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LITTLE PARISH WITH BIG FAITH St Aloysius Parish in Shenton Park has celebrated a major milestone in its life. - Pages 10-11
Professor Eamon Duffy sets out why the myths perpetrated by Protestant writers are finally beginning to disappear. - Page 17
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Bright future for orphanage
Franciscan Sister Corinne and some of her charges check out the new motor scooter which was donated to the Balinese orphanage by the Cathedral branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross. The orphanage, which is located about 40 minutes drive north of Kuta, was presented with a giant-sized cheque for A$4,000 and the scooter by Perth man, Bradley Barbuto. About 100 orphans are cared for by Sr Corinne and her fellow Franciscan Sisters and educated at the two local Catholic schools. Full story on page 7. PHOTO: BRAD BARBUTO
Biblical Foundation’s website will spread and teach the Word of God DO YOU have a Bible question you’d love to have answered? Would you like to study the Bible, maybe even in Jerusalem, but need a scholarship to help you out? Are you keen on becoming more at home with your Bible? You need to visit the newly launched website of The Biblical Foundation: www.thebiblicalfoundation.org.au Archbishop Timothy Costelloe recently launched the website of the Foundation, continuing and supporting the initiative of Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey. The Foundation aims to help people of the Archdiocese of Perth develop their knowledge and use of the Scriptures so as to form a firm
biblical foundation for their everyday lives. It also offers scholarships for biblical studies through the BJ Hickey Biblical Foundation.
Grow your familiarity with the Word of God with the website’s monthy guide “At Home With Your Bible” The newly-launched website features a monthly guide called “At Home With Your Bible” intended to help Catholics grow in their famili-
arity with the Word of God. There is also a weekly question and answer section, with people encouraged to send in their Bible questions to be answered. Additionally, the website is jampacked with useful articles and links on topics such as using the Bible in family prayer and where to start when reading the Bible. And those interested in applying for scholarships can find the necessary information on the website too. All this at: www.thebiblicalfoundation. org.au. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe and Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey launched the site. PHOTO: FR ROBERT CROSS
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Clontarf opens girls’ boarding facility
PROFESSOR Douglas Hodgson has been appointed as the new Dean of the School of Law at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus. Professor Hodgson’s career as an academic lawyer has spanned three decades. He was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario, Canada as a Barrister and Solicitor and worked as a Crown Prosecutor before teaching Law at Monash University and subsequently at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. In 1989, he joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Australia.
By Juanita Shepherd Clontarf Aboriginal College has officially opened a 40-bed girls’ boarding facility. The second stage of the college’s building program was declared open by State Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Peter Collier. The opening ceremony also included a special blessing by Monsignor Michael Keating, Chairman of the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia. Funded through Western Australia’s Department of Indigenous Affairs, approximately three million dollars was spent to ensure the students at Clontarf were well cared for. As a result, the days when students were brought to school by bus from hostels in North Beach and North Fremantle are gone. Now, both boys and girls can be accommodated in the new state of the art boarding facilities. Last October Queen Elizabeth II opened the 80-bed boy’s section of the Ngulla Mia boarding facility when she visited Perth for the Commonwealth Heads of State Government Meeting. Clontarf ’s Aboriginal Liaison Officer, Jill Hill is keen for the College to create a family atmosphere in the new facilities. “We understand the anxiety of being away from home and therefore will create a safe and secure learning environment,” she said. For Dave Moore, Head of Boarding at Clontarf, the new boarding facilities will provide a look into the future for young Aboriginal students. He praised the architects for providing a modern facility designed on best practice. “This on-site boarding facility allows the future of Clontarf to be positive and purposeful,” he said.
University wins medical training grant THE UNIVERSITY of Notre Dame Australia has received $224,000 in funding from the Federal Government to assist health professionals delivering telehealth consultations to patients around the country. UNDA received the funding through the Australian Government’s Department of Health and Ageing. Associate Dean of Rural, Remote and Indigenous Health, Prof. Jennifer McConnell, said UNDA was one of only three Australian universities to receive funding to develop telehealth training programs. The use of telehealth during emergency procedures in remote areas allows a medico from a major metropolitan hospital to shadow a rural medical professional through a surgical procedure via videoconferencing. It can also be used to transmit medical images, manage and monitor patients with chronic diseases, and share medical data globally.
Happy faces all round: Monsignor Michael Keating blessed the new boarding facility. Two students, right, in front of the plaque commemorating the opening of the new boarding facility for girls at Clontarf College.
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Friendship vine continues to grow in Willetton IN 1982 when the then assistant priest of Saints John and Paul parish in Willetton, Fr Kevin Cronin, recognised the need for a social group for seniors, he probably didn’t envision that it would be still going 30 years later. However, the Growing Vine group is continuing to provide activities and companionship every Friday for seniors living in the parish area. The group was founded by Joan Grove and a small group of
generous volunteers and has steadily gained recognition in both the local and surrounding communities. There are currently 33 members gathering every Friday from 10am to 2pm, with many being driven to the centre in a bus hired from the Canning Shire. “The group has developed so well due to the dedicated work of volunteers, cooks and drivers”, co-ordinator Annie Das told The Record. “Without their commitment, it would not be pos-
sible for many members to have the opportunity to enjoy the company of their peers”. Ms Das said that the support of current Parish priest, Fr Thai, and Assistant priest, Fr Anibal, has encouraged people from other parishes to join Growing Vine and both priests enthusiastically join members in activities as well as celebrating Mass for them. “Throughout the year we organise a number of social outings,
including lunches and picnics, so that those involved are able to enjoy a change”, Ms Das said. “As well as visiting our local primary school to share special occasions with the children”. According to one of the volunteers, Dorothy Daniel, those who offer their services to assist the group are grateful to be given the opportunity to be able to interact with the members. “It is very rewarding to speak with the elderly and put a smile on their face”, she
said. “Preparing a favourite dish of mine and serving it out is encouraging as I see members of our group enjoying my food. They are wonderful people with a story to tell ...” It is an enthusiasm that is shared by Ms Das, “We have volunteers who have been helping for the past 11 years and some even longer. Being a volunteer with the Growing Vine offers a wonderful opportunity for making new friends as well as assisting others in the community.”
Indian Mass nostalgic for parishioners By Juanita Shepherd
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FOR the first time in the history of the Archdiocese of Perth, Mass was celebrated in Konkani, the traditional language of the people of Mangalore, a picturesque port city in India. It was a nostalgic moment for a number of families who came together at Holy Name Church in Carlisle to celebrate the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Father Greg Almedia, the parish priest, celebrated Mass along with Fr Arul Raj and Fr Francisco who were present as concelebrants; all the traditions of the “Monti Feast” as it is known in their native tongue was observed. The feast day can be described as ‘Mangalore coming to Perth’ with the singing of traditional hymns in Konkani, a para-liturgy conducted at the grotto of Our Lady and the sprinkling of petals at the feet of Our Lady by the children who were dressed in colourful traditional attire. Following the prayers, the celebrations continued in a hall adjacent to the church. No Indian celebration is ever complete without delicious mouth watering plates of food; Holy Name Church served vegetarian meals in keeping with the traditions practised in Mangalore where only vegetarian meals are served for the feast day. The feast day, celebrated in the Year of Grace, where the members of Holy Name Church were made to appreciate the gift of Faith with hopes the celebration of Monti Feast will become an annual event.
Holy Name Church parishioners in Carlisle, celebrate Mass in Konkani, the traditional language of the people of Mangalore in India.
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Seminary opens doors to possibilities By Juanita Shepherd FIFTEEN young men attended the inquiry day for potential future priests at St Charles Seminary on Sunday September 16. It was a notable event for St Charles Seminary; it was the largest turnout that the seminary has experienced in many years. “It is important to let God open and close the doors,” Tom Coffey, aged 21, told The Record. “I am open to God’s will.” Every year St Charles Seminary holds an enquiry day for young men who are thinking about becoming priests; the day gives them the opportunity to mingle with those who have already made the decision to study for the Catholic priesthood. Those who feel called to serve God and the Church are encouraged to take the step. Callum Martin, aged 19, has never been more certain about what he wants to do with his life. “I couldn’t see myself as anything else.” He said. “It is a beautiful way to serve Christ and to serve others.” However there was no pressure on those who are simply curious or interested to learn more about the ancient vocation of the priesthood. Men arrived at St Charles Seminary in Guildford promptly at 9.30am and the day began with the Lord’s Prayer, followed by a talk on someinary life and the priesthood from the rector of St Charles, Monsignor Kevin Long. During his talk the definition of ‘seminary’ became clear. The word comes from the Latin ‘seminar’ which means to sow a seed – in this case to nurture the seed of a vocation. “Many find that the lay life is not fulfilling,” seminary priest Father John O’Reilly told The Record. “We have had engineers, lawyers, accountants – all who have turned their backs on their career to spread the faith.” Seminarians treated their visitors to a walk around the lush green acres of land and down to the river where questions were asked and
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Two seminarians answer questions from some of those visiting St Charles Seminary in Guildford on its open day on Sunday September 16. The day was an opportunity to hear about and get a feel for seminary life. PHOTO: J SHEPHERD
answered about life at the seminary. “I wanted to get a feel about how to live life as a seminarian and what that would involve,” Warwick Davis, aged 24, said.
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Five star rating for Perth’s Catholic university THE University of Notre Dame Australia has once again received the highest accolade from its graduates in the latest results of an independent Australia-wide tertiary survey. The release of the 2013 edition of the Good Universities Guide to Australian Universities and Private Colleges has seen Notre Dame awarded five star ratings for the sixth year in a row in the categories of Graduate Satisfaction and Teaching Quality. The publication has also awarded Notre Dame five stars for Generic Skills and Entry Flexibility, acknowledging the strength of its application process. The guide profiles all Australian higher education institutions providing information on a range of categories relating to the educational experiences and outcomes of their graduates. Vice Chancellor, Professor Celia Hammond, said she was delighted with the consistent five star ratings Notre Dame had received from this highly influential publication. “The consistency of these significant results, particularly in the areas of Graduate Satisfaction and Teaching Quality, is testament to the commitment of our outstanding staff and evidence that we are successfully achieving our Objects which define our University. “We are delighted to also achieve a five star rating for our entry flex-
ibility. Our admissions process is a distinctive characteristic of our University. We take a comprehensive approach that goes beyond the use of a single score and assesses each applicant on their potential for their chosen course. This is undertaken by looking at their academic achievements to date and a personal statement supporting why they want to study at Notre Dame.
“The consistency of these significant results ... is a testament to the commitment of our outstanding staff“. Additionally, prospective students are invited to attend an interview. The interview is integral in assisting both the university and the student in determining suitability for study at Notre Dame,” said Professor Hammond. “This begins the pastoral care of our students which continues through to graduation and beyond,” Professor Hammond explained. Pastoral care is at the heart of Notre Dame’s objects. These objects specify the provision of university education within a context of
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Midwifery centre a state of the art hub
St John of God’s Dr Michael Stanford, HWA’s Jim McGinty, SJOG CEO Dr Shane Kelly, Prof. Chris Hanna and UNDA’s Dean of Nursing and Midwifery, Prof. Selma Allex, admire the new centre’s facilities on September 6. PHOTO: UNDA
PROVIDING a dedicated learning environment for midwifery students to actively engage in all facets of midwifery was the impetus for establishing a Midwifery Education Centre located at St John of God Hospital in Subiaco. A result of collaboration between The University of Notre Dame Australia and SJOGSH, the new centre was funded by the federal Government’s Health Workforce Australia. Members of the Executive teams from Notre Dame and St John of God attended the blessing and official opening on September 6. Fr Bryan Tiernan SAC blessed the building; former State Minister
for Health, Mr Jim McGinty, Chair of Board of HWA, addressed the gathering. The project involved remodelling an area within SJOG House opposite the main hospital, which now provides state-of-the-art equipment and teaching resources for students. Curriculum is delivered by Notre Dame nursing and midwifery academics, and clinical midwifery coordinators from the SJOGSH. “The purpose-built centre includes a lecture theatre, simulated birthing unit equipped with its own viewing window and virtual mother/fetus,” said Prof. Selma Alliex, Dean of UNDA’s School of Nursing and Midwifery.
