Latest News

Find some of the latest news and updates from our website blog. You can also subscribe to our parish newsletter for e-news direct to your mailbox.

Women and the Plenary Assembly

“Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God’s active presence,…
Read more
Cathy Jenkins

Plenary Thoughts

Every organisation at some point in its history, in order to thrive, needs to grow and change in light of the needs of the time.  We would probably use the…
Read more
Plenary Council

Plenary Council Begins

The long awaited Fifth Australian Plenary Council, confirmed by the Catholic Bishops Conference in 2016, commences this Sunday, 3 October with the Opening Mass being held at St Mary’s Cathedral in…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Eight

Synodality and the Australian Plenary Council Over the last weeks in this series, we have been looking at the issue of synodality.  This week we will bring this series to…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Seven

Ecumenical Councils – Synodality Historically, one of the fundamental exercises of Synodality was the calling of an Ecumenical Council.  These were called because of serious crises in the life of…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Five

Did Synodality disappear in the course of History? The word synodality is coming back into greater use over these years that Pope Francis has been Pope. Even though we had…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Four

Synods in History In the first millennium whenever there was an issue that was critical for the church, the reaction tended to call for a synod.  So significant issues were…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part Two

Synodality and the Plenary Council Synodality is not a word that is familiar to most Catholics.  There have been synods all through the history of the Church. They were especially…
Read more
Plenary Council

Towards the Plenary Council – Part One

There is to be a Plenary Council for the Catholic Church in Australia, whose first session is scheduled for October this year in Adelaide. We have been preparing for this…
Read more
Acknowledgement of Country
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of Country throughout Australia and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the Elders past and present.
Safeguarding
At Our Lady of Pentecost Parish we hold the care, safety and well being of children and young people as a central and fundamental responsibility of our parishes.
Find out more
Get in touch

19 Brenbeal Street, Balwyn VIC 3103
Telephone: 03 9816 9291
Email: [email protected]

Office Hours:
Tue - Fri 9:00am – 5:00pm

Our Newsletter
Sign up to receive the parish newsletter and other communication from the parishes in your inbox each week.
Created with Heartburst
© 2024 Our Lady of Pentecost Parish. All rights reserved.