Catholic life june 2014

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ISSUE 182

June 2014

Nigerian bishop visiting

CRANBOURNE parish priest Fr Denis O’Bryan, assistant priest Fr Joseph Abutu and visiting Bishop of Otukpo, Michael Ekwoki Apochi inspect the crucifixion sculpture at the front of St Agatha’s Church. The sculpture was donated by the Lamattina family.

Lay people would also be “The problem is always to NIGERIAN Bishop and Fr Francis Otobo, in 1995, and he was the second administrator of Morwell and bishop. welcomed because even a select the best people to have Michael Ekwoki Apochi is Churchill parishes.

He said the priests and sisters short interaction and exchange religious vocations.” spending a month in Sale Our third Nigerian priest working as missionaries in of ideas would enrich both Bishop Apochi said that the Diocese. is Fr Stephen Onuoha who is Australia would bear great dioceses. diocese could only afford to He arrived two weeks ago assistant at Leongatha, serving fruit for the Church in Nigeria “Their presence in our select about 10 men from every and has already visited many the parishes of Yarram, Foster, because they were learning so country and our diocese is 200 who wanted to become areas as he acquaints himself Leongatha and Korumburra. much by working in a country important and should not be priests. with Australia and the places The Nigerian presence in our like Australia. underestimated.”

The bishop will be visiting his priests are working. diocese is also bolstered by the Their re-education to include He said the Catholic Church schools and celebrating Mass in Sale Diocese has three three Sisters of the Nativity non-African ways of thinking had only been in his part of various parishes during his visit Nigerian priests, two from who work in Cranbourne. and doing things would be the Nigeria since 1922 but there and this weekend will be at St Bishop Apochi’s Diocese of Bishop Apochi said it was great fruits of the relationship. was no shortage of young men Mary’s Cathedral, Sale.

Otukpo who came here as part important for him to see our Bishop Apochi said he hoped and women wanting to serve of an exchange of a relationship diocese first hand because there that Sale Diocese priests would the Church as religious.

• Bishop’s ideas for dealing agreement brokered by our then was much he could learn from take the opportunity to visit There were currently 55 with crisis and conflict in Bishop Christopher Prowse. just seeing the way we operate. Nigeria for a week or two when men training to be priests for Nigeria, Page 7.

They are Fr Joseph Abutu His diocese was relatively they were heading overseas on his diocese at two different assistant priest at Cranbourne new, having been established sabbaticals. seminaries.

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In this Issue Sale Diocese Coat of Arms modernised Page 4 All the latest priest moves in diocese Page 6 New bishop plays the bagpipes Page 8 Book launch honors late priest Page 9 New papal saints leaders in our time Page 10 Seminarian training is under review Page 13

Further thoughts on our transition OUR diocese continues in this time of transition as we wait for a new bishop to be appointed.

One consequence of this was the need to find a bishop for the blessing of sacramental oils at the Chrism Mass in Holy Week.

I asked Bishop Vincent Long, Auxiliary Bishop in Melbourne, and he agreed readily to travel to Sale for the event.

The priests and deacons, who came to the Chrism Mass to collect the oils and take them home to their parishes, and to renew their own commitment to ministry, were treated to a strong and clear expression of the factors facing the church today. Bishop Vincent’s homily reminded us that it is not just the Church of Sale that is in transition but the Church of Australia and even beyond.

Bishop Vincent spoke of the flood of secularisation that washes away much of the church we’ve known and loved. We have lost, he pointed out, priests, brothers and sisters; parishes and parishioners. Along the way we have also lost the status and social prestige we once had.

I found the naming of secularisation a timely reminder of the environment in which the church must live and proclaim its faith.

There are those who don’t share our faith yet grant us the space to hold and practise it. There are others who loudly and repeatedly ridicule it. They don’t make it easy.

Within the church we don’t all agree on how to respond to this attack. Some advocate a going back to so called simpler and better times, believing that devotion and prayer is largely what we need. Others call for increased engagement with secular thought, looking for new ways to express our faith.

There are risks in either direction. A simplistic faith may have nothing to say to a secular enquirer; while a secularised religion can lose sight of Christ and have nothing of value to offer.

Bishop Vincent didn’t only speak of secularisation which is a challenge to us from outside. He referred also to the light now being directed to failures within the church by the Royal Commission. This is showing that the church has failed to protect people, often young people. We are all impacted by these

terrible stories.

Putting these factors together means we certainly feel buffeted at present. So that’s where we are and that’s where we must live and believe.

Bishop Vincent was clear that we can’t retreat to some perceived security but are to face this reality and listen anew to the voice of the Lord calling us forward.

In biblical terms we find ourselves in something like the exodus of the Israelites who accompanied Moses on the long journey to the Promised Land. Or the exiles of a later time, taken away from home and longing for return who, when they did return, found themselves in a new situation, different from the setting their parents and grandparents had left. We can’t just “go back”.

We are beginning to learn about this journey. Pope Francis is speaking to us about being a church for others; for the poor, the displaced, the wounded and suffering.

Instead of thinking about ourselves and the church’s needs he wants us to focus on the needs of others. We should even be ready to make mistakes along the way. He is giving us images, like that of the church as a field hospital, to encourage us in taking a new, joy filled, direction.

Does it matter if we aren’t there yet? No because we can only get there in God’s good time. What does matter is how we travel. Bishop Vincent Long reminded us that we are indeed in transition along with the rest of the church, on route to the kingdom of God.

Fr Peter Slater Diocesan Administrator

Regional CWL conferences have been held

By Moira Kelly THE Sale Diocesan Catholic Women’s League Regional Conferences have been held over the last couple of months.

The conferences were well attended and each host branch provided interesting speakers.

We thank them also for their hospitality.

The league is currently looking for new members.

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The Diocesan Conference was held at Korumburra this week and Sale Diocese is hosting the General Conference on June 22-23 at the Warragul Arts Centre.

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Trinity Families has $130,000 support available ORGANISATIONS which have had normal sources of funding trimmed by recent Federal and State Budgets may be able to find support from Trinity Families.

Trinity Families is calling on charities operating in the Greater Gippsland area to apply for funding for projects supporting families.

It has around $130,000 to give away in its annual disbursement which will be made later this year.

Trinity Families is a charitable trust established by the Catholic Diocese of Sale and was previously known as Bishop’s Family Foundation.

Executive officer Colin Coomber said today that since

the charity was established a decade ago, it had distributed more than $1 million towards programs run by other charities.

“We believe Trinity Families is unique in this region because the whole reason for its existence is to help other charities achieve their aims.”

He said that the main three provisos for a charity to be eligible to share in the funds, were that it had to have tax deductibility status, that the program would broadly assist families, and that the program was in the Greater Gippsland area.

The eligible geographic area comprised the municipalities of Casey, Cardinia, Baw Baw, Latrobe, Wellington, East

Gippsland, South Gippsland and Bass Coast.

Mr Coomber said millions of dollars were raised in the region each year by worthwhile charities but often all the money went to national projects with little filtering down to meet the needs of people here.

“There are always families who are struggling to keep their heads above water, particularly when it comes to accessing family counselling, financial advice and advice for conflict resolution.

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“Trinity Families can support the agencies running such programs to ensure that funds are available to provide free or reduced fee appointments to their needy clients.”

He said that the money available to be allocated each year was the proceed of Trinity Families investments and that because of the philanthropic nature of the organisation, its trust funds were not dispersed but were retained to earn income year after year.

In recent years applications for projects to be funded had been around three times what was available.

Mr Coomber said that the only way to overcome this shortfall would be to rapidly grow the

size of the trust fund and that was why the foundation was renamed and relaunched earlier this year.

“We are currently seeking donations to boost our funds from around $2 million to more than $5 million and we urge people across the region to be generous in their giving.”

Donations can be made on the new website www. trinityfamilies.org.au or by filling in credit card details on one of the brochures available in parish churches.

Applications for the latest round of funding close at the end of August. Full details and the on-line application form are also on the site.

May appeal results starting to flow in THE response of parishioners across the diocese to the annual May appeal for Trinity Families has been good.

The money is slowly coming in as parishes send in donations collected.

Executive officer Colin Coomber said it was pleasing to see that a number of people had committed to making regular donations and had set up automatic bank transfers.

Problems with establishing

the on-line credit card donations meant that people were unable to make donations through the website as advertised.

He said it had been decided to delay this to ensure that the system worked perfectly from the start with 100 percent security of donor information.

Trinity Families had decided to link its on-line donations with the National Bank rather than use a third party provider.

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Great story

WE haven’t seen the film yet but it is worth noting that the newly released film Healing tells the story of a longterm prisoner at Won Wron Reafforestation Prison near Yarram, raising an injured wedgetail eagle as part of Healesville Sanctuary’s raptor rehabilitation Program.

It is based on a true story which featured in national media not long before the low security prison closed.

Some of the film shorts we have seen look as if they could have been shot in Gippsland but most of the film was done at Kyneton.

We have been told it is a good Australian film but potential viewers need to be made aware there is some coarse prison language.

And for those thinking of downloading it when it becomes available on legitimate sources, be careful you don’t get a 2012 B grade Filipino horror movie of the same title.

It’s on the cards

INTERESTING that a latest phone directories are still promoting Telstra Telecards and provide a page giving card holders the numbers to call to access the service in various countries.

Telecards, which enabled you to make calls and have the charges put back onto your home phone phased out last

Is this the future of planned giving in our churches? year.

Directories are put out because it is a government requirement, but we doubt they will last much longer.

40 years a priest

HOW could we not mention the 40th anniversary of the ordination of Bairnsdale parish priest Fr Peter Bickley?

Fr Peter celebrated with Bairnsdale parishioners on May 18 and then had a celebration with diocesan clergy at Morwell last week.

We don’t have a feature on him as we normally only do features to celebrate Golden Jubilees. Only 10 years to wait!

St Patrick’s book

A NEW history book by noted Sale author Peter Synan on St Patrick’s College, Sale, will be launched this month.

Strive After Better Things will be launched at the college at 5.30pm on June 12 and then at Australian Catholic University recital room, Victoria Parade, Melbourne, at 4.30pm on June 19.

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HOW will churches of the future make use of modern technology?

This tongue-in-cheek look at how it might go will have some wondering whether some of these things are really just around the corner.

