Rosh Hashanah
2022-09-26 - 2022-09-27
Jewish New Year festival, marked by the blowing of the horn (shofar) which begins the ten days of
penitence culminating in Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). It is the beginning of the holiest time of
the year for Jews, and the anniversary of the creation of the world.

Details from: https://www.faithvictoria.org.au/images/2022-multifaith-calendar.pdf

Navaratri
2022-09-26 - 2022-10-05
Hindu festival:
Navaratri, which literally means ‘nine nights’, is a festival honouring the Goddess/Divine
Mother and her energy/power (Shakti). This nine-day festival includes worshipping and
dancing as people celebrate various aspects of the feminine.

Details from: https://www.faithvictoria.org.au/images/2022-multifaith-calendar.pdf

Company Directors Course 2022
2022-10-12 - 2022-11-09
This online program is delivered as a flexible 19-week program (including pre-reading time and optional assessment period). Comprised of five topics that are delivered over one day per week for five weeks. The course includes relevant case studies, comprehensive course materials, director tools, facilitated online learning sessions, and the assistance of a Learning Support Executive should you wish to sit the course assessment. Each day is led by expert facilitators who have real-world governance experience and a talent for creating an engaging learning environment online.
AICD Company Directors CourseTM
Once a week for Five weeks (Wednesday) AICD intensive course addressing:
• The Practice of Directorship
• Decision Making
• Directors’ Duties
• Legal Environment
• Risk Issues
• Strategy
• Financial Literacy and Performance
• Board Effectiveness
How will you benefit?
The Company Directors Course Online blends the best of online learning with interactive facilitation to take your knowledge of directorship to new heights . Upon completion of this course, participants are able to: Outline the duties and practices of directorship and the board’s functions and responsibilities. Analyse the responsibilities and functions of directors and officers considering the key questions
directors should ask about their legal environment and its impact on board decision-making. Examine the board’s roles in developing a culture that is appropriate for the risk appetite/ tolerance of the organisation and the board’s role in developing and executing strategy. Develop financial literacy and examine the board’s role in driving organisational performance. Examine effective decision making, board dynamics, the impact of individual and collective performance and how a constructive board culture can create value for an organisation. Apply the course learning through experiential learning activities.
The Company Directors Course overview
Week 1 and 2 Course Commences, pre-reading period begins. Participants gain access to their materials in MyLearning, including additional complimentary access to the Interpreting Financial Statements and The Director Mindset elearning courses. Participants join their Course Introduction Session with their Lead Facilitator. This session introduces the course and materials, explains the teaching philosophy the faculty will use during their deliveries and introduces the Learning Support Executive who will support participants through the course.
Week 3 (12 Oct) Virtual Classroom delivery- Governance and the Practice of Directorship
Week 4 (19 Oct) Virtual Classroom delivery – The Legal Environment
Week 5 (26 Oct) Virtual Classroom delivery – Risk and Strategy
Week 6 (02 Nov) Virtual Classroom delivery – Financial Literacy and Performance
Week 7 (09 Nov) Virtual Classroom delivery – Achieving Board Effectiveness
Week 8 Assessment opens and participants begin working on their assessment tasks with the support of the Learning Support Executive.
Week 19 Assessments are due.
Assessment
The optional course assessment is comprised of three tasks: a quiz, an exam and an assignment. All three must be successfully completed to achieve the Company Directors Course award and meet one of the criteria for gaining GAICD postnomials. Participants are supported in their assessment by a dedicated Learning Support Executive, who provides guidance and personalised support throughout the process.

Optional workshop
Governance within the Catholic Church Facilitated by Fr Brian Lucas (National Director of Catholic Mission Australia)
The workshop is designed to unpack relevant provisions and to explore issues and challenges that emerge between the application of secular governance principles and implementation of the provisions of the Code. There are special features different from Corporate Governance, whether corporate or not for profit. These relate to the legislation within the Code of Canon Law and governance by individuals rather than boards. Various corporate and organisational structures within the Catholic Church are governed by the Code of Canon Law.

