Parish Event 2025 Calendar
- Sunday 3 August – Feast of St Ignatius Family Mass at 5.00pm on Susan Palmer Oval (above church)
- Sunday 14 September – Arts and Craft Display in parish hall
- Thursday 9 October – Bus Trip to Marian Valley
- TBA – Holy Door Pilgrimage to St Stephen’s Cathedral
April 2025 Announcements
Planning for 2025/26
The PPC has been discussing a planning process for our Parish to become more synodal as we implement the strategies from the Final Document for a Synodal Church and the Synod 24 Action Plan.
In 2023, parishioners attended a planning session and completed a parish survey. The results of those processes underpinned the steps taken by the Parish over the last fifteen months. Mary Anne Paddock has produced a short video which shows some of the highlights from those actions. I invite you to take a few minutes to watch the presentation.
Our Parish: A Review in Review (Mary Anne Paddock – PPC Member)
Listening Forum
On Thursday May 1, 2025, we will hold a communal listening session in the Parish Hall. We want to hear the views of as many parishioners as possible. We will also be seeking input from people who may have left the Parish and those that have intermittent contact. The listening session will be followed by a workshop of lay leaders to develop an Action Plan.
We recognize that there will be a diversity of opinions regarding priorities. However, it is important that we capture the views of as many people as possible as we walk together on a synodal journey.
May 2025 Announcements
Listening Forum
There were approximately fifty attendees at the Parish Listening Forum held on 1st May. After some initial reticence due to some inexperience with Conversation in the Spirit, participants became more excited by the possibilities that were raised by their colleagues and became totally engaged. The data obtained through the process is currently being reviewed and will be merged with the survey data. The combined data set will then be analyzed and an Action Plan developed at a Workshop on 7th June.
Parish Survey
Parish Survey forms are available in the Church. We realize that not all parishioners could attend the Listening Forum on 1st May. However, as the Parish moves to implement more and more synodal practices we want to provide every parishioner with the opportunity to put forward their priorities to ensure that the Parish remains vibrant and continues to grow. We encourage you to complete the survey document and place it in the baskets at the church door as you leave today. If necessary, you can take the form home, complete it and return it next week by placing it in the collection basket.
