(L-R) Rev Fr Shaiju Lookose, Priest in Solidum, providing pastoral and sacramental care to the people of Central West Region; Rev Fr Alex Varghese, Administrator of the Parish Communities of the Southern Cluster of Mackay; Bishop Michael McCarthy; Rev Fr Jomon Poothara, Administrator of the Parishes of the Peak Downs Cluster; and Rev Fr Raj Kodavatikanti, Priest Moderator in Solidum for the Parishes of the Central West, including St Brigid’s Longreach;  Sacred Heart Ilfracombe;  the communities of Morella, Stonehenge and Good Shepherd, Bedourie;  St Joseph’s Isisford ;  St Peter’s Jundah;  the community of Yaraka; Sacred Heart, Barcaldine; St Patrick’s Blackall and Our Lady of Victories, Tambo;  St John’s , Aramac and Muttaburra ; St John the Evanglist, Alpha; and St Finnian’s, Jericho.

Linda Esguerra