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CONTENTS

Page 1 • Calendar

Page 2 • The Order offers a path of sanctification for everyone

Page 3 • Sydney says priests will suffer martyrdom before divulging confessions

Page 4 • Could Chesterton, inspirer of , soon be

beatified?

Page 5 • New priests’ appointments in the Latin

Patriarchate 2018

Page 8 • The Virgin Mary THE GRAND MAGISTERIUM SPRING celebrated in the streets of

MEETING Page 8 • The Grand Magisterium Spring meeting

A new direction is emerging regarding the projects followed by the Grand Magisterium: human formation will be Page 10 • Corpus Domini: “The privileged over the construction of buildings, in particular through the support of the Catholic schools network of the Eucharist is a gift for which we must be prepared” in the Holy Land. (Read more)

Page 11 • The Diocese of

Jerusalem prays for peace in the Holy Land

CALENDAR Page 12 • Fr. : “The The Order offers a path of sanctification personal parish will help us better support the life of faith of for everyone migrants and asylum seekers” Cardinal Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stockholm, answers some questions about the Church in , the role of the Page 13 • We Remember Our Order and female participation. (Read more) Deceased Members Grand Master’s Visit Page 14 • Other Helpful Links and

Details We are in the final Could Chesterton, inspirer of popes, stages of planning for soon be beatified? Editor

the Grand Master’s His writings do not leave anyone indifferent, not even the Mr. Simon Milton KHS 0448 350 272 popes. (Read more) visit in September – [email protected] keep an eye out for further details and RSVP forms in the next Corpus Domini: “The Eucharist is a gift for which we must be prepared” few weeks. The faithful of the of Jerusalem gathered at the Holy Sepulcher to commemorate the Presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. (Read more)

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The Order offers a path of sanctification for everyone

April 2018

Cardinal Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stockholm, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and Grand of Honor of the then Lieutenancy for Sweden (today for Sweden- Denmark) answers some questions about the Church in Sweden, the role of the Order and female participation. The first Swedish cardinal in history, the Carmelite Cardinal Arborelius was elected in 2017 as “Sweden of the Year”, and this appointment is also a record since in the traditionally Lutheran country it is the first time that such recognition was given to a Catholic

priest.

What does it mean to serve the Church in a non- Catholic majority country? Do you think that the fact of being a minority Church invites one to perceive one’s own Catholic identity in a particular way? As member of a Catholic minority in a secular surrounding you have to live in a very deep personal relationship to Jesus and be well integrated into the local Church. There will be many circumstances when you can give witness of your faith and try to explain why you want to be a faithful Catholic. People are often more open and interested than we think. You have to rely on God’s grace and the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and have the courage to speak with an open heart also about difficult issues. Then people will listen and respect you, even if they cannot accept everything you say.

For many years you held the role of Grand Prior of the then Lieutenancy for Sweden (now Lieutenancy for Sweden-Denmark). What was your experience of this? How do you think the Order can support the call to holiness of Catholics in your country? It is important to show the candidates who enter and become part of the Lieutenancy that it is their vocation to follow in the footsteps of Jesus in their everyday life, not some kind of privilege or high position. The notion of evangelical service to God and his Church in the Holy Land is essential to understand. We belong to the holy people of God and there are many ways to live a life of sanctification, but they who want to enter the Lieutenancy have to understand that they shall be open to the call to holiness in the Order.

Recently you spoke in favour of a broader involvement of women at various levels within the Church. As a lay institution, the Order already offers an example of collaboration between men and women thanks to the possibility for women to be nominated for any position within the Lieutenancy. Could you tell us something more about it? What would you suggest to bolster female participation in the Church? Many women today have difficulties to enter the traditional apostolic congregations and still many of them want to follow Jesus on the path to holiness and service of the Church. A more contemporary charism for modern women is highly needed, when this model of life seems to lose its force of attraction. As you said the Order could offer women of today the possibility to give themselves for God and the Church in the Holy Land. Similar possibilities have to be found on various levels for women of today. Interview by Elena Dini

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UARTER Sydney archbishop says priests will suffer martyrdom before divulging confessions

While the Church increasingly takes a lead in fighting child sex abuse, including in Australia, Church leaders maintain that the seal of confession cannot be put under discussion.

