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I by ARCHBISHOP FOLEY Christmas should be a time of great hope and comfort for us all as we acknowledge the birth of love and forgiveness into this wor1d in the fonn of Christ. Christ's message of love has the power to light the darkness in our hearts. His love challenges us to express a deep compassion for those among us who find pain and heartache at this sacred time of year.
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Some prisons are still places with degrading physical conditions. Prisoners in our own society still live in an atmosphere of suspicion and they are exposed to psychological and physical abuse arising from the system and fellow prisoners and the stress of decaying family relationships. Prison facilities breed violence, frustration and low self-esteem. The tragedy is that imprisonment in these facilities is often an inappropriate response to crimes.
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Times changing for the Gospel
In many parts of the modern world it is now no longer a question of proclaiming the Gospel to those who have never heard it, as it was for the Apostles and many missionaries since their time, the pope said in his Sydney homily. Today it is a question of addressing those who have heard it but who no longer respond. "I am thinking of those baptised in the faith who are no longer actively present in the Church. "They are of many different types, and the reasons for their absence from the community of Christ's faithful are also many. "There are some who, although baptised, never really had the chance to know the Gospel well. "As Jesus Himself said: "Some of the seed fell on the edge of the path, and the birds came and ate it up" (Mk 4:4). "They were never fully evangelised.
"There are others whose spiritual energies have been drained by the conditions of the times: economic pressures, modern scepticism, the indifference of so many people to religious faith. "In this category we see that "some seed fell into thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it," he said. There were still others who had perhaps been hurt in the Church: • by the misunderstanding or abruptness of the Church's ministers. • by the scandal of their fellow Christians. • by the rapidity and unexpectedness of change. • by a lack of explanation of laws whose reasons they have not understood. • by the coldness of some communities of the faithful seeming to lack zeal and love. To all these reasons of course must be added the ever-present fact of human pride, selfishness and sloth.
Continuing the round-up of Pope John A truly human life is possible for us only to the extent that we are open to the needs of other people, including those of nations other than our own, Pope John Paul told the people of New South Wales. The human person was the subject and goal of all social institutions, including the cultural, social, political, national and international realities which form the context of all human life he said.
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The Prophet Isaiah speaks to us of "the mountain of the house of the Lord to which "all the nations shall flow . . and many peoples shall come" (ls 2.2-3) according to Pope John Paul in Sydney This is a vision of people rising above themselves, climbing the mountain of God, of people who refuse to be selfcentered, who reach out to grasp God's truth and to seek the face of the living God. And if you seek God, you will discover his likeness in every other human being. The Gospel message is always a call to go beyond self. Experience shows that man cannot really be himself unless he rises above himself, unless he makes demands upon himself
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One of the temptations of our times is to become so secure and self-sufficient that our minds and hearts are not open to the word of God. Yet "the word of God is something alive and active: it cuts like any double-edged sword but more finely" Paul VI said, in this very place, that "self-centredness, hedonism, eroticism, and many other counterfeits, lead in the end to contempt for man. and do not. for all that. satisfy his profound restlessness"
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During his visit to Sydney in 1986 Pope John Paul made several references to the fact that his predecessor Paul VI had visited Sydney in 1970 and delivered strong words to the Australian people (see page 2).
Urge to come back! To all those who have wandered from their spiritual home I wish to say: Come back! said Pope John Paul in a ringing appeal to the Australian Church at Randwick. "The Church opens her
arms to you, the Church loves you!
"I have already written in my Encyclical Letter Dives in Misericordia that "the Church of our time.. .must become more particularly and profoundly conscious of the need to bear witness in her whole mission to God's mercy" (no. 7).
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"In the Sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation you will be able to experience in a wonderful way the boundless mercy of God in Christ. "Therefore l say: Do not
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"The community of faith in which you were reborn, and to some extent brought p, urges you to accept God's mercy.
"t begs you to take your place once again in the midst of God's people, the place that you alone can fill. "This invitation comes to you from Christ. "To say yes is to open your hearts to his love," the Dope said.
Christ's words to his Father at the Last Supper still speak to us today, here in Australia: "As you did send me into the world, so I have sent them" (Jn 17.18) Pope John Paul quoted. "The Gospel must be fully immersed into this Australian culture, with all its diversity. "Within a relatively short recorded history, this land has already witnessed a variety of human experiences, great and small, which go to make up the Australia of today. "In many ways the Gospel has already become firmly embedded into the life of society, though it is also true that the rift between the Gospel message and culture requires a new evangelisation, a second evangelisation," he said.
Ecumenism is a task for all Australians, the pope said at Sydney. The efforts made by different communions to reach agreement in matters of faith and doctrine should be supported in every local community be greater prayer and penance. Local initiatives of shared prayer for Christian unity, deeper study
of God's word, collaboration in the use of the mass-media, and various initiatives of service are to be encouraged. He urged people to press forward towards that unity which Christ willed for his followers, "so that the world may believe" (Jn 17.21) So that Australia may believel, the pope said.
Sadly, the flight from God which marks some aspects of contemporary society is a flight towards darkness and death, John Paul told Sydney's congregation. "Far too many of the world's resources are being used to produce weapons of destruction. "Too often the progress of science and technology is used to serve a false or incomplete understanding of our human nature and destiny. "On the contrary, to defend life, to uphold its inalienable dignity from the moment of conception until natural death, to work for the eradica ti on of discrimination against any person for reasons of race, origin, colour, culture, sex or religion -all of this is to cherish life, the "t is thirsting to live this great gift of the Father's • life with dignity and happilove," he said. ness in this world, and to In the Christian perspective possess its fullness in there was even more. Jesus heaven. Christ was the one who "The Southern Cross which reveals a new life: life in the adorns tbese skies and Spirit, he said. appears on your national flag Jesus Christ offered true may be read as a sign of life to man: to every man, Australia's vocation. woman and child, to each "t is the Gospel of the Cross individual, to each family and of Jesus Christ -the Way, to the whole of humanity. the Truth and the Life - that "This land, so ancient and yet so modern, so blessed yet directs you in hope towards the fullness of everlasting so much in need - this land life. is thirsting for life, for the "To accept Christ and to live true life revealed in Jesus his Gospel is to choose life!" Christ, the Son of God and the he said. Son of Man.
Christmas 1986
The secret of understanding the night sky is to know where to look. Like tiny ants, we earthlings scan the stars looking for the hint of a change for the flash of a hurtling meteor, even for a comet. Halley where are you? The astronomers are more fortunate; they know where to look. But they have spent hours fathoming the mystery of space. When a pinpoint of light signals an event deep in space they are watching and are ready to interpet its meaning. They have been waiting! Advent is the time when Christians ought to know where to look, where to detect in the heavenly times the signs that God is moving amongst His People, that a super-Star is about to burst above the heads of humanity. In the pure air of the outback the stars are brilliant as nowhere else on earth. Closer to the cities the pollution of light dulls the view. Modem life becomes a grey film obscuring the brilliance of God reflected in His creation. To look successfully into the Advent sky in search of a God who will save us, needs a touch of the desert air, of detachment and withdrawal from the cares of the world. The purple of the Advent vestment, of the Advent wreath candles suggest that a clearer view of God can be seen if we choose a better vantage point. As many are discovering to their disappointment, city lights that dangle without a meaning become only one more tired distraction in a world already made weary by too many distractions. What should be the Advent of Christ, of a Saviour, is turned into the agony of so-called ''Christmas' shopping. Like over-excited children, the hordes dash in every direction in search of the happiness that no money can buy. No wonder that the world is too impatient to look up, to see if the Christ, the Anointed One has appeared in their life, if Em-manu-el is so, if God Is Amongst Us. Fortunately the search for God is never over. The key to the problem is to know where to look and where to stop wasting time. Christmas is a clue to the right direction or it is a tangled web of contradicting signals. Children made into gluttons on a diet of Father Christmas will never feel satisfied until they find God the true Father and His Son Jesus. The round of family dinners and reunions are only a bitter mirage if families are still tom asunder by the unhappiness of separation and divorce. Good will and presents are only a shadow if the rest of the year means tension and the struggle to survive. Jesus put a question to the followers of John: "What did you go out into the desert to see?" They were stumped for an answer because they were too distracted, and Jesus told them so. 'What were you going out to see?" Catholics were asked for months leading up to the visit of Pope John Paul. A mega-star? A superpolitician?7 A miracle worker in a cynical world? A tough shepherd rounding up the lazy flock? The Catholics, it seemed, were stumped for an answer. The smart commentators, the puffed-up Catholics who seemed to be sure about everything but looked so burdened by their own glum hopelessness, and many others, were sure that no travelling pope could point to where God was moving in His people. They too had forgotten where to look. The pope indeed walked only briefly, no more than a meteor across the Southern Cross sky. But in retrospect. millions of ordinary people who were tired of looking in the wrong places, were able to say to their friends how much he had touched their hearts, how he seemed to be a man intent on prayer, on the things of God, on the values the world so badly needs. Not a bad Christmas present for an Australia looking anxiously to find somewhere the coming of the Lords ... !
People all over Australia have been touched by the presence of the pope in our land. Many of you have seen him on TV, some of you travelled to meet him. lt gave me great joy to see so many of you in Alice Springs and Perth. You came home and told the story of what you saw and felt when you met the Holy Father. Now it is Christmas -a time when we known again that the Holy One, God Himself came to live among us. He came a new born child at Bethlehem. Some people travelled far to meet Him, the shepherds responding to all the angels' message about this Child said to each other: 'let us go and see what the Lord has made known to us'. They went, their hearts burning with expectation as they recalled the stories about his coming long ago:
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□□□□□□□□ THE LORD GOD SAID: I SHALL LOOK FOR THE LOST ONE BRING BACK THE STRAY, BANDAGE THE WOUNDED AND MAKE THE WEAK STRONG. EZEKIEL 34,16.
□□□□□□□□ Yes, the Holy One had come. The shepherds knew the power of His presence and they told their story 'and everyone was amazed'. God speaks again to us today He comes to our torn world. I shall look for the lost one
Christmas 1986 • the ones who cut themselves off from Me e the ones who reject Me because I don't fit into their way of life • the ones who do not want to know or see or feel Me e the ones who are too busy to know how much l care for them. I shall bring back the stray • those who have gone down the wrong track
BISHOP JOBST • those who are tangled up in materialism and power struggle • those who cannot hear My voice speaking within them • the kids who make trouble or run away from home • those who turn to drugs, to drink and sex to fill their void e the man or woman who is unfaithful in married love l shall bring them back, if they let Me. I shall bandage the wounded • the disappointed, the lonely • the outcasts of our society, and of the Church • those who live in physical and mental pain • those who have been hurt and are powerless to be healed • those who cannot respect themselves and love others • those who have a chip on their shoulder I shall bandage them with tenderness, if they let me. I shall make the weak strong • those who are worn out, burnt out • those who lack hope • those who feel empty and worthless • those who yearn to be
close to Me but are foiled by forces too overpowerful • those who are kept down by others or are caught in the web of guilt or shame. l shall make them strong if they let me. When we listen again to the Christmas story this year, let us open our hearts and minds to the voice of the God within us just as the shepherds did. They heeded the message of peace on earth to those of good will. The Son of God the Father came among us to bring us His peace. He can do no more. He invites us to come back to Him and to a return to His Church, to be reconciled and live in peace with each other. We are free to choose... to allow God's gift of peace to grow in our hearts and in our communities, so that, filled with joy, we can bring peace to the lost, to the stray, to the wounded and to the weak. l ask Mary the Mother of Jesus Born in Bethlehem to help us treasure and ponder the mystery of
Christmas. l ask Jesus to bless you, and keep you, and give you His peace.
Vital time to sense the sacred
When Pope John aul II spoke to the Australian Bishops in Sydney last month, one of the things he said to us was "among the priorities ... there has to be a sense of the sacred, an awareness of the centrality of God in the whole of human
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This is what we try to arouse in a special way through our ser-
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A great campaign was started and is still con-
tinued in many parishes and places to "Put Christ back into Christmas". Without Christ, Christmas is nothing but a big party.
Most of you who will be reading this will be in agreement with me. But let us try and make our awareness of the sacredness of Christ-
mas something more vital. Can we really challenge our own faith so that familiarity does not lead us to casualness? One question we can raise ourselves or in a family discussion: "In what way does Christ's coming change my life?" With secular humanist morality and values
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From page 1 As Catholics we need to recognise that imprisonment is not always the best or most costeffective method of punishing the offender and protecting society. I believe that a Christian response to crime must balance the protection of individuals in society with opportunities for healing and rehabilitation. The actual figures are rather telling. Only 25% of males in our prisons are there for offences involving serious violence or threatened violence to other people. In WA between 32% and 35% of the adult males in our prisons are Aboriginal. Last Christmas the daily average number of prisoners per 100,000 population for WA was
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The comparative figures for the other States were Queensland 79.4, NSW 69.7, S.A. 54.4, Tasmania 56.7, Victoria 46.2 and NT264.8. Such statistics suggest that something is seriously wrong. In the name of deterrence. protection, rehabilitation and punishment we imprison so many when history and contemporary research make it clear that imprisonment does not result in a
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reduction of crime either by way of deterrence or rehabilitation. When we contemplate God's unequivocal forgiveness we should be concerned that retribution is at the dark centre of the hardness of heart of many prison sentences. Christ's example and teachings would have us bring light to our criminal justice system and to base its workings on elements of mercy and forgiveness rather than revenge.
