“We rely on the help of the Lord God and Our Saviour Jesus Christ and we choose this man Victor, our brother, for the Order of Deacons.” A packed church, at St Gerard Majella Parish, Mirrabooka erupted in aplause at the words of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB as Victor Lujano was put forward and accepted as fit for ordination to the diaconate on Friday, July 27. The night was moment...

The Catholic Italian community of Western Australia is reeling from the loss of two beloved priests, Fr Gaetano Nanni OMI and Fr Filippo Magni OFM Cap. A funeral was held on Tuesday morning for Fr Nanni who died suddenly and peacefully on July 30, aged 92, in St Patrick's Presbytery, Fremantle, the suburb he fondly called his home for many years. Fr Magni passed away on June 26, aged ...

By Chris Palfrey Take a class of eager children, a teacher, four parent helpers, an education assistant and lots of beads – then set to work. On Thursday July 5, Year 4B students from St Joseph’s College in Albany made their own Rosary Beads. There were beads of many colours; crosses and junctions were white. After choosing their beads we set to work. Adult helpers did the knott...

Seniors are special to the life of Floreat Parish, Parish Priest, Fr Wayne Davis told 80 seniors at a special day to honour and celebrate their contribution to parish life. As people who passed on their faith to, and prayers for, the next generation, they were living witnesses of faith in the parish and therefore should be honoured and celebrated, Fr Davis said; they were the living face...

Our Lady of Lourdes, Rockingham welcomed the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions on Sunday, July 29. The Sisters were involved in Star of the Sea School from its opening in 1973 and prior to that at the original parish school situated at the Turtle Factory at Point Peron from 1948. Sisters have also ministered at the the Parish over many, although they withdrew from parish ministry at...

It all began in a car park following a Catholic Youth Ministry event; two years later Catherine Gallo Martinez and Gaetan Raspanti celebrated their engagement at St Lawrence Parish hall after Eucharistic Adoration with family and friends at St Lawrence and Mary Immaculate church in Balcatta. “I was lost, limping and it was dark” Miss Gallo Martinez said, about the night she first meet Mr...

For possibly the first time in Perth in years, if not decades, the forgotten practice of the ‘rite of betrothal’ was brought to life at the engagement mass for James Chua and Lisa Aarts, featured on the front cover of this edition of The Record. Father Joseph McShane FI celebrated the mass, and the rite of betrothal began with the priest bidding the couple to join their right hands while...

When Chris De Sousa made the decision to discern a Religious vocation with the Somascans, most people were more than a little confused. “‘What are you doing? Are you serious?”, that’s what most people said,” Mr De Sousa, 28, told The Record. He had been practising law for five years, steadily working his way up from office dogsbody, just after graduating, to the level of Associate. ...

Each time when I ponder over how the Lord has led me in life to embrace my vocation as a Norbertine Canon, I feel drawn back to Jeremiah 29: 11 – 14. These verses were given to me when I was at a retreat discerning my life’s direction a few years ago. Praying over them now often leave me pondering and wondering at how true the Lord has been to His promises by leading and shaping me to...

The Venezuelan native is a long way away from his home city of Barinas, close to the Andes, and many years have elapsed since fear of a very concrete kind gripped him as a younger man. Victor Lujano was 19 when he stepped forward at a gathering of the Neocatechumenal Way to say he felt called to ordained ministry but for five years afterwards, he was plagued by a mysterious neurological ...