{"id":1826,"date":"2014-08-28T21:03:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/en\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2015-02-07T00:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T05:47:09","slug":"installation-of-the-most-rev-gary-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/installation-of-the-most-rev-gary-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Installation of the Most Rev. Gary Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Installation of the Most Rev. Gary Gordon,\u00a0Bishop of Victoria<\/strong>
\nAddress of the Apostolic Nuncio – August 28, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

My brother Bishops,
\nDear brothers and sisters in Christ:<\/p>\n

My first duty and pleasure as representative of the Holy Father in Canada is to\u00a0transmit and offer each of you the greetings of Pope Francis: his love, his friendship and\u00a0his blessing. A friendship, which comes to you with a gift: Bishop Gary Gordon is the gift\u00a0of the friendship of Pope Francis shared with each of you who make up this local Church.<\/p>\n

Dear sisters and brothers, today I invite you to welcome Bishop Gordon as a\u00a0precious gift that the Lord sends to the Diocese of Victoria. Thirty-two years ago, the young\u00a0Gary Gordon received priestly ordination and began a very fruitful ministry in the\u00a0Archdiocese of Vancouver. Those who first encountered this young, zealous priest were\u00a0struck by his fatherly care for young people, his outreach to those on the peripheries of\u00a0society, and his deep empathy and compassion for our brothers and sisters of the First\u00a0Nations. It was that unique pastoral relationship which led him to be called to shepherd the\u00a0First Nations in the Diocese of Whitehorse for the past eight years. Bishop Gary\u2019s priestly\u00a0and episcopal ministries have been marked and blessed by a sincere \u201cpassion for\u00a0compassion\u201d toward those imprisoned, and who seek a healing word to restore their\u00a0wounded lives.<\/p>\n

This past June, I had the joy of visiting the Diocese of Whitehorse. This gave me\u00a0the occasion to see with my own eyes how much the people were sorry to lose their bishop.\u00a0Yes, they were sorry but deep down inside they knew that they were making a gift to\u00a0Vancouver Island, and they were glad to make this gift. The gift of Whitehorse becomes\u00a0today the gift to Victoria.<\/p>\n

Brothers and Sisters, and especially you the priests, religious women and men:\u00a0welcome Bishop Gary Gordon with a grateful heart and with a firm will to collaborate with\u00a0him, so that the Diocese of Victoria may present herself more and more \u201cas the house and\u00a0school of communion\u201d (NMI, 43), a place of mutual help in walking the holy journey of\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

A new pastor represents also a new moment in the life of a Diocese. I wish every\u00a0one of you to be protagonist in this new moment. Through your communion with your\u00a0Bishop and among you, through your commitment to give priority to the charity (1 Pt 4,8),\u00a0you will allow the Holy Spirit to write new and beautiful pages, pages worthy to be told,\u00a0of the history of the Diocese of Victoria. It is the history of the fidelity of God\u00a0accompanying his people and constantly renewing his miracles for his people.<\/p>\n

Let us ask St. Augustine – whose memory we celebrate today \u2013 the grace to discover\u00a0that behind the restlessness of the human heart and the dissatisfaction we often experience,\u00a0there is a deep quest for God, the desire of God. An infinite and unquenchable desire: “You\u00a0have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

And let us also be guided and helped by the Apostle Andrew – the first to be called\u00a0by the Lord \u2013 to whom is dedicated your beautiful Cathedral. Andrew was known for\u00a0bringing others to Jesus: whether the young boy with a few loaves and fish (cf. Jn 6,8-9),\u00a0or foreigners in Jerusalem curious to meet the Master (cf. Jn 12,20-22), or, and most\u00a0significantly, his brother Simon Peter (cf. Jn, 1,40-42).<\/p>\n

The ministry of St. Andrew is a beautiful example of the evangelization \u2013 this\u00a0passion to spread the Gospel of joy to which Pope Francis call us \u2013 which consists not only\u00a0in telling others about Jesus, but bringing them to encounter him personally and to have\u00a0fellowship with him. For it is only through such close communion and personal relation\u00a0with Jesus that we can grow as disciples of the Lord.<\/p>\n

Bishop Gary, today I pray \u2013 we pray \u2013 that you may have Augustine\u2019s restless heart\u00a0and Andrew\u2019s perseverance and boldness of proclamation as you serve the Lord with\u00a0gladness. As Pope Francis wrote so beautifully in Evangelii Gaudium, \u201cthe Gospel tells us\u00a0constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical\u00a0presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects\u00a0us in our close and continuous interaction. True faith in the incarnate Son of God is\u00a0inseparable from self-giving, from membership in the community, from service, from\u00a0reconciliation with others. The Son of God, by becoming flesh, summoned us to the\u00a0revolution of tenderness\u201d (#88).<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear Bishop Gary: through your ministry as Bishop of Victoria, and with the eager\u00a0assistance and wholehearted collaboration of your priests, religious and lay faithful, we\u00a0hope and pray that many will be filled with a passion for compassion for others, be brought\u00a0to know the Lord, and become part of his revolution of tenderness. AMEN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allocution de S.E. Mgr Luigi Bonazzi, Victoria, 28 ao\u00fbt 2014 (English Only)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homelies-et-salutations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nuntiatura.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}