ODO There is crime and hurt in our society but revenge is not an adequate response for a Christian. Christians. as members of society, participate in detennining the community's response to criminal behaviour. We have a particular responsibility to see that the message communicated to the offender, to the victim, to the administrators and officials of the criminal justice system and to the community reflects Christian principles of love, justice, mercy, compassion, and forgiveness. Each of us is everybody else's neighbour and justice should be founded on love of our neighbour,
which also means justice for each one of us. Each has a responsibility to help reshape attitudes in society which will lead to a better world for all of us. Our reaction to the problems of crime should reflect the responses that God makes possible, which include a sensitivity to the needs of both the victims and the offenders. God's love excludes no one from the chance to love and grow. Pope Paul made it clear in his encyclical, Populorum Progressio, that the social mission of the Church on matters such as penal reform is limited to being a moral critic and prophet. The encyclical also implied that the Church did not have the competence to propose concrete solutions to social problems such as penal reform. However, the Church does have a right and a responsibility to articulate a moral vision on matters of social policy, and to shape a framework of values and principles within which responsible Christian action can be implemented. We need more forgiveness and love, not just more gaols, or even better gaols.
I pray that each of us embrace Christ's message of love and reconciliation so strongly at this time of year that we have the courage and the vitality of faith to make a strong commitment to participate in shaping a new and humane world. That commitment involves the close study of difficult social issues such as penal refonn. To that end the Catholic Social Justice Commission in the Archdiocese of Perth, has closely examined the urgent social question of 'Prisons, Criminal Justice and Penal Refonn. Their detailed report will soon be released and I commend it to you and urge all West Australians to read it and consider as a matter of conscience where you stand after taking the document's reasoning and recommendations into account.
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I feel that this time of great love for one another is very appropriate to ask you to consider the way you look at this challenging issue. I pray for a blessed and happy Christmas for all of you and take great comfort to know that I am now in your thoughts and prayers.
becoming more widely accepted we need to justify our faith not so much by argument but by our style of life and by our ability to differ with those of opposite views while not giving up the basic Christian virtues of charity and compassion. Sometimes in the fight against sin we ourselves can sin by excessive zeal and aggressiveness. In responding to the Christian call we have to be prepared to do things differently. Jesus was born in poverty and isolation. He was not welcomed by many because he was not doing things in the "commonsense" way. My patron saint Peter had his own ideas on how to handle the evildoers. He pulled out his sword and cut off an ear! But this was not going to be Jesus' way and Peter was reproved. In our pursuit to know and follow Jesus Christ more faithfully we must live with total conviction that even when it does not make sense, even when it is quite unpopular and even when it is very difficult His is "the Way, the Truth and the Life". From Bethlehem Jesus leads us to Calvary and then to the Resurrection. This Infant Jesus we turn to at Christmas invites us to share the glory but spells out clearly the path we must follow. 1 hope this birthday celebration of our Saviour will bring you all many blessings.
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ODO Whereas once the religious dimension of humanity permeated, even inspired, many of these activities, our century has tried, with some apparent success, to relegate religion to the private, personal world, out of public life and the public consciousness. There are signs of a fightback by religion for its proper place in human affairs. The recent visit of the Holy Father touched the religious dimension in people to an extraordinary and surprising extent. Even those who were
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inclined to be cynical and superior found themselves affected. A number of people who had drifted far from God have told me that something deep inside them was stirred by his presence -- not so much by his words as by his powerful public witness to the things of the Spirit.
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T SEVEN o'clock in the evening; on All Saints Day 100 years ago in 1886, Bishop Martin Griver, the 2nd Bishop of Perth is in one of the seats beyond the arch of the old cathedral which he had built, attending Evening Devotions and Benediction. It was a Monday. On that morning at 10 o'clock he had celebrated Pontifical High Mass in this cathedal. He had sung the Mass and preached in a strong voice through he had to lean on the arm of the assistant priest, Fr Matthew Gibney, as he moved with difficulty about the sanctuary. After devotions in the evening he had remained in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. At about 9pm Fr Gibney, who was to be his successor as 3rd Bishop of Perth, thought the old man had had enough. He escorted him back to his room on the first floor of the Bishop's Palace across Victoria Square. About an hour later Gibney heard the insistent summons of the bishop's bell; hurrying to the room, he found Martin Griver speechless in his chair suffering from a massive paralytic stroke. Although his medical adviser, Dr Kenny, was called nothing could be done. Fr Gibney hurriedly anointed the bishop in the presence of the other cathedral clergy but he died at about 11pm at the age of 72.
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He radiated On November 1, the centenary of the death of Bishop Griver, Archbishop Goody delivered this memorial address in St Mary's Cathedral. MARTIN GRIVER, the centenary of whose death we commemorate, had come to the Swan River Colony 37 years before as a missionary priest. He was a man of cuture and learning, for he was a graduate in medicine, surgery and theology from the University of Barcelona; a man of peace and reconciliation; for he came to Perth when the little Church was in turmoil only 4 years after the founding of the Mission with two bishops at loggerheads, divided loyalty of the people, smug satisfaction of those who, through prejudice, dislike the Catholic Church and everything connected with it, the delight of the colonial newspapers which, as usual, revelled in reporting every hostile disagreement and disgraceful recourse to lawsuits by the contending parties - Father Martin Griver kept his head, kept away from the litigation and began his pastoral work and kept at it until his death
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Martin Griver: Second Catholic Bishop of Perth (1814-1886) by Archbishop L.I. Goody, Perth, (Archdiocese of Perth) 1986, 100 pages, available from the Catholic Church office or Pellegrini, $7. Reviewed by Rev. Brian O'Loughlin D.C.L.
accomplishments of a remarkably patient man, saintly priest and devoted bishop. The fact tht he was second Bishop of Perth should not deter country people from what are now other local Churches, because during the period of Bishop Griver's ministry the diocese of Perth covered all of Western Australia other than New Norcia. Hence this very readable biography is of more than metropolitan interest. The beginnings of the Catholic Church in WA were
Father John Brady had been appointed by the Metropolitan, Archbishop Polding, as his Vicar General in Perth. Not long after arriving in the West, Brady went to Rome to lobby for a diocese, stating that there were two million Aborigines in the infant Colomy. No where would Brady have seen large settlements to have based such an approximation upon. lt is now estimated that in 1788 there was only one tenth of that number in the whole of Australia! While Rome hastily responded to Brady's appeal for missionary endeavour in WA. Very fortunately for the local Church, an international and so truly, Catholic band of missionaries arrived in the Colony. To their consternation the enormous numbers await-
where to be seen and Bishop Brady proved to be inept. There were quarrels between the leaders. Cases were even presented before the courts causing scandal and division in the infant Catholic community. Through all this, there were some who stood out like beacons: Bishop Salvado, the infant Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy and Martin Griver. They had the courage and fortitude to weather the early storms and the Church in Western Australia is deeply indebted to each of them. The stories of the courageous Benedictines and the Sisters of Mercy have already been told. Archbishop Goody assures us very early in his work that the biography is not exhaustive. t is obvious that a com-
tate for more than local work. Letters in the archives of at least Rome and Sydney would be necessary. But this Centenial biography is commemorative and so far popular reading and so the presentation of a thoroughly reseached contribution to history is not the aim. Archbishop Goody has written an eminently readable account. Martin Griver was not a Salvado and so the eye looking for obtrusive greatness had not fallen on him. Instead, this self-effacing man and saintly priest administered faithfully in the name of others. The story of his pastoral zeal, penance and mortification, prayerfulness and dedication and above all his work as a reconciler are now told very fittingly by
the one and greatest attribute of a good priest devotion to the care and welfare of his flock; a devotion which earned him long before his death the love and respect of almost all the inhabitants of the Colony Catholic and Protestant, rich and poor, free settlers and
victims of transportation alike. When he did the cathedral bells tolled for the whole of the Colony; flags were at half mast on public as on private buildings; all the colonist from the Governor down to the humblest labourer mourned the loss of an outstanding citizen, of a reliable leader and of a loving father Martin Giver was born in 1814 at Granollers, near Barcelona in Spain,
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exile on the island of Elba). He was 35 when he arrived as a missionary at Fremantle in 1849; he was two years ordained and had been recruited for the Perth missionary diocese by Bishop Salvado, who was foot-loose in Europe. Salvado had been recently consecrated for the diocese of Port Victoria near Darwin which had almost immediately thereafter ceased to exist. Since Britain moved the proposed Kavae Bare from Victoria to Singapore. Martin Griver, as I have said, was cultured and highly educated, already being a Bachelor and Licentiate in Medicene and Surgery before he received similar degrees in Theology, all from the ancient university of Barcelona.
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For 10 years, under Bishop Serra, the temporary administrator, he ranged on horse-back from Albany in the south to the Geraldine tin mines at Northampton in the north. (Further north was then still almost "terra incognita"). There were relatively few Catholics and usually he found generous hospitality with families at Protestant homesteads, who having met him once, perhaps initially with some doubts, urged him to stay with them always whenever he was in their district.
000 This small, wiry horseman with his broken english, radiated a goodness and cheerfulness which made him immediately attractive to all, including wandering aborigines, who helped him repeatedly when he was lost in the bush or destitute of provisions, he even shook hands with Bishop Halel He taught the children, instucted the ignorant adults; he baptised the first, heard the confessions and gave Holy Commun on to the latter
and his nightly devotions and gave Holy Commnion to the latter and at his nightly devotions preached and prayed with all who would answer his invitiation many non-Catholics, starved for the word of God, knelt at the back during his morning masses, even though they could not participate fully in the sacramental celebrations. This was the ten year period when the name of 'Fr Martin" became known and respected by almost all the scattered settlers throughout the farms and tiny villagers of the Colony of WA. (About 40 years ago I met a Mrs Norrish near Kojonup, an old lady who remembered Fr Martin as the first priest she ever met) In 1859 Fr Griver was jolted into a new dimension of responsibility; Bishop Serra, before sailing for Europe, made him his Vicar General and Diocese Administrator until his return. He never did return; being disappointed and thoroughly fed-up with the sqabbles he had endured in Perth, he resigned in 1862 and Pope Pius IX made Fr Martin Griver Apostolic Adminsitrator of Perth.
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He remained in charge of the entire Church of WA until his death 24 years later first as priest administrator until 1870; then as titualar bishop of Tlos in Asia Minor and bishop administrator until 1873 and finally for the last 13 years of his life as Bishop of Perth. This became possible when Bishop Brady, the first bishop of Perth died in France and consequently the see of Perth was vacant. Bishop Griver's mammoth task (he had only 7 or 8 priests to help him), was made a little easier by arrival of two young Irish priests from All Hallows College, Dublin. a Fr Matthew Gibney, who was ultimately to succeed him as third Bishop of Perth in 1886 and a Fr John O'Reily sometime parish priest of Toodyay and Fremantle
who about the same time after Griver's death was elected 1 st bishop of Port Augusta in SA and was later promoted to become Archbishop of Adelaide. These two gifted and very competent priests were the back-bone of Bishop Griver's Administration.
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They completed his saintly pastoral commitment with the qualities of facility and eloquence in English, which the bishop lacked, and a thorough practical grasp of the needs of the Church in the young Colony. It was a small but very good team well suited to prepare WA for the belated surge of development which came with the discovery of gold, immediately after the death of Bishop Griver in the late 1880's. Another great priest was added to this team a little later. A young man named William Bernard Kelly was noticed favourably at York convent school in WA by Fr Gibney. He was brought to Perth and went to St Patrick's Boys School in Irwin Street; he was then sent to Ireland to be trained at All Hallows college. In due course he was ordained and worked in the Perth diocese with Bishop Griver for over 20 years until he was appointed the first Bishop of Geraldton in 1898. Martin Griver was consecrated a bishop in Rome in 1870 and when he returned to his diocese some months later, the Catholics of Perth were delighted that the priest they had come to love for his dedication to their service was at last properly recognised as their worthy cheif pastor.
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In the 16 years that followed until Bishop Griver's death in 1886, churches and schools were built in every centre of population. Not only in the older towns of Perth, Fremantle and Guildford but in Albany, Dardanup, Sunbury York, Toodyay, Northam, Greenough
Bishop Griver in 1883 and Geraldton on Champion Bay. Catholic schools followed and sometimes preceeded the churches. The Sisters of Mercy from the very begining and the Sisters of St Joseph of the apparitions from 1855, stretched their meagre resources to the limit and were able to staff schools in almost all the places I have mentioned. Failing the availability of Sisters, lay-teachers were employed when it was possible to pay them. The government of the Colony helped too.
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The most lasting material memorial of Bishop Griver's apostolate is, of course, the western half of this Cathedral, although it is doubtful if many realised what must have been the grandeur of this achievement when it was completed in 1865 - for a town of scarcely 6000 people largely non-catholic.
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From page 7 Being now 68 years old he was beginning to show and feel his age though he carried on as before until one early morning in 1885 he fell down the steep stairs from the upper floor of the Cathedral residence. It took him several months to recover sufficiently to be able to say ass aoai. me tar ha caused apart@a!para+ss _ to his right arm.
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He spent several weeks of convalescence with the Sisters of Mercy at the Subiaco orphanage amidst the vine and olive trees he had helped to plant 30 years before.
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He was well enough to attend the First Plenary Council of the Bishops of Australia and New Zealand in Sydney during Novemeber 1985 but on his return to Perth just before Christmas he was obviously a man nearing his end. He struggled on rarely missing morning Mass and attendance at
evening devotions. He was present at the annual procession of the Blessed Sacraments for Corpus Christ, in June, at the Orphanage and spoke with gratitude to the 6 or 700 people present. In August he confirmed over 100 people in this Cathedral and preached with great vigour.
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On AII Saints Day, as I have already described, he celebrated his last mass here, and he succumbed to a severe stoke that same evening. As a pastoral, Bishop
Griver's one absorbing task and his continual overriding ambition was to feed the sheep of the flock which had been entrusted to him. He did this because he loved them and expected no return. But Christ has said that, "The labourer is worthy of his hire" and what recompence could a good shepherd demand for fulfillig his duty of feeding his sheep? St Augustine replies that the flock can repay the zeal of the pastor by making his ministry a fruitful one by welcoming the apostle who plants and the bishop who
The original western section of St Mary's Cathedral opened in 1865 and constructed while Father Martin Griver was Apostolic Admiisntrator of Perth.
waters and by inwardly welcoming Christ who grants the increase. Bishop Griver found his abundant reward in the prayers and obedience of a grateful flock so that his• joy in serving them was greater than his satisfaction in ruling over them. With the same great Augustine he could surely say: "For you l am a bishop, with you I am a christian."
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He lies here in this Cathedral awaiting the resurrection of all mankind on the last day. Beneath the floor of what was the sanctuary of the old Cathedral he had built, in a brick vault he Hes side by side with Bishop Matthew Gibney, his co-worker for over 20 years and his successsor as Bishop of Perth. May our thoughts and our prayers, united in the Communion of the Saints, rise as incense before the throne of the Most High. May our works and our sacrifices unit with those of Bishop Martin Griver for the Church of Perth and all Western Austalia, so that the harvest for which he worked and which he watered with his sweat and tears may be bountiful and his memory remain ever green in the hearts of all of us who still benefit from the fruits of his Apostolate.
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PARIS: The 1984 Statistical Year Book of the Church, reveals that nearly a quarter of all parishes without priests - some 300 -- are in France.
A further 140 parishes are entrusted to religious, deacons or laypeople, and almost 60 per cent of the total are administered by a priest with other jointly parishes. Overall, in 1984, there were 28,831 diocesan in France, priests representing a decline of 18 per cent since 1974. The average age of
French priests is 65, compared with 44 in 1965. The newspaper predicted the number of priests in France could decline to 20,000 within 10 years.
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nition of the substantial expansion of the centre that has taken place during his period of administration. From a single former port captain's residence purchased for Stella Maris in 1944 Father O'Shea has organised three major building extensions that enables the centre to provide accommodation for up to 30 residents and hospi-
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Four school libraries have received substantial donations, four individual prizes awarded and hundreds of others recognised in the Hospitality Campaign
Awards organised by the America's Cup Catholic Pastoral Care Group. T roy Dolan of St Pius X School, Manning, Anne Smyth of lona College, Toni Poland of St John's School, Rangeway and34 pupils at Holy Spirit School, City Bech were the winners among the more than 475 students who submitted 265 items in the comet-
tion conducted in Catholic schools, with the help of the Catholic Education Office. Submissions ranged from
$1000 by the Bond family has resulted in a $250 anning most of the Shipping coming to Ausgrant to the libraries of the schools from which the tralian ports and how the " Asian churches can cowinning entries came.
operate in providing better service for their people overseas. Monsignor O'Shea's appointment comes also in the midst of a massive
' posters, brochures and to a mockessays through l' up plan of Perth City, •1 a tapestry and an audio tape.
The WA Tourism Commission also sponsored the competition and awarded a certificate of merit to every entrant.
Each of the four winning entrants received $250 from four major sponsors: Home Building Society, National Australia Bank, Rural and Industries Bank and Westpac Bank. A tarter donation of
At the presentation, hospitality programme Bishop Healy said although the hospitality campaign that has had to be orgamay have been occasioned nised to cope with visby the America's Cop seritors to Fremantle for the ies, hospitality was a ChrisAmerica's Cup season. tian virtue needing to be including 6500 paspractised +t r times. ± senger ship visitors next
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A request from a Thai Carmelite studying at Nedlands Carmel to carry a toy Kookaburra to Thailand meant a meeting with the congregation who eventually came out to establish themselves at Gelorup near Bunbury. As a positive help to artisans, Philippine Father O'Shea has been responsible for the Stella Maris Centre marketing a wide range of hand crafted wooden religious items. In April next year. Monsignor O'Shea will be attending a seminar in Manila in which Asian representatives of the Apostleship of the Sea will hear how Australian services are coping with the Asian seafarers now
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a discussion turns to the Bible, some people immediately think of something else they had to do. Either it is feared that the speaker will concentrate on how far we fall short of an Ideal, or that he will tell us more about, say, second-century Greek funeral practices than we really want to know. The Bible can seem to be in a world far from our own. However, it is an extraordinarily human story. While the religious books of many other peoples talk of heroes and cosmic struggles, goddesses and epic marvels, the Bible places very ordinary people in full view. Its themes touch the heart of the kinds of lives all people lead. The Bible is not a philosophy text. It is a family story. Let me illustrate by telling of a father and his son,
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One day recently when l was helping a friend repair and uncooperative garage door, his sevenyear-old son came up in anger and frustration, muddy streaks outlining the tears on his cheeks. "That stupid bike won't move. The wheels
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My friend walked over to the bicycle heaped on the sidewalk, worked the chain which seemed unusually tight and came back for his tools. "Let me show you how to do this," he said to the ittle boy. When he asked for a wrench the boy picked up the largest one he could find. It Just spun on the offending nut. My friend then picked out the proper wrench, 'See how this socket wrench fits Just right? The inside has to match the size of the nut. With this one I can loosen up the axle." Then he showed his son how to use each wrench, the right degree of looseness the chain needed. When they were finished, for good measure they greased all the moving parts. A beaming little boy soon went pedalling
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Father David O'Rourke at full speed down the street. "That was some lesson," I commented. "My father was an expert in keeping bicycles in good repair," he said. The he laughed, 'With four kids and these patholed streets he had to be." A simple story. But what, you may wonder, does it have to do with the Bible? A lot. The Bible was put together for people like this, ordinary people. And, perhaps most important, it was put together this way as a means to highlight one of its most important themes the Importance of the ordinary. Think for a moment of this remark by Jesus: 'The son.., can do only what he sees the father doing and whatever the father does the son does too. For the father loves the son and shows him everything he does himself (John 5:19-20).
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ls that a statement about the Messiah and the eternal Father? Yes. But it also tells of a Galilean carpenter and how he helped the boy he raised learn everything from the use of tools to the reading of Scripture. The Bible deals with many extraordinary issues, from the orgins of the life through to its end and purpose. There are no lssues raised by philosphers and theologians that do not receive their moment somewhere in these pages. But woven into the entire fabric of Scripture is the great value of ordinary human Hfe. The Bible finds no better way to picture this importance than by describing a parent's love for a child. This love is the same repairing a broken bike today as it was at the carpenter's table 2000 years ago.
Bracebridge in the Yorkshires when I was but a shy girl. Of course, my memory is helped considerably by the account of the festivities written by Washington Irving in the "Sketch Book." The book was originally published in separate sections. The five pieces detailing the time-honoured customs of Christmas at a gentleman's country seat in England were published in 1819, just in time for the holidays. I arrived at Bracebridge after a long, wearying stagecoach ride Dec 24.
DOD The drive was only bearable because of the good humour of the stagecoach driver and the signs of Christmas all around. The driver's buttonhole and the coach were decorated with Christmas evergreens, emblems of peace and gladness.
The coach, as Irving noted so well, was crammed inside and out with joyous passengers and Christmas goodies -"hampers of game and baskets and boxes of delicacies, and hares dang Ii ng their long ears about the coachman's box." The Christmas scene when I arrived at Bracebridge was merry and lively. A peacock strutted in front of the manor house. paying no attention to the mongrels of all shapes and sizes racing across the frost-tinged lawn. Inside the house, decorated with holly and mistletoe and other greens, the squire greeted me as one of his own children. He made it a practice to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world. Irving said he valued "this delicious home feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow."
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understand from friends in America that Irving also shares that gift. They tell me a friend once made is a friend for life with Irving That Christmas Eve the squire sat in his chair in front of the fireplace of his ancestors looking "around him like the sun of a system beaming warmth and gladness to every heart." The Yule log was burning brightly, lit from the remains of the previous year's fire. Old custom has it that it's an ill omen if the fire burns out before dawn. Part of the festive Christmas Eve turned around a dance. It is at this point that the author was kind enough to mention me in the "Sketch
Book." His description still
embarrasses me: "The most interesting couple in the dance was the young officer and a ward of the squire's, a beautiful blushing girl of 17."
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something was afoot for he also recorded the words of the tender love song the officer sang to me. Christmas Day began early with me charming voices of three little children ( none more than 6) chanting an old Christmas carol, "Rejoice, rejoice, the Savior is born" outside my door. Then a servant guided me with the other guests to the tiny chapel in the manor where the squire led the morning prayers for his family and servants. Later in the day we all walked the half mile to the village church for Christmas services. Irving writes that the squire "was a little particular in having his household at church on a Christmas morning, considering it a day of "pouring out of thanks and rejoicing." Dinner in the great hall later that day was a sight to behold. When the cook hit her rolling pin on the dresser, the servants carried in an enormous r'g's head decorate ach rosemary and a lemon in its mouth. There also was a pheasant pie decorated with peacock feathers Cont page 28
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Many writers have bemoaned the secularisation of Christmas. Santa Claus is more popular than the Christ child, they complain, and even the name of the day becomes 'Xmas' in ads and headlines. "Put Christ back in Christmas" has become almost a cliche. Keeping Christ as the centre of Christmas celebrations is obviously important. But there is another more subtle problem that can rob Christmas of its true meaning. The question is: What Christ shall we put at the centre of Christmas? The tendency is to focus on the helpless infant in the manger, the tiny child
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who evokes feelings of tenderness and peace and love. Christmas is a feast for children, many say, not only because they get so excitied about Santa Clause and the gaily wrapped presents but also because it is the feast of the infant Jesus. Such a perspective is not incorrect but it is too narrow to encompass the full meaning of Christmas. The child who was born in Bethlehem is the same Jesus who preached such
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that he was put to death.
This is the Christ who died and rose from the dead, inaugurating the new age of God's kingdom.
This is the Christ who continues to call us to reform our lives and take up our cross. This is the king of the universe who lives forever and will never die again. Nor will Jesus ever be
born again in Bethlehem.
Our celebration of Christmas recalls the history, of course, but it does so because of what it means for the present and the future.
At Christmas the union of God with humanity is celebrated, the marvelous fact of the incarnation, the enfleshing of the divine. We are reminded that God continues to be present to us in the human face of others, especially those in need. We are called to seek the fullness of reconciliation between God and the human race and among
all people, the reconciliation that Christ came to achieve. So the message of Christmas is challenging and demanding, a call to respond fully to the Christ who is present today and to prepare for the final coming of Christ at the end of time. The Christ we must respond to is no longer the babe in the manger but the crucified and risen one seated at the right hand of the Father. The stable at Bethlehem is illuminated with the glory of Easter and that light casts the shadow of
the cross over the whole scene. We owe the custom of the Christmas creche to St. Francis of Assisi. He started the custom to make the feast more concrete for the people of his time. It is interesting to note, however, that Francis never put the image of the Christ child in the manger. He left it empty for he knew that Christ must be found elsewhere today, in the Eucharist and in those around us. If the nativity scene is overemphasised, Christmas may remain a mere
historical pageant or a children's feast. More recent trends like birthday cakes for the baby Jesus, while laudable attempts to involve children in the feast, also miss the true meaning of Christmas and tend to distort the celebration. Christmas can be a rich and powerful feast for adults as well as children if it celebrates not only the Christ of the past but also the Christ who is present today and the Christ still to come again. It is he who is WonderCounsellor, Prince of Peace.
