Sydney
11 May 2003
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Bicentenary of Sydney’s first Mass
Perhaps it is propitious that the celebrations this coming week for the
bicentenary of the first Mass, which saw the birth of the Australian Catholic
Church, should begin with a Mass on Mother’s Day and in a church
dedicated to the mother of Christ.
St Mary’s Cathedral opens this week’s celebrations of the
first official Mass, which took place on May 15, 1803. It does so with
a commemorative Mass this Sunday, celebrated by the bishops of Australia.
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