The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross

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Presentation of Christ at the Temple by Hans Holbein the Elder, 1500-01, (Kunsthalle, Hamburg)

Feast day: 2nd February 2016.

2 THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF OUR LADY OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS

The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross is a non-territorial diocese of the Australian Catholic Church. The Ordinary: Monsignor Harry Entwistle, PA. 40A Mary Street, High-Gate. 6003. Western Australia. Local Phone: 08-9422-7988 or Mobile Phone: 0417 180 145 or contact the Diocesan Office: M-Phone: 0409 377 338. E-mail: [email protected] or The Ordinary: [email protected] Vocations Director: [email protected] M. Ph: 0410699574 Episcopal Vicar for Clergy: Fr Ken Clark: Mobile Phone: 0403 383 873 E-Mail: [email protected] Ordinariate Web-Master: E-Mail: [email protected] OLSC Website: www.ordinariate.org.au OLSC Publications: The Ordinary: 40 A Mary Street, High-Gate. 6003. W.A. E-Mail: [email protected]

______From our Ordinary: Monsignor Harry Entwistle, P A.

PRAYERFUL CONFIDENCE – OR WISHFUL THINKING? The Editor of Australia-Wide asked me to gaze into the crystal ball and share the ‘signs and wonders’ that I see. I’m not an expert in interpreting crystal balls, but I do believe that com- mitment to God is a pre-requisite to discerning God’s leading and Will. So my first prayerful hope for 2016 is that each member of the Ordinariate in Australia will strengthen his or her commitment to God and his gift to the Church of the Ordinariate. The stronger the commitment, the clearer “God’s Will” will be for us. I look forward to receiving many more baptism and confirmation certificates alongside a swathe of applications for membership of the Ordinariate. Secondly, as some of our priests approach retirement, the issue of their replacement looms large. Our current Ordinariate priests are not easily ‘transportable,’ and even if they were, accommodation and salaries are issues which though not insurmountable, need to be addressed. If clergy are prepared to re-locate, then I will do my best to resolve any issues that may emerge. Thirdly, I pray that there will be a serious attempt by Ordinariate members to grasp the understanding of the call to discern the particular vocation to which God is calling us. God calls most disciples to the married state, and married couples are the bedrock of a family life that reflects the pat- tern that God has revealed to us for the creation of a stable society. Some disciples are called to the single life which may include living in private or public vows. Others are called to the Religious Life of various charisms, and others to ordained ministry either as a secular or Religious priest. However, all baptised Christian disciples are called to live lives of self-giving and undertake some ministry which enhances the evangelistic thrust of the Universal Church. The Ordinariates in the UK and USA have seminarians in formation for the priesthood. Currently we have none so we need prayers that young, single, men may discern whether God is calling them to the ordained ministry. We also need prayers that we might receive more enquiries from Anglican priests who believe that God is calling them to fulfil their ministry in the Ordinariate. Lastly, I call on all Ordinariate members to reflect on the full title of our patron, “Our Lady of the Southern Cross - Help of Christians.” I urge you to obtain a copy of our new icon and not only pray for Mary’s intercession on behalf of the Ordinariate, but for Christians throughout the world who are facing the evil of immense persecution, not only of the body but of the soul. In our difficult times, Christians need a strengthening of their faith, courage and commitment to the Church today just as much as they did before the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 and at the siege of Vienna in 1683 when the Muslim armies of the Ottoman Empire, intent on destroying Christian Europe were defeated. On both occasions the faithful were urged to invoke the prayers of Our Lady Help of Christians.