Personal memories and thanksgiving go together Where do you keep your Christmas memories? Even if you could, would you keep them in a book? That's what the folks at Harper and Row are proposing in a new venture. It's called "Christmas at Our House: A Family Memory Book." Along with appropriate illustrations, it offers readers a fill-in-the blanks way to "preserve the wonderful personal memories of the Christmas season," as the book's jacket says Each page offers several beginnings of sentences to complete:
• our best Christmas Eve was spent ... • we picked the tree because ... • friends and family who were with us in spirit. Turn the pages of this
Preserving memories ■
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white glue and sparkly specks so tediously applied by those chubby little hands.
by Father BOB ZYSKOWSKI
book each year and you'll also have total recall of what you had for dinner Christmas Day, who opened the first present, what new ornaments you added to the family collection that year, and so on. Now, maybe that's all a
good idea. Im for preserving history for future generations. But Christmas memories? In a book? We don't keep ours there. There's that cardboard
box, the one that's been taped up and retaped and then taped up again, but every year seems fit enough to hold our nativity scene for one more year.
There are the ornaments with dad and mum spelled out in glitter in a childish sort of lettering - and every year we wonder how much longer these first-grade efforts of our now moose-size eighth-grader are going to hold the
But most of all there are
the Christmas record albums. It is now a part of life to pull up in the driveway some 30 degree day in November and hear Bing Crosby belting out his "Adeste Fideles" through the open windows. Luckily the neighbors already know we're nuts.
Jesus ls and always will be the Prince of Peace. We need to listen to him. to let him guide us in the ways of peace. Me came "to give light to
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those who live in darkness and the shadow of death and to guide our feet into the way of peace." We need to listen to him. Each day we need to take our Bible In hand and let lesus speak to us words of peace. Our bibles should be enthroned in our homes as a real presence -God in our midst, ready to speak to us words of his peace. Reverently we take up the book and open to the Gospels. Then we call upon the Holy Spirit. The Spirit is the one who has inspired the holy writers who recorded these words of life, of peace. And it is the Spirit who dwells in our hearts, ready to make these words come alive in us. We call upon the Spirit and then we listen. Not so much read - certainly not read in the way we would rush through the newspaper or a magazine article. Not even read with the enquiring mind with which we would approach some serious study. But listen with the heart of love that really hears the Other, the things that are left unsaid but which
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are far more Important than what Is said.
We listen for five or 10 minutes. We don't need great spaces of time. We seek but a word of life for the day. At the end of our reading we take a single word or phrase or sentence from our reading to carry with us through the day. Our daily manna.
If each day one word of the Lord comes alive in us, we wi indeed have peace; we will have the mind of Christ, the Prince of Peace. At the end of our allotted time of listening-reading, we thank the Lord. It is a wonderful thing that we can get the very lord of heaven and
And we just have to look at the album covers to call forth our Christmas memories. There was that first Christmas in Peoria when we played and
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We have Vikki Carr sing-
ing "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" long before Halloween and
Listen for peace
"Peace! Peace! But there is no peace!" These famous words well may echo in the hearts of many today. The Lord Jesus came to bring us peace: "Glory to God in the highest and peace on earth..." At the Last Supper he said, "Peace l leave unto you, my peace l give unto you." It was the first greeting of the Risen Lord: "Shalom! Peace be with you." And yet, where is this peace? Our world becomes more and more an armed camp as the representatives of the great nations fail again and again to achieve any kind of an accord to stop the arms race. There are wars and rumours of war all around our globe. There ls crucifying social violence in many nations. Strike after strike disrupts the productivity not only of great companies but of the strikers who are caught in a no-win situation. Families are torn apart by anger and hatred and the divorce rate soars. In our own hearts, passions sieve, emotions clash, worrying thoughts deprive us of sleep -and of peace. Where are we to find this peace Jesus promised? How are we to find it?
each year to sing "Silent Night" before we welcome summer.
Dinah Shore comes back
earth to speak to us personally whenever we want. We thank him as we go forth peacefully to face the demands of the day. We sing, "Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me." That is really the only place that peace can begin --in the hearts of each one of us. When we have found peace In our own hearts, then we can bring peace
to others. And when enough of us bring peace to others, there will be peace on earth. We are Christ baptised into him Christ in the world today, as Prince of Peace. It is through us that he will bring peace to this world of ours.
Christmas 1986 replayed the only albums we could afford, the 99cent one from the A and P ( a compilation of favourites by everyone from Tony Bennett to Mark Lindsay) and a similarly priced treasure from Grant's Five and Dime which features artists like Nat King Cole and Peggy Lee. When we moved to Philadelphia and added two more children we added "It's Christmas," the album with the winter farm scene on the cover which I couldn't pass up when I saw it on special as a seasonal bonus at the tyre store when the "73 Vega wagon had not one but two flats. Pat Boone sings "Do You Hear What I Hear?" on it and Liberace tinkles the ivories in a Christmas medley.
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The Biblical Sense of Peace. By Father Eugene Laverdiere, SSS NC News Service. Christmas is a time of peace. It brings back old but timeless images of peace once enjoyed -of Eden before the fall, of a time when human beings daily walked with God, enjoyed friendship with one another and a wonderful harmony with their environment (Genesis). Christmas also summons visions of communion in God's presence, of alittle child who would be Emmanuel, God-with-us, of children in his reign of peace playing by the serpent's hole without fear and unharmed, and of young lambs, weak and helpless, lying quietly alongside powerful wolves and lions (Isaiah). In the New Testament and in the liturgy, these images and visions of ancient Israel are transformed as we join the heavenly host to sing the good news, to praise God and to invoke peace. Christmas is a celebration of peace, of shalom, of all the blessings springing from the new covenant the new relationships we have with Jesus and with one another which God offered in the person of Jesus Christ. At Christmas, God renews that covenant when we join him at the table of the lord. But are these images and visions this talk of covenant and peace, this celebration -anything more than romantic dreaming? Can a realistic Christian with both feet on the ground sincerely speak of Christmas peace? The story of the Old Testament was a record of war; the story of the New Testament a record of struggle and persecution. After all, there was no place in the inn for the Prince of Peace. And wasn't the crucifixion reflected in the birth celebrated at Christmas - in the sword that pierced Mary's heart, in the effort to destroy Jesus by Herod? Two thousand years seem to have made little difference. The gates of the inn are still closed for those who have joined Jesus on the journey; people who try to live like Jesus are still rejected, still encounter obstacles. The innocents still are slaughtered on all sides. Though there is no great war now, there are many little wars -among nations, people, tribes and families. For those involved, wars are not little. For those who suffer, any war is great. Where then is the peace we celebrate? At Christmas we need to reflect again on the covenant of peace and on the Lord's Supper in which it is renewed. The Covenant is God's gracious gift and in the supper the Lord himself invites us to his table. However, that covenant also requires our commitment to peace. In gathering at the table, we joining Jesus in solidarity with his mission of universal reconciliation and
peace.
Focus on being human "Advent is one of the few times in the year I feel a need to be quiet and reflective," to put things in perspective, said Jesuit Father James Malley. It is the season to look for the God who is always nearby and to ponder with Scripture the large questions life: "Where am I going? ·What does it mean that the Lord became human?" The Advent scripture readings, especially Isaiah and the Psalms, focus on "the mystery of what we are saying when we profess something as awesome as the incarnation," Father Malley said. Scripture stresses that "God is a personal being on whom we depend for all creation and conservation of life, and that this personal being became one ofus. "And the incarnation becomes the more
wondrous." When possible, Father Malley goes away on retreat the last 10 days of Advent. Having grown up close to nature on a New farm, he England observed that the rural scene - the woods, the fields, the first snow, the dark winter afternoons - contribute to the mood of Advent.
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"Looking at the vastness of the winter sky and the stars puts the size of humanity and our troubles of the day and year
into the perspective of infinity and eternity," he explained. But his work schedule - which, he noted, is little different from the demands of the law practice he had before becoming a Jesuit often makes a full-fledged retreat impossible. So occasionally Father Malley pencils a miniretreat into his daily schedule, something he recommends to others as well. By getting up an hour earlier each morning and leaving his office a little earlier each afternoon, he fits in a period of prayer and reflection at the beginning and end of each day. "It's a way of quieting down" and developing attitudes appropriate for the season, he said. Historically there is a reason to slow down
by KA THERINE BIRD during the holiday season, Father Malley pointed out. During the Middle Ages the church took great care to celebrate the feasts occurring around Christmas, the feasts of St Stephen and Thomas the apostle, and the circumcision. "All feasts of the Lord and the virgin and the apostles were holy days of obligation then" which meant that everyone was given time off from work, he said.
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It was a way of saying that "we should stop and celebrate certain great events related to the Christian faith," he said. The Advent scripture readings lend themselves to meditative study by families and individuals
because they are filled with expectancy "and
geared toward the coming of the Lord at Christmas, the priest
continued. They invite us to wait with Mary and Joseph in Advent and to come to Christmas with a sense of
wonder and joy.
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Christmas 1986
He's still alive and active l took a little survey about Christmas the other day. l asked a few of my relatives and friends to share a favourite Christmas memory. I discovered that practically all of them had something to do with Santa Claus. One prominent journalist told me matter-of-factly that she and her brother had actually seen Santa flying past their window in his sleigh when they were 9 and 7. My niece remembered the agonising annual tour of the town viewing the display of lights on Christmas Eve. Only later was she to find out that this gave Santa time to put out the gifts at home. My wife was shattered when the Santa who visited her house one Christmas sounded exactly like her Uncle Karl. My older brother remembered the frantic shopping trip he was unexpectedly called upon to make a few days before Christmas after his wife delivered their fourth child early, and a visit from Santa was quickly scheduled. l remember putting the names of all family members on chairs and sofas in the living room so that Santa would get the right gifts to the right people. And I always managed to get my name on the largest chair. Now l own my own Santa suit and appear on request at grade schools and homes and even at the university "ho, ho, hoing" wherever I go. From Santa's perspective, I see a lot of a happy smiles and excited eyes. It isn't so surprising that Santa plays such a large part in our Christmas memories, but is this really what Christmas is all about? Maybe it's time for Christians to make peace with Santa. Maybe Santa and Jesus can get along. Let me explain. Santa Claus appears as a jolly, robust man with a white beard in his red and white suit accented by black belt and boots. He is mysterious, arrives in a flash and leaves gifts and goodies without fanfare or the chance to say "thank you."
He is a bit overwhelming, expects people to be good but is kind and forgiving and generous. He is tireless and full of energy, able to visit each home in the whole world in one short evening and to give a personalised gift to both children and adults. This is the stuff of fantasy, dreams and memories. Santa is quite a guy. We know that our Santa today is the literary creation in 1822 of a biblical scholar, C.C. Moore, who was perhaps inspired by St Nicholas, a bishop of the fourth century who was as popular then as Santa is now. Many churches were dedicated to St Nicholas and all kinds of legends developed about him. St Nicholas was the mysterious giver of bags of gold to poor families; he even is said to have interceded to bring some young children back to life; he became the patron saint of children, travellers and bakers. St Nicholas was quite a guy too. He went about doing good, giving his gifts in secret, not waiting for thanks. He was a protector of the defenseless and those in distress. And as a bishop in his red robes, he may have looked like our Santa. Even today St Nicholas delivers presents on his feast day December 6 in much of Europe. The tradition of St Nicholas is over 1500 years old and still going strong. t is interesting to note that it is the tradition in Holland and Germany for the infant Jesus to deliver the gifts on Christmas Day. This brings me to my main point: Santa Claus stands in a long line of gift-givers, including St Nicholas and, of course, Jesus himself. The image of God as gift-giver is aptly expressed in the 1500 year tradition of St Nicholas. But it finds an expression too in our more recent legend about the robust, vigorous, generous Santa.
Peace time and
Untrampled, snowy forests. Quiet New England Families villages. happily gathered around the dinner table. Gentle Nativity scenes. Angels. Shepherds. A single candle. A church on a hill. A child's face. As the days grow closer to Christmas, mailboxes fill up with cards bearing these colourful images. Cheerful, soothing, warm, tranquil scenes. Cards conveying in a hundred different ways wishes for happiness, love, God's blessings, peace. The cards leave no doubt: Christmas is a time for peace among people of good will. But it would seem that the images of peace proclaimed by cards and holiday advertisements are only part of the picture. If peace is to have real meaning in life today, with all of its stress and
good will.. By CINDY
LIEBHART pain, change and disappointment. busyness and conflict, it has to encompass more than fleeting warm feelings. For example, what does peace imply for a busy family of five where both parents work outside the home, juggling career demands, the needs and hectic schedules of growing children, their own needs as a couple plus outside
commitments to their community? What does peace mean to a 50-year-old father of five who, after being laid off by the company where he had worked for 30 years, discovers he has a degenerative heart condition which will prevent him from seeking work in his field? What does peace mean to a young married couple, expecting their first child, settling into a new home, looking happily towards a bright, albeit changed, life? Or to a widow, facing her first Christ-
mas without her husband of more than 40 years? What does peace mean to a homeless person? To the spouse of an alcoholic? To a soldier stationed thousands of miles from home? Peace eludes easy definition. There are no scientific formulas to guarantee that if a person does A, B, C and D, that will person "achieve" peace. Peace means different things to different people, depending on their life's circumstances. And the way it breaks
into people's lives at unexpected moments cannot be predicted or duplicated or really even planned for. Still perhaps a broader notion of peace could be gleaned from some attitudes that seem to cultivate it. These would include: • Knowledge and acceptance of oneself, limitations and all, and a willingness to share oneself honestly with others. Peace with oneself must come before a person can make peace with others.