After the introductory rite, parishioners will be able to switch on their tablets, smart phones, laptops and similar devices to follow the readings of the day on their screens.

The priest will then advise everyone to switch on their Bluetooth to download the sermon for them to read in silence.

At the appropriate moments in the Mass he might say “Please have your credit and debit card ready for the Sunday collection.

“You can log on to the church Wi-Fi using the password ‘MyOffering.’

“The collectors will circulate mobile card swipe machines among the worshipers: “Those who prefer to make electronic fund transfers are directed to computers and laptops

at the rear of the church.

Those who prefer to use tablets can open them.

“Those who prefer telephone banking, take out your smart phones to transfer your contributions to the church account.”

During the final blessing and parish announcements the priest could detail the various meetings which will take place on certain nights on Facebook group pages where the usual group chatting takes place. “Thursday’s Bible study will be held live on Skype at 7pm. Please don’t miss out.

“And you can follow me on Twitter this weekend for counselling and prayers!”

If the above technical babble does not make sense, don’t worry, touch screens will soon be installed in the pews to detail the process you have to follow to link up with the fast-moving modern technological age.

Coat of arms is modernised THE Coat of Arms of the Diocese of Sale has been modernised by noted Sydney heraldic expert Richard d’Apice.

Normally, the incumbent bishop’s arms are displayed and so the old diocesan arms featuring a griffin and three wavy stars have rarely been used.

Although the diocese was created on 1887, it was not until about 1950 that a coat of arms for the diocese was adopted

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In the language of heraldry, the arms may be blazoned as follows: Azure, a fess Or between in chief a male griffin passant Argent, mailed Or holding in the dexter forepaw a cross pattée fitchée Or and in base three estoiles Or, two and one In plain English it means: The blue shield is bisected by a gold horizontal bar. Above the bar is placed a male griffin silver with gold beak, nails and spikes or rays issuing from various parts of its body and holding in its right forepaw a gold cross pattée fitchée (the extremities of three upper arms spreading like dove tails and the lower extremity brought to a point). Below the bar are three gold stars arranged two above and one below.

The arms are surmounted by the mitre of a bishop and backed by a bishop’s processional cross with a single transverse.

Many bishops and dioceses around Australia have taken the opportunity to modernise their coats of arms using new technology which makes the arms easier to print on letterheads and emboss on stoles.

The shield part of the newly drawn arms is now being used on diocesan letterheads, replacing the triangle shaped logo which was developed for the 2000 jubilee year.

When our new bishop is appointed he will have his own coat of arms drawn and this will then appear on his official correspondence.

THE modernised Diocese of Sale coat of arms featuring the bishop’s mitre and processional cross.

THE old coat of arms which lacked detail and were based on a sketch given to Bishop Ryan.

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St Brigid’s running lunchtime radio OFFICER - As Thursday lunchtime approaches, the anticipation builds in every classroom at St Brigid’s Primary School as the children wait to hear who will be hosting the next edition of 3SB – St Brigid’s only news station!

Every Thursday, three students host a lunchtime radio program which is broadcast over the school PA system.

The students spend a considerable amount of time planning the show by writing scripts, sourcing class news stories and selecting songs to be played over the hour. The students are then shown how to use the professional recording equipment including a sound desk, microphones and music apps on the school iPads and then it’s over to them to run the show.

Teachers have found that the radio station not only provides another avenue for students to showcase their work, but it has also built confidence in students and introduced them to a new area of multimedia production.

As part of the show, students interview the “Teacher of the Week�, acknowledge student achievements, use pre-recorded commercials to promote fundraising efforts during Project Compassion and have shared their talents by singing live over the radio.

The shows are recorded and then podcast on class blogs so parents and the wider community are able to tune into the show at: year56obryan.global2.vic.edu.au A school radio station is an inexpensive investment to enable students to participate in au-

Swan Reach celebrating centenary SWAN REACH – St Joseph’s Church will celebrate its centenary with a Mass and lunch on October 19.

Mass in the small wooden church on the princes Highway will be at 10.30am and lunch will follow in the nearby Swan Reach Hotel The committee at St Joseph’s would like to invite present and past parishioners back to celebrate the centenary.

The committee is also searching for past history of the church and past celebrations that were conducted at the church. These may be stories that previous parishioners have or photographs.

These stories and memories can be sent to Ray Kleinitz enquiries@jettyroadretreat.com. au phone 5156 3392 or John Spirason spirason@wideband. net.au phone 5156 4503 It is suggested photographs be copied, as the committee does not want to lose precious mementos.

Those intending to attend the centenary should make contact with either Mr Kleinitz or Mr Spirason.

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3SB is now just another part of the contemporary learning environment that St Brigid’s promotes.

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Priest moves include transfer to Wagga Wagga FR John Speekman moved to Wagga Wagga Diocese after Easter and will be working in Howlong parish, which is close to Albury.

Fr Speekman, who had a protracted dispute regarding his removal as parish priest at Morwell, has been assistant priest at Sale for the past two years.

In announcing the move to Wagga Wagga, diocesan administrator Fr Peter Slater said Fr Speekman would remain a priest of Sale Diocese for the time being.

St Mary’s parish Sale farewelled Fr Speekman at a special luncheon at Sporting Legends.

He had served as a priest in the parish on three separate occasions, his most recent from 2010 to 2014.

Margaret Goss presented Fr Speekman with a gift on behalf of the parish and acknowledged the wonderful work in particular in the area of his ministry to the sick and establishing Parish Cells of Evangelisation program within the parish.

Wagga Wagga priest Fr Darren Howie moved to Sale Diocese at the end of April to take up the position of administrator of Maffra and Heyfield parishes.

Visiting Indian priest Fr Hilarion Fernando OSB, who was administrator of Maffra and Heyfield, has moved to take charge of Iona-Maryknoll and Koo Wee Rup parishes which have been vacant since the death late last year of Fr John Allen.

Also new to the diocese is Fr Paul Campbell OFM who is assisting Fr Francis Otobo in the Morwell and Churchill parishes.

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This will allow him to attend to some personal issues in his life.

Fr Jablonski was also vocations and youth director for the diocese.

His role as vocations director has been taken over by Fr Michael Willemsen with Fr Peter Bickley and Deacon Tony Aspinall as contacts.

The youth ministry role has been taken by Fr Joseph Abutu.

Moe and Newborough parishes are also short one priest after Fr Paul Smithers OMI left last month to take up a position of assistant at Mortlake parish in Sydney.

He had been in our diocese only since the start of this year.

Sale couples begin work in remote WA SALE couple Len and Lyn Althaus have begun a six month placement at Balgo, Western Australia.

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FR John Speekman, after his last Mass in Sale, with Sale parishioners Len and Lyn Althaus who left the next day to begin a six month placement in Broome Diocese (see below left).

Polite religious conversations DISCUSSIONS about religion and politics are thought to be unfit for polite company. They can evoke very passionate and sometimes irrational responses.

Do you ever wonder why discussions about faith can get so angry? Good, healthy discussions about faith are just that – healthy!

The same is true of discussions with those who no longer believe or who struggle with faith or those who profess atheism.

Open discussions, an interest in the other’s point of view helps greater understanding of them and a greater appreciation of our own beliefs. But so much of the discussion today seems to centre around justifying one position by condemning or putting down the other.

The urge for self-justification can lead us to being very selfrighteous and judgmental.

Forty years ago Pope Paul VI wrote that ‘the method of dialogue is becoming the way in which to work to bring the Lord’s comforting message of salvation everywhere”.

It starts, he said, when we start ‘to reach out, to take the initiative, to be inspired by love, to set no limits, to apply no coercive pressure, to reach out to all and be accessible to all…’

Dialogue is not about watering down beliefs or seeking compromise so that some hybrid set of beliefs emerges– rather it is about explaining, talking, respecting the other’s beliefs, trying to seek a common understanding.

In seeking common ground or greater mutual understanding, Pope Paul VI wrote that the starting point of this process is a loyal examination of one’s own behavior and its correctness.1” Sarcasm, belittling, ignoring, criticising, blaming doesn’t do much to build understanding and relationships.

Recently Pope Francis spoke on New Evangelisation which, he said, “must necessarily use the language of mercy, which

Reflections

by Jim Quillinan is more about gestures and attitudes than words. Christians need to seek out and approach others and speak with everyone.

It is important for Christians to live faith in a concrete way and inspire others to ask questions: why live like this? What is the impetus for our actions?

“No one is excluded from the hope of life and God’s love.

The Church is the house where the doors are always open not only to welcome everyone in to breathe love and hope, but also so we can take this love and hope outside.2” The spiritual exercises of St Ignatius are based on his strong belief that all creation is good, that things were created to lead all people to God. It is not surprising then, that St Ignatius urged us to put the best possible construction on whatever is said to us.

That is not to say that we have to agree with everything, nor avoid confronting genuine problems, but rather to avoid burning people at the stake if they hold a different point of view.

St Ignatius invites us to be generous in how we interpret the mind behind the words and actions of others, to be compassionate and honest.

Pope Francis again: When leaders in various fields ask me for advice, my response is always the same: dialogue, dialogue, dialogue. It is the only way for individuals, families and societies to grow, the only way for the life of peoples to progress, along with the culture of encounter, a culture in which all have something good to give and all can receive something good in return. Others always have something to give me, if we know how to approach

them in a spirit of openness and without prejudice. Only in this way can understanding grow between cultures and religions, mutual esteem without needless preconceptions, respectful of the rights of everyone. Today, either we stand together with the culture of dialogue and encounter, or we all lose, we all lose… (Brazil, July 27, 2013) People came to Jesus because they were curious. They were attracted to him. They had heard about his kindness, his generosity, his sympathy and warmth towards the sick and those afflicted in any way. They had heard about the generosity in his teaching, his championing of the poor and those treated unjustly.

Some came seeking signs and wonders. Some came because they were hostile and others came to trap him – they felt threatened by his teaching. To them Jesus spoke of ‘God who is slow to anger, abounding in love, forgiving sin and rebellion Numbers14:18. Some others were brought to Jesus by friends who had heard him.

Today we are called to show the curious what Jesus is like – what will they see and hear?

Today we are also called on to make people curious. Every person who is baptised is a Christ bearer.

