The Record Newspaper - 13 November 2013

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A boy with a wound on his eye gathers coins and other salvageable materials with others from the ruins of houses on November 10 after Super Typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban, Philippines. The typhoon, one of the strongest storms in history, is believed to have killed tens of thousands, but aid workers were still trying to reach remote areas.

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By Matthew Biddle FILIPINO CATHOLICS in Perth are worried for their families affected by the destructive typhoon Haiyan, which tore through the Philippines last weekend.

Winds of more than 330 kilometres per hour battered the nation, making it the strongest typhoon in the world this year, and possibly the most powerful to hit land ever.

Cloverdale parish priest Fr Nelson Po hails from the island of Leyte, where the typhoon caused the most damage and could have claimed as many as 10,000 lives.

Fr Nelson, whose family lives on the island, described the situation as “worrying”. “Up to now I

haven’t really heard from my family because all communication lines are cut off, power lines, everything,” he said.

“For three days now I haven’t heard from my parents, and the

Typhoons and cyclones are fairly common in the Philippines, Fr Nelson said, although this is the first time his family has been directly affected by the natural disaster.

Filipino Catholics in Perth anxious for their families after a 330 kilometres per hour typhoon devastates country’s Eastern Visayas region. anxiety’s just building up. I’ve spoken to my brother who lives in the next island in Cebu, but that island was not affected very much, and he cannot even phone our parents there either.”

“We have 20 cyclones a year on average,” he said.

“It’s always around this time, November and December, that we have these monster typhoons. But this year it’s really bad because it’s

the strongest one in the world this year. “From memory, this is the first time that my birthplace is really affected. There have been minor, weaker typhoons, once or twice a year, but none of this magnitude.”

In December 2012, the southern part of the Philippines was hit by typhoon Bopha, killing more than 1,000 people. The Soh family of Perth, who regularly travel to the Philippines to donate goods, have already organised to fill a container with donations for those affected by the typhoon, which will be sent in two weeks’ time.

Chaplain to the Filipino Catholic community in Perth, Fr Armando Carandang, told The Record he would offer two Masses for those

affected by the typhoon.

“The Filipino Chaplaincy of the Archdiocese of Perth is planning an immediate Mass this weekend for the souls of all people who died in the recent catastrophe in the Philippines,” he said.

Mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8 will also be held in honour of the survivors of the disaster, with the entire financial contribution at Mass to be sent to the Philippines.

For details about the Masses, contact Fr Armando on 9361 5710 or 0401 197 310 or at frarmando@perthcatholic.org.au.

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Opportunity to learn about lay community The Mariana Community is hosting an evening discussion and dinner to share its experiences of living in the spirit of St Vincent Pallotti and Our Lady on November 29 from 6.30pm till 9pm at the Queen of Apostles House in Riverton. Founded in 1957 by a Pallottine priest, the Mariana Community is very much part of the Pallottine family. Trisha Wisolith, organiser of the Mariana Community evening, told The Record the group was made up of consecrated lay women. “Although they’re not huge in numbers at the moment, the Mariana Community came out of the missionaries in the past and these missionaries were the ones who had worked with the Pallotines especially over in the East,” she said. The Mariana Community evening is a first-time event and is open to everyone who is interested in learning more about the women and their lives, as well as a chance to listen and share their own experiences. RSVP by November 22 and, for more information, call 9457 2424.

Homeless in Mongolia benefit from sock walk In celebration of World Mission Month and to support the homeless children of Mongolia, Catholic Mission hosted its inaugural Socktober Walkathon around Lake Monger on October 25. The 3.5km walk saw children and families from all over Perth come together in solidarity and support for the homeless. Before the participants

Fundraiser for new Attadale church Children and families took part in the Socktober Walkathon around Lake Monger on October 25, in support of the homeless children of Mongolia. The gathering was also a celebration of World Mission Month.

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In her speech, she thanked the participants for their support, and reminded them of the huge impact their simple walk would have on the homeless children of Mongolia. “All participants came in their colourful and vibrant socks,” Ms Laundy told The Record. “Many were wonderfully creative and donned them in all sorts of funky ways; some had made sock gloves whilst others wore them on their hats and in their hair. All up, it was a fun, lively and blessed day.” Catholic Mission has already received positive feedback from participants, which has encouraged it to make the Socktober Walkathon an annual community event as a

way to support the missions and to celebrate World Mission Month each year.

Ukrainian parishioners reflect on their mission For the past six weeks Ukrainian Catholics in Perth have been reflecting on a number of aspects of their lives as part of the Vibrant Parish: A Place to Encounter the Living Christ program. The reflection process is a part of the 2020 Vision, which includes establishing the Ukrainian Catholic Church and getting youth involved in the parish.

“In 2012, throughout our entire Church, we began working together

on a program of parish renewal,” Luba Valega, parishioner of St John the Baptist in Maylands, said. “The priorities for this renewal were placed before us by our Synod of Bishops under the leadership of His Beatitude Sviatoslav.” Throughout the six weeks the focus was on six elements: the word of God and catechesis; liturgy and prayer; serving one’s neighbour; leadership and stewardship; communion and unity; and the missionary spirit. On November 10, parishioners at St John the Baptist parish gathered together for a chance to reflect.

“Fr Wolodymyr and the parish council invited parishioners to join in the first stage of the process of pastoral planning,” Mrs Valega said.

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In the revised New American Bible, Clement is listed as the fourth pope, serving 88-97. He is an important witness to the first century of the Catholic Church. Early Christian writers called him a disciple of the apostles, and he may be the Clement mentioned in St. Paul’s Letter to the Philippians (4:3). As bishop of Rome, Clement wrote an Epistle to the Corinthians that is believed to be the earliest surviving record of an intervention by Rome in the affairs of a local church. Whatever problems prompted the letter, Clement gently urges the Corinthians to reconcile and accept apostolic tradition.

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St Joseph Pignatelli Parish in Attadale is hosting a Summer Fair on December 7 from 11am till 4pm on the parish grounds in an effort to raise funds for the building of the new church. The church is scheduled to open at the end of next year or the beginning of the following year.

“This is the first of the fundraisers,” Anne Wijasuriya, parishioner at St Joseph’s told The Record. “We will sell food; people can buy collectables, secondhand books and plants.”

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to discuss in groups how they were already fulfilling the mission as a Church; this stage of the Vibrant Parish Program was called “Count Our Blessings”. Mrs Valega said the meeting went well, with people attending from both Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian backgrounds.

“There was also a variety of age groups represented; Fr Wolodymyr Kalinecki, our parish priest, and Sr Nicodema Zemliak, a member of the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate, were also present and there was a lot of sharing of what we already do in our parish.” The second stage, involving parishioners, will take place on December 1 and is called “Dare to Dream”. At this session the parishioners will have a chance to imagine what might be possible to better fulfil their mission as the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

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Compassion not lost at sea, vigil hears

By Matthew Biddle WESTERN AUSTRALIANS came out in force on November 8 in support of the plight of 300 Vietnamese Catholic asylum seekers detained in the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre just outside Northam.

More than 200 people gathered for a candlelight vigil outside St Mary’s Cathedral, where they wrote letters of support that will be given, along with a set of Rosary beads, to each detainee.

The crowd included children, youth and the elderly, as well as members of the Vietnamese community in Perth and several clergy.

Fremantle MP Melissa Parke told those gathered that the issue had not received the attention it deserves in Australia.

“The Department of Immigration has allowed Vietnamese officials to interview asylum seekers at Yongah Hill and at other detention centres around Australia, and has given them name and address details,” she said.

“Given what we know about the situation in Vietnam, this is an outrageous breach of faith with people who have come to Australia seeking protection.

“Our treatment of Vietnamese asylum seekers is an example of the depths to which we’ve sunk in our asylum seeker policies in this country.”

Carina Hoang, herself a refugee who fled her home country after the Vietnam War, said the interviews conducted by Vietnamese officials are having negative affects on the detainees.

“Following these interrogations, some have been so frightened that they have taken desperate measures such as self-harm, attempted suicide and escape,” she said.

“I visited them recently; they were depressed and anxious because they don’t know what is going to happen to them, and very worried about the well-being of their families in Vietnam.”

Organiser Sarah Ross, from the Refugee Rights Action Network, said it was important to raise awareness about the “human rights

The plight of Vietnamese asylum seekers detained in Northam is of concern to many Western Australians, Catholic and non-Catholic.

abuse” taking place. She said the group’s visits to the Yongah Hill detention centre gave the impetus to hold the vigil.

“We found that we had no idea why people were fleeing Vietnam and we found that it was a huge issue that not very many people knew about,” she said.

“We wanted to hold this vigil to raise awareness and to inform the public about the issues still going on in Vietnam and the plight of asylum seekers in Australia at the moment.”

Parish priest of Kalamunda Fr Greg Donovan told The Record he was concerned with the lack of media coverage regarding the

asylum seekers. “The issue of Vietnamese officials being allowed into Yongah Hill is surely a breach of care on the part of the detention centre administration,” he said.

“The first media reports of the escape of the five asylum seekers

Attadale parish priest Fr Sean Fernandez said the issue had left him wondering what Australia has come to as a country.

“Where is our sense of compassion and humanity for people who seek our aid?” he said.

“It is my fervent prayer that Catholics will become more informed about the plight of asylum seekers.” seemed to be designed to frighten the local community.

“It is my fervent prayer that Catholics will become more informed about the plight of asylum seekers and recognise that a Gospel response is called for.”

While the government avoids the issue, Catholics should get involved in raising awareness of such situations, Fr Sean said.

“We have a strong social justice teaching and tradition,” he said.

“Our faith teaches us about the one-

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ness of the human family; that we should love our neighbour in need.

“We should feel a special solidarity with our fellow Catholics.

Members of the Body of Christ are suffering and we can do something about it.”

Fr Greg questioned why Australia, as a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, was not honouring its obligations.

“We are a people who, in the past, have welcomed migrants and refugees; their contribution to this country has been enormous,” he said. “Can we not, today, extend a welcome and provide a new beginning for our latest arrivals?”

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Perth ready to help Filipino brothers and sisters PERTH-based Catholic groups have rallied to help Filipinos devastated by Typhoon Haiyan.

An estimated four million people have been affected by the typhoon which struck the county’s eastern islands on November 8, with deaths estimated at upwards of 10,000.

Local Somascan priests have shared appeal reports reflecting the full scale of the devastation from their confreres in the region.

“Thousands dead and are dying, no shelter left to come home, helplessness and a sense of despair linger in people’s faces,” one of the reports said.

Somascans based in the Philippines will give financial donations they collect directly to Archbishop John Du, the bishop of Leyte, one of the country’s worst affected islands.

Ruby Soh, organiser for the Perth-based Filipino charity Buckets for Jesus, was at the epicentre of the disaster in the two weeks prior to November 8 when the typhoon hit.

The charity distributed donated goods to communities still reeling from October 15’s 7.1 magnitude earthquake which claimed 107 lives on Leyte’s neighbouring island of Bohol.

“It was traumatic to come back and see this happening again,” the Philippines-born Mrs Soh,

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Perth Catholic Kamila Soh, right, from Buckets for Jesus during a mission to a shanty town in Cebu in the Philippines earlier this year. The group is accepting goods to take to the country in around a week’s time.

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who witnessed many of the earthquake’s aftershocks during the trip, told The Record. “Government agencies find it difficult to reach

rural communities but we were able to do it, to find another route.”

“We gave them goods and prayed with people and uplifted them.

Their homes had been destroyed by the earthquake and we were very, very worried about them because they had been living in tents.”

Mrs Soh and her team are preparing to return in around a week’s time with two more containers of goods donated by people in Western Australia and Singapore.

Buckets for Jesus works through a network of local parishes, using land vehicles and a boat to reach isolated communities.

“The containers are not filled up yet but we are hoping that they will.

We’re just going to do it by faith and believe that kindhearted people will come through,” Mrs Soh said.

More information is available at the group’s website www. bucketsforjesus.org and their Facebook page HELP: Typhoon Haiyan or by calling 9388 9677.

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Catholic convert the perfect bride for happy Brad

By Juanita Shepherd BRAD BARBUTO hadn’t been back to Bali since the bombings of 2005, but this time was different, beginning on the sandy beaches close to the Tuka Bali Orphanage where Mr Barbuto often lent a supporting hand.

“In between helping out and taking time off to surf, I saw her there on the beach,” Mr Barbuto said of his future wife. “I met her five or six times before we went out to dinner at Vi Ai Pai, a bar in Bali.”

On October 19, at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mercedes College, Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey married Brad Barbuto and his bride, Lulu Nuraiman Saleh.

However, it had been a long journey before the couple were joined in holy matrimony.

Mrs Barbuto began accompanying Mr Barbuto up to the orphanage and even helped him secure a motorcycle for the nuns and the children.

