Marist Mission - at Home

In Australia and Japan Marist ministries include...

 

Ministry to the young...

 


Fr Ray Chapman SM and a school Eucharist at St Peter Chanel's, The Gap, Brisbane.

Fr Robert Hollows SM, Gladstone, Qld.

Australian Marists care for young migrant families, refugees and asylum seekers in a number of urban and rural centres.

 

 

 

 

 

A Marist blesses the home of a newly-arrived Burmese/Karen refugee family of ten in Sydney's western suburbs.

 

 

 

 

 

Ministry to the aged...

         
Fr Michael Rego SM, chaplain to 'Villa Maria' retirement centre, Brisbane, Qld.

Ministry amongst many cultures...

 

In the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Fr Kevin Redmond SM (standing) and parish priest, Fr Pius Jones SM, (far right) discuss World Youth Day matters with Vietnamese parishioners.

In the Marist parish of St Paul's, West Sunshine, over sixty different languages are spoken within the parish precincts in one of the most culturally diverse areas of Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Choir practice at St Paul's

 

 

Ministry in Japan...

Since 1949 Australian Marists have worked in Nara prefecture, Japan. The mission is an integral part of the Australian Province.

   

Fr Sid Nugent SM is the much-loved director of Santa Maria nursing home and retirement centre, Suzaku, Nara, Japan.

Ministry in parishes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fr Pius Jones SM with young families at St Paul's, West Sunshine, Victoria.