Finding a voice and vocation in a new land
‘Singing in the choir makes me feel like the universal church truly is one,’ Elena Chua Maexin tells The Southern Cross.
‘Singing in the choir makes me feel like the universal church truly is one,’ Elena Chua Maexin tells The Southern Cross.
With his friends calling him ‘small Father’ when he was in high school, it’s little wonder that George Ochola Oluoch ended up becoming a priest in the Kenyan diocese of Homa Bay.
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There was cause for much celebration as seminarians Anthony Beltrame and Olek Stirrat were ordained to the diaconate by Archbishop Patrick O’Regan on Saturday December 19.
I suspect that most Catholics at some point in their lives have had a thought cross their minds: ‘what if I’m called to be a priest or a nun’. I’m guessing it’s probably happened during a boring homily alongside the thought, ‘I bet I could do better than this’.
As a mum to 11 children and 20 grandchildren, Majella Partridge knows the meaning of caring for others.
When Sr Elena Marie Piteo OP attended World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008 it was the first time she had seen a young Sister in a habit and she was “struck by her joy”.
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