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MGL seminary building appeal |
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 Kairos Catholic Journal: Volume 19, Issue 16
The
Missionaries of God’s Love have outgrown their existing seminary in
Melbourne and urgently need to build additional facilities to
accommodate their growing number of seminarians.
With sunlight streaming through the stained glass windows at St
Benedict’s Burwood, Archbishop Denis Hart launched the MGL Seminary
Building Appeal during a moving liturgy.
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Young Men Rise Up |
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 Kairos Catholic Journal: Volume 19, Issue 9
“It is the voice of Christ himself, more powerful than the death that
lurks within us and around us, a voice calling young men to see how
much more is possible than they think and to enter that new world of
possibility as they become the men which God has created them to be,
alive to their masculinity as Christ was to his.”
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Growing in Grace |
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 by Michael Griffiths
Australian Catholics
Difficulties have beset Dan Strickland since his early teens, but all of them have brought him closer to God.
It’s not often that the Royal Automobile Club Magazine changes peoples’ lives, but it changed Dan Strickland’s.
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Catechesis Sessions Bring Jesus Close |
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SYDNEY, Australia, JULY 15, 2008 (Zenit.org ).-
World Youth Day brings so much festivity that it is easy to get caught
up in the glamour and forget that it is a pilgrimage, said a deacon who
led a catechesis session today.
Catechesis sessions are part of the youth day experience. They
generally consist of teachings from religious, discussion and the
celebration of Mass. The first of the catechesis sessions began today
in various Sydney venues. Deacon Daniel Strickland was part of one of
the more lively sessions, held in Hyde Park.
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‘I knew I was in the hands of the Lord’ |
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A conversation with Fr Ken Barker, moderator, Missionaries of God’s Love
By Brian Davies
Q. Tell me about the Missionaries of God’s Love – MGL, how did that begin?
No
one could have possibly expected the surprising gift of charismatic
renewal which burst into Catholic life immediately after Vatican II.
Different ecclesial movements and new communities sprang up all over
the world ushering in a ‘springtime’ of renewal.
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Full House |
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Young
people from around Melbourne’s eastern suburbs flock to St Benedict’s
Church in Burwood for the weekly 5pm Sunday Mass. With an average
attendance of about 180 mainly youth, they come for the sacrifice of
the Eucharist, which is enhanced by the accomplished musicians and
vocalists that play each week.
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Two MGL Ordinations |
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Canberra’s Missionaries of God’s Love now have 12 priests following the
ordination of Brian Steele and Chris Ryan in St Christopher’s Cathedral.
In a cathedral packed to overflowing with an exuberant congregation,
Archbishop Francis Carroll ordained the two men late 2001.
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Radical Faith will produce Vocations |
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The lack of vocations to the priesthood and the religious life
worries all Catholics. It then makes sense to ask those who are
successful in attracting vocations what the solution is. Colleen
McGuiness-Howard asked this of Father Ken Barker, the leader of an
Australian group, the Missionaries of God’s Love, who have 15
seminarians in training.
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MGL congregation flourishes in Canberra |
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At a time when many religious congregations are wondering what to do
with their buildings, the Missionaries of God's Love (MGL) do not have
enough room to accommodate the influx of new recruits.
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A New Eucharistic Centre |
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Parish priest and moderator of the Missionaries of God’s Love Fr Ken
Barker said that in addition to looking after the pastoral needs of
Narrabundah parishioners they were also seeking to build up a
eucharistic centre.
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Guys in Brown go Radical |
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One was a solicitor, another an engineer, yet another an architect.
They and others, 21 in all, go to make up the Missionaries of God’s
Love, a consecrated group of men with their roots in the Archdiocese of
Canberra and Goulburn and in the Catholic charismatic renewal.
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