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There has been a lot of activity in the Perth Parish recently and it looks like there will be even more activity in the near future. With the coming of Lent, various religious Education Classes are being contemplated. i.e. Bible ...

On Sunday 23rd September, the Perth Ukrainian Community gathered and began the commemoration of the Ukrainian Genocide, the Holodomor of 1932-1933 with their contribution of “Light the Candle” service. The Parish of St John The Baptist attended their Sunday church ...

Back in the 1950s when many of our churches were built, asbestos was a very popular building product. It was fire proof and a very good insulator. The old timers tell of stories about how left-over asbestos was spread over ...

The Bishop, priests and sisters of our Eparchy attended four youth camps in Australia this year. CYM held camps in Sydney, Victoria at Buxton, and in Perth. Plast held a camp just outside of Geelong. The biggest camp was the ...

On Sunday, 1 st October 2017, four children made their First Confession and Solemn Holy Communion at St. John the Baptist Church in Perth. We congratulate Matsiyovska Inna, Lipinska Christina, Diachenko Marianna, Maciyovskyy Svyatoslav and wish them and their families ...

Ukrainians in Australia are celebrating 70 years of Ukrainian immigration, while the Ukrainian Catholic Parish is celebrating 65 years of organized life. Actually a big number of Ukrainians who came to Australia came through Northam, Western Australia. Our parish in ...

Pentecost Sunday – Coming of the Holy Spirit June 4 th, CYM Perth and the Ukrainian Catholic Parish commemorated Ukrainian Heroes (Zeleni Sviata) with a memorial service (Panakhyda) at the Ukrainian Catholic Church Memorial in Maylands, followed by a fundraising ...

The Taras Shevchenko Concert was held on Sunday March 26th in the Ukrainian Catholic Hall in Maylands. By Dmytro Legeyda. – The Concert began with an address by the President of the Ukrainian Association Mr Mykola Mowczan. I have never seen ...

St John the Baptist Parish was actually started in 1952, three years after Ukrainians first came to Western Australia. For 14 years they were graciously hosted by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville in the Roman Catholic parishes in Perth. In 1965, with ...