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This year, we hear the account of the Passion from the Gospel of St Luke who sees Jesus from the perspective of an outsider. He is at pains to point out that the way Jesus carried out his mission was fundamentally counter-cultural....
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This year, we hear the account of the Passion from the Gospel of St Luke who sees Jesus from the perspective of an outsider. He is at pains to point out that the way Jesus carried out his mission was fundamentally counter-cultural....
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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. ...
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As all Catholics around the Diocese prepare for Holy Week, the most significant time in the Church calendar, one group is perhaps looking forward to it more than most. ...
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Holy Week as we knew it developed after Christians were free to practice their faith openly. In Jerusalem they could follow the path of Jesus in his last week, beginning with his entry into Jerusalem through his Last Supper with his disciples, and concluding with his crucifixion and resurrection....
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This year, we hear the account of the Passion from the Gospel of St Luke who sees Jesus from the perspective of an outsider. He is at pains to point out that the way Jesus carried out his mission was fundamentally counter-cultural....
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As we draw near to the start of Holy Week this Sunday, 13 April 2025 (Palm Sunday), more than 320,000 Catholics across the Diocese of Parramatta, alongside 230 religious and 130 active and retired clergy, are preparing to come together for a series of profound and traditional observances, reflecting...
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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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The celebration of Holy Thursday is the first of the three nights in the Catholic tradition of the Easter Triduum. Its significance is the commemoration of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples and the Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper....