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Pope John Paul was moved when he saw the vast crowd waiting for him at Belmont Park, Archbishop Foley said this week. "I was pleasantly surprised at the sight of this massive group of people and so was the Holy Father and his secretary. 'The spirit that rose up from that crowd was one of joy and openness to the Holy Father and the quiet moments during the Mass were just as impressive as the noisy ones. "People have commented how happy I appeared as I accompanied the pope at the various functions. "It is true. I was happy because I sensed the Church was united and accepting the Holy Father and wanted to listen to what he was saying. "From what I have heard and read, nearly all the people of WA in some way, saw or heard the pope. Those who did not are feeling left out. 'The challenge ahead of us is expressed in the Holy Father's cable of thanks: that we must go forward to be the people we claim to be," Archbishop Foley said. See page 2
Pope John Paul's cabled message reads:Now that my pastoral visit is completed I wish to express my thanks to you and the whole of the Church of Western Australia for the warm welcome and hospitality extended to me during my stay with you, and pray that your local Churches, guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit, may always persevere in proclaiming Christ who is the way, the truth and the lite, with gratitude to God for his gifts of unity and peace. I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing. loannus Paulus P.P. II
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Meticulous planning of protocol during the papal visit was thrown into confusion when Pope John Paul heard the voices of St Mary's Cathedral choir after the opening of the Catholic Education Centre last Sunday.
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CHOIRS University of Western Australia Choral Society at Belmont. Festival Chorus at Belmont. Perth Oratorio Choir at Belmont. WA Conservatorium Motet Choir at Belmont. St Mary's Cathedral Choir at Belmont and Leederville. Julian Singers directed Brother Gerald by Crooks, CFC at GJendalough. Fifth Military District Band directed by Captain Brian Underwood.
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The new assistant priest at Northam will be Father Gordon Bennet who has been chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor since January. Father Bennet, who spent five months in Northam after his arrival in Australia last year, will re-join Dean John Usie with whom he went out on Anglican service to the Bahamas in 1949. Gordon Bennet was then an Anglican lay missionary, helping out with medical services. Me later joined the Anglican ministry. Following his entry to the Catholic church In 1970 he studied for the Catholic priesthood first at the Beda College, Rome and then with the White Fathers in North London being ordained In Leeds cathedral in 1974. Since then he has worked in parishes in London and Newhaven and as chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor in Hove.
The new chaplain to the Little Sisters of the Poor is Father Vernon Thomas who was ordained in the Glendalough chapel on November 23. He succeeds Father Gordon Bennett who transfers to Northam. Father Thomas spent 42 years in the Anglican ministry mainly in parishes in England except for seven years in Tanzania when missionary work turned out tobe teaching physics and mathematics in secondary schools. Following the death of his wife and his retirement from ministry he came to Australia to join his daughterin 1979 and the following year entered the Catholic Church In Subiaco parish. On the prompting of Father Michael Ryan he applied to enter the Catholic priesthood and was ordained deacon by Archbishop Foley at Cottesloe in June this year.
LITURGY Father Christopher Ross, OSM -- overall coordinator of Liturgies. Assisted by Sister Theophane, RSM and Sister Rosarii, RSM, Father William Fitzgerald, O.Praem, and Father Don Sproxton.
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After the 1986 graduation ceremony at St Joseph's church Subiaco, the co-directors of the Institute Sisters Mary Berry and Assumpta said that over the 10 years they had seen a tiny seed become a well established tree. "Programs in adult education have come and gone, numbers have waned and at times finances were limited" said Sister Mary. "Wandering from place to place also had its problems. Our new home at the Catholic Education Centre will be our sixth residence in 10 years. She said during the decade, there had been a gradual shift in emphasis In the programs due to the changing times and the perception of new needs.
"Many lay people have
ADELAIDE: The Southern Cross, South Australia's Catholic vveekly, will cease publication at the end of this year. 'The decision to close the paper has been a difficult one and has been made purely on financial grounds. 'The Southern Cross has had economic problems for many years. It has depended on Church subsidies for a very long time. Readership has decreased significantly.
gained confidence to use their gifts and fulfill their responsibilities in Christian service. During 1986, the course developed along the lines of the Clinical Pastoral Education program with particular emphasis on the spiritual growth of the student through theological reflection on each person's ministry." The 1986 graduates are: The study program Sr Josie Cutler; Ann Flynn; lean Helm; Lillian Kee; Patricia Lilleyman; Sr Mercia; Margaret Panossian; Sr Joan Paul; Teresa Pitts; St Cecelia; Julie Rodgers; Mavis Sheedy; Margaret Walker; Aidrey Weinman; Margaret Worsley.
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R~cord A month ago, when the decision was taken to close Adelaide's Southern Cross Catholic weekly newspaper, those responsible were not to know how ominous would be the timing of the announcement that appears on page 3 of this issue. Australia, of course, awaits the outcome of the battle for the spoils of yet another media empire. Perth waits to see if one group may finish up owning 90% of local newspapers including a large slice of the suburban giveaways that once were supposed to be the bastion of all independent enterprise. Admittedly, the closure of The Southern Cross comes as no surprise to the Adelaide Church which has agonised over the problem for many years and at the great cost to the parishes. The loss of that paper joins the steady procession to the cemetery of other Catholic publications such as The Tribune in Melbourne, The Standard in Hobart, Harvest of the Marist Society, Sursum Corda of the Franciscans, Caritas of the St John of God Hospitallers and locally the South Star of Sunbury diocese. Advocate Press, the commercial amm of The Advocate newspaper has just closed its doors in central Melbourne. The lessons of the Adelaide decision are not hard to understand. When the revenue entering the business failed to meet the costs going out in production, there was no alternative to closing the door and retrenching four staff in the
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A few Catholics may have to catch up with the reality that ink, paper, and the wages of technical staff cost no less because Catholic items are being printed. There are no special guardian angels for the Catholic Press.
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Catholic Education centre a sign of adults and "I am pleased to be here for this ceremony of the blessing and opening of the Catholic Education Centre for the Church in Western Australia," the pope said. "This is an event of special significance. "The centre itself, which houses the Catholic Education Office and the Catholic Institute, builds upon the
worthy achievements of Catholic educators in the past, and looks construetively to the future. "The centre is a sign of the Church's commitment to educate people of all ages -adults as well as youth -- and it is a concrete means for accomplishing that goal "I willingly commend you for this important initiative and for the Gospel zeal which it symbolises," Pope John Paul
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John Paul expressed appreciation for the financial aid the Commomwealth and State Governments give to nongovernment schools. lt seemed only just that such sharing should take place, since those who benefited from the aid became productive citizens of Australian society he said. "I am confident the honest and fruitful lives of the many graduates of these institutions have proved that this assistance is more than worthwhile for all of Australia," said the Pope. "I assure you of my prayers for the success of this centre and for the success of all your efforts in the vital work of Catholic education. "May you and those you serve grow always in the truth and love of God. "For as Saint John says: 'In our life of truth and love we shall have grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ' " (2 Jn 3). "May God bless you all,"
he said.
"I acknowledge with graditude the presence of representatives of the Federal and State Governments. "I also greet the representatives of the whole Catholic education community of Western Australia, as well as those from the Western Australian of College Advanced Education and from the Perth College of Divinity," he said. "Education is a primary human right, and thus it is a fundamental concern of both civil society and the Church.
