Tag: Ordination

On a day the world marks with roses, chocolates, and romance newly-ordained Deacon Lawrence Zimbe offered a bouquet not to a sweetheart, but to Our Lady, following his Valentine’s Day ordination by Bishop Daniel Meagher in Annandale.

On Saturday, 22 November, Peter Van Khuơng Tran, a young Vietnamese seminarian, was ordained by Bishop Daniel Meagher in Fairfield. 

Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP ordained Philip Pham and Robert Tonkli to the permanent diaconate in a richly symbolic liturgy attended by hundreds of their family, friends, parishioners and clergy in St Mary’s Cathedral on 19 November.

The first report on the well-being and health of Catholic clergy is realistic but largely positive.

As the world reacted to the election of Pope Leo XIV, Fr Matthew Timonera OFM Cap was quietly preparing for a momentous milestone of his own – ordination to the priesthood.

Bishop Peter Murphy has been ordained and installed as the 11th Bishop of Armidale after his appointment to the position by the late Pope Francis earlier this year.

To a world growing ever darker and emptier, Christians can bring Christ’s light, fullness and “sense of order,” said Bishop Tony Percy following his episcopal ordination as Australia’s newest bishop.

Bishop George Kolodziej SDS was ordained and installed as the fifth Bishop of Bunbury in a joyous occasion joined by hundreds of people across the country on the 19 March Solemnity of St Joseph. 

Becoming a cardinal is an insistent call to put Jesus at the centre of one's life, to love the poor as he did and to strengthen the bonds of unity within the Catholic Church, Pope Francis said as he created 21 new cardinals from 17 nations.

Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Waterloo celebrated an historic moment as Deacon Tai was ordained into the diaconate, marking the parish’s first ordination in living memory. Surrounded by loved ones, Deacon Tai reflected on his 13-year journey of faith, perseverance, and God’s love, inspiring hope and joy for the future.

For the last decade Monica Doumit has kept up a little tradition when praying for vocations. This Vocations Awareness Week, have you got a special way to ask God to send more workers into the harvest?

Taking the “penultimate step on the journey to priesthood,” Justin Faehrmann last week professed his love of God in one of the largest ordinations to the diaconate in recent memory.