Tag: Walk with Christ

From prayer groups to bus bookings and new banners, parishes are building momentum for the 22 November procession.

A small book arriving in Sydney parishes this week carries a rather large ambition: to help every Catholic in the Archdiocese fall in love again with the Eucharist.

The popular annual Eucharistic procession through the CBD will shift to November, taking another step towards Eucharist28.

A new online workshop is helping Sydney's Catholic communities bring ancient tradition to their streets - just in time for Eucharist28.

There was a time when mother of nine, Yvonne Muller's would bring her youngest, Tione, then aged one, to the Walk with Christ Procession to join a modest crowd of about 500 Catholics to walk to the cathedral.

It’s a powerful display of devotion in stark contrast to your typical image of today's tech-absorbed teenagers, but every year, as the city pauses, so do hundreds of Sydney students, taking solace from their digital lives, from selfies, likes and views to publicly affirm their faith.

If an army marches to a beat, then the 20,000 strong Walk with Christ brigade will march to the divine tempo set by the performers at the Corpus Christi festival event in Sydney’s Martin Place on 22 June.

As Sydney prepares for the annual Walk with Christ procession on 22 June, bishops, parish priests and deacons and seminarians across Sydney are preparing for more of those faith affirming moments in what has become one of Australia’s most powerful public demonstrations of Catholic faith.

To be a Christian is to "walk with Christ." As the great Australian poet, Catholic convert and brilliant hymnist James McAuley wrote, Christ is indeed "our star, our map, our road."

This year, when you walk the streets of Sydney surrounded by the voices of nearly 20,000 Catholics proclaiming their faith at the Walk with Christ procession, take note of the ‘invisible army’ forming the ‘human wall’ at the front of the procession or handing out booklets and directing traffic, working tirelessly behind the scenes.

The Catholic Church Down Under has caught the attention of the Catholic world as it experiences a powerful resurgence of faith.

This is the edited text of the Feverino given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for benediction after "Walk with Christ" at St Mary's Cathedral forecourt, Sydney, Corpus Christi, 2 June 2024.