National Evangelisation Conference
2022-10-20 17:00 - 2022-10-22 17:00 (Australia/Sydney)
The Evangelisation Conference is presented in three key formats.
PLENARY SESSIONS: Webcast live online, plenary sessions are for all participants and provide formation, experience, and inspiration. Plenary sessions will include speakers, panels, music, prayer and testimonies. Each 60 minute session is proposed to focused on a key theme:

Thursday 20 October
Evening
Launching into the Deep

Friday 21 October
Morning
Evangelisation

Evening
Encounter

Saturday 22 October
Morning
Discipleship

Evening
Mission

KEYNOTE SESSIONS: Following each national plenary session, participants are invited to attend one of five live Keynote speaker sessions. Running for 60 minutes, sessions explore approaches to supporting the Church’s missions to evangelise through ‘Ministries within our faith communities’, or ‘Mission in the world’. Keynote sessions include speakers and sharing around topics.
CONVERSATION STARTERS: At the centre of the National Conference for Evangelisation is local discussion and action. Following national input via plenary and keynote sessions, the conference will offer short conversation starters for local dialogue. 60 minutes sessions will include a 15 minute pre-recorded input accompanied by discussion facilitation resources. These sessions are aimed at transitioning from learning and reflection to local implementation and action.
Themes for Keynotes sessions and conversations starters may include:

Clergy & Religious Life
Cultural Engagement
Deep Listening & Peripheries
Discipleship & Formation
Ecclesial & Cultural Communities
Evangelisation in the world
Faith Community Ministries
Family & Life
Justice, Ecology & Peace
Leadership and Governance
Liturgy & Sacraments
Laity: Women, Men, Youth
Public Life and Witness
Youth & Young Adults

MPJP Stewards Wisdom Circle in Melbourne
2022-10-20 18:00
Input from a previous MPJP Steward (Trustee), reflection, discussion and a shared meal

To build a community of Stewards from various MPJPs through formative conversations
Facilitate support and solidarity among Stewards from different MPJPs
To contribute to the formation of Stewards as Lay Ecclesial leaders of PJP’s

For more information, please contact your MPJP or AMPJP info@ampjp.org.au

Mission Inspired Leadership (3)
2022-10-27 16:00 - 18:00
Both seasoned and emerging Catholic social services leaders need to maintain a strong sense of confidence to best engage in the creative diversity of our sector, so as to meet the challenges of keeping to core purpose in a volatile working environment.
CSSV has designed a four-part learning experience to equip seasoned and emerging leaders as well as expert practitioners with the conceptual tools and approaches they need to deliver social impact and thrive sustainably for the common good.
Mission Inspired Leadership is a Professional Development Program of four online evening workshops and a social event for leaders, board directors and expert practitioners in Catholic social services:

Engage the Catholic social services ecosystem – to further mission collaboratively
Connect critical decision-making to organisational purpose – with shared principles
Explore Catholic social teaching as a creative framework – for services and advocacy
Discover new ways of delivering social impact – sustainably with integrity
Build connection with peers – in a social, spiritually enriching shared-learning environment.

The program will be held via videoconference on the 18th August, 8th September, 27th October and 1st December (4-6pm).
Graduates of the learning program experience ongoing mutual support from CSSV and via the relationships built with peers from across the sector.
Session 3 – 27 October 2022: KEEP TO PRINCIPLE – how to apply and inspire purposeful fidelity to Catholic social principles inclusive of all workers at the coalface
Facilitator:

Brian Lawrence

Brian Lawrence is the Chair of the Australian Cardijn Institute. He is author of Workplace Relations: A Catholic Perspective and former Chairman of the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations. He has worked for many years advocating for social justice and fairer conditions for workers in Australia.

