Marist ministries in Australia and Japan include aboriginal ministry, aged care, asylum seekers, migrants, refugee ministry, centres for adult education, counselling, hospitals and nursing home chaplaincies, mission awareness, leadership and management training , parishes (urban and rural), prison chaplaincies, retreats and spiritual direction, schools (teaching and chaplaincies), refounding and pastoral development, university chaplaincy and young adults ministry.
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From left: School Eucharist (Brisbane); Baptism (Gladstone, Qld); Aborignal children (Macksville NSW)
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Ministry to the indigenous... |
An international team of Marists from Oceania, New Zealand and Australia provide pastoral care for indigenous Catholics in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.
 
Visitation of families. The front verandah, common scene for pastoral care.
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An Ash Wednesday liturgy begins with traditional 'smoking' ceremony at Bowraville, NSW> |
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Music ministry with Northern Rivers Koori people.
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Ministry to other cultures... |
In the western suburbs of Melbourne, Victoria, Marists 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.
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Choir practice at St Paul's. Assisting a young Indian man with fiancee in his steps towards Catholic life through the parish RCIA program.
'The long and the short of it': altar servers at St Paul's --
from Nigeria and Samoa. |
 
Australian Marists care for young migrant families,
refugees and asylum seekers in a number of
urban and rural centres.
Marist ministry to recently-arrived Burmese refugees provides a first-ever Christmas day Mass
for Karen and Karenni Catholic families from Sydney and Wollongong.
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A Marist with Chinese and aboriginal parishioners,
Outback, NSW.
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Since 1949 Australian Marists have worked in Nara prefecture, Japan.
The mission is an integral part of the Australian Province.
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A Marist is the much-loved director of
Santa Maria nursing home and retirement centre,
Suzaku, Nara, Japan. |
 
With young families at St Paul's, West Sunshine, Victoria.
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Ministry of spirituality... |
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A little more than an hour's drive from sububurn Sydney is 'Nazareth', 25 minutes from Windsor on the Putty Road. In a beautiful bushland setting 'Nazareth' provides a place for solitude and silence.
Developed by the Aquinas Academy 'Nazareth' nestles by the side of the Colo River. The Academy offers days of solitude and silence for those who would be introduced to this tradition.
http://www.aquinas-academy.com/courses.php
Coming events:
http://www.aquinas-academy.com/events.php
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