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Picks up three awards - In loving memory
Drusilla Mahoney - Finding them where they are
Book launched in three states
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Meetings, Victor Harbor
South Australian Chapter and Provincials
An evening mass celebrated at St Jude’s Port Elliot followed a local Chapter meeting at Victor Harbor on 11 March. Michael Lapsley, Provincial of the South Africa Province and Jonathan Ewer, Provincial of the European Province attended. The group then gathered at the Flying Fish seaside café, where conversations continued.
On the following day Father Christopher Myers, Provincial of the Southern Province (Australia), hosted a Provincials meeting also at Victor Harbor.
23–27 November 2009
Chapter Meeting,
Barossa Valley
Father Christopher Myers was elected Provincial at the Chapter Meeting in the Barossa Valley. He takes over from Father Matthew Dowsey who has served in the role for the past five years.
A session by the Right Reverend Dr Steven Pickard was a highlight of the meeting. Bishop Pickard spoke at length on Scott Cowdell’s book, Abiding faith: Christianity beyond certainty, anxiety and violence, which he reviewed recently. At the meeting he spoke of the book as ‘a deeply reflective and remarkable book on the nature of Christian faith, exploring how “having faith” has changed under the influence of modernity and post-modernity’. He said the scholarly work ‘resonates with truth’, and went on to make special reference to Cowdell’s examination of ‘the homeless heart’, which he said touches a raw nerve, and the transforming reality of ‘abiding faith’.
After the session, Sacred Mission Australia members called for more discussion at a future meeting of these and other concepts examined in Scott Cowdell’s publication.
Cowdell, S 2009. Abiding faith: Christianity beyond certainty, anxiety and violence. Cascade Publications, USA.
A trio of launches
Right Reverend (Hurtle) John Lewis
Bishop John Lewis’ extended thesis Finding them where they are was launched in three states—South Australia, Victoria and Queensland, at which the Bishop of North Queensland, the Right Reverend William (Bill) Ray, officiated. This launch was the occasion for friends new and old to celebrate, as Bishop Hurtle John Lewis AM had served as Bishop of North Queensland from 1971 to 1996. The Very Reverend Archbishop Pillip Freier officiated in Melbourne and the Right Reverend Bishop Steven Pickard in Adelaide.
Finding them where they are details Bishop Lewis’ efforts in enlisting community and Indigenous leaders in the service of the church. It goes on to describe the personnel he engaged and the legacy left to the church at a time when there is a definitive crisis in seeking leadership and new values.
Book Launch Photos
(L)The Right Reverend John Lewis at the St James Cathedral, North Queensland. (R) William (Bill) Ray, Bishop of North Queensland and John Lewis
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Townsville Bulletin Article
An idea whose time has come?
Margaret Dewey
In this small publication, member Margaret Dewey (long-serving editor of the Society of the Sacred Mission) explores the relevance of Father Kelly’s thinking in the postmodern world of quantum physics. ‘It seems that Father Kelly’s idea of theology is an idea whose time has come. And his willingness to live with uncertainty and paradox, in loving trust in the God of paradoxes, is a way of discipleship for the post-modern age’, she writes.
An idea whos time has come was released with the March 2010 issue of Missio.