April 5, 2018 - The government of the Australian state of New South Wales is seeking to implement a range of laws targeting child abuse, in response to the final report of a broad investigation into abuse perpetrated by institutions, including members of the Church, which was released last year.

Among the proposals being considered are those which would apply to priests, including regulation or negation of the seal of confession.

The seal of confession is a set of strict rules keeping priests from revealing or commenting in any way on what is heard in the sacrament of confession. A priest who breaks the seal is excommunicated, and in the history of the Church, some priests have given their lives rather than break the seal.

But some voices in the government reason that if a priest hears about sexual abuse in confession — either from the perpetrator, or perhaps more commonly, from the victim — he should be forced to reveal his knowledge of the crime.

The premier of New South Wales, Gladys Berejiklian, said the question of the seal of confession would not be included within the new state laws and should be handled at a national level: “We believe it is beyond the boundaries of any one state,” she said, also describing it as needing “to be balanced with what people believe to be religious freedoms.”

While the Church increasingly takes a lead in fighting child sex abuse, including in Australia, Church leaders maintain that the seal of confession cannot be put under discussion.

Archbishop Anthony Fisher, the archbishop of the city of Sydney, which is the largest city of New South Wales, spoke about confession in his Easter homily, which was focused on the sacraments.

“Confession,” he said, “is another beautiful Easter gift, stirring us to contrition and resolve to sin no more, enabling a life-long journey of conversion, reconciling us to God and the Church, and giving us ‘pardon and peace.'”

Like the sacrament of Baptism, Archbishop Fisher said, confession “is threatened today both by neglect and attack.”

“But priests will, we know, suffer punishment, even martyrdom, rather than break the seal of Confession,” he said. “For Confession is a privileged encounter between penitent and God; here the Christian enters the silence and secrecy of the Tomb, to be re-Eastered; and no earthly authority may enter there.”

Global question

In 2016, a similar situation arose in the US state of Louisiana.

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A law that was set to require clergy to report allegations of wrongdoing, even if learned during sacramentalUARTER confession, was deemed unconstitutional by a state judge.

There, too, the legislation arose because of a case of sexual abuse. Rebecca Mayeaux said she was 14 in 2008 when she told a priest in a confession that a 64-year-old parishioner was sexually abusing her.

At trial, the priest testified that he would be automatically excommunicated if he revealed what was said in any confession.

“If we ever violate the seal, it’s over. It’s finished,” said Father Jeff Bayhi in response to a question from one of his attorneys, Don Richard.

When Richard asked if he would ever violate the seal of confession, Father Bayhi replied, “Knowingly? Absolutely not. If that’s not sacred, no one would ever trust us.” The priest said he cannot even disclose if a confession took place.

So what is religious freedom?

The issue in many way boils down precisely to what Berejiklian, the Australian premier, questioned: What is religious freedom? And can we reach an understanding of religious freedom that goes beyond, as Berejiklian remarked, what “people believe to be religious freedoms,” in other words, a definition of religious freedom that is not vulnerable to the changing trends of what a majority understands or what a certain power mandates.

The declared “that the human person has a right to religious freedom. This freedom means that all men are to be immune from coercion on the part of individuals or of social groups and of any human power, in such wise that no one is to be forced to act in a manner contrary to his own beliefs, whether privately or publicly, whether alone or in association with others, within due limits.”

But what could and should those “due limits” entail?

Benedict XVI considered religious freedom in his 2010 World Day of Peace message. There, he says, “Religious freedom should be understood, then, not merely as immunity from coercion, but even more fundamentally as an ability to order one’s own choices in accordance with truth.”

Kathleen N. Hattrup Could Chesterton, inspirer of popes, soon be beatified? June 26, 2018

The cause of beatification of the British writer may soon enter its Roman phase. His writings do not leave anyone indifferent, not even the popes.