All Saints Day
2022-11-01
Catholic festival: All Saints (All Hallows) celebrating all the Saints – known and unknown – who love of God, lived a life of virtue and who now live in heaven

https://universalis.com/australia/20221101/today.htm

All Souls Day
2022-11-02 08:00 - 17:00
Catholic festival: All Souls Day commemoration of all deceased Christians

https://universalis.com/australia/20221102/today.htm

MPJP Stewards Wisdom Circle in Brisbane
2022-11-03 15:30 - 17:30

Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis
2022-11-14 19:30 - 20:30
Online Lecture.
Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ,
president of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will address the theme
“Siblings All, Sign of the Times: The Social Teaching of Pope Francis,”
which is also the title of his newly published book of the same name jointly authored with Italian priest, Fr Christian Barone.

AMPJP online consultation re Synod on Synodality
2022-11-16 11:00 - 12:00
AMPJP has agreed to host two consultation groups on the Document for the Continental Stage. It is expected that participants will only attend one of these groups.
A summary of the points raised in this consultation will feed into the Continental Stage of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in October 2023 “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation and Mission”.

Consultation group
Prior registration is required to ensure that the group has no more than 10 participants.
Participants can be from MPJPs or beyond.
All participants are expected to have read and reflected upon the 44-page, Document for the Continental Stage before the group meets.
The continental consultation is not the time to suggest answers, nor to decide on courses of action. That is the task of the Synod Assemblies in October 2023 and October 2024.
The Document for the Continental Stage aims to assist the ongoing discernment on the key questions:

Which intuitions resonate most strongly with the lived experiences and realities of the Church in your continent? Which experiences are new or illuminating to you?
What substantial tensions or divergences emerge as particularly important in your continent’s perspective? Consequently, what are the questions or issues that should be addressed and considered in the next steps of the process?
Looking at what emerges from the previous two questions, what are the priorities, recurring themes, and calls to action that can be shared with other local Churches around the world and discussed during the First Session of the Synodal Assembly in October 2023?

Resources:
Document for the Continental Stage
Frequently asked questions for the Continental Stage
Reflection from Australian Susan Pascoe on the Continental Stage
Reflection guide and other resources on the ACBC Synod page

Christ The King
2022-11-20
Catholic Festival: Christ The King celebrating the Christ as Sovereign of all time

https://universalis.com/australia/20221120/today.htm

Alternate AMPJP online consultation re Synod on Synodality
2022-11-24 17:30 - 18:30

First Sunday of Advent
2022-11-27 08:00 - 17:00
Christian Festival: First Sunday of Advent preparing for the celebration of Christmas

https://universalis.com/australia/20221127/today.htm

Our ocean home
2022-11-28 - 2022-11-30
Experience a synodal process of storytelling, reflection, practical theology and dialogue, in preparation for the 2023 Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) Assembly.
In the spirit of the synodal process, this event is open to all.

Session times
This event will be comprised of three online sessions (one different session each day at the same time).
Monday 28 November 2022

5 – 7am Rome, Italy
12 – 2pm Perth, Australia
2 – 4pm Brisbane, Australia (AEST) and Port Moresby, PNG
3 – 5pm Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
5 – 7pm Suva, Fiji and Auckland, New Zealand

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Tuesday 29 November 2022

5 – 7am Rome, Italy
12 – 2pm Perth, Australia
2 – 4pm Brisbane, Australia (AEST) and Port Moresby, PNG
3 – 5pm Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
5 – 7pm Suva, Fiji and Auckland, New Zealand

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Wednesday 30 November 2022

5 – 7am Rome, Italy
12 – 2pm Perth, Australia
2 – 4pm Brisbane, Australia (AEST) and Port Moresby, PNG
3 – 5pm Sydney and Melbourne, Australia
5 – 7pm Suva, Fiji and Auckland, New Zealand

