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The BULLETIN The Order of St John of Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller THE GRAND PRIORY OF AUSTRALASIA Under the Royal Charter of HM King Peter II of Yugoslavia THE PRIORY OF QUEENSLAND and COMManderies: Priory of the BRISBANE, GOLD COAST, Darling Downs Investiture SUNSHINE COAST AND WESTERN AUSTRALIA THE PRIORY OF THE DARLING DOWNS THE PRIORY OF VICTORIA NOVEMBER 2016 Priory of the Darling Downs Investees and Elevations 2 Mother Teresa citation 3 Darling Downs Investiture 4-9 Siege of Malta Address 10-13 News from Victoria 13 News from the West 14 Sunshine Coast Siege of Malta Celebrations 15 Siege of Malta Celebrations in Brisbane 16 The bulletin EDITORIAL The Editor’s desk CheVAlieR CHARleS CLARK KCSJ MMSJ Almost the end of the who call themselves Christians. It in the “Our Family, our Future” year! And we all say “Where has is especially a challenge to all publication earlier this month. it gone?” The fact is that soon we Knights and Dames, Serving Great credit is due to the Grand will be preparing for Christmas Brothers and Sisters, of our Order. Priory Council and especially to and all that it means to us. More For what is it that distinguishes our Grand Prior for their care in people swell the numbers in church our Order from any other effecting a satisfactory union with congregations on Christmas Eve charitable institution? There may the Sovereign Order of St John of and Christmas Day; for us an be Fons Honorum, Chivalry, and Jerusalem based in Vancouver. acknowledgement of our Christian Heraldry, but above all there is Mother, now Saint, Teresa of Faith, for some just the traditional Ecumenical Christianity. Calcutta was canonised by Pope thing to do, and for others it is just It is our adherence to and Francis on 4th September this year. an addition to the party they have practice of Christian principles She is a shining example of tending been attending. that will continue to be the Order’s to our lords the sick and our lords To such people and many others distinguishing mark. the poor. She was a member of our like them, the Church must seem to We need to keep it alive and not Order in Australia, being made be a dead or dying institution. The be caught dead. It is what people an Honorary Member in 1981. A outspoken Benedictine Nun, Sister will see in us and understand that reproduction of her Citation is on Joan Chittister says: “If religious we are not just another charitable page 3 opposite. life as we know it is dead, what do organisation. The Editorial Group join me in we want to be caught dead doing?” Our recovery of Internationality wishing all our readers a Happy Here is a challenge for all people has been reported extensively and Holy Christmas Season. @ The PRIORY OF Investees and elevations The DARlinG DOWNS Created a Knight of Honour Created a Dame of Honour Appointed a Knight of Grace Wayne Robert Anderson Sheena McCallum Liley Richard Stuart Browne Noel Patrick Cass Patricia Daphne Power Kerry John Costigan John Gregory Coates Roger Gordon Grigg The GRAND PRIOR HAS been John Francis Minz Ross Charles Fraser OAM PleASED TO AnnOunce the Paul Matthew Munson Roderick Ian Maclean eleVAtiONS in RANK OF Frederick Lewis Victor von Stieglitz the FOllOWinG KniGhtS Appointed a Dame of Grace Gerard Alexander Tonks AND DAMES Donna Ann Fraser Jane Felicity Tait ‘The Bulletin’ is the official magazine of the Order of St John of Jerusalem Appointed a Dame of Justice Knights Hospitaller, Grand Priory of Australasia ACN 147 338 501 Susan Gillian Fox CORRESPONDence PRinteD BY Appointed a Knight Commander Chevalier Charles Clark KCSJ MMSJ HEAneYS: PerFORMERS in Print of Justice email: [email protected] 07 5539 4911 www.hpip.com.au Robert Clegg Kretchmann Jeffrey James Prebble OAM EDitORIAL GROUP Roderick Paterson Stirling Chevaliers Charles Clark, Reverend Dr David Pitman, the Reverend Canon Appointed a Knight Grand Cross Emeritus Bruce Maughan (Prelate), of Justice: Robin Kleinschmidt, Garry Page, George Cameron Fox @ Dames Dawn Goodall and Donna Fraser and Serving Sister Leith Robinson. 2 THE BULLETIN BRISBAne COMMANDERY mother Teresa Citation Answering a call within a call May she be your model of holiness.” Pope Francis cleared the way for Mother Teresa was a made an herand towas be beatified canonised in asOctober Saint Teresa2003. Honorary Member of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Knights The Pope spoke about Mother Hospitaller in Australia in 1981. She Mother Teresa ... a life of Teresa’sof Calcutta life on of Septemberservice in his 4, 2016 said she was honoured to become a service and a generous homily: “Mother Teresa, in all Member because she believed in the aspects of her life, was a generous ideals set by the Order. dispenser of divine mercy dispenser of divine mercy, making A reproduction of her citation herself available for everyone is shown below. The Grand Prior Mother Teresa was born in 1910, in through her welcome