Two friends, oft mentioned on this blog, from Left to Right, including all in between they are:
Pastor Fraser Pearce, Parish Pastor Bendigo, Victoria
Pastor Adam Cooper, Senior Lecturer at John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family
Two friends, oft mentioned on this blog, from Left to Right, including all in between they are:
Pastor Fraser Pearce, Parish Pastor Bendigo, Victoria
Pastor Adam Cooper, Senior Lecturer at John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family
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“Maior autem his est spes”
I propose that
1) We replace the absentee monarch of Australia (who is also the Monarch of Great Britain) with an elected Australian monarchy.
2) The elected monarch exactly replaces the current monarch in the current constition.
3) The elected monarch has exactly the same powers, duties and responsibilities as those of the current absentee monarch. All the monarch's functions are carried out by his/her personal representatives (as is currently the case): federally by the Governor General, and in the states by the State Governors.
4) The Governor General and the Governors continue to be selected and appointed as they currently are, that is, by the premier with the approval of the monarch.
5) The monarch is elected to sovereignty over Australia for life, but his/her sovereignty is strictly non-hereditary.
6) The elective body is the "college of electors" comprised of the state governors and federal governor general.
7) The election of the monarch must be a unanimous decision on the part of the college of electors.
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-- Anthony Trollope, "The Way We Live Now"
"The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head."
-- Terry Pratchet, Hogfather, page 242
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--Richard Dawkins
David,
I hope eventually to return to the JPII Institute in the Glorious See of Melbourne, and learn from Pr Cooper…
…but as a matter of curiosity, where is he pastoring at present? – I can’t quite see the chapel being made available for Lutheran services!
David,
And as I recall, there is that very Gothic little German Lutheran church (Heilige Dreifaltigkeit?) just opposite the main doors of the Cathedral, only a block or two away from the JPII Institute… which branch of hydraheaded Lutheranism are they?
First question:
Pastor Cooper is officially on leave from parish ministry in the LCA while remaining on the “Roll of Pastors”. Hence, no parish at the mo.
Holy Trinity Church (or Heilige Dreifaltigkeit, as you correctly call it) was established as an Australian Lutheran Church by early 19th Century German settlers, including one of my wife’s ancestors. It maintained its German language tradition and after the war was made available to the Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland as their ministry to 20th Century German migrants. Pastor Joachim von Mitzlaff is a pastor of the EKD, but the pastor and congregation participate fully in the life of the LCA in full communion with the LCA. To maintain this full communion, they refrain from EKD practices not in accord with the Lutheran Church of Australia, such as women pastors.
Thanks, David!
I suppose I was naïvely looking at this from the Roman point-of-view, whereby a priest will be celebrating Mass daily, for whosoever attends or not. As a Pastor without a charge, then, would he just attend divine worship as a layman would? Just curious.