“She came out [to Australia] in early 2013,” Mr Barbuto said. “She stayed in Perth for a month and started coming to Mass with me.”

Mrs Barbuto was raised a Muslim but eventually decided to convert to Catholicism.

“I never asked her to convert,” Mr Barbuto said. “It was of her own free will; she was a single mum and I [was] a single dad and I always thought God had a plan. He worked through my life and opened her eyes.”

With the help of close friend James Chua, Mrs Barbuto began

Brad and Lulu Barbuto were married on October 19, three days after Mrs Barbuto entered the Catholic Church.

to learn about the Catholic faith.

“James would come round every week and we did lessons,” Mr Barbuto said. The weekly lessons went for between one and three hours and for the most part Mrs

Barbuto found them very easy to grasp.

“A lot of it was easy for her because it’s in the Quran,” Mr Barbuto said.

Muslims and Catholics share the Old Testament and Muslims view

Christ with the utmost respect.

On October 16, in the crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Mrs Barbuto was baptised, confirmed and received Holy Communion. “Even though you will be married on Saturday

SJOG reaches new heights A healthy future for Midland and surrounding communities is yet another step closer, with a traditional construction ‘topping out’ ceremony held to mark the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals reaching their full height recently.

A commemorative Pomegranate tree was hoisted onto the roof of what is now the tallest building in Midland to coincide with the last major concrete pour and 43 per cent construction completion.

The St John of God Health Care and Brookfield Multiplex project team were joined by the Hon Helen Morton MLC, Minister for Mental Health; Disability Services; Child Protection and member for East Metropolitan Region, as well as representatives from WA Health and the local community.

St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals CEO, Ian Anderson confirmed that the hospitals are on track to open in late 2015.

“In addition to the building progress, we are well ahead in planning the new and expanded free public health services that we will deliver to patients when the new public hospital opens and Swan District Hospital closes two years from now.”

St John of God Health Care is also building a 60-bed integrated private hospital that will offer the choice of private health care.

Brookfield Multiplex’s Regional Managing Director, Chris Palandri said in addition to the hospitals’ construction reaching the 43 per cent milestone, it is on schedule and on budget.

The project represents a joint investment of $360 million by State and Commonwealth Governments in the public hospital that will be operated by St John of God Health Care under a public private partnership agreement.

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care operator is investing $70 million in the private hospital.

Following the ‘topping out’ (a ceremony that can be traced to the ancient Scandinavian religious

A Pomegranate tree was hoisted onto the roof of the what is now the tallest building in Midland. practice of placing a tree on the top of a new building to appease the tree-dwelling spirits of their ancestors that had been displaced), the tree will be nurtured at a local nursery and later planted in the grounds.

Top, ministers, hospital executives, and construction leaders celebrate a recent building milestone with a traditional construction ‘topping out’ ceremony.

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this is the most spectacular thing,” Fr Jean Noel Marie said to Mrs Barbuto after she was baptised.

“Not even your wedding will compare to this, welcome to God’s family.”

Truck load of jumpers sent to warm refugees THE PARISHIONERS of Sacred Heart Parish in Thornlie collected a large amount of jumpers in a bid to aid more than two million Syrian refugees held in border camps.

Thornlie parishioner Pat Ebsary was inspired to organise the initiative after reading an article about a Syrian lady’s challenge to her boss to take part in a sweater drop for the United Nations refugees.

“I thought it was a wonderful idea for our parish to be involved in that,” Mrs Ebsary told The Record.

“I asked Fr Timothy Cochrane if we could do it and he said yes so we started collecting jumpers and I would drop them off at the Salvation Army.”

Over the weekend of November 2 and 3 the donated jumpers were placed in the basket provided in the church foyer after Mass.

“The response has been phenomenal,” Mrs Ebsary said. “We got a truck load of jumpers. If every family gave one jumper it would make such a difference to keep someone warm in the refugee camp.”

Shortly, the Syrian refugees will be heading into a bitterly cold winter, and through word of mouth it wasn’t just the parishioners of Sacred Heart who volunteered to help. Students and their families from Sacred Heart Primary School also contributed jumpers in order to keep the Syrian refugees warm.

“We are so blessed here and millions of displaced people have no way of surviving the winter apart from donations,” Mrs Ebsary said.

“Hopefully we will help some people and I thank the overwhelming generosity of all the people who helped with donating jumpers.”

Scarves and personal items were also collected for women affected by the Bosnian War.

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Leaders inspire staff with wise words TWO OF the Australian Catholic Church’s most influential figures discussed the significance of faith based education within the context of a Catholic university environment with staff from the University of Notre Dame Australia recently.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta were welcomed to Notre Dame to present the university’s staff formation series of lectures. The series aims to further understanding among the university’s staff of Catholic tradition and identity.

On November 6, more than 150 members of the Notre Dame community gathered from across the country to hear Bishop Fisher explore the relationship between faith and reason, and what it means to be a “witness to Christ” in a modern Catholic university.

Bishop Fisher delivered the talk at the Sydney campus, which was video-linked to staff in Fremantle and Broome. Following his presentation, Bishop Fisher commended the university for its commitment to professional development in Catholic faith and morality.

“It means that the University of Notre Dame Australia walks the talk of its mission statement, ensuring that academic, professional and general staff know what the university is about and can commit themselves to it,” Bishop Fisher said.

“I was particularly impressed to find the audience included people from all faith traditions and that we were able to have a very open and frank discussion about the identity and mission of a Catholic university in contemporary Australia.”

The importance of a Catholic university in the Archdiocese of Perth was the focus for Archbishop Costelloe when he addressed staff at the Fremantle campus on October 17.

He discussed why the Church was committed to and engaged in both the teaching of education and health care, saying the Church could contribute to the well-being of society by using its resources to make essential services accessible for everyone.

“The fact that so many people, both those who are Catholics and those who are not, choose to make use of Catholic schools, Catholic hospitals and, we could add, Catholic social service agencies, indicates how much the Church’s contribution to these areas of our society is valued and appreciated,” Archbishop Costelloe said during

his presentation. “Every human person is precious to God, worthy of reverence, and deserving of respect in every way.

“In the Catholic world view, noone is unworthy of dignified and reverent care and attention.

“That Catholic hospitals and

Catholic hospitals and health care facilities need to be places where the Catholic world view informs all that happens there. health care facilities need to be places where this world view informs everything that happens and every decision that is made explains why we need a Catholic university to form our nurses, our doctors, our social workers, our pastoral care workers and, yes, our receptionists and our administrators and our support staff as well.”

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, top, and Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, above, delivered the staff formation series of lectures recently at the University of Notre Dame’s Sydney and Fremantle campuses.

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Guild calls for altar servers to attend conference

By Matthew Biddle ALTAR SERVERS from around Australia are preparing to gather in Brisbane in January for the national conference of the Guild of St Stephen.

The 2014 event marks 60 years of the Guild’s presence in Australia, and 50 years since the first national conference.

National director of the Guild of St Stephen Fr Danai Penollar told The Record the three-day conference has a number of purposes.

“Once in a while you want to bring [servers] together in accord with our objectives and statutes in the Guild, to unite servers of different parishes and dioceses,” he said.

“It’s also to encourage them to stay on serving. It’s no use having the best standards if they’re dropping out, so we’re trying to affirm them in their ministry and encourage them in what they’re doing.

“At the same time, the conference is trying to teach them a little bit more about their faith and

about serving itself, and the reasons behind why we do what we do.”

Fr Danai said children often altar serve until they reach high school, after which they cease serving.

“Primarily, there are high school students attending [the conference], but we have primary school kids attending as well and it helps for them to see that there are kids who keep serving.”

Attendees at the conference will learn how to serve some of the

Father and the Creed.” The Sydneybased priest said some applicants have inquired about learning the rubrics of the Extraordinary Form, and that “there’s some hints” of it possibly being included at future conferences.

Although he described the Guild of St Stephen as being in the “stages of re-building” in Australia, Fr Danai said altar servers from WA, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland

“It’s also to encourage them to keep serving... we’re trying to affirm them in their ministry.” more complicated Masses, such as those involving a Bishop, as well as other skills, including the correct use of the thurible.

“We pray the Divine Office and we teach them the Gloria Patri and the Our Father in Latin,” Fr Danai said. “In the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, it says the two prayers that Roman Rite Catholics should know in Latin are the Our

would be present at the conference.

The last conference attracted 100 participants, but Fr Danai is hopeful of reaching the 150 mark in 2014, with the gradual spread of the Guild since 2012.

“It’s grown a little bit more, we’ve got a new director in Lismore, we’ve linked up with Port Pirie diocese as well, and a bit more with Bunbury,” he said. “We’re in negotiations

to get a director for the Perth Archdiocese... and we’ve linked up strongly with Melbourne.”

The conference is open to both males and females, although 85 per cent of attendants in 2012 were male.

Fr Danai said one of the objects of the Guild is to develop the servers’ prayer life.

“It’s ingrained in our statutes and objectives to foster vocations to priesthood and religious life by building up the prayer life of those who serve at the altar,” he said.

“We try to involve seminarians, so the servers can see progression from altar serving and then thinking of priesthood. We’ve had people who have gone from serving to the seminary; some of them are studying in Rome now in fact.”

The January 15-18 conference is open to committed altar servers between the ages of 10 and 17, and includes talks, workshops, recreation, Mass and prayer. To register before December 12, go to www. guildofststephen.org.au.

The Guild of St Stephen’s national conference will be held in Brisbane in January.

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Bayswater’s big day draws a crowd

By Juanita Shepherd ST COLUMBA’s Parish in Bayswater welcomed Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB for the first time on October 13, when he celebrated Mass in honour of the parish’s 75th anniversary.

Celebrations for the milestone have occurred since St Columba’s feast day in June with a cake baked especially for the occasion that was shared among parishioners after Mass.

The celebrations continued into July and August with two parish gatherings.

“Parishioners were asked to come along, share food and to reminisce about their time in the parish,” Carolyn Kelly, a parishioner at St Columba’s told The Record.

“Both functions had photo displays and live presentations showing special events in the history of the parish.”

The Bayswater Catholic church traces its origins back to 1906 when St Columba’s was part of the parish of Maylands.

Twenty-two years later, in 1938, the boundaries of the parish were changed and Archbishop Redmond Prendiville, the fifth bishop and second Archbishop of Perth, opened and blessed St Columba’s Bayswater.

“We celebrate the anniversary of the parish with thanks for the past, joy for the present and hope for the future,” Ms Kelly said.

The celebrations in September included a parish retreat presented by Sr Kathy Kettle and Sr Ann Cullinane on “Celebrating Giftedness”.

“We were asked to reflect on the talents each one of us brings to the parish and what the parish means to us,” Ms Kelly said.

The celebratory Mass was concelebrated with parish priest Fr Minh-Thuy Nguyen and former parish priest Fr Huynh Nguyen, and incorporated a special entrance procession.

“The chairman of the pastoral council brought forward a large candle,” Ms Kelly said.

“The Juszkiewicz family had their daughter Zoe baptised the week of the ceremony and they brought forward the parish baptismal register on behalf of all families in the parish.”

Lorraine and Alan Waters brought forward the marriage register on behalf of all those who were married in the parish.

After the entrance procession, children from St Columba’s Primary School sang the St Columba’s song, which was written for the school by Fr Huynh Nguyen.

The parish choirs joined together, each choir taking charge of the preparation of a hymn, allowing all musicians to perform at the 75th anniversary.

Hundreds of parishioners attended the luncheon held in the school undercroft after Mass to mark the occasion.

“It was a very special day in the life of St Columba’s parish,” chairman of the pastoral council George Key said.

“The weather was perfect in every way and His Grace was very generous in giving his time celebrating a memorable Mass and staying on to cut the anniversary cake and enjoy a wonderful day.”

The children enjoyed a bouncy castle and parishioners Chad Beins and Alfonso Soliano provided the music.

“In every way, it was a great day,” Mr Key said.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB joined parishioners of St Columba’s in Bayswater to celebrate the parish’s 75th anniversary on October 13. The parish was opened by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville in 1938.

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End of an era as SJGHC purchases Mercy Hospital

By Matthew Biddle SAINT JOHN of God Health Care (SJGHC) has purchased Mercy Hospital Mount Lawley, in an agreement that both parties hope will strengthen Catholic health care in WA. The transfer, which is subject to approval from the Catholic Church and regulatory bodies, was announced on November 6 and is expected to occur in the first half of 2014.

SJGHC recorded revenue of $1.07 billion for the 2012/13 financial year, giving it the funds to make the purchase.

Chief executive officer of SJGHC Michael Stanford said the heritage

and expertise of Mercy Hospital as a respected women’s health services provider would be maintained.

