29 October 2018

Bishop Terence Curtin celebrated the Children’s Mission Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Wednesday 24 October 2018, marking the end of this year’s Mission Month.  Principals, teachers, parents and hundreds of students from schools in the Archdiocese were present at this event.

Every year, October is designated as the month where the Church promotes the importance of Catholics’ mission to help the poor, needy and disadvantaged, just as Jesus did.  In this occasion, students were invited to participate in Socktober, an initiative of Catholic Mission to help schools raise funds, engage in advocacy and ‘sock it to poverty’. Working in partnership with the Myanmar Church, the Socktober project aimed to assist schools raise 350 thousand dollars and help build up an education system for the needs of children growing up in Myanmar and create the steps for them to move out of poverty.