What will they see – someone who has ‘all the answers’ or someone who wants to engage with them, someone who has something good to give and something good to receive in return?

1. Octogesima Adveniens Apostolic Letter #36 2. Plenary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelisation, Sept 2013.

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‘Apply Golden Rule to end Nigerian conflict’ VISITING Nigerian Bishop Michael Apochi said the problems facing his country were far greater than the highly publicised attacks by the Boko Haram group.

It was not a matter of conflict between Islam and Christianity, although that was an issue.

In his area the people were mainly a farming community, growing crops for an income.

He said there had always been arguments between croppers and livestock breeders who saw the opportunity to feed their stock by letting them onto

crops.

People from the north of the country were always moving south with their stock to look for better pasture.

Bishop Apochi said that what had changed in fairly recent times was the response to these disputes.

Where once there were arguments, these had now escalated into burning of houses, bloodshed and killing.

He said that up until about four years ago people had learned to live with a low level of conflict but the situation was

now getting out of hand.

There had been attacks on farms in his diocese resulting on a headman being killed and a neighboring diocese had been under siege for many months.

Bishop Apochi said people who understood the history of Nigeria and its people were needed to bring the situation under control.

“If you apply the Golden Rule of do to others as you would have them do to you, then we will be getting somewhere.

“If you want someone to love you, you must also love them.

“If you want someone to treat you justly, then you must be just with them.”

Bishop Apochi said there were multiple reasons for Nigeria’s problems and to achieve a solution these problems needed to be looked at from every angle.

In parts of the country, those who adhered to the traditional tribal religions were not allowed to own land and that was a great injustice.

He said Nigeria had no visas and many people from other parts of West Africa had been

coming to the country to work and enjoy its economic benefits.

These people had added greatly to Nigeria’s growth which had seen it become Africa’s largest economy and so their presence should also be factored in to any solution.

The bishop has recently prepared a detailed document outlining his opinions on the situation in Northern Nigeria, and the need for cordial dialogue between all parties so that a greater understanding and harmony could be achieved.

Holy Week theme at Newborough NEWBOROUGH - St Mary’s Catholic Primary School students celebrated Easter with a re-enactment of the events of Holy Week.

Grade six students planned and led the school and parish community in prayer.

The liturgy began with Palm Sunday where Jesus was welcomed into Jerusalem. It also included Holy Thursday where Jesus shared his last super with the apostles, Good Friday where Jesus was crucified on the cross and Easter Sunday where Jesus resurrected.

Principal Rod Hayes said

the children were honored and privileged to lead the community in prayer at Easter.

“We hoped that through our dramatisation people would be able to realise the significance of this important story and be able to relate it to our lives today.”

Mr Hayes said the children presented a series of still human photographs and the impact was both dramatic and reverent.

RIGHT: Kai as Jesus on the cross with Bree, Ruby and Caitlin as Roman soldiers.

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New bishop plays the bagpipes

Bishop-elect Macbeth-Green now priest at Maffra. “If someone told me a month ago that I would be appointed the Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese, I would have said they were joking. I still can’t believe it’s actually happened,� Fr Macbeth-Green said. “When I became a monk I never thought that I would minister to people in my home diocese. I’m humbled by this appointment and also excited about going home and giving something back to the people who gave me so much,� Bishopelect Macbeth-Green added.

He has served a police chaplain in Brisbane, Camden and Wagga Wagga and has been administrator at Moss Vale in Wollongong Diocese and Tarcutta in Wagga Wagga Diocese.

Between 2002-04 he was superior of the Shrine of Our Lady of Mercy at Penrose Park, a 30ha property near Berrima, NSW.

FR Denis O’Bryan, Bishop Michael Apochi and Fr Joseph Abutu celebrating the school’s first Mass.

By David Williams and St Therese’s School. school’s inaugural Mass was The school was founded yet another blessing sent by CRANBOURNE EAST - on the four pillars of prayer, Almighty God. The students, staff, families service, thanksgiving and At the conclusion of the Mass and other members of the reconciliation. In celebrating the bishop and other invited Cranbourne East community of the sacrifice of the Mass the guests were taken on a tour of St Thomas the Apostle Catholic students, staff and community stage one of the school’s main Primary School celebrated were able not only to offer building that is near completion. their inaugural Mass at the new thanksgiving but also reflect on There are many opportunities school site on May 23. the importance of prayer and and sacrifices ahead as St The new school is the third thanksgiving for the current and Thomas the Apostle Catholic primary school in St Agatha’s future graces and opportunities School grows and expands.

Parish, Cranbourne. available in the new missionary We humbly request prayers The feast of Mary, Help field of the school. from our brothers and sisters of Christians was celebrated Mass began at noon in the in the Sale Diocese that we and the Mass was offered in multi-purpose hall and was at the school will be faithful thanksgiving for the many celebrated by Bishop Michael to Christ’s mission in the blessings that God has Apochi from the Diocese of formation of students that will bestowed upon the new school Otukpo in Nigeria, Fr Denis grow to lead a sacramental community.

O’Bryan and Fr Joseph Abutu. life inspired by the gospel and Thanksgiving was also Bishop Otukpo is currently contributing to community life offered for the support provided visiting the priests he has for the common good of all and to the new school over the past sent from his diocese to assist for the needs of the Diocese of months by the communities of us in the Sale Diocese. The Otukpo, Nigeria.

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A PRIEST with a yen for playing bagpipes will become Australia’s youngest bishop when he is ordained to the long vacant see of Wilcannia-Forbes.

Fr Columba Macbeth-Green will be ordained at Parkes on July 3, three days after his 46th birthday.

Fr Macbeth-Green is currently the Vicar Provincial in Australia of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (Pauline Fathers) and Rector of the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, Marian Valley, Canungra, Queensland.

Two days after his ordination as bishop he will be officially installed when he takes his seat in the cathedral at Broken Hill.

He is believed to be only the world’s second Pauline Father to be appointed bishop.

The Diocese of WilcanniaForbes has been vacant since the resignation of Bishop Christopher Toohey in June 2009.

Born and educated in Forbes, Fr Macbeth-Green taught music and joined the Army Reserve as a piper after leaving school.

In 1990, he joined the Pauline Fathers and for the priesthood at Vianney College, Wagga Wagga, being ordained a priest in 1997, the same year as fellow seminarian Fr Darren Howie,

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Book launch and auction honors late priest’s memory

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Fr John Allen WHEN 60-year-old Fr John Allen was cut down by pancreatic cancer in July last year, Our Lady Help of Christians parishioners in Narre Warren were stricken with grief.

While he had moved to Koo Wee Rup two years earlier, the impact of his 16 years as OLHC parish priest still filled their hearts.

“He was a remarkable man, a wonderful priest,” parishioner and good friend Trevor Scott said. “A true man of the people who was so fondly appreciated for his compassion, love, leadership and trust.”

So much so, a special fundraising night to honor their former spiritual guide will be held on July 12, the first anniversary of his death.

A spokesman for the organising committee said: “We are calling it a ‘A Toast to Fr John,’ but it might well end up developing into ‘A Roast to Fr John’.

“As well as appreciating him as our pastoral leader, we also loved him for his humanity and down to earth approach. Like us all, he had his little foibles, his endearing habits, his moments when things did not go exactly as planned.”

Tall tales and true about Fr Allen will be sparked on the night by the official launch of a 240-page paperback, Rainbow over Narre Warren, written and compiled by his sister, author Elsie Johnstone.

“It’s a wonderful book,” the spokesman said, “drawing on the thoughts and reminiscences of family, friends and parishioners, as well as words from John himself about his childhood days, his call to the priesthood and his years working in parishes throughout the Sale Diocese.”

As well as the book launch and dinner at the OLHC parish hall, there will be an auction of premium wines and spirits and of Fr Allen’s Essendon Football Club and other memorabilia.

A fanatical Bomber supporter, a fine collection of Essendon material came his way over the years, much of it signed by some of the club’s biggest names.

Mr Scott said “The Saturday night after Essendon got beaten by one point by the Blues in the 1999 preliminary final, the phones around the parish ran hot, hatching a scheme.”

“The next morning John walked out on to the altar and looked up to see the entire congregation dressed in Carlton colors! The look on his face was priceless and the whole place packed up. That’s how much we loved him.”

All proceeds will go towards a fund for the construction of a community centre to be named in Fr Allen’s memory.

Mr Scott said he was honored to have had Fr Allen as a friend and it was unexpected to have the priest leave me all his memorabilia in his will.

“I cannot think of any better way to show my respects to this saintly man than to give back to the parish that he so loved, That is why I believe that all this memorabilia should be offered to you his flock as a keepsake that his memory lives on in this parish.”

He said he believed Fr Allen would be chuffed that knowing that all proceeds of these items were going towards building a parish centre.

“It’s not because that it is mostly Essendon memorabilia but that it was a part of John’s life.”

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Two new papal saints were leaders in our time

By Colin Coomber

TWO of the most popular Popes of the past century are now officially saints.

Millions of people flooded Rome for the canonisation ceremonies on April 27, with most unable to obtain entry to St Peter’s Square, they had to be content to watch proceedings on the dozens of large screens set up around the city.

St John XXIII and St John Paul II are better known than most of the saints because they are men of our times, Popes who crafted the direction of the Church in our era.

Normally, when saints are being beatified there is great emphasis on the miracles which the Church have accepted as taking place after petitions to them by the faithful, or perhaps that they died as martyrs for their faith.

In this case, the Church has declared miracles associated with both men but the miracles have almost taken back stage as we have seen a return to some of the sainthoods of old when the Church was forced to bow to unwavering public acclamation and veneration of holy lives.

St John XXIII was born Angelo Giuseppi Roncalli in Italy in 1881 and after being ordained a priest, moved up through Church ranks to become an archbishop and papal diplomat, finally being made a cardinal in 1953.

It was a surprise to many when he was elected Pope in 1958 and took the name John XXIII which had previously been used in 1410-15 by an antiPope, Baldassarre Cosa, during the Western Schism when there were three competing claimants to the Papal throne.

To many it seemed as if the College of Cardinals had chosen the diminutive, rotund cardinal to be a stop-gap Pope because he was already 77 years old in an era when few men lived to be age 80.

