February 2023
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The gift of the Eucharist the focus for new liturgical formation and renewal program
23 Feb 2023
In launching a new program of Liturgical Formation and Renewal this week, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says it is important the Perth Catholic community reflect on what it means to be a Christ-centred Church that is prayerful and Eucharistic. Over the next four weeks, video messages highlighting an understanding of Sacramentality, Why we Gather to celebrate Liturgy, Signs and Symbols in the Liturgy and What is Liturgy, will be shown in our parish communities.
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Scholarship recipients return to travelling around the world
23 Feb 2023
The BJ Hickey Scholarship is back in full swing doing what it does best - equipping students to travel interstate and around the world in their pursuit of the study of Word of God.
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Scarborough parishioners called to be faithful to the gift of faith that God has given
23 Feb 2023
God is asking us the same thing he asked of those who first founded the parish of Scarborough Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in 1948 - to be faithful to the gift of faith that He has given to us, said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, in celebrating its 75th anniversary, Sunday 12 February.
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Internationally recognised Grief to Grace program now accepting applications
23 Feb 2023
The Judeo-Christian spiritual framework program, which was developed by US psychologist Dr Theresa Burke is structured, confidential, and runs for five days, and uses large and small group work combined with somatic healing approaches.
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St Mary’s Cathedral launch their Modern Slavery Project
16 Feb 2023
An anti-slavery project was launched at St Mary’s Cathedral last Saturday 11 February and will run until the end of the year, which will include a review of procurement policies and practises as well as faith formation and social education sessions.
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Former refugee Fr Minh-Thuy Nguyen announced as new Vicar for Clergy
16 Feb 2023
Hailing originally from Saigon, South Vietnam, Fr Minh Thuy is the middle child of five children to Nghiem Nguyen and Tuoi Nguyen (nee Nguyen). With some 32 years’ experience across the Archdiocese of Perth, the Thornlie Parish Priest has last week been appointed the new Episcopal Vicar for Clergy.
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FCBO ASSEMBLY 2023: Bishops will carry shared mission home from Oceania assembly
16 Feb 2023
In his homily for the missioning Mass, concluding the quadrennial Assembly of Bishops from across Oceania in Fiji, Samoa Pago Pago Bishop Peter Brown CSsR urged his brother bishops – at the end of a week in which they focused often on God’s creation – to reflect on their place in the Church.
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FCBO 2023: Future hopes of all interwoven by the ocean
16 Feb 2023
Titled The oceans of the world are interwoven with the future hopes of all peoples, the statement speaks of the need for “deeper ecological conversion” and to embrace “the challenge of integral ecology”. Please find the statement attached.
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Bishop Sproxton celebrates milestone birthday
16 Feb 2023
Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has last week Tuesday 7 February 2023 celebrated a milestone 70th birthday. Bishop Sproxton was elected by Pope John Paul II to the episcopacy in December 2001 and ordained a bishop on 21 February 2002 at St Mary's Cathedral.
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Oceania bishops send prayers, condolences to Syria, Turkey
9 Feb 2023
The Catholic bishops of Oceania have sent a message of prayerful condolence and solidarity to Church and civic leaders in Turkey and Syria as the countries suffer the effects of devastating earthquakes.