Compass

Compass - Season 24 Episode 18 The Mission: Part 1 - Beginnings

2016-05-29 30 minutes.
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30 Season 30 Feb 28, 2016
29 Season 29 Mar 15, 2015
28 Season 28 Mar 09, 2014
27 Season 27 Mar 03, 2013
24 Season 24 Feb 07, 2010
14 Season 14 Jan 02, 2000
0 Season 0 Feb 24, 2013

Overview

Three Nigerian Catholic priests are sent to save Tasmania’s struggling church. But will the dwindling congregations and the resistance of the local clergy prove too hard a cross to bear? In episode 1, Beginnings, Fathers Christopher, Felix and Kene arrive in Tasmania on its coldest winter’s day. It’s a whirlwind of ‘enculturation’ Tassie style as they encounter Tasmanian Devils, colonial villages and snowfields. There’s the even colder reality of elderly congregations in largely empty churches and an aging local priesthood. Fr Kene goes to Launceston where the harsh reality and loneliness of being an African in Australia starts to bite. Fr Felix, sent to Tasmania’s isolated West Coast, struggles with a church culture vastly different to his own. Fr Christopher stays in Hobart’s Cathedral Parish, where it’s clear his mentor doesn’t believe importing priests is the solution to Tasmania’s clerical crisis.

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