Tag: Solemnity
St Joseph honoured ahead of feast
Crowds packed 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 on 15 March.
Q&A with Fr Flader: Why is St John the Baptist a...
We recently celebrated the feast of St John the Baptist and I noticed that it has the highest liturgical rank of a solemnity. Why is this the case?
St Patrick’s dinner dance, social event of the year
St Peter’s Surry Hills brought together Catholics from around the archdiocese and beyond for a night of joyful celebration of St Patrick’s Day, reclaiming the Catholic origins of the annual feast.
Somascans go from strength to strength
There was double the joy for parishioners of St Joseph’s Moorebank and St Christopher’s Holsworthy as the parishes celebrated two major milestones on 8 February.
Moorebank enters new year with Our Lord
After a difficult and unpredictable year, parishioners from St Christopher's Holsworthy and St Joseph's Moorebank gathered together on 31 December in thanksgiving and to...
Q&A with Fr John Flader: Celebrating the Ascension
“Dear Father, I am always interested in the origin of the feast days we celebrate today. For example, was the feast of the Ascension...



















