The Pilarinas Sisters in Maputo, Mozambique, care for 44 girls from 6 to 17 years old who are either orphans or from very poor families.
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Somascan Movement Dinner Dance 2022
Somascan Movement Australia will be hosting a Somascan Missions Dinner Dance this 11th February, 2022 to be held at Macquarie Paradiso, Liverpool. The purpose of this event is to raise much needed funds to support our struggling communities in India, Sri-Lanka and Mozambique.
Somascan Movement raises 6K for communities
Motivated by the concerning rise in COVID cases and deaths, members from Somascan Movement Australia, an Australian registered association and charity based in Chipping Norton, came together for a blitz “BBQ 4 India” fundraiser at St Joseph Catholic Church in Moorebank.
Annual Easter Rosary goes national
For fifteen years on Easter Monday, young adults from Somascan parishes in Western Australia have been trekking across the white sand of WA’s Coogee Beach with Rosary Beads in hand.
Sydney parishes participate in consecration to St Joseph
With Pope Francis’ recent declaration that 2021 be a year in honour of St Joseph, parishioners of St Joseph’s Church, Moorebank, and St Christopher’s Church, Holsworthy, have come together to participate in a 33 Day Consecration to their Spiritual Father which will conclude on 19 March, the Feast of St Joseph. Led by the Somascan Young Adults and supported by …
Fr Chris celebrates one year of priesthood
In May 2019, over 1000 Australians packed St Jerome’s parish in Western Australia to witness their first religious priest to be ordained to the five-century-old Order of Clerics Regular of Somasca (Somascan Fathers).
The Meaning of Easter: Humanising and Renewal
By Fr. Lourdu Maraiah Arlagadda crs, Somascan Superior of the Province of India The meaning of Easter is Jesus Christ’s triumph over death. His resurrection symbolizes the eternal life that is granted to all who believe in Him. If He had not risen from the dead, if He had merely died and not been resurrected, He would have been considered …
Somascan youth prepare spiritually for year ahead
With university restarting for the year, over 20 youth from St Jerome’s parish gathered for an in depth time of prayer, reflection, spiritual growth and discipleship at a Somascan-run retreat in early February. The Somascan Days Retreat, which took place over two days, was conducted by Somascan religious Deacon Chris De Sousa CRS and Br Sheldon Burke CRS who through …
Youth spreads the Easter Joy at Coogee
Just like the Christians who had taken to the waterside to witness to the Gospel, the Somascan youth took to Coogee beach on Easter Monday morning in a long tradition of prayer and fellowship. For the 12th year in a row, young adults from St Jerome’s Somascan youth group trekked across the white sand, praying to Our Lady with Rosary …