“We will ensure that the hospital’s patients, families and the community continue to receive the highest standards of care and compassion,” he said.

“As a large private hospital operator, we have the resources and the expertise to invest in Mercy Hospital and further enhance services to the community.”

Dr Stanford said SJGHC plans to develop obstetrics, medicine and surgery at the 205-bed hospital in line with their other hospitals, as well as developing a private specialist rehabilitation service to support patients in private and public

acute hospitals. MercyCare chief executive officer Chris Hall said the transfer would safeguard the hospital’s future for staff and patients.

“The move strengthens Catholic health care in WA, benefiting

social services in people’s homes and in their communities, and increasing access to services for people who are without adequate assistance or marginalised from mainstream service programs.”

“This allows MercyCare the opportunity to look at providing a wider range of health care and social services in people’s homes and in communities.” the community and ensuring the Catholic ethos and mission continues at the Hospital,” he said.

“This allows MercyCare the opportunity to look at providing a wider range of health care and

Mercy Hospital first opened as St Anne’s Nursing Home in 1937, and Mr Hall acknowledged the work of the Sisters of Mercy in the early years. “The legacy of the Sisters of Mercy will live on in MercyCare’s

social advocacy, education, health care, aged care and family and community services,” he said.

Leader of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy in Australia Sr Berneice Loch RSM told The Record the sisters fully supported MercyCare’s decision.

“It’s the end of an era, but life is full of ends and beginnings, and this is the beginning of a new one,” she said. “The Mercy [sisters] will always be very proud of the work that was done through [the hospital].”

SJGHC now operate 14 hospitals, with two more facilities in Midland due to open in November 2015.

Mercy Hospital will operate as normal during the approval process.

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Isaac recognised for commitment to excellence “SHOCK” was the initial reaction Year 12 student Isaac Buckle had when he first heard that he was the recipient of the Most Outstanding Aboriginal Student Award in Catholic Education in WA for 2013.

Presented as part of the Catholic Education Office Awards of Excellence, the award recognises Isaac’s strong academic performance, his highly developed leadership skills, the generous support he gives to his peers and for maintaining links with his community during his five years of secondary schooling.

“I didn’t even think I was worthy of getting nominated because I thought I was just doing what I had to do to get a good education,” Isaac said.

Now that the initial surprise has worn off, Isaac, who plans to study social work or psychology next year, said he was thrilled to receive the award because he feels it can be used to show other young Aboriginal people, especially those in regional communities, the importance of committing to getting a good education.

After growing up in the town of Derby in the Kimberley, Isaac moved to Perth to complete his secondary education at Aranmore Catholic College in Leederville.

He said the transition was quite a change for him.

“I was homesick when I first started at Aranmore because Perth is very different to Derby,” reminisces Isaac.

“From the weather to the buildings – our tallest building is only three storeys tall – there’s so much difference between Perth and Derby.

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Year 12 student at Aranmore Catholic College in Leederville, Isaac Buckle, right, said he was “shocked” when he was told that he had won the Most Outstanding Aboriginal Student Award in Catholic Education in WA for 2013. He plans to study social work or psychology next year.

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of staff, it didn’t take long for me to settle into the routine of studying in Perth and then going back home for the holidays.”

Isaac, who plans to go back to his community in Derby after university, also acknowledges that young people from all walks of life face

a variety of challenges in today’s society. “Everyone needs to be told they’re doing a good job,” he said.

“It makes people feel good about

Book reveals love in the ‘no’ A CHILDREN’S BOOK celebrating the word ‘no’ as an expression of growth and familial stability between father and child, written by an Arts student at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus, is now available for purchase around the world.

Author, Lotty Vost (under the pseudonym of Bobby Kitt), said she wanted to write a piece of children’s literature that reflected her belief that the word ‘no’ was one of love and personal growth.

Her book, Daddy Said No, was spawned from the Children’s Literature unit of study at Notre Dame.

Lecturer, John Cartner, encouraged his students to write their own piece of children’s literature as part of the course. Within a week, Lotty had written, self-illustrated and bound this unique text.

“I wrote this book with two audiences in mind. The first is obviously the child as there are very few children’s books that feature the dynamic between fathers and their children, compared to mothers,” Lotty said.

“I wanted to create a story in which a father could sit down with his child and explain to them, in a fun way, why the word ‘no’ is a good thing.

“The second audience I directed my book to was the fathers themselves – to understand that they should not feel guilty for saying no to their child, and that it is out of affection and not negativity that we decline our children’s desire to do what they want.”

Lotty said the university had provided her with the necessary confidence to pursue a career in writing – from children’s literature, to playwriting and other longer works

UNDA lecturer John Cartner with Notre Dame-trained author, Lotty Vost.

of fiction. “The wonderful staff at Notre Dame have assisted me in the discovery of who I am, which has perpetuated my love for literature

at this university, the more growth I have seen in myself as a person.”

Mr Cartner, Lotty’s lecturer, said the university was blessed

I wanted to create a story in which a father could explain to his child why the word ‘no’ is good. and the arts in general,” Lotty said.

“Notre Dame encourages students, not simply to pass, but also to strive to be better. The more I learn

with a Literature program that was diverse, comprehensive and met contemporary demands. Mr Cartner is inspired by what Notre

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Dame students are able to achieve within this dynamic program of study.

“Since joining the English Literature program at Notre Dame, Lotty has proven to be a dedicated and talented student.

Her academic work has developed rapidly and now displays a maturity that reflects her ability to integrate [what] she has learnt with her rich life experience,” Mr Cartner said.

themselves and motivates them to keep achieving. I think all young people need to be told regularly that they’re doing a good job.”

Nagle, one step closer to sainthood THE Presentation Sisters and their friends and supporters celebrated the official announcement of the declaration of the Order’s founder, Nano Nagle, as Venerable on October 31.

The announcement brings the canonisation of Nano Nagle one step closer, the second of four stages in the canonisation process.

Speaking this week, Head of the Congregation Leadership Team for the Presentation Sisters, Irish Union, Mary Deane, said: “We are delighted with the news. By proclaiming Nano Nagle as venerable, the Universal Church has recognised Nano as a woman of faith, hope and heroic virtue whose vision and work transformed the lives of so many. For our Sisters, Associates and Friends of Nano throughout the world, Nano has been, and continues to be, a source of inspiration and challenge as we respond to the needs of today in fidelity to the Gospel and in the spirit of Nano.”

A celebratory mass to mark the announcement will take place at St Finbarr’s Church in Cork on November 21 and a series of smaller events will take place across Ireland and in Presentation Congregation areas across the world to mark this special occasion.

Nano Nagle was born Honora Nagle in Ballygriffin in Cork in 1718, a turbulent time in Irish history due to penal laws. The Nagle family was a wealthy Catholic family. Although Nano had the benefit of a European education and privileged lifestyle she devoted her life to God and to working with people on the margins of society.

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God “not a good loser”, soft spot for lost GOD has a certain weak spot of love for those who are lost or have strayed furthest from him; they are the ones he goes out to find, Pope Francis said.

It’s because God is a sore loser, he added, saying God doesn’t like losing his children.

“He searches for all those who have strayed from him. Like a shepherd, he goes looking for the lost sheep,” the Pope said at his early morning Mass in the Domus Sanctae Marthae on November 7.

In his homily, the Pope looked at the parables of the lost coin and the lost sheep in the Gospel of St Luke, where Jesus is responding to the Pharisees and scribes who were scandalised and complained that Jesus welcomed and dined with sinners.

Their grumbling “is the music of hypocrisy”, the Pope said, according to Vatican Radio. The people who complained about Jesus “believed that to be religious, to be good”, meant having everything go well in life, to be well-mannered “and

lose anything, he is not a good loser and for this reason, so as to not lose someone, he goes beyond himself, he goes and searches.”

God’s task is “to go looking” and “to invite everyone, the good and bad, to the celebration”.

God “has a certain weakness of love for those who have strayed the furthest, who are lost”, Pope Francis said. “He goes and looks for them.” many times to pretend to be wellbehaved, right?” he said.

“This is the hypocrisy of grumbling” and complaining about others, the Pope said. God, however, is joyful, he said.

“He is a God who doesn’t like to

God “has a certain weakness of love for those who have strayed the furthest, who are lost,” Pope Francis said. “He goes and looks for them” everywhere, like the woman who lost a coin and searches carefully until she finds it. And like the

woman and the shepherd, God rejoices after finding what was lost, the Pope said.

Once the lost are found, he said, God doesn’t keep them separate from the flock or treat them differently, but places them with the others “because he returns all of their dignity” with their repentance.

“There is no difference” between the one who strayed and those who stayed, he said, because “he straightens out everyone he finds”.

“God’s joy isn’t the death of the sinner, but his life,” he said. “The joy of God the father is love; he loves us” even as sinners.

“God says, ‘I love you all the same, and I will go and look for you and bring you back home.’ This is our father. Let’s think about that,” the Pope said.

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Corrupt Catholics are “putrid” hypocrites GOD loves and forgives sinners but abhors and condemns “putrid” hypocrites who lead others to sin, Pope Francis said. The Pope spoke on November 11 during a morning Mass he celebrated in the Vatican guesthouse where he lives.

“We should all call ourselves sinners, yes, all of us,” he said, but “not corrupt people. The corrupt man is stuck in a state of self-importance, he doesn’t know what humility is,” Pope Francis said, according to a report by Vatican Radio. “Jesus spoke to these corrupt men of the ‘beauty of being whitewashed tombs’ (Mt 23: 27), which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead bones and putrefaction,” the Pope said. “We all know someone in this situation, and how much harm they do to the Church,” he said.

“Corrupt Christians, corrupt priests.

How much harm they do to the Church, because they don’t live in the spirit of the Gospel, but in the spirit of worldliness.” The Pope took as his text the day’s Gospel reading (Lk 17:1-6), in which Jesus enjoins his disciples to forgive those who wrong them, but says of someone who leads others to sin, “it would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea.” Pope Francis posed the question of the difference between mere sin and scandal. “The difference is that one who sins and repents, asks forgiveness, recognises his weakness, feels like a child of God, humbles himself and asks Jesus for salvation,” he said. “But what is scandalous about the other?” the Pope asked. “That he doesn’t repent.

He continues to sin but pretends to be Christian, (he leads) a double life.”

The Pope then assumed the voice of such a person, whom he imagined protesting: “’But I am a benefactor of the Church. I put my hand in my pocket and give to the Church.’

“But with the other hand, he robs, from the state, from the poor,” Pope Francis said. “He is an unjust man.

This is a double life. “And this merits - Jesus says so, not I - that they put a millstone around his neck and throw him into the sea,” the Pope said. “(Jesus) doesn’t talk about forgiveness here.”

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Catholics keen to be heard at family synod Young mothers gather in late October at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to discuss with Gravida volunteers topics ranging from diaper changes and pacifiers, to going out to dance for the first time since the birth of their baby. Gravida is an organisation that supports pregnant women and young mothers, including helping them to recognise their own dignity and abilities.

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Immigration status quo a ‘stain’: Dolan PASSING comprehensive immigration reform is “a matter of great moral urgency that cannot wait any longer for action,” New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan told House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a November 7 letter.

Keeping undocumented immigrants “as a permanent underclass of workers who are unable to assert their rights or enjoy the fruits of their labour is a stain on the soul of the nation,” said the cardinal, who is president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“As pastors, we witness each day the human consequences of a broken immigration system,” he said.

“Families are separated through deportation, migrant workers are exploited in the workplace, and migrants die in the desert.

“In their attempts to respond to these human tragedies, our priests, religious and social service providers in many cases are unable to help these persons without changes to the law,” the cardinal added.

He urged the US House to

address immigration reform “as soon as possible” and called reports that immigration reform is “now delayed” in the chamber “most troubling”.

In early October, immigration advocates gathered in Washington for a rally and march. Faith leaders from 18 traditions prayed for comprehensive reform, which they called “a God issue”. About 200 participants, including at least eight members of Congress, were

ilar to the Senate version has been introduced by a group of House Democrats but no votes have been scheduled.

In his letter, Cardinal Dolan reiterated what the Catholic bishops have long called for in a reform measure, including creating “a fair and achievable path” to citizenship for the country’s 11 million undocumented immigrants; permitting future migrant workers to enter the US safely, legally “and with appro-

Families are separated, workers are exploited and migrants die in the desert. arrested in an act of civil disobedience to draw Boehner’s attention to the issue and pressure him to put a comprehensive reform bill to a vote in the House.

The Senate passed such a bill in June, but Boehner has resisted calls to bring it to a vote. An effort by a bipartisan group of House members to draft a bill for that body fell apart and a comprehensive bill sim-

priate protections”; restoring basic due process protections to immigrants; and enhancing protections for refugees and asylum seekers.

He called for expediting the reunification of families, but emphasised the policy must be “based on marriage as the union of one man and one woman”. Some lawmakers want any immigration reform bill measure to allow citi-

zens to sponsor foreign same-sex spouses for permanent residency in the US, just as citizens with opposite-sex foreign spouses can now.

Cardinal Dolan said any reform bill should address the root causes of migration, such “as poverty and persecution”.

Catholic teaching supports “the right of sovereign nations to protect their borders”, he added.

“Immigration reform would protect that right and restore the rule of law while upholding the human rights and dignity of the person,” he continued. “As a moral matter, however, our nation cannot continue to receive the benefits of the work and contributions of undocumented immigrants without extending to them the protection of the law.”

President Obama has made immigration reform one of his top priorities for the rest of the year.

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THE extraordinary Synod of Bishops on the family, called by Pope Francis for next October, is drawing great interest from everyday Catholics, many of whom are anxious to weigh in on questions the Vatican has sent out in preparation for the session.

In a brief report to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on November 11, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan said he’s awaiting clarification from the Holy See about how preparatory material such as the answers to a questionnaire sent to the world’s bishops’ conferences will be used.

In the meantime, several bishops said they are already consulting with their priests’ councils or other diocesan organisations. Bishop Robert Lynch of St Petersburg, Fla, suggested the US bishops create several ways that everyday Catholics can respond to the questions the Vatican posed. He suggested using a website such as Survey Monkey to solicit input, as well as have a way for people who don’t use computers to participate. Cardinal Dolan said he didn’t think it would constitute skating on thin ice to say that any bishop could rework the questions from the Vatican so that they are clear to the general public. The Vatican wording has already been criticised for being opaque and incomprehensible by Australians on Facebook. The Diocese of Parramatta is receipting Australia-wide feedback at www.parra.catholic.org.au.

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Philippines in hour of greatest need Photographs emanating from the Philippines’ Eastern Visayas islands speak for themselves when it comes to the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan (“Yolanda”) on November 8. Donations can be made at www.caritas.org.au.

Above, survivors sit in their damaged house on November 10 in Tacloban, Philippines.

Right, Residents cover their noses as they walk past devastated houses.

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Clockwise from far left: seeking refuge in a church in Tacloban; a women with labour pains comforted by a relative; boys in Cebu asking for help. Above, a devastated town in Samar province.

May the sick “see the face of Jesus in your face”

By Cindy Wooden PARISHES and Catholic organisations must be “pastorally inclusive” of the fragile and sick, who are a “spiritual resource” and not simply the object of Christian charity, Pope Francis said.

Especially at a time when modern societies seem so intent on “hiding physical frailty and seeing it only as a problem”, he said, Catholic parishes and associations must help the sick and physically challenged feel “fully part of the life and mission of the Church”.

The Pope made his comments on November 9 during a meeting with several thousand people involved in an Italian Catholic pilgrimage association. The group, known by its Italian acronym UNITALSI, brings the sick and volunteers together for

prayer and pilgrimages to Lourdes and other Marian shrines.

“We must truly value the presence and witness of fragile and suffering people, not only as the objects of evangelisation work but also as active subjects of apostolic activity,” the Pope said.

“You have a place, a specific role in the parish and in every sphere of the Church,” Pope Francis told the sick and those with disabilities.

“Your presence, which is silent but more eloquent than most words, your prayers, your daily offering of your suffering in union with that of Christ crucified for the salvation of the world, and your patient and even joyful acceptance of your condition, are a spiritual resource.”

“Never be ashamed of being a precious treasure for the Church,” the Pope said before spending more

than an hour talking to and blessing individual members of the group.

Pope Francis said UNITALSI volunteers don’t turn away when they see someone in pain or difficulty. “On the contrary, you try to be a gaze that welcomes, a hand that helps and accompanies, a word of comfort and an embrace of tenderness.”

“Continue to give your time, your smile and your love to brothers and sisters in need,” the Pope said. “May every sick and fragile person see the face of Jesus in your face, and may you recognise the body of Christ in those who are suffering.” Children involved in UNITALSI drew portraits of Pope Francis, which they copied, enlarged and bound into two supersized books. During the audience, he autographed the copy they will keep.

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Pope Francis greets people in wheelchairs in Rome during a meeting with UNITALSI, an association to transport the sick people to Marian shrines.

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The question of liturgical music The topic of liturgical music is one that evokes much passion and interest among Catholics, as shown by the numerous letters The Record received earlier this year regarding the topic. But debates over what is and is not appropriate at Mass are not new, as Matthew Biddle explains.

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Far left, Benedictine Fr Theo Flury, the organist of the Einsiedeln Abbey in Switzerland, plays the 787pipe organ at the Sistine Chapel in 2002. Perth music scholar Andrew Cichy says the topic of liturgical music is one that Catholics are very passionate about. The Record's online poll showed mixed opinions on whether rock music is an appropriate form of liturgical music. PHOTO: MAX ROSSI, CNS

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mapped onto sacred circumstances. So, in a sense, whether the music is classical or contemporary doesn’t matter, it is equally possible in both of those ambits to do something which is liturgically inappropriate.”

Mr Cichy said some forms of classical music are not suitable for the liturgy, including Cesar Franck’s Panis Angelicus.

“If you actually look at the form of the work, the style, the gesture, it’s an opera aria in all but text, and really that is no more appropriate liturgically than something that apes a pop ballad,” he said.

“A Waterford crystal wine glass, in itself, is beautiful and well crafted; however, one would never use a Waterford crystal wine glass as a chalice, because it is a secular drinking item. What we use in Mass is not secular.”

But Mr deSilva, who is the chairman of the Parish Liturgical Musicians Network Committee in Perth, did not denounce the use of a secular genre of music.

“Any music that can help people to participate in the liturgical prayer is acceptable,” he said.

“The style doesn’t matter, it is whether it fits into the liturgy.”

It was part of the purpose of St Pius X’s Inter Sollicitudines to provide ways to guard against the intrusion of the secular into the liturgy, Mr Cichy said.

The decree states that: “The Church has always recognised and favoured the progress of the arts, admitting to the

regarded as the supreme model for sacred music, so that it is fully legitimate to lay down the following rule: the more closely a composition for church approaches in its movement, inspiration and savour the Gregorian form, the more sacred and liturgical it becomes; and the more

Whether the music is classical or contemporary doesn't matter, it is equally possible in both of those ambits to do something which is liturgically inappropriate.”

- Andrew Cichy service of religion everything good and beautiful discovered by genius in the course of ages – always, however, with due regard to the liturgical laws”. It also states: “Gregorian Chant has always been

out of harmony it is with that supreme model, the less worthy it is of the temple”.

In 2003, on the 100th anniversary of Pius X’s decree, Blessed John Paul II quoted the aforementioned rule, saying:

“I make my own the 'general rule' that St Pius X formulated”.

He also re-stated the Second Vatican Council’s affirmation that the Church’s musical tradition “is a treasure of inestimable value”.

The Council also said the pipe organ was to be “held in high esteem”, but Mr Cichy said this has not been the case in the years since.

“My question is, to what extent does our use of the organ liturgically demonstrate a respect for that principle? And I would argue that, unfortunately, we have fallen short,” he said.

In addition to recognising the Council’s admittance of a wider range of musical instruments in the liturgy, it must also be known that the Council said such instruments must be adaptable to the liturgy, Mr Cichy said.

“I would argue, for instance, that the piano accordion is never adaptable to the liturgy because the instrument has such deep and long associations with the secular tradition,” he said.

“Really, by extension, any instrument which has had such a long and deep cultural association with secular genres should not be used liturgically.”

Aside from instruments, singing is arguably more important, the music scholar said.

“The Western tradition of chant has two basic varieties: one is the chant that is for the choir and the other is the chant that is for everybody, and the chant that is for everybody is eminently singable,” he said.

“The attention to setting the new translation of the Roman Missal to plainchant has been meticulous, and the provision of a single, simple English plainchant setting of the Mass is demonstrative of the mind of the Church on the use of chant.”

Despite this, Mr Cichy said there are stigmas attached to support of traditional liturgical music, shown by the request of several authors of letters to The Record that their names be withheld from publication.

“That somebody should feel the need to withhold their name for fear of negative repercussions, when all they’re saying is the Church has always advocated plainchant, is as unfair as it is ridiculous,” he said.

As for parish musicians, Mr Cichy said it would be beneficial if they had

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Is rock music an appropriate form of liturgical music?

HE RECORD’S online poll canvassing opinions on liturgical music in the Catholic Church finished recently after receiving 900 votes.

The question, “Is rock music an appropriate form of liturgical music” attracted 494 “No” votes and 406 “Yes” votes.

The poll was on The Record’s website for 17 days, in response to the number of letters received on the topic in August and September.

The poll’s results show that liturgical music is something a lot of Catholics are passionate about, according to local church musician Andrew Cichy.

“What people say or what the final result is really doesn’t matter insofar as that the Church has its doctrinal and disciplinary position,” he said.

“What does matter is what the poll reflects, and that is the fact that music is a very controversial and potentially polarising issue within the Church.”

Mr Cichy is a Clarendon Scholar at Oxford University, completing his doctoral thesis on English Catholic music after the Reformation, and will soon commence advanced studies in Baroque performance practice on historical pipe organs.

He holds both a Bachelor and a Masters degree in music, and his research has encompassed sacred music after the Reformation and the changes of the 20th century, including those of the Second Vatican Council.

As an organist, Mr Cichy has participated in master classes with Dame Gillian Weir, Guy Bovet and David Goode, and has worked as an organ consultant for parishes that wish to install an appropriate instrument in their church.

The 29-year-old said determining appropriate liturgical music is not a new debate.

“The Second Vatican Council is very clear – the Church’s treasury of sacred music is to be preserved, Gregorian chant is to be fostered, and the organ is to be held in the highest esteem,” he said.

“It would be fair to say that there have been problems with the implementation of these directives, but this reflects historical problems and debates about sacred music in the Church.”

Perth’s Archdiocesan Centre for Liturgy music consultant Chris deSilva said Perth Catholics don't ask him what’s the most appropriate liturgical music.

“They don’t ask me that question because they realise that it’s irrelevant,” he said.

But Mr deSilva, who runs one of the choirs at his parish and is the director of the liturgical choir, The Julian Singers, said Catholics do recognise the importance of good liturgical music.

“I think they’re quite serious about it,” he said. “If they think that music at the parish is not up to scratch they might well consider going elsewhere.”

He said the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium) promulgated at the Second Vatican Council made clear the purpose of liturgical music.

“The reason why we have music at Mass is because it can add delight to prayer, foster oneness of spirit and invest the rites with greater solemnity, that’s what it’s there for,” he said.

Mr Cichy, who has spent time teaching sacred music at St Charles’ Seminary in Perth, said the Church is now in the same position it was in when Pope Pius X issued his Motu Proprio Inter Sollicitudines in 1903.

“The only difference between now and 1903 is that in 1903 the main genre of inappropriate liturgical music was opera, and today it is rock music,” he said.

“Either way, we are faced with the problem of a secular genre being

This poll was on The Record’s website for 17 days and accumulated 900 votes. opportunities to develop their musical expertise.

“There are so many parish musicians who are so deeply committed and their commitment often goes unrecognised, but also the resources aren’t there a lot of the time to help them develop professionally,” he said.

“Church music is an area that requires many years of study and practice, and I think in some ways it’s unreasonable to expect somebody to be able to come at

it as a hobby. Part of what needs to be done is there needs to be an encouragement of strong professional development.

I wouldn’t expect an entire music ministry to have read the documents and to understand them, but I would certainly expect that whoever was leading that ministry was qualified to do so.”

Mr deSilva agreed that music ministers should be well-versed in the Church’s teachings on music, but acknowledged that some ministers may not understand

their work as well as they could. “There’s a wide spectrum of levels of competence and knowledge and that’s only to be expected,” he said.

“If you don’t understand what you’re doing, you can’t do it. The Church expects us to do certain things, and as music minsters we have the responsibility to do so.

“I think that the state of liturgical music in the Archdiocese is very healthy and that it has a bright future.”

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Right, French Jesuit Henri de Lubac. Below, the father of nihilism Friedrich Nietzsche. Far right, competing views of who human beings are were on stark display on the ABC’s Q&A on November 4.

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WEAKEST Underlying the fiercest battles of ideas in contemporary life are competing notions of who and what we are.

French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) tackled these head on, writes Dr Andrew Kania, and so must we.

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ESCRIBED as one of the most brilliant minds that rose from out of the Catholic Church in the 20th century was the French Jesuit, Henri-Marie Joseph Sonier de Lubac (1896–1991). Writing during World War II, in the midst of the NAZI occupation of France, de Lubac assisted in the publishing of a journal, Christian Witness, that spoke strongly against the values of the Third Reich.

