St Patrick’s Cathedral Race Day
The 2013 St Patrick’s Cathedral Race Day - the first in a series of major social events planned for Project Ten - was held at Rosehill Racecourse on Saturday 1 June.
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Learn more about Project Ten at the Catholic Outlook site
Holy Spirit Seminary Harris Park blessing
The Bishop of Parramatta, Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP, blessed the new Harris Park home of Holy Spirit Seminary on Sunday 26 May.
Read Bishop Anthony’s Holy Spirit Seminary Harris Park Blessing Address
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Download an audio file of this Address
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Faith in Our Future: Advancing our Pastoral Plan
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| In 2012, 2000 participants took part in “Faith in our Future” consultations. |
From Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP
We are currently preparing our Pastoral Plan, Faith in Our Future. This is a process full of Christian hope for the future of the Church in Western Sydney.
Our Pastoral Planning Team, with our clergy and diocesan agencies, has been hard at work, drawing on your wisdom and shaping recommendations.
The more advice we can gather and sift, the better our Pastoral Plan will be.
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Download Advancing our Diocesan Pastoral Plan – May-June 2013
Have your say
You are invited to provide feedback on the parish-based goals outlined within the attached PDF above, as part of the development of the Pastoral Plan.
Learn more at the Faith in Our Future Blog or go to the Feedback Form webpage at the Faith in Our Future site.
Related:
Faith in Our Future: National Pastoral Planning Conference
TJHC launches new website
A new website designed to provide information on the way the Catholic Church will approach its engagement with the Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has been launched by the Truth Justice and Healing Council.
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Related:
TJHC welcomes Pope’s statement on Church sexual abuse
Truth Justice and Healing Council holds first meeting
Members of Truth Justice and Healing Council announced
Royal Commission: Terms of reference and Commissioners
Report by the Hon Antony Whitlam QC
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Homily of Most Rev Anthony Fisher OP - St Patrick's Cathedral Parramatta, Sunday 16 June 2013
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Monday 24 June: Break open the Bishops’ 2012-13 Social Justice Statement: ‘The Gift of Families in Difficult Times’. An initiative of the Catholic Diocese of Parramatta Social Justice Office in conjunction with Institute for Mission.