Centre builds on past the many other educational initiatives of the Church, a twofold goal is pursued: education in the faith, and education in the knowledgee necessary for people to assume their personal responsibilities within their families, at their place of work and in the larger society," the pope said.
"Jesus' last words to his disciples were a commandf to proclaim the Gospel to the people of every time and place: "Go, therefore, make disciples of all the nations; baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teach them to observe all the com-
mands I gave you" (Mt 28:18-20).
'These words are relevant for us today. ·They retain their same force and challenge. "And you have heard
this challenge here in Western Australia." "You have heard it and are eager to meet it," he
said.
□□□ "Its purpose is described in the words of the Second Vatican Council which stated: True education aims at the formation of the human person with respect to his ultimate goal, and simultaneously with respect to the good of those societies of which he is a member, and in whose responsibilities he will share as an adult' (Gravissimum Educationis, 1). "Consequently through this centre, as through all
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"Immense challenges confront Catholic educators in today's world," Pope John Paul said. "It is a world in which materialism and the pursuit of pleasure distract many people from hearing the voice of the Lord and even the voice of their own inner longings.
The pope gives a blessing to Paul Gair. At right is Marie Heath and partly obscured is Father Gerard Holohan.
its religious dimension," he said. "Catholic education is called upon to develop the gift of faith. "It aims at bringing those who have been baptized into the fullness of the Christian life.
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"At the same time, "It seeks to foster a there are great signs of desire to worship God hope, indications that many others are com- in spirit and in truth, ing to see the empti- and a longing to share ness of a life apart more completely in from God, and are the life of the Most experiencing a new Holy Trinity," said hunger and thirst for John Paul. "In today's world, we God. must help young peo"In the midst of these ple and adults to have different currents of a clear and consistent the modern world, understanding of the Catholic education faith, so that they will seeks to be faithful to be able to affirm their
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It was appropriate that this building blessed today should house both the Catholic Education Office and the Catholic Institute Pope John Paul said at the Catholic Education Commission centre at Leederville. These two bodies together were responsible for a wide range of Catholic educational efforts in Western Australia, he said. "You educate children. You help adults grow in the faith. You aim at promoting full maturity in Christ by caring for spiritual needs and by fostering the development of physical, moral and intellectual talents.
of course, a total Christian education cannot be given by teachers alone. "Full personal growth takes place in the home, the parish and the civic community, as well as in the school. "Catholic education is the responsibility of the
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entire Church, and its effectiveness depends upon how much all the members of the local Church work together," Pope John Paul said. "Here in Western Australia you have a rich heritage of sacrifice and dedication. "As we look out from this building over Subiaco, the very name
reminds us of men like Bishop Salvado, who personified the great Benedictine tradition with its love for learning and its
evangelising zeal. "We think of the spirit of self-sacrifice of the priests, most of whom came from abroad to build the Church in
of hope Christian and Catholic identity. "Only then will they be able to bear joyful witness to Christ in the changing times in which we live.
"Education must also assist the members of the Church to grow in an appreciation of their human vocation, since all are called to help make the world a better place.
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"This is the legacy you have received, together with the wealth of experience handed down by your families. "It is a splendid basis upon which to continue Christ's mission in the future," the pope said.
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"This centre has been developed on a site long associated with the church. It was acquired for monastic purposes by the Benedictine Fathers who came here from Europe in the I9th century. "In 1902, the great pioneering Irish Bishop of Perth, Matthew Gibney, introduced the Good Shepherd Sisters to Western Australia. "He gave them this site of 20ha as a place to build a convent and residential
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and girls in need. It is wonderfully appropriate that, nearly a century later, the centre is being re-dedicated for a new purpose, and reopened by another great pioneering bishop, the Bishop of Rome. Pope John Paul II," Dr Tnnock a said.
□□□ The Church in Western Australia has long been active in the field of education in all its forms. "It maintains a system of Catholic schools spread across an area in Westem Australia which is more than half the size of Europe.
"Almost one child in every five is in a Catholic school, and the demand for places for exceeds the capacity of the Church to provide them.
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ing the pastoral works of our priests and teachers, of bringing knowledge and gospel values to all people, but especially to the young," he said. "This centre, which you bless and open today, is designed to give strength and support to our vision of the integrated educational mission of the Church. "It brings together all the formal and informal elements of Catholic education in Western Australia under one roof. "We hope it will thrive and develop as an integrated Catholic education force which will be of lasting benefit to our Christian people. "I should like personally to thank Archbishop Foley for the vision and courage he has shown in taking the action he has to establish this centre, and to make this great day possible," Dr Tannock said.
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Christians recognise Christ as the heart and the source of every liturgy: He appears as the one who reconciles human beings with one another and with
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This week the NC religious education package continues its four-week exploration of themes from Vaticn II, concentrating on a document that Pope John Paul II several times has asked Catholics to reread: the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. David Gibson gives an overview of some main themes from the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. Though the document is 21 years old, stepping back in time to read it is not very much like a step into the past, he suggests.
Gibson, editor of the NC religious education package, finds echoes of the document almost everywhere in the church today. Joe Michael Feist interviews Father Frederick McManus, a canon lawyer who was an expert adviser at the council. Father McManus offers his recollections of the counc', confessing that when it was first announced, he did not realise how far-reaching it would be. Feist is associate editor of the NC religious education package.
Father John Castelot tells of the Galatians, to whom St. Paul sent a letter. The Galatians were descendents of three powerful Celtic tribes who fought their way into Turkey. Father Castelot says that the unique characteristics of the Galatians made them quite different from, say, the Corinthians. The earty Christians struggled to understand and respond to the church's diversity, as did the fathers of Vatican II, Father Castelot says.
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hen they wrote their Dogtic Constitution on the
The hour had 'sounded in history' for a new church document
In a new encyclical a letter to the whole church Pope John Paul II highlights the role of Sts Cyril and Methodius. the ninthcentury Greek brothers. He believes strongly that they are saints whose lives bear a message for the modem world. Men of Hellenic culture and Byzantine training, they were "the conTwenty-one years is necting links or spiritnot all that long a time: ual bridge between Just ask any parent of the Eastern and Westa21-year-old child. ern traditions," the Still, one steps back 2l pope writes. The years in time with some sai ts' n work of evantrepidation, if n a concerns thenwondering gelisation contais remain conmodel of what today cerns now is called "inculturaTwenty-one years ago tion, the incarnation of November 21, 1964 -- the the Gospel in native Second Vatican Council's cultures and also the Dogmatic Constitution on introduction of these the Church was promulcultures into the life of gated In September 1964, the church." Their when the council's third example stands us i n session began, Pope Paul VI good stead even predicted its deliberations today. the pope said. on this document would For "being Christians distinguish the council "in in our day means the memory of future ages" being builders of comHe said that the hour had munion in the church "sounded in history" for the and in society. This church to develop a docu calls for openness to ment on "what Christ others, mutual under- intended and willed" the standing and readi- church to be ness to co-operate hen the constitution was through the generous completed, Pope Paul VI exchange of cultural said. "We like to think that and spiritual resour- the doctrine of the mystery ces." (The encyclical of the church, illustrated appeared in the publi - and proclaimed by this councation titled Origins, cil will, from this moment, NC Documentary Ser- find a positive echo in the vice, 1312 Mass. Ave. minds of Catholics." N.W., Washington, Perhaps the memory of DC, 20005. those words, and the
memory of his own partici pation in Vatican II, explains why the present pope, John Paul II, has asked that people reread the Constitution on
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David Gibson
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the Church What will you find if you step back 2I years to read
this document? Are its echoes heard anywhere
today, as Pope Paul VI thought they would be? In many respects the document's echoes are heard almost everywhere now
It echoes, first, in the many efforts to create awareness that all members of the church are gifted people. No one is called to a merely
passive Christian existence; all church members receive gifts enabling them to actively participate in the Christian life. Every lay person, for example, is "the witness and th living instrument" of the church's mission
Echoes of the document are also heard in all the homilies, and books, and parish-council discussions of the church as a community, one whose members whether bishops or laity -give care to each other. The constitution's chapter on the "People of God," which the council fathers decided to place near the document's beginning, was meant to set a tone here Thus the document holds that while some church members have different roles and different states in life, all are shaped by the call to serve each other and the world through love.
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atmosphere created in its
pages.
the constitution says the church is "in the
pn,
are of a sacrament -a
Some would say this focus
ign and instrument of com-
on the church as a community of love for much of
church life today. One chapter of the constitution is devoted to bishops' roles and its echoes are certainly still heard in the many discussions of collegiality. It reaffirms the primacy of the pope, the bishop of Rome. It goes on to discuss the roles of all bishops -examining how, with the pope, they form a college - a community of leadership in the church
with God and of unity mong all." The church is ed "the kingdom of "a communion of ' love and truth" •. "a anic people, a seed of nty, hope and salvation for he whole human race a people brought into unity God
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A simple people with By insatiable Father John curiosity Castelot
In the third century B.C., three powerful Celtic tribes fought
their way through the Balkans into what is now Turkey. Unwel-
come wherever they
went, they finally acquired territory centered on three cities, one of which is Ankara, the capital of modern Turkey.
The region these Celts lived in became known as Galatia, a name derived from the word Celtic. When the Roman armies appeared on the scene, these Galatians
'.
fought on their side and the country was incorporated into the Roman Empire. The Galations were a distinctive ethnic group, with traits of character and personality peculiar to themselves. They were simple and openhearted. They also were insatiably curious and gullible. An ancient historian wrote that they were intelligent and docile, but when the cloak of a philosopher appeared in their midst they clung to it Like iron to a magnet - which means, I take it, that they would listen to almost
anyone who claimed to be a philosopher It is not surprising. then, that Paul found them hospit able when illness forced him to stop among them They were eagerly receptive when he preached the Good It is probably not surprising. either, that when Jew-
ish-Christian teachers showed up later, teaching that gentile Christians should still follow the Mosaic Law the Galatians accepted their message even though it varied from Paul's All this is reflected in his impassioned letter to the Galatians
Another quite different
community was the one at
Corinth. Listen to this assessment by Dominican Father Jerome Murphy-O'Connor, in his commentary on First Corinthians. "Conceited, stubborn, oversensitive, argumentative infantile, pushy. All these adjectives have their place in a description of the Corinthian Christians for whom Paul was responsible. They were the most exasperating community he had to deal with, for
they displayed a positive genius for misunderstanding him." Then there were the Thes
salonians, Philippians, Romans -all quite distinc tive by temperament, culture, customs, attitudes
Paul took them as they were, respecting their uniqueness, trying to Christianise their lives. He did not try to make
Jews gentiles or gentiles Jews, he did not insist that Galatians be Corinthians or that Thessalonians be Philip-
prans
In other words, while there was a definite unity binding the early churches together, it was not uniformity. The attempts of some Jewish Christians to impose uniformity came to naught
St Peter's Basilica was filled with nearly 2600 bishops. hundreds of advisors and observers for the opening session of the Second Vatican Council. "And there was the extraordinary presence of Pope John," Msgr. Frederick McManus said "He really set the tone of the council in
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urch. Many commentaries the constitution focus on
a remarkable opening address
Among the early Christians the churches were all joined by their common faith in the Lordship of Jesus, by baptism and the Eucharist but especially by love. So there was unity
But there was also diversity
atmosphere created IS one warmth. The picture of the that emerges in the institution's early pages is la community held together f love. As the rest of the institution unfolds, this tndation is presupposed.
is the church? Think about I
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fOUll
of youngsters, several
te likely to respond that the
turch is a building. And tey're not wrong. We do
have
buildings
urches
called
ft's more, the idea of the
hurch as a building of God las roots in scripture, as the bonstitution on the Church totes. But even then, it is a building made of living $ones, namely its people is the church? How many hople would begin to swer by calling the church community of love, God's
Jople? And does it make a ference? Do these images awn from Vatican l's Contution on the Church make
difference for the kind of tholic you are in your Jrish or at home?
very first words of the
Our future changed by the council On
January
25,
ick McManus was a 36-year-old professor of canon law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. As he went about his tasks that day, little did he know that his future, our future, was about to be forever altered by events an ocean away. In Rome, the new pope,
John XXIII, elected scarcely three months earlier, was
speaking to 17 cardinals in
the Basilica of St PaulOutside-the-Walls. Admitting he was "trembling a little with emotion," the pope announced that he intended to convoke "an ecumenical council for the universal church" Recalling those days, the now Msgr McManus said he realised immediately how important Vatican Council II could be. "I was well aware of the currents in the church -- biblical, liturgical and ecumenical," he said in an interview."Iknew that many things could be dealt with I knew the potential but I didn't realise how far" the council would go
Preparations for the council began soon after the pope's historic announcement. Because Msgr McManus had written extensively on canonical affairs and the liturgy, he was appointed a consultor in 1960 to the committee laying the groundwork for a document on the liturgy. And when the council opened in October 1962, Msgr McManus was there as a papally selected peritus, or expert adviser, attached to the Commission on the Liturgy.
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nstitution are these Christ is the light of humant" The constitution draws Latin name, "Lumen Genlm," from those words ouncil fathers immediately ent on to explain what they 'oped to accomplish in their scussions of the church: to ling to all people "that light 4Christ which shines out siby from the church." her standing this as the urch's task seems basic to derstanding what the church is, the council fathers gested through the choice these first words. They
The "most striking feature" of the first days and weeks of the council, he said. was the "extreme tension between what turned out to be the majority (of bishops) and the minority."
light of Christ can unite
The first crisis, Msgr McManus indicted, ocurred during the very first general congregation when Cardi nals Achille Licnart of Lille, France, and Joseph Frings of
ople; and its unifying potenal is urgently needed in
day's world
By
1959, Father Freder-
One of his most vivid memories is the opening ceremony of the council St Peter's Basilica was filled with nearly 2,600 bishops hundreds of advisers and observers. "And there was the extraordinary presence of Pope John. He really set the tone of the council in a remarkable opening address," said Msgr McMa-
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Michael Fiest Cologne, Germany, protested the lack of prior consultation on the part of the presidency of the council in offering candidates for council offices there was a very strong opposition to the "concept that the council would meet for a couple of months, approve some documents and go home," said Msgr McManus
A showdown of sorts occurred later in the council during discussion of the portion of the Constitution on the Church dealing with the hierarchical structure of the church, Msgr. McManus said. The issue was collegiality the manner in which leadership in the church is exercised by all the world's bishops together with the pope. A number of bishops rejected the notion of collegiality.