After the collapse of the Vichy Government, de Lubac released a number of works that had all the while been germinating in his mind over the dark years.

One of these works was Drame de l’humanisme athée (1944), published later in English as The Drama of Atheistic Humanism (1949).

The Drama of Atheistic Humanism is a monumental work, for at its core is the thesis of what exactly is the nature of man.

Henri de Lubac argues that the great ‘isms’ of the fascist and communist era were not primarily political or economic movements, but were philosophical machinations that set about tearing apart the fundamental Christian belief that man was made in the image and likeness of God. Marx, Feuerbach, Comte and Nietszche are all pointed out by de Lubac as men who attempted to kill God, only to leave a moral vacuum in God’s place.

In opening up his third chapter of The Drama, entitled ‘The Spiritual Battle’, de Lubac notes that the greatest problem today that exists for humanity is the spiritual problem.

It is the question of what is man, in a world where many cite the Gospels but reject Christ.

In a dramatic piece of writing

in this chapter, de Lubac quotes Rainer Maria Rilke: “He whom men worship as the Messiah turns the whole world into an infirmary.

He calls the weak, the unfortunate, the disabled his children and his loved ones.

“What about the strong? How are we ourselves to climb if we lend our strength to the unfortunate and the oppressed, to idle rogues with no wits and no energy? Let them fall, let them die, alone and wretched. Be hard, be terrible, be pitiless! You must thrust yourselves forward, forward! A few men, but great ones, will build a world with their strong, muscular, masterful arms on the corpses of the weak,

thought process: Who is to care for the strong? I am one of the strong!

Let these weaklings die out! The Christ that you sing hymns in honour of – He is running an infirmary.

Another author inspired by Nietzsche, Pierre Lasserre, shocks yet more when he writes that the pity and mercy offered by Christians to those who are suffering is the worst form of human hatred: “The hatred I read in Christian eyes of this kind is something definite; it is the quintessence of Christian hatred of the earth. It is when they are gentlest that Christian eyes are shiftiest… At bottom, is it not the last trick of incurables to set about loving their infirmity and exalting

Henri de Lubac knew only too well what happens when the world separates itself into categories of strength and weakness; for the strong not only set upon the weak – but set upon each other, in order to make those who rival their strength weak.

This fight for superiority among the strong would be ceaseless, for if one stopped to take a breath from taking advantage of another, they would find themselves quickly in the position of the weak, and thus a potential undesirable.

Thus, de Lubac claims that long after the military war has finished, we will be in the midst of a spiritual battle, a battle that was always at the

“The hatred I read in Christian eyes... is the quintessence of Christian hatred of the earth. It is when they are gentlest that Christian eyes are shiftiest...

At bottom, is it not the last trick of incurables to set about loving their infirmity and exalting it?”

- Pierre Lasserre (1867-1930), French literary critic the sick and the infirm!” (de Lubac, 1995, p 120).

Now if the reader has read Rilke’s text speedily, I ask them to go back and read again.

There is in Rilke’s passage more than just faint echoes of Nietszche’s Übermensch (the overman or superman), and his untermensch (the subhuman).

Henri de Lubac expands his thesis, as such: in a world where there no longer exists a human person made in the image and likeness of God, what we are invariably left with are the strong and the weak; the strong, left to their own devices and self-interest, invariably oppress the weak because they have the way and the means to do so.

Read Rilke again, and you will see the terrible implications of his

it?” (de Lubac, 1995, p 121).

Using Lasserre’s logic, it would be the greatest service to humanity to rid the world of undesirables.

But who is it that determines which people are undesirable or not? That is the big question that begs for an answer in a world where there is no God to be made in His image.

In such a world, all our lives are forfeit, according to whim.

In Lasserre’s mind, we don’t need charity, we need a vivisectionist.

Such theory calls to mind the scene in the motion picture Schindler’s List of the truck-load of Jewish children in Auschwitz, singing cheerful songs as they are driven away to a ‘better world.’

What we see in de Lubac’s text is an appeal for humanity to recognise its higher calling.

core of the bombs and the bayonets – for communism and fascism, tore out the soul, only to replace the eternal with stone and iron.

The human spirit can be enslaved – but eventually it will revolt, knowing that it is by nature free, and that this freedom is Divinely given.

The thoughtful and spirit-led human person understands that if all there is to life without God is death – then give me God, and let me breathe and live.

For atheistic humanism is selflimiting, limited by the finite nature of the human person, devoid of God. True, we can exalt the human person, in a Godless fashion, as in the days of Soviet Cult of Personality, where mega-sized portraits of the heroic Stalin cast a shadow over cit-

ies, yet people may be intimidated by such displays of ego, but they are not so easily fooled.

Where is the ‘glorious’ Stalin today, they will ask, as I deal with my day-to-day troubles?

For, as the Russian Orthodox theologian and dissident Sergius Bulgakov would profoundly conclude, and forewarn in The Lamb of God: “man bears the Image of God, that is, that humanity in the world presupposes the Divine-Humanity.

“And one should not surrender this idea to militant atheism, which distorts it by understanding not man on the basis of Divinity but Divinity on the basis of man.”

(Bulgakov, 2008, p 116).

Of course, Henri de Lubac’s spiritual battle goes on today – because the moral debates that plague our societies all retreat back to the fundamental issue and paradigm as to what is man.

If man is but a conglomeration of cells, and there is no God, then deal with him according to the nebulous and fluid nature of your particular law of the land.

For, as Bulgakov writes: “’Satanised’ man desires to destroy the image of God in himself, to abolish the very idea of God” (Bulgakov, 2008, pp 150–151).

But if man is, indeed, created and believed to be, little less than God, and that this reality is acknowledged as to apply to every individual, male or female, Catholic, Muslim, Jew and to all races, then a problem exists – a universal, binding spiritual and social contract that shouts across the eons.

For there can be no slaves, where all have God as their parent – and one must be treated with the highest of respect, if by our actions, we ultimately answer to God, for how we treat our neighbour, made in His image.

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“The teenager who takes drugs and becomes mentally ill and ruins his own life and that of his parents is doing harm to other people, but at the time they do these things they say, “No, my body is sovereign. I am a completely autonomous person. I don’t harm anybody else.” We lie to ourselves about this all the time.”

“It seems to me... if people are mistreated when they’re intimate with other people, they are severely damaged and the idea that sexual relations can be conducted in this casual and mechanical fashion is extremely cruel and crude and dismisses the concept of human love from a very important part of our relations... that’s a pity”. “[Conservative parties] have become factions of metropolitan bourgeois bohemians, who couldn’t care less about the conditions of the poor... I could carve a better political party out of a banana”.

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DAN SAVAGE “I’m a firm believer in do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I just think there’s more doing unto that’s possible in my philosophy than yours.”

“Consent matters and harm matters. Consent matters and harm matters. If there’s consent and no one is being harmed, it’s no one’s business what an individual chooses to do with his or her body.

“Could I characterise the system you would like to defend? It’s the conservatism of ‘Ick, I don’t like that, therefore you should not be allowed to do it. I don’t approve of drinking. I don’t use drugs myself. I don’t **** myself, therefore you should be legally prevented from doing those things.’”

Noted Christian author and journalist Peter Hitchens, brother of the late New Atheist campaigner Christopher Hitchens, had some fierce exchanges with gay rights activist Dan Savage during the ABC’s Q&A program on November 4.

Broadcasting from the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, the two men gave very different answers when asked to nominate a ‘dangerous idea’. Savage provocatively nominated forced abortion for the next 30 years to combat alleged over-population and Hitchens nominated the life and resurrection of Jesus. For a summary of Peter Hitchen’s choicest answers, see A Hitch in proceedings - Page 15.

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Heaven may be possible if thrice purified I have always thought that it is not easy to go straight to heaven when we die but, based on the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, that the Anointing of the Sick removes all our temporal punishment and, in any case, there is a plenary indulgence at death for those who prayed. Is this true?

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E RECALL that in order to enter heaven the soul must be perfectly purified. The Letter to the Hebrews speaks of “that holiness without which no one will see the Lord” (Heb 12:14). And Our Lord uses the parable of the wedding garment, without which no one will be allowed into the wedding banquet of heaven (cf Mt 22:1-14).

Traditionally, the Church teaches that we must be purified of three realities in order to go to heaven: temporal punishment remaining for our sins, bad habits and attachments caused by sin and any lack of sorrow for venial sins.

It is clear that someone with any of these on their soul is not worthy of heaven. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven” (CCC 1030).

For this reason the Church has, from the beginning, prayed and offered Masses for the faithful departed, no matter how holy they were. The prayers of the funeral Mass always ask God to have mercy on the person’s soul and to take them to heaven. They do not assume that the person is already in heaven. And the Church dedicates the month of November to praying especially for the souls in Purgatory, following the commemoration of All Souls on November 2. So it is clear that the Church herself does not assume that practically everyone goes straight to heaven.

What does St Thomas say about the effects of the Anointing of the Sick? He deals with the question in the Supplement to his Summa Theologiae, where he speaks of three consequences of sin which are healed in some way by the sacrament. The first is the guilt, or stain, of sin and this is taken away by the sacrament, at least as regards venial sins. Mortal sins must first be confessed before receiving the sacrament. The second consequence is temporal punishment, and St Thomas says that the Anointing “diminishes the debt of temporal punishment”.

It diminishes the debt, but it does not take it away completely. The third consequence is what St Thomas calls the “remnants of sin” and these too are diminished. By remnants, he means “a certain spiritual debility in the mind” such that when it is removed “the mind is not so easily prone to sin”

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(cf STh, Suppl, q 30, art 1). As is clear, St Thomas in no way suggests that all the effects of sin, especially temporal punishment, are removed so that the soul would be able to go immediately to heaven after receiving the Anointing of the Sick. Baptism does remove all the temporal punishment but the Anointing does not.

As regards the plenary indulgence granted by the Church at the moment of death, this too must be understood properly.

As we know, a plenary indulgence removes all the temporal punishment owing for our sins and the Church, as you say, grants a plenary indulgence at the moment of death to all those who “are properly disposed and have been

“The Church has... prayed and offered Masses for the faithful departed, no matter how holy... “ in the habit of reciting some prayers during their lifetime” (Pope Paul VI, Apost Const Indulgentiarum doctrina, n 18).

Does this mean that since most Catholics have been in the habit of praying during their life, they will receive the plenary indulgence and go straight to heaven?

Not necessarily. First, they must be “properly disposed”, meaning they must be in the state of grace and they must reject all attachment to sin, even venial sin. This may be difficult to do as it requires a great love for God and with it an abhorrence of sin, even the slightest sins. But even if the plenary indulgence does take away all the temporal punishment owing for their sins, the person may still not be sorry for all their venial sins or they may still have bad habits and attachments caused by sin. Any of these would prevent their immediate entry into heaven.

So while we can hope that many people do go straight to heaven, we should take nothing for granted and should always pray and have Masses said for those who have died, no matter how good they were. It is better to offer prayers and Masses for someone who does not need them than to leave the person in Purgatory without anyone to pray for them.

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TODAY’S GOSPEL Luke 21: 5-19

JESUS SIGN ENEMIES TEMPLE STONE Across

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3. Jesus said, “As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one ____ upon another that will not be thrown down.”

1. And ____ said, “listen that you are not led away; for many will come in my name, saying, `I am he!’.

5. For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your ____ will be able to withstand or contradict.

As some people spoke of the temple’s beautiful decorations and offerings, Jesus said, “As for these things which you see, the days will come when there shall not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And they asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign when this is about to take place?” And Jesus said, “listen that you are not led away; for many will come in my name, saying, `I am he!’ and, `The time is at hand!’ Do not go after them. And when you hear of wars and violence, do not be terrified; for this must first take place, but the end will not be at once.” For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your enemies will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be disliked by all for my name But not a hair of your head will be touched. By your power you will gain your lives.

2. As some people spoke of the ____’s beautiful decorations and offerings.

4. And they asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the ____ when this is about to take place?”

WORD SEARCH HOW MANY WORDS FROM THE CROSSWORD CAN YOU FIND?

‘For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your enemies will be able to withstand or contradict.’

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A Hitch in fiery proceedings Peter Hitchens took a very different path than his more famous New Atheist brother Christopher, returning to the faith in his early 30s. His beliefs proved explosive in front of a Sydney audience on the ABC’s Q&A, writes Robert Hiini.

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HAT ’S more ‘dangerous’ as an idea? Forced abortion for the next 30 years to combat alleged ‘over-population’ or the idea that Jesus Christ was the son of God and rose from the dead?

The ABC’s flagship current affairs panel show Q&A offered some of the most explosive comments ever featured on the program on November 4 when it pitted Christian journalist Peter Hitchens against gay activist Dan Savage and The End of Men author Hanna Rosin.

