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Diocesan E-News

28 March 2018

At Your Service
Being with God in Nature

A variety of opportunities for people to spend time in a group, at times in silence, listening to God's presence in Nature.

 
Easter Mass Times 2018

Easter Mass Times in the diocese for 2018.

 
Coming Events
BBI-ACBC eConference

Save the Date - 8 August 2018.

 
Irish Heritage Exhibition

The Archives of the Catholic Diocese of Ballarat and the Ballarat Diocesan Historical Commission present an exhibition.

 
Diocesan News
Diocesan Liturgical Commission

News!

 
New Evangelisation - Planting Seeds through Family and Parish

Professor Thomas Groome will present this workshop in the Ballarat Diocese. Registrations close shortly for this event.  

 
Towards 2020

Resources availabe for the Plenary Council to be held in 2020

 
WYD Panama

Ballarat Diocese is going to WYD Panama!

 
Faith in Life
Project Compassion

Psyche Mae from Philippines - A Just Future Starts with Opportunity

 
Reflect on Sunday’s Scripture

Take the time to read and reflect on Sunday’s Gospel.

 
Reflection

Prayer for this edition of e-News.

 
General News
Be a Good Egg this Easter

Children as young as 12 years old are picking cocoa in West Africa to make the chocolate we eat. Some of these children are trafficked.  

 
In the Parishes
Last opportunity and farewell

St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church Clunes are having an afternoon. 

 
Diocesan News
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CELEBRATING A DECADE

Australian Catholic University (ACU) celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the Clemente Ballarat Program’s transformational learning for disadvantaged people on Wednesday, March 21.

   
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CELELBRATING 125 YEARS

Celebrations for St Patrick’s College's 125th Anniversary commenced with a symbolic gathering of students in the front gardens where a 125 year commemorative photo was taken.

   
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COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP

St Joseph’s College Mildura and Best Bottlers have formed a community partnership to demonstrate the applications of chemistry in the wine industry.

   
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PROCLAIM 2018

For the first time the Archdiocese of Brisbane, in collaboration with the ACBC’s National Centre for Evangelisation, will host PROCLAIM 2018.

   
Faith in Life
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SUPPORT FOR STUDENTS

Ballarat Friends of Ainaro Health Group are a group of health professionals committed to supporting the provision of health care in Timor Leste, through awarding scholarships to disadvantaged Timorese students.

   
Focus On
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MASS OF THE OILS 2018

On Monday, March 26, the beginning of Holy Week, St Patrick’s Cathedral Ballarat was filled with priests and people from around the Diocese for the Mass of the Oils.

   
General News
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A BIT OF HISTORY

Did you know St John of God Ballarat Hospital's first ever patient was admitted on March 14 in 1915? 

   
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WELCOMING EMMA TO CANDIDACY

On Saturday February 3, around fifty Sisters of Mercy gathered in the Mercy Centre chapel at Ballarat for Emma Llewellyn’s Entrance to Candidacy Ritual.

   
In the Parishes
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COSTA'S VISIT

2018 has been a very exciting year for St Francis Xavier Primary School, Ballarat East in their sustainability journey.

   
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DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

On January 16, 1958, of the sixteen Good Samaritan Sisters who were professed at Pennant Hills NSW, five were past pupils of St Brendan’s Coragulac.

   
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HARMONY DAY

Stories from schools celebrating Harmony Day.

   
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PARISH VISITATION TO COLLEGE

On March 13, Fr Kevin Maloney invited parishioners from St Aloysius Redan and St James Sebastopol Parishes to tour Damascus College Ballarat.

   

All Enquiries
Phone (03) 53 377 179 Email enews@ballarat.catholic.org.au
Postal Address PO Box 576, Ballarat, 3353

www.ballarat.catholic.org.au