From humble beginnings 100 years ago as a small school with 16 students, St Kieran Catholic Primary School has grown into the heart of its community as an inner-city school of more than 475 students. By Matthew Lau.
St Kieran Catholic Primary School has last Sunday celebrated 100 years of providing faith-filled education from 1920 to 2020. The school community gathered on 21 March 2021 for a centenary anniversary Mass at Osborne Park, celebrated by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB.
Hundreds of parishioners and peers of Maida Vale Parish Priest Fr Joseph Rathnaraj, gathered to give thanks for the gift he has been to the Catholic community during his 50 years of priestly ministry.
In 2021 – 900 years after the first Norbertines made their first profession in the Valley of Prémontré – communities all over the world will be celebrating the inspiration of St Norbert, who started out as a frivolous and worldly cleric but was changed by God’s grace into a powerful preacher and an important reformer of the Church during the early 12th century.
The Bateman Parish community has last month gifted its Parish Priest with an Apostolic Blessing requested from the Papal Charities Office in Vatican City for the occasion of Father Phong Nguyen’s 20th sacerdotal anniversary.
The arrival of the Sisters of St John of God arrived in Perth after a long journey from Wexford, Ireland on 25 November 1895 was significant, as they would go on to provide healing and hope to the newly established colony and forever change the healthcare landscape in Australia.
“What does it mean to be a Christ-centred church, which is humble, healing, and merciful?
This was the question asked by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB at the special Diamond Jubilee Mass for hundreds of past and present Cloverdale parishioners on Saturday 12 December.
To allow God to enter our hearts and be a faithful disciple of Christ was the message Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB conveyed in his homily during the Golden Jubilee celebratory Mass for the Congregation of the Mother of Sorrows (Servite Sisters) on 5 December.