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Talks to offer possibility of an adult faith “I AM THE Saviour of all peoples, says the Lord. Whatever their troubles, I will answer their cry ...” The words of the entrance antiphon to the 25th Sunday of ordinary time are the words that call all to listen to a catechesis for adults being offered at the Faith Centre at 450 Hay Street in Perth on Monday and Thursday nights, at St Brigid’s Parish in West Perth, also on Monday and Thursday nights and in Bunbury on Monday and Friday nights over the coming seven weeks. The talks in Bunbury and the Faith Centre commence on Monday evening September 24. All are invited to come and bring a friend, Catholic or not, to listen as part of the new evangelisation initiatives. The catecheses last for one hour between 7.30 and 8.30pm each evening. For inquiries, contact John on 0416 244 151. This icon of Mary, the infant Jesus and the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove makes up the front cover of the invitation to catecheses (introductory talks on the Catholic faith) being held in Perth and Bunbury over coming weeks. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
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A great Catholic mentor leaves legacy By Glynnis Grainger DEVOUT gentleman and letterwriter to The Record, John McKay passed away suddenly at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on August 30 after collapsing near the Eric Street, Cottesloe, shops which he frequented. His Requiem Mass was concelebrated by Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey, a personal friend of John’s, and Parish Priest Fr Charles Waddell, at St Thomas’ Church, Claremont, on September 7 at 9.30am. Vigil prayers and the Rosary were recited at the same church the previous evening, led by friend Fr Brian Limbourne, who chose the joyful mysteries. John was the husband of Philomene (deceased), and father of Maurita, father-in-law of James Gardner and grandfather of William, Emily and Rachel. Four eulogies were delivered at the funeral Mass: by John’s sister Jane Paul, from Orange, NSW; Gavin Drew, from the Whittington Interceptor Salt Affected Land Treatment Society (WISALTS); James Gardner and his wife Maurita McKay. John Henry McKay was born in Warren, NSW, the eldest son of John Beverley and Florence (nee Edwards), and was the first son of the first son for three generations and a fifth generation Australian, originating from Argyle, Scotland. His siblings were Susan (since deceased), Jane and Michael, who was too ill to attend the funeral. After leaving school, he studied medicine at the University of Sydney for a year, but told his grandson William, “I didn’t really do medicine, I was having fun.” He spent his early years as a grazier. John married Philomene Ryall at St John’s College chapel at that university on February 8, 1954, and their only daughter Maurita was born in Sydney on August 27, 1955. The family moved to Western Australia in the early sixties, where
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NORMA Pizzino, aged 79, passed away peacefully in her sleep last Thursday night after suffering from a severe stroke a few weeks earlier. She has left behind grieving family and friends but despite the sadness of her passing her youngest daughter Linda D’Lima fondly remembers her mother as a kind and caring lady who was very strong in her faith. “She never missed her 3 ‘o clock prayer.” Mrs D’Lima said. “She was always praying and always had her Bible with her; many times people would ask her, you’re still praying and she would give them the look as if to say ‘leave me alone.’” Norma Pizzino was born in Calcutta, India now known as Kolkata, in 1933. She met George Arthur Cameron and married him in 1951. “She married her soul mate,” Linda D’Lima said. Norma Pizzino settled into married life, raised four children and thoroughly enjoyed her job as a nurse’s aid in the Assembly of God Hospital, Calcutta, but with the birth of her first Australian grandchild in 1991 she came out to Australia and never looked back. “She made many friends in Australia.” Mrs D’Lima said. “It was really funny though; I used to live with my husband in a block of flats in Highgate and one day I was with mum in the lift taking her to the top floor to see the view when
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“and many people ... loved his conversations, warmth and friendly presence. (John was) able to speak with knowledge and interest with the young and old anywhere.” Psychologist Maurita said in her eulogy that a few days before he died, her father gave her a bolt, “handing on the baton” in life, so to speak. “(The late) Archbishop William Foley said to me at a dinner on the eve of his death that my father was
one of his great mentors,” she said. Her mother died on July 27, 2008, and the devoted couple were 54 years married. Three generations of the family attended UWA: John, Maurita and now William. Maurita performed a liturgical dance at the rosary prayers and at the offertory at the Requiem Mass. A lighted paschal candle was handed to the family by Fr Limbourne at the rosary prayers.
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Norma Pizzino Born: June 5, 1933 Entered eternal life: September 8, 2012 another lady stepped into the lift with us.” The lady turned out to be Elizabeth Foster, a childhood friend of Norma Pizzino. They hadn’t seen each other in years and suddenly and unexpectedly found each other in a lift in Highgate and it was as if they had never been parted. “From then on they became inseparable, Mrs D’Lima said. Elizabeth Foster’s friendship played a key role in both Norma’s life as well as her daughter’s. Mrs Foster introduced Linda D’Lima to her future husband; she also introduced Norma to Giovani Pizzino. Mrs Pizzino first husband George Cameron died in 1971 and twenty years later she married for the second time on September 21, 1991. In 1994 she became a regular at Good Shepherd Parish in Kelmscott having previously attended Mercy Church in Girrawheen. “Come rain, hail or shine, mum faithfully went to church.” Mrs D’Lima said. “Her favourite seat was the third row from the front, closest to the aisle and if anyone was sitting there she would give them the look and whisper to me and say ‘Linda they’re in my seat’ and I would whisper back saying ‘mum it’s not your seat.”
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News that a former Salvadoran army official, accused in the 1989 slayings of six Jesuits priests, pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to US immigration officials and now faces deportation to Spain to face prosecution in the deaths was welcomed by the former rector of the university where the clergymen taught. Inocente Orlando Montano, a retired army colonel who has lived near Boston since 2001, pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of immigration fraud and three counts of perjury under a deal with federal prosecutors on September 11. Montano was among 20 Salvadorans indicted in Spain in 2011 in connection with the killings of the priests, their housekeeper and her daughter. He has denied any involvement in the deaths. Father Jose Maria Tojeira, former rector at the University of Central America in San Salvador, where the priests taught and lived, said the news of the possible deportation and likely prosecution was long overdue. The murders took place in a small compound on the university’s campus during one of the fiercest military offensives in the country’s 12 year civil war, which ended in 1992.
John Henry McKay Entered eternal life: August 30, 2012 John decided to follow his dream and become a geologist, studying geology at the University of Western Australia. He graduated and had worked as a student with Western Mining Corporation and headed out into the field for 24 years in many areas of the State to the east and north. During his early time in Kalgoorlie and Kambalda, he made a discovery that still stands today. He associated a eucalyptus tree growing in the Goldfields on top of nickel deposits, and nicknamed it the nickel tree. With a student, he also mapped the nickel find in Kambalda, Maurita told The Record. Jane Paul said in her eulogy that her older brother John rode his pony Snowy to and from the public school in Warren, and won all the trotting races and gymkhanas and the show for many years. “Being the eldest in the family, he was viewed as the knowledgeable one – experienced and competent. He always drove we teenagers on various outings, even when the two girls had earned their licences.” Gavin Drew told the congregation that John McKay had a particular interest in rocks, various compositions of stones, sands and the formation of soil. He was a voluntary consultant geologist for WISALTS and “very valued member”. “As an individual, John was firmly entrenched in his Catholic faith, with very high principles,” Mr Drew said. James Gardner said John’s property Paradise Hill at Boddington featured WISALT banks in the paddocks to control soil degradation and the trees they planted are now more than three metres tall. “He was the best father-in-law a man could ever have,” he said,
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The “most tragic wound” of clerical sexual abuse will not heal without a response from the entire Catholic Church - hierarchy and laity together - said the chief Vatican investigator of abuse cases. “I think that slowly, slowly, slowly we are getting toward a response that is truly ecclesial - it’s not hierarchical, it’s the Church. We are in this together, in suffering (from) the wound and trying to respond to it,” Mgr Charles Scicluna told Vatican Radio. The monsignor, whose formal title is promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, spoke to Vatican Radio during a September 4-5 conference in England titled “Redeeming Power: Overcoming Abuse in Church and Society.” The European Society of Catholic Theology sponsored the conference at St Mary’s University College in Twickenham as part of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology’s three-year research project on “the power of theology to overcome power abuse in Church and society.” Mgr Scicluna told Vatican Radio the conference was an important part of the ongoing conversation about how to empower all members of the Church to prevent abuse and promote accountability. “We are accountable not only to God, but to each other and to our peers in how we respond to difficult questions, including sin and crime,” he said
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Norma Pizzino married her soulmate and was a devout Catholic as well as a dedicated mother and nurse. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Mrs Pizzino joined in all the activities that Good Shepherd Parish held and she was very fond of cooking curries and jiving with her friends and Father Cyprian, former parish priest at Good Shepherd. “I loved watching mum jive she
was very good at it,” Mrs D’Lima said. Norma Pizzino will be greatly missed by her family and friends. For all who knew her she will be remembered as a kind, and devout lady with a great sense of humour and always ready to help.
Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, and has named Auxiliary Bishop James Conley of Denver to succeed him. The changes were announced in Washington on September 14 by Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, papal nuncio to the US, Bishop Bruskewitz, head of the Lincoln Diocese since 1992, is 77 years old. Bishops are required by canon law to submit their resignation to the pope when they turn 75. Bishop Conley, 57, was ordained an auxiliary bishop for Denver in 2008. His installation Mass will be celebrated on November 20 in the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln. He will be the ninth bishop of Lincoln. -CNS
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Inspirational Deacon to visit Perth By Mark Reidy A SEED of inspiration planted at a men’s sharing group in suburban Perth will be come to fruition when one of the world’s leading Catholic evangelists arrives in Western Australia in October. US Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, who has inspired thousands across the globe through his television show on US Catholic network EWTN, will begin his nation-wide tour at venues in Doubleview and Tuart Hill from October 11-13. Renato Bonasera, who initiated the Australian visit and is one of the organisers of the Perth leg, told The Record that he was first exposed to the the powerful message of Deacon Harold during a monthly gathering of his Catholic Men’s Fellowship home group. “During one session I showed one of Deacon Harold’s EWTN shows in which he elaborated on a spirituality toolkit for males and we found it inspiring”, he says. This encounter led Mr Bonasera to befriending Deacon Harold on Facebook before building the courage to invite him to Australia on behalf of the Society of Catholic Teachers Australia. “I was very
pleased when he said he would”, Mr Bonasera shared. “His love and enthusiasm for the Catholic faith is fresh and it is not often that Perth is able to host a Catholic evangelist and television host who is a Deacon and of international significance”. Deacon Harold, who seeks to bring people to a deeper love of Christ and the Gospel within the Catholic faith, will deliver a Conference entitled, “Catholicism at a Crossroads: Rekindling the Flame of Faith”, on October 11-12 and will follow this with a “Courageous Faith” Men’s Retreat on October 13.
