First Missions in Australia: May 2006

Fr. Ben J. Cameron, C.P.M.

Melbourne area

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne. It is a most impressive church built from "blue stone"
by the late Archbishop Mannix, who was Archbishop of Melbourne for 50 years.

Incarnate Word / in whom all nature lives
Cast flame upon the earth / raise up contemplatives
Among us, me who walk within the fire
Of ceaseless prayer, impetuous desire.
Set pools of silence / in this thirsty land:
-- James McAuley (1917-1976), Australian poet

Some of the good people who participated in the Parish Mission at St. Francis of Assisi, Mill Park

During the mission at Mill Park, I went hiking several days in the "Quarry Hills" nearby with Fr. Brendan Lane, Parish Priest of Mill Park. During those hikes, we saw real live (wild) Kangaroos!

View of the Bay that adjoins Melbourne

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