During the 1990s, in my former parish of Manning, I instructed, baptised, received into the Church and confirmed some 60 young people, mostly students at Curtin University or other educational colleges, from Indonesia or other parts of South East Asia. This special pastoral work introduced me to many new friends.  It also created the need for a support group to help with the religious in...

Perth musicians, Pipe Organ Plus will perform the upcoming concert, Terrae, on September 23 at the Basilica of St Patrick in Fremantle. The concert will focus on the music of France from the Renaissance to the end of the 20th century. It will be held at 2.30pm at the Basilica on the corner of Parry and Adelaide Streets in Fremantle. To wrap up the afternoon’s entertainment, organis...

St Luke’s Parish in Woodvale has a thriving Friendship Group of over-60s who meet in the parish hall for activities and get together regularly for other events. Its president, Judy Anderson, told The Record the group has been going for 17 years and has 40 members who meet once a month. The membership fee is $5 and the monthly meeting is held at noon on a Monday, with the annual genera...

St Emilie’s kicks off participation in Year of Grace and makes it a cause for multiple celebrations It was a grace-filled start for the Parish of St Emilie, Canning Vale when it launched its “Year of Grace’ on Sunday 17 June - also the Feast Day of St Emilie de Vialar, the parish patroness and foundress of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition. Parishioners at all...

The students of Immaculate Heart College honoured Mary last month with a procession and crowning ceremony on May 25, the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia. The students were filled with anticipation as a month of preparation edged towards its fruition as parents, grandparents and family members began gathering in the College chapel. Students joined the congr...

South Perth parish dedicated and consecrated on the feast of Corpus Christi by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB 75 years after it was opened. It had been a long wait, but St Columba’s South Perth was finally dedicated and consecrated last Sunday, 75 years after it was blessed and opened. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB joined Parish Priest Monsignor Brian O’Loughlin and long-serving Pari...

Wild Weather not enough to drown out the choir at Holy Cross Parish in the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi. Hundreds staved-off the wild weather to celebrate the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ at Holy Cross Parish, Hamilton Hill last Sunday, swapping streets for the interior of the church for the Portuguese-led annual Corpus Christi procession. Men and women of the Portu...

Ursula Frayne RE coordinator, Theresa Davis shares her Year of Grace initiative. To introduce the Year of Grace, I ran a creative session with the RE teachers. We were using the prayer on the bookmark but before we did I asked them to all think about what grace meant to them. Then to imagine that they could use an ordinary item to explain their understanding of grace to the rest of the...

Grand Master of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, Fra Matthew Festing with friends of PAS. Photo: Supplied. The global head of the Knights of Malta spent time with intellectually disabled people and their advocates when he visited Perth late last month. The Grand Master of the Sovereign and Military Order of Malta, Fra Matthew Festing and a number of office holders, Australian K...

Grace is for a lifetime, not just a one-off, incredibly important event. That might be the most obvious inference of Holy Spirit Parish, City Beach’s actions in welcoming the Year of Grace and confirming 39 young people on Pentecost Sunday (May 27). The parish community provided each candidate with a copy of YouCat - a young person’s catechism - recommended  by Pope Benedict XVI. A...