15 July 2007 The Tablet A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER TO THE CATHOLICS OF THE DUNEDIN DIOCESE T HE T ABLE T (INCORPORATING THE DIOCESAN NEWS) 15 July 2007 Issue No. 123 AN PAS ES TO Making Faith C R Bishop Announces O A I L D C N Fully Alive O I U Two Appointments “Facilitating and encouraging the use of the D N E C best Resources, Talents and Information N I U L Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ for Faith and Pastoral Development” D Diocesan General Manager Welcome to the third communication of the DPC at this exciting time of our faith life. Many moving events are taking place in our As you are aware, for some time now the position for a Diocesan diocese, including the World Youth Day Cross, the Walking New Paths General Manager has been advertised on a wide basis. After a period Programme, the vibrant buzz around our Catholic Schools and the of consultation I am pleased to announce that Mr Stuart Young from development of our Diocesan Pastoral Website. the Hamilton Diocese has been appointed to the position. We would just like to clarify how the website will “Make Faith fully The role of Diocesan General Manager has been created to provide alive”. There are many ways in which people experience God and their a full range of management support services through leadership faith within the parish community. Each community has its own and management of Diocesan resources, employees and delivery of priorities, gifts and unique charisma, which the Spirit enlivens us with. organisational outcomes, particularly in respect of Diocesan strategy, By providing up-to-date interactive communication via our website finance and asset management. we hope people will have easy access to the resources, information, His previous employment background includes both IT systems guidelines and Church teaching and the evolving practice of our Catholic management and accountancy, most recently at Power Farming way of life and traditions. We wish to be solution- focused, supportive (Wholesale) Limited. Additionally, he has worked in the central and encouraging to individuals, groups, parishes and young people. government, finance and rural sectors. Ryan Priemus is developing the website around the 17 priorities Stuart and his wife Shona have three children and are members of that the people of the diocese expressed, discussed and prayed with, the Morrinsville Parish. He has been on the school Board of Trustees and which have been acknowledged by Bishop Colin. as Chairman, and worked at Parish and Diocesan level with a keen Thank you to those who have provided feedback. Please continue to interest in RCIA. give your thoughts and feedback at [email protected] or write It is anticipated that Stuart will commence employment on 6 August to Diocesan Pastoral Council Private Bag 1941, Dunedin. If you are 2007 and will initially undertake a programme of familiarisation and aware of sites or articles of interest, especially around the 17 priorities, information gathering. please send links to these to the above email address. Just to remind you of those priorities again: Catholic Prison Chaplain at Milburn • Availability of Mass & Sacraments – To be able to reasonably I am also pleased to confirm the appointment of Sister Veronica have access to Mass each Sunday Casey as Catholic Chaplain to the new Prison complex at Milburn. • Being Outward/Mission focused “Care of the Sick and those Veronica belongs to the Presentation Sisters whose foundress, Nano in Prison” Nagle, saw Prison Ministry as one of the charisms of the new religious • Care for those in the ministry – “the priest resource needs to family. be nurtured and not worked into the ground” • Ecumenism For many years, Veronica has been involved with the health sector, at • Education and Faith formation for old & young many levels. Beginning as a nurse in 1971 she has seen many areas of • Encourage vocations nursing and health administration and in 2001 became Chief Executive • Fundraising and addressing management of resources Officer, Paediatric Society of New Zealand. • Holy Spirit – Prayer Her interest in Prison Ministry goes back to 1983. • Investigate possibility of deacons or importing priests from In her novitiate work with the Presentation Congregation since overseas 2005, besides undertaking theological and pastoral studies in the • Lay Leadership/Participation – Reviewing what Ministries United States and later in Ireland, her major ministry was the presently covered by priests could be undertaken by laity Wheatfield Men’s Prison in Dublin which she visited two days a week • Maintaining communities and establishing smaller faith over a period. communities In making this appointment I consider her to be eminently suitable • Married priests – Petition Rome for the position as Catholic