in responding to Pope Benedict’s plea to “recall the precious gift of faith”. Mr Bonasera believes that today’s Church is no different from any other age when she has faced struggles, both externally and internally, but believes that we must respond to them with a renewed zeal of faith, hope and love. “Deacon Harold will seek to deliver this message by exploring the many challenges that are both a threat and an opportunity for the Church of Christ”, he said. Deacon Harold, who is considered to be one of the Church’s
Living an authentic male spirituality will allow men to open their hearts to love Christ more. Mr Bonasera believes that the timing of Deacon Harold’s visit is perfect as it occurs, not only in the Australian Year of Grace, but also at the very beginning of the worldwide Year of Faith, called by Pope Benedict XVI - which commences on October 11 - the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. He believes that Deacon Harold’s passion for the Church, combined with his handson approach, will equip participants
leading speakers on male spirituality said in a 2006 interview that he realised that secularisation, radical individualism and moral relativism were eroding the hearts and souls of spiritual men and his passion for reviving the roles of men in the Church was ignited. “I began to explore how living an authentic male spirituality – rooted in the Cross of Christ, the sacramental life of the Church (most especially in the Eucharist and Reconciliation),
and the teachings of the late Pope John Paul II – allows men to open their hearts to love Christ more deeply and to follow him more closely as faith-filled servants of truth, goodness, and beauty”, he said. “By doing so, we will become freer to love and more open to receive the gift of grace in response to the Lord’s call to ‘be perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect’”. It is a message that resonates in the heart of Renato Bonasera and helped fuel his desire to bring Deacon Harold to Australia. “He shares my passion for the revitalisation of Catholic manhood that is not anchored in political correctness, but in the original vision of man which Blessed Pope John Paul II taught and which Christian men from diverse denominations today are becoming more sensitive towards”, he shared. “Deacon Harold will explore key models of authentic manhood from both the Old and New Testaments and relate them to unique ways in which men are made to reflect God’s image and likeness.” Deacon Harold will deliver a two day Conference at the Newman Siena Centre, 33 Williamstown Rd in Doubleview on October 11 and
Us Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers, who hosts a TV show on Catholic network EWTN. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
12 and a Men’s Retreat on October 13 at St Kieran’s Parish Hall, 120 Waterloo St in Tuart Hill. For further information on both these events contact Renato Bonasera on 0428 106 481 or visit www.scta.org.au and follow the links. For further information on Deacon Harold please visit his website at www.dynamicdeacon.com
Bright future for orphanage thanks to Knights By Peter Rosengren AFTER last weekend a Catholic orphanage in Bali is one brand new motor scooter and 40 million rupiah (approximately A$4000) better off – thanks to the newly-formed Cathedral branch of the Knights of the Southern Cross. The Franciscan orphanage in Tuka Dalung, Bali, located approximately 40 minutes drive north from Kuta, was presented with a giantsized cheque and the new scooter on the weekend by Perth man Bradley Barbuto, one of the founders of the Cathedral Knights. The money, donated through fundraising events organised by Mr Barbuto and fellow Knights, will help make daily work a lot easier for Franciscan Sisters Clemensia and Corinne, two of the sisters who run the orphanage, and help educate the children in local Catholic schools. Mr Barbuto first stumbled across the orphanage at Christmas 2011 and was struck by the desperate need for funds. Overall, the Sisters care for approximately 100 orphaned children. Not only do they clothe and feed their cares, they also meet the costs of their schooling. “Sister Clemensia (also known by the children as ‘Grandma’) was over the moon and thanked the Lord for the generosity of the people in Perth,” Mr Barbuto told The Record. “They were so excited because it took a big burden off them for the schools’ fees,” he said. After he returned to Perth from his 2011 visit, Mr Barbuto became determined to help the Sisters and the children. A sold-out high tea attended by 90 or so people organised by the Cathedral Knights in the Cathedral parish centre on August 26 raised approximately $3300; the National Australia Bank added another $750 after being approached by Mr Barbuto. The August event’s organisers were creative, also holding a flea market, music performed by graduates of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and having local performer Michael Pullinger sing. As word spread of the orphanage’s need, Mr Barbuto received another $500 in donations from
Top: Brad Barbuto presents the orphanage with a giant cheque and a new scooter from the Knights of the Southern Cross. Above: The fundraising high tea at St Mary’s Cathedral. Right: Children and the Franciscan Sisters from the Balinese orphanage celebrate the generosity from KSC. PHOTOS: BRAD BARBUTO
wellwishers. He said that while in Bali last weekend he had also visited the school, St Thomas Aquinas Primary, and an associated kindergarten to investigate the costs of fees. Educating each child costs A$11
per month. The Knights are keen to do more fundraising to cover care and education costs on a yearly basis, he said. If anyone wants to assist the Knights in their Bali venture they can contact Mr Barbuto on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.
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Holistic loans for the needy By Juanita Shepherd THE COMMUNITY based program that enables people to access fair, safe and equitable credit based on justice, respect, trust and empowerment was launched in August of this year at the Good Shepherd Centre in Leederville. The program known as the No Interest Loan Scheme was started by the Good Shepherd Sisters in Victoria in 1981 and provides interest free loans for individuals and families on low incomes. There are no fees, charges or interest payments, as loans are repaid, the money is lent out to other members of the community to utilise the service Sister Geraldine Mitchell, the area leader, Bronwen Griffiths the Good Shepherd WA Manager, who gave a brief overview of the program, and Kathy Kroes, the program manager, attended the launch, which was officially opened by Kathy Kroes. “It is a privilege for me to be present and welcoming Good Shepherd WA to the national NILS
network,” Ms Kroes said. Today, in an environment where mainstream credit for people on low incomes is limited and the fees and charges levied by fringe credit options such as pawn brokers or payday lenders are high, these loans make a considerable difference to the nature of economic participation by individuals and families living on low incomes. NILS provides a holistic response to the needs of people living on low incomes by providing support to improve financial capabilities and enhancing community participation through the recycling of funds into additional loans for other community members. This is achieved through a process which enhances the dignity and respect of the individual whilst helping them gain some form of financial control and empowerment in their lives. The NILS is committed to providing opportunities to increase financial inclusion to the most vulnerable in society. It reflects the aims of its auspice body Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand, by addressing economic inequality
Kathy Kroes, Bronwen Griffiths, Sr Geraldine Mitchell at launch of the NILS scheme at the Good Shepher Centre in Leederville. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
in society, increasing commitment to marginalised and disadvantaged people, particularly women and girls, and increasing the promotion of social justice policies and programs. To be eligible for a loan, an applicant must hold a Health Care Card, Pension Card, receive a Centrelink
payment or have a low income, and they must have been at their current residence for at least three months. Loans of up to $1,500 are available for household items, medical needs, technology and driving lessons. The program can be contacted on 9381 3955 or at adminwa@ goodshep.com.au
2Up2Down win in the Goldfields ON SEPTEMBER 8, the 2Up2Down Kalgoorlie Boulder Community Choir visited senior citizens at the Southern Cross Nursing Home in Kalgoorlie and sang the melodies that won for them First Place in the recent Goldfields Performing Arts Festival in Kalgoorlie, previously known as the Goldfields Eisteddfod. Local musician, John Joyce, who is Chairman of the 35 member choir of varying ages, has played music for the Little Sisters of the Poor Kalgoorlie and now the Southern Cross Nursing Home, for the best part of forty years, with up to five musicians in the band on occasions. John also had success in the Open Class of the Eisteddfod and was awarded First Prize in the vocal, popular section for his guitar and singing performance. Other establishments in Kalgoorlie also benefit from the talents and voluntary efforts of the 2Up2Down Community Choir, such as Amana Living, Edward Collick Home and the Goldfields Community in general.
British archdiocese offers lay funerals THE ARCHDIOCESE of Liverpool has become the first diocese in England and Wales to commission laypeople to preside at funerals. Archbishop Patrick Kelly formally commissioned 22 lay ministers to celebrate funeral ceremonies in an effort to relieve pressure on priests who sometimes must celebrate seven or more funeral Masses a week. The move was announced through a brochure, “Planning a Catholic Funeral,” published recently by the archdiocese. The brochure described a funeral as the “community’s main celebration and prayer for the deceased.” “This could be a funeral Mass but ... it may be a funeral service led by a lay funeral minister or a deacon,” it said. Vocations in Liverpool declined sharply in recent years, and the archdiocese projected that the number of priests will decline from 170 to 100 by 2015. Lay ministers already preside at funerals in some parts of the world where no priest or deacon is available. The decision by Archbishop Kelly represents the first time such a step was authorized by the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The archdiocese’s Council of Priests supported the move after the archbishop consulted with its members and examined the 1990 Order of Christian Funerals. The document calls for the lay ministers to preside at funerals when clergy are unavailable, Archbishop Kelly explained in an article in The Tablet, a London-based Catholic magazine, early in September.
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Chairman of 2Up2Down John Joyce, right, accepts first prize at the Goldfields Performing Arts Festival.