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3 From our Ordinary: Continued. In 1862 Don Bosco dreamed about the battles the Church would face, and in his dream the Pope anchors the ‘ship’ of the Church between two pillars, one with a statue of Mary, Help of Christians and the other embla- zoned with a large Eucharistic Host. This year, may the faithful of the Ordinariate and the whole Church strengthen their faith and defend the Truth revealed by Christ, through Eucharistic Devotion and the invocation, Our Lady of the Southern Cross - Help of Christians. Pray for us. Monsignor Harry Entwistle: Ordinary, January 2016. ______The Ordinary’s Diary for January 2016:

Jan 1st Mary, the Holy Mother of God - 9-15 Mass and Homily at St Ninian & St Chad, Maylands WA Jan 9th & 10th Mass and homily - Catholic Parish of Southern Cross, WA Jan 24th 9-30am Blessing and Dedication of Icon of Our Lady of the Southern Cross - St Ninian & Chad, Maylands WA Jan 29-Feb 13th Houston, Texas. Consecration of Bishop-Elect Lopes and Meeting of the Ordinaries. Jan 31st 11-00am Mass - Preach in Our Lady of Walsingham, Houston, Texas, USA.

______Bishop-elect Lopes.

ARTICLE FROM: Website of Ordinariate of Chair of St Peter.

Steven Joseph Lopes was born in Fremont, Calif. in 1975. He is the only child of Barbara Jane Lopes and the late Dr. José de Oliveira Lopes. His father was Portuguese and his mother is Polish. His father emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1960s and became an American citizen in 1970. His mother was born and raised in Detroit, where much of her family still resides. Both his parents were educators. José taught languages and history at the university level. Barbara taught in Catholic schools for 47 years before her retirement. She specialized in middle school education and received a national recog- nition for excellence from the National Catholic Educational Association in 2006. His family includes his mother; his step-father, Abilio Dias; five step-brothers; and a step-sister. Bishop-elect Lopes was educated entirely in Catholic Schools in the Golden State: St. Pius School (Redwood City, Calif.); St. Edward School (Newark, Calif.); Moreau Catholic High School (Hayward, Calf.); and the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, where he majored in theology and minored in philosophy and German. He studied philosophy and liturgy at the University of Innsbruck. He then earned three degrees – including a doctorate – in sacred theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he has also served as an adjunct faculty member. Bishop-elect Lopes has also taught at the Pontifical North American College in Rome and in the summer sabbat- ical program for the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious. In 2001, Cardinal William J. Levada (then Archbishop Levada) ordained Bishop-elect Lopes a priest.

Bishop-elect Lopes spent the first several years of his priesthood as an associate pastor at two parishes: St. Pat- rick Catholic Church in San Francisco and St. Anselm Catholic Church in Ross, Calif.

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Since 2005, he has served as an official of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican office respon- sible for promoting and preserving Catholic teaching. For seven of his 10-plus years at the Vatican, he served as secretary to the Cardinal Prefect.

He was named a Chaplain of His Holiness with the title of “Monsignor” by Pope Benedict in 2010. He speaks fluent Italian and German. He is a chaplain in the Order of Malta, and remains deeply committed to the Order's service to the sick and the poor. Bishop-elect Lopes is the first bishop for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter and the first bishop for any of the three Personal Ordinariates in the world. (The other two ordinariates are located in the United Kingdom and in Australia.) For his motto, Bishop-elect Lopes has selected the Latin phrase, “Magna Opera Domini,” or in English, “Great are the works of the Lord.” By these words, our new bishop expresses his awe of God’s grace in drawing His people to the fullness of Eucharistic communion. ______MONSIGNOR STEENSON: Monsignor Steenson is stepping away from fulltime day-to-day involve- ment with the Ordinariate he will still be busy. He is not retiring, he says, merely readjusting his schedule. He will continue as a professor at St. Mary's Catholic Seminary in Houston where he will have a full academic load once the spring term commences. His favorite subject is the Patristic Fathers and he hopes to spend some more time in study and writing about them. He is particularly fond of St. Basil of Caesarea and Augustine of Hippo. He will also remain a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and hopes to engage them in his avocation -- flying planes. He is a licensed pilot and has crisscrossed the United States and Canada as the Ordinary. He is looking forward to holding an aeroplane's yoke in his hands and to once again feel the thrust as his plane gains altitude.

