{"id":32493,"date":"2018-12-20T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=32493"},"modified":"2018-12-20T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T11:15:18","slug":"new-priest-ordained-after-11-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW PRIEST ORDAINED AFTER 11 YEARS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFTER 11 YEARS OF EFFORT: new local priest ordained in the Solomon Islands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Dec. 8, 2018, the Diocese of Gizo\u2014located at the furthest corner of the world in the center of the South Pacific\u2014celebrated with great joy the ordination of Deacon Thomas Patavolomo in his home community of Voru Voru, located on the northern part of the island of Choiseul, which is part of the Solomon Islands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first ordination produced by the vocation campaign started by the diocese 11 years ago in a very coordinated effort to recruit an adequate number of candidates to the priesthood to run the seven parishes scattered around Choiseul Island as well as in the territory\u2019s western province.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32495 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-600x415.jpg 600w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-580x401.jpg 580w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-860x595.jpg 860w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246-1160x803.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246.jpg 1406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Four of the seven parishes are still run by the Dominicans, who recruited a good number of priests in the region about 40 years ago, when the diocese was first established, in 1978, almost at the same time as when the Solomon Islands obtained independence from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The remaining three parishes are run by foreign missionaries. The very isolated Gizo Diocese had until now only two diocesan priests and 12 priests on loan. The ordination of Father Thomas and the fact that three more diocesan candidates from Waghina, Sirovanga and the Shortland are close to ordination represent a major step for the diocese toward having its own local clergy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voru Voru was already proud of contributing to the Church a second priest: Father Kobakina, who joined the Dominicans; and now there is a diocesan priest, Father Patavolomo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An expression of high expectations and big plans, a celebration and speeches by government officials and representatives of other Churches marked the occasion of Father Patavolomo\u2019s ordination. Already some years ago, the 12 tribal chiefs of the Voru Voru region formally agreed to give a portion of their land to the Catholic Church where a pastoral center will be built.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ordaining ordinary, Bishop Luciano Capelli, has underlined the role of the priest in today\u2019s society as being at the service of the people by uniting them, forming them, and encouraging them to dream big\u2014while also challenging them to do their part for the mission of the Church: a mission to serve the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has supported the formation of Father Thomas and the other seminarians in the diocese. ACN also supports priests in the diocese of Gizo with Mass stipends. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFTER 11 YEARS OF EFFORT: new local priest ordained in the Solomon Islands On Dec. 8, 2018, the Diocese of Gizo\u2014located at the furthest corner of the world in the center of the South Pacific\u2014celebrated with great joy the ordination of Deacon Thomas Patavolomo in his home community of Voru Voru, located on the northern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NEW PRIEST ORDAINED AFTER 11 YEARS! - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NEW PRIEST ORDAINED AFTER 11 YEARS! - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFTER 11 YEARS OF EFFORT: new local priest ordained in the Solomon Islands On Dec. 8, 2018, the Diocese of Gizo\u2014located at the furthest corner of the world in the center of the South Pacific\u2014celebrated with great joy the ordination of Deacon Thomas Patavolomo in his home community of Voru Voru, located on the northern...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-12-20T11:12:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-12-20T11:15:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1406\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"973\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"ACN Malta Media\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"ACN Malta Media\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/\",\"name\":\"NEW PRIEST ORDAINED AFTER 11 YEARS! - Aid to the Church in Need (Malta)\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-12-20T11:12:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-20T11:15:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/#\/schema\/person\/3c01ab68e03f1b76347f9f6ac439a9d2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2018\/12\/20\/new-priest-ordained-after-11-years\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ACN-20181213-81246.jpg\",\"width\":1406,\"height\":973,\"caption\":\"Western Solomon Islands NEW PRIEST ORDAINED AT CHOISEUL On December 08, 2018 Rev Deacon Thomas Patavolomo has been ordained a catholic priest in his home place at VoruVoru North Choiseul. 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