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Moment of grace is Victor’s in a special year
Archbishop Costelloe SDB ordains Victor to the diaconate. PHOTO: R HIINI
By Robert Hiini “WE RELY on the help of the Lord God and Our Saviour Jesus Christ and we choose this man Victor, our brother, for the Order of Deacons.” A packed church, at St Gerard Majella Parish, Mirrabooka erupted in aplause at the words of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB as Victor Lujano was put forward and accepted as fit for ordination to the diaconate on Friday, July 27. The night was momentous, Archbishop Costelloe said, not only for the change ordination would make in Victor’s own life, but in the life of the Church. “We all know Victor to be a good and generous man,” Archbishop Costelloe said, “(but) tonight he becomes a living sign of the presence of Jesus among us in a whole new way.”
Newly ordained Deacon Victor Lujano assists Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB at the Mass at St Gerard Majella Parish on July 27.
The essence of ministry as a deacon, the Archbishop said, was summed up in the questions he would ask Victor later that evening, and in the prayer he would pray over him: “We’ll hear about respect and obedience; we’ll hear about sincere love, concern for the poor, unassuming authority, self-discipline and holiness,” the Archbishop said. “At the end of the prayer of consecration we will hear all of that summed up in these words: “God, Our Father, may Victor imitate your
son who came, not to be served, but to serve.” A native of Berinas, Venuzuela, Deacon Lujano, 38, has been a seminarian at the Neo-Catechumenal Way-administered seminary of Redemptoris Mater for the better part of eight years. The call to be another Christ in the world was not one restricted to deacons and priests, Archbishop Costelloe said, but one that applied to all the faithful: “All of us are called to (different) vocations, precisely so that every-
one, and not just married people, can see and know that fidelity is asked of all of us; that everyone, and not just parents, are called to put the needs of others first; “That everyone, and not just Religious, are called to live lives of simplicity, of openess to God’s will and of profound respect for one another’s dignity; “And that all of us, not just priests, are called to be good shepherds to each other.” Archbishop Costelloe was joined by Redemptoris Mater Seminary
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Rector, Fr Michael Moore and St Charles Seminary Rector, Mgr Kevin Long in welcoming Victor Lujano to the diaconate. Like other deacons throughout Perth, Deacon Lujano is now able to conduct Baptisms, preside at weddings and funerals and preach at the Eucharistic Liturgy. Members of Neo-Catechumenal communities from around Perth joined the newly-ordained deacon for the celebration, lending their distinctive, Spanish-styled music and singing to the occasion.
Two beloved Italian priests pass away By Sarah Motherwell
Fr Gaetano Nanni, who passed away on July 30th. OBLATES OF MARY IMMACULATE
THE CATHOLIC Italian community of Western Australia is reeling from the loss of two beloved priests, Fr Gaetano Nanni OMI and Fr Filippo Magni OFM Cap. A funeral was held on Tuesday morning for Fr Nanni who died suddenly and peacefully on July 30, aged 92, in St Patrick’s Presbytery, Fremantle, the suburb and parish he fondly called his home for many years. Fr Magni passed away on June 26, aged 94, less than a month
before the 70th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Earlier this year both the priests were presented with a certificate of honour by Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey recognising their outstanding service to the Church and WA’s Italian community over the decades. With almost 140 years of priesthood between them, the two men were responsible for reaching out to Italian migrants in Perth after the Second World War. Fr Nanni was ordained on May 3, 1943 in Italy and came to Australia
60 years ago to join the Oblate community in Fremantle. Many messages of condolence appeared in the classifieds of The West Australian, all fondly remembering the man who is said to have known every Italian in Perth, especially those in Fremantle. Fr Nanni continued to celebrate the Sunday morning Mass in Italian at St Patrick’s Basilica up until his final days. Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey said in a statement the death of Fr Nanni had triggered a Please turn to Page 6
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The centrepiece of the Exhibition is a large-scale, jointly-created artwork made up of over 30 canvases and expressing the theme: ‘This is our world and we want to share it with you’. The Exhibition will also feature more than 80 individual artworks by people with support needs. For more Information contact Tania Clarke – 9474 3303.
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Helping men navigate life’s journey A WEEKEND designed to reinvigorate men in their personal and spiritual journeys through life will be held at St Denis’s parish in Joondana over the weekend of September 8-9. menAlive is a ministry that seeks to renew faith and encourage men to become more active within their Church communities. It has touched the lives of thousands of men since its inception in 2003 and is open to men from 15 years of age. The cost of the weekend is $50 (concessions available) which includes workshops, morning and afternoon tea and BBQ dinner on Saturday. RSVP by Wednesday August 22 as numbers for the event are strictly limited. For further information contact Ben Sinagra on 0407 088 431 or Martin Marbeck on 9444 6607.
Historic New Norcia schools win grant LOTTERYWEST have granted the New Norcia Benedictine Community two million dollars for restoration and upgrading projects at their St Gertrude’s and St Ildephonsus Colleges over the next two years. Work will include drainage and roof repairs, fire escapes, bathroom upgrades, installation of a commercial kitchen and painting. The community’s The Chimes magazine stated that the projects “would provide an improved and safer experience for groups accessing these unique and beautiful venues.”
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It was a happy day for all when former Good Shepherd, Kelmscott parishioner (also a former Record journalist) Matthew Biddle (pictured at right of the bride) wed Carmel Reeves at St Michael’s Cathedral in Wagga Wagga, NSW, on July 14. The couple met at Campion College in Sydney in 2010 where both were studying liberal arts. The marriage was presided over by Fr Terence Mary Naughtin OFM. Mrs Biddle is from Tumut in NSW’s Snowy Mountains region. PHOTO: PATRICK BYRNE Want to share your happy moment with readers of The Record? Send it to: parishes@therecord.com.au
Nation’s Catholic health providers head to Perth THE 2012 Catholic Health Australia National Conference, to be held at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Perth on August 20-22, will provide an opportunity for those committed to the delivery of health and aged care to gather together and learn from one another. Health board members, senior executives, directors, policy makers and medical and nursing staff will have the opportunity to engage in leadership development,
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Milestone looms for a special agency ARCHBISHOP Emeritus Barry Hickey will celebrate Mass on August 18 to mark identitywa’s 35th year of supporting people with intellectual disability. The Mass will be held at 10.15am
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Raimund Kolbe, born in Russian Poland, was ordained a Franciscan, Maximilian Mary, in Rome. In the 1920s, he reopened a ruined Polish friary, started a Marian press and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Despite his illness, he had successful Marian missions to Japan and India before returning to Poland in 1936. After the 1939 invasion of Poland, the Franciscans’ criticism of the occupiers prompted the arrest of Maximilian and four others, who ended up in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Maximilian volunteered for martyrdom, taking the place of a married man being executed by starvation. This man was present at the saint’s 1982 canonization. Maximilian is the patron of prisoners, journalists and others.
Monday 13th - Green SS PONTIAN, POPE, AND HIPPOLYTUS, PRIEST, MARTYRS (O) 1st Reading: Ezek 1:2-5, 24-28 The glory of the Lord Responsorial Ps 148:1-2, 11-14 Psalm: Praise the Lord! Gospel Reading: Mt 17:22-27 Passion prediction
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at the St Lawrence and Mary Immaculate Parish Hall in Balcatta. identitywa CEO, Marina Re said “Archbishop Emeritus Hickey has supported identitywa from the very beginning, so to have him join us for our 35th Anniversary Mass makes it a very special occasion. “His Grace’s participation in our celebrations also highlights the importance of being committed over the long term, to improving the lives of people with intellectual disability.” The Mass will be followed by an Exhibition of art works by over 80 artists with intellectual disability.
RENOWNED Jesuit author and lecturer on Church history, Reverend Doctor Oliver P Rafferty, will deliver three lectures at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle between August 14-28. Educated at London and Oxford Universities and Trinity College in Dublin, Dr Rafferty will be speaking on “The French Revolution until 1848” on August 14, “1848 until the death of Leo XIII in 1903” on August 21 and “The ‘de-christianisation’ of Europe” on August 28. All lectures will be given in the St John of God Hall (Building ND21), Lecture Room 103 in Henry Street, Fremantle, from 12.30 – 1.30pm. RSVP on 9433 0797 or email anthony.coyte@ nd.edu.au.
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Wednesday 15th - White THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGN MARY Vigil Mass 1st Reading: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2 Play joyful tunes
Responsorial Ps 131:6-7, 9-10. 13-14 Psalm: Ring out joyfully 1st Reading: 1 Cor 15:54-57 The sting of death Gospel Reading: Lk 11:27-28 Blessed womb Mass during the day 1st Reading: Rev 11:19; 12:1-6, 10 A sign appeared Responsorial Ps 44:10-12, 16 Psalm: The queen in gold 1st Reading: 1 Cor 15;20-26 Life in Christ Gospel Reading: Lk 1:39-56 Woman most Blessed Thursday 16th - Green ST STEPHEN OF HUNGARY (O) 1st Reading: Ezek 12:1-12 A set of rebels Responsorial Ps 77:56-59, 61-62 Psalms: God tested and defied Gospel Reading: Mt 18:21-19:1 Heartfelt forgiveness Friday 17th - Green 1st Reading: Ezek 16:1-15, 60, 63 Live and grow Responsorial Is 12:2-6 Psalm: Thank the Lord Gospel Reading: Mt 19:3-12 Question about divorce Saturday 4th - White 1st Reading: Ezek 18:1-10, 13, 30-32 Renounce your sins Responsorial Ps 50:12-15, 18-19 Psalm: Create a clean heart Gospel Reading: Mt 19:13-15 Little children
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Donley Paratore of Year 4B at St Joseph’s Primary School in Albany shows off a hand-made rosary, above. A busy production line in action, below. PHOTO: COURTESY ST JOSEPH’S PRIMARY SCHOOL
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Pentecost 2012 - Pentecost 2013 By Chris Palfrey TAKE A CLASS of eager children, a teacher, four parent helpers, an education assistant and lots of beads – then set to work. On Thursday July 5, Year 4B students from St Joseph’s College in Albany made their own Rosary Beads. There were beads of many colours; crosses and junctions were white. After choosing their beads we set to work. Adult helpers did the knotting (it was tricky) while students counted carefully and threaded – all demonstrating great patience. Each waited in turn to have their knots tied, persevering when the ends of twine split and had to be fixed with clear nail varnish.
Trinity on Causeway to celebrate 50 years TRINITY College Old Boy’s Association is inviting all past students to join them in celebrating the 50th anniversary of establishing the College on the present site on the Causeway. The Reunion, which will be
A Prepaid Oakwood Funeral is for anyone who likes to leave things neat and tidy. Students were intrigued and the hour sped by quickly. Lastly, we packed everything up and added the crucifixes. Tying off the last knot was left to the class teacher. Students were excited on Friday when the completed Rosaries were handed out. We used them in our prayer session and prayed the entire five decades. As luck had it, Parish Priest Fr Concord stopped by to say hello. Students excitedly showed him their Rosary Beads and he then blessed them. The Rosaries are going home for the holidays and will then be bought back to school for use next term. Thanks must go to the lovely ladies from the Perth Legion of Mary who donated the beads and equipment. Got a School Year of Grace story? Send it to schools@ therecord.com.au
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WITH BRIDGET CURREN For the first time Bridget Curran gets up close and personal in an interview with The Record. She tells Juanita Shepherd why she loves the colour pink, how two ambulances resulted in an awardwinning film and why the story of St George would make an epic movie...
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ridget Curran’s first book The Miracles of Mary was a hit, inside and outside the Catholic Church. A best-seller, it received an imprimatur from Archbishop Hickey and was later translated into Italian, Indonesian and Portuguese. She has also worked on documentaries and TV shows for the ABC, SBS and Channel 7, including Who Do You Think You Are?, Who’s Been Sleeping in My House? and My Asian Heart. Her latest film, What a Debacle, Freddy Farkle! is an animated film narrated by the iconic Barry Humphries and was recently screened at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival, along with her other awardwinning short films, Hairoes (for Nickelodeon) and Betrand the Terrible (recently broadcast on FMC. With a triple major in history, anthropology and Italian, joint honours in anthropology and Italian, and a graduate diploma in documentary and corporate documentary production, there’s not much that Google can’t tell us about filmmaker, writer and historian Bridget Curran.
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I always wanted to write and illustrate books. Films are quicker and easier ways of telling stories with words and pictures.
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“Thanks...” I’d take so long to get over the shock they’d probably start up the “get off the stage” music before I finished a sentence.
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What’s the best thing about making a film? Seeing people’s reactions to them.
If you could work with any film maker who would it be and why?
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Unfortunately, most of the filmmakers I’d love to work with have passed away. I would have loved to have worked with Jim Henson. I’ve heard he had an amazing faith, and his films are filled with great warmth, creativity and humour. We share many similar influences, like folklore and traditional storytelling.
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What’s the worst thing about making a film? The many things that can (and do) go wrong. How does your faith help you with your work?
My faith is everything! Helps me to keep things in perspective, to work with integrity and treat people with compassion and respect. I like to think that I’m doing the work God wants me to do; otherwise it really isn’t worth doing.
From Grace to Glory YOU ARE INVITED TO AN EVENING WITH JESUS AND MARY. Exposition * Rosary * Benediction Celebrant: Fr Don Kettle, ACCC State Chairman with homily and meditations by Fr Tim Deeter. Tuesday 14th August 2012 7.30 - 8.30pm / supper following Aquinas College Chapel 58 Mount Henry Road * Salter Point
Presented by the ACCC - Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy in celebration of Australia’s Year of Grace
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If you could make a movie about any Saint who would it be and why?
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Lots of great saints have already had films made about them - St Therese of Liseux, St Thomas More. I’d love to do a movie about a medieval Saint, like St Brendan or St Simon Stock or St George. They got up to some crazy antics, living in trees, sailing the Ocean on a raft, fighting dragons. It would combine my great loves- history, fantasy and faith.
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The story of how pink became your favourite colour?
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I’m terribly girly, what can I say? I was born loving pink.
What is one of the defining moments in your career?
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Which career? Seeing my book on sale for the first time was pretty amazing. I got off a plane and there it was in the Perth airport book store. I suddenly felt like a writer.
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What has been the worst obstacle you have had to overcome while making a film?
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Let’s just say it involved two ambulances, isolated bushland and searing summer heat. But the end result is an awardwinning film that’s doing very well on the festival circuit, so all is forgiven.
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Who is your celebrity crush? Is Jesus a celebrity?
A formidable woman of many talents, Bridget Curran - author, film and television maker - spoke to The Record’s Juanita Shepherd. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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It varies all the time. When I was a kid I recorded a few movies from TV and watched them over and over til the tapes wore out – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Labyrinth, and Big Trouble in Little China. So they are always up there.
I’m a sucker for a good monologue, though they are kind of old-fashioned. I love old films, they weren’t afraid to be dramatic and they were often very witty and clever. It’s hard to pick just one quote, but film quotes about filmmaking are always fun. Norma Desmond’s line from Sunset Blvd (1950) is a classic example: “I ‘am’ big. It’s the ‘pictures’ that got small.”
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What are your dreams for the future?
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There’s so much I love to do - travel, make more movies, write more books. I have been incredibly blessed, because almost everything I’ve wanted to do, I have done. Ultimately I just want to live my vocation, whatever that may be. Maybe one day I’ll be a nun in an enclosed contemplative order, or a matriarch with tons of kids. Either way, in my dream I have a great library that no-one else can get to. That may be a little selfish so I’ll probably never get the library. Sigh.
From outpost to powerhouse: new book marks SJOG’s rise ST JOHN of God Health Care have released a new book Decades of Doctors, in recognition of the doctors and Sisters who have helped shape the Australian health care group over 13 decades. The book tells of the Sisters of SJOG who arrived in Australia in 1895 and the doctors who joined them to deliver health care in what was then considered an outpost with poor health care infrastructure. The book chronicles decades of change in health care through two World Wars, the Great Depression and later technological advances. SJOG Health Care Group Chief Executive Officer Michael Stanford said Decades of Doctors provided a “fascinating insight” into the evolution of the practice of medicine and nursing care over the years. “The book recognises many of the doctors who had made a significant contribution to hospital and health care delivery at SJOG Health Care,” Dr Stanford said. “What is evident in the book and remains constant today is the vital relationship between the doctors, the Sisters and hospital staff and the importance of this in caring for the sick,” Dr Stanford said. Dr Stanford said it was telling that some of the
Left-to-right: Dr Lachlan Henderson, Group Chief Executive Officer SJOG Health Care, Dr Michael Stanford, Sr Eugenia Brennan, General Physician Prof Michael Quinlan, Sr Teresina Connolly, Sr (Dr) Isobel Moran. PHOTO: SJOG
nation’s best doctors practising here in Australia in the new millennium use their skill and compassion to deliver hope through SJOG Health Care’s Social Outreach services to the developing world that neighbours the now rich economy
of Australia. With more stories yet to be documented Decades of Doctors calls for doctors and their families to add to this glimpse into Australian medical history. To obtain a copy of Decades of Doctors, email info@sjog.org.au.
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Floreat little ’uns honour and fete their forebears SENIORS are special to the life of Floreat Parish, Parish Priest, Fr Wayne Davis told 80 seniors at a special day to honour and celebrate their contribution to parish life. As people who passed on their faith to, and prayers for, the next generation, they were living witnesses of faith in the parish and therefore should be honoured and celebrated, Fr Davis said; they were the living faces of Jesus. A meal of homemade lasagne, chicken cutlets, fresh garden salad and crusty bread was served to the seniors with a wonderful fruit punch to accompany it. One parishioner reported it was wonderful to hear everyone having a wonderful time, talking and catching up with long time friends. After the main course the seniors were entertained by two classes of Kindergarten children from Newman College, next door to the parish centre. The children sang three songs with hand actions, bringing many smiles to the faces of the seniors.
Each song was heartily applauded. The children were presented with a small gift on behalf of the seniors, a special prayer box. Everyone was delighted with the “little ones” and they were generally regarded as the highlight of the special luncheon. Afternoon tea was then served of carrot cake and a cup of tea or coffee. Each senior was presented with a special Jubilee mug, issued for the 50th anniversary of Saint Cecilia’s Church. After 3.5 hours of fun, talking and chatting, singing and eating the seniors left, thanking those who had organised the day. The special lunch was organised by the Social Committee under the leadership of Maureen Forte and Prue Pupazzoni and a wonderful team of ladies and men. Fr Wayne was seen in the kitchen serving and washing up. As the seniors left many asked about the date of the next lunch. Organisers said it was a successful day celebrating seniors in the parish in the Year of Grace.
Children from Newman College (Kindergarten) get ready to give gifts to Floreat seniors.
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Back south to old mission ground OUR Lady of Lourdes, Rockingham welcomed the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions on Sunday, July 29. The Sisters were involved in Star of the Sea School from its opening in 1973 and prior to that at the original parish school situated at the Turtle Factory at Point Peron from 1948. Sisters have also ministered at the the Parish over many, although they withdrew from parish ministry at Rockingham some years ago. Their order was founded by Euphrasie Barbier in Lyon - France in 1861. It now consists of some 1000 members who work in 22 countries proclaiming and living the Gospel, and doing practical works of mercy. The visit was part of the beginning of their pilgrimage, visiting the parishes and schools where they have worked. The parish joined them in giving thanks to God for his blessings upon their order and their apostolate. After Mass there was a morning tea where parishioners met and celebrated with the Sisters in the school and parish hall.
Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions visit a former ministry ground at Our Lady of Lourdes, Rockingham.
Greening signs of abundant life in the Lower Chittering STAFF, students, parents and grandparents of Immaculate Heart College observed National Tree Day on Friday, July 27 by planting Jacaranda trees on the college grounds. After a brief assembly, where the Principal, Dr Angela EvangelinouYiannakis discussed the importance of National Tree Day, the students walked to their pre-prepared spot for the planting of their very own Foundation Tree. There, they waited for Fr Paul Fox to bless the ground with prayer and Holy Water. “There was much focused activity for the hour that was designated to the task,” said Dr EvangelinouYiannakis. “It was a momentous and historical occasion.” After completing their tree planting, the children stood proudly beside their Foundation Tree for an individual photograph.
Above, Mj Anderson and Max Mars. Right, Alex Westbrook.
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Marist from Casey Clan a real Diamond By Brian Peachey MARIST BROTHER Redmond Casey, who has celebrated his Diamond anniversary of religious life was a teacher in Bunbury, Northam and Subiaco, then known by his religious name, Brother Pius. He was the fourth eldest in a well-known Casey family of eight children. Born in Perth in 1933 and educated at St Ildephonsus College in New Norcia, he entered the Marist Juniorate in Macedon, Victoria, in 1951. The following year he moved to Mittagong in New South Wales where he was professed as Brother Pius. As well as the three schools in WA he taught in all States of the Marist Melbourne Province. During 1995 he completed and published a genealogical study, The Caseys of Western Australia, the subjects being all the descendants of John and Mary Casey, who left Omagh in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1853. He painstakingly recorded 295 descendants by date of birth, but 17 years later the number had quadrupled. In 1997, then in his 65th year, his life changed dramatically. The Marist Provincial invited him to move to Santa Teresa in the Northern Territory, 83 kilometres southeast of Alice Springs, to teach in the school established by the Marist Brothers in 1952. Santa Theresa is a community of some 600 Arrente-speaking Aboriginal people in what is a small, well-run town, isolated in rugged country near the centre of
Br Redmond Casey, third from left, joins fellow Marist Marius Woulf as Br Woulf celebrates his 80th birthday in Darwin this year. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Australia. It has all facilities, health clinic, school, church, swimming pool and football ground, providing work for the community. Today ‘Brother Red,’ as the whole town calls him, drives the town
bus. Everyone knows him and refers to him as Grandfather, a term of respect. Brother Casey is close to all his Casey family in Western Australia especially his sister Denise, one year younger,
who, like him, was educated in New Norcia and is soon to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee as a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. His nephew Father Steven Casey is the Parish Priest at Karratha.
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WA loses two beloved Italian priests Continued from Page 1 huge wave of sadness throughout the entire Italian community in Perth and he was privileged to have known him well. The former Archbishop of Perth served alongside Fr Nanni at St Brigid’s in West Perth in the decades after the war. Fr Magni was a resident of Villa Terenzia in Marangaroo, a retirement and nursing facility established by Perth’s Italian community, for more than two decades after serving as a priest in the Diocese of Bunbury. He assisted with daily Mass at the Villa into his old age. Fr Magni was a Conventual Franciscan and continued to serve in the Diocese of Bunbury after the order withdrew from WA in the late 1990s. In a letter of personal thoughts published in the Bunbury Diocese publication Lives of Service, Fr Magni said that when he retired it ended an echo of Capuchin presence in the Diocese of Bunbury. “I have continued my love of St Francis and the Capuchins over the many years since I left the Order.” Bishop of Bunbury Gerard Holohan said, “Fr Phillip Magni was a wonderful priest who gave faithful service to our diocese with particular care to Italian migrants. He touched many people’s lives and I am sure they will never forget him.” Ed - obituaries of Fr Nanni and Fr Magni will in a future edition.
Missionary and teacher par excellence By Glynnis Grainger JOSEPHITE Sr Elizabeth Murphy, who died on July 20, was a teacher par excellence who reached the top of her profession and also worked with the Order in Peru. She was 88. Known to her family as Mary, she was born on July 4, 1924, the eldest of six children of Frank and Phyllis Murphy, and was educated in her primary years at Highgate with the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. When the family moved to South Perth, she commenced secondary education with the Josephites, entering the Order of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart at the age of 15. Her father, a self-educated chartered accountant, had ambitions for Mary to study medicine, but being deeply Catholic, her parents welcomed her decision with pride and thanksgiving. Sr Elizabeth’s funeral Mass was held on Friday, July 27, at St Columba’s Church, South Perth, celebrated by Mgr Brian O’Loughlin, with about 250 people present. Her sister, Pauline Smith, delivered the eulogy. Sr Elizabeth entered religious life in the company of Dorina Bianchini on December 8, 1939, and was professed on January 6, 1942. Her sister said in her eulogy that “Elizabeth lived a long and deeply satisfying life and her achievements were a natural outcome of the environment in which she was nurtured.” She was deeply Australian in her nature and outlook and loved the eucalyptus and all Australian flora, especially WA wildflowers, Australian poets and artists. Our beaches were a source of joy not just for her love of swimming but as a meditative experience of God. She loved youth and believed passionately in the right of every child to pursue an education to the
Josephite Sister Elizabeth Murphy above and at right with children of Peru. After serving as superior of her order and as head of thethen Council of National Superiors General, she sought permission to work as a missionary in Peru. PHOTO: COURTESY JOSEPHITE SISTERS
fullest, empathising with country parents in their desire and efforts to send their children on to secondary and tertiary education. When she emerged from a Chapter as the Superior-General, she plunged into the office with enthusiasm, and led the Order at
Pope John XXIII had set his followers. She was elected Head of the Council of National SuperiorsGeneral, a Council consisting of all religious orders of priests, sisters and brothers. The Josephites set up a Mission in Peru in 1981 and Sr Elizabeth
finally setting forth for Lima in 1992. She spent 10 years in the city and described it as the high point in her life, developing a huge love and respect for the Peruvian people. Sr Elizabeth would have remained there until recalled but for a motor vehicle accident result-
She spent 10 years in Lima, describing it as the high point in her life and developing a deep love and respect for the Peruvian people. a time when the winds of change were still blowing through the Church. The new-look apparel of the nuns was but an external sign of the depth of the challenges that
sought permission to join them when she stepped down from office. She spent an interim period of two years on the motor mission of South-West of WA, all the time determinedly learning Spanish and
ing in her return to WA. It was suggested she write a history of St Gertrude’s College at New Norcia, where she had taught for 17 years and around this time she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of
Laws for her contribution to education from the University of Notre Dame in WA. Ensconced in South Perth, she embarked on the research for her book. Sr Elizabeth’s final years were spent among fellow retirees at the Convent in South Perth, where the love and companionship of those around her give her siblings much solace. She always delighted in her nephews and nieces and was a family confidante, a source of wonder and continual amazement, telling stories of her adventures both overseas and around Australia. We utter a fervent Deo Gratias for her life.
