The Record Newspaper 23 November 2011

CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE

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Rebuilding the future

How development aid brings hope - Page 14

15 years on, thousands of women helped, and the need is ever greater

To save a life is to save the world

By RoBeRt Hiini

FOR 15 years, the volunteers and staff of Pregnancy Assistance have been reassuring women they can choose to keep their unborn babies and can count on being supported.

Often it was the only affirmation some women got, said long-term volunteer Helen Sawyer.

“Sometimes abortion feels like the more viable option but, in their heart-of-hearts, women know it’s

not the way to go,” she said. “It’s being able to say to a woman, ‘It’s okay to have your baby; you can do it; let us help you; we’ll stand by you,’ that makes all the difference.”

Sometimes women with unplanned pregnanices did not hear that from those around them; instead, people “sit on the fence”.

“The women hear, ‘We’ll support you whatever your decision,’ which a lot of the time sounds like, ‘Sorry, you’re on your own’.”

Ms Sawyer said her experience was that a woman’s loved ones would usually rally to support her once she had signalled her resolve to keep her baby. She has been a volunteer at Pregnancy Assistance, located in a modest house on Lord Street, East Perth, since it was founded in 1996 through the combined efforts of herself, Sharon Balsarini, AnneMarie Langdon and Brian Peachey.

They were inspired to take direct

action to help pregnant women, after Archbishop Barry Hickey made a public pledge that no woman should ever feel she needed to have an abortion due to financial pressure or lack of support.

While abortion is a hot-button political issue, inflaming passions across the ideological spectrum, Ms Sawyer said her main interest was attending to the personal needs of women and their babies.

“My work remains the same,” she

said of her role, counselling women and providing practical support after birth.

The need has never been greater.

In 1998, two years after Pregancy Assistance was established, the West Australian parliament legalised abortion on demand (Victoria followed suit in 2008).

This year the centre has offered help to more than 1000 women.

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Drugs and despair: priests’ new job description

By SaRaH MotHeRwell SUICIDE ,

drug abuse and false directions in society are among the issues confronting newly ordained priests in Australia today, Archbishop Barry Hickey warned during his homily at the ordination of three new priests for the Perth archdiocese.

“You were ordained for today, for

today’s times and conditions,” said the archbishop in a speech touching on topical social and economic issues confronting modern society.

Among the challenges the new priests would face, the archbishop nominated an increasing drug culture among young people and a high suicide rate.

Donizetti Martins were ordained to the priesthood after studying at the Redemptoris Mater Archdiocesan Missionary Seminary in Morley for the past several years.

All three are part of the Neocatechumenal Way movement, under whose auspices Redemptoris Mater is administered.

November, traditional hymns and prayers accompanied by organ were interspersed with the distinctive Spanish music of the Way.

The congregation, many of whom were members of the Way, almost lifted the roof off the cathedral with their singing.

Wilson

Deacons Antonio Scala, Marcelo Parra Gonzalez and

At the ordination ceremony, held at St Mary’s Cathedral on Friday 18

Artist Kiko Argüello founded the Neocatechumenal Way in the slums of Madrid in 1963; the

Way dedicates itself to providing a post-baptismal itinerary of adult Christian faith. The organisation was officially approved by the Holy See in 2008. Described as one of the more charismatic formations in the Catholic Church, it is estimated to have more than a million followers worldwide.

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Deacons Antonio Scala, Marcelo Gonzalez and Wilson Martins present themselves in St Mary’s Cathedral on the evening of Friday 18 November for ordination to the priesthood. PHOTO: R HIINI

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Faith at foot in Mandorla work of art

Dr Angela McCarthy reflects on a favourite work from the Mandorla Art Award collection.

MICHAEL Kane Taylor’s Pedilavium is one of my favourite images from the Mandorla Art Award collection of contemporary Christian art.

Michael has combined an understanding of Matthew’s text, “Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me,” with an image from John’s gospel where Jesus washes the feet of his disciples (John 13:1-16).

What makes it interesting are the feet the artist has chosen to depict in the image. There is a variety of feet in terms of age, health condition, ethnic origin, colour and size.

We don’t usually have our feet touched by other people unless it is for therapeutic reasons and to have them washed on Holy Thursday, following the reading of this incident in John’s gospel, is a humbling experience for both the priest and the people who participate in the action.

It brings clearly to mind, in a powerful way, that what we do for the least in our community we do for Jesus himself.

This artwork arrests the eye with its vibrant colour. Red is the colour of divine love, the love that God expressed to us by becoming human, flesh and blood.

The feet mostly have photographic clarity but a few remain part of the printed sections of the work and lead us to reflect that some things are really clear, but other aspects of our care for the least of them is still unclear. This helps us understand that there is still work to be done in God’s kingdom!

Michael has used striped fabric and a bowl that looks Middle

Eastern in colour and style; this gives an historical anchor to the action but a timeless view as well because such bowls and fabrics still are used today.

There is a beautiful rhythm in the shapes of the feet that draws our eye around the artwork, and this combination of printmaking and digital images offers a con-

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Dr Angela McCarthy currently lectures in theology in the School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia, is president of the Australian Academy of Liturgy and chairwoman of the Mandorla Art Award.

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Helping baby Jesus’ brothers and sisters

Riverton parishioners will help the parents and families of babies by throwing a Baby Shower for Jesus on December 12, with all donated goods going to Pregnancy Assistance. It is the fourth year the parish’s prayer and craft groups have worked together to collect donations. Meeting every Wednesday, the craft group’s 22 women knit items for a variety of causes, including blankets for Br Olley’s wheelchair mission and beanies for malnourished children in Cambodia and the Philippines. The group make clothes for babies throughout the year to be handed to volunteers from Pregnancy Assistance at the Baby Shower. Invitations to the Baby Shower and the parish craft group are open to anyone, co-ordinator Rhori White told The Record. Anyone who wants to donate goods is invited to contact the parish office on 6188 6877.

More apps in the pipeline for Catholics

For weeks, St Thomas More parish in Bateman has profiled a Catholic “app” in its Grapevine bulletin each week. Designed as small programs, or “applications”, for smart phones and other portable devices, the development of apps is accelerating, including those dedicated for use in churches and for private prayer. Last week, Bateman profiled iMissal, an application providing daily readings, prayers and videos of the Mass (if the device has wireless internet connection). Available on Android Phones, iPhones, iPads, Blackberries and soon to be released on Windows 7 phones, the app also provides the order of the Mass in its current and new translations. The app retails for just under $5 in the online Android Market and the iTunes Store.

OFFICIAL ENGAGEMENTS 2011

NOVEMBER

21-25 Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Sydney – Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Sproxton

27 Parish Wedding Anniversaries Mass, Lockridge – Archbishop Hickey

Mass celebrating Anniversary of Consecration of Mercedes Chapel – Bishop Sproxton

29 Pregnancy Assistance Annual Thanksgiving Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral – Archbishop Hickey

30 Annual Thanksgiving Mass, National Civic Council / Australian Family Association, Glendalough – Archbishop Hickey

DECEMBER

1 Priests’ Cenacle, East Perth – Archbishop Hickey

Presentation of the Broderick Family Church and Civic Architectural Drawings, Catholic Pastoral Centre – Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Sproxton

End-of-year gathering of Catholic Marriage and Fertility Services – Bishop Sproxton

2 Maranatha end-of-year Mass and Graduation, St Mary’s Cathedral – Archbishop Hickey

3 Redemptorist Ordination to Priesthood, Monastery – Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Sproxton

4 Annual Mass at Bandyup Prison – Archbishop Hickey

Filipino Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral – Archbishop Hickey Mass for the Sick, St Mary’s Cathedral – Bishop Sproxton

30th Anniversary Mass, Emmanuel Centre – Bishop Sproxton

6 Service of Appreciation and Recognition Memorial Dedication, St Mary’s Cathedral – Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Sproxton

Pedilavium, by Michael Kane Taylor, digital print on paper on canvas, 56cm x 70cm, scripture theme: “Whatsoever you do for the least of them, you do for me” (Matthew 25:40), joint winner 2004.

PHOTO: MANDORLA ART AWARD

Group remembers a founding father

RATHER than the sometimes complex issues of ecumenical dialogue between the Orthodox and Catholic churches, it was the much-loved former auxiliary bishop of Perth, Robert Healy, who was the focus of a special event marking a a decade of east-west Christian friendship in Perth recently.

Fond memories of Bishop Healy, the first Catholic patron of the Catholic Archdiocesan Taskforce

Schools win award for compassion

FOR THE first time in its history, the Archbishop’s Spirit Award has been given to two Perth Catholic schools.

La Salle College in Midland and St Columba’s Primary School in Bayswater received the award for their support of the LifeLink Day initiative.

In previous years the award has gone to only one school.

The day is held across Catholic schools each year to support and raise funds for archdiocesan social welfare agencies helping those on the margins of society.

The award is not presented on the basis of how much money a school raises.

In the case of St Columba’s and La Salle, the award was given for a range of factors including the schools’ innovative approaches to fundraising, participation in webcast launches, and providing students with an experience linking faith and education.

The Spirit award encourages students and schools to embrace the goals of LifeLink Day, learning not only about what the Church’s response to people in need is within the Archdiocese, but also to undertake some form of fundraising in support of the social service agencies funded through LifeLink.

Award organisers hope to foster commitment in Catholic schools to educating students in their responsibility to care for those less fortunate than themselves and to promote an ethos of compassion to everyone in the school community.

for Catholic-Orthodox Bridgebuilding, came to the fore at St John’s pro-Cathedral, on Victoria Street, Perth, when Orthodox and Catholic members of the taskforce came together for its 10th anniversary on 19 November.

Since being formed in 2001, CATCOB, a little known organisation with a small membership, has pulled off some major coups, including facilitating exchange vis-

its between students in Orthodox seminaries in Athens and their counterparts at St Charles Seminary in Guildford.

The visits were remarkable because such things have been almost unheard of globally in previous years. The first took two years to organise and is now a fully functioning programme valued by both Churches at the highest levels.

Taskforce convenor Philip

Shields welcomed Orthodox and Catholic clergy and laity to the tiny pro-cathedral, noting the primary aim of the group over the past 10 years had been to facilitate greater interaction between Catholic and Orthodox believers.

It was, he said, an extraordinary body within the archdiocese that depended on prayer and courageous risk-taking rewarded with new friendships between Catholic

and Orthodox and a falling away of the fear of “getting too close”. Orthodox delegate Susana Dimitrakos said Bishop Healy, who died in 2002, was a father to the fledgling group and showed special warmth to the Orthodox Churches. He had been honoured as a newly ordained bishop by being invited to sit on the episcopal throne at the first ecumenical service in an Orthodox Church in the late 1970s.

Sisters fade away but habits live on

IT HAS been more than 20 years since the last Sister of Mercy departed St Columba’s Primary School in Bayswater, but their spirit lives on.

This month the school’s new library was named in honour of Sr Irena Kasprzyk, the last member of the order founded by Catherine McAuley to serve at the school.

The dedication and naming of the library after Sr Irena, who was the school’s principal from 1983

to 1988, was a tribute both to her and all the Mercy sisters who had served the school community before her, said teacher Caroline Brewer.

The library was opened on 6 November, following a Mass celebrating the school’s 75th anniversary. St Columba’s was formally opened by Perth Archbishop Redmond Prendiville on 22 December 1935, welcoming its first student the following year.

The school’s founding principal, Sr Mary Paschal, went on to also be its longest-serving, leading the school until 1951.

“Under Sr Paschal’s guidance and leadership, the Mercy charism of service to the poor within the apostolate of teaching was well established,” Ms Brewer said. “The firm foundations for the growth and development of the school and parish were laid.” Many dedicated Mercy sisters followed in

her footsteps, teaching classes of up to 60 children.

The anniversary Mass was celebrated by Perth Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton and parish priest Fr Minh Thuy.

Among the many invited guests, past and present staff and students, friends and families at the celebrations were Mrs Sheila Brennan, a member of the original class of 1936, Sr Irena and her lay successor, Mrs Phil Billington.

