Infant Jesus Parish Morley
Under the care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars
Under the care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars
Dear Parishioners, When I first came to Australia, in October over 20 years ago, I remember talking to a local man who had a farm in the area. He was pointing at the surrounding trees on his property and told me there were about 70 species of eucalypt in the country; I knew them as ‘gum trees’. On the same note, the late writer Eric Rolls stated: ‘Eucalypts are an integral part of Australia. The smell of their leaves burning is 35 million years old. Even the smell of a crushed leaf arrests attention although it is so familiar.’ Read more..