The 12 days of Christmas – huh?

December 28th, 2018 It really does sometimes seem that Christmas begins somewhere in late November and ends somewhere around Boxing Day...A couple of years ago I was in the city shopping ...

31 December Mass and Evening Prayer

On Monday, 31 December at 5pm we shall celebrate the Vigil Mass for the Solemnity of Mary Mother of God. The Mass will be followed by sung Vespers, the Evening ...

Merry Christmas

Today is born our Saviour, Christ the Lord! The Cathedral community wishes you and yours every blessing for this joyous season. The birth of the Christ-child is the birth of ...

An invitation

I would like to invite you to join us for Christmas Mass. We celebrate with joy the birth of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Come, hear and join us ...

Christmas thoughts from our choristers

December 14th, 2018 As the Cathedral’s Music Programme prepares for the celebrations of Christmas, here are some thoughts from some of our youngest choristers: ‘I am celebrating my second Christmas here St. ...

New safeguarding officer

Josephine Cabagyo has just completed the Safeguarding Officer's course. I look forward to welcoming her formally to the Cathedral's safeguarding team.

University of Notre Dame Graduation Mass

On August 11, 1890, in Birmingham in England, John Henry Newman, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, died at the age of eighty-nine. He had been brought up in the ...

Homily for Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception

The teaching of the Immaculate Conception tells us that Mary from the first moment of her existence was totally free from the influence of that universal sinfulness which touches us ...

Homily for First Sunday of Advent

In my previous parish I visited for a while a parishioner who was in a rehabilitation hospital. She seemed to be in there for quite a while and while there ...

Second Sunday of Advent

Yesterday, December 8, the whole Church throughout the world celebrated the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. For the Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Perth, ...