[Article by: Mary Ann Mueller is a journalist living in Texas. She is a regular contributor to Virtue-Online] ______Monsignor Harry Entwistle writes: AUSTRALIA-WIDE When the British colonised Australia, the infant, somewhat priest-less Catholic community (1802-1819) in Australia kept alive the faith by saying the Rosary and when the first assem- bly of Catholic bishops ever held in the British dominions since the Reformation took place in 1844, they chose Mary, under the title of Help of Christians as the principal Patroness of Australia. England is described as Our Lady’s dowry, and although Sydney is a long way from her Shrine in Walsingham, the diamond in Our Lady’s dowry, in dedicating this new land to Mary, the Catholic bishops counted the ‘Southland’ as her second dowry. The title Mary Help of Christians was first used by St John Chrysostom in 345 AD and later by St Don Bosco, the founder of the Salesians. When Europe was facing Islamisation in the Middle Ages, Pope Pius V called the Christian armies of Europe to defend the continent and asked believers to pray the Rosary and seek Mary’s intercession in order to help the Christian forces. The defeat of the Muslim Turks by Christian armies at the battle of Lepanto on October 7th 1571, was attributed to the interces- sion of Mary under this title. The ending of the siege of Vienna on September 12th 1683 after a battle against the Ottoman Turks was also attributed to the intercession of Our Lady Help of Christians. September 12th is the feast of the Holy Name of Mary and October 7th is the feast of the Most Holy Rosary. The Feast Day of Our Lady Help of Christians is May 24th, but under the title of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, Help of Christians, her feast is September 1st She is patron of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the Diocese of Toowoomba and the 2008 World Youth Day held in Sydney.

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Monsignor Harry Entwistle writes: Continued.

There is a statue of Our Lady Help of Christians in Sydney Cathedral, and for the World Youth Day 2008, Paul Newton was commissioned to paint a picture of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. Our Ordinariate has a limited license to reproduce Newton’s painting in certain publications, so it was proposed that we have an image that is distinctively our own. A decision was made to have an icon of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, and Fr Stephen Hill was asked to look at the work of several Australian iconographers. We approached and commissioned Michael Galovic, a New South Wales iconographer who was responsible for the icon presented to Pope Benedict XVI at Sydney World Youth Day. Fr Hill liaised with Michael during this project and I am pleased to say that this icon is now complet- ed and will be blessed and dedicated during the Mass in the principal church of the Ordinariate, St Ninian and St Chad, WA on January 24th. Fr Hill will be the preacher at this Mass. Once the dedication has taken place, the image will be published on Facebook and on our redesigned webpage. Framed prints, of differing sizes will be available for purchase to be used by parishes and individuals, and it is intended that smaller prints will also be available on compressed board. Details of cost and how to obtain these will be circulated when these matters are finalised. Some donations to- wards the cost of the commission have been received, but we still need $6,000. Any gifts from parishes or indi- viduals will be very welcome if sent to the Ordinariate Office. The Bank details are: Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross BSB 086 006 A/C 150 038 987 Description Icon.

Or by cheque, payable to Our Lady of the Southern Cross, 40A Mary Street, Highgate, WA 6003. Please add a note with your cheque that the gift is for the icon. With every blessing and best wishes for the New Year. Monsignor Harry Entwistle: Ordinary, January 2016.