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A quiz to get you in the mood for Advent
For many people, Advent turns into the year's busiest ti e. m b. Gabriel There's so much to do. Quickly the days slip by. Easily Advent c. the angel of the Lord itself can slip right past you. But perhaps the quiz that follows will help you get into an d. the angel did not leave his name Advent mood. Think of it as a game, if you like. It's an Advent 9. What happened Pursuit,, though I hope you don't find it trivial. 1. What does the word"advent" mean? a. coming b. expectation c.preparation
d. waiting
a. How many candles are used7 b. What are the customary colours of the candles? c. What happens on Gaudete Sunday?
on the Church, while affirming the primacy of the pope, emphasised "the collegiate character and structure of the episcopal order."
While some previous coun-
the positive nature of Vati
can II can be seen in the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. He called it a "truly novel document" since in the initial planning "there had been no intent to look at the church in relation to society and culture" The idea that the
church could learn from society was somewhat revolutionary, he added Still, it should be recog nised that the Constitution on the Church in the Mod ern World was a "first effort" that "called for more development, more reflection," said Msgr McManus. In a sense, he added, all the council documents can be viewed as 'first efforts" in need of further development History will ho doubt view
the council very positively, Msgr McManus believes. "It was the first time the church assembled in this way - and reflected on itself, its nature and its relationships "Obwiously it was a break through," he said
ers and sisters did John have? 7. John's father was a priest. What does Luke tell us he was doing in the temple when the angel appeared to him? a. leading the people in prayer b. offering a lamb in sacrifice
cils were "reactive" or "neg
ative," Msgr. McManus said,
John's father after the 6. How many broth- angel left him? Why?
2. How many Sundays does the season of Advent hold? a. 6 b.4
c.3 3. Think
about Advent feastdays. Match the saint's name with his or her
feastday.
• St. Ambrose • St. Francis Xavier • Immaculate Conception of Mary • St. Lucy • St. Nicholas
a.Dec.3 b. Dec. 6 c. Dec. 7 d. Dec. 8 e. Dec. 13 4. The
Advent wreath weaves pine boughs into a circle and adorns it with candles and ribbons. Now, answer these questions -if you
can:
d. What does the word "gaudete' mean?
e. Which Advent Sunday is Gaudete Sunday? Now answer the next few questions. Then take five minutes to read the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 1, to check your answers. That's your reward for doing so well on this quiz.
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School on the move
Holy Spirit school has come a long way from its original as a inception Church school in 1964, with Sister Dominica OP as its first principal. Since then extra classrooms were added as required, a pre-primary built and the lastest addition this year of an administration and library area was blessed by Archbishop Foley and opened by Peter Tannock in August. This new building has enhanced facilities and united the whole school and parish
It was quite a week for Mrs Catherine de Waal. She not only listened to the pope's address to the aged, seated only a few metres away from him at the Little Sisters of the Poor Glendalough Home, but she turned 104 years old last weekend!
How did you feel seeing this great man and listening to him speak? l asked her. "Better than that I kissed his ring, he touched me on the head and said God bless you! Then someone in the entourage gave me a photo' but I lost it," she said disappointedly.
"It was the first time l have seen a pope," she said. Which may be a little surprising, considering she has outlived a few!
Although sometimes we may feel her age, very few of us will reach it! In fact, she looks to be only in her seventies. Pretty face, gaily coloured clothes, make-up on, walks unaided apart from a walking stick, mentally bright, memory intact (in fact it's so good she can recall a 100 years ago!), and well up with current affairs. Not bad!
by COLLEEN HOWARD
complex. The school
has the added facility of the parish hall which it uses throughout the year. Holy Spirit church sits on a slightly higher plane to the school and as you drive
around
the
Mrs de Waal only shifted there last year. "It's hard to get into here," she said. But well worth the wait from the sound of her enthusiasm. Born in 1882 and raised in England, she married in 1907 with a nuptial Mass at the church of the Sacred Heart. She remembers her wedding day and "being allowed to kneel on the high altar." Then came the birth of two childen and the outbreak of World War 1 . 'The bombing was terrible. The enemy would use dirigibles dropping bombs on target was a fine art," she said. "I used to bring the mattresses down from upstairs and put the children to sleep on them underneath the table." Her little daughter with unbounding faith said to her "We are alright, aren't we mummy, because you are watching."
"Which I was," said Mrs de Waal. "Looking outside through the window to see where the bombs were landing." The effects of the bombing were drastic, said Mrs de Waal. "You would be on board a bus travelling through the suburbs and city and see a house sliced in half with the piano still sitting on the untouched half floor." But London in those days carried on as though life was normal, she said. "The government encouraged this. You could go into the city and see a Play and have afternoon tea. They wanted people to do that rather than see the true gravity of war as it was," she said. "We lived at Harrow on the Hill at the time and they were very difficult times." Up till then it had been plain sailing, but now "everyone was terrified and of course food was rationed. People would queue up overnight waiting to get meat," she said. During the war years, Mrs de Waal's husband was an adjutant in the War Office at Whitehall but after the war they moved to RAF quarters while her husband did a course at Greenwich. "I needed a maid,'' said Mrs de Waal, "but there was only one available for hire and the doctor's wife wanted her too. However she insisted the maid would have to wear a cap and an apron, and I didn't. The maid chose mel"
yachts taking part in the America's Cup trials. The school today, with its 182 students who can
go from pre-primary through to year seven,
has an enviable range of
options for upper primary during wet winter months.
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Mrs de Waal gave me the impression she'd outlive most of us. Mind you, she lives in the very caring home of the Little Sisters where "they fuss over me all the time. I've been properly spoilt here. I can't speak too highly of the Sisters, they are so kind, and the staff are just as nice," she said.
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There is woodwork, Burmese cooking, chess, chemistry, creative stitchery, quilling, dough creations, journalism ( children are producing a school magazine ), crochet and knitting. The availability of Suzuki violin lessons is an added attraction. A very effective music program is operating throughout the school from pre-primary to year seven. The opportunity to develop this program was enhanced this year when the school received a resource aimed at grant professional development. Team teaching in the upper primary schools is an effective part of the transition programme from to primary secondary school. Since the City of Perth establishment of a young poet, writers' award, Holy Spirit students have been among the prize winners each year. Students are taught French in year seven and also introduced into computers.
She's
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Sister Angela less of the Little Sisters of the Poor, escorts Mrs Kitty de MMaal through the grounds at Glendalough on her way to meet Pope John Paul Al on the day of his visit there.
Mrs de Waal reminisced on the few facilities available when she was a child just before and after the turn of the 20th century. 'Tillings was the owner of horsedrawn buses, that was the main transport, and you could go quite a distance for a penny (2) In my family home they had gas mantles because there was no electricty in ordinary houses. People cooked with a gas stove or a coal and coke stove and we had an open fire," she said. "To iron, we'd put heavy ions on the stove top to heat them up. There was a cistern at the side of the fire which you replenished with water when you used it. We would decant this into a big jug and use the basin to wash ourselves a bit at a time I Full baths were not available," Mrs de Waal said.
bright and wise at 104 Later on, when they married, they had a good open fire in the dining room and they'd keep water boiling over that and some people had a Sitzbath, which was like an enclosed arm chair which you filled with water and sat in that to bathe. "Are you sure that's how you spell Sitzbath I asked? Tm not sure dear. It was almost 100 years ago, I'm not certain how you would spell it," she said. "Amen" to that one I thought. I guessed it was safe to put it in the way I thought it was spelt because there wouldn't be too many people alive to query the spelling anyway!! Mrs de Waal said there was excitement over Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee and chi Iden were given mugs to celebrate. "I also remember her funeral procession and Edward the Seventh's Coronation," she said. "There was a parade in the street. But initially his coronation had to be postponed for a fortnight because he developed appendicitis two days before it." Owing to the postponement, many poor families feasted on the 2500 quails and hundreds of chickens, sturgeons and partridge intended for the coronation banquet.
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Mrs de Waal recalled the major transport of the day in London, horse and carts and horsedrawn buses. "I remember too the awful poverty there. My husband was a member of St Vincent de Paul and at Christmas we would take food to the poor people who lived in the London slums. They were dreadful," she said. Of course food prices in those days were somewhat different too ... "If you wanted a loaf of bread in the old days, they'd weigh it and if not the correct weight, they'd make it up by adding a bun or whatever. Butter was about a shilling a pound and you could get freshly ground coffee for 112d. (13C) a pound and tea was 1 /- (1 OC) a pound. When the end of the war came, everyone went mad with excitement, said Mrs de Waal. "Celebrations went on for days, and we went up to London to celebrate. But for some there was no joy. As I was decorating the hotel for the festivities, I remember seeing the hand carts going backwards and forwards, taking bodies to the mortuary. The plague was bad and so too were smallpox, scarlet fever and consumption (TB)," said Mrs de Waal. The family of two children (another was born here), migrated to Australia in 1922. The voyage took about a month, said Mrs de Waal and three minutes silence was observed off Rottnest. It was Armistice Day. "All the Perth streets were well laid out and places like Queens Gardens," she said. "The women would be out shopping in long frilly dresses with big georgette picture hats. They looked nice," said Mrs de Waal. "So too the gentlemen, who were all correctly dressed in suits." They settled down in Victoria Park and Mrs de Waal sang in the Cathedral Choir with Sid Smith as its conductor. Her husband found work with Insurance companies and died when 59. The children
were grown up and finally Mrs de Waal went to live with her married daughter until last year when she shifted to Glendalough. Mrs de Waal is no idle-minded citizen and.has some very definite ideas on life and society today. And with what she sees she is not impressed. "When I was a child there was a certain standard of behaviour. People didn't let their children play out on the streets and those sort of things. But there is no home life for kids these days. 'Women are more in the picture now but whether it is for good or bad, I don't know. But in my day women stuck to their homes and didn't go out looking for something to do," she said. "Women these days have it too easy. They're not satisfied to wait for the money to come in and buy things as we had to; it was more enjoyable for us when we finally got them. There's no novelty for them." "Discipline today has all gone. A child tells you what you should do now. "I never had disobedience. My kids obeyed me and now they respect and love me, so l can't have treated them too badly," Mrs de Waal said. "A soft word and a cuddle goes a long way. You can't be too harsh and you must let them know how much you love them." Cont page 12
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Caught by man in white Let's face it people this Man in White must have been rather special. Because for who else would we have immaculatised our cities, geared up our media machines, organised our Papal Visit organisations, briefed and re-briefed our key personnel, bought so much film, written so much about and dropped our normal Sabbath Day affairs to fight the crowds and then join a milling mass with the rain tumbling down and all? He had to be outstanding or else we'd have to be plain mad. Special he surely was. The thing is, although the media do their best to portray the person as they actally are (or how they want them to appear!), type and film will never replace the special generation of vibes that emanate from people face to face or in close proximity. Each of us has our own special magnetism for someone out there. This man has much attraction for most, regardless of their creed or colour. My venue was Glendalough. As in other pla-
by COLLEEN HOWARD
ces, many people lined the streets, anxious for a glimpse of this great man Pope John Paul II. The police patrolled the grounds and general area and while the excited crowd of 1500 invited elderly guests waited, the Julian Singers entertained them with their beautiful singing.
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And for the elderly, the Little Sisters of the Poor and nursing sisters took care of them, wrapping the frail and aged in blankets when the cold wind blew as the sun disappeared behind clouds. The St John Ambulance volunteers did a great job too and there were medicos and specialists in attendance, should a need arise, plus two ambulances. That plus the presence of so mamy Religious, made one feel their physical
and spiritual needs were well met should their Maker decide to call them home that day! And then a ripple of excitement swelled among the ranks. A helicopter flew around up top and cries from the crowd heralded the popemobile. A mighty machine by any standard, but best of all it
transported a very spe-
cial man, His Holiness. His love for his huge and far flung flock is so great he is prepared to travel the earth to visit those who cannot visit him. He is strong in stature and imposing in appearance and l believe he'd stand out from among the crowd even without the papal trappings. The love of Pope John Paul for his people is very evident. He not only likes them, but he actually loves them. He is an interesting ma
because he fits in easily among the intellectuals and the workers, the young and the very old. For the children he has a soft fatherly love as he cuddles them to his chest and gives them his warm but gentle and loving embrace. For the elderly, he has compassion, understanding, interest, and just as much love. His face is one of character and his appearance one of strength. He is a big man. Big in appearance and big in vision. And the special magic of his charismatic personality works on the young as well as the elderly. I spoke to both groups, and in-between as well. He had touched their lives and has left proban indelible ably impression on them. One lady said she "soared to the sly" when she held his hand. A man of the world who confessed he was "really getting too old to get excited any more because of his broadness of life lived, and having met so many notables," admitted to an electric thrill up his spine when the pope shook his hand.
"He's got more than charisma," he said. "It's that -plus his holiness. The other important people I've met, including royalty, were nothing in comparison to the effect he had. There were a great many Antiochians waiting in the Cathedral grounds for His Holiness to arrive and then finish dinner at the presbytery and perhaps just show himself. He did. Three of my children were among them and were just overwhelmed with love and rapport for him. They spoke of him with awe and admiration and loved the immediate affinity he creates with people
everywhere.
The large group sang with candles, wrapped in blankets and waited for him to reappear. Which he did stating
he'd had a busy sche-
dule and would like to sleep now. "He only lifted up his hands on the balcony and everyone fell silent "He thanked us all for preparing for his visit," and Pope John Paul had just won over another number of large devotees...
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TINLEY: Passed away peacefully at home, 13 Hodgson Place, Kardinya, on December 8th, 1986, Judith Ellen (Judy) Tinley, beloved wife of John; dearly loved mother of Mark, Deirdre, Peter, Frances, Alexandra, Trish and Matt; loved mother-inlaw of Carleen; beloved Nanna of Joshua and Isaac and fond daughterin-law of Con Tinley. Her funeral took place at Fremantle Cemetery on Wednesday, December 10th, 1986, following Requiem Mass celebrated in Our Lady of Fatima Church, Palmyra. Bowra & ODea, Perth 328 7299.
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loving
remembrance of Bernie away 3rd passed December 1976 from Joyce, Patricia, Peter, Elizabeth and their families. May he rest in peace. O'REILLY Mons Patrick. At this time of the celebration of Pope John Paul's visit, we remember with love our dear friend, Monsignor Patrick O'Reilly. We thank him for all his thoughts and loving care. We know he was directing from on high. Roly and Eileen Bott and family. Bill and Josie Staude and family.
Heart of Jesus, Our Most Sacred Heart of Blessed Mother, Holy St Jesus may your name be Jude, Holy Spirit, St praised and glorified now Theresa and Padre Pio and forever. Amen. for Pravers answered. Thankyou. 1.O.D. L.B. legrtfelt thanks to the p] Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Holy Spirit for answered. prayers J.V.W.
Grateful thanks to Sacred Heart, Our Lady of Help. Infant Jesus, St Jude and Holy Spirit for granting my favours.
