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Published by the DIOCESE OF BROOME PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 T: 08 9192 1060 F: 08 9192 2136 FREE E-mail: [email protected] www.broomediocese.org ISSUE 02 MAY 2015 Multi-award winning magazine for the Kimberley • Building our future together Ninth Bishop of Sale Ordained A crowd of 1600 witnessed the ordination of more deeply before me and sadness after 31 the ninth Bishop of Sale Pat O’Regan on 26 years of working in, and 56 years of being February 2015. part of, the Diocese of Bathurst. I’m a little Principal celebrant was Archbishop of like Abram in being called away to Sale, ‘Go Melbourne Denis Hart and co-consecrators from your country, your people and your were the Archbishop of Canberra and father’s household to the land I will show you’ Goulburn Christopher Prowse, who is the (Genesis 12:1).” previous Bishop of Sale, and Bishop of Bathurst, Michael McKenna, formerly a priest of Sale Diocese. Born on 8 October 1958, Bishop O’Regan was educated at Saint Joseph’s Primary School, Perthville and Saint Stanislaus’ College, Bathurst. COVER: Studying for the priesthood at Bevan and Bubbles: St Columba College, A boy and his favorite dog Springwood and St Patrick’s in Kalumburu. College, Manly, Bishop O’Regan Photo: CAS was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Bathurst on 2 September 1983. In 1994, Bishop O’Regan completed higher studies in France. He obtained a Licentiate in Liturgy May the glory of the Lord endure forever; may the and Sacramental Theology from Lord rejoice in his works. the Institut Catholique, Paris. On his appointment, Bishop Psalm 104:31 O’Regan said, “I feel humility Bishop O’Regan kneels before principal consecrator Archbishop as the path of service opens up of Melbourne Denis Hart. Photo: Diocese of Sale KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY Visitors to Warmun PROFILE is a publication of Recently enjoying the the Roman Catholic Diocese of facilities of the Broome, published six times a Warmun Retreat year by the Bishop of Broome. Centre was a group Articles to do with the Kimberley from Mulan. Pictured are welcome to be submitted for are, Kimberley publication. Catholic Volunteers Lorel (L) and Brian ENQUIRIES Donnelly (far right) Diocese of Broome with Karen Lulu, PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 Veronica Lulu, Bessie Tel: 08 9192 1060 Doonday, Leanne Fax: 08 9192 2136 Boxer and Evelyn Email: [email protected] Clancy. SUBSCRIPTIONS Photo: P Francis Subscription Rate $30.00 P/A The opinions expressed in this Enjoying the Great Outdoors in Kalumburu publication are not necessarily those of the Bishop of Broome The boys at Kalumburu enjoy the BROOMEDIOCESE.ORG great outdoors - working in the garden, keeping the place tidy, playing basketball, kicking the footy or doing a bit of boxing fitness. From Left, Gene James, Scottie Unghango, Errol Carlton, Stanley Unghango and Photo: CAS Douglas French. 2 KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE MAY 2015 Viewpoint 2016: A Kimberley Jubilee The Vicariate Apostolic of the Kimberley, as the Church in the Kimberley was then known, was first erected by Pope Leo XIII on 5th May 1887, as a suffragan of Adelaide but under the care of Bishop Matthew Brady of the Diocese of Perth. On 7th June 1966 the Vicariate of the Kimberley was elevated to the status of a Diocese under the leadership of the First Bishop of Broome, Bishop Johannes Jobst SAC. Bishop Christopher Saunders is the second Bishop of Broome. On the 7th June next year the Church in massacres, in persecution and in sickness; the Kimberley celebrates 50 years as a the most dreadful legacies of colonization. Diocese. For all of us of the Community We will contemplate the hardships that of the faithful, this will be our Jubilee have come bringing unbridled change to Year. It will be a year in which we society – cultural, spiritual and political - Christ, King of the Universe, 20th remember our beginnings from the days and we shall rejoice in the people who November 2016. For ease of convenience, of the infant Church when the first priest have triumphed over adversity; who have our Year of Jubilee will be held between Father Duncan MacNab walked the shores survived no matter the difficulties that those dates too. So, it might be said that of the Peninsula among the Nimanboor have been placed in their way. We will for us our Year of Celebration is one of and the Bardi. We shall recall the keep close to our hearts the Separated Mercy and Jubilee. Let me quote from the Trappists and their establishment of Children who have experienced the Holy Father: “I am convinced