Clockwise from top: Sr Joan Smith, Sr Irena Kasprzyk, Sr Marie Fitzgerald, Sr Leonnie O’Brien and Sr Josephine Dillon at the dedication of the Sister Irena Kasprzyk Library; Bishop Donald Sproxton and Sr Irena Kasprzyk cut the 75th anniversary cake with principal Greg Martin and parish priest Fr Minh Thuy; an original Sister of Mercy habit takes centre stage in a display in St Columba’s new library.

PHOTOS: COURTESY ST COLUMBA’S PRIMARY

No objections in moot court named for Justice Owen

By MaRk Reidy

THE University of Notre Dame has honoured former Western Australian Supreme Court judge, the Honourable Justice Neville Owen, by naming its new moot court after him.

The “Justice Owen Moot Court” was formally opened by the university’s vice-chancellor, Professor Celia Hammond, at a special gathering attended by Justice Owen and his family, members of the WA law community, staff, students and supporters of the Fremantle campus’s school of Law.

Professor Hammond outlined Justice Owen’s significant contributions to the university, including his roles as a teacher, counsellor, advisor and provider of sage words to both students and staff.

he was humbled by the decision of the university but that he was particularly satisfied with the honour because it related to a subject close to his heart – the advancement of advocacy skills and techniques as part of the standard education of lawyers.

The Moot Court, which is housed in the authentic Fremantle Court House, dating from around 1884, will allow law students to participate in simulated court proceedings using state-of-the-art training facilities that combine traditional advocacy training with current computerised court processes.

UNDA law students will now be able to take part in simulated court proceedings.

It will allow students to record and review their trials, lodge legal documents electronically and practise against interstate competitors before international competitions.

“We would like to promote him to our students as a model for a good and proper way of living a life in the law”, the vice-chancellor said.

“We want them to not only see what he has done, but also see how he has done it.” Justice Owen said

“This electronic Moot Court will help us continue striving towards our goal of providing an excellent legal education, one which blends theory, ethics and a high standard of professional skills training,” Professor Hammond said.

Youth conga at Cathedral House for Brazil WYD 2013

By RoBeRt Hiini

AN ARCHBISHOP’S residence might be an odd place to crank up the music but that’s exactly what young Catholics did on 13 November in anticipation of World Youth Day Brazil 2013.

Bands belted out the Catholic hits from the porch of Cathedral House after a mass at nearby St Mary’s Cathedral to keep the spirit of the recent WYD Madrid alive.

A band from Mercedes College was followed by Perth’s Flame Ministries, led by singer-songwriter Patrick Carre.

Passers-by on Perth’s Hay Street would have seen conga lines of more than 100 young people lining the lawn at Cathedral House. Archbishop Barry Hickey was on hand to preach the next WYD theme, “Go and make disciples of all peoples” (Matthew 28:19).

Brazilian group Cordao De Ouro took its art directly to exiting mass goers, treating them to a display of Brazil’s national martial art, Capoeira, developed covertly by African slaves indentured by Brazil’s colonial Portuguese rulers. The art combines kicks and striking moves.

Whoever saves a life saves the world

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Lydia Stanley, the co-ordinator of Pregnancy Assistance for six years until September, said she had seen a marked increase in the number of women seeking help who had had a previous abortion.

The ready availability of the morning-after pill, chemical abortifacients such as RU-486 and longlasting contraceptives such as the implant Implanon, she said, had created a culture where unwanted pregnancy was seen as something to be summarily dealt with.

Consequently, the need to get information to vulnerable women –particularly young women – about fetal development and the longterm consequences of abortion, was more pressing than ever, she said.

Last year, research published in the Medical Journal of Australia indicated 87 per cent support for legal abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (61 per cent unconditionally).

The research was co-authored by academic and an abortion rights advocate, Lachlan de Crespigny, with the results based on an online survey of 1050 anonymous participants, aged 18 and over.

In the United States, pro-life advocates express more confidence that the tide of public opinion is turning on attitudes to abortion.

In a 2009 Gallup Poll, the major-

“They are people who recognise the sanctity of life from conception but also value the life of the mother.”

ity of respondents described themselves as being “pro-life” as opposed to “pro-choice”, the first result of its kind since Gallup first asked the question in 1995.

According to Gallup’s 2010 research, generational differences in attitudes to abortion had narrowed, with an increase in pro-life sentiment among those aged 18-29 and 30-49, the two age brackets historically most supportive of legalised abortion.

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No matter the difficulties of the wider culture, Pregnancy Assistance’s volunteers remained committed to women when it mattered most, Ms Stanley said:

“They are people who recognise the sanctity and dignity of human life from the moment of conception but also the value of the life of the mother, and that the decision she makes will affect her life as well.”

Lacking the money for a large marketing budget, the work and clientele of Pregnancy Assistance had grown principally through word of mouth.

The agency’s continuing existence attested to the generosity of ordinary Catholics, she said, with donations making up the entirety of Pregnancy Assistance’s funding.

Prayer support had also been a major factor in the agency’s success to date.

Ms Sawyer also helped found the local chapter of the spiritual outreach group Helpers of God’s Precious Infants in May 1997, whose members pray and offer counselling outside private abortion clinics.

Pregnancy Assistance will celebrate 15 years with a Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral at 6.30pm on Tuesday November 29.

Youth enjoy the rhythm at the launch of the World Youth Day Brazil Perth campaign outside Cathedral House on 13 November. PHOTO: MICHAEL CONNELLY

Retired Justice Neville Owen, front right, enjoys the moment with legal practitioners at Notre Dame.

PHOTO: COURTESY UNDA

Year of Grace a time to start afresh

THE SCOURGE of sexual abuse, the position of indigenous Australians, attitudes towards migrants and refugees, and degradation of the environment are the main issues identified by the head of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference as requiring a special “Year of Grace”.

“For several years the bishops have been reflecting deeply on the life of the Church in Australia,” Archbishop Wilson writes in an open letter to Catholics. “We have asked how we can better serve the

St Patrick’s cathedral wins award

By SaRaH MotHeRwell

A ROGUE tornado destroyed St Patrick’s Cathedral in Bunbury in 2005 but a new place of worship has risen from the ashes and won an award in excellence.

The cathedral was demolished and built from scratch after the original foundations were largely destroyed in a tornado in 2005 and suffered further damage in an arson attack in 2007 making it the first cathedral to be built in Australia in 63 years.

The award-winning St Patrick’s Cathedral.

The new cathedral is designed by architect Marcus Collins and built by local Bunbury building company Perkins Builders, who won the National Commercial/ Industrial Construction Award ($10 Million to $20 Million category) in the 2011 Master Builders National Excellence in Building and Construction Awards.

The surviving buildings in the Bunbury Cathedral Precinct were renovated and are now used as the offices of the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury.

needs of you, God’s faithful people, in bringing the peace and good news of Jesus Christ to our nation.”

The year, to run from Pentecost, 27 May 2012 till Pentecost 19 May 2013, will be a time for Australian Catholics to “commit ourselves to start afresh from Christ”.

With Pope Benedict XVI having proclaimed a “Year of Faith” to begin on 11 October 2012 (the 50th anniversary of the start of

leading to faith, and faith responding to grace”.

While recognising God’s abundant blessings, the bishops also acknowledged “with sadness that we are a Church in need of healing”.

“There are many wounds – most especially the wounds of abuse which have left not only those abused but the whole Church in need of healing,” he writes.

“There is also the struggle to

shores. We need to extend the hand of friendship to those of other nations and faiths and to be good stewards of the created world. Most deeply, we desire for the light of Christ to burn more brightly in the heart of each Australian.

“We are resolved, in the words of Pope John Paul II, to contemplate the face of Christ. Both these phrases come from his Apostolic Letter, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium), and we use this letter as our guide and inspiration.”

Former Western Australian Minister for the South West, Mark McGowan, presented a cheque for $2.5 million in January 2007 to Bunbury Bishop Gerard Holohan to assist in the construction.

The original St Patrick’s cathedral was built in the early part of the last century. Builders were instructed to maintain the heritage value of the Presbytery, which was built in 1918.

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The bishops had committed themselves to pray daily, “seeking the mind and heart of Jesus Christ”; to repent for the areas in which they had failed, “seeking healing and renewal through the grace of Christ’s forgiveness”; and to the path of holiness, “cultivating the many gifts of the Spirit and seeking to grow as disciples of Jesus.”

The co-ordinator in the Archdiocese of Perth, Paddy Buckley, can be contacted via the The Faith Centre, 450 Hay St in Perth, on (08) 6140 2420.

Schoenstatt shrine draws faithful to the foothills

iini Schoenstatt movement celebrated its willingness to bring Christ to every kind of environment last Sunday with a mass celebrating 20 years since their shrine was blessed in Armadale.

Visible from the busy South Western Highway, it’s a world away from the lush green surrounds of the original Schoenstatt shrine, along the Rhine River in Germany but shares the same universal call to holiness with over 200 Schoenstatt centres worldwide.

Several hundred members, friends and supporters descended on the shrine on Sunday 20 November to join the Schoenstatt sisters in marking the milestone.

Main celebrant, Mgr Brian O’Loughlin VG, said the centre had and would continue to be a sign of Christ’s presence in WA.

“It can be a statement of faith to the people passing by ... this little shrine which seems so discordant here in the Australian bush.

“It can lead people to ask “why is it there? What purpose does it

serve? Who gathers there? And from those questions they will be attracted to the truths of faith enunciated by [Schoenstatt founder] Fr Kentenich and which members of the Schoenstatt movement continue to reflect on,” he said.

The Schoenstatt movement has been present in Australian since 1951, when four sisters of their secular institute arrived in Fremantle.

Originally based at the small mid-west town of Tardun, 427km north of Perth, the movement was also present at Wandering and Riverton before operating exclusively out of Armadale.

House superior, Sr Georgina Heger, prayed thanks through the intercession of our Mother Thrice Admirable, the name given to the image of Our Lady used by the movement and symbolising Mary’s role as the Mother of God, the Mother of the Saviour and Mother of the redeemed.

She said Fr Joseph Kentenich prefigured the Second Vatican Council in founding a movement for lay people which promoted the universal call to holiness.

Armadale parish priest Fr Kaz Stuglik distributes communion.

PHOTO: ROB HIINI

PHOTO: BUNBURY DIOCESE

Priests needed where there is despair

New priest Fr Wilson Martins celebrated his 28th birthday the day after his ordination. He said he first heard the call from God to become a priest when he was 18.

Born in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, he said he could see the need for priests in his own neighbourhood as he grew up.

He had also experienced how the Church came to, and helped himself and his family through the Neocatechumenal Way.

Fr Martins, who will now serve the parishes of Star of the Sea in Cottesloe and Corpus Christi in Mosman Park, said he had no plans of his own for his priesthood; rather he was open to whatever there was a need for and would remain free to go anywhere his archbishop wishes.

will serve St Gerard Majella Parish in Mirrabooka while Chilean-born Fr Marcelo Gonzalez will serve in Good Shepherd in Kelmscott. Their ordination follows six months of service in their parishes as deacons. The trio were ordained to the diaconate in May this year, also at St Mary’s Cathedral.

With the three new additions to his diocese, Archbishop Hickey has ordained 94 priests since his appointment in 1991.

Priests of the Neocatechumenal Way ordained in Perth usually serve for two years in the archdiocese under a gentleman’s agreement between the Archbishop and the Way. Perth priests of the Way may be released after this period for missionary work anywhere in the world.

Melbourne seminary a sign of new movements

By Mark reidy

A NEW seminary opened in the Melbourne suburb of Burwood is a sign of the burgeoning presence and growth of new groups and movements in the Church including the one which founded it, the Disciples of Jesus covenant community which also exists in Perth.

During the official opening of the Missionary of God’s Love Seminary at St Benedict’s parish in Burwood, Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart prayed that all who entered its doors would be open to the imitless love of God.

Addressing a crowd of over 200, including consecrated MGL mem-

bers on 5 November, Archbishop Hart said he had fully supported the building of the seminary and believed the love, witness and commitment of the MGL community would ripple throughout St Benedict’s parish, the diocese and into the wider community.

“For any diocese or religious order, the seminary is at the heart of what we are doing,” he said. “I am truly pleased the MGL Seminary is here in Melbourne.”

