The Record Newspaper 06 August 1987 by The Record

In this last of th1 e interviews on the pa toral care asp • t of the prie thood, The Record spoke to Father Jim Car oran of Armadale pari h.

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Church ead rs ge to work or n y rea ity

BRISBA TE: Before a large audience in Brisbane City Hall, leaders of the Catholi ,

and Uniting Churches signed a common declaration to ·ork towards the fulfilling of the

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MELBOURNE: Retired auxiliary bishop John A. Kelly d'ed recently aged 71. He grew up in Heidelberg except for short periods in Canberra and in Ireland before he trained at Corpus Christi College Werribee, being ordained in 1940. Even in those days his ability as a debater was evident in his summer spent at the Y arra Bank speakers' domain. In latter years he became fam.ous for his sparring in The Age newspaper with Philip Adams, and public y debating Senator Susan Ryan in Mentone to\\'11 hall. He was an accomplished tenor so oist and \ •as diocesan cantor for many years. In 1968 he was vicar for in-service training and in 1970 became icar for prie ts, being o dained auxi iary bishop along with the present Archbishop Litt e, during the Eucharistic Congress in 1973.

churches also took part ral the then leaders pledged: '·Confident in in the service. The unity service was the pm 'er or that Cructhe c lmination of the ified and Risen Lord, we Christians in Dialogue commit ourselve anew program in which prin- to the task f promoting cipally Catholi , An°li- unity with unshakeable cans and Uniting fa'th, rene\ ·ed hope and Ch re members ha ·e ever-increasing love." n the City Hall cerem~ been enga ed ·n discusions on baptism, euch- ony the si 0 ned de Iaralion was rea by 1 fr ari t and mini tr '. avis Busch, widow o The 1987 declara ion the ren0\\ ed churchof he leaders late : an R v re d Rollie " e commit ourselves Busch , • o died t.,·o to vork together go. to varrl f lfilling at ya h1 the dream of unity: vhen a ·ill II b 0

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PRETORI , o th Africa ( C): Father Sman g a l i s o Mkhatsh a. the 4 7 rear old secretary general of the southern rