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Written by Kevin Lee with help from the Dominican Vocations website
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Monday, 04 January 2010 23:10 |
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He is Bishop Anthony Fisher O.P. Formerly auxilliary Bishop in the Sydney Archdiocese. He is due to replace Bishop Manning who is retiring to live in Glenbrook in March. I ripped the following off the Dominican Vocations website to help you get a bit of an understanding of the man:
How did I discern which order I should join? That was complicated. I was schooled by the Jesuits and my parish was diocesan. I thought of both of those first and made inquiries of them while still a schoolboy and later as well. But I took nearly ten years to make up my mind. In the meantime I studied, had various romantic and social involvements, practised law, travelled around the world, grew up a lot. While I was at Sydney Uni a girlfriend persuaded me to attend a conference of the Tertiary Catholic Federation in Adelaide. There I met a would-be Dominican whom I told I was thinking of entering the priesthood. Soon after that pamphlets started arriving mysteriously in the post for me with titles like 'So you want to be a Dominican?' I met a few real Dominicans and the more I learnt about what the Order was about, the more I admired its ideals and thought its apostolate and style of life might suit me.
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