Twenty years of dedicated service to God is no small accomplishment and for Fr Douglas Harris of St Bernadette’s Church, Glendalough Parish; his 20-year anniversary celebrates a legacy of sharing the joy and peace of the Sacraments in WA as a co-founder of The Apostles of Perpetual Adoration.
The key to what we can do and must do to contribute to the rebuilding and renewing the Church lies in a careful consideration of what fidelity to the Lord and the Lord’s will for the Church look like.
With some of the coldest nights experienced in Perth this week in more than 15 years, the need to remember 9,000 West Australians who are homeless is ever more pressing.
The Church in Australia is this year set to challenge the narrative of what it means to be a Christian man in the 21st century.
Uniting as one Catholic Church to give thanks for faith and culture, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community from across Perth gathered last Sunday, 12 July at Embleton Parish Holy Trinity Church despite the postponement of the 2020 NAIDOC celebrations due to some COVID-19 restrictions still in place.
Church growth and parish renewal are two topics that should always inspire – and the recent announcement that the Mother Teresa Church in Baldivis has almost been completed and is open for service is an exciting and encouraging reminder that God and his Church are an active presence across the Archdiocese of Perth.
What could be more ordinary than wanting to reconnect with one’s roots, examining the past to reconstruct a modern identity in today’s transient world? For Monsignor Carl Reid, Australia’s new Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the lessons of history lend themselves to a Catholic identity – one that humbly seeks reconciliation with the Mother Church of Rome.
Traditionally celebrated across parishes on the first weekend of July, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mass is a celebration of the efforts by both the Indigenous community and the Catholic Church to achieve integration and solidarity as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Perth Catholics braved grey skies and winter rain last Sunday 28 June to attend the re-opening of St Mary’s Cathedral for the long-awaited first Mass since the pandemic shut church buildings across the state.
The Archdiocese of Perth’s Communications Office is set to launch its latest offering to the Catholic community, working in conjunction with many different elements of the Church to generate new, insightful and faith formative audio content in a planned series of podcasts.