The feast day to Mary Help of Christians has been celebrated in Australia since 1844 but the history to this day dates back to the start of the 1800's.  

St Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, Curé of Ars (1786 - 1859) He was the son of a peasant farmer, and a slow and unpromising candidate for the priesthood: he was eventually ordained on account of his devoutness rather than any achievement or promise. In 1818 he was sent to be the parish priest of Ars-en-Dombes, an isolated […]

She was born at Assisi and came under the influence of Saint Francis. She left home at the age of 18 and, under Francis’s guidance, began a community that grew to become the order of the Poor Clares (she was later joined both by her sister and by her widowed mother). In its radical attachment […]

All candidates remember to bring your Sacrament Activity Book.

All candidates remember to bring your Sacrament Activity Book.

All candidates remember to bring your Sacrament Activity Book.

All candidates remember to bring your Sacrament Activity Book.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of […]

Happy are you, O blessed Virgin Mary; without dying you won the martyr's crown beside the cross of the Lord.

He was born in Etruria and became Pope in 440. He was a true shepherd and father of souls. He constantly strove to keep the faith whole and strenuously defended the unity of the Church. He repelled the invasions of the barbarians or alleviated their effects, famously persuading Attila the Hun not to march on […]