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Cardinal Edwin O’Brien reiterates message of Pope Francis in Perth

Get over ourselves and get out By Robert Hiini WHY, in spite of its huge resources, do so many people not come to know the living Christ in the Catholic Church? That was the question posed by Cardinal Edwin O’Brien of New York, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, when he preached at St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco last Saturday morning. Cardinal O’Brien has been visiting cities throughout Australia and New Zealand this past month, investing new Knights and Ladies into the order and celebrating 25 years since the first Australian lieutenancy was established, here in Perth. In his homily, Cardinal O’Brien recounted the testimony of a major US sports figure who denounced the Church of his youth, saying he had only come to know Jesus upon meeting his Protestant Christian

wife. “How sad I was to read that public denunciation of our Catholic faith. How sad I always am when a friend or relative leaves the Catholic Church,” Cardinal O’Brien said. “In spite of my sadness, I had to recognise the fact that some who join other churches finally find Jesus.

near empty? “Why do so many of our baptised enter their parish church only for first communion, perhaps for confirmation and marriage, and will probably want to be carried in at their funerals? “Jesus simply has no relevance in their lives. He makes little practical difference in their daily family

We have to go to the distant places in our culture. It was the Pope who rang that editor to do that interview. That’s going out to the periphery. “Surely, such individuals are missing out on the fullness of our one, holy Catholic and apostolic faith but at least they have found Jesus in their lives. “Why didn’t our sports star come to know the living Jesus in our Catholic Church with all the huge resources we invest in education? Why are so many of our churches

life, business, and social interactions. In short, Jesus is not alive for them,” the Cardinal said. It was the first order duty of all Knights and Ladies, and Catholics more broadly, he said, to announce to the world “that the Holy Sepulchre is empty”. “In short, our lives must proclaim the message of the living Jesus... The Holy Sepulchre is

empty because Jesus Christ is alive in our hearts and our works of love”. Speaking with The Record after celebrating the 11am Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Cardinal O’Brien echoed sentiments expressed by Pope Francis, that the Church needed to be more outgoing. “[Pope Francis] talks about the horizon - go, go, go - not just to China and India, but to the distant places in our culture that are unaware of Christ or that reject Christ. “It’s what the Pope did with the atheistic editor of the La Repubblica magazine,” Cardinal O’Brien said of the now infamous interview in which the Pope said that ethics followed love, and not the other way around. “He called him and wanted an interview. That’s going out to the periphery; that’s going to the outskirts of culture, and I think we have to realise in our parishes that Continued page 6

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Men invited to reflect on the life of St Andrew In honour of the feast day of St Andrew, menAlive are holding a men’s faith reflection morning at Holy Spirit Parish in City Beach on November 30. The free event begins at 9am and concludes at 12.30pm. The morning will start with Mass, followed by breakfast, and then a presentation on the life of St Andrew. Born in the early first century, St Andrew was the brother of St Peter and is considered to be the founder and first bishop of the Church of Byzantium, which later became Constantinople and is modern day Istanbul. Following the presentation on St Andrew the men attending will be encouraged to reflect on his life and share these thoughts with each other in a small group. For more information or to register, call Jon on 0409 800 841 or email menalivecitybeach@live.com.au.

Gold coins the perfect gift for the baby Jesus In preparation for Christmas, Pregnancy Assistance has started a new initiative called ‘Gifts of Gold for Baby Jesus’ which is a simple collection of gold coin donations. Pregnancy Assistance was started by Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey in 1996 as a non-profit crisis pregnancy centre and outreach. “People’s involvement in this project enables us to give practical, emotional and financial love and support for free to over 1,000 babies and families, especially women, in need of hope every year, and you are also helping them meet Jesus,”

Members of Perth’s Catholic Chinese Community visited St Charles’ Seminary recently, joining the seminarians at Mass and the evening meal. The community prepared the meal, while the seminary provided soup and dessert. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Lara Malin, coordinator of Pregnancy Assistance told The Record. Schools, parishes and individuals have been asked to get involved in the ‘Gifts of Gold for Baby Jesus’ initiative. Pregnancy Assistance has suggested a number of ways to collect the gold coin donations, including leaving envelopes and labelled baskets in the church foyer or in classrooms. “You could be creative here,” Miss Malin said. “If you have a crib already set up, you could invite parishioners to lay the gifts there or at the foot of Mary, reminiscent of the three wise men.” The money raised at schools and parishes and through individuals can be sent as a cheque made out to Pregnancy Assistance Incorporated at PO Box 8129, Perth BC, WA 6849. “If you think this is something you can do then we encourage you to

go for it,” Miss Malin said. “You are making a big difference of giving hope to those who cannot see any and you are ensuring that our ministry continues to operate and touch the lives of those families most vulnerable throughout the year.”

Medicines, cash needed for the Philippines After a great response of donations last week, Ruby Soh and the Buckets for Jesus team are preparing to fill the second of two containers which will be sent from Perth to the Philippines soon. With most donations being clothing, the Buckets for Jesus team were thankful but stressed the need for

donations such as first aid kits and medicines. Some of the medications urgently required include Metformin (many have diabetes and need maintenance drugs), medicine for hypertension (Norvasc, Losartan, Lasix, Amlodipine), medicine for asthma (Ventolin), and basic medicines such as Biogesic, Medicol, Diatabs, Claritin, vitamins and Alaxan. Also required are toiletries, materials for shelters, blankets, canned food (not requiring a can opener), removal boxes, and cash donations to help cover the costs for the second container, as well as containers in Singapore. Anyone who can help with sorting out the donations and helping to load the items into the second container can contact the Buckets for Jesus team on 9388 9677.

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St Francis Xavier Parish in Hilbert held its annual golf day on October 20. The parish event has been going on for so many years that organiser Bill Carlson told The Record he has no idea when it was started. “I’ve been organising it for the past ten years or so,” Mr Carlson said. “It’s a parish day and open for anyone who wants to get involved. The whole thing is paid for by sponsors and doesn’t cost the parish a thing.” In the weeks leading up to the event, parishioners signed up to participate, with people from neighbouring golf clubs also taking part. Although Mr Carlson did not play on the day, he said it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. “People loved it; morning golf was followed by a BBQ lunch and drinks and Fr Kazimierz Stuglik, our parish priest, came down for lunch and presented the trophies,” Mr Carlson said. The winners of the annual golf day were John Henry and Margaret Landwehr. “Thank you to all the parishioners who helped on the day and to our sponsors,” Mr Carlson said.

Chinese community visits Seminary Thirty members of the Perth Catholic Chinese Community visited St Charles’ Seminary in Guildford recently. The visitors joined the seminary community for Mass and the evening meal. During the Mass, the visitors sang a post communion hymn in Chinese. The guests commented on the warmth and hospitality of the seminarians. The seminary community likewise enjoyed the “delicious” evening meal provided by the Perth Chinese Community, with the seminary providing soup and dessert. The evening concluded with sung Compline in the Seminary Chapel.

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Pope Francis wants Perth’s feedback By Matthew Biddle PERTH Catholics are being encouraged to take part in the Church’s global questionnaire on the challenges facing the family today. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has encouraged all Perth parishes, Archdiocesan agencies, Catholic groups and individuals to consider participating. Pope Francis has invited every diocese in the world to complete the questionnaire, with some Australian dioceses, such as Melbourne, Parramatta and Sydney, commencing earlier this month. The information collected will form the basis of discussion at an Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops that Pope Francis has called to take place in the Vatican in October next year. The theme of the Synod will be pastoral challenges of the family in the context of evangelisation. Director of Catholic Marriage and Fertility Services in Perth Derek Boylen told The Record the 39-question survey, which covers topics such as marriage, divorce, annulment, same-sex unions and natural family planning, was a fantastic initiative. “What people need to understand is that the aim of the Synod is to explore how do we respond more pastorally to people who are in different and difficult family situations,” he said. “It’s not a Synod about changing or reviewing the Church’s teaching when it comes to ethical and moral issues, but rather how do we, as a faith community, respond in a more loving and gentle way to people who have various family challenges and marriage difficulties.” Questions examine the challenges of various family situations, such as the following: In the case of unions of persons of the same sex who have adopted children, what can be done pastorally in light of transmitting the faith? Mr Boylen said there are a number of important pastoral challenges facing the family today that the questionnaire seeks views on. “Over the last few generations we’ve seen a move from the traditional family being the predominant model of family in our community to really a diverse array of different family types,” he said. “Cohabitation is obviously a huge issue, particularly with about 80 per

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cent of couples today in Australia who are cohabiting. “Contraception – the prevalence of it in our community and its effect on marriage and family life – and dual working families... that’s a small number of the big pastoral challenges.” Responses need to be submitted by December 9, after which they will be forwarded to the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC). The ACBC will then prepare a national response to forward to Rome. Mr Boylen said he strongly encouraged Perth Catholics to complete the questionnaire. “Here is an opportunity to really be a part of the development of the

Church’s approach to responding to pastoral needs of families,” he said. “Everyone comes from a family, so I think everyone in some way has something to contribute to this discussion.” Catholics interested in participating are asked to read a preparatory document that includes an overview of topics relevant to the questionnaire. To read the preparatory document and participate in the questionnaire via mail or email visit: www.perthcatholic.org.au. The online survey can be accessed at www.surveymonkey.com/s/PerthFamily. For more information contact Derek Boylen on 92415000 or derek.cmfs@perthcatholic.org.au.

Beloved Redemptorist Fr Joseph Carroll dies peacefully in NSW Beloved priest and former head of the North Perth Redemptorists Father Joseph Francis Carroll CSsR passed away on Friday, November 15. Fr Carroll died peacefully at Calvary Hospital, Kogarah, in New South Wales. Aged 76 years, Fr Carroll had been a Redemptorist for 57 years. A death notice provided to The Record by his niece Pamela said the following:

“Devoted son of Michael and Ellen Carroll (both deceased). Loved brother of Sister Irene rsm, Nell Garrety, Father John CSsR, Patrick, Carmel Ward, Michael, Sister Therese rsm, Bill, Father Kevin CSsR, Jim (all deceased), Sister Catherine Mary rsj. Loved uncle, great-uncle and great great-uncle of all his nieces and nephews. May he rest in peace.” A Concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial for Father Carroll was offered at the Church of St Francis Xavier, Forest Road in Arncliffe, NSW on Wednesday, November 20. An obituary for Father Carroll will appear in next week’s Record.

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Caritas leading response to Philippines typhoon CARITAS AUSTRALIA and its emergency response partners will deliver more than 4,000 temporary shelters to families in the poorest villages of Ormoc in the Philippines, where up to 90 per cent of homes were decimated by Typhoon Haiyan. Caritas Australia International programs manager Jamie Davies is in the Philippines and recently drove from Tacloban to Ormoc, a city of 190,000 on the western side of the island of Leyte. “Our team has located the poorest barangays (villages) along the coast of Ormoc who have been left with absolutely nothing. Their need for shelter and basic essentials is urgent,” Ms Davies said. “Tarpaulins, hygiene kits and other household items are coming by boat from Cebu City and will be stored in the Catholic school gymnasium in Ormoc for distribution to more than 4,000 families.” Along with the tarps, affected families will receive shelter tools to construct sturdy shelter using materials salvaged from the storm’s wreckage. Tens of thousands more tarps are en route from Pakistan and will be distributed in Ormoc, Palo in Leyte, and Basey in Samar. In Palo, 15km south of the Province capital city of badly affected Tacloban, Caritas has set up an office in a Catholic cathedral building where shelter, water, hygiene and cooking kits can be distributed. It is also serving as a refuge for homeless families. The Archbishop of Palo, John Du, said, “When you stand on the

More than 12 million people in the Philippines are in need of emergency aid relief after the devastation of typhoon Haiyan.

hill at my place in Palo, you look down and what you see is like a valley of death, as if a bomb has been dropped. Almost everything is destroyed. In spite of that we are still hopeful, we will rise from this ordeal, because of the support of our neighbouring dioceses, provinces and countries.”

Ms Davies, who is in the Philippines to attend a planning and logistics coordination meeting of Caritas International network in Cebu, said disasters of this magnitude require significant coordination by aid agencies. “It is absolutely paramount that local Church and international

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Cricket great wants to coach Vatican By Matthew Biddle STATE CRICKET coach and Perth Catholic Justin Langer has put his hand up to be the coach of the newly-formed Vatican cricket team, the St Peter’s Cricket Club. Langer, who is contracted as coach of the WA side until the completion of the 2015/16 season, told The Record he would relish the opportunity to coach the team, that will likely consist of priests and seminarians studying in Rome. “I’d be very happy to be their coach,” he said. “One of my dreams was always to go to Italy, to go to the Vatican, so one day I’ll go there. “If they want a coach, you get the message out to the Pope for me, or to the Archbishop, that I’m very happy to go there as their coach, because I’ve always wanted to go to the Vatican.” Australia’s ambassador to the Holy See John McCarthy QC greeted Langer’s enthusiasm for the task with delight, but said the team’s inaugural coach will be chosen from within Rome. “Justin’s interest is keenly appreciated by all of us,” Mr McCarthy told The Record. “However, the membership of the club will be priests and seminarians working and studying in Rome. From this group, teams, administrators and coaches will all be drawn.” But Mr McCarthy, who was the brains behind the initial idea to form a Vatican cricket team, did not rule out the possibility of Langer playing a role with the team in the future.

Former Australian cricketer Justin Langer says he would relish the opportunity to coach the newly-formed Vatican cricket team.

“These are the plans for the next couple of years,” he said. “In the long term, a higher standard of cricket may evolve and Justin may become further interested.” The Vatican cricket team was an initiative jointly led by the

Pontifical Council for Culture and the Australian embassy to the Holy See. It is believed that there are as many as 300 international seminarians and priests studying in Rome who could potentially play

cricket for the Vatican side, including Australians, Indians and Sri Lankans. The cricket team was launched on October 22 and hopes to play against teams formed by other denominations.

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Calendar chronicles growth in Spirit JOHN XXIII College has been taking students on life-changing immersions for 14 years, and a new calendar invites Catholics in Perth to go along for the ride. The calendar chronicles the school’s most recent pilgrimages, including those of the last school holidays when a combined 65 students journeyed to India, Vietnam, East Timor and Alice Springs. The school’s mission program was begun in 2000 in the context of declining numbers of religious at schools to ensure students continued to learn and experience the Ignatian charism of service. Students visiting the Yatua Community in East Timor, for example, helped in construction work, as well as teaching English at the Porte Leste Youth Centre and visiting a Salesian orphanage. Participants are subject to a rigorous selection process, Director of Mission Caroline Watson told The Record. Reflection and prayer are mainstays, she said, drawing on the Ignatian Examen to help students comprehend the significance of their pilgrimage experiences. Each group of pilgrims is required to attend a retreat where students learn about Ignatian spirituality and prayer, as well as a bricklaying course among other preparations in the lead up to their departure. Ms Watson said the experience had had a profound affect on students, with many graduates citing it as their inspiration for going into careers in medicine, nursing and physiotherapy, amongst others. Funds raised from the calendar will go to supporting the communities where John XXIII students have visited and served. The calendar is available for $10 from John XXIII College, Mooro Drive, Mt Claremont or by calling 9383 0400.

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Time to get over, and out of ourselves: Cardinal O’Brien Continued from Page 1 attendance is not enough, activities within the parish are not enough. “We’ve got to challenge our people beyond our parish limits to prove that we want Christ to be known by everybody.” The Catholic Church in the West had relied too much on education and not enough on formation, the Cardinal told The Record, adding that, in his experience, many teachers had factual knowledge but no intimate knowledge of the religion

they were teaching. “We are losing members and we have to do a better job of taking Christ seriously - living a Christian life - and realise this society is taking us off track; this society of consuming is antithetical to our faith. “Materialism, the more we get the more we want, it’s dulling us; it’s plugging up our ears and our mind to what the Gospel message is.” Full coverage of the Perth Knights investiture in next week’s Record.

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Labor MP to introduce same-sex marriage bill By Matthew Biddle LABOR MP Lisa Baker has declared she will introduce a bill to legalise same-sex marriage in the lower house of WA parliament next year. The Member for Maylands says she is introducing the private members’ bill in response to a resolution made at the State Labor conference earlier this year, calling for the party to address marriage equality. Earlier this year, State Premier Colin Barnett said he did not support gay marriage. “My view is still a fundamental view that marriage is between a man and a woman, and that is one of the basic fabrics and structures of

our society,” he said at the February election forum. News of Ms Baker’s proposal comes after yet another same-sex

“Marriage is between a man and a woman... one of the basic fabrics and structures of our society.” - Colin Barnett marriage bill was defeated last week. On November 14, the upper house of the NSW Parliament voted 21-19 against a bill to legalise

same-sex marriage in the State. It was the ninth bill introduced in an Australian Parliament since 2010 that sought to redefine marriage. Managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton, said the NSW result signalled that it is time for governments to move on from the issue. “Each time parliament spends time debating this issue is a lost opportunity to debate policies at the heart of government – health, welfare and economic stability,” he said. “It is time same-sex marriage advocates submit to the decisions of parliament rather than pursuing legislation by fatigue.”

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His kingdom welcome, crying or not By Matthew Biddle PATER NOSTER Parish in Myaree is leading the charge in encouraging parents to bring their children to Mass, despite any concerns over the noise they might make. “Some families don’t come along to Mass as often as they would like because parents are afraid their children will make too much noise,” parish priest Fr Joseph Lee wrote in last weekend’s bulletin. “They are welcome and... if they feel uncomfortable because they cannot stop their babies crying, they can always go into the meeting room at the back of the church.” Deacon John Kiely told The Record the parish included a large number of young families, but they are not often at Mass. “There were approximately 95 baptisms in the parish in the last year; we don’t see very many of these families at Sunday Mass, they start to emerge as the children get to about three or four and can go to Children’s Liturgy,” he said. Several years ago the parish began hosting a special ‘Mums and Bubs’ Mass once every two months as a means of keeping the parish in touch with young families. The popularity of the initiative has forced the Mass to be held on a monthly basis in recent times. “Some mothers say it is the only Mass they come to because they don’t feel embarrassed by the noise their children make,” Deacon John said. “We try to encourage the use of the “crying room” but they feel it is just not worthwhile most of the time. They know that at the ‘Mums and Bubs’ Mass they will be in good company with other mothers also feeling the same.” Belmont parishioners Troy and Ngaire Kiernan are parents to seven children under the age of 12, and say it can be difficult keeping them

Pater Noster Parish in Myaree says it is determined to be a family and child welcoming space, where parents need not be embarrassed about the noises of their small children. Above, children exit a church on Ash Wednesday Mass in Guatemala City, Guatemala earlier this year. PHOTO: CNS

all quiet and attentive. “If they’re making noise and disturbing people, I’ll take them out and try to settle them,” Mr Kiernan said. He takes the older children outside if necessary, not to “sit and play on the grass”, but rather for “disciplinary reasons”. “When my kids get taken out-

side, they think ‘This isn’t fun, I actually want to be inside Mass, because when I’m outside all I’m getting is discipline’,” Mr Kiernan explained. When the task of bringing all the children to Mass gets hard, it might be necessary to attend Mass at a different time, or for both spouses to

go to Mass separately, Mr Kiernan said. Further, he said, keeping Mass distinctly different to the home environment is essential. “I don’t try to make Mass entertaining for them,” he said. “I don’t provide [the younger ones] with toys in Mass, or any books unless

it’s a book to do with the Mass or religion.” Mr Kiernan said while it can be challenging, it was important to bring his children to Mass. “It’s a great thing to see children at Mass, I think it’s very encouraging for the priest, and it’s a good example to other young people,” he said.

Catholics congratulate Syrian Orthodox friend

His Eminence Theophilos George Saliba, centre, awarded a special honour to Perth’s Fr Boutros Touma Issa, second from left, in Perth last month. SUPPLIED

THE CATHOLIC college chapel of St Thomas More played host to a holy liturgy celebrated by a Syrian Orthodox leader visiting from Lebanon late last month. His Eminence (HE) Theophilos George Saliba, Metropolitan of Mount Lebanon, visited Perth on behalf of His Holiness Moran Ignatius Zaka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch and Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church. HE Saliba bestowed the decoration of St Ignatius Theophoros on the local leader of the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Very Reverend Fr Boutros Touma Issa, an honoured guest at many celebrations and official functions in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. After the bestowal, the

deacons read letters of congratulations from Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant Christian leaders throughout Perth, including from Bishop Donald Sproxton

Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant and Catholic Church leaders sent their congratulations. on behalf of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and from Mgr Kevin Long, rector of St Charles Seminary. Fr Boutros Touma Issa spoke briefly of his surprise, thanking God the Almighty for his mercies, and thanking His Holiness for the

honour and wishing His Holiness long life and the best of health. Fr Issa also thanked their eminences, Fr Jomon Thomas, the heads of churches in Perth and all those who attended from the Syrian Orthodox Congregations of St Ephraim’s and St Peter’s. During the service a supplication was held for the safe return of the two abducted archbishops Mor Gregorius Yohanna Ibrahim and Bishop Boulos Yazigi and for peace in our world. After the Holy Liturgy, all present moved to Mt Claremont Community Centre at the invitation of the family of Fr Issa for lunch prepared to celebrate the occasion while enjoying Syriac songs and traditional folkloric dance.

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Youth learn life is sacred at Jewish memorial By Juanita Shepherd THE DARKEST period of Jewish history began on November 9 and 10, 1938 when the Sturmabteilung, the paramilitary wing of the Nazi party, coordinated a series of attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria. The infamous event came to be known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass, owing to the shards of glass from smashed windows, synagogues, homes and buildings. Seventy-five years later, on November 10 at the Government House Ballroom, the Council of Christians and Jews Western Australia (CCJWA) came together to solemnly commemorate the beginning of the Jewish persecutions. “Much more than glass was shattered that night,” Malcolm McCusker, Governor of Western Australia and a guest speaker at the commemoration, said. Many among the audience were old enough to remember the horrors of the Second World War inflicted by German dictator Adolf Hitler; one man present was a survivor of Kristallnacht itself. Yet the most intriguing group of attendants seated in the ornate ballroom was a handful of high school students, sitting respectfully throughout the evening, absorbing every word spoken. They listened to the poems recited by CCJWA committee members and to the prayers read by Anglican Archbishop Roger Herft, Perth’s Vicar General Fr Peter Whitely and Rabbi Dovid Freilich. “Extremism and racism still exist,” Mr McCusker said in his opening address. “We must always be vigilant and guard against these evils. Evil triumphs if good people do nothing.” On the pretext of the murder of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by German-Polish Jew Herschel Grynszpan, Kristallnacht was born. Ninety-one Jews lost their lives in the attacks; it was only the beginning of the death toll which would rise to six million by the end of World War II. “It’s important for the youth to learn from history,” Fr Peter Whitely, who attended on behalf of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, told The Record. “If people don’t use history, than history’s mistakes are bound to repeat themselves.” After the names of the concentration camps were read out, two minutes’ silence was followed by the sound effects of smashing glass.

Students from Carmel School, a modern orthodox Jewish school, attended the Kristallnacht commemoration on November 10.

Following the sombre moment, Fr Whitely led the audience in prayer. He prayed for love and reconciliation, a commitment to ensure that this may never happen again; he prayed that hatred and oppression may be destroyed and that the innocent are protected.

Record youth could gain a deeper understanding of life from the horrors of the Holocaust. “There is an infinite amount of meaning to get from it,” he said. “It is important to make a stand that life is sacred and hope for the good and for God’s love to prevail.” Dr Morrison comes from a

past come to life as well as a chance to learn more. “We went to the camps in Poland,” student Jareth Jawno said. “It was interesting, but at the commemoration tonight I learnt new things and discovered more information.” Another Carmel student, Eitan

Fr Whitely led the audience in prayer for reconciliation, a commitment to ensure that this may never happen again; he prayed that hatred and oppression may be destroyed and that the innocent are protected. “We pray that those who suffered might teach us the enormity of silence in the face of injustice,” Fr Whitely said. He said he found the commemoration very moving, and that he believes good really comes out of evil. “I find it hard to put into words, but there is a sense of unity in praying for good to come out of evil,” he said. Catholic theologian at the University of Notre Dame and chair of CCJWA Glen Morrison told The

Jewish background and the commemoration was deeply emotional for him, yet he sees a silver lining in an otherwise cruel act of persecution. “Kristallnacht personalises evil for young people,” he said. “It gives them an opportunity to seek meaning and understanding in their life and it allows them to get in touch and deepen their language of faith.” For the students of Carmel School in Yokine, the commemoration was an opportunity to feel the

Broude, found the commemoration sad and sombre. “What the Jewish people have overcome I find overwhelming,” he said. The commemoration of Kristallnacht acknowledged the sadness and strength of the Jewish people who faced certain death at the hands of the Nazis. A lamentation was sung by the Winthrop Consort directed by Dr Nicholas Bannan and accompanied by Caroline Badnall. The Winthrop Consort also sang The Lord Hath

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Been Mindful To Us, taken from Psalm 115; and the entire audience recited the Inscription of Hope, words found on the walls of a cellar in Cologne where the Jews hid from the Nazis. The words were a simple prayer of hope in the face of despair: “I believe, I believe in the sun even when it is not shining, I believe in love even when feeling it not, I believe in God even when God is silent”. “Most of the Holocaust survivors have sadly passed on,” Rabbi Dovid Freilich said. “It is important for the young people and for the world to know about the Holocaust and ensure for future generations that something like this doesn’t happen again.” Rabbi Freilich, his wife and his family lost many relatives during the Holocaust and were grateful for the commemoration. “The commemoration makes sure that these events are remembered,” Rabbi Freilich said. “The lives of our loved ones were not in vain, they did not perish in vain and, although they can never be replaced, we can work together to ensure a peaceful world.”

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Right and below, The Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB ordains St Charles’ seminarians Carmine John Millen and Renald Anthony, respectively, to the Diaconate, seen lying prostrate, far right, during the Litany of the Saints. PHOTOS: PETER DUONG

Humble, happy and ready to witness Western Australia continues to be blessed by God, with three more men being ordained for the Diaconate this month: two for the Archdiocese of Perth, and one for the Diocese of Broome, as Robert Hiini reports.

T CHARLES’ SEMINARIANS Renald Anthony and Carmine John (CJ) Millen were ordained to the Diaconate for the Archdiocese of Perth at St Columba’s Church in South Perth, last Friday evening. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was the principal celebrant at the joyful occasion, joined by St Charles’ Seminary Rector Mgr Kevin Long and St Columba’s parish priest, Mgr Brian O’Loughlin, and more than 50 priests from throughout Perth and beyond. Mr Anthony, 27, said he had been looking forward to it, having spent three years of formation in Perth, and seven in his original diocese of Tuticorin in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. “It is a big thing for me, personally, to come forward and accept this responsibility; as in the words of the Holy Father, to be a servant, to preach the Gospel, and to be a witness for Christ,” Mr Anthony told The Record. Mr Millen said he was encouraged by the number of priests who attended and their show of support for both himself and Mr Anthony. “It’s a great joy for me to be chosen to be God’s servant,” he said, “to serve in ministry and give witness to Christ”. The event came a little under two weeks after another St Charles’ seminarian, Christopher Knapman was ordained a deacon for the Diocese of Broome by Broome Bishop Christopher Saunders on November 3, at St Charles’ Seminary. Guests of honour at that occasion included Mr Knapman’s parents, Joan and Craig from Sydney, in addition to his many lay and priestly friends. On Friday night, Mr Millen’s parents John and Carmel were on hand to share in their son’s joy, helping to vest him after Archbishop Costelloe had performed the laying on of hands. Moora parish priest Fr Joseph Rathnaraj, who hails from the

Above, newly ordained Deacon C J Millen celebrates with his mother and father, John and Carmel. Below, Deacon Renald Anthony and Fr Joseph Rathnaraj. Bottom, Deacon Christopher Knapman and his parents Joan and Craig, with Bishop Christopher Saunders and Mgr Kevin Long. PHOTOS: PETER DUONG

From left: Mgr Brian O’Loughlin, Deacon C J Millen, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Deacon Renald Anthony, Bishop Donald Sproxton, and St Charles’ Seminary rector Mgr Kevin Long. PHOTO: PETER DUONG

same area as Deacon Anthony, and Leederville parish priest Fr Joseph Angelo were also there to witness the milestone. Deacon Anthony performed his first baptism two

Both Deacon Anthony and Deacon Millen will live out their ministry over the coming months by serving in Perth parishes and, God willing, will be ordained

“It is a big thing for me, personally, to come forward and accept this responsibility; as in the words of the Holy Father, to be a servant, to preach the Gospel, and be a witness for Christ.” days after being ordained, on November 17, christening a oneyear-old baby boy, Ezak Tareq Zabaneh (b January 21, 2013) at St Columba’s, an opportunity for which he expressed thanks to parish priest, Mgr O’Loughlin.

priests for the archdiocese. After a brief holiday at his home in Sydney, Deacon Knapman will take up a summer appointment in the Broome Diocese before returning to St Charles in 2014 to conclude his priestly formation.

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Carmel's contagious sanctity R

APHAEL Kalinowski hoped that when consumption had finally reduced him to his last breath, that the end would come on the feast of All Souls - the great feast of all the Church's faithful departed. It was not to be. On November 15, 1907, in the southern Polish town of Wadowice, the brother assisting the ailing Carmelite priest reminded him as to the significance of date – that it was the feast day of all the Carmelite Order’s deceased. And so Kalinowski got his wish but in a slightly different way. "Well then," he replied to his confrère. "I go to my rest." Fourteen years later, in that same town, the soon to be canonised Karol Józef Wojtyła, a man eventually raised to the See of Peter, was born. On November 17, 1991, as Pope John Paul II, he announced that his boyhood hero Kalinowski was part of the Heavenly Host, canonising him at St Peter's Basilica in Rome and entrusting his memory not only to Poland, but to the entire Church. Kalinowski was a survivor of the Siberian salt mines, an engineer, a teacher, a royal tutor to a future Blessed. He was well known for having cultivated a life of holiness through the aid of the Holy Spirit, long before he realised his priestly vocation in late adult life. Kalinowski’s was a life touched by saints and influential in the making of others. A few years ago I wrote an article for The Record to mark the 150 year anniversary of the apparitions at Lourdes also in the South of France. I told the story of how a Carmelite priest, Germanborn Hermann Cohen, a famous musician, had met and encouraged the young Bernadette Soubirous. Here I will be revisiting the path of Hermann Cohen in part, in the slight yet still considerable way his life interacted with that of John Paul II’s spiritual forebear, (Saint) Raphael Kalinowski, a Carmelite like Cohen. In turn, I will trace the influence Kalinowski would have on his royal student and eventual Blessed, Prince Auguste Czartoryski, a Salesian priest who suffered the same consumptive fate, although at a much earlier age. And in several small ways, the men's interrelated histories will be shown to have influenced, in small ways, the life of the Church, even in far-flung Western Australia. A dedicated life Kalinowski was born Jozef Kalinowski to a noble Polish-Lithuanian family in Wilno or Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, taking the name Raphael of St Joseph Kalinowski in later life on becoming a Carmelite religious. A gifted student, he neglected the practise of his faith as a young man, eventually becoming a mathematics lecturer, like his father, at the Academy of Military Engineering at St Petersburg. Around the same time as he was rediscovering God, he got caught up, somewhat unwillingly, in the final insurrection of Poland against its Russian overlords in 1863. He resigned his Russian post and accepted a post in the rebel army as Minister of War for the region of Vilna. Arrested and tried, he was first condemned to death but the sentence was commuted due to his connections with the nobility to ten years hard labour in the Siberian salt mines, along with thousands of others. There, in exile, he developed an almost incredibly devout Christian life, becoming a model of charity, prayer and service to his fellow prisoners. On release in 1874, Kalinowski was

When Pope John Paul II canonised a relatively unknown Carmelite priest in 1991, he was canonising one of his boyhood heroes. Raphael of St Joseph Kalinowski was not only a survivor of the Siberian salt mines who had cultivated great holiness as a layman, he was also the royal tutor to another likely Saint, writes Carmelite priest Fr Tadgh Kierney ocd.

Raphael of St Joseph Kalinowski was a late vocation to the religious life, joining the Carmelites in 1877. PHOTO: ONLINE

Blessed Auguste Czartoryski SDB became a pupil of Rapheal of St Joseph Kalinowski as a sickly 16-year-old boy. PHOTO: ONLINE

repatriated to Krakow. On September 20, he visited the last remaining Polish property of the noble Czartoryski family who had been exiled to Paris after the Polish uprising of 1830. There he met Prince Ladislaus as well as his son and pupil-to-be Auguste, known diminutively as ‘Gucio’ to his parents, for the first time. Kalinowski noticed immediately that the boy Auguste was suffering from consumption. Having developed a keen eye for observing such traits as a teacher, Kalinowski also observed a restless and defiant streak in the young prince. He was not surprised. Kalinowski realised that he was an enigma to the boy; that he had arrived there as a complete stranger. But here in this princely household, Gucio was not the only one feeling uneasy. Kalinowski felt himself gravely unequal to the task but Czartoryski senior felt otherwise having trawled the universities of Europe for a suitable tutor for the heir apparent to the Polish throne. History shows that Kalinowski's ultimate commitment to meeting the challenge, remained unflinching, with the future saint having been reported to remark wistfully: "Who knows if my work may not produce some fruit?" On October 23, 1874 Kalinowski reached Paris, the city in which he was to tutor the 16-year-old prince. He was amiably welcomed by Princess Margaret, Gucio’s stepmother, the second wife of his father Prince Ladislaus. There they went on to the Hôtel Lambert, a stately home and the finest residence in Paris, now owned by a brother of the Emir of Qatar (if you take the Bateau Rouge from the Eiffel Tower and cruise up the Seine you will have a good view of this imposing mansion). The hotel was emblematic of how interconnected the aristocratic families of Europe were in those days, and how wide ranging was their influence. Princess Margaret’s father was the Duke of Nemours of the House of Orleans. Her grandparents were King Louis-Philippe and Queen Marie Amélie. Amélie -les-Bains, the town where the first Bishop of Perth John Brady spent his

left the Czartoryski household for good. After they parted, Gucio set out for Spain to visit his royal relatives. In a memoir in later life Kalinowski recalled some of the details from that era: ‘I don’t know much about the circumstances about his (Gucio`s) meeting with Don Bosco. I only know that some years later, when I had returned to Krakow, he was already a son of the blessed father and was under his direction. ‘At Krakow he made confession to the Jesuit Rector. I said a final farewell to him in 1883 at Krakow Station where he had come to see me. The rest is known; I have written about what I have witnessed.’ The Nouvelles Salesiennes (Salesian News) for June 1893 takes up the story: ‘An admirer of Don Bosco and for a long time closely associated with him, the young Prince Auguste, after much prayer and repeated entreaties, was admitted in 1887 to become a member of our holy society.’ In fact Don Bosco was firmly opposed to his entry into the new Society, not specifically for health reasons but apparently he felt a Prince would be unsuitable material as a Novice. It was not until Auguste was given the nod by Pope Leo XIII at the young man’s bidding, that Don Bosco agreed, a story of entreaty mirroring that of Carmelite Doctor of the Church St Thérèse Martin. On November 24 of the same year he received the clerical habit from the hands of Don Bosco himself in the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians. He was ordained a priest on April 3 , 1892, a state to which he had felt called from infancy. ‘Accustomed to the refinements and splendour of princely life’, the Nouvelles Salesiennes article continues, ‘he renounced it all to embrace evangelical perfection. We have witnessed that he sought out privations with a generous spirit, taking on in this spirit the trials and crosses of the religious life. ‘Surrounded up to now with servants to respond to his every wish, he aroused our admiration by submitting cheerfully to those whom obedience placed over him, and carrying out their wishes even in the least details and with scrupulous exactitude. During his agonizing illness he was always even tempered and perfectly resigned to God’s will.’ The article goes on to note his saintly

final years as a hermit having departing Perth in controversy many years earlier, had been named after the Queen. A most charitable lady, she had endowed a military hospital there with health spas for the use of veteran soldiers. When she was widowed and exiled in Clarendon House, Kensington, London, Hermann Cohen, who at that time had brought the Carmelites back to England and lived nearby, became her chaplain until her death in 1866. It was there, in the Hôtel Lambert that Jozef Kalinowski also met Queen Isabella II of Spain, a benefactor of the Salvado Brothers in New Norcia where you will find Queen Isabella’s gift of an Englishmade grandfather clock presented to Santos Salvado in 1857. Kalinowski instilled strong moral qualities in his pupil, leading him in morning and evening prayers in the domestic chapel. In a letter to his father, Auguste relates how, with the cathedral of Notre Dame being in the vicinity (like the Hôtel Lambert situated on the Ile St Louis), they would call in during their walk and attend Benediction, where he heard O Salutaris Hostia being sung in Paris for the first time. The grand ambience of a Parisian stately home seems a far cry from saltmaking in Siberia, but Kalinowski’s interior life was all of a piece with his previ-

ous existence. Prayer and contemplation continued to dominate his life. He certainly grew enormously in his spiritual life during his sojourn in Paris. There is little doubt that Kalinowski found his role of tutor to the heir apparent to the Polish throne an enormous burden. The problem was he was dealing with a boy who had a serious health problem

popular with the sick, those suffering from various maladies such as catarrh, bronchitis and laryngitis. They also visited Lourdes. The young prince returned to Paris but his mentor stayed on for a few more days. “I departed from Lourdes”, Kalinowski said, “more quickly than I would have liked. It is definitely a very attractive place and a profound feeling of joy filled my heart when visiting the grotto where the

Carmelites sisters, and where Hermann Cohen had helped to set up a foundation of friars. Kalinowski might just easily have been a Salesian, the order for which the young prince eventually became a priest. The concerns of an educator of youth are obvious in what follows: “Recently great changes have come about in France on the subject of education. They are not just catering for the

Kalinowski got caught up, somewhat unwillingly, in the Polish rebellion against their Russian overlords. Arrested and tried, he was condemned to death but his sentence was commuted to ten years hard labour in the Siberian salt mines. There, in exile, he developed an almost incredibly devout Christian life, becoming a model of charity. but whose educational needs had still to be seen to. Forming his sickly pupil Kalinowski had no great enthusiasm for shuttling from one health spa to another but he didn’t want to let the family down. At one stage he took his protégé to a place called Eaux-Bonnes, in the lower Pyrenees, a name suggesting that the curative properties of the waters would benefit Gucio’s tuberculosis. Like Amelie-le-Bains, from June to October or ‘the season’ as it was called, it was

Blessed Virgin manifested herself ”. Hermann Cohen, who was an inspiration for Kalinowski in pursuing his vocation, had similar feelings at Lourdes over ten years previously. Zélie Martin, now Blessed, and the mother of the Carmelite Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, would go there just two years later with her daughters, hoping and praying for a cure for own breast cancer. Later Kalinowski would visit another town in the vicinity, Bagnéresde-Bigorre, a place associated with the

intellectual formation of the child, they also try to impart solid religious convictions. “The (religious) congregations insist above all on this point and try hard to anchor youth in the heart of holy Church. I often see children in the churches singing the praises of God.” Kalinowski had worked out a programme of study for his protégé; an hour in the morning was devoted either to a treatise on elementary physics or a book on philosophy. From mid-morning

on they studied the lives of the Polish St Stanislaus or St Aloysius Gonzaga. Later time was devoted either to letter writing or to a study of geography with Kalinowski reading aloud an account of journeys and expeditions from a publication called Le Tour du Monde, a kind of forerunner to National Geographic. Carmel Beckons It was during their sojourn in Davos, Switzerland that Joseph Kalinowski first told his parents of his religious vocation; that he wished to leave the world and live in a little religious cell. He constantly asked his family and friends to pray for him, reminding them that it was the prayers of his family that saved him the first time from probable death in Siberia; now he needed them again for his new life. Around this time the Czartoryska women, Marcelina and Mother MaryXavier were on the lookout for a potential reformer and restorer of the Carmelite Friars in Poland. It didn’t seem to matter that he was not yet a member of the order or even a postulant. Another member of the family Princess Iza, had already set the ball rolling pre-empting their contact with Kalinowski. On August 25, 1876 Princess Marcelina met with Kalinowski in Davos and suggested that he join the Carmelites. On July 5, 1877 Raphael Kalinowski

death at Alassio (Italy) on April 8, 1893. Another service was held in Turin on April 27 attended by Princess Marcellina Czartoryski. The Princess was delighted to meet afterwards in the parlour one hundred and twenty Polish girls who had joined the Salesian Sisters. They acknowledged to her that they were indebted to the deceased prince and priest for the grace of vocation; if he could abandon such a privileged state, the girls said, they could leave a lesser one. The Polish Prince turned Salesian priest, the one-time pupil of St Raphael of St Joseph Kalinowski was beatified by the Polish Pope, now Blessed John Paul 11 on April 24, 2004. Raphael Kalinowski reaches his goal The Prince`s tutor Raphael Kalinowski left Paris and headed for the Carmelite headquarters in Linz, Austria which he reached on July 14 , 1877. He was over 40 years of age, a late applicant by the customs of those days. At the age of 46, Kalinowski was ordained a priest by the Bishop Albino Dunajewski of Krakow on January 15, 1882. Kalinowski`s ability and worth were quickly recognized, being appointed Prior of Czerna the following year. Three years later the Provincial Council, meeting in Linz, Austria appointed him Councillor. Next he was made Prior of Czerna for a second time and following that was entrusted with founding and leading a new Carmelite house in Wadowice between 1891 and 1894. Then it was back to Czerna again for another period as Prior and then to Wadowice again in a similar capacity until 1889 when he was appointed Vicar Provincial for the Carmelite nuns in Galicia. His last appointment was again as Prior of Wadowice in 1906 but he did not live to finish his term of office. Helping the Carmelite nuns was predominant in his life – both as confessor, spiritual director and lecturer. This was unsurprising seeing as it was to them that he attributed his Carmelite vocation. Raphael Kalinowski more than fulfilled the trust the Czartoryska women placed in his potential, even before he became a Carmelite. He can truly be called the Restorer of Carmel in Poland. He was crucial to the renewal of the Carmel family in Poland, ministering to its needs in every way by spiritual guidance, retreats and lectures. Here again he bears a distinct resemblance Hermann Cohen, whose biography he promoted and who did so much to restore the Teresian Carmelites in France and England a short time previously. With regard to the Third or Secular Order, Kalinowski was instrumental in founding numerous communities whom he would guide along the path of prayer according to the spirit of St Teresa. The most famous member of the Secular Order was Pope John Paul II. Carmelites celebrate the memory of St Raphael Kalinowski on November 19. The Carmelite Order is represented in Perth by the Sisters in Nedlands Convent. Carmelite Friars in the tradition of St Raphael Kalinowski are represented by the community at Infant Jesus Priory, Morley and the Secular Carmelite Order. The Salesians, following in the footsteps of St John Bosco and Blessed Auguste Czartoryski, are represented by the present Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB, Fr Albert Saminedi SDB and Fr Lionel Henry SDB. Fr Tadgh Tierney ocd is a priest at the Infant Jesus Priory in Morley.

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Taking

CHRIST to the

CREASE

He was one of the batting greats and is a regular at Mass in Subiaco every Sunday morning. But Justin Langer never left God in church. He took the Cross to the wicket, writes Matthew Biddle.

T WAS BOXING DAY 2002. Justin Langer walks out onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground to face the first ball of the Ashes Test match against England in front of more than 63,000 spectators. It’s an exciting, heart-pumping atmosphere, but something happens that will forever be etched in the West Australian’s mind. “In cricket you mark a centre line to know where your middle stump is, so I marked that,” he recalls. “But my bat kept slipping on the crease, because it was a brand new wicket. So I got my spikes and I started scratching the surface and all of a sudden I got this perfect cross on the wicket. I did it at the other end too, so every ball, I’m looking down and there’s a perfect cross, and I’ve been meditating on it for months.” The man nicknamed ‘JL’ went on to make 250, his highest Test score, while fellow opening batsman Matthew Hayden also reached triple figures. Four years later Langer and Hayden had become Australia’s most successful opening batsmen, and one of the most prolific pairs in cricket history. The secret to their success? The cross. “Matthew Hayden and I, every game after that, we used to put the cross on the turf,” Langer told The Record in an interview recently. “We didn’t even have to talk about it, it was just part of our partnership, every time we batted for the next four years we had a cross on the wicket. Now that has been a secret, but I’m happy to share it.” Langer made his debut for the Australian cricket team in 1993 as a 22-year-old, but struggled to retain his spot in the side, playing just three Test matches in the space of five years. He says it was a difficult period, but his faith in God helped him get through. “In life we all have down times, but to have that faith and to have those Scriptures to draw on, really it’s beautiful,” he says. In November 1999, Langer played the innings of his life to lead Australia to an unlikely victory against Pakistan in Hobart. He says the innings was a turning point in his career. While cricket fans around the country will remember Langer’s famous knock fondly, what they may not know is that during his stay at the crease he was meditating on a Bible verse. Langer begins the story a month earlier in WA, soon after returning home after a difficult tour of Sri Lanka. “It was a horrible tour, I couldn’t face Muralitharan the spin bowler, and I came back and I was in no

Above, Justin Langer, right, and Matthew Hayden were the most successful batting partnership in Australian Cricketing history, one that extended beyond on-wicket performance to their shared faith. Right, Justin Langer at the SCG after an Ashes win on January 5, 2007. C SPENCER / GETTY IMAGES

man’s land even though I was back in the team,” he says. At training, something inspired him to speak to the WACA’s pastor, Andrew Vallance. “I said “You know Andrew, I just can’t work it out mate, I’ve got everything, I’m living the dream, I’m playing cricket for Australia, I’ve got lots of money, I’ve got a beautiful family, I’ve got a fancy car, I’ve got a big house, but something’s missing, I just can’t work it out,”” Langer explains. In response, Vallance simply asked Langer “Have you read the Bible lately?” to which the bemused batsman answered “No, I haven’t”. “The next day we were travelling interstate, and [Andrew] came to the airport with his children and his wife, and they presented me with a leather-bound Bible,” he continues. “At the time, when you walk onto the plane with a team of sportsmen and I’m carrying a Bible, they’re probably carrying car magazines or sports magazines or girl magazines, and I walk on with a Bible, I was a bit shy about it.” Langer began reading the Bible during the flight, and was struck by Philippians 4:13, which he interprets as “God gives me the strength to achieve anything”.

It was his inspiration for the greatest innings of his career. “All I said every ball for six hours was “God gives me the strength to achieve anything”, it was like a mantra, it was like I was meditating,” he says. Langer says his performance that day proved to him that he could perform under great pressure and against quality opposition. “It was important for the Australian cricket team too, it was

that Justin prizes the most. “In Year 7 I was awarded the Christian Leadership Award, which is still a thrill,” he says. Recently, Langer’s daughter won the same award at Iona Presentation College. “I was more thrilled for her to achieve that than any scholastic or sporting achievement because I think it’s a really nice award,” he says. The cricket star’s family also has

“You know Andrew, I just can’t work it out mate. I’ve got everything, I’m living the dream. I’ve got lots of money, a beautiful family, a big house, but something’s missing”. Vallance simply asked Langer, “have you read the Bible lately?” the second Test Match victory of our world record run of 16 straight Test Match wins. We felt then if you could win from that position, we had the people to win from any position,” he says. While cricket was in his blood, with Uncle Robert Langer representing WA in the 1970s, it was other endeavours in his childhood

a strong connection with St Joseph’s parish in Subiaco. His grandparents were a part of the parish for many years, and Langer now attends Mass at St Joseph’s every weekend with his family. “Fr Joe [Walsh] is a classic, I love him,” Langer says with a smile. “I love going to church on Sundays... I just really enjoy listening to his

sermons, I love his happy, upbeat nature.” While he lists Fr Walsh as one of his role models, the 42-year-old also has a strong devotion to the patron saint of travellers. “My grandmother, who died about 15 years ago, gave me a beautiful St Christopher fridge magnet which I still have with me,” Langer says, while showing me the St Christopher medallion he has tied to his wrist. “I spend a lot of time on the road and travel a lot so St Christopher is a big one for me.” After retiring from international cricket in 2009, Langer became the Australian team’s batting coach for the next three years before being appointed as the coach of the WA side. He says being back at home permanently has many benefits. “One of the reasons I came back to WA to coach was so I could spend more time at home,” he explains. “Leading up to this job, I was on the road for 11 months of the year all around the world or interstate. “My family’s my rock, they’re the most important people in the world to me, so the fact that I’m now home and I can go to Mass on a Sunday night with my family, as

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There’s no secret in the wellbeing of others

A girlfriend told me a secret and I feel that if I don’t tell someone else, harm could come to her. Can I tell someone what she told me?

