A strong crowd attended a sacred music concert in honour of St Patrick on March 16 at St Anne’s Church in Belmont. Some of the music performed included Aspice Domine de Sede by William Byrd, Factus est Dominus Firmamentum by Orlando Lasso, and Laudate Dominum by Giovanni da Palestrina.

Over 500 people from four local parishes attended a Celebration of The Year of Grace – a Liturgy of Healing and Reconciliation last Thursday night. The evening was both a spiritual and an historical one. It was a moment when, through the Grace of God, the four parishes united in faith and solidarity; the first time that the Parishes of Rockingham, Baldivis, Kwinana and Port Kennedy have come together to pray as one body.

Southern Cross Care held its first ‘Seniors Expo’ on March 7 at Success Village Community Centre. Seniors from around Perth enjoyed a vast number of information stalls, as well as tours of the housing estate throughout the day.

Through various fundraising initiatives led by the school’s Year 9 students, Kolbe staff and students have raised thousands of dollars for Caritas’ Project Compassion.

Spending your holidays improving your golf handicap from three to one exhibits a mature attitude and thirst for success that has seen St Norbert College, Year 10 student, Cameron Jones gain selection to the Western Australian State Junior Team.

More than 100 people gathered in Burswood on March 9 for the tenth annual ‘Breakfast in the Park’ event held by the Mary MacKillop Foundation.

The determined students of Kolbe Catholic College created a rubbish-free area along the coasts and surrounding regions of Point Peron, Rockingham on Sunday, March 3.

Victor Lujano was ordained a priest at St Mary’s Cathedral on March 8. His mother and sister and followers of the Neo-catechumenal Way were there to celebrate it with him.

Stephen Hill, a former Traditional Anglican Priest, was ordained to the Catholic priesthood at St Joseph’s Subiaco on March 1. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB of Perth ordained Rev. Hill for the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, at the request of Ordinariate head, Fr Harry Entwistle.

The Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) forum at Mount Pleasant Baptist Community Centre on February 26 witnessed several important statements from the State’s political leaders.