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Award takes Rossana’s breath away THE theme for the National Asthma Week in 2013 is “If I couldn’t breathe, would you know what to to?” The answer from Rossana Hywood, the Occupational First Aid Officer at Sacred Heart College, is a resounding “Yes”. Rossana has been been recognised for her commitment to student health with an award from the National Asthma Foundation. She was one of five recipients in Australia who received the award for their leadership and commitment to enabling students to participate fully and safely in school and preschool. Rossana was nominated by the Asthma Foundation of WA for her leadership in organising staff training and student education about asthma; distribution of information; provision of Asthma Emergency Kits; promotion of safe asthma management; referrals of students and ongoing support of the Foundations’ work in the com-
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munity. Her contributions have helped many students with asthma. The award was not a surprise for those who know Rossana. “Rossana, or Saint Rossana as we call her, has been at the College for
‘Saint Rossana,’ as we call her, has been at the College for 28 years ... she is the backbone of the College.” 28 years”, said fellow staff member, Julie Cole. “She not only looks after sick bay but also runs the Young Vinnies program. She is a backbone of the College.” Rosanna (left) receving the award from a representative of the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
THANKS TO a French automaker and an Italian utility, Pope Benedict XVI now has a pair of all-electric minivans and a series of recharging stations with which to power them. Two custom-made editions of Renault’s Kangoo Maxi Z.E. cars were delivered personally to the pope on September 5 at the papal summer villa in Castel Gandolfo. At a Vatican press conference the next day, representatives of Renault told reporters the two cars were made specifically for the Vatican. The white version, with the papal stem on the front doors, was designed for the pope to use, probably at Castel Gandolfo, but Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said it also could be used on other occasions when the pope is in the midst of a crowd. The roof over the back seats opens and the side windows are removable, so it can be used as a popemobile, the Renault representatives said. It also has a retractable step to make it easier to get in and out of the vehicle. On a full charge, they said, the pope’s car can cover 160 kilometres. While they did not say how fast the pope’s Kangoo Maxi Z.E. could go, Renault says its unmodified version can reach speeds up to 80 miles an hour. The second Kangoo Maxi Z.E. given to the pope was designed for the Vatican police force, the “gendarmeria Vaticana.” Painted blue, the minivan has police lights on top and a white-and-gold stripe around the sides. Pope Benedict, the Italian police who patrol St. Peter’s Square, and the staff of Castel Gandolfo and the Vatican press office already use electric vehicles, which is why the Italian electric company ENEL has installed recharging stations at the Vatican as well as at the summer villa. - CNS
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Benedict affirms right of Christians to freedom By Francis Rocca POPE BENEDICT XVI signed a major document calling on Catholics in the Middle East to engage in dialogue with Orthodox, Jewish and Muslim neighbors, but also to affirm and defend their right to live freely in the region where Christianity was born. In a ceremony at the Melkite Catholic Basilica of St Paul in Harissa, Lebanon, on September 14, Pope Benedict signed the 90-page document of his reflections on the 2010 special Synod of Bishops, which was dedicated to Christians in the Middle East. He was to formally present the document on September 16 at an outdoor Mass in Beirut. A section dedicated to interreligious dialogue encouraged Christians to “esteem” the region’s dominant religion, Islam, lamenting that “both sides have used doctrinal differences as a pretext for justifying, in the name of religion, acts of intolerance, discrimination, marginalization and even of persecution.” Yet in a reflection of the precarious position of Christians in most of the region today, where they frequently experience negative legal and social discrimination, the pope called for Arab societies to “move beyond tolerance to religious freedom.” The “pinnacle of all other freedoms,” religious freedom is a “sacred and inalienable right,” which includes the “freedom to choose the religion which one judges to be true and to manifest one’s beliefs in public,” the pope wrote. It is a civil crime in some Muslim countries for Muslims to convert to another faith and, in Saudi Arabia, Catholic priests have been arrested for celebrating Mass, even in private. The papal document, called an apostolic exhortation, denounced “religious fundamentalism” as the opposite extreme of the secularisation that Pope Benedict has often criticised in the context of contemporary Western society. Fundamentalism, which “afflicts all religious communities,” thrives on “economic and political instability, a readiness on the part of some to manipulate others, and a defective understanding of religion,” the pope wrote. “It wants to gain power, at times violently, over individual consciences, and over religion itself, for political reasons.” Many Christians in the Middle
Olive trees are seen onstage as Pope Benedict XVI leads a meeting with youth in the square outside the Maronite patriarch’s residence in Bkerke, Lebanon, on September 15. PHOTO: CNS, PAUL HARING
East have expressed growing alarm at the rise of Islamist extremism, especially since the so-called Arab Spring democracy movement has toppled or threatened secular regimes that guaranteed religious minorities the freedom to practice their faith. Earlier in the day, the pope told reporters accompanying him on the plane from Rome that the Arab Spring represented positive aspirations for democracy and liberty and hence a “renewed Arab
Pope Benedict warned against the consequence of forgetting that human liberty is always a shared reality. identity.” But he warned against the danger of forgetting that “human liberty is always a shared reality,” and consequently failing to protect the rights of Christian minorities in Muslim countries. The apostolic exhortation criticized another aspect of social reality in the Middle East by denouncing the “wide variety of forms of discrimination” against women in the region. “In recognition of their innate inclination to love and protect
human life, and paying tribute to their specific contribution to education, health care, humanitarian work and the apostolic life,” Pope Benedict wrote, “I believe that women should play, and be allowed to play, a greater part in public and ecclesial life.” In his speech at the document’s signing, Pope Benedict observed that September 14 was the feast of the Exaltation of Holy Cross, a celebration associated with the Emperor Constantine the Great, who in the year 313 granted religious freedom in the Roman Empire and was later baptised. The pope urged Christians in the Middle East to “act concretely ... in a way like that of the Emperor Constantine, who could bear witness and bring Christians forth from discrimination to enable them openly and freely to live their faith in Christ crucified, dead and risen for the salvation of all.” While the pope signed the document in an atmosphere of interreligious harmony, with Orthodox, Muslim and Druze leaders in the attendance at the basilica, the same day brought an outburst of religiously inspired violence to Lebanon. During a protest against the American-made anti-Muslim film that prompted demonstrations in Libya, Egypt and Yemen earlier in the week, a group attempted
Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass on the waterfront in Beirut on September 16. PHOTO: CNS/REUTERS
to storm a Lebanese government building in the northern city of Tripoli. The resulting clashes left one person dead and 25 wounded. Lebanese army troops were deployed to Tripoli to prevent further violence. Mohammad Samak, the Muslim secretary-general of Lebanon’s Christian-Muslim Committee for Dialogue, told Catholic News Service that the violence had nothing to do with the pope’s visit. “All Muslim leaders and Muslim organizations - political and religious - they are all welcoming the
Holy Father and welcoming his visit,” Samak said. “I hope his visit will give more credibility to what we have affirmed as the message of Lebanon - a country of conviviality between Christians and Muslims who are living peacefully and in harmony together for hundreds of years now.” Bishop Joseph Mouawad, vicar of Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarchate, told CNS that the apostolic exhortation represents “a roadmap for Christians of the Middle East to live their renewal at all levels, especially at the level of communion.” - CNS
Ukrainian leaders face the dilemma of language By Barb Fraze MANY UKRAINIAN Catholic leaders serving the faithful outside the homeland face a dilemma: Do they serve the needs of the new immigrants and elderly by using Ukrainian in liturgies, or do they minister in English to keep younger people coming to church? Ukrainian “has revived a little with the new immigrants,” who want their native language used in church so their children will know how to speak it, said Archbishop Stefan Soroka of Philadephia. Some places, he added, place an “inordinate emphasis” on Ukrainianlanguage liturgies. Yet, especially among teens and younger Americans, “even those who speak Ukrainian don’t want to go to a Ukrainian service,” he said. Parents tell priests they are tired of arguing with their children about going to a service they do not understand. “You don’t hear them protesting - they just walk away,” he told Catholic News Service.
Together with fellow Ukrainian Catholic bishops, Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, processes outside Sts Volodymyr and Olha Cathedral in Winnipeg, Canada. PHOTO: CNS
In large Ukrainian Catholic parishes, liturgies are offered in Ukrainian and English. Of his 67 parishes, he said, only two would not offer bilingual homilies. But the Philadelphia
Archdiocese’s situation is even a bit more complicated: Many immigrants are from Eastern Ukraine, and their language is Russian, so priests minister to them in their native language. This upsets Ukrainian nationalists, Archbishop
Soroka said, “but we can’t hold back evangelisation because of Ukrainian nationalists.” “If we don’t reach out to them,” Russian-speaking Ukrainians will go to Orthodox or evangelical churches, he said. In Chicago, which has a large ethnic Ukrainian population, some fourth-generation Ukrainians still speak their homeland’s language, and many young people are forced to learn it, said Bishop Richard Seminack. Yet after about age 15, “you become adapted to the American culture” and lose the language, he said. If liturgies are offered only in Ukrainian, young people “leave the church or go to the Roman Catholic Church or no church at all.” Bishop Seminack, whose diocese includes the whole Western United States and extends into Hawaii, said in other Midwestern communities and along the West Coast, parishes have adapted English into the liturgy. But in Chicago, three of the Sunday liturgies at the cathedral
use only Ukrainian, and only one is celebrated in English. In the diocese that includes Great Britain and Ireland, “We still don’t have liturgies in English ... in all our churches,” said Bishop Hlib Lonchyna. “It’s a problem and it’s a blessing,” he said. “It’s a blessing” because – especially in London – new immigrants feel at home in the church. But some parish priests cannot speak English well enough to celebrate English-language liturgies, and some elderly Ukrainian Catholics “get very tense when things get celebrated in English,” he told Catholic News Service. “Because of this mentality, we have lost a lot of people,” he added. Bishop Peter Stasiuk of Melbourne, Australia, said language is not an issue in his diocese, which includes Australia and New Zealand. Most immigrants from Ukraine arrived after World War II, and “we have integrated into the Australian community very well,” he told CNS. - CNS
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After half a century, St Aloysius in Shenton Park continues to serve.
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N 1962 everything was changing. The world came to the brink of nuclear warfare as the Cuban missile crisis unfolded. Zebra pedestrian crossings, known in the UK as Panda crossings, were introduced, causing confusion among – and between – pedestrians and motorists. France's President, Francois De Gaulle, survived an assassination attempt by a disaffected airforce engineer over the issue of Algerian independence, crediting his armoured Citroen with saving his life. In a showdown in Chicago Sonny Liston beat Floyd Patterson for the world heavyweight boxing title. Two relatively unknown rock bands began to make an impression. The Rolling Stones made their debut at London's Marquee Club while The Beatles made their first televised appearance on a program called People and Places. Lawrence of Arabia won the Oscar for best movie but Gregory Peck took out the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in a movie expressing much about the deeper currents of the times – To Kill a Mockingbird. In Rome, the Church began to reflect on the challenges of the modern era as it opened the Second Vatican Council. Such were the background notable events of the year, but in Shenton Park, in faraway Perth, Catholics had their eyes fixed on something much closer to home – their first parish church. In fact, they had been waiting 25 years. An article on page 1 in The Record of August 9 reported that Archbishop Prendiville solemnly blessed the new building dedicated to St Aloysius Gonzaga, which was also erected as a memorial to fallen soldiers, at 7.30pm in the evening before presiding at a Solemn High Mass. In that period, The Record noted, it had taken 23 years of effort on the part of the parish priest, Monsignor EJ Collins, to arrive at the solemn ceremonies featuring not only the
The front page of The Record of August 9, 1962, announces the blessing of St Aloysius' Church. The magnificent stained glass window in the church, above, portrays how the disciples recognised the Lord in the breaking of the bread. PHOTOS: BOTTOM, ARCHDIOCESAN ARCHIVES; STAINED GLASS WINDOW: COURTESY, ST ALOYSIUS PARISH.
Archbishop but a cast of clergy lending weight to the solemnity of the occasion. Among these were Monsignor Collins as celebrant, Fathers W Foley and J Mullins as deacon and sub-deacon respectively, Fr Tom Phelan as Master of Ceremonies and Monsignors EJ Kennedy, A Langmead and E Sullivan as assistant priest and assistants at the throne. The sermon was delivered by Fr Alphonsus OCD of the Carmelite Prioty at Morley Park. All stops were pulled out to make the
occasion a memorable one for all present including the many parishioners who had sacrificed time and money for the building of the church.
A school founded in 1909 was established in Henry Street and dedicated to St Aloysius Gonzaga, becoming also the Mass centre for the sur-
Archbishop Redmond Prendiville and a cast of clergy lent clerical weight to the blessing of the Church. In fact, the Shenton Park area, known as 'Rosalie', had originally been part of the Subiaco parish in the 1890s and was known as a blue-collar district.
rounding area. It was originaly staffed by Sisters of St John of God until 1912 and then by Sisters of Mercy until 1937 when the
present convent in Nicholson Road was purchased. Due to falling enrolments the school closed in 1972. Rosalie remained part of St Joseph's parish in Subiaco until 1937 when Fr Peter Doddy was appointed to the newly estblished parish. However he died unexpectedly in 1939. When he was succeeded by Fr EJ Collins, the parish received its new name of Shenton Park; Fr Collins was to remain Parish Priest for a heroic 26 years until his death in 1965. Father Phil Farrelly served as parish priest from 1967-1973. For the next three years the parish was administered by the English Franciscans, the Greyfriars, who were then replaced by the Order of St Camillus, an order specialising in hospital ministry. Fr Patrick Holmes served as Parish Priest for 16 years from 1977 onwards until he was transferred to Subiaco and was followed by Fr John Ryan whose sale of the former school property enabled the building of the Parish Centre and enhancements to the church, including its beautiful stained glass windows. Fr Ryan was succeeded by Fr Peter Bianchini, now Parish Priest of Highgate whose genial personality won him many friends. Fr Bianchini's six years were followed once again by the Camillans under Fr Sean Bredin but in 2007 the Camillans ceased ministry in Australia. In early 2008 the parish administration was taken over by the Vincentians from India, whose order had been established in 1902. Fr Rojan George, who arrived with two companions in 2008, became the new Parish Priest and was succeeded by Fr Sabu in 2011. Over the years at least 15 other priests have served as assistants in the parish. Down through the decades, numerous parishioners have assisted in the administration and service of the parish, including activities such
The stained glass window depicting St Aloysius in the Church, above. PHOTO: COURTESY, ST ALOYSIUS PARISH
as conveying Communion to the sick and the elderly in their homes, hospitals and aged care facilities. After Vatican II the Parish Council took on a greater role in parish life, together with catechists and discussion groups. Today, parish life is replete with altar servers, organists, a ladies' singing group, special ministers of the Eucharist, lectors and those who supervise the childrens' liturgy. There is also a St Aloysius Care group, a book exchange and monthly activities for youth. Despite its cosy size – there are about 150-200 parishioners at weekend Masses – the parish has also supported charitable works in East Timor, western NSW and Three Springs. Visitors often comment on the "country-like" friendliness of the parish. Now that the parish has celebrated the 50th anniversary of its parish church, it truly can be said that it is a
Aurora Thisainayagan, Bianca Valente and Roma Wilson enjoy the occasion of the parish church's 50th. PHOTOS: COUTESY ST ALOYSIUS PARISH
Bishop Donald Sproxton and Parish Priest Fr Sabu preside at the celebrations for the milestone in parish life.
