Feast of St Bonaventure

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Cathedral Schedule 6:45am Mass; 12noon-1pm - Confession; 1:10pm Mass; 4:30pm-5:30pm - Confession; 5:30pm Mass

Memorial of Saint Francis de Sales

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial of St Francis de Sales - Bishop and Doctor Patron Saint of bakers, deaf people, educators, writers, journalists. Patron of the former Haymarket Parish in Sydney which has now been incorporated into the St Mary's Cathedral Parish. Cathedral Schedule 6:45am Mass; 12pm-1pm Sacrament of Confession; 1:10pm Mass (livestreamed); 5pm-5:25pm Sacrament of Confession; 5:30pm Mass […]

Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Stained glass window of the Conversion of St Paul inside St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney Feast of the Conversion of St Paul The fourth window in our Cathedral’s Baptistry shows the cure of Saul (later Paul) at the hands of Ananias. Saul is blind and points to his eyes; Ananias had received directions to go to […]

Memorial of St Thomas Aquinas – 28th January 2022

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial of St Thomas Aquinas, priest, doctor Patron saint of academics, against storms; against lightning; apologists; book sellers; Catholic academies, schools, and universities; chastity; learning; pencil makers; philosophers; publishers; scholars; students; theologians. Cathedral Schedule 6:45am Mass; 12pm-1pm Sacrament of Confession; 1:10pm Mass (livestreamed); 5pm-5:25pm Sacrament of Confession; 5:30pm Mass

Memorial of Saint John Bosco – 31st January 2022

Memorial of Saint John Bosco, priest Patron saint of Christian apprentices, editors, publishers, school children, young people, magicians, juvenile delinquents Cathedral Schedule 6:45am Mass; 9am Red Mass for the commencement of the Law Term; 12pm-1pm Sacrament of Confession; 1:10pm Mass; 5pm-5:25pm Sacrament of Confession; 5:30pm Mass

Memorial of St Brigid of Kildare – 1st February 2022

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

St Brigid depicted within the Our Lady Help of Christians Patronal stained glass window of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. St Brigid is shown as an abbess, holding a lamp, which symbolises learning and wisdom, a book and an abbess's crozier St Brigid of Kildare Patron saint of County Kildare, babies; blacksmiths; boatmen; brewers; cattle; chicken […]

Memorial of Saint Agatha of Sicily – 5th February 2022

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial of Saint Agatha of Sicily Patron Saint of Sicily, bellfounders; breast cancer; bakers; against fire; earthquakes; eruptions of Mount Etna; fire; jewelers; martyrs; natural disasters; nurses; rape victims; single laywomen; sterility; torture victims; volcanic eruptions Cathedral Schedule for the Memorial 9am Mass (livestreamed); 11:30am-11:55am Sacrament of Confession; 12pm Mass; 4:30pm-5:30pm Sacrament of Confession; 5:30pm Vespers for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time; 6pm Vigil Mass for the […]

Memorial of Saints Cyril & Methodius – 14th February 2022

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Memorial of Saints Cyril and Methodius SAINT CYRIL (827?–869) He was born in Thessalonica and was educated in Constantinople. With his brother Methodius he went to Moravia to preach the faith. They translated liturgical texts into the Slavonic language and invented the Glagolithic and possibly also the Cyrillic alphabet. They were called back to Rome, […]

Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter – 22nd February 2022

St Mary's Cathedral St Mary's Cathedral, St Mary's Road, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter The Chair of Saint Peter (Latin: Cathedra Petri), also known as the Throne of Saint Peter, is a relic conserved in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, the sovereign enclave of the Pope inside Rome, Italy. The relic is a wooden throne that tradition claims belonged to the Apostle Saint Peter, the leader of the Early Christians in Rome and first Pope, and which he used as Bishop […]