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Retiring bishop took the strain By Robert Hiini THE strain of dealing with historic cases of child sex abuse was one reason Bishop of Ballarat Peter Connors sought early retirement from his diocese, he told The Record last week. Bishop Connors will be the diocese’s Apostolic Administrator until his newly announced successor, Fr Paul Bird CSSR, assumes the role on October 16. In his 15 years as bishop of Ballarat, Bishop Connors said he had met with somewhere between 30 and 50 victims of sexual abuse. None of the cases related to incidents that occurred at any time after his 1997 appointment. But the challenge of dealing with the fallout of clerical child sex abuse was greater than he had originally anticipated, he said. “When you meet with victims you realise just how much they’ve suffered through the years,” Bishop Connors said, reflecting on how wide-reaching the effects of sexual
abuse were, not only on the victims themselves, but also on their partners or spouses and parents. Typically, Bishop Connors met with complainants in the presence of a facilitator, apologising for many harrowing injustices after having listened to victims’ experiences.
When you meet with victims you realise just how much they’ve suffered through the years, inlcuding partners, spouses, and parents. Those meetings would be preceded by the diocese’s offer to pay for counselling at a provider of the complainants’ choosing, and were usually followed by a “gesture of support” to try and aid the victims healing, Bishop Connors said.
Late last month, the ABC ran claims the Victorian Government’s victim support services had referred victims to the Catholic-run counselling organisation, Centacare, in Ballarat. The claim was contradicted by both the State Government and Centacare. Bishop Connors, who also cited health reasons for his early petition for retirement, said he had enjoyed his ministry overall despite difficult experiences he had confronted. “I’ve enjoyed my ministry as regards with going into parishes. I recognise the difficulty the priests are experiencing and I admire the way they are going on,” he said. When asked how he coped with having to face so many cases, he said he had been able to share his feelings of stress with others. “I don’t know what it is. Maybe I have a personality that can handle it,” Bishop Connors said. Although he petitioned for resignation around 18 months ago, he reached the mandatory age of
Bishop Peter Connors of Ballarat, who steps down in October. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
retirement (75-years-old) in the interregnum. Bishop Connors said he was looking forward to more time for reading, particularly Church history and Scripture commentaries.
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Claims trend down sharply in Dublin A NEW ANALYSIS of allegations of abuse made against 98 priests of the Archdiocese of Dublin over a 70-year period shows the alleged abuse peaked in the 1980s. Fresh data released by the Dublin Archdiocese in May showed that 34 per cent of complainants alleged their abuse happened in the 1980s. Just 1 per cent of claims relate to alleged abuse in the period from 2000 to 2010. The update also shows that the cost, so far, to the archdiocese for settlement of claims stands at US$19 million, approximately US$13 million of which is compensation and the remainder legal costs paid for both sides. The head of the archdiocesan Child Safeguarding and Protection Service, Andrew Fagan, said the publication of the statistics “is vital in keeping the public informed and reassured of the ongoing efforts to maintain high standards in child safeguarding.” - CNS
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From the Apennines to a new life in Australia IT WAS 1952, post war Europe, economic depression was widespread and jobs were hard to come by. Young Italian men, like Giovanni (John) Clissa, went seeking their fortune on faraway shores such as those of Australia. John and his bride Stella Nina (Nina) had been married barely a few days when the young groom left the isolated village nestled in the Apennine Mountains of central Italy. He was almost 19 years old; she was 18. He borrowed the one-way fare on the cargo ship bound for Perth, Western Australia, not knowing when he would see his young bride again. She eventually joined him on 28 May 1954, almost 2 years later. Leaving her family which included grandparents, parents and brothers for a faraway country, where everything including the food and language was to be totally foreign and not knowing if and when she would be reunited with them was a heartache that took many years to heal. She was leaving for a country where she knew only one person. In Australia she found that telephone calls were very costly, mail took at least a month and there were few immediate prospects of seeing one’s family. John learnt his trade as a carpenter with builder John Bianchini and worked on many projects for the Catholic Church in the metropolitan and rural areas of Western Australia. These included St Mary’s Cathedral and Our Lady Help of Christians (OLHC) in East Victoria Park. John recalled in 2010 at the 50th anniversary of the new church at OLHC: “The old church was very small, the parish was growing and we needed a new church building to accommodate the growing numbers. It was a big community effort to get the church built. It was built through the generosity of the parishioners. Many people worked on the site and donated their trade skills. Some people gave money while others gave their time and skills. Big jobs were paid for, otherwise the majority of jobs were carried out by parishioners on weekends. We had many busy bees on weekends and fetes for fundraising. I remember when John Bianchini and I set out the site for the Church building. The church
The young post-war couple Stella Nina and Giovanni Clissa circa 1952, above, and six decades later, below. Like so many migrants they worked hard far away from home to establish a new life and in so doing helped build up their new home, Australia. PHOTO: COURTESY ANTONIA CLISSA
took about 12 months to build and I remember the opening was a big celebration with the Archbishop attending and all the parishioners brought a plate of food to share. We
I remember when John Bianchini and I set out the site for the Church. We were proud of what we achieved as a parish. were very proud of what we achieved as a parish especially for our children who went to the church school.”
John and Nina have lived in Perth all their adult life and after raising their family and several trips back to their country of origin, they now definitely call Wilson, near Perth, home. They have been parishioners at Castledare parish since 1975 and developed a very close friendship with the late Fr Bacini. Nina still misses cooking for him. Bishop Justin Bianchini has kindly arranged for John and Nina to receive a papal blessing to honour their 60th anniversary of married life. They have two children and two grandchildren and will celebrate their Diamond Wedding with family on August 21.
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Homily leads to Zambian deportation By Mwansa Pintu ZAMBIAN authorities deported a Rwandese Catholic priest after he was detained for two days and questioned for preaching about poverty and justice for the poor during a Mass. Edgar Lungu, minister of home affairs, confirmed that Fr Viateur Banyangandora, pastor of the parish in Lundazi, Zambia, was sent to his homeland on August 1st. He declined to say why the priest, 40, was deported. “Fr Banyangandora’s conduct was found to be a danger to peace and good order in Zambia,” Lungu
said. Zambian church officials had no immediate comment on the deportation. Fr Banyangandora was picked up at his residence by police at about 5pm on July 30, and taken to Lusaka, the Zambian capital, for questioning, said Fr Evan Sakala, the parish’s parochial vicar. Fr Sakala explained that police pointed to comments Fr Banyangandora made in which he castigated the government over its handling of an impasse between cotton growers and cotton ginners. Authorities, Fr Sakala said, apparently considered the comments capable of inciting the peo-
ple to rise-up against the Zambian government. The government and the Cotton Association of Zambia have been unable to reach an agreement on the price of cotton being paid to growers. The stalemate has led the association to halt the sale of cotton to the Cotton Ginners Association of Zambia, which offered a price more than 50 per cent lower than its 2011 offer. The impasse has led some farmers to burn cotton stockpiles in protest. “We were told that he was being taken to Lusaka for further ques-
tioning, but his mobile (phone) is switched off,” Fr Sakala said. Eastern Province police commissioner Grace Chipalila neither confirmed nor denied the arrest of the clergyman in Lundazi, a city of about 12,000 residents, 720 kilometres east of the capital. However, Bishop George Lungu of Chipata confirmed that a team of security personnel picked up the priest from his residence on July 30. “I spoke to him shortly before they took him, but up to now we have not heard from him or know his whereabouts,” Bishop Lungu said on August 1. - CNS
Swimming to gold on a wave and a prayer
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Canadian students win on bottled water It was back in October 2010 that a group of students at John Paul II Collegiate in North Battleford, in the Canadian state of Saskatchewan began their journey to make their school a bottled water-free zone. Nearly two years later, their perseverance is having a significant impact: the school soon will become a bottled water free zone as new water refilling stations have been installed. It was after a presentation by Audrey and Clarence Briand, members of the Canadian Catholic Organisation for Development and Peace, on the environmental and societal impacts of bottled water that a group of students felt compelled to act. With other students they approached the school’s administration to consider a ban on bottled water in the school and to install water filling stations to replace the old water fountains. The administration endorsed the plan. John Paul II Collegiate is the first school in the Light of Christ Catholic School Division to install water refilling stations, but word has spread. The students have heard that because of their work other schools in the Battlefords, Saskatoon and Regina are considering the same kind of project.
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Family wins injunction against HHS mandate
US swimmer Katie Ledecky celebrates after winning the women’s 800m freestyle final on August 3 during the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ms Ledecky said in an interview that she prays a Hail Mary before every race she competes in. PHOTO: JORGE SILVA, REUTERS
Congo bishops warn of ‘balkanisation’ CONGOLESE bishops urged Catholics to join countrywide demonstrations on August 1 to protest again a “balkanisation plan” that they say is dividing the country along ethnic and geographic lines. Fr Leonard Santedi, conference general secretary, announced in a July 21st statement that the Catholic Church planned prayers for peace beginning on July 31st and invited the faithful to donate money and supplies to citizens suffering because of rebel incursions in the eastern part of the country. The rebel movement, known as M23, is made up of ethnic Tutsis and has fought the Congolese army in North Kivu and South Kivu departments. The fighting has displaced more than 260,000 people, according to the United Nations World Food Program. “August 1st, a holiday in Congo, is the feast of our parents and our ancestors who left us the heritage of this land,” Fr Santedi said. “We have only one land, and we must protect her. So, we will march to say no to the balkanisation of the country.” The priest also pointed to a July 6th statement from the bishops, who expressed concern that a plan
Families fleeing fighting between the Congolese army and rebels walk toward the eastern city of Goma on July 24. PHOTO: JAMES AKENA, REUTERS, CNS
to divide the country already was being executed. “On the economic front, by the presence of illegal networks for the exploitation of natural resources, and on the political front, by an intensification of an unacceptable presence of militias and foreign armed groups who kill, rape and loot, causing the forced displacement of the Congolese population and an irregular occupation of our territory,” he said. The bishops have consistently
affirmed the importance of protecting the Congolese borders as established when the country became independent in 1960. Since achieving independence, several provinces have attempted to secede with the backing of neighbouring countries and other governments around the world with an eye to accessing the country›s mineral wealth. The Kivu departments are rich in minerals including tungsten, tin and coltan, a metallic ore. Many mines
which produce minerals used in the production of cell phones, laptop computers and state-of-the-art medical equipment are controlled by armed groups backed by neighboring countries. Rwanda has been singled out by a United Nations panel for supporting the latest armed insurgency by the M23 group. The gravity of the accusations were underlined when the US, usually a staunch ally of Rwanda, froze US$200,000 in military aid to the country on July 21st because of its support for the rebels. Fr Santedi also announced that the Congolese church intended to work internationally to preserve peace and Congo’s borders. In September, the bishops’ conference plans to send solidarity delegations of bishops to the provinces most affected by the latest armed unrest. “We know that the challenges that we face for a unified and peaceful Congo are real, serious and many. It will not be easy,” Fr Santedi said. “It is time for awareness that we must choose hope over fear, unity over conflicts, time to defend the integrality of our territory,” he said.
A COLORADO firm owned by a Catholic family won a temporary injunction on July 27 against enforcement of the US Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate. A Senior Judge of the US District Court said the HHS requirement that employers provide contraceptives, including some abortion-inducing drugs, and sterilisations free of charge to their employees, even if they have objections based on their religious beliefs, has potential for violating the family’s religious freedom. He said the government’s arguments in favour of the contraceptive mandate “are countered, and indeed outweighed, by the public interest in the free exercise of religion.” But Kane emphasised that his ruling only applied to the case brought by five members of the Newland family and the company they own, Hercules Industries, a manufacturer of heating and air-conditioning equipment that has 265 full-time employees in Colorado.
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Jesuit educators gather for global conference For the first time since St Ignatius of Loyola formed the order in 1540, Jesuit educators came together from all over the world for the first International Colloquium on Jesuit Secondary Education, with the theme “The World is Our House.” According to organisers from the host institution, Boston College High School, 400 educators associated with Jesuit schools descended on the campus of Boston College from 61 countries on six continents. The five-day colloquium offered 52 workshops addressing concerns and topics relevant to Jesuit education, discussion opportunities including panel events and breakout sessions, and keynote talks from eight authorities in Jesuit education. After a video welcome from Jesuit Father Adolfo Nicolas, superior general of the Society of Jesus, Jesuit Father Jose Alberto Mesa opened the conference with a talk titled “An Eye to the Future: Our Continued Collaboration”. - CNS
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Chinese priests deride religious freedom remarks AT LEAST two priests criticised comments from China’s Foreign Ministry that dismissed a US government report criticising the state of religious freedom in the country. The US State Department report issued on July 30 identified eight countries “of particular concern,” including China, in its 2011 International Religious Freedom Report. It said there was a marked deterioration during 2011 in the Chinese government’s respect for and pro-
tection of religious freedom. In response, the state-run Xinhua News Agency quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying, “The Chinese people are best qualified to judge China’s religious situation.” The spokesman also called on the US to stop using religious issues to interfere in China’s internal affairs and not to act in ways that damage bilateral relations, mutual trust and cooperation. After hearing the ministry’s reply, one Shanghai priest
Papal book ready, encyclical ‘possible’
Ukrainian village belongs to children for a day
POPE Benedict XVI has finished the third volume of his opus, Jesus of Nazareth, and perhaps also will publish an encyclical letter during the upcoming Year of Faith, said Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state. The cardinal, Pope Benedict’s top collaborator, told reporters on August 1 that the Pope had finished his manuscript on Jesus’ infancy and childhood. The first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, covering the period from Jesus’ baptism to his transfiguration, was published in 2007. The second volume, looking at his passion and death, came out in 2011. On August 2, the Vatican press office said the book is being translated into a variety of languages from the German original. The press office did not comment on a possible new encyclical. However, many observers expect there to be a document focusing on the virtue of faith to complete a series of Pope Benedict’s reflections on the theological virtues. His encyclical on charity (Deus Caritas Est) was published in 2005, and two years later he released his encyclical on hope (Spe Salvi). The pope has called for special Year of Faith, which will open on October 11 – the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. - CNS
who asked to remain anonymous said, “I would not have offered an opinion in the past. But after the recent incident in my diocese, I think what other people (the US) have said is not without reason.” The priest criticised restrictions imposed by Chinese officials on the ministry of Auxiliary Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of Shanghai, who stated during his July 7 episcopal ordination that he would give up his role in the government-approved Catholic Patriotic
Association (CPA). “Chinese officials should no longer work behind closed doors and feel good about themselves. They should learn to respect their people’s freedom,” the priest said. “Are the Chinese people really qualified to judge? Do we judge from our inner hearts or from someone’s will? We have no right to judge; otherwise the Bishop Ma incident would not have happened,” he added. Another priest, Father John
Baptist, scoffed at the government’s claims. “The CPA’s function has gone far beyond its claim as a bridge between the Church and the government,” he said. “In fact, it became a tool to control the Church without revealing the ruling authority is the real executioner.” Religious practice in China exists within a sphere limited by the government, which “allows you to believe in an ‘alien Catholicism’ that does not comply with the orthodox Catholic faith,” he said. - CNS
A girl receives communion from a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest during the annual gathering and pilgrimage to the miraculous icon of “Halytska” (the Mother of God) in the village of Krylos, Ukraine, July 29. Nearly a thousand children from all regions of Ukraine arrived in Krylos to receive first Communion this year, age aged from six to eight years old. PHOTO: GLEB GARANICH, REUTERS
US Judge shocked by child trafficking’s reality By Dennis Sadowski SITTING on the bench of the Fulton County Juvenile Court in the US State of Georgia in 2000, then-Judge Nina Hickson saw 12and 13-year-old girls with the “look of death” in their eyes. Those eyes were empty, as if “whatever life was there was gone,” Hickson said. Usually repeat offenders for underage drinking, fighting or truancy, the girls showed little emotion when appearing before the judge, accepting her instructions with barely a nod or a word. “It was just heartbreaking that I would see these young girls who, it would seem, didn’t have any kind of life,” she said. Hickson started asking court officials, prosecutors and law enforcement authorities why the girls were in the court in the first place. What she learned, she said, was shocking. In many cases, the girls were victims of sexual exploitation, recruited by predators running sex trafficking networks as a business. Hickson learned that Georgia law for prosecuting the predators was weak. “It didn’t seem right that (the
girls) were being brought into the system and the adults exploiting them, nothing was happening to them,” she told Catholic News Service. Hickson’s discovery led her to write an op-ed column for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper under the headline “An Epidemic of Tragic Proportions.” It served as a call to the community to create awareness and fight what is now widely known as the commercial sexual exploitation of children, or CSEC. The revelations led to an awakening in Atlanta that has led to wide-scale collaboration among child advocates, prosecutors, law enforcement officers, court officials, churches and faith-based organisations to expose the shadowy world of exploitation and find new ways to assist victims rebuilding their lives. Children today are taught about the danger signs; stricter penalties against predators and buyers have been enacted into law; police now call social workers when a CSEC victim is taken into custody rather than incarcerate them for prostitution. Still, all those steps are not enough. The epidemic that so con-
cerns Hickson, now Atlanta’s ethics officer, is growing. Predators have remained a step or two ahead of efforts to coral CSEC, especially with the advent of Internet advertising that allows them to sell underage victims without ever having to put them on the street. The Internet is the virtual street of the 21st century, Hickson said. Illustrating the concern, data compiled by the Governor’s Task Force on Children and Families in Georgia showed that between 200 and 500 underage girls a month were sexually exploited in the state between August 2007 and August 2011. On the demand side, some 7,200 men knowingly or unknowingly buy sex from adolescent girls in Georgia monthly, according to youthSpark, an Atlanta-based initiative that assists at-risk teens. Nationwide, the Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that between January 2008 and June 2010, a total of 2,515 suspected trafficking cases were investigated with 40 per cent involving sexual exploitation of children and 48 per cent involving allegations of adult prostitution. The New York-based Girls Educational and Mentoring Services estimates that at least
300,000 children are at risk of sexual exploitation. Crystal Ward, the program’s lead trainer, said the figure is likely much higher. She and other child advocates say the average age of a child entering the world of commercial sexual exploitation is 12 to 14 years old. In 2005, the FBI listed Atlanta as one of the top 14 US cities for sex trafficking – children and adults included. No up-to-date list exists. FBI spokesman Stephen Emmett said Atlanta’s high incidence of sex trafficking can be attributed to the city’s status as a popular destination for conventions and sporting events and a major transportation hub. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the world’s busiest and the interstate highway system makes it easy for predators to smuggle kids into and out of town. Such statistics are staggering to longtime child advocates such as Dale Alton, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Centre of Georgia, and Kaffie McCullough, deputy director of youthSpark. Alton said schools and parents must undertake efforts to warn all children about what to be aware of when they are approached by a seemingly “friendly” individual
who is bent on adding another teenager to his illegal network. She said predators are savvy and can spot a potential victim easily. “It really hit home for me when I heard a former pimp express that he could tell who was vulnerable by going into a mall and looking at the girls.” McCullough said improvements are needed in addressing the demand by men for sex with women and underage girls. A first step, she said, is to start telling young boys that buying sex from anyone is wrong. “We have to be doing some strong work around the cultural acceptance of men buying sex,” McCullough told CNS. “We have to start looking at how we raise our young boys, that somehow when they become men that it’s okay to buy sex. Young or old, there’s something strange about buying another human being for your own personal pleasure.” McCullough also called for stronger enforcement effort against buyers. “If we don’t start arresting buyers, we pretty much are always going to have pimps and we’re always going to have victims. They’re just going to have different faces,” she said. - CNS
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New Church stricter on sainthood? Recently I was speaking with a friend about six early saints from the same family when my friend said that it was much easier for someone to be declared a saint in those days. It raised the question of how saints were actually canonised in the early centuries. What is the answer?
T Far Left: Abbot Philip Lawrence poses for a photo. Left: The cover of the CD Blessing, Pe a ce & H a r m o ny , recorded by the monks at the Benedictine Monastery of Christ. Above: A Benedictine monk brews beer in the Monastery of Christ. Below: The Benedictine Monastry of Christ in the Desert of Abiquiu in 2010. PHOTO: CNS
Sound of monks
TOPS CHARTS
A compact disc recording heading to the top of sales charts and their own unique brew of beer are among the latest endeavours for a Benedictine monastic community in New Mexico, as Mark Pattison reports.
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Benedictine monastic community has recorded a CD that has now climbed to the top of the classical sales charts of online retailer Amazon.com. The same community, the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, New Mexico, also has begun expanding the sales territory for the beer it brews based on Belgian Benedictine recipes that have survived over centuries. But with these both of these ventures being relatively new, that begs the question: How has a 48 year old monastic community that’s supposed to be self-sustaining been able to sustain itself in a remote part of New Mexico over nearly a half-century? The answer: It hasn’t always been easy. Abbot Philip Lawrence, who has led the community since 1978 said, "our founder came from a fairly wealthy family and basically they lived off donations". “They tried to start a cheese-making industry but the water here would have to be treated and they didn’t have
the money for a water purification plant,” Abbot Lawrence told Catholic News Service during a May 25 telephone interview from the monastery. “They tried raising sheep, but that didn’t work,” he added. “They had a guest house, but that didn’t bring in a lot of income.” “I came in ‘74 when we were still living off the money that he (the founder) had raised. We really worked hard at the guest house and we started a gift shop.” Problem solved? Yes – and no. The guest house is one of the monastery’s steadiest revenue generators. People want to come and stay despite it being 13 miles from the nearest paved road and 6,500 feet above sea level, and in an area with an annual average rainfall of 6 to 8 inches. “Guests come here primarily for silence and solitude. We have a little more noise now. We have electricity” – thanks in part to New Mexico’s largest private solar generator. “It used to be so quiet you could hear the birds’ wings flapping over you,” Abbot Lawrence said. “It’s incredibly silent and
incredibly beautiful. We have cliffs going up 600 feet right behind the monastery. We don’t give retreats. People come and pray with us.” Seminarians at Southern Baptist-run Baylor University in Waco, Texas, come to Abiquiu for an annual retreat. Students from Duke University in North Carolina come each year, too. “About half of our guests are Catholic. But they’re all looking for something,” he said. “This is not a seminary, but it’s one of their (Baylor’s) more popular programs. It’s filled a year ahead of time. We have 17 guest rooms and 23 beds.” The gift shop is stocked with items the monks make. “We did lots of weaving. But the main brother who was weaving left the community,” Abbot Lawrence told CNS. “We had a brother who was a potter and his pottery was incredible. “The potter also left the community. We went through that with the weaver, and we went through that with a man who was making furniture. So we’ve tried to focus on craft work that doesn’t require such expertise.”
The monastery has settled on “craft work anybody could do with a little bit of direction,” the abbot said. They produce enough goods now to stock two gift shops.
Not many monasteries around the world have held on to Gregorian chant. In the US even fewer have retained it. We were one of the few, so we got the gig. “We make sandals, belts, soap, hand lotions, incense, candles, lots of little things,” he added. The income supports not only their own monastery, but four others: one in Chicago, two in “Old Mexico,” as Abbot Lawrence put it, and a Vietnamese Benedictine community in Texas. “Our income, 30 per cent, goes out to charity, helping other (monastery) houses,” he said. The CD, Blessings, Peace &
Harmony, was recorded not in a recording studio or even the monastery chapel, but in the monastery’s refectory, or dining hall. Following a quick cackle noting the improbability of it all, Abbot Lawrence said, “We did one recording inside the chapel a number of years ago, but the acoustics were not as good. The refectory has the echo delay that works well for chant.” He does not know if his US Benedictines will replicate the success of the Spanish Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo do Silos, whose Chant CD of nearly 20 years ago became a top-three success on US pop charts. How did the CD project come to pass? “This is the story we heard,” Abbot Lawrence replied. “The head of Sony International in Germany was talking to the upper-echelon leadership and said the world doesn’t seem to be getting any better. We need to find a monastery that will work with us and do some recording.” An Internet search, he added, reveals that “not that many monasteries have held on to Gregorian chant. Apparently they were look-
ing for a monastery in the United States – and they’ve held on to Gregorian chant even less. Going on the website, looking for a monastery, most people would go to Google, you type in ‘monastery,’ we would be one of the first ones that come up.” A second CD could be in the works if Sony wishes it. As for the beer, Abbey Beverage Co. produces Monks’ Ale, Monks’ Dubbel, Monks’ Tripel and Monks’ Wit. The first of these, Monks’ Ale, has been available since 2005. Monks’ Wit debuted in 2010. Monks’ Tripel debuted in limited markets in February, and Monks’ Dubbel does the same in June. According to Berkeley Merchant, a lay member of the
community, efforts are under way to secure distributorships along the Eastern Seaboard for the beers. Pennsylvania has been secured and Abbey Beverage is looking to expand from there. The monastery grows the hops used in the beers, and does some of the brewing on-site as well as testing new recipes. Another facility in New Mexico handles the rest of the brewing. Abbot Lawrence said he hopes the beer investments will return a profit either this year or next. But once the business reaches a certain level of sales, it won’t expand for the sake of expanding. “Here in the United States,
it’s rare that we have liquor with meals unless we’re going out,” the abbot said, hoping out loud at some point that at “every main meal there’s a pitcher a beer so that anyone who wants some beer can try it. I was in Holland one time, and they serve beer every feast day. I thought that’s one thing we could do.” Even with all of these pursuits, about 40 per cent of the monks’ revenue still comes from fundraising, he added. “The beer and the hops will pick up that slack.” - CNS Editor’s Note: More information about the monastery is available at its website, www.christdesert.org.
he six saints were all brothers and sisters, the most famous of them Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. Their grandmother Macrina the Greater, with whom they spent much time on their holidays, is also a saint. All of them lived in the fourth century. As your friend says, the process of “canonisation”, such as it was, was very different from the process today. The word “canonisation”, by the way, comes from the word “canon”, meaning list, so that canonisation is the inclusion of the person in the list of recognised saints. A saint is someone who died in the grace of God and is now in heaven and can be held up to the faithful as an example of Christian virtue. The recognition as a saint involved demonstrating that the person had a reputation for holiness and that their holiness was confirmed by convincing arguments. This does not mean that the person always lived a saintly life. St Augustine, for example, lived with a woman and had a son by her before his conversion to Christianity. St John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, sums it up: “The saints did not all begin well, but they all ended well” (Catechesis on Salvation, Ch 1). Going back to the early Church, the first persons to be included in the canon of saints were the martyrs. When it was clear that someone had been put to death for holding firmly to their faith, they were honoured as martyrs, or “witnesses” to the faith, their remains were collected and safeguarded, and their anniversary of death was celebrated. In order for there to be public veneration of a martyr, the intervention of the bishop was required. The Church did not grant permission for liturgical veneration to everyone, not even to all the martyrs. For this reason the bishop would conduct an investigation into the circumstances of the life and death of the person, and only when he was satisfied that there was fame of sanctity and that the person had indeed died for the faith did he grant this permission. It was customary for the bishop to send an account of the martyrdom to other neighbouring churches, so that, if their bishops approved, they too might honour the martyr in the liturgy. In effect this was equivalent to today’s beatification, since it granted veneration of the saint only within
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a limited area. In exceptional cases, like those of St Lawrence, St Cyprian and Pope St Sixtus of Rome, the veneration quickly spread to the whole Church. The Roman Canon, or first Eucharistic Prayer, which dates back to Pope Gregory the Great at the end of the sixth century, includes numerous saints who by their inclusion were regarded as worthy of public veneration. Apart from the Apostles, they are Linus, Cletus, Clement, Sixtus, Cornelius, Cyprian, Lawrence, Chrysogonus, John and Paul, Cosmas and Damian, John the Baptist, Stephen, Matthias, Barnabas, Ignatius, Alexander, Marcellinus, Peter, Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, Agnes, Cecilia and Anastasia. Later on, confessors too
A saint is someone who died in the grace of God and is now in heaven ... this does not mean that the person always lived a saintly life. came to be regarded as saints (cf. J. Flader, Question Time II. q. 282). Initially the name confessor was given to those who had suffered for the faith but had not died for it, but later it came to be applied to all saints who were not martyrs, as at present. Toward the end of the eleventh century, Popes, including Urban II, Calixtus II and Eugenius III, decreed that the sanctity of anyone to be honoured publicly should be declared not just by the local bishop but by regional councils of bishops. Only with the consent of the Pope could the person be venerated in the universal Church, as in today’s canonisation. Finally, in 1170, Pope Alexander III decreed that no one could be declared a saint without the permission of the Roman Pontiff. This was formally incorporated into Church law by Pope Gregory IX in 1234. Since then only the Pope can declare someone a Blessed or Saint. So yes, it was somewhat easier for a person to be declared a saint in the early Church.
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A Fish Called Charity In the beautiful French countryside travel writer Paul Maughan sought food and shelter at Notre Dame de L’Hermitage, built by Marcellin Champagnat in 1824. He found not only charity but the heart of the Marist Brothers’ story.
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AITH, Hope and Charity: three great Christian virtues. But I am informed that in this instance it is actually the names of three pet goldfish, residents of the sparkling clean bowl dominating the reception desk of the Marist Brothers’ “L’Hermitage” at St Chamond in France. It is 4pm, late November, a chilly four degrees outside, and the wind is cutting through me like a rusty saw. Together with my wife, I have just driven a snappy 380km from Sarlat in the Dordogne this morning, along wallet-emptying toll-roads, to arrive unannounced here at the original Mother House of the Marist Brothers – Notre Dame de L’Hermitage. While touring through France I have decided, impulsively, to do a short ‘Champagnat Pilgrimage’ to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Senior Class of 1962, my old class, at the now defunct Marist Bros’ College, Rosalie, Brisbane. Br George is on reception duty at the Hermitage and seems a touch perplexed at my unanticipated arrival. I decide to ease the tension by focusing on the fish, of which I see only two. “Where is the third” I ask? “That’s Faith and Hope swim-
ming around, unfortunately Charity passed away recently.” Br George replies. Not a good omen, I think: Charity is dead, yet it is the one thing I need here at the minute as I am looking for both a bed and a meal, and to make matters worse, I have arrived unexpected. The good news is that the virtue charity is still very much alive at the Hermitage, for I am warmly welcomed, given a smart, modern and very comfortable (motel-style) room and invited to dinner at 6pm. That is a pretty good result; I thought I might have been in for a bit of stick over my unforseen arrival. After Br George (a Frenchman) handles our registration he seeks out the Australasian connection residing at the Hermitage: Br Neville Solomon (ex-Principal of Marist College, Ashgove) and Fr John Craddock (a Marist Priest from Christchurch, New Zealand). They become our hosts and immediately set about giving us an informative and fascinating personal tour of the Hermitage. They are both fonts of knowledge on all things Marist and effervesce with enthusiasm for their subject. I quickly discover the Hermitage is at the heart of the Marist Brothers
story. It was designed and built in 1824 by Marcellin Champagnat, the Marist Brothers founder, to accommodate his early recruits and to act as the novitiate for his new found teaching order. Carved from the surrounding rock face by Marcellin and his followers with
“Where’s the third?” I asked. “That’s Faith and Hope swimming around. Unfortunately, Charity’s dead,” he said. only pick and shovel, this is where he spent the greater part of his short life. Here you can find the spirit of this remarkable saint, as well as his tomb and stunning reliquary. Set in a very deep, heart-shaped valley with a small stream at its centre, on which the Hermitage is built, the place is huge yet has only a resident multinational Marist community of 12. Benefiting from a recent $20 million face lift, it comprises a vast accommodation block, a glorious chapel, and a modern large dining hall and conference complex. Today the Hermitage’s prime purpose is to act as a centre
to welcome and accompany Marist pilgrims and visitors. We roam around the property for ages marvelling at how its old dignified history happily sits alongside the bold, tasteful modernity of its recent renovations. For me, the tour’s highlight is our visit to Marcellin’s room and bed chamber, in their original condition. Stark, simple, humble, the room seems to reverberate with the man’s spirit. I return to this room many times during our two-day stay, each visit a sobering exercise in spiritual renewal. Like the rock from which it is built, this place has power. I also found myself regularly drawn to the Hermitage’s handsome chapel in which sits an eye-catching gilded bronze reliquary where the remains of Marcellin Champagnat rest. Enhanced by a colossal set of splendid, richly coloured stainedglass windows, illustrating aspects of the Founder’s life, the chapel is a focal point for prayerful reflection and adoration. It has immense mediatory appeal. During our stay at the Hermitage the local bishop and 10 diocesan priests arrive for a retreat. They invite us to join them at Mass where a dozen of us stand around the altar throughout the celebration. It is very moving - a special moment.
Just up the road, higher in the hills above the Hermitage, is the small, picturesque village of La Valla, the site of the first Marist school and without doubt the cradle of the Marist Institute. This is where it all began. Here you can visit the original building and trawl through a mini-museum of the early days. I am fascinated by a large, rough communal table made by Marcellin himself. He was certainly no slouch when it came to manual skills. During my early years at Rosalie the college Principal was the equally remarkable Br Cyprian. He, like Champagnat, was a driving Marist force. Under his patronage, the college acquired a vast expanse of rough land at suburban Fig Tree Pocket which he christened La Valla and set about converting into magnificent sports fields. Beneath a scorching summer-sun, “Cyp” doggedly ‘encouraged’ his unenthusiastic student community to undertake many laborious emu-parades, clearing the area of its unwelcome covering of abrasive golf-ball sized stones. What a job! As a result of that back-breaking experience I always wanted to see what the real La Valla was like. Now I know: its spectacular. Nothing like Rosalie’s original desolate La Valla.
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God delivers just guidance to give Sister her vocation Sr Mary tells her journey of how her desire to seek justice manifested itself in the unexpected form of a religious vocation. Sister Anthony Mary Diago, RSM
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The Hermitage and La Valla are in the French Province of Rhone-Alps, about 40 km south-west of Lyon. The most practical way of visiting the area is by car. It is wise to book a vehicle prior to departing Australia. We chose to lease a vehicle (car rental is cheaper and easier for short visits) and used the services of the very efficient Global Cars in Sydney. www.globalcars.com.au Free call: 1300 789 992. The e-mail address for the Hermitage is: hermitage@maristes. org. The Marist website is: www. champagnat.org
Top Left: The Notre Dame de L’ Hermitage in the Gier Valley, France. Top Right (top to bottom): St Marcellin Champagnat’s bed, chair and prayer station; The original Marist communal dining table; Champagnat’s Reliquary at The Hermitage. Above: Outdoor Altar at The Hermitage. PHOTO: PAUL MAUGHAN
Rather its all towering mountains, ridgeline against ridgeline, deep valleys, gentle streams, lush green fields and not a stone in sight. I wonder if Champagnat put his students to emu-parades? The history of this amazing saint is so engrossing that we end up touring the whole area of his early influence, including his birthplace in the tiny hamlet of Le Rosey near Marlhes. While the region is visually stunning it also gives us the opportunity to easily mix with the locals. We soon discover that good taste is important to the French.
Here life itself is an art form; food, drink, and tradition are all taken seriously. More power to the French I say. As Rosa’s Senior Class of ‘62 reassembles to celebrate its Golden Anniversary in what is likely to be an emotional reunion in June this year, I have got a sneaking suspicion (after visiting his old stomping grounds) that Marcellin Champagnat might metaphysically gatecrash our celebrations in some way. It would not surprise me if “Cyp” does not poke his nose in too. Anyway, if they do I am sure
the boys will make them welcome (notwithstanding the memory of those dreaded emu-parades). Sadly, Marist Bros College Rosalie no longer exists but its legacy certainly lives on. I certainly feel indebted to the Brothers for the formation they gave to my life. I am glad that I took the time last year to check out the Marist birthplace in France. If you too would like to sample some of that empowering Champagnat spirit then the doors of Notre Dame de L’Hermitage, in St Chamond, France are open to the world.
was born in Bethesda, Maryland and first raised in Northern Virginia, in a town called Falls Church, near Washington DC. When I was 13 we moved to Oakton, Virginia. I am of Cuban heritage, bilingual in Spanish and English since my early childhood. I was baptised Catholic when I was two weeks old, raised Catholic and an active parish member of the Diocese of Arlington. I aspired to be a lawyer and a judge. I received a Bachelor in Arts in Government from a liberal arts university in the United States of America, called The College of William and Mary. I became very active in the youth ministry at my home parish, St Mark’s in Vienna, Virginia. I also served as a bilingual catechist for a group of young Hispanic girls called, “Morning Star.” Then I worked as a legal assistant in a small law firm for almost a year. During this time I felt a very strong desire to teach the youth and catechise. With the support of my family, I decided to study and obtain a Masters in Secondary Education from Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. When I discovered the power of prayer for the redemption of the world and a deep desire to give my life to Christ, my ambitions of a career as a judge changed. Instead, I embraced my vocation as a religious sister in service of the Church. During the two years of post-graduate studies, I maintained faithful observance to: daily prayer, spiritual growth and letting God guide me to encounter Religious Sisters and the particular apostolate where I was called to serve. Early on in my discernment, my parish priest nurtured my vocation; he showed me how to daily persevere in prayer, nourished by the Eucharist, healed by the Sacrament of Reconciliation. In him I saw a life given to God with joy, stability and trust. By his own fidelity and zeal, I was inspired to become consecrated to God as a religious, vowed to poverty, chastity, obedience and service to the Church. Having great admiration for the Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, he gently recommended that I visit their Mother house in Alma, Michigan. Due to my academic responsibilities and work schedule, I did not visit Alma until the spring break before completing my Masters. By God’s great
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providence, I had met a priest from Australia while I studied and worked in the library of Marymount University. At the end of the jubilee year 2000, I went on a pilgrimage to Rome led by my parish priest. After dinner at a restaurant one evening in Rome, I happened to cross paths with the Australian priest who was also leading a pilgrimage. Being a good spiritual father, he asked me how I was and subsequently offered to help me with my discernment. It was as if he was sent by God like an Angel, because the guidance he gave me came at a time I needed it the most. It was by the assistance and spiritual guidance of these two priests, that I found the support and confidence I needed to make the big leap
When I discovered the power of prayer for the redemption of the world my ambitions of a career changed and I embraced my vocation as a religious sister in service of the Church. with trust. Throughout my life, I desired to serve God and to work for justice and the improvement of society as a whole. I deeply desired and strived (and still do) to be a saint. I want to learn from my community how to grow in the spiritual life in joyful obedience, poverty, chastity and to dedicate my days to prayer and service of the poor, sick and ignorant. In 2010, I was assigned to our convent community in Camperdown in Sydney, Australia. My Mother General asked me if I would serve as a Vocations Promoter for the Archdiocese of Sydney. It was a welcomed change and new challenge for me. From the moment I have set foot on Australian soil, every moment has been blessed with the many graces and signs of new life in the Church of Sydney. There is much joy and strength among those with whom I work. At this point of my life, nothing is better for me than the enriching, rewarding and stimulating service of promoting vocations for the Church.
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Meet the future priests of Oz Three Vietnamese seminarians talk about their preparation to serve the largest diocese in the world, Geraldton.
By Mark Reidy
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HEN Greenwood priest Fr Vinh Dong travelled to Vietnam last year in search of future priests for the world’s biggest diocese, he was overwhelmed with the response. Fr Vinh was on a recruitment drive to his former homeland for the Bishop of Geraldton, Justin Bianchini, who had asked him to gauge the interest of young men willing to leave their country and serve as priests within the Diocese of Geraldton. He was amazed there were so many men with a missionary spirit willing to minister within an area of land forty times the size of their own country. When Fr Vinh travelled to numerous seminaries and formation houses within Vietnam he gathered applications from over one hundred men, but due to time constraints was unable to interview all those who applied. “So great was the interest that we had to narrow the interview stage to forty”, Fr Vinh explained, “before finally selecting the three successful candidates”. He said that the number of men discerning the priesthood in Vietnam had been increasing in recent times, particularly over the past five years. Fr Vinh, himself a refugee 30 years ago, said that despite the continued rule of the Communist government, he was hopeful for the future of the Church in Vietnam. “Not that long ago a bishop there would have to get permission from the appropriate authorities for everything he did, but now, although they still have to write to them, (the bishop) will go ahead with a project if they haven’t heard back within three months”. The three successful men, Peter Duong, 25, Dominic Hoang, 26, and Savio Huu Tuan Nguyen, 35, are currently residing at the All Saints Presbytery in Greenwood. They will begin at St Charles Seminary once they have refined their English skills.
Above: Seminarians Dominic, Savio and Peter. Right: Group photo (Left to right) Fr Vinh Dong, Peter Dyong, Bishop Justin Bianchini, Dominic Hoang and Savio Huu Tuan Ngyuen.
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The men have now joined a growing trend of Vietnamese influence within the Church in Western Australia, including Fr Tai Chin who was invited here by Bishop Bianchini nine years ago and is now serving within the Geraldton Diocese. “It’s a good sign that the Bishop is continuing to look toward Vietnam for future priests”, Fr Vinh says with a laugh, “It means that he must like those of us who are already here”.
Dominic Hoang
When Dominic Hoang swapped his vocation from economics to “God’s business”, he believed he could apply the principles he had learnt to profit his Heavenly Father, but he had no idea that it may one day lead him to a life in the Australian outback. That may be exactly where he ends up after he finishes his studies at St Charles Seminary in 2020. Dominic has accepted the invitation from Geraldton Bishop Justin Bianchini with the understanding that some day he could potentially be serving some of the world’s most isolated parishioners in the Diocese of Geraldton. Dominic, whose two sisters are nuns, was raised in a family that had always encouraged prayer and said that they had been very supportive of his decision to come to Australia. Dominic, unlike his two compatriots - who are finding language to be a major challenge - is having more difficulty with an obstacle that he hadn’t factored in – Perth winter mornings. Warming his hands in front of the heater at the Greenwood presbytery where he is currently staying, Dominic feels he can overcome most of the challenges he knows will confront him within a new
culture, but is not so sure about his ability to adjust to the climate. “I guess it will provide me with more incentive to fill the pews once I’m in Geraldton”, he told The Record, “Because more people will mean more warmth”.
Savio Huu Tuan Nguyen
Savio Nguyen knows he will be in for a surprise when he eventually begins his priestly duties in the Diocese of Geraldton because he is already amazed at the peace and quiet he finds in Perth. At 35, Savio is the oldest of three Vietnamese men invited by Bishop Justin Bianchini to study for the priesthood at St Charles seminary before being incardinated into the Diocese of Geraldton. Savio learned and practised as a sculptor for many years in Vietnam, but from the time he had been
introduced to the Franciscan spirituality he had harboured a desire to serve as a Brother. In 2004, Savio had worked in a hospital with orphans, during a mission in Vietnam, embracing the ministry of service to others. He eventually entered a Franciscan house of discernment to fulfil his yearning to become a Brother but, during that time, was asked by his formator to consider the priesthood. His decision to pursue a priestly vocation has since heightened his willingness to serve others and he looks forward to fulfilling any role that Bishop Bianchini may have for him.
Peter Duong
When Bishop Justin Bianchini asked Peter Tam Duong why he wanted to serve as a priest within the Geraldton diocese he explained that he desired to spread the Word
of God to those who where difficult to reach. His missionary spirit had been ignited several years earlier when he had visited a poor and isolated area in central Vietnam while spending time in a Franciscan Community. Peter, whose brother is a priest, is a qualified Computer Designer and had worked in the field before moving into a Franciscan house of discernment last year. It was here that he responded to the call to Australia offered by Bishop Justin Bianchini. Peter is excited at the prospect of venturing into the far corners of the Geraldton Diocese once he has completed his studies at St Charles Seminary. Peter’s family, who always prayed together, have been very encouraging of his move overseas. “They believe that Australia will be very good for me”, Peter said with a grin, “and that I will be good for the Church”.
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A society of child care but not parents
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t the beginning of August it was reported in the media that Perth was suffering from a crisis. The word ‘crisis’ is usually used to describe serious situations in different fields, from wars to personal relationships, and one definition that is sometimes offered is: ‘A point in a story or drama when a conflict reaches its highest tension and must be resolved.’ The crisis that was reported in state media was, in fact, a crisis of child care. The problem revealed by the media was that WA’s child care sector is at breaking point, subjected to extreme pressure from parents desperate to find places for their children to be cared for in order for parents to have time to work. Critical shortages of places, one report asserted, were forcing parents to cut back their work hours or resort to hiring nannies. Among the quite fascinating anecdotal statistics reported were that a total of 42 centres across metropolitan Perth were fully-booked for children in the 0-24 months age range, while one child care centre director said demand was so high and waiting lists so long she had stopped taking applications for children in the 0-15 months category. In all the attention riveted briefly on this very real crisis, however, what was comprehensively missed is that the crisis in availability of child care places available for parents is actually a powerful yet tragic symptom of a much deeper problem constituted of not only social dimensions but personal dimensions as well. In other words, there is a crisis in availability of child care places, certainly. But there is also a crisis in ordinary suburban families and among parents. The dearth of child care places generated much comment on what solutions could be found. Among those proposed were the opening of yet more child care centres, the increasing of funding for more child care places, the deployment of even more government resources – and so on. Yet no-one appeared to reflect upon the fact that in all of known human history there have never been situations where parents felt pressured to pay other people to look after their children other than, perhaps, in times of crises such as wars or famines involving the immense dislocations of populations that are often characteristic of these events. And yet here Perth – and probably every other Australian city – faces a situation where numerous parents can only financially provide adequately for their families’ needs by sending both spouses into the workforce simultaneously to earn the magical double income required for things such as paying rent or mortgages, educating children and buying clothes and groceries so that families can eat. The real crisis, in other words, is that Australia and the materially developed world have, within a few decades, become societies where families are increasingly financially incapable of caring for their children. We do not recognise that this situation has occurred. Instead, when there are not enough places for our children in suburban centres far-removed in many ways from the confines of the family home and its atmosphere, we Australians see the solution as the provision of more centres and more places for our children. ‘Our children.’ Here, in a nutshell, is the true heart of the problem. The individuals who will go into child care centres at 0-24 months of age PO Box 3075 are our children – not, as one Adelaide Terrace might imagine from the lanPERTH WA 6832 guage of child care, units of placement or cattle. They are office@therecord.com.au children and perhaps it is time Tel: (08) 9220 5900 to ask yet again why it is that Fax: (08) 9325 4580 as a society we have created social and economic pressures that effectively force parents to choose between raising their own children and working for a family income. The answer is not politically correct or popular because all the wrong assumptions are read into it when it is spoken, but the truth is that Australia and numerous societies around the world have focused for decades on forcing mothers out of the family home and into the workforce - to the detriment of women, of mothers, of families and of children. It is entirely natural for any woman to want to be with her children in the early years of their lives. These precious moments are passing and can never be recaptured. These are the moments on which families are built. To therefore force mothers to work part-time or full-time to support their family when they have young children and would naturally prefer to be with them giving them what no child care centre can ever give them - a mother’s undivided love and attention - is not only economically unjust but inhumane and uncivilised. But it is also a problem that is practical, therefore soluble. The solution is simple. Rather than opening more child care centres, State and federal governments should offer every primary care giver in the country a co-funded payment recognising the enormous worth of stay-at-home carers, almost all of whom will be mothers. Couples would be free to designate which – father or mother – is the designated primary care-giver, who would also be the recipient of a payment to be indexed against cost of living indices. The Primary Caregivers’ Payment would free couples to build and care for their families and break the slavery of the anti-family double-income paradigm our economy now depends upon. By so doing, Australian federal and state governments would be initiating a powerful social and economic measure to protect the integrity of Australian families and, one might say, the relationships within them, insulating them against the narcissistic and brutal efforts of the market to extract maximum working value out of this nation’s mothers and families. What a crisis of child care places in the suburbs is really all about is this: a society that does not respect the family and abandons it to the uncaring vicissitudes of markets and the economy is really a society that is growing darker by the day.
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Don’t abandon the use of ‘marriage’ I WOULD like to reply to Graham Geoghegan’s comment in the ‘Letters to the Editor’ section of the Record of July 11 along the following lines... The proposal to drop the word ‘marriage’ and find a new word is and should not be agreed for the following reasons. The word ‘marriage” refers to the joining of a man and a woman and consists of two separate and distinct ceremonies that many people are not apparently aware of. The first is the Sacrament where one pledges one’s self before God. The second ceremony is to meet the civil or legal requirements of the State. This is confirmed by the definition of civil Marriage which is performed by a civil official with no religious ceremony. Where the clergy are licensed by the State to conduct civil marriage it is included in the religious ceremony. In my own case, because the clergy was not licensed by the State, there were two distinct ceremonies – one in front of the altar and before God, the other in the Sacristy before the civil official from the Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. As the majority of marriages are now done by civil celebrants licensed by law, let’s change the
name of those marriages to civil unions and keep the word ‘marriage’ as it is. W G Ritchie SHOALWATER, WA
Unfortunate errors in The Record’s opinions I WAS SORRY (The Record, July 18th), to see one or two silly things in your otherwise excellent publication, and hope you don’t mind if I signal these (in the nicest way possible of course). Firstly, Mr Reidy’s pleas for the homeless of Perth. Having spent the occasional night in King’s Park myself in the past, might I point out that a pension or the dole allow one to get hostel accommodation quite easily at any time in Perth? Homeless perhaps, but never without a bed. Secondly, Notre Dame University urges us to attend to the importance of Aboriginal Australians. What about the Irish ones, also a native people dispossessed of their land 150 years ago and since become part of Australian society? Or Scottish ones? At least they did not talk of the Traditional Custodians of the Land (which of course are the Australian people, Aboriginal, European, Asian and all, without distinction of race or creed). Thirdly, Fr Gatt in an article about Indonesia says that there is
no middle class in that country, just the rich and the poor. Having worked and lived in Indonesia for three years, I beg to differ. Most Indonesians have all the necessities of life and most of its luxuries, and I saw no homeless people there at all in my time. The Indonesians would in fact be quiet insulted by our patronising attitude, were they not convinced that we are deranged, immoral and an object of pity ourselves. Peter Gilet BELMONT, WA
Rite of Betrothal has indeed been celebrated IN THE INTERESTS of accuracy, the article about the betrothal ceremony of James Chua and Lisa Aarts stated “For possibly the first time in Perth in years, if not decades....” In fact Father Michael Rowe, Latin Mass Chaplain in the Archdiocese of Perth, Rector of St Anne’s Church Belmont, has been celebrating this rite of Betrothal for many years - at least five that I can quickly remember. In 2010 Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey celebrated it in St Anne’s Church for a young couple now happily married and proud parents of a baby girl. Rosemary Lorrimar PALMYRA, WA
It’s time to put in one final push for sake of marriage In the debate about the meaning of marriage which has gripped Australia there is no room for indifference, writes Greg Donnelly.
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hether you are an observer or participant in the ongoing debate to change the definition of marriage to accommodate the demands of same-sex attracted people, it feels as if this contest of ideas has been going on a long time. And make no mistake - it is a battle of ideas. The truth of the matter is that if you take Australia, for example, and trace back human occupation – around 60,000 years or so – it is only over the last few years that the argument has been advanced that same-sex attracted people should have a legal right to come together and live in a relationship that such people can call a marriage. Furthermore, many of those advocating a change in the definition of marriage, particularly a number of high profile celebrities, public figures and politicians, cannot seem to comprehend or understand why there is such significant opposition to the proposal. Many seem to find it unbelievable that anyone would resist or oppose the idea. As the evidence is now starting to demonstrate, many advancing the cause for change instead of facing up to and dealing with the strong arguments for maintaining the status quo, are playing the person not the ball. They are trying to brand their opponents as bigots and homophobes. Maggie Gallagher who is the co-founder of the National Organisation for Marriage has been arguing against the proposal to change the definition of marriage for a number of years. In a recent published essay on the issue she says: “For opponents of gay marriage, stopping gay marriage is not victory, it is only a necessary step to the ultimate victory: the strengthening of a culture of marriage that success-
fully connects sex, love, children, and mothers and fathers. “Core assumptions that same-sex marriage advocates make about the nature of marriage, about the reason for the government’s involvement in marriage, about how legal classifications affect culture, and about the relationship between civil marriage as a legal institution and marriage as a social institution, must be disinterred and addressed. “The fact that ordinary voters
Those wanting to change marriage’s meaning are on a mission, motivated, and well-funded. continue to grasp the losses samesex marriage entails more deeply than many intellectuals is part of the paradox of this debate. Very few intelligent gay-marriage advocates appear to even grasp what they are asking of those of us who disagree with their core assumptions about sex and marriage.” While her comments are made in the context of the US same-sex marriage debate, they also have resonance here in Australia. Those pursuing change believe that they are on a mission. They are highly motivated, well organised and well-funded. They keep asserting publically, “We are on the right side of history”. Moreover, they will not give up. They are pursuing a cause, an idea. Setbacks or failures are something taken in their stride, in fact they draw strength from them. They have a vision that in the end, they will prevail. Only time will tell if those advocating change will get their way. However, we can say this: we are all fortunate to live in a parliamen-
tary democracy where the rule of law applies. Our polity is structured in such a way as to mitigate against small unrepresentative groups in society imposing their views on everyone. Our elected representatives are put in place by the people and are replaced by the people. As I have spoken to various federal politicians over the last 12 months or so, it has become clearer to me that the majority oppose changing our definition of marriage. The more they think deeply about what marriage intrinsically is and what it provides society, the less inclined they are to support changing its definition. The more they listen carefully to their constituents and what mainstream Australians are saying about marriage, the less inclined they are to support change. However, nothing in politics is forever. Our federal politicians, both Members of the House of Representatives and Senators, return to Parliament on August 14th after the winter recess. The debates on same-sex marriage in both the House of Representatives and the Senate will recommence. The choice is stark and clear for our federal politicians. It is one position or the other. If you have not yet contacted your federal Member of Parliament and Senators on this most important issue, do not put it off any longer or leave it to somebody else. We all have a responsibility to make our voices heard. Google Parliament of Australia or type www.aph.gov. au into your computer and follow the link to Members and Senators. Arrange an appointment to see them, write a letter, send an email, sign a petition or phone them up. There are many ways that you can make your voice heard. There are no excuses - act now. Greg Donnelly is a Labor Member of the NSW Legislative Council
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Hoarding: choosing suffocation over others’ needs While we may have a legal right to the things we hoard, we have a moral obligation to let them go - for the sake of others.
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ecently the Sunday gospel (John 6:1-15) recounted the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes. Alas, the homilist where we attended Mass that weekend repeated the banal and overused (at least in Canada) post-modern interpretation of this gospel reading: that Jesus may not have actually miraculously multiplied bread and fish, but rather inspired people who had hidden/hoarded food to be generous and share with their neighbours. As a rule, I don’t much care for biblical exegesis that shies away from our Saviour as omnipotent Miracle Worker in favour of Jesus as Motivational-Speaker Care Bear. To give Father credit, he readily acknowledged that this may not be the best interpretation of this Scripture, but that it nevertheless illustrates an important truth: hoarding is wrong. It offends God, defeats charity and benefits no one (least of all the hoarder). This is probably why hoarding’s cousin, avarice, is one of the Seven Deadly Sins. These days, one treads on delicate ground to suggest hoarding is a
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sin: after all, it has been designated a mental illness, and sin is always a choice, isn’t it? Most hoarders would prefer other labels: saver, collector, even pack-rat, which makes it sound rather comic and innocent. ‘Hoarding’ sounds — well, so pathological. And for some it truly is. Most of us have seen the TV shows or read the stories online or in the papers. And of course there’s a continuum of extremity from ‘too lazy to throw stuff away’ to collections that get slightly out of control, to those certifiably in need of medical/ psychological intervention (think hoarding of one’s bodily waste, or dead animals). I speak mainly to those of us, myself included, who probably fall into the milder forms of gardenvariety hoarding: old magazines piling up, appliances and gadgets we never use, clothes that don’t fit, broken or damaged items that
(come, let’s be honest) will never be repaired. Going back to Father’s Sunday homily, he cited St Thomas Aquinas as saying that if you have items you no longer use — clothes for example — by default they already belong to those less fortunate who can and will make use of them. While we may have a legal right to hold onto them, we have a moral obligation to let them go. The saddest and most ironic part about having the freedom to own and collect and hoard is that our possessions are suffocating, crushing, oppressing and depressing us. If we got rid of even a portion of our excess, we would feel so free. And others could benefit from our charity. What’s holding us back? In some ways, it’s convenient that hoarding has been labelled a mental illness. Somehow, that takes the onus for change off us and puts it into the hands of health care professionals. We can shrug our shoulders, say we can’t help ourselves, and continue on our cluttered way — that is, if we can get past those stacks of magazines dating back to 1976. For some people, hoarding may
well be a severe manifestation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or some other pathology. But for most of us, it’s just a bad habit or mind-set. We can overcome it. Ironically, the environmental movement has begun preaching
Many hoarders were born in the 1960s, a time of material plenty in the western world. What is our generation hoarding? What void are we trying to fill? its own gospel of asceticism, antimaterialism, living frugally. What’s sad is that some Christians are willing to embrace simplicity for the sake of the planet, but not for the sake of its Creator, His gospel, or the poor. I’m not suggesting we all live like beggar hermits, but we can look to the ancient and never-outmoded
Christian ideal of detachment from worldly things. Are humans too invested in stuff because we no longer really believe in heaven? Or do we (incredibly, given the bounty that surrounds us) believe that God will not provide for our needs? Some blamed the Great Depression of the 1930s for our parents’ and grandparents’ hoarding, but how do we explain our own? Many hoarders were born in the 50s and 60s, times of great material plenty in the western world. Why is our generation hoarding? What void are we trying to fill? St Augustine (paraphrased) might provide the answer: our hearts are empty; they cannot be filled until they are filled with and by God Himself. “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal. But store up treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor decay destroys, nor thieves break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there also will your heart be. (Matthew 6:19-21)
The darker history of going for gold The Olympics have been fun to watch, but they have turned into a substitute for things like religion, thinks Guy Crouchback.
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t last someone has had the courage to point out the truth about the Olympic Games: a pagan, semifascist cult, whose main contribution is to international hatreds. The whistle has been blown by Chris Berg, of the Melbourne-based think-tank, the Institute of Public Affairs. Unlike other sporting events, which are at best part-time activites, the Olympic Games claim to be a whole way of life. But they are a kind of phoney spiritualisation that has nothing to do with Christian beliefs. The modern Olympics were founded in the 19th Century as part of a pagan revival in imitation of the ancient Greek games. Pagan symbolism saturates every aspect of them. It is no wonder Hitler used the 1936 Berlin Olympics to validate Nazi ideology, and to broadcast it to the world, and attempted to use the games to show off the physical superiority of Aryan bodies. Nazi anti-Semitism was already
It is ridiculous or worse that a slave-state like North Korea, the worst tyranny in the world, is put on an equal footing with democracies. in full swing, and German Jews were forbidden from competing, a fact which appeared to disturb the other organisers not at all: an indication of the peculiar moral blindness which has afflicted the games. The Nazi games and ideology have been immortalised in the brilliant but evil film The Triumph of the Will. It is ridiculous, or worse, that a slave-state like North Korea, probably the worst tyranny in the world, is today treated in London on an equal footing with democratic countries. The recent Peking Games were similarly a propaganda circus for
Jesse Owens salutes, while an athlete and officials give the Nazi salute at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Hitler believed the Olympics would effectively vindicate Nazi theories of Aryan Germanic racial superiority but this was scuttled by the gold medal-winning African-American athlete from Alabama. PHOTO: PUBLIC SOURCE
the Chinese Communist Party, conferring legitimacy on a police-state regime. “The Games are steeped in ritual, all of which is designed to promote an ideology,” says Berg. “They are unlike any other international sporting event. Games officials talk of an Olympic movement, an Olympic spirit, and an Olympic ideal. Its five-ring logo is imbued with a quasi-mystical significance. It even has its own ceremonial calendar: an Olympiad is a period of
four years. It’s hard not to conclude that the Olympic Games are a religion, and a bizarre religion at that.” The opening ceremony for the 2012 London featured a sacred torch, which carried a sacred flame, kindled on Mount Olympus, the home of the Greek Gods, to light a sacred cauldron. According to Berg: “The flame is supposed to represent purity flames come from the sun and are untainted by our material world.
