Acknowledging Paul Castley MSC, 85
Paul at a Chapter 2016 Eucharist
Paul Castley is a Queenslander, Townsville and Brisbane. He made his first profession, February 26th 1955. His studies were at Sacred Heart Monastery, Croydon. He was ordained in St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, June 29th 1961.
After a year in Randwick parish, he taught at Monivae for most of the 1960s. He then served in parishes, Hindmarsh, relieving in Park Orchards, Camp Hill. He spent 1978 at St Paul’s National Seminary. In 1981, he moved to Sacred Heart Monastery, Croydon, working in pastoral supervision and training in CPE, Clinical Pastoral Education, then spending two years at Navarre House, Drummoyne.. He supervised courses in CPE at the Heart of Life Centre, Melbourne as well as at the National Pastoral Institute.
Pilgrim
He has walked the Via Francigena in 2011, has walked the Australian Camino from Portland to Penola, and has twice walked the Camino, in Spain in 2015, and through Portugal in 2018.
He has continued this pastoral work in Melbourne, based at the MSC House in Kew, part of the team for the Spiritual Leaders program at Heart of Life in 2019-2020.
Hung, Trieu and Kew Community 2018
