CATENIAN (PROVINCE 20) YOUTH SUPPORT PROJECT
We offer grants to encourage and assist young Catholics in Western Australia aged 16 – 24 in educational, career or charitable pursuits, to strengthen and share their faith with others.
Grants are available to assist eligible persons in projects including volunteer work overseas, attendance at World Youth Day or at Catholic Youth Conventions.
University Students We offer scholarships and a bursary through Notre Dame Australia (Fremantle Campus) and the St. Thomas More Residential College. The conditions and application forms are available on their respective websites.
What to know more?
For more information contact the Youth Support Officer or secretary of the Circle who will sponsor you. To find the Circle closest to you go to the ‘Find Us’ Tab on the main page and each of these will have an email address to write to. You may also like to email youth.support.project@thecatenians.org.au
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Father Sheldon Burke was a recipient of a grant from the Youth Support Fund.
Father Sheldon Burke was born in Perth and now based in Sydney, was ordained at St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth on 17 June 2023. In November 2012 a young Sheldon received a grant from the Province 20 Youth Support Project to attend a Youth Leaders Formation Course hosted by the Archdiocese of Sydney. This course was a unique opportunity for a small group of young people to live in community together for one month and engage in spiritual, pastoral, intellectual, and human formation. Participants explored a range of themes including evangelisation, leadership, faith, life and love.
Sheldon comments: it was in this course that I was exposed to the religious life with speakers coming from many different religious orders that I had previously never had the privilege of being a recipient of their witness. It was a time of immense spiritual growth for me and a time in which the seed that our Lord had planted in my heart of a vocation to religious life began to grow slowly.
Throughout his journey towards a vocation in religious life, Sheldon has often acknowledged the support given to him by the Catenian Association both financially and with their prayers and encouragement.