John XXIII surprised the world by invoking the Second Vatican Council which steered the Church into the modern era.

He produced a number of encyclicals including Mater et Magistra on Christian social doctrine and the powerful Pacem in Terris which, at the height of the Cold War between Russia and Western powers, called for the need for global peace and justice.

He died in 1963 after the council’s first session but his influence was great as he opened the way for dialogue with other religions and for many brought the Church to the people by allowing Masses to be celebrated in the local vernacular instead of Latin.

His influence continued in later sessions when the Church overthrew centuries of enmity against Jews in the 1965 declaration Nostra Aetate which exonerated the Jewish

people for the collective guilt of killing Jesus and affirming that God’s covenant with them had never been abrogated.

John XXIII was known as a man of great humor, always willing to have a joke at his own expense.

When he asked a sick boy in hospital what he wanted to be, the boy replied it would be a policeman or a pope. John XXIII told the boy “I would go for the police if I was you.

Anyone can become a pope.

Look at me.”

But the quip for which he will long remembered, came after he was asked by a journalist how many people worked at the Vatican. “About half of them,” was the reply.

His desire to get things done is shown when a Vatican official told him that it would be impossible to get the first session of Vatican 2 under way in 1963, he replied “Fine, we’ll open it in 1962 then!” – and that’s what happened.

St John Paul II also had a profound influence on the direction of the Church.

He was born Karol Jozef Wojtyla in Poland in 1920 and as a young priest was able to combine hard work with his love of the outdoors and theatre.

He too rose quickly through church ranks and from 196265 as a young Auxiliary Bishop of Krakow, attended Vatican II where he helped draft documents on religious liberty and the Church in the modern world.

He became Archbishop of Krakow in 1964 and a cardinal in 1967.

Having been part of the conclave which elected Cardinal Albino Luciani as Pope John Paul in 1978, the

St John Paul II sudden death of the new Pope 33 days later brought the cardinals back together again, and to the surprise of many Cardinal Wojtyla became the Pope, the third for that year.

And so after one of the shortest papacies in history, came the second longest with John Paul II heading the church for almost 26 and a half years.

As Pope he embraced the modern world, making 104 papal trips abroad, opening dialogue with leaders of all nations and making a historic

Now 81 papal saints

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IT is not uncommon for a Pope to be made a saint.

In fact 81 of the 256 Popes (including St Peter) have been canonised over the centuries.

All of the first 35 Popes has made it onto the Church's official list of saints and there are only two of the first 54 who do not make it.

The most recently canonised Pope before St John XXIII and St John Paul II was St Pius X who was canonised in 1954.

He served as Pope between 1903-14 and strongly opposed modernisation of the Church. He defended it against 19th Century influences which were transforming Christianity and brought about a return to Gregorian chants and the teachings of Church Father St Thomas Aquinas.

He instigated a renewed emphasis on liturgy and advocated that Catholics receive Holy Communion daily and regularly attend confession.

Korumburra centenary nears KORUMBURRA – St Joseph’s Primary School will celebrate its centenary on the weekend of June 21-22.

There will be a cabaret ball on Saturday, June 21 from 7.30pm, with tickets costing $35 a head. Those attending must be aged 18 years or over.

On the Sunday morning the centenary Mass will be held at 9.30am, followed by Devonshire tea and a school opening morning from 10.30am.

Tickets are available from the school by calling 5655 2040, or Natalie Kratz 0438 502 325, emailing principal@sjkorumburra. catholic.edu.au of at Facebook at www.facebook.com/StJosephs KorumburraCentenary

visit to a Jewish synagogue to pray.

He is credited with having a leading hand of the fall of communism in eastern Europe and embraced the future of the Church by reaching out to younger Catholics by starting World Youth Days.

John Paul II was a gifted teacher and a many of great intellect as his numerous books, encyclicals and letters show.

He issued 14 encyclicals, covering a range of topics but his best known continue to be Laborum Exercens on human work and rights of workers, Redemptoris Mater on the Blessed Virgin mary in the life of the Church, Evangelium Vitae on the value and inviolability of human life, Ut Unum Sint on commitment to ecumenism, and Ecclesia de Eucharistia on the Eucharist and its relationship to the Church.

One of his biggest selling books continues to be the Theology of the Body which is a collection of weekly lectures given by him to married couples on the deep meaning of human love and sexuality.

St John Paul II has been criticised in some circles for rolling back the reforms of St John XXIII's Vatican 2 but in such a long papacy, he was always going to have a long-lasting influence on the direction of the Church.

With most of the majority of voting cardinals having been appointed by him, his influence may well extend to the appointment of the man who will follow Pope Francis.

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Fr Bob visits Cranbourne

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5622 6600 VETERAN Melbourne priest Fr students.

CRANBOURNE – A visit to St Peter’s College by Fr Bob Maguire during Catholic Education Week was a highlight for students and staff.

Fr Maguire, who has a cult following for his Melbourne radio ministry and forthright opinions on the Church and social justice matters, interacted directly with student classes as well as conducting an informal presentation for all students and staff who wish to attend at lunchtime.

Religious education leader Stephen Nash said “Fr Bob, was invited to the College by the St Peter’s College Year 11 students undertaking VCE CSYMA (Catholic Schools Youth Ministry Australia).

This course is all about active involvement of the students.

They continue to learn about the Church that cares for others”.

He said students were expected to be leaders and to actively work in social justice, service and liturgy, faith and action all of which were intertwined in a very positive, contemporary and energetic fashion.

Mr Nash said the aim of Fr Maguire’s classroom visits and forum was to further cement in the students minds what Catholic Education Week was about, and how not just one week was available for them

Pope Paul VI to be beatified POPE Francis will beatify Pope Paul VI in October during the closing Mass of the extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family.

Pope Francis signed a decree on May 9 recognising a miracle attributed to the intercession of Pope Paul.

Paul VI was the first of the Popes in the modern era to travel abroad and visited Australia in 1970. He succeeded recently canonised St Pope John XXIII, oversaw three of the four sessions of Vatican 2 and led the Church from 1963 until his death in 1978.

The miracle which has led to his beatification involves the birth of a healthy baby in California in the 1990s after doctors advised the mother to terminate the pregnancy.

Bob Maguire holds attention as he speaks to St Peter’s College to question and enrich their knowledge and commitment to faith but that any time of the year is a good time to reflect and enrich ours and others lives.

“During this specific week we were looking to celebrate what it means to be Catholic. It is my belief that Fr Bob embodies all the best of the Catholic spirit.

His main messages to students and staff alike encompassed the messages ‘Care for Others’ and ‘Be Nice’”.

College marketing officer April Hampson aid she felt privileged to sit in with the students and Fr Maguire and observe their interaction with him as he spoke about their generation, making them both laugh and cringe, telling stories as he saw it, of those who went before and those to come.

He highlighted the changes in communication over those generations and the impact that has on the communication of individuals and the family unit as a whole.

She said “He used current news to give his message relevance, he challenged them to think more, and do more. Fr Maguire spoke to the students at their level in language that they themselves would use”.

He challenged them to think about their lives, their commitment and beliefs, to their families, to their fellow school classmates, their local community.

His message was very much focused on the question ‘What is going on in your community, not just your local suburb, but within your school grounds?’

‘Are there students who need your help and support, are their families within our college community that needs our help?’

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Quick calendar

What’s on & when JUNE

OCTOBER

6-7 – Emmaus Spirituality Centre promotional weekend 8 – Pentecost 9 – Queen’s Birthday public holiday 11 – South Region meeting, 11.15am, Leongatha 15 – Trinity Sunday 19 – Valley Region meeting, noon, St Kieran’s church meeting room, Moe 21-22 – Centenary celebrations at St Joseph’s Primary School, Korumburra 22 – Corpus Christi Sunday 22 - Feast of St Thomas More and St John Fisher 24 – Nativity of St John the Baptist 27 – 2nd Term holidays begin 27 – Sacred Heart of Jesus 28-29 – St Vincent de Paul annual Mass for the Poor Appeal 29 – Sts Peter and Paul

1 – St Therese of Lisieux 4 – St Francis of Assisi 5 – Daylight saving begins (turn clocks back 1 hour) 5-19 – Extraordinary Vatican synod on the family.

6 – 4th term begins 6 – Deadline for October Catholic Life 15 – Catholic Life published 15 – St Theresa of Avila 18 – St Luke 19 – Difference to Eternity marriage enrichment program, Warragul 19 – Mission Sunday Appeal 19 – Centenary of St Joseph’s Church, Swan Reach, Mass 10.30am followed by lunch at hotel 22 – South Region meeting, 11.15am, Leongatha 26 – Valley Region meeting, Noon, St Mary’s Church meeting room, Newborough 28 – Sts Simon and Jude

JULY Peter’s Pence collection month 5 – St Thomas the Apostle 14 – 3rd Term begins 22 – St Mary Magdalene 23 - Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony 27 - The 2ofUS CatholicCare pre-marriage education program, Warragul 31 – St Ignatius of Loyola

AUGUST Annual CatholicCare appeal 3 - Commonwealth Games closing ceremony 5 – Diocesan Pastoral Council meeting, 9.30am, MacKillop Room, St Michael’s, Traralgon 6 – The Transfiguration 8 – St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 11 – Deadline for August Catholic Life 11 – St Clare 12 – East Region meeting, 10.30am, Bairnsdale 12 – Central Region meeting, 7.30pm, Drouin 15 – The Assumption 20 – Catholic Life published 21 – Valley Region meeting, noon, Lumen Christi Hall, Churchill 27-28 – Catholic Women’s League state conference, Warragul Arts Centre 28 St Augustine of Hippo

SEPTEMBER 7 – Priests’ Welfare Foundation annual Father’s Day collection 7 – Father’s Day 13 – St John Chrysostom 14 – Exaltation of the Holy Cross 14 - The 2ofUS CatholicCare pre-marriage education program, Warragul 19 – 3rd Term holidays begin 21 – St Matthew 27 – St Vincent de Paul 27 – AFL Grand Final

NOVEMBER 1 – All Saints 2 – All Souls 4 – Melbourne Cup public holiday 9 – Dedication of the Lateran Basilica 9 - The 2ofUS CatholicCare pre-marriage education program, Warragul 11 – Remembrance Day 11 - Diocesan Pastoral Council meeting, 9.30am, Room 58, Sion House, Warragul 18 – Central Region meeting, 7.30pm, Trafalgar 18 – East Region meeting, 10.30am, Orbost 23 – Feast of Christ the King 30 – Advent begins 30 – St Andrew

DECEMBER 3 – St Francis Xavier 4 – Valley Region Christmas lunch, Morwell Club, Helen St 6 – St Nicholas 8 – Immaculate conception 14 – St John of the Cross 18 – Christmas holidays begin 25 – Christmas Day 26 – Boxing Day 26 – St Stephen 27 – St John 29 – Holy Family Feast Day 31 – New Year’s Eve

Defender of church a martyr SAINT OF THE MONTH St Thomas More 1478-1535.

