Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has recently taken the time to discuss the upcoming 2021 Plenary Council with ACBC Media & Communications Director Gavin Abraham.
Our first member profile is of course, our own Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB.
Educated at St Peter’s Parish Primary School, East Bentleigh and at Salesian College, Chadstone, from where he graduated in 1971.
In 1985, Archbishop Costelloe made his Final Profession as a Salesian of Don Bosco and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Sir Frank Little on 25 October 1986.
The Perth Catholic Chinese Community hosted its festivities for the Year of the Ox at St Pius X Catholic Church, Manning Parish, on Sunday 21 February 2021. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB celebrated the annual Mass alongside PCCC chaplain Father Patrick Lim.
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB recently spoke to the Catholic Education community at the Annual Commissioning Mass.
In this Year dedicated to Saint Joseph, who was both a (foster) father and a teacher, these reflections have a special significance.
The effects of COVID-19 have caused an unconventional start of Lent as worshippers this year received ashes by having them sprinkled on the top of their head. In his Lenten Pastoral Letter for 2021, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB spoke about how this six-week period is an opportunity for the faithful to acknowledge sinfulness as a serious matter that can have destructive effects on others and on ourselves.
“What an incredible privilege this is, and what an enormous responsibility it is,” said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB to more than 600 Catholic Education WA educators on 28 January at St Mary’s Cathedral. Opening his homily by reflecting on St Matthew’s Gospel, Archbishop Costelloe reminded the educators of their tasks and responsibility that God has entrusted to them. By Theresia Titus
Dame’s Maureen De Wind and Maria Davies, Knight’s Nathan Peter Barnie and Allan Francis Dwyer have been received into the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (EOHSJ), Western Australian Lieutenancy at a ceremony and Mass held on Saturday, 30 January, joining the growing Papal Order of 30,000 members worldwide.
“Christ is the beating heart of His Church.
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has this week joined fellow Australian Bishops in meeting Pope Francis as part of the 2019 Ad Limina visit to the Vatican.