Asceticism was not Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s forte. A great drinker, perhaps even gluttonous, he loved feasting. It is therefore not this aspect of his life that would weigh in favor of his eventual beatification. And yet, for many, there is no doubt that the prolific writer lived a life close to the heart of the Lord. According to the president of the American Chesterton society, Dale Ahlquist, his works contributed to the conversion of CS Lewis, who wrote The Chronicles of Narnia; of JRR Tolkien, author of Lord of the Rings; and of the Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. He himself converted from Protestantism 10 years before his death. His thought, reconciling faith and reason, would lead him to be named adefensor fidei— defender of the faith— by Pius XI. His writings have even been a source of inspiration for , who has quoted him in a homily at St. Martha. The Supreme Pontiff noted “that heresy is a truth gone mad.” When he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires— and at that time also a member of the Chesterton society in Argentina—the future Pope Francis recommended opening a beatification process for the British writer. This, in fact, was done in 2013, at the initiative of the Bishop of Northampton, Peter Doyle.

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Evangelii Gaudium (“The Joy of the Gospel”), the title of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, also recalls the conclusionUARTER of one of Chesterton’s major works, Orthodoxy: “Joy is the prodigious secret of the Christian.”

This is not the only link between Chesterton and a Supreme Pontiff, according to the Italian religion teacher Andrea Monda. “Neither Chesterton nor Benedict XVI are intellectuals who are content with paradoxical sentences, jokes, or puns,” he said. “Their reasoning is aimed at dialogue, the search for a relationship with others, even with those who are far away, who do not believe, who are ‘enemies’ of the faith.” And they did this without “betraying their adherence to the faith that is above all lived, practiced, and then preached.”

More than 80 years after his death, GK Chesterton may be on the verge of obtaining the ultimate recognition of the Church. An initial diocesan inquiry should close in a few weeks, according to Ahlquist, with the bishop then taking a consultation on opening a cause to .

Amaury Coutansais-Pervinquière

New priests’ appointments in the Latin Patriarchate 2018 June 12, 2018

To the Bishops and Priests of the Latin Patriarchate

Dear brothers in Christ,

May the Lord give you peace!

The changes in assignments are always an important moment in the life of the Church. This year, I tried to have less changes as possible, but were in anyway necessary to do. We had to deal with some personal requests, and other questions that forced me/us to arrive at some conclusions. I thank the Bishops and the Consultors for their support and advice during this delicate process.

This year the major change is with the schools, together with some changes in the parishes and the seminary.

As you already know, the first change is the unification of the financial system of the schools and its integration into the same system of the LPJ General Administration. This will allow the General Administration to have full control on all our accounts. This was announced a few months ago and is now becoming a reality.

In addition to this important step is another change regarding the structure of the schools’ office, which in the near future, will be composed of a President (a priest) and an executive director. The priest will supervise the policy of the office in the name of the LPJ and will take care of the pastoral activities and so on. The executive director will take care of all the administrative issues. The By-laws are being prepared, which will clarify the job descriptions and will be published shortly.

I sincerely thank Abouna Ashraf Al-Nimri who served in the schools’ office of Amman for many years. I know how this service can go unappreciated and how easy it can be to blame the person responsible of the office for the many

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The news in Palestine is that the office in Beit Jala will be closed soon. One office in Ramallah is sufficient.

A board for the schools will be named for all of the offices before the start of the new academic year. It is clear that it will take some time to have visible changes in our school system, but now is the time to begin, even when we are quickly called to take painful decisions for this important mission.

We had periodic changes in some parishes in the past years. Even when I wanted to avoid other changes, some situations required us to make changes again. I hope and I am confident this can be avoided in the future.

There will also be a change in the endowments department. I thank Abouna Firas Aridah for his service in these last years and for the contributions he made for the organization of the office.

Furthermore, I have to say that this year, I experienced and recognized in all of you, a free, honest, respectful and open attitude, even when my request was unexpected and perhaps difficult to accept.

Subsequent to these new assignments, some adjustments will be defined later, like the responsibility for the youth in Jordan and others.

