Deus Lo Vult—God Wills It MMXV 1st Quarter EQUESTRIAN ORDER OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE OF JERUSALEM Lieutenancy of Queensland Newsletter This Issue Calendar Page 1 Meetings and Events 2015 (first Half) 2015 Calendar New Papal Nuncio for Australia First Sundays of every month for Mass at St Patrick’s Church, Fortitude Page 2 Valley and Nourishment afterwards (Except January). Holy Land Newsletters distributed Brisbane Archdiocese to strengthen child pro- Jerusalem Day and AGM was held 14th March 2015 tection policies Advance notice The Order’s Asia Pacific Meeting 16-18 October Year of Mercy Page 3 Dr Paul Bartley, Knight of the Grand Cross New Papal Nuncio to Australia Order and Lithuanian Knights Destruction of Churches in Arabian Peninsula Vinnies elects new national president Pope Francis has appointed as Apostolic New Project Development Office - WEBPAGE Nuncio to Australia, His Excellency the Most Rev. Adolfo Tito Yllana, titular Archbishop of Page 4 Montecorvino and until now Apostolic Nun- Featured website - Sacred Places We remember our deceased members cio to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Archbishop Yllana was born in 1948 in the Page 5 Some Internet Links Philippines. Australian Lieutenants Lieutenancy of Aust. Qld Council Members . In 1972, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Caceres, Philippines. Follow- ing his doctorate in civil and canon law, Archbishop Yllana completed post-graduate studies in international diplomacy at the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy in Rome. Archbishop Yllana was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Papua New Guinea and titular Archbishop of Montecorvino on 13 December 2001. He was ordained Bish- op on January 6, 2002. On February 5, 2002, Archbishop Yllana was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to the Solomon Islands and later appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Pakistan on March 32, 2006. His appointment as Apostolic Nuncio to the Demo- cratic Republic of Congo took place on November 20, 2010. The 67-year-old Archbishop speaks English, Spanish, Italian and French. Thr President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, Archbishop Denis Hart, yesterday welcomed the appointment of Archbishop Yllana to Australia. "For the Bishops, priests, religious and people of our country, I am deeply grate- ful to Pope Francis for his nomination of Archbishop Adolfo Yllana, as Apostolic Editor: Nick de Weger KCHS Nuncio to Australia, to succeed Archbishop Paul Gallagher. It is an indication of Mob 0413 239 717 the Holy Father’s love and concern for us all." phone 07 3715 6625 Published: 18 February 2015 in Catholic News Email: [email protected] A BELATED HAPPY EASTER SEASON TO ALL. 1 with parishes and agencies since January 2014. In her first HOLY LAND NEWSLETTERS twelve months, she has prepared a Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults Policy and conducted workshops and During this Newsletter quarter, The following Holy Land and training throughout the Archdiocese for priests and parish Magisterium News letters were sent to members via email links: staff; - From early 2014, upgraded the position of Queensland Fr. Kildani: School curricula are fully devoid of Arab Christian history see Director of Professional Standards from a part-time to full- http://en.abouna.org/en/holylands/fr-kildani-school-curricula- time position with the addition of further resources; are-fully-devoid-arab-christian-history - Offered all survivors of child sexual abuse now coming forward unconditional, ongoing counselling with outside The Latin Patriarch Newsletter at therapists; http://en.lpj.org/2015/02/16/the-turkish-ambassador-visits-the- - Arranged for Dr Monica Applewhite, a world expert on latin-patriarchate-of-jerusalem/ child protection, to conduct workshops and seminars with article published by Fr. David: priests and others in the Archdiocese in July; http://en.lpj.org/2015/01/21/the-future-of-christians-in- the-middle-east/ Ensured the Archbishop is now personally involved with all complaints coming forward and the progress And also http://fr.lpj.org/2015/02/19/bulletin-diocesain-davril- of their complaint. mai-juin-2014-numero-special-pape-francois-en-terre-sainte/ the English version can be accessed under the language tab shown as "Langues" The Holy Year of Mercy Grand Magisterium (to be found within the website of the Holy See) latest quarterly publication, the Newsletter no 37 issued in January 2015. Pope Francis announces new global jubilee, the http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/ Holy Year of Mercy institutions_connected/oessh/newsletter/news- Published: 16 March letter37_en.pdf 2015 Year of Mercy Symbolically calling on the entire Roman Catholic Nick de Weger church to take up his Papacy's central message of compassion, Newsletter Editor Pope Francis has announced that he is convoking a jubilee year to The Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge, has