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Eastern Rite

Spiritual home for Australia’s Syro-Malabar faithful consecrated

Australia’s Syro-Malabar Catholic community marked a historic moment on Saturday with the consecration of St Alphonsa Syro-Malabar Cathedral in the Melbourne suburb of Epping. Source: Melbourne Catholic.

Eastern Rite Middle East

Sydney Catholics show their love and concern for Lebanon

Local support is growing for those killed, injured or displaced in Lebanon as the rise of violence in the country’s south between Israel and Hezbollah spreads to the rest of the country. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Eastern Rite

Melbourne’s Syro-Malabar cathedral to be consecrated

It’s been almost 11 years since Pope Francis announced the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle in Melbourne and tomorrow it will have its own consecrated cathedral. Source: ACBC Media Blog. 

Bishops Eastern Rite

Cardinal-designate Bychok describes his ‘very big week’

Cardinal-designate Mykola Bychok CSsR – the Melbourne-based Ukrainian eparch and the youngest of 21 new cardinals-designate recently announced by Pope Francis – has had what he described as “a very big week”. Source: Melbourne Catholic.

Eastern Rite Middle East

Bishop Tarabay calls for prayers for peace in Lebanon

Maronite Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay has called on all faithful to pray for peace, as Israel began a “targeted ground operation” in southern Lebanon yesterday. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Eastern Rite

St Rita to be patron saint of new Maronite church for Sydney

Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Co-Cathedral in Harris Park has announced plans for a new Mass centre in Sydney’s west dedicated to a popular 15th-century saint. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Eastern Rite Peace

Premier, ministers pray for peace with Palestinian Christian community

Sydney’s Palestinian Christians said they were “optimistic” about peace in the Holy Land after NSW Premier Chris Minns and other civic leaders joined their community for Mass on Sunday. Source: The Catholic Weekly.

Eastern Rite

Pope seeks unity in India’s Syro-Malabar Church

The divisions within the Syro-Malabar Church in India are the work of the devil, who has convinced some people, including priests, that their way is the only way to celebrate the Eucharist, Pope Francis said. Source: OSV News.

Eastern Rite Saints

Thousands of Maronites welcome relics to new Australian home

Thousands of Maronite Catholics have shut down the streets of Punchbowl to welcome relics of Lebanon’s most well-known saint to their new permanent home in Sydney. Source: The Catholic Weekly.