The death of a baby, highlighted Pregnancy Assistance Counsellor Lisette Jas, at any stage of pregnancy can be a very sad, distressing, and overwhelming time. Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has last weekend Saturday 18 March celebrated the Day of the Unborn Child Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral.

Ukrainian Catholic Church Parish Priest Fr Ihor Holovko explained to The Record that for him the past 12 months have been a very defined mission of helping the community every way he can. “It has motivated, all of us, I think, to do what we can when we have seen people in need – a bit like the words of St Mary McKillop,” Fr Ihor explained.

In the liturgical celebration of the sacraments, important stages of life are made holy, said Episcopal Vicar for Education and Faith Formation, the Very Rev Fr Vincent Glynn. Speaking in the first of four videos for the recently launched Liturgical Formation and Renewal Program, Fr Vincent continued by saying that baptism sanctifies our human life, marriage sanctifies our love for another, the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick allows us to experience God entering into our suffering and the Eucharist feeds us and nourishes us for this life and eternal life.

The MOU was developed following extensive consultation in 2022 to re-affirm both cooperation and a united commitment to the delivery of a quality, Christ-centred and child-focused education for families who choose a Catholic school. 

“We look at our own struggles, our own limitations and our own sinfulness and recognise that what God is calling us to is actually beyond us – and we would be right, especially if we were to think that we had to respond to this call on or own,” Perth Archbishop Costelloe SDB has said, during the Ordination to the Diaconate of St Charles Seminarians Errol Lobo and Jason Yeap.

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.

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.

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 75^th anniversary, Sunday 12 February.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has last week Tuesday 7 February 2023 celebrated a milestone 70^th 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.

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.

The annual 33^rd Flame Ministries Congress, held 26 to 29 January at Mater Christi Community Centre, Yangebup, focused on the theme “Heart of Worship”, and included in-depth day teachings and workshops, evening rallies, and was this year directed towards the younger generation.

Speaking on the occasion of the 2023 Beginning of the Year Mass for Catholic Education, Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton told of the work of St John Bosco, highlighting that those present are called to help children of all abilities and backgrounds, to embark on the pathway of education, on the pathway to personal growth, to be equipped to take their place creatively in society.

Approximately 30 per cent of eligible Year 12 students in Catholic schools achieved an ATAR above 90, with thirty-eight students obtaining an ATAR of 99+. Five students received Exhibitions.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last month said that as people of faith, we know that the gift of life is the most precious gift of all, for without it there is no possibility of anything: no chance to love, no chance to hope, no chance to believe.

In celebrating the ordination of five men to the priesthood, Perth Salesian Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said the Lord is asking them to let go of everything holding them back from giving themselves fully and finally to God; to surrender themselves to God and allow God to remake them, to reshape them, into something, or rather someone, new.

The relics of three saints were fixed into the altar at the new Church of St John Paul II Banksia Grove, which was dedicated and opened by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Thursday 26 January in the presence of some 1000 people.

Speaking at the 1.10pm Mass for the Dead, Wednesday 1 February at Sydney’s St Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop Costelloe said we are all equally brothers and sisters in the communion of the Church, and all equally children of our one Father in heaven.

With much gratitude to the dedicated first group of Salesians who arrived in Fremantle in 1923, the Australia-Pacific Province of Mary Help of Christians will celebrate its centenary with pride.

The 2022 annual report, which focuses on progress made between October 2021 and October 2022, collates information from dioceses and religious institutes, as well as the work of some key national entities.

Speaking in his homily for the 11am Christmas Mass, Sunday 25 December, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said that in the midst of the season of Christmas gift-giving, it is right that we, as Christians, should see in each gift we give and receive, a reflection of God’s gift of himself to us in Jesus.

The discernment and writing group was convened to prepare a draft report from Oceania to be considered at next month’s assembly of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) in Fiji.

The Holy Father, who had praised the Cardinal for keeping his faith "with perseverance even in the hour of trial," arrived in St Peter's Basilica at the end of the Mass to preside over the final rite of commendation, as he usually does for cardinals who die in Rome.

Perth man Sheldon Burke has last month commenced the last part of his journey to the priesthood, following his ordination to the Diaconate at Thornlie Parish Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Saturday 10 December by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB.