AUGUSTINIAN BULLETIN BOARD - January 2003

Pursuing a new way

...Having come to know, then, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who for our consolation was laid in a cramped and crowded lodging house, and now for our exaltation is seated in heaven; let us proclaim him in this land, in this region of our flesh, by not going back the way we came, nor seeking to follow in the footsteps of our former manner of life. That, after all, is the meaning of those Magi not going back the way they came. Change of way means change of life.

The Augustinians wish all visitors of our website the best for the new year of 2003

ANNIVERSARIES 2003

(10th, 25th, 40th, 50th 60th)

4 February

Michael Morahan
25th anniversary of ordination

6 February

Anthony Banks
25th anniversary of religious profession

20 March

Robert Greenup
10th anniversary of religious ordination.

26 March

Michael Endicott
Brian Fitzpatrick
40th anniversary of religious profession
100th anniversary of Establishment of Kyabram Parish at a date to be determined.

5 May

Peter Tangey
40th anniversary of ordination

12 May

Brian Buckley
25th anniversary of ordination

4 June

Bernard Coleco
25th anniversary of religious profession

14 August

John McGlone
50th anniversary of religious profession

10 September

David Brimson
Bernard Connolly
60th anniversary of religious profession

17 September

Brendan Quirke
50th anniversary of religious profession.

• Recently a new union of Augustinian circumscriptions in the Asia-Pacific was formed - OSAAP (Order of St Augustine, Asia and Pacific). This union includes the Provinces of Australia and Cebu (Philippines), Vicariates of Japan and the Orient (Philippines, India, China), Regions of Papua (Indonesia) and Korea.

• The next International Youth Festival will be held in Guardarama, Spain (near Madrid) from 30 July to 5 August 2003. Anyone interested in attending please contact Fr Anthony Banks osa at skabanks@ozemail.com.au

• A recent visitor to Australia was Fr Francis Aherne osa an Irish Augustinian who has worked in Nigeria and more recently Kenya for many years.

• Congratulations to Mrs Gabrielle Dellit, Mr Jim Maloney and Mr Tim Cleary appointed to the Council of Villanova College. The Provincial has thanked outgoing members of Council, Mr Keith McCoola and Mrs Dorothy Chapman.

AUGUSTINIAN COMMUNITY, MAREEBA

The Augustinians have a long and rich association with the Diocese of Cairns. It began with the arrival of Fr John Hutchinson O.S.A. and his two companions at Cooktown in 1884.

Subsequently, the Augustinian presence extended to all the existing mainland parishes of the Diocese. Today, however, the Parishes of Mareeba and Dimbulah are the only parishes in the Diocese, which are still served by the Augustinians.

With this background, St Thomas's Priory, Mareeba is now offering an opportunity for single men to experience a period of simple community life in the Augustinian tradition with time for prayer, parish work, recreation and personal pursuits.

For further information contact:

Robert Greenup O.S.A.

PO Box 308,

Mareeba,

Queensland 4880

Phone: 07 4092 1077

Fax: 07 4092 3170

Email: stthomas@ledanet.com.au

AUGNET

A web site of particular Augustinian interest was launched in Sydney on 6th August 2002. It is http://www.augnet.org
Augnet is intended to encourage greater links between Augustinian schools via the Internet and by other means, and to enable them to understand and share further their common Augustinian spirituality and heritage. St Augustine's College, Brookvale, N.S.W., Australia and Austin Friars School, Carlisle, England were the originating participants, and Villanova Preparatory School, Ojai, California, U.S.A. is presently in the process of joining Augnet. The first co-operative initiative by Augnet was an international photographic and poster competition, which attracted entries from four Augustinian schools on three different continents. Site statistics indicate that Augnet has attracted most usage from Australia and the United Kingdom (where the Augustinian schools are making use of it in class). Other Augnet browsers are recorded as living in thirty-eight other nations, from Argentina to Austria, Brazil to Belize, Chile to China, Estonia to Egypt, Iceland to Ireland, etc. The site was intentionally launched in an incomplete state, as it is intended that staff and student involvement will increasing come into play to expand and perfect it. Such an expectation was not in vain, as the first examples of staff and student contributions have already happened. For Augnet's initial phase, the webmaster is Fr Michael Endicott O.S.A. in Brisbane. He can be contacted at webmaster@augnet.org

The Hon. Tony Abbott MHR, Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in the Australian Federal Parliament, is seen here launching Augnet on to the Internet.

ST AUGUSTINE'S COLLEGE, SPRINGFIELD

The Archdiocese of Brisbane in Queensland has begun the construction of fourteen school buildings on a twelve-hectare (25 acre) site in Springfield, a ten-year-old development that will eventually be a city of 55,000 people on the boundary of the present cities of Brisbane and Ipswich in southeastern Queensland.

This new school site was dedicated and blessed on 13th September 2002 in a ceremony that involved two local Augustinians. As the priest-in-charge of ministry in Springfield, Fr Michael Endicott O.S.A. said the prayer of blessing. Father Michael Morahan O.S.A. presented his book on Augustinian education to Erin Wedge. Erin has been appointed Assistant Principal (Religious Education) of this new co-educational P-12 college, which will first open its doors to students on 29th January 2003.

Prompted by the presence and interest of these Augustinians who live nearby at St Augustine's Priory, Camira, the Archbishop has given the new school the name of St Augustine's College, and asked that the Augustinians assist it to adopt an Augustinian spirituality.

The temporary office of St Augustine's College, Springfield can be contacted at psspringfield@bne.catholic.edu.au

Fr Michael Morahan O.S.A. presents his book to Mrs Erin Wedge, the newly-appointed APRE of St Augustine's College, Springfield.

A WAY TO KNOW JESUS BETTER - 'The Kyabram Stations'
By Fr Dave Austin OSA
www.augustinians.org.au/communities/kyabram.html

AUGUSTINIAN CENTRE FOR SPIRITUALITY PROGRAM 2002
2 Hewitt Avenue
Greystanes 2145
Enquiries 9896 6794
www.augustinians.org.au/communities/greystanes.html

The Provincial, Fr Patrick Fahey osa,
on behalf of the Augustinians of Australia,
wishes all our website visitors a blessed and peaceful celebration
of the birth of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Best wishes for the coming year of 2003