October 14, 2019 - Faith development, Shine Gathering, Youth Ministry
2019 SHINE Gathering Student Testimony By Joe Fitzgerald G’day, my name is Joe, I’m 15 and I’m in year 10 at Mt St Patrick’s College in Murwillumbah. I live in Crystal Creek. I doubt anyone knows where that is. It’s a small town, actually it’s more of a village, with a small public school. […]
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September 12, 2019 - Shine Gathering, Student discipleship, Youth Ministry
Celebrating Youth Alive in the Church By Ellen Hales “Christ is alive! He is our hope, and in a wonderful way he brings youth to our world, and everything he touches becomes young, new, full of life.” These are the very first words Pope Francis writes to all young people and the wider Church in […]
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July 8, 2019 - Faith development, Science and Faith, Youth Ministry
INDESCRIBABLE: LOOKING AT THE INTRICACIES OF GOD’S CREATION I’ve always loved the stars. And the ocean. And the trees and the birds and anything else that’s natural in our world. I remember being a little girl and always asking my Dad about the night sky – what’s up there, Dad? Where does the sun […]
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May 7, 2019 - Faith development, Student discipleship, Youth Ministry
By Bianca McInnes YMO, St John’s College Woodlawn October 25th, 2018, right in the middle of the HSC exams I walked into the school I had known and loved for 6 years, feeling overwhelmingly nervous and anxious, something I never really felt at the place that made me feel safe. On this day I […]
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May 7, 2019 - Divine Mercy, Easter, Parish, Youth Ministry
(A confession of being afraid of confession) By Mariah Allan YMO, St Paul’s College Kempsey Imagine walking into Church and finding, to your surprise, you have to squeeze your way through approximately 150 people just standing up the back. Seats are vacant and Mass has just started, yet all these people are waiting, staring […]
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April 10, 2019 - Faith development, Lent, School life, Youth Ministry
“Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led into the wilderness.” That little verse taken from the First Sunday of Lent, sums up my whole experience of Lent 2019 in a nutshell. When I was praying about what Jesus wanted me to do for lent I knew right away what He was asking out of […]
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April 10, 2019 - Faith development, Mission, Parish, School life, Student discipleship, Youth Ministry
Honestly, I haven’t always been the faith driven person that I am now. I started off my schooling at a Catholic Primary School and then at some point in year 3, I moved to a Public School. It was a MASSIVE change for me. I went from praying three times a day and having religious […]
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April 10, 2019 - Bishop Homeming, Faith development, Mission, Proclaim Lismore Staff, School life, Student discipleship, Vocation, Youth Ministry
An incredible new adventure for the Diocese of Lismore. Last week 23 faithful young adults gathered in Lismore for the first Youth Ministry Officer (YMO) Equipping School. Evolving from Bishop Greg’s vision for young adult formation, the Catholic Schools Office School Evangelisation (SE) Staff and Parish Youth Coordinator’s guided the YMOs in a six-day formation […]
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November 14, 2018 - Immersion, Parish, School life, Social justice, Student discipleship, Year of Youth, Youth Ministry
By Georgia Baker (YMO at Mt St Patrick’s College Murwillumbah) When I think back to the week I experienced in Wilcannia, the words that come to mind are selfless love. Everyone we came in contact with over the trip showed nothing but selfless love. On Sunday the 28th December, 10 students and 4 staff […]
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