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Australian Catholic Youth Festival 2025

Expressions of interest have opened for 100 young people across the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle to join Bishop Michael for ACYF25 – a national gathering of Catholic youth, from Grade 10 through to 25 years old. The experience provides young people…

Requesting Sewing Skills

St Nicholas Early Education needs your sewing skills! We are seeking help from parishioners or a sewing group who would be able to help make some scarves for children in our centres. Scarves are used for multiple purposes, including dress-ups,…

Food for the Journey – Thanks

Thank you to all those who supported the young adults on their weekend of retreat. Over twenty parishioners were involved and all our efforts were greatly enjoyed and appreciated.A message from Claire McWilliam: Last weekend I joined a group of…

St Annes Playgroup is on a Break

The playgroup will not be meeting during Term 4 of 2024. A special thank you to Monika Sneddon for her presence every week, setting up and providing the parents with tea and coffee. She has been a blessing to these…

Make a Difference

CatholicCare’s Community Kitchens and Food Programs has launched a funding appeal to support the work of providing free meals to those in need in our local area. “There’s a great need out there, there are lots of people who are…

Community Kitchen is Open Again!

We are very excited to announce that our new Community Kitchen is now open each Thursday night for a free meal to anyone in our area in need. We originally opened our Kitchen at St Joseph’s Parish in October 2019. During COVID we adapted…