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St John of God states Midland position By Matthew Biddle MEDIA reports last week suggested SJGHC’s strong stance on not performing abortions or sterilisations or providing contraception at the hospital was only recently made known to the Government, but the group’s CEO, Dr Michael Stanford said that was incorrect. “We wrote to the State four years ago before we got involved with the bid and we said we can’t do these things, we’re not allowed to do them and we don’t wish to do them, and if you require them to be done, we will not bid,” he said. “They wrote back to us and they said ‘We’ve thought about this and we will not be requiring any operator to do those procedures’. So we were able to progress with the bid.” Dr Stanford said that, although SJGHC has no control over whether a separate facility is built or not, it has made it clear it would not be linked to the hospital. “It certainly would be our preference that there’s no clinic, and when we talked to the department we said ‘Those services could be provided at other hospitals’,” Dr Stanford said. “There’s good health planning reasons why we don’t as well as the moral ones, but it won’t be up to us.” The Government has stated that they expect about 29,000 patient admissions to be carried out at the new hospital every year. Of these, it is estimated that 250 procedures would be services that SJGHC will not provide – abortions, sterilisations and the like. Dr Stanford said 250 patients a year would not be enough to make a separate clinic worth building. “A private operator could not sustain a business with one patient per day... it wouldn’t work,” he said. “The only way it would work is if they did a lot of other private work, but then they’d have to compete with us, and we’ve spent $70 million on building a private hospital, we’ll be running the public hospital, we’ll be sending them no work and we’ll treat them like a competitor.” If a stand-alone clinic was built, the new SJGHC hospital would not refer patients there for abortions, Dr Stanford said. “We’re very conscious of our responsibilities as a Catholic healthcare provider,” he said. “The Catholic Church has a very clear view on the sanctity and the dignity of all human life, and that human life starts at conception.
Above and below, artist’s impressions of the public hospital to be run by Catholic healthcare provider, St John of God, alongside its private hospital.
“That drives us towards the compassionate care of people that we’re pretty famous for.” After speaking to several media outlets last week, Dr Stanford said
say they don’t know what the fuss was about,” he said. “So our view is we’ve got to build our reputation as a public hospital operator – we’ve got a great reputation as a private
“The Catholic Church has a very clear view on the sanctity and the dignity of human life, and that every human life starts at conception.” it was important the public understood SJGHC had made its position clear from the outset. “The reality for us is people won’t trust us until we’ve run that hospital brilliantly for a few years, and then they’ll all
hospital operator – but we’re starting from scratch as a public operator. We’ve got to win the community’s confidence, and work closely with them and provide great care, so that’s what we plan to do.”
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Buckets dance to draw funds for victims BUCKETS for Jesus, a mission that involves personally visiting and distributing buckets or gifts containing basic necessities such as food, clothes, hygienic supplies as well as Bibles and devotionals in the native language to the poor in Manila and Cebu, is hosting a dinner and dance fundraiser on July 5. Held at the Mercure Hotel Perth, all proceeds from the ticket sales and auction and raffle sales will go towards the Adopt a Family Appeal to build homes for typhoon Haiyan victims. The goal of the Adopt a Family Appeal is to assist in the repair, design and building of low-cost houses for the poor and all those who have been rendered homeless by typhoon Haiyan and typhoon Yolanda, which struck the Philippines in November 2013. The Soh Family, founders of Buckets for Jesus, intend to use the funds raised by the dinner dance to design a cluster of dwellings for areas with land limitations. They have been in contact with five mayors of the affected areas in the Philippines, who have allocated land where the homes are to be constructed. For more information and to buy tickets, contact Ruby Soh on rubysoh@ gmail.com or call 0438 885 448.
The Spirit delivers on promise of the young Year six students from Good Shepherd Catholic Primary School celebrated their confirmation at Good Shepherd Parish, Kelmscott on June 14, together with parents,
Kolbe Catholic College students attended their local parish on June 13 to learn about and reunite with their parish community. The theme of the day was to ‘Take up your Cross’. The students were also offered the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Above, Fr Johnson blesses the cross pins that were given to Kolbe students to wear. PHOTO: LEANNE JOYCE through both the good times and the bad times. He also likened the children being confirmed to the disciples after Christ’s cruxifiction. “They were scared,” he said. “They were supposed to be out there proclaiming the Gospel and the Holy Spirit gave them courage.” Bishop Sproxton then said the young people were expecting the Holy Spirit and that the Spirit would indeed come, through the Sacrament, to give them the gifts that He intended them to have, including those needed to make God known.
friends, family and parishioners. Mass was concelebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton, parish priest Fr Andrew Lotton and assistant parish priest Fr Crispin Witika. Bishop Sproxton thanked the parents, friends and catechists who prepared the students for the Sacrament of Confirmation, the conferral of which was greeted by applause in the church. Bishop Sproxton also addressed some inspired words to the congregation during his homily. He said that the Holy Spirit had guided the Church
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Born to a noble Italian family, Aloysius served as a page in Spain and Italy. His father opposed a religious vocation, planning instead a military career for his oldest son. But Aloysius joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1585, taking his vows two years later. His health had been compromised by kidney disease, but he served in a Jesuit hospital opened in Rome when plague struck the city. He died of plague while ministering to the sick. St. Robert Bellarmine, his spiritual director, said the young Jesuit’s austere religious practices and penances were so extreme that others should not follow them. Canonized in 1726, Aloysius later was declared protector of young students and patron saint of Catholic youth.
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FRANCIS WILLIAMS, a coordindator of pilgrims and tours, has already started fundraising and planning for World Youth Day (WYD) 2016 to be held in Poland. Mr Williams is taking a group of no more than 66 people to Prague, Vienna and Krakow which will feature the Wieliczka Salt Mine where St John Paul the Great visited. The newly canonised Pope is a major
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theme of the pilgrimage and Mr Williams said that through prayer he had asked for the intercession of St John Paul to guide the pilgrimage. He also told The Record that it was prayer that inspired his fundraising plans for WYD. Together with four priests and one nun, who will be in charge of the four groups, each comprising 16 pilgrims for WYD, Mr Francis will fundraise for the youth. “Starting in October of this year, we will have a food fair, dinner and dance and a raffle,” Mr Williams said. “We will do this six times throughout the next two years.” Mr Williams stated that each group must participate in the fundraising events in order to be able to go on the pilgrimage to Poland. “The youth will be subsidised by 50 per cent from the fundraising,” he said. “The more they fundraise, the less they have to pay.” Mr Williams is trying to get the youth to grow in their faith, an inspiration for leading and coordinating the fundraising events. “I want to aid the youth in enriching their faith and I believe that this will happen when they go and visit the holy sites and really get involved in being Catholic,” Mr Williams said. “Then, when they come back to Perth, their faith will be stronger and renewed. St John Paul the Great will guide us.” For more information and further enquiries about pilgrimages and tours, contact Francis Williams on 9459 3873 or visit www. perthfamily.com.
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Wednesday 25th - Green 1st Reading: 2 Kings 22:8-13; 23:1-3 Consult the Lord Responsorial Ps 118:33-37, 40 Psalm: Bend my heart Gospel Reading: Mt 7:15-20 False prophets Thursday 26th - Green 1st Reading: 2 Kings 24:8-17 Exile in Babylon Responsorial Ps 78:1-5,8-9 Psalm: Holy temple profaned
Gospel Reading: Mt 7:21-29 My Father’s will Friday 27th - White THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS (Solemnity) 1st Reading: Deut 7:6-11 A chosen people Responsorial Ps 102:1-4, 6-8, 10 Psalm: Bless God’s name Gospel Reading: Mt 11:25-30 My yoke is easy Saturday 28th - White IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY (O) 1st Reading: Isa 61:9-11 Rejoice in the Lord Responsorial Ps 73:1-7,20-21 Psalm: Lord help us Gospel Reading: Mt 8:5-17 Jesus heals Sunday 29th - Red SS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES (Solemnity) 1st Reading: Acts 12:1-11 Peter in prison Responsorial Ps 33:2-9 Psalm: Glorify the Lord 2nd Reading: 2 Tim 4:6-8,17-18 I was rescued Gospel Reading: Mt 16:13-19 You are Peter
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Catholics to teach detained children By Matthew Biddle THE CATHOLIC Education Office of WA (CEOWA) will be the sole provider of education for about 150 children detained on Christmas Island for at least the next 12 months, after signing a contract with the Federal Government. The new learning centre – which will provide full-time education for children in kindergarten, primary school and high school – will commence operation on July 21, at the start of Term 3. The material taught will be based on the WA curriculum and adapted to meet the needs of the children, but it will not include religious education. In a letter sent to parents on June 12, executive director of the CEOWA, Tim McDonald, said the contract was a result of an initial request from the bishops of WA and has “the full support of the Catholic Education Commission of WA”. Dr McDonald encouraged teachers to embrace the opportunity to provide education for the children detained on Christmas Island, although he acknowledged the project “will challenge us as a system”. “I have written to all principals in Catholic schools in WA seeking their support in making their staff available should they wish to take up a short-term contract on Christmas Island,” he wrote. “Providing education to children in detention is our moral obligation as education is a fundamental human right and in keeping with the Church’s long tradition of supporting the poor and marginalised. “As a faith community, we are called to radical discipleship and the situation on Christmas Island offers us a powerful opportunity to put rhetoric into action.” Under the agreement, the Federal Government will meet all costs associated with the provision of education to children detained on Christmas Island.
Syrian refugee children attend a class at a new school in Jordan on June 4. Similar scenes will soon take place at Christmas Island.
Dr McDonald added that he was pleased that the CEOWA had been given the opportunity to provide education to children in need. “For the Government to consider Catholic education as its preferred provider is indicative of the high regard in which we are held,” he wrote. “I am very proud that our system has the capacity and capability to respond at short notice to a humanitarian issue that transcends personal politics.”
Chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Christopher Saunders, told The Record he was pleased the Church would be assisting the educational needs of the detained children. “The bishops who were part of the discussions agreed that since all of these children were living within our bailiwick, within the confines of our State one way or another, albeit against their will, they are nonetheless entitled to a good
education and we had something to offer,” he said. “There’s not much we can do to help them get out from behind bars, but we can make their time there a little bit more pleasant and a little bit more useful.” With a principal, teachers and assistants now being recruited by the CEOWA, the Bishop of Broome encouraged Catholic teachers to take up the challenge of providing education to the children detained on Christmas Island.
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“It’s a unique opportunity to see life from their perspective, and to help change their lives to some degree,” he said. “We’re on the outside of the barbed wire looking in. The teachers, when they go there, will be on the inside looking out, and will be able to feel to some degree what it’s like to be marginalised as a boat person, incarcerated on a small island on the Indian Ocean, and to understand also the suffering and the angst that they have endured.”
