THE P RTAL
December 2014
Australia Pages - page 9
Ordinariate appreciated. Father Stephen said: “We now December and on into the future.”
progress forward to our next Mass: the Vigil Mass on 6th
Perth Celebration of Life
Mgr Harry
Entwistle, the Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross,
was a concelebrant at mass alongside the Most Revd Timothy Costelloe,
Archbishop of Perth and some of his diocesan clergy in St Mary’s Cathedral on
Saturday 22nd November. The Mass was offered as a celebration of the dignity and
wonder of human life and was followed by displays presented by groups involved
in raising the dignity of human life, sharing the work they do. Given the increasing
pressure against the pro-life stance taken by the Catholic Church in Australia, it is
important that all Catholics be prepared to defend the Faith delivered to us.
Mgr Harry Entwistle
The Permanent Diaconate
On January
15th 2015, the Ordinariate
in Australia will have its first Permanent Deacon
among its ordained ministers. Neville Rorhlach from
the Ordinariate parish of St Thomas à Becket in
Brisbane will be ordained by Bishop Brian Finnigan to
be an icon of Christ the Servant.
The three orders of clerical ministry in the Church
are those of bishops, priests and deacons. All bishops
and priests are deacons and that is why, especially at
ordinations, bishops wear the dalmatic of the deacon
as well as the chasuble of the priest. Most deacons
go on to be ordained as priests, but there are an
increasing number of men who are called to minister
permanently as deacons. As such they are ordained to
be servants, for that is what the name deacon means,
of God’s people in communion with their bishop (or
Ordina