Volume 30 Issue 2 - 16 February 2018

Lenten Pastoral Message 2018

At Bishop Peter's invitation, Bishop-elect Brian Mascord has issued this year's Lenten Message, his first, to the people of the Diocese of Wollongong. The message was played as the homily in all parish masses in the Diocese over the weekend.  

Bishop-elect Brian Macord

The annaul Lenton Pastoral Message, addressing Clergy, Religious and Laity, is entitled: "Giving Up and Taking Up" and is presented by our Bishop-elect Brian Mascord.

Bishop-elect Brian Mascord's Lenten Message 2018 

Also, beginning on Ash Wednesday, the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference calls upon the community to embrace the penitential season of Lent with three days of fasting and reparation for the victims and survivors of child abuse and their families. 

Attached is the text Lenten Pastoral Message and Days of Fasting and Reparation