Alana Brennan put her hand up for the SMPC for the very same reason she volunteered for her local Parish Pastoral Council: “I’d like to see people have the same enthusiasm for the Church that they display for their football Club,” she says.

St Brendan’s Shepparton Youth explored what it means to live their faith while they work at a ‘sunset session’ on Thursday 20 June.

From the Archives: Correspondence from Harcourt Granite Quarries to Bishop Crane suggesting they cut out the 'middleman'.

Over the month of May, Filipino parishioners from St Joseph’s, Cobram and St Mary’s, Echuca celebrated two of their traditional religious festivals, sharing their vibrant culture and unique style of devotion with their fellow parishioners.

Early in 1916, a tearful Dublin widow bade farewell to her fifteen-year-old son as he boarded a ship alone for Australia.

“Spiritual Accompaniment is for everyone,” says a team of Spiritual Directors.

Stephen Bolling is Parish Priest of St Liborius’, Eaglehawk and St Mary’s, Inglewood-Marong. He is also a member of the Safeguarding Committee of the Diocese of Sandhurst; Chaplain to the Bendigo Serra Club and Bendigo Apostolate of Our Lady of Fatima; a member of the Parish Visitation Program Working Group; and, of course, a member of the Sandhurst Mission and Pastoral Council (SMPC).

“Deep, deep gratitude” is the overwhelming emotion Fr Joe Taylor says he has experienced recently as he has reflected on his 50 years of priesthood.

The journey to reconciliation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples is not easy, but the Catholic Church remains hopeful of healing.

Reconciliation Week [27 May to 3 June 2024] "Now More Than Ever".