Fr Tony entered eternal life last Tuesday after a long illness. Tony was one of us forty-one students who began our formation as priests at Werribee in 1963. Tony was a former teacher. We were ordained together in 1970. Tony was extraordinarily gifted intellectually. He was a musician and a psychologist. He studied psychology at Melbourne University and his doctoral thesis was published in the prestigious ‘American Journal of Psychology’.
Then he ministered as a counsellor at Centacare Catholic Family Services and a consultant psychologist at the Marriage Tribunal for ten years. His first appointment as parish priest was at West Heidelberg where he was well loved and established the Exodus Community for people on the margins. Later, he was transferred and became pastor of two parishes—Surrey Hills and Wattle Park. His funeral Mass is on Tuesday at 11.00am at Wattle Park followed by burial at Springvale.
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish Sunbury 