St Charbel Parish, Greenvale
Kathleen MATTHEWS-WARD (Broadmeadows) (10:29): I also wish to thank Father Charles, Marleine Raffoul and the wonderful congregation for hosting the member for Greenvale and me for a mass at the beautiful St Charbel Parish in Greenvale over the weekend. Some of the mass was said in Aramaic, the language Jesus himself used, and to hear the whole congregation singing together was truly inspirational. I thank Father Charles for being a generous host and also for meeting with me, Viv Nguyen and Hume city councillors, along with a dozen priests and leaders from the local Assyrian, Orthodox, Chaldean and Syriac churches, following the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney recently.