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1 The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross AUSTRALIA-WIDE Publisher: Ordinariate of OLSC: 40A Mary Street, Highgate 6003 Western Australia. Mobile Phone: 0409 377 338 Editor: C/- St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 60 Davey Street, Frankston. 3199 Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Mid– November 2015: Free E-Mail Edition Circulation: Australia and Overseas DISCLAIMER: Views expressed in the articles of this Ordinariate Publication “Australia Wide” are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. FROM OUR ORDINARY: Monsignor Harry Entwistle. A CAUTIONARY TALE There was once a mountain that belonged to the Church. It was called Mount Docprac because it reminded members of the Catholic Church that the unity between what the Church believed (doctrine) and how that doctrine was lived (practiced) should be as strong as the mountain itself. Over the centuries, Catholics climbed the mountain, doing their best to live faithfully to the teachings of Jesus who gave the mountain to the Church. A few struggled hard and despite many setbacks, they persevered and reached the summit. Others did their best and made some progress and when they failed they started again. The guardians of the mountain, the Pope and the bishops had to be expert climbers because they had to show the way to each new generation of Catholics and find different paths to enable them to succeed. Above all, they had to encourage perseverance, especially in difficult weather conditions. Climbing this mountain was never easy, and when some Catholics lost their tenacity they became frustrated with it. They were influenced by the views of Protestant Christians who no longer had their own mountain because they preferred to live what they thought was an easier life on the flat earth with those who chose for themselves what to believe and how to behave. These Catholics told the guardians of the mountain that while they still wanted the mountain, it was too hard to climb. They said that if the mountain were made smaller and less steep, more Catholics would successfully climb it. They even suggested that unbelievers and some from other churches whose own Docprac Mountain had disintegrated would come and join them. The leader of the guardians listened and called a three-week long meeting at which this and other matters were discussed in an open and frank way. Despite the best efforts of some of the guardians who said that the mountain could not be changed because Jesus had given it to the Church, other guardians thought that if change enabled more people to come and climb the mountain, it would show the world how pastoral, merciful and compassionate the Church was. Their voices prevailed. Though the top of the mountain was removed even fewer people came to climb it, so as time went on, the mountain became smaller and smaller with no steep inclines at all. The once majestic and strong Mount Docprac finally crumbled until it was nothing but a pile of pebbles and dust. Some of the true believers con- tinued to gather at that pile and tried to rebuild the mountain, but this remnant were few and were ridiculed by those who were happy to live on the flat earth with the unbelievers where they lived as they wished and pre- tended the mountain still existed. But among the faithful remnant gathered among the rubble, Jesus stood and wept. Pray for Pope Francis and the faithful guardians and laity that this tale never comes true. [Rev Monsignor Harry Entwistle: November 2015] 1 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] THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE IN AUSTRALIA CELEBRATES: “DIVINE WORSHIP: THE MISSAL” The Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross will give thanks and praise to God as we commence to use the new Ordinariate Missal: Divine Worship in all parishes on Advent Sun- day 29th November 2015. Some of the parishes will introduce the new missal in the following ways:- PERTH: Fr Ted Wilson reports: St. Ninian & St Chad parish church, Perth is organising a special event on Advent Sunday at the 9,30am Mass. Monsignor Harry Entwistle will officiate with a blessing of the new book after the prayers around the Advent candle/wreath. He will then celebrate the Mass using the new missal and preach on the background to the new missal and the Ordinariate generally. We will conclude with an “enhanced” morning tea. We also will take a few photographs which could be used in a future edition of “Australia Wide.” ADELAIDE: Fr Ian Wilson reports: We will celebrate the Mass and with at least our usual seven or so in attendance. Naturally it will be as spe- cial as we can muster with present resources and hopefully I will have a server, so it can include solemnity. This will be at 11am Advent Sunday at St Marys Lower North Adelaide. We will advertise it in the Cathedral Parish magazine and hopefully some Diocesan Catholics will attend. MELBOURNE: St Edmund Campion Parish: Mentone: Fr Ramsay Williams reports: The new Missal – assuming it has arrived by then – will be ‘launched’ and used for the first time at the 9.30 am Sung Mass on the First Sunday of Advent. An article introducing the new missal has already appeared in the parish bulletin of the Parish of Mentone/Parkdale and in the leaflet for the Ordinariate Parish [All Saints’ Day]. The new Missal will be blessed at the beginning of Mass. Parishioners will be invited to offset the cost of the new Missal with donations. SYDNEY: Fr Ken Hagan reports: My Ordination to the priesthood is on Sat. 28 Nov. at Holy Rosary Cathedral, Waitara NSW (a Sydney sub- urb) by the Bishop of Broken Bay (Peter Comensoli). At my Thanksgiving Mass at St. Mary of the Cross Mackillop Church, Warnervale, , I am going to place the new Ordinariate missal, Divine Worship, on the altar. I plan to offer a prayer of thanksgiving for the new missal, and tell the congregation about it. Also, one of the diocese’s communications team is presently helping to arrange a short press release for the local TV Stations’ news bulletins, together with one for the local papers, about the new missal and the Ordinariate of OLSC. CAIRNS: Fr Gordon Barnier reports: Due to local Torres Strait cultural activities in Cairns, our next available Sunday Mass time will be Advent 2 when we will have a blessing of the new missal: Divine Worship, at our 10.00am Mass. The new missal will be carried into the Church to be placed on the Altar by two hefty men. 2 3 RADICAL ECUMENISM – A NEW CATHOLIC MISSAL By Fr Ramsay Williams On the First Sunday of Advent this year [November 29] a new Missal of the Catholic Church will be used for the first time in parishes of the Ordinariate in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and Canada. It will be an historic occasion with radical ecumenical implications. The Missal, called ‘Divine Worship – The Missal’, is remarkable in that its texts are largely drawn from the Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican tradition or ‘patrimony’. It contains the Order for the Mass, and the variable prayers and other scriptural texts, instructions and rubrics and music, and the liturgical calendar for Ordinariate congregations. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI established the Ordinariates by Papal Constitution in 2009. Anglicanorum Coetibus was a response to requests from Anglicans worldwide wishing to return to the rock from which Anglicanism was originally hewn, without losing their identity or liturgical heritage. It was a pastoral and ecumenical initiative, build- ing on, although separate from the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission on unity, established in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. [See Annals, June 28, 2014] The decree of the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments officially authorising the new Missal, was promulgated on May 27th this year, the Memorial of St Augustine of Canterbury. It stands alongside the Roman Missals of 1970 – third edition, and the 1962 version of St Pius V’s Missal [the ordi- nary and extraordinary rites] as an officially authorised liturgical use of the Latin or Roman rite. The new Missal is thus firmly in the western tradition. It is a variant of the Roman Rite, and is not a distinctive or separate rite. [Anyone in communion with the Holy See may receive Holy Communion at celebrations of the Ordinariate Mass, and fulfil their Sunday obligation. Any member of the Ordinariate may receive Communion at any other authorised Eucharistic rite of the Catholic Church. Normally, a priest of the Ordinariate will be the celebrant of the Ordinariate Mass, but any Catholic priest may celebrate the Divine Worship Rite for an Ordinariate congregation if an Ordinari- ate priest is not available for some reason.