At the front of the church five olive trees are growing healthily and cropping, while at the back of the building grapevines and lemon, peach, and plum trees grow, looking like they’ll provide decent crops this summer. 

BIshop Richard Laurenson is the fourth bishop of the Hamilton diocese. He was ordained on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 8th December 2023.

Thank you to all those that have contributed to the Diocese, Parishes and Catholic Church in so many wonderful ways, including the volunteers, parishioners, priests, religious and staff.

With thanksgiving to God, Bishop Steve Lowe and the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton celebrated Adam Kirkeby’s Ordination to the Order of Priests on August 6, 2022.

“Prayer is conversation with God”: this is my favourite description of prayer. Why? Because it is simple, both as a sentence and as a concept. Yet how difficult it can be – the difficulty not so much in finding particular words and formulas that suit us, but more so in the effort of making time for regular prayer.

“Now it must be acknowledged that if in Jesus’ Resurrection we were dealing simply with the miracle of a resuscitated corpse, it would ultimately be of no concern to us,” says Pope Benedict XVI in Jesus of Nazareth, Book II. For even today, it seems more than likely that, right this minute, somewhere in the world someone is being resuscitated. But Jesus’ resurrection is different. Jesus’ resurrection changed the course of the world.