“BE A COMMUNITY OF CHRIST,” ARCHBISHOP COSTELLOE ENCOURAGED ALL AT THE DEDICATION OF NEW JURIEN BAY PARISH W O R D S Jamie O'Brien
The new Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea Jurien Bay, blessed and dedicated by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB on Saturday, 29 May, was the result of more than 50 years of prayers and waiting, said Moora Parish Administrator, Fr Renald Anthony. “For those who do not know the story behind how many years the people have been praying and waiting for, I was told that it was as early as Msgr Cameron’s time, which was at least 50 years ago, when he dreamt of having a church in this region, here in Jurien Bay Cervantes,” Fr Anthony said. “This is not all possible today, without the prayers and blessings of all the people that worked for this over the last 50 years.” Joining Archbishop Costelloe to concelebrate the Mass was Fr Anthony, former Parish Priest and now York Parish Priest-in-Charge Fr Chris Webb, Fr Peter Bianchini as MC, Redemptoris Mater Seminary Vice-Rector, Fr Luis Tijerino, as well as several priests from across the Archdiocese of Perth who travelled the two-and-a-half-hour journey for the special occasion. In his homily, Archbishop Costelloe reflected on the
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readings of the day, highlighting three main points of what it means to be the Church of God, drawing on the writings from Vatican II and specifically Lumen Gentium. “I wanted to take this opportunity just to reflect briefly with you on what it means to say, as Paul does in the second reading this morning, that we are both building and being built into a spiritual house for God, which is built on the prophets and the apostles and which has Christ himself as the cornerstone,” Archbishop Costelloe began. “We, you here, who come to this parish, you are like a sacrament. This is your vocation. “What does that mean? To be a sign and an instrument, a means through which God brings people into communion with Him and into unity amongst themselves,” he added.
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