NOW THEIR FEET ARE STANDING WITHIN YOUR GATES, O JERUSALEM. WELCOME THEM INTO THE HEAVENLY CITY.
- 2017
Rev John Magill SSS
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Born: 25/02/1931; Ordained: 13/05/1958
Blessed Sacrament Father
John was a New Zealander who made a significant contribution to the Catholic Church on both sides of the Tasman. After training for the diocesan priesthood in New Zealand, he joined the Blessed Sacrament Congregation's Australian province. He was ordained at Te Aroha, New Zealand on 13 May 1958.
As a young priest, John directed the Catholic Youth Adoration society in Melbourne during the early 1960s. He held demanding appointments as community leader at St Francis' Church, Melbourne and at St Peter Julian's Church, Sydney in the 1960s and 1970s. He also served his Congregation as a provincial consultor (1981-84); retreat master (1965-68); director of vocations (1960s); house treasurer and consultor in Sydney (1970s); and as a parish priest in Perth, WA (1983-86).
In the late 1990s, John moved to the Diocese of Hamilton, New Zealand, where he ministered as parish priest at Waihi, Opotiki and Mount Maunganui. He also helped prepare local candidates for the priesthood.
At the age of eighty-six, on 13 October 2017, Fr John Magill SSS died peacefully in the care of the Sisters of St Joseph at Mission Bay, Auckland after sixty-one years of religious profession and fifty-nine years of priesthood.
- 2014
Rev John Nagle
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Born 04/07/1931;
Ordained 24/07/1965 Archdiocese of Hobart.
John was born in Victoria and educated at Assumption College, Kilmore. After leaving school, he was employed at the Scheelite mine on King Island. John entered Corpus Christi College, Werribee in March, 1958 and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Hobart on July 24, 1965.
He was described as a warm and attentive pastor, who faithfully ministered in many parishes, including Scottsdale-Derby, Ulverstone, Launceston, Newnham-Ravenswood, Lindisfarne, and Newstead, all in Tasmania. For nine years, until 2009 John was chaplain at Mt Esk Aged Care Facility at St Leonards, Tasmania. In more recent years he lived at Greenvale, Victoria.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated at St Bernard's Church, Bacchus Marsh, on October 20, 2014. Chief celebrant was Fr Mark Freeman, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Hobart. Tasmanian priests and many former parishioners celebrated a memorial Mass for John at Sacred Heart Church, Newstead.
May he rest in peace.
- 1888
Rev Thomas J Egan Wangaratta, Colac, Warragul, Beechworth, Daylesford, Geelong, Sale, Dandenong, etc, Vic
- 1889
Rev Bernardine Kavanagh OFMCap Armidale dioc, NSW
- 1901
Rev John Horan Melbourne dioc
- 1905
Rev Thomas Carroll Ararat, etc, Vic
- 1925
Rev Mgr Denis J Fouhy Brisbane, Toowoomba, etc, Qld
- 1938
Rev Mgr Michael F McAuliffe Maitland, Newcastle, Muswellbrook, etc, NSW
- 1940
Rev Mgr Michael Maher Naracoorte, Willunga, Gawler, etc, SA
- 1948
Rev Bernard Perry SJ Sydney, etc
- 1953
Rev Denis Lawrence Murtagh North Rockhampton, etc, Qld
- 1959
Rev James Magan SJ Melbourne, etc
- 1959
Rev John F Power Sydney, etc
- 1961
Rev Alan Naughton Canberra and Goulburn dioc
- 1984
Rev Josef Kuczmanski Adelaide
- 1988
Rev Edward Kenny Bunbury dioc, WA
- 1989
Rev Patrick Peter Kelly Sydney and Adelaide diocs
- 1991
Rev John Joseph O'Donovan Denistone, etc, NSW
- 1993
Rev Mgr Francis Owens Sandhurst dioc, Vic
- 1998
Rev James Byrne Redfern, Annandale, Malabar, Waitara, Lidcombe, Hurstville, Belmont, Riverwood, NSW
- 1998
Rev Patrick Russell Wongan Hills/Dalwallinu, Trayning, Mundaring, Leederville, Osborne Park, St. Vincent’s/Guildford, Toodyay, Maida Vale, WA
- 1998
Rev John Taranto SM NSW and Queensland
- 2007
Rev Cyril James Connolly MSC Born 10/02/1929; Ordained 26/03/1955; Bowral, Douglas Park, Kensington, Coogee, NSW; Toowoomba, Qld; Darwin, Port Keats, NT; Croydon, Vic.
- 1988
Rev Adolf Josef Stopa Hobart, Tas