These changes will take effect on the 15th of August 2018, unless something different is determined and decided in some specific cases.

The hand over in the parishes has to be done properly, according to the new By-laws, which will be promulgated later this month.

In Christ,

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Eight young girls dressed and veiled in white, recalling the Mother of God, carried on their shoulders, the statue of the Virgin.

JERUSALEM – To end the month of Mary, the faithful of Jerusalem gathered in Saint Savior Church on Thursday, May 31, 2018, to participate in the traditional procession of the statue of the Virgin in the streets of the Christian quarter of the old city.

Preceded by a Mass followed by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patrician of Jerusalem, by Archbishop , Apostolic Delegate in Jerusalem and Palestine, and by the faithful of the parish, the traditional procession left the church to walk around in the streets of the Christian quarter of the old city before returning to its starting point.

Eight young girls dressed and veiled in white, recalling the Mother of God, carried on their shoulders, the statue of the Virgin. Preceded by Scouts, the statue, parishioners, some diocesan priests and Franciscan friars, Archbishop Pizzaballa closed the procession with an icon of the Virgin that everyone could revere and embrace. At his side were the Apostolic Delegate, but also Father Francesco Patton, Custos of the Holy Land, and Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, Patriarchal Vicar in Jerusalem and Palestine.

During the journey to Saint Savior, the procession stopped twice. A first halt was made in the courtyard of the college of the De La Salle Brothers of Jerusalem where a giant rosary, made of balloons inflated with helium, was flown in the sky of the old city. The procession then continued on its way to stop for a short time in the Concathedral of the Latin Patriarchate. Once again at Saint Savior, the final blessing could be pronounced by the Administrator.

Vivien Laguette

The Grand Magisterium Spring

meeting

Welcoming participants in his opening address for the Grand Magisterium Spring meeting, Grand Master Cardinal Edwin O'Brien asserted the importance of fostering a wider and deeper understanding of the mission and action of Knights and Dames. This particularly in the few months leading up to the important appointment of the Consulta, when

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MMXVIII 2nd QUARTER representatives of the Order from across the globe gather in Rome. He fervently encouraged theUARTER participants to invite a reflection on the presence of priests in the Order for the spiritual accompaniment of the members, a subject that he also dwelt upon again during the meeting. The Governor General, Leonardo Visconti di Modrone, presented the major current issues for the Order, concerning the first nine months of his mandate. A new direction is emerging regarding the projects followed by the Grand Magisterium: human formation will be privileged over the construction of buildings, in particular through the support of the Catholic schools network of the Patriarchate in the Holy Land, which corresponds to two thirds of the diocesan budget.

Following the agenda, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa - Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate – updated the members of the Grand Magisterium about the situation in his diocese, especially on a pastoral level. He rejoiced that the influx of pilgrims has been once again reconfirmed this year, especially from Latin America and Asia, despite a rather tense political context on the ground. As regards the activity of the Patriarchate, the Archbishop emphasized the desire for better coordination of the schools, thanks to the creation of a "central office", insisting on the importance of catechesis. "We are not an NGO. What is important to us is first of all pastoral in nature, it is a question of forming future generations in a Christian way", he remarked in essence, thanking the Order for offering him the means to continue in this direction.

An overview of the financial management of the Order also shows that, thanks to the reserves, the contributions sent to the Holy Land remain at the same level as the previous year, despite a reduction in donations received by the Grand Magisterium (about 14.5 million euro in 2017, compared to the historical record of over 16 million euro in 2016). The Lieutenancies of Germany and are always on the front lines in their generosity, after those of the United States. During a debate concerning operational expenses, the Vice Governor for North America Patrick Powers considered the need to boost the Order’s possibilities by increasing its visibility so that its vocation to serve the Mother Church in Jerusalem may be better known and attract new members.

