World Day of the Sick

  • News & Events Weekly Update

    Positions vacant 1. Graphic Designer & Team Support – Brand, Networking, Video: The Institute for Mission at Blacktown requires a full-time team member who specialises in graphic design. Applications close on 31 January 2017. For a position description, click here. 2. Assistant Housekeeper: Holy Spirit Seminary at Harris Park...
  • Bishop Vincent Long’s Diary

    Sunday 22 January 2017 Celebrates Solemn Pontifical Mass for the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Parramatta, at 11am. Wednesday 25 January 2017 Delivers an address at the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta System Leadership Day. Sunday 29 January 2017 Celebrates Pontifical Mass of the 4th...
  • News & Events Weekly Update

    Positions vacant 1. The Office for Worship requires a full-time Administration Assistant for their office in Blacktown. Applications close on Wednesday 18 January 2017. For further details of the position, click here. 2. Holy Spirit Seminary has an opening for a part-time position (two days per week) in the...
  • News & Events Weekly Update

    The Lights of Christmas at St Mary’s Cathedral: 8-25 December 2016 Experience the joy of Christmas with sound and light projections on St Mary’s Cathedral. Bring the whole family to view the Fantasia-style animation of the classic Christmas favourite The Nutcracker Suite, Christmas carols and beautiful visions of the...
  • Pope Francis: ‘be at the side of the person who suffers’.

    Posted on 16 February 2016 By Michelle Davis On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes on 11 February, more than 450 people gathered in St Patrick’s Church at Blacktown for the 2nd annual diocesan Mass for World Day of the Sick. For this year’s World Day of the...
  • Mass for World Day of the Sick on 11 February

    The annual Mass for World Day of the Sick will be celebrated in the Diocese of Parramatta on 11 February 2016, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, at 10.30am in St Patrick’s Church at Blacktown. The Mass will be an acknowledgment of carers and those for whom they...
  • Reflection on Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of the Sick, 11 February 2016

    For the diocesan World Day of the Sick Mass at St Patrick’s Church in Blacktown on 11 February 2016, Pope Francis has invited us to meditate on the Marriage feast of Cana, with the theme: Entrusting Oneself to the Merciful Jesus like Mary: “Do whatever he tells you” (Jn...