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Vocations Awareness Week
National Vocation Awareness Week is an opportunity to pray for vocations and discernment in the Church, helping all the faithful to explore their calling, and to take the next step in responding to God’s call. How will you respond to God’s call this week? How will you encourage others in their call?
Feast Days this Week
Saint Dominic - 3 August If he hadn’t taken a trip with his bishop, Saint Dominic would probably have remained within the structure of contemplative life; after the trip, he spent the rest of his life being a contemplative in active apostolic work. Born in old Castile, Spain, Saint Dominic was trained for the priesthood by a priest-uncle, studied the arts and theology, and became a canon of the cathedral [...]
The Synodal Way
The Synodal Way Wednesday 12 August 2026, Convent Muswellbrook 6-8pm A Journey into what the inspiration of the Global Synod now asks of us. Come and discover what the Synod has called the Church to become and what that invitation means for us here in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle today. The Synod on Synodality has been described as one of the most significant events in the life of the Catholic Church [...]