Guides and Welcomers' Annual Meeting
Thank you to all Guides and Welcomers who were able to attend the annual meeting held on Thursday 30th October, 2025 in the Hanly Room at the Francis Rush Centre.
Archbishop Shane Mackinlay addressed the Guides and Welcomers and blessed our new graduates in their role. We congratulate and welcome Anne, Julie and Barry.
Vivian presented the 2025 Management Team report (copy uploaded below) and Cathedral Organist, Christopher Trikilis, provided the Guides and Welcomers with valuable new insights about the Chapel organ as well as playing the Chapel organ for us. We are very grateful for Chris' generosity.
We look forward to all Guides and Welcomers meeting again for our End of Year Mass and Christmas Celebration on Wednesday 17th December.
Archbishop Shane Mackinlay addressed the Guides and Welcomers and blessed our new graduates in their role. We congratulate and welcome Anne, Julie and Barry.
Vivian presented the 2025 Management Team report (copy uploaded below) and Cathedral Organist, Christopher Trikilis, provided the Guides and Welcomers with valuable new insights about the Chapel organ as well as playing the Chapel organ for us. We are very grateful for Chris' generosity.
We look forward to all Guides and Welcomers meeting again for our End of Year Mass and Christmas Celebration on Wednesday 17th December.
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Installation of Archbishop Mackinlay
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ARCHBISHOP Shane Mackinlay has been welcomed by the people of Brisbane at his installation Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral today (11/09/2025).
He becomes the eighth leader of Brisbane archdiocese.
“While I come from somewhere else, I don’t come as an outsider,” Archbishop Mackinlay said in his homily.
“Whenever we gather as Christians, we gather as part of the one Church of Jesus Christ, as parts of His body into which each of us has been baptised and as which we have together been entrusted with His mission,” he said.
He highlighted the local contribution to the Mass, saying, “The people, the communities and the activities of the archdiocese are so well represented in those who are here today”.
“We are also enriched by the inspiring presence of the Indigenous communities of this area with us today, whose ancient history and spirituality goes back many thousands of years before the first texts of the Bible,” he said.
Archbishop Mackinlay affirmed the outcomes from last year’s archdiocesan synod and expressed his hope to continue implementing them.
He said Brisbane was “a vibrant community of faith that lives out its commitment to carrying on in our own time the mission that Jesus has entrusted to us”.
“I look forward to serving the Church of Brisbane as we develop our response to God’s Word in our place at our time,” he said.
Crowds gathered for the installation Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral from early in the morning.
The ceremonies began outside at 10.45am where dignitaries including Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli were welcomed to country with Archbishop Mackinlay.
Archbishop Mackinlay then processed to the front door of St Stephen’s.
There, he hammered on the closed door, where he was greeted by Cathedral dean Fr Anthony Mellor.
He said the study also identified the three factors most likely to improve a person’s sense of hope were religious faith, connection to others and being involved in shared action.
Archbishop Mackinlay said these three factors mirrored the “three-fold relationship that we enter at baptism” – being united to Christ in faith, connected to others through communion, and commissioned for shared action in the world.
He said the 50 action plans developed by the archdiocesan synod were “very concrete ways of strengthening our faith, our connection to one another and our capacity to engage in the shared action that is needed to build hope and possibility in our world”.
He encouraged the community to live out Jesus’ example of radical love and “placing our hope in what God continues to do amongst us”.
More to come.
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/new-brisbane-archbishop-shane-mackinlay-shares-message-of-hope-for-all-australians-at-installation-mass/
Link to text of Archbishop Mackinlay's Installation Mass Homily
He becomes the eighth leader of Brisbane archdiocese.
“While I come from somewhere else, I don’t come as an outsider,” Archbishop Mackinlay said in his homily.
“Whenever we gather as Christians, we gather as part of the one Church of Jesus Christ, as parts of His body into which each of us has been baptised and as which we have together been entrusted with His mission,” he said.
He highlighted the local contribution to the Mass, saying, “The people, the communities and the activities of the archdiocese are so well represented in those who are here today”.
“We are also enriched by the inspiring presence of the Indigenous communities of this area with us today, whose ancient history and spirituality goes back many thousands of years before the first texts of the Bible,” he said.
Archbishop Mackinlay affirmed the outcomes from last year’s archdiocesan synod and expressed his hope to continue implementing them.
He said Brisbane was “a vibrant community of faith that lives out its commitment to carrying on in our own time the mission that Jesus has entrusted to us”.
“I look forward to serving the Church of Brisbane as we develop our response to God’s Word in our place at our time,” he said.
Crowds gathered for the installation Mass at St Stephen’s Cathedral from early in the morning.
The ceremonies began outside at 10.45am where dignitaries including Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Queensland Premier David Crisafulli were welcomed to country with Archbishop Mackinlay.
Archbishop Mackinlay then processed to the front door of St Stephen’s.
There, he hammered on the closed door, where he was greeted by Cathedral dean Fr Anthony Mellor.
He said the study also identified the three factors most likely to improve a person’s sense of hope were religious faith, connection to others and being involved in shared action.
Archbishop Mackinlay said these three factors mirrored the “three-fold relationship that we enter at baptism” – being united to Christ in faith, connected to others through communion, and commissioned for shared action in the world.
He said the 50 action plans developed by the archdiocesan synod were “very concrete ways of strengthening our faith, our connection to one another and our capacity to engage in the shared action that is needed to build hope and possibility in our world”.
He encouraged the community to live out Jesus’ example of radical love and “placing our hope in what God continues to do amongst us”.
More to come.
https://catholicleader.com.au/news/new-brisbane-archbishop-shane-mackinlay-shares-message-of-hope-for-all-australians-at-installation-mass/
Link to text of Archbishop Mackinlay's Installation Mass Homily
2025 Management Team ReportPlease find attached the 2025 Management Team Report, presented by Vivian at the Guides and Welcomers Annual Meeting on 30/10/2025 2025_management_team_report.pdf
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