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December 2011 News www.sandpiper.org.au – Page 5
The importance of mission
New missal
now official
Adrian Gallagher talks of the importance of Catholic Mission at St Luke’s, Shepparton.
Michelle Hicks
St Luke’s Catholic Primary School
SHEPPARTON – St Luke’s
Catholic Primary School in
Shepparton was fortunate
enough to have Mr Adrian Gallagher,
from Catholic Mission,
visit the Middle and Senior
Learning Community students
recently to discuss the Catholic
Mission organisation, its work
in other countries and the assistance
we can offer here in our
own communities.
Adrian spoke at St Luke’s to tie
in with the senior students’ current
Religious Education unit, “Reaching
Out,” as well as the whole school
focus on missions throughout the
month of October.
Adrian engaged the students
throughout his talk and offered a
wonderful array of activities to
heighten their awareness of Catholic
Mission and its services overseas.
The children were introduced to
the “Something Beautiful for God”
Hospice in Peru which is supported
by donations. They also discovered
the “Comedor Santa Rita’ – a
kitchen established by a missionary
from Poland for children in Peru, to
provide them with at least one
decent meal a day.
The new English translation of
the Roman Missal was officially
launched last month by the President
of the Australian Catholic
Bishops Conference Archbishop
Philip Wilson during the Bishops’
Plenary meeting in Sydney.
Chairman of the Bishops’ Commission
for Liturgy, Archbishop
Mark Coleridge, spoke of the project
of re-translation that has spanned
more than 10 years and affirmed that
the new Roman Missal, while not
perfect, is a significant improvement
on the texts that have been used
since 1973.
“We have a richer and stronger
text for use in the liturgy and a solid
base for developments that lie in the
future,” he said.
Executive Officer of the Liturgy
Commission, Fr Peter Williams, was
pleased with the product and the
process of working together with
secretaries from other Bishops’
Conferences together with the Catholic
Truth Society who published the
Missal.
“It has been a happy experience
working with the secretaries from
England and Wales and Scotland,”
he said.
Archbishop Wilson and
Archbishop Hart with a special
copy of the New Roman Missal
Special presentation copies were
presented to Archbishop Philip Wilson
as President of Conference and
Archbishop Denis Hart who was the
episcopal editor for the British English
version.
These special presentation editions
were printed in Italy along with
the missals now being distributed in
Australia by St Paul’s Publications.
The Roman Missal came into full
use in parishes across Australia on
November 27, the First Sunday
in Advent.
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