Hitchens, brother of the late New Atheism enthusiast Christopher Hitchens, was a self-described Trotskyist revolutionary in his early life, eventually returning to belief in God around the age of 30.

The show’s often tetchy exchanges featured some of the most brazen attempts to be gauche in the show’s history, with many of Savage’s comments unsuitable to commit to print.

What follows is an edited selection of Hitchens’ contributions on the night; the reflections of the bestselling Christian apologist covering nihilism, gender, marriage, including his (unflattering) assessment of Tony Abbott.

• [QUESTION: Is it not desirable that we have moved out of a world of black and white into one of technicolour?] You seem to be suggesting that somehow a world in which people don’t fulfil their obligations to their children, desert their marriages, don’t keep to the laws, are increasingly selfish and follow their own desires and abandon all kinds of ideas of self-restraint and patience is a better world than one where those things actually ruled, and I don’t agree with you. The fact that the world is technicolour... and full of drugs and people who get drunk and people who abandon their husbands and wives doesn’t seem to me to be an improvement and it strikes me that it’s time somebody said that actually this isn’t necessarily a turn for the better.

• What’s rushed in to take [Christianity’s] place is what I call ‘selfism’: the idea that we are all sovereign in our own bodies, that noone can tell us what to do with our own bodies and that everything that we do is okay, provided we think we aren’t harming anybody else. Quite often, the truth is that we are harming other people but hiding it from ourselves.

• Where do you draw the line? You draw the line fundamentally, as far as I’m concerned, around about the Sermon on the Mount and those instructions given to us and I have absolutely no shame in saying that I believe that the Christian religion was the greatest possession which the human race had, which it’s now, in large parts of the world, rather busily throwing away.

• The teenager who takes drugs and becomes mentally ill and ruins his own life and that of his parents is doing harm to other people, but at the time they do these things they say “No, my body is sovereign.

I am a completely autonomous person. I don’t harm anybody else”. We lie to ourselves about this all the time. I lie to myself about it.

• If people are mistreated when they’re intimate with other people, they are severely damaged and the idea that sexual relations can be conducted in this casual and mechanical fashion is extremely cruel and crude and dismisses the concept of human love from a very

Best selling author of The Rage Against God Peter Hitchens appeared on the ABC’s Q&A on November 4, providing a counterpoint to the views of gay activist Dan Savage, author Hanna Rosin and feminist, Germaine Greer.

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important part of our relations and I think that’s a pity.

• I would maintain absolutely that marriage can be and most often is a partnership of equals and not a relationship of dominance. And to the people on the other side of the table, I say you are making a fundamental mistake. You are mistaking pleasure for happiness and they are two very different things.

are better at it.

• Future generations will look on our treatment of children as we look on the Victorians for sending children up chimneys. They will be amazed at the cruelty and neglect we showed to our children when we were so rich.

• I have no idea whether [children are] becoming narcissistic but I think a lot of them are becoming

characteristic of conservative parties...

They have become factions of metropolitan bourgeois bohemians, who couldn’t care less about the conditions of the poor and who are merely concerned with the luxury lives they live in their capital cities and so there is a complete divorce between what many people want out of life and what

“Future generations will look on our treatment of children as we look on the Victorians for sending children up chimneys.”

- Peter Hitchens, author • The people who claim that women were being exploited by marriage and by raising children don’t raise a whisper against the immense exploitation of women by corporate business. Not a word and this endless continual ceaseless denigration of the most important and responsible task most of us will ever do, the raising of the next generation.

• Anybody who’s been involved in raising children knows that women

seriously unhappy.

• From what I can see, Mr Abbott is very much on the lines of modern fake conservatism.

That is, quite a lot of neoliberalism about the economy, a far too close association with Rupert Murdoch and a fair amount of rhetoric about moral conservatism close to elections accompanied by doing nothing whatever about it when he has the chance to do so and I think that is a general

their politicians decide and so the British Conservative Party, if you really want to know, the best thing that could possibly happen to it would be that it split and collapsed and I’d do all that I can to hurry this on because nothing could be worse than it.

I could carve a better political party out of a banana than the British Conservative Party, without any difficulty indeed. But the problem is that in our system, and

I think in yours as well, people vote tribally.

• Heterosexual marriage has been redefined to the point where it is dying very rapidly in western societies. It’s become easier to get out of a marriage than it is to get out of a car leasing agreement and, as a result, many people are not getting married in the first place. I don’t know what the statistics are here but in my own country marriage is dying out as a thing which people do and increasingly it has been sidelined and it is the crucial issue of the modern western world as to whether marriage will survive as a relationship at all. I think it should.

They probably think it shouldn’t.

• The fundamental reason why I no longer hold the infantile [Trotskyist] views which held in my late teens and early 20s is precisely that: that I grew up. The thing which astonishes me is that so many of my generation did not grow up and still, while they’re drawing their pensions, they have revolutionary opinions and attend Rolling Stones concerts. What is wrong with these people?

• I know that you [cultural revolutionaries] have won. All that I seek to do... is to tell the truth about you and what you want while it’s still allowed to do so because you are so fantastically intolerant...

[T]he cultural and moral revolution which has swept the western world since the collapse of Christianity... [has] changed our societies, as anybody who has lived through it knows, out of all recognition in the course of 50 years and in my view for the worst.

• You’ll have the whole world to yourself soon. You can’t imagine anybody else is entitled to hold a view different from yours without having some kind of personal defect. That’s what’s wrong with you.

• I am a very rich and fortunate person. I can - and I’m coming towards the end of my life anyway.

I can personally escape many of the consequences of this but most people can’t. They can’t afford to and leave aside some of the things you’ve mentioned but a society in which the use of illegal drugs is widespread and unrestrained is one in which everybody is affected by the consequences, whatever they themselves do.

It’s like that ridiculous bumper sticker “Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one” to which my reply has always been: “Don’t like murder?

Don’t commit one”. The fact is if a society permits – if a society permits things to happen which damage the lives of many people who, as I’ve said earlier as a result of the selfish unwillingness of those who do those things to recognise that they have consequences, it affects everybody.

• The most dangerous idea in human history and philosophy remains the belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God and rose from the dead and that is the most dangerous idea you will ever encounter... It alters the whole of human behaviour and all our responsibilities. It turns the universe from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope and, therefore, we all have a duty to discover the nature of that justice and work towards that hope. It alters us all. If we reject it, it alters us all was well. It is incredibly dangerous. It’s why so many people turn against it.

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CHURCH RESPONDS

Deeply saddened and mindful of mourning

Pope Francis prays in the crypt of St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on November 2, All Souls’ Day. PHOTO: CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA REUTERS

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ope Francis has sent a telegram of condolence to the President of the Philippines, expressing his solidarity with those affected

by Typhoon Haiyan. The typhoon, one of the worst on record, is feared to have killed as many as 10,000 people on Leyte island, which bore the brunt of the storm.

The telegram was signed by Archbishop Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State.

“Deeply saddened by the destruction and loss of life caused by the super typhoon, His Holiness Pope Francis expresses his heartfelt solidarity with all those affected by this storm and its aftermath,” the telegram said.

“He is especially mindful of those who mourn the loss of their loved ones and of those who have lost their homes.

“In praying for all the people of the Philippines, the Holy Father likewise offers encouragement to the civil authorities and emergency personnel as they assist the victims of this storm. He invokes divine blessings of strength and consolation for the Nation.”

Pope Francis also prayed for the victims of the typhoon after the Sunday Angelus in St Peter’s Square. He firstly called for silent prayer, and then led the faithful in a recitation of the Hail Mary.

He urged those present to help their brothers and sisters in the Philippines concretely, as well as through prayer.

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With You, we will rise from this rubble

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ord we are in great need. Like infants we cry to you, do not abandon us in our distress. We kneel in disbelief! How could you, dear Lord, have allowed this to happen to us who call on your holy name? Have you abandoned us Lord?

Are you punishing us for our sins against you? We have been crying for days and our eyes have run dry but our grief is still very deep, our wounds keep bleeding and our hearts are confused and anxious. Our tears are not enough to wash away our sadness.

Tama na po! Hindi na po namin kaya!

Lord we believe in you and we trust in you in the midst of all these. Today, Head of the Philippines bishops we renew our faith and hope in you conference, Archbishop Socrates Lord. The super typhoon was strong Villegasgoes.

PHOTO: CNS but our faith in you is stronger. Houses have been blown away; lives have been swallowed by raging waters; winds have wrought us havoc leaving many orphans—but we will stand from the rubbles and change this nightmare into a new day of new hopes and new dreams and new visions. You can command the winds and the rains to cease. Please, Lord, spare us from more typhoons and storms and earthquakes! We feel bruised from all sides, battered from top to bottom and beaten up inside and out!

Please consider our sufferings more than we can face. Tama na po!

But if it is your will that we endure all these calamities so that we may be cleansed and strengthened as a nation, we bow down to accept you holy and mysterious will.

The only grace we seek is for you to assure us—that you love the Philippines; that you will never leave us orphans. Your love is more than enough for us to face all storms. With you dear Lord, we will look at the face of death and remain steadfast and unafraid because love is stronger even than death. Amen. Amen. May your will be done. Stay with us. Amen.

This prayer appeared on Veritas846 Kapanalig’s website.

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Pope Francis feeds his flock inspiring things I CONGRATULATE The Record on publishing the Holy Father’s comments on a regular basis. Every week, Pope Francis manages on a third of a page to provide inspiring and easily understood teaching and spiritual leadership.

The Holy Spirit has truly outdone Himself in choosing our current Holy Father. As with the previous Popes, Pope Francis is the man the Church and the world desperately needs at the time.

Blessed John Paul II gave the Church firm moral leadership in an uncertain time. His personal pastoral approach was warm and his theology was outstanding (albeit often unintelligible to the ordinary person).

Pope Benedict XVI continued this moral leadership, but tempered it with encyclicals about “simple” topics such as love, which went back to the basics. He tried to help people live full spiritual lives not by trying to impose rules but by encouraging spiritual growth so that people would not need rules.

Behind the scenes, he also revolutionised the leadership of the Church. In Australia, we are still enjoying the fruits of the excellent appointments made to almost all major Australian dioceses.

Pope Francis continues Pope Benedict’s quiet attempts to promote spiritual growth, but with a wonderful style. He is a “Great Communicator” who talks to people in language they can understand to impart truly precious spiritual truths. A person who reads a speech by Pope Francis does not need a theology degree to understand it.

His words can create a powerful spiritual impact on people regardless of their views. His recent comments against being bogged down in ideologies echoes Christ’s spiritual wake-up-call to the Pharisees.

His many comments in defence of the unborn and marriage are a spiritual wake-up-call for those who are captives of worldliness. We all need spiritual growth, and to be challenged to be better Christians.

We have an excellent Holy Father now, and I thank The Record for bringing his inspiring words to us.

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A recent news item refers to the change in stance of two Catholic Politicians in America from anti to pro votes on ‘same sex marriage’ legislation. They stated they were responding specifically to the Holy Fathers, “Who am I to Judge” comment. Pro-abortion agencies issuing a news release headed, “Thank God for Pope Francis”, a direct response to the Holy Fathers comments about the two most pressing issues facing the world today.

Again why provide the fodder for the secular press and vindication for these people. They are not going to read the full text and nor, I am sure, are the great majority of the Faithful. I thank The Record’s editorial staff for allowing debate on the subject as it can only benefit our Catholic community by perhaps dispelling some of the inertia prevalent among Catholics and increase the general knowledge and love of the Church among the Faithful. We continue to Pray for the Holy Father at this difficult time.

Jesus is the trustworthy diet and lifestyle guru you’re after Many of us pursue physical health and weight loss to the point of obsession, yet we can’t make the time to look after our spiritual health.

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RECENTLY read a series of articles about saturated fats (the kind found in red meats and dairy products).

The studies’ authors dispute the popular conviction that such fats cause heart disease, suggesting that sugars and carbohydrates are more blameworthy. So… bacon and eggs might be a healthier breakfast than sweetened oatmeal porridge? Don’t tell my husband.

After my October visit to the cardiologist, I had been doing a lot of reading on the topics of diet, nutrition and disease. Naturally, I sought out ‘reliable’ sources, but nevertheless continued to encounter contradictory advice.

My scepticism threshold having been breached, I foreswore my food paranoia and decided to quit reading research articles. I’m going back to great-grandpa’s advice: everything in moderation.

Science (or what passes for it these days) isn’t just big business; it’s become, ironically, a quasi religion – with nearly the same number of denominations.

Post-modern man regards all things scientific with a level of reverence that approaches superstition and idolatry.

We parody cavemen venerating fire or large stones, but react in much the same way to the latest climate change report or study on trans-fats.

