Gosnells is truly present online

16 May 2013

By Matthew Biddle

Fr Patrick Lim, parish priest of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Gosnells, has instituted a new parish website. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

One month after being appointed as the parish priest at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament parish in Gosnells, Father Patrick Lim has already started to rejuvenate the parish’s digital presence.

Fr Lim, who maintained the Archdiocesan website for 12 years, has transformed the parish bulletin and started to re-design the parish website.

He is also in the process of creating a parish logo for Gosnells that will be used on all parish publications.

Fr Lim said one of the challenges for parishes was to ensure they could provide as much information as possible in an easily accessible form.

“A website is like a garden,” he said. “If you don’t maintain it, it goes wild and it dies.”

Fr Lim, who was appointed to the Gosnells parish at the beginning of April, said the parish website was in need of urgent attention.

“Nobody was maintaining it so we are trying to get a group of parishioners to help with it,” he said.

“Hopefully, this group will, with my guidance, improve and keep the website up to date.”

The priest of 27 years said he was trained as an artist and consequently has a flair for designing. He created the parish logos for St Andrew’s church in Clarkson and several eastern state parishes.

Although he now manages both the Emmaus Series website and the Fr John McKinnon page, Fr Lim said he “forced himself to learn” the skills of website construction almost 20 years ago.

Fr Lim said while he had created the framework for the website, there was much more still required before it would be completed.

The website includes a link to short video reflections on the Sunday Gospels that Fr Lim hopes will be beneficial to all Catholics.

He hopes to begin a parish blog in the near future.