Moderator Fr Ken Barker, who founded the MGLs in Canberra in 1986, expressed his gratitude to Archbishop Hart, parishioners of St Benedict’s and others for their spiritual and financial commitment

and support. “We have been blown apart by the generosity,” he said. “This shows the generous heart of Catholic people who want to see priests in the future”.

The new building will provide for the growing number of MGL seminarians, who have been based in several locations, to be accommodated under the one roof.

It also provides a chapel, office space, a library, seminar room, computer lab and gym. “It is my hope the seminary will be a place of deep prayer life and brotherhood that can bring forward a life of mission,” said Fr Ken.

“What we are doing here is very much in the heart of the Church”.

Redemptoris Mater rector Fr Michael Moore SM, left, Neocatechumenal itinerant priest Fr Tony Trafford and St Charles rector Mgr Kevin Long pray over the new priests, right. The Litany of Saints is chanted earlier, bottom left. PHOTOS: R HIINI

Archbishop Hart looks on as the ceremony commences

New brothers: priests of the Archdiocese of Perth come forward to pray over their newly ordained colleagues in St Mary’s Cathedral in the evening on Friday 18 November.

PHOTO: ROBERT HIINI

Rape destroying Congolese society

By BarB Fraze

WASHINGTON – The high incidence of rape in Congo is not just destroying women but society, said the general secretary of the Church’s national justice and peace commission, Sister Marie-Barnard Alima.

In Africa, the woman is “the central and most important guardian of values in society”, she said.

Rape is “not just rape,” she said. “It is rape to destroy a person’s dignity” and to “degrade women and to degrade society.”

“The trauma they are subjected

to cripples them in all their activities,” she said. Sr Marie-Bernard and others admit the situation is complex.

The UN has called Congo the centre of rape as a weapon of war.

Sr Marie-Bernard said the rapes started when the war began in 1998, but continue today, although the war has ended, because smaller, local militias saw that tactics by soldiers worked. The approach to stopping the rapes “has to be comprehensive”, she said, because the rapes are tied to a web of issues involving power and control.

Studies by the justice and peace commission indicate that, to stop rapes, society must stop the illegal extraction of minerals, especially in the eastern part of the country; resolve the issues of illegal arms; and reintegrate young men into society.

The UN has an arms embargo on eastern Congo but Sr MarieBernard said males 16-20 or younger are able to pretty much do what they want as they have weapons.

Edward Kiely, regional representative for CRS, said “those who exploit the mines are strong

because they are armed.” Those who have arms can also kidnap and rape women.

“Youth who are not involved in any activities are easily mobilised for other things,” Kiely said. Sometimes that includes working in illegal mines, he said.

Sr Marie-Bernard said when a woman is raped, she is “rejected by her husband and community.”

“A woman’s intimacy is so central to her identity” that, when she is raped, “she loses confidence in herself because she feels she no longer exists as a woman.”

The justice and peace commission is working on “psycho-social accompaniment - accompanying them to help re-establish their self-dignity,” she said. Women are treated as individuals and receive trauma counselling, but also are helped to reintegrate into their communities.

“In these interactions, men begin to relearn the true place of women in society,” she said. Women who have been raped actually lead men through the process, she added. The goal is to “re-establish this sense of respect for women.”

Benin’s mission for all Africa

COTONOU – On a three-day visit to Benin, Pope Benedict XVI urged African Catholics to witness the hope of the Gospel in their daily lives and make the Church a model of reconciliation for the continent.

In a particular way, the Church must be “attentive to the cry of the poor, the weak, the outcast,” the Pope said at a Mass for more than 50,000 people on 20 November.

“I would like to greet with affection all those who are suffering, who are sick, those affected by AIDS or other illnesses, to all those forgotten by society. Have courage! The Pope is close to you in his thoughts and prayers,” he said.

The 84 year old Pontiff delivered his homily in French, English and Portuguese, adding a few words in Fon, the local indigenous language. He occasionally wiped his brow as temperatures rose during the morning liturgy.

“The Church in Benin has received much from her missionaries; she must in turn carry this message of hope to people who do not know or who no longer know the Lord Jesus,” he said.

The Pope’s message was aimed beyond the borders of Benin, a small West African country with a population of nearly 3 million Catholics out of a total population of nearly 9 million. He came to Africa to unveil a document, Africae Munus (“The Commitment of Africa”), that outlined pastoral strategies and urged Catholics to become “apostles of reconciliation, justice and peace” across the troubled continent.

At every one of his public events, Africans, including many pilgrims who came from neighbouring countries, gave him a lively welcome, blending song, dance and prayer in religious celebration.

One of the most animated encounters saw the Pope surrounded by several hundred schoolchildren who accompanied him in a rhythmic procession and cheered him inside a parish church. In a talk, the Pope told the children to

ask their parents to pray with them. Later, he pulled a rosary from his pocket and asked the young people to learn how to pray it. Each child was given a rosary before leaving.

On 19 November, the Pope travelled to the city of Ouidah, a former slave trading post on the Atlantic coast, to sign his follow-up document to the 2009 Synod of Bishops for Africa. The 138-page text said the Church should lead the way in promoting respect for human dignity and life at every stage, fighting against economic imbalance and environmental degradation,

providing health care to those with AIDS and other diseases, educating the young and reconciling human hearts in places of ethnic tension.

Before the signing, the Pope said that in the face of Africa’s problems, “a Church reconciled within herself and among all her members can become a prophetic sign of reconciliation in society” and help guide the struggle against “every form of slavery” in the modern world.

Addressing diplomats, civil authorities and religious representatives in Cotonou, the Pope cautioned against viewing Africa

solely as a place of problems and failures. Often this perspective is fueled by prejudices, he said.

“It is tempting to point to what does not work; it is easy to assume the judgemental tone of the moraliser or of the expert who imposes his conclusions and proposes, at the end of the day, few useful solutions,” he said. He also warned of the related risk of seeing Africa only in terms of vast resources to be easily exploited.

Relations between Christians and Muslims in Benin are generally good, and representatives of

Islam were among those present at the Cotonou meeting.

The Pope emphasised that “everyone of good sense” understands the need for interreligious dialogue today and rejects the attempt to justify intolerance or violence.

“Aggression is an outmoded relational form which appeals to superficial and ignoble instincts. To use the revealed word, the sacred scriptures or the name of God to justify our interests, our easy and convenient policies or our violence, is a very grave fault,” he said.

Ghanaian oil find needs strategic national vision

TAKORADI, Ghana - Ghana’s bishops have urged the government to make judicious use of its new revenue from oil and gas.

Last year’s oil discovery off the coast of Ghana’s western region “is raising the political temperature” in the country, the Ghana Bishops’ Conference said in a statement at the end of its November plenary.

The “early signs” of the government’s reaction to its new status as

an oil-producing nation “give cause for apprehension,” said the statement, signed by conference president Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu of Konongo-Mampong.

“The debates in Parliament on the question of whether a fixed percentage of these resources should be reserved for the development of the western region and government tussles” with international oil companies “suggest that we are in

danger of repeating the mistakes associated in oil production elsewhere in Africa, with ominous consequences,” the bishops said.

“The oil find should ordinarily be good news,” they said. They noted that “countries like Norway have shown how, with good governance, the additional resources which are made available can be harnessed to create a nation at peace with itself.”

Ghana’s government must “factor the real concerns of the people into the contracts with the oil companies and the management of the oil revenues for the benefit of all,” the bishops said. To ensure accountability, the government needs to publish regularly all information regarding contracts, exploration and planned production activities as well as annual audited accounts of its fiscal

activities, they said. “The western region, where the oil and gas have been found, should be given the attention it deserves in terms of development and infrastructure,” the bishops said, noting the “deplorable state of most of the roads” in the region. The bishops called on the government to develop a strategic national vision to be shared and owned by all Ghanaians.

Young women wear t-shirts with an image of the Pope as they wait for his arrival at the Missionaries of Charity centre in Benin. CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING

Finance document was aimed at G20

By John Thavis

VATICAN CITY – The unusual and somewhat mysterious gestation process of Vatican documents came into the spotlight recently, thanks to a controversial white paper on economic justice.

The 41 page text on reforming the international financial system, prepared by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, proposed among other things a “central world bank” to regulate the flow of monetary exchanges, and taxation on financial transactions to aid the economies of poorer countries.

Critics immediately tried to

Vatican critical of Benetton Unhate ad

By John Thavis

VATICAN CITY – Hours after the Vatican condemned an Italian advertising campaign that depicted Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader, Italian fashion house Benetton withdrew the photo.

The campaign, Unhate, features doctored images of supposedly antagonistic world leaders kissing.

The Vatican called the image of Pope Benedict embracing Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, president of alAzhar University in Cairo, who announced the suspension of dialogue with the Vatican earlier this year, offensive.

A few hours after the ads were unveiled, Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi condemned “a completely unacceptable use of the image of the Holy Father, manipulated and exploited in the context of a publicity campaign for commercial ends.”

Shortly afterward, the image was gone from the website of the Unhate Foundation.

Fr Lombardi said the image represented “a serious lack of respect for the Pope”, an offence to the sentiments of the faithful and a clear demonstration of how fundamental rules of respect for people can be violated by advertising, in order to attract attention through provocation.

The next day, the Vatican said it had instructed its lawyers to take action to block circulation of the photomontage “including in the mass media,” in Italy and in other countries.

In the past, Benetton has employed shocking images in its advertising campaigns.

One such advertisement in 1991 depicted a priest kissing a nun.

downplay the document and argued the justice and peace council was a minor player at the Vatican. Then an Italian blogger reported the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, had ordered that, from now on, all such documents must have the approval of his office.

The real back story was far different, according to informed sources. Months ago, in view of the upcoming G-20 meeting in France (in early November), Vatican officials discussed how to contribute to the discussion on international monetary reform.

Because the Vatican is not a member of the G-20 and had not

been invited to its meeting, Vatican officials decided a statement on financial reform should come in the form of a “note” by the justice and peace council, rather than a formal statement of the Holy See.

The council’s members and consultants worked with the Secretariat of State throughout the drafting process. The “Second Section” of the Secretariat, which deals with foreign affairs, not only discussed the document’s approach but reviewed and “adjusted” its content before publication, sources said.

So the idea that Cardinal Peter Turkson’s justice and peace council had pulled a fast one on Vatican

higher-ups was baseless. But the story got legs because of a misunderstanding that occurred about the same time.

Every year, the Pope issues a message for the World Day for Migrants and Refugees. The message is prepared by the pontifical council that deals with migration issues, and receives final approval by the Secretariat of State.

This year, however, extensive excerpts of the Pope’s migration message were inadvertently published five days early on the website of the Vatican Information Service. The text was removed after several hours, but there was enough

Lack of consensus on arms troubles Vatican diplomat

By KrisTin GoBBerG

VATICAN CITY – To protect innocent civilians from the harmful effects of weapons of war, “international humanitarian law remains an essential safety measure not to be weakened,” a Vatican official said.

Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Vatican representative to UN agencies in Geneva, focused on the responsibility to protect civilian populations from harmful weapons in an address to a conference reviewing the international Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

“The responsibility of the CCW to protect civilian populations

rests on its ability to comply with the provisions of international humanitarian law and even in strengthening them,” he said.

“The CCW has an important place and role in the international system that seeks to reduce the impact of indiscriminate weapons on civilian populations, on the development and implementation of the conditions that allow an exit from war situations,” he said.

Archbishop Tomasi specifically expressed concern over the lack of consensus on protocols addressing certain types of mines and cluster munitions, which are being used in several conflicts.

The work of the Vatican and several nations to formulate the

separate Convention on Cluster Munitions in 2008 was an important step toward protecting civilians since it was “no longer acceptable to see the number of victims increase” after a war and to see land “polluted” by the weapons unable to be used after a conflict had ended, he said.

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, adopted in 1981, has both general provisions and five separate protocols that define restrictions and bans on certain weapons, including mines, incendiary weapons, explosive remnants from war and blinding laser weapons “that are considered to cause unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering.”

