Parish Community

In addition to our parish’s long-standing commitment to feeding the hungry in the local community through St Canice’s Kitchen, we also support a number of other local outreach programs.

Curious Grace is a drop-in community centre hosted at St Canice’s Parish. Initiating in January of 2024, it offers generous hospitality, good company and a range of creative activities that encourage participation, connection, conversation and a sense of wellbeing.

It is a place for anyone and everyone in our parish and the wider community, no matter your faith, your age, or your stage in life.

Our Curious Grace community meets on the first Sunday of every month and is staged at the front of the historic church from 11.00am till 1.00pm (Weather permitting).

Activities include knitting and crochet, painting and drawing, hand massages, chess, vintage clothing stalls, free morning tea with sweets, and a sausage sizzle.

Curious Grace has also just launched a new Yarn Knitting and Crochet Group held every second Wednesday in a sunlit room at St Canice’s Parish Hub. All are welcome and needles, yarn and morning tea are provided.

For more information, contact Sonia at Curiousgrace@stcanice.org.au

For the past 19 years, David’s Place has provided spirituality and community to those experiencing homelessness and social exclusion in our local community.

David’s Place provides an inner-city space where Sydney’s homeless and those living on the margins gather to pray, receive pastoral and spiritual care, attend Mass and experience acceptance, fellowship and solidarity with the wider community.

Under the spiritual leadership of Sue Buckingham, David’s Place meets regularly at St Canice’s and has become an integral part of our parish community.

For more information, visit davidsplace.com.au.