Parish welcomes School-based trainees from Newman College St Agnes’ Catholic Parish welcomed 12 new school-based trainees from Newman Senior Technical College during a sign-up day held Thursday (30 May), at the Parish Administration Centre. Among the group, four students will embark on a traineeship in Early Childhood Education with St Joseph’s Family Services while the remaining eight [...]
The service of Parish volunteers recognised during National Volunteers’ Week As part of National Volunteers Week, 20-26 May 2024, the St Agnes’ Catholic Parish community gathered to thank God for volunteers at a special Recognition Mass held on Thursday 23 May at St Agnes’ Church in Hay Street. The Mass was celebrated by Fr Paul Gooley and [...]
Emmaus Village Open Day to showcase new community’s best practice dementia care Emmaus Village, Port Macquarie’s new and innovative community for people living with dementia, is hosting an Open Day on Saturday 1 June, from10am to 2pm. This event offers the public an opportunity to gain insight into the unique design and special environment of the Village.Operated by St [...]
Parish celebrates graduation of first Ni-Vanuatu PALM Workers through John Henry Institute Fifteen workers employed by St Agnes’ Care & Lifestyle under the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility [PALM] scheme, are the first cohort of workers from Vanuatu to graduate with a Certificate III in Individual Support from the John Henry Institute (RTO No 7054) as part of [...]
First Mass in the newly renovated St Teresa of Kolkata chapel at Emmaus Fr Paul Gooley celebrated the first mass in the newly renovated St Teresa of Kolkata chapel at Emmaus on Tuesday (7 May 2024) much to the delight of the residents, staff, family, and friends. While the official re-consecration of the chapel will take place later in [...]
Fr Paul’s Easter Message For a couple of months now we have been bombarded with the secular version of Easter. There are hot cross buns of every variety – as I write, the daily paper has featured ‘scotch’ infused hot cross buns!!!! There is chocolate in every shape and taste – eggs, rabbits, bilby’s, dark, white, caramel, [...]
Connecting to Country Program a wonderful experience St Joseph’ Regional College Indigenous Education Worker, Nicholas Ratliff, and teacher of Catholic Studies, Brigitte Rieger, recently had the privilege of participating in the Port Macquarie-Hastings Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) 3-day Connecting to Country program, hosted by Indigenous Elders and leaders, Uncle Bill, Aunty Linda and Jamie Donovan. Day [...]
JHI partnership trains leaders of tomorrow A partnership between the John Henry Institute (JHI), MEGT, and the Diocese of Lismore Catholic Schools Limited (DLCSL), formerly the Catholic Schools Office was recently formed to support fifteen young CSO employees who have embarked on traineeships in Certificate IV in Leadership & Management. The group signed up for their traineeships and completed an [...]
Parish's learning pathways inspire Tristan to study Nursing Tristan Cummings, a Care Support worker at Emmaus Home, recently commenced study towards a Bachelor of Nursing degree at Charles Sturt University (CSU). Here’s the story of how this learning pathway opened up for him. Since moving to Port Macquarie with his family and starting work at Emmaus in [...]
Pancake Breakfast even better than last year! The Parish’s second annual pancake breakfast built on the success of last year’s. Around 60 people and a cat named ‘Faith’ gathered on Shrove Tuesday (13/2) for the 2nd annual pancake breakfast in the Parish BBQ area behind the Parish Administration Building. Some faces were familiar, still others were new [...]
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