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Last weekend, we celebrated the Solemnity of Pentecost: the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the disciples, fifty days after the resurrection of Christ, coinciding with the ‘Feast of 50’ in Judaism. During this Feast which takes place each year at the end of the Season of Easter, we celebrated the full manifestation of The Holy Spirit in time and the Birth of the Church, with the great commission to proclaim the good news to all creation through the instrumentality of the Holy Spirit.

In the spirit of Pentecost and renewal, the Church in Australia begins preparation for a Plenary Council in 2020 with a National Launch last weekend, with the aim of stepping aside to ‘listen to what the Spirit is saying…regarding what God is asking of us, the Church in Australia at this time’.  In view of the Plenary, there will be several listening sessions at different levels in the days ahead, beginning with a small of friends or families to the level of the parish, deanery, diocese and national. Let us therefore look forward to the different opportunity for listening as we journey towards the 2020 Plenary Council.