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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 3, JULY 2016 Multi-award winning magazine for the Kimberley • Building our future together Viewpoint The Jubilee - A Graced Time in Our Church When the Jubilee Mass began people representing the many communities of the Kimberley, processed into the Broome Civic Centre on June 2nd taking with them water from their home-towns and villages. With dignity and purpose they poured that water from their decorated containers into the large beautifully painted Holy Water Font Excellency, that rested at the foot of the sanctuary. Just Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana from as the waters mingled in that bowl to Canberra, and other bishops from Australia become one, so too were gathered as one COVER: and Bishop Cornelius Korir from Eldoret almost a thousand people from various parts Photo: M Adams Diocese in Kenya. It was indeed a time for of the vast Kimberley Mission and from Diocese of Broome Jubilee gratitude and celebration. I give thanks to outside the region too. They joined in Mass - 2 June 2016 almighty God for my forty years as a priest communion of mind and heart to celebrate Front, from left, Yeison Cruz, and my twenty years as Bishop of Broome Bishop Saunders and Fr with joy the fiftieth anniversary of the and the Kimberley, and I remembered those Marcello Parra Gonzalez Diocese of Broome. moments on our Jubilee night. To have Back, from left, Apostolic I am sure that the celebration of this been present as we celebrated the fiftieth Nuncio Archbishop Adolfo memorable Jubilee Eucharist exceeded our Tito Yllano, Archbishop of anniversary, the Golden Jubilee, of the greatest expectations and that is due in great Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB Diocese of Broome was an outstanding part to the wonderful work done in privilege for which I will always be thankful. preparation for the event and the effort of I hope the beauty of that moment will be a ‘See, now is the acceptable people to excel in every contribution made long lasting memory for us all. time; to the celebration. However, it was also most Our celebration of the Jubilee Year See, now is the day of salvation.’ evident to all who were there that the 2 Corinthians 6:2 continues in various forms and in various gathering was blessed by the Lord in a ways throughout the Diocese. The Year of special way. His Grace was upon us that Mercy too we recall now and until the Feast night when we praised His holy name in of Christ the King in November. Happily KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY gratitude for His gifts to us as a local the two Holy Years – of Mercy and of PROFILE is a publication of Church. This was after all a Mass of Golden Jubilee – continue to complement the Roman Catholic Diocese of Thanksgiving and we did it to the best of each other. Let us not cease to pray for the Broome, published six times a our ability. Diocese and for each other that this Graced year by the Bishop of Broome. I was privileged to celebrate the Jubilee Year may be a time when we shall grow ever Articles to do with the Kimberley Mass with the Holy Father’s representative closer to the Lord. are welcome to be submitted for in Australia, the Papal Nuncio, His publication. ENQUIRIES Diocese of Broome PO Box 76, Broome WA 6725 Tel: 08 9192 1060 Calendar of Events Fax: 08 9192 2136 Email: [email protected] World Youth Day Legacy Travelling Art Exhibition - SUBSCRIPTIONS Cross Christof and Balgo Subscription Rate $30.00 P/A Confirm dates with your local Parish Priest The opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily From 23 July Banners Collection those of the Bishop of Broome Balgo, Billiluna, Mulan 25 - 26 July Dates TBC Derby Civic Centre 9 am - 4 pm daily BROOMEDIOCESE.ORG Halls Creek, Ringer Soak 30 -31 July Date TBC Halls Creek Halls 9 am - 4 pm daily Broome Kununurra TBC August 15/16 Kalumburu 24 September - 9 October August 21 Pilgrimage to Rome and the Holy Land Derby Date TBC 20 November Broome Diocese Jubilee and Year of Mercy closing November 18-25 ceremony Dampier Peninsula 2 KIMBERLEY COMMUNITY PROFILE JULY 2016 With Thanks to All for Our Jubilee Dear Friends in Christ. The Jubilee and by means of his design and Cable Beach Club Resort which all Mass, attended by almost one creativity the Hall looked simply provided accommodation for thousand people, was a most splendid. He saw to it too that the interstate and overseas guests who memorable occasion celebrated with a event was well served by a wonderful attended the celebrations, and Matsos beautiful Liturgy in the makeshift video