Canadians need to protect freedoms

By DeBorah GyaponG

OTTAWA – Although Canada has traditionally had a healthy relationship between Church and state, Catholics must remain alert to protect religious freedom, says Archbishop Miller of Vancouver. A secularist agenda “basically wants to privatise religion and leave it restricted to the private sphere”. Pressures to compress religious freedom into private belief and worship were not what was intended in Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms or universal human rights documents, he said.

The Archbishop described a number of circumstances in Canada requiring vigilance: encroachment of various human rights commissions on religious institutions or on rights of leaders to publicly profess Christian doctrine: imposition of mandatory school programmes contrary to Catholic teaching; forcing marriage commissioners in some provinces to conduct samesex ceremonies; forcing health care professionals to participate in or refer patients for abortion; and ordering pharmacists to dispense morning-after pills against their consciences.

Religious freedom and freedom of conscience were usually linked in Church documents but there could be nonreligious reasons for conscientious objection, he said.

“A person has a right to freedom of conscience even if not based on religious belief.” Canadians needed to guard against a belief that rights were granted by the state and could be taken away “if we’re not good,” he said.

Religious freedom and conscience rights are not granted by the state, Archbishop Miller stressed. “Rights are innate,” he said. “They belong to us because we are human

embarrassment to prompt action by Cardinal Bertone. He issued instructions that all documents bearing the Pope’s signature must be released through the Secretariat of State, and not circulated ahead of time by other Vatican agencies. That led some to mistakenly conclude that Cardinal Bertone was reacting to the document on financial reform, and reining in radical Roman Curia elements at the justice and peace council. On the contrary, Vatican sources said, no document on sensitive global economic issues would ever be published without the nulla osta of the Secretariat of State.

UNITED STATES

US bishop to report all suspected child abuse

Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City-St Joseph has agreed to meet monthly for the next five years with a county prosecutor to avoid a possible criminal misdemeanour indictment for failing to report a priest suspected of child abuse. Each month the bishop will report all instances of suspected child abuse in the diocese. In mid-October, the bishop and the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph entered pleas of not guilty to misdemeanour charges of failure to report child abuse in the case of Father Shawn Ratigan, arrested in May for possession of child pornography. The diocese and bishop also have been named in civil suits alleging they failed to keep the priest away from children even after learning disturbing images were found on the priest’s computer and being warned of his inappropriate behaviour around children.

FRANCE

French movement acknowledges abuse

A Catholic movement has acknowledged with “humility and repentance” acts of sexual abuse committed by its founder and other important members. The statement from the Community of the Beatitudes came two weeks ahead of the scheduled start of a criminal trial of Brother Pierre-Etienne Albert, a top member of the community accused of dozens of acts of sexual abuse of minors over a period of 15 years. The community was founded in 1973. Primary founder Gerard Croissant was a Protestant minister who became a Catholic and was ordained a permanent deacon in 1978. The statement said Croissant had committed “crimes against the moral law of the Church” and acknowledged “serious failures” in sexual matters, particularly in regard to sisters in the community. One case involved an underage girl, it said.

INDIA

Murder of Indian nun connected to campaign

beings” made “in the image and likeness of God.”

Some people have begun referring to “freedom of worship” instead of “religious freedom.” This change is troubling, he said, because religious freedom is broader than mere freedom of worship.

A traditional or Catholic understanding of religious freedom includes the right to worship; implies the right to choose a religion and profess it publicly, and to disseminate it in private and publicly through institutions such as churches and schools, the Archbishop said.

Church leaders in Kerala state have expressed shock over the killing of Sister Valsa John who campaigned for tribal rights in eastern India. Sr John, 53, a member of the Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary, was hacked to death at her home in a remote area of the east Indian state of Jharkhand. Archbishop George Alencherry, major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, said Sr John gave “her life to the poor and fought a long battle to try and safeguard their rights.” Asian Church news agency UCA News said family members believed the nun had been killed by people connected to a mining company she was campaigning against.

An Afghan civilian, injured by an improvised explosive device, is treated in Logar province, central Afghanistan, on 10 November. Conventional weapons are also a problem, says a Vatican official.

PHOTO: CNA/UMIT BEKTAS

LIFE OF BRIAN

By Mark reidy

Brian Peachey’s office is a microcosm of his existence – congested, chaotic and full of his love and passion for life. After spending several hours with this 82 year old dynamo, one walks away with not only a sense of personal inadequacy, but also a touch of jetlag!

My primary goal for interviewing Brian was to delve into his role as Chairman of Pregnancy Assistance (PA) over the past 15 years, a role he retired from on 12 October.

However, as Brian weaves his way through the history of his involvement with this Catholic agency, he regularly takes a tangent into other equally fascinating aspects of his very full life.

By the time we have finished, I have been taken on pilgrimages to Mexico, Egypt, Italy and Israel, relived his meeting with Pope Benedict, viewed photos of some of his nine children (one who passed away at a very young age) and numerous grandchildren, heard of his experiences in the Clontarf Boys Home, entered Vietnam to bring an orphan child to Australia just as the war broke out in the 60s and stepped inside the inner sanctum of the ALP split in the 50s in which he was intimately involved. In fact, after the latter I am left holding a photo of Brian with the late Bob Santamaria, a man he considered a friend, when they witnessed the West Coast Eagles winning their first AFL Grand Final in 1992 … but that’s another story!

When Miriam, his wife of 54 years, interrupted us to offer a drink, I thought she was joking when she warned me I could still be here at nightfall. She is obviously well versed with her husband’s unbridled enthusiasm and tendency to digress. However, while there is no doubting he is someone who is never short of a word, one he obviously has trouble pronouncing is “no”.

At an age when most people are planning to reap the fruits of their labours, Brian responded to a request by Archbishop Barry Hickey to establish a support and counselling agency for women who were contemplating abortion.

At the time Brian was President and co-founder of the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, a group established to unite pro-life entities, so the step into providing spiritual, emotional and practical support seemed a natural one.

As he does with any venture he embraces, Brian put his heart, soul and hands into the project from

the time PA first stepped into its premises at 195 Lord St, East Perth. “When we first stepped into the house in July, 1996, it was obvious the place had not been occupied for a number of years”, Brian recalls, “and it required a great deal of work before we could officially open to the public”.

A major part of this transformation was the establishment of a chapel which Brian embraced with his usual gusto.

Not only did he design it but he also built the tabernacle, altar and stations of the Cross. He acknowledges it was only through divine intervention that he was able to

Since its opening, PA has touched the lives of thousands of young women and their families through counselling, accommodation, information, clothing, furniture, pregnancy testing, referrals, financial guidance as well as through its quarterly magazine, Abundant Life, of which Brian is editor.

The success of the agency, which has registered over 1,000 contacts in the past year, is a source of personal satisfaction for Brian, who sacrificed a great deal of time and energy challenging the secular push for abortions that is thrust into the faces of anyone dealing with an unplanned preg-

“As he does with any venture he embraces, Brian put his heart, soul and hands into the project ...”

complete such a task. “I’m a mug carpenter in my own right,” he says. “It was only with the help of my favourite saint – and carpenter – St Joseph, that the project was a success”.

Soon after, the organisation was officially recognised by the Perth Archdiocese as a Private Association of Christ’s faithful and Archbishop Hickey celebrated the first Mass at the house.

Since then, Brian explained, Mass has been celebrated three times a week, ensuring the programme is always underpinned on firm spiritual foundations.

nancy. “It is such a vital ministry,” Brian expounds. “We live in a city that is killing a baby every hour of every day. If we can save even one life a year then I know the efforts of our team have been worthwhile”.

It is a team of which Brian is immensely proud, referring to them almost like a second family. “It is only because of the generosity and love of many volunteers and benefactors that PA has and is able to assist these young women,” he says with a proud, fatherly smile.

The decision to step away

from this ministry has been a difficult and prolonged one, but he has finally been able to let go. “Initially, I planned on retiring in 2010,” he recalls, “but I wanted to leave PA knowing that its future was secure”. He has certainly done that.

During the past year he, along with new chairman Kieran Ryan, has been negotiating a partnership with St John of God Health Care (SJOGHC) for the management of both PA accommodation houses, St Joseph’s and Miriam House. On 3 October this year, SJOGHC Board approved the partnership that will run in accordance with all the principles outlined in PA’s Constitution.

The closing of this chapter in his life, however, does not signal a slowing down for this exuberant veteran. In the confines of his home office, Brian’s zest for life is still very tangible. Wherever you turn in this crowded room, there seems to be yet another project in progress.

He shows me a draft of the first chapters of a book he is currently writing - tentatively, but I believe appropriately titled An Abundant Life - which is one of the reasons he handed over the reigns of PA. “It was something I had to do,” he shares. “I have been writing mem-

ories and ideas down for years and I want to wrap them all up in a book before I run out of time.”

The trouble is that because he will probably remain active until the day he dies, he may never pen a conclusion to this tome.

In addition to organising a pilgrimage for Archbishop Hickey and 44 others to the 2012 Eucharistic Congress in Dublin next year, Brian has also started the wheels in motion for the beatification of Bob Santamaria and is soon to publish the second edition of his book The Gift of the Rosary And if he ever finds time, he plans to formulate another five decades of the rosary focused on the life of St Joseph.

I leave our interview feeling both weary and inspired. Brian Peachey knows every life is a precious gift from God and that is why he will continue to make every moment of his own count. It is also why he is so passionate about protecting those in our society who are most vulnerable. This faithful servant may no longer be on the frontline in the fight against abortion, but his legacy will no doubt live on in the countless lives of those who have and will continue to be rescued as a result of his desire to fulfil the will of his Heavenly Father.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Brian Peachey taking the baton at an amateur athletics meet at Leederville oval in 1953 or 1954; Brian and Miriam meet the Pope in 2010; a sepia photo of the Peacheys on their wedding day; Record specialists in 1955 in the Royal Arcade.

PHOTOS: COURTESY B PEACHEY

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Of life the waters

Aid to build dams of sands has brought hope to those suffering through drought in Africa, reports

Patricia Zapor.

Near the southwestern edge of the vast stretch of East Africa where drought has led to famine and more than 13 million people are considered to be living in crisis, Henry Lesokoyu is the picture of hope and optimism.

A couple of feet beneath the dry surface of a seasonal river at the edge of Kipsing, precious water that normally runs off has been trapped by a series of new or rebuilt sand dams, making water accessible for the members of Lesokoyu’s Samburu tribe.

Just up a small hill at the edge of the village, Kipsing’s first gardeners tend a plot of kale and tomatoes, a move toward agriculture intended to stabilise the local economy and improve nutrition.

At one end of the dam, several young herdsmen tend their flock of camels, which nibble on trees and drink from shallow wells dug into the sand.

Just below the structure, a group of young men and boys bathe in the water from another shallow well. Downstream, tracks and mounds of elephant dung were evidence of the wide variety of people, animals and birds that regularly gathered at the water source.

As the leader of this rural community and chief of his tribe, Lesokoyu has one foot in each of two very different worlds.

He keeps appointments made by mobile phone and rides a motorcycle among the far-flung settlements of pastoralists –nomadic herders of goats, cattle and camels who move where the

grazing takes their animals. On this day, Lesokoyu makes the rounds of several water projects meant to bring a level of economic stability to both the pastoralists and people who live in the village of Kipsing.

As storm clouds on the horizon signal the imminent start of Kenya’s “short rains” season, Lesokoyu proudly shows visitors the simple dams built or improved by Catholic Relief Services, the aid and development agency of the Church in the US, over the last few months. Each dam makes it possible for thousands of people to obtain water, even at the height of a drought, he says.

Water projects designed to bring measure of economic stability to pastoralists and villagers alike.

As part of its emergency response to the severe drought in four countries, CRS, in partnership with the Apostolic Vicariate of Isiolo, has built or rehabilitated 10 dams, five wells and one windmill. Another eight dams and wells will be built in the coming months under a CRS extension of emergency funds to the area.

The dams allow water to collect in the sand a few feet below the surface, making it easily reachable for irrigation, watering animals, drinking and cleaning. Though it is very old technology, only recently has interest in such

P anting Seeds of H pe

In Malawi, aid agencies eye simple changes to help resist drought, reports Patricia Zapor.

dams revived as an inexpensive but effective response to drought conditions.