Fr Rojan George and Sr Sandra Smolinski were among the many current and past parishioners and friends of St Aloysius on the night.
Bishop Donald Sproxton had the honour of cutting the cake celebrating 50 years since the parish church was built.
Former parish priest Fr Peter Bianchini, now parish priest of Highgate, and Sr Leonie O'Brien were happy to return to St Aloysius.
Vin Holmes, Fr Patrick Holmes and Mary Kurtis were delighted to meet old friends again at the parish celebrations.
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IFTY years to the day, on August 2, 2012, the Parish of St Aloysius Shenton Park celebrated the 50th anniversary of the blessing and opening of its church by Archbishop Redmond Prendiville on August 2, 1962. The celebration was only one milestone for the parish. The year 2012 also marks:
Sr Louise Fortune was present at both the 1962 and 2012 events. • The 75th anniversary of the establishment of the parish which was originally known as Rosalie and formerly a part of St Joseph’s Subiaco; • A century of the presence of the Sisters of Mercy in the parish. The Sisters operated the parish school in Henry St from 1912 to 1972 and have remained associated and active in the parish since the closure of the school. They still occupy the Convent in Nicholson Road. Bishop Donald Sproxton concelebrated Mass with Parish
Priest Fr Sabu Jacob VC, Fr Thomas Mankuthel VC, Chaplain at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and former parish priests Fathers Patrick Holmes, Peter Bianchini and Rojan George VC . Also present were Fathers Joseph Angelo, Andre Nahas, Michael Leek OSB, Varghese Parackal VC and George James. Parishioners were joined by many former parishioners and many old yarns were shared. Among those attending were Mrs Zita Williamson, the niece of the late Monsignor E J Collins, who was responsible for the construction of the church in 1962. The Sisters of Mercy were well represented by Sr Louise Fortune, who was present at the opening of the Church in 1962, Sr Joan Smith, Sr Marie Fitzgerald, Sr Betty McMahon, Sr Leonie O’Brien, and Sr Sandra Smolinski. Following Mass parishioners and guests enjoyed a well-catered supper in the Parish Centre. Bishop Donald Sproxton cut a beautiful anniversary cake prepared by long-time parishioner Mary Kurtis. A wonderful time was had by all.
St Aloysius Mass times: Saturday 6pm, Sunday 9.30am, Weekdays 8am Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 5-5.30pm or by appointment Adoration: Every 2nd Wednesday 6.30-7.30pm Healing Mass and Sacrament of Anointing: Fridays 8am
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BIG MESSAGE It all seems a bit unusual, but the message from a reputed Filipino mystic who visited Australia last month packs a big punch for our daily lives: we all have to trust in the mercy of Jesus, writes Melbourne journalist Andrew Rabel.
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F I L I PI NO M A N WHO says Jesus Christ appears to him in dreams in the image of the Divine Mercy has just concluded a national tour of Australia. Although he is married with 13 children he is usually known as Br Stanley Villavicencio (a term used in the Philippines for someone who devotes himself to evangelisation). The Divine Mercy devotion approved by Pope John Paul II is based on revelations given to the Polish nun, St Faustina Kowalska, who the late pope canonised in 2000. Brother Stanley’s story starts on March 2, 1993 in Cebu City, when he was placed on life support in an intensive care unit after suffering a number of seizures and convulsions. Whilst in this state, Stanley saw a bright light and someone standing in front of him and when he looked at the face he recognised the figure as Jesus with the pale and red rays emanating from Him (as one would see in images of the Divine Mercy). He was then shown his entire life from birth to present together with all his deeds and all his sins. Jesus then told him to go back to work for Him. Br Stanley woke up, miraculously in a perfect healthy state. The doctors at the intensive care unit of the Chong Hua Hospital were amazed. One of the doctors who had treated him later became a priest. Brother Stanley claims to have received 37 messages from Our
Lord since this time, always while in a dream state. Prior to these events, Stanley was a government worker dealing with security issues at the international airport in Cebu. He now travels the world, speaking about the importance of the message of Divine Mercy. His work has received the official endorsement of Cardinal Ricardo Vidal of Cebu City. The vicar general of the archdiocese says in a letter of introduction, “This is to reiterate the endorsement given by His Eminence, who is in the apostolate of spreading the messages of The Divine Mercy, following the canonisation of St Faustina Kowalska”. Stanley maintains that every message he receives from Jesus is
Brother Stanley maintains that every message from Jesus is submitted to his spiritual director. submitted to his spiritual director, Mgr Cris Garcia, of the archdiocese of Cebu City. It was Mgr Garcia who had advised Br Stanley of the need of a spiritual director when the phenomena began. Br Stanley claims Mgr Cris also receives the grace of knowing the messages he receives by his own internal locution, as well. Each message is submitted to Cardinal Vidal for approval before
being released. Br Stanley says Mgr Garcia was picked for this role by Jesus himself. The most recent of the claimed messages on November 21, 2011 dealt with the end of the world. According to Br Stanley Jesus said, “My son, my son, the world will not end. Only humanity has an end. That’s why, as I said, to be ready is not tomorrow, to be ready should start now because tomorrow never comes, because when tomorrow comes that is today. That’s why if you received anything negative, reject it because it didn’t come from me. I am the source of love and nothing comes from me except perfect love. So please persevere in prayers. And please thank your team for leading so many lost souls to heaven”. Brother Stanley repeatedly insists on the importance of the message of Divine Mercy. At his talk in Melbourne, he said there would be no more devotions approved after the Divine Mercy because after mercy, there will be justice. Large crowds have turned out to hear him speak in Australia. His talks usually start with the recitation of the Chaplet of Divine Mercy followed by Brother Stanley’s account of how his life has changed. Those who attend his talk have the opportunity to venerate the image of Divine Mercy which travels with him together with an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, to whom Brother Stanley is also devoted. Some have been profoundly
Br Stanley Villavicencio wearing a Divine Mercy t-shirt. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
touched by his apostolate. On one occasion in the USA, a Baptist woman who attended his talk gave a testimony that she was going to have an abortion but, hearing the Divine Mercy message decided to give her unborn child the gift of life. Brother Stanley has travelled to many countries in order to spread this message. “Before coming to Australia I was just back home in Cebu, and I will return there again after this trip, but then I will be going to Japan,” he told The Record. He says he doesn’t call the long absences from his family “... a suffering, but an offering.” He has spoken to numerous crowds in the US and has appeared
on the popular Catholic satellite television station EWTN. Other countries he has visited to spread the Divine Mercy message include Canada, Ireland, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. His work is supported by donations, with 60 per cent of the funds submitted to the archbishop of Cebu City to allocate to a variety of charitable projects such as supporting street children. The other 40 per cent of the funds goes to the Villavicencio family’s upkeep of Br Stanley’s ministry. In 2000, Brother Stanley met the individual (after St Faustina) who, more than anybody else, has been responsible for fostering the Divine Mercy devotion all around the world – Pope John Paul II. He says the Holy Father said to him, “You cannot expect everybody to believe you. So be like a horse, as a horse has a blinder ... they cannot be distracted. You must go on, and go on. If you have someone to distract you, you cannot reach your destination”. In a seemingly increasingly tumultuous world, Br Stanley stresses the importance of Divine Mercy. In the message of February 22, 2005, he says that Jesus told him: “My son, just go on proclaiming my mercy. Time is ripe, it won’t be long. They can refuse or reject my mercy, but I assure you, nobody can escape my justice. So please persevere”. “That,” Br Stanley says, “is why I don’t just talk to Catholics about this, because God’s mercy is for everybody”.
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Deadly pride: taking God’s glory away I have always had a problem understanding pride. We are all proud; I certainly am myself. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. How can we be humble when we are always proud, and how can we go to heaven when we are proud?
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The famous image of the Divine Mercy of Jesus, left. The red and pale rays are believed to represent the blood and water emanating form the pierced heart of Christ. During a vision, Jesus told St Faustina that “... the pale ray stands for the water that makes souls righteous. The red ray stands for the Blood which is the life of souls ...” Faithful, below, hold the image at a Mass in St Peter’s Square, Rome, in memory of Pope John Paul II, above, in 2005. PHOTO: CNS
A photo of St Faustina, to whom the messages and devotion known as the Divine Mercy were given in pre-war Poland, and the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki, a suburb of Krakow, dedicated to St Faustina and the Divine Mercy movement. PHOTOS: CNS
At a time when reported visionaries and mystics appear to proliferate, Brother Stanley decries the lack of obedience among some of these to ecclesiastical authority. If he encounters any he says he will often ask them, “Do you have an authorised spiritual director?” Sometimes he finds the answer is in the negative. For him, however, the wisdom of the Old Testament counsel stands true: “Obedience is better than sacrifice”. A stamp showing Pope John Paul II, Jesus of Divine Mercy and St Peter’s Basilica was jointly issued by the Vatican and Poland to celebrate the late Pope’s beatification in 2011. CNS
HIS is a very important question, and it is relevant not only to pride but to all vices, or habits of sin. But first, what is pride? It may be defined loosely as exaggerated self esteem, or an exaggerated consideration of one’s own excellence. When we use the word “exaggerated” we are implying that there is a just consideration of one’s excellence, and indeed there is. St Teresa of Avila says that humility, the corresponding virtue, is “to walk in truth” (Interior Castle, Ch. 10). The truth is that we all have many talents and good qualities, but these are gifts from God and we should be grateful to him for them. We cannot glory in them as if they were our own achievement. St Paul writes to the Corinthians, “What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?” (1 Cor 4:7) It is not pride to recognise that we have many talents. It is pride when we consider these gifts as our own and boast of them. The reason why pride is such a deadly sin is that it robs God of his glory, referring the glory to oneself. Indeed, the original sin of our first parents was a sin of pride. The serpent tempted Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree, telling them, “You will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Gen 3:5). But while pride is a deadly sin, not all sins of pride are mortal. It will depend on the particular thoughts or actions in each case. Since the original sin of Adam and Eve, the vice of pride remains in all of us as a habit, as a tendency to consider ourselves too highly. They say that pride will die 24 hours after we do. And St Josemaría Escrivá used to say that the best business would be to buy people for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth! If we are all proud, how can we also be humble? We begin by recognising that we all have some degree of humility, some recognition of the truth of our good qualities and deeds, and of our many shortcomings and sins. Only Satan has unalloyed pride with no trace of humility. We can think of the relationship between pride and humility – or between any other vice and virtue, for that matter – as a spectrum, with pure pride on one end and pure humility on the other. We are not on either end, in pure pride or pure humility, but somewhere in between. The more we struggle to grow in humility the more we reduce the level of pride and the further along on the
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spectrum we are. Hopefully when we die we will have succeeded in reducing pride to a minimum. But even when pride remains, always ready to lead us into an exaggerated consideration of our self-worth, by itself it is not sinful. While bad habits, or vices, can result from repeated sins, the habits themselves are not sinful. It is the acts, the sins, to which they give rise that are sinful. Therefore, as long as we succeed in not consenting to the temptations to pride – to thoughts of vainglory, to comparisons with other people, to boasting about our accomplishments, to excusing ourselves when criticised, etc. – we are not committing sins of pride, but rather are growing in humility.
