Vale Father Paul Kane
ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE REPORT;
Monday 30 July 2012
LAST Friday morning on the anniversary of his 60th Ordination to the Priesthood, Father Paul John Kane died at Caritas Christi in Kew.
On Monday 23 July , when the priests of Victoria and Tasmania gathered to give thanks to God for the gift of priesthood and the service of our jubilarians, Fr Paul was unable to be present. Fr Bren Donohue PE, in toasting the jubilarians, acknowledged the absence of his friend and asked all present to remember him in prayer.
Father Paul Kane was ordained in 1952. He worked as a temporary Assistant Priest at Dandenong and East Kew and subsequently as Assistant Priest at Kilmore, South Yarra, West Preston and Essendon. Fr Kane undertook a four year appointment as Chaplain to the Young Catholic Students’ Association and then was appointed as the founding Parish Priest of North Fawkner, whereupon after 36 years at the Parish, he retired.
The Pontifical Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St Bede’s Church, 1 Severn Street, Nth Balwyn on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 2:00pm; followed by burial at the Priests’ Crypt, Melbourne General Cemetery.
LAST Friday morning on the anniversary of his 60th Ordination to the Priesthood, Father Paul John Kane died at Caritas Christi in Kew.On Monday 23 July , when the priests of Victoria and Tasmania gathered to give thanks to God for the gift of priesthood and the service of our jubilarians, Fr Paul was unable to be present. Fr Bren Donohue PE, in toasting the jubilarians, acknowledged the absence of his friend and asked all present to remember him in prayer.
Father Paul Kane was ordained in 1952. He worked as a temporary Assistant Priest at Dandenong and East Kew and subsequently as Assistant Priest at Kilmore, South Yarra, West Preston and Essendon. Fr Kane undertook a four year appointment as Chaplain to the Young Catholic Students’ Association and then was appointed as the founding Parish Priest of North Fawkner, whereupon after 36 years at the Parish, he retired.
The Pontifical Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St Bede’s Church, 1 Severn Street, Nth Balwyn on Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 2:00pm; followed by burial at the Priests’ Crypt, Melbourne General Cemetery.
SHARED FROM ARCHDIOCESE OF MELBOURNE
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