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Celebrating the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope: 

• A Jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and repentance, held every 25 years, or during other years as called for by the Pope. Vatican's Jubilee Website. 
• Home/parish resources have been created at the National Centre for Evangelisation
• We can learn the beautiful Official Hymn for the 2025 Jubilee - "Pilgrims of Hope".  
• This is the year to go on pilgrimage with your family, a group of friends, or members of your parish! See Australian pilgrimage sites at pilgrimsofhope.catholic.org.au.

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Religious Perpetual Profession

On 1^st October, 2025, at 11 am, at a Mass presided over by our Bishop Mark Edwards OMI, a large congregation and many priests both local and from afar, came to Ganmain to celebrate Sister Mary Annunciata Burns’ perpetual profession of vows in which she would do what our modern age considers sheer madness: to respond radically to God’s love with her own. 

See photos of this beautiful occasion below. 

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10 young women shared a weekend retreat with the Sisters
on the theme of the Call to Holiness in Today's World, using 'Gaudete et Exsultate'. 

'Dominicast' is produced by the Conventual Sisters of St Dominic.

This is part of our apostolic outreach to "Preach the word...in season and out of season" and to keep alive the search for Truth in a world that keeps looking for lies.

WATCH All Dominicast Videos

Highlights from the Sisters' Channel:

• Did the Latin (1962) Missal need reform? What do the Popes say?
• Papal Heresy: The Consequences
• Old and New Roman Missals | A Catholic Response to Myths
• How to Give and Receive Holy Communion
• Girls Serving at the Altar?
• Challenging 'Mass of the Ages' Ep. 2 - A Visual Review

During the lockdowns, several audio-visual prayer resources were made and shared by the Sisters. Several feature the voices of Fr Jordan Perry O.P. and the Emmaus community. 

These resources have now been uploaded to 'Let's Pray Together' channel on YouTube. 

They are uniquely suited for those who pray alone, at home or when travelling. 

Short and simple podcasts covering the great Catholic doctrinal and moral truths.

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Truth Bytes: the Faith in Small 'Bites'

• Listen on Soundcloud:  https://soundcloud.com/user-669085816/sets/truth-bytes 
• Listen on iTunes:  https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/truth-bytes/id1484299418