silly as that might sound to some people, it’s one of the great things about being home.” Having spent 15 years at the top level, Langer is reflective when asked if being a high-profile sportsman ever challenged his faith. “The lifestyle of professional sport, and being on the road all the time, and being around the world, yeah, you get challenged, there’s a lot of temptations,” he says. “You’ve got to deal with – and I hate the words – the fame and money that comes with being a professional sportsman. “That’s where it’s nice to have a strong faith or a strong spiritual life to keep you grounded.” Fortunately, Langer says the make-up of the Australian team during the ‘golden era’ that he was a part of included many outstanding individuals who had good morals and values. “A lot of the guys maybe haven’t had a Catholic upbringing but... Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist, Ricky Ponting, and Glenn McGrath, they can’t do what they do for other people without having a strong spiritual life, they’re just such incredible people,” he says. “They were good cricketers but they are brilliant people, which is

much more important. Not only because of their cricket ability, but because of their ability to be good people off the park, that’s why we had success.” Critics might argue that the team’s success was due to their “bullying” tactics and penchant for “sledging” - verbally intimidating the opposition. But Langer says as long as it doesn’t get personal, it’s just another part of the game. “Players know it’s a very fine line,” he says. “If it gets personal, it’s no good. But if it’s all part of the gamesmanship of me trying to put you off your game and get you concentrating on something else other than winning the contest, well then it’s all part of the game. “When you’re out there you play hard, but the players get on brilliantly, everyone’s friends off the field.” Playing hard may also mean not “walking” – voluntarily leaving the pitch when you’re out even if the umpire makes a mistake – according to Langer. During his match-winning innings in Hobart, the left-handed batsman controversially stood his ground when he was given not out after nicking a ball through to the

wicketkeeper. While he has admitted he did hit the ball, Langer says his decision not to “walk” doesn’t mean he’s dishonest. “Sometimes if I’m in a bit of a hurry and I speed, I go 70 in a 60 zone, I don’t go and dob myself in to the local police station do I? “In cricket, if you nick one and get a good decision from the umpire, sometimes you get a bad decision as well, and they even themselves up. That may be honest or dishonest, a lot of people will argue that, but I’ll argue it’s part of the game. As long as I respect what the umpire says, positive or negative, and I don’t make a scene about it, I don’t embarrass him, then it’s ok.” Looking back over his career both as a player and a coach, Langer says the sport has taught him a lot about himself and about life. “The brilliant thing about my cricket career is not that I earned a lot of money, not that I’m secure, but the lessons I learnt from cricket,” he says. “We’re all going to have tough times, we’re all going to go through adversity, that’s life, but if you can forge and develop character from adversity, you’ll be better off for it.”

WILL first give the general teaching on secrets and then answer your question. By a secret we understand the knowledge of something that ought not be revealed to others. We all know many things, most of which we feel no obligation to keep hidden, but there are some things that, for various reasons, we feel we ought not reveal. These are what we call secrets. Secrets can be divided broadly into three general categories. First there are what we can call natural secrets. These are things we come to know in the normal course of life but which should not be revealed to others because the knowledge of them could cause harm to someone. For example, we might see someone drunk or we might be aware that a married person is having an affair with someone at our work place. Then there are secrets that we come to know after an explicit or tacit agreement to observe secrecy. These are sometimes called entrusted secrets. To this category belong professional secrets between professionals and their clients where confidentiality is to be observed. For example, doctors, accountants, lawyers, counsellors, psychologists and many others know that what they hear through their work is to be kept confidential. It is a matter between them and their client. Another obvious example of an entrusted secret is the secret of the confessional. Priests are under a strict and grave obligation never to reveal to anyone the sins they hear in confession. This is a very serious matter, so much so that the punishment for violating it is automatic excommunication which can be lifted only by the Holy See (cf. Code of Canon Law, Can. 1388 §1). Apart from these general categories of entrusted secrets there can be individual cases in which an explicit agreement is made not to reveal what is about to be disclosed. That is, before hearing the secret the person promises not to reveal what he or she is about to hear. The third type of secret is sometimes called the promised secret. Here one promises to keep the secret after hearing it. In principle there is an obligation to keep all secrets. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches: “Professional secrets – for example, those of political office holders, soldiers, physicians, and lawyers – or confidential information given under the seal of secrecy must be kept, save in exceptional cases where keeping the secret is bound to cause very grave harm to the one who confided it, to the one who

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received it or to a third party, and where the very grave harm can be avoided only by divulging the truth” (CCC 2491). While in your question you have not given any details of what your friend told you in secret, it is easy to imagine cases in which you could reveal to others what you have heard. For example, if your friend said she was using drugs, you would try to dissuade her, but if you saw you were not succeeding you could tell her parents or some other person close to her so that they could help her. Likewise, if she said she was feeling depressed and suicidal you would be right in telling someone close to her. Or if she said she was planning to hurt someone in a serious way, you could inform that person.

The natural secret must be kept unless for grave reasons... when others tell us something, it is naturally understood that it’s confidential. There are situations too in which even the law requires people to disclose what they have heard in secret. In many places, for example, if a person comes to know that someone has committed a crime, the person is obliged to report it to the police or they will be guilty themselves of the offence of not reporting a crime. Naturally, the seal of confession takes precedence over all other norms, so that the priest can never divulge for any reason what he has heard in confession. As regards the natural secret, this too must be kept unless there is a grave reason to make it known. So if one became aware that someone was having an affair, it would be reasonable to inform that person’s spouse so they could take measures to save their marriage. We should remember too that when others tell us something without asking us to keep it secret, it is often understood by the very nature of the information that it is to be kept confidential. In summary, we should be careful to keep confidential information confidential and only reveal it when there is a serious reason to do so. -FRJFLADER@GMAIL.COM

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2. But the other criminal said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your ____.”

1. One of the ____ hanging beside him yelled, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!”

3. And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in ____.” 5. The crowd watched and the leaders yelled. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save ____ if he is really God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

The crowd watched and the leaders yelled. “He saved others,” they said, “let him save himself if he is really God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.” The soldiers teased him, too, by offering him a drink of sour wine. They called out to him, “If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!” A sign was placed above him with these words: “This is the King of the Jews.” One of the criminals hanging beside him yelled, “So you’re the Messiah, are you? Prove it by saving yourself—and us, too, while you’re at it!” But the other criminal protested, “Don’t you fear God even when you have been sentenced to die? We deserve to die for our crimes, but this man hasn’t done anything wrong.” Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” And Jesus replied, “I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.”

4. A sign was placed above him with these words: “This is the ____ of the Jews.” 6. The soldiers teased him, too, by offering him a drink of ____ wine.

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A sign was placed above him with these words: “This is the King of the Jews.”

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Perth celebrates 60 years of Billings The Billings Ovulation Method has helped couples around the world for six decades, as Juanita Shepherd explains...

OWARDS the very end of the foreword written by Cardinal George Pell in the book The Billings Enigma, one sentence captures the real essence of what natural family planning pioneers John and Evelyn Billings gave to the world: “No couple has done more for pro-life strategies than the Billings.” In 1953, Dr John Billings began work on a method of Natural Family Planning (NFP) and his wife Evelyn became involved in his work in the early ‘60s. Together, they pioneered the Billings Ovulation Method after observing several indicators of fertility and infertility focusing on changes to cervical mucus. Billings Life WA celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Billings Ovulation Method on November 2 with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Don Sproxton followed by lunch. The significance of the milestone was not lost on US-based blogger and author Simcha Fisher, who spoke to The Record recently about the release of her new book, The Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. Mrs Fisher, who lives with her husband and nine children between the ages of one and 15, explained the basics of what NFP is for a public, and a Church populace, often unaware about the gift NFP can be to couples. “Natural Family Planning is a way of achieving or avoiding pregnancy,” Mrs Fisher said. “A woman learns how to identify her body’s natural signs of fertility and infertility and she and her husband decide whether or not to have sex on those days, depending on whether they want to conceive or not.” She was full of praise for NFP educators who gave concrete assistance to couples, describing Billings Method advocates as “trailblazers”. “So many couples have gained so much through the work of researchers and teachers who brought the beautiful teaching of NFP to everyday couples,” Mrs Fisher said. Mandie Bowen, senior teacher and area coordinator for Billings Life WA, said the benefits of Natural Family Planning were not simply in ticking a proverbial moral box, but in the kind and quality of married relationships they helped to foster. “It’s not just a method of family planning but it’s a way of life in the sense that couples have to communicate about this intimate part of their relationship,” Mrs Bowen said. “This development of communication then flows to all aspects of their married and family life; and they acknowledge God in their family as well as accepting and loving their children and seeing them as a gift from God.” Quite apart from the common misconception that NFP is simply about avoiding pregnancy, Billings Life has also assisted many infertile couples to achieve pregnancy, including some who have been trying to conceive for more than two years. The prevalence of ignorance and resulting misconceptions are of ongoing frustration to NFP’s advocates. “There’s a lot of bad information circulating about NFP, that it’s the same as the old rhythm method, which was not very effective, and that it’s just Catholic contraception,” Mrs Fisher said. “To combat these myths, all we can do is keep on talking, talking, and talking about it, until the message gets out and to remember that it’s the Holy Spirit who changes people’s hearts.”

Billings Life WA recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of the method of Natural Family Planning that Australian married couple, Drs John and Evelyn Billings developed, the Billings Ovulation Method. PHOTO: COURTESY OF BILLINGS LIFE WA

Mrs Bowen agrees about the central importance of communicating, having been at the forefront of community and couple education for nearly a decade. “It’s not just about NFP,” Mrs Bowen said. “It’s also about fertility and reproductive health and to be aware and conscious of the health of the women through talking about it.” The Billings family dedicated their lives towards pro-life strategies, with Pope Paul VI recognising Dr John Billings for his contribution, appointing him a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 1969. In 2003, Pope John Paul II added a star to his papal knighthood and recognised Dr Evelyn Billings by appointing her a Dame Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great. Simcha Fisher has embarked on her own journey to aid couples. Through the use of social media she has reached out to Catholics all over the world, acknowledging the struggles they face when using NFP methods. “If you read the typical NFP manual you can get the impression that most couples just blissfully swing into a natural, painless rhythm of communication, coop-

eration, and romance,” Mrs Fisher said. The truth is that many couples are completely unprepared for any kind of struggle, strife, or anxiety, which Mrs Fisher said were normal and a part of the learning process which needed to be embraced if marriages were to experience and maintain vitality. “The marriage-building benefits of NFP are real and they can be wonderful but they don’t happen

Kath Fenton and Jo Bell, two senior teachers at Billings Life WA who have dedicated their lives to teaching the Billings Method in various parts of Australia. Their work would not have been possible without the tireless efforts of Kathleen Kearns, who trained as the first teacher of the Billings Ovulation Method in WA. Although Mrs Fisher identifies herself as a Creighton (another NFP

It’s not just a method of family planning but it’s a way of life in the sense that couples have to communicate about their intimacy. automatically,” she said. “You have to work to get them just as you have to learn how to do the mechanics of charting and many couples have to learn how to practise NFP together in a loving way.” Billings Life WA has helped many couples realise the benefits of NFP since the mid-1970s. “The 60th anniversary celebrations were just a fantastic culmination of what we’ve achieved so far and where we will grow in the future,” Mrs Bowen said. The celebrations were also a chance to acknowledge the dedication of Billings teachers, including

method) girl, she has known many people who have been thrilled with using the Billings Method. Despite the accomplishments of NFP advocates, Mrs Fisher’s own personal experiences weren’t so successful to begin with. “Oh, I hated it,” she said. “For many, many years I thought it was just the worst thing ever and it drove me crazy, when people went on and on about the ‘honeymoon effect’ and how magical and beautiful their cycles were. “It took many years, many tearfilled discussions with my husband and many trips to confession before

we worked out how to do it right and now, honestly, I kind of like it.” Mrs Fisher’s experiences with NFP inspired her to write her first book, A Sinner’s Guide to Natural Family Planning. She said humour is an important ingredient when communicating about sexuality, whether between couples or reaching out to the wider world. “Just because sex is holy and profound, that doesn’t mean it’s not also hilarious and if we can’t laugh at ourselves and the troubles we find ourselves in when we’re learning how to love then we will very soon find ourselves in a very dark place,” she said. While Mrs Fisher uses humour to connect with her readers, she never fails to recognise the work of the Holy Spirit in the different NFP methods, including the Billings Ovulation Method. “I don’t see how anyone can stick to NFP without lots of prayer,” Mrs Fisher said. “As we’ve learned how to live with NFP we’ve learned so much about God and how his laws are there to keep us safe; they are not there to jerk us around. “We’ve also learnt what it means to conform our will to God’s will without turning off our brains and [to come to know] what love really looks like.”

