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Brother Terrence Arthur Foley MSC |
 Brother Terry Foley died on 5th June 2009 in the Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick, after a long and often painful illness. Terry was born at Ashfield NSW on 26th December 1933 the youngest son of Leo and Edith Foley. Born with a cleft palate, throughout his life he suffered from a moderate speech defect, although this in no way impaired his active interest in people with whom he came in contact. His mother died when he was young and his father married a second time, giving Terry a new step-sister. He was educated at various schools n Sydney and Tamworth NSW. After leaving school he did clerical work. Terry was an active parishioner of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in Haymarket, Sydney, and so when he became interested in religious life he consulted one of the brothers in the Blessed Sacrament Community there. He did not feel drawn to the Blessed Sacrament way of life but it happened that the brother whom he consulted had an MSC brother – so Providence, in this way, led Terry to the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. |
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Brother Rexford John Pye MSC |
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 The Northern Territories’ longest serving missionary and the world-wide MSC Society’s senior member, died in Darwin on Friday 29th May, aged 102. Bishop Eugene Hurley, in his tribute to Brother John, spoke of him as an “icon of the Territory” who had won the love and respect of the Aboriginal people for his work on the Tiwi Islands, Port Keats (Wadeye) and Daly River (Nauiyu). “He was a great religious brother who committed his life to serving other people”.
John was especially revered for introducing the game of Australian Rules to the Tiwi people, where he is known as the “Father of Football”. After his death a fine tribute appeared in the Melbourne daily newspaper, “The Age”, praising his significant contribution to the promotion of Australian Rules, and not only in the Northern Territory, for many Aboriginal players from NT went on to successful careers in some of the major teams in the AFL. |
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Father Robert Charles Mitchell MSC |
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 Father Bob Mitchell was born on 17th November 1932 at Auchenflower, Brisbane, Queensland, the youngest of the six children of Gordon and Isabella Mitchell. At the conclusion of his primary schooling he received a scholarship to “Downlands” College, Toowoomba for his secondary education. Bob was one of a group of six students from Downlands who decided to join the congregation and went to the Apostolic School at Douglas Park. He entered the novitiate on 2nd February 1952 and made his first profession of vows on 26th February 1953.
After ordination at Camp Hill (Brisbane) on 25th July 1959, Bob was appointed to the staff of Chanel College, Ulapia, New Britain, the new seminary for the formation of local priests for the Church of Papua New Guinea. He later recalled “the rather primitive circumstances in which I was lecturing in philosophy sometimes disappointed me, the more so since the MSC had missed out on taking on the Diocesan Major Seminary which just then was being built at Kap”. These were exciting days for the young Church of Papua New Guinea as a determined effort was being made to encourage the formation of the indigenous priesthood. |
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