Tag: feast day
Francis’ furry friends
Animals big and small, real and stuffed, got a blessing from Fr Bernie Thomas OFM for this year’s feast of St Francis of Assisi at Mary Immaculate Waverley, with parishes across Sydney following suit.
St Anthony celebrated across Sydney
St Anthony of Padua is well known for finding things that have been lost, but Catholics across Sydney had no trouble finding their way to Austral and Summer Hill to celebrate one of the church’s most popular saints on his 16 June feast.
La Guadalupana revered in Ryde
Latin American popular piety can inspire Sydney in new ways,” said Bishop Richard Umbers on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP: Called into the light
This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for the Feast of St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist and Mass For Consecrated Life at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 21 September 2023
Moorebank Somascans put on a feast for St Joseph
Crowds overflowed from St Joseph’s Catholic church in Moorebank as the community gathered to honour its parish’s patron saint with a candlelit solemn mass, procession and international food festival.
Honouring Australia’s first saint
By Judith Thomas
As a great reformer in Catholic education, it's particularly fitting that Sydney Catholic Schools honours Mary MacKillop on her feast day.
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