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Science teacher set to join Schoenstatt ST MARGARET Mary’s Parish in Merrylands, NSW farewelled Christina Baysari on June 15, as she left to enter the community of the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary. Family and friends who had been a part of her vocation journey gathered to say goodbye to the 26-yearold science teacher at Greystanes High School. Ms Baysari’s parish priest, Father Albert Wasniowski OSPPE, acknowledged she had contributed much to the parish that she called home, having served as a youth leader, a representative in the parish council, a member of the choir and a reader at Mass. At the end of Mass, Fr Albert gave Ms Baysari a special blessing, assuring her of prayers for her vocation, especially in her time of formation. Afterwards, all were invited to celebrations in the parish hall organised by the former St Margaret Mary’s youth group. In thanking Ms Baysari, Fr Peter James Strohmayer turned to her parents, saying: “I know this is difficult for you, but take consolation in knowing that a child you give to God is never lost”. Ms Baysari will join the Schoenstatt Sisters on June 22, before departing for Germany on June 29. She said her vocation was initially sparked by her experience at World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008. “I began searching for answers, not knowing what I was asking or searching for,” she said. “After finishing my science degree I continued to do a teaching degree. Each time I began to think about my life and vocation, I read, prayed, but then would push it back to forget about it, convincing myself that it was all too hard. But the thought of giving my life to God kept coming back. I began to speak to Fr Bray about it.” Ms Baysari said she believed Fr Bray was instrumental in her journey. “I grew up with him as my only parish priest,” she said. “He visited
Above, Fr Alber t Wasniowski OSPPE gives Ms Baysari a special blessing. Left, Christina Baysari with Sr Rebecca, left, and Sr Julie, right, before the celebrations with family and friends, below. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED
the Shrine on a regular basis. Each time he asked us to accompany him, but I never managed it until he passed away. Then I went to visit on my own. I experienced the comfort of the Blessed Mother and, surprisingly, I found him there. Now everything I read about spirituality is everything Fr Bray said and taught me.” Ms Baysari then attended a ‘Discover’ weekend at Mt
Schoenstatt, not so much to discern her vocation, but for some personal time out. However, this event gradually led her to become more involved with the Schoenstatt young adults and their regular events at the Shrine. “I got to know Sr Julie and, through regular contact with her, I began to open up about my vocation,” Ms Baysari said. Increasingly feeling at home in
the Shrine, Ms Baysari began to ask herself whether this was grace or something more. “The more I got involved with Schoenstatt, the more I felt that I wasn’t just going with the flow. No, it was my free choice and it was where I was meant to be,” she said. Three events were decisive for Ms Baysari in clarifying her vocation - her Covenant of Love with the Blessed Mother on April 12;
a sentence from Fr Kentenich in answer to her prayer; and the offer of a permanent teaching position. “This was the crunch because I found myself more anxious than excited with the offer,” she said. “Inwardly, I sensed this was not where God wanted me. “When I finally came to my decision to enter, I was so relieved, then totally overjoyed. Telling people helps me to re-live that moment.”
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WITH Perth’s temperatures starting to drop and the wet season approaching, the city’s growing homeless population is bracing itself for the bitter winter conditions. The Order of Malta, a lay Order of the Catholic Church and a humanitarian aid organisation, has initiated a project to provide some comfort to those sleeping rough by distributing their specially designed “Coats for the Homeless”. Over the last two years, the project has distributed more than 6,500 coats nationwide, with a further 2,800 to be distributed in 2014. “Our unique coat has been designed in close consultation with homeless people themselves, to ensure it meets their specific needs,” Dr Michael Shanahan, Member of the Order from Perth, said. “It is three-quarter length, showerproof, quilted and warm. Importantly, it is black so the person wearing it is inconspicuous, after feedback revealed their biggest fear is being assaulted.” The coat provides the warmth of a sleeping bag or swag without restricting movement. It is free from uncomfortable buttons or zips, with just elastic and velcro to offer a comfortable night’s sleep and ease of wear.
Over the last two years, Members of the Order in WA have provided The Shopfront in Marylands with 330 coats, with Brian Tierney, director of the agency, describing them as “literally a lifesaver” for their visitors who live on the streets. However, there is an ongoing need for more coats and, as Dr Shanahan explains, “currently the project is limited only by a lack of funds”. Dr Shanahan is urging Australians to give someone warmth and comfort this winter by buying them a coat. “Every day, almost 20,000 Australians are sleeping rough on the streets of our cities and towns,” he said. “Half of all people who request accommodation from the homeless service system are turned away each day, due to a lack of beds. This leaves them extremely vulnerable, not only to the cold weather but to other dangers.” One hundred dollars will buy three specially designed, warm, showerproof coats for people who find themselves without a home this winter. If you would like to support the projec t, v i sit w w w. coatsforthehomeless.org to make a donation or send a cheque payable to ‘The Order of Malta’ to: Coats for the Homeless - WA Appeal, The Order of Malta, 33 - 37 West Street, Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010.
Tanya is pictured camped out in suburban bushland after being made homeless.
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Students learn to craft and experience their icons THE ICONS of ten iconography enthusiasts were blessed at St John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church in Maylands on June 15 by Fr Wolodymyr Kalinecki, the culmination of seven months of learning. The class, made up of Ukranian Catholics, Roman Catholics, and one Orthodox Christian, had been learning the ancient craft from the parish’s Deacon, Richard Charlwood, a celebrated iconographer of over 30 years’ experience. The course began in November of last year and was only supposed to take a month; a duration which proved to be unrealistic given the amount of learning involved, Deacon Charlwood told The Record this week. Students were privileged with learning both the theology informing, and the techniques involved in making, the sacred objects. In the past, the carpenter would prepare the wood before the guilder would apply the gesso - the layers of plaster - topped by the application of gold, ready for the iconographer to do his or her work. While traditionally, the icon painter would have used egg tempera, Deacon Charlwood’s students worked with more manageable, acrylic pants when painting their icons, using a model or archetypical image as their guide. The participants’ interest in doing the course was emblematic of the substantial rise in interest in icons in the West, over the past few decades, the Deacon said. Today, icons in the lands of the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches, including throughout their diasporas, are a part of everyday life. But back in the annals of Church history, it was not always so: “There was never a problem with images in the West. The West always accepted the painting of images and the sculpting of statues. In the East, there was a period when images were banned. The seventh ecumenical council dealt with that. Because they were banned,
Below, Deacon Richard Charlwood teaches students to varnish their icons which were blessed by Fr Wolodymyr Kalinecki, last Sunday.
people spoke up and you had the apologetics of people like St John of Damascus. God became man in the person of Jesus and because he had flesh, we can depict him in his bodily form. After the ecumenical council, iconography really took off. Iconastasis, [the walls of painted icons separating the nave from the sanctuary in Eastern churches] just became bigger and bigger and the number of icons were multiplied.” The last things to be painted are the face and the hands, where the onlooker engages with the person represented. Often the type of gesture or colour used connotes a specific meaning. Sometimes, however, the passion for analysing icons, particularly in the West, goes too far and misses the ultimate point: “You can analyse an icon to bits: “what does this colour mean, what does that gesture mean”, and there are things which
do have specific meanings in icons, but I think people can get carried away and then it becomes a head trip,” the Deacon said. “Analysing can only take you so far, but at the end of the day, in the East, what do you with icons? You bow before them; you kiss them; you light lamps in front of them; you incense them. “That’s what an icon is actually about. It’s not just meant to sit on the wall and look nice. It’s actually meant to be venerated and prayed before. It’s part of a way of worship.” Deacon Charlwood was ordained a deacon at St John the Baptist in March. The deacon’s role is very involved in Ukrainian Catholic Church. St John the Baptist had never had a deacon before, Deacon Charlwood said, so fulfilling the role was an ongoing process of learning, not only for him but for the whole community.
Ecological awareness comes to Perth DIRECTORS and workers from Perth Catholic agencies attended the National Energy Efficiency Network’s workshop at the Perth Town Hall, on June 12. Through the workshop, Catholic Earthcare, one of NEEN’s partner organisations, looked to assist community sector organisation in becoming more energy efficient and ‘ecologically aware,’ an important aim at a time when “core programs and operational budgets are made to compete with rising energy bills for much-needed funds”, according to NEEN’s website. Personalities included Catholic Earthcare director, Jacqui Remond (far right) and Perth’s Justice, Ecology and Development Office director, Carol Mitchell (below).
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Church must be home for the broken By Mark Reidy THE CHURCH must become a place where the broken are drawn, not a place where they will be further ostracised, US Catholic Neuroscientist Dr William Struthers told over 80 people gathered for a seminar addressing the devastating consequences of pornography on June 10. Struthers, an Associate Professor at Wheaton University and author of Wired for Intimacy: How pornography attacks the male brain, shared his unique perspective at the Catholic Faith Centre in Perth to an audience comprising an equal number of men and women. Beginning his career studying the sexual behaviour of rats, Struthers’ interest transferred to the study of the human brain as he began to recognise the difficulty many men were having in establishing healthy sexual relationships. Further studies confirmed the neurological development and vulnerability caused by the viewing of pornographic material and he began to understand the addictive nature associated with it. “Men’s and women’s brains are wired differently,” he said. “When it comes to anything sexual, women are tuned in on a regular television screen whereas men are watching on a High Definition LCD 50cm screen.” Struthers’ findings showed, as with any addiction, the parts of the brain activated through sexual images acclimatised with regular viewing and required an increased input to provide the desired arousal. He said that if children are let loose in a candy shop, they would fill themselves to the point of throwing up and the brain would adapt to ensure they wouldn’t do this again. “It is not the same with men and pornography,” he said. “The brain is a bottomless stomach for images.” With modern technology providing easier and earlier access to pornography, Struthers is particularly concerned about the developmental effects on the mind, particularly the young. “If we watch a violent or sexual act, we will begin to neurologically adapt,” he explained, “and, in a sense, we have participated in the act we have witnessed.” It is a disturbing revelation considering that worldwide the pornography industry currently generates over $100 billion annually and the average age children first view it is 12 for boys and 13 for girls. Dr Allan Meyer, pastor and
US neuroscientist, Dr William Struthers, speaking about the effects of pornography use, on June 10.
author of From Good Man to Valiant Man, also spoke at the seminar and was in agreement with Struthers about the role the Churches needed to play in dealing with this global pandemic. Statistics provided on the day
snowball of lies and deception he created to hide his addiction which eventually encompassed all aspects of his life. The issue, all speakers agreed, is a problem mainly associated with men, but pointed out that
Sexual urges are designed to fulfil the fullness of intimacy. Pornography runs contrary to intimacy. revealed that in the US half of all men attending church are struggling with issues involving pornography. This is why churches should not be places of shame where people only hear the ‘Don’t do’s’ of sex, Meyer stated; they need to be places of compassion where people come to be healed. Jason Huxley, founder of Guilty Pleasure, an organisation established to educate people on the harmful effects of pornography, shared his personal struggle before and after his marriage and the
the industry is beginning to cater for a growing number of women, with an estimated nine million US women accessing adult websites every month. Struthers indicated that the increasingly sexualised nature of romance novels was sparking similar neurological responses in women as visual images did for men and suggested that books such as Fifty Shades of Grey were just as negative in the formation of healthy sexual attitudes. He believed each medium portrayed the opposite
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sex as objects for self-gratification and not in God’s intended context. “Sexual urges are designed to fulfil the fullness of intimacy and to incorporate the wholeness of others in relationship,” he said, “whereas pornography serves only to direct one’s attention toward themselves.” Communications Director for the Perth Archdiocese, James Parker, told The Record he was pleased with the response to such a sensitive and often unspoken issue and said the Diocese is now searching for ways to harness the momentum from the event. “We are hoping to apply any feedback into practical ways in which the Church can address the issue and provide support for those who struggle,” he said. “We need to explore and proclaim a true theology of desire and to recognise and remind people that our sexual longings are meant to propel us towards holiness and the objective dignity of one another.”
Francis inspiring the nations: Nuncio By Matthew Biddle MORE than 50,000 people from more than 20 countries participated in the 10th national eConference on June 11, hosted by the Broken Bay Institute. The eConference, which was titled ‘Pope Francis: Modelling the Ministry of St Peter’, explored the Holy Father’s vision, role and leadership style. Presenters included Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Sister Monica Cavanagh RSJ, Father Gerard Kelly, Fr Noel Connolly SSC and Selina Hasham. Topics discussed included the role of women in the Church, ecumenism, interfaith dialogue, and media. It was streamed live on the internet, but has also been screened at numerous venues around Australia since and in the coming weeks. In Perth, the eConference was shown at eight different locations. Registrations for the event exceeded all previous eConferences.
