Newsletter The Personal of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Vol 2 No 6 June 2021 Trinitytide

Inside This Issue Page 3 The Ordinary’s Message Seminarian Snippets And so begins Trinitytide. But not without two Page 5 significant festivals in the first two weeks; the Why the Ordinariate? A view from the pew… Friday after 1 (11 June) being the Sacred Page 6 Heart of Jesus; but, the week before that, the Anniversaries and Goings-On equally splendid Solemnity of The Most Holy Page 8 Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). And, On Being In, not Of the World just as the Ascension of the Lord occurs 40 days after Easter Page 10 Day – on a Thursday – but is in many English-speaking June Calendar around the world, “bumped” to the next Sunday; so too, the proper day for Corpus Christi is the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (3 June this year). And just like the Ascension, in very many English-speaking Catholic parishes around the world, it is bumped to the next Sunday, thus displacing the First Sunday after Trinity. If you refer to the calendar further into this issue, you will see that we have accommodated the celebration of Corpus Christi, either on its proper day of Thursday, or, the following Sunday. This is also reflected in the newly posted 2021 Ordo for June to August on our web page under Prayer Resources. A personal story about Corpus Christi. In Ottawa, Canada when we were received into the Catholic on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2012, through the process that resulted from the issuing of the Anglicanorum coetibus, I had been at our very modestly sized Traditional Anglican Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary for 26 years, following my move to Ottawa from Canada’s west coast in 1986 to study theology. We had had a long standing fellowship practice that carried over seamlessly from our Anglican days into the – that of a sit-down breakfast on Saturday mornings following the . About a year-and-a-half after our being received into the Catholic Church and several months after my ordination as a Catholic priest, we had a surprise visitor one Saturday morning. NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 1 In September 2013, a German priest, Monsignor Hans Feichtinger had been assigned to St George’s Catholic parish, only a few blocks away from the Annunciation. The assignment was accompanied by his also overseeing the one German Catholic parish in Ottawa, several blocks away; a logical arrangement. Mgr Feichtinger, before coming back to Canada (he had earlier obtained an M.A. in Nova Scotia), had served at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome during the time of the of Anglicanorum coetibus. Thus, when he showed up one Saturday morning in late 2013, it was not really a surprise that he had an interest in the local Ottawa Ordinariate community. In our conversation that morning he wondered whether perhaps the Annunciation and St George’s might do something jointly. Without hesitation, I suggested a Corpus Christi procession; and, without hesitation, the Monsignor readily agreed. My last participation in such had been in 1977 in Toronto at the iconic super-high-Anglican parish of St Mary Magdalene where Healey Willan had been the organist/choirmaster from 1921 until his death in 1968. Perhaps Willan, who emigrated from England to Canada when he was in his early 30’s, is not that well-known to all and sundry in Australia; however, some musical historians claim that Willan was the most prolific composer of church music after Johann Sebastian Bach. Of interest is that his daughter, Mary Willan Mason, in 2011 entrusted the musical estate of her Anglican father to Father Scott Haynes in Chicago; Fr Haynes being at the time one of the at the wonderfully restored Catholic parish of John Cantius. Mgr Feichtinger was able quickly to discover that St George’s still had the baldacchino (the canopy for outdoor processions), though it had not been used for decades. Logistical planning for the Ottawa Corpus Christi procession began in earnest; with the two parishes being separated by a busy street, various permissions were required from the Ottawa police in permitting us to interrupt traffic – twice – for the procession from St George’s to the Annunciation and back again. Sadly, I was not there to participate in the inaugural re-introduction of this traditional practice, as in the interim months prior to Corpus Christi 2014, I was, after 28 years, “called home” to , British Columbia, where, even though there were three priests in the Ordinariate community, they were all beyond retirement age. We left for the 4,700 km drive to the west coast shortly after Easter 2014, thus missing the first major Solemnity that follows Trinity Sunday. I am very happy to report that, until COVID cancelled the 2020 procession (I don’t know about this year), the procession quickly became a much loved part of the Church year for the two new sister parishes.

The photo is from the well-attended 2019 procession.