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School on the move From page 10
On the sports scene tennis is taught along with a whole variety of other sports. The Holy Spirit preprimary is very sought after with a great demand for the 30 places available. Students and parents of Holy Spirit primary school are very fortunate in that the school enjoys the unique advantage of being a feeder school to two Catholic Colleges, situated only a short distance from the school: Newman and John XXIII. This gives Catholic parents two options as they are given priority of entry at the year eight level.
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Vocation fund boost needed
The plea for more vocations made by Pope John Paul at the conclusion of the Mass at Belmont Park on November 30 needs to be taken to heart, says the retiring chairman of the Knights of the Southern Cross, Mr Brian Taylor. 'The Holy Father's statement that a vocation to the priesthood and the religious life is both a gift from the Church and a gift to the Church will have to be put into practice by the Knights and the Catholics of Western Australia," he said Mr Taylor made these observations when expressing his disappointment that an initiative of the Knights, the O'Reilly Monsignor MemorialFundhadsofar drawn little support. The fund was established by the KSC in memory of their past chaplain as a means of assisting young men who like Monsignor O'Reilly came from the work force to commence their studies for the 'priesthood. 'The success of the visit by Pope John Paul to Western Australia was in no small part due to the
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initial work by Monsignor O'Reilly and which came to an abrupt end with his tragic final illness," Mr Taylor said. "His memory ought to be honoured for the great service he gave the Church and for the contribution he made to the Papal Visit. "His entry into the priesthood as a young man ought to be an inspiration to many other men to do the same." With thanks the followdonations are ing acknowledged Mrs A. Hassell $500; Miss W. Froude $500; Mailey Family, Wongan Hills $100; Armadale Branch KSC $200; Miss E.D. Wanless (Southern Cross Homes North Perth ) $100; Bishop Morgan, together with Miss K. Goody and a number of Parishioners from the Cathedral Parish totalling $150.
From page 11 That's how it was at Glendalough. Each one melted with love for him if he looked at them, across their way, touched their hand, if they kissed his, and so it went on. He said many meaningful things in his national address to the aged and with all his speeches, as one interstate radio journalist noted, there is the constant theme of honouring the dignity of people, no matter who, or where, or what sex they are. Human dignity, being in a state of appalling neglect in our modern age, badly needs rehabilitation and I can't imagine a better theme on which to speak.
He himself is a man of great dignity and treats all others with great dignity and love - even his would-be assassins. Truly the test of a true Christian who practices what he preaches. The pope then imparted his special Apostolic Blessing, descended from the dais and walked back slowly to the popemobile, touching the reaching hands, giving encouraging words, and inspiring all by his mere presence. Undoubtedly, lying in his Perth Cathedral presbytery bed, His Holiness must have wondered: did he achieve what he set out to do? Were the people responsive to his call and his words? Did be help one more person at least come closer to God? Did he
On marriage? "People want tgo much too quickly and they don't take marriage seriously," she said. With that she held up her 78 year old wedding ring . . . "It was meant to last," she said, "just like the marriage." "And I am devastated by the social scene today. There is no religion. There is nothing to hold on to. By the time children are in their teens, they know everything and want everything without earning it,'' said Mrs de Waal. 'The crime rate is terrible. I can't think of anything worse than what is going on today. And punishment is too lenient. Nobody is accepting responsibility for their actions. There is nothing to hang on to any more because you can't rely on the law. The law goes whichever way the policy goes," she said. "I used to think I was loyal to the law and brought my childen up to respect it, and whether you liked it or not- it was the law. "But now I feel disillusioned in the judicial system of today. The problem is they let them off too lightly. Certainly the punishment does not fit the crime these days," said Mrs de Waal. "And I can only see things getting worse, because what sort of an example do teenagers have? There is no decent example for them to follow!" Mrs de Waal said she was disgusted with some media. "When I heard the 'Hail Mary' film was passed and was allowed to be shown here, then that was the limit! I'm disgusted with the authorities who permitted it. I am afraid that to Australians, God is sport ... 'If you can kick the football -then you're right'. "And I don't like them 'making babies'. Society has gone to the pack and things are only getting worse. There is no respect for people or property any more," said Mrs de Waal. Not many of us have such a broad span of years to make comparisons - in this case 104 years, "You have to know something if you've lived more than a century," said Mrs de Waal. This lady is no sour-grapes geriatric. She's an on-the-ball delightful lady who's mentally agile and knows what she's talking about. Methinks there's more than a grain of truth in everything she says ... And yes, she does have her own recipe for longevity which she gave me with a wink and a smile ... Kruschen salts and Vegemite! But on a more serious note, she takes no credit for her long life "it is not I who has done the living. It is the Power from above ... "
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massive organisation and deployment of so many resources for 24 hours in each State? Did he say enough? Do enough? Reach enough? And to you, our beloved pontiff I would reply on behalf of the many, many thousands who have watched and observed you, felt your love, touched and kissed you. Yes indeed
you have achieved much. Yes you have strengthened the love of people for God through their love for His Leader on Earth. You have touched them and their lives and become a channel of love between God and His people. You have extended your arms and clasped humanity in your embrace. Against your breast they have felt your heartbeat and known it was beating for love of them. four fatiguing journey was worthwhile. You and your leadership, are a success.
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Down to Earth God by
Michael Griffiths. Publisbed by Hodder & Stoughton. $5.95. "This book is intended for down to earth people who want a straightforward explanation of the Christian faith, in order to make up their minds about Jesus Christ. Michael Griffiths sets out the Christian faith 'as Jesus taught it and the apostles proclaimed it'. Each chapter covers a basic Christian doctrine with an explanation of the biblical teaching and some fundamental questions are also tackled: Why and how does God communicate with man? Why was it necessary for Christ to die on the cross? How is Jesus relevant to us today? In his clear and thoughtprovoking style, the author vividly conveys what it means to become a Christian, with all the joys, demands and excitement that a newly-found relationship with Jesus brings"
Family Ideas for Building
Hope and Peace by Dorothy Hope. Published by Joint Board of Cbristian Education & Scripture Union pb $5.95. Review by Muriel Porter (Religion Writer, Melburne Sun) "The early Protestants were very strong on family worship. They saw the Christian home as a miniature church community, with Father the pastor and teacher! That tradition continued well up until this century in many families, with prayer, Bible study and hymns often an integral part of every day. But with today's hectic lifestyle, that pattern is all but lost. With both parents often working. and children rushing frantically from school to sport to music to clubs, no two days of the week are the same, and a family "quiet time" is hard to fit in. Anyway, formal prayers and hymns would seem a bit artificial for most modern families So full marks to the Joint Board of Christian Education and Scripture Union for coming up with this excellent little paperback, Family Ideas for Building Hope and Peace, written by Dorothy Hope (RRP $5.95) for the International Year of Peace Attractively presented, and illustrated with plenty of fun drawings, it is packed with simple but worthwile activities for the Christian family that wants to live the way of peace, and make its contribution to world peace at the same time. It is based on prayer and Bible study, but of the kind that makes a direct connection between Christian commitment and commitment to the concerns of the outside world, and so totally worthwhile for a busy modern family. Realistically, Mrs Hope suggests creating just one family time a week for these activities, and using the book as a kind of smorgasbord, not a rigid manual That is probably exactly how most families would prefer to use this book, as sometimes the activities suggested might be a bit embarrassing. For instance, saying how you feel and why you like another family member might be OK for some, but self-conscious teenagers (or even parents! ) might find that uncomfortable. Somehow we can cope with such intimacy among relative strangers, but not among strange relatives! Perhaps the only real crit icism to be offered is that, like so much Christian literature, this book implicitly assumes that the Christian family is the same as the nuclear family. But only 40% of Australian families today consist of mother, father, and children. Perhaps further books in this family series will consciously seek to provide worship activities suitable for the non-tradional family"
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The Tunnels of Guchi. A remarkable story of the Vietnam War. By Tom Mangold and Jobn Penycate. Published by Pan Books. $8.95.
Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Published by
Pavanne/Pan Books. " Now middle-aged, Anya looks back to her life in Poland before and during the war. There was the happiness of a close-knit Russian Jewish family, of friendships struck up in medical school, of fancy dress balls, love affairs, marriage and birth. A world swept away in the firestorm of the Holocaust. Bewildered and numbed, the Jewish community struggled with the growing nightmare invasion, occupation, ghettos, cattle trucks, and finally Kaiserwald, where the living came to envy the dead. With cold, raw audacity, Anya ran, hid, and fought to save herself and her child. She survived and escaped to America, only to find that, as time passed, the wounds grew deeper. And now it takes an act of courage to remember just how it was. 'Anya is a myth, an epic, the creation of darkness and of laughter stopped forever in the open throat. Out of blown-away dust Susan Fromberg Schaeffer has created a world. It is a vision, set down by a fearless, patient poet.. A writer of remarkable power'
the stone that held him in the tomb.' The Empty Cross of Jesus sets the balance right by concentrating on the resurrection and the immense implications of Easter Day. 'It has been a pivilege,' writes Michael Green, 'to attempt this book. It has made me realise afresh how little I have pierced the central mystery of the Christian faith.
"In a labyrinth of underground tunnels stretching 200 miles, the Vietnam War was fought, won and lost. This was a vicious war: the B-52's and helicopter gunships ruled the skies, the Americans laid waste to all life above ground, but below the surface, the Viet Cong remained secure. Their tunnels contained living areas, ordnance factories, storage depots, hospitals, and the headquarters where they were hatching and preparing their guerilla tactics Teams of US infantrymen were specially trained in conflict. underground Armed only with knives and pistols, they fought hand-tohand against the enemy who were at home in the dark and booby-trapped tunnels So brave were these Tunnel Rats in the face of adversity that General Bernard Rogers, now Supreme Allied Commander Europe, called them 'a special breed".
'I offer it in the hope that it may help some Christians to a deeper awareness of what Calvary cost our Lord, and what Easter can mean for the individual, the church and the world.' "
Eleni by Nicholas Gage. Published by Fontana.
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The Empty Cross of Jesus, by Michael Green. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, $15.95. "Michelangelo once broke out in indignant protest against his fellow artists who were forever depicting Christ in his death on the cross. 'Paint him instead the Lord of life. Paint him with his kingly feet implanted on
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"Nicholas Gage was nine, when with his sisters, he escaped to America from Northern Greece, a country then torn by civil war. His escape was arranged by his mother, Eleni Gatzoyiannis, and for this 'crime' she was executed by firing squad. Thirty-two years later, in 1980, Gage left his job on the New York Times to discover the truth about Eleni's life and her murder.
As he describes his investiga-
tions and gradually closes in on the killers, detailed pictures emerge of a repressive community where rigid tradition bred malice and betrayal, of a savage war, and, above all, of a remarkable courageous and loving
woman."
The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith. Published by Pan Books. $8.95. "Spring 1917. On the warravaged Western Front, Michael Courtney, a dashing South African aviator flying for the British, falls in love with Centaine de Thiry, a beautiful young French aristocrat. But their happiness is short-lived, and their hopes of a life together in the land Michael talked so passionately about perish in the blazing skies above the grim battlefields Alone and destitute, the savage beast of war having destroyed her father, her home and now the man she loved. Centaine determines that the child she carries will be born in Africa. Michael's uncle. General Sean Courtney, arranges her passage to Cape Town, but a U-Boat torpedoes the hospital ship and she is cast on the forbidding shore of the Namibian Desert. Magnificently exciting, full of vivid action, passion and mystery. THE BURNING SHORE is an epic quest for love and fortune that takes a courageous woman deep into the secret heart of the African wilderness. Here is adventure and drama on such a monumental scale it could only have been written by the master storyteller. Wilbur Smith. ."
Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. Published by Macmillan Australia. $29.95. "Arctic Dreams is a celebration of the Arctic landscape itself -- of earth and sea and ice -and of the animals that live there: on land, the muskox, its wavy coat shimmering to the ground; on the ice, the polar bear, whom Eskimos call pisugtooq, the great wanderer; on sea, the narwhal, its ivory tusk spiralling out of its forehead, the real-life counterpart of the legendary unicorn. It is a story of the people who live there - of Eskimo, caught between the traditions of centuries and the incursions of a modern technological society, and of the representation of that society, and those who would care for the land and those who would control it. It is a story of movement the massive migration of fish and marine mammals, of birds, of caribou; and it is a story of ice - of steep-sided monoliths that will shatter a ship swept too close in a gale; of crystals of pack-ice inexorably growing together, circling narwhals or belukahs in ever shrinkmg pools And it is a story of light -solar and lunar rings, halos, and coronas; the pale green and soft rose of the Aurora Borealis; the distant mountain that is an entirely illuminant, and entirely convincing mirage But this is also a book about dreams, about why people
have gone to the Arctic and what they have found: the sixth-century Irish monks searching in open, singlemasted boats for the Isles of the Blessed; Elizabethan sailors in search of a NorthWest passage trapped in winter darkness in implacable ice; Cook and Parry obsessed with reaching the Pole; what were they really in pursuit of? And today. What are we to make of this land? Arctic Dreams is a monumental, magical book, a book about landscape at its most elemental and a book about man and his dreams."
Breaking Points by Jack andJo Ann Hinckley with Elizabeth Sherrill. Publisbed by Hodder G Stoughton. "The Hinckleys were the 'ideal' American family -prosperous, churchgoing, active in sports and community. Then their son, John, who had seemed so placid and unaggressive, shot President Reagan. Jack and Jo Ann Hinckley reveal the effect of this crisis on themselves, on their marriage, on their religious faith, and on their relationship with John. The possibility of mental illness in their family had never occurred to them and the insights they now offer are all the more powerful for having been gained through the refining fire of tragedy."
