THE P RTAL
May 2015
Page 18
Australia News roundup
from Eliza Frank
Ordination to the Diaconate
O
n 26 March 2015, Ian Wilson was ordained
as a transitional deacon by the Bishop of Port
Pirie, The Right Reverend Gregory O’Kelly SJ, to
serve the Ordinariate community in Adelaide, South
Australia. Along with Monsignor Harry Entwistle we
congratulate Ian for this important achievement and
look forward to his ordination to the priesthood later
in the year.
The Chaplet of the Divine Mercy is a Christian
The Revd Deacon Ian Wilson will continue as the
Moderator of the Adelaide Odinariate community of devotion, based on the visions of Jesus reported by
Blessed John Henry Newman. He looks forward to Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938), known as
“the Apostle of Mercy.” She was a Polish sister of the
being ordained to the priesthood later in the year.
Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy
as a Catholic saint in 2000. Faustina
Fr Stephen Hill gets a move and canonisedreceived the prayer through visions and
stated that she
onsignor Harry Entwistle, conversations with Jesus, who made specific promises
has announced the following Clergy News: Fr regarding the recitation of the prayers. Her Vatican
Stephen Hill will leave the parish of St Ninian and St biography quotes some of these conversations.
Chad, Perth on 30 April 2015, in order to undertake
a stipendiary ministry in the parish of Mayfield in Divine Mercy
the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle and establish an
Ordinariate presence in that Diocese.
for Catholics and Anglicans
M
Fr Stephen will continue as Director of Vocations
for the Ordinariate and hopefully will be able to hold
quarterly Ordinariate Masses in central Sydney until
a priest is available to take up ministry there. Until Fr
Hill is replaced, the Ordinary will act as Administrator
of St Ninian & St Chad, assisted by Fr Ted Wilson.
A
s a Roman Catholic devotion, the chaplet
is often said as a rosary-based prayer with the
same set of rosary beads used for reciting the Holy
Rosary or the Chaplet of Holy Wounds, in the Roman
Catholic