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May your light continue to shine brightly in the darkness of the Bondi Beach tragedy.

 

A grant application under Saluting their Service (DVA) was accepted. April 2025 saw the installation of Silent Sentries.

The interim reports, which were made public on November 17, differ in their level of detail and specificity; some organisations list their members and make recommendations.

Combat training has a long history at our school, and it is still expanding.

ACN is the Pontifical Foundation dedicated to supporting the suffering and persecuted Church.

With their most recent installation at 3CSSB on base in Townsville, Queensland, the leadership of three battalions' low-key efforts has paid off.

We invite you to join Rev Dr Peter Devenish Meares in a solemn prayer for Remembrance Day.

In Australia, military chaplains are essential in offering pastoral and spiritual support.

The Australian Defence Force is mourning one of its own. A young Queenslander known as a leader of troops has been killed in a training exercise near Townsville.

We pray for the repose of Pat’s immortal soul; Requiem Mass is to be celebrated at St. Jude’s Holder on Thursday 16 October 2025.

May you rest in peace, good and faithful servant.

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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

 

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) 

 

DATE: 16 November 2025

PLACE: All Saints Chapel, Lavarack Barracks, Townsville, QLD

Chaplain: Kene Onwukwe

 

Congratulations & Welcome