During the concluding question and answer session, Apostolic Nuncio to Australia, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, said he was impressed with the event. “What struck me listening to the speeches was that we are on a journey with Pope Francis. “He is somebody who has lived a long life already, but it’s been a life of change and a life of challenge,” he said. “I think many people are also quite surprised. Although there is a continuity in his personality and in his convictions, and above all in his faith, there is also this coming alive of him as Pope as well. “The joy, the smile, the willingness to encounter people is an indication of somebody who is a pilgrim but who is leading us on a pilgrimage of adventure, and he also has the contagious freedom, inner freedom, freedom of spirit, freedom of soul and I think that is... giving [many Catholics] the courage to seek God again.” To watch the videos from the eConference, visit francisvive.com.
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB addressing the recent Broken Bay Institute eConference on June 11. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Photoshop law put by Notre Dame academic RESEARCH conducted by a lecturer at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Law, Fremantle, Marilyn Krawitz, published this week in the Journal of Law and Medicine, states that seeing digitally-altered images of people in popular media can create negative body image issues in young people. Ms Krawitz is calling for the Australian Government to consider implementing Israel’s Photoshop Law to help mitigate the onset of youth body image issues. The first scholarly article in Australia on this topic, the article titled Beauty is only Photoshop Deep: Legislating Models’ BMIs and Photoshopping Images, discusses the Photoshop Law in Israel and the voluntary code in Australia concerning the minimum BMI of models. Ms Krawitz raises the question of whether a warning is required when photographs are photoshopped in the media. The Photoshop Law in Israel is the first law of its kind in the world. It requires any advertising, marketing or media agency to disclose if their photos taken and/ or published underwent digital alteration to make their subjects ‘thinner’ or ‘more perfect’. Adopted in 2012 by the Israeli government, models who have a body mass index (BMI) of less than 18.5 are disqualified from modelling unless they increase their BMI to the required level. “The body image of young Australians is an important issue that affects thousands of young Australians,” Ms Krawitz said. “When young Australians see photos of models who are unhealthily thin or that were photoshopped, it can increase the dissatisfaction with their own bodies. They may also believe that the photoshopped images that they see are real, because they see the images so often. “I will continue to research this important area so that I can make recommendations that may assist.” Ms Krawitz suggests that the Code of Conduct, drafted by The National Advisory Group on Body Image in Australia, should become legislation. This will put much needed pressure on the relevant people in the modelling, fashion and media industries to abide by it. In turn, it’s hoped that this could result in young women’s health improving because less young Australians suffer from eating disorders. If the Australian Government legislates in this area, it could also provide additional attention to young Australians’ body image issues and their associated problems with it. Dean of the School of Law, Fremantle, Professor Doug Hodgson, says this research has the potential, if adopted, to change Australia’s growing ‘imageconscious’ society. “Ms Krawitz’s research is an outstanding example of the cuttingedge legal research of the academics at Notre Dame’s Schools of Law,” Professor Hodgson said. “This research can benefit the wider community because it addresses a nationwide problem.” Marilyn Krawitz is a lecturer at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Law, Fremantle and a lawyer. Ms Krawitz is an expert in social media and the courts. She also researches in the areas of dispute resolution and health law. She has presented her research at the Supreme Court of Canada and at Harvard University, as well as in Australia.
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Perth rallies against abortion laws By Matthew Biddle ABOUT 700 people took part in Perth’s annual ‘Rally for Life’ on June 10 in remembrance of the lives lost since abortion was legalised in WA 16 years ago. Organised by the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life (CDHL), the rally commenced at Kings Park with prayers for an end to abortion, led by leaders of various Christian denominations. Fr Andre Mary Feain FI also pronounced a special blessing for pregnant women, before the crowd walked to Parliament House, where 10 State MPs met them. The MPs present were Nick Goiran, Michelle Roberts, Graham Jacobs, Margaret Quirk, Peter Abetz, Kate Doust, Bill Johnson, Glenys Godfrey, Tony Krsticevic and Frank Alban. The only WA Labor Senator retained at the last Federal election, Joe Bullock, was also at the event. The CDHL’s Richard Egan told The Record this year’s event had a specific focus on abortions carried out after 20 weeks’ gestation because of a disability in the unborn child. “Nick Goiran... talked about how he had been able to look at information on abortions at 20 weeks or later over the last few years and see the reasons for which they are carried out,” Mr Egan said. “He established that some had been performed as late as 34 weeks’ gestation... and that they’d been carried out for reasons such as down syndrome, spina bifida, dwarfism and arm and hand malformations. “He made the point that there had been a lot of talk about these abortions being somehow related to conditions that were incompatible with life but it was very clear that it was going well beyond that situation.” It was revealed at the event that since 1998 more than 600 babies between 20 and 34 weeks’ gestation have been aborted in WA, simply because the baby had been diagnosed with a disability. Forty-eight of these abortions occurred in 2013. Mr Egan said while the crowd was made up of people of all ages, there
Some of the 700-strong crowd that attended Perth’s ‘Rally for Life’ on June 10.
was a noticeable trend in demographics attending the rally recently. “Over the last few years there’s definitely lots more groups of younger folk involved, which is a bit of a worldwide trend I think,” he said. “Most of the data shows that the young people are more pro-life than the previous generation, which is a good thing.” Member of the Legislative Council Nick Goiran told The Record he was impressed with the turnout at the rally. “The attendance of such a large gathering at parliament continues to be of great encouragement for us to persevere in this battle for life,” he said.
“Most importantly, it remains the most respectful rally held at parliament. “This is important because we must always remember that our passionate advocacy must continue to be done in a way that does not
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“The prime purpose of the rally is to remember the children killed by abortion, to think about their mothers and others affected by abortion, and then simply to resolve to bring an end to abortion in Western Australia by whatever
“Such a large gathering... continues to be of great encouragement for us to persevere in this battle.” detract from our witness to society.” The Rally for Life commemorates the passing of legislation on May 26, 1998 that made abortion legal in WA for the first time. Since then, it is estimated that more than 134,000 babies have been aborted.
that is going to take,” Mr Egan said. “We promised ourselves in 1998 that we would never forget that we would never accept abortion as the status quo and we’d work until the law was changed to protect every human life in Western Australia.” The CDHL is currently
campaigning to have the State’s laws amended to prevent abortions being performed after 20 weeks’ gestation because the baby is disabled. Mr Egan said there were several things concerned members of the public could do to support the CDHL’s campaign. “There’s many things that people can do – supporting their crisis pregnancy agencies like Pregnancy Assistance, speaking to their friends and everyone they encounter about the pro-life point of view,” he said. “But one very important thing to do is to make their views known to their member of parliament, on abortion generally, but at this stage, particularly on abortion for disability at 20 weeks or later.”
Vatican rescue role in World War II remembered SEVENTY YEARS ago this month, Rome was liberated from the Nazis. After winning the Battle of Monte Cassino, the Allies swept further north and entered Rome on June 4, 1944 and, by sunset the next day, all of Rome had been liberated and celebrations ensued. This was especially so for the remaining Jews of Rome, who emerged from hiding in many convents and monasteries plus emerging from Vatican City itself. Sadly, 1,000 had been rounded up by the Nazis in October 1943 and despatched to Auschwitz by train, but some 7,000 had been saved. Tim Fischer recalled the event after a recent visit to Rome and Domus Australia, highlighting the onward diplomatic roles of the hub of Rome, through to this day. “Many countries have three Ambassadors based in Rome today: a bilateral Ambassador to Italy, a Rome-resident Ambassador to the nation city state of the Holy See (capital of which is the 44-hectare Vatican City) as well as an Ambassador to the FAO or Food Agriculture Organisation of the UN,” Mr Fischer said. “Whilst London and New York are huge hubs, Rome should not be underestimated as a hub as well, dealing with such key issues as food
security and refugees. Pope Francis is further renewing Vatican diplomatic activity as, notably, Pope John Paul II had done for over two decades until 2005. Pope Benedict XVI also played a key role, for example, with the adoption of the Cluster Bombs Convention. “Back in World War II, the
Sadly, 1,000 Jews of Rome had been despatched to Auschwitz by train, but about 7,000 were saved, after hiding in convents, monasteries, and within Vatican City. Vatican played a delicate role on several fronts, especially during the Nazi occupation of Rome. It played a very specific role in relation to one Kiwi soldier, Lt Paul Freyberg, the son of General Bernard Freyberg VC. Paul was captured by German forces near Castel Gandolfo. Whilst his father was leading Kiwi units at Monte Cassino, Paul managed to escape from the German com-
pound and sneak into the Pope’s summer palace at Castel Gandolfo. “The famous Mgr Hugh O’Flaherty, who helped rescue many allied service personnel, drove up from Rome to Castel Gandolfo. In the courtyard of the Pope’s palace, he put Paul Freyberg in the boot of the car and then drove back to the Vatican which was considered a safer location at the time. After Rome fell to the Allies, in a famous father-son moment, General Freyberg of two world wars’ fame, drove into the Vatican and picked up his son, then proceeded to the Hotel Quirinale near the top of Via Nationale, for a deserved celebration.” Mr Fischer said this was a true story that is detailed in the manuscript for his forthcoming book, Maestro John Monash. The book is a colourful twist to the agony and yet ultimate victory of the British, New Zealand, Polish and USA forces at Monte Cassino in 1944, leading to the Allied capture of Rome, stating that Sir Bernard Freyberg VC was later NZ Governor General from 1946 to 1952. Mr Fischer added that Domus Australia is a very convenient and comfortable place to stay in the hub of Rome and is just near Termini Station.
German troops march through Warsaw, Poland, in September 1939. The invasion marked the start of World War II. PHOTO: CNS / NATIONAL ARCHIVES
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Football hosts schedule Masses for fans CATHOLIC churches in cities hosting the World Cup have scheduled Masses in different languages to better welcome international fans and players. Church officials asked priests who speak English, French, German, Italian and Spanish to celebrate Masses in these languages when the foreign teams are in their cities. In Rio de Janeiro, Our Lady of Mercy in Botafogo planned English-language Masses. The press secretary at the Archdiocese of Sao Paulo announced that some churches around the city would be offering Masses in English, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, French and German during the World Cup. For instance, Our Lady of Bom Parto in the Tatuape neighbourhood is holding its regular Sunday
morning Mass but will also have English-speaking Masses at other times and days, if needed. In Manaus, for example, where England and the US are scheduled to play, Our Lady of Conception Cathedral and the San Sebastian Church planned Masses in English, Italian, Spanish and French
churches to attend Mass in English, including the Cathedral Basilica of the Good Lord Jesus. American fans going to Natal to see the US play against Ghana can go to Blessed Sacrament Chapel at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Presentation on June 15 for English-language Mass.
Church officials asked priests to celebrate Masses when the foreign teams are in their cities. throughout the month of June. Those going to see the games in Belo Horizonte can attend Mass in English and Spanish at Our Lady of Good Voyage or at St Francis of Assisi Chapel. At St Anthony Parish there will be additional Masses in German, Italian and French. Fans going to see Australia play in Cuiaba have a choice of two
Although not hosting any games of English-speaking countries, the cities of Salvador, Brasilia and Fortaleza will also have Masses in several foreign languages, including English. Most of the Masses in foreign languages are held at the cities’ metropolitan cathedrals.
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Rio’s Christ the Redeemer Statue glows green to help kick off the 2014 FIFA World Cup. PHOTO: CNS/DANIEL COELHO
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Corruption is easiest ‘sin at fingertips’ FOR EVERYONE who has any kind of authority over others, the one sin “at your fingertips” is the sin of corruption, Pope Francis said. And “the martyrs of corruption” - those who end up paying the price for the politicians, financiers and Church officials who abuse their power are the poor and the marginalised, he said during his early morning Mass on June 16 in the Domus Sanctae Marthae where he lives. The Pope’s homily was based on the day’s reading from the First Book of Kings (21:1-16) in which King Ahab of Samaria felt entitled to a neighbouring vineyard owned by Naboth, who refused to sell his property to the king. The king nonchalantly took possession of the land after his wife had Naboth killed in order to give the king what he wanted. “This story repeats itself continuously” throughout history, the Pope said, by people who possess “material power, political power or spiritual power”.
