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Post-Ordination Remarks 1:58:00 Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPGbk2lNMFk Ordination of Michael Nazir-Ali  to the Sacred Order of Presbyters Post-Ordination Remarks The Rev. Fr. Michael Nazir-Ali Thank you Fr. Keith for this opportunity, and first of all, of course, I would like to express my gratitude to His Eminence Vincent Cardinal Nichols for coming and for spending so much time. Actually, more time than he had allocated, because he arrived an hour earlier than he had intended. I’m sure that’s in God’s providence. And, of course, to Monsignor Keith and to Gill for their gracious hospitality. For Archbishop Bernard, for journeying with me and actually even turning up at the railway station to show me the way – so, that’s really quite literally showing me the way - thank you very much indeed. To so many of the clergy in the Ordinariate whom I have known previously for many years, and it is very good to see so many here today. You will have seen various interviews a...

Photo: ACBC https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/first-torres-strait-islander-priest/ http://www.ordinariate.org.au/news/kopel-gibuma-ordination-and-confirmations/ Thanks be to God for the ordination of Fr. Kopel Gibuma! May his faithful service inspire others to join in the mission of the Ordinariate to save souls. In St Francis Xavier Church in Cairns, Lismore Emeritus Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett ordained 55-year-old Fr Kopel Gibuma to the Catholic priesthood to minister in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross (OLSC). Fr Gibuma is the first Torres Strait Islander to be ordained a Catholic deacon and Catholic priest and he will minister in the parish of Cairns with Dauan Island, in the remote top western islands of the Torres Strait. - Catholic Weekly Ad multos annos!

The official website of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter has posted a video of the ordination: https://www.facebook.com/CSPOrdinariate/videos/1747452055343634/

Archbishop J. Augustine Di Noia: In a lecture at Queen’s College, Canada, in 2010, Cardinal William Levada, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, noted: "Twenty-eight years ago, the great historian of ecumenism, Fr. Yves Congar, wrote that if we take seriously that the Holy Spirit has been working among our fellow Christians, we have to take seriously the ways they express their beliefs. When their particular expression of faith adds harmony to ours, and ours add harmony to theirs, the logical step is to pass from talking longingly about unity to living in unity, a unity whose essence is revealed in harmonious diversity." Divine Worship and the Personal Ordinariates represent, in many ways, a realized ecumenism. Here, the unity of faith allows for a rich diversity in the expression of that faith, creating a space wherein the cadences of the Coverdale Psalter and the sobriety and disarming frankness of the Prayer Book will continue...

Mass of Ordination of Father Aaron Bayles, Father Joseph Reffner, Father Matthew Whitehead and Father Ed Wills at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham on May 31, the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.  Praise and thanks be to God for these men ordained to the presbyterate, for offering their lives in service to God for the people of God. Te deum laudamus! Our Lady of Walsingham: pray for them. Watch the video: https://ordinariate.net/news/video-may-31-2018-ordinations

From the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross comes the great news of a forthcoming diaconal ordination. Historic Torres Strait Ordination The Ordinary, Msgr Harry Entwistle is pleased to announce that the first ordination of a Torres Strait Island Ordinariate member will take place in June. http://www.ordinariate.org.au/news/first-torres-strait-ordination/ Kopel Gibuma, a former member of the Melanesian Brotherhood in their Australian mission and later a priest in the Church of Torres Strait,  will be ordained to the Transitional Diaconate at 10am on Saturday, June 9th in St Francis Xavier’s Catholic Church, (the c orner of) Atkinson & Mayers St, Cairns by Bishop James Foley, Bishop of Cairns. Please pray for him and the Ordinariate Communities in Cairns and Dauan Island.