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AUSTRALIA-WIDE The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Publication address: -E Edition OLSC News Sheet: C/- St Francis Xavier Catholic Church, 60 Davey Street, Frankston. 3199 Vic. Australia. contact Phone: 03-9783 3484. E-mail: [email protected] Mid-October 2014 Free E-Mail Edition Circulation: Australia and Overseas ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ CONGRATULATIONS AND CELEBRATIONS AT ST NINIAN’S and ST CHAD’S PERTH Monsignor Entwistle writes: “September 21st was a day of celebration at St Ninian’s, Maylands WA when Andrew was received into the Catholic Church and confirmed and young Zachary, a Catholic who completed the Catholic Rites of Initiation in the Ordinariate was confirmed. 50th ANNIVERSARY This day, 21st September was also the 50th anniversary of ordination of Mon- signor Harry Entwistle to the Anglican priesthood in Blackburn Cathedral, Lanca- shire UK. [See Page 6 for Monsignor Entwistle’s article “Golden Jubilee” published in The Portal.] THE ORDINARIATE ENTERS IT’S THIRD YEAR Monsignor Entwistle was the first to be ordained to the Catholic Priesthood for the Ordinariate in Australia, and was made The Ordinary. The first laity to be received into the Ordinariate in Australia were the 40+ people from St Ninian’s Maryland on June 15th, 2012. St Ninian’s became the first Australian Ordinariate parish in Perth, W. A. “Melbourne followed on 8th September, 2012 with four ex-Anglican clergy being ordained to the Catholic Priesthood by Archbishop Hart, in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne. The first Ordinariate parish in Melbourne was established by the Ordinary at Holy Cross Catholic Church, South Caulfield, where the Ordinary received a number of people into the Catho- lic Church as members of the new Ordinariate parish of St Benedict. As our third year begins, the Ordinariate has spread all around Australia.” (AW) NEW PARISH FOR ORDINARIATE Father Lyall Cowell, has moved from Brisbane to the New South Wales diocese of Lismore to become the Parish Adminis- trator, Priest in charge, of the Parish of St John’s Mullumbimby. He began his ministry in the parish on 6th September 2014. Fr Cowell will be the first Ordinariate priest in Australia to undertake the administration of a Diocesan parish. His appoint- ment will be for three years. Fr Cowell will remain a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, with responsibility to the Bishop of the Diocese of Lismore. Fr Lyall Cowell said: this un-usual appointment in the Australian Catholic Church highlights the ministry of the Ordinariate that brings diversity and unity within the Catholic Church. Fr Cowell said he would have the added responsibility of pro- moting the Ordinariate in the Lismore Diocese. [By Eliza Frank] Page 2: Joanne Bogle tells all : How LOGS started. Page 4: Fr Nicholas Pearce continues his Camino. Page 6: “Golden Jubilee” by Monsignor Entwistle. Pages 6 and 7: Letter from Ottawa, Canada. 1 LOGS: WHAT IS IT? By Joanna Bogle, DSC. [Editor: I wish to thank Joanna Bogle of the UK Ordinariate Magazine: The Portal, for accepting my invitation to present an article to explain the organisation “LOGS” Ladies Ordinariate Group which has been established in the UK for women of the Ordinariate. Similar organisations, but more Australian, with women and/or men as members, could get off the ground in some of our Ordinariate parishes.] LOGS stands for “Ladies Ordinariate Group.” It all began when I (a cradle Catholic who joined the Ordinariate simply because my husband was raised an Anglican, and so we were able to do so.) I asked some of the nice women at the Ordinariate parish in London if they would like a women's group. So we met one evening in a bleak room and brewed some decent coffee and shared some nice cakes and got started. We called ourselves LOGS because we didn't want to waste time choosing a complicated name, and some one said "Well, we're the Ladies Ordinariate Group" and it stuck. We meet once a month, with a guest speaker - initially, we were too small to merit an outside speaker, so one of our own group would give a talk about a woman from the Anglican tradition who had done some great work - so we worked our way through a list:: Octavia Hill (founder of the National Trust) Lilian Bayliss (founder of the Old Vic Theatre) Florence Nightingale, and more... and by then our group had grown and we had taken on some big projects. With a modest grant from an ecumenical group, we launched the Psalms Project for children in London's primary schools (age 5-11). We bought envelopes, and addressed them by hand to every Anglican and Catholic primary school in Greater London. We