Subsequently, Sami El-Yousef, chief executive officer of the Latin Patriarchate, presented the budget for the year 2017, explaining the rationalization under way for a clear and precise control of management, especially for the 41 schools and 34 kindergartens that - with almost 20,000 students and 1,500 employees - constitute the diocese’s greatest financial involvement. He thanked the Grand Magisterium for the continuous contribution provided in this regard, as well as for the coverage of institutional expenses, especially relating to the formation of future priests. The question of the Patriarchate's debt that will begin to be reimbursed in 2020 has particularly occupied the exchanges among the participants of the meeting, knowing that a loan was signed by the Vatican Foundation St. John the Baptist at a Swiss bank, with guarantees offered by the Secretariat of State of the .

Following the items on the agenda, the President of the Holy Land Commission of the Grand Magisterium, Thomas McKiernan, commented on the help given to the Patriarchate for evangelization activities, emphasizing that in addition to the major projects in 2018 (the school and the presbytery of Jaffa of Nazareth, in ; the kindergarten in Hashimi in Jordan; the church of Jubeiha in Jordan; the renovation of the parish house in Anjara in Jordan; as well as the raise in teachers’ salaries), some "small projects" will be favored on a human scale, allowing to diversify the motivation of Knights and Dames. These small projects 2018 - proposed

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MMXVIII 2nd QUARTER by the Patriarchate - amount to little more than 300,000 euros and can be consulted by the LieutenUARTERants on a dedicated section of the Grand Magisterium’s administration website.

These themes together with the role played by the Lieutenants will be reflected upon during the general assembly of the Order, the Consulta, scheduled in Rome from November 13 to 16. Lieutenant General Agostino Borromeo spoke about it, underlining that he is currently cooperating with a preparatory commission for the Instrumentum Laboris, which will guide the work. This event will also be an opportunity to develop the Order’s communications, as was pointed out by Chancellor Bastianelli, who also ascertained the need for a renewal and rejuvenation of the membership, the number of which remains stable (about 29,000). The number of deaths increased by 12% in 2017 compared to 2016, highlighting the essential need for measures in favor of recruitment. North America is still leading with 15,000 members, followed by Europe with 12,000 (a 5% decrease is observed in Europe, while the trend is on the upside in other regions); then follows Oceania, Latin America - revitalized thanks to the restoration of the Mexican Lieutenancy - and finally Asia, together with Southern Africa.

François Vayne Corpus Domini: “The Eucharist is a gift for which we must be prepared”

JERUSALEM – On Thursday, May 31, 2018, Solemnity of Corpus Domini, the faithful of the Latin Church of Jerusalem gathered at the Holy Sepulcher to commemorate the Presence of Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. Lauds and Mass were presided by Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

Corpus Domini is a tradition born in Belgium in 1247. Twenty years later, Pope Urban IV established the liturgical celebration for the universal Church, at a time when the doctrine of the real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist was questioned.

To honor this Presence, the faithful of the Latin Church of Jerusalem gathered on Thursday, May 31, 2018 at the Holy Sepulcher. The celebration of the Solemnity of Corpus Domini was presided by the Apostolic Administrator, concelebrated by Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine; Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, M.Afr.; Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, Patriarchal Vicar in Jerusalem and Palestine; Father Hanna Kildani, Patriarchal Vicar in Israel; Father Rafic Nahra, Patriarchal Vicar for Hebrew-speaking Catholics, Bishop Kamal Bathish, Bishop emeritus; Abbot Bernhard Ma. Alter, OSB of the Dormition Abbey, and many other priests of the diocese and religious communities.

In his homily, the Archbishop recalled that “Jesus offers his body and his blood […] in a radical act of love, as a sign of covenant, as food for salvation, as the principle of new life for all”. He went on to say that “the Eucharist is a gift for which we must prepare ourselves, […] it takes time and preparation to understand this gift”. This year, on the occasio

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The Mass ended with the traditional solemn procession around the Aedicule before the Archbishop entered the Tomb of Christ to venerate it once again.

Vivien Laguette The Diocese of Jerusalem prays for peace in

the Holy Land

May 15, 2018

To all the priests, religious men and women and to the faithful of the Latin Diocese of Jerusalem,

May the Lord give you peace!