No matter which theory you espouse, you can find some science to support it. Next week, a new study will purport to disprove what you hold dear, but no matter: our faith in Doctor A or Clinical Trial Team B stands firm. Now when I see the phrase “Research shows…”, I take it with a grain of salt (a single grain won’t cause hypertension; besides, Jesus endorses the stuff).

Every month or so, research reveals a new food theory or culprit that is sure to kill us, or a new food saviour that will prevent/cure our ailments and make us thin and happy forever.

Until we die, which we all will.

Only God knows when, and (all things being equal) what we eat probably won’t have much effect upon that day and hour. (How

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much we eat, yes, but that’s another kettle of fish, with or without Omega 3.)

Of course, we must strive for good health, but pursuing it to the point of obsession is a form of idolatry. Many of us pay more attention to our daily calorie count or fat gram intake than we do to our nightly examination of conscience.

We put more emphasis on colon cleansing than we do on getting to confession on a regular basis. When we fast, it’s to flush out toxins, not to purge our souls of disordered appetites.

Many of us pay more attention to our daily calorie count or fat gram intake than we do to our nightly examination of conscience.

Many think eating meat is immoral; gossip or fornication, not so much. As it says in the Holy Scriptures, “Zeal for my diet consumes me”. Oh wait…

In the west, food obsession has spawned quasi-political movements and numerous multi-million dollar industries.

Much is at stake when theories are advanced: bragging/publishing rights, fame and money.

Whose research will be funded by the government (or industry)?

Who will appear on the cover of Time magazine? Who (O Holy Grail) will be invited to appear on Oprah?

As for the rest of us (consumers or consumed?), it’s not just the ‘unbelievers’ who are running after these things. Christians (including religious and clergy) suffer the same rates of obesity as the general population.

I know few women (myself included) who have not spent the majority of their adult lives inordinately preoccupied with losing weight. I won’t even touch the time we devote to food and cooking blogs and television shows.

I’ve known otherwise pious souls who get very defensive of, or evangelistic about, their favourite diets or food theories – some even use terms like ‘mission’ or ‘crusade’ to describe their fervour for spreading the word.

When I write about food or dieting and mention the G-word (gluttony), I upset people, even Christian folk, which should give us food for thought. It’s the Deadly Sin in search of a downgrade.

I know all about the various big food conspiracies. (They even control the government, which is why you can’t trust recommendations from Health Ministry Food Guides.) I concur that the State should stay out of my pantry, not because of lobbies, but because government mismanages practically everything else.

A century ago, bureaucrats did not tell the citizenry what to eat, and there was far less disease and obesity. Coincidentally (or not), there was also more commonsense, prayer, physical exercise, homegrown food, and a general belief that overindulgence was as bad for you as over-dependence on socalled experts.

It turns out there is a conspiracy to enslave mankind; its name is “Legion”. Food obsession surely pleases the Father of Lies, for it keeps us gazing at our grocery carts, televisions, dinner plates and waistlines, and takes our focus away from others (especially the hungry) and away from our souls and eternal salvation.

Perhaps we should fear sin more than particular foods (all of which the Lord declared clean).

Perhaps Jesus isn’t merely the Saviour of mankind; maybe he’s also a trustworthy diet and lifestyle guru – which, alas, might give him more credibility among many postmodern western Catholics. Let us read the Signs of the Times. We have a greater than Atkins here.

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Parishes the heart of Church reform Reform of the Church begins with the reform of parish communities, which can only come about if its members are committed to a mission of discipleship, writes the Pastoral Planning Officer for the Parramatta Diocese, Daniel Ang.

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T IS RELATIVELY easy to speak and write about ‘the Church’ in general terms.

Drawing on our tradition as well as reflecting on the contemporary context and its challenges, it becomes possible to articulate visions of the Catholic Church for the future.

It is perhaps even easier to hold varied opinions about the Church and suggest reforms if you never have to put those opinions or ideas into practice.

The task of translating Catholic identity into mission, theology into practice, is a particular responsibility of local bishops, ministers, planners and lay leaders in the Church, including pastoral workers at a parish level and even those in your local parish ministry group.

Again, a serene vision or theology of the Church is one thing, the experience and practical realities of Church life and reform are a little more complex (the move towards reform of the Roman Curia will no doubt prove the rule).

The challenge of implementing Church reform has come to the fore in recent days for me through a number of conversations and forthcoming commitments.

There’s the task of writing an implementation guide for parishes as part of the Pastoral Plan I’ve been working on for the Diocese of Parramatta (how do you write an implementation guide for parishes that are unique in their gifts and needs, while holding them together as members of one local Church?); there are preparations for Proclaim 2014, a conference led by the National Office for Evangelisation, which will continue its focus on transforming parish life; the experience of lay ministers I teach, many of whom experience keenly the gap between their best hopes and experience of community life; and then an upcoming address at a clergy conference for the Diocese of Lismore next month on the very subject of parish culture and practices of evangelisation.

All this has brought home the challenge of reforming our parishes in particular as the primary experience of the Church’s communion for most Catholics and the most immediate opportunity for a new evangelisation.

The parish community is where visions of the Church and visions of reform are tested, either brought to concrete life or else struggle in their realisation.

Unlike Europe, where the new ecclesial movements have filled the void left by parish decline, when we talk about ‘the Church’ in Australia we are most often talking about our parishes (and sometimes, though less commonly, our schools).

In preparing for some of the aforementioned work, here are a few points that struck me about our parishes as relevant to our future mission as a Church.

I hope these will be helpful as points of ongoing reflection for those at the coalface, serving in our parishes from week to week with inspiring dedication to the Gospel: Sadly, many of our parish cultures can actually work against the call to discipleship by their silence on this very matter.

This point is made forcefully

by Sherry Weddell of the Siena Institute: “Catholics have come to regard it as normal and deeply Catholic to not talk about the first journey – their relationship with God – except in confession or spiritual direction... Unfortunately, most of us aren’t spiritual geniuses... To the extent that we don’t

Daniel Ang says the most immediate opportunity for a new evangelisation is the challenge of reforming our parishes.

talk explicitly with one another about discipleship, we make it very, very difficult for most Catholics to think about discipleship” (Forming Intentional Disciples, p 56).

Weddell goes on to note that those who do talk about Jesus and their relationship to God can be viewed with suspicion, as either ‘Protestant’ in spirit or as pretenders to sanctity. I agree.

While we are certainly not called to be spiritual exhibitionists, there is, I think, a challenge here – to revive the language of discipleship in our parish culture and to encourage explicit conversations about its meaning at all levels of Church.

There is nothing more biblical or traditional than the concept of discipleship as the expression of faith received.

Related to this pervasive silence about discipleship, and so a lack of focus on this relationship at a parish level, is the phenomenon in which the Mass and the sacraments in general, given to us precisely for a life of discipleship, have come, for many, to replace that journey.

As it has been said, people may be ‘sacramentalised’ without ever having been ‘evangelised’.

Flowing from this confusion of one for the other is a surface level emphasis on attending Mass in our parishes rather than an accent on a whole life of discipleship within which the sacraments hold a central, inimitable place.

If discipleship is reduced to liturgy alone then even the practice of attending Mass is likely to weaken over the long term as the point of a sacramental life is lost on those participating.

This whole phenomenon calls on preachers, parishes and diocesan centres of adult formation to again put discipleship at the front and centre of a parish’s identity but also to make explicit the link between the Eucharist and mission for example, so that, as Henri de Lubac notes, it becomes clear that the point of this Eucharist is not simply the conversion of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ but our conversion by our reception of him.

We learn as much from the account of the Last Supper in Luke’s Gospel (Lk 22:14f) in which Jesus

to such change. If laypersons and clergy alike are focused on the mission for which the Church and each of us personally exists, then structural reform may at least be better understood or contextualised even if not always accepted.

To put it simply, sometimes dioceses need to close or change parishes in the interests of the mission of the wider Church and structural change does not need to impede or dampen the missionary initiatives and hopes of the people involved.

While this broader missionary identity and purpose of the Church has been a constant refrain of our

Visions of the Church and of reform are tested, either brought to concrete life or else struggle in their realisation, in the parish community. links the remembrance of him at table to the act of service, as well as the description of Eucharistic gatherings provided by Justin Martyr.

Moving from the internal life of parishes to their external organisation, it has only recently dawned on me that parishes in Australia are likely to become, over the long term, geographically larger while often numerically smaller with the practice of parish amalgamations and the continuing erosion in those identifying as Catholic: a fairly simple and obvious point, I know.

However, this reality of parish structural change only bolsters the argument for reforming our parishes in terms of discipleship and mission, for these concepts provide a larger framework in which to understand and respond positively

tradition, reawakened in the minds of both committed and nominal Catholics by Pope Francis in particular, the institutional or even territorial view of our parishes and the Church still dominates to the detriment of a sense of mission.

One final point that could be made about our parishes is that even ‘successful’ or vibrant parishes, and there are quite a few around the country, can become victims of their own success if not constantly vigilant.

As has been pointed out, even flourishing parishes can become comfortable in a self-affirming culture while the larger culture continues to move in other directions, leaving a disconnect between the parish and the wider community. All structures, and not merely

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ecclesial ones, can become introverted and Pope Francis has laid emphasis on this danger throughout his pontificate to date.

At a parish level, most of us will know of youth groups that have grown quickly only to experience decline as it finds it difficult to integrate new and other members into the existing group.

In the Church and its groups, there is always a delicate balance between an internal identity and purpose and an outward mission for which the group exists.

Similarly to youth groups, parishes can have a ‘family feel’ that is nice and a comforting experience for those within the group, but their relationships can be so intimate that it can be difficult for outsiders to join the community or shape its spirit or direction.

The very complexity of parishes expresses the fact that what lies at the heart of each and every parochial community is not simply a geographical jurisdiction but a fundamental network of relationships.

In this sense, though properly a constituent of a diocese, each parish must be sustained from below, not merely by what Karl Rahner SJ described as “folkloristic attachment” to the Church but a real and intentional communion based on a lived discipleship for the sake of the world.

A Church grows and is reformed by parishes and communities that focus anew on discipleship and the mission that flows from that relationship. Parishes grow and are reformed by having groups and individuals that are focused on the same.

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PANORAMA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Medjugorje Evening of Prayer Group 7-9pm at St Gerard Majella Parish, 37 Changton Wy, Mirrabooka. In thanksgiving, the Medjugorje evening of prayer group meets monthly in a different parish to spread Our Blessed Mother’s messages from Medjugorje. Free DVDs on Medjugorje. Enq: 9402 2480 or 0407 471 256 email medjugorje@y7mail.com.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Talk - Creating a Life-giving Culture for Family Life 7.30-9pm at St Thomas More Parish, 100 Dean Rd, Bateman. Our series of talks keynote speaker is Dominican Sr Margaret Scharf. Based in California for 18 years offering retreats, most recently in Safety Bay. Enq: Sr Ann Cullinane 0418 130 200 or 9310 8248.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 TO SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Parish Mission with Robert Haddad - Theme: “I Make All Things New” Rev 21:5 At St Paul’s Catholic Church, 106 Rookwood St, Menora. Friday, 15 - 7.30pm after 6.30pm Mass: “Why we need a new Apologetics, now!”

Saturday, 16 - 9.15am: “The Pope: The Prime Minister of the New Israel”; Saturday, 16 - 11am: ”The Eucharist: The Fruit of the New Tree of Life”; Saturday, 16 - 7.30pm (after 6pm Vigil Mass): “Mary: The Ark of the New Covenant” Sunday, 17 - 11am (after 9.30am Mass): “A New Pope, a New Evangelisation and a New Apologetics: What’s New and Old about Pope Francis?” Free event open to all with CDs, DVDs and books available during the Mission. Enq: 9271 5253.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Dancing into Christmas 9.30am-12.30pm at St Catherine’s House of Hospitality, 113 Tyler St, Tuart Hill. Welcoming the Incarnation mystery through dance. Enq and registrations: Shelley Barlow rndm 9271 3873.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 St Patrick’s Stained Glass Windows Fundraiser / Garage Sale 8am-2pm at 5 Balladong St, York. Books, bric a brac, toys, clothes, kitchen ware, furniture, many household items. Raffle event. Sausage sizzle available. Enq: Janette 9641 2253.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Toodyay Parish Celebrates 50th Anniversary 11am at St John the Baptist Parish (est 1854) Stirling Tce, Toodyay. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB will concelebrate Mass at 11am followed by lunch at St Pio’s Hall. Fr Pavol Herda and the parish community cordially invite all past priests, Religious, past and present parishioners and friends to join in this celebration. RSVP October 20, Barbara Moran 9574 5786 or oliomio@iinet.net.au.

