers of being uprooteded from culture and collectivities — and both provide us with tools to assist us in the intellectual and practical labour needed to pursue a common good....
-
More than 180 students from 10 Catholic schools across the Diocese of Parramatta stepped into solidarity this Lent by taking part in Caritas Australia’s The Big Water Walk, a powerful initiative raising awareness and funds for communities in need of clean water. ...
-
Thanks to a new partnership she’s facilitated between Catholic Care and the Older Women’s Network Blue Mountains, the Springwood community drop-in centre is now a place of hope for women aged 55 and over, who are sadly facing homelessness. ...