that the Beagle Bay and give thanks to Thomas tyranny of their loss and who today, in whole Church will find in this Jubilee the Puertollano and Father Nicholas De Emo many instances, are finding connections joy needed to rediscover and make fruitful at Christ the King Mission Lombadina for with family broken long ago. the mercy of God, with which all of us are their labours of love. We shall celebrate Overwhelmingly our Jubilee will be called to give consolation to every man the expansion of the Church into the positive and nurturing of all peoples who and woman of our time. From this desert surrounds of Balgo and Halls Creek have been touched in one way or another moment, we entrust this Holy Year to the and then Wyndham-Kununurra. We will by the goodness of the Gospel. Mother of Mercy, that she might turn her pay tribute to La Grange and Gibb River, At the Diocesan level we will champion gaze upon us and watch over our journey.” Warmun and Ringer Soak as part of our the cause of the beauty of Art through Much is yet to be said about the Year of treasured memory. We will be exuberant exhibitions and Art competitions. The Mercy and Jubilee for our Church in the in our praise of the work of the various World Youth Day Legacy Cross will travel Kimberley. In the meantime let us pray Sisters, Brothers and Priests of Religious the Kimberley and as far as possible will for its every success that we might find Orders, the Diocesan Priests and the Lay link up with local Parish celebrations. A within ourselves a great zeal for the Missionaries and those who have been DVD of our story will be produced for Gospel and a newness in faith that can and are teachers of the faith – Aboriginal general distribution and a potted history only come so perfectly from the God of and non-Aboriginal. of our Diocese will be published in the love and forgiveness. And importantly we shall give honour first half of next year. The day that the to and celebrate the people of this Diocese was proclaimed in 1966 will be Diocese. The faithful born and bred here; celebrated with a Mass and an Assembly of this soil and under this sun. A people in the Cathedral grounds, around about of country and tradition who have that date. accepted Christianity as the Good News The Holy Father announced during that has brought new life to their culture Lent the Year of Mercy, to begin on the that itself once came from God in a Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, timeless age. And in the honouring we 8th December 2015. It will conclude on shall mourn the losses sustained in the Sunday dedicated to Our Lord Jesus THE LOGO OF 31ST WORLD YOUTH DAY - 2016 POLAND The logo of the World Youth Day, to be held in Krakow, Krakow on the map of Poland and is illustrates the passage from the Gospel according to also a symbol of youth. The flame of Matthew 5:7: “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall Divine Mercy emerges from the Cross, obtain mercy”, chosen as the theme of the event. The and its colours recall the image “Jesus, image is composed of a geographical outline of Poland in I trust in you”. The colours used in the logo – blue, red which there is a Cross, symbol of Christ who is the soul of and yellow – are the official colours of Krakow and its coat World Youth Day. The yellow circle marks the position of of arms. KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE MAY 2015 3 Office of Justice, Saint News Ecology and Peace By Dr David Brennan, Editing and St Emily De Publications Officer of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council Vialar Born: 1797 Near to the broken hearted Died: 1856 ‘The heart of my prison ministry is being in solidarity with the Feast Day: June 17 poorest of the poor. “God is near to the broken hearted and those crushed in spirit (Ps. 34:18).”’ Anne Marguerite Adelaide Those words of a prison chaplain were quoted in the Emily de Vialar was born at Australian bishops’ 2011–12 Social Justice Statement Building Gaillac, Albi in southern Bridges, Not Walls: Prisons and the justice system. Prison France. She was the only chaplains were a vital resource when the Statement was being daughter of Baron James drafted: their generosity and commitment to the call of Jesus Augustine de Vialar and Antoinette. Her wealthy parents shone through on almost every page. sent her to school in Paris but at the age of fifteen, she The ACSJC’s most recent publication in our Catholic Social returned home after her mother died. Justice Series takes up many of the themes that the bishops When Emily was twenty-one, a new priest, Fr Mercier, explored in their 2011–12 Statement. The new paper is titled I arrived in Gaillac.