When the Olympic torch was lit in a Greek temple in May, there was a ceremony of dancing priestesses and men dressed as heralds performing feats of strength.” The flame ritual is preceded by a symbolic release of pigeons. There aree various other pagan rituals. “These rites,” says Berg, “are all very purposeful. The founder of the modern Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin, said its basic idea was to convert athletics into ‘a religion, a
cult [and] an impassioned soaring’.’’ Any good purpose the games may once have had – friendly amateur sport – has long been lost. GK Chesterton is reputed to have said that when men cease to believe in God they believe not in nothing but in anything. The Olympic movement is a bizarre phoney religion and a massive waste of other people’s money which could be better spent on any number of more worthy projects.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 Friends of L’Arche Retreat 10am at Infant Jesus Parish Hall, Wellington St, Morley. Learn more about the worldwide family of L’Arche and explore how we can live the essence of L’Arche locally at retreat by Archbishop Roger Herft. No charge, please bring a plate to share for lunch. Nora 9440 1046 or 0408 865 899, Evelyn 9370 2541 or 0432 451 171, or tierneyfamily@ gotalk.net.au. Natural Family Planning Week – an invitation from billings LIFE WA 1pm at Newman Siena Centre (Bishop Clune Lecture Theatre), 33 Williamstown Rd, Doubleview. Begins with tea and coffee greeting; 1.30pm: “Responsible Honesty”, a presentation with time to reflect and share. 3.30pm Mass by Bishop Sproxton. Followed by wine and cheese. RSVP: August 3. Enq: Mandie 9399 3140 or 0407 577 435 or bnfpwa@westnet.com.au. St Padre Pio Prayer Day 8.30am at St Joseph Parish, Hamilton St, Bassendean. Begins with Padre Pio DVD; 10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, Silent Adoration and Benediction. 11am holy Mass. Confessions available, 12pm lunch: bring a plate. Enq: Des 6278 1540. Divine Mercy 2.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, Windsor St, Perth. Begins with Divine Mercy Healing Mass. Main Celebrant: Fr Marcellinus Meilak. Reconciliation available in English and Italian. Divine Mercy prayers followed by veneration of first class relic of St Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9457 7771.
NEXT WEEK SUNDAY, 12 AUGUST The World Apostolate of Fatima 3pm at St Emilie de Vialar Parish, 151 Amherst St, Canning Vale. Eucharistic Hour. Enq: Admin 9339 2614. WEDNESDAY, 15 AUGUST Year of Grace – Youth Concert 6.30pm at Notre Dame, Drill Hall. Mass for the feast of the Assumption celebrated by Bishop Sproxton, followed by concert featuring a guest musician Steve Angrisano from the USA. Cost: free. cym.com.au. Tickets & Enq: Priscilla 9422 7912 or admin@cym.com.au SATURDAY, 18 AUGUST Carmelite Monastery Nedlands - Final Vows 11am at the Carmelite Monastery, 100 Adelma Rd, Nedlands. There will be a concelebrated Mass during which Sr Quynh Mary (Nguyen) will make her Final Vows. Principal Celebrant: Archbishop Costelloe. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: Monastery 9386 3672.
UPCOMING SUNDAY, AUGUST 19 Meditative Prayer in the Style of Taizé 7-8pm at Sisters of St Joseph Chapel, 16 York St, South Perth. Theme: Celebrating St Mary MacKillop’s feast day. Includes prayer, song and silence in a candlelight chapel – symbol of Christ the Light of the world. Please bring a torch and a friend. Enq: Sr Maree 0414 683 926.
287 or anthony.porrins@gmail.com and Angela 9275 5658 or 0408 801 215 or angelmich@bigpond.com. FRIDAY, 12 TO SUNDAY, 14 OCTOBER Inner Healing Retreat (live-in) 7.30am Epiphany retreat Centre, 50 Fifth Ave, Rossmoyne. A time to be healed and renewed. Leaders: Vincentian Father. Registration & Enq: Melanie 0410 605 743 or m.fonseca@curtin.edu. au.
REGULAR EVENTS EVERY SUNDAY Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com. Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction. Reconciliation available before every celebration. Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292. EVERY FIRST SUNDAY St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group – Fellowship with Pizza 5pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share. Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com. Singles Prayer and Social Group 7pm at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Sq, 77 St George’s Tce, Perth. Begins with Holy Hour (Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary and teaching) followed by dinner at local restaurant. Meet new people, pray and socialise with other single men and women. Enq: Veronica 0403 841 202. Divine Mercy 1.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, 25 Windsor St, East Perth. Homily: The Body and Blood of Jesus. Main celebrant: Fr Johnson Malayil. With Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Reconciliation, holy Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and Divine Mercy prayers, followed by Benediction and veneration of first class relic of St Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9457 7771. EVERY SECOND SUNDAY Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Join us for songs of praise and worship, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers for the sick. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or parish office Tue-Thu, 9am2.30pm 9344 7066. EVERY THIRD SUNDAY Oblates of St Benedict – Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth. For all interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople: Vespers and afternoon tea afterwards. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758. EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY
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Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by Benediction. Enq: John 0408 952 194.
in reparation for the outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357 or Fr Giosue 9349 2315or John/Joy 9344 2609.
Novena to God the Father 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Victoria Park. Novena followed by reflection and discussions on forthcoming Sunday Gospel. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.
Pro-Life Witness Holy Mass at St Brigid’s Midland at 9.30am, followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic, and led by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Please join us to pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of hearts. Enq Helen 9402 0349.
EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734. EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting. Enq: 0423 907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.
Healing Mass 12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au.
Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry Mass at 5.30pm and Holy Hour (Adoration) at 6.30pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Enq: www.cym.com or 9422 7912.
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Adonai Ladies Prayer Group 10am in the upper room of St Joseph’s Parish, 3 Salvado Rd, Subiaco. Come and join us for charismatic prayer and praise. Enq: Win 9387 2802 or Noreen 9298 9938. EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY
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Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and benediction. Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 0417 187 240.
Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images are of very high quality. For any parish willing to accept and place inside the church. Oil paintings - 160 x 90cm and glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w).
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Sacred Heart Pioneers Is there anyone out there who would like to know more about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.
Chaplets of Divine Mercy 7.30pm St Thomas More Catholic Parish, Dean Rd Bateman. It will be accompanied by Exposition and followed by Benediction. Next devotion: Wednesday, August 8. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 6242 0702 (w). EVERY THURSDAY Divine Mercy 11am at Ss John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Enq: John 9457 7771. St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org. Group Fifty - Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661. EVERY FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH
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EVERY FIRST FRIDAY
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A Ministry to the Un-Churched 12.30-1.30pm at St John’s Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Ave, Perth (opposite church offices). With charismatic praise, and prayer teams available. Help us ‘reach out to the pagans’ or soak in the praise. Enq: Dan 9398 4973. EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH
Healing Mass 7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, Exposition and Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction and anointing of the sick followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 0433 457 352 and Catherine 0433 923 083.
Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 038 483.
Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life 7pm - Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by Adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.
SATURDAY, 8 TO SUNDAY 9 SETEMBER MenAlive men’s weekend 8am at St Denis Parish, Cnr Roberts and Osborne Sts, Joondana. Finishes 1.30pm Sunday. Enq: Ben 0407 088 431. FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14-16 ‘Contemplating the Face of Christ in the Franciscan Tradition’ Retreat Retreat live in/live out at the Redemptorist Retreat House, 190 Vincent St, North Perth. Leader: Fr John Cooper from Sydney. Enq: Anthony 0449 864
EVERY MONDAY Evening Adoration and Mass 7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic Adoration, Reconciliation, evening prayer and Benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic. org.au.
LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Program 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church). Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941. EVERY TUESDAY
EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.
Prayer in Style of Taizé 7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight – symbol of Christ the light of the world. Taizé info: www.taize.fr. Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457.
Discovering culture night – Indian 7pm at Gosnells Parish, 175 Corfield St, Gosnells. Celebrating the multi cultural nature of our parish community with a series entitled "Discovering Culture". Join us for the food, fun and just a hint of "Bollywood" in the St Munchin’s School Hall. Tickets & Enq: Arlene 0432 630 108 or Sandra 9398 8583.
Novena Devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health 5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379. Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.
Feast of the Dedication - Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament 9.30am at Gosnells Parish, 175 Corfield St, Gosnells. Mass followed by a multicultural lunch in the Parish Centre. Past parishioners and former students of St Munchin's Primary School and Lumen Christi College are all welcome. Enq: Admin 93982331 or secretary@gosnellsparish. org.au.
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EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.
Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.
Women of Grace Retreat 9.15am-2pm at Good Shepherd Parish, Cnr Morley Dr & Altone Rd, Lockridge. Retreat Mass, talks and prayer presented by Archbishop Emeritus Hickey and Dr Michelle Jones (doctorate in Spiritual Theology from the University of St Thomas Aquinas [the Angelicum] in Rome) Cost: donation. Booking essential. RSVP & Enq: catholicwomen. perth@gmail.com or Lydia, 0413 993 987
EVERY SECOND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH Discover the Spirituality of St Francis of Assisi 12pm at St Brigid’s Catholic Parish Centre. The Secular Franciscans of Midland Fraternity meet for lunch followed by 1-3pm meeting. Enq: Antoinette 9297 2314.
Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189. Catholic Faith Renewal Evening 7.30pm at Ss John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton – Songs of Praise and Prayer, sharing by a priest followed by thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments after Mass. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913 or Ann 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com. Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils 7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Lochee St, Mosman Park or St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr/Majella Rd, Westminster (Mirrabooka). The Vigils consist of two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, prayers and Confession
St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Mon 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734. Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from Mary MacKillop Centre. Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933. Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community set in beautiful gardens in suburb of Glendalough. “Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155. Resource Centre for Personal Development The Holistic Health Seminar “The Instinct to Heal’’, every Tuesday 3-4.30pm; and RCPD2 “Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills” every Tuesday 4.30-6.30pm, 197 High St, Fremantle - Tuesdays 3-4.30pm. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. Bookings are essential. Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year? Suggest a Certificate IV course to discern God’s purpose for their life. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation (National Code 51452). Enq: Jane 9202 6859.
Novena to Our Lady of Vailankanni Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. Leader: Fr Trevor (India). Enq: Admin 9271 5528, Gordon 9377 4472, Anita 9375 1794 or George 9272 1379. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 - Day 1 of Novena 7pm – Begins with Mass, Novena devotions and Benediction, followed by procession. Fellowship afterwards. Please bring plate. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 - Day 2 of Novena 7pm – Begins with Novena devotions, homily and Benediction. Followed by blessing of children. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 - Day 3 of Novena 6pm – Begins with Vigil Mass, followed by Novena devotions and Benediction. Followed by food fete in hall. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 - Day 4 of Novena 6pm – Begins with Mass followed by Novena devotions, Benediction and blessing of all fathers. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 - Day 5 of Novena 7pm – Begins with Novena devotions, homily and Benediction. Followed by Blessing of the sick and elderly with the Blessed Sacrament. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 - Day 6 of Novena 7pm – Begins with Novena devotions, homily and Benediction. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 - Day 7 of Novena 7pm – Begins with Novena devotions, homily and Benediction (Novena raffle will be drawn). THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6 - Day 8 of Novena 7pm – Begins Novena Devotions, homily and Benediction. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 - Day 9 of Novena 6pm – Begins with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Litany of the Most Sacred Heart. Followed by silent Adoration. 7pm – Mass, anointing of the sick, followed by Novena devotions and Benediction. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 - Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary 6pm – Begins with concelebrated Mass by candlelight procession. Followed by fellowship. Please bring plate. Secondhand Electric Organ Good working condition. Angela Vigolo would like to give it away to a good home; maybe a parish would like it? Enq: Angela 9276 9317. Acts 2 College, Perth’s Catholic Bible College, is now pleased to be able to offer tax deductibility for donations to the College. If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow the faith of young people and to evangelise the next generation of apostles, please contact Jane Borg, Principal at Acts 2 College on 0401 692 690 or principal@ acts2come.wa.edu.au. Divine Mercy Church Pews Would you like to assist, at the same time becoming part of the history of the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering, by donating a beautifully handcrafted jarrah pew currently under construction, costing only $1,000 each. A beautiful brass plaque with your inscription will be placed at the end of the pew. Please make cheques payable to Divine Mercy Church Building fund and send with inscription to: PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084. Enq: Fr Paul 0427 085 093. FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 AND SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Theatrical play Women on the Fringe 7.30pm at Prendiville Performing Arts Centre by St Simon Peter Players. Written by Gerald Searle of St Anthony’s Parish about women marginalised because of gender, race, nationality, culture, religion and moral standing who were transformed when they encountered Jesus. 2pm matinee. Tickets after all Masses at parishes in Ocean Reef, Whitfords, Wanneroo, Clarkson, and the Cathedral. Enq: Gerald 9404 7292. SUNDAY, 19 AUGUST 40th Anniversary An invitation is extended to all “Shalomites” (past and present). Enq: Anne 9248 1767 or theshalomites@gmail.com
AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA9523 3566. Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA, Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations, to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities, etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary Mackillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssra-perth@catholic.org. Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College is now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For a prospectus and enrolment form please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au. Pellegrini Books Wanted An order of Sisters in Italy is looking for the following: The Living Pyx of Jesus, Fervourings From Galilee’s Hills, Fervourings From the LoveBroken Heart of Christ, Fervourings From the Lips of the Master, Listening to the Indwelling Presence, Sheltering the Divine Outcast, Daily Inspection and Cleansing of the Living Temple of God, and Staunch Friends of Jesus, the Lover of Youth. If you are able to help, please contact Justine on 0419 964 624 or justine@waterempire.com.
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