The development of the prayer resources for the First Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia has required a different way of thinking, said Mercy Sister Kerry Willison, Chair of the Plenary Council Liturgy Committee and Director of Liturgy for the Archdiocese of Perth.

In conjunction with the 71st National Liturgical Week in Cremona, Italy, the Vatican Secretary of State on behalf of Pope Francis, reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic confirmed changes previously underway in people’s understanding and participation in Sunday Mass. By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service.

A website launched this week aims to deepen people’s appreciation of sacred art by featuring Australian artists and liturgical art in its various forms.

The effects of COVID-19 have caused an unconventional start of Lent as worshippers this year received ashes by having them sprinkled on the top of their head. In his Lenten Pastoral Letter for 2021, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB spoke about how this six-week period is an opportunity for the faithful to acknowledge sinfulness as a serious matter that can have destructive effects on others and on ourselves.

Worshippers will from late-November notice a slight change to the words the priest prays just before the Liturgy of the Word, with the amendment supporting a more faithful understanding of the Trinity

The Australian Catholic University (ACU) Centre for Liturgy will host the President of the Catholic Theological Union, Rev Prof Mark R Francis CSV, in a free online public lecture broadcast live from Chicago, USA on Monday 20 July via Zoom.

The Record Magazine Issue 1. Front Cover: Feby Plando. It has been an honour to be part of the hardworking team that has worked together in developing the new publication of the Archdiocese of Perth, The Record Magazine. With 140 years of history behind its development, I am certain readers will be able to appreciate the research, intuitive writing and creative design that have come ...

By Bridget Chamberlain Monsignor Michael Keating, Sheelagh Dixon, Sr Kerry Willison, Ron Dullard, Bishop Donald Sproxton, Debra Sayce, Sr Catherine Brophy, Diana Alteri and Emma Nofal at the graduation ceremony. Photo: The Record. The inaugural graduates of the CEOWA Certificate of Liturgy program were commissioned and blessed at a ceremony in March. Sr Catherine Brophy from the Wood...

Composers in Perth have been given a head start in composing musical settings for the text of the Order of Mass that will be introduced soon, according to Sr Kerry Willison RSM, Archdiocesan Director of Liturgy.