Auslan Café 10.30am-12.30pm Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, Perth. Auslan Café is for anybody who would like to learn or practise Auslan (Australian Sign Language) in a fun and relaxing way. FREE. Please RSVP if you want to stay for a provided lunch. Enq: Emma or Barbara emmanuelcentre@westnet. com.au 9328 8113.

Taizé Meditative Prayer 7-8pm at Sisters of St Joseph Chapel, 16 York St, South Perth. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight - symbol of Christ the Light of the world. Bring: A friend and a torch! Enq: Sr Maree Riddler 0414 683 926.

Latin Mass 8.30am at The Good Shepherd Church, 42 Streich Ave, Kelmscott. On Sunday, Dec 1, Mass will be celebrated by Emeritus Archbishop BJ Hickey. Enq: John 9390 6646.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 Spirituality and the Sunday Gospels: End of 3-year Liturgical Cycle 7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall, Alness St, Applecross. Presenter Norma Woodcock. Everyone is welcome. Cost: collection. Last session. Enq: 9487 1772 or www.normawoodcock.com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3 Alan Ames Healing Ministry Talk 6.30pm at Notre Dame Catholic Church, 345 Wright St, Cloverdale. Mass followed by talk and healing service. Enq: 9277 4094.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 Day With Mary 9am-5pm at Corpus Christi Church, 43 Lochee St, Mosman Park. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am-Video;10.10am holy Mass; Reconciliation, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, sermons on Eucharist and on Our Lady, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq: 9250 8286.

Summer Fair at St Joseph Pignatelli 11am-4pm Catholic church, Attadale. Enter from Wichmann Rd, opposite Attadale Primary School.

Books, Asian food, art and craft work, collectables.

Enq: Stephanie 9330 3727, Anne 0420 393 330.

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.

Cathedral Cafe Cathedral Cafe is now open every Sunday 9.30am1pm at St Mary’s Cathedral parish centre, downstairs after Mass. Coffee, tea, cakes, sweets, friendship with Cathedral parishioners. Further info: Tammy on smcperthwyd@yahoo.com.au or 0415 370 357.

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.

Praise and Worship 5.30pm at St Denis Parish, cnr Osborne St and Roberts Rd, Joondanna. Followed by 6pm Mass.

Enq: Admin on admin@stdenis.com.au.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Healing Mass and Adoration 7-9pm at Infant Jesus Church, 47 Wellington Rd, Morley. Led by Fr Varghese Parackal VC, Director of the Vincentian Fathers. Enq: Fr Sunny 92768500, Mario and Selina 9275 0831.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Eucharistic Adoration with Holy Trinity Community 7pm at St Benedict Catholic Church, corner Canning Hwy and Ardross St, Ardross. Start with praise and worship. Enq: Yunita 0412 677 568, Bryan: 0406 671 388.

Mass with Sign Language Interpreter and PowerPoint 9.30am at St Francis Xavier Church, 23 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Voice 9328 8113, TTY 9328 9571, 0401 016 399 or www.emmanuelcentre.com.au.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 TO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Christ The King: Retreat and Healing Rally 7.30pm at Karriholm, Ellis St, Pemberton.

Presented by the Holy Spirit of Freedom Community. Ends with Healing Rally on Nov 23 at 7.30pm. Enq: Registration 0405 821173 or email hsofpemberton@gmail.com.

EVERY SECOND SUNDAY Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Songs of praise and worship, Exposition of Blessed Sacrament and prayers for sick. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or office Tue-Thu, 9am-2.30pm on 9344 7066.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Information Session: Full Camino Walk 2014 10am at Our Lady of the Mission Catholic Church, 256 Camberwarra Dr, Craigie. An itinerary has been put together to Walk the full Camino starting September 1 to October 4, 2014 starting in France and finishing in Santiago, Spain. Enq: RSVP for catering purposes 9407 8156 or Shirleyann. poulton@gmail.com.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY Oblates of St Benedict’s 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth.

We welcome all who are interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople. Vespers and afternoon tea conclude our meetings. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Peranakan Community Perth - Fair 9am-2pm at Fr O’Reilly Centre, St Norbert College, 135 Treasure Rd, Queens Park. Proceeds from fair will go towards St Norbert College’s “breakfast club” to feed students who come to school without any basic nutrition; Holy Spirit Freedom Community for their Perth’s homeless, abused, poor ministry and those who have been hurt. Those interested in helping or running a stall offering anything typically Peranakan, are welcome. Enq: Fr Christopher Lim 0437 307 170 or 9458 2729.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY Singles Prayer and Social Group 7pm at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Sq, 77 St Georges 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 Hour 3pm at St Pius X Church, 23 Paterson St, Manning.

There will be Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament, Divine Mercy prayers, Rosary and Benediction. Please join us in prayer. Enq: Mrs K Henderson 9450 4195.

EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY Shrine Time for Young Adults 18-35 Years 7.30-8.30pm at Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Dr, Mt Richon; Holy Hour with prayer, reflection, meditation, praise and worship; followed by a social gathering. Come and pray at a place of grace. Enq: shrinetimemtrichon@gmail.com.

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Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley.

Includes Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, silent prayer, scripture, prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.

EVERY LAST SUNDAY 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.

EVERY MONDAY For You My Soul is Thirsting (Psalm 62:1) 7pm at St Thomas Parish, 2 College Rd, Claremont.

Tend to your thirst for God. Begins with Adoration, then 7.45pm - Evening Prayer; 8pm - Communion Service and Night Prayer. Come to the whole thing, or just to a part! Enq: Michelle: 0404 564 890.

LAST MONDAY 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 cuppa. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 0435 252 941.

EVERY TUESDAY 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.

Novena to God the Father 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Vic Park.

Novena followed by reflection and discussions on forthcoming Sunday Gospel. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

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 Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth.

We welcome everyone to attend our praise meeting. Enq: 0423 907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, Victoria Sq, Perth.

Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture with Fr Jean-Noel Marie. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: 9223 1372.

Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry 5.30pm at Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Mass followed at 6.30pm with Holy Hour. Enq: 9422 7912 or admin@cym.com.au.

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY 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.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY Chaplets of Divine Mercy 7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. Accompanied by Exposition, then Benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 6242 0702 (w).

Miracle Prayers 7.30pm at 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. An opportunity to receive prayers for healing of mind, body and soul. Enq: miracleprayers@ disciplesofjesus.org or Michelle 0404 028 298.

EVERY THURSDAY Divine Mercy 11am at Sts John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy and for consecrated life, especially in our parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Enq: John 9457 7771.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm 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 Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass.

Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7-8pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach.

All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

at a local restaurant, followed at 8pm by a Rosary Cenacle, short talk and refreshments at the Church. Great way to meet new people, pray and socialise! Enq: 9444 6131 or st.bernadettesyouth@gmail.com.

EVERY SECOND THURSDAY RCPD Charismatic Prayer, Bible Study and Teaching 6-7.30pm, 2 King St, Coogee. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585.

EVERY FRIDAY Eucharistic Adoration at Schoenstatt Shrine 10am at Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Dr, Mt Richon. Includes holy Mass, Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, silent adoration till 8.15pm. Join us in prayer at a place of grace. Enq: Sisters of Schoenstatt 9399 2349.

Healing Mass 6pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Begins with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Healing Mass followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Enq: admin 9493 1703 or www.vpcp. org.au.

Eucharistic Adoration - Voice of the Voiceless Ministry 7.30-9pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Eucharistic Adoration, beginning with praise and worship; and reflection to the scriptures. All welcome. Enq: adrianluke1999@ yahoo.com.au.

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Mass and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 11am-4pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after Mass until 4pm, finishing with Rosary. Enq: Sr Marie MS.Perth@lsp.org.au.

Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree.

Begins with Reconciliation, then 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

Pro-life Witness – Mass and Procession 9.30am at St Brigid’s Parish, cnr Great Northern Hwy and Morrison Rd, Midland. Begins with Mass followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic, 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.

Catholic Faith Renewal Evening 7.30pm at Sts John Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. There will be songs of praise, prayer, sharing by a priest, then thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments. Enq: Ivan 0428 898 833 or Ann 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail. com.

Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils 7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Loch St, Mosman Park or St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr/Majella Rd, Mirrabooka. Vigils are two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, prayers, Confession in reparation for outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357, Fr Giosue 9349 2315, John/ Joy 9344 2609.

EVERY SECOND FRIDAY Discover Spirituality of St Francis of Assisi 12pm at St Brigid’s parish centre. The Secular Franciscans of Midland Fraternity have lunch, then 1-3pm meeting. Enq: Antoinette 9297 2314.

RCPD Charismatic Prayer, Bible study/ teaching 6–7.30pm, 2 King St, Coogee. Enq: 0409 405 585.

Nov 13, ‘History of Mary’s Apparitions’ DVD. Dec 11, God’s ‘Destiny of the Nations’ DVD and Intercession.

EVERY SATURDAY Teachers, Parents and Friends Mission Outreach 10am at Morley Parish Centre, 47 Wellington Rd, Morley. Meet during school terms. Primary English teachers and prospective aides offer their services for a small remuneration and donations from the tuition are distributed to missionaries. “Come and See” sessions are offered. Enq: Maggie 9272 8263, margaretbox7@icloud.com.

Children’s Religious Education Program (Pre-Primary and Year One) 11am–12.30pm at Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish, 35 Eighth Ave, Maylands. The official Perth Archdiocese Parish Religious Education Program gives an opportunity to children attending non-Catholic schools age-appropriate religious education in a creative and fun environment.

Families outside of Maylands welcome. Enq: Hayley 0423 008 500.

FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAY

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY Vigil for Life – Mass and Procession 8.30am at St Augustine Parish, Gladstone St, Rivervale. Begins with Mass celebrated by Fr Carey, followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic. Please join us to pray for the conversion of hearts and an end to abortion. Enq. Helen 9402 0349.

Social Dinner (Young Adults aged up to 35) and Rosary Cenacle 6.30pm at St Bernadette’s Church, 49 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn. Begins at 6.30pm with dinner

Mission Rosary Making at the Legion of Mary 9.30am-2pm at 36 Windsor St, East Perth. All materials are supplied. The Rosaries made are distributed to the schools, missions and those

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.

who ask for a Rosary. Please join us and learn the art of Rosary making on rope and chain. Enq: 0478 598 860.

EVERY SECOND SATURDAY Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Succour) and Divine Mercy Chaplet (Chant) 8.30am at Our Lady of the Mission Parish, Whitford, 270 Camberwarra Dr, Craigie. Holy Mass at 8.30am followed by Novena. Enq: Margaret 9307 2776.

EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 11.30am at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass.

Enq. Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

GENERAL Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images of very high quality. For any parish willing to accept and place inside the Church. Oil paintings: 160 x 90cm; glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w).

Sacred Heart Pioneers Would anyone like to know about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.

St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Dr, 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 is set in beautiful gardens in the suburb of Glendalough.

“Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155.

Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year?

Suggest a Cert IV course to discern God’s purpose.

They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation (National Code 51452). Enq: Jane 9202 6859.

AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 9325 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 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, Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssraperth@catholic.org.

Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For prospectus and enrolment, please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au.

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 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 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. Donate Online at www. ginginchitteringparish.org.au.

Abortion Grief Association Inc A not-for-profit association is looking for premises to establish a Trauma Recovery Centre (pref SOR) in response to increasing demand for our services (ref www.abortiongrief.asn.au). Enq: Julie (08) 9313 1784.

Pilgrimage: Following Christ and His Saints Fr Tim Deeter and Fr Michael Rowe will lead a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Italy, Jan 6-31, 2014. Israel and Jordan, Rome, Subiaco, Genazzano, Norcia and Cascia in Italy. $7,850 from Perth is all-inclusive except your drinks and souvenirs. Enq: casapgf@iinet.net.au or 9271 5253.

Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation Competition Create a viral 30-second video that will promote Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation and win a Samsung Galaxy Tablet 2.7” 8GB Wi Fi. Enq: 9202 6859 or http://acts2come.wa.edu.au.

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17 DAYS: POLAND (DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY), LOURDES, FATIMA, AND MEDJUGORJE. Departs Perth on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. Spiritual Director: Fr Emmanuel Tv Dimobi.

15 DAYS: CANONISATION OF TWO POPES: JOHN XXIII AND JOHN PAUL II, ROME, BARCELONA, MONTSERRAT MONASTERY, LOURDES AND FATIMA. Departs Perth on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Spiritual Director: Fr Vinh Dong.

17 DAYS: CANONISATION OF TWO POPES: JOHN XXIII AND JOHN PAUL II, ROME, SHRINES OF ITALY AND POLAND. Departs Perth on Thursday, April 24, 2014. Spiritual Director: Fr Irek Czech SDS. 16 DAYS: PETRA/ AMMAN, HOLY LAND AND MEDJUGORJE. Departs Perth on Saturday, September 6, 2014.

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