Catholic Outlook Magazine | September Edition | Season of Creation | 2023 Issue

DIOCESE OF PARRAMATTA NEWS AND VIEWS
Welcoming our pilgrims home from World Youth Day 2023
Summarising our Diocesan Synod Listening Stage I 50 years of Australia and the Holy See
We are at a kairos moment I Walking the talk at Sacred Heart Parish, Blackheath I Our Christian Hope
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Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv
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Jesus the Living Water by Troy Mardigan (Daly River).
On the first Sunday in July, Australian Catholics acknowledged
and celebrated the gifts of Australia’s First Peoples in the
Catholic Church. As we approach the referendum on the Voice
to Parliament, it has never been more important for Catholics to
listen to Australia’s First Peoples.
Cultural warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
readers are advised that this publication may contain
images of deceased persons.
Acknowledgement of Country
All material in this publication is copyright and
may not be reproduced without permission
of the publisher. 8,500 copies are printed
and distributed to 47 parishes, schools, after
school care centres and early learning centres
in Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains.
Here in the Diocese of Parramatta, we gather on Country on which
members and Elders of the Darug and Gundungurra communities
and their forebearers have been custodians for many centuries and
on which Aboriginal people have performed age-old ceremonies
of celebration, initiation and renewal. We acknowledge their living
culture and their unique role in the life of the region.
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© Diocese of Parramatta 2023
M A G A Z I N E
The Diocese of Parramatta reaffirms the
wise axiom attributed to Saint Augustine of
Hippo, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials,
freedom; in all things, charity.” In this spirit,
Catholic Outlook publishes a variety of
Catholic viewpoints. They are not necessarily
the official views of the Diocese of Parramatta.
Season of Creation | Spring 2023
170 young pilgrims from the Diocese of Parramatta
attended World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal in
August 2023 alongside 1.5 million other young
Catholics from around the world.
Image: Diocese of Parramatta.