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Issue 5, August 2010, Highlights: Office of Justice Peace and Ecology Bishop Jobst - Celebrating 60 years a Priest Kimberley Kitchen - Chisiol - Pancake |
KCP Magazine Celebrating 60 years a Priest Caption: Bishop John Jobst (R) and Bishop Christopher Saunders enjoy the proceedings. Photo: Mittelbayerische
The Emeritus Bishop of Broome, +Johannes Jobst, returned to the town of his Baptism, Brennberg, in the beautiful State of Bavaria in southern Germany, to share the joy of the occasion.
Caption: Emeritus Bishop of Broome, Bishop John Jobst (centre), Bishop Manfred Muller, Emeritus Bishop of Regensburg (R), and, Bishop of Broome, Bishop Christopher Saunders at the Mass of Thanksgiving. Bishop Jobst was raised on a farm near Brennberg before joining the Pallottine Fathers. After compulsory military service during World War II, +Johannes Jobst returned to the seminary and was ordained a priest on 9 July 1950. Appointed to Australia together with Fr John Lenmann, a priest well known to many Kimberley people, the young Fr Jobst began his ministry at Beagle Bay. Later he went to the Pallottine Australian House of Studies as Spiritual Director. It was from there, in Sydney, that he was named as Bishop of the Vicariate of the Kimberley and, later, he became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Broome in 1965. Many of Bishop Jobst’s family were in attendance including his sister, Amanda, a Pallottine Sister with many years experience in South Africa where she worked with orphans of AIDS victims. Bishop Manfred Muller, Emeritus Bishop of Regensburg, concelebrated the Mass with Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome and eleven other priests. Bishop Muller gave the homily at the Mass and spoke of Bishop Jobst’s faith and vocation inspired by his parents, his family and his parish. He drew attention to Bishop Jobst’s heroic work in the Kimberley region of Northern Western Australia in the area of education and of his efforts to establish a healthy pastoral network of care among the Kimberley people.
The day began with Bishop Jobst riding in a horse drawn carriage up a steep hill to the ruins of Brennberg Castle followed by a procession of forty servers in red or black soutanes and white surplices, a uniformed brass band, and a throng of people carrying banners and dressed in traditional Bavarian costumes including the famous lederhosen, or leather pants, still worn on culturally public occasions. Caption: Bishop John receives a greeting from Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis.
Caption: Bishop John Jobst (R) in a highly decorated horse drawn carriage on the way to the festivities in Brennberg. Photo: Mittelbayerische A horn band called everyone to attention giving the moment just one more memorable touch. The parish priest, Fr Adolf Scholbe, did a magnificent job of pulling it all together and organizing such a wonderful day. The Burgermeister (Mayoress), Ms Irmgard Sauerer, welcomed everyone there and generously made everyone feel part of the Bishop’s superb achievement of sixty years a presbyter in The oom-pah-pah Brass Band played tirelessly, after more fitting testimonies to the Bishop, while a very large number of well wishers approached Bishop Jobst to greet him and personally congratulate him on the greatness of the occasion. The diocese of Broome joins with the people of Brennberg in wishing Bishop Jobst god’s choicest blessings on the occasion of his diamond jubilee as a priest. Ad multos annos Caption: Bishop Jobst is congratulated on the occasion of his Diamond Jubilee of Priesthood by his Grandnephew Christoph. Photo: CAS
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True Bavarian hospitality was made available with a delightful meal for everyone while local music on the hillside set the festive mood of the day. |
Adding to the solemnity of the occasion was the attendance of Princess Gloria, of the House of von Thurn und Taxis, who brought a Broome touch to the proceedings by wearing a significantly beautiful necklace of pearls. 
the service of the Lord. No festival is complete without some refreshments and a meal of roast meat or sausage and potatoe salad and green salad was shared by several hundred parishioners and guests, and then washed down by a good Bavarian beer. 