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CONFIRMATION FOR ST EDMUND CAMPION PARISH: MENTONE

The newest member of the Melbourne Ordinariate parish of St Edmund Campion was received into the Catholic Church during Mass and confirmed on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 20th. at St Patrick’s Church, Mentone. Philip John Ingle, 42, of Mentone, received the Sacrament of Confirmation from the Parish Priest, Fr Ramsay Williams OLSC, assisted by the Associate Priest, Fr Neil Fryer OLSC. Philip, who was baptised in the Church of England, arrived in Australia recently from Manchester, in the United Kingdom, where he was formerly a member of the Royal Air Force. An accountant, he is married to Gina, and they have a young son, Lukas. His sponsor was Richard Collins of Mentone. Photo: Fr Ramsay Williams is pictured with Richard Collins, sponsor to Philip Ingle, on the right, who is receiving his certificate of Confirmation and membership of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross after the Mass at St Patrick’s Church. ______ORDINARIATE OF OLSC NOW ON FACEBOOK: Websites, Blogs, Facebook are part of the modern way of communication with Smart Phones, Tablets, Computers and other forms of electronic communications. Our new Face-book address: https://www.facebook.com/ordinariateolsc/ Note: Our Website: www.ordinariate.org.au is being re-constructed, and will be back in service very soon.

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CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS AND CUSTOMS: “SIMBANG GABI” By Heather Hill: Local Correspondent. Australia is a multicultural country. It has been since the year dot. The first people of this nation came from the sub-Asian regions and beyond when the land bridge joined Asia with Australia. In more recent times people from the UK and Europe emigrated to Australia in the colonial days, and people have continued to come to this Great South Land from every nation on earth ever since. The Catholic Church in Australia reflects this great multicultural make-up of people in this country. The Frankston parish Church of St Francis Xavier celebrated “Simbang Gabi” for the people of the Filipino Catholic Commu- nity who live in the region. “Simbang Gabi” is a Filipino Christmas tradition of a nine day Novena introduced by the Spanish Friars to allow the farmers to hear Mass before going out into the fields in the early morning around dawn. Part of this tradition of Simban Gabi is to share an early morning meal of coffee or tea and various delicacies for fellowship. Members of the local parish were invited to join in this celebration of Simbang Gabi and make this Novena part of the whole parish preparation for the Christmas festival. For the nine days of the Novena the parish Church was packed full for the 5 am Mass, with a Filipino musical group providing special music for each of the daily Masses which were followed by the traditional Filipino refreshments. At 5am on Christmas Eve the last Mass of the Novena, the Christmas Mass, was con-celebrated by the three priests of the Frankston parish, which included Fr Neil, the Ordinariate priest. The Mass was a joyful occasion of traditional carols, and music followed by special Christ- mas foods, singing and dancing in the Parish Hall. It was now about 6-30am. and the rest of the world outside was just getting started. A selection of photos of the festivities: Top right: the three priests: Centre: Celebrant: Fr Raj, with the Con- celebrants: Left: Fr Neil and Right: Fr Sebastian, and three altar servers. Top left: The Music Group and Singers. Above left: The joyful congregation. Photos: Bottom left: The three priests: Centre: Celebrant: Fr Raj; The Con-celebrants: Left: Fr Neil and Right: Fr Sebastian. Bottom left and centre: The Altar dressed for the last days of Advent with flowers for the Simban Gabi Christmas Mass. Left and Centre: The Offertory is brought to the Altar. Photos below: The Christmas Breakfast and fellowship that followed the Mass.

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NEWS FROM CANADA

December 19, 2015

VICTORIA, BC Canada — This Advent, the Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman introduced Divine- Worship: The Missal to the wider Catholic community in Victoria.

On Dec. 5, the Blessed John Henry Newman communi- ty used the Ordinariate’s new Missal during Mass at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, where they were joined by an additional 200 Catholics of the Diocese of Victoria, BC.

The Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman worships at Saint Columba’s Church, but held its Dec. 5 Mass at St. Andrew’s Cathedral, where the community’s original members were received into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 15, 2012.

Photos courtesy of Father Carl Reid: The Liturgy of the Word begins at St. Andrew’s Cathedral on Dec. 5, when the Fellowship of Blessed John Henry Newman introduced Divine Worship: The Missal to the wider Catholic community in Victoria.

______Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - World Day of Peace, 1 January 2016. Blog: by Edward Pentin 01/01/2016

We have heard the words of the Apostle Paul: “When the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman” (Gal 4:4). What does it mean to say that Jesus was born in “the fullness of time”? If we consider that particular moment of history, we might quickly be deluded. Rome had subjugated a great part of the known world by her mili- tary might. The Emperor Augustus had come to power after five civil wars. Israel itself had been conquered by the Roman Empire and the Chosen People had lost their freedom. For Jesus’ contemporaries, it was cer- tainly not the best of times. To define the fullness of time, then, we should not look to the geopolitical sphere.

Another interpretation is needed, one which views that fullness from God’s standpoint. It is when God decid- ed that the time had come to fulfil his promise, that the fullness of time came for humanity. History does not determine the birth of Christ; rather, his coming into the world enables history to attain its fullness. For this reason, the birth of the Son of God inaugurates a new era, a new computation of time, the era which witnesses the fulfilment of the ancient promise. As the author of the Letter to the Hebrews writes: “God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, through whom he also created the world. He is the reflection of God’s glory and the exact imprint of God’s very being, and he sustains all things by his powerful word” (1:1- 3). The fullness of time, then, is the presence of God himself in our history. Now we can see his glory, which shines forth in the poverty of a stable; we can be encouraged and sustained by his Word, made “little” in a baby. Thanks to him, our time can find its fullness.

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Homily of His Holiness Pope Francis on the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God: Continued. Nonetheless, this mystery constantly clashes with the dramatic experience of human history. Each day, as we seek to be sustained by the signs of God’s presence, we encounter new signs to the contrary, negative signs which tend to make us think instead that he is absent. The fullness of time seems to fade before the countless forms of injustice and violence which daily wound our human family. Sometimes we ask ourselves how it is possible that human injustice persists unabated, and that the arrogance of the powerful continues to demean the weak, relegating them to the most squalid outskirts of our world. We ask how long human evil will continue to sow violence and hatred in our world, reaping innocent victims. How can the fullness of time have come when we are witnessing hordes of men, women and children fleeing war, hunger and persecution, ready to risk their lives simply to encounter respect for their fundamental rights? A torrent of misery, swollen by sin, seems to contradict the fullness of time brought by Christ.

[In St. Peter's basilica this morning, the Holy Father delivered the following homily at Mass on New Year's Day, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, and World Day of Peace]

And yet this swollen torrent is powerless before the ocean of mercy which floods our world. All of us are called to immerse ourselves in this ocean, to let ourselves be reborn, to overcome the indifference which blocks solidarity, and to leave behind the false neutrality which prevents sharing. The grace of Christ, which brings our hope of salvation to fulfilment, leads us to cooperate with him in building an ever more just and fra- ternal world, a world in which every person and every creature can dwell in peace, in the harmony of God’s original creation.

At the beginning of a new year, the Church invites us to contemplate Mary’s divine maternity as an icon of peace. In her, the ancient promise finds fulfilment. She believed in the words of the angel, conceived her Son and thus became the Mother of the Lord. Through her, through her “yes”, the fullness of time came about. The Gospel we have just heard tells us that the Virgin Mary “treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart” (Lk 2:19). She appears to us as a vessel filled to the brim with the memory of Jesus, as the Seat of Wis- dom to whom we can have recourse to understand his teaching aright. Today Mary makes it possible for us to grasp the meaning of events which affect us personally, events which also affect our families, our countries and the entire world. Where philosophical reason and political negotiation cannot reach, there the power of faith, which brings the grace of Christ’s Gospel, can reach, opening ever new pathways to reason and to nego- tiation.

Blessed are you, Mary, for you gave the Son of God to our world. But even more blessed are you for having believed in him. Full of faith, you conceived Jesus first in your heart and then in your womb, and thus became the Mother of all believers (cf. Saint Augustine, Sermo 215,4). Send us your blessing on this day consecrated to your honour. Show us the face of Jesus your Son, who bestows upon the entire world mercy and peace.

