Tag: Priesthood

Six months after becoming a deacon, Tai Pham will be ordained as a priest at St Mary’s Cathedral at 10.30am on 31 May. Deacon Pham, a Vietnamese national, arrived in Australia in 2018 after discerning that God wanted him to carry out his ministry overseas. He says he wishes to serve people as a priest and follow “after the heart of Christ."

Known affectionately as "Father Bob the Builder," Fr Hayes did not just build churches; he built community. Yet, as he and the other 58 retired priests supported by the Priests’ Retirement Foundation (PRF) navigate their golden years, they now need your help.

Peter is helping build the church here in Sydney, having joined the Good Shepherd Seminary in 2017. As a future leader of the faith, he is now helping to welcome 14 young men who are entering the seminary in 2025.

The Seminary of the Good Shepherd has welcomed its largest intake of first year seminarians since 2017. The seminary received 14 first year students into its ranks, bringing the total number of men preparing for the priesthood at the seminary in Homebush to 46.

A priestly vocation is not merely a path toward salvation for the one who is called but should be a continuous self-gift that aligns each priest's life with God's plans for them, Pope Francis said.

The Church in Sydney has been blessed with two new priests after Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP ordained Luis Alejandro Giraldo Alvarez and Nonie Tiburan at St Mary’s Cathedral on 30 November.

This is the first of a semi-regular page, where we look beneath the collar of a priest from the Sydney Archdiocese and discover a bit about his life and his road to priesthood.

Commentators online cross about the Synod on Synodality’s penitential service say the cardinals’ public confessions on behalf of the church “don’t speak for me.” Be bemused at some of the language, but don't forget that intercession before God is what the priesthood is all about, writes Monica Doumit.

A band of merry mothers has taken a leaf out of St Monica’s book, turning to prayer and our Lord to guide their children, themselves and their family.

The future of the priesthood depends on the restoration of its relevance and status, and the reversal of decline in its morale, veteran seminary formator and former Broken Bay vicar-general Fr John Hill said in the inaugural McGuire Lecture at ACU on 7 August.

Sydney’s younger priests are likely to have come from families where daily Mass, nightly praying of the rosary and reading the lives of the saints were common, a recent survey has confirmed.

The Lord is always calling young men and women to join him in the work of sanctifying the world, some of them as priests or religious sisters or brothers.