Fr Paul Cahill (Prior Provincial) has announced the first round of changes to communities and ministries following our Provincial Chapter.
Fr Martinho Da Costa, after assisting at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Parish, Coorparoo QLD for the past 3 months, will move to Wentworthville NSW to be part of the Carmelite community there and to assist in the Parish.
Fr Paul Sireh will finish his term as Parish Priest at Coorparoo and begin a sabbatical early in August.
Fr Wayne Stanhope, who has been involved in forming our young Carmelite students, will move to Coorparoo as Parish Priest and Prior of the Carmelite Community there.
Br Pedro Armaral will be ordained deacon in Flores (Indonesia) on 7 July.
We wish all these brothers well as they take up these new appointments.
The Carmelite Centre Melbourne recently held a 3 day symposium on Creation Spirituality inspired by Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si'.
Catherine Sheehan from the Media and Communications Office of the Archdiocese of Melbourne reports:
THE CARMELITE Centre in Middle Park is currently holding a three day symposium on Creation Spirituality, inspired by Pope Francis’ encyclical, Laudato Si’. The symposium began yesterday with Philip Harvey, Librarian at the Carmelite Centre, giving a brief welcoming address to the attendees. Mr Harvey drew upon the Pope’s reference to the earth as a ‘home for everyone’, saying that the context for the symposium is that we ‘fall into awareness’ regarding the need to care for creation.
Welcome to the June issue of our Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation newsletter.
In this issue:
Reflections on Hiroshima
Non-Violence & Just Peace Conference
Daniel Berrigan sj, RIP
JPIC Calendar for this month
Prayerful Reflection for June
This week all 5 Carmelites living in Zumalai, Timor-leste, will be attending a week-long assembly of the Diocese of Maliana according to Br Antonio Olavio. As well as Br Antonio, Frs Manuel Almeida (Parish Priest), Augusto Galhos, Anselmus Dhegu and Br Carlito Da Silva will be attending.
Maliana Diocese has a population of 240,000 Catholics, 10 parishes, 90 missions, 15 diocesan priests and 20 priests belonging to religious orders or congregations and is led by Bishop Norberto do Amaral.
Please keep our Carmelites and the Diocese of Maliana in your prayers.
Following the Provincial Chapter, Fr Fernando Millan Romeral (Prior General) and Fr Benny Phang (General Councillor for Asia, Australia & Oceania) visited Whitefriars College.
Fr Fernando spoke about the changing face of our Province particularly in relation to the growing number of Timorese Carmelites, one of whom is Fr Angelino Dos Santos, Chaplain at the College. In recognition of the connection and commitment of Whitefriars College to the Carmelites and the people of Timor-Leste the Timor-Leste flag is now a permanent feature of the College landscape.
Br Carlito Da Silva recently graduated from the Institute of Religious Studies (ICR), Dili, receiving his Licentiate of Education.
ICR is a formation centre in Dili, Timor-Leste, which has 300 students studying to be teachers and social workers. For the past 6 years Br Carlito has been studying and practising his teaching skills.
At the moment he is working in the Carmelite Boarding House in Zumalai looking after the students and teaching in local schools. He also helps out in the parish preparing families and candidates for the Sacraments of Baptism and First Communion as well as those preparing for marriage, and offering days of recollection for students in Government schools and for youth in general.
Congratulations, Carlito!
The 2016 Provincial Chapter of the Carmelites of Australia & Timor-Leste was held from 25-29 April in Brisbane.
35 Carmelites were present including 14 from Timor-Leste together with 17 lay members of the Carmelite Family.
For the first time since the Carmelites in Australia took responsibility for the Carmelites in Timor in 2001 almost all Solemnly Professed Carmelites in Timor-Leste were able to attend and fully participate in the Chapter.
Click here for more information and photos from the Provincial Chapter.
May Newsletter of the JPIC Commission
In this issue:
Compassion, Jesus & the care of the Earth
Food Insecurity & Conflict
Justice for East Timor
JPIC Calendar & prayer for May
Welcome to the JPIC Newsletter
Welcome to the April issue of our Justice & Peace newsletter.
In this issue
Easter & Creation
Care for all that Exists: A Symposium
JPIC Calendar for April
200th Anniversary of Appin Massacre
Prayerful Reflection
Welcome to the March issue of our JPIC Newsletter.
In this issue
Fr Denis Andrew reflects on our experience of violence
Your invitation to the Carmelite symposium on "Care for all that exists"
International Women's Day - 8 March
National Close the Gap Day - 17 March
Earth Hour - 19 March
Your JPIC calendar for March
Prayers and reflections about personal conversion and justice & peace.