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Pope’s embrace was heaven incarnate

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Burnt Anglican church deserves our help DURING October I was saddened when I saw on the television news and in the local newspaper that suspected arsonists burnt down St Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Church in Willagee. The Anglican priest, Fr Robert Day, has been devastated and is struggling to get the parish back on its feet. When I rang him to sympathise he mentioned that the large size Christmas figures from the church were also burnt and had gone up in smoke. In the spirit of Christmas, would there be anyone who has a spare large crib put away and not needing it and willing to give it to the parish? Or maybe someone would be generous enough to purchase a new crib for him? This would be a wonderful gesture on behalf of the Catholic Church and help towards further cementing relationships with the Anglican Church in Perth. Fr Robert’s phone number is 9332 7846. A concerned Catholic

Pope Francis greets Vinicio Riva at St Peter’s Square in Rome on November 6, a man afflicted with neurofibromatosis. PHOTO: ONLINE

or someone who has frequently been shunned and humiliated because of a disease that has severely disfigured his entire body, receiving the Pope’s loving embrace was like being in paradise. Vinicio Riva, who is afflicted with neurofibromatosis, said his brief encounter with Pope Francis on November 6 at a general audience in St Peter’s Square “seemed like forever.” Images of the Pope kissing and embracing the Italian man made headlines, but his identity and background weren’t known until two Italian news outlets found and interviewed him. “My heart was bursting,” he told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on November 18. When the Pope hugged him tight, “I felt like I was in paradise.” Riva, 53, lives in a small village near Vicenza in northern Italy with his younger sister PO Box 3075 Morena Riva, who has the Adelaide Terrace same genetic disorder, and PERTH WA 6832 their aunt, Caterina Lotto, who cares for them. The siblings’ late mother also suffered office@therecord.com.au from the disease, which is typTel: (08) 9220 5900 ically hereditary. Fax: (08) 9325 4580 Riva told the Italian magazine Panorama on November 18 that the thing that struck him most was that the Pope didn’t hesitate at all. “I’m not contagious, but (the Pope) didn’t know that. But he did it, period: He caressed my whole face and while he was doing it, I felt only love,” he said. “First, I kissed his hand, while he caressed my head and wounds with his other hand,” Riva explained. “Then he pulled me toward him, hugging me tight and kissing my face. My head was against his chest and his arms were wrapped around me. He held me so tightly, cuddling me, and he didn’t let go. I tried to speak, to say something, but I wasn’t able to: I was too choked up. It lasted just a little more than a minute, but, for me, it seemed like forever,” he told Panorama. “The Pope’s hands are so soft. Soft and beautiful. And his smile (is) bright and wide.” Neurofibromatosis results in numerous, often painful benign tumours. Riva said they constantly itch and he often wakes in the morning with his shirt soaked with blood from scratching. “The first signs (of the disease) appeared after I was 15. They said I would be dead by 30. Instead, here I am.” He frequently has been shunned by people who didn’t know him, he said. The worst episode, he said, occurred one day as he sat in the front of a bus and a passenger told him to go sit in the back, saying, “’You horrify me and I don’t want to look at you.’ No one, not even the driver, came to my defence. In fact, many passengers agreed with the man. That really hurt,” he said. Lotto, his aunt, told Panorama that when she and Riva would be sitting in hospital waiting rooms when he was young, she would hold him close and hug him tight whenever people cringed or moved away in fear. She embraced him “to make them both (Riva and the others) understand” there was nothing repulsive or scary about him, she said. Riva works as a volunteer in a retirement home, where his father lives. However, when they see each other, their father can’t bring himself to hug his son, said Morena Riva, the sister. Their father “is embarrassed by his disease. He only says, ‘Do you want a coffee?’” But Riva disagreed with his sister and said their father has his own way of showing his love. He told Panorama that he has lots of friends and is loved by almost everyone in his village. He goes out with friends for pizza and to watch soccer matches. He also flirts with the nurses, the magazine said, and, although he only earns a small allowance volunteering, he spends a good chunk of that money on them. - CINDY WOODEN, CNS

Hitchens’ magnificent defence of Christianity THANK YOU for the spread on Peter Hitchens in The Record last week. By pure chance I turned on Q&A on November 4. I saw and heard Peter Hitchens’ magnificent defence of

Christianity and I saw the hatred shown towards him by the audience, the presenter, Tony Jones, and especially Dan Savage. Peter Hitchens simply floored the lot of them. He even silenced the hateful audience by telling them that they did not want free speech except for the likes of Savage. I especially liked him telling Savage that he, Peter Hitchens, was once like Savage but the difference now is that Hitchens has grown up! He even told the others on the panel and Jones also that they did not like what he was saying but they each knew that he was right and had no answer to what he said. I have long enjoyed Hitchens’ blog in the Mail on Sunday and I do recommend it to others. I see also that Oregon University has commissioned Savage to give a presentation on gay sex and fetishes. They have offered him $24,000 to give the presentation. John Rayner HILLARYS, WA

Hard news stories get my tick of approval I HAVE noticed in the last couple of months a change to The Record, namely the appearance of a new journalist, Matthew Biddle. I must say I truly enjoy reading Matthew’s work, and believe the paper is significantly improved by his contributions. I would like to point out specifically his controversial features such as “Jesus

loves me with or without my tattoos” but also his local news items such as “School defends Buddhist monks visit” which exhibit a more hard-hitting angle, especially when compared with the sometimes quite inane school news such as “Students in the Big Apple”. Although I enjoy the international news, and the occasional official text from Pope Francis or the Archbishop, I do expect more from the diocesan paper than several copy and pasted news items from the CNS, and badly edited press releases from WA schools. Matthew Biddle’s articles are current, interesting and, most importantly, are well written in true journalistic style. He appears unafraid to cover issues that tend to “rock the boat” but at the same time handles these issues in an unbiased and fair manner, remaining unerringly professional. Thank you Matthew for making me proud of my diocesan paper, I look forward to reading more. Dave Rufin BALGA, WA

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“I’m not contagious but he didn’t know that. But he did it, period: He caressed my whole face.”

Don’t be boiled to death by the pornography pervasion

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Porn treats men and women as animals, not humans with inherent dignity

OU MAY have already heard the boiling frog story but it goes something like this: if you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will frantically jump out; however, if you place the frog in a pot of lukewarm water that is slowly heated, the frog will not notice the impending danger and allow itself to be boiled to death. Pornography in our modern Western society is somewhat like that pot: it has been heating up over the last few decades and is at such a boiling point that it completely pervades culture. Ironically, while this complete pervasion is more visible – like the frog – we are mostly unaware of the effect it is having upon us. Considering the problem with pornography, one could choose any number of different areas. We could discuss the physical harm that is done to the bodies of ‘actors’ in the porn industry; we could study the neurological effects of pornography on the brain of the person who watches it, or, we could analyse the harmful social effects that come about as a result of engaging in pornography. But let us leave aside all those aspects to consider the way that pornography harms the basic dignity of the human person. Obviously, no one is offended at the sight of a naked cow or chicken. Why? Because a cow is just that, a cow, there is no more to it. But we are persons, human persons, male and female, and we have the capacity to think, to dream and, most importantly, to love. In other words, we have a spiritual dimension to us, we have a soul. The soul has been identified as part of the human person from Aristotle to Augustine to Aquinas. In philosophy, the soul is referred to as the form of the body. In fact, when a person dies we refer no

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longer to John Smith but to the body of John Smith; even our language recognises that the essence of the person is deeper than his or her physical make up. Pornography, however, does not make this distinction; it looks upon men and women in the same way

The problem with pornography is not that it shows too much, but that it shows too little... we are more than just the sum of our bodily parts; you are more than your arms, legs and genitals. as we would look upon cows and chickens, as animals with no deeper reality. I want to present the idea though that the person is not an animal. A person is not a spirit trapped in a body or a body without any spiritual dimension. Our body means something, it indicates a deeper reality. If a person’s body is raped, it is not just the body that is affected, but the inner reality of the person. It has been said that the problem with pornography is not that it shows too much, but that it shows too little. In other words, we are more than just the sum of our bodily parts;

you are more than your arms, legs and genitals. Pornography is not a problem because people are engaging in sexual actions, pornography is a problem because people are being viewed like animals. The truth is that the woman taking off her clothes in that porn video is someone’s daughter, someone’s sister and possibly someone’s mother. The man is someone’s son, someone’s brother and possibly someone’s father. Pornography does not show any of that, it does not want you to think about any of that because, in the world of porn, men and women are commodities, bought and sold like animals. It may seem that pornography is about sex but they are two very different things. Pornography actually has nothing to do with sex, it takes human sexuality out of its natural context – intimacy between two persons – and makes it a product to be bought and sold. Pornography subliminally tells us that human sexuality is no more than an activity for consumption, and once a particular video, magazine (or person) is not meeting our sexual needs or fantasies it can be thrown away, for there will always be a new fantasy awaiting. Pornography is a problem because it destroys the lives of those who use it. It abuses our sexuality by presenting a world that does not exist and so confuses us that we risk being unable to live well in the world in which we do exist. Pornography does great harm to the dignity of those who watch it and to those who are in it. We need to be alert and honest about pornography and not allow ourselves to be like the frog in the pot and slowly boiled to death. WWW.FOOLISHWISDOM.COM

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Distinctions build barriers, not bridges, to unity Christianity calls for its followers to help all their brothers and sisters, regardless of wealth, health or social standing.

URING the early ‘80s a widely used medical text book in the US described babies afflicted with anencephaly as “looking like a monster”. The condition, in which the top of the baby’s skull and brain do not form correctly within the womb, is fatal and those afflicted do not live beyond a few days. In 1986, a midwife supporting a pregnant woman, whose child had been diagnosed with this condition, was horrified to discover this accepted medical description and contacted Dr Harry Oxhorn, the book’s author. She challenged him, outlining how such an inhumane description added to the distress of parents already experiencing such a high level of trauma. To his credit, Dr Oxhorn responded with an apology and removed the term “monster” from the next edition, referring instead to a “baby with anencephaly”. When reading this story I was reminded of the power words can have in shaping our thoughts and lives. It is a deliberate practice, for example, for proponents of abortion to use words such as “foetus”, “embryo” and “zygote” to describe the life growing within a womb. It

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is an understandable practice from their perspective – using the word “child” or “person” would create an image in the mind that could redefine one’s viewpoint on such an emotional issue. Perhaps it is why Dr Oxhorn came up with his “monster” definition. It could have been his attempt, albeit futile, to assist parents in distancing themselves from the pain and grief associated with the death of a child. My point here is to emphasise how we can allow words to not only define our perceptions but, accordingly, how they can shape our behaviour. In recent years, a particular word has increasingly dragged its nails across the blackboard of my mind. Perhaps because of this grating I have an exaggerated perception of its frequency, but it seems the word “poor”, or more accurately “the poor” is being increasingly used within our society, particularly in Church circles. We pray for “the

poor”, we give to “the poor”; we feed “the poor”. These are all wonderful sentiments and, no doubt, are motivated by Christian values, but my concern is that it is a word that can insidiously create a buffer of selfprotection between ourselves and anyone we choose to place in this category. Under the banner of “the poor” we can include those who are hungry, lacking material wealth, homeless, addicted, afflicted with mental illness or any number of others. Whatever our personal focus

but rather a sense of helplessness and fear. We can visualise those we perceive to be “poor” but we cannot or do not want to connect with their suffering. As a consequence, we erect fences, beginning with our language, to emotionally protect ourselves. Not dissimilar to Dr Oxhorn’s “monster” label, we can effectively use “the poor” to dehumanise others and subsequently provide ourselves with a comfortable sense of helplessness. It could be why we do not see

Using the term “the poor” can insidiously create a buffer of self-protection between ourselves and anyone we choose to place in this category. may be, I believe incorporating anyone under this label allows us to create a subconscious, or sometimes conscious distinction. In our mind, we subtly begin to associate “poor” with who someone is rather than the condition they are living with or in. We give birth to, or perhaps even justify, a sense of “them” and “us” and form an emotional chasm that distances us from their reality. For most of us, it is not an attitude of callousness,

those we have deemed “poor” among our Catholic Church congregations. Pope Francis has recognised the anomaly and has called us to leave the safety of our pews and reach across the chasm, no matter how challenging or uncomfortable that may be. We cannot justify our Christianity by simply providing handouts and then forgetting – we must consciously embrace the suffering of others in the depths

of our hearts and minds. When Jesus walked the earth, he did not distinguish between those who functioned effectively in society and those who were forced to the fringes. He knew all were equally loved and recognised by his Father and the invitation to accept his call for salvation was not exclusive. Jesus gave no preference to worldly perceptions. Wealth, health or social standing was irrelevant, which is why he spent more time with those who struggled and chastised those who lived in comfort. He looked beyond appearances, behaviours and status and recognised those who yearned for truth and love. More often than not he found that those who had the least yearned the most. It is now time to dismantle the hierarchical system of “the helpers” and “the helped” we have created, because it is a distinction that builds barriers, not bridges. The invitation to be embraced by the fullness of God’s love must be open to all in equal measure. We must, in the words of Mother Theresa, understand that we are simply one beggar telling another beggar, where they can find the bread of eternal life.