Tom Oywa, CRS project officer based in Isiolo, said each sand dam project cost the equivalent of about $US8,400, while it costs about $US3,600 to rehabilitate a well.

A windmill in the community of Nakupurat, a couple of hours drive east of Kipsing, was rebuilt for about $US10,600, reopening a source of year-round water for 1,500 people of the Turkana tribe who had moved away when the mill became inoperable due to a combination of wear and tear and damage caused by elephants. Their return meant a one-room school they’d abandoned also could reopen, so children would not have to walk miles to reach another school.

In Lesokoyu’s community, a pipe from a sand dam runs to a new community garden plot. Though it had been months since the last rain of any kind and years since the last normal amount of rainfall, the acre or so of land was still producing sweet potatoes, kale and tomatoes because of the irrigation.

Oywa explains that planting crops is a new enterprise in this village, where families are normally dependent upon livestock for both food and income.

Goats are the preferred stock here, because they quickly grow to milk-producing maturity or to a large enough size to be butchered. Cattle earn a good price, but keeping them fed in drought conditions is difficult. Camels become a fallback because they handle

With a little mulch from last season’s corn stalks, a deeper hole with more seeds and a few other tweaks of traditional corn-planting techniques, the villages of Nduwa and Sagawika might make it through the next drought in better shape.

Though Malawi is not generally included in reporting and statistics about the current drought and famine in parts of the Horn of Africa, it is subject to frequent crises because of inadequate rainfall or devastating floods. With 87 per cent of Malawi’s population employed in agriculture, the difference between keeping and losing a season’s corn – or having something growing besides corn – can determine whether villages prosper or people start dying from malnutrition, said local staffers of Catholic Relief Services.

In collaboration with the local Catholic Church, the US aid agency has been teaching these two communities new techniques

drought well and also produce milk, Oywa explained. But camels are expensive to buy, have a long gestation period of 13-15 months and are slow to mature.

With 6,000 people scattered across his 25km long district, Lesokoyu was happy to accept the CRS offer to build up the Kipsing sand dam, making it able to hold more water. He was also pleased

for planting, irrigation and simple local banking, with the goal of ensuring more Malawians make it through the next crisis.

Gifts Luwe, an employee of Mzuzu Diocese, translated as residents of the adjacent villages described the process they had gone through to participate in the savings and agriculture programmes. The community banking system made it possible for villagers to borrow small

to accept the offer of help starting an experimental farm plot. A year ago, Joseph Kapua was a goatherd like his ancestors. Now he’s one of the gardeners for the plot, trained in techniques by the government extension service a couple of hours away in Isiolo, the nearest city.

The effort was worthwhile for Kapua. “I like being able to

ware that the simple habit of using the last potatos from a harvest to provide the seeds for the next was why their potatos had been growing progressively smaller. Officials taught other farmers that replanting the same variety of wheat for 10 seasons was stretching the soil nutrients and the viability of that strain of wheat six seasons beyond the recommended cycle.

One of the farmers, Arnold Banda, the village chief, was able

“Malawi ... is subject to frequent crises because of inadequate rainfall or devastating floods.”

amounts of money to cover the cost of seeds, fertiliser or other items that might make the difference between a subsistence crop and one that yields enough to sell excess in the markets, providing money for other essentials.

Catholic officials taught farmers simple crop-rotation techniques, irrigation and water conservation methods.

Luwe said farmers were una-

to get help from experts to address his problem of waterlogged crops. Banda said he had been farming near a stream “but my yields were low because the field would get waterlogged.” A decades-old irrigation system of hand-dug canals did not quite address flooding so a new pipe is being installed, enabling farmers to plant farther up the hill, where flooding is less likely.

grow food for the entire family,” he said. The Nairobi-based markets and urban food security adviser for CRS in East Africa, Megan McGlinchy, said any kind of weather stress such as reduced seasonal rains can start pastoralists or subsistence-level farmers on a spiral toward instability that is hard to reverse.

“They start by selling off their

Banda also learned from a government extension agent that simply using new seeds would solve his problem of ever-smaller potatos and farmers should be taking no more than one-third of the flow of the stream to irrigate, lest they disrupt it permanently.

Banda says he realised, “We were practising poor management.” Adam Weimer, head of programmes for CRS Malawi, says water conservation techniques being tested in Sagawika have been shown to double the output of corn per acre of land in the first year and triple the harvest by the second or third years.

“These conservation agriculture techniques are being practised worldwide as a way to help protect soil from erosion, protect nutrients and increase yields in a sustainable way,” Weimer says.

“This all grew out of efforts to promote agriculture as a way of ensuring food security” as opposed to livelihoods based entirely on raising livestock, for example, he adds.

assets: their herds and then their land,” McGlinchy says. When there’s not enough food, some people head into the cities in search of work, which is hard to find. That leads some to go into illegal enterprises such as the drug or sex trades.

During crises like the current drought, Catholic agencies like CRS step in to provide emergency

aid, she says. But the preferred solution is to watch for signs of looming drought and provide “coping strategies” such as diversified sources of food and income.

Translation change shines light on God’s face

Dear Father, can you please tell me the meaning of the unusual expression “welcome them into the light of your face” in the new translation of the second Eucharist Prayer?

The new translation simply brings the English into line with the Latin which is in lumen vultus tui, literally “into the light of your face.” The former translation was “into the light of your presence”.

Those to be welcomed into the light of God’s face are “our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died in your mercy”.

It should be remembered the second Eucharistic Prayer is a new one, introduced after the Second Vatican Council. Before that, only the first Eucharistic Prayer, or Roman Canon, existed in the Latin rite. So we are dealing with a modern usage, not an ancient one. But why this strange expression?

Since all the Eucharistic Prayers are addressed to God the Father, the expression “the light of your face” refers to the face of God the Father himself.

But does God have a face?

Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, has a human face, which all those who knew him on earth saw and which we will see in his risen body in heaven. But God the Father and the Holy Spirit, who are pure spirit, do not have a face in the strict sense.

Yet God himself in speaking with Moses refers to his face:

“‘But’, he said, ‘you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live’” (Ex 33:20).

Likewise, God says to Solomon: “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face … then I will hear from heaven …” (2 Chron 7:14). St Paul, too, speaking of heaven, refers to the face of God: “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face” (1 Cor 13:12).

How will we see the face of God in heaven? Theologians have said in order to do this we will be given what they call the lumen gloriae, the light of glory, understood as a special help in order to see God who is pure spirit.

But why do we speak of the “light” of God’s face? It is clear everything about God is light. If we associate darkness with sin and the devil, we associate light with God. Jesus himself says to Nicodemus, “And this is the judgement, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Q&A

By Fr John Flader

But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God” (Jn 3:19-21).

Indeed, Jesus calls himself the light: “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (Jn 8:12).

And Jesus shows us the light of his face in the Transfiguration on Mount Tabor: “And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun” (Mt 17:2).

Even a human being like Moses, who is a figure of Christ, reflected the light of

“One day, if we are faithful until the end, we will behold the light of God’s face in heaven. Indeed, we long for it.”

God in his face after coming down from the mountain: “His face shone because he had been talking with God ... and they were afraid to come near him” (Ex 34:29-30).

We find mention of the light of God’s face several times in the book of Psalms. For example: “Lift up the light of your countenance upon us, O Lord!” (Ps 4:6). “Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance, who exult in your name all the day, and extol your righteousness” (Ps 89:15-16).

“You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance” (Ps 90:9).

So the expression “the light of your face” has a solid scriptural foundation. One day, if we are faithful until the end, we will behold the light of God’s face in heaven. Indeed, we long for it.

With the psalmist we say: “Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud, be gracious to me and answer me! You have said, ‘Seek my face.’ My heart says to you, ‘Your face, Lord, do I seek.’ Hide not your face from me” (Ps 27:7-9).

Above: A Samburu woman fills a jug with water at a sand dam in central Kenya. Below: A goatherd guides the flock toward his home as the rainy season approaches. PHOTO: CNS

editorial

Separate famines, different causes, same lessons

ONE CANNOT, of course, judge things such as where a person goes after death, however tempting it may occasionally be. Part of the problem is that we are very good at judging others while ignoring our own hypocrisies and our own sins. It’s such a human thing. Even Pope Benedict has said that Christians cannot say with certainty that a figure such as Judas is in hell, despite the very hard words of Christ about the one who betrayed him. But it is natural enough to wonder at all the monsters of history who have done the most evil things. At the very least, they have had a lot of explaining to do. Christians believe, after all, that there is a personal judgement to be followed later by a general judgement at the consummation of all history.

The year 2012, now just weeks away, will be the 80th anniversary of one of the most shockingly evil acts of the 20th century but, paradoxically, one that is still little known. It also has a resonance with events happening now a continent away in Africa and we should all be prepared to learn the lessons of both things. Around Australia, there are still some who, by virtue of ethnic origin, know about the earlier tragedy only because their parents and grandparents survived it. Outside their relatively small number, few in Australia are aware that, beginning in 1932, millions of Ukrainians were deliberately starved to death by Josef Stalin. How many died? No-one knows and no-one will ever know. But the estimates run anywhere from 2.45 million to 7.5 million people in the terrible winter of 1932-33, with most estimates well into the upper range of those figures.

In 1932, the Soviet Union was still an unstable place. Famine was a regular occurrence throughout the country in the 1920s, one of the factors fuelling the Ukrainian independence movement. Soviet dictator Josef Stalin was beginning to sense his policies were unpopular. In order to strengthen his own position and eliminate potential sources of opposition, he simply decided to starve the Ukrainians into submission. While Ukraine was the bread basket of what was then the Soviet Union, Stalin sent the secret police into the countryside to take control of the farms and deny Ukrainians food. What followed cannot adequately be described in words, but millions of Ukrainians and families slowly starved to death through that winter.

”The year 2012, now just weeks away, will be the 80th anniversary of one of the most shockingly evil acts of the 20th century, but, paradoxically, one that is still little known.”

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The young English journalist Malcolm Muggeridge was then stationed in Moscow, where all foreign journalists were also based and all knew what was happening in Ukraine. Muggeridge bought a train ticket for Kiev and travelled on to Rostov through the countryside, seeing with his own eyes the devastation wrought by officialdom.

Decades later, he said in an interview that, while, as a journalist, he had seen many awful things, the sights of the Ukrainian famine were the worst. “[It was] the most terrible thing I have ever seen, precisely because of the deliberation with which it was done and the total absence of any sympathy with the people,” he told his interviewer. “The novelty of this particular famine, what made it so diabolical, is that it was not the result of some catastrophe like a drought or an epidemic. It was the deliberate creation of a bureaucratic mind which demanded the collectivisation of agriculture, immediately, as a purely theoretical proposition, without any consideration whatever the consequences in human suffering.”

The strange twist to this tale is that none of the stories Muggeridge filed back to his newspaper, the Manchester Guardian, were published and, when he returned to the UK, he was fired. His colleagues, overwhelmingly sympathetic to Stalin, could not believe Muggeridge was telling the truth. Blackbanned as a result, he could not get a job on any other newspaper. Ideology, not journalistic objectivity, had temporarily won the day.

Today, the Ukrainian Famine is a known fact, historically verified and proven. It is impossible not to think of the horror, the families, the children, starving to death in frozen homes throughout an entire nation because of the arrogance of ideology and the absolute corruption of absolute power. It is important that we not forget these events, that we keep them alive as lessons for ourselves and for our times. It is, in every aspect, also equally important that we refuse to let, in our own relative affluence, similar events such as the current famine in eastern Africa escape our attention and our action. If we do, the terrible indifference to the terrible winter of 1932-33 which came from the low, conniving, dishonest ideologues of that era could scarcely be worse than our own. In the age of the internet there can be no excuse for not googling Caritas Australia. If we do not, then the real, personal risk for us as individuals and more widely as a society is that we will also one day find ourselves saying, for all the wrong reasons, “Lord, when did we ever find you sick, or in prison, naked or hungry?”

