The Dominican Sisters of Australia were founded in June 1899 in the Diocese of Geraldton by Mother Gabriel Gill and five companions, who travelled from Dunedin, New Zealand, at the invitation of Bishop William Kelly to establish a foundation in Western Australia’s Goldfields.

The music for this years Orchestra Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral featured music from World Youth Day 2008 and also featured the music of recently knighted Sir John Rutter.

This year PAS celebrates 35 years of service to people with intellectual disability, so each person was provided with their own individual birthday cupcake labelled with the PAS logo.

The event, which was the finale of the week’s activities, saw 48 enthusiastic participants forming six teams.

Spanish Bishop Rosendo Salvado, explained Perth Symphony Orchestra Creative Director Fiona Campbell, was very ahead of his time, was a very compassionate man and was also very interested in meeting our First Nations people of the Yued tribe.

Officially inaugurated on the Feast of the Assumption on the 15 August 1994, the now Archbishop Emeritus Hickey said at the time the Church of Perth was welcoming the appeal of the Holy Father on the eve of the third millennium for the new evangelisation.

The performance will follow his travels from his hometown in Spain to our WA shores and the impact he made on our WA history.

Archbishop Costelloe highlighted that the Gospel story of the day in which Jesus speaks about the kingdom of heaven makes the point that religion is not, or at least should not be, something peripheral to our lives.

In partnership with the Equity Project and St Vincent de Paul Society WA, the Valuing Children Initiative is holding this lunchtime event as part of Homelessness Week 2024.

During her time as CEO, Kirsty stewarded the organisation through a pandemic and transitioned to new governance with the incorporation of Caritas Australia.