Pope Francis held the special Urbi et Orbi meaning “to the city (Rome) and the world; to everyone" on Friday 27th March from the steps of St. Peter’s Basilic...

During this time of social distancing, it’s important that we come together as a community to check in on each other. Angels of care is a group of volunteers...

Happy Feast Day of the annunciation! Today we celebrate Mary's "fiat" ("yes") to God that allowed Him to come and be born and live amongst us! If Mary hadn't...

Today is Laetare Sunday. Meaning Rejoice! The Fourth Sunday of Lent encourages us that the feast of Easter is drawing closer and closer. Let us not be experi...

An important message from our Archdiocese: https://www.cam.org.au/Guidance-for-Parishes-COVID-19 Our parish will be live streaming Sunday mass from our websi...

Happy Feast day of St Joseph!!! In the face of fear, uncertainty and danger, St. Joseph chose faith, hope and trust. A strong and loving father who put his l...

During this time of uncertainty, let us not turn against one another, but in the spirit of love that we demonstrated so well to the Bushfire crisis, looking ...

The young adults met again on Friday, opening the Word and reflecting on who Jesus is and what that means for us. The mountain of Tabor shows us that God is w...

In last weekend’s newsletter I wrote of our two catechumens (meaning: unbaptised), Alison and Allie who were going to the Cathedral to be enrolled in the Boo...

Our very own Fr John Petrulis is one of three past pupils who will be inducted into the 2020 Salesian College Chadstone Hall of Fame. As a parish, we are abs...

Congratulations to our Catechumins Allie and Alison who have now become 'the elect', as they are elected by God; called and chosen! The RCIA team joined toge...

The young adults of our parish met on Saturday afternoon to learn about the origins of Lent, reflect on our past experiences, pray with the Gospel, meditate,...

Fr John joined the young adults evening to talk about God being in the centre of everything (not just the mass), that centres our own lives and who we are. T...

This is the theme for our St Columba Primary School for 2020. The children, staff and families celebrated the beginning of the school year with a beautiful m...

Last September, on 30 September, the feast of St Jerome, Pope Francis launched his Apostolic Letter, Aperuit illis, through which he instituted that the thir...

“The Eucharist is the sacrament of love; it signifies love, it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life” - St Thomas Aqui...

Last Friday night, still during the holiday season our Young Adults gathered to for dinner and to talk about the importance of prayer - the breath of the spi...

Happy New Year and Happy Feast day of the Solemnity of our Mother Mary! As today's gospel says, "She treasures all these things and pondered them in her hear...

Happy Feast day! Let us look towards the Holy Family as an example not only for our own immediate family, but our community as we are all brothers and sister...