If you have a heart for Mission, there’s one date in 2017 you won’t want to miss – the Mission: One Heart Many Voices conference, which runs from May 15-17 in Sydney.

Fr Tim Norton SVD will return from Italy where he is Director of Courses at Centro Ad Gentes near Rome, to co-MC the event, and will bring with him valuable experience and a perspective on intercultural mission that will add to the facilitation of the conference.

SVD Provincial, Fr Henry Adler, says the Divine Word Missionaries have been pleased to be a part of the Amen Network of representatives from Religious Congregations who are working with Catholic Mission to bring the conference to life.

“We’re very much looking forward to Mission: one heart many voices in 2017,” Fr Henry says. “The range of speakers will help us all to reflect and re-energise for our ministry in Mission.”

Bishop Vincent Long Van Nguyen, Bishop of Parramatta, will give the keynote address at the conference breakfast on Tuesday, May 16. Other speakers include Fr Robert Schreiter CPPS, Prof Larissa Behrendt, Dr Cathy Ross, Sr Elaine Wainwright RSM, Mrs Evelyn Enid Parkin, and Fr Frank Brennan SJ.

Sr Ruth Durick, President of Catholic Religious Australia says the conference will have inspiring input sessions and opportunities to share some of the challenges of particular areas of work and to receive encouragement on the journey.

“Mission: one heart many voices conference is a great opportunity for very diverse groups of people to gather, share, reflect and dialogue together about the important foundations of mission,” he says.

“The Church is multi-dimensional and multi-faceted in its mission and conferences such as Mission: one heart many voices, articulate some of this diversity and richness which is a grace for all of us.”
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