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I leaned my axe and then myself against the stump of the Douglas fir I had fallen the day before. My arms and back were tired from limbing the tree. I'd rest a bit before firing up the chain saw and bucking the log to saw more firewood. Using the front of my sweatshirt I toweled sweat out of my eyes and off my forehead and neck. The forest was simultaneously quiet and full of gentle sound. Interestingly to me, my thoughts turned to Christmas as they have so many times in recent months. To my delight, those thoughts - even unplanned meditations were neither stimulated by merchants' pre-Halloween Yule decorations nor by an avalanche of Christmas catalogues addressed to "occupant".
□□□ Rather they have come during quiet moments in the woods or on the beach. They have come as I watched a spider weave its web in the twigs of an alder branch. As I marveled at the intricate and delicate ferns that grow near our trailer house. As I whittled a chunk of sweet-smelling cedar. As I closed my eyes and listened to sea gulls cry and call to one another. Our family's recent decision to attempt a more basic lifestyle moving from a major metropolitan area to a small island off the coast of Washington state near the Canadian border has brought us
dramatically closer to creation. And creation has brought us closer to Christmas. Maybe because we are more vulnerable to the elements, financial and earthly. Maybe because we were too distracted in the city. Maybe because God speaks so powerfully and profoundly through his gifts of sea and earth. Whatever the reasons, the Christmas story for us has become more concrete. We wonder about the worry and physical discomfort Mary must have endured in those anxious hours in Bethlehem. As we sit around our own wood stove, we imagine the gratitude Joseph and Mary must have felt finding some place warm and out of the weather. We talk about the flesh and blood reality of childbirth and how Jesus' first moments of life must have swirled with the experience of the warmth of his mother's body, the scents of domestic animals, the sounds of his stepfather's voice, the feel of simple cloth. We are awed by the simplicity of God's way and we are curious about our attempts to complicate it. Isn't it wonderful that Christ and the church bring us Christmas every year to again patiently remind us of the remarkably ordinary birth of Christ? No thunder, no earthquake, no storms. God speaks to us through a young family's struggle, a mother's pain, an event as accessible to four shepherds as to Persian kings.
Listening to the Bible Smooth Approaches to the Bible, by David Gibson, NC News Service. A fright syndrome determines some people's approach to Scripture - or steers them away from it altogether. They know the Bible's books were written long ago in a far-off culture that was, if not mysterious, definitely different. Suspecting that a hidden meaning lurks under the Bible's every word - that they will find Scripture as understandable as newcomers find James Joyce's "Ulysses" some people rarely, if ever, venture into it. Others not only do not know fear in the Bible's realm; they approach the Bible unhesitatingly as if it were a recipe book for modem living written yesterday and containing clear directives covering every contemporary problem.
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Between those two extremes lies another course -- one where the Bible's cover jacket doesn't lock up its pages, but where the Bible's special qualities are recognized.
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It is a question of how to read the Bible. But is also a question of how to listen, of what you "hear" as you read. The willingness to hear a little differently -- for example, to listen for the sounds of another culture in these books from the Middle East -helps to smooth one's approach to the Bible.
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What will be heard are the sounds of faith. Throughout some 1,500 pages, the Bible tells and tells again how God acts among people. These are stories of the relationship of God and people, accounts of God's presence in the world.
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A willingness to cope with the unpredictable also can smooth the approach to the Bible. There are many cases when Scripture's images open onto richer vistas than we might have expected. For example, it is tempting to fit Jesus to our personal image of him, to make what we like. But the Jesus of Scripture is always more - fuller than one imagines. Sometimes it is a willingness to hear old sto-
ries in new ways that smooths the approach to the Bible. The ear can grow lax toward some biblical stories heard often in church and elsewhere - the parable of the Prodigal Son; the Sermon on the Mount. A person steers away from reading the Bible, expecting it to be "old news." Then is the time to focus on a fresh aspect of the biblical accounts on the Prodigal Son's father rather than the son himself; on what Jesus' words say not just about our behaviour, but about the kind of God we have. A willingness to participate in the dialogue The books addressed Scripture initiates also people - drawing a can smooth the approach response from the listento it. The Bible's 73 books ers, stimulating change were written for people, and growth in people's often read aloud in the lives. ancient communities. Of course, a smoother
approach to the Bible will be facilitated by reading some books that provide general background for understanding the Bible, or by participating in parish
groups on this. Such background, coupled with the willingness to hear anew and be open to Scripture's rich panoramas, helps to steer the course into the Bible.
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( Christmas is a family season. Most families have favourite stories that they tell by the fire and tree: the story of the Holy Family, the story of ancestors or stories of their own. But it seems that the Eve of Christmas bestows a special blessing on families in the most unexpected and ordinary ways. That blessing is fondly remembered.
Christmas 1986
When my family toasts its Christmas wine, surrounded by mounds of wrapping paper and we padding, newspaper remember the Christmas Eve that the oldest son blew Dad's cover as Dad came in the front door disguised as St Nicholas.
by DOUG LANDWEHR Oldest son ws assigned to work the camera that night and catch the expression of the youngest when the'jolly saint appeared. The saint appeared but the flash bulb of the camera didn't flash. After some frustration, oldest son asked the white-whiskered visitor, "Dad, how
do you work this thing?" Or the story of the brothers who raided the Christmas tree at 2am each
Christmas Eve after the family had gone to bed. During their most ambitious raid, they had everyone's present surgically unwrapped only to discover boxes filled 'With sand. The
parents, guessing their game, had put out decoys until Christmas morning. Or the first time that the entire family was old enough to go to midnight Mass together. As the procession began in the basement church, the night-blue lights lit a forest of pine that flanked the altar. Then the Christmas crib was lit for
the first time. It was just the Holy Family, the angels hanging by fishline, the shepherds and a church filled with young children and old children. The Wise Men and the camels didn't get
Mom and Dad went to Gran each Christmas Eve. It was a c of the family for the children to re to the parents' home for some and cheese. Grandma's was also place where each of the gro _ children had stored the presents,, their families. The homecor jg custom was practical as well]; traditional. That left the kids on their o an hour or two.
These memories are precious, but
There was never much to do. Mitch Miller albums, watch tel fight or argue with each other. e usual thing.
other: the night the kids went sledding.
But one Christmas, when I l college, someone looked out window, saw fluffy snow conjz
there until the next morning
there is one Christmas Eve that is talked of in our family more than any
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down and suggested that we sled in the park across the street. That park had a marvelous hill that was 50 yards down and 50 more long at the bottom. We helped each other bundle up, got our sleds, saucers and inner tubes and went across the street to sled. Since it was Christmas Eve we had the entire hill to ourselves. It seemed we had the entire state to ourselves, since the falling snow muffled all noise around us. The older ones pushed the younger on saucers and inner tubes and followed behind on sleds. We made snowmen, picked sides for snowball fights and ended the night exhausted, wet and very, very happy.
For the final ride, all five of us piled on the largest inner tube and travelled further and faster than anyone had ever travelled before or since. We went home, met by our parents under the tree. A pleasant surprise for us. We had hot chocolate and popcorn. As a special treat, each of us, even Mom and Dad, openend a single present before Midnight Mass. We never went sledding on Christmas Eve again. I don't think we wanted to spoil that memory and I doubt that the love and doseness, and the joy and exhilaration we had discovered in each other as brothers and sisters could ever be repeated with just a planned event. Some Christmas Eves are like that: better left unplanned.
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eace I ora on ear by Father JOHN CASTELOT
"Glory to God in high heaven, peace on earth to those on whom his favor rests" ( Luke 2:19). Peace...
What's in a name?
Well, there is no little irony in the name given the son of David and Bathsheba. He was called Solomon, "man of peace." The irony is that David was primarily a warrior king, a fighter from his youth. And Bathsheba's first husband had been a sold· ier in David's army.
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One can only speculate on the reason for Solomon's name. Was it wishful thinking? Did it reflect David's weariness with war? Was the name a sort of prayer from Bathsheba's heart, broken by violence and healed by love? Whatever, that was the new prince's name and it turned out to be quite fitting When Solomon came to the throne, Israel's enemies had been subjugated. So there was no need for him to go into battle. He was able to devote himself to setting up an efficient administration, initiating ambitious building projects, creating a vast financial empire, promoting general prosperity. Unfortunately Solomon forgot that there can be no peace without justice for all people. His insen-
sitive treatment of his subjects prepared the way for the civil war after his death. However, there is a message for us in the efforts made by this "man of peace." They did not involve overcoming hostility by violence. Instead he promoted what he conceived to be wellbeing And well-being is what the biblical notion of peace is about. The word itself is "shalom," which is still the usual form of greeting in Israel. It comes from a word meaning to be complete, fulfilled, perfect. The word "peace" signifies the fullness of blessings, the full enjoyment of all material and spirital goods -in a word, perfection. It was in that sense that St Paul consistently wished people "grace ' and peace" in his letters to the Christian communities he had founded. Especially interesting is his concluding wish for the Thessalonians: "May the God of peace make You perfect in holiness (wholeness)" (1 ThesSalonians 5.23).
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Paul even defines the kingdom of God in terms of peace. And it is worth Doting that he links justice with peace. "The kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking (a reference to the dietrary laws), but of Justice, peace and the joy that is given by the Holy
Spirit ... Let us, then, make it our aim to work for peace and to strengthen one another" (Romans 14:17, 19). In Luke's story of Jesus' birth the angels herald his corning by proclaiming "Glory to God in high heaven, peace on earth to those on whom his favour rests." Jesus spent the whole of his life in the pursuit of this peace.
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Actually, Jesus promoted "shalom" by curing the sick, giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, mobility to the lame (Matthew 11.2-6) When he sent his disciples out on a trial mission, he instructed them: "On entering any house, first say, 'Peace to this house'" (Luke 10.5) When the Old Testament prophet Micah looked forward to the birth of an ideal king of the line of David, he envisioned him in these terms: "He shall stand firm and shepherd his flock by the strength of the Lord ... he shall be peace" (Micah 5:3-4). Centuries later the author of the New Testament letter to the Ephesians identified Christ in the very same way: "It is he who is our peace" (2.14) Peace, "shalom," is so much more than the mere absence of hostility, much more than a casual formula of greeting. It means the positive fulfilIment of all the dreams of humanity for justice, har-
mony, health of mind and
body, material and spirit-
ual well-being "Blest too are the peacemakers" - this Beatitude applies to all who strive to promote peace in its full sense, that peace which Jesus left us as his final bequest: " 'Peace' is my farewell to you, my peace is my gift to you; I do not give it to you as the world gives peace" Gohn 14.27)
The fine touch of a little baby I want to tell you a Christmas story. It is about a birth and a baptism, parts of life that we can readily connect with Christmas. But there the similarity stops. The baptism I have in mind involved a father who lived about as far from the church as you can get and still consider a yourself Catholic. It is a story with no dramatic conversions or great religious insights. Yet it is still a real Christmas story. Don used to be a predator. In his business, with his friends, he was out for himself. His efforts, for the most part, had been successful. He was well off. He had generally achieved what he wanted.
by Father DAVID
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Then something happened. First he turned 35 and then he met Carol. He learned that there were some things in life that he could not have simply because he wanted them. Carol was looking to marry and saw a lot in Don. He needed someone to call his bluff, someone he couldn't con or buffalo, and Carol was that person. Carol believed the best in Don came out in the face of challenges and ideals. She was willing to push the ideals. As she put it, "I want a real, Catholic marriage kids, good communication, permanence, fidelity, the whole thing." For her that meant talking to
a priest from the very beginning. That's how I got involved. Don had been afraid to have children. The responsibility of fatherhood, his own sense of inadequacy, his fears for a future he couldn't control all scared him. So for Don marriage was a leap into the dark.
Last October they had a little boy. Carol made plans to have the baby baptised as soon as all the family could be gathered. I was asked to perform the baptism, and so I also instructed them in the meaning of the sacrament and the ceremony. It is customary for the godmother to bring the child to the church, but Carol had her own plans. At the house prior to the
At Christmas we celeceremony Carol asked Don to take the baby. brate the birth of Christ Knowing the custom, and we recall the details and puzzled, he asked of his birth with great why. "Because you've festivity. But our celebrawaited all these years for tion is more than a look a son. Today is an answer backward. It is a human to prayers, it's special." festival set in our own So Don picked up the time. For Christians this little bundle of white is appropriate. layers and we started to By entering into human leave for the church. life in one place at one Then abruptly, still era- time, God gave a sacred dling the little boy very character to all human carefully, he sat down -life in all time. touched by the baby, Now the most ordinary touched by God. of human festivals, like Within seconds tears marriage and the birth of were flooding down a child as in Don's story, Don's face and his become grace-bearers. shoulders shook. He just They touch us. They are sat there holding the a means to the most little boy closely and special of relationships carefully. He registered the relationship with his composure, Carol God. That's what makes gave him her handker chief and then we left for Don's story a Christmas the church. story.