Mission Inspired Leadership (4)
2022-12-01 16:00 - 18:00
Both seasoned and emerging Catholic social services leaders need to maintain a strong sense of confidence to best engage in the creative diversity of our sector, so as to meet the challenges of keeping to core purpose in a volatile working environment.
CSSV has designed a four-part learning experience to equip seasoned and emerging leaders as well as expert practitioners with the conceptual tools and approaches they need to deliver social impact and thrive sustainably for the common good.
Mission Inspired Leadership is a Professional Development Program of four online evening workshops and a social event for leaders, board directors and expert practitioners in Catholic social services:

Engage the Catholic social services ecosystem – to further mission collaboratively
Connect critical decision-making to organisational purpose – with shared principles
Explore Catholic social teaching as a creative framework – for services and advocacy
Discover new ways of delivering social impact – sustainably with integrity
Build connection with peers – in a social, spiritually enriching shared-learning environment.

The program will be held via videoconference on the 18th August, 8th September, 27th October and 1st December (4-6pm).
Graduates of the learning program experience ongoing mutual support from CSSV and via the relationships built with peers from across the sector.
Session 4 – 1 December 2022: DELIVER SOCIAL IMPACT SUSTAINABILTY – how to thrive together for the common good
Facilitator:

Robyn Miller

Dr Robyn Miller is a social worker and family therapist with over thirty years’ experience in the community sector, government and child protection. She was a senior clinician and teacher for fourteen years at the Bouverie Family Therapy Centre, La Trobe University, and part of an innovative team working with families who have experienced trauma and sexual abuse. From 2006-15 Robyn provided professional leadership as the Chief Practitioner within the Department of Human Services in Victoria, and has also worked as a consultant with the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Robyn is currently the CEO of MacKillop Family Services, one of the largest providers of specialist services to vulnerable and disadvantaged children, young people and their families in Victoria, New South Wales, ACT, Western Australia and Northern Territory. Robyn sits on the Board of Catholic Social Services Australia, Australian Catholic Standards Ltd and the Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies in NSW.

Second Sunday of Advent
2022-12-04
Christian Festival: Second Sunday of Advent preparing for the celebration of Christmas

see: https://universalis.com/australia/20221204/today.htm

The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
2022-12-08
Catholic Festival: The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

https://universalis.com/australia/20221208/today.htm

Third Sunday of Advent
2022-12-11
Christian Festival: Third Sunday of Advent preparing for the celebration of Christmas

https://universalis.com/australia/20221211/today.htm

Fourth Sunday of Advent
2022-12-18
Christian Festival: Fourth Sunday of Advent preparing for the celebration of Christmas

https://universalis.com/australia/20221208/today.htm

Christmas Day
2022-12-25
Christian Festival of the birth of Jesus

https://universalis.com/australia/20221225/today.htm

Epiphany
2023-01-06
Signifying the end of the 12 days of Christmas, Epiphany celebrates the visit of Three Kings
to the infant Jesus as the occasion of the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles.

Nativity (Orthodox)
2023-01-07
Nativity is the Orthodox celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, who is considered by
Christians to be the Son of God, and the savior of all people.

Synodality training course
2023-01-15
Course on Synodality promoted by the Evangelii Gaudium Centre (attached)
Three online lectures starting at 4.00am AEDT cost 100 euro
Those who intend to register for the entire course must do so by

15 January 2023. Those wishing to follow one or more modules, on the other hand, have a deadline of:
4 February 2023 for the 1st Module;
4 March 2023 for the 2nd Module;
6 May 2023 for the 3rd Module.

Flyer: Synodality training course
Link to register: https://forms.gle/xb1SmD5mYW3zTo1A6

“Walking together: what lies ahead on the journey to a Synodal Church”
2023-01-31 14:30 - 16:00 | Newman College, Melbourne, 887 Swanston St, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
Public Forum for 150 people facilitated by Rev Frank Brennan SJ with Sister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ. Nathalie is a French Sister of the Congregation of Xavières. In May 2019 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Synod of Bishops and in 2021 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. She is the first woman to ever hold this position in the Vatican and the first woman to have voting rights in the Synod of Bishops.
Sr. Nathalie has played a significant role in both the Synod on Young People in 2018 and the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region in 2019.
Sr. Nathalie is coming to Australia for a few days only on her whirlwind tour, and places will be limited for her free events in Melbourne and Sydney. Please register to avoid disappointment, as places at each event are limited!

