The Pastoral Council meets once a month to look at issues facing the parish. Its key focus is providing assistance to the parish priest with pastoral planning, and developing liturgical and formation opportunities for the parish.  

Click to view councillor biographies.

The current Parish Pastoral Council was appointed in October 2008 for a three-year term.  The council comprises 12 members including parishioners, clergy and the principals of the two parish primary schools.

• Monthly Parish Dinners will begin on the 13th of August.
• The Renewal Team will make a presentation detailing the "Concept for Renewing Our Place of Worship" document at each Mass on the weekend of the 7th and 8th of August at St Kieran's church and the following weekend at St Cecilia's. There will be an opportunity to fill-in feedback forms after each presentation.
• St Cecila's sub committee reports that the investigation continues. A report will be presented to parishioners at the 9am Mass at St Cecilia's on the 8th of August. Options for other uses of St Cecilia's are still being investigated, with performance space use requiring further investigation.
• A Men's breakfast is targeted for the 16th of October.
• From the recent very successful Ignite! weekend, St Cecilia's parishioners have expressed a wish for Children's Liturgy to begin again, planning for this is progressing.
• Again following the Ignite! weekend, and the talent displayed by participants over that weekend, a monthly 'Open Mike' night at St Kieran's has been established.
• The new Parish website has been launched at - www.northharbourcatholic.org.au

A Brief History

Renewal Of Our Places of Worship

The Parish has a Mission Statement (provide link to document) that arose from a Parish Assembly held in 2005.  This Parish Assembly was the first held by the newly formed Catholic Community of North Harbour which came about from the twinning of the parishes of St Cecilia’s in Balgowlah and St Kieran’s in Manly Vale.

The Parish assembled again in 2009 to address issues related to liturgical renewal.  The impetus for this assembly was Aspiration One of the Mission Statement which states the parish’s desire “to be and to be seen as a community whose primary purpose is worshipping God, through Christ”.

The Assembly resulted in the formulation of a document “Concepts for Renewing Our Places of Worship”   and is the document on which the liturgical architects commissioned by the Parish have based their Concept Designs for the Church of St Kieran.

The Renewal Team is currently in the process of presenting these designs to the parish and collecting and reviewing feedback.

The Council has commissioned a sub-committee to further investigate renewal opportunities for the Church of St Cecilia.

The Catholic Community of North Harbour, along with liturgical authorities are currently considering renovations to the church of St Kieran.

Click to view the plans as proposed.

A sub-committee of the Pastoral Council has also been formed to investigate the potential other use of St Cecelia's, in addition to liturgy.

Click here to see the initial report from this sub-committee.