and audio system. Mr Tony Broome Brewery for their hospitality. Church set up in the main hall at the Rogers from the Diocesan Office led a Bev Kinney, Len Seabrook and Joan Broome Civic Centre on June 2nd. team of builders and workers that Pernich, Ivan Davies and Pat Walton The celebrations included major constructed the sanctuary and were a a team of people who provided contributions from the communities brought in furnishings including transport for the visiting Bishops. Sr of Bidyadanga-La Grange, the hundreds of chairs borrowed from Pat Rhatigan SSJG provided use of Peninsula, Balgo-Kutjungka, Notre Dame University. The staff of the Bernadine Room at the Sisters of Kalumburu, Warmun, Gibb River, Catholic Education WA were actively St John of God Heritage Centre for Derby, Halls Creek, Ringer Soak, involved in the proceedings and vesting before mass, and extended the Kununurra-Wyndham and Broome. thanks are due to local Regional opening hours of the Centre so that Annette Lands repainted the holy Officer Ms Carol Guerts as well as Ms more visitors had the opportunity to water bowl at the centre of the altar. Erica Bernard who welcomed people view the exhibition. Dianne Appleby welcomed people to to the Mass. The Priests and Of special note are the staff in my country while Maureen Yanawana and Principals and Pastoral Associates office who have carried a great deal Madeleine Jadai named the were supportive of this project for a since the idea of a Kimberley Jubilee communities present making those Kimberley Mass from the first Mass started to become a reality. As representatives feel much at home. moments when the planning for the we got closer to the event their tasks The accomplished Broome Cathedral Jubilee began. I am beholden for their became more onerous and I am much choir and musicians were ably support and that of their staff who indebted to them for their selfless assisted by a number of Community provided transport, in some instances generosity in applying themselves to groups and St Mary’s College kindly from very remote locations, and fixed the multiple chores that were loaded provided ushers and others to deal accommodation and meals for those upon them. with the complexity of detail that in their care. Their efforts at moving I would also like to make mention of results from staging such an event. people and providing for them in a group from Notre Dame University There were also some inspiring Broome was a magnificent who provided valuable assistance. I dancers from St Mary’s College who contribution to the success of the am thankful for their time and effort ‘prayed’ a liturgical dance fitting for evening. I would like to make special as well as the support of the Broome the dignity of the Mass, while earlier mention of the Principal of St Joseph’s Campus Director Dr Julie Coffin. in the Liturgy, the Gospel was danced- School in Wyndham, Ms Naomi I offer a most sincere thank-you to in by three young Aboriginal men Martin, who’s missionary everyone for their part in just being from Kalumburu suitably painted in consciousness and talent gave rise to there at the Thanksgiving Mass. I ochre, accompanied by Robert Dann the magnificent hymn, ‘Now is the trust you enjoyed this occasion of on didgeridoo. Groups from all over time,’ written and dedicated to the historical significance as much as I the Kimberley brought gifts as occasion. Thank you Naomi for that did. It was a Graced moment in our remembrances of the evening while special moment that is now part of spiritual lives and in the life of our people read prayers of the faithful in our story as Kimberley Mission. In Church in the Kimberley. May all of their local language. The Sign of the addition I am much indebted to our community in faith throughout Cross at the beginning of the Mass Jennifer Cambridge and her husband the Kimberley rejoice in God’s was in Yawuru, the local Broome area Barry, both of whom have spent hours choicest blessings poured out for us at language, as was the blessing at the and weeks connecting with people in this time of Jubilee. conclusion of Mass. Father David Orr remote areas of the Kimberley, being With every good wish to all. OSB assisted Sister Carmel Pilcher a support to people and parishes as RSJ as the Liturgical Consultants who, they developed their own programs in Yours Sincerely in Christ along with the Vicar General honour of the Jubilee, and as they Monsignor Paul Boyers and a very organized to attend the Jubilee mass competent and hard working in Broome. My thanks Jennifer and Committee, made sure that the Barry for all your kindness, time and various organizational tasks ran energy spent.