March 2025 - Marist Fathers Australia

March 2025 news

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SM Bulletin

This week's SM Bulletin reports on recent plenary sessions of the General Council, General Chapter preparations and personnel and the international formation report. Go download, click here or go to Members' Page. [Mar 15]

'Journey together in hope'

The theme of Pope Francis' message for Lent, 2025, is 'Let us journey together in hope'. To download, click here. [Mar 14]

Euroinfo

This month's Euroinfo reports on the recent visitation and assembly in Itaty and includes reflections on 'Working alongside Marists' and 'Religious Life and the Challenge of the Future'. To download click here or go to Members' Page. [Mar 14]

Ramadan message

From the Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue comes its 2025 message for the month of Ramadan, 'Christians and Muslims: what we hope to become together'. To download click here. [Mar 12]

SM Bulletin

This week's SM Bulletin reports on the reappointment of Fr Kevin Duffy as Provincial of Europe, Fr 'Okusitino Ulupano's election as Rector of Pacifc Regional Seminary, Suva, and a new pilgrim season at Sahagan. To download click here or go to Members' Page. [Mar 08

Mission Newsletter

The autumn issue of Marist Mission Centre's newsletter is now available. To download click here or go to Members' Page. [Mar 05]

District Circular

The latest issue of the Marist Fathers Australia District Circular is now available at the Members' Page. [Mar 05]

Marist News from the Pacific

February's issue of the Oceania News Bulletin reports on ministries and recent events throughout the Marist Province of Oceania. To download click here or go to Members' Page. [Mar 03]

Visit of Fr Peter Chanel

Delivered at birth and named by an Australian Marist Missionary Sister, Bangladeshi priest, Fr Peter Chanel Gomes, paid a special visit on Feb 28 to the chapel honouring his namesake. Fr Peter Chanel, from the Archdiocese of Dhaka, is currently in Australia representing his country at a meeting of Asia-Pacific directors of the Pontifical Mission Society.

Focus of his visit was the tiny chapel of St Peter Chanel in the grounds of Villa Maria monastery, Hunters Hill, said to have held the remains of the saint as relics were being returned to Europe in the 1850s. The original Fr Peter Chanel was part of the pioneer band of Marist missionaries which left France in 1836 for the South-West Pacific. Brutally murdered on the island of Futuna on Apr 28, 1841, he was to become the first saint and martyr of Oceania and of the Society of Mary.

Today's Fr Peter Chanel was accompanied by Parramatta Diocese Deacon Jerome D'Rozario. [Mar 01]

Above: In the grounds of Villa Maria monastery, Hunters Hill, sits the chapel of St Peter Chanel, visited by Fr Peter Chanel Gomes and Deacon Jerome D'Rozario. Below: Inside the chapel, a statue of the Saint | ... and rib bone relic of St Peter Chanel. | Fr Peter Chanel by the John Coburn icon of the Saint now at Montbel, Hunters Hill.

Superior-General's Reflection

In his monthly reflection Fr John Larsen SM urges an approach to the forthcoming General Chapter later in 2025 'with Mary at Pentecost'.

To download, click here or go to Superior-General's page. [Mar xx]