Prisoners in Sydney's Long Bay and Silverwater prisons joined thousands of people from across Australia and as far away as Rome, Britain, the US and Ireland yesterday to learn more about the Gospel of Luke in an eConference.
Bishop David Walker, a member of the Bishops Commission for Mission and Faith Formation, and in whose diocese the forum was hosted, said the eConferences were tapping into a need for top quality adult faith formation in an accessible format.
"We know from the feedback we received from the St Paul eConference that while everybody recorded a positive experience, those who were especially appreciative were those who were isolated and were not usually able to access such high quality speakers," Bishop Walker said.
The eConference, entitled "Luke: Come to the Table", is the second of its kind, following on from the enormously successful eConference on the writings of St Paul, held in June this year. The events are a joint effort between The Broken Bay Institute and the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
The eConference was webcast into about 200 sites across Australia as well as sites in Rome, Guernsey in Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, the United States, as well as the Philippines, Korea, Fiji and New Zealand.
The keynote speakers for the event included Archbishop Mark Coleridge and Sr Elizabeth Dowling. There were also personal sharings by lay speakers about their responses to the Gospel of Luke.
Sessions from the conference will be archived on the Broken Bay Institute's website and available for free access.
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From Aussie prisons to the Eternal City and beyond, thousands "Come to the Table" for Luke eConference (Broken Bay Institute/ Australian Catholic Bishops Conference)
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