Safeguarding Children & Young People Statement 2024
St Joseph’s & St Bernadette’s, Boronia Catholic Parish acknowledges and adheres by the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne Safeguarding documents, procedures and policies as outlined in their statement and guidelines.
Our Parish Priest, Fr Mirek Knap, is dedicated to keeping our children, young people and vulnerable people, safe with the support of our Parish Staff, Safeguarding Committee, Parishioners, and Volunteers who serve in our Parish.
The Parish Office can supply you with our:
~ Code of Conduct and Declaration
~ Safeguarding Children Policy.
If you have any concerns please contact:
~ Parish Office or Fr. Mirek: boronia@cam.org.au
~ Safeguarding Children Committee: Boronia.ProfessionalStandards@cam.org.au
JUBILEE YEAR 2025:
Pilgrims of Hope
Pope Francis has declared a Jubilee Year of Hope in 2025. The Holy Father has called the universal Church to this special time of grace, a time to focus on reconciliation and forgiveness, prayer and reflection, sojourn and pilgrimage.
A time to focus on hope.
A jubilee is a special year of grace and conversion, involving prayer, pilgrimage and sacramental repentance, held every 25 years or during other years as called for by the Pope. The most recent (ordinary) jubilee was the Great Jubilee of 2000. Key elements of a jubilee include walking through Holy Doors while on a pilgrimage and the granting of plenary indulgences. Indulgences are a wonderful support on the great pilgrimage towards heaven.
They orient hearts towards God.
For those wanting to participate in the Jubilee and unable to travel to Rome, the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has revealed the 13 churches and shrines within the Archdiocese that will be designated Pilgrim Places for the purposes of the 2025 Jubilee, with St Patrick’s Cathedral serving as the principal Pilgrim Place. Details of opening times and offerings at each Pilgrim Place will be announced soon.
For further information refer to https://www.catholic.au/s/article/Jubilee-2025
Pilgrims of Hope: The Jubilee Logo
The LOGO shows four figures, representing all of humanity, coming from the four corners of the earth. They embrace each other to indicate the solidarity and fraternity which should unite all peoples.
The figure at the front is holding onto the cross. It is not only the sign of the faith which this lead figure embraces, but also of hope. This can never be abandoned, because we are always in need of hope, especially in our moments of greatest need.
There are the rough waves under the figures, symbolising the fact that life’s pilgrimage does not always go smoothly in calm waters. Often the circumstances of daily life and events in the wider world require a greater call to hope.
The lower part of the cross has been elongated and turned into the shape of an anchor which is let down into the waves. The anchor is well known as a symbol of hope. The pilgrim’s journey is not as an individual undertaking, but as something communal, leading one ever closer to the cross.
The cross in the logo bends down towards humanity, not leaving human beings alone, but stretching out to them to offer the certainty of its presence and the security of hope.
At the bottom of the logo is the motto of the 2025 Jubilee Year:
Peregrinantes in Spem (Pilgrims in hope), represented in green letters .