In these days we are witnessing another outburst of hatred and violence, which is once again bleeding all over the Holy Land. The lives of so many young people have once again been shut down and hundreds of families are mourning their loved ones, dead or wounded. As in a kind of vicious circle, we must condemn all forms of violence, any cynical use of human lives and disproportionate violence. Once again we are forced by circumstances to plead and cry out for justice and peace!

These expressions of condemnation are similarly repeated, each and every time.

I invite the entire Christian community of the Diocese to join in prayer for the Holy Land, for the peace of all its inhabitants, for the peace of Jerusalem, for all the victims of this interminable conflict.

We need to pray more for peace and our conversion and for all.

I invite all the priests, religious, seminarians, all the faithful of Jerusalem and those who wish to join the prayer vigil for peace which will be held in the Church of St Stephen (École Biblique) at 17:00 on the eve of Pentecost, Saturday, May 19, 2018.

We must truly pray to the Spirit to change our hearts to better understand His will and to give us the strength to continue to work for justice and peace!

I also invite the entire Diocese – parishes, religious communities, associations and movements – in these days of preparation for the Solemnity of Pentecost, to dedicate a day of prayer and fasting for the peace of Jerusalem and that the liturgy of the day of Pentecost be dedicated to prayer for peace.

In Christ,

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+ PierbattistaUARTER Pizzaballa Apostolic Administrator

Fr. Rafic Nahra: “The personal parish will help us better support the life of faith of migrants and asylum seekers”

April 23, 2018

ISRAEL – On April 4, 2018, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, announced in a statement the forthcoming creation of a personal parish for migrants and refugees in Israel. Father Rafic Nahra, the current coordinator for the pastoral among migrants, explains in an interview with the Media Office the reasons for this creation.

– Father Rafic, while there was already the Coordination for the Pastoral of Migrants, how did the idea of the erection of this personal parish come about?

It is true that the Coordination, created in 2011, already allowed a good work of coordination between the different communities, a coordination between these communities and the local Church, the establishment of links with NGOs, the common search of places to allow the different communities to gather together to pray and the creation of places such as the Our Lady of Valor in South of Tel-Aviv which functions as a place of worship and also offers social and pastoral activities to migrants and asylum seekers. And yet we were not able to answer all the requests – or at least simply answer them – when it came to sacramental registration, for example. The solution has come from Canon Law. We were thinking of ways to counter this difficulty and we discovered that the Church had imagined special situations such as the presence of faithful who cannot for one reason or another join the parishes and for which it is possible to create a personal parish. The parish will allow us especially to accommodate without difficulty requests for sacraments that are – as in many places – one of the gateways to the Church.

– What does a personal parish mean?

This is the term used in Canon Law to speak of a parish that is not defined by the territory. The legal text says: “As a rule, the parish will be territorial, that is to say it will include all the faithful of the given territory; but where it is useful, will be constituted of personal parishes, determined by the rite, the language, the nationality of the faithful of a territory, and still for any other reason.” (Canon 518) We are therefore very much in this context: the faithful concerned do not speak, for a large part, the local languages and they have a culture totally different from that of the faithful of the parishes of our diocese. It is therefore necessary to create a proper ecclesial entity but fully attached to the diocese. This will be the role of the Episcopal Vicar who will soon be appointed: he will represent the Archbishop and will act directly in communion with the Diocesan Curia but will have the pastoral charge of the faithful meeting the criteria determined for this parish.

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– Can you tell us more about the faithful of this future personal parish? UARTER

It is about 60,000 faithful, half of whom are from the Philippines. The other communities are Indians, Sri Lankans and Eritreans. Other communities are also present but in smaller numbers: French-speaking Africans, Romanians and Poles. Migrants are people who, for the most part, have fled difficult economic situations in their home country and have come for work in Israel. Asylum seekers have fled war or dictatorship and currently have no confidence in their future in Israel.

But despite these really difficult living conditions, like everyone else, they have a life of faith, they get married and some have children. And it is the mission of the Church to accompany them where they are and with what they are.

– What will happen on May 20?