This is an important truth: it is acts, not bad habits that are sinful. Similarly, good habits give rise to the good virtues. This is an important truth. It is acts, not bad habits, that are sinful. Similarly with good habits, or virtues, it is the good acts to which they give rise that are meritorious, not the virtues themselves. We see this in the fact that all the baptised in the state of grace have the infused virtue of charity, but what is important is to do acts of charity. Our Lord makes this clear in his description of the Last Judgment: “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink ... “ (Mt 25:34-35). Similarly, St James rebukes those who show no deeds of charity: “If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace, be warmed and filled,’ without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit?” (Jas 2:16) In summary, even though we all have the habit of pride, we also have the virtue of humility in some degree. It is the acts of pride that are sinful, not the vice itself. So as long as we repent of our sins and do not reject God at the end of our life through pride, we can be saved.
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A night for parents, a night for families
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he evening of September 27 will be both a good and an important night for parents in Perth. On that evening The Record is hosting Dr Gerard O’Shea of Melbourne’s John Paul II institute for Marriage and Family Studies in St Mary’s Cathedral Parish Centre. We take this opportunity to invite all parents, Catholic or otherwise, teachers (Catholic or otherwise, but especially teachers of religious education in Catholic schools), to come along and attend. But why? If we survey the world in which ordinary families are expected to live and raise their children, it becomes clear that today the task is no easy one; quite possibly it is far more difficult now than at any time in recent history. But sometime in our history - perhaps half a century ago or thereabouts - key social institutions such as governments, and the media more or less supported parents in the task of raising children, which is really the task of building a nation. The support was more implicit than anything else, a kind of basic implicit respect for the idea that marriage and family life were clearly good things in and of themselves. Today, one could argue, these institutions of society have, at least in certain key regards, completed a 180-degree reversal with regard to the institution of the family and the human development of children through their progressive acceptance, or embrace, of cultural and moral values that actively undermine these. Perhaps this is simply a roundabout way of sketching the effect of moral relativism’s takeover of key social institutions. A lot of this is to do with the disappearance of the concept of the person as a sacrosanct reality, with what Christians would call the idea of man and woman as primarily and fundamentally created in the image and likeness of God and everything that this means. And in many regards, official policies enacted by government diktat throughout the world together with the moral vacuum relentlessly promoted as desirable in the interests of supreme personal autonomy by the media, have proved toxic for families and children. Today, parents and families face a bewildering and seemingly continuous series of assaults – on their role as parents, on their families and on their desires for the future of their children and their development as human beings, most especially through the media. The Corrosive Society’s continual attempts to seduce children away from the idea of any objective moral compass by which they can successfully navigate their lives are often pernicious. They usually come in the shape of assertions that to be truly free the young should do whatever they want as long as they don’t obviously hurt anyone else. However the thoroughly-measured human carnage of this philosophy (if that is the word) that this attempted PO Box 3075 seduction has produced in the Adelaide Terrace last 5o years or so, the harvest PERTH WA 6832 of sorrow in destroyed personal relationships, spiralling office@therecord.com.au rates of addiction and family Tel: (08) 9220 5900 breakdown have not served Fax: (08) 9325 4580 for one moment to dissuade the juggernaut of contemporary culture and its worm-tongued messengers. It has, however, served to highlight the difference between the Christian vocation and the increasing mess that is our culture. This is actually a useful thing. Dr O’Shea, who will be The Record’s guest, will speak on a subject that perhaps sounds mildly interesting but which is actually, by our society’s standards, quite revolutionary: Christian formation of the young in human sexuality. While Christian families have been battered over several decades by the effects of global society’s loss of moral vision, most especially in relation to such things as the meaning of sex and marriage, fidelity in human relationships and the family, a new generation of educators and thinkers have helped develop the resources that will greatly aid parents as parents (and therefore the Church) to equip their children for life. We could almost say that Dr O’Shea and the John Paul II Institute are helping to translate in Australia in unexpected but refreshingly new ways the beauty of the Church’s insights into the human person, on marriage and on the human family. They are, in other words, helping to develop the resources that will guide our children to be truly free by helping them to see the coherence, the beauty and the truth of the Christian vision of sex, marriage and God. This work which has been begun in Australia is therefore, in a very real sense, counter-cultural and subversive. By helping our children to make sense of both the emptiness of what they will be offered by our society and to see the beauty of Christian marriage and family life (and also celibacy for the sake of the kingdom) parents will be doing their children possibly the greatest service they can ever carry out for them. This is one reason why Dr O’Shea’s talk in Perth will be so interesting and important to parents and teachers. There, Dr O’Shea will be presenting the resources that are now available to parents to carry out this vital task for their children, including his own guidebook for parents, As I Have Loved You. Through events such as this, in this Year of Grace in Australia, we can see how grace moves through our lives and can be communicated to the young. Those who are parents and those who are teachers are called to assist in translating for our children what our society does not want them to hear at all: the truth. 7.30pm, St Mary’s Cathedral Parish Centre, Thursday September 27
It’s to do with the disappearance of the idea of man and woman made in God’s likeness.
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Eve - a might-havebeen? IF THE article by Fr Sean Fernandez (The Record, 5.9.12) expresses the new orthodoxy for Catholics, then count me in as a dissenting theologian. For Fr Fernandez, the existence of Adam and Eve is not something Catholics need to accept; at least not now. He would agree that their existence was reaffirmed by the Pontifical Biblical Commission in the early 1900s, but he brushes off the Commission by saying that its decisions were not infallible. That is true in the sense that they were not infallible per se; the same could be said of every later Magisterial statement seen by Fr Fernandez, rightly or wrongly, as supplanting them. Even a statement which is not infallible in its own right may still require our assent as Catholics by virtue of saying nothing new, but merely reiterating what the Church has always taught or held. It is in this sense that the rejection of contraception in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (cf eg no. 2399) can be said to be infallible. And as Fr Fernandez concedes, the Commission he belittles did not see itself as proposing any new doctrine, but merely as safeguarding what the Church had always believed about Scripture. Let us remember also that its decrees concerning the historicity of Adam and Eve were issued under the aegis of Pope St Pius X, of happy memory, who so gloriously condemned Modernism.
The discovery that a statement is infallible in either of the above senses obviously entails a rejection of any later statement found to be in conflict with it. In the worst case scenario of such a statement emanating from an Ecumenical Council, we have God’s Word for it (Mt 28:20) that He will never permit it to be promulgated in such a form as to impose our assent as obedient Catholics. Fr Fernandez gives as a quotation from Vatican II a statement the truth of which I have no difficulty in accepting, but he overlooks or ignores the fact that this same Council repeatedly reaffirms the historicity of both Adam and Eve (cf eg GS 22 at the beginning; LG 56 etc.). He may also have forgotten a statement, infallible per se, from another Ecumenical Council, Trent: ‘If anyone does not confess that the first man Adam … was transformed in body and soul for the worse, let him be anathema’ (Decree on Original Sin). Were it permissible to doubt or deny that there was any such person as ‘the first man Adam’, a fortiori we could legitimately doubt or deny that he was transformed in body and soul for the worse. Theologians need to become more Trenty. Given the limitations of time and space, that is all I can say here, but I have written a number of articles bearing on these questions. The most accessible would be those in the American journal New Oxford Review, for example ‘Was Our Lord a Fundamentalist?’ (April 1999). Fr David Watt ST PHILOMENA’S CHAPEL, MALAGA
An historical bypass of the first humans? IF ADAM and Eve are probably not real (the obvious implication of last week’s article by Fr Fernandez, September 5, 2012), then the dogma of Original Sin probably didn’t happen, and Jesus probably didn’t need to die for us, because we probably don’t need to be redeemed, because we’re probably not conceived in sin. Why exclude official teaching on Eve when asked to write on ‘the mother of all the living’ (Gen 3: 20)? What is the point in believing the spousal analogy of Genesis 2:24, which precludes gay marriage, when there were no original spouses? What does Bl. Pope John Paul II’s ‘Theology of the Body’ look like without the original pair of bodies? Is Mitochondrial Eve definitely Eve? Nature magazine is not infallible. Enough of conjecture, let’s talk facts. It is a fact that science has not discounted the possibility that we originate from one first pair. It is a fact that the Catechism affirms that our first parents, Adam and Eve, committed the Original Sin (e.g. CCC 360, 375, 390, 404). Last week’s article mentioned repression, the only repression I can see is that of the authoritative teaching of the Church. Paul Kelly SUCCESS, WA
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Same-sex marriage advocates may not like it, but sex actually matters
The push to revise marriage’s meaning fails to see the meaning in gender.
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T IS amazing the way that the same-sex marriage debate has taken such a stranglehold on discussion and commentary in Western society. Who would have thought that in the space of just a few years popular opinion could swift to such a degree that to simply hold marriage as the union of a man and a woman could be labelled as intolerant? Yet this is where we are at. One recent move for a change in legislation has come from Tasmania where a bill to legalise same-sex marriage was introduced into the Parliament with Premier Lara Giddings imploring the members of the House to “open their hearts and minds to remove this last bastion of discrimination”. Now if there is a buzz word in the same-sex marriage debate it is most definitely ‘discrimination’. In the 21st century it would be better to be accused of anything rather than be found to be discriminatory. Yet we seem to have forgotten what the word actually means and that each of us discriminate every day of our lives. Discrimination is the act of making a distinction and choosing between differences. From choosing chicken over ham on your sandwich, to the government deciding that the aged pension will be given at 67 instead of 65; these are discriminations. Without the ability to discriminate, that is the ability to state that one thing is not another thing, we could not have a democratic society. A musical note only has value because of the silence that exists before and after that note, if we were to label the silence as unfair discrimination against sound and remove it, there would only be an ongoing noise. So yes, upholding marriage as the union of one man and one
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woman is discrimination because it says that this particular relationship has certain qualities that others do not have. Marriage discriminates against children, widows, those in de facto relationships, people with a same-sex attraction and all those who for whatever reason are not married. However this discrimination says nothing about the value of those individuals, it simply says that they are not in the institution that is called marriage. One marriage equality website boldly proclaims that, “Denying anyone the right to marry because of gender or sexuality is simply not
If same-sex marriage succeeds, it will be a fruitless law. fair”, but the reason that society is involved in the business of marriage has nothing to do with love, romance or even fairness. Society concerns itself with marriage because it is the normal means by which the next generation is conceived, born and nurtured into responsible citizens. Secular society has no more business legislating the living arrangements of men and women with a same-sex attraction than it does legislating that every citizen must dress in a particular colour according to the season. There is of course unjust discrimination which involves making decisions against a person based on
something such as their race or religion rather than individual merit. That however is very different to stating that because a person practices the Christian faith they are discriminating against those of the Islamic faith. We need to be very careful when it comes to flying the flag of discrimination. Just because we find ourselves outside a particular situation we might like to be in, does not mean we are being unfairly discriminated against. What is more accurately behind the push for same sex marriage is the desire to declare that the marital love of a man and woman is exactly the same as the proposed marital love of two men or two women. Both heterosexual and homosexual couples might share similar emotional feelings but what gives marriage its unchangeable uniqueness is the sexual union. Marriage declares that a particular man and woman have made the free choice to engage in sexual union with only the other. And that union is naturally open to bringing forth life (whether or not it actually does is another matter). This is the difference that cannot be changed by legislation. The push for same-sex marriage is part of the agenda to declare that there are no differences in society. It is a push to state that our maleness and our femaleness are irrelevant. However our sex is foundational to us understanding who we are and how we fit in the world. These differences are not problems of discrimination but signs of a unique complementarity. Government may succeed in legislating same-sex marriage but it will be a fruitless law to gain the popular vote. Legalising same-sex marriage would be as meaningless as legislating that day and night were the same. www.foolishwisdom.com
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Even horizontal evangelisation can be necessary The modern world often finds the gift of fertility meaningless or incomprehensible. Actually, it’s about something bigger.
