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For a number of years now we, the parish of Tatura, have welcomed the prisoners from Dhurringile Prison. This happens in a couple of ways, one group, the community gang have come into the parish to do gardening and general clean up, particularly around the Convent of Mercy. Another group are picked up by a… Read more

Reconciliation Thursday 21st December 7.30pm   Weekend Mass Saturday 23rd December    Mass   6.00pm Sunday   24th  December    Mass    9.30am   Christmas Eve Sunday   24th December Carols  begin at 6pm    Mass at 6.30pm   Christmas Day  Monday   25th December    Mass   9am

Today I attended our regional Prison Chaplains meeting and we had a great speaker, Ben Engel.  He was speaking of a course he runs for groups, called ‘Mindfulness Based on Stress Reduction  Course’.  It is a mouthful but what I was most interested in was that he was taking groups of prisoners Beechworth prison. The program… Read more

Following on from last week when I was commenting on the slave trade in general and the bride trade in China. We can now ask the question as to why is China seeking all these women and paying large sums of money while doing something that is illicit? The main driver of this trade is… Read more