The Diocesean phase of the Cause of Beatification and Canonisation of Fr. Stefano Gobbi will commence on 1st May 2024, at a solemn Eucharistic Celebration at Como in Italy. Let us together thank Our Lady by renewing our consecration to Her Immaculate Heart, of which Don Stefano was an example and apostle, to learn from Her to adore and live to the glory of the Most Holy Trinity.

The MMP is conducting a range of internet (zoom) Cenacles each week (note the Wednesday Cenacle now starts at 4.40pm, not 4.45pm):

• a zoom Cenacle each TUESDAY at 7.00pm (Sydney time) led by Fr Hugh Thomas (the priest responsible for the MMP in NSW).  To join-in, the link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6583562187?pwd=dnpMT2o1WTZCZitOdUR0bk51WHM3dz09 (or use Meeting ID: 658 356 2187 Passcode: MqK1Zq); and
• a zoom Cenacle each WEDNESDAY at 4.40pm (Sydney time) led Fr Andrew Grace (the priest responsible for the MMP in Australia). Participants are joining remotely into a cenacle being prayed by local members in the Sacred Heart Church in Griffith NSW). To join-in, the link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6583562187?pwd=dnpMT2o1WTZCZitOdUR0bk51WHM3dz09 (or use Meeting ID: 658 356 2187 Passcode: MqK1Zq); and
• a zoom Cenacle each WEDNESDAY at 8pm (Sydney time) led by Fr Pieter Ferwerda (the priest responsible for the MMP in Victoria). To join-in, the link is: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73290782597?pwd=VHR0MWVBYnZDc0N3amdTMllDY0ZlUT09 (or use Meeting ID: 732 9078 2597 and Passcode: 1BEY7b).
• a Cenacle each THURSDAY at 8pm (Perth time) the WA MMP. This Cenacle is on an application called ‘Jit.se‘ (similar to zoom). To join in, you can either download the application or simply choose (when asked) to join through your internet browser (if you have difficulties joining-in, call Marina on 0419 227 733). The link is: http://meet.jit.si/MMPWestoz333.

NOTE that the zoom Cenacle with Fr Donal McIlraith on Saturdays has ended for now.

NOTE if you have not been able to participate ‘live’, there are some recorded cenacles with Fr Donal McIlraith and Fr Andrew Grace on the website. You can join-in and pray the cenacles whenever it suits you. You can access these recordings on the ‘ZOOM CENACLES‘ page on this website (under ‘CENACLES‘), or by clicking HERE.

The MMP will hold its Annual Retreat for Oceania at the Redemptorist Retreat Centre at Galong from 29th July to 2nd August 2024 (inclusive). The Retreat will be led by Bishop Giovanni D’Ercole, a retired Italian Bishop now living in North Africa. You can download more details about the retreat, and a registration form, HERE. Meanwhile all the Meditations from the 2023 Retreat are now able to be viewed on this website (under Events/MMP Retreat 2023).

Our Lady has asked that we spend NYE in prayer rather than in frivolous celebrations. Accordingly, the MMP is running NYE Cenacles:

• in St Dominic’s Parish Church in FLEMINGTON, Sydney. The 28th Annual MMP New Year’s Eve Prayer Vigil commences with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 8pm, which will continue until midnight. During the night there are MMP Cenacles at 8.30pm, 9.30pm, and 10.30pm, followed by Benediction and then followed by midnight MASS. Confessions are available from 8pm. A light supper will be available in the Parish Hall after Mass(kindly bring a plate to share). An invitation, containing further details can be downloaded HERE. The Church is air-conditioned, and is located on the corner of The Crescent and Hornsey Rd Homebush West, opposite Flemington Railway Station. There is plenty of parking available, and trains run all night; 
• in St Francis Xavier Church at Abermain (cnr Harle and Church Sts Abermain), which is near Cessnock NSW. The evening commences with the Night Prayer of the Church at 9pm, which is followed b y the Rosary at 9.15pm; a reading from the MMP Bluebook at 10.15pm and the Rosary at 10.50pm. The evening concludes with the Holy Mass at 11.30pm with 15 minutes of Simple Adoration to follow Mass; and 
• in the Sacred Heart Church in GRIFFITH NSW (begins at 9pm with Adoration and a Cenacle and concludes with a Mass at 11.30pm followed by a light supper).

Don Luca Pescatori, the International Director-General of the MMP, has expressed concern regarding the misrepresentation of Our Lady’s Messages. In recent times, some groups have emerged using in a completely misinterpreted way the messages given by Our Lady to Fr. Gobbi in the book “To the Priests, Our Lady’s Beloved Sons”. These groups, and the priests who inspire them, manipulate the messages of Our Lady’s book to spread their own ideas, which are not in communion with the Church. Some of these groups are also trying to use the recent death of our dear Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI for their own purpose. The Marian Movement of Priests reaffirms faithfully what has always been taught by Our Lady through Fr. Stefano Gobbi which means that no one is allowed to use the messages of the Immaculate Heart of Mary outside the context of the Cenacle Prayer of the MMP. Read Fr. Pescatori’s comments in full in the attached article.

This note is just to advise MMP Members that Tony Grace, who was a long-term leader of the MMP in Australia and who started so many Cenacles across a range of States, died yesterday (7 December 2023) at 10am. Tony regularly gave talks on Cenacles, and how to start them, and one talk given at the Retreat in 2021 is included twice on this website (on the “Event’ page, under Retreat 2021: How to form Cenacles; and also on the ‘Cenacle’ page, under ‘Want to know more’. The text of that talk is also included at the later location). A photo of Tony is included in the collage above. Vale Tony and may God reward you for many years of service by welcoming you into His loving arms. Dale Gordon-Stewart, a stalwart of the MMP movement in Victoria, also died about the same time. They will each be sorely missed.

The MMP OCEANIA NEWSLETTER FOR 2024 is available here and on the ‘Newsletters‘ page on this website, as are Newsletters from previous years.

Attached are two illuminating articles that address the concerns some have in relation to the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary by the Year 2000 – one of these articles is by Fr Gobbi himself and the other by Fr Gaughran. Both articles are well worth reading.

The International Director of the Marian Movement of Priests, Rev Fr Luca Pescatori visited Australia from 7-15 November 2023 for the celebration of Masses and Cenacles of Prayer. He visited Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Canberra, Griffith, Melbourne, Launceston and Adelaide. He was accompanied by Fr Donal McIlraith SSC, the Priest Responsible for the MMP in OCEANIA. Details of where he visited, and when, are provided here, and a group photo of his visit to Flemington is attached in the collage above.

The above talk, which was given at the International MMP Retreat in 2022, is attached here for your interest.

Key program events in the 2020-2023 Annual Retreats for the MMP in Oceania were recorded. You can easily catch-up on program events you may have missed, or re-watch each event whenever you like and as often as you like, by visiting the relevant Retreat page (listed under Events) on this website.

A comprehensive DOCUMENTARY ON THE MMP and ITS LINKS TO FATIMA has been made by Fr Michael Maher, the Priest responsible for the MMP in Ireland. It is approximately 1.5 hours long and narrated by Fr Maher who has previously led MMP Retreats in Oceania.

Fr Andrew Grace’s testimony on his PATH TO THE PRIESTHOOD is available on the ‘Other Resources‘ page of this website. His testimony was given at a Medjugorje Conference at Concord West on 8 December 2008.

A number of excellent TALKS by FR FRANCIS GEREMIA and FR MICHAEL GAUGHRAN, both long-term leaders of the MMP internationally and both of whom have previously led MMP Oceania retreats, are being progressively added to the ‘Other Resources‘ page on this website.