70 years of marriage is a celebration not to be missed. Ray, June and their proud family spent January 6 eating prawns, sipping their favorite “Whisky on Ice” while reminiscing on the couple’s incredible lifelong marriage.
Given the year the world has endured with the pandemic, Catholic Mission’s 2020 Christmas Reflection event titled ‘the slave is my sister, the slave is my brother’ drew on the darker yet hope-giving side of the Christmas narrative, focussing on the experience of those who are marginalised, oppressed and vulnerable in the world today.
Aged care provider Southern Cross Care won the category for Community Organisation Not for Profit for their work in providing care to the 51 residents, and in judges comments for “treating their residents like family.”
Archdiocesan agency Identitywa recognised staff’s achievements and hard work amid a challenging year, in their annual Employee Recognition Awards for 2020. Board Chair Graeme Mander and Chief Executive Officer Marina Re extended their gratitude “for the commitment and dedication of the nominees”.
The KSC Education Foundation Inc has last month presented 51 subsidies at its annual 2020 Scholarship Recipient Reception.
The parishes of Cottesloe-Mosman Park ended the year with a merry celebration on 6 December 2020. ‘Christmas at Star of the Sea’ included a children’s nativity play, live music, band performances, raffle draws, carolling, food stalls and children’s entertainment. By Amanda Murthy.
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.
Fr Reginald Mary Chua OP was Ordained to the Priesthood by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB on Friday 18 December 2020 at St Mary’s Cathedral, witnessed by loved ones present in person and online via live streaming.