Can we truly say “all are welcome”? All of us will experience disability in our lives, so why do we still fail to see that “disability” is normal, asks Barbara Harris.

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HROUGHOUT society today the words that seem to be pushed to the front are “rights” and “entitlements”. I have a “right” to “marry” whom I chose. I am “entitled” to society support because I find it difficult to find a job that suits my lifestyle. The message we continually receive is, “you owe it to yourself ” to take a cruise to buy that new gadget or whatever. “You earned it. You deserve it.” A popular cosmetic advertisement ends with a woman saying, “We’re worth it”. This way of thinking becomes more important when we consider that society has long separated people into groups according to how they looked, or talked, or didn’t talk, think or walk. Now society is talking about people with disability in terms of genetics and the quest to eliminate “impaired” genes. The scene is scary. My experience of the Church both here in WA and around the whole nation is that having a “right” to something does not make it a reality. For example, the reality is that we are all made in the image and likeness of God and that we are all part of the Body of Christ. Do we as Church believe this? How is it then that many people with disability are not automatically made welcome at their local parish level or at diocesan events? Brett Mendez, consulting manager of LifeLink, in conversations with me and at the launch of the Archbishop’s LifeLink appeal recently, said he was not comfortable using the word “inclusion” because it implied that some people were “out” and some were “in”. His preference was simply that we are people. We are so fond of using the word “normal” applied to some people and situations that we fail to see that “disability” is normal, too. Our condition moves on a line that really describes who we are.

Making it easier for everyone to access Church events is one of the ways we can make “all welcome”.

All of us will experience disability. It is the human condition which defines us all. Blessed Pope John Paul II’s life journey saw him move from skiing the slopes of Europe to moving about in a wheelchair, with uncontrolled muscular spasms and drooling saliva. The boundaries of disability are blurred to the point where we all can be lumped together in our common humanity. Trouble arises when we talk about people with disability and their “rights”. Let’s face it. Everything we have is God’s gift to us. No one of us has a “right” to God’s gift. In a small way, I reflect in my own life what I perceive to be the way of God who makes rain fall on the good and the evil doers and likewise the sun to shine on everyone without discrimination. So I seek to do good for all. Saying or thinking, “I deserve

God’s blessings” makes me the centre rather than God. “I am entitled to this ministry or that” forgets the element of God’s vocational choices. If I am “entitled” to something, then I never need to be thankful for it. But that is not the way of a disciple of Jesus. I do not wish to enter the arguments of political debate. I want to confine our discussion to Church. That’s where you and I belong. That’s where we are because of “Amazing Grace”. It’s not because of anything we have done. We have no entitlement to be loved by God into eternity. When we stop talking about “entitlements” and begin to talk about giving thanks and praise to God, then we will be free to embrace all that God’s love has created and keeps in existence. Our journey is not a journey alone. We

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travel with all other human beings. In God, there is no one who is “out” unless he or she chooses. That judgement is not mine to make. The Church, in theory, should make no judgements between people. Poor or rich, tall or short, scholarly or simple; all are welcome, we say. However, the hard reality is that we do discriminate. Welcoming words quickly become words of exclusion due to lack of planning. So how real is the invitation “all welcome”? Instead of seeing ways to embrace, we look for ways and reasons why we should exclude or perhaps we are so focused on our own importance that we have no room for anyone else. Excuses are plentiful. What makes some people entitled to belong and others rejected or have to work extra hard at belonging? If we simply consider that all of us

are people, then everything we do we will do with an aim of furthering the Body of Christ and in the Body of Christ there are no “others”. We are ALL the Body of Christ. We have no right to God’s love but we know that God loves us because of who God is, not because of who we are. The Apostle Paul’s prayer says it all. There is no hint of “rights” or “entitlements” here: “This, then, is what I pray… In the abundance of his glory may he, through his Spirit, enable you to grow firm in power with regard to your inner self so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith and then… knowing the love of Christ which is beyond knowledge, you may be filled with the utter fullness of God. Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen” [Ephesians 3: 14-21]. What might this look like for our Perth Archdiocese? • It will not be up to Emmanuel Centre to enquire of organisers about access for Church events in the Archdiocese. Each person or organisation will make sure that all their public events are accessible. They will automatically plan to provide for PowerPoints with pointers, captioned videos, Auslan interpreters, a microphone system, an audio induction loop or other assisted listening devices, accessible toilets and parking, easy to read handouts, and provide some gluten-free foods. • Invitation to events will provide for feedback about specific needs of individuals such as large format printings, Braille texts available, dietary requirements, need for an audio induction loop, Auslan interpreters, and PowerPoints. • As a Church, we will make people made in the image and likeness of God and part of the Body of Christ welcome to all events, programs and publications. For further information on making events accessible, contact Barbara Harris: Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, Perth WA 6000 or email emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 Healing Mass and Adoration 7-9pm at Infant Jesus Church, 47 Wellington Rd, Morley. Led by Fr Varghese Parackal VC, Director of the Vincentian Fathers. Enq: Fr Sunny 9276 8500, Mario and Selina 9275 0831. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Eucharistic Adoration with Holy Trinity Community 7pm at St Benedict Catholic Church, corner Canning Hwy and Ardross St, Ardross. Starts with praise and worship. Enq: Yunita 0412 677 568, Bryan 0406 671 388. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 TO SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Christ The King: Retreat and Healing Rally 7.30pm at Karriholm, Ellis St, Pemberton. Presented by the Holy Spirit of Freedom Community. Ends with Healing Rally on Nov 23 at 7.30pm. Enq: Registration 0405 821 173 or email hsofpemberton@gmail.com. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Information Session: Full Camino Walk 2014 10am at Our Lady of the Mission Catholic Church, 256 Camberwarra Dr, Craigie. An itinerary has been put together to walk the full Camino starting September 1 to October 4, 2014, starting in France and finishing in Santiago, Spain. Enq: RSVP for catering purposes 9407 8156 or Shirleyann. poulton@gmail.com. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Peranakan Community Perth - Fair 9am-2pm at Fr O’Reilly Centre, St Norbert College, 135 Treasure Rd, Queens Park. Proceeds from fair will go towards St Norbert College’s “breakfast club” to feed students who come to school without any basic nutrition; Holy Spirit Freedom Community for their Perth’s homeless, abused, poor ministry and those who have been hurt. Those interested in helping or running a stall offering anything typically Peranakan, are welcome. Enq: Fr Christopher Lim 0437 307 170 or 9458 2729. Annual Procession to Celebrate Christ the King, King of the Universe 2pm at the Shrine of Virgin of the Revelation, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Holy Mass follows the procession. All are most welcome. Enq: SACRI 9447 3292. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Talk - Creating a Life-giving Culture for Family Life 7.30-9pm at St Thomas More Parish, 100 Dean Rd, Bateman. Our series of talks keynote speaker is Dominican Sr Margaret Scharf. Based in California for 18 years offering retreats, most recently in Safety Bay. Enq: Sr Ann Cullinane 0418 130 200 or 9310 8248. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Dancing into Christmas 9.30am-12.30pm at St Catherine’s House of Hospitality, 113 Tyler St, Tuart Hill. Welcoming the Incarnation mystery through dance. Enq and registrations: Shelley Barlow rndm 9271 3873. Charismatic Renewal - CCR Day 10am-5pm at Newman Siena Centre, 33 Williamstown Rd, Doubleview. Prayer and Praise, teaching and sharing, ministry prayer. Sharing of Archbishop Hickey’s experiences from International Prophetic Gathering in Bethlehem; Youths sharing on Leadership Gathering in Brisbane. Tea and coffee provided, bring lunch, Bible, notepad and pen. All welcome. Enq: Frank 0417 852 977. Men’s Faith Reflection Morning Feast of St Andrew 9am-12.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. Mass then breakfast followed by presentation on the life and example St Andrew the Apostle with small group sharing. Cost: Free. Enq: Register for catering Jon 0409 800 841; menalive-citybeach@live.com.au. Retreat by Abbot John Herbert from New Norcia Monastery 9.30am-3pm at Our Lady’s Assumption Church, 356 Grand Prom, Dianella. Topic: Seeing God Through Christ In Communities Of Love. Morning and afternoon tea provided. BYO lunch. Donation $10. Enq: Ena 9276 6598. Dancing into Christmas 9.30am-2.30pm at Infant Jesus Parish Hall, 47 Wellington St, Morley. Welcoming the Incarnation mystery through dance. Enquiries and registration: Sr Shelley Barlow 9271 3873. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 Divine Mercy - Afternoon with Jesus and Mary 1.30pm at St Francis Xavier Church, 25 Windsor St, Perth. Homily by Fr Doug Harris “Put Christ back at Christmas”, Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Chaplet of Divine Mercy, Benediction, and Reconciliation offered. Veneration of first class relic of St Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments to follow. Enq: John 9457 7771. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3 Alan Ames Healing Ministry Talk 6.30pm at Notre Dame Catholic Church, 345 Wright St, Cloverdale. Mass followed by talk and healing service. Enq: 9277 4094.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 Day With Mary 9am-5pm at Corpus Christi Church, 43 Lochee St, Mosman Park. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am-Video;10.10am holy Mass; Reconciliation, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, sermons on Eucharist and on Our Lady, Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq: 9250 8286. Summer Fair at St Joseph Pignatelli 11am-4pm Catholic church, Attadale. Enter from Wichmann Rd, opposite Attadale Primary School. Books, Asian food, art and craft work, collectables. Enq: Stephanie 9330 3727, Anne 0420 393 330. Inner Healing Retreat 9am-1.30 pm at Holy Family Parish, 34 Alcock St, Maddington. Program includes Praise and Worship, Preaching of the Word of God, Confession, holy Mass, Eucharistic Adoration and Healing Prayers. Morning tea and lunch provided. Enq: 9493 1703 or vincentiansperth@yahoo.com. Please visit our website: vpcp.org.au. MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Emmanuel Centre’s Christmas Party 11.30am-2pm at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, Perth. Come along, join in the singing and meet other people of Emmanuel. Children welcome. Special reflection - Christmas in Syria. Please bring a plate of finger food to share. RSVP: December 5 for catering. Enq: 9328 8113 or emmanuelcentre@ westnet.com.au. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29 Christmas Lunch - New Parish Centre Fundraising 12 noon at Goody Bioethics Centre, 39 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn. Emeritus Archbishop Hickey leading the carol singing. $50 or $33 if paid before December 22; $15,18 years and under; third or more children are free. Enq: Fr Doug 9444 6131. Payments to St Bernadette’s Parish Centre, 49 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn 6016.

REGULAR EVENTS EVERY SUNDAY Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio Join the Franciscans of the Immaculate from 7.309pm on Radio Fremantle 107.9FM for Catholic radio broadcast of EWTN and our own live shows. Enq: radio@ausmaria.com.

