Holy Spirit Province PROVINCIAL NEWSLETTER

Date 18/07/13 Edition 031/2013

Dear Brothers, Sisters and Friends in the Passionist Family, Provincial Visitation This week I began the official visits the Provincial must make once each year to each of our Passionist communities. I began with our community at St Gabriel's community, Endeavour Hills where we have the pastoral care for the parish of St Paul, Apostle. The community is smaller now, with Fr Brian Gleeson, Fr Tony Egar and Fr Tim O'Toole as parish priest.

Coinciding with the visit was the presence of Fr Sugun from our student community in Boroko, Port Moresby and Fr Jose who is Assistant Novice Director of our international novitiate in Adelaide. On Sunday after attending all the masses in the parish we started the dialogue in the typical Australian way, at an RSL. Monday, Tony took our visitors to see their first koalas, kangaroos and wombats.

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Fr Graham Orwin and Br Gary Clarke Gary has been a guest of the Holy Family Maronite Sisters in their residential Village 2 in Dulwich Hill for almost a year now. Fr Graham after coming out of Royal Prince Alfred has moved into Village 1, Marrickville, the other end of the property. They got together today for the regular Wednesday Mass celebrated by Fr Gary Perritt, with his father who is also a resident. Each Wednesday after Mass they adjourn down to the local Pizzeria for home made pasta. Fr John Pearce - World Youth Day Chaplain John Pearce leaves on Sunday 14th for Peru and Brazil as a World Youth Day Chaplain for the Archdiocese of Sydney. His group will spend a week in Peru, part of which will be mission work in shanty towns on the edge of Lima, building stairs up the side of a hill, a work of the Christian Life Movement. They will also go to Cuzco Machu Pichu before arriving in Rio De janeiro. After the week in Rio they go to Iguazu Falls for a 3 days retreat and de-brief. He expects to meet up with Joachim and Denis either in Lima or Rio. John returns on Saturday 3rd August. There are 26 people travelling to WYD with a Marrickville Connection, including 15 from Casimir College.

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Deputy Prime Minister from Marrickville In the recent changes in leadership for the Federal Government, Marrickville's own Member for Grayndler, Anthony Albanese MP, was elected Deputy Prime Minister. Within days he was Acting Prime Minister while K Rudd was in Indonesia. His Marrickville Road office soon became The Lodge, with the addition of Federal Police agents. On 9th July, John Pearce and Parish Secretary Terrey Threthowan attended a reception for the new DPM together with Fr Nicholas Bozikos from the local Greek Orthodox Church. This year John and Nicholas are forging new ties between their parishes, based on the intermarriage of many of their members. The attached picture includes State Member for Marrickville Carmel Tebbutt, wife of Anthony. Carmel was Deputy Premier of NSW in the former Labour Government.

Tom CP
Rev Thomas P. McDonough CP Provincial Superior.

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