Micro stories mean major success story for St Peter’s Primary Three Year 5 students from St Peter’s Primary Port Macquarie were nominated in the Top 10 Finalists from 20,000 entries received for Storython, an online event for students across Australia and New Zealand. Storython challenges Australian and New Zealand students from Year 3 to Year 8 to [...]

John Henry Institute Graduate Mitchell Everingham Ex-student from Newman Senior Technical College (NSTC), Mitchell Everingham, became the first apprentice to complete their trade training through the John Henry Institute (JHI) engineering apprentice program and is now a fully qualified engineering tradesperson. Mitch, apprenticed to Birdon Marine, has completed the MEM30205 Certificate III in Engineering - Mechanical Trade having [...]

St Peter and St Paul – Feast day June 29th St Peter and St Paul are two great apostles whose life and stories are of utmost importance to the development of the church in the modern world .They are key to the integrity of the church as it exists today and they were living witnesses to the [...]

Vale Tom Quinn A tribute by Jim O’Brien Tom Quinn passed peacefully into eternal life on Wednesday, 10 June with his loving family supporting him. He leaves his wife, Terry, his daughter Therese, son Daniel, their partners and families. Born in the Sydney suburb of Epping on 15 November 1934, Tom was educated in Epping and Eastwood [...]

Kathleen Briscoe Scholarship Expression of Interest Open! This scholarship offered through The St Agnes’ Foundation is an amazing opportunity for families to help them financially with the burden of tuition fees during secondary schooling with St Agnes’ Parish Schools. Are you in Year 6 at a St Agnes’ Parish School, St Joseph’s Primary Wauchope or Laurieton? Do [...]

Bus trip means a lot to Reg Mt Carmel resident, Reg Renehan celebrated overcoming an old fear when he decided to go on a bus outing with other residents recently. With COVID restrictions in mind, Mt Carmel Lifestyle staff carefully planned the outing for the residents. Reg, who moved to Mt Carmel in 2018, had always declined bus [...]

Why do we celebrate Pentecost? Pentecost is celebrated fifty days after Easter Sunday (this year on 31 May) and we commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ while they were in Jerusalem. This story is told in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:1–31). Pentecost is the beginning [...]

St Agnes’ Catholic Parish schools back full-time from 25 May Students enrolled at St Agnes’, St Joseph’s and St Peter’s primary schools and St Joseph’s Regional College, MacKillop College and Newman Senior Technical College will return to school classrooms full-time from Monday, 25 May. Coordinating Executive Officer for St Agnes’ Parish Education, Stephen Pares, says the staged [...]

New 'Parish Giving' webpage launched The Coronavirus Pandemic restrictions have required all of us to adapt to many new ways of doing things. Our Parish Giving is no exception – we have created a new webpage on our website for both our Planned Giving Program and our fundraising for Special Appeals. Our current Appeal (which should be [...]

Jesus chose to walk A short reflection on the Ascension by Sr Anne Hannigan RSM I think perhaps it is no small thing that Christ – even in his resurrected form – chose to spend his last days walking on terra firma with his friends and family. Often in the scriptures, (the Gospels) we read of Jesus [...]

The Road to Emmaus As we move towards the end of the Easter Season, with the Feast of Pentecost on 31 May, it is appropriate to be reminded of, and to celebrate, the story of the disciples on the road to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35). This story known as the Road to Emmaus or the Walk to Emmaus [...]

Pastoral Care during COVID-19 The St Agnes’ Care & Lifestyle Pastoral Care team has done an amazing job adapting the way they are working at the Parish’s residential aged care services during COVID-19 restrictions. During COVID each member of the Pastoral Care team has been assigned a particular area. Beth Anderson and Paul Smith work in Emmaus; [...]