Ordination of Bishop Mark Edwards

Clayton Campus services up to the New Year

Catholic Masses at the Clayton campus of Monash University will continue until the end of the year the 5.10 pm on Sunday in the Main Chapel of the Religious Centre and the 12.10 pm Monday-to-Friday in the Small Chapel The last Sunday Mass will be on 28 December and the last weekday Mass on Thursday, 1 January 2015, New Year's Day, the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God.

The Sunday Mass at the Clayton campus will resume in 2015 on Sunday, 5 February, and the weekday Mass the following Monday, 16 February. The 1.30 pm Mass on Thursdays at the Caulfield campus, in the Spiritual Centre, Building B, Room B1.56, also continues to the end of the year, the last Mass being on Thursday, 1 January. The Thursday Mass at Caulfield will resume on a date in February 2015 to be announced.

Carols and Nine Lessons at Monash

If we love God and 
our brothers and sisters
 we walk in the light. 
-- Pope Francis

On Tuesday, 9th December, the Religious Centre at Monash was transformed into a candle-lit celebration in preparation for Christmas through the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, an initiative of the Orthodox community at Monash under the leadership of Fr. Geoff Harvey.


 The event is supported by the Monash Chaplaincy team as well as the wider community. The Catholics on Campus Choir under the direction of Melissa Kwok joined the Orthodox Choir and the readings were done by representatives of each of the Christian members of the Monash Chaplaincy team.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old,
be open to the future, spread love.  Be poor among the poor. 
We need to include the excluded and preach peace. -- Pope Francis

This was another occasion when we could express our gratitude to those early pioneers who thought to donate this Religious Centre to the Monash community.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving.  If He gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to receive it.-- Pope Francis