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A Christmas
visitor for priest
Cautiously he approached the clump of evergreens as he continued to survey the countryside. ''This will be fine. Thank you, Lord," he whispered gratefully. "These trees will shelter me from the snow and the mounds of dried needles will make a bed that is better than you can find in any inn."
With that prayer of thanksgiving, Jesuit Father Robert Southwell settled down to spend yet another wintry night beneath the stars in 16th-century England. The truth is that the priest trudged through the December snow right past several country inns. Briefly he would pause and listen to the song and laughter inside the public house.
□□□ He could see the smoke of cozy hearths wafting through the chimneys and sometimes he caught the aroma of a succulent roast on the spit. The inns looked so inviting, especially when the cold seeped through the soles of his boots, but Father Southwell dared not stop. Queen Elizabeth I had outlawed Catholic clergy in the realm. Father Southwell was a fugitive with a price on his head. He could not safely stay in an inn where royal spies might recongnise him and have him arrested. The rich fragrance of a pine needle bed was a little comfort to the shivering, hungry, hunted priest and he tossed and turned in fitful sleep that night. Recurring nightmares haunted him.
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Once again he found himself standing in ankledeep water in a cellar where priests were hidden from the queen's soldiers. His heart pounded as he dreamed about the nights when he walked in disguise past guards at hospitals and prisons to serve loyal Catholics. The priest again met the frightened and the serene whom he absolved on their way to the gallows. When the dreams became too terrible, the priest bolted upright from the ground. But suddenly he felt a remarkable sense of peace and noticed that the numbing cold finally seemed to melt from his limbs. Looking up, Father Southwell discovered that he was not alone.
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"Surprised I was with the sudden heat which made my heart to glow. "And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, "a pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear." The priest was to recall that scene in his famous poem, "The Burning Babe." In either a vision or a grace-filled dream, the Christ child came to share the fugitive's sufferings. "Love is the fire," the infant said, explaining what fueled the intense heat and brightness of the vision. He explained that his coming on earth created a sort of loving forge where hearts hardened by the world can be refined and remolded. The babe soon faded into the dark December night. "And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas Day," Father Southwell said in his poem which tells the tale of the priest-poet's very special Christmas. Lying back on his pallet of pine needles, Father Southwell recalled the happy memories of au his Christmases as a boy growing up in England. This year there was no Yule log or carols, no spiced ale
Great gift Giver! pt= Janaan Manternach
Long ago, about 1,600 years ago, in the far-off land of Lycia there lived a good and generous man named Nicholas. All we know for sure
by STANLEY KONIECZNY
Christmas 1986 or roasted goose, yet it was indeed his merriest
about him is that he was the bishop of a town called Myra. But people loved him so much that they told many stories about the popular bishop. Here is one of his most famous stories. Nicholas grew up with everything a boy or girl
Christmas ever. Father Southwell's heart would never lose the glow of that night's encounter. And as he lay in the
thicket of trees, he could not help but parallel his experience with the mystery of that first Christmas. Like the holy family long ago, he was a wanderer and an exile, a stranger and a fugitive. Yet in his poverty and suffering he encountered Christ.
□□□ Years later, after he had been betrayed and brutally tortured, Father Southwell still remembered that glorious night. In the bleak Tower of London, he used his talents as a poet to translate his Christmas miracle into verse And I like to think that's what the glitter of Christmas really is an effort to use imagination and creativity to share the mystery of God with us. Father Southwell gave his life for his faith in 1595 and was named a saint in 1970. The spiritual legacy of St Robert Southwell includes many poems but the most popular remains 'The Burning Babe". In fact, famed English dramatist and poet Ben Jonson is said to have remarked that he would have traded all that he had written if only he could have penned this poem.
God's attitude is forgiving
What does it mean to speak of "themes" in the Bible? Passionist Father Carroll Stuhlmueller explained that a theme is "an important religious idea," often with roots in ancient events, which helps people to understand their relationship with God and with each other.
000 In the Bible, a primary theme is that of the "strong. personal relationship between God and humans in which God takes the initiative" and is concerned about what we do, Father Stuhlmueller explained.
Another biblical theme brings to the fore the sinfulness of God's people. The Bible portrays sin as "the rupture of a personal relationship with God or with the community," said Father
by KA THERINE BIRD Stuhlmueller. "Whenever Israel wanders from the exalted hopes of God, there is sin." But in the Bible sin is always an indirect theme. It throws into sharp relief "the goodness of God which is shown in his loving, persisting presence" in his people's life. Father Stuhlmueller turned to the Old Testament Book of Hosea to illustrate the two themes.
000 In Hosea, the themes of sin and God's goodness are handled on two levels, he said: on the personal level in the marital relationship between Hosea and his wife Gomar; on a broader scale in the Israelite people's unfaithfulness to God and God's loving response.
In the first three chapters, the focus is on Hosea's rocky relationship with his wife Gomar, who repeatedly is unfaithful. "What comes to light," Father Stuhlmueller reported, "is Hosea's promptness in remaining faithful and hopeful, despite the terrible deeds" of Gomar.
a00 But at Chapter 4 the focus switches to the broader social scene of the Israelites in the eight century BC Hosea indicts the people for "a general breakdown in their moral fiber and expectations," Father Stuhlmueller said Hosea castigates the Israelites for lying and cheating. for injustice and a lack of concern for the poor and weak. The beauty of the Book of Hosea, the biblical scholar indicated, is that Hosea "takes what is happening with his wife" and applies it to the
larger picture of what is happening with the Israelites who are not living
up to God's hopes. Hosea makes a connection between the bond of marriage and the covenant -the relationship that God has with his people. Throughout the book, "the Lord loves the people of Israel despite what they do," in much the same way that Hosea continues to love Gomar, Father Stuhlmueller said
ODO "God's goodness brings to light our shadow side, those occasions when we fail to live up to God's hopes," just as human sin casts light on God's mercy. Thus, in Hosea's Chapter 11, God is angry with his people for their unfaithfulness. But he is unwilling to give vent to his anger. His attitude, as always, is v forgiving.
could want. His parents were very rich. They died when Nicholas was a young man. They left him a great fortune. "What will I do with all this money?" Nicholas asked himself. "I already have more than l need or
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poor people who had so little. "I'II give my money to poor people, especially children," Nicholas decided. "But I don't want them to know the money comes from me." So Nicholas rode through the dark streets at night dropping gold coins where poor people would find them in the morning. One day Nicholas heard about a man who had three daughters. They were very poor. The daughters each wanted to get married. But their father did not have money to pay for their weddings. Nicholas decided to do something about their sad situation. One night when the streets and houses already were dark, he filled a bag with gold and climbed on his horse. He rode to the home of the poor man and his three lonely daughters. Nicholas tossed the bag of gold through an open window in their house.
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loved and admired him so much that they called him St Nicholas and named him patron of children. We celebrate St Nicholas' feast each December 6 as we prepare to receive God's greatest gift, Jesus.
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Human happiness is what the Beatitudes are all about. That's what the word "beatitude" means, happiness. To put it in more biblical terms, however, the Beatitudes are all about the kingdom of God. They are about his reign of love, justice and peace.
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for happiness usually heard. And even if bitter experience has demonstrated over again that selfishness is selfdestructive, it still seems to strike a responsive chord in egocentric human hearts. Jesus has a "keynote address" in Luke's Gospel that proclaims the same message as the Beatitudes. It is his inaugural homily, given in the Nazareth synagogue: "The spirit of the Lord is upon me; therefore he has anointed me. He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to proclaim liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind and release to prisoners, to announce a year of favour from the Lord" (4:18-19). That is based on a passage from Isaiah 61. After citing it, he declared: "Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing."
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The reason for this complete turnabout is the arrival of God's reign. In the person of Jesus, God intervened in a unique way in human history to bring about our salvation, our general well-being. our happiness. God took the initiative in the process, and the teaching and selfless lifestyle of Jesus showed us the way to achieve that personal fulfillment for which all people yearn.
The call to reform means much more than just "turning over a new tear. I connotes a fun«a. [JC[l mental conversion, a sweeping reversal of The problem is that one's value system. It Jesus' prescription for means literally: "Change business is so different your mind, your outlook, from the prescriptions
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"Beatitudes? Sure, l learned about them in grade school. They're all about those 'blessed-be' people: the poor, the afflicted, the oppressed, all those people. It seems like Jesus was trying to make them feel better by promising them a reward In heaven. 'To make them feel better ••• " That was one person's comment when l asked about the Beatitudes. lt set me thinking. Actually, in Matthew's Gospel (5:312), Jesus is not simply bringing good news to "them", or even to those gathered around him on the mountain.
Words to ponder by THEODORE HENGESBECH
The message is directed to people who ponder his words through all time. It is addressed to "us". It has to do with being faithful hearers and doers of Jesus' words. In the Beatitudes, Jesus echoes promises found in the Old Testament, especially Second Isaiah: The Lord of hosts will have his day and the misery of the poor, sick and oppressed wlll come to an end. Rules
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and confusing are heard in the Beatitudes. But we can understand them better though with noless unrest-if we view them as condensations, shortened versions of the many parables Jesus uses to illustrate his message throughout the Gospels. Jesus is pushing us personally to internalise the direction he sets and to act out of love, to act from the heart. ''Blessed'' or "happy" are the poor,
he says. But their happiness does not excuse us who are more fortunate from our responsibilities. We cannot walk away from the world's problems. Jesus is removing the former belief that human suffering is the punishment for personal sin. Our mandate to act is vividly stated in what immediately follows the Beatitudes in Matthew: You are the salt of the earth ••• You are the light of the world... Your light must shine." it is a mandate to act not for our sakes
Introducing a day giver of peace I first met Sister Connie Tanski, a Sister of Charity at the dinner table at Incarnate Word Convent. She was delayed coming to the meal because she was a watching Spanish-language TV program as part of her continuing efforts to improve her ability to speak with the people she serves. Along with teaching Sister Tanski serves as a pastoral worker at the nearby detention centre for people without proper papers. Her ministry also takes her to a shelter for Central and South American refugees.
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The shelter provides food and housing on an emergency basis. Sister Tanski invited me to go with her on her rounds and, speaking with the enthusiasm she brings to her work, she told me about Maria. She is a young, pregnant Central American woman released from the detention centre after posting a bond.
Along with leading prayer services_ and helping refugees find legal assistance, Sister Tanski also fills more ordinary needs. Before going to visitMaria, we stopped at a flea market to buy a coloured brightly dress to replace the jeans and shirt Maria was rapidly outgrowing. Maria was one of about l 00 people, mostly men, crowded together in the handful of rooms in the
by SUZANNE ELSESSER stucco one-storey house. A few children played on the parking lot outside. Expressing happiness about not being locked up in the detention centre any longer, Maria told us that she was concerned because she couldn't reach her relatives by phone. They would provide the funds for her trip.
DOD Offering to call for Maria from the convent, Sister Tanski and I left the shelter and went to the detention centre. Here the scene differed sharply. Uniformed guards waved a greeting as we passed the entrance and drove to the office past gray cinder block buildings marked with huge numbers. After being cleared for a visit to the women's building, we passed through a double set of chain-link gates
which were locked again after us. Inside the centre was like a clean, rather sterile dormitory with tile floors, fluorescent ceiling lights and cafeteria-style tables and chairs. Six women wearing identical bright orange jumpsuits greeted us with enthusiasm. They were from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Colombia. They spoke about their families and about their worries: where they could raise the bond needed to free them; how to find affordable and reliable legal assistance; how to reach relatives or friends who might help. For Sister Tanski, being a giver of peace means advising the refugees when she can. In the case of Maria, Sister Tanski succeeded in reaching the relatives. Maria is now waiting for the hearings which will determine whether she can remain as a political refugee in the United States.
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Reading further we come to this thought, a sort of summary: Good persons produce goodness from the good In their hearts; evil persons produce evil from their store of evil. Each speaks from the heart's abundance. (6:45). It is evident through all the pages of the Old and New Testaments that God's love for us has no limits. In the Beatitudes the message is to stretch our own capacity to love -to be like the all-loving Father and to enter Into a warm relationship with him.
alone, but for others, to help them in the name of the Lord and to act as alighthouse signal for those struggling in rough, murky waters. In Luke's Gospel, the Beatitudes (6:17-26) are arranged differently. But as in Matthew, they begin with Jesus proclaiming four hurting groups of people "blessed". Then Luke moves to the pointedly personal "woe to you", applying this to those who are rich, full, contented and highly praised. Hardly are these words comforting.
