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News

Read the latest stories from across our Diocese here, or read Sandpiper e-News, our fortnightly digital newsletter. 

Friday, 31 May 2024 14:44

Reconciliation Week 2024

Reconciliation Week [27 May to 3 June 2024] "Now More Than Ever".
MARIAN College’s recent production, ‘G.R.O.W. Up’, was a great success, with positive feedback from audiences, according to school drama teacher, Vicky McGowan.
“Pope Francis is challenging us to rediscover Jesus’ presence with us when we celebrate the Liturgy,” says Professor Clare Johnson, Director of the ACU Centre…
A Reflection by Josh Lourensz, Executive Director of Catholic Social Services Victoria 
From June in 1852 Backhaus kept meticulous records of the Baptisms, Marriages and uniquely, Deaths that took place in and around the Bendigo goldfields.
Eighty senior secondary students and teachers from twelve Catholic High schools attended the annual Sandhurst ‘Justice Matters Camp’ in Beechworth from 8-10 May.
Vast majority of Catholic school families excluded from the State Budget's $400 School Savings Bonus 
An Hazara Afghani family of four will soon arrive in Bendigo via the Australian Government’s Community Refugee Integration and Settlement Program Pilot (CRISP). 
Monsignor Frank Hickey died peacefully in Nagambie on the morning of 9 May 2024. He was 97 years old and was in the 73rd year…
The Sandhurst Youth Ministry Reference Group has met three times since it was established in October 2023. The Group has been working on a detailed…
Fr Adi Indra is looking forward to the next Vocations Discernment Session, which will focus on the first foundational aspect of discernment – prayer.
Approximately 600 people attended St Brendan’s Feast Day celebrations in Shepparton on Sunday 5 May.
At the sixth meeting of the Sandhurst Mission and Pastoral Council held on 20 April, members worked on a final draft of the Strategic Mission…
Saturday, 27 April 2024 00:36

Seasons For Growth Program May 2024

The Seasons for Growth program is designed to help anyone who has experienced significant change such as loss, death, family breakdown, or other change which has…
Diocesan Vocations Director, Fr Nathan Verallo, says vocations discernment doesn’t apply only to the priesthood.
The L’Arche Bendigo Community celebrated their tenth anniversary at a fundraising lunch at St Kilian’s Hall on Sunday 14 April 2024.
  In St Mary’s Church, Avenel there is a heritage-listed, stained-glass window with imagery of St Martin of Tours, a patron saint of France.
Caritas Australia thanks schools and parishes for another successful Project Compassion.
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