Archbishop did the right thing

AT FIRST sight, Archbishop Barry Hickey’s decision to participate in the funeral service of convicted paedophile Robert Bropho looked to be questionable. However, after a moment’s reflection, I could see that the Archbishop was in a similar position to a barrister who, under the ethical rules of his or her profession, must (subject to certain restricted exceptions) advise or represent anyone who seeks his or her services as a barrister (even if the person is a criminal or serial tax avoider).

When approached by the Bropho family to participate in the funeral, the Archbishop as a priest had the duty to act. It might have been tempting, and less controversial, for the Archbishop to ask a fellow priest lower in the hierarchy to officiate at the funeral, but that would have been a ‘cop-out.’

It is to the very great credit of the Archbishop that he was nonjudgemental and, as ‘Father Hickey’, performed his priestly duties.

Your editorial of 16 November explained the situation extremely well. I particularly liked the sentence, “Where others might turn away, [the Archbishop] sees in them the face of Christ.”

In my respectful view, this action of the Archbishop in saying prayers at the Bropho funeral will become the pinnacle when history comes to review and evaluate his career and life, even over and above the bricks and mortar achievement of his magnificent refurbishment of St Mary’s Cathedral.

Your report (16 November) stated: “In rare instances, Canon Law forbids Christian burial of ‘manifest sinners’ if they have not given some sign of repentance before death. Where there is doubt about the matter the judgement is the prerogative of the local ordinary.”

For several decades, Catholics who have committed suicide have rightly had Catholic funerals.

A few months ago, the Archbishop controversially raised the possibility that, if the law is changed to allow same-sex marriages, he might deny Catholic funerals to Catholics who enter into same-sex marriages. Here’s hoping and praying that a law providing for same-sex marriages is never enacted. However, if that does happen, it seems to me that, based on the Archbishop’s decision to participate in the Bropho funeral and the desirability for consistency, the consideration of the matter by the Archbishop should result in his

deciding to allow Catholics who have entered into same-sex marriages to be given Catholic funerals. Leave the judgement to God.

Rob O’Connor

SOUTH PERTH, WA

Stop boats? Then stop the donkeys

IT IS A SCENE that has been frequently depicted in art: a mother and her son riding on a donkey, led by the woman’s husband. The family is seeking refuge in a foreign country; they are refugees who must flee elsewhere, in order to avoid the killing of the infant by the ruler of their land. That ruler is, of course, Herod the Great and the infant whose life he seeks to end is Jesus (Matthew 2:13-23). However, the Holy Family is not intercepted at the border and the flight into Egypt does not end in tragedy. Fast forward to another time and place, and we are witnessing a recurring scenario that is playing out tragically. Desperate people are fleeing their country of birth to avoid all sorts of harm, including persecution and death. It is a measure of their desperation that they feel compelled to risk their life by journeying in leaky boats.

But their misery is compounded by the fact that they find themselves embroiled in the politics of the land in which they wish to resettle. Among the players in this game is the leader of a major political party, with a propensity for sound bites and slogans, including the threeword mantra: “Stop the boats.”

Never mind that the so-called boat people constitute about 1.4 per cent of the country’s annual migrant intake. Never mind that over 90 per cent of them are subsequently found to be genuine refugees. Never mind that nothing is mentioned of the over 50,000 people who have arrived by air, and who overstay illegally in the

country, given the expiration of their visas. Never mind the moral bankruptcy of the slogan ‘Stop the boats.’

The background of this political leader suggests he is familiar with the Gospel, but his consistent actions reveal that he does not understand its essential message. Presumably, if he lived in Egypt over two thousand years ago, he would be shouting vehemently: “Stop the donkeys.”

I feel frustrated, but I would nonetheless commend to him the Gospel passage in Matthew 25 about responding to the hidden Christ: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.”

Mitchel

Peters MARANGAROO, WA

The prince of this world, not the next

FR WATT’S exposition (The Record, 2 November) of the Church’s theology on the reality of hell contained a disquieting fact: “For many modern Catholics, it is a mortal sin to believe in mortal sin, let alone to believe in hell.”

In the same vein, it could also be a mortal sin to quote St John: “The entire world lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19).

Are Catholics obliged to believe this? Yes. St John’s words, as stated above, are quoted in the Catechism (Section 2852) and in Section 2851 we are told categorically that the petition “deliver us from evil” refers to “a person, Satan, the Evil One”.

If we don’t believe this, how can we ever come to understand what, and who, we are really up against?

Of course, we pray “Thy Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven” but we should be mindful that there is only one will in heaven, and while we must desire to obey and strive to achieve God’s will, we must acknowledge our natural inability to attain our ideal relationship with God in our mortal lives.

Only God can destroy Satan’s empire and we should certainly pray for that time. Meanwhile, our world is not God’s world. As Jesus said to Pilate, “My kingdom is not of this world”, and the false values and vanities of the world are radically opposed to the enduring realities of the kingdom of God.

How much longer must we witness the breakdown of our world before we wake up to what is really going on?

Hugh Clift LESMURDIE, WA

It’s not a popularity poll The queen is nice but should she be our head of state? asks Martin Drum

IT IS RARE for a place like Perth to find itself in the international spotlight. With the recent Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM), however, we saw this.

CHOGM was an opportunity for leaders of 54 nations to come together to seek resolutions to problems which affected a range of countries in the Commonwealth.

Rather than CHOGM, however, the presence of Australia’s head of state dominated much of the coverage in Perth.

One issue which always finds itself in the spotlight during a visit by the Queen is whether we should have a republic.

Opinion polls show the public is split roughly 50-50 on the issue. I don’t have a problem with people who either want to change to a republic or retain the monarchy; there are valid reasons to argue for both.

What surprises me, however, is how focused many of us are on whether we like the British royals rather than the broader issue of what kind of political system we have.

Many of those who support a monarchy argue that our Queen has been a good representative

My view is that an Australian should be our head of state. There are thousands who would excel.

and carries out her duties with dignity and grace.

The question of a republic, though, should ultimately be about the viability and relevance of the British monarchy as a whole, rather than whether

we like one individual or not.

Likewise, there are prominent republicans who try to argue that the prospect of King Charles and his wife Camilla should make us rethink our allegiances.

Again, such sentiments overlook the fact that we should focus on whether we have the best political system currently for Australia, and whether any proposed alternatives would work better.

I, for one, believe we should have a republic one day, but this view is not based on whether I like the Queen or not, or any future monarch, but rather that our head of state should be an Australian.

There are many thousands of Australians who would excel in the role and who should be given the opportunity to fill it.

Dr Martin Drum is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle.

Gotta know when to hold ‘em, when to fold ‘em

Courting another is always a tricky business but, of all things, poker can be a wonderful teacher ...

DATING someone is a tricky business. It is a bit like playing poker. We do not want to reveal our cards too quickly, yet if we hold onto them for too long the correct moment can pass and the game might be lost. In dating and poker, there is always a risk.

If you never sit down to play a game of poker it is absolutely guaranteed you will never lose a game; it also means you will never win one either.

Similarly, if you never allow yourself to enter into a relationship with another it is absolutely guaranteed that you will never be hurt, but of course it is also guaranteed you will never share in the joys of a relationship.

While there is always the risk of getting hurt, it is possible to live out a relationship in a way that both minimises that risk and increases the likelihood of discerning whether or not it is a relationship that might be a keeper.

Everything really comes down to

Foolish Wisdom

“a foolishness wiser than human wisdom” (1 Cor 1:25)

By Bernard Toutounji

prudence, which in modern times has sadly been reduced to being overly cautious.

Prudence is the pivotal virtue which gives us the ability to know what actions are appropriate for us in a particular time and place. Prudence is very much ‘practical wisdom’ for daily living.

So here is my list of three ways to practise prudence in a relationship. They are three ‘do nots’ but each ‘do not’ should be seen as an invitation to ‘do’ something.

The points are simple in theory but not always so in reality. Just as one needs to practise strategy and

skill to win at poker, one needs to practise strategy and skill to win at dating.

One: do not place all your hopes for happiness on the other person. This rule works for dating right through to marriage. There is a natural desire in a relationship to seek joy through the person we are with, and that makes sense. If there was no joy in being with a person why would we bother?

We all come to a relationship, though, with our personal set of

tionship with someone who brings us a great deal of happiness we can tend to leave other parts of our life to one side.

We naturally desire to spend more and more time with the other and it can cause us to put aside the company of family and friends and focus solely on the person with whom we are in a relationship.

Especially at the start, there needs to be aspects of our life that exist, to some extent, without the other person. We need to remain

We cannot place all our hope for happiness on the other. If we do, we will quickly suffocate them.

needs. It is important to try and discover what our particular needs are and be aware that we do not place them all on the other person. If we do, we will very quickly suffocate them. We can become so suffocating that we kill off any future the relationship might have had.

Two: do not neglect the rest of your life. When we begin a rela-

who we were before we began dating. Without that balance of other people and activities, we risk finding ourselves back at point one, putting all our needs on the other.

Three: do not grasp for what is not there … yet. This is, perhaps, the most important point.

If you really think about it, most of the problems we have in relation-

ships come about because we try to jump ahead of where we are.

Like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we reach out to take the fruit because we do not want to wait.

Often we grasp out of fear. We are scared the outcome for which we long will not come to us.

Ironically, when we grasp in a relationship we can end up taking a step backwards. We can do damage to the way we see the other and end up being disappointed and hurt.

If you are dating someone, the relationship will last because you have played the ‘game’ correctly.

If we suffocate the other with our needs, if we let the other aspects of our life lay empty, we will end up playing some cards too soon and others too late.

And once that is happening we can grasp at the end result all we want, but it will only serve to frustrate the relationship and then we risk losing the game entirely.

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Small things lead to cardinal errors

To be taken seriously in the debate about climate change, it helps if the argument isn’t self-defeating writes Tim Wallace.

THE butterfly effect, the notion that the beating of a butterfly’s wings in one part of the world can lead to a storm in another, was coined to explain one of the more significant discoveries of the past century: that very small disturbances can have very large consequences.

In the early 1960s a mathematician and meteorologist by the name of Edward Lorenz was working on the thorny issue of weather predictability, using a state-of-the-art 113-vacuum-tube computer and a set of 12 equations to model weather behaviour. One day, to study part of the model in greater detail, he reran an equation, staring in the middle of the sequence to save time. Unexpectedly the result diverged totally from the original solution.

The reason, Lorenz determined, was that in the original sequence the computer was working with a number to six decimal places (.506127) whereas he had typed in only the first three digits (.506). By the thinking of the time, such a small difference should not have resulted in such a divergent result.

Thus was born the scientific revolution called chaos theory, a paradigm shift in scientific understanding rivalling quantum or relativity theory and which, in the words of Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “put the last nail in the coffin of the Cartesian universe”. The butterfly effect, that arbitrarily small-scale disturbances can create large-scale disturbances, killed the idea that science could ever produce accurate long-term weather forecasts.

I mention Lorenz because last month Cardinal George Pell cited his seminal 1963 paper – or, rather, cited Christopher Monckton citing it – as evidence that predictions about the effect of higher atmospheric greenhouse gases are impossible.

In support of this notion, Cardinal Pell suggested the IPCC’s 2001 Third Assessment Report agreed: “In climate research and modelling, we are dealing with a coupled, non-linear, chaotic system, and therefore that the longterm prediction of future climate

states is not possible”.

How, then, did that report estimate, based on a range of scenarios, that by the end of this century the average global temperature would be 1.4 to 5.8°C warmer than 1990?

Part of the answer is found in the sentence immediately following that quoted by Cardinal Pell: “The most we can expect to achieve is the prediction of the probability distribution of the system’s future possible states by the generation of ensembles of model solutions. This reduces climate change to the discernment of significant differences in the statistics of such ensembles.”

If that is unclear, this explanation from Professor Tim Palmer, president of the Royal Meteorological Society, might help:  “As well as explaining the underlying scientific reason why such forecast failures are inevitable in a chaotic system, Lorenz’s work provides a potential methodology to mitigate the problem. In particular, whilst individual trajectories are unstable to small perturbations and therefore unpredictable, the evolution of the probability distribution of the initial state is not.”

