Scalabrinians choose new leaders

Sydney
25 May 2003

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New administration team members Frs John Mello, Florention Galdo, Paulo Prigo (new provincial superior), Carmen Haernandez and Bruno Ciceri.

Scalabrinian missionary priests from the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Japan and the Australian capital cities - all belonging to the Province of St Frances Xavier Cabrini - held their annual assembly at St Mary’s Towers Retreat Centre, Douglas Park, on April 28-May 1.

Priests like Fr Angelo Cagna who is the sole chaplain to Italian migrants in the diocese of Wollongong, were given an opportunity to revitalise their sense of belonging to their religious family, to pray with their confrères, to refresh friendships and to get to know the new members.

The selection of a new administration team for the province at the assembly empowers new individuals to explore innovative ways to minister to migrants.

This includes facilitating discussion on how to redirect the Scalabrinian Missionaries’ objectives, and reflecting on how best to meet the pastoral needs of migrants in a world of rapidly changing migration patterns.

The new provincial superior is Fr Paulo Prigol, a Brazilian who joined the province soon after his ordination in 1990, spent one year in Australia then went on to Manila where for many years he was the executive secretary of the Episcopal Commission on the Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.

The new team also includes Fr John Mello, an Italian who has worked all his priestly life in Australia and is now parish priest of Dee Why in the Broken Bay diocese; Fr Carmen Hernandez, a Mexican who is rector of the Scalabrinian theological seminary in Manila; Fr Bruno Ciceri, an Italian who works in Taiwan; and Fr Fiorentino Galdo, from the Philippines, who ministers in the parish of Mascot in the Sydney archdiocese.