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FTER the birth of our fourth child, I visited the medical clinic for a routine examination. My doctor asked if either my husband or I had undergone sterilisation, to which I responded with a horrified negative. Sensing he’d offended me, he apologised. Then he asked a standard postpartum check-up question: what did we plan to use for contraception? I was tempted to launch into a wordy preamble about how I find the very word repugnant, but I was wearing only a disposable drape sheet and getting colder by the minute. I gave the short answer: “We use natural family planning, in accordance with our religious convictions.” “Oh, that’s right,” he said, “you’re...” “Catholic,” I finished. He began to apologise again, “I hope you weren’t offended ... I didn’t mean to offend you ...” I was not offended, just disheartened, for I know that my husband and I are an anomaly. The doctor told me that most of his Roman
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Catholic patients disregard the Church’s teaching, adding that he admired us for sticking to our principles. He asked me why the Church teaches that contraception is wrong, and I did my best to answer in what little time I had. I left the office pondering the incongruity (or divine sense of humour) of evangelising in a horizontal position, wearing nothing but a giant paper towel. Later that day, I found myself still thinking about my discussion with the doctor. It disturbed me that sterilisation is treated so casually, that so many people regard it as the most ‘responsible’ choice once you’ve had your second child. And if you’ve had your third, fourth, or fifth, they are positively alarmed that you haven’t done anything to rectify your fertility
problems. We pay lip service to the notion that children are a blessing, then do everything medically necessary to make sure God never gives us another. Since fertility can be medically controlled, most of us – including, unfortunately, many Catholics – do all we can to control it. Yet in the knowledge that God
The doctor told me that most of his Catholic patients disregard the Church’s teaching. I tried my best to explain – even though I was only wearing a giant paper towel. has numbered every hair on our heads and orchestrates each heartbeat, the idea of being in control of anything is illusory. Moreover, in seeking to avoid
the crosses associated with bearing and raising children, we often hew crosses for ourselves that are heavier than those Jesus might have meant for us. How many women thought they were ‘in control’ of their sexuality when the Pill and promiscuity came into vogue, only to find themselves infertile or ill with cancer decades later? What will be the long-term effects (health or spiritual) on the present generation of parents who are so avidly snipping and severing? Jesus says, “He who tries to save his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for my sake will live.” So what’s wrong with preventing conception? Nothing gets destroyed, does it? (Set aside for a moment all arguments concerning personal and marital integrity.) Consider Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” Before we were called into being during the procreative act, we existed in the mind and will of God. We were, as the saying goes, a glint in our Father’s eye. When it comes to conceiving new life, our loving Father never
forces the hand of human parents (although we who’ve had less-thantimely pregnancies are sometimes tempted to think otherwise). He awaits our free and open response in co-operating with his divine will. The use of contraception thwarts the will of God. If God retains the exclusive prerogative to create life, why do some of us believe he hasn’t the right to premeditate that creation? When the Lord is in control, there is no such thing as an “unplanned” pregnancy. In Catholic evangelist Ralph Martin’s booklet Where Are We Now? he writes, “Infanticide, euthanasia, and abortion are a direct assault on the sovereignty of God ...[They] express rebellion against the truth – that life belongs to God and not to us. They deny God’s grace, which is totally sufficient for all the hardships of life.” I believe the same may be said of contraception. It’s an abomination that has decimated “postmodern” western nations, demographically and spiritually. Heaven help us if we don’t wake up to that reality soon.
The voice that has not spoken yet
The smoke of centuries of Protestant propaganda on the English Reformation is finally clearing, writes Prof. Eamon Duffy.
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OR five centuries England has been in denial about the role of Roman Catholicism in shaping it. The coin in your pocket declares the monarch to be Defender of the Faith. Since 1558 that has meant the Protestant faith, but Henry VIII actually got the title from the Pope for defending Catholicism against Luther. Henry eventually broke with Rome because the Pope refused him a divorce, and along with the papacy went saints, pilgrimage, the monastic life, eventually even the Mass itself – the pillars of medieval Christianity. To explain that revolution, the Protestant reformers told a story. Henry had rejected not the Catholic Church, but a corrupt pseudo-Christianity which had led the world astray. John Foxe embodied this story unforgettably in his Book of Martyrs, subsidised by the Elizabethan government as propaganda against Catholicism at home and abroad. For Foxe, Queen Elizabeth was her country’s saviour, and the Reformation itself the climax of an age-old struggle between God, represented by the monarch, and the devil, represented by the Pope. Fear of Catholic Spain, the greatest power in Europe, gave Foxe’s story urgency. That fear escalated under the Stuart kings, for all of them married Catholics, and were suspected of favouring their wives’ religion. The prospect of a persecuting Catholicism imposed by an apostate monarchy fuelled Protestant anxiety. It led to Civil War, and the execution of King Charles I. Ironically, Charles was a loyal Anglican, but both his sons, Charles II and James II, did eventually embrace Catholicism. In 1679, fear of Catholicism triggered a last orgy of persecution. The so called Popish Plot, to murder the king and seize the throne, was a paranoid fantasy concocted by Titus Oates, but it unleashed a wave of gruesome executions, including the judicial murder of the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett. At the height of the hysteria, Protestant mythology achieved definitive form in a book that would shape the writing of Tudor
God’s servant, but Henry’s bishop: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was Henry VIII’s key clerical agent for the purposes of the English Reformation.
history down to our own day. In 1679 Gilbert Burnet, a Scottish cleric, published the first volume of a massive History of the Reformation, an anti-Catholic narrative given scholarly credibility by the inclusion of dozens of documents gathered from public and private archives. Burnet would be the chief
the nation wanted to hear: Burnet was thanked by a special vote of Parliament. His work was supplemented by John Strype, another ardent “Orange” cleric, in a stream of biographies and collections of Reformation documents, many of them gathered from Foxe’s archives.
the Reformation story. The greatest Victorian historian of Tudor England was James Anthony Froude, who eagerly explored the archives, but read them through inherited spectacles. A Protestant to his fingertips, he hated clergy, doctrine, religious mystery and, above all, Catholicism.
Till well into the Twentieth Century, historians of the English Reformation would rely on historical mythology written by Protestant authors. propagandist for the “Glorious Revolution” which deposed James II and set the Protestant William of Orange on the throne. His history rammed home the message that Catholicism and Englishness were utterly incompatible: Catholicism was tyranny, Protestantism liberation. “They hate us,” he wrote, “because we dare to be freemen and Protestants.” It was a message
Till well into the 20th century, historians of the English Reformation would rely on Burnet and Strype for their source materials, in the process perpetuating their late-Stuart take on the Tudor age. The creation of the Public Record Office in 1838 made accessible thousands of documents from Tudor England, but didn’t radically alter this traditional spin on
He saw the break with Rome as the beginning of Britain’s rise to imperial greatness, and the Reformation as a confrontation between two incompatible civilisations. Froude knew that the Reformation had been imposed to begin with on a reluctant nation, but he rejoiced that this had happened. A disciple of Thomas Carlyle, he thought history was not for the lit-
tle people, but was made by heroes. “Up to the defeat of the Armada,” he wrote, “manhood suffrage in England would at any moment have brought back the Pope.” Happily, there was no democracy in Tudor England, and the country had been saved from itself by the tyrannical Henry VIII, and if the abbeys were unroofed, and a few hundred priests butchered in the process, that was a small price for imperial greatness and the march of progress. Shorn of its more blatant jingoistic rhetoric, Froude’s Protestant version of the Reformation would be recycled in the writing of academic history late into the 20th century. Historians no longer take that venerable Protestant version for granted, but it is still alive and well in the wider culture. It underpins, for example, Shekhar Kapur’s biopic Elizabeth. It was reiterated recently by the journalist Simon Jenkins when he wrote that “most Britons had, by the late 15th century, come to regard the Roman Church as an alien, corrupt and reactionary agent of intellectual oppression, awash in magic and superstition. They could not wait to see the back of it.” But in multicultural England, the inherited Protestant certainties are fading. It is time to look again at the Reformation story. There was nothing inevitable about the Reformation. The heir to the throne is uneasy about swearing to uphold the Protestant faith, and it seems less obvious than it once did that the religion which gave us the Wilton Diptych and Westminster Abbey, or the music of Tallis, Byrd and Elgar, is intrinsically un-English. The destruction of the monasteries and most of the libraries, music and art of medieval England now looks what it always was – not a religious breakthrough, but a cultural calamity. The slaughtered Popish martyrs look less like an alien fifth column than the voices of a history England was not allowed to have. Eamon Duffy is Professor of the History of Christianity at Cambridge. His latest book, Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition: religion and conflict in the Tudor Reformations, is published by Bloomsbury.
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St Padre Pio Pilgrimage 8am-4pm at St John the Baptist, Stirling Terrace, Toodyay. 8am – Buses depart ($17 per person); 10.15am – DVD; 11.30am – Mass, Confession available; 1pm – Lunch (BYO); 2.30pm Eucharistic Procession, Rosary, Adoration, Divine Mercy and Benediction. 4pm – Depart for Perth. Enq: Catrina 9255 1938 (Midland) Ivana 9279 - 7261 (Bassendean) Patsy 9377-5017 (Morley) Leena 9444 - 3617 (Leederville) Rosa 9276 - 1952 (Balcatta) Fr. Doug 9444 - 6131 (Glendalough) Maria Petta 9361 - 7858 (Victoria Park).
Day with Mary 9am-5pm at St Anne Parish, 6549 Great Northern Highway, Bindoon. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am Video; 10.10am Holy Mass; Reconciliation, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, Sermons on Eucharist and on Our Lady, Rosaries and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq – Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286. Bus: Helen 0431 689 128; Midland area: Nora 0421 238 360.
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Dinner and Rosary Cenacle - St Bernadette’s Young Adults. 6.30pm at Hans Cafe, 140 Oxford St, Leederville. Begins with dinner, followed by Rosary cenacle at St Bernadette’s Parish, 49 Jugan St, Glendalough. Cenacle includes: 8pm reflection by Fr Doug and Rosary. Tea and coffee afterwards. By repeating words of love to Mary and offering up each decade for our intentions, we take the shortcut to Jesus, which is to pass through the heart of Mary. Enq: Fr Doug st.bernadettesyouth@gmail.com
Cake Stall and Raffles Fundraiser 9am-1pm at St Bernadette Parish, 49 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn. God’s Presence and Peace 2-4.30pm at the Church meeting room (located behind the church), St. Swithans Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie Rd, Lesmurdie. Relaxing Christian music, gratitude, Scripture and imagination, fellowship, small group chats and yummy afternoon tea. Cost: gold coin donation. Enq: Lynne 0435 252 941. Christian Meditation Community Day and AGM 10am-3pm (AGM 2.30pm) at St Cecilia’s Parish Centre, Cnr Grantham St and Kenmore Ave, Floreat. Speaker: Gerard Overman - ‘Cosmology, Spirituality and Christian Meditation’ Cost: Suggested $10 donation at door. BYO Lunch - tea and coffee provided. Enq: admin 0429 117 242.