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 2 In addition to the of the two parishes, in the years between 2014 and 2019, the Archbishop of Ottawa, the Papal Nuncio to Canada, and Steven Lopes of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, have all participated. The Right Reverend Monsignor , PA Ordinary Seminarian Snippets Thoughts from the desk of a seminarian, Bradley Le Guier for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross ✠ “Those who follow the leading of God’s spirit are all God’s sons; the Spirit you have now received is not, as of old, a spirit of slavery to govern you by fear; it is the spirit of adoption, which makes us cry out Abba, Father. The Spirit himself thus assures our spirit that we are children of God; and if we are his children, then we are his heirs too; heirs of God, sharing the inheritance of Christ; only we must share his sufferings, if we are to share his glory.” Romans 8:14-17, from the of the Hours. We are crossing a bridge at the moment, specifically a bridge. Behind us is the Ascension. Christ has ascended to His Father; in a visible sense He has left us, and we might start to ask “How will Christ be present with us if not visibly?” At the other end of this suspension bridge is the feast of Pentecost, when Christ has promised to send us the . As there was so much to anticipate in that first Pentecost, so there is now. By the grace of that feast, the image of Christ already present within us will be perfected, by the power of the Holy Spirit crying out “Abba, Father!” within us. By the grace of that feast, our fears are overcome and we are strengthened to suffer for love of God, to preach God’s word, and to do God’s will. And by the grace of that feast, we are assured of our adoption as Children of God. But the grace of that feast is still just under a week away. So here we are, held in suspense. What about Christ’s visible presence? Friends, by the power of the Holy Spirit, we are to be Christ’s visible presence on Earth. We are called to be perfect images of Christ. When people see us, rather, when people see you they should see Christ. When you see me, I hope you see Christ. You might say “Oh I’m not there yet, but I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it!” Well, we are on that bridge now. The immensity of this calling reminds us of how much we need the Holy Spirit. This week, let’s join to pray as a cenacle in union with the Cenacle of Heaven. We are on the edge of the coming of the Holy Spirit. Let us pray earnestly in hope of His coming, with faith in His power to renew the face of the earth, and our faces too. (This was given as a reflection during the Seminary Community’s Evening Prayer for Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter, between the Feasts of the Ascension and Pentecost.) ✠

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 3 I’d like to share with you a prayer written by St John Henry Newman in praise of the Holy Spirit. I’m finding much food-for-reflection in it, and I hope you do too. I ADORE Thee, my Lord and God, the Eternal Paraclete, co-equal with the Father and the Son. I adore Thee as the Life of all that live. Through Thee the whole material Universe hangs together and consists, remains in its place, and moves internally in the order and reciprocity of its several parts. Through Thee the earth was brought into its present state, and was matured through its six days to be a habitation for man. Through Thee, all trees, herbs, fruits, thrive and are perfected. Through Thee, spring comes after winter and renews all things. That wonderful and beautiful, that irresistible burst into life again, in spite of all obstacles, that awful triumph of nature, is but Thy glorious Presence. Through Thee the many tribes of brute animals live day by day, drawing in their breath from Thee. Thou art the life of the whole creation, O Eternal Paraclete—and if of this animal and material framework, how much more of the world of spirits! Through Thee, Almighty Lord, the angels and sing Thee praises in heaven. Through Thee our own dead souls are quickened to serve Thee. From Thee is every good thought and desire, every good purpose, every good effort, every good success. It is by Thee that sinners are turned into saints. It is by Thee the Church is refreshed and strengthened, and champions start forth, and martyrs are carried on to their crown. Through Thee new religious orders, new devotions in the Church come into being; new countries are added to the faith, new manifestations and illustrations are given to the ancient Apostolic . I praise and adore Thee, my Sovereign Lord God, the Holy Ghost. St John Henry Newman, from Meditations and Devotions. ✠ How are things going? The semester is coming to a close - I’m writing two major essays for my classes now, and I’ll sit the exams in a few weeks time. I’m looking forward to a break from study. What have you been reading? I still haven’t finished Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor. I joined a group of seminarians in watching The Lord of the Rings a few weeks ago, and enjoyed a weekend in the Blue Mountains while the Seminary was on a break for Mother’s Day. I’ve found it needful to make time for fraternity and recreation in the last few weeks. ✠ Please continue to keep me and my formation in your prayers, and know that you are in my prayers also.

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 4 Please continue to keep me and my formation in your prayers, and know that you are in my prayers also. Bradley Le Guier is a seminarian for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. He is in his Third Year of formation for the Priesthood at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd in Homebush, . Bradley is from , . ›š›š›š

