ACBC President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and a member of the Synod’s preparatory commission, said it had been an extraordinary process to get to this point, with Catholics across the world helping shape the working document.
Speaking via videolink for the 2023 LifeLink Day for Primary Schools, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has last week told some 450 teachers, students and principals from Perth Primary Schools that Jesus is united with those people who for one reason or another who are not able to care for themselves.
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Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has announced the convening of a Diocesan Assembly to be held in 2024.
Attended by student representatives from 25 schools, the Secondary Schools Forum for LifeLink Day was held at Aranmore Catholic College and livestreamed to Catholic schools across the Archdiocese.
The convening of the Diocesan Assembly, said Archbishop Costelloe, is a relatively modest initiative, but it is designed to set a pattern for ongoing consultation and discernment. The First Archdiocesan Assembly is set to be launched Sunday 4 June at St Mary’s Cathedral.
Ballajura Parish Mary MacKillop Church has been blessed with a new statue of the Virgin Mary, titled ‘Our Lady of Ballajura, Comforter of Migrants’ with Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe inviting all Christians to have her words ‘Do whatever he tells you’ emblazoned on their heart.
Speaking Sunday evening 30 April at the blessing of the new icons at Redemptoris Mater Seminary, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB reflected on the Gospel reading of Matthew 25: 31-46, emphasising the call to be the face of the Father’s mercy.
Catholics gathered at the continental level say the Catholic Church must be united, not uniform, and embrace its many forms of expression throughout the world, said members of the synod preparatory commission after a weeklong meeting at the Vatican.
To begin drafting the working document, the group of experts – including Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB – have met behind closed doors to discuss the continental stage of the Synod on Synodality as a whole and analyse the seven final documents submitted by each of the regional assemblies.