World markets power is increasingly intolerable POPE FRANCIS said it was “increasingly intolerable” that the world’s financial markets have the power to determine people’s fate instead of being at the service of people’s needs. He also criticised the way “the few derive immense wealth from financial speculation while the many are deeply burdened by the consequences”. The Pope called on governments to create an investment market that has a positive impact on people’s lives and to combat “an economy which excludes and discards” others. Pope Francis met on June 16 with experts taking part in a two-day conference in Rome on “impact investing” which promotes investing in companies, organisations and funds that will have a positive and measureable impact on communities and the environment. The June 16-17 conference, “Investing in the Poor: How Impact Investing Can Serve the Common Good in Light of Evangelii Gaudium”, was sponsored by Catholic Relief Services, the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
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Iraqi refugees are seen in a camp near the northern city of Irbil on June 12. Hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes in Mosul are left without access to aid, officials said. PHOTO: CNS/STRINGER, EPA
Nuns keep borders open via education WHEN the Minim Daughters of Mary Immaculate congregation was established in Mexico in 1886, the founder named it such because he felt Mary would watch closely over her youngest of daughters. Early on, the congregation was called to aid a community devastated by flooding in central Mexico. The first Minim sisters ran medical centres, orphanages and schools. In 1926, they arrived in the US, fleeing religious persecution in Mexico. “The United States opened up its doors to us as Mexican refugees,” said Sister Barbara Monsegur, the high school principal at Lourdes Catholic School in Nogales, Arizona. “Now we’re helping educate students so that the country continues to open its doors to those in need.” Lourdes, the only school in the United States run by the
Minims, has taught students from both sides of the border for eight decades. Many of its early students were boarders from Mexico sent to learn English. “We’re bilingual, bicultural, by choice,” said Sr Monsegur of the school that educates students aged 3 to 18. Even as religion and theol-
of Sonora, and advocate on their behalf. The congregation’s charism, “to meet the needs of the neediest as a merciful Christ”, is something the Minims pass on to their students as well, said the two sisters. And the school’s education objectives include nurturing critical thinkers. “In order to discover God’s
The US opened up its doors to us... Now we’re helping students to open its doors to those in need. ogy are taught at Lourdes, faith is cultivated by example and practice. “We are a service-centred school,” said Sr Esther Hugues, the elementary principal. That is the main reason the sisters welcomed the founding of the Kino Teens, she said. The group of older students serves meals to deported migrants in Nogales, in the Mexican state
will, you have to ask questions,” said Sr Monsegur, citing Mary’s response at the Annunciation, which was “Yes” but also, “How can this be?” “It’s a little different than blind obedience,” she said. Most of the order’s 300 members work in schools and medical centres in Mexico. But there are a few Minims in Cuba, Ecuador and Rome. Seven
sisters reside at the Minim convent in Nogales. Educating students from both sides of the border in Nogales brings uncommon challenges for the sisters and staff at Lourdes. They often have to deal with tardiness caused by lines at the border crossings. “Today, in the SENTRI line, the kids were in line for over an hour and a half,” said Sr Monsegur. When the topic of immigration comes up, the sisters themselves, who are different ages and backgrounds, have different viewpoints. “But what we emphasise with the students is that everyone is entitled to human dignity, said Sr Monsegur. “There is no easy solution to this problem. What we want to make sure is that the kids know human dignity and human respect.” - CNS
IN A HISTORIC square in the centre of Rome, Pope Francis urged Catholics to gather strength in prayer and then set out for the margins of society, bringing the Gospel and material aid to the poor, the elderly, the young and the excluded. “Prayer saves the anonymous city dweller from a temptation that we, too, face: activism that believes everything revolves around us, indifference or self-pity,” he said on June 15 during an evening visit with members of the Rome-based Community of Sant’Egidio. The community, founded in Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood and now active in 73 countries, combines prayer, Biblereading and service to the poor, including through interreligious dialogue and peacemaking. Tens of thousands of Romans, tourists and community members braved repeated downpours to gather in the narrow streets and open squares of Trastevere to cheer the Pope, shake hands with him, ask for his blessing or pose for a “selfie.” In the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, where community members and others gather each night for evening prayer, Pope Francis listened to the stories of a 90-year-old woman, a refugee from Afghanistan, a Gypsy man and others talk about the friendship and assistance they received. - CNS
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Pope expresses fears and prays for peace in Iraq POPE Francis expressed his fears over increasing violence in Iraq and prayed for peace, security and reconciliation in the country. He also announced he would be visiting Albania on September 21 to encourage the Catholic minority there and the people “who long suffered as a result of the ideologies of the past”. The one-day visit to Tirana will be Pope Francis’ first papal visit to a European nation and a nation where all religious practice was banned from 1967 to 1990. Persecution of the Church, especially the clergy, had become the
norm when the Communist Party took control of the government in 1944. The Pope made his announcement after praying the Angelus with those gathered in St Peter’s Square on June 15. He said he was following the news of increasing violence in Iraq “with deep concern”. “I invite all of you to join me in prayer for the dear Iraqi nation, above all for the victims and for those who are suffering the consequences of the growing violence, most especially the many people, including many Christians, who
had to leave their homes,” he said. Pope Francis added that he hoped the whole country could enjoy “security, peace and a future of reconciliation and justice, where all Iraqis, whatever their religion,
and the fall of Mosul, Iraq’s secondlargest city, to Islamist militants. Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako of Baghdad, who was visiting Chaldean communities in North America, called for a day of fasting
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Pope Francis invites all to join him in prayer for all suffering from the consequences of the violence. could build their nation together, creating a model of coexistence.” The United Nations estimated one million Iraqis have become internally displaced because of a recent upsurge in sectarian violence
and prayer on June 18. He told the Vatican’s Fides news agency on June 16 that the Synod of the Chaldean Church would still take place, but that instead of being held in Baghdad as origi-
nally planned, the June 24-28 meeting would be held in Kurdishcontrolled Ankawa, near Irbil. Chaldean Father Kais Mumtaz of Kirkuk told Fides on June 14 that the situation unfolding in Iraq suggests that “everything seems to be leading toward only a military management” of the crisis. He said the threat of civil war “scares many Christians even more than the advance of the Islamists: The war makes no distinction between soldiers, terrorists and civilians. It strikes Christians, Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites in the same way.” - CNS
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ON RICKETY boats crossing the Mediterranean Sea or on trains through Mexico or desert paths crossing the US-Mexican border, a huge increase in the number of children travelling alone to flee war or violence calls for urgent action by the international community, a Vatican official said. “These children are exposed to sexual violations, to starvation, to mutilations when they fall (off trains or trucks) and even to the loss of life when their boats sink or they get lost in the desert,” Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Vatican observer at UN agencies in Geneva, told the UN Human Rights Council. The growing phenomenon of unaccompanied minors crossing international borders calls for “a new form of protection”, the Archbishop told the council on June 13. “Forced displacement of people caused by current wars and the multiplication of violent conflicts in several regions of the globe is pushing hundreds of thousands of people to risk their lives in the search for survival,” he said. Among those fleeing violence, he said, are “thousands of children who leave their homes and become asylum seekers. The explosion of child migrants travelling alone in the hope of crossing the border into the United States” is also a problem, he said. “Archbishop Tomasi told the council that 38,883 children travelling alone were apprehended at the US-Mexican border in 2008 and that the number could be well over 70,000 this year. US-based human service agencies estimate the number will top 90,000. The six-month total was more than 48,000. In 2011, 12,225 unaccompanied minors applied for asylum in Europe, coming from “all the trouble spots of the Middle East and Africa.” - CNS
POLICE in Phoenix have arrested a suspect in the violent assault on a downtown church that took the life of one priest and left a second priest critically injured. According to an AP story, a man identified as Gary Michael Moran, 54, was being held on suspicion of first-degree murder, burglary and armed robbery, among other charges, police said on June 16. The attack the night of June 11 left Father Kenneth Walker, 28, dead and Fr Joseph Terra, 56, critically injured. Fr Walker died of a gunshot wound at the hospital. AP said Fr Terra was taken out of intensive care on June 14 and is expected to make a full recovery. Police planned to hold a news conference the afternoon of June 16 to release more details on the suspect. Earlier that morning, a funeral Mass was celebrated for Fr Walker at St Catherine of Siena Church in downtown Phoenix. “We ask that people offer prayers for both priests, the religious community, their families and the parish,” the diocese said in a statement on June 12. The priests, members of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, served at Mater Misericordiae (Mother of Mercy) Mission, where they were attacked during a nighttime burglary. Fr Walker was pronounced dead at the hospital. A police spokesman described Fr Terra’s injuries as severe and said that it appeared he was beaten by intruders. Fr John Lankeit, cathedral rector, described the two priests as “courageous”. “In that moment facing darkness, he brought a soul into the hands of Jesus. He needs our prayers,” Fr Lankeit said. “He has our admiration.” - CNS
Pope Francis listens as Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, speaks during a visit to the Basilica of Santa Maria in Rome’s Trastevere neighbourhood on June 15. The Pope visited members of the Community of Sant’Egidio, which has its headquarters near the basilica. PHOTO: CNS/PAUL HARING
Pope, Anglicans urges action to share God’s love ALTHOUGH they have not yet reached full unity, Roman Catholics and Anglicans continue their dialogue, come together in prayer and work side by side, including on a new project to combat human trafficking around the world. “I thank God that, as disciples sent to heal a wounded world, we stand together with perseverance and determination in opposing this grave evil,” Pope Francis told Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury on June 16 during a meeting at the Vatican. Archbishop Welby, spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican
Communion, was in Rome to hold his second meeting with Pope Francis, to visit Anglican communities in the city and to participate in a meeting of the Global Freedom Network, which they and other faith leaders founded to combat human trafficking and modern slavery. “The Global Freedom Network can achieve much practically to dismantle what you have so often rightly said is a grave crime against humanity,” Archbishop Welby told the Pope. “It is a crime that we all need to overcome as a matter of urgency, as
a matter of human dignity, freedom and wholeness of life. May God give us the resolve and cooperation we need together.” Archbishop Welby participated in a meeting on June 15 with the chairman of the network’s board and several cardinals who are members of its council. According to Vatican Radio, one of the topics for discussion was strategising ways to ensure the Churches “slavery proof ” their own chain of suppliers, ensuring that any company they do business with treats its employees fairly. In his meeting with the Arch-
bishop, Pope Francis said Jesus’ question to the disciples in Capernaum, “What were you arguing about on the way?”, could apply to the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches as well. “When Jesus put this question to his disciples, they were silent,” the Pope said. “They were ashamed, for they had been arguing about who was the greatest among them. “We, too, feel ashamed when we ponder the distance between the Lord’s call and our meager response.” Under God’s merciful gaze, he
said, “we cannot claim that our division is anything less than a scandal and an obstacle to our proclaiming the Gospel of salvation to the world.” Pope Francis and Archbishop Welby acknowledged the differences that still divide Catholics and Anglicans, but they reaffirmed their support for the AnglicanRoman Catholic International Commission, which is their official theological dialogue body, and for the International Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission, which promotes joint prayer and activities. - CNS
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The Father of Modern Europe The 'Schuman Declaration' was signed on May 9, 1950; the beginning of an unparalled period of European unity, in spite of its problems. Its 'Father' was not inspired by socialist or fascist dreams of enforced unity through servitude but by the Catholic thought and tradition of his upbringing, writes Dr Andrew Kania.
The Catholic influences on Robert Schuman were obvious to many of his contemporaries, including St Thomas Aquinas (above), Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XII, Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson and, to a lesser extent, the French Dominican, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange.