Martyr and Patron Saint of Lawyers, Statesmen and Politicans.

Feast Day: June 22 ST Thomas More, was born at London in 1478.

After a thorough grounding in religion and the classics, he entered Oxford to study law. Upon leaving the university he embarked on a legal career which took him to Parliament.

In 1505, he married Jane Colt who bore him four children, and when she died at a young age, he married a widow, Alice Middleton, to be a mother for his young children.

A wit and a reformer, this learned man numbered bishops and scholars among his friends, and by 1516 wrote his world-famous book Utopia. His history of Richard III is regarded as an important historic work, but it was not published until after his death.

He attracted the attention of Henry VIII who appointed him a knight in 1521, then Chancellor of the Exchequer and a succession of high posts and missions, and finally made him Lord Chancellor in 1529. However, he resigned in 1532, at the height of his career and reputation, when Henry persisted in holding his own opinions regarding marriage and the supremacy of the Pope. More had refused to attend Henry’s marriage to Ann Boleyn.

He strongly opposed the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther and William Tyndale, whose books he burnt and he persecuted many of their followers.

The rest of his life was spent in writing mostly in defence of the Church. In 1534, with his close friend, Cardinal John Fisher, he refused to render allegiance to the King as the Head of the Church of England and was confined to the Tower of London.

Fifteen months later, and nine days after Fisher’s execution, he was tried and convicted of treason by a panel of judges which included three of Ann Boleyn’s family members.

He told the court that he could not go against his conscience and wished his judges that “we may

St Thomas More by Hans Holbein the Younger yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together to everlasting salvation.” And on the scaffold, he told the crowd of spectators that he was dying as “the King’s good servant - but God’s first.”

He was beheaded on July 6, 1535. He and Cardinal Fisher were beatified in 1886, alongside 52 other English martyrs and both were canonised in 1935, 400 years after their deaths.

St Thomas More’s feast day was first celebrated on July 9 but since 1970 it has been moved to June 22, a day recognising all English martyrs who died during the Reformation.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II declared More “the heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians”.

In 1980, despite their opposing the English Reformation that created the Church of England, St Thomas More and St John Fisher were jointly added as martyrs of the reformation to the Church of England’s calendar of Saints and Heroes of the Christian Church, to be commemorated every July 6 (the date of More’s execution).

More is the subject of the award winning 1966 film A Man for All Seasons.

Mass for families in Sale SALE - A number of families and representatives of families gathered in St Mary’s Cathedral, Sale on March 25, Feast of the Annunciation, to remember and honor a child or children who have died.

The Mass was concelebrated

by Fr Andrew Wise, Sale, Fr Hilarion Fernando, Maffra and Fr Ken Clark from the Ordinariate parish.

Forty seven blessed votive candles were taken to the altar in procession and remained alight during the Mass. Each candle represented the lives of those children still remembered, mourned for and cherished by their families.

The Mass for Families was an initiative of the newly formed Action for Life group made up of members from the Diocese of Sale Heart Region encompassing the parishes of Sale and Maffra, which includes the communities of St Patrick’s Stratford and Briagolong, St Rose of Lima Rosedale, St Michael’s Heyfield, St Brigid’s Cowwarr, St Ita’s Newry and St Joseph’s Dargo.

Action for Life wishes to thank all those who attended and those who offered their services in making this special Mass a sacred and healing experience, including our priests for concelebrating the Mass and for their ongoing

support, with special thanks to Julie Peavey, organist and Helen Seton, violinist and Lien Van Der Velden, counsellor.

Following the positive response received by members, we look forward to hosting this sacred opportunity each year in the Diocese of Sale Heart Region.

If you would like to know more about Action for Life or would like a copy of its mission statement please email: actionforlife1@gmail.com or contact Rosemary on 0412 365 377.

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Legislation aims to protect against child abuse THE Victorian Government has introduced legislation into Parliament to create two additional criminal offences that will further protect children from sexual abuse.

The introduction of these offences is the next stage in the Coalition Government’s response to the recommendations of the Family and Community Development Committee’s Betrayal of Trust report on the handling of child sex abuse allegations.

A new offence carrying up to five years in jail will apply to a person who holds a position of responsibility in an organisation and fails to take action where they know there is someone associated with the organisation who poses a risk of sexually abusing children.

The law will apply to a wide range of

organisations that may be involved with children including schools, churches, sporting clubs and youth clubs.

Premier Dr Dennis Napthine said “In future, anyone in authority in an organisation who does nothing about known child abusers, or simply moves them somewhere else in the organisation where they can continue to abuse other children, will face up to five years in jail.”

The new laws will also make it an offence carrying a penalty of up to three years in jail for a person to fail to provide relevant information to police if they know or believe a child has been sexually abused.

This law will be in addition to current mandatory reporting to child protection authorities.

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It will not be an offence to withhold information obtained through the victim seeking medical help or counselling advice, if the information is provided by a victim after they have reached the age of 16 and the victim requests that the information not be disclosed, if the person has reasonable fears for their or another person’s safety and it is reasonable not to report in the circumstances, or if the

information would be privileged from disclosure in court proceedings.

The Premier indicated in interviews that it will be mandatory for all clergy to have working with children checks in they have contact with minors.

In Sale Diocese, all priests and employees have had to have WWC checks for the past seven years.

Review under way of training of seminarians WORK is now underway within the Catholic Church to review the education of people training for the priesthood in Australian Dioceses.

As part of a Vatican initiative the Australian Catholic Bishop’s Conference, through a group of senior seminary directors and other professionals, is looking at current practices regarding child protection training in Australian seminaries and theological colleges.

Truth Justice and Healing Council chief executive officer Francis Sullivan, met with the group engaged in the review in Sydney.

He said a detailed study to identify gaps in child protection training for new priests is an important part of the Church’s reforms.

“Priests have an important role to play in ensuring the safety of children in Catholic communities,” Mr Sullivan said.

“Priests need to be able to recognise signs of child abuse, understand how to respond to allegations of abuse and be

fully aware of the boundaries in place for all people working with children.

“Ultimately the group will provide advice to the Bishops Conference on current practices in seminaries and theological colleges on the formation of new priests.

“They will also provide advice on new protocols and standards to ensure that trainee priests get the best available information regarding child protection practices.

“The Royal Commission is likely to look at the issue of future clergy and their training.

“This is a timely review that will ultimately benefit everyone within the Catholic Church and provide greater protection for children,” Mr Sullivan said.

It is expected the committee will make its recommendations to the Bishops Conference through the National Committee for Professional Standards by the end of the year.

St John of God Berwick Hospital BERWICK - St John of God Berwick Hospital, GenesisCare’s Radiation Oncology Victoria and MIA Radiology have partnered and anchored the construction of a specialist medical centre to be developed by Generation Healthcare REIT, incorporating a comprehensive cancer centre located in Berwick.

State Member of Parliament for Gembrook, Brad Battin and Parliamentary Secretary of Health Georgie Crozier, broke the ground to mark the official start of construction of the Specialist Centre in February.

The centre is located opposite Casey Hospital, in the heart of Berwick, with easy access to all major road networks.

The site is owned by Generation Healthcare REIT who have a proven track record in constructing healthcare facilities across Australia for its long term ownership.

Hansen Yuncken has been awarded the construction contract which is expected to take 12 months to complete, with the centre ready to accept its first patients in February 2015.

The four level specialist centre will incorporate medical imaging and radiology services provided by MIA Radiology; a comprehensive cancer service offering state of the art radiotherapy provided by GenesisCare’s Radiation Oncology Victoria; and chemotherapy

treatment provided by St John of God Berwick Hospital.

The centre will also house specialist consulting suites.

Speaking at the turning-of-the-sod ceremony, St John of God Berwick’s chief executive officer Lisa Norman said, “The real benefit is that patients will be able to have their medical consulting, diagnostic tests and treatment in the one centre”.

For patients living with a cancer diagnosis they can also receive rapid access to both chemotherapy and radiotherapy cancer treatment at the same site, close to where they live”.

The partnership will see SJOG Berwick, MIA and ROV join forces to establish an innovative collaboration of healthcare specialties.

GenesisCare’s managing director Dan Collins said, “GenesisCare’s Radiation Oncology Victoria is proud to be able to collaborate with St John of God to deliver a comprehensive cancer service to the communities of Casey, Cardinia and beyond.

Lisa Norman, added, “It has always been our vision to offer first class cancer services, close to home, for our community. In Casey and Cardinia alone there are over 1500 new cancer diagnoses every year and our best defence against this disease

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Budget changes will affect everyone in retirement THE 2014 budget has been and nearly gone. Whether it’s fair, reasonable or hard and nasty isn’t for this column to argue.

Like all things there is good and bad and which is which depends on the viewer’s vantage point.

There are some significant changes heralded which will affect most of us and all of us born after 1952, and that’s the change to the pension entitlement age, and to the Seniors Concession Cards and pension indexation.

The superannuation guarantee charge has also been changed as has the treatment of untaxed income streams from superannuation. All these will have a profound effect on the future needs of most of us.

The increase in pension entitlement age will see those born after July 1, 1952, have their pension entitlement age increased by six months, for each 18 months after July 1, 1952, that they were born, until those born after January 1, 1966, won’t qualify for a Centrelink age pension until they turn 70.

Previously superannuation has only been included as an asset in assets test for the over 65’s. Now, the full pensions received from these superannuation funds will be assessed as part of the income test.

This will mean some people receiving the age pension will lose some of their Centrelink entitlement.

