A World of Mystery Communion and Change of era Mission 15 minutes - PDF document

3/09/2019 C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A 26 & 27 AUGUST 2019 2019 Governance: GOVERNANCE SYM SYMPOSIUM Co-responsibility for Mission Stewards of the Mission encountering a ‘Change of Era’ Adj Assoc. Professor Anthony Gooley www.cha.org.au C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Outline of the presentation Part One Part Two • 25 minutes input • 25 minutes input • Mystery and sacrament • Governance A World of Mystery • Communion and • Change of era Mission • 15 minutes discussion • 15 minutes discussion C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Just six numbers- fine tuning of the The world is charged with universe the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;… God’s Grandeur, Gerard Manly Hopkins 1

3/09/2019 Light C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Particles and wave at the same time. Mystery-Sacrament Sacramental imagination. Andrew Greely The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he[she] will not exist at all. Karl Rahner C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Already from the beginning of the world the foreshadowing of the Church took place….In the present era of time the Church Church was constituted and, by the outpouring of the Spirit , was made manifest. LG 2 …the Church is in GOD Christ like a sacrament or as a sign and instrument both of a very closely knit union ( communion ) with God and of the unity of the whole human HUMAN BEINGS race ,… Lumen gentium 1 2

3/09/2019 C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A The Church, which the One complex reality Spirit guides in way of all truth and which the Structured Hierarchical Mystical Body of Christ Spirit unified in communion communion and in Visible assembly Spiritual community works of ministry , Earthly church Heavenly church …a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son and the … it is compared to the mystery of the incarnate Holy Spirit. Word …the visible social structure of the Church Lumen gentium 4 serves the Spirit of Christ Lumen Gentium 8 C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A “Institutional church” “Official church” BOTH AND “The Vatican” “The bishops/pope” The Church … the Sacred Council teaches that bishops by divine institution have succeeded to the place of the The individual bishops, however, are the visible apostles, as shepherds of the Church, and he who principle and foundation of unity in their particular hears them, hears Christ … ( local ) church es , fashioned after the model of the universal Church, in and from which church es Lumen Gentium 20 comes into being the one and only Catholic Church . Thus the divinely established ecclesiastical ministry is exercised on different levels by those who from Lumen Gentium 23 antiquity have been called bishops, priests and deacons. Lumen Gentium 28 3

3/09/2019 Bishops , as vicars and ambassadors of Christ , govern the particular churches entrusted to them … And the Sacred Council teaches that by Episcopal consecration [ordination] the fullness of the sacrament of Orders is conferred, … The pastoral office or the habitual and daily care of their sheep is entrusted to them completely; nor are they to Lumen Gentium 21 be regarded as vicars of the Roman Pontiffs , for they exercise an authority that is proper to them, … … one is constituted a member of the Episcopal body in virtue of sacramental consecration [ordination] and hierarchical communion with the head and members of … the Holy Spirit unfailingly preserves the form of the [episcopal] body. government established by Christ the Lord in His Church Lumen Gentium 22 Lumen gentium 27 C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Communion is mission Communion-Mission The mission has a Church. The communion and mission which the Father, gave the Son in The mission of the Holy Spirit has Christ has a a Church. Church. koinwnia Koinonia Communio Communion 4

3/09/2019 C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A “ Communion and mission are deeply connected...to the point that communion represents both the COMMUNION MISSION source and the outcome of mission.” Pope John Paul II, Apostolic Exhortation Christifidelis laici, 1988 The theological foundation for co-responsibility . • Hospitals The Jesus the • Schools communion of Expressed in: Christ • Universities the Church is Continues • Youth work • Hospitals sent on his mission • Advocacy for mission. • Schools The Jesus the • Universities (Ecclesial refugees communion of mission) • Advocacy for Christ • Youth work the Church is continues • Advocacy for the sent on his mission vulnerable vulnerable mission Apostolic Religious Institutes : Sisters of Mercy, St • Parish • Parish John of God Sisters, Sisters of Charity, Christian Brothers, Marist Brothers etc. (PJP) • Diocese • Diocese • Other • Other (M)PJP- Non-vowed members Supreme authority in the universal Church • There is no civil or canonical entity called the Catholic Church. • There are only the local churches (dioceses), a public juridical person • All ecclesial ministry occurs within a local church and is related to the apostolic ministry of a local church The bishops together with the Bishop of Rome (pope). 5

3/09/2019 • Pontifical or diocesan Some implications for RI MPJP are each within and and MPJP for the local Church • Need to foster collaboration with the local bishop • Local bishop needs to foster collaboration with RI and MPJP • The local bishop supervises (watching brief, solicitous) all The Church (RI, MPJP) does not have hospitals, community Catholic ministries medical services and aged cares services etc. because there are people who are sick or aged or in need of some care … Catholic institutions like hospitals, aged care facilities, schools etc. exists because of the sacramental principle - a visible sign of an invisible reality of grace. The Church cares for the sick, aged and those in need because the Church seeks to incarnate the love of God in the world. C AT H O L I C H E A LT H A U S T R A L I A Questions Discussion  How does this understanding of communion and mission • How challenge us to think about our ministries?  What implications are there for understanding our roles in Governance governance when we apply a ‘sacramental imagination’ to the task?  How do we communicate this communion and mission focus through our strategic planning and decision making as governors of ecclesial ministries? 6

3/09/2019 An evolution Collaboration Co-responsibility • Recognition of shared • Governance and leadership ecclesial mission of all the of ministry by RI baptised • Invitation to non-vowed lay • Clergy, Religious and lay people to assist in advisory each in different ways boards responsible for mission • Out of necessity- • Entrust governance out of diminishment- invitation to conviction governance • Entrust the reserve powers Not so long ago most Catholic schools, hospitals, aged care and • Out of necessity- MPJP of governance to non- community services were governed, administered and staffed by vowed members mostly members of ‘apostolic’ or active Religious Institutes . Canon law Canon law • Both/and • 1917 first codex • Enabler of mission • 1917-Vatican II three • Via juris - the law provides key canonical problems a mechanism (M)PJP- - Role of the bishop centre • Via facti- RI make use of - Relationship of RI to the provision- periphery bishop and local church • Congregation for - Relationship of Institutes of Consecrated universal and local Life and Societies church Apostolic life (CICLSAL) CIC 1983 Holy See (Diocese of Rome) Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies Apostolic Life ICLSAL MPJP Today many Catholic (ecclesial) ministries are likely to Bishop and local church (diocese) have governors, (board directors and trustees), that look more like this. 7