released be called the Holy Year of Mercy, reports NCR Online. Saying he has "thought often about how the Church can make Brisbane Archdiocese to strengthen child more evident its mission of being a witness of mercy," the Pope announced the new jubilee year during a Lenten penitential ser- protection policies vice in St Peter's Basilica. a suite of new initiatives and A jubilee year is a special year called by the Church to receive stronger child protection blessing and pardon from God and remission of sins. The Church policies in response to the has called jubilee years every 25 or 50 years since the year 1300 and has also called special jubilee years from time to time, known Royal Commission’s findings as extraordinary jubilee years. into the way the Archdiocese "I am convinced that the whole Church -- that has much need to dealt with a survivor of child receive mercy because we are sinners — will find in this jubilee the sexual abuse in 1999. joy to rediscover and render fruitful the mercy of God, with which In a statement released on we are all called to give consolation to every man and woman of Thursday, Archbishop Cole- our time," Francis said in announcing the year. ridge has once again apologised to survivors of child sexu- "Let us not forget that God pardons and God pardons always," the al abuse and outlined how the Archdiocese has responded Pope continued. "Let us never tire of asking for forgiveness." since appearing before the Royal Commission in Decem- "We entrust it as of now to the Mother of Mercy, because she looks to us with her gaze and watches over our way," Francis said. ber 2013, as part of the its examination of the Church’s "Our penitential way, our way of open hearts, during a year to Towards Healing process. receive the indulgence of God, to receive the mercy of God." As part of the response to the Commission’s hearing and The pope also said he wants the church to live the upcoming holy its findings the Archdiocese has: year "in the light" of Jesus' words in the Gospel of Luke: "Be merci- - Employed a full time Child Protection Officer to work ful, just as your father is merciful." 2 Dr. Paul Bartley Knight of the Grand Cross Vinnies elects new national president Dr. Paul Bartley was awarded the honour of Knight of the Grand Not-for-profit consultant Cross at our Jerusalem Day mass. This award is the second high- Graham West has been elected as new president of the St Vincent de est in our Order, other than the members of the Magisterium few Paul Society National Council of Aus- Knights and Dames have received this award. tralia, reports the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne. West has more than 20 years’ experience working in Govern- ment and not-for-profit agencies. He has been a long-time See Page 4 for photographs member of the Society and was formerly the CEO of the St Vincent de Paul Society in NSW and, more recently, the Coci- ety's national vice-president. West said after his appointment, during the weekend: "We are the Order and Lithuanian Knights one of the largest human rights organisations in Australia, re- sponding to need wherever it is found. We are also especially entrusted to advocate on behalf of people who are marginal- ised and we are committed to building an Australia trans- formed by compassion and built on justice. I want to share with you some good news. My paper about "This vision is one that is shared by the community and young the Order and Lithuanian Knights has been published in the people in particular. Indeed it was this commitment by young main Catholic magazine in Lithuania. It is the very first full people that founded our Society in 1833. When I first joined the Society at 17, it had a far more diverse age range both in size publication about the Order in Lithuanian media. We members and in leadership than we do currently. We have had few notes (few sentences length) published in else- been extremely successful in schools, but need to renew our where. I have already received very positive feedback from efforts to encourage post-school leavers to be an active part of readers about this. Therefore, the Editor invited me to the Society." West succeeds Anthony Thornton as president. write something about Order, Holy Land and Christians in this part of the world regularly. Published: 25 March 2015 Mindaugas Stankunas <[email protected]> New Project Development Office - WEBPAGE Destroy all Churches in Arabian Dear Excellencies, Partners and Friends of the Latin Patriarchate of Peninsula Jerusalem. Saudi grand mufti: De- Greetings from the General Administration. stroy all churches in On this occasion, I would like to share with you our New Project Development Office Webpage, as a link from the main LPJ web- Arabian peninsula site. (www.lpj.org) Published: 20 March This new platform will enable you to have first-hand access to all 2015 the available projects of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in all four areas where we serve in.