The 36-year-old married father-of-two said he heard the Archbishop’s message during the LifeLink Christmas Appeal launch in November – particularly the words of St Mary MacKillop, “Never see a need without doing something about it,” and could foresee a good reason to ‘pay it forward’.
The appointment is in conjunction with Archbishop Costelloe’s concurrent appointments as a Member of the Preparatory Commission, and as one of the nine President Delegates to the Synod.
UNDA’S inaugural research Colloquium explored the challenges and opportunities for Catholic education under the theme Head, Heart and Hands: Together in Faith – a theme Pope Francis recently highlighted when talking about educators as community builders.
Maria and her fellow Notre Dame students, Charles Hurst, Jake Schloeffel and Jose Corpus, are the founding members of Australia’s first Junior Enterprise project.
No matter how dark things seem, or how difficult things are, an ‘ordinary’ person has the power to choose a gesture of kindness and goodwill over an act of indifference or hostility, writes Broome Administrator and Geraldton Bishop Michael Morrissey, in his 2024 Christmas Message.
Christmas, writes Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, offers us the answer.
“It is Jesus Christ whom we have received and continue to open our hearts to receive each day who is that light and power.”