A photo of Robert Schuman, 'Father of Modern Europe', who was inspired by the possibilities of a united and reinvigorated Europe hearkening back to the best of Christendom. ONLINE
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N 2008, I was offered by a friend in Oxford (where I was then based as a research fellow at the university), a place to take my family to stay in Southern Germany during the Spring Break. My friend had a small cottage in the town of Ludwigshafen on the very northern shoreline of Lake Konstanz. I drove from Oxford; stayed overnight with my cousins in Canterbury; took the ferry the next morning across the Channel from Dover to Dunkirk, and then travelled through France to Southern-Western Germany via the Autobahn. It was a magnificent trip. All the while, as I was driving, I was passing traffic signs of places I had only read about in history books. Eventually, on arrival, from the window of the cottage, we could see the snow-covered mountains of Austria and Switzerland, and the pristine lake. The day after we arrived I decided to drive further south, through Fridrichshafen, Lindau, into Austria via Bregenz, through Lichtenstein, up to Switzerland, then back to Ludwigshafen. The trip took only a few hours – but in that time we passed through four countries. There was no passport control apart, that is, from two rather dour Swiss border guards, who attempted humour by telling my wife as we drove slowly past them that she was sitting on the wrong side of my GB-registered car. During those few weeks in Germany, we drove many times to Strasbourg, France, for lunch. That Spring Break made me think a good deal about how short the distances were between nations in Europe; and about how many battles took place during World War II over areas that I once thought were so large, but which were in fact a matter of kilometres from each other. What I struggled to fathom most was how so many languages, so many cultures, so many built-up hatreds and animosities, were contained in areas that would geographically fit into my own, and pacific, State of Western Australia, many, many times over. These thoughts gathered and matured in my mind when I went to Mass one
Sunday morning. The door at the church at Ludwigshafen had a notice pinned to it, informing people that because the Sacrament of Confirmation was being celebrated on that particular weekend, the parish of Ludwigshafen had decided to merge with that of Bodman (perhaps ten kilometres away), and celebrate the Confirmation of their young people together. So I drove out to Bodman. The celebrations after the liturgy were comparable to something from out of a German tourist movie. Live brass band music was playing, everyone wore traditional costumes – and danced traditional dances, parents and grandparents were crying tears of joy, children were eating sticky buns – there was good food and fun, all around. Now, please forgive me, reader – but I must be honest. I was standing back, observing; thinking that this scene would have been exactly the same nearly a hundred years ago when the Great War was commencing, and me, an Australian, would have been called upon to end the life of one of these young men with a bayonet – and a couple of these happy parents would thereafter have received a letter informing them of the loss of their darling son, in a cold-muddied pit – somewhere in France. Macabre thoughts? Truly. But they are real nonetheless. Lurid my thoughts may have been – but no more so than those of Erich Maria Remarque. Frolicking before me were the historical enemy of my British ancestors. My English Great-Grandfather would eventually die a slow death from his gassing at the Somme. (It was for that reason that my Great-Grandmother took the family from Canterbury in Kent, and went to live on the other side of the world, in Albany, Western Australia, to begin a new life.) But let me return to that Confirmation day in Bodman. I could not help but be drawn into this wonderful scene; a Catholic celebration, so very much a part of everything that I am. I felt a great love for these people burning within me. One of the red-faced German grandparents came up to me and asked where I came from. When I
replied Australia – she introduced me to all her friends; and as best as they could, they spoke English to me. They asked me questions about were I was from. Had I ever had a kangaroo as a pet? I came away thinking; how jarring – the futility and horror of war. Why are humans so ready to create misery from out of a world that naturally longs for harmony and beauty? Don’t we all wish to be as happy as those families in Bodman? Don’t we all long for the same things for our children? Yet how can the millions of wasted lives in war be returned? How can the even more shattered dreams that war rends and tears, be restored? How many good young men and women, on all sides of our wars, (such as those before me in Bodman) had their lives destroyed? How can we prevent mankind from creating hell on earth once more? Robert Schuman has been called by no-one less than Konrad Adenauer, as the Father of Europe. Born on June 29, 1886 in Luxembourg - although identi-
fying himself as French, Schuman had coursing through his veins the history and blood of two nations that had already come to blows before his birth, and were to do so many more times over before his life drew to its close: the French and Germans. Without doubt the greatest influence on Schuman’s intellectual formation was his Catholic upbringing. The
Rosary. Robert Schuman remained faithful to this spiritual discipline throughout his entire life” (Fimister, 2008, p144). Schuman was a student of history, not only of modern history, where he saw firsthand and lived through the devastation that occurred in Europe during the 20th century, but a student of mediaeval European history too, where he appre-
been based on the Catholic Faith, but he was also acutely aware that the tendons and ligaments that would hold this new European formation would have to be sold to the stakeholders as a necessity, and nothing is more necessary than the ‘hip-pocket’; so he would have to begin by forming arguments for economic ties. Schuman was passionate that nations
Economic inter-dependence alone would be insufficient as a basis for unity, Maritain wrote. "A common past is necessary and common memories, even memories of conflicts and battles... a common spirit of civilisation". influence of his mother was particularly strong in this transmission of the Faith, and as his biographer, Alan Paul Fimister in Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe writes, through her, his ear was: “attuned to the voice of Rome: weekly meditation on the word of God, Marian piety, expressed particularly through the
ciated the role the Catholic Church had played in attempting to create harmony between peoples and nations, emphasising, in Europe at least, a common religious bond that transcended language and cultural diversity. Schuman was both an idealist and a realist. He wanted to restore the values and the interconnectedness of a bygone era, that had
could come together, not in terms of losing their particular cultural identities, but in a supranational organisation of states. His passion for this ideal was infectious, as United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson would remark afterward about a meeting with Schuman, that, “he went to the central theme, the unity of Europe, the end of national rivalries in a new spa-
cious and vastly productive Europe. As we talked, we caught his enthusiasm and the breadth of his thought, the rebirth of Europe, which, as an entity, had been in eclipse since the Reformation” (Fimister, 2008, p190). Schuman (who was in turn to be in France after World War II, Minister of Finance, Prime Minister, and Foreign Minister), was influenced in his public career and policy by many great Catholic scholars and leaders, noticeably St Thomas Aquinas, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Pius XII, Jacques Maritain, Etienne Gilson and, to a lesser extent, the French Dominican theologian, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. The latter wrote in words synonymous to those of Schuman’s: “The pressing need of devoting ourselves to the consideration of the one thing necessary is especially manifest in these days of general chaos and unrest [pre-World War II Europe], when so many men and nations, neglecting their true destiny, give them-
selves up entirely to acquiring earthly possessions, failing to realise how inferior these are to the everlasting riches of the spirit” (Fimister, 2008, p198). The European Union looks now to Schuman as its prime architect, yet Schuman’s grand plan was essentially a composite of many thinkers. Without doubt, the Catholic nature of the plan was obvious from the start. In fact, Alan Paul Fimister notes how one of the issues the United Kingdom had with ratifying such a plan was that it hearkened back to the days of a Catholic Christendom headed by a pope. Schuman, as Fimister also noted, was well aware that the perceptive would understand the historical template he was seeking to re-kindle and, as such, deliberately down-played overt reference to Catholic theology and philosophy. Nonetheless, Schuman’s readings of inspired contemporaries provides the modern reader reflecting on the present reality of the European Union an insight not only into how it came to be – but why it had to be. Let us reflect on a passage from Jacques Maritain, from an article he wrote, published on April 19, 1940: “The economic inter-dependence of peoples is only one of these conditions or, if you prefer, of these material bases; and it alone would be altogether insufficient. A common past is necessary and common memories, even memories of conflicts and battles. An idea of the general ends of political life and of the common task to be undertaken is needed… a common idea… a common spirit of civilisation. The very horror which is excited in the soul by a fratricidal war can be the occasion, if the forces of intelligence, of goodness, of renewal, are aroused and prevail, for men to become aware of this common spirit. That is why, however difficult the task may be, one can and one must hope for the coming of a federal Europe” (Fimister, 2008, p273). Maritain, a Frenchman who had every reason to hate the Germans, in particular as he was composing these ideas at the time his nation was being parcelled up by the
NAZI regime, would go on to write in this essay how, for the future, Europe had once more to love and respect the true Germany: “the inventive genius and the stubborn application to work which characterise the German people, to the extent that one loves German mysticism, German romantic poetry, German music and the German humanism of the great era, to that very extent one will understand that any German who has a soul strong enough to resist the demoniacal magic of the swastika will hate with even greater passion than an American or Frenchman, will hate with a living and organic hatred, with a pitiless hatred, a regime and a spirit which shamefully waste, destroy, annihilate this whole heritage of greatness" (Fimister, 2008, p277). Why did Maritain and Schuman speak so much of Germany in their plans for a Federal Europe? Undoubtedly because without a concord between France and Germany, Europe would always be at war. Schuman risked his political career and reputation in France by canvassing forgiveness and respect for the vanquished foe, post-World War II. He understood that World War II had to be fought but after the victory, the prevention of World War III lay in a better peace than that of World War I. The eventual Schuman Declaration, issued on May 9, 1950, was founded primarily on the vision of Schuman that harmony between nations was not only possible, it was imperative. In many ways, the Schuman plan reflected a Trinitarian understanding of the world; the world consists of distinct persons, who are one in essence. We cannot ignore that which makes us distinct; but nor can we ignore that which binds us as indivisible for, created by God, we have but one parent and, irrespective of the colour of our skin, the location of our birth, the accent falling from our tongue, the differences that exist between us, should be aspects for our increased capacity to love, rather than tinder for our hate. The cause for Robert Schuman’s beatification is ongoing.
