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Prayer for September 27th

SUCH, LORD, ARE THEY WHO SOUGHT ULTIMATE TRUTH. WE RECALL THEIR QUEST WITH FITTING THANKS.

List of Deceased Clergy, only year of death known
List of Deceased Clergy, date of death unknown

This is an historical record of the death of clergy in Australia for the 27th of September:

• 1863
  Rev Bernard Murphy  Carcoar, Singleton, etc, NSW
• 1892
  Rev Bernard Dengel SJ  Kew, Vic, etc
• 1896
  Rev Patrick Birch  Sandhurst dioc, Vic
• 1936
  Rev Bernard M Clancy  Sydney dioc
• 1951
  Rev Robert Matthew Gellie  Warracknabeal, Clunes, etc, Vic
• 1965
  Rev Laurence Carroll CSsR  Wendouree, Vic, etc
• 1965
  Rev Mgr Edward Collins  Shenton Park, etc, WA
• 1965
  Archbishop Ernest Victor Tweedy  Maitland, NSW; Hobart, Tas
• 1974
  Rev Albert Joseph Heavey  Armidale dioc, NSW
• 1977
  Rev Bede Francis Ryan  Bingara, Oxley Vale, etc, NSW
• 1979
  Rev John Ferrari  Enfield, Elizabeth Bay, North Parramatta, etc, NSW
• 1986
  Rev Gregory Meere  Earlwood, Arncliffe, Strathfield, etc, NSW
• 1987
  Rev Nicholas Stafford  West Footscray, East Coburg, South Caulfield, Melbourne, etc, Vic
• 1994
  Rev Noel Joseph Carroll  Northbridge, etc, Sydney and Broken Bay diocs, NSW
• 2014
  Rev William Wauchope   Read more

  Born 08/01/1927; Ordained 19/07/1953. Diocese of Port Pirie.
  
  Bill was born in Pt Pirie and educated at the local St Anthony's Primary School and then Pt Pirie High School. On leaving school he studied to become a Meat Inspector – the family had a long history in the butchery business. He entered St Francis Xavier's Seminary in 1946, then St Patrick's College Manly and was ordained on 19 July 1951.
  
  Bill served in several parishes: Renmark, Whyalla, Cleve, Pt Lincoln, Minnipa, Loxton, Woomera and Jamestown. But it was his six years in the huge Outback Mission, based at Hawker, which really defined Bill's nature as a priest.
  
  His stories of Outback visitation were legendary; he often lived out of his Combi-Van for a month or two at a time, setting off from Hawker and travelling north to Uluru, across to WA border, down to Cooke visiting every station and depot he passed – no matter the religion or lack of it. He certainly was a priest of the swag (like few others)! Bill was a symbol of priestly care for the most remote people, reminding them how precious they are in the eyes of God and in the Church. He used to tell of the lines of sandhills, and he had to let tyres down to go up them, then pump them up again by hand for the flat stretch, then let them down again soon for the next sandhill.
  
  As Bishop Greg O'Kelly said at his Funeral Mass:
  “God lives among His people. The poet Gerard Manly Hopkins wrote the world is charged with the grandeur of God.' The spiritual dynamic of the diocesan priest is an adaptation of that, seeing all as charged, made alive with the presence of Christ, in His humanity and His Divinity. The ministry of the diocesan priest among his people is one of discovery and revealing – to take back the cover, to take back the veil, to show Christ present in ordinary human activity. Christ was immersed in our humanity, from moments of joy like Cana, the humdrum work of the tradesman, the love of friends like Lazarus, Martha and Mary, human companionship at meals and festivals, an isolated and terrible, unjust death of violent suffering.
  The diocesan priest tries with his spirituality to enter this world, to manifest the Christ present in plain human circumstances, be that in a traditional parish, or the lonely runs of the Outback, be that a devout Catholic family, be that a lapsed Catholic family, be that anyone in the territory assigned to the priest, a parish in a small town, or in our Inland Mission, a parish the size of France, and in those areas he is to be a priest for all people, as the diocesan priest is sent on mission to all, including every cattle and sheep station, medical centre and police station on the way. As Pope Francis would say, it is a mission to the outskirts. Bill Wauchope lived that ministry to the full ... Bill Wauchope was one of the finest priests we have been privileged to know. We have had in Bill so much to thank God for.”
  
  Bill's priesthood spanned sixty-one years, and his so called retirement of eight years was also very active. Bill had an amazing capacity for keeping in touch with people – right up to the end. Just prior to his death in St Joseph's Home he made phone calls and sent emails to say farewell to many of his friends.
  
  His funeral Mass was celebrated in St Mark's Cathedral, Pt Pirie on 9 October and he was buried in the local cemetery.
  

Clergy who died in September, exact date of death unknown:

• Rev Francis Kums   Sandhurst dioc, Vic; Turon, Ophir, NSW
• 1887Rev John Hackett   Ballarat, Vic; Sydney, etc
• 1897Rev Patrick F Hennebry  
• 1911Rev James O'Reilly   Yass, NSW, etc
• 1997Rev John Nolan   Toodyay, Beverley, Kellerberrin, Kalamunda, Maylands, WA
• 2002Rev John Sweeney SSG   Sydney

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