ETHNIC costumes, singing and dancing from many parts of the world added to a colourful celebration at Brisbane archdiocese’s annual multicultural Mass on Refugee and Migrant Sunday, August 29.
About 900 people from throughout the archdiocese attended the Mass in St Stephen’s Cathedral.
Italian, Chinese, East Timorese, Indonesian, Filipino and Samoan choirs sang, and Samoans in traditional costume performed an elaborate procession of the Word.
The readers, a Samoan woman and Indonesian man, were in national dress.
Multicultural Mass planning committee chairman Fr Franco Filipetto said for the Offertory procession two 10 year-old Sudanese girls performed a traditional dance in the aisle, and behind them came children from many different ethnic groups in traditional dress, bringing food offerings.
Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Oudeman of Brisbane was principal celebrant, and concelebrants included retired Townsville Bishop Raymond Benjamin and nine migrant chaplains.
