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News and Events
Running the race for our future priests!
On Sunday 13 August, 23 Holy Spirit Seminarians, priests and parishioners from the Diocese of Parramatta banded together and entered the City2Surf, with the aim of raising awareness of Catholic vocations and funds to support our Holy Spirit Seminarians’ education and spiritual formation.
Fr Paul Marshall, a first-time City2Surf participant said, “I’m here because I’m a great believer in promoting vocations to the priesthood. I’ve been a priest for 35 years and it makes a lot of sense to be here, to promote what we’re doing because I believe in society there’s a real thirst for the sacred and the search for meaning.”
Running for the call of God
Holy Spirit Seminarian Jason Irawan has several motivations for entering this weekend’s City2Surf fun run. The 27-year-old sees it as an opportunity to bond with his fellow seminarians, priests, and parishioners over a shared challenge, exercise and fun, while also ‘normalising’ the call to a life of service.
During National Vocation Awareness Week (6-13 August), Jason encourages those who are feeling the call from God to vocations in the Catholic Church to be open. “If it feels like a calling, then come and see!” he said.
Sacred Heart parishioners support seminarians
Sunday morning will look a little different this weekend for Colleen Nicholas. Instead of attending her regular Sunday Mass at The Sacred Heart Parish Luddenham-Warragamba, Colleen will pull on her walking shoes and head to the city for her first City2Surf —the world’s largest fun run.
The mother-of-three will join nine of her fellow parishioners walking 14km to raise awareness for Catholic vocations and funds for our Holy Spirit Seminarians on their journey to become priests. A parishioner at Sacred Heart for 25 years and Parish Secretary for 18 of those, Colleen decided to take part in the iconic event when approached by Menard Gaspi, the seminarian on placement at her parish.
"It was here I found my calling”
The idea of becoming a priest came to Luke Thien Quoc Huynh very early in life, but it wasn’t until he attended an Open Day at the Diocese of Parramatta’s Holy Spirit Seminary that the path forward in his vocation began to fall into place. Luke, who is now in his third year of formation, says his involvement in the Church began during his childhood in Vietnam.
“The idea of becoming a priest came to me very early,” he says. “My mother told me that when I was in Year five of primary school in Vietnam, the teacher asked me to draw a picture from my dreams and I drew a church, with me there. So, I had the image of the priest and the church as well.”
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