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HAVE BEEN reading Redeemed by Heather King for a month or so now. Normally I can read books pretty fast but this book took longer to read because so much of it hit me and so much of it validated myself to me. I never understood that I loved to write. I knew that it was something that I loved to do, but to think of myself as someone who could actually ever even dream of writing for my life’s work wasn’t even in my mind as a possibility. I never understood why so much of my childhood was spent on top of a painter’s scaffold with a radio and a book and a journal. It was my favourite place in the entire world. I would wake up in the morning when the dew was still fresh on the grass, get dressed, grab a book, my bag with my spirals and pens, my boom box and run out the door to the field behind my house. It was a three-acre field that wasn’t really used for anything except my adventures and playground. I used to find horny toads, wild bunnies, lizards and at night it was my hunting ground for lightning bugs. I would put them in jars and watch them light up my little own Bridge to Terabithia which was the spot where my “tree house” (the scaffold) was. I spent so many nights up there with jars of lightning bugs as my only light while I looked up at the sky and wondered
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who else was looking at those same stars and dreaming. There are not many times when I think of the good memories when I think of my childhood. For a very long time, the sexual abuse has been the only thing I think of when I think of being little, but the truth is that it was a very small part of my life as a child. It touched everything else in my life and every single relationship in my life, but it was only a drop in time. My days and nights up on that
or more so, someone who God has given the gift to be able to write to be able to be happy to stare at the sky, read a book and then write about the thoughts that flow in their head from those things. In the fourth grade Mrs. Chestnut read my class The Bridge to Teribithia and it was the best thing to ever happen to me. It opened a whole new world of fiction chapter books. She always let me have extra time in the library to just sit and read
had “liked” me got to me.) The trips to the library were less, I read fewer books and I tried harder to fit in with the kids I had grown up with who had never understood me, but for some reason I suddenly cared. Everything really changed when some girls, who thought it was fun to torment me for being the school slut, decided it would be a ball of fun to lock me in the girls’ restroom in the dark and play “bloody mary” while telling me that a class mate of
It was then I thought I had an invisible mark that told similar boys and men that I was broken enough to allow them to use me as they wanted to if they just said a few nice words to me. It was also when I accepted that Jesus was not concerned with me. Whoever the people he touched and saved were, I was not a part of that group; the happily ever after group. scaffold were the majority of what my childhood consisted of. I used to think that was because I was weird. Because I didn’t have many friends. I never understood that reading, dreaming, and writing can be normal for some people. I am not really sure what I thought but I know that the people around me thought it was weird and my mum, who is old school Mesican, always told me to get my head out of the clouds. Reading Heather’s book made me realize that it’s pretty normal for someone who longs to write;
and look at books. I still remember her standing at the end of the aisle looking at me laying on the floor with my nose in a book and smiling. She was the only person in my life who thought my imagination and love of reading was a good thing. God bless her. Everything seemed to change in Jr High when I discovered boys. Well, when I discovered that having boys “like” me made me feel good about myself. (Later that would be the same feeling that I got from drinking Grey Goose when the pain of how many boys and men
ours who had just died was going to come to take me with her. I don’t remember all the details or who exactly was a part of it all, but it changed everything. I became so scared of the dark that I never went back to my scaffold to look at the stars at night. (In full disclosure, I did find the courage to sneak out of my house at night to meet the town pervert.) Looking back it was the straw that broke the camel’s back, when the night sky gave me nightmares instead of helping me to dream of something or someplace beyond
where or who I was. It is when I accepted I would never fit in with the cool girls. I also accepted the fact that the boy that I loved was now dating my so-called friend (one of the few that I had) and the only thing that I could hope for was to have the 20 something year old man, that was picking me up after I crawled out of my window at 13 years old, love me for giving him the one thing that technically had already been taken when I was a little girl by the pervert who lived in my house. It was when the invisible mark that told similar boys and men that I was broken enough to allow them to use me as they wanted to if they just said a few nice words to me. It was also when I accepted the fact that Jesus was not concerned with me. Whoever the people are that He touched and saved were, I was not part of that group. I had no idea what group I was in, but I knew that it wasn’t the cool kid group, the happily ever after group or the group that loved a Jesus that was like winning the blessing lottery. I have often thought that Homer’s death was my rock bottom, until I began to really look back at my life. I now realize that I hit my rock bottom at 13 when I accepted all these things. All these lies. Lies that started with my abuse and with my confusion about what the abuse was. There is so much to say about
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For Leticia Adams, childhood abuse led her to distorted ideas as to her own self worth. Abusive relationships in her teenage and adult years followed, masked by progressive bravado but underpinned by pain and a desperate longing to be understood and loved. A relationship with God, through the Catholic faith, has shed light on the deeper reality of herself, she writes.
that now that I can look back and see the child that lived in that house for 10 years with the man who would buy me ponies, rape me and help me catch lightning bugs. This isn’t a post about that though; it is about how Jesus didn’t allow me to go out thinking that He didn’t love me. And why even though all these things happened to me, I can sit here and write with all the love of my heart that Jesus is my rock, my Lord and that I love Him. He makes all things new, including the heart of a girl who was hardened by believing the lies that were said to her by hateful kids, an evil voice in her head and the many men and boys who took advantage of that brokenness that made me vulnerable to them. People can assume that they know who I am based on a few blog posts or from having spent a little time with me but the truth is that no matter how much I write or tell people about myself, nobody will ever know everything about me except God. The fact that some people try to insult me to hurt me shows that so clear because I’ve been called names and insulted since I was in the first grade and couldn’t speak English, so I have grown a pretty thick skin. But even then, it hurts, and yet I am thankful for that hurt because it reminds me where to turn for healing and that is to Jesus Christ, the name above all names. The One who has always been
US blogger and Catholic convert, Leticia Adams.
there to wipe away my tears and tell me that He loves me and that is all that matters. “Forgive them, for they know not what they do”, He says to me. Pain has always been a part me, but so has the healing of Christ. He is why I still stand. Heather King’s book not only helped me see that the desires of my heart are a gift
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but she also reminded me that there are others like me, who after all the pain, still stand and not only do we stand but we are stronger for those painful times. This piece was originally published on Leticia Adams blog, The Ramblings of a Crazy Face theramblingsofacrazyface.wordpress.com
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Remembering a promise he made to God Fr Joseph Tran, Whitford’s beloved priest speaks with The Record’s Debbie Warrier.
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was born in Saigon, Vietnam and came from a family of nine. My parents were the biggest influence on my faith. They always encouraged us and when we were young we prayed together as a family for years. We left Communist Vietnam at different times. I came to Australia in 1984 at 14 going on 15. When I completed my High School studies, I went to Curtin University where I studied civil engineering. Three of my siblings were at Curtin at the same time and we would say our rosary together while in the car there. I promised God and Our Lady I would do something for them when my family was well and reunited again. When this happened I remembered my promise and at 23, I decided to go to St Charles Seminary in Guildford. I believe I received confirmation and went to Adelaide to complete my seminarian studies. I returned to Perth to become a deacon in 1998 and then was ordained a priest in 1999. I love every single day of my life and feel so blessed. As soon as I get up in the morning I say a special prayer in my heart to offer the day to the Lord. After my shower I go to the Chapel and spend some time saying the Divine Office. This is part of the universal Church as all the priests, nuns and some laypeople around the world say it too. We unite together and say Psalms, a short reading and intercessions. Then I say Mass at Our Lady of the Mission and that is my time to pray as a community. It is the ultimate offering of Jesus. During the day I have moments when I stop, reflect on what I am doing and offer it to the Lord. At night I have a bit of quiet time when I meditate and say prayers. Whilst meditating I like to read a passage from the Bible slowly and then read it again until I have the passage in my mind. Then I picture myself in that part of the Gospel and what I am witnessing and I make that part of my offering to the Lord too. It frees my mind up and allows Him to use me as a vessel. I like variety in my prayers and enjoy communicating constantly with God. He is my companion and walks with me. My favourite passage in the Bible is when Jesus asks Peter, “Do you love me?” And Peter had the opportunity to redeem himself after denying Jesus three times. Jesus asked him the question three times instructing Peter to feed His lambs and look after His sheep. A friend gave me a bracelet with Peter’s reply engraved on it, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you” and I never take it off. It was a gift for my ordination anniversary and the passage is my priesthood motto. The reason why I was called to be a priest was that I fell in love with Jesus and He called me to love. I’m not perfect I’m really fragile but He called me anyway and
How I Pray AS TOLD TO DEBBIE WARRIER
invited me into His heart. There are other passages in the Bible that I like such as, “Love your enemy” and “Be merciful as your Father is merciful.” I love the Beatitudes. St Matthew also had a nice one. Each time you feed the hungry, clothe the naked or give the thirsty something to drink God will say, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” [Matthew 25:40-45]. I remember once a parishioner who wasn’t a regular Church goer asked me to come and bless his fiancée’s baby. I was so pleased and went to their house to do it. Unfortunately, with three weeks to go to the delivery, the baby died in his mother’s womb. The couple asked me to do the funeral service at Pinnaroo cemetery at
After my shower, I go to the chapel and spend some time saying the Divine Office, praying with the whole Church. 11:30 am. I accidently wrote in my diary 1:30 pm. All that day I was thinking I had plenty of time and then when I realised my mistake I contacted the cemetery staff only to find that I was too late. For three days I was depressed and wondered how I could ask for forgiveness from them and forgive myself. I had no way of contacting them as I do not have their phone number and had only been at the house once for the blessing of their child. Finally I decided that I would go to their suburb and try to locate their house. I searched the streets in the failing, evening light for 45 minutes and prayed to the Holy Spirit to find them. Then I saw the parishioner washing his boat outside his house. I jumped out of my car and hugged him. I gave him the chocolate and flowers I had bought as a peace offering and asked his forgiveness. He told me that he had fallen out with his brother but at the funeral his brother spoke touchingly and they were close again. He told me that he forgave me and that my forgetting was meant to be. I thought of Christ dying on the cross and the three days before the resurrection. He had turned what was an act of great cruelty into life. I felt I had suffered three days of depression and now Christ had once again turned something that was bad into something that was good. That to me is the power of prayer.
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Good Friday decision ‘disappointing’ The AFL Commission announced on June 16 that, after a final decision by the AFL executive, the scheduling of a game on Good Friday had been approved. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB’s responds below.
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n relation to the news that the AFL has agreed to games being hosted on Good Friday for the first time, possibly as early as next year, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said: “Australian Rules Football is an important and dynamic aspect of our Western Australian society. Sport as a whole plays a vibrant role in forming positive values and a strong sense of community among players, staff and spectators alike. As a society we would be much poorer without it. “Nevertheless, the decision by the AFL to host football on Good Friday is a rather disappointing one that seemingly fails to take into account the important place which Christian faith also plays in the lives of many Western Australians, including professional sportsmen and women. “I had hoped that the AFL would appreciate the importance of Good Friday as a day of profound reverence and reflection not only for Catholics but for all Christians who together represent the largest religious body in Australia. “I note that neither West Coast nor Fremantle have chosen at this stage to support a Perth AFL game on Good Friday. However, it may only be a matter of time before this is proposed. We live in a pluralist society and Christians cannot impose their views on others. We do have every right, of course, to express our point of view. When there is mutual goodwill and respect, acceptable compromises can sometimes be reached. In this spirit I would hope that if AFL games are to be played on Good
Friday they be played as night games. This would enable people to attend religious services, which often take place at 3 o’clock on
We live in a pluralist society and Christians cannot impose their views, but we have a right to express them. Good Friday, and still enjoy watching their team play in the evening. “We can be good Australians who love their football, and good Christians who love their God, at the same time.”
Top: North Melbourne Captain Andrew Swallow, a committed Christian, told The Record in 2013 that the AFL should not plan matches for Good Friday. Above: Good Friday, Stations of the Cross, service at St Mary’s Cathedral. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED
Perth says goodbye to servant of the readership THE RECORD said goodbye to its acting editor and journalist, Robert Hiini, on June 17 after six years at the paper. Mr Hiini resigned from The Record after accepting a multimedia journalist position at Sydney’s Catholic archdiocesan newspaper, The Catholic Weekly. Mr Hiini has worked for the Archdiocese of Perth in various capacities since May 2005, after leaving the Commonwealth public service. He spent nine months at the Respect Life Office, helping to organise its 2005 national youth conference, Embrace the Grace, in conjunction with the office’s founder and then-director Clare Pike. The following year, he joined Catholic Youth Ministry, under director Fr Don Kettle, eventually becoming its subsequent director when Fr Kettle returned to parish duties. His time at The Record began in 2008, after the happy tumult of World Youth Day Sydney, working as The Record’s local news journalist alongside its then-national affairs
journalist, Anthony Barich. Mr Hiini served in the later position from mid-2010 until the departure of the paper’s editor, Peter Rosengren in September 2013. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB asked him to be The Record’s acting editor in October, 2013, a
Cardinal Foley’s short reply was “be a newspaper”. It was an endorsement of a journalism informed by Catholicism. position he served up until the time of his departure. Mr Hiini nominated assignments in China, Sydney and Rome, and the fraternity he experienced among his colleagues as the highlights of his time with the paper. He also recalled fondly the visit of the now-deceased Cardinal John
Patrick Foley to the then offices of The Record in 2009. Cardinal Foley, who passed away in 2011, was the then-president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. “I asked him what advice he had given to the staff at his own publication when he was a metropolitan archbishop. His reply was, “be a newspaper”. It was a simple and direct response but I took it to be his endorsement of a journalism informed by Catholicism; that writing and speaking the truth with charity was a service to all the Church, especially to ordinary lay people in providing unfettered information.” He cited Benedict XVI, and increasingly, Pope Francis, as being his biggest influences in trying to live as a disciple of Jesus Christ. Apart from The Record and The Catholic Weekly, Mr Hiini nominated Ethika Politica (ethikapolitika. org), The Federalist (thefederalist.com), Aletia (www.aleteia.org/ en) and Catholic bloggers at www. patheos.com/Catholic as being among his favourite reads.
