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No. 2018. PERTH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1977
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More acolytes to be installed later this year There will be another diocesan installation ceremony for acolytes later this year, it was announced this week. Archbishop Goody made service anywhere they are On the other hand, the the announcement in a let- requested. use of an acolyte_ is a deter to priests. The period of an aco- cision for the local pastor The date has not yet been lyte's service is five years, and it is for him to deterfixed but is expected to be with the option of a renew- mine if there is a need for early in the second half of ed term. a particular acolyte's serthe year. vice. ASSESSMENT It will be the third such Acolytes who have gained This procedure is inmajor ceremony in four experience are now finding tended to enable the Archyears. A range of activities in which In 1974, Perth Archdio- bishop to assess, from time they can be of help pastt o time, the number of aco- orally. cese took the unique step, certainly in Australia if not lytes available and how in the English-speaking they are being deployed, ( e CONTLNUED PAGE 3) world at least, of instituting forty acolytes.
PREVIOUS INTAKES
} • Saint John of God Brothers, left to right,
BERCHMANS MOYNIHAN and MARTIN QUARMBY who are en route to Kalgoorlie and BENEDICT O'GRADY, formerly of W.A.. who is on a home visit to his family in Booragoon.
NO WOMEN PRIESTS, NOR IN DIACONATE
llospitallers arrive for Kalgoorlie work Two Hospitaller Brothers of Saint John of God arrived in Perth this week on their way to Kalgoorlie where they will take part in a project for Aborigines with Father Toop.
Following their warm reception in the parishes, a second group of 120 was instituted the next year. After a study is made of Several scholars agree They now have 64 memV ATICAN CITY Last year, there was no (NC). — In the light that the Church of the third the project, the Order will bers, including novices and major ceremony so that of the recent and fourth centuries in the consider the possibility of postulants, spread in N.S.W., Vatican parishes could get used to East was acting according taking up some form of Ab- Victoria, New Zealand and rejection of women bethe idea and assess their to what it considered to be original apostolate perman- New Guinea. ing admitted to the needs. out sacramental ordination. that these ordained widows faithful to the traditional ently. Along with the Kalgoorlie In the light of the ser- priesthood, the Church Originally the word "dea- exercised "iniportant female practice , of Christ and the The Brothers said that the initiative this week, two vice that these men are giv- also has no plans to con" meant simply "ser- ministries" and received Apostles in ordaining wo- step was part of their di- other Brothers are leaving ing to the parishes and change its exclusion vant." "ordination by imposition men to the diaconate. versification into many dif- for New Guinea to estabtheir sense of personal spir- of women from the of hands." Scholars also point out, ferent areas of helping peo- lish a medical mission in a Some texts ancient seem itual gain, interest has in- diaconate, a Vatican remote mountain area. to indicate that deaconesses According to the monsig- however, that the traditional ple in need. creased. consultor has said. received a real sacramental nor, these women took roles of the Eastern Church The Hospitallers were Their present activities ordination by a bishop, their place with the clergy deaconesses would have lit- founded in Granada by IN SYDNEY Jesuit Father Louis Ligier tle meaning in contempor- Saint John of God in 1537. cover general and psychiatcomplete laying with behind on veil of which the sepAdded to this was the ex- told reporters that the reric nursing, care for alcoary society. pected problem of men hav- cent document restating the hands (the sacramental sign arated the laity from the The Australian founda- holics and drug-dependents, priests at Mass. ing to move to other areas Church's ban on women's of ordination). But if women were actu- tion was pioneered by a social work and a centre for The Didascalia ,Npostoand so parishes find their ordination to the priesthood ally ordained sacramentally, group of eight who arrived psychologically disturbed numbers need to be built up purposely did not take up lorum ("Teachings of the CODIFIED STATUTES as early documents seem to from Ireland in 1947; all children, and in New again. indicate, that fact could have subsequently died, in Guinea a welfare remand the question of ordaining Apostles"), a document of They received Communthe Syrian Church from the Interest in the acolytate women deacons. have broad repercussions Australia. centre. ion after the deacons and third century, and the Syraround Australia is also exfor the status of women in "This document is fully before subdeacons. ian Apostolic Constitutions pected to increase now that silent on the question the Church today, despite of Sydney Archdiocese is in the of a century later show the Among their duties were the newly restated ban on deaconesses and, for the deaconesses as included instruction of female cate- ordaining women as priests. Process of instituting its moment, the Church has no first 200 acolytes. among the clergy after re- chumens and guidance of ( • SEE ALSO PAGE 2) intention to change its preceiving a true ordination, women dedicated to virginArchbishop Goody has sent discipline," said Father with laying on of hands by ity and purity, including asked for names of possible Ligier. a bishop. leading them in prayer. Candidates to be submitted ON INSIDE PAGES "For the moment, the by March 31. These women-ministers question is not open." Parish priests are asked visited sick women, and Calendar . . 4 ORDAINED WIDOWS' to get the advice of the parA commentary by the ' anointed women at the moish council or some other Doctrinal Congregation on Classified Their functions, according ment of Baptism. similar group on selecting its new women's ordination to these documents, were Advertising 10 Msgr. Delhaye also points men of the right calibre. document indicates, how- liturgical participation in the out in an written article sevLetters 9 ever, that a future separate Baptism of women, includCANDIDATES study of the issue of deac- ing the anointing of women eral years ago that Byzan6 Candidates will be asked onesses could be undertaken. catechumens with oil, and tine Emperor Justinian codi.. Marriage . fide statutes for deaconesses. to attend a training proMonsignor Deaconesses existed for performances of works of They were entitled to gramme and a preparatory hundreds of years in the charity. McMahon 9 retreat and then they may Eastern Church, public trial and earned their as ancient century document, A fifth subsistence from the Church. News In Pars formally apply to be ad- documents attest. 4 Syrian again from the mitted as acolytes and a There is some controversy Church, speaks of "ordained Sister Phi lomeno central selection committee PETER FENNESSY OR PAT MURPHY. SCHOLARS AGREE Will announce decisions on among theologians, however, widows." Earle 11 not ministheir or whether At one point, the clergy behalf of the Archbishop. Monsignor Philippe Del10, 12 It is pointed out that aco- try was indeed sacramental. haye, a theologian who is of the Church of Holy Wis- Sport in -1Ytes are instituted for the Constaninople Theatre Some feel that they might secretary of Pope Paul VI's dom 8 diocese and therefore are have been chosen for a dia- International Theological counted 425 members, 40 CANNINGTON: 1308 Albany H/Way. 68 1826 free to be used for such conate of service only, with- Commission, has written of whom w ere deaconesses. TV and Radio . MELVILLE: Canning H/Way. 39 1711 lic 0891 8
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