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BYWAYS

MEMORIES FROM  A CATHOLIC SEMINARY
 
 
Memories from a Catholic Church: 
Over 95 years 1,480 young men set out for Corpus Christi College. 974 were ordained of which 138 choose new pathways and 388 are deceased. ​Byways tells the stories of 40.

About Byways

For fifty years, young men gathered each March 1st at Spencer Street Station. We travelled by bus to Werribee’s Chirnside Manor and entered its mile-long front drive. All were ambitious to be priests, but many took sidetracks and ended in highways and unexpected byways.

Each journey is unique but together we are bonded CCC guys.

​Byways is a sliver of our journey.
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Save $10 with Launch Price for CCC guys only

 
Attend the CCC Guys First Friday dinner December 7, 2018 for the launch of the book and save $10 off the RRP. The 422 page Byways book with dozens of historic photographs, recalling its past 95 year history is available at a prepublication price discount for a short time only.
​Paperback: $40
(3 for $100)
RRP is $50
Hardback: $60
(3 for $150)
RRP is $70
 
 
Delivery:  $25 for 1-3 copies Express Post.

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SYNOPSIS

Since 1923, Corpus Christi College has welcomed 1,425 mostly young men from Victoria and Tasmania to four campus - Werribee, Glen Waverley, Clayton and Carlton where it currently has 47 student priests from eleven countries. 

 
They all arrive with the intention to be celibate priests. 

To date 971 have been ordained.

Byways is the Memories of 43.

Seven were ordained and are still serving, eighteen checked out and thirteen were priests then moved out of traditional ministries. 

All were profoundly moulded by their Corpus Christi experience and were deeply influenced by the Jesuits who trained them and the bonds of mateship in that experience. 

​Of the priest who stayed many took  sidetracks: Hilton Deakin to anthropology in Kalumburu and East Timor, Eric Hodgens into blogging, John Ryan to Priesthood Imprisoned, John Hannon to Broken Bay, Terry Southerwood to publishing and databases, Len Falkner to Townsville and Adelaide and Len Thomas continuing his gift of journalism. All took sidetracks responding to Jesus; ‘bring them home go to the Highways and Byways’.
 

Chapters

Part 1: The "Corpus Christi Guys" Project
 Memories, Dreams and Reflections: An Introduction, Lawrie Moloney
I Say, "Thank God for the failures”, Bob Hayes

Part 2: Priestly Formation at Corpus Christi. Origins & Issues
Travelling Seminary By-ways With Mannix, Michael S Parer
Past and Present Reflections/On A Wing And A Prayer, Eric Hodgens
Manual Work and Literary Outout: Informal Education in a 1950s Seminary, Val Noone
Corpus Christi College Werribee in the 1960s, John Begley SJ
Among the Jesuit, John Molony
The Priest and the Daughters of Eve, Michael Costigan
Gay With God, Julian Punch
A Priesthood Imprisoned: Education Beyond The Seminary, John E. Ryan
"You Will Do No Good”, Hilton F. Deakin
A Young Man or Woman with a Vocation to the Priesthood, Don Burnard



Part 3: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Training For The Priesthood: Werribee 1939-1942, Frank Galbally
Corpus Christ College Werribee 1943-1946, Leonard  Faulkner
Road To The Priesthood, Frank Ruth
From Werribee River to the Tiber, Michael Costigan
A Seminary-made Man, Michael S Parer
Moulding the Clay, John R Sabine
Settling In At Corpus Christi Werribee, Terry Southerwood
Before, During and After Corpus Christi College, Len Thomas
I'll Let You Know When I Find Out, Paul Costigan
My Corpus Christi Experience, Gerry Byrne
Et Alibi Aliorum, Jim Quillinan
Was Being A "Failure" Worth It?, Bob Munro
To Werribee and Beyond: Reflections of a Professor-Priest, Des Cahill
From Cultural Catholic to… what?, Michael Leahy
Call them Peter and John, John Shaw
Werribee and a brief sojourn at Glen Waverley, Peter Matheson
A Litany of Lurkers and Lifers, Michael McLindon
My Werribee Experience, Ken Nailon
Some Recollections of a naïve young seminarian, Terry O'Neill
From 'Catholic Community' to Werribee, Glen Waverley and Rome, Mick O'Brien
Seminary Initiation, Lawrie Moloney
Bookended, Michael Bowden
Propelled Towards The Priesthood, Ed Carmody with Lawrie Moloney
Seminary Life In The Turbulent 60s, Norm Yodgee
How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?, Lawrie Moloney
Continuity, Change and Disintegration: Werribee 1967-1970, Larry Burn
Beyond The Orange and the Green, Patrick Davis
Werribee and Glen Waverley: The Final Years, Nick  Meadley
Reflections on Seminary Life and Training from 1971 to 1996, John Hannon
Early Days at Corpus Christi College Clayton 1974-1978, Bill Fox

Dedication

 
Byways ‘Memories from a Catholic Seminary’ 1923 – 2018 is dedicated to John Neylon Molony born 1927, Ordained 1950, Married 1963, Died 2018 and the 388 deceased Corpus Christi Priests
 
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