Wednesday, 3 December 2025

 Pauline RICHARDS (Cranbourne) (10:44): I would like to say how honoured I was to participate in and be at a special mass to recognise the contribution of Father Denis O’Bryan, our beloved parish priest at St Thomas the Apostle Parish in Clyde North. Across the Sale diocese Father Denis has been serving the community, most recently in Cranbourne and then forming the new parish at Cranbourne East and Clyde North. Father Denis has provided something additional in the context of people who have travelled from all over the world to make Cranbourne East and Clyde North home. In so many ways that role of pastoral carer, and also a theological role for many, has been more important because people have travelled from overseas, from interstate and from other suburbs. So I would like to wish Father Denis all the best on his next placement. He will be greatly missed. It was such a wonderful celebration, and we had Bishop Greg from the Sale diocese and Father Jithin there also as part of the celebrations. All the best to Father Denis O’Bryan on what comes next.