A recent Mass to pray blessing on the school year became a double celebration with a welcome visit by Bishop Paul Bird to St Mary’s in Hamilton. Parishioners, staff, students and families from St Mary’s Primary, St Joseph’s Penshurst, Monivae College, and surrounding district state and private schools, assumed various...

Children preparing for their First Reconciliation in 2013 will  prepare for the sacrament during Lent and celebrate the sacrament in the week preceding Holy Week (the last week of term one). Confirmations will occur on Sunday 19 May, which is the Feast of Pentecost — the day we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and the...

On 16 October, St Patrick’s Cathedral was filled with 30 bishops, 100 priests from across Australia, and hundreds of lay and religious faithful when Archbishop Denis Hart ordained Redemptorist Fr Paul Bird as the Eighth Bishop of Ballarat. A live-feed televised the ordination ceremony to the overflow crowd present  in the...

Hamilton Catholic Youth Group is targeted at youth from Grade 5 up to Adult.  We meet reguarly to support each other and just to have fun together.  At each event we hold a short candle ceremony where we give thanks for something happenning in our lives or pray for someone.  We hold our events in a number of locations...