Associate Priests
The Society of St Columban has a long history of association with diocesan priests eager to work with us in cross-cultural mission. This experience is in continuity with our own origins in the diocesan clergy. We have found that the association has enhanced the Society and our missionary work and has created bonds with the associates which have borne fruit on their return to their home diocese. In reflecting on its identity and role today, the Society is becoming increasingly aware of the call to facilitate others in cross-cultural mission and work in partnership with them.
The program is open not only to diocesan priests but also religious priests. Priest associates participate for a determined period of time in the life and work of the Columban Society in accordance with a specific contract that is usually for three years.
For more details, please contact:
Fr Gary Walker
St. Columban's
P.O. Box 752
Niddrie Victoria 3042
Phone: (03) 9375 9422
Fax: (03) 9379 6040
E-Mail: garywalker@columban.org.au
"The spiritual gift that priests have received in ordination prepares them, not for any narrow or limited mission, but for the most universal and all embracing mission of salvation ‘to the end of the earth' (Acts 1:8). For every priestly ministry shares in the universal scope of the mission that Christ entrusted to his disciples."
[Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests, 10]