Chaplain at Milburn, knowing she will • Parents of young children, care for families/marriages work well with the staff, the Ecumenical Chaplain and the community • Re-Evangelising “We need to assist people in returning to the agencies. With her leadership skills she is well prepared to meet the practice of their faith” religious and spiritual needs of inmates and staff within the Milburn • Regrouping parishes. Amalgamate town parishes first institution and the community it serves. • Sharing decision-making • Youth + Education of Youth. “A number have questioned the In the Spirit effectiveness of our schools in leading young people to an + C D Campbell active participation in their faith” likewise the need to address Bishop of Dunedin the faith of young people. Page 1 The Tablet 15 July 2007 Water: A Precious Resource Tony Hanning awarded rare Recently a group gathered together to reflect and look at the issue of water which is our universal source and medium of life. Here, Papal Knighthood they share the results of their meeting in a letter to Tablet, sent by On the evening of 14 June, the director of Catholic Education for Father Pat McGettigan. the Dunedin diocese, Tony Hanning was ‘stunned’ to be called from his The water that I shall give will turn into a spring inside them. Jn 4:14 seat in St Joseph’s Cathedral during a Mass for the National Conference Dear Editor of Catholic Education Administrators, and presented by Bishop Colin Campbell with a citation and the insignia of the Order of Knights of St We believe water is one of our most precious resources. Our gathering Gregory the Great. discussed important questions around (water and) the right of all God’s creatures to have access to clean, drinkable water. The award of the Papal Knighthood came as a complete surprise to Tony, though not to his wife Genny and their family, who had been We believe water is an important and sacred symbol in our Catholic secretly informed of events and faith and we have a responsibility to honour this important, life-giving had, unknown to Tony, been seated gift. After learning about some of the key issues around water we each at the back of the Cathedral until made a commitment to be more responsible for our own personal use the presentation, when they came of water and to encourage others to do the same. forward to be with him. Of particular concern is human interference in our waterways for In making the presentation, the personal gain. With the prospect of over twice as many sheep farmers Bishop explained that the papal award converting to dairying in the next year south of Timaru it is worth was constituted in 1831 by Pope considering some of these salient points: Gregory XVI to honour, acknowledge A. 800 litres of water are required to make one litre of milk and promote outstanding moral B. 70% of our rivers, streams and lakes are already polluted (ref to and intellectual achievements by fish and game) lay persons, not only in Church C. $600,000 of electricity each year is consumed by a single dairy affairs but also in secular and civil farm. society. Tony Hanning’s many years Here are just a few of the reasons why we believe it is important to of involvement in the Church – most use water wisely: notably in Catholic Education, and his internationally recognized - 97% of the earth’s water is salty contribution to the wider community through the Lions Club, made - Of the 3% sufficiently free of salt to drink, most of that is tied up him a very fitting recipient of the award, Bishop Colin said. in glaciers, sheet ice or deep under ground Having been a teacher and school principal in the state system in - Only 0.0001% of the earth’s fresh water is readily available Otago and Southland for 20 years, Tony was appointed Principal of - 40% of the global population lacks access to safe, clean drinking St Mary’s School, Mosgiel in 1979. For most of this time he had given water freely of his time and talent to Catholic education administration, the - Polluted water is estimated to affect the health of 1.2 billion parent teacher movement and the NZEI. He was invited by Bishop people annually and contribute to the death of 15 million John Kavanagh to take on the role of Director of the Catholic Education children annually Office for the Diocese of Dunedin and was the first lay person appointed - On average you use about 2 gallons of water to brush your teeth, to the position, on 1 October 1981. and 4-6 gallons to flush the toilet. Tony has held this position for more than 25 years, and in that time Some of the ideas that we came up with to conserve water: has worked for three of the diocese’ six Bishops: Bishop John Kavanagh, Bishop Len Boyle and now Bishop Colin Campbell, and acts as the - Do something about leaky taps Bishop’s representative on various educational organizations.