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Last month over 3,000 Australians attended the World Youth Day 2023 event in Lisbon. We invited you to pray for a blessed, safe and fruitful journey for all those travelling. We are writing to say thank you and to share with you some of the responses from the young people and photos from the event.Read More

In the very centre of Australia, at the top of a mountain is an enormous Cross that is the realisation of a decades-long dream of the local aboriginal people of Ikuntji. Located near Haasts Bluff, 230kms west of Alice Springs, the 20m Cross made of core-ten steel stands at the top of Memory Mountain (Kurrkalnga Puli).Read More

In the spirit of Advent, a group of pilgrims led by Bishop Michael McCarthy, Bishop of Rockhampton, reflectively journeyed on an Advent Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. What a unique experience to be in Bethlehem during the Christmas season! See their photos below.Read More

Tasmanian Spirit was our inaugural Catholic Roadtrip to the Southern Isle and was blessed by a wonderful group of pilgrims along with our chaplain Fr Michael Twigg OMI. Our pioneering pilgrims were the first to walk the pilgrim pathways of this part of Australia.Read More

For Grace deZilva from Narrabundah in the ACT, the Top End Encounters journey through Darwin, Kakadu and the Tiwi Islands was enlightening and enriching. Read here her refreshing account and view her album of photos…Read More

Bishop Greg O’Kelly led a group of pilgrims from Adelaide up through the desert heart of Australia with stops in Coober Pedy, Uluru and Alice Springs. There were Masses in underground churches, welcoming encounters with remote parish communities, and even time to hug a joey.Read More

Our very first Catholic Roadtrip has been a great success! After two years devoid of travel due to Covid, we are delighted that our pilgrims are on the road again.Read More

Thirty-three years to the day when the first Harvest pilgrimage departed Australia for the Holy Land, founding owner Philip Ryall has announced it’s time for the company to welcome a new CEO, appointing Selina Hasham to the role.Read More

The Sistine Chapel is one of the most iconic buildings on earth — but there's a lot you probably don't know about it. In this tour-de-force talk, art historian Elizabeth Lev guides us across the famous building's ceiling and Michelangelo's vital depiction of traditional stories, showing how the painter reached beyond the religious iconography of the time to chart new artistic waters. Five hundred years after the artist painted it,...Read More

A heartfelt conversation with Harvest's founder Philip Ryall: "I had a powerful encounter of God as a young teenager where the scriptures were opened up to me in a fresh way at a Christian horse-riding camp."Read More

“We could feel our hearts pounding like we could feel the closeness of Heaven,” says Eugene. Hours later, he wakes at dawn to capture an early-morning photo of the day’s first rays bouncing off the stone and steeples. “The location of our accommodation in so many of the cities we visited was literally at the doorstep of the churches or shrines,” he explains. “Everything was walking distance away. So to...Read More

Inside a small, unassuming chapel on Rue de la Visitation in Paray-le-Monial about 20 wooden pews face a simple stone altar and a colourfully painted mural depicting the Apparition of Christ to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. Sitting on one of these pews, Irma De Guzman discovers a profound connection between this French town and her home in Melbourne, Australia.Read More

Even those who aren’t familiar with St Paul’s mission establishing the early Church will know at least some of his writings. Whether it’s the passages about uncompromising love in his letter to the Corinthians, or his encouragement to pray without ceasing in his letter to the Thessalonians, St Paul’s epistles are often quoted and shared – thousands of years after they were first written and read.Read More