Why the Ordinariate? – Views from the Pews of Ss Ninian & Chad

“And what then can be found immutable and sure, but God’s word and promises, illustrated and conveyed… in the person of His faithful servants?” – John Henry Newman I first discovered the Parish of Ss Ninian & Chad at the time our Ordinariate was erected, almost 9 years ago. At that time, I was enrolled in a Bachelor of Theology at UNDA Fremantle and was keenly exploring the riches of the Universal Church. I had a growing interest in the of the Church and spend time in various Parishes: Ordinary & Extraordinary Forms of the Latin Rite, a local Byzantine Parish, and with different Religious Orders. Through the turmoil that was the first years of my 20s, I increasingly longed for which would form me. I had the mixed blessing in 2013 of being too unwell to think much about what I was receiving, while still longing for formation. The variously pastoral or liturgical void I was experiencing in the parishes which falsely focused on one to the (near or total) exclusion of the other was painful beyond my illness. This, I say, is a mixed blessing: the Ordinariate Parish was there to nourish me. This, even though I was only able to make monthly , saved my sanity and my Faith. (How closely linked those two are!) The simplicity, beauty, and consistency of the entire communities way of being and doing taught me – a convert from agnosticism – more about the Love and Beauty we call than my theological studies did. Perhaps more than such studies ever can. My longing for formation had seen me become a ‘Roaming Catholic,’ wandering between Parishes and not committing to any community. I was rootless but searching, and the constancy and consistency of the Ordinariate Parish gave me somewhere whereon I could be grafted. Becoming grafted to something rooted in the Ancient Faith which was alive with true Community: this is the formation I hadn’t found elsewhere. Being able to form whole and healthy human relationships within a stable and healthy community of faith gave me the safety to tentatively plant roots, which becoming both more fully myself and a member of the community. It is the constancy and consistency of the Parish, mirroring and making present the constancy and consistency of Christ in His Body, which drew me to the Ordinariate. What has kept me here and allowed my roots to find deep wells is – to use the words of St John Henry Newman – the “personal influence of … [those] who are at once the teachers and patterns of … holiness embodied in personal form.” That is, the love of Jesus Christ flowing to, in, and through the Ordinariate parishes – known especially to me in my ‘Mother House’ of Ss Ninian and Chad – has brought a taste of the peace which passeth all understanding. The constancy and consistency I see in my fellow parishioners teaches me every time I see, hear, or remember it, that they are those “patterns of… holiness embodied,’ and that I am called to the same.

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 5 õõõõõõõ Anniversaries This Month

BIRTHDAYS Father Lyall Cowell – 4 June O Jesus, Eternal Priest, keep Thy priests within the shelter of Thy Sacred Heart, where none may touch them. Keep unstained their anointed hands, which daily touch Thy Sacred Body. Keep unsullied their lips, daily purpled with Thy Precious Blood. Keep pure and unworldly their hearts, sealed with the sublime mark of the priesthood. Let Thy Holy Love surround them from the world's contagion. Bless their labours with abundant fruit, and may the souls to whom they minister be their joy and consolation here and their everlasting crown hereafter.

Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us: obtain for us numerous and holy priests. Amen.

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The Eastertide Appeal is making progress. By way of reminder, the funds this year are dedicated to the support of our seminarians: information on them can be found on our web page (www.ordinariate.org.au) under the “About Us” tab; “Our Men in Formation.” As was the case last year for the Lenten Appeal, we shall keep the books open in hopes that we can move further along the road to our target. Many thanks indeed to those who have already donated!

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 6 And from our Community of Santa Cruz in Guam You may recall last year that an article was included on the Rogation Days, which, in part described the practice of “beating the bounds” of the parish. Our community in Guam didn’t begin until just before Christmas; but perhaps either they read back through Newsletter issues, or keeping the Rogation processions is something that has remained part of the Church’s liturgical practices on the island. In either case, well done, even if it had to be done in darkness!

NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 7 On Being In, not Of, the World David Bonagura, Jr. 26 May 2021 This column first appeared on the website The Catholic thing (www.thecatholicthing.org). Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. “Be in the world, not of it.” So, Catholics are same manner – it is the forces that lead us called to live – engaged in worldly affairs, away from God: but not shaped by them. But what does that If with Christ you died to the elemental mean, practically speaking? And what is spirits of the universe, why do you live as if “the world” that we have to be wary of? How you still belonged to the world?. . . .If you ought we approach it? have been raised with Christ, seek the things This commandment of living comes directly that are above, where Christ is, seated at the from Jesus Himself at the Last Supper, when right hand of God. Set your minds on things He refers to “the world” a staggering thirty- that are above, not on things that are on earth, eight times. (John 14-17) Sometimes He for you have died, and your life is hidden means the physical place, such as “I am with Christ in God. . . .Put to death, therefore, leaving the world and going to the Father.” whatever in you is earthly: fornication, But more often He refers to “the world” as a impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed spiritual force that is inherently at odds with (which is idolatry). On account of these the Him and His mission. “If the world hates wrath of God is coming on those who are you, know that it has hated me before it hated disobedient. (Colossians 2:20, 3:1-3 and 5) you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” Christ takes us “out of the world,” away from the people and spirits opposed to Him, with the goal of transforming us to be less like the world and more like Him. But we do not get to stay on Mount Tabor. Jesus also prays, “As thou didst send me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.” This has been the model of priestly and religious formation for centuries: those who are called to serve leave the world – temporarily – for the seminary or the cloister, so that they may be formed and then return to the world to fulfill a mission: to convert “the world” by combating evil with the grace of Christ, the True Vine by an unknown artist, 16th God. century [Byzantine and Christian Museum, St. Paul, and the Christian Athens, Greece] thereafter, has understood “the world” in the “The things that are above” are the driving force of Christian life. Obstacles to heavenly NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 8 things – sin, above all – must be eliminated: condemned as evil, no matter how popular “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it they may seem. out and throw it away.” (Matthew 5:29) Over But we cannot stop here, arguing against evil the centuries Catholics have demonstrated without offering a counter-vision of the good the priority of heaven over earth in different life. Following St. Paul, we have to make ways. On the more radical level, for the attractive, seek for ourselves, and live “the primitive Church, it was through martyrdom. fruit of the Spirit,” which “is love, joy, In subsequent ages, it was via , peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, celibacy, and the monastic life. The faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” principle, though lived with varying degrees (Galatians 5:22) of fervency, endured, as seen, for instance, in Thomas à Kempis’ 15th-century Imitation of Third, we all must practice regularly, to the Christ: “The only way your soul will find rest degrees we are able, Christian asceticism, is to turn to God with your whole heart and which restrains the desires of the flesh and abandon this wretched world.” reminds us that spiritual goods are greater than temporal ones. Our sacrifices can be as Modernity, however, has embraced “the grand as tithing or as small as foregoing salt world” as its god, a consequence of its on food. To forsake prayerfully any good of repudiation of the things that are above. this world is a profound expression of our Salvation now is indulging in the world’s love for God. allurements and political causes. What was once immoral now is promoted actively in Finally, we must constantly render thanks for schools, while evil has been reduced to all the good things we enjoy in life – faith, “systemic injustices” remote from most family, sports, leisure, technology, art, people’s daily lives. With this fatal shift has literature – for what they truly are: gifts from come the absorption of many Catholics into God. Through the Holy Spirit, St. Augustine “the world” so that there is seemingly little teaches, we can see that “a thing is good difference between them and everyone else because it derives from Him who simply Is.” in terms of how they live. In this way we can use the goods of creation as God desires, and not as the world dictates. To reverse these priorities, we need a Biblical response. First, with our Lord and St. Paul, Our Lord knew that being in, and not of, the we must restore the things of God to first world would never be easy. So, He rigged place and recognize “the world” for what it is the outcome for us, even if we still have to – forces that keep us from God. Ideas and struggle through the game. “In this world practices that contradict the must be you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) David G Bonagura, Jr.

David G. Bonagura Jr. teaches at St. Joseph’s Seminary, New York. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church: Trusting God's Plan of Salvation.

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NEWSLETTER OF OLSC VOLUME 2 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2021 9 June – The Month of the Sacred Heart

For the Readings at Mass and the Daily Offices please refer to the Prayer Resources tab on the Ordinariate web page (www.ordinariate.org.au)

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 30 May 31 May 1 June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 June TRINITY VISITATION St Justin Feria CORPUS Feria St Bonfiace, SUNDAY OF THE Martyr (Ss CHRISTI Bp & Mtr BLESSED Marcellinus (St Charles VIRGIN & Peter Mtrs) Lwanga & MARY Comp, Mtrs) 6 June 7 June 8 June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 June TRINITY 1 Feria of Feria of Feria of Feria of MOST The (MOST Trinity 1 Trinity 1 Trinity 1 Trinity 1 SACRED Immaculate HOLY (St Columba, HEART OF Heart of BODY AND Abbot; or, St JESUS Mary BLOOD OF Ephrem, Dn CHRIST) & Dr)

13 June 14 June 15 June 16 June 17 June 18 June 19 June SECOND Feria of Feria of Feria of Feria of Feria of Feria of SUNDAY Trinity 2 Trinity 2 Trinity 2 Trinity 2 Trinity 2 Trinity 2 AFTER (St Richard of (St Mary on TRINITY Chichester, Saturday) Bp) 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June THIRD St Aloysius Ss John Feria of NATIVITY Feria of Feria of SUNDAY Gonzaga, Fisher, Bp Trinity 3 OF ST JOHN Trinity 3 Trinity 3 AFTER Religious & Thomas (Ss Hilda, THE (St Mary on TRINITY More, Etheldreda, BAPTIST Saturday) Mtrs Mildred) 27 June 28 June 29 June 30 June FOURTH St Irenaeus, SS PETER Feria of SUNDAY Bp & Mtr & PAUL Trinity 4 AFTER (The First TRINITY Mtrs of the Holy Roman Church) The Holy Father’s Intention for June is “Let us pray for young people who are preparing for marriage with the support of a Christian community: may they grow in love, with generosity, faithfulness and patience.”

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