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Dear Parishioners, We are excited to welcome Fr. Andrew Kwiatkoswi among us. He was ordained priest last Friday at the Cathedral, Melbourne. Mass for Sri Lanka We have been saddened of the things happening in Sri Lanka. We hold our Sri Lankan community in our…

Rosary month end celebration The conclusion of Rosary Month-31-05-2022.

Our local Church in Melbourne has brought together this Report in response to Pope Francis’ invitation for the universal Church to reflect upon: For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission; the theme of the 16th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops which will take…

GREAT COUNCILS OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH COUNCIL AND DATE SIGNIFICANT TEACHING COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM —AD 49/50 Decisions made on conversions and circumcision. It was decided that it was not necessary for converts to submit to the Old Covenant laws like circumcision. 1. NICAEA I —AD 325 Nicene Creed;…

The Virgin Mary has often been invoked in times of religious strife under the title of Help of Christians. In thanksgiving for the release of Pope Pius VII from captivity in 1814, the feast was established the following year on the anniversary of his restoration. The first Australian provincial…

AFTER a long pandemic pause, Pope Francis celebrated a Mass for the canonisation of 10 men and women – five from Italy, three from France, one from India and one from the Netherlands on May 15. The “big names” – globally – in the newly…