Every morning I get up to something new! I am the Pastoral Associate/Interpreter with the South Australian Catholic Deaf Community. My pastoral/interpreting skills come into play when I meet deaf people at appointments, which I, as a hearing person attend, writes Josephite Sister Majella O’Sullivan.

Patrician Brother Nicholas Harsas is a longstanding popular figure in Catholic education in Sydney’s south-west who has had the responsibility and blessings of being involved in the lives of families right across the region, The Liverpool City Champion reports.

Religious are leading the way in asking hundreds of Catholic schools and agencies across Australia to start Lent with a commitment to buy and eat only slavery-free chocolate at Easter.

A large gathering of adults, younger people and children, most with jars or bottles of rain, tap, creek, spring, lake or river water, assembled under the trees at the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers in Wentworth, New South Wales, recently for the Blessing of the Rivers Ceremony.

Ash Wednesday has been celebrated and we have entered into the journey of Lent. In the spirit of the Plenary Council we are encouraged to continue to listen to the heart of our people, their voices and questions, for in these encounters - we are opened to both the darkness of suffering and the light of the resurrection, writes CRA President, Sr Monica Cavanagh RSJ.