On Dec 08 during Mass at St Joseph’s College, Hunters Hill, celebrating the Immaculate Concepton the new Star of the Sea Province of the Marist Brothers was inaugurated. Visiting Superior-General, brother Ernesto Sanchez FMS, officially announced the closure of the Australian Province and District of Oceania and invited brother Peter Carroll to assume the role of leader of a new province embracing Pacifc and southeast Asian countries.
Australian Marist Fathers' District Superior, father Tony Corcoran SM, presided at the Eucharist and College chaplain, father Gavin Foster SM, preached the homily.
Scenes from the inauguration event are pictured below, including Brothers entering the College during the opening smoking ceremony, extinguishing of the two former province/district candles and lighting of the new province candle and blessing of brother Peter led by father Tony
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