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/pope-francis-homily-on-solemnity-of-mary-mother -of-god/#ixzz3wAPYxcwV

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Mary, Mercy and the New Year:

BY FATHER DWIGHT LONGENECKER 01/01/2016

Did you know that, for centuries, Christians celebrated the new year on March 25 — not Jan. 1st ? March 25 is the feast of the Annunciation, and the new year was celebrated on that day because the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary marked the beginning of mankind’s redemption. With the conception of Jesus in Mary’s womb, the second Eve reversed the first Eve’s rebellion, and mankind was on the way to being recon- ciled with God.

Celebrations of the year’s beginning date back to the time of Father Abraham in Mesopotamia, around 2,000 B.C. The ancients celebrated the new year at various times, but it was the Romans who consolidated the new year celebration in January. The month itself was named for the Roman god Janus, god of gates, doors and be- ginnings. Janus was shown with two faces — one looking forward and one looking back. Turning away from the pagan roots of the new year’s celebration, Christians chose March 25, not only because it was the feast of the Annunciation, but because it was also the spring equinox — a sensible start of the new year for an agricul- tural community.

By the time Pope Gregory XIII corrected the ancient Roman Julian calendar in 1582, most European nations had already officially adopted Jan. 1 as New Year’s Day. The English didn’t adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752, and until then, they still kept New Year’s Day on the medieval “Lady Day” of March 25. Since then, Jan. 1 has taken over as New Year’s Day, and it has become an increasingly secular holiday.

However, by a quirk of history or a turn of divine Providence, the celebration of the new year has returned once again to a Marian celebration of the beginning of the world’s redemption. As it turns out, there is an ancient tradition in the early Roman Church that the first of January was celebrated as a commemoration of the Mother of God, but by the seventh century, the feasts of the Annunciation and As- sumption began to take precedence; and the eighth day after Christmas began to be celebrated simply as the octave after Christmas, and later as the feast of the circumcision of Christ. Then, in 1960, Pope John XXIII re- vised the calendar and removed the mention of the circumcision of Jesus, once again naming Jan. 1 simply the “Octave of the Nativity.”

Meanwhile, in Portugal, the feast of the “Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary” was established in 1914 for celebration on Oct. 11. It was extended to the whole Church by Pope Pius XI in 1931. Then, in 1969, a further revision of the liturgical calendar suppressed the October celebration of the maternity of Mary and established the ancient Roman tradition of celebrating Jan. 1 as the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.

We now, once more, rightly celebrate the beginning of the new year and the beginning of the world’s redemp- tion as we celebrate Mary, Mother of God. The pleasing congruence of New Year’s Day and Mother Mary is a nice connection back to the medieval observance of the new year on March 25, but also gathers up an important secular celebration and baptizes it with the symbolism of a spiritual new beginning and fresh start. It is no mistake, therefore, that Pope Francis chose to begin the Jubilee of Mercy around this same time of year. Kicking off the Year of Mercy on Dec. 8 — the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception — was another re- minder of humanity’s new creation and fresh start in Mary’s “Yes” to God.

Receiving God’s gift of mercy is the best way for us to make a fresh start in the spiritual life. This Jubilee of Mercy grants us the opportunity to receive indulgences and the absolute fresh start of absolution. The beginning of the Year of Mercy is echoed, therefore, in another affirmation that the mysteries of the incar- nation, life, passion and resurrection of Christ are the door of mercy that welcomes us into constant renewal and refreshment in the faith.

