• Tree
  • Skies-ok
  • Mist Villa Maria
  • VMtabernacle
  • Windmill
  • SudaneseMass
  • CitySilence
  • orienteering
  • Road
  • CitySilence-1
  • MontbelVerandah
  • byron bay ps
  • Fatima procession 1019
  • VM East view
  • GlimmersofGrace
  • cityfest grp
  • PiusJ-indigenous
  • stpatspews
  • Ukuleles
  • MontbelPool

Contacts

District leadership     |     International leadership     |     International Commissions

 

District leadership team

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From left: Fr Anthony Corcoran SM (District Superior), Fr Paul Sullivan SM (District Bursar), Fr Peter McMurrich SM (Councillor), Fr Ray Chapman SM (Councillor), Fr Kevin Redmond SM (Councillor).

Marist District Office, 3 Mary St, Hunters Hill NSW 2110, Australia
Postal:  Locked Bag 5002, Gladesville NSW 1675, Australia
Tel: +61 (2) 9844 2222   |   Fax: +61 (2) 9816 1737

Fr Tony:  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.


International leadership team

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From leftFr John Larsen SM (Superior-General), Fr John Harhager SM (Vicar-General), Fr Bernard McKenna SM (Assistant-General and Secretary-General), Fr Juan Carlos Pina SM (Assistant-General), Fr Setefano Mataele SM (Assistant-General)

Portfolios and responsibilities

Fr John Larsen
  • Superior General
  • Mission & evangelization - oversight
  • Omnes Gentes/International Works + (with Fr Setefano Mataele)
  • Marist Family [with Superior Generals}
  • Oversight for formation
Fr John Harhager
  • Vicar General
  • Safeguarding + [implementation]
  • Bursar General (finance staff and General Finance Committee)
  • House Bursar
  • Publications - Marist Studies
  • Reconfiguration and government + (with Fr John Larsen)
  • La Neylière [Committee for La Neylière]
  • Education ministry
  • Forum Novum
  • Liaison with provinces of Oceania and New Zealand
Fr Setefano Mataele
  • Councillor
  • Vocations [+ think tank]
  • Assist Fr John Larsen with Omnes Gentes
  • Marist Laity
  • First five years
  • Assist Fr Ben McKenna with Ongoing Formation
  • Leadership Training
  • Liaison with districts of Mexico and Australia
Fr Ben McKenna
  • Councillor
  • Secretary General
  • Ongoing formation – Colinian Renewal, Formators Workshop (+ Fr Stefano Mataele)
  • Founder’s cause+
  • JPIC [Marist Family]
  • Link for Commissions: Ecology, Inter-religious Dialogue, Migrants and Refugees
  • Safeguarding+
  • Religious life and renewal
  • Contemplative life
  • Liaison with province of USA and districts of Asia and Africa
Fr Juan Carlos Piña
  • Councillor
  • House Superior
  • Procurator to the Holy See
  • Initial Formation+
  • Youth [Marist branches & Marist World Youth Day]
  • Youth Commission
  • Communications / web
  • Archives
  • Assist Fr Ben McKenna with the Founder’s cause
  • Liaison with provinces of Canada and Europe and district of South America
Address:

Padri Maristi, Via Alessandro Poerio 63, 00152 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 06 589 9041   |   Fax: +39 06 588 0812
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International Commissions

The Society of Mary has established three ongoing Commissions to address important contemporary issues: 


Inter-religious Dialogue and Reconciliation Commission

The Catholic Church aims to promote respect and collaboration between different faiths and religions. In our globalised world interaction between people from different faiths and religions becomes more and more important.

In 2018 the Superior General of the Society of Mary established the “Marist Commission for Inter-religious Dialogue and Reconciliation”.

The Commission has three objectives:

1. To strive for a higher level of professionalism in missionary involvement through further education, research, teaching, publishing and advocacy”

2. To contribute locally by offering on-going formation, education, seminars and awareness-raising exercises for the local people in the respective areas of the Commission.

3. To contribute to living our Marist missionary vocation more authentically by working within the Society of Mary to help all of us respond better as Marists and Marist communities with the leadership of the Commission.

In our modern word ecology is an important issue, and the Church asks the faithful to live in harmony with and respect for nature. In his famous encyclical letter from 2015, Laudato si’, Pope Francis writes “I urgently appeal, then, for a new dialogue about how we are shaping the future of our planet. We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all” (14).

Members of the Commission are Fr Hermes Larry Sabud SM, Fr Kevin Medilo SM, Fr Michael Jacques SM, Fr Gerard Hall SM, Sr Catherine Jones SMSM, Mr Brendan Murphy..


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 Members of the Commission are Fr Damien Diouf, Fr Steve Youm, Fr Michael Ryan, Fr Ricardo Navarette, Br Ivan Vodopivec, Fr Arnold Garferio.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ecology Commission

In 2018 the Superior General of the Society of Mary established the “Marist Commission for Ecology”.

The Commission has three objectives:

1. To strive for a higher level of professionalism in missionary involvement through further education, research, teaching, publishing and advocacy.

2. To contribute locally by offering on-going formation, education, seminars and awareness-raising exercises for the local people in the respective areas of the Commission.

3. To contribute to living our Marist missionary vocation more authentically by working within the Society of Mary to help all of us respond better as Marists and Marist communities with the leadership of the Commission.

 Members of the Commission are Fr Donato Kivi, Fr Peter Healy, Fr Petero Matairatu, Fr Samuele Tukidia, Fr John Guo Wang, Mrs Kelly Mandy.