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World Mission Sunday – 18 October
Thank you for your generous support of the Church in Malawi and the communities it serves. Because of your kindness, children like Yamikani* will have greater access to education, nourishment, and the opportunity to build a hopeful future. And if you chose to become a Mission Partner with a monthly gift - thank you so much for your ongoing commitment. To learn more about the work of Catholic Mission in [...]
Farewell for Fr Thomas Chirackal
As we farewell Fr Thomas Chirackal, we give thanks for his faithful service to the parish communities of Singleton and Branxton. A member of the Missionary Society of St Thomas the Apostle from Kerala, India, Fr Thomas served as a missionary priest in India and Tanzania before arriving in the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle in March 2015. He ministered as Assistant Priest at Blackbutt North and later at Wallsend-Shortland before being [...]
Feast Days this Week
Saints Simon and Jude - 28 October Jude is so named by Luke and Acts. Matthew and Mark call him Thaddeus. He is not mentioned elsewhere in the Gospels, except of course where all the apostles are mentioned. Scholars hold that he is not the author of the Letter of Jude. Actually, Jude had the same name as Judas Iscariot. Evidently because of the disgrace of that name, it was shortened [...]