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GUEST EDITORIAL
Forget smarts, attend to loved ones first
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nce in a while, you meet someone who knocks your socks off and deeply unsettles you. Their actions inspire you and their words cut right to your core. Dr Tom Neal shares two such meetings with different men, one Vietnamese and one Nigerian, and reflects on the extraordinary encounters. A few year ago, I had the amazing privilege of interviewing Nigerian Francis Cardinal Arinze, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (whew), while I was serving as a Catholic radio show co-host in Iowa. He was there to give the keynote address at a Catholic conference, and made time, at the fraternal encouragement of Des Moines’ Bishop Richard Pates, to sit down for a nearly hour-long interview. He is a brilliant and holy man who exudes both conviction and humility. After the interview was over, and my friend Lisa Bourne had taken photos, I asked him if he had a moment for a question. We stepped off to the side of the room and I asked him, “What advice would you give to me as a catechist and as a theologian?” He replied, without taking even a moment to think, “Are you married?” I replied, “Yes.” Again he queried, “Do you have children?” Again I replied, “Yes.” Then he said: “Well, you know that your first duty is to be a good husband and a good father. That’s more important than catechist or theologian. So, first you must get your priorities right and be faithful to your first vocation. “Anything else I could say to you about being a theologian or a catechist would be nice, and I gather you work hard at what you do or you wouldn’t have asked for my advice, but if I had one thing to say to you today it would simply be to love your wife and children, help them become saints, and the rest flows from there. Okay?” I was so unprepared for that reply that I awkwardly said, “Okay. Yes. Good. Thank you, Eminence. Will do.” I had an equally amazing privilege meeting a 90+ year old Vietnamese gentleman, and his wife, last year. He and his wife had come to visit the seminary and go to Mass. I saw them at Mass in the front pew and noticed how intensely he participated in the Mass. They came to lunch afterwards in the seminary dining room. PO Box 3075 I sat with them at their table Adelaide Terrace and spent the next 45 minPERTH WA 6832 utes speaking with him (his wife smiled but did not seem office@therecord.com.au to speak any English). Tel: (08) 9220 5900 Though I struggled to Fax: (08) 9325 4580 understand everything he said through his thick accent, I was able to discern the main lines of his story. He told me about life growing up in poverty in Vietnam, about their families’ immigration to the US, and about their love for the Church and the priesthood. He asked me what I did at the seminary, and when I told him I was Academic Dean, responsible for the intellectual formation of the seminarians, he became very animated and said, “Oh! What an honour! Oh, God has blessed you. Do you know that? Do you see God chose you? To help make priests of Jesus Christ. Make them holy priests. How unworthy! Do you know that? We are all unworthy! But God has chosen you to do this. And do you know what the secret is to doing good work? Being holy. You must be holy. “Do you know how to be holy? Praying! You know what else? Praying! And holding on to Our Lady. And the Rosary. Do you pray the Rosary? You must! Do you think you will make it if you don’t? You won’t! Pray the Rosary, okay? Stay close to Our Lady, okay? “Do you understand what I am saying? Oh, God has blessed you! But you do nothing without God, right? And Our Lady. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.” Like my conversation with Cardinal Arinze, I felt sucker punched when he was done and said something inane like, “Yes, right! I agree. I will! Thank you!” And I wanted to go to Confession right away. Because of the intensity of the conviction I experienced as he spoke I felt like — this sounds crazy, I am sure — he exposed and saw all my sins and weaknesses. I thought later, why was I so affected by his words? It was the way he said it, the passion and love in his voice, the way his eyes looked into mine as he leaned across the table, smiling and speaking with such energy. It was also the power of a long life of fidelity, of suffering, of praying for so many years that gave his words power to the heart. It was as if Christ himself were peering into my soul through him. As the fifteenth century English anchoress Julian of Norwich beautifully puts it, it seemed clear to me that this man and God were oned. After he was done with his monologue he returned to his quiet, reserved self and finished eating. It’s not something I will forget. Later that night when I was praying, I had this thought that at my judgement before Christ this Vietnamese man and his wife would be standing there next to Jesus, smiling and saying, “Well?”
I was unprepared for the Cardinal’s reply: “Are you married?.. Love your wife and your children. That’s more important”.
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Dr Tom Neal is a Professor of Spiritual Theology and Academic Dean at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. Prior to this, he spent 17 years working in parish and diocesan catechetical ministry.
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LETTERS
Liturgy is, and should not be, functional READING the letter from Neil K Smith I see little but a whinge about the Latin Mass which he claims is simply a fabrication by man and not exactly the product of tradition. I would like to offer the thoughts of a priest, Fr Ray Blake of Brighton, which he posted on his blog. He writes: “The New Rite is easily seen as functional: it builds community, it teaches, it catechises, it involves the faithful, it celebrates, it mourns, it presents the Church of today, it is easily adapted, whereas the Old Rite simply IS. It is unchanging, unwieldy, unadaptable; the only function it really has is worship. Whereas with the New Rite, worship is, or seems to be, subsumed by every other concern. It is worth remembering that God, when asked by Moses whom should he say sent him, replied I am, who am. God is not defined by function. He simply IS”. I rather think that Fr Blake hits the nail on the head and I hope that he does not mind me quoting him. John Rayner HILLARYS, WA
Sutherland letter was bang on the money IN YOUR ISSUE of May 2 from Joseph Sutherland, regarding the
meaning of “marriage” and how it is seen now: I wholeheartedly agree with him about how things are working out (or not working out) and not for the best. Our Catechism kept us straight down the line, it didn’t damage us, and could be made use of quite well now. Leave the ‘marriage’ term as the dictionaries describe it, never mind the High Court Decision. Dictionaries currently being printed are using many more terms included now, so if gay marriage lobbyists want a title, ‘union’ would be good. Please don’t let us or our children be confused further. So many folk say “you must move with the times”. Okay, but only if they are going to be an improvement. Surely society is at ‘rock bottom’ now, the only way to go being up. We can only hope and pray. Australian culture and the whole world has gone crazy, or so it seems to me, and certainly in need of God, as power, greed and corruption seems to be overwhelming many countries. Praise the Lord we will listen, and turn everything around to balance for a better future. Thank you, Joseph. Mary Delane KOORDA, WA
Language games aside, killing is killing
on the car radio. My first thought is, what is the difference between this and the brutal, premeditated, callous dismemberment of more than 90,000 babies in utero each year? The fact that abortion is partly funded through Medicare only makes the reality more heinous. That the broad spectrum of taxpayers have been made unwilling collaborators in this crime only compounds the ugly reality. When will governments have the moral courage to point out that the looming disaster of our ‘ageing’ population is largely due to the ugly reality of the anti-natalism corrupting our society? A lunatic bashing a poor, little, helpless child to death is quite rightly seen for the vile crime it is, but apparently the mass destruction of thousands of babies in utero each year is a non-event. B Morgan ALBANY, WA
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HARLEY Hicks was jailed for life over the bashing murder of Bendigo baby Zayden Veal-Whitting. I googled this after hearing about it
Breaking bread with poor, sign of thanksgiving In the school my daughter attends, the chaplain recently blessed bread on the feast of St Anthony of Padua. I hadn’t heard of this before. What is the origin of the custom?
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ET US FIRST remind ourselves who St Anthony of Padua was. He was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1195 and, at the age of fifteen, entered the Order of Canons Regular of St Augustine. At the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Coimbra, in 1219, he met a group of young Franciscan Friars who were going as missionaries to Morocco and was greatly impressed by their zeal for souls. In 1220, news reached Coimbra that the five Franciscans had been killed by the Moors, and St Anthony was profoundly moved. When the remains of the five martyrs were brought to Portugal for burial, he was inspired to follow in their footsteps and he obtained permission from his superiors to join the Franciscans. Soon after, St Anthony left for Morocco as a missionary to preach the faith to the Moors but, in 1221, he became ill and had to return to Europe. His boat was blown off course and he landed in Sicily, so he decided to go to Assisi to meet St Francis. While there, he attended a general chapter which was then in progress, and he was assigned to the Italian province of Romagna. St Anthony soon became known as a brilliant preacher and theologian. He was very successful in converting heretics, earning him the title “Hammer of Heretics”. He died at the age of thirty-six in Padua in 1231 and was canonised less than a year later on May 30, 1232. In proclaiming St Anthony a Doctor of the Church in 1946, Pope Pius XII said he could justly be called the Evangelical Doctor, because he based all his teaching on the Gospels. St Anthony is one of the most popular saints in the Church and he is loved and respected by
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people of all nationalities and religions. But what is the origin of blessing bread on his feast day, June 13? It goes back to the year 1263 in Padua, where a basilica in honour of St Anthony was still under construction. According to the most ancient account, a child fell into a barrel of water near the basilica and was drowned. The distraught mother called on St Anthony to restore the child to life and promised she would donate the child’s weight in grain for the poor if her prayers
A distraught mother called on St Anthony to restore her child to life and promised she would donate the child’s weight in grain for the poor. were answered. While she was still praying, the child arose as if from sleep. The miracle gave rise to the pious custom of giving alms to the poor to accompany a petition or in return for favours received through the intercession of St Anthony. The custom of blessing bread in honour of St Anthony apparently comes from a favour received by a devout woman named Louise Bouffier in Toulon, France, in 1888.
According to the account, Louise managed a small bakery and one morning she couldn’t open the door with her key. Neither could a locksmith, who told her he would have to break the door open. While he went to get his tools, Louise promised St Anthony she would give some bread to the poor if the door could be opened without force. When the locksmith returned, she begged him to try the key once more and this time it worked. Louise kept her promise and from Toulon the custom of giving bread to the poor in gratitude for favours received through the intercession of St Anthony spread all over the world. Pope Leo XIII, in his letter of 1898 on the Thirteen Tuesdays of St Anthony, commended the practice of giving “St Anthony’s Bread” to the needy. What are the Thirteen Tuesdays? Because St Anthony was buried on a Tuesday and many miracles accompanied his funeral, Tuesdays are special days on which to honour him throughout the year. It is customary to pray a Novena to him on thirteen consecutive Tuesdays. St Anthony remains today a friend of all in need, especially the poor and needy, and many people pray to him with great faith, confident that he will intercede with God to answer their prayers. The custom of blessing bread on the feast of St Anthony is just one of the many traditions surrounding the saints that make up the rich diversity of the Catholic Church. They help us to appreciate the universality of the one Church founded by Jesus Christ. For more, go to fatherfladerblog.wordpress.com or contact Fr Flader on frjflader@gmail.com.
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Hope for those buried alive by the pain of living Like Christ, pierced while nailed to the cross, the fullness of life requires a willingness to be vulnerable, and to trust.
