St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Celebration, 125th anniversary of consecration (and some MSC memories).
In 1939, Sacred Heart Monastery, Croydon, opened. That year, Ted Harris and Brendan Sykes were ordained in the cathedral – and this continued into the mid-1950s. That means quite a number of MSC priests ordained there. Over the next twenty years, priests from Victoria were ordained in the cathedral while others went to their home state. Since the 1980s, priests have been ordained in local cathedrals or churches.
The Poorman Masses/ Masses for the Poor. From the late 1960s and through the 1970s, the MSC organised these Masses in St Patrick’s on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, attended by students from Melbourne Catholic schools. Food was collected for distribution. Later they moved to parish celebrations.
Googling Poorman Masses, this photo came up –
John O’Connor had a major role in establishing the Poorman Masses (which moved to inclusive language Masses for the Poor).
