Francesca Cocchini sent the following announcement from Rome, Italy:

During this night – at ten after midnight (Tuesday, August 23) Sofia encountered the Good Shepherd face to face.

Sofia Cavalletti, at 94, was a founding mother of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd, head of a large family of Catechesis of the Good Shepherd catechists and children in thirty-seven countries around the world. 

The depth inherent in the simplicity of a child - and the future of the church - was clear when fourteen members of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd ran every aspect of the St Andrew's in the Paddock's service on the first Sunday in Lent (27 March 2011), with Bishop Tom Brown in attendance.