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''I want to be" blessedly happy Dr Tom Dooley excited the imagination of the world in the 1950s. He was a young Navy doctor, fresh out of medical school. One afternoon the ship he was on picked up 1,000 refugees adrift off the coast of Vietnam. Dooley was the only doctor on board. So he plunged into the overwhelming task
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He saw how the simplest medical treatments brought smiles to pain-filled faces. But Dooley discovered
something else. Helping these desperate refugees made him happy -happier than he had ever been in his whole life. When his hitch in the Navy was over, Dooley went back to Asia to work as a physician among the poor. Immediately volunteers flocked to help him. One day Dooley confided to a colleague he had always loved the Sermon on the Mount, especially the Beatitudes. One reason why, he said, was that they promised happiness. "Blessed" means "happy," Dooley said, "and that's what I want to be." Then he went on to share with his colleague his vision of the Beatitudes. He used this example to illustrate. Blessed are they that mourn means "something special to me," he explained. "Mourn" as used in the Bible doesn't mean to be unhappy. It simply means "to be more aware of the sorrow in our world than of the pleasure." The young doctor went on to say if "you're extrasensitive to sorrow" and do something "to make it lighter, you can't help but be happy. That's just the way it is." Dooley's vision of the Beatitudes is different and refreshing It is different because we usually think of them as being addressed only to the sorrowing the poor, the hungry, the homeless. Dooley sees them addressed to everyone and especially to those who minister to the sorrowing.
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The world's most famous gingerbread house is probably one described in a Grimm brothers' fairy tale. Remember how Hansel and Gretel, frightened and famished in the forest, first set eyes on the witch's abode? "When they were quite near they saw that the cottage was made of gingerbread and covered with cakes, while the windows were made of transparent sugar." Surely a sight to make any child lick his or her lips! From what drawing board, or rolling board, did this confection originally spring? We have no exact way of knowing. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm based their fairy tales, including Hansel and Gretel, on stories handed down by word of mouth, and the genesis of these tales is shrouded in the mists of time. But ginger cookies have been around for quite awhile, as well as what might be called the "pictorial school of cooking." The cooks of Germany and Central Europe have long been known for their skill at making cookies in different shapes. To this day French chefs turn their floury fingers to doll-cakes named naulets and cakes shaped like yule logs -- the celebrated buche de Noel. As for gingerbread houses, they have ties to real houses as well. They lent their name to a Victorian architectural style. And the thatched roofs of European huts and chalets have long smacked of gingerbread ancestry. Which inspired which? In any case, the gingerbread house today stands firmly on its own aromatic foundation, as enticing and magical a holiday sight as the cottage first glimpsed by Hansel and Gretel.
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THE BALLAD OF THE HARP-WEAVER by Edna St. Vincent Millay
'Son,"!' said my mother, When I was kneehigh, ''You've need of clothes to cover you, And not a rag have I. ''There's nothing in the house To make a boy breeches, Nor shears to cut a cloth with, Nor thread to take stitches. ''There's nothing in the house But a loaf-end of rye, And a harp with a woman's head Nobody will buy," And she began to cry. That was in the early fall, When came the late fall, 'Son,'' she said, "the sight of you Makes your mother's blood crawl, 'Little skinny shoulder-blades Sticking through your clothes! And where you'll get a jacket from God above knows. 'It's lucky for me, lad, Your daddy's in the ground, And can't see the way I let His son go around!" And she made a queer sound. That was in the late fall. When the winter came, Id not a pair of breeches Nor a shirt to my name. I couldn't go to school, Or out of doors to play. And all the other little boys Passed our way. 'Son,'' said my mother, 'Come, climb into my lap, And I'll chafe your little bones While you take a nap." And, oh, but we were silly For half an hour or more, Me with my long legs Dragging on the floor, A-rock-rock-rocking To a mother-goose rhyme! Oh, but we were happy For half an hour's time! But there was I, a great boy, And what would folks say To hear my mother singing me To sleep all day, In such a daft way? Men say the winter Was bad that year, Fuel was scarce, And food was dear. A wind with a wolf's head Howled about our door, And we burned up the chairs And sat upon the floor. All that was left us Was a chair we couldn't break, And the harp with a woman's head Nobody would take, For song or pity's sake. The night before Christmas I cried with the cold,
I cried myself to sleep Like a two-year-old. And in the deep night I felt my mother rise, And stare down upon me With love in her eyes. I saw my mother sitting On the one good chair, A light falling on her From I couldn't tell where, Looking nineteen, And not a day older, And the harp with a woman's head Leaned against her shoulder. Her thin fingers, moving In the thin, tall strings,
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Were weav-weav-weaving Wonderful things. Many bright threads, From where I couldn't see, Were running through the harp-strings Rapidly, And gold threads whistling Through my mother's hand. I saw the web grow, And the pattern expand. She wove a child's jacket, And when it was done She laid it on the floor And wove another one. She wove a red cloak So regal to see, 'She's made it for a king's son," I said, "and not for me." But I knew it was for me. She wove a pair of breeches Quicker than that! She wove a pair of boots And a little cocked hat. She wove a pair of mittens, She wove a little blouse, She wove all night In the still, cold house. She sang as she worked, And the harp-strings spoke. Her voice never faltered, And the thread never broke. And when I awoke, There sat my mother With the harp against her shoulder, Looking nineteen, And not a day older, A smile about her lips, And a light about her head, And her hands in the harp-strings Frozen dead. And piled up beside her And toppling to the skies, Were the clothes of a king's son, Just my size.
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Dear Lord, we thank you today for all these good things to eat and drink, and especially for those dear friends and family members [names] who have come to be with us. May the happiness we share together on this Christmas day shine in all our hearts forever. Amen.
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La Salle Art Exhibition showed high standard
Potter, Alison Browne with one of her pots.
The La Salle Art Exhibition was yet another gala occasion whereby culture, college family support and public approval, proved a great mix. It was interesting to walk around the art and pottery, all of which represented, and were displayed, in superb taste. There were paintings by a host of well known Western Australian artists offering paintings to excite the imagination, and stimulate thought, right down to that art which assuages the mind and soothes shattered nerves, as depicted by John Franken-Bryer. Yes. That tranquillity, I could really live with. People came from far and wide to sip champagne, sup on chicken and speculate on the art purchase of their choice. Both art and pottery were good value and all the Greats in both fields were represented. About 200 folk were at the opening night which was officially opened by Dottore Professor Giovanne Camarda, Education Advisor at the Italian Consulate. In his opening address, Principal, Mr Clam Mulcahy, said: "Art carries on a tradition that the church has had dating back to the catacombs, in which society and the community with the church has had a moulding influence.
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"You can see this trend coming through in art, culture, architecture, music and spreading out into the whole community. We see our school as being part of that community," he said. To illustrate this, Mr Mulcahy indicated the support given by local vignerons in the variety of wines available on the night and the marvellous art display by the talented artists and potters. The art exhibition was followed by a week of diplayed art, pottery and woodwork produced by the students. Among this work were two award winning entries by Adam Parsonage, State winner of the 1986 Art Award, sponsored by the Australian National University and the Commonwealth Bank, and Paul Hegney's woodwork exhibit which won a section in the recent display by the State secondary and primary schools, held at the education department.
Coming off Drugs James 6Joyce Ditzler with Celia Haddon. Published by Macmillan Australia.
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Truth in the Son by David Winter. Pubisbed by Hodder & Stoughton. A argued sharply affirmation of God's reality and relevance in a sceptical world Is religious certainty a thing of the past? Has God spoken to the human race? If so, where? And what has he said? 'There is only one question,' writes David Winter, 'that really matters in the end: is there any purpose in our
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by Jobn Gunstone. Published by Hodder and Stoughton. "The practice of praying for
the sick with the laying on of hands and anointing with oil is growing rapidly, to an extent not seen since the early centuries. This warm-hearted, downto-earth book offers practical advice on receiving and taking part in the ministry of healing: attitudes of power and patience, the reasons for sickness, forgiveness and inner healing the place of the medical profession, and the of failure. question
$14.95. "This book brings hope and information. Jim and Joyce Ditzler have been treating alcoholics and addicts in Britain since 1975. There are now thousands of cured and happy people who know that the Ditzlers' methods work. Coming Off Drugs covers every type of addiction and drug: from heroin and cocaine to tranquillisers and alcohol. It tells family and friends how to recognise the addict, how to move from despair to hope and how to maximise the chances of recovery. It tells the addict
how to recognise the problem, exactly how to come off drugs and stay off And it tells the professionals, from social workers to teachers, how to cope with addicts and alcoholics A drug-by-drug guide to coming off sets out withdrawal symptoms and how to cope, getting through the first days and the next weeks. And the book also covers the longterm return to normal life and staying clean.
Jim and Joyce Ditzler have proved it. There is a method that works, even for addicts
who are initially unwilling to undertake treatment."
The Record, December 18, 1986
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THANKS Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the whole world now and forever. AMEN. Say nine times for nine consecutive days and promise publication. Thanks to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus for favours granted and also to our Lady of Revelation. JUDY. Grateful thanks to the Holy Spirit and the Blessed Virgin Mary for favours granted. Things are really looking better.
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BRODERICK, Mary Dorothy: The family of Mary Dorothy Broderick of 168 Roberts Street Joondanna, who passed away peacefully at Sir Charles Gairdner hospital on December 1st, thank all her friends for attending her requiem mass at St Denis' church Joondanna on December 3rd, and for the many masses, prayers and condolences offered in her memory. Special thanks to Rev Frs Christie, Boyle and Ross. We will pray for all of you. SULLIVAN nee O'Neill. Molly died at her Sydney home peacefully on November 21. She was generous and beautiful by nature, compassionate after a lifetime of nursing. Dear friend of Irene Fitzpatrick. Rest in
MacDONALD. Richard Francis. In loving memory of our beloved husband, father, papa and brother. Two years ago, Christmas Day. Still sadly missed. Always loved and remembered, all your loved ones.
HOLY SPIRIT you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil aainst me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever. In spite of all material illusions I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for 3 days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately. F.C. and D.S. O Holy St Jude, apostle and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke you as special patron in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depths of my heart and humbly beg you to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers. Hail Marys and Glorias. StJude pray for all who honour and invoke your aid. My grateful thanks to St Jude for prayers answered. N.D. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Grateful thanks for favours granted. W.D.B. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus may your name be praised and glorified now and forever. Thank you for prayers answered. Pat.
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Besides being different, Dooley's vision of the Beatitudes is refreshing. We don't just read the Beatitudes. draw comfort from the fact that God will make poor people happy some day and then go about our business. Dooley's vision motivates us to want to do something to help the poor and the sorrowing right now. as he did. And there's not one of us who can't do that. There's not one of us who is so poor, so hungry or so sorrowing that we cannot reach out to a needy brother or sister. There's not one of us who can't do something. An example will illustrate this: During the Great Depression, a government official had the job of traveling the country to give small grants to poorfarmers so that they could buy seed to plant or make needed repairs on their homes. One day, he came upon a woman living in a shack. It had no floor and several of its· broken windows were covered with tar paper. The woman was barely scratching out an existence on a tiny plot of barren land. The agent said to her: "If the government gave you $200 what would you do with it? The woman thought a minute and said, "L reckon I'd give it to the poor."
That woman exemplifies the spirit of the Beatitudes. Of such as her Jesus said: "Happy are you poor, the kingdom of God is yours."
Peace meanings From page 13 • Balance, or a right ordering of priorities. In other words, being clear about what one values most, and then taking steps to put those values into action, to make them come alive. e The willingness when priorities get knocked out of whack to make the necessary efforts to
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Memories make Christmas From page 12 Toby was already a kinI dergartner when remember him and his best buddy Mikey boppin' around the family room in Chicago to the Beach Boys and their rock 'n roll Christmas songs like "Little Saint Nick" and "Merry Christmas, Baby." Those were some of the best Christmas mornings, sitting around the kitchen table over at Mike and Colleen's as Elvis his ceramic bust holding a place of honour on their mantle -- belted out "Blue Christmas" on the stereo and toddlers climbed up each leg demanding new batteries for toy robots and musicplaying teddy bears. We must have been getting comfortable financially then because the Christmas albums with the newer covers are the more expensive ones: Robert Goulet, Johnny Mathis, Barbara Streisand, John Denver. And we were able to buy the kids their own Christmas albums: 30 favourites by the Mother Goose Orchestra and Players and, of course, the classic "Christmas With the Chipmunks." But it's a little-played album that takes me back to the best Christmases of all. We'd get to church by 11pm just to get a seat at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at St Bruno. For an hour a choir of
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Christmas 1986 people we went to school with, people we set up tables for Bingo with, people we prayed every Sunday with, put on a concert of Christmas music unmatched. They'd mix English carols with the traditional hymns Polish-Americans are preserving, hymns their ancestors brought with them from the old country. They are hymns I can't even sing anymore, except for "Dzisiaj w Betlejem" (Gee-shy Bet-Lay-hem, Today in Bethlehem ). But the melodies take me back, thanks to that year the choir decided to record "Christmas Eve at St Bruno Church" through one of those fund-raising deals. I can put on that album and go back not just years but decades and even centuries. I can close my eyes and not just remember the best Christmas decorations in the neighbourhood but the reason Zyskowskis have celebrated Christ's birth on two continents and across an ocean. And I don't have to look in a family memory book
The squire was especially pleased with the wassail bowl he prepared according to an old family recipe from rich wines, highly spiced and sweetened, with apples bobbing on the surface. After-dinner entertainment included some old familiar ghost stories about the Bracebridge relative who became a crusader, and a Christmas "mummery" where the children and some adults dressed up as different characters: Ancient Christmas, Dame Mince Pie. I dressed as Maid Marion while the captain played Robin Hood. We all danced to the beat of a drum. Indeed, it was right after the dance that the captain asked me to marry him, permanently etching that Christmas in my memory. Now, so many years later, my American friends tell me that Irving's "Sketch Book" had a hand in changing the face of Christmas in New York. Until his rollicking account, only a few old Dutch families in New York celebrated Christmas. Henceforth, however, and especially after young Charles Dickens read it, Christmas never again was a half-forgotten holiday. It pleases me to think that I was a participant.
