• Palms Australia
    Palms Australia

    Catholic schools and communities overseas are asking Palms Australia, as the Catholic mission agency, to recruit teachers who will help to sustainably build personnel and organisational capacity.  Understandably, they want to give their children the same basic human right of education that Australian children enjoy.

  • Orange Sky
    Orange Sky

    Join us on our mission to Positively Connect Communities. We don't have all the answers, but what we can provide is clean laundry, a warm shower and genuine conversation.

  • CER Volunteers over 20 Years
    CER Volunteers over 20 Years

    Thanks was expressed to Brothers, volunteers and groups involved with CER and TNT for their life, energy and generous outreach to the people of Timor Leste. Brothers Dan Courtney, Bill Tynan and Frank Hennessy were honoured for their leadership of CER.

  • Outdoor Sculpture
    Outdoor Sculpture

    This outdoor sculpture of Ambrose and his companions commemorates their arrival in Melbourne 150 years ago the 50th anniversary of Parade College East Melbourne relocation to its present site at Bundoora.

  • Edmund Rice Ministries engaging with community
    Edmund Rice Ministries engaging with community

    As Edmund Rice people we are challenged to listen deeply to the cry of Earth and the cry for justice. On the island of Lyette, the Edmund Rice movement is building relationships through community engagement, in a desire to bring about life and justice.

  • Pacific Calling Partnership
    Pacific Calling Partnership

    Pacific Calling Partnership is excited to announce its newest patrons committed to finding a global solution for vulnerable Pacific Island states in the face of climate change! 


 

A warm welcome to Pacific Calling Partnership new Co-ordinator Corinne Fisher
   

After 15 years at the Edmund Rice Centre, I am now stepping back and changing roles. Instead of coordinating the Pacific Calling Partnership, I will be joining Vincent and Ellie as a part time support team member.

A big welcome to Corinne Fisher who is taking over the coordinator's role. I am excited to be handing over to such a warm, generous and capable person. Corinne has scarcely been here a week and I can already see what a brilliant, dedicated and multi-talented team leader she will be.

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A Spirituality that brings Life

Image 001The toilet block built by the Edmund Rice Ministry

The Edmund Rice Formation team has just returned from a visit to the Philippines to meet with staff and those engaged in Edmund Rice Ministries in Kabankalan, Cebu and Maasin. Key to these visits was the opportunity to spend time with the staff from each ministry, to hear and learn what inspires them and moves in their hearts.

The experience that struck me most strongly was a visit to the Badjao community, living crowded together on the very edge of a narrow strip of land between the ocean and a government approved housing estate. This strip of fragile land is subject to flooding at high tide, has no governmental support, infrastructure or recognition and is overrun continually by the wash of the world’s discarded plastics, pooled in ocean currents and deposited here on the island of Lyette.

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Timor Leste Thanksgiving Eucharist and Meal

Fr Gerard HefferanFr Gerard HefferanOn Saturday, January 19, over 60 people who’d been associated with the Comunidade Edmund Rice gathered at St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace, the home of Terrace Timor Network in thanks for the ministry and outreach to and with the people of Timor Leste .

Fr Gerard Heffernan, who worked with Brs Dan Courtney and Paddy Payne, founders of the ministry, celebrated Eucharist reminding us of the founding story and in the Liturgy of the Word, former volunteer,
Katrina Powell Carey gave a moving homily ‘through the eyes, thoughts and wisdom of a Timorese watching the happenings of his occupied country, the impact of CER and the changes that independence and the new nation are discovering.

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Edmund Rice Camp 2018 Volunteer Awards

Presence Compassion & Liberation

ERC WA AwardsI had the honour of being invited to attend the 2018 Volunteer and Cocktail Night last Saturday. A stunning display of peacock feather arrangements with twinkling lights made a fitting backdrop on the stage as some 65 Eddie Rice volunteers assembled to celebrate and honour the generous work of so many young people who have brought joy to the lives of young people in the community whose circumstances may be difficult.

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ArrivalbyShip

Toast to Patrick Ambrose Treacy and The Irish Christian Brothers Who Migrated to Australia. Treacy Centre, Monday 19 November 2018 by John O’Halloran

“Enterprising Immigrant” is the sub-title of Br Regis Hickey’s 2012 Life of Br Patrick Ambrose Treacy. Few students of the Irish influence in the development of the Australian Nation since white settlement would disagree with that judgement. But the assessment could be applied equally to the many Irish immigrants to Australia. The Irish were the largest immigrant group, after the English, from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century. Even today Irish born people are numerous in this land. The 2011 Census indicated that in Victoria alone, 14,000 citizens were Irish born. And just over 10% of the Australian population are of Irish heritage.

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