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TOGETHERIn the Diocese of wagga.catholic.org.au FREE SEPTEMBER 2020 St Columba's Primary School Berrigan inside BISHOP'S VOICE 2 ST PATRICK'S GRIFFITH 17 IN OUR SCHOOLS 19 MASS TIMES 24 1898-2020Full story on page 4... 2 BISHOP'S VOICE TOGETHER IN THE DIOCESE OF WAGGA WAGGA is published monthly, eleven times per year, and is available free at parish churches, schools, Bishop's Voice presbyteries and religious houses throughout the Wagga Wagga Diocese. 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Bishop of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga Annual Subscriptions $33 Australia Date: 11 September 2020 $44 Overseas Prayer Intention for September - Pray with Pope Francis Respect for the Planet’s Resources In the beginning, God created the earth and everything garden to “…cultivate and care for it,”. In other words, within it and upon it, bearing us in mind all the while: the manner in which we are commanded to “subdue” We pray that the planet’s resources will this world was made for us. When He created Adam and have “dominion” over the Earth is to imitate the and Eve in His image and likeness He said to them example God showed Adam when He fashioned, from not be plundered, but shared in a just “Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. the wilderness, a patch of paradise: Adam was meant and respectful manner. Have dominion over…all the living creatures…”. This to make the whole Earth an Eden. We haven’t license to word “subdue” is a strong one; our instinct is to see it do whatever we want; rather we have the responsibility Visit this link to hear the Pope deliver his monthly prayer: in terms of crushing some manner of resistance. Some to receive what God has entrusted to our care and use http://popesprayerusa.net/category/pope-video/ see this as God telling Adam to conquer the wilderness it for the fullfilment of our needs, and tend it well, not outside of Eden, that mankind has a blank check to only for the sake of future generations but in honor of Pope’s Worldwide use the Earth as it sees fit. But this is not so: notice the God who fashioned all things. Let us use the Earth what God does in the beginning. and everything in it, yes! But let us recall what the poet Prayer Network “The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, Emerson once wrote “We do not inherit the Earth from APOSVLESHIP OF PRAYER and placed there the man whom he had formed,”. our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” http://popesprayerusa.net/popes-intentions/ Later Scripture tells us that God placed Adam in the TOGETHER - SEPTEMBER 2020 NEWS 3 Fr Joel Wallace appointed Vicar General Bishop Mark appointed Fr Joel in a limited tenure until the first anniversary of Bishop Mark's liturgical reception on 22 July, 2021. Bishop Mark thanked his priests for and supported the bishop of the day their patience whilst he researched faithfully and effectively. who might be the Vicar General for Bishop Mark consulted widely and Fr the Diocese of Wagga Wagga. Fr Joel Joel's name was mentioned by many as Wallace was appointed Vicar General being a suitable and wise choice. He is of a limited tenure until July 22, 2021, seen as a sensible, sound, hardworking the first anniversary of Bishop Mark's and a good priest with integrity by many.. liturgical reception at Wagga Wagga. Being Vicar General is not a promotion, On behalf of the Diocese, Bishop it is a different way to live out one’s Newly appointed Vicar General, Joel Wallace Mark thanked Mgr Doug George who baptismal commitment, another way of Priest with a very steady workload, and the Curia. has generously been Vicar General and serving God and his people. this is a limited term appointment, Bishop The Diocese wishes Fr Joel well in his delegate of the Apostolic Administrator Given that Fr Joel is in Albury, is a Parish Mark has not appointed him moderator of new endeavour. adventure so far include a working holiday at Kalumburu in the Kimberley, helping out at the Seminary, leading spiritual pilgrimage through the Holy Land (with some parishioners as it turned out) and teaching the Theology of the Body to clergy in PNG on several different trips with Dr Adam Cooper (CTC). Supporting Capt Joseph Maloney at Latchford has been interesting and led to a recruitment process as a Reserve RAAF Chaplain. Hobbies include all 2017 Family Reunion North Pine Dam. Welcoming Amelia Flores into the things that fly and 40 series Landcruiser St Patrick's community. restorations. Father Joel Wallace was born and raised in Pine Rivers, Queensland. initiative with passion and even helped The following is a bio written by Fr train the parish priest for the Uganda Joel. International Marathon in 2018! Our Early memories include Sunday Mass Parish school leaders, staff and families in an aircraft hangar at a bush airstrip are an integral part of all of these owned by Ron Versace at the founding adventures, as well as various other of Holy Spirit Parish, Pine Rivers. Ron Christians and locals in general. More was a local Catholic who had a business recently, the community undertook in PNG and regularly commuted in to offer support for the Missionary his Piper Twin. He had offered the Aviation Fellowship (MAF), a multi- use of his hangar while finances were denominational global initiative, who raised to build the Parish Hall. Early Fr Joel supporting Uganda Kids Missionary. regularly fly food, medicine, education influences include stories from the learned (mostly from my own mistakes). and Christian missionaries to the First 1968 40 Series Landcruiser restoration East African and PNG missions by lay After completing Counselling remotest communities on earth. completed under Kevin Tankard's and clerical missionaries, members of qualifications and having very much Great memories along the direction 2016.