This is also going to affect entitlements to the Seniors Concession cards, which are also means tested. The tax treatment hasn’t changed.

The indexation of pensions will be based on Consumer Price Index changes, semiannually in arrears, rather than the change in average weekly earnings which is usually higher.

Effectively, what the government is doing is reducing the amount that they will pay Centrelink pensioners and looking for these people to make

DOLLAR$ & SENSE with David Wells

up the shortfall themselves.

It’s widely accepted that the rising number of people over 65 will place an intolerable burden on the taxpayer over the next few decades, with the taxable population decreasing as a proportion of the whole.

So something had to be done, and this may only be the next step, regardless of which party is in power.

Governments come and go, but with Australia’s ageing population some of these changes will never be unwound, whichever party is in power. So we will need to take that into consideration – especially those aged under 40.

Many tradespeople won’t be able to work until they’re 70 and until businesses accept that there is a benefit in experience, many people won’t be seen as employable into their 60s.

Our planning may well have to take into account that an early retirement equates to several years unemployment before reaching the age of 70.

And these benefits may only last six months. More and more will it become our own responsibility to ensure our futures are financially safe.

We all will need to make changes to the way we plan to finance our way through our lives.

Providing for our families and still being able to provide for a comfortable retirement will need far more discipline and planning than ever before.

And we will need to start now if we are to have much chance of making a difference. Any step in the right direction will get us nearer to our destination.

We will need to make a big change to the way we finance our way through our lives. We

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will need to ensure that we are providing for our future and for that of our families, regardless of whether we can afford to or not to.

Future welfare payments are likely to be at or below the poverty line and if we don’t want to risk living in poverty then we will need to change our strategies for preparing for life after 50.

If you are aged under 40,

then you’ll need to consider more superannuation (invisible savings) and more investments outside superannuation, and especially income protection insurance.

You still have some time to generate more in assets to help you with your future, but you’ll likely need every one of them, too. This is hard to do with mortgages and young families.

The over 40’s will have a harder time of it if they haven’t started already, but they will need to have greater commitment, too. In a future article I’ll cover some of the strategies that may help in that regard.

It’s now far more important that we all have a welldeveloped financial strategy

that will help us government proof our future and smooth the bumps along the way, leaving us better prepared to cope with the receding tide of support.

Expert financial advice becomes far more valuable and justified as our financial parachutes disappear.

The sooner we all make a start, the bigger the difference will be when we need to use it.

The best time to start is today, so give it some thought.

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Mini Oblates group at Moe

FR Harry Dyer OMI presents medals to students (from left) Brandon, Paddy, Hamish, Alyssa, Georgia and Wade.

By Lisa Broeren Latin work Oblatus – an offer- ings where we co-ordinate the ing, something offered up – and wonderful work being done MOE - St Kieran’s Primary therefore dedicated to, set aside throughout our school by each class.

School cares for our community for.

Each class will be commitand our environment. Pastoral The Oblates of Mary Immaccare is a priority in the school. ulate are a religious congrega- ting to at least one project per All Year 6 students are seen as tion of priests and brothers un- term where we are reaching out the leaders of the school and it der the patronage of Our Lady. to those in need. We are proud is the expectation that they lead They are essentially missionar- to follow in the footsteps of our by example. ies who work in many countries Oblate Priests as we work to As part of the school’s social and are available for every kind make our world a better place.

The committee members justice program, it has started a of apostolic work.

St Kieran’s is an Oblate par- were presented with medals at Mini Oblates group, led by six ish so our children will carry on the school assembly and comstudents from Year 6.

The children take this name the work of St Eugene de Ma- missioned and blessed by paras they will follow the work of zenod helping those who need ish priest Fr Harry Dyer OMI. St Eugene de Mazenod. The it most.

The children will lead meetword Oblate comes from the

Annual global rosary relay THE Global Rosary Relay idea is a simple one.

At each of 60 participating shrines around the world at a particular half hour, over 24 hours, people pray in thanksgiving to God for our priests and to ask the protection and loving care of Our Lady, Mother of all priests, for her priestly sons.

We are invited to join our prayers to the prayers of millions in 60 countries throughout the world at 11am on June 27.

Australia’s designated Rosary Relay Shrine is Our Lady Of Victories, Camberwell.

However this year and for the last two years, the Drouin/ Warragul parishioners have participated by praying the Rosary at 11am at St Joseph’s Church, Warragul, and by encouraging the local Catholic schools to join in also.

Please consider adding your Rosary and prayers for priests by arranging a “Global Rosary Relay” event in your parish.

Details can be found at w w w. w o r l d p r i e s t d a y. c o m / rosaryrelay

THE death has occurred in Ireland of a Sister of St Joseph of Cluny who was well known to many of our priests.

Sr Anne (Clare) Cooley SJC served at Cluny House, Corpus Christi College seminary from

1960 to 1992.

She died in Dublin on May 16 and a memorial Mass was held for her at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Dromana on May 28.

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Serra golf day is a success THE annual Serra Club golf day attracted 45 competitors who enjoyed good weather and good golf.

The event is staged at Sale Golf Club by the Serra Club of Sale for priests and all religious.

There were 10 clergy, six Serrans, four lady golfers and the remainder played as friends of Serra.

This year the Serrans narrowly managed to defeat the priests and win the Fr Carroll Perpetual Shield.

Catholic clergy chalked up a win over clergy from other religions to win back the Bishop Jeremiah Coffey Perpetual Shield.

The Oils Aint Oils Trophy for best score by a Sale Diocese priest went to Fr Brendan Hogan with 40 stableford points.

Best score of the day and Neville McLeod Shield went to Serran Reg Carmody on a countback.

Fr Hogan also took out the best Catholic religious prize with Fr Denis O’Bryan being runner-up.

TROPHY winners Reg Carmody (left) and Fr Brendan Hogan (centre) with Serra president Bill Henebery.

Best other religious prize went to the Rev Tony Peters with the Rev John Davies being runner-up.

Best Serran was Reg Carmody from John Cahill, and best friend of Serra was Jim Turner from Bill Mapleson.

Best lady golfer was Pam Young with Marg Johns being runner-up.

Nearest the pin winners were Nick Solohub, Tony Peters, Sandra Kirkpatrick, Steve Pritchett and Jim Turner.

Longest drive went to Fr Hoigan (religious) Neville Hackett (Serra), Sean Little (friends)

Appeal focuses on Rwanda genocide MARKING the 20th anniversary of the April 1994 Rwandan genocide, Catholic Mission has officially launched its 2014 Propagation of the Faith campaign Heal the BrokenHearted which focuses on the incredible work of the Catholic Church in helping Rwandans to forgive, heal, reconcile and unite since the horrific genocide that saw almost one million people killed in the space of just 100 days.

Inspired by Psalm 147:3 ‘He heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds’, the campaign will appear in parishes around Australia throughout the coming months, as well as being mailed to homes, and aims to highlight the remarkable process of forgiveness, reconciliation and healing taking place in the community of Nyamata where approximately 10,000 people were massacred in and around the Nyamata Catholic Church.

The campaign centres on one of the leaders of the reconciliation process, Nyamata parish priest Fr Emmanuel Nsengiyumva, and his outreach with survivors such as Immaculée Mukamunana, who, together with her husband Edouard Bizumuremyi, narrowly escaped death during the crazed period of mass killings.

Distressingly Immaculée and Edouard both lost their parents, as well as 15 brothers and sisters between them, who were massacred inside and around the church.

However, thanks to work of the Church, Edouard and Immaculée have moved forward tremendously in their process of healing and forgiveness.

Additionally, thanks to the

vital outreach work of the Church and the support of her charismatic Catholic group, another survivor Concilie Mukarutsinga has found the strength to forgive.

What is more, in a true miracle, thanks to the healing hand of God, Concilie has become firm friends with the man who literally snatched her children from her arms during the terrifying genocide and led them to their slaughter.

There are still hundreds of thousands of Rwandans from all generations in desperate need of practical, spiritual and emotional support.

With the generous support of donors, Catholic Mission helps to fund counselling and healing classes, as well as practical support in terms of education and healthcare, while also providing much-needed funds for church building projects, all of which form a significant part of Rwanda’s spiritual recovery.

Catholic Mission National Director Martin Teulan says Rwanda’s story of hope through reconciliation is an inspirational one. “Knowing that many Rwandans have been able to forgive, through the love of Jesus Christ, those who killed their own family, gives me great hope that the whole country of Rwanda can one day live in total unity,” he says.

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and Marg Johns (ladies).

The Not a Golfer Anyway consolation prize went to Fr Peter Kooloos.

Following the golf 85 people gathered to share in the annual dinner at the golf club, provided by the golf club ladies group.

Some 27 religious attended as well as 13 visiting Serrans.

The event was attended by Melbourne Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Long and Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral, Sale, the Rev Steve Clark.

As well as presenting all the trophies for the golf, the Serra Club drew its annual raffle which is the group’s main fundraising event each year.

Some 26 prizes were drawn but the happiest were Sale Serrans Raquel and Doug Waite who won the first prize of a Gold Coast holiday and $600 towards travel and spending.

REG Carmody watches his ball sail down the fairway while Fr Peter Koloos (left) appears to be contemplating how it is possible to hit the ball so far.

Student leadership active at Mary MacKillop

SCHOOL leaders with principal Richard Wans are (from left) Rahul Bhondi, Ethan Gulavin, Samuel Howell, Tahlia Lane and Jelacia Chapman.

NARRE WARREN NORTH This year the 5 and 6 students at our school have been actively involved in the leadership process.

All students brainstormed the idea of what makes a good leader and every student designed a poster on the theme,” I am a Leader because…” , which was displayed around the school, outlining what a good leader is.

This in turn, helped them to tune into the nomination process.

As part of the next stage,

nominees had to design a presentation to support their application.

Some choose ICT (using a variety of applications and apps), others gave a speech and some made visual prompts. The wealth of creativity was evident as was the confidence in presenting this to their peers and the school’s executive team.

Voting took place. Students discussed the need to look beyond the person and see the skills and qualities this person would bring to the role.

