Update 1: Daily Novena.   "Novena to God the Father"

Please Join our online "Novena to God the Father" starting tomorrow, Friday 24 July by registering in advance: 

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Update 2:  Resignation of the Chair of St Patrick’s Pastoral Council

Sadly, the Chair of St Pat’s Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) resigned yesterday 22 July 2020.

Timeline:
12 July I wrote on behalf of the petition to the PPC to help us secure the documents and to allow 3 petition updates: pinned on the bulletin board, placed outside the cathedral door and foyer of the chapel. (We are following the proper channel of laity formal request).

18 July I emailed Anthony Khoury as Chair of the Parish Finance Committee to formally request the documents of our the petition.

20 July Marthe from TLAG emailed PPC to request if members of TLAG (7) could attend the August parish council meeting with Fr Peter Williams. (copy herein in below).

21 July Chair of PPC responded to TLAG (here in the below).

22 July Chair of PPC resigned after the meeting the day before with Fr Peter Williams.

My Questions:
1. Why can’t TLAG (mostly parishioners) attend the Parish Meeting but people like Geoff Officer and Anthony Khoury[1], one tasked to "Incorporate" the Old Parish to the New Cathedral[2] and the other a Parramatta real estate broker who has real estate property and leasing business dealings with the Parramatta Diocese (Is St Pat Quarter Project involved too? Further darkness) and the Chair of St Pat's Parramatta Parish Finance Committee respectively, was at the meeting with the PPC chair regarding the PPC meeting in August?

2. Why was the chair blindsided about the real agenda of the meeting?

3. Why was there was a 3 vs 1 scenario ?

Servant of Jesus and Mary.

Bernadette Ching on the Petition Update

Footnotes:
[1] https://www.khoury.com.au/team/ .
[2] “You’ve only got to look out at the old St Pat’s church incorporated into the new cathedral” from the recent Catholic Outlook https://www.catholicoutlook.org/one-year-at-the-helm/?fbclid=IwAR0aLXbQacEIgr7Wrw06K8go0cyrUYMAutcg9LmCgdE12rHGdSnesT5QQIo

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Email of the PPC Chair to TLAG
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Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020, 11:12:46 AM GMT+10
Subject: RE: Request
Dear Marthe, thankyou for your correspondence. Please let me address to the best of my knowledge and ability.
The PPC has not claimed to take up the job of sorting the parish financial issues – that is the role of the finance committee. ALSO you need their permission and authority to access the financial records.
I cannot give permission for you to attend or not attend PPC meeting – that needs to come from the Parish Priest.
What I can say is this.
A meeting was held yesterday at the Chancery with myself, Fr Peter, Geoff Officer - Chief Finance and Operations Manager and Anthony Khoury chair of PFC. There is a PFC meeting tonight, a PPC on Tues 4th August, a joint PFC/PPC to be dated and then a Parish meeting (similar to the one held on Sunday 28th June) also to be dated but probably towards the end of August.
Please know that the PPC are doing their best to help everyone by being as honest and as forthright as they can whilst dealing with the ongoing Parish issues.
Sincerely, Naomi Mazzitelli

TLAG email to PPC
From: The Laity Advocacy Group Group 
Subject: Request
Dear Members of Parish Pastoral Council,
My name is Marthe Nalletamby. I am a core member of the Laity Advocacy Group and it is on behalf of the group that I am writing today.
The Laity Advocacy Group started from the change.org petition calling for greater and ongoing transparency, accountability and synodality.
Cannon law provides that administrators are to render accounts to the faithful. The Laity Advocacy group is only claiming its lawful right.
There has already been correspondence between Bernadette Ching to numerous individuals both in the clergy and the PPC following a petition requesting, on behalf of the petitioners (to date 1800), the right to documents and information concerning the current financial situation of St Patrick parish. So far, nothing concrete has been achieved.
We understand that the PPC has claimed to have taken up the task of sorting out the parish’s current financial issues, but we need to be clear on the objectives of the Laity Advocacy Group:
1) The possibility to attend the next PPC meeting.
2) Access to the cathedral financial reports including the internal and external audit reports from 2012 to 2019.
3) An open dialogue between the Bishop and the parishioners
 The other questions the LA group has for the PPC are:
1) Has the Council considered how the current problem is going to be addressed and is there a time frame in which it will be addressed?
2) In the benefit of transparency, how will any action taken by the PPC be communicated to the wider parish community.
I thank the PPC for the opportunity of voicing the concerns of the group. Looking forward to hearing back from the PPC.
God Bless,
Marthe