NEXT WEEK SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Latin Mass – Kelmscott Parish 2pm at Good Shepherd Parish, Streich Ave, Kelmscott. Enq: John 9390 6646. Meditation in the Style of Taizé 7-8pm at Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart chapel, 6 York St, South Perth. Bring a friend and a torch. Enq: Sr Maree 0414 683 926. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 ‘He is Not One of Us …’ Seminar 7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall, Alness St, Applecross. View a weekly short video broadcast at www.thefaith.org.au. Presented by Norma Woodcock. Cost: collection. Accreditation recognition by the CEO. Enq: Norma 9487 1772 or www. normawoodcock.com. ‘Understanding Catholic Sacraments today’ by Fr Vincent Glynn 7.30pm at the Library in Our Lady of Lourdes School, 263 Flinders St, Nollamara. Fr Glynn is a Senior Lecturer in Sacramental Theology at Notre Dame University. Tea and bickies afterwards . Enq: John 9349 1141 or johber@bigpond.com. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 2012 Mission Concert by Walker Trio 2-4pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Cnr of Wellington Rd and Smith St, Morley. ‘Restoring Hope, Sharing Grace’ - a Sunday afternoon of classical and jazz music performed by the Walker Trio. All proceeds raised will go to support Catholic Mission’s overseas work with children living in poverty. Enq: Catholic Mission Office 9422 7933. FRIDAY TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12-14 Inner Healing Retreat (live-in) 7.30am, Epiphany Retreat Centre, 50 Fifth Ave, Rossmoyne. A time to be healed and renewed. Leaders: Vincentian Father. Regn and Enq: Melanie 0410 605 743 or m.fonseca@curtin.edu.au. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 Embracing Womanhood – Spiritual Seminar 9.30am-3pm at Sacred Heart Parish, Parish Hall, 40 Ovens Rd, Thornlie. With Sr Ann Cullinane and Fr Clayton (Mass celebrant) Cost: $10. Morning tea and light lunch provided. Childcare available. Only 60 places available- registration close on Sunday October 7th. Enq: Anna Marie 0418 807 500, Rachel, 0401 667 338, Carolin 0432 855 605. Divine Mercy Healing Mass 2.30pm at St Francis Xavier Parish, Windsor St, East Perth. Main Celebrant: Fr Marcellinus Meilak. Reconciliation in English and Italian offered. Divine Mercy prayers followed by Veneration of First Class Relic of St Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: John 9457 7771 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26 Alan Ames Healing Service 6pm at St Luke’s Parish, Cnr Parkside Ramble and Duffy Tce, Woodvale. Begins with Mass followed by healing service. Enq: Admin carver1@iinet. net.au.
REGULAR EVENTS EVERY SUNDAY Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com.
Medjugorje Evening of Prayer 7-9pm at Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, 175 Corfield St, Gosnells. In thanksgiving for reported daily apparitions of Our Blessed Mother in Medjugorje. Includes: Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary, Benediction and Holy Mass. Free DVDs on Donald Calloway’s life of drugs and crime to his conversion and priesthood; also info on pilgrimage: Rome/Medjugorje May/June 2013. Enq: Eileen 9402 2480 or 0407 471 256 or medjugorje@ y7mail.com.
Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction. Reconciliation available before every celebration. Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.
‘Holy Hour Adoration’ by Holy Trinity Community 7pm at Pius X Parish, 23 Paterson St, Manning. Enq: Adri 0412 948 688.
Praise and Worship 5.30pm at St Denis Parish, Cnr Osborne St and Roberts Rd, Joondanna. Followed by 6pm Mass. Enq: Admin admin@stdenis.com.au.
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‘The Theology of Islam from a Roman Catholic Perspective’ Workshop. 9am-12.30pm at St Denis Parish, Cnr Roberts Rd, and Osborne St, Joondanna. Enq: Admin admin@ stdenis.com.au.
St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group – Fellowship with Pizza 5pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share. Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.
UPCOMING WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3 ‘The Transitus of St Francis of Assisi’ Mass 6.30pm at Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish, 35 Eighth Ave, Maylands. By The Secular Franciscan Order. Please bring a plate to share. Enq: Angela 9275 5658 angelmich@bigpond.com. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Divine Mercy Thanksgiving Mass – St Jerome’s Divine Mercy Prayer Group 2-4pm at St. Jerome’s Parish, 36 Troode St, Munster. In Honour of the Divine Mercy and Saint Faustina. Main celebrant: Fr. Parackal. 2-3pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Divine Mercy Chaplet. 3-4pm: Mass and talk on Divine Mercy and St. Faustina spirituality. Refreshments afterwards. Enq: Connie 9494 1495. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 TO SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 God’s Farm 25th Anniversary Retreat 7.30pm at The Stone Chapel on God’s Farm. Fr Brian Morgan will offer Holy Mass daily. Friday 7.30pm; Brother Andrew’s 12th Thanksgiving Mass. Saturday 10.30am 25th Anniversary Mass with retreat topic/homily: God the Father of all Mankind’. More details, bookings for retreat: Betty 9755 6212. Bus reservations: Yvonne 9343 1897.
Singles Prayer and Social Group 7pm at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Sq, 77 St George’s Tce, Perth. Begins with Holy Hour (Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary and teaching) followed by dinner at local restaurant. Meet new people, pray and socialise with other single men and women. Enq: Veronica 0403 841 202. EVERY SECOND SUNDAY Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Join us for songs of praise and worship, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers for the sick. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or parish office Tue-Thu, 9am2.30pm 9344 7066. EVERY THIRD SUNDAY Oblates of St Benedict – Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth. For all interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople: Vespers and afternoon tea afterwards. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758.
A Ministry to the Un-Churched 12.30-1.30pm at St John’s Pro-Cathedral, Victoria Ave, Perth (opposite church offices). With charismatic praise, and prayer teams available. Help us ‘reach out to the pagans’ or soak in the praise. Enq: Dan 9398 4973. EVERY LAST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 038 483. EVERY MONDAY Evening Adoration and Mass 7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic Adoration, Reconciliation, evening prayer and Benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic. org.au.
LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Program 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church). Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941. EVERY TUESDAY 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, Victoria Park. Novena followed by reflection and discussions on forthcoming Sunday Gospel. Enq: Jan 9284 1662. EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734. EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting. Enq: 0423 907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com. Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture by Fr Jean-Noel Marie. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: 9223 1372. Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry Mass at 5.30pm and Holy Hour (Adoration) at 6.30pm at the Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Enq: www.cym.com or 9422 7912. Adonai Ladies Prayer Group 10am in the upper room of St Joseph’s Parish, 3 Salvado Rd, Subiaco. Come and join us for charismatic prayer and praise. Enq: Win 9387 2808 or Noreen 9298 9935. EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079. 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 St Thomas More Catholic Parish, Dean Rd Bateman. It will be accompanied by Exposition and followed by Benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 6242 0702 (w). EVERY THURSDAY
EVERY THIRD THURSDAY Auslan Café – Sign language workshop 12.30pm at St Francis Xavier’s Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, Perth. It’s Australian Sign Language - Auslan Café is a social setting for anybody who would like to learn or practice Auslan in a relaxing and fun atmosphere. Light lunch provided. Enq: Emma emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au EVERY FRIDAY Eucharistic Adoration at the Schoenstatt Shrine 10am at Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Drive, Mt Richon. Includes: Holy Mass, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Silent adoration till 8.15pm. In this Year of Grace join us in prayer at a place of grace. Enq: Sisters of Schoenstatt 9399 2349. EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Healing Mass 7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, Exposition and Eucharistic Adoration, Benediction and anointing of the sick followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 0433 457 352 and Catherine 0433 923 083. Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life 7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by Adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided. Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189. Catholic Faith Renewal Evening 7.30pm at Ss John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton – Songs of Praise and Prayer, sharing by a priest followed by thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments after Mass. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913 or Ann 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com. Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils 7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Lochee St, Mosman Park or St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr/Majella Rd, Westminster (Mirrabooka). The Vigils consist of two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, prayers and Confession in reparation for the outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357 or Fr Giosue 9349 2315or John/Joy 9344 2609. Pro-Life Witness Holy Mass at St Brigid’s Midland at 9.30am, followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic, and led by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Please join us to pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of hearts. Enq Helen 9402 0349. EVERY SECOND FRIDAY OF THE MONTH Discover the Spirituality of St Francis of Assisi 12pm at St Brigid’s Catholic Parish Centre. The Secular Franciscans of Midland Fraternity meet for lunch followed by 1-3pm meeting. Enq: Antoinette 9297 2314. EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH Healing Mass 12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org. au. Novena Devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health 5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379.
St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org.
Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 12pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.
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Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the Blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, Scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning
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.
St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Mon 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734. Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from Mary MacKillop Centre. Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933. Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community set in beautiful gardens in suburb of Glendalough. “Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155. Resource Centre for Personal Development The Holistic Health Seminar “The Instinct to Heal’’, every Tuesday 3-4.30pm; and RCPD2 “Internalise Principles of Successful Relationships and Use Emotional Intelligence and Communication Skills” every Tuesday 4.30-6.30pm, 197 High St, Fremantle - Tuesdays 3-4.30pm. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. Bookings are essential. Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year? Suggest a Certificate IV course to discern God’s purpose for their life. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission & Evangelisation (National Code 51452). Enq: Jane 9202 6859. AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 9523 3566. Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA, Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations, to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities, etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary Mackillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssra-perth@catholic.org. Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College is now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For a prospectus and enrolment form please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au. Pellegrini Books Wanted An order of Sisters in Italy is looking for the following: The Living Pyx of Jesus, Fervourings From Galilee’s Hills, Fervourings From the LoveBroken Heart of Christ, Fervourings From the Lips of the Master, Listening to the Indwelling Presence, Sheltering the Divine Outcast, Daily Inspection and Cleansing of the Living Temple of God, and Staunch Friends of Jesus, the Lover of Youth. If you are able to help, please contact Justine on 0419 964 624 or justine@waterempire.com. Acts 2 College, Perth’s Catholic Bible College, is now pleased to be able to offer tax deductibility for donations to the College. If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow the faith of young people and to evangelise the next generation of apostles, please contact Jane Borg, Principal at Acts 2 College on 0401 692 690 or principal@ acts2come.wa.edu.au. Divine Mercy Church Pews Would you like to assist, at the same time becoming part of the history of the new Divine Mercy Church in Lower Chittering, by donating a beautifully handcrafted jarrah pew currently under construction, costing only $1,000 each. A beautiful brass plaque with your inscription will be placed at the end of the pew. Please make cheques payable to Divine Mercy Church Building fund and send with inscription to: PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084. Enq: Fr Paul 0427 085 093. Abortion Grief Association Inc. A not-for-profit association is looking for premises to establish a Trauma Recovery Centre (pref.SOR) in response to increasing demand for our services. (ref.www.abortiongrief.asn.au). Enq: Julie (08) 9313 1784.
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Divine Mercy 11am at Ss John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy and for the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Enq: John 9457 7771.
Group Fifty - Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at the Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.
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September Catalogue NEW IN STOCK - CATHOLICISM
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nswering the call for The New Evangelisation, this multimedia educational program reveals the truth, beauty and richness of the Faith in an unprecedented way. With creator and host Fr
Robert Barron, participants will learn what Catholics believe and why by exploring the art, architecture, literature, music and all the treasures of the Catholic tradition. CATHOLICISM is filmed on location and in the
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streets, illustrating the splendour of the global Church, all in original, highdefinition cinematography. This comprehensive catechesis is appropriate for RCIA and other adult formation programs. Presents strong, ecclesial dimension of the Catholic Faith and God’s revelation through Jesus Christ
CATHOLICISM 5 DVD SET
and his Church.
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