OBITUARY Fr Bob Alford
Father Robert Atford who died of cancer at the Little Sisters of the Poor earlier this month was approaching the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in Rome in March 1937. Originally from Tasma-
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St Columba's College, Springwood before proceeding to the Propaganda College in Rome. Returning to his diocese of Geraldton he served at the cathedral, Wiluna and Cue until 1943 when he commenced two years as a chaplain with the RAAF. After the war he withdrew from active ministry until 1979 when Bishop Thomas invited him to resume duties.
Contact with a Japanese priest friend from
Roman days opened up a new world of interest for Fr Alford and he used to travel there each year for the maximum six month visitor's stay to act as chaplain to Our Lady of The Snows home for intellectually handicapped children. He became accepted as part of the local Church and but for his age wanted to join the Japanese diocese. His last hope was that he might be well enough to make a last visit to Japan and perhaps be buried there but his illness overtook him and his final days were full of concern for his fellow patients at the Glendalough Home. May he rest in peace.
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As 1986 draws to a close and a new year dawns the Perth Catholic Youth Centre and In fact the whole youth scene of WA looks back with thanks and forward with expectation. The Perth Archdiocese can be proud of an active youth scene but we should never imagine for a moment that the Job is done. Over 50,000 young Catholics, between 14 and 24 years provide plenty of work for the diocesan parish workers both young and old. In the Perth Diocese we have six main movements, namely Antioch, Catholic Parish Youth, Young Christian Students, Tertiary Young Christian Students, Young Christian Workers, Focolare and the activity emanating from the Redemptorist Monastery. The Catholic youth office, the Cardijn Youth Centre, located at 30 Claverton Street, North Perth, behind the Redemptorist Monastery, has been a hive of activity in 1986.
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Twelve fulltime young workers base their activities here. In the Bunbury Diocese, three fulltimers have been working in the past year as well as youth workers in Collie, Busselton and Albany. Geraldton Diocese established brand new offices in their Cathedral Centre which was completed earlier this year and the youth worker, Tony Dolln completed his two year contract last month. In Perth more than 50 per cent of the parishes have an active youth apostolate in a group of one sort or another and for this, sincere thanks must go to the parents, priests, religious and dedicated leaders, young and old who together ensure such a vital and vibrant youth apostolate. The Church of tomorrow depends on the youth of today who often tell me they are also the Church of today. While adults at times are concerned about the lack of attendance at Mass and perhaps what seems a general decrease in religious fervour, l believe young people in fact are deeply religious and their teenage years are crucial in the formation of their Catholic lives. Our policy in the Youth Apostolate ls of youth to youth working in collaboration with adults, namely parents, pri-' ests, religious and
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On Sunday, October 26, in the glorious setting of Santa Maria College lawns by the Swan River, the 1986 Year of Peace was drawn to a fitting conclusion. The Peace Eucharist was organised by the CYC and the Catholic Social Justice Commission and drew a large crowd representing many d i f f e r e n t nationalities. The finale was the setting loose of balloons bearing messages of peace and young people dressed as clowns gave out Dove of Peace badges.
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Earlier in the year a small group who have become known as the Catholic Rural Youth Outreach made contact with Geraldton, and subsequently held Geraldton's first youth conference with over 50 people attending from as far as Carnarvon to Port Hedland. That was the highlight, but as many as 20 young people from Perth took part. In January the Tertiary Young Christian Students, University Catholic Society and the Tertiary Catholic Student Movement (WAIT), combined to hold a National Conference at the University of WA by the Tertiary Christian Federation of Australia. This drew about 200 young students from around Australia to discuss their lives as Christians in the atmosphere of the tertiary campus.
which took the place of the annual Youth Rally held by the Catholic Youth Council.
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Christmas 1986 A Peace Program was prepared by Peter Shooter (YCW), Monica Butler (TYCS) and Malcolm Dix (YCS) as a sub-committee from the Catholic Youth CouncU.
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Many youth groups availed themselves of this three week program which provided discussion papers and video films, and promoted lively debate on all aspects of personal and public responsibility towards creating a peaceful world. The Peace Program was culminated by the Peace Eucharist
The Antioch Movement has established itself as far as Port Hedland in the north and Northam to the east, as well as Rockingham, Queens Park, Balcatta and South Perth parishes in the past year. From a small beginning of two young people four years ago, the Antioch Movement has reached over 1200 in as many as 25 parishes. Wishing everyone who has supported the youth scene of Perth, Bunbury and Geraldton, either with their time, financial assistance or with their prayers especially a very happy and holy Christmas and New Year and look forward to their prayers and support in 1987.
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by Jesus into the world
as peacemakers; you are being commissioned to communicate his peace and its power everywhere you go," Pope John Paul told the youth
rally at the Sydney Cricket Ground. "But this means you yourselves must be filled with this peace
of Jesus; you must receive it into your hearts.
''You must seek it at its source, which is the person of Jesus," he said.
□□□ "And because your commission, your calling and your task are not static but dynamic, you must search for this peace continually. 'You must embrace it in the word of Jesus, which is the revelation of God. "Yes, dear young people, you must be totally convinced that in order to have that full and perfect peace which Christ offers, you must find it in Christ.
"For this reason the Church says to you today: • if you want peace, open your hearts to Christ. • if you want peace, accept Christ; accept him as the Son of God; accept him also in the mystery of his humanity; accept him in others. "Embrace Christ in everyone who shares with you the dignity of human nature.
First find it in the Christ "And when you have and acknowledged embraced Jesus in all those people, then - and only then - will you share deeply in the peace of his Sacred Heart," he said.
"Reach out to him and discover him in the poor and lonely, the sick and troubled, the disabled, the aged, the unwanted, all those who are waiting for your smile, who need your help, and who crave your understanding, your compassion and your love.
"The more you discover the fascination of the peace of Christ, and try to pursue it with the help of God and through the discipline and effort it requires, the better you will be able to be apostles to other young people in Australia and beyond. 'Your effectiveness as peacemakers will be in direct proportion to the degree in which you accept Christ's peace into your own hearts," Pope John Paul told the embly.
In your song you have raised your voices and your hearts to him, telling him: "We are gathering to celebrate your word, 0 Lord". indeed, you have come together here to celebrate his word his word of peace, Pope John Paul told the youth of Australia. "This evening, through His Gospel, Jesus has revealed Himself to you. Like the disciples you rejoice in his presence; you rejoice when you hear him saying: "Peace be with you" (Jn 20:21). "jt is the peace of his Resurrection that Jesus Christ communicate to you and brings into our lives. "t is the peace of victory the victory over sin is the peace of reassurance - the reassurance of eternal life. "It is the peace of faith in Jesus, the peace that comes from accepting him as the Word of life, as the eternal Son of God who in the mystery of the Incarnation, by becoming the Son of Mary, became the brother of us all. "It is the peace of humanity renewed and made strong by contact and communion with the living Jesus the Jesus who is "the firstborn from the dead" (Col 1:18); the Jesus who continues to live in his Church; the Jesus who wishes to unleash in the world the power of his peace, and who wishes to do so through you young people," John Paul said. "And so lesus repeats to you tonight those everlasting words: "Peace be with you". With all the love of his heart, Jesus wants his peace to become your peace. At the same time he continues to speak to you as he spoke to his Apostles: "As the Father sent me, so am I sending you," (Jn 20:21) he said.
Challenge is clearly to love
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Peace has its human dimensions and human demands. But does this mean in practice? How can peace become the reality of our lives, the reality of our world? Pope John Paul asked at the Sydney Youth Rally. "I have spoken many times of
the practical dimensions of peace, of what we must do to preserve and develop God's gift of peace the peace that Jesus is so willing to share with us," he said.
"It has often been repeated: • if you want peace, work for justice. • if you want peace, defend life. • if you want peace, proclaim truth. • if you want peace, "always treat others as you would like them to treat you'' (Mt 712) In a word: • if you want peace, you must love: "You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength ... You must love your neighbour as yourself'. (Mk 12.30) "All this involves personal effort and discipline. It involves accepting ourselves and others as creatures of God, as children of God, as human beings dependent for our God's happiness
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How a carol began
There is no Christmas hymn or carol which is more universally sung than the one first heard at the Christmas eve Mass of 1818 in the small market town of Oberndoft, a few miles from Salzburg. Today, it possesses a far more romantic and and enduring fame all because the organ in the ancient church of St Nikolaus had broken down a few weeks before that particular Christmas.
any church of those days, belonged to a local school teacher, Franz Gruber. Gruber was a great friend of the church's pastor.
Both were as poor as the proverbial church mice, that in a round-about way were destined to do them both such a good service.
This guitar, surely the most unexpected of musical instruments, brought inside
Law, which is his plan for our lives. In unity among yourselves you will find strength, and in unity you will reach peace -- the peace of Christ," John Paul
said.
"This unity is a reality here tonight -a
great reality. "It is unity in diversity. "And this diversity is authentically Australian; it is authentically Catholic. 'You represent many different groups with different specific aims, but you are one in the name of Jesus, one in the peace of
Jesus.
You are one in the ideal of Christian service, one in pursuing justice, one in proclaiming the truth of the equal human dignity of all human beings. ··You have come from different ethnic groups, and the very fact that you have gathered here shows that vou intend to reject all forms of prejudice and discrimination based on race. origin, colour,
Christmas 1986 culture, sex or religion. "You are open and open you must be to the great cultural diversity which enhances your unity as Australians and manifests your Catholicity. Your membership in varied Church groups and movements also shows that you have grasped the important principle of diversity as applied to the one apostolate of the Church. ·Within the sacred unity of the Church, there are many different ways of serving the Lord.
"There is 'one and the same Spirit who distributes different gifts to different people, just as he chooses' ( Cor 12:11), one Spirit who inspires all to work in unison for the one aim of building up the Body of Christ and of spreading his peace," the pope said.
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'\ TENNIS by PETER MESSER Tennis activities will quieten down for the next few weeks with most families caught up in the Christmas festive season and holidays.
St Joseph's Pignatelli wound down their tennis season with their life members' annual trophy day. The day's tennis was arranged by the club's life members Marlene Verga, Kevin Lloyd, Pat Pike, Jim
McLinden, Len Houlahan and Mark Busanich. There were 35 club members participating in what was a fitting end to a very successful season for
the club. The trophy winners were Pauline Gorringe and Neils
Rutzou with Dee Nunn and
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The St Benedict's club had cause to celebrate recently when two of their members Donna Hackett and John Ward announced their engagement. We wish the happy couple all the best for their future lives together.
TELEVISION CHRISTMAS
"The Sunday Magazine" on Channel 7 on Sunday December 21, has captured the spirit of Christmas in countries far
At the last meeting of the association executive it was decided a mixed doubles tournament would be arranged to begin organised tennis activities for 1987. The tournament will be played on the weekend of March 21/22 at the Trinity courts in Manning. Entry forms will be available through the club's early in the New Year. Players will choose their own partners and the tournament will take the form of a round robin so that all players will continue playing
throughout the weekend regardless of whether they win or lose. It should be an excellent warm up for the mixed pennant season which will commence on the following weekend March 28 1987. On behalf of Mike Kowald and the executive of the association I extend to you all best wishes for a happy and safe Christmas. See you on the tennis court in 1987.
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Parishioners of Brentwood Willetton have a more positive view of marriage following a series of talks presented at Regina Coeli church and Brentwood and Saint John and Paul church Willetton. Mass Homilies for a month were replaced by talks on marriage. Last year the series concentrated on the theme of vocations. Parish Councillors asked Hilda and Des Klaas from Engaged Encounter to speak on "Preparation for Marriage". Clive and Mary Samuels from Marriage Encounter asked members of that group to talk on "Communication in Marriage" Jenny and Chris Gardener asked various parish members to tal< on Spirituality in Marriage and the Paulian Association were asked to speak on "The needs of the Separated and the Divorced and how we as a parish community could respond to these needs. People spoke from their own personal experiences for 8-10 minutes.
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At Subiaco church last week sixty new catechists who had completed the 1986 training course were given their certificates commissioning them to teach in state schools. The following parish representatives received the certificates on behalf of the number of candidates shown in brackets: Bassendean, Doreen Gibson (3); Bateman, Fr P. Whitely (5); Belmont/Redcliffe, Fr M. Rego S.M. (5);
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