BRING US, JESUS, TO APPRECIATE OUR PARTNERSHIP IN MINISTRY WITH PRIESTS WHO CLUNG FAST TO YOUR WAY.
- 2019
Rev Gregory James McCann MSC
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Born 18/04/1917.
Ordained 20/08/1983 for the MSC Fathers - Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
Greg, professed in 1945, devoted his first five years as a brother at Chevalier and Kensington. He constantly asked to go to the missions and finally got there. After completing teacher training, he taught at Sidea in the Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. In 1958, he went to the Trobriand Islands to establish a primary school which he headed until 1974. He then moved to teach at Hagita High School in Milne Bay, PNG for a couple of years before heading to teach at the English Academy in Nagoya Japan until 1979.
In 1980, he entered St. Paul's National Seminary and in 1983 was ordained a priest, after which he went back to Hagita, Sideia Island, Fiji and Kiribati for pastoral work. He returned to Australia and was priest-in-charge of Douglas Park Parish. In 1997, he was appointed to the Provincial house at Coogee before retiring to Kensington Monastery and then to St Joseph's Nursing home.
Greg's love for all people had touched and impacted so many lives, including his nephew's Greg McCann Jnr who, inspired by him, became a Missionary of the Sacred Heart.
Well done good and faithful servant of God! May he rest in peace.
- 2019
Rev Ignacy Smaga SChr Society of Christ
- 2016
Rev John Hennessy SAC
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Born: 31/03/1921
Ordained: 14/07/1945 - Pallotine Fathers
John, who was born in Brunswick, Victoria, was educated at St Pat's East Melbourne by the Jesuits. Inspired by the visit of a Pallottine Bishop, Otto Raible, he felt a calling to the Pallottines and to Mission work in the Kimberley in W.A. John spent one year at the Diocesan Seminary at Werribee, started his novitiate at the Pallottine College at Kew followed by his philosophical and theological studies at St Paschal's, Box Hill. He was later ordained in his home parish at St Ambrose's Brunswick by Bishop Raible, on 14 July 1945.
John served in the Kimberley at Beagle Bay for almost three years, together with Frs Joe Kearney and Roger McGinley. In 1949 he was appointed chaplain to the Pallottine Younger Set who supported the German Pallottines in Melbourne during the difficult times of the war. When Fr Walter Silvester came to Kew in 1951 to develop apostolic groups, John was a key member of the team centred on the MTA Shrine which had just been built and 14 groups of young men and women gradually developed.
In 1961 John was appointed parish priest of St Christopher's, Syndal. There was only a church - school on 3 acres built by Fr Kirley from the Mt Waverley parish. He acquired further land from the war service homes and set the parish on a good footing. He built a larger school and then the parish church in 1973. The tennis courts and club were built. John excelled in Liturgy and music, introduced the Pallottine charism, the collaboration of priest, lay people and religious.
In 1975, after 14 years at Syndal, he was appointed to the parish of Warburton and Yarra Junction where he consolidated the parish church and school at Yarra Junction, exhibiting his great planning and pastoral skills.
In 2001 John retired to Syndal. Illness took him to Mercy Place, Parkville, where in 2015 he celebrated his 70th Anniversary of Priesthood. He desired to return to his network of friends at Syndal and came to Waverley Valley Aged Care facility and celebrated his 95th Birthday. Soon after, he grew seriously ill and died on 18 June, 2016. John was buried from his beloved parish on June 27, surrounded by his Pallottine confreres and parishioners from the early days.
Rest in peace John, for your good deeds go with you.
- 2012
Rev William (John) Miles CM
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Born 17/09/1918 - Vincentian Fathers.
John, son of Francis and Phylis, was born at Kendall near Taree, NSW. He attended the local primary schools at Kew and Cundletown and after five years at St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, completed the Leaving Certificate in 1935.
The following year he entered the Vincentian Seminary at St Joseph's, Eastwood, NSW, and was ordained at St Joseph's by Bishop Norton on 13 September 1942. After a short period in Bathurst John moved to St Joseph's, Malvern, the Vincentian parish and mission house in Melbourne, where, at The University of Melbourne, he completed a Bachelor of Science degree, and in 1947 a Diploma of Education.
John taught at St Stanislaus' College, Bathurst, and St Vincent's College, Bendigo, from 1955 to 1972. Moving to Ashfield, NSW, in 1973, John ministered in the parish as well as undertaking the role of Provincial Treasurer from 1975 to 1978.
Apart from five years in Malvern (1979-1983) John spent the remainder of his life in Sydney, particularly as resident chaplain at Lourdes Village, Killara. John is also remembered as a supply priest' in the Diocese of Bathurst and beyond.
He retired to Ashfield and moved to Our Lady of Consolation Home, Rooty Hill in 2007
Rest in peace John.
- 2021
Rev William Cunningham MSC Born 19/02/1925; Ordained 22/07/1951.
Missionaries of the Sacred Heart.
- 1902
Rev Constance Fontaigne Maitland dioc, NSW
- 1902
Rev Thomas John Meagher Merriwa, NSW
- 1930
Rev James Prendergast Bulli, Merriwa, etc, NSW
- 1931
Rev Patrick W Ahern Bowraville, Coraki, Stratford, etc, NSW
- 1932
Rev James B Rawlings Brisbane dioc
- 1933
Rev Mgr Terence O'Shaughnessy Cootamundra, etc, NSW
- 1939
Rev James Mullins CM Bathurst, NSW; Malvern, Vic
- 1943
Rev Robert Fitzgerald OSA Echuca, Vic
- 1948
Rev Nicholas Morrissey Werribee, etc, Vic
- 1959
Rev James L Green Colac, etc, Vic
- 1960
Rev Francis Clune CP Hamilton, Vic; Goulburn, Marrickville, NSW; Glen Osmond, SA
- 1961
Rev Edwin C Ludgate Sydney, etc
- 1966
Bishop Otto Raible Broome, WA
- 1966
Rev James (Bernard) Kiernan MSC Sydney, etc
- 1967
Rev Leo Vincent Quinn CM Malvern, Vic; Ashfield, NSW
- 1970
Rev Harold Norrie SJ Sydney; Glen Waverley, Vic, etc
- 1972
Rev John Magill CSsR Galong, NSW; Ballarat, Vic, etc
- 1976
Rev Antonine Magnani OFM
- 1976
Rev John Bernard McKeon Uralla, etc, NSW
- 1979
Rev Edward Meehan West Tamworth, etc, NSW
- 1996
Rev John Peter Kenny SJ Sydney; Melbourne, Glen Waverley, Vic; Perth
- 1996
Rev Wilfred Dynan Radford SM Toongabbie, Armidale, NSW
- 2001
Rev Gerard Dickinson Bassendean,Perth, WA
- 2007
Rev Robert Francis Cullinane Bundaberg, Marian, Blackall/Tambo, Brisbane, Mackay, North Mackay, Rockhampton, Neerkol, Mt. Morgan, Qld