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2025 Jubilee Year: Pilgrims of Hope

Sydney steamed 29,833 nautical miles and was away from its home port for 136 days throughout the deployment.

Former Australian Army Chaplain 

Welcome letter to the Diocese.

 

The Rats of Tobruk were soldiers of the Australian-led Allied garrison that held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in World War ll.

Our former ADF Chaplain, Father Brendan Michael Dillon PE, passed away on 6 June 2024 at Dame Nellie Melba Retirement Village, Wheelers Hill.

George Wilson, a student at Aquinas College, a tertiary college in Adelaide

ANZAC DAY thank you message by Chaplain Peter Devenish-Meares

Easter message from our Apostolic Administrator Archbishop Prowse: Victory for humanity in the Risen Lord Jesus Christ.

This week, in the Puckapunyal Military Area, 4 candidates received different sacraments in the order of the Catholic Rite. 

2nd Commando Regiment soldier Lance Corporal Jack Fitzgibbon has died following injuries he sustained during a parachuting incident on the 6th of March 2024.

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Serving Faithfully newsletters  

From 2018 to the end of 2023 Serving Faithfully was the newsletter of the Catholic Diocese of the Australian Military Services published quarterly.  

From 2024 onwards Serving Faithfully has morphed into news items published regularly on this website to be a more contemporary means of sharing events and experiences from across the whole Diocese.

As the Catholic Military Diocese is comprised of members of the Australian Defence Force and their families scattered widely across Australia and overseas, wherever they are serving. 

Please contact the Military Ordinariate if you wish to read past published newsletters of Serving Faithfully.

Sacramental News

BAPTISM - DUNCAN

DATE: 10 November 2024

PLACE: HMAS Sydney

Christening for the Duncan family on board HMAS Sydney

Duncan family baptism on board HMAS Sydney

Fr Monaghan christening baby over HMAS Sydney bell