Tag: Processions
Thousands feel the faith at Our Lady of Fatima rosary procession
The Sydney-based Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Procession, held on 10 May at St Mary’s Cathedral, drew an estimated 3,000 attendees and featured a moving display of faith, unity, and devotion.
Catholics to unite for annual Day of the Unborn Child
On 23 March, thousands are expected to gather at St Mary's Cathedral for the annual Day of the Unborn Child, a powerful display of faith and solidarity in defence of the most vulnerable members of society.
Faithful take light into a darkened world
The faithful flocked to St Joachim’s at Lidcombe for a candlelit rosary procession as a symbol of taking the light they had received through knowing and loving God into the darkness caused by rejecting him.
Lidcombe to host growing devotion to Our Lady of Good Success
Sydney Catholics will honour Our Lady with prayer and a procession on 2 February at St Joachim’s parish in Lidcombe.
Clean sweep as Catholic Weekly takes home six 2024 ACPA awards
Catholic Weekly Senior Journalist Marilyn Rodrigues has taken home three awards at this year’s Australasian Catholic Press Association awards, half of the newspaper’s total of six—the most of any publication on the night
The Eucharistic revival continues apace in the US
The Eucharistic revival continues apace in the US, with more than 1200 joining the cross-country procession in Washington DC as it travels to Indiana for the much-anticipated National Eucharistic Congress in July.
Students set to raise voices for Corpus Christi
Chant has been called the highest art form in the church and on 2 June St Mary’s Cathedral will again echo with the sound of sacred chants spanning centuries, at the annual Corpus Christi procession and Mass.
Thousands set to take to the streets as procession season sweeps...
Thousands of Sydneysiders are preparing to take their faith to the streets in two of the biggest public professions of faith on the Catholic calendar. As Sydney braces for a festival of faith, a new documentary by the Archdiocese of Sydney celebrates the history of Catholic processions in the city.
Western Sydney Parish processes for feast days
The community of St Peter Chanel and St Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Berala marked the feast days of their patron saints with a solemn outdoor procession and Mass.
Palm Sunday procession through Sydney’s west proclaims Christ’s saving power to...
Hundreds of pilgrims took up the cross for the final week of the three-week pilgrimage in Sydney's central deanery, which concluded on Palm Sunday at St Joachim's Lidcombe with Mass celebrated by Bishop Richard Umbers
Form your faith by engaging your body
What we do with our body forms the soul and our beliefs. That’s why it’s so important to take part in processions and other public displays of faith, writes Fr Bijoy Joseph, assistant priest of St Joachim’s Lidcombe.
Steven Buhagiar: 10 reasons why we take our children to Eucharistic...
By Steven Buhagiar
As we grow older, we often look back with fondness on the time we shared with our families as young children. In...