St Mary’s Merredin will celebrate its centenary over the weekend Saturday 1 August and Sunday 2 August. Image: Supplied. Parishioners, students, families and friends past and present are warmly invited to share in the centenary celebrations of the St Mary’s parish and school community in Merredin that will be held over the weekend Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August. The occasion will be mark...

The Eastern Catholic Churches in Australia have journeyed from being listed as migrant chaplaincies to being accepted as integral within the Catholic Church, Melkite Bishop Robert Rabbat has said. During their May plenary meeting in Sydney, members of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference gathered in Mary MacKillop Memorial Chapel for a Mass celebrated in the Melkite tradition. Melk...

As the Pilgrimage of the Migrant Jubilee Cross continues to make its way around the state, the Catholic Youth Ministry’s Penelope Watt offers the following reflection. On Sunday 19 April, the Catholic Youth Ministry celebrated the arrival of the Migrant Jubilee Cross in Perth with a summit and mass at St Mary’s Cathedral. On Sunday 19 April, the Catholic Youth Ministry celebrated the arr...

By Jessica Kenny The Focolare movement in Perth has been celebrated at a Mass led by Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton on Vocations Day. Joining Bishop Don as concelebrant was Fr Anthony Rathinim, parish priest at St Denis Church, Joondanna. While the closing of the Focolare Centre marks the end of an era in Perth, the community will continue to foster and share the unity they have been nour...

Next month, the Wanneroo Parish community will gather in prayer, song, procession and celebration in honour of their patron saint – as they have done for the past 93 years. Shaped by the migrant story of the Church in Western Australia, the annual feast or festa of St Anthony has been celebrated in Wanneroo since the original St Anthony of Padua Church opened in 1932. In the early days, ...

Sixty-two men participated in this year’s Emmaus Walk. Photo: Aaron Kong/Archdiocese of Perth. Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on the road and explained the scriptures to us? (Luke 24:13-35). The story of the Road to Emmaus was the inspiration for the sixty-two men who participated in this year’s Emmaus Walk facilitated by menALIVE, in conjunction with the Knigh...

By Courtney Mares Pope Leo XIV told inmates at a correctional facility in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, on 22 April that "no one is excluded from God's love" and "God never grows tired of forgiving." "Each of us, with our unique stories, mistakes and sufferings, remains precious in the Lord's eyes," he said to the incarcerated men and women gathered. "We can say this with certainty, because J...

St Michael’s School in Bassendean and St Patrick’s School in Katanning have both recently celebrated centenary milestones of Catholic education in their respective communities. At St Michael’s, the community gathered to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the historic Mercy Convent - a place that has shaped generations of students, families and staff since its opening in 1926. The Ma...

By Courtney Mares Bells rang out over the hilltop town of Assisi on the night of 22 March as Franciscan friars closed the month-long public veneration of the bones of St Francis of Assisi, which drew more than 370,000 pilgrims from around the world to pray before the beloved saint. Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna, who is president of the Italian bishops' conference, presided over the cl...

By Jamie O'Brien and Phil Bayne It's almost impossible to fully grasp the extent of the good which our priests and indeed all our ordained ministers have done and continue to do for God's people, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said. “As ministers of God's grace, we've been drawn into the very ministry of Christ himself,” he continued, speaking to the nearly 200 clergy who gat...