ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF MELBOURNE PRIESTS

The Conference was held for four days last week in Geelong with 112 priests attending as requested by the Archbishop. This was one of our best conferences organised by Fr Martin Ashe and his committee. Our key presenter was Fr Dermot Power of London, a theologian and spiritual director. He was a delight to listen to, with good theology and a wealth of stories (some very humorous) from his own priestly experience. He summed up his six presentations by saying ‘we grow from the outside in—through pastoral experience with the People of God we are led to a deeper reliance in God’ – we never arrive, we are always longing to be better. We learn about the Kingdom of God from the ‘little people’. It is the laity who form the priests. The future is not in our hands, but the Holy Spirit will challenge us out of any comfort zone as we are all unfinished business…………………………………Fr Kevin