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Pope Francis and the challenge of being church today Ann D Clark Lecture delivered by Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, Evan Theatre, Penrith Panthers, 18 August 2016 Part 2: Launch into deeper waters I have a particular interest in the biblical experience of the exile. My personal...
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Pope Francis and the challenge of being church today Ann D Clark Lecture delivered by Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, Evan Theatre, Penrith Panthers, 18 August 2016 Part 1: Reading signs of the times Friends, What a difference the Holy Spirit can make! When Pope Emeritus Benedict...
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Source: Catholic Outlook, August 2016 By Greg Whitby When we think about contemporary models of schooling, Vocational Education Training (VET) is not typically one of the first things that comes to people’s minds. In fact, it has been suggested that VET is no longer relevant in a knowledge age,...
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Posted on 23 June 2016 The new Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, today celebrates five years since his ordination as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne where he served as Chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV). Stephen Elder is Executive Director,...
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The 2016 World Youth Day Car Raffle sold more than 200,000 tickets for pilgrims across the Diocese of Parramatta. Today the Chancery Office invited the six winners to a celebratory morning tea where they officially received their prizes. Diocesan Administrator, Very Rev Peter G Williams, thanked the prize winners...
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By Elizabeth McFarlane Standing in front of a class of 20-40 students in a state school, sharing your faith and love for God with the children, can be a daunting task. But for many catechists in the Diocese of Parramatta, it’s less of a task and more of a...
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I wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald recently in response to NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli’s plan to lift teaching standards in NSW by requiring higher ATAR results from future teachers. I’m all for investment in great teaching but the starting point has to be asking the right...
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Recently some of our students and staff attended the unveiling and blessing of the new St John Paul II statue at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, which is a wonderful tribute to his Holiness and his passion for engaging young people in the life of the church. The Bishop of...
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Attendees were in for something a little different at the Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill, when they turned up to listen to Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers on Thursday 20 August for the third instalment of Faith at the Fiddler for 2015. The US based ‘Dynamic Deacon’, as he is affectionately known,...
Pope Francis and the challenge of being church today Ann D Clark Lecture delivered by Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, Evan Theatre, Penrith Panthers, 18 August 2016 Part 2: Launch into deeper waters I have a particular interest in the biblical experience of the exile. My personal...
Pope Francis and the challenge of being church today Ann D Clark Lecture delivered by Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, Evan Theatre, Penrith Panthers, 18 August 2016 Part 1: Reading signs of the times Friends, What a difference the Holy Spirit can make! When Pope Emeritus Benedict...
Source: Catholic Outlook, August 2016 By Greg Whitby When we think about contemporary models of schooling, Vocational Education Training (VET) is not typically one of the first things that comes to people’s minds. In fact, it has been suggested that VET is no longer relevant in a knowledge age,...
Posted on 23 June 2016 The new Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Vincent Long OFM Conv, today celebrates five years since his ordination as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Melbourne where he served as Chair of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV). Stephen Elder is Executive Director,...
The 2016 World Youth Day Car Raffle sold more than 200,000 tickets for pilgrims across the Diocese of Parramatta. Today the Chancery Office invited the six winners to a celebratory morning tea where they officially received their prizes. Diocesan Administrator, Very Rev Peter G Williams, thanked the prize winners...
By Elizabeth McFarlane Standing in front of a class of 20-40 students in a state school, sharing your faith and love for God with the children, can be a daunting task. But for many catechists in the Diocese of Parramatta, it’s less of a task and more of a...
I wrote to the Sydney Morning Herald recently in response to NSW Minister for Education Adrian Piccoli’s plan to lift teaching standards in NSW by requiring higher ATAR results from future teachers. I’m all for investment in great teaching but the starting point has to be asking the right...
Attendees were in for something a little different at the Mean Fiddler, Rouse Hill, when they turned up to listen to Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers on Thursday 20 August for the third instalment of Faith at the Fiddler for 2015. The US based ‘Dynamic Deacon’, as he is affectionately known,...