People's Booklet - Installation of Most Rev. Patrick O'Regan - Book - Page 11
A Message from the Holy Father
LITURGICAL
RECEPTION
PROCESSION
TO THE ALTAR
Welcome to Country
Processional Hymn
John Lochowiak and Alex Agius.
Let all the Peoples
FRANCIS, BISHOP, SERVANT OF THE SERVANTS OF GOD
To our Venerable Brother, Patrick Michael
O’Regan until now Bishop of Sale, appointed
Archbishop of the Metropolitan Ecclesial
Community of Adelaide: Greetings and
Apostolic Blessing.
Instructed by the example of the faithful and
prudent steward whom the Lord placed over his
household and committed to him the care of the
beginnings of human salvation, we do our best
to provide fatherly care to the Church and to
serve the flock with loving devotion. Conscious
of that duty and moved by pastoral care, we
are engaged in those tasks and responsibilities
aimed at assuring prudently the growth of the
Christian faithful, and so we turn our mind to the
Metropolitan Ecclesial Community of Adelaide,
which has been vacant after the resignation of our
Venerable Brother, Philip Edward Wilson, and
now awaits a new Shepherd and
guide of diocesan life.
And so, Venerable
Brother, having
acquired
experience in
the exercise of
your apostolic work in the Diocese of Sale and
endowed with exemplary conduct, we consider
you to be suitable to take on this new office.
Consequently, after receiving the advice of the
Congregation for Bishops, in the fullness of
our Apostolic Authority, we relieve you of your
present episcopal responsibilities and appoint you
Metropolitan Archbishop of Adelaide, with due
rights and appropriate obligations. We ask that
you bring this decree to the attention of the clergy
and people of this Ecclesial Community, and we
urge them to accept you wholeheartedly as their
teacher and guide.
May God grant His mercy to you, Venerable
Brother, and to the flock committed to your care,
along with the grace of keeping Christ in your
hearts, so that you may give an example of charity
and so that your faith may be clothed in the works
of love and come to perfection in them.
Given in Rome, at the Lateran, on the nineteenth
day of the month of March, on the Solemnity
of St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
in the year of the Lord 2020, eighth year of Our
Pontificate.
Entrance Into The Cathedral
Christopher Wilcock SJ
All stand
Archbishop Patrick O’Regan comes to the door
of the cathedral and is greeted by Apostolic
Administrator Bishop Gregory O’Kelly SJ,
Administrator Delegate, Fr Philip Marshall,
Cathedral Administrator Fr Anthoni Adimai
SdM and Monsignor Robert Rice.
They proceed through the cathedral to the
sanctuary where Archbishop O’Regan is presented
with a crucifix for him to venerate and holy water,
with which he blesses himself and takes his place in
the sanctuary.
As this takes place, we ask you to join in singing:
Refrain:
Let all the peoples praise you, O Lord,
let all the people praise you.
Let all the peoples praise you, O Lord,
let all the peoples praise you.
Nations shall fear the name of the Lord,
and all the rulers of earth your glory,
when the Lord shall build Sion again,
coming in glory. Alleluia! R
Let this be written for ages to come,
people unborn may praise the Lord,
who has come down from the sanctuary on
high to set the prisoners free. Alleluia! R
Sion shall hear the name of the Lord,
and God’s praise in the heart of the city.
Peoples and nations shall gather to praise,
worshipping God the Lord. Alleluia! R
Francis PP
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