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...

Buying his first car – and its personalised number plates – may have been the beginning of a truly life-changing choice. Andrew Pratt I became a Catholic during Easter 2012 at Sacred Heart Church, in Thornlie and since then have become more prayerful. I now see things more from a Catholic perspective then I would have previously, like the Eucharist and Adoration. I have always con...

Catholic Women's League members from Geraldton to the Southwest gather at St Mary's Cathedral to celebrate 75 years in Western Australia The Catholic Women’s League (CWL) celebrated its 75 year presence in Western Australia on Sunday, May 27 with a special Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth. The congregation included more than 100 CWL members from throughout the state - from Geraldton to ...

Monsignor Sean O'Shea confirms Rottnest resident, Singithi Megana Keyzer, with Bishop Don Sproxton and finishes up serving the Island after more than 50 years. When someone finishes up in a role he’s been in for more than 50 years, one might expect him to wax lyrical about the experience. This Sunday, Mgr Sean O’Shea will celebrate his final Mass as Rottnest Island Catholic chaplain – a p...

The theme of motherhood and the meaning of being a woman inspires young artists from UWA entering in the Mandorla Young Art Award's Young artists have been challenged by a Christian art award with its theme ‘born of a woman’, (Galatians 4:4), raising questions on the role of the mother in modern family life and what it means to be a woman. Among the many young artists having a tilt at the...