In commemoration of the 111th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which was celebrated on 5 October, we share an article from the August 2025 edition of the Augustinian magazine, regarding an initiative at Holy Spirit Parish, St Clair-Erskine Park.

“Migrants and refugees remind the Church of her pilgrim dimension, perpetually journeying towards her final homeland, sustained by a hope that is a theological virtue.” – Pope Leo XIV

On 8 July 2025, a lovely young Syrian Refugee family moved into a rental home in St Clair. They have a little boy of three years. Rita [Hakkoum] from the Catholic Care Refugee program asked me a couple of weeks before if I would be able to help the family with material goods as they had arrived with no possessions apart from personal items, e.g. clothes.  

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