Father Dwight Longenecker is a Registered blogger and columnist. Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/ daily-news/mary-mercy-and-the-new-year/#ixzz3w1ms6mfN

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Mother Teresa: 2016’s Saint of Mercy. by JOSEPH PRONECHEN: National Catholic Register: 01/04/2016 A Mercy Saint for the Jubilee The Year of Mercy seems like the perfect time for canonizing Blessed Mother Teresa because of her major works of mercy. According to the calendar for this Jubilee of Mercy, Sept. 4, 2016, is the “Jubilee for Workers and Volunteers of Mercy,” which would fall one day before her feast day. Father Kolodiejchuk sees the timing as a work of divine Providence. If someone had told him about the 2008 miracle years earlier, Mother Teresa might have already been canonized, “but divine Providence wants that canonization for the Year of Mercy because the actual apostolate [of Mother Teresa] was the works of mercy from Matthew 25,” he observed. “If the canonization is indeed on Sept. 4, it’s like saying Pope Francis wants the Jubilee of Mercy and wants works of mercy showing. He insists we receive mercy and we must show mercy, and the spiritual and corporal works of mercy are the exact apostolate we do.” Considering both the Year of Mercy and the date she might be canonized, “Mother would be a good patron saint for the workers of mercy and the example of exactly what Pope Francis is talking about,” said Father Klodiejchuk. “It’s something very concrete.” “When Mother would speak publicly, she would refer to Matthew 25,” he noted. And she would give a lesson with her famous five-finger exercise or “catechism.” She would take one hand and with the other point to each finger saying, “You-Did-It-To-Me.” Sometimes she would say, “You don’t have to go to Calcutta to find the poor. You find the poor right around you, in your own family. Those acts of mercy are little things: a smile, a word of consolation, reading the newspaper for someone, doing the shopping, spending a little time speaking to them.” “So the actual works of the Missionaries of Charity are small things done with great love; ordinary things done with great love,” her postulator said. “Anyone can imitate and do the same kind of actions in your own home, your own parish. Maybe help a soup kitchen. Some saints are to admire; some saints are to also imitate. Mother Teresa was also obviously devoted to our Blessed Mother, especially the Miraculous Medal, the Rosary and the Memorare. With her canonization, renewed knowledge of her Marian devotion can inspire others to in- crease Marian devotion in their own lives. We could do those things, small things, humble works.” Marian Model Said Father Kolodiejchuk, “Some people felt Mother was like Our Lady. She had that Marian aspect — that ‘feminine genius’ John Paul II spoke of. That thoughtfulness of Mother is an example of that feminine love, tenderness, kindliness and thoughtfulness. And that smile: People would say, ‘Mother reminds me of Mary. I see Mother, and I think of Our Lady.’” Mother had a “simple, childlike love and devotion to Our Lady,” he said, remembering a time she was traveling by plane. She pulled down the tray at her seat to do some paperwork, but first “pulled out a little statue of Our Lady from her bag, put it on the corner of the tray and started working.” He related how she would put awards she received on a statue of Our Lady, giving them to Our Lady. When she saw a building she needed, she “would put the Miraculous Medals around the house, and, sure enough, she would get it, usually,” Father Kolodiejchuk recalled. “She had a very simple, concrete devotion to Our Lady — the Rosary, devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary — those things are very much Mother Teresa. If her hands weren’t doing something, she would have the Rosary in her hand and pray silently. In the car, we would pray the Rosary.” St. John Paul II said in her beatification homily that she “proclaimed the Gospel living her life as a total gift to the poor but, at the same time, steeped in prayer.” 10 11 THE INSIDE BACK PAGE. ORDINARIATE LINKS: World Wide:

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11 12 VICTORIA THE BACK PAGE MELBOURNE: St Benedict’s Parish, meet at Holy AUSTRALIA WIDE Cross Church, 707 Glen huntly Road, South Ca ulfield. Sundays: 11am Mass (Ordinariate Rite) 7pm Evensong OLSC: MASS TIMES and Benediction. Weekday Mass: 7pm Mondays. Contact Parish Priest: Ph 98228489 E-mail: [email protected] WESTERN AUSTRALIA

