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		Friends of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross BREAKING NEWS ORDINATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD IN MELBOURNE Archbishop Denis Hart and I are pleased to announce that the ordination of 8 candidates to the priesthood will take place in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne on the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8th at 10-00 am. There will be 4 candidates presented with letters dismissory from the Ordinary of Our Lady of the Southern Cross and 4 candidates from the Archdiocese of Melbourne. This will be a momentous occasion not only for the cadidates, but for the Catholic Church in Melbourne and Australia and I commend those about to be ordained to your prayers. The candidates from the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross are JAMES GRANT; NEIL FRYER; CHRISTOPHER SETON; RAMSAY WILLIAMS The candidates from the Archdiocese of Melbourne are ANDREW McCARTER; BENNETH OSUAGWU; JEROME SANTAMARIA; KEVIN WILLIAMS The Very Rev'd Fr Harry Entwistle ORDINARY "Information Day" News Following the Information Day at Our Lady of Victories Basilica, Camberwell on July 14th, we had undertaken to provide the papers presented at that occasion on line here and as PDF's Three of the papers are ready to upload and the fourth will be ready soon (early August). Please be patient and keep an eye on this site. This site is for the purpose of stimulating interest in the provisions of the Apostolic Constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus" promulgated by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. By filling in the form (see JOIN in the left box) you will submit your details to the co-ordinator of the "Friends" who will include your address details on the Mailing List. Your inclusion as a 'Friend' does not commit you to accepting membership in an Ordinariate if and when one is set up. Anyone is welcome, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, feel free to join if you are interested. We encourage anyone who is interested to JOIN with us PRAYERS FOR THE ORDINARIATES Eternal Father, we place before you the project of forming the Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans seeking full communion with the Catholic Church. We thank you for this initiative of Pope Benedict XVI., and we ask that, through the Holy Spirit, the Ordinariates may become: families of charity, peace and the service of the poor, centres for Christian unity and reconciliation, communities that welcome and evangelize, teaching the Faith in all its fullness, celebrating the liturgy and sacraments with prayerful reverence and maintaining a distinctive patrimony of Christian faith and culture. Drawing on that heritage we pray: Go before us, O Lord, in all our doings with thy most gracious favour, and further us with thy continual help; that in all our works, begun, continued and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy Name, and finally by thy mercy obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. V/ Our Lady of Walsingham. R/ Pray for us as we claim your motherly care. V/ Saint Therese of the Infant Jesus. R/ Pray for us as we place this work under your patronage. V/ Saint Mary of the Cross McKillop. R/ Pray that we may share your abandonment to Divine Providence. V/ Blessed John Henry Newman. R/ Pray that Christ's Heart may speak unto our hearts. V/ Saints and Martyrs of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. R/ Pray for us and accompany us on our pilgrim way.