Towards a spirituality of synodality
2023-01-31 17:00 - 18:30 | Newman College, Melbourne, 887 Swanston St, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, Australia
Public lecture for 150 people or watch online as live stream withSister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ. Nathalie is a French Sister of the Congregation of Xavières. In May 2019 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Synod of Bishops and in 2021 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. She is the first woman to ever hold this position in the Vatican and the first woman to have voting rights in the Synod of Bishops.
Sr. Nathalie has played a significant role in both the Synod on Young People in 2018 and the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region in 2019.
Sr. Nathalie is coming to Australia for a few days only on her whirlwind tour, and places will be limited for her free events in Melbourne and Sydney. Please register to avoid disappointment, as places at each event are limited!

The Synod on Synodality - Why we should care?
2023-02-02 19:30 - 20:45
SYNODALITY is a Church word for inclusive leadership, listening to the sense of faith of the faithful.
Pope Francis has called a two-part Synod on Synodality in Rome in 2023 and 2024.
The Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific) are meeting in Fiji early February to finalise their submission to the Synod on Synodality.
The submissions from all continents will be the basis for the Synod.
MODERATOR: Christina Reymer, Co-founder Be the Change Aotearoa/New Zealand.
INTRODUCTION: Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, President Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
SPEAKERS:

Francis Sullivan AO, Leadership roles in major Church ministries
Susan Pascoe AM, Member of the Vatican planning group for the 2023/24 Synod
Grace Wrakia, PNGSI lay representative for Oceania Synod Task Force
Patricia Gemmell, Leader within the Grail in Australia and Australian Women Preach

“Walking together: what lies ahead on the journey to a Synodal Church”
2023-02-03 16:00 - 17:30 | St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta, 1 Marist Place, Parramatta, NSW, 2150, Australia
Public Forum for 250 people with Sister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ. Nathalie is a French Sister of the Congregation of Xavières. In May 2019 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Synod of Bishops and in 2021 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. She is the first woman to ever hold this position in the Vatican and the first woman to have voting rights in the Synod of Bishops.
Sr. Nathalie has played a significant role in both the Synod on Young People in 2018 and the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region in 2019.
Sr. Nathalie is coming to Australia for a few days only on her whirlwind tour, and places will be limited for her free events in Melbourne and Sydney. Please register to avoid disappointment, as places at each event are limited!

“Towards a spirituality of synodality”
2023-02-03 19:00 - 20:30 | St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta, 1 Marist Place, Parramatta, NSW, 2150, Australia
Public lecture for 700 people or watch online as live stream with Sister Nathalie Becquart XMCJ. Nathalie is a French Sister of the Congregation of Xavières. In May 2019 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Consultor to the Synod of Bishops and in 2021 she was appointed by Pope Francis as Undersecretary of the Synod of Bishops. She is the first woman to ever hold this position in the Vatican and the first woman to have voting rights in the Synod of Bishops.
Sr. Nathalie has played a significant role in both the Synod on Young People in 2018 and the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region in 2019.
Sr. Nathalie is coming to Australia for a few days only on her whirlwind tour, and places will be limited for her free events in Melbourne and Sydney. Please register to avoid disappointment, as places at each event are limited!

Modern Slavery: MPJP Canonical Stewards respond
2023-02-20 13:00 - 14:00
What is modern slavery?
How is it present in Australia?
Modern Slavery Act 2018
Appropriate responses to modern slavery?
Catholic Social Teaching and modern slavery
What is the role of ACAN and ACRATH?
What role is there for MPJP Canonical Stewards?

Presenters:

Rosemary Copeland: Co-Chair Kildare Ministries
Christine Carolan, National Executive Officer Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans
Alison Rahill, Executive Officer: Australian Catholic Anti-slavery Network