Lorenz was keenly aware of the conceptual difference in predicting weather to predicting climate, Palmer writes. “We now use his terminology routinely: predictions of the first kind are essentially initial value problems, predictions of the second kind are essentially boundary or forced problems. The problem of anthropogenic climate change is predominantly (but not exclusively) a prediction of the second kind: how are the statistics of weather affected by some prescribed change in atmospheric greenhouse-gas concentration?”

pretation of a professional sophist with a track record of distorting the findings of the research he cites) is indicated both by his confusion of weather with climate predictability as well as his incredulity that a significant increase of atmospheric carbon-dioxide could possibly be cause for alarm, since “today’s total

I hope the IPCC has it wrong, but none of the arguments of the sceptics convince me.

Which might be the reason Lorenz, who died in 2008, never joined the ranks of climate-change scepticism and is revered as the progenitor of modern climate prediction methodology.

That Cardinal Pell failed to grasp the implications of Lorenz’s work (or was simply unaware of them, having taken at face value the inter-

CO2 concentration represents less than one-twenty-fifth of one per cent”. In light of the butterfly effect demonstrated by Lorenz, this is what the cardinal might describe as a category error.

For these reasons, among others, I stand by my assessment that Cardinal Pell is not showing prudence in aligning himself so stri-

dently with the contrarian scientific view regarding the probable consequence of releasing into the atmosphere, in a matter of decades, a good portion of the carbon that has been sequestered in the earth over many billions of years.

A number of correspondents have made the point that truth is not decided by consensus. Quite so. But nor is the search for truth advanced by arguments that are logically self-defeating.

One correspondent has suggested I refer to Cardinal Pell’s address regarding the “nine errors of fact” found in Al Gore’s movie An Inconvenient Truth by Britain’s High Court. Even better would be to refer to the primary source, the judgement by Justice Burton, who found Gore’s movie was “substantially founded upon scientific research and fact” but was per-

suaded that “out of a long schedule of such alleged errors or exaggerations”, nine had merit. These nine instances were where the movie, “while purporting to set out the mainstream view”, itself departed from the consensus scientific view, as expressed in the reports of the IPCC.

Personally I can’t see the logic of anyone who fundamentally disputes the validity of the IPCC’s findings wanting to make this a debating point. “There is no precautionary principle,” Cardinal Pell said in his speech. Yet the Vatican’s Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church suggests otherwise:

“The authorities called to make decisions concerning health and environmental risks sometimes find themselves facing a situation in which available scientific data are contradictory or quantitatively scarce. It may then be appropriate to base evaluations on the ‘precautionary principle’, which does not mean applying rules but certain guidelines aimed at managing the situation of uncertainty.”

This requires, the compendium says, “making temporary decisions that may be modified on the basis of new facts that eventually become known”. Prudent policies based on the precautionary principle “require that decisions be based on a comparison of the risks and benefits foreseen for the various possible alternatives, including the decision not to intervene”.

Every effort for acquiring more thorough knowledge must be encouraged, “in the full awareness that science is not able to come to quick conclusions about the absence of risk. The circumstances of uncertainty and provisional solutions make it particularly important that the decision-making process be transparent”.

These seem, to me, to be the crucial issues. I hope the IPCC has it wrong, but nothing in the scattergun arguments of the sceptics convinces me the probabilities are with them, and that the moral and prudent thing to do is nothing, rather than taking prudent measures to ween the industrialised world off its addiction to fossil fuels several decades before it will be forced to do so anyway.

An abbreviated graphical representation of a special collection of states discovered by Edward Lorenz known as a “strange attractor”. The obvious resemblance might be why the butterfly has morphed into a symbol that small perturbations can alter large-scale structures.

FRIDAY

FRIDAY, 25 NOVEMBER

Medjugorje Evening of Prayer

7-9pm at St Simon Peter, Prendiville Ave/ Constellation Dr, Ocean Reef. Begins with Eucharistic adoration, holy rosary, benediction and concludes with Mass followed by light refreshments. Free DVD giveaway. Enq: Fr Bogoni 9402 2480 or 040 7471 256 or medjugorje@y7mail. com.

SATURDAY

SATURDAY, 26 NOVEMBER

Love Ministry Healing

6.30pm St Bernadette Parish, 49 Jugan St, Mt Hawthorn. Begins with Mass, Love Ministry healing team including Fr Hugh Thomas and other clergy. Come and be prayed over, healed from the past or present issues or stand in for a loved one who may be ill or facing problems at this time. Enq: Fr Hugh or Gilbert 043 1570 322.

NEXT WEEK

MONDAY, 28 NOVEMBER

Launch of My Rosary Prayer Book

2.45pm at the Edel Quin Centre, Windsor St, East Perth. The Family Prayer Crusade Committee invites anyone who knew the late Sr Cabrini Fontana RSM, or would like a copy of her Rosary Booklet, to an afternoon tea. RSVP: Thea 9348 3724 or Janet 9354 8422.

TUESDAY, 29 NOVEMBER

Day of Reflection

10.30am-2pm at St Bernadette’s Parish, Jugan St, Glendalough. Begins with Mass followed by talk. Celebrant and speaker: Fr Tim Deeter. Bring lunch to share. Enq: secretary 9341 8082.

Pregnancy Assistance - Celebrating 15 Years of Pro-life Service

6.30pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, Victoria Sq, Perth. Mass celebrated by Archbishop Hickey. Enq: Helene 9328 2926.

Spirituality and The Sunday Gospels

7-8pm at St Benedict’s School Hall, Alness St Applecross. Advent is about the expectation of new light, new life, a new birth of Christ into our life. How do we prepare for this? Presenter: Norma Woodcock Accredited - CEO - Faith Formation for ongoing renewal. $10 on registration. Everyone is welcome. There will be a collection. Enq: 9487 1772 or www.normawoodcock.com.

WEDNESDAY, 30 NOVEMBER

Mystical Theology; The Art of LoveImplications for the Modern Person and the World

7.30-9pm at John XXIII College, Osborne Room, Year 7 building, north west part of college. Presenter Dr Andrew Kania, Director of Spirituality, Aquinas. $10 donation unwaged. Registration Murray 9383 0444 or graham.murray@johnxxiii. edu.au.

SATURDAY, 3 DECEMBER

Day with Mary

9am-5pm at St Mary Parish, cnr Franklin and Shakespeare Sts, Leederville. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am video; 10.10am Mass; Reconciliation, procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic adoration, sermons on Eucharist and on Our Lady, rosaries and stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Enq: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286.

Retreat for Mothers

9am-5pm at Holy Family Parish, Lot 375 Alcock St, Maddington. A day for all mothers to re-discover the meaning of motherhood in the light of God’s world. The retreat is led by the Vincentian Fathers. Free. BYO lunch. Enq and registration: Melanie 041 0605 743 or m.fonseca@curtin.edu.au.

Singles Christmas Party 7pm-12am at Disciples of Jesus’ Venue, 67 Howe St, Osborne Park. $10 – bring plate to share. Enq: Barbara 9341 5346.

The Workers in the Garden of the Holy Family Christmas Reflection 10am-2pm at Aquin House, 26 Meadow St, Guildford. Activities for children in the morning, followed by rosary, Bible reflections, concluding

PANORAMA

What’s on around the Archdiocese of Perth, where and when

with Mass. Please bring a plate for a shared lunch. All are welcome. RSVP Rose 0437 700 247.

UPCOMING

SUNDAY, 4 DECEMBER

35th Annual Rosary Procession

3pm at St Joseph’s Parish, 20 Hamilton St, Bassendean. Rosary procession in honour of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, followed by homily and benediction. Enq: Colin 9279 9750 or Fred 9279 4819.

Celebrates 30 Years - Emmanuel Centre 4pm at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor St, Perth. Celebrant: Bishop Sproxton. Emmanuel Centre is a self-help centre for people with disabilities and their families. 5pm BBQ. Please bring a plate of finger food to share. RSVP 30 Nov. Enq: Secretary 9328 8113 or 9227 9720 (fax) or 040 1016 399 or mailto:emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au.

Divine Mercy

1.30pm at St Francis Xavier Church, 25 Windsor St, Perth. An afternoon with Jesus and Mary with Fr Varghese Parackal VC, Homily on The Holy Family. Enq: John 9457 7771.

TUESDAY, 6 DECEMBER

Charismatic Renewal Farewell

Perth’s Night of Farewell

7.30-9.30pm at Holy Family Parish, Cnr Canning Hwy and Thelma St, Como. We will honour and thank a number of Perth priests who have faithfully served the Renewal for many years. Includes prayer and praise, Mass and a presentation to our guests of honour. Followed by a light supper. Enq: Dan 9398 4973 or dhewitt@aapt.net.au.

THURSDAY, 8, 15 AND 22 DECEMBER

Bible Study of the Nativity

7.30-8.30pm at St Paul’s parish hall, 106 Rookwood St, Mt Lawley. Fr Tim Deeter will lead a study of the Nativity Gospels Matthew and Luke.

FRIDAY, 9 DECEMBER

Anniversary Mass of Archbishop Fulton J

Sheen’s Death

7.30pm at St Bernadette Parish, Jugan St, Glendalough. Begins with Mass, followed by a talk on the influence of Archbishop Sheen in respect to Eucharistic adoration by Fr Martin Lucia who met the Archbishop as a newly ordained priest. Enq Daniel 9291 8224.

SATURDAY, 10 DECEMBER

St Padre Pio Day of Prayer

8.30am at St Paul’s Parish, 106 Rookwood St, Mt Lawley. Begins with Padre Pio DVD; 10am exposition of Blessed Sacrament, rosary, divine mercy, adoration and benediction; 11am Mass, St Padre Pio liturgy – Confession available. 12pm lunch –bring plate to share. Enq: Des 6278 1540.

Divine Mercy Healing Mass

2.30pm at St Francis Xavier Church, Windsor St, East Perth. Main Celebrant Fr Marcellinus Meilak, OFM. Reconciliation in English and Italian will be offered. Divine Mercy prayers followed by veneration of first class relic of St Faustina Kowalska. Refreshments later. Enq: 9457 7771.

SATURDAY, 24 DECEMBER

Extraordinary Rite Latin Mass - Christmas Eve

8.30pm at the Good Shepherd Parish, Streich Ave, Kelmscott. Enq: John 9390 6646.

NEXT YEAR

MONDAY, 9 JANUARY TO

MONDAY, 16 JANUARY 2012

Summer School

The Royal School of Church Music in Australia (RSCM) will be hosting a summer school for all denominations next year. The programme will include workshops for church musicians and singers to help them to inspire their congregations towards a more enjoyable and meaningful participation in Church liturgy. Enrolments are now open and interested parties can find out more by going to www. rscmaustralia.org.au. Enq: Deirdre on 9457 4010.

SATURDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2012

A Reunion for Holy Cross Primary School, Kensington

Any ex-students or family members, please contact Julie Bowles (nee O’Hara) on 9397 0638 or email

jules7@iinet.net.au.

REGULAR EVENTS

EVERY SUNDAY

Gate of Heaven Catholic Radio

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

Pilgrim Mass - Shrine of the Virgin of the Revelation 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. Commencing with rosary followed by benediction. Reconciliation is available before every celebration. Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation, last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to church and shrine open daily between 9am-5pm. Enq Sacri 9447 3292.

EVERY FIRST SUNDAY

Divine Mercy Chaplet and Healing Prayer 3pm at Santa Clara Church, 72 Palmerston St, Bentley. Includes adoration and individual prayer for healing. Spiritual leader Fr Francisco. All welcome. Enq: Fr Francisco 9458 2944.

St Mary’s Cathedral Youth Group –Fellowship with Pizza

5pm at Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Begins with youth Mass followed by fellowship downstairs in parish centre. Bring a plate to share. Enq: Bradley on youthfromsmc@gmail.com.

EVERY SECOND SUNDAY

Healing Hour for the Sick

6pm at St Lawrence Parish, 392 Albert St, Balcatta. Begins with Mass, exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and prayers. Enq: Fr Irek 9344 7066 or ww.stlawrence.org.au.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY

Oblates of St Benedict Meeting 2pm at St Joseph’s Convent, York St, South Perth. For all interested in studying the rule of St Benedict and its relevance to everyday life. Afternoon tea. Enq: secretary 9457 5758.

