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Three more ordained for ministerial priesthood By Peter Rosengren Archbishop Hickey ordained three young men from the Neo-catechtunenal Way as priests for the Archdiocese of Perth in St Mary's Cathedral last Saturday morning, 9 December. The three - Jerome Tibon, Eugenio Zurias and Francis Sundararajan - were just part of the "wonderful harvest" produced so far by the Redemptoris Mater archdiocesan missionary seminary in Morley, the Archbishop said in his homily during the ceremony. Saturday's ordinations brought to 11 the number of men he has ordained for the Archdiocese so far this year. However four more deacons - three from St Charles Seminary and one from the Beds College in Rome - will be ordained this Friday, bringing the total to 15. Referring to the Morley seminary's role as a trainer of priests for missionary serNeo-catechumenal Way Deacon Eugenio Zurias kneels before Archbishop Hickey during the ordi- vice elsewhere and to recent years' highnation ceremony last Saturday in St Mary's Cathedral. Photo: Peter Rosengren er than usual number of vocations, the
Archbishop said: "We can say truthfully that God is blessing the Archdiocese and calling us to assist other places." Priests from the Morley seminary, run under the auspices of the Neo-Catechumenal Way, serve for at least two years in the archdiocese after ordination. However, while remaining priests of the Archdiocese of Perth, after two years they may be released by the Archbishop for work as Neo-Catechumenate missionaries elsewhere in Australia or overseas. If the case is the latter then 1Redemptoris Mater-trained priests will usually work somewhere within Oceania. Indicating the sorts of places in which the three new priests have already trained, and could conceivably be sent in the future, Missionary of the Sacred Heart Bishop Edward Collins of Darwin also attended the ceremony, while apologies were read out for Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome who had been detained there by Cyclone Sam. Continued on Page 8
To teach, live the Faith with the Church: Pope By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - In order to fulfil their mission in the Catholic Church, catechists must live their faith and must present the faith to others in complete harmony with official Church teaching, Pope John Paul II said. "It is not enough to have an intellectual knowledge of Christ and his Gospel," the Pope said last Sunday, 10 December, during a Mass concluding the two-day Jubilee for Catechists and Religion Teachers. "To believe in Him means to follow Him," the Pope told the 7,500 jubilee participants and thousands of others gathered for the Mass in St Peter's Square. Catechists should model their lives after that of St John the Baptist, he said, undertaking a serious personal spiritual journey, living simply and showing great courage in proclaiming the Gospel. Catechists were called to make straight the paths to the Lord, to fill every valley and make the rough roads smooth, he said. "These 'valleys to be filled' remind one of the separation some make between the faith they profess and the daily lives they lead," he said. "The 'paths to straighten' call to mind the condition of some believers who, from the complete and unchanging patrimony of faith, cut out some subjectively chosen elements" and stray from the path of the
A crowd packs St Peter's Square to celebrate a Mass with Pope John Paul II marking the Jubilee for Catechists last Sunday. Photo CNS,Catholx Press Photos
Gospel and its moral values, the Pope said. Catechists must lead people to Christ and show them the path which the Church firmly believes leads them to Him, he said. "All the faithful have a right to receive from those who, by virtue of their office or mandate, are responsible for catechesis and preaching, responses which are not subjective but correspond to the constant teaching of the Church," Pope John Paul said. "May the Christian message, whole and
universal, permeate every environment and every level of culture and social responsibility" he said. Pope John Paul said the fact that an estimated 2.5 million Catholics work as catechists around the world "gives me comfort and hope." At the end of the celebration, Pope John Paul gave a copy of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to five couples who are catechists and represented Africa, Asia, Europe, America and Oceania.
"With this gesture," he said, "I would like to underline that, in various languages and cultures, catechists are called to announce to the whole world the same truth: Christ, the only Saviour of the world, yesterday, today and forever." Meeting jubilee participants on Saturday, 9 December, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, which includes responsibility for catechesis, told participants that leading people to Christ meant leading them to his Church. The subject of catechesis was not just the historical Christ and what he said and did 2,000 years ago, it was Christ's living body, the cardinal said. "You are called to live and to express the greatness of the mystery of the Church," a mystery of communion which crosses the boundaries of time and space and accompanies those who believe in Christ, he said. "The Church alone is able to guarantee every man and woman an encounter with Christ the Saviour, which overcomes any partial and subjective vision of the Christian mystery," he said. Without the guidance of Church teaching, Cardinal Castrillon said, one who reads the Bible "ends up finding only himself, his culture or, more generically, the dominant mentality of his age." The cardinal asked catechists to reconfirm their communion with the Church and to commit themselves to a "360-degree" evangelisation, "that is, wherever people are present with their sufferings and joys, their fears and hopes." Further report - Page 12