HOW CAN YOU RESIST A BORG'S PRAYER...

As Broken Bay Diocese celebrates 25 years, Bishop David Walker has called a Synod with a focus on  celebrating the past, engaging with the present and envisioning the future. The don't go much on evangelisation it seems!

It is a full twelve months of navel-gazing with a synod on June 3 just passed and a further one scheduled for May 2012, with a year of "continued consultation" in between.

One prominent presbyter with a seat at the table of 'synoders', Fr Robert Borg, has been described as a big man in mind and body, who did much to demonstrate the joy of christianity in action.

A prayerful fellow it seems from the Synod Prayer Gallery? Whatever that means!

If only the links on the diocesan website functioned! We might have seen some pics from the event or even thumbed the virtual pages of the perhaps aptly named newsletter of the synod... The Nod!

Oh well Father, so glad we found this one of you in collar... Funny the habits one visits when frequenting the great Archdiocese of Melbourne!

LIFE IMITATING 'SACRED' ART?

And unto Queen Padmé Amidala a child is born...

CAPTION COMPETITION...

One of these things is not like the others? Two of these things are kinda the same?

CAPTION COMPETITION...

Meeting his first real life gargoyle... and so well preserved too!

A gargoyle you say? Imagine that!

HOW ROOTED AND BUILT UP IN CHRIST JESUS, FIRM IN THE FAITH ARE THEY IN ABERDEEN?

The new bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI and announced on Saturday 4th June, is to be Abbot Hugh Gilbert, O.S.B., until now Abbot of Pluscarden Abbey, near Elgin. His episcopal ordination is planned for Monday 15th August.

So Aberdeen diocese will have a new bishop, good! He’s from Pluscarden, good! But he’s being ordained the Monday of World Youth Day in Madrid... Good?

The bishop emeritus of Aberdeen said of the appointment

“I am delighted to welcome Bishop-elect Hugh Gilbert as my successor. During his nineteen years as its abbot, Pluscarden Abbey has continued to be the serene spiritual heart of our diocese, and I am confident that our new bishop will guide us in that personal search for holiness upon which Pope Benedict laid such stress when he visited Scotland last year.”

Should one assume therefore that the renewal of young hearts in Aberdeen will come from a personal search for holiness and not a week with his Holiness?