created a brochure which said: "Choose one of the psalms below and write out a minimum of 4, maximum of 6 lines...and then, in one paragraph, give reasons for your choice". We called it the Children's Handwriting and Artwork Project. We chose joyful and glorious psalms, "As the deer pants for running streams..." "The Lord is my shepherd..." and entries came pouring in...we read each one, gave prizes for the best (Christian books, bought at a dis- count because we had to buy so many, from Christian bookshops). We displayed some of the best entries in our Church. That was last year, 2013. This year we did a similar project, but on a much larger scale, with the children writing out the "Our father..." It took a lot of work. And quite a lot of money - about £700, which was covered by the grant from the ecumenical group...a group with which I am deeply involved and which is well-funded, so I was able to make the application. WHAT ELSE HAVE WE DONE? 1- We also go carol singing each year at London Bridge railway station, raising funds for charity 2– We went together for a weekend to Walsingham to reflect, pray, and commit ourselves to the future...this was such a good event that we plan to make it an annual event. 3– We lobbied our local Member of Parliament on the subject of same-sex "marriage". We had a meeting with him in the House of Commons...to no avail. At least we established our freedom to teach that real marriage will never go undefended. 4– We have day-pilgrimages, notable to Littlemore (where John Henry Newman lived etc) and to Whitstable in Kent (diocesan Vocations Centre- we've undertaken to pray for vocations and support the Centre's work, and in return they welcome us each year, and the priest celebrates Mass for us, gives us a talk, and we hear from some of the young men who are planning to be priests...and it's by the sea, so we enjoy a walk on the beach and of course ice creams...) 5-We have monthly meetings, with a range of outside speakers. In October we have an (Anglican) author on C.S.Lewis, in January a talk on vestments and liturgy... 6– We pitch in to help provide the refreshments etc for Ordinariate events: we are hosting a Reception on September 20th following the Ordinariate Festival in London. The Ordinariate parish, to which we belong, will cover the costs for the groceries involved. We do the cooking and preparation. 2 LOGS Continued The aim in making a decision to formalise our organisation was/is to enable other groups to form, so we will have a central committee and each branch can have a representative on it. We would like a big annual get-together: (not at Walsingham - too remote. May be Birmingham because of its links with Newman...) for a Mass, conference with a good speaker, discussion, celebration... The "Our Father" project was also taken up by two other Ordinariate groups in different parts of Britain (again, I was able to get funding) and we hope these might in due course form LOG’s branches... We planned to create a banner, and perhaps blue sashes to be worn over the shoulder, e.g. for a parish Marian procession... this began as a joke, but we thought a simple form of identification might be a good idea. WE HAVE A LOT OF FUN We have a lot of fun and we don't take ourselves too seriously. We are mostly not young women, several have grandchildren. We all have jobs/homes/family/business responsibilities. Our one inflexible rule, apart from adhering to the teachings of the Catholic Church and supporting the mission of the Ordinariate. We pray the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary each week. THE FUTURE Above, there’s photo of LOGS taken at Whitstable in Kent, in the garden shrine at the Vocations Centre. Whitstable is an enchanting town, famous for its oysters, with a lovely harbour and beach, an old-fashioned English seaside. If you wanted to start a Group in Australia, e.g. for both men and women - it could have any name that you wanted. I am happy to send the brochure we used for the "Our Father" project. There is an urgent need to teach the basics of Christianity to children who simply won't pick it up from the general culture in the way that previous generations have done. What ever groups start in Australia, we'd love to have fraternal links, ex- change news, ideas, etc. I would LOVE to help set up something in Australia...it's a long way for one chatty evening, but maybe a video-link or something? We have many family links in Australia, and we often visit… [Joanna Bogle: [email protected] ] The Ordinary on the Ordinariate Supporter’s Network: The Ordinary, Monsignor Harry Entwistle has encouraged all Ordinariate members and supporters to join him in developing the Ordinariate Supporter’s Network.