Three Neocatechumenal Deacons ordained for Perth

01 Jun 2011

By The Record

Deacons Marcello Parra, Wilson Donizetti and Antonio Scala were ordained to the Diaconate on Thursday 26 May. Photo: The Record/Peter Rosengren.

Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey ordained three new deacons for the Archdiocese of Perth on Thursday evening 26 May before a congregation of approximately 300 people.

The three candidates for the transitional diaconate kneel before Archbishop Hickey, Thursday 26 May at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: The Record/Peter Rosengren.

Around 27 clergy, together with seminarians from St Charles Archdiocesan and Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary seminaries attended the ordinations of Wilson Donizzetti, 27, Antonio Scala, 43 and Marcello Para, 28.

All three studied at Redemptoris Mater in Morley.

National Responsibles and Catechists of the Neocatechumenal Way in Australia, Mr Toto Piccolo, left, and his wife Rita, far right, with Archbishop Barry Hickey, centre and newly ordained deacons Marcello Parra, Wilson Donizetti and Antonio Scala. Photo: The Record/Peter Rosengren.

Deacon Donizzetti, a former pharmacy worker in Brasilia, Brazil, has been assigned to Rockingham. Deacon Scala, a former landscape gardener from the island of Iscia, near Naples, has been assigned to Mirrabooka.

Deacon Parra, who worked in a call centre in Chile after leaving school, has been assigned to Cottesloe.

The three new deacons find out their new appointments following their ordination on Thursday 26 May at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: The Record/Peter Rosengren.