At the end of the process we were happy to announce the following successful students – School Leaders Rahul Bhondi, Ethan Gulavin, Samuel Howell, Tahlia Lane and Jelacia Chapman ; Faith Leaders Gabi Majstorovic and Michayla Bayliss; Arts Leaders Briana Ryan and Connor Gulavin; House Leaders Amanda Delanie, Joshua Parker, Kirah Zietsman, Caydn Lane, Jessica Prostregna, Joshua Booker, Rea Bar and Christian Tassone

Catholic numbers on the rise THE number of Catholics in the world and the number of priests, permanent deacons and religious men all increased in 2012, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, reports CNS in The Catholic Herald.

According to Vatican statistics, the number of candidates for the priesthood also showed its first global downturn in recent years. The statistics come from a recently published Statistical Yearbook of the Church, which reported worldwide Church figures as of December

31, 2012.

By the end of 2012, the worldwide Catholic population had reached 1.228 billion, an increase of 14 million or 1.14 per cent, slightly outpacing the global population growth rate, which, as of 2013, was estimated at 1.09 per cent.

Catholics as a percentage of the global population remained essentially unchanged from the previous year at around 17.5 per cent.

The latest Vatican statistical yearbook estimated that there were about 4.8 million Catho-

lics that were not included in its survey because they were in countries that could not provide an accurate report to the Vatican, mainly China and North Korea.

It said the number of bishops of the world stayed essentially the same at 5133.

The total number of priests – diocesan and religious – around the world grew from 413,418 to 414,313, with a modest increase in Africa, a larger rise in Asia, and slight decreases in the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

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Native American's story another side to sainthood LILY OF THE MOHAWKS - The Story of St Kateri by Emily Cavins, published by Servant Books, distributed by Rainbow Books, paperback, 134 pages, rrp $24.95.

WHEN we think of saints we tend to think of the many European saints, or perhaps our own St Mary of the Cross MacKillop.

There are libraries full of books on the European saints and many have been immortalised in paintings which hang in churches and galleries around the world.

It was pleasing to have the opportunity to read of a saint who comes from outside the group to which we are normally exposed.

St Kateri Tekakwitha was a native American woman who was canonised in 2012.

The early pages of this book make for gruesome reading, especially parts on how the warlike Mohawks treated enslaved captives with tortures, beatings and beheadings.

People from neighboring Iroquois nation tribes such as the Alqonquin and Huron were treated just as badly as the French Jesuit priests who were captured.

Tekakwitha's mother was a Christian who grew up in a settlement among Jesuits missionaries but was captured by the Mohawks and taken to a village where a few years earlier several Jesuits had been martyred.

She was taken as a wife by one of the clan chiefs and Tekakwitha was born in 1656.

Smallpox ran through the Indian people, killing more than two-thirds and finally it reached her village with the same result.

Tekakwitha, aged four, survived but her parents did not.

She was badly scarred from the disease and her eyesight may have been affected because her native name is said to mean "One who bumps into things."

This book follows her story of living a Christian life among the Mohawk people, eventually becoming baptised at age 20 and taking a vow of virginity.

She took the name Catherine - Kateri in her native tongue.

She began inflicting severe mortifications on herself as a form of penance, but her body

could not take the self-inflicted punishment and she became ill and died at age 24.

The book tells of her story to sainthood, evening mentioning the differing ways people look upon her. Native Americans see her religious journey as a continuation of her native heritage and beliefs but nonnatives see her story as one of conversion from the pagan world to Catholicsm.

It is a compelling story which opens our minds to those who come from outside the Eurocentric communion of saints.

SR WENDY ON THE ART OF THE SAINTS by Sr Wendy Beckett, published by Franciscan Media, distributed by Rainbow Books, paperback, 56 pages, rrp $22.95.

A 1476 painting of St Thomas Aquinas by Carlo Crivelli which hangs in the National Gallery, London.

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It reflects on the lives of 14 saints, including a couple of lesser known ones in St Dorothy and St Serapion, each accompanied by a high quality reproduction of an important artwork featuring the saint.

The saints come from a wide eras, stretching from St John the Baptist in the First Century through to Sr Bernadette of Lourdes and St Therese of Lisieux.

The author is an elderly hermit who entered religious life in 1946 and now lives under the protection of the Carmelite nuns at a monastery in England.

Her life is mainly one of solitude and prayer but she allows herself two hours a day to work to earn her living. Those precious hours have resulted in a marvellous series of books and a 1990s BBC documentary series on art.

THE CATHOLIC PRAYER BOOK, compiled by Mgr Michael Buckley, published by Servant Books, distributed by Rainbow Books, paperback, 399 pages, rrp $39.95.

Talking about Books THIS book was originally published in England in 1984 and has been republished in the United States in a soft cover which almost has the feel of leather.

It contains a wealth of the best loved Catholic prayers, set out in various sections covering prayers to God the Father, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, Mary, saints, baptism and confirmation, the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament, Reconciliation, family prayer, daily prayer and prayers for special needs.

It includes the prayers of the Mass, including the modern responses.

Of particular assistance will be the introduction which explains prayer forms and

the following chapter which suggests ways to use the prayer book.

These formal prayers are for the times when we need words to express ourselves but the book also stresses that there are times when we should be quiet, thinking of God and allowing him to speak to us.

It is in the silence that we can contemplate the God within us and experience something too rich and sensitive for words.

That being said, it is a great little prayer book which has been produced in a size small enough to slip into a jacket pocket or handbag for daily use.

It would make an ideal gift for an older person used to traditional prayer forms.

A focus on family prayer MORWELL EAST - In this Year of Family Prayer, St. Vincent de Paul Primary School in Morwell East, also had a focus on class prayer with the incentive of having individualised class prayer candles.

Each class was given the opportunity to design their own prayer candle, and a parent at the school in the business of candle-making Kylie Garsia produced the candles.

The prayer candles varied in their design, but many included the children’s names, a scriptural picture, the school logo and/or the school prayer. The prayer candles are lit regularly when the class gathers for daily prayer.

Recently, St Vincent’s School community came together for the sad occasion of being part of a Memorial Mass for Andrew Harrison, a teacher who died on April 25.

The 5/6H class candle and a photo of Mr Harrison formed part of the procession at the beginning of the Mass, and was displayed on the altar.

St Vincent’s School Community also gathered with many of the mums for a Mothers’ Day Liturgy, celebrating the role of mothers and praying for those in need.

Again the class prayer candles were lit and presented together to highlight all the students’ prayers for their mothers.

Support for Caritas appeal NEWBOROUGH - Students and staff at St Mary’s Catholic Primary School in Newborough have worked hard to support Caritas Australia, the Catholic Church International Aid agency.

The students and families participated in Project Compassion during Lent where they were encouraged to think of other people who are less fortunate.

Recently at a school assembly, the St Mary’s community presented diocesan missions officer Susan Grout, representing Caritas Australia, a cheque for $537.

She was was particularly grateful to receive the cheque

on behalf of Caritas. The children and teachers at the school

were very proud of the contribution they made.

AT the presentation are (from left) Grade 6 student Bree Susan Grout representing Caritas, parish priest Fr Harry Dyer and Grade 6 student Leila.

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Pay day for owner is Celebrating life of St Joseph all About the Journey

Ken Harrigan EMOTIONS were high when school cleaning contractor Ken Harrigan had a winning racehorse at the three-day Warrnambool race meeting last month.

Having a winning race horse is always exciting but for Ken the win completed a journey which began 14 years ago with another horse which won at Warrnambool.

Back in 2000, his father Kelvin Harrigan died just days before the Grand Annual Steeplechase meeting and so Ken did not go to the races to see a horse they raced together, Pookie Bear be first past the post.

Since then Ken has owned a few winners including With Grace which won five races for him but another win at Warrnambool was something he would have liked.

He had never been to a Grand Annual Steeplechase meeting but this year with cup day falling on May 1, the same as back in 2000, he sensed it was an omen and asked St Thomas the Apostle Primary School principal Brendan Marrinon if he could have the day off to see his horse About the Journey run.

The principal agreed and so Ken’s long journey to the west of the state began at 3am as he heading off from his home at Narre Warren North.

About the Journey, trained at Cranbourne by Eric Musgrove, came from the back of the field with a big run to win by four lengths in a 2000m event.

For Ken, it was highly emotional because he had been there to witness what he has missed in those days after his father’s death.

Back at school at Cranbourne East, he addressed the students with his own version of show and tell and they were able to share in his joy of owning a winning race horse.

Then it was back to work cleaning toilets and emptying bins at the school.

Ken is well known in the western end of diocese as he has worked as a contract cleaner at several schools and his business Bruith Contract Cleaners currently has contracts with about six diocesan schools.

He has been at St Thomas the Apostle since it opened earlier this year and previous worked at St Francis Xavier’s Berwick campus from when it opened.

Bishops create national Office for Youth THE Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has announced the establishment of an ongoing national Office for Youth to evangelise and minister to youth and youth ministers in Australia.

The proposal for a youth office was approved last year. The operational details and staffing have been developed in recent months and have now been finalised.

Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, the Bishops Delegate for Youth, shared his joy at the announcement.

“This is another sign of how highly the Australian bishops prioritise young people and want to respond to their hopes and needs. This new office builds upon the graces of World Youth Day 2008 and the efforts of the Church in Aus-

tralia since. The office will provide inspiration and formation for the Church in its mission to share the message of Jesus Christ with young people.”

The office will be staffed by director Malcolm Hart and projects manager Gabrielle Sinclair.

Malcolm has worked for the Bishops Commission for Pastoral Life for the past five years, and Gabrielle for the past two.

During this period, Malcolm led the implementation of a number of initiatives and resources including Australia’s participation in World Youth Day 2011 and 2013, and the hugely successful Australian Catholic Youth Festival.

In October, the Office for Youth will host the third Australian Catholic Youth Ministry Convention in Adelaide.

WARRAGUL – Students at St Joseph’s Primary School celebrated their patron saint’s feast day by forming for a whole school photo in the shape of a cross.

There is not a lot known about the life of St Joseph, but we do know that he was a kind, caring, helpful and loving man, and the students of St Joseph certainly emulated these qualities on St Joseph’s day.

Students wore lots of red as a tribute to St Joseph and the day began with a whole school liturgy in the hall.

Then students moved into multi-age activities and completed things like making a prayer card for parishioners at Mass, making cards with a ‘dollar in your pocket’ for the poor, and making tea-pot shaped cards with a tea-bag and special message inside for visitors to the local St Vincent de Paul stores.

