BISHOP’S MESSAGE
DIOCESE OF BROKEN BAY Diocesan Office: Tel (02) 8379 1600 Caroline Chisholm Centre Building 2, 423 Pennant Hills Rd Pennant Hills NSW 2120 (Access off City View Rd) PO Box 340 Pennant Hills NSW 1715 bishop@bbcatholic.org.au CHANCERY OFFICES Bishop: Most Rev Anthony Randazzo Vicar General: Very Rev Dr David Ranson Chancellor: Jo Robertson Executive Officer: Kelly Paget Diocesan Financial Administrator, Director, Office for Stewardship: Emma McDonald Director, Diocesan Office for Safeguarding: Jodie Crisafulli Tel: (02) 8379 1605 Director, Marriage Tribunal: Adrienne Connaghan Tel: (02) 8379 1680 Director, Office for Communications: Selina Hasham Director, Office for Evangelisation: Tomasz Juszczak Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD): Alison Newell CATHOLIC SCHOOLS OFFICE Director: Danny Casey Tel (02) 9847 0000 PO Box 967 Pennant Hills NSW 1715
BBN / OCTOBER 2020
My first year as your Bishop By Bishop Anthony Randazzo
My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, On Monday, 30 September 2019 at 12.15pm, I was in my car on the Hume Highway heading to Mittagong. While driving, I received a telephone call from the Apostolic Nuncio who informed me that the Holy Father Francis had transferred me from Sydney to Broken Bay as the fourth bishop of the Diocese. The appointment would take effect on Monday, 7 October, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. They say that it is quite common to remember where you were when significant events cross your path. My appointment to Broken Bay is one that I will remember vividly for the rest of my life. At the conclusion of my first year in the Diocese, I am filled with
gratitude to God for calling me here to be among the Lord’s flock as shepherd. It certainly has been an eventful year, even if the boundaries of day-to-day life have shifted and ordinary is often now viewed as extraordinary. In a somewhat destabilised world, it seems to me that the one constant in our lives is the love of God, made visible in Jesus Christ (cf. 1 John 4:7-12). Saint Paul reminds us that while we might be in shadow, “faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love” (1Cor 13:13). We love, because God first loved us (1John 4:19), which means that our identity and belief are always a response to being called into life and
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Bishop Anthony at OLOR Cathedral after Mass for the St Therese relics in early March.
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