Dean’s Blog - 2021
Cathedral Clinic
In collaboration with COVID19 Vaccine Command and Royal Perth Hospital, the Cathedral is hosting a covid-19 vaccination clinic on 18/19 December and 8/9 January. Everyone is welcome to come and ...
Homily for 24 October
We are on our plenary council journey which is an exercise in synodality for the Australian church. But our particular path intersects with a larger synodal journey which the Holy ...
3 October Homily
Tomorrow at 11am, the Archbishop will celebrate the Opening Mass of the Plenary Council. It has seemed quite a journey to this moment. It was supposed to take place last ...
Social Justice Sunday homily
What does a halo signify? ‘Holiness or saintliness,’ we might answer. And what does that mean? What is our picture of the holy or saintly person? Probably someone unlike us! ...
Assumption homily
We live in a world in which the levers of power are held by the mighty of the earth. Turn on the news and we hear of suffering of the ...
Whadjuk Country
The Cathedral and the city of Perth are located in Whadjuk Country. The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia attempts to represent the language, social or nation groups of Aboriginal Australia. It ...
VaccinateWA
The Cathedral priests received their first COVID-19 vaccination at Royal Perth Hospital. We received it at the hospital because of our ministry there and our contact with patients. We encourage everyone ...
The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
The St Mary's Cathedral community is joined in prayer for the blessed repose of the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh We pray too for the Queen and other members of the ...
Persecuted Christians
It was distressing to read the news of a terrorist attack on Catholics in Makassar, Indonesia. The attack left 14 people injured, people who had been participating in Palm Sunday Mass ...