They wanted to do something

ST Joseph’s Primary School students and staff pose for a photograph by forming the shape of a giant cross. for others on St Joseph’s day and something that would put a smile on someone’s face in their community.

Two highlights of the day were taking a whole school photo out on the oval in the shape of a cross – it was a sea of red and everybody looked

great – and completing service activities around the school to clean and tidy the gardens and surrounds.

It was hard work, but with the example of Joseph who was such a hard worker, students put in a huge effort to make their school look amazing!

The Ordinariate 6 months on

By Fr Ken Clark EARLY in October last year, the new Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross was looking for a place to worship, its local minister was awaiting ordination as a Catholic priest, and the congregation was enthusiastic, but at the same time apprehensive.

What a difference six months makes in the life of the Ordinariate in Gippsland.

I was ordained on October 19, celebrated my first Mass at Sion Chapel, and with the agreement of Fr Hilarion, and Bishop Christopher Prowse, was given permission to use the Heyfield Church on Sunday mornings, and Cowwarr church during the week for Ordinariate worship.

Having a permanent home for worship has been a blessing.

We celebrate Sunday Mass at 10am, and every fourth Sunday afternoon at 4pm we have Solemn Evensong and Benediction.

During the week we celebrate a Mass every Wednesday at Cowwarr, and every second Saturday of the month we celebrate Mass at Sr Barbara’s place in Mirboo North.

At all times people have been very friendly, inquisitive, and welcoming, and as we are the ‘new kids on the block’, so to speak, we have the occasional person/people coming through and having a look.

Perhaps the major difference that people see at out Masses is the priest facing the tabernacle, oriented towards God, where the priest offers the Sacrifice of the Mass to the Father, while the faithful unite themselves to that Sacrifice.

The priest, and people, who are doing the offering are facing the One who receives the offering; thus we stand before the altar, positioned ad Orientum, facing the Lord leading his people in adoration and worship.

Not all like this, but it is the Ordinariate way, and one that our people prefer.

I have been called on to as-

sist with the normal Masses in Maffra and Cowwarr during busy times, such as Easter and Christmas, and have been pleased to assist the Cathedral parish by doing some supply work in Rosedale, and Briagolong.

This makes for very interesting times given that I, and my wife Carmel, also manage the Maffra Motor Inn. Alongside that, people often ask why I am not working full-time as a priest and leave the running of the motel to Carmel. The reason for that is that the Ordinariate, is a very young diocese, in Australia and has no sustainable finances to pay any form of stipend, though there are hopes for this in the future.

The only way that the ministry can be funded here in Gippsland is to have a priest” engaged in secular employment compatible with the exercise of priestly ministry” (Anglicanorum Coetibus, Complentary Norms, Art 7:3) For our small congregation coming into communion with the Catholic Church six months ago has been a blessing. In many ways we have come home, back to the Church from which our former denomination left over 500 years ago.

We have been truly blessed with a fine organist who plays for us on Sundays, and Evensong. At Easter we had a High Mass using the high altar at Heyfield for the first time, with a server, music, and incense – truly bliss. Our numbers are growing, slowly but surely, as people ‘come and see’, some like what they see and stay.

This year the Ordinariate will have for the first time its own missal, devised for use

by Ordinariates throughout the English-speaking world as a way of putting into practice Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s vision of allowing former Anglicans who wish to enter the full communion of the Catholic Church to do so whilst retaining aspects of their spiritual and liturgical traditions.

Benedict XVI described these as “precious gifts” and “treasures to be shared”. The new liturgy - the work of a special commission established by Rome and now approved by the Holy See - includes material from the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (1662) as well as the Roman Rite.

The Ordinariate in Gippsland has three principles: • To enshrine the eucharistic sacrifice of His Body and Blood at the heart of the parish, celebrating the liturgy with reverence, beauty, and awe for the mysteries celebrated, facilitating the encounter with Christ during the Mass • To be a sacramental community open to God through prayer, by the movements of God in love toward each and every member. placing prayer at the parish core • To enhance fellowship where ”True joy comes from a profound harmony between persons and this feeling of deep joy is the presence of God, the presence of God in the family and his love, which is welcoming, merciful, and respectful towards all” (Pope Francis) and flows from the encounter with Christ in the Eucharist If you wish to join the Ordinariate, it is open to those faithful, of every category and state of life, who, originally having belonged to the Anglican Communion, are now in full communion with the Catholic Church, or who are received into it because they are part of a family belonging to the Ordinariate; or anyone who has not completed the rites of Catholic initiation, including Catholics who have been baptised but not confirmed.

One final thing, you do not have to be a member of the Ordinariate to worship with us, or to join our congregation; just turn up, you will be most welcome; every Sunday 10am Heyfield, or every Wednesday 10am Cowwarr.

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For the Young and Young at Heart Color the gnome celebration

Time for a Laugh

A SOLICITOR died and went to heaven. As he approached the Pearly Gates, he noticed an orchestra playing and thousands of angels cheering him on.

St Peter rushed to greet him. The lawyer was overwhelmed and said “This is quite a welcome you put on up here.”

St Peter said “We don’t do it for everyone, only special people like yourself.”

“What makes me special?” asked the man.

“Well, it is not every day we get to welcome someone who has lived to be 130.”

“There must be a mistake,” said the man. “I am only 68.”

St Peter thought for a while and said “Oh, we must have added up the hours you charged your clients!”

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“I just broke a mirror,” he replied.

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Isn’t it marvellous?”

DRIVING down a windy country road, a motorist noticed a young man running with three dogs snapping at his heels.

He quickly pulled over and shouted for the youth to get in.

“Thanks,” said the young man. “Most people won’t offer me a ride when they see I have three dogs!”

THE teacher told the children to take their pens and write a short story about what they would do if they LATE one night a man was were a millionaire.

After a while she noticed taking a short cut through a cemetery and he became one boy sitting there with frightened when he heard his arms crossed, and went over to see if he needed so some tapping.

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“Well, what are you waiting Suddenly he came across for?” a man crouched down, “I am waiting for my chiselling at a gravestone. secretary!”

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He asked the chairman “If you hit it into the water why he had been appointed it floats, if it buries itself in when he had given the a sand trap it beeps, and if wrong answer to a simple you want to play at night, it question. glows in the dark.”

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“Do you have one to sell?” “DON’T worry,” a patient he replied. told his psychiatrist.

“I will pay every cent I “WHAT are you so happy owe you, or my name isn’t about?” a woman asked Alexander the Great!”

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Reports from Rome of the inaugural meeting of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors are quoting Commission member, Cardinal Sean O’Malley from the US, saying a person’s rank in the Church should not be cause for special treatment or protection.

“Our concern is to make sure that there are clear and effective protocols to deal with superiors in the Church who have not fulfilled their obligations to protect children,” he said.

Truth Justice and Healing Council chief executive officer Francis Sullivan has welcomed the reports saying everyone in the Church needs to be accountable for the protection of Children.

“From the very top down we all have a role to play in doing everything we can to ensure children in the care of the Church are safe and secure and protected from the evils of abuse of any kind,” he said.

The inaugural meeting of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors was held in Rome last month.

Mr Sullivan said the meeting also discussed the Pontifical Commission’s role and mandate and how it would be expanded to gain input from more countries.

“The first meeting of this group is a very important step forward in the Vatican’s com-

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When the Pontifical Commission was announced in December last year it was tasked with looking at programs to educate pastoral workers to identify signs of abuse, identify means of psychological testing and other ways of screening candidates for the priesthood, and make recommendations regarding church officials’ cooperation with civil authorities on reporting suspected abuse.

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Coonawarra camp builds better relationships TRARALGON - During the first week of this term St Michael’s Grade 3 and 4 students and teachers travelled by bus to Coonawarra Farm Resort for an overnight camp.

Coonawarra Farm Resort is located between Stratford and Bairnsdale.

Outdoor activities at the resort included the giant swing, canoeing, orienteering, hut building, making damper, low and high ropes and the flying fox.

The evening concluded under a clear, crisp, star-filled night sky, with children and staff adventuring out with their torches on a night hike.

The following day everyone woke up to a crisp morning, beautiful sunshine and the excitement of yet another action packed day.

When asked about camp Rika from Grade 3 said, “The food was good because they had all my favourite things, especially the chips. The flying fox was the best because you go really fast and you could see everywhere at camp.”

Matthew from Grade 4 said, “I liked the flying fox because you can’t fall off and you don’t have to hold on. I got to see the ducks on the lake.”

One of the main goals of this program is to help build relationships within the group and to consolidate team ideals and values early in the school year.

STUDENT Callum enjoys his ride on the flying fox.

The camping program also gives the children an opportunity to build independence outside of the family unit and to consolidate old friendships and build new ones with other children in the level. It also enables St Michael’s to offer a sequentially based camping experience from Grade 3-6, where duration of the camps increases

over time.

School Principal, Cathy Blackford said, “Coonawarra Farm Resort was definitely a very exciting and busy overnight camp. Our grade 3/4 students came away from the camp with lots of new skills, friends, experiences and stories to share.

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The children of St Mary’s School, Sale, role played the Stations of the Cross.

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SALE - A small group of Catholic College Sale students were lucky enough to be selected to attend a St Vincent de Paul Schools Conference in Melbourne recently.

The theme was – “Where will you sleep tonight?” and the students examined the issues of homelessness in Australia.

The CCS students were one of two school groups who stayed the night before in the Amberley Retreat Centre in Lower Plenty and were very fortunate to spend the evening examining issues of homelessness together with young St Vinnies volunteers, who were all fantastic role models.

CCS religious education coordinator Sue Pickett said, “It was a fantastic opportunity for

our students to gain a greater insight into the St Vincent de Paul Society and what they do to assist the homeless.”

A presentation was given by a formerly homeless person with an amazing and confronting story. His insights into life on the street were very moving.

The St Vinnies Soup Van coordinator spoke about the soup vans that operate in Melbourne and relayed real life situations that he has personally experienced.

A number of the Catholic College Sale students have recently worked on the St Vinnies Soup Van and could relate very well to Br Doug’s message. As a fitting end to the conference, lunch was served to the group from the soup vans.