Cathedral Cafe Cathedral Cafe is now open every Sunday 9.30am1pm at St Mary’s Cathedral parish centre, downstairs after Mass. Coffee, tea, cakes, sweets, friendship with Cathedral parishioners. Further info: Tammy on smcperthwyd@yahoo.com.au or 0415 370 357. Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction. Reconciliation available before every celebration. Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to Church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292. Praise and Worship 5.30pm at St Denis Parish, cnr Osborne St and Roberts Rd, Joondanna. Followed by 6pm Mass. Enq: Admin on admin@stdenis.com.au. Mass with Sign Language Interpreter and PowerPoint 9.30am at St Francis Xavier Church, 23 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Voice 9328 8113, TTY 9328 9571, 0401 016 399 or www.emmanuelcentre.com.au. Latin Mass 8.30am at The Good Shepherd Church, 42 Streich Ave, Kelmscott. On Sunday, Dec 1, Mass will be celebrated by Emeritus Archbishop BJ Hickey. Enq: John 9390 6646. EVERY FIRST SUNDAY Singles Prayer and Social Group 6.30pm at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Sq, 77 St Georges Tce, Perth. Begins with holy hour (Eucharistic Adoration, Rosary and teaching) followed by dinner at local restaurant. Meet new people, pray and socialise with other single men and women. Enq: Veronica 0403 841 202. EVERY SECOND SUNDAY Healing Hour 7-8pm at St Lawrence Parish, Balcatta. Songs of praise and worship, Exposition of Blessed Sacrament and prayers for sick. Enq: Fr Irek Czech SDS or office Tue-Thu, 9am-2.30pm on 9344 7066. EVERY THIRD SUNDAY Oblates of St Benedict’s 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth. We welcome all who are interested in studying the Rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for laypeople. Vespers and afternoon tea conclude our meetings. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758. Divine Mercy Hour 3pm at St Pius X Church, 23 Paterson St, Manning. There will be Exposition of the Most Blessed

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Sacrament, Divine Mercy prayers, Rosary and Benediction. Please join us in prayer. Enq: Mrs K Henderson 9450 4195. EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY Shrine Time for Young Adults 18-35 Years 7.30-8.30pm at Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Dr, Mt Richon; Holy Hour with prayer, reflection, meditation, praise and worship; followed by a social gathering. Come and pray at a place of grace. Enq: shrinetimemtrichon@gmail.com. Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life 2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. Includes Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, silent prayer, scripture, prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call. EVERY LAST SUNDAY Filipino Mass 3pm at Notre Dame Church, cnr Daley and Wright Sts, Cloverdale. Please bring a plate to share for socialisation after Mass. Enq: Fr Nelson Po 0410 843 412, Elsa 0404 038 483. EVERY MONDAY For You My Soul is Thirsting (Psalm 62:1) 7pm at St Thomas Parish, 2 College Rd, Claremont. Tend to your thirst for God. Begins with Adoration, then 7.45pm - Evening Prayer; 8pm - Communion Service and Night Prayer. Come to the whole thing, or just to a part! Enq: Michelle 0404 564 890.

LAST MONDAY Be Still in His Presence – Ecumenical Christian Program 7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind Church). Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and cuppa. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 0435 252 941. EVERY TUESDAY Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by Benediction. Enq: John 0408 952 194. Novena to God the Father 7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Vic Park. Novena followed by reflection and discussions on forthcoming Sunday Gospel. Enq: Jan 9284 1662. EVERY FIRST TUESDAY Short MMP Cenacle for Priests 2pm at Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Enq: Fr Watt 9376 1734. EVERY WEDNESDAY Holy Spirit of Freedom Community 7.30pm at Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We welcome everyone to attend our praise meeting. Enq: 0423 907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com. Bible Study at Cathedral 6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, Victoria Sq, Perth. Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy Scripture with Fr Jean-Noel Marie. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: 9223 1372. Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry 5.30pm at Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Mass followed at 6.30pm with Holy Hour. Enq: 9422 7912 or admin@cym.com.au. EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop 7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and Benediction. Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 0417 187 240. EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY Chaplets of Divine Mercy 7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. Accompanied by Exposition, then Benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 or 6242 0702 (w). Miracle Prayers 7.30pm at 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. An opportunity to receive prayers for healing of mind, body and soul. Enq: miracleprayers@ disciplesofjesus.org or Michelle 0404 028 298. EVERY THURSDAY Divine Mercy 11am at Sts John and Paul Church, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Pray the Rosary and Chaplet of Divine Mercy and for consecrated life, especially in our parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Enq: John 9457 7771. St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting 7.45pm at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@ flameministries.org. Group Fifty - Charismatic Renewal Group 7.30pm at Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661. EVERY FIRST THURSDAY Holy Hour Prayer for Priests 7-8pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

Prayer in Style of Taizé 7.30-8.30pm at Our Lady of Grace Parish, 3 Kitchener St, North Beach. Includes prayer, song and silence in candlelight – symbol of Christ the light of the world. Taizé info: www.taize.fr. Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457. FIRST AND THIRD THURSDAY Social Dinner (Young Adults aged up to 35) and Rosary Cenacle 6.30pm at St Bernadette’s Church, 49 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn. Begins at 6.30pm with dinner at a local restaurant, followed at 8pm by a Rosary Cenacle, short talk and refreshments at the Church. Great way to meet new people, pray and socialise! Enq: 9444 6131 or st.bernadettesyouth@gmail.com. EVERY SECOND THURSDAY RCPD Charismatic Prayer, Bible Study and Teaching 6-7.30pm, 2 King St, Coogee. Enq: Eva 0409 405 585. EVERY FRIDAY Eucharistic Adoration at Schoenstatt Shrine 10am at Schoenstatt Shrine, 9 Talus Dr, Mt Richon. Includes holy Mass, Exposition of Blessed Sacrament, silent adoration till 8.15pm. Join us in prayer at a place of grace. Enq: Sisters of Schoenstatt 9399 2349. Healing Mass 6pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375, Alcock St, Maddington. Begins with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Healing Mass followed by Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Enq: admin 9493 1703 or www.vpcp. org.au. Eucharistic Adoration - Voice of the Voiceless Ministry 7.30-9pm at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Eucharistic Adoration, beginning with praise and worship; and reflection to the scriptures. All welcome. Enq: adrianluke1999@ yahoo.com.au. EVERY FIRST FRIDAY Mass and Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 11am-4pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Exposition of Blessed Sacrament after Mass until 4pm, finishing with Rosary. Enq: Sr Marie MS.Perth@lsp.org.au. Healing and Anointing Mass 8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation, then 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189. Pro-life Witness – Mass and Procession 9.30am at St Brigid’s Parish, cnr Great Northern Hwy and Morrison Rd, Midland. Begins with Mass followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. Please join us to pray for an end to abortion and the conversion of hearts. Enq: Helen 9402 0349. Catholic Faith Renewal Evening 7.30pm at Sts John Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. There will be songs of praise, prayer, sharing by a priest, then thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments. Enq: Ivan 0428 898 833 or Ann 0412 166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail. com. Communion of Reparation All Night Vigils 7pm-1.30am at Corpus Christi Church, Loch St, Mosman Park or St Gerard Majella Church, cnr Ravenswood Dr/Majella Rd, Mirrabooka. Vigils are two Masses, Adoration, Benediction, prayers, Confession in reparation for outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq: Vicky 0400 282 357, Fr Giosue 9349 2315, John/ Joy 9344 2609. EVERY SECOND FRIDAY Discover Spirituality of St Francis of Assisi 12pm at St Brigid’s parish centre. The Secular Franciscans of Midland Fraternity have lunch, then 1-3pm meeting. Enq: Antoinette 9297 2314. RCPD Charismatic Prayer, Bible Study/Teaching 6–7.30pm, 2 King St, Coogee. Enq: 0409 405 585. Dec 11, God’s ‘Destiny of the Nations’ DVD and Intercession. EVERY SATURDAY Teachers, Parents and Friends Mission Outreach 10am at Morley Parish Centre, 47 Wellington Rd, Morley. Meet during school terms. Primary English teachers and prospective aides offer their services for a small remuneration and donations from the tuition are distributed to missionaries. “Come and See” sessions are offered. Enq: Maggie 9272 8263, margaretbox7@icloud.com. Children’s Religious Education Program (Pre-Primary and Year One) 11am–12.30pm at Our Lady Queen of Poland Parish, 35 Eighth Ave, Maylands. The official Perth Archdiocese Parish Religious Education Program gives an opportunity to children attending non-Catholic schools age-appropriate religious education in a creative and fun environment. Families outside of Maylands welcome. Enq: Hayley 0423 008 500.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY Vigil for Life – Mass and Procession 8.30am at St Augustine Parish, Gladstone St, Rivervale. Begins with Mass celebrated by Fr Carey, followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at nearby abortion clinic. Please join us to pray for the conversion of hearts and an end to abortion. Enq. Helen 9402 0349. Mission Rosary Making at the Legion of Mary 9.30am-2pm at 36 Windsor St, East Perth. All materials are supplied. The Rosaries made are distributed to the schools, missions and those who ask for a Rosary. Please join us and learn the art of Rosary making on rope and chain. Enq: 0478 598 860. EVERY SECOND SATURDAY Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Succour) and Divine Mercy Chaplet (Chant) 8.30am at Our Lady of the Mission Parish, Whitford, 270 Camberwarra Dr, Craigie. Holy Mass at 8.30am followed by Novena. Enq: Margaret 9307 2776. EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass 11.30am at St Brigid’s Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq. Frank 9296 7591 or 0408 183 325.

GENERAL Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes High quality oil painting and glossy print – Divine Mercy Promotions. Images of very high quality. For any parish willing to accept and place inside the Church. Oil paintings: 160 x 90cm; glossy print - 100 x 60cm. Enq: Irene 9417 3267 (w). Sacred Heart Pioneers Would anyone like to know about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771. St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Dr, Malaga. Mass of the day: Mon 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734. Mary MacKillop Merchandise Available for sale from Mary MacKillop Centre. Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933. Financially Disadvantaged People Requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement The Little Sisters of the Poor community is set in beautiful gardens in the suburb of Glendalough. “Making the elderly happy, that is everything!” St Jeanne Jugan (foundress). Registration and enq: Sr Marie 9443 3155. Is your son or daughter unsure of what to do this year? Suggest a Cert IV course to discern God’s purpose. They will also learn more about the Catholic faith and develop skills in communication and leadership. Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation (National Code 51452). Enq: Jane 9202 6859. AA Alcoholics Anonymous Is alcohol costing you more than just money? Enq: AA 9325 3566. Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate Invite SSRA Perth invites interested parties, parish priests, leaders of religious communities, lay associations to organise relic visitations to parishes, communities, etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of Catholic saints and blesseds including Sts Mary MacKillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe, Simon Stock and Blessed Pope John Paul II. Free of charge and all welcome. Enq: Giovanny 0478 201 092 or ssraperth@catholic.org. Enrolments, Year 7, 2014 La Salle College now accepting enrolments for Year 7, 2014. For prospectus and enrolment, please contact college reception on 9274 6266 or email lasalle@lasalle.wa.edu.au. Acts 2 College, Perth’s Catholic Bible College Is now pleased to be able to offer tax deductibility for donations to the college. If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow the faith of young people and evangelise the next generation of apostles, please contact Jane Borg, Principal at Acts 2 College on 0401 692 690 or principal@ acts2come.wa.edu.au. Divine Mercy Church Pews Would you like to assist by donating a beautifully handcrafted jarrah pew currently under construction, costing only $1,000 each. A beautiful brass plaque with your inscription will be placed at the end of the pew. Please make cheques payable to Divine Mercy Church Building fund and send with inscription to PO Box 8, Bullsbrook WA 6084. Enq: Fr Paul 0427 085 093. Donate Online at www. ginginchitteringparish.org.au. Abortion Grief Association Inc A not-for-profit association is looking for premises to establish a Trauma Recovery Centre (pref SOR) in response to increasing demand for our services (ref www.abortiongrief.asn.au). Enq: Julie (08) 9313 1784. Pilgrimage: Following Christ and His Saints Fr Tim Deeter and Fr Michael Rowe will lead a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and Italy, Jan 6-31, 2014. Israel and Jordan, Rome, Subiaco, Genazzano, Norcia and Cascia in Italy. $7,850 from Perth is all-inclusive except your drinks and

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Heart of Jesus that it will be recorded in heaven and retold for all eternity” ~ Blessed Mother Teresa. Adorers needed for: Sundays 4-5am; Monday 2-3am and 3-4am; Thursday 4-5pm; and Friday 12 noon to 1pm. If you would like one of these hours or would like more information please call the parish office Enquiries: 9444 6131. Ever thought about volunteering for work in an office dealing with people with disability? Learn new skills like getting out newsletters, data entry, filing and interacting with people. Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays 9am-3pm. Training provided. Enq: Barbara Harris, Coordinator of Emmanuel Centre 9328 8113, TTY 9328 9571, emmanuelcentre@ westnet.com.au or 25 Windsor St, Perth, 6000. Resource Centre For Personal Development 2014 Courses 197 High St, Fremantle. RCPD2 ‘Successful Relationships, Emotional Intelligence/ Communication Skills’; RCPD3 Part1 ‘Health – Mental, Physical and Spiritual’ ‘Understanding and Healing the

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