Psallite Sapienter has more news from Australia:
Praise the Lord: two more men to be ordained priests for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross. The Ordinariate’s official website states:
Your prayers are asked for Lyall Cowell and Antony Iball to be ordained priest, and for Stephen Hill to be ordained to the transitional diaconate, in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, on the evening of the Feast of St Luke, Thursday October 18th 2012.
The ordinations will be conducted by the Most Reverend Mark Coleridge, Archbishop of Brisbane, on behalf of the Very Reverend Harry Entwistle, Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross.
A quick check of the Anglican Catholic Church in Australia’s directory reveals that Antony Iball is currently curate at the ACCA’s Patmos House Community in Brisbane; I assume the others are also associated with the same – certainly a 2011 report lists Stephen Hill as “the youngest priest of the TAC” and also as a curate there. There is a Padre Lyall Cowell listed as an Anglican Army chaplain… so he may come, not from the TAC, but from the Brisbane Anglican diocese.
Patmos House was for some time in the care of Bp David Chislett, prior to his leaving the ACCA a year or more ago. Is the Patmos House Community of lay faithful to enter the Ordinariate en bloc?
Fr. Lyall Cowell is the former rector of Christchurch, Hamilton, in the diocese of Brisbane of the Anglican Church of Australia: http://www.spec.com.au/blog/2004/09/16/church-will-welcome-organ-donors/
I suppose Fr. Hill will spend a year as a transitional Catholic deacon due to his youth, in a similar way to Frs. Lloyd and Bradley of the English ordinariate.
+ PAX et BONUM
“youth”? If he’s 21 or older, rock on! Oh how the Church needs younger men in ministry! But, first, the “call” of God!
The Church needs younger men in ministry? Hahahahahaha, OH REALLY?
Were I to become a priest, I would probably cause an embarrassing international/inter-denominational/inter-faith incident that would cause my bishop to banish me to a monastery.
Something like telling the Saudi Royal Family to convert to Catholicism at every possible opportunity.
I’d probably still hang around Fr. Stephen Smuts’ blog, though, if he still blogs by the time he gets promoted to Archbishop of South Africa.
Indeed usually when God calls a man ‘In Christ’ to the ministry, He makes the man a recipient of that Grace and Gospel, first, and that “call” to ministry usually comes later. But, I have known several young men called of God ‘In Christ’ to ministry, early. I was young myself when God first called me (mid 20′s), yes it was a learning curve for sure, and it took a little time for the actual calling to be understood, but “CHRIST JESUS” alone was that “regeneration” and life! (John 1: 12-13 ; 14: 6) Btw, it is here that I wonder how many actually understand that call of God, and certainly the Gospel and Good News therein?
@SMM3: There is a slight difference of usage between the Catholic Church and the CofE in that in Catholic usage a Deacon is not referred to as “Father”. If Fr Cowell was rector of an Anglican parish that suggests that he was an Anglican priest rather than a deacon. So there would be no general reason for him to spend more time as a transitional Catholic deacon than any other candidate.
Remember that all the OLW clergy are still pursuing a study course at Allen Hall Seminary and that quite a number are also doing further courses at various institutions such as the University of Louvain and Maryvale and that the OLW already has its first candidates studying for the priesthood at Blackfriars in Oxford.
It is certain that the Australian and North American Ordinariates will have similar plans for formation and continuing formation for their clergy.
AS AN ANGLICAN CATHOLIC PRIEST IN NTH. BRISBANE I AM STILL AWAITING TO MOVE INTO THE ORDINARIATE OF OUR LADY OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS. AS A PRIEST COLLEAGUE OF FR. STEPHEN HILL AND FR. TONY IBALL I WISH THEM WELL, MAY GOD SHOWER MANY BLESSINGS ON THEM BOTH IN THEIR NEW LIFE WITHIN THE ORDINARIATE. GOD BE WITH YOU BOTH..——–POSTED BY FR W. P. ( BILL ) HANNIGAN.