Celebration, Highlights, Mass
Above: Students attended a National Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, NSW. Photo by Giovanni Portelli. A National Mass was celebrated simultaneously across Australia on the Feast of Our Lady Help of Christians on Monday 24 May 2021 to mark the bicentenary of...
Celebration, Highlights, National Song
Above: Faith in the Future Australian Catholic Schools Version. Catholic students from across the country have joined together in a video performance of the national song ‘Faith in the Future’, to celebrate 200 years of Catholic education in Australia, which marks the...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: St Vincent’s College, Potts Point c 1952. Courtesy of the Congregational Archives of the Sisters of Charity of Australia On 31 December 1838, five Sisters of Charity arrived in Sydney from Ireland, the first women Religious in Australia. Mary Aikenhead, the...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: St Mary’s Cathedral students 2020. Source Sydney Catholic Schools. The Benedictine Monks were the first religious order to serve in Australia and were involved in the early days of the establishment of Catholic schools. In 1833, Fr William B Ullalthorne was the...
Highlights, History, Memories from the past
Above: Old Marist School House in Parramatta. Source: Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta. On 16 May 1935, The Catholic Press newspaper declared that “Parramatta deserves the title of The Cradle of Catholicism in Australia”. It was in Parramatta that the first...