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HEN giving his test i mony, former London East End criminal John Pridmore shares a beautiful, true story he describes as an insight into the depth and desperation of God’s love. He tells of a father who would walk to his son’s school at the end of each day and greet him with a hug. It was a moment both would cherish. One tragic day, the town was hit by a massive earthquake and many buildings, including the school, were reduced to piles of rubble. Anguished parents rushed to the school and were horrified at what they saw. Most instantly gave up hope for any survivors but the boy’s father and several others began to furiously dig through the debris. Gradually, the others gave up but the father, with cut and bloodied hands, continued into the night. He did not stop the next day and, as the other townsfolk grieved, the exhausted father continued. Thirtysix agonising hours after he had
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begun, the father heard a small cry. Sitting in a pocket within the rubble were half the students and, as the other parents gathered to remove the final debris, they heard the heroic man’s son yell to his schoolmates, “See I told you my father would come”. God’s love for each one of us, Pridmore says, is infinitely more passionate than that of this father. Yet how many of us ever perceive God as a desperate father who will never give up on reaching us, no matter how hopeless our situation may appear? It is essential, though, as Christians, that we do not allow ourselves to be trapped in despair when the rubble of life begins to pile on us but, rather, replicate the hope
of this young boy and trust in the love and mercy of a loving Father. As part of my training for youth work many years ago, I underwent a placement at an adolescent psychiatric unit in Melbourne. It was a sad place, full of young people overwhelmed with pain, seeking refuge from a world they couldn’t fit into. One of the most tragic lives I witnessed was Christine, a sixteenyear-old who had been the victim
hair was tightly bound. She never said a word. To see her sitting in a chair, almost folded in half as she curled forward was like watching an adult embryo – someone seeking a safe refuge, trying to hide herself from the world. I used to wonder if the womb, in fact, was the only safe haven she had ever known and as the overwhelming pain of her abuse mounted she was psychologically attempting to retreat there. No doubt Christine is an extreme
The other townsfolk had given up searching and had begun to mourn, but the desperate father would not give up searching for his son. of horrific childhood abuse. When she first arrived she was in what the psychiatrists described as a catatonic state. She appeared to be almost physically frozen; head bent downward with eyes staring at the floor, shoulders tightly hunched, wrists turned inward with her hands held into her chest; even her
example of someone who had locked herself under life’s rubble, but many of us would be guilty of allowing ourselves to live in the cocoon of our pain. If we have ever been hurt by the words or actions of others, then it can be easy to erect walls of mistrust and fear so we will never become vulnerable to
such hurt again. We become hesitant to allow people, or even God, to get too close. The pile of rubble dumped on us can inadvertently become a refuge in which we can hide. It is an understandable reaction, especially from vulnerable children, and is perhaps essential for survival at the time but, sadly, it can become a pattern that shapes all relating from that point. We will only see the world through the filter of our pain and this can prevent others from discovering who we really are. This was not the mind-set adopted by the young boy trapped in the darkness, with no sign of hope. He knew in his heart that his father would come. It is the attitude we are all called to embrace. God has promised us life to the full, but it is a promise we cannot receive if we do not make the choice to trust. To trust that no matter how hopeless our situation may seem, there is a Father desperately searching for us – and he will not give up until we are found.
Marriage a labour of the greatest love Jill Dwyer and her husband Terry have taken the rough with smooth but have survived together with the love of God.
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Y HUSBAND Terry and I have been married for 32 years and have four children and three grandchildren and one on the way. I am 59 and work as a nurse and a funeral celebrant. I first met Terry on a squash court on a blind date. He let me win, he told me, but I knew I flogged the pants off him! The girl who introduced us said, “Look, I don’t know what he’s like socially but he’s a nice bloke”. And she was right but he was as keen as mustard and I don’t know whether I was quite that keen. I would get home after doing a dayshift at 3pm and he’d be on my doorstep five seconds later! I needed time to myself so I kindly asked him to give me some time before he came around and then he lengthened it to 15 minutes after I got home! However, as time went by, I realised Terry had the qualities that I was looking for in a man. As regards to praying for someone to marry, my prayer was more that I would be shown the right person by God. On our first wedding anniversary we decided to light our marriage candle and renew our marriage vows. A dear friend of mine (who had missed our wedding) was here so we got a priest around and had it at mum and dad’s with the whole family. It was going to be a beautiful celebration because we were going to be having our first baby as well but prior to that I was in the throes of a miscarriage. We decided to continue without letting anyone know. It turned out to be wonderful and we gained so much strength from it. We continued that tradition for 27 years. The sacrament of marriage means a lot to me and is definitely a vocation. God is very much the third party in this relationship. He was the one who brought us together. He was a part of our marriage day and I want him to always be a part of our marriage. One of the girls I work with asked me if I would ever leave my husband, especially if he had
Nurse, wife, mother and grandmother, Jill Dwyer and her husband Terry.
done something bad. I told her, “I am married to that man until I or he dies. That’s it.” So you make the most of it. If we did separate, I know there would be no one else entering my life but even then I couldn’t see that happening because I just feel we’ve got that third party insurance there. I do a nursing night shift (one night a week) at Glengarry Hospital as well as my work as a Funeral Celebrant. I was doing Pastoral Care at Glengarry but resigned early 2008 and registered my business “Sojourn Celebrations” (Sojourn meaning temporary stay) in May that same year. Whilst working in Pastoral Care at Glengarry I did a couple of funerals and then the funeral companies asked me if I’d go on their books as a celebrant for them to call on. They gave me the idea and I haven’t looked back since. I love what I do and feel it’s my calling. I don’t think I could do it without the support on
the home front though. One of the difficult times in our marriage was when Terry was diagnosed as having Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It was after a girl was stabbed at Churchlands High School where Terry worked. Terry was one of the first ones into the classroom where it took place.
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these kids because they wanted to talk to him. Not only that but the father of the girl murdered would also ring Terry constantly. It was pressure plus whilst he was still trying to keep up with the family and maintain his relationship with us. Our children were very young at the time.
He brought us together; was part of our marriage day. I want him to always be part of our marriage. And he was also the Year Coordinator so he took the students from Year 8 into Year 12. This happened in Year 11 so he was quite close to the kids already. He had to continue taking the students through to their final year and the entire trauma they were experiencing. The Government sent in a whole lot of counsellors to the school but the kids didn’t want them. They wanted Terry. He was getting calls day and night from
I know that I protected him from the kids a lot. I used to say to the kids, “Come to mummy, and don’t come to daddy because he’s busy.” Of course, that impacted later on when I’d had enough of this two or three years down the track and it came out in a blazing argument. I had this different man from the one that I married and felt it was time he picked up the pieces again. I tried to alleviate some of the stress that he was going through but it wasn’t
easy. After his diagnosis, Terry was told he needed more family time. So, one weekend, we went down to Fremantle, wandered around and had fish and chips. Whilst we were driving home one of our daughters said, “Dad that was just a fantastic day. I’m so glad you got stressed!” It made us realise that no matter what is happening in your life, you have to have that time for your kids and make it fun. I think it is important for couples to do preparation before and after they are married. We did an Engaged Encounter weekend and it gave us a lot of ways to help when things got sticky in your marriage. For example, if there was an issue Terry was the one that wouldn’t talk and he would go for a walk instead. That’s fine but eventually the issue has got to be discussed, so we implemented what we were taught. They recommended both of you write down what you were feeling. We basically had a daily diary going. With my shift work it was difficult to meet up to talk and so that was our method of communication. It was a huge help for a lot of our marriage. We followed this up with a Marriage Encounter weekend. One of the things that has supported us through our marriage is being part of the Teams of Our Lady. It is a worldwide lay movement centred on Christian marriage and each team consists of five to seven couples who share monthly their challenges and support each other with prayer. The movement is officially recognised by the Holy See under the Pontifical Council for the Laity. We finish our meetings with the Magnificat. Marriage is hard work. We have lots of laughs when we meet with the other couples in our team because we see a lot of similarities in each other. It would be really helpful for married couples if Teams was a parish-based or diocesan thing, especially in their early years together. At the moment, we are the only team in WA (website: www.teamsofourlady.org). My parents had a wonderful marriage but they had to work at it. I come from a family of nine and at times it was tough. But I think what made the difference was we had God in our lives and that was the icing on the cake.
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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. 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. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 038 483. 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. Mercy Heritage Centre Open Day 10am-2pm at 86 Victoria Sq, Perth (cnr Goderich St) main entrance. Free tour of the 1871 Convent. Enq: 08 9325 4155. 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 Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry 5.30pm at Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Mass followed at 6.30pm with Holy Hour. Supper $5 and fellowship later. Enq: 9422 7912 or admin@cym.com.au. Subiaco Ladies Prayer Meeting 10am in the upper room at St Joseph’s Parish, 3 Salvado Rd, Subiaco. We welcome you to join us for prayer, praise, and fellowship. Phone Win 9387 2808, Colleen 9245 3277 or Noreen 9298 9938. Evangelising with Catholic DVDs 10.30-11.30am at St Joseph’s Church, 20 Hamilton St, Bassendean Library. No price too high. Enq: Catherine 9379 2691 or Merle 0414 794 224. 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. 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. FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAY 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 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 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. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Healing Mass followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Enq: admin 9493 1703/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 on the scriptures. All welcome. Enq: adrianluke1999@ yahoo.com.abibleu. 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 and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. 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. Holy Hour 7.30pm at St Bernadette’s Parish, cnr Jugan and Leeder Sts, Glendalough. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, music and chants, silence, readings and meditative decades of the holy Rosary. Tea/ coffee and cake to follow. Enq: Sean Tobin of Bl Elisabeth of the Trinity Choir 0439 720 066. 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. EVERY SATURDAY Our Lady of Sorrows Rosary 9am at St Denis Parish Church, cnr Roberts Rd and Osborne St, Joondanna. A warm invitation to those interested in praying Our Lady of Sorrows Rosary with us. Enq: parish office 9242 2812. 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. Mission Rosary Making at the Legion of Mary 9.30am-2pm at 36 Windsor St, East Perth. All materials supplied. The Rosaries made are distributed to schools, missions and those who ask for a Rosary. Please join us and learn the art of Rosary making on rope and chain. Enq: 0478 598 860. Half-Day Retreat 9am-1.30pm at Holy Family Parish, 34 Alcock St, Maddington Led by Fr Parackal VC and Vincentian Fathers. Morning tea and lunch provided. Enq: 9493 1703 or email vincentiansperth@yahoo.com or visit www.vpcp.org.au. EVERY FIRST AND THIRD SATURDAY The Feast Praise and Worship, Inspiring Talk, Fellowship 4-6pm St Jude Parish Centre, 20 Prendiville Way, Langford. Afternoon tea and coffee provided. Enq: Grace 0420 921 268 or Fema 0415 144 971.
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 SECOND AND FOURTH SATURDAY The Feast Praise and Worship, Inspiring Talk, Fellowship 2-4pm The Faith Centre, 450 Hay St, East Perth. Afternoon tea and coffee provided. Enq: Grace 0420 921 268 or Fema 0415 144 971. 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 Divine Mercy Church, Lower Chittering Come join the “$500 club” by donating that amount towards completion of the Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering. Your name will be included in a plaque and you will share in Masses offered for benefactors. Donate online: www. ginginchitteringparish.org.au or send cheque to DM Church Building Fund, PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084. May God bless you! 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 0414 683 926 or 08 9334 0933. Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community is set in the beautiful gardens in Glendalough. “Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Reg and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155. AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 9325 3566. 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 services (ref www.abortiongrief.asn.au). Enq: Julie (08) 9313 1784. Free Rosaries For The Missions If you or anybody you know are going to the missions and would like to send or take Rosaries to spread the faith locally or overseas or for school or First Holy Communion, please contact Felicia 0429 173 541 or Hiep 0409 128 638. 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 ssra-perth@catholic.org. PERPETUAL ADORATION Perpetual Adoration - Kelmscott Perpetual Adoration is coming to Kelmscott soon. Come and spend an hour with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament in the little side Chapel of Good Shepherd Church, Streich Ave. Adorers are needed. Please contact Tim 0413 785 680 or Fr Andrew 9495 1204. Adoration - St Jerome’s, Spearwood Adorers are needed. Please contact the office on 9418 1229. Holy Hour Slots at St Bernadette’s, Glendalough “Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in heaven and retold for all eternity” ~ Blessed Mother Teresa. Adorers needed for: Monday 2-3am; Tuesday 10-11am; Wednesday midnight-2am; Friday 2-4am; and Saturday 1-2pm. If you would like one of these hours or more information, please call the parish office. Enquiries: 9444 6131. Emmanuel Centre Volunteer needed Emmanuel Centre is looking for a volunteer approximately every six weeks to drive a trailer and ute to Canning Vale to drop off newspaper for recycling. The trailer is a self-tipper and the papers on the ute can be simply pushed over the edge. The days would be Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays. Please contact Fr Paul 9328 8113 (voice); 9328 9571 (TTY) or Mob 0401 016 399.
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