EVERY FOURTH SUNDAY

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood, Religious Life

2-3pm at Infant Jesus Parish, Wellington St, Morley. The hour includes exposition of the Blessed Eucharist, silent prayer, scripture and prayers of intercession. Come and pray that those discerning vocations can hear clearly God’s call.

FIRST AND THIRD SUNDAYS

Latin Mass

2pm at The Good Shepherd Parish, Streich Ave, Kelmscott. Enq: John 9390 6646.

EVERY MONDAY

Evening Adoration and Mass

7pm at St Thomas Parish, Claremont, cnr Melville St and College Rd. Eucharistic adoration, reconciliation, evening prayer and benediction, followed by Mass and night prayer at 8pm. Enq: Kim on 9384 0598 or email to claremont@perthcatholic.org.au.

The Life and Mission of St Mary MacKillop

9.30-11.30am at Infant Jesus Parish Centre, cnr Wellington Rd and Smith St, Morley. Cost: $15. Enq: Shelley 9276 8500.

LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH

Be Still in His Presence –Ecumenical Christian Programme

7.30-8.45pm at St Swithun Anglican Church, 195 Lesmurdie St, Lesmurdie (hall behind church). Begins with songs of praise and worship, silent time, lectio divina, small group sharing and a cuppa at the end. Enq: Lynne 9293 3848 or 043 5252 941.

EVERY TUESDAY

Bible Teaching with a Difference

7.30pm at St Joachim’s parish hall, Victoria Park. Exciting revelations with meaningful applications that will change your life. Bring Bible, a notebook and a friend. Enq: Jan 9284 1662.

Novena to Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal 6pm at the Pater Noster Church, Marmion and Evershed Sts, Myaree. Mass at 5.30pm followed by

benediction. Enq: John 040 8952 194.

EVERY WEDNESDAY

Holy Spirit of Freedom Community

7.30pm at The Church of Christ, 111 Stirling St, Perth. We are delighted to welcome everyone to attend our Holy Spirit of Freedom praise meeting. Enq: 042 3907 869 or hsofperth@gmail.com.

Bible Study at Cathedral

6.15pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, 17 Victoria Sq, Perth. Deepen your faith through reading and reflecting on holy scripture by Fr Jean-Noel. Meeting room beneath Cathedral. Enq: Marie 9223 1372.

Holy Hour - Catholic Youth Ministry

5.30pm at Catholic Pastoral Centre, 40A Mary St, Highgate. Begins with Mass, 6.30pm holy hour of adoration, followed by $5 supper and fellowship. Enq: cym.com.au or 9422 7912.

EVERY FIRST WEDNESDAY

Holy Hour Prayer for Priests

7.30-8.30pm at Holy Spirit Parish, 2 Keaney Pl, City Beach. All welcome. Enq: Linda 9341 3079.

Novena to St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

7-7.45pm at Blessed Mary MacKillop Parish, cnr Cassowary Dr and Pelican Pde, Ballajura. Begins with Mass, novena prayers and benediction. Followed by healing prayers and anointing of the sick. Enq: Madi 9249 9093 or Gerry 041 7187 240.

EVERY SECOND WEDNESDAY

Chaplets of the Divine Mercy

7.30pm at St Thomas More Parish, Dean Rd, Bateman. A beautiful, prayerful, sung devotion. It will be accompanied by exposition and followed by benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 (h) or 9325 2010.

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 the consecrated life, especially here in John Paul Parish. Concludes with veneration of the first class relic of St Faustina. Please do come and join us in prayer. Enq: John 9457 7771.

St Mary’s Cathedral Praise Meeting

7.45pm every Thursday at the Legion of Mary’s Edel Quinn Centre, 36 Windsor St, East Perth. Includes praise, song and healing ministry. Enq: Kay 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org.

EVERY FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

Prayer in Style of Taize

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. Taize info: www.taize.fr Enq: secretary 9448 4888 or 9448 4457.

Group Fifty – Charismatic Renewal Group

7.30pm at The Redemptorist Monastery, 150 Vincent St, North Perth. Includes prayer, praise and Mass. Enq: Elaine 9440 3661.

EVERY FIRST FRIDAY

Communion of Reparation - All Night Vigil

7pm-1.30am at two different locations: Corpus Christi Parish, Lochee St, Mosman Park and St Gerard Majella Parish, cnr Ravenswood Dr and Majella Rd, Westminster (Mirrabooka). In reparation for outrages committed against the United Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Enq (Mosman Park) Vicky 040 0282 357 and Fr Giosue 9349 2315 or John 9344 2609.

Healing Mass

7pm at St Peter’s Parish, Inglewood. Praise and worship, exposition and Eucharistic adoration, benediction and anointing of the sick, followed by holy Mass and fellowship. Celebrants Fr Dat and invited priests. 6.45pm Reconciliation. Enq: Mary Ann 0409 672 304, Prescilla 043 3457 352 and Catherine 043 3923 083.

Holy Hour for Vocations to the Priesthood and Religious Life

7pm at Little Sisters of the Poor Chapel, 2 Rawlins St, Glendalough. Mass followed by adoration with Fr Doug Harris. All welcome. Refreshments provided.

Catholic Faith Renewal Evening 7.30pm at Sts John and Paul Parish, Pinetree Gully Rd, Willetton. Songs of praise, sharing by a priest followed by thanksgiving Mass and light refreshments afterwards. All welcome to attend and bring

your family and friends. Enq: Kathy 9295 0913, Ann 041 2166 164 or catholicfaithrenewal@gmail.com. Healing and Anointing Mass

8.45am Pater Noster Church, Evershed St, Myaree. Begins with Reconciliation followed by 9am Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, anointing of the sick and prayers to St Peregrine. Enq: Joy 9337 7189.

EVERY FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

Healing Mass

12.35pm at St Thomas Parish, cnr Melville St and College Rd, Claremont. Spiritual leader Fr Waddell. Enq: Kim 9384 0598, claremont@perthcatholic.org.

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EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY

Voice of the Voiceless Healing Mass

12pm at St Brigid Parish, 211 Aberdeen St, Northbridge. Bring a plate to share after Mass. Enq: Frank 9296 7591 or 040 8183 325.

EVERY LAST SATURDAY

Novena devotions – Our Lady Vailankanni of Good Health

5pm at Holy Trinity Parish, 8 Burnett St, Embleton. Followed by Mass at 6pm. Enq: George 9272 1379.

GENERAL

Free Divine Mercy Image for Parishes

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

Sacred Heart Pioneers

Is there anyone out there who would like to know more about the Sacred Heart pioneers? If so, please contact Spiritual Director Fr Doug Harris 9444 6131 or John 9457 7771.

St Philomena’s Chapel 3/24 Juna Drive, Malaga. Mass of the day: Monday 6.45am. Vigil Masses: Mon-Fri 4.45pm. Enq: Fr David 9376 1734.

Mary Mackillop 2012 Calendars and Merchandise

2012 Josephite Calendars with quotes from St Mary of the Cross and Mary MacKillop merchandise. Available for sale from the Mary MacKillop Centre. Enq: Sr Maree 041 4683 926 or 08 9334 0933.

Saints and Sacred Relics Apostolate – Latin Feast of all Holy Relics

SSRA Perth invites interested parties: parish priests, faithful association leaders etc to make contact to organise relic visitations to their own parishes, communities etc. We have available authenticated relics, mostly first-class, of over 200 Catholic Saints and Blesseds, including Sts Mary MacKillop, Padre Pio, Anthony of Padua, Therese of Lisieux, Maximilian Kolbe and Simon Stock. Free. Enq: Giovanny 047 8201 092 or ssra-perth@ catholic.org.

St Denis 60th Anniversary St Denis Catholic Parish in Joondanna will celebrate its 60th Anniversary on 16 December 2011. We are collecting photos, memorabilia and stories for display during the celebration. Enq and arrangements: Barbara on 040 1016 399 or emmanuelcentre@westnet.com.au or 9328 8113 (w).

Our Lady of Guadalupe visits from Mexico

SATURDAY, 26 NOVEMBER

11.30am at St Mary’s Parish, 50 Franklin St, Leederville. Includes benediction with Fr Angel. 6pm at St Bernadette’s Parish, Jugan St, Glendalough. Includes healing Mass with Fr Douglas.

SUNDAY, 27 NOVEMBER

9.30am at Our Lady of Mercy, Girrawheen Ave and Patrick Ct, Girrawheen. Includes Mass and enthronement with Fr Sam.

3pm at Notre Dame Parish, Wright and Daley Sts, Cloverdale. Filipino Mass with Fr Nelson. All dates include: hymns, short background of Our Lady of Guadalupe, divine mercy chaplet and prayers to Our Lady of Guadalupe, DVD presentation and veneration of the image. Enq: Elsa 6540 2557 or Dante 040 4038 483.

Financially Disadvantaged People requiring Low Care Aged Care Placement

The Little Sisters of the Poor community - 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.

0409 114 093 or kinlar.vestments@gmail.com.

TRADE SERVICES

BRENDAN HANDYMAN

SERVICES

Home, building maintenance, repairs and renovations. NOR. Ph 0427 539 588.

PROPERTY MAINTENANCE

Your handyperson. No job too small. SOR. Jim 0413 309 821.

BRICK RE-POINTING Ph Nigel 9242 2952.

PERROTT PAINTING Pty Ltd

For all your residential, commercial painting requirements. Ph Tom Perrott 9444 1200.

FOR RENT

ROOM FOR RENT – Catholic female wanted for south of river accommodation. Enq: 9398 4447.

ROOMS FOR RENT for young (18-35) Catholic women. House (Mt Hawthorn) is walking distance to Glendalough parish and train station. Applicants should have a Catholic/Christian outlook on life. Two rooms available from Jan/ Feb 2012. Contact 0408 496 610 or 0421 818 887.

BOOK BINDING

NEW BOOK BINDING, general book repairs; rebinding; new ribbons; old leather bindings restored. Tydewi Bindery 0422 968 572.

FURNITURE REMOVAL

ALL AREAS. Competitive rates. Mike Murphy Ph 0416 226 434.

MISSION ACTIVITIES

Learn how to make rosary beads for the missions and special rosaries for family and friends. Phone: (02) 682 2 1474 or visit our website: OurLadysRosaryMakers.org.au.

TAX SERVICE

Quality tax returns prepared by registered tax agent with over 35 years’ experience. Call Tony Marchei on 0412 055 184 for appointment. AXXO Accounting & Management, Unit 20/222 Walter Rd, Morley.

OTTIMO

@Station St Market, Subiaco @Wanneroo Market, stall 40 (central mall) have all your Christian/Catholic Christmas books, gifts and all things beautiful in stock for you.

CATHOLIC AND OTHER

CHRISTIAN BOOKS FOR SALE.

All donated. Donations appreciated. Balcatta. Call Colourful Dave: 9440 4358 ACCOMMODATION

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION

ESPERANCE 3 bedroom house f/furnished Ph 08 9076 5083.

ONE TO THREE STATUES.

1-2m high of Our Lady, Jesus and saints. Crucifix available (same height). Contact: Brother John - Carmelite - professed hermit (08) 9853 3112

Lk 10:21-24 I bless you, Father

30 W ST ANDREW, APOSTLE (Feast)

red Rom 10:9-18 Confess Jesus to be Lord Ps 18:2-5 Message to all earth Mt 4:18-22 Call of Andrew and others

1 Th Isa 26:1-6 The everlasting Rock

Vio Ps 117:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27 Love without end

Mt 7:21, 24-27 House on rock

2 F Isa 29:17-24 Lowly will rejoice

Vio Ps 26:1, 4, 13-14 My light and help

Mt 9:27-31 Two blind men

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Mt 8:5-11 Just give

29 Tu Isa 11:1-10The Spirit of the Lord

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Wh Isa 30:19-21, 23-26 This is the way

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This two-colour Missal contains the Order of Mass, all the scripture readings and prayers for each Sunday of 2012 in calendar sequence, the complete Easter liturgy and a treasury of prayers.