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A gnarled tree trunk it may be to you and me but not to Jill Barklem who lives at the edge of Epping Forest, in Essex, England. No indeed. It is 'Apple Cottage', the home of Mr and Mrs Apple who are part of a colony of mice within the pages of her incredibly detailed children's books. "If you look there, you will see their doorway," she said, pointing to a solid tree trunk. "And further up the trunk you will see their kitchen, and over there the storeroom, and on this floor their bedrooms," and so Jill went on with the listener peering hard at the tree trunk trying to visualise these marvellous rooms which lay within the interior of the trunk. An interesting trunk certainly, but a mice cottage?! And then finally she added "and if you look particularly hard, you can even see the smoke trailing from the little chimneys... but of course, not everyone can see that," Jill said as she smiled understandingly at those who are not fortunate enough to possess her imaginative eyes nor possess her artistic talent. Jill Barklem, married with two young children, is a children's writer and illustrator, and is a relatively new discovery of Collins. They are impressed with her talent to such an extent that they have decided to risk more money on her than any other children's writer. The community of the Brambly Hedge self-sufficient mice she writes on and illustrates within their cosy homes, full of fascinating detail, have been thoroughly researched by her and she is intimately acquainted with their lives. She fills their rooms, cupboards, shelves, tables and floors with such detail that you could spend a lot of time eyeing off the home-made preserves, smelling the baked pies, eager to eat the birthday cake and feeling totally involved with their personalities Jill does too. "Sometimes I can't get away from their world, back into the real world," she said. "I tend to associate myself with the mice I draw and if I draw a particularly exhuberant mouse, I find myself smiling too and at the end of the day my facial muscles are aching! In some instances, Jill has given her mice real-life personalities from people she knows. For example Mr and Mrs Apple have as their model, Jill's grandparents. "My grandmother, like Mrs Apple, is the sort of person who'd let you lick the cake bowl," said Jill. "And my ] grandfather is always storing things in sheds." She has studied both art and zoology and loves the mice she draws. Her room has bric-a-brac all around the shelves and window sills - tiny boxes, shells and other models which are drawn so beautifully in her books. "When I have spent a fortnight on drawing one room, it is quite nice to get outside and do an outside drawing in the fresh air, of primroses or something." said Jill. "I like to look in amongst the grass and see what is going on with all the tiny little things. I look at the flowers, identify them and bring them home." And from these and the trees for which she has a fascination, plus her model Daisy mouse, Jill could earn a lot of money but in the process, delight a broad spectrum of age groups with her books The books published by Collins, retail at $4.95 for the small ones and $11.95 and $12.95 for the larger ones; the latter one "The High Hills" is just being released. by COLLEEN HOWARD
Apple to rescue The High Hills. Brambly Hedge series by Jill Barklem. Published by Wm. Colins. $12.95. The Voles in the High Hills have been preparing for winter. It's no easy job to gather supplies in such rocky terrain, and when they open their chests to take out their warm winter quilts only to find them eaten away by the moths, it's the last straw Mr. Apple hears of their plight and mounts a relief
operation. The weavers hurriedly prepare new blankets and Mr. Apple and a small party of mice plan to climb up to the Voles to deliver them. Hearing of the expedition, Wilfred Toadflax is eager to go along. It's not so much to help with the delivery but because he believes that there's gold to be found in the High Hills and this is his chance to discover it. Everything goes according to plan until Wilfred, in his enthusiasm, scrambles up the rock face and can't get down! Mr Apple tries to help but he gets stuck too It's getting dark and late, and to make matters worse. Mr.
The Secret Staircase. Brambly Hedge series by Ji Barklem. Published by
Wm. Colins. $10.95
''The sweet smell of gingerbread wafts from the kitchen, of garlands evergreen festoon the stairs There's whispering, secrets, much coming and going as Brambly Hedge prepares for Midwinter While the Midwinter log is dragged in from the woods and the hall great transformed with holly and ivy, Primrose and Wilfred are doing their best to find a suitable spot in which to practise. They have to give a recitation later in the evening, and they're still not word perfect They go up to the attics in the hope of finding peace and quiet. There's lot to explore and inside an interesting looking drawer, Primose finds a small key. Surprise! It opens a hidden door. And the hidden door opens on to a secret, dusty staircase. Nervously, the two little mice climb the stairs and make an amazing discovery. It leads to the unexpected resolution of their problem and a very successful and very happy Midwinter's Eve."
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Happy birthday to: Andrew Namnik, York; Jodie Naisbitt, Corrigin'; Elizabeth Roberts, Gooseberry Hill; Apple's bad leg is beginning to play up. In this exciting new story, Wilfred and Mr Apple have to face the dangers of
mountainous unfamiliar territory It requires all Wilfred's ingenuity and skill to get them home safely to Brambly Hedge."
Mark Taylor, Balga; David Van Vugt, Padbury, Richard Walther, Roleystone; Felicity Monck, Bateman; Lisa
Everest, Goomalling; Alicia Cochrane, Busselton; Angela Cotterell, Doubleview; Vincent Kinnane, Marangaroo; Jason Restall, Craigie; Audrey Barton, Karrinyup; Johnny Garoza, Hamersley; Damian Hall, Gosnells; Jacqueline Bennetts, Double-
view; Joanne Hyden; Maria Camerata, North Perth; Susan David, Graylands; Felicity McManus, Manning: Sherree Jones, Mundijong; Julia Loguidice, Bunbury; Barry Ward, Trinity
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CHIDLOW ANNIVERSARY Our Lady of Good Council church at Chidlow will be celebrating the 30th year of its blessing by Archbishop R. Prendiville on Tuesday December 16. Mass will be celebrated at 7.30 pm with light refreshments afterwards. The church in Chidlow was begun by Father T. Linnane but on the day of its blessing Father D. Lenihan was appointed as its first parish priest. He remained there for seven years until his next appointment at Merredin. Up till 1969, Chidlow was part of Wundowie parish and when that parish was dissolved it came under the care of Mundaring parish where Father D. Lenihan had been appointed parish priest. The organisers of this commemorative Mass invite any ex-residents as well as the Chidlow community to share in this celebration.
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An all-night vigil in preparation for Christmas with special reflection upon the Pope's pilgrimage to Australia will be held at Sacred Heart Church, Highgate, commencing at 7.30 p.m. on Friday, December 19 with the rite of reconciliation (2nd) and concluding with the celebration of the Eucharist the following morning at 8 a.m.
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Information evenings on the Special Ministers of the Eucharist to be introduced in Perth archdiocese take place at three metropolitan and one country centre this week. Parish liturgy team members, acolytes and interested parishioners can attend sessions given by Father William Fitzgerald 0. Praem and Donald Sproxton at WiJletton (Dec 15), Balcatta (Dec 16) and Midland (Dec 18) and Northam (Dec 17) commencing at 7.30 p.m. Topics include • Special Ministers in the history and tradition of the Church. • the introduction of Special Ministers of the Eucharist to the Archdiocese. • the Archdiocesan Guidelines for Special Ministers. • the training program for Special Ministers in 1987.
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December 14 Confirmation at Mount Barker Combined churches' celebration at Hands Oval at 5 pm for Bunbury's 150th celebration. Bishop Ouinn to preach. 219.30 am Blessing of Our Lady of the Assumption church extensions, Mandurah. 12.15 pm Final profession Mass for Bro Peter Green CFC at Collie.
DECEMBER 12 Commissioning of Catechists, St Joseph's Church, Subiaco, Mons Keating.
13 La Salle College Graduation Ball, Mons Keating.
14 Golden Jubilee of St Columba's Church, South Perth, Archbishop Foley. Feast of St Lucy, Spearwood, Mons
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19 Clergy Meeting on Special Ministers, Redemptorist Retreat House, Archbishop Foley. 21 Carols by Candelight, Supreme Court Gardens, Archbishop Foley. 24 Christmas Midnight Mass, St Mary's Cathedral, Archbishop Foley. 26 Archbishop Foley will be on vacation until January 23.
Catholic Tennis Carnival Touring Group from left Back: Mark Diviey, n Warren Smith, Greg Quain, Mary Dowsett, Louise Barrett, Richard Veza, Michael Messer, John Walker. Second Row Damian Messer (with Fiona Messer) John Messer, Christine Messer (with Nathan Messer), Heidi Hendris. k Seated: Louise Hackett, Geraldine Alderman, Cathy Veza, Julia Veza, Leonie Messer. Front: Mark Veza, Paul Veza. Absent: Jim Veza and Stephanie Veza.
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