and defence Skopje, Macedonia. She was baptised of human life, those unborn and to the Vancouver Order when he as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Eighteen- those abandoned and discarded. attendedpresented their a certified Investiture copy of this year-old Agnes Bojaxhiu decided to recently. @ become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin. It was there that she took the name Sister Mary Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. Afterward she was sent to Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary’s High School for Girls, a school run by the Loreto Sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city’s poorest Bengali families. Sister Teresa learned to speak she taught geography and history andboth dedicated Bengali and herself Hindi to fluently alleviating as the girls’ poverty through education. In 1946 she experienced her “call within a call”. She began an open-air school and established a home for the dying destitute in a dilapidated building she had convinced the city government to donate to her cause. In October 1950, she won canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded with only a handful of Members – most of them former teachers or pupils from St. Mary’s School. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. After several years of deteriorating health, in which she suffered from heart, lung and kidney problems, Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87, NOVember 2016 3 PRIORY OF THE DARLING DOWNS Record nine invested at Darling Downs Priory Chevalier Lewis von Stieglitz Dame Trish Power Chevalier Dr John Coates From left: Chevalier Gerard Tonks, Chevalier Rod Maclean, Dame Sheena Liley, Investees 2016 Dame Trish Power, Prior Robert Kretchmann, Grand Prior Victor Feros, Chevalier Ross Fraser, Chevalier Noel Cass, Chevalier Lewis von Stieglitz, Chevalier Dr John Coates, Chevalier Wayne Anderson. 4 THE BULLETIN INVestitUre Record nine invested at Darling Downs Priory From left: Chevalier Gerard Tonks, Prior Robert Kretschmann, Darling Downs Priory Vice-Chancellor Jeff Prebble, Grand Prior Victor Feros. From left: Chevalier Ross Fraser, Darling Downs Prior Robert Kretschmann, Dame Sheena Liley. DAME DOnnA FRASER DSJ A record investiture of nine Knights Teresa, a Member of our Order, Allucutionist, family and friends and Dames, including one to the as inspiration, example and were invited to be photographed Western Australian Commandery, embodiment of the ethos of the with the newly invested Knights made the Priory of the Darling Order in serving our lords the sick and our lords the poor: “Charity is Chevalier Mark Osborne. a memorable occasion. Testing not an option. It is an obligation”, andAt Dames the celebratory by official photographerInvestiture theDowns capacity 2016 ofInvestiture the historic Ceremony St he said, given expression in the Dinner in the adjacent Empire Stephen’s Church in Toowoomba, Vows made by every investee Church Theatre, new Knights the assembly entered in procession to the Order of Saint John of and Dames were introduced by to a stirring trumpet fanfare, to Jerusalem Knights Hospitaller. Chevalier Mike Horan, providing be welcomed by its Minister, the Readings were provided by illuminating background for Reverend Andrew Gillies. investee Ross Fraser and Dame the assembled gathering. Dame Judith Sloss. The Choir of St Sheena Liley responded on behalf Grand Priory of Australasia, Stephens with Cantor Kirsty of the Investees. Darling Downs TheThe Rev. Officiant, Canon Emeritus Prelate of the McTaggart was accompanied Prior Robert Kretchmann and Bruce Maughan introduced by Church organist Don Ross. Vice-Chancellor Jeff Prebble The Allocutionist, Chevalier Trumpeter Alan Skerman provided joined Grand Prior Victor Feros the Reverend Dr David Pitman, rousing Processional, Investiture Conventual Chaplain of the and Recessional fanfares. Investiture and Elevation for Priory of Queensland, who drew Knightsin presenting and Dames Certificates of the ofDarling on the recently canonised Saint the Grand Prior, Prior, Prelate and Downs Priory. @ NOVember 2016 After official photographs with 5 PRIORY OF THE DARLING DOWNS Seige OF Malta At the investiture banquet From left: Chevalier Charles Clark, Mrs Frances Clark, Chevalier Mike Browning, Mrs Jan Browning. Back from left: Lyndal Brown, Ross Martyr, Nichola Martyr, Ailsa Cass, Ben Dampney; (front) Amy Dampney, Chevalier Noel Cass, Regan Cass, Luke Cass. Above, from top: HE Bailiff Grand Prior Victor Feros presenting certificates to Prior Robert Kretchmann, Roderick Stirling AM, and Dr Jeffrey Prebble. Below: Chevalier Christopher Tait and Dame Dr Jane Tait. From left: Fran Osborne, Chevalier Richard Browne, Mrs Karin Browne, Chevalier Russell Male, Diane Male. Priory of the Darling Downs Investees Downs Priory of Darling the Special thanks to Chevalier Mark Osbourne KSJ for all From left: Chevalier Merv Bond, Mrs Beverley Bond, Chevalier investiture photographs.