Nothing sensational! This is the date that was chosen to erect the personal parish but it will not create a big change every day. The Vicar will be appointed in the coming weeks, and we still have to work with Archbishop Pizzaballa to detail the functioning of the parish.

But from this date, it will be especially easier administratively to accompany the faithful in their sacramental life and for us it is already a great step forward to support them in their life of faith.

Interview conducted by Cécile Klos

We Remember Our Deceased Members

Dr John O’Duffy, KHS Brisbane Mr John Bell, KHS Brisbane Dr Lawrence Parker, KHS Brisbane Mr Frank Bowling, KHS Brisbane Bishop Michael Putney, KC*HS Townsville Mr Cedric Hampson, KGCHS Brisbane Rev Fr Brenden Rogers, KHS Brisbane Rev Fr John Holyoak, KHS Townsville Dr Charles Salanitri, KHS Brisbane Mr Barry Kelly, KHS Brisbane Dr Frederick Schubert KCHS Dr Barry Knight, KHS Brisbane Judge Pat Shanahan, KHS Brisbane Mr Jon Moore, KCHS Brisbane Brig (Ret’d) Neil Weekes, KCHS Dr Michael Moore, KCHS Brisbane Mr Leo Williams, KCHS Brisbane Dr Robert Needham, KHS Brisbane Mr James Gardiner, KHS Gold Coast Mr John (Jack) Gleeson KC*HS, Townsville Mr Pat Fitzgerald, KHS North Queensland MAY THEY REST IN PEACE.

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Most Reverend Mark Coleridge DD KC*HS THE AUSTRALIAN ORDER • • Prior http://www.eohsjaustralia.org/ Password “Member” Most Reverend Joseph Oudeman OFM Cap RDER IERARCHY KC*HS • Coadjutor Prior O H • http://www.catholic- hierarchy.org/diocese/dxhsj.html • Dr. Monica Thomson DC*HS • Lieutenant http://www.lieutenancedemontreal.com/magistere- Dr. Paul Bartley KGCHS and Mr. Peter e.htm Carroll KC*HS• Lieutenants of Honour PRINCIPLES OF CONDUCT Dr. Michael Gattas KCHS • Chancellor • http://www.eohsj.net/PrinciplesOfConduct2006.pdf Mr. Michael Greene KCHS • Secretary THE WEST AUSTRALIAN WEBSITE • Ms Trish McMahon DCHS and Mr. Chris McMahon KCHS • Masters of Ceremonies http://www.eohsjwa.org.au/

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Lieutenancy Lieutenant: Lieutenancy Lieutenant: Lieutenancy Lieutenant: Lieutenancy Lieutenant: Lieutenancy Lieutenant: http://www.eohsjaustrali 27 June 2016 H.E. Monica 15-5-2006 H.E. John 18-6-2008 H.E. David 8-3-2010 Will Kininmonth 18-06-2008 H.E. Francois a.org/ Kunc, KGCHS NSW – Thomson, DCHS Gardner, KC*HS WONG, KC*HS KCHS Australia NZ Lieutenant 11 Kentia Street, Mount P.O. Box 733 Nedlands - 21 Gertrude Street, Magill [email protected] Vice Governor General of [email protected] Gravatt Queensland – WA 6909 Australia - SA - 5072 -Australia Australia 4122 [email protected] [email protected] the Grand Magisterium and [email protected] [email protected] Australian Delegates

Prior: Prior: Prior: Prior: Prior: George H.E. the Most Rev. Mark H.E. the Most Rev. Barry H.E. the Most Rev. Philip H.E the Most Rev. Denis Dr Paul Bartley KGCHS Cardinal PELL B. Cole- ridge Archbishop J. HICKEY Archbishop of E. WILSON Archbishop J. HART Archbishop of Archbishop of Sydney, of Brisbane, GPO Box Perth, of Adelaide, Catholic Melbourne, James Goold Level 16, Polding Centre 5238, Brisbane, Queens- Oce, 25 Victoria Avenue Diocesan Centre House, P.O. Box 146, 228 133 Liverpool Street land 4001 G.P.O. Box 1364 Victoria Parade

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