PERTH: Parish of St Ninian and St Chad: Perth: MELBOURNE: Bayside/Peninsula Parish of: 11 Susan Street, Maylands. Perth. WA. Sundays: 9-30am Sung Mass. St Edmund Campion, located at St Patrick’s Catholic 4th Sunday of the Month only: 4pm Evensong. Church, Childers Street Mentone. Sundays: 9-30 am Wednesdays: 9-15 am Mass. Mass (Ordinariate rite) Thursday: 10-30 am Mass Contact Clergy: E-Mail: [email protected] (Ordinariate rite) Fr Ted Wilson: Ph: 08-93495798 Contact: Ph: 03-95801032; 03-97706700. E-mail: [email protected] QUEENSLAND

Cairns Parish of St Clare: meet: St Francis Xavier North East Victoria: Parish of St Patrick: Catholic Church, Crn of Atkinson & Mayer Streets, Manunda Contact: The Ordinary: Mobile Phone 0417 180 145 4870. Sundays:10am Mass. Weekdays: 7-30am Wed & Thur. Contact Priest: Phone: 07-40 330706 Mobile: 0429400176. E-mail: [email protected] GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA. Parish: The Most Holy fami- ly, Maffra. Meet at the Catholic Church in the following towns: HEYFIELD Sundays: Mass 10am. 4pm Evensong and Brisbane: Parish of St Thomas a’Becket, Benediction 4th Sunday. COWWARR: Wednesday 10am Mass meets: St Benedict’s Church, Mowbray Trce, East Brisbane. & Holy Hour. Sundays: 9-30 am Mass. 6-30 pm Evensong and Benedic- MIRBOO NORTH: Mass 11am 2nd Saturday. tion. CONTACT: E-Mail < [email protected] > Contact: Fr Tony Iball: Ph:07-38412352 E-mail: < [email protected] >

SOUTH AUSTRALIA GOLD COAST: UPPER COOMERA meets at St Stephen’s College Chapel, Reserve Road, Up- ADELAIDE and SOUTH AUSTRALIA: per Coomera. 4209. Q’ld. The Ordinariate community of Blessed John Henry Sunday’s:9am Mass. Other Times as announced. Newman Contact: Fr A. Kinmont Ph: 07-55560361 Contact: Rev Ian Wilson: Moderator of the Ordinariate in Mobile: 0417 711 699. E-Mail: [email protected] South Australia. Mobile Ph: 0427 851 030 E-Mail: [email protected]

Rockhampton Parish: Our Lady of Walsingham: Meets at St Vincent’s Church, 4 Herbert St Wandal, Rock- hampton. 4700. Sunday Mass Times and weekday Mass JAPAN Times and other parish activities Contact the clergy. Parish Clergy: Ph 07-49284193 ORDINARIATE CONGREGATIONS: JAPAN : E-mail: < [email protected] > OLSC Community of Saint Augustine of Canterbury NEW SOUTH WALES (Japanese speaking) For information about activities of this community Diocese of Lismore: St John’s Mullumbimby: Contact: Fr Lyall Cowell. please contact:: E-Mail: [email protected] Father R Kajiwara, | Tel +8142 439 4634 | raph- Mobile: 0423 086 984. Local Ph: 02-66842106. [email protected] Website: www.ordinariatejapan.org/

Sydney: Holy Cross Parish.. Contact: The Ordinary: Mobile Ph: 0417180145. SODALITY OF OUR LADY OF THE SOUTHERN E-Mail: The Ordinary: [email protected] CROSS: Meetings held at St Francis Xavier Church Frankston and Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle: St Columban’s St Joseph’s Church, Chelsea. [Melbourne Southern Suburbs] Catholic Church : 58 Church Street, Mayfield. 2304. Contact: Parish Office: [email protected] Contact: Fr Stephen Hill: Phone: 02-4968-2428. Parish Office: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]

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