Our President Anthony Krohn will host end-of-year/Christmas refreshments at our North Melbourne premises this Monday at 6:00PM.
This event is free. Voluntary donations are welcome.
Past Events
End of Year refreshments and celebration at the Library
Date:
18 December 2023
Time:
6:00PM
Where:
Caroline Chisholm Library, at St. Michael’s presbytery, 456 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne. (A few minutes walk from the Royal Children’s Hospital tram stop in Flemington Rd)
Advent talk with Fr Colin Nunis POSTPONED
We have just heard that our speaker Fr Colin Nunis, of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church, is unavoidably unavailable tomorrow evening, so this talk will be postponed to the new year.
We will send new details as they become available.
Date:
18 December 2023
Advent talk: Our Lady – Behold the handmaid of the Lord
Our second Advent event will be presented by Sr Mary Sarah Galbraith OP on the topic of Our Lady – Behold the handmaid of the Lord.
Note that this event is happening at St. Mary McKillop Parish, 152 Odessa Avenue, Keilor Downs (NOT at our North Melbourne premises).
Date:
12 December 2023
Time:
7:45PM
Where:
St. Mary McKillop Parish, 152 Odessa Avenue, Keilor Downs.
Cost:
Free, but any donation is welcome
Advent talk: Christ - Fulfilment of the Prophecies
We are presenting our first Advent talk by Fr Joseph Vnuk OP on "Christ - Fulfilment of the Prophecies"
Note that this event is happening at our North Melbourne premises, a few minutes walk from the Royal Children’s Hospital tram stop in Flemington Rd.
Date:
5 December 2023
Time:
6:00PM
Where:
Caroline Chisholm Library, at S. Michael’s presbytery,
456 Dryburgh Street, North Melbourne
Cost:
Free, but any donation is welcome
THE CAUSE OF EILEEN O’CONNOR
The Caroline Chisholm Library invites all to a talk on the Cause of Eileen O'Connor.
Father Anthony Robbie, the Postulator of the Cause of Canonisation of the Servant of God Eileen O’Connor, will be speaking on her life and the progress of her Cause for canonisation.
Note that this event is not being held at the usual Library premises.
Date:
21 November 2023
Time:
7:30 PM
Where:
152 Odessa Ave, Keilor Downs, VIC 3038
Cost:
Voluntary donations welcome
Library AGM
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Caroline Chisholm Library Inc. will be at 6.30 p.m., Wednesday, 29th of March 2023. at the Library's new home:
St Michael’s Catholic Centre, 456 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051.
Date:
29 March 2023
Time:
6:30PM
Where:
St Michael’s Catholic Centre, 456 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
Cost:
Free
CD launch: Undertones of war
Following Robert James Stove's first, second, and third commercial recordings (The Gates of Vienna 2018, Pax Britannica 2019, and French Romantic Church Music 2021) comes his fourth, Undertones of War.
This time, the music is by British composers in the First World War's aftermath; some of this music is for organ solo, while some of it features five of Melbourne's most talented young singers.
Date:
22 June 2022
Time:
6:00pm
Where:
St Michael's Parish, 456 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne 3051
Cost:
Free, but donations gratefully accepted!
Library AGM
The Library's AGM for the year 2020-21 will be held on 19 April, when Minutes of last years' meeting will be voted upon, President's and Treasurer's reports presented, and office holders voted on.
Date:
19 April 2022
Time:
6:30pm
Where:
St Michael's Presbytery, 460 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
Cost:
Free
Library AGM
The Library's AGM for the year 2019-2020 will be held on 26 June, when Minutes of last years' meeting will be voted upon, President's and Treasurer's reports presented, and office holders voted on. The meeting had been delayed until now due to pandemic meeting restrictions.
Date:
26 June 2021
Time:
11:00am to 12:30PM
Where:
St Michael's Presbytery,
460 Dryburgh St, North Melbourne VIC 3051
Cost:
Free
New events coming soon
We have several events in development at the moment, and we'll start announcing these soon.
After the success of our bioethics seminar on freedom of conscience with philosopher David Oderberg (pictured above), we are aiming to develop a few marquee events which we will repeat on an annual basis. Overseas speakers are a possibility; we successfully used videoconferencing to connect to David Oderberg in Reading, UK and we will do more of this in future. Topics we are exploring include:
- bioethics
- culture and politics
- theology and philosophy
- arts and literature
If you have ideas about possible events, contact us at cclibrary @ cclibrary.org.au to see if we can work together to develop and promote them.
Date:
2 April 2020
Library events under the coronavirus
2020 didn't turn out the way any of us expected. The Library's closure means that we cannot run events in the usual way.
We have been considering the delivery of services online and at a distance for a while, and now is clearly the time to make it happen. There are two options we are examining:
- to set up a regular podcast to deliver our talks
- livestreaming of talks from this website
In fact, we may do both! Keep watch on this space for further details, or sign up for our email newsletter at the bottom of this page (if you haven't already) to keep up to date.
Date:
1 April 2020
Catholic Social Teaching: Talk 1
Fr Thomas Azzi OP is beginning a new theology course. This semester will cover the foundations of Catholic Social Teaching.
Date:
13 March 2020
Time:
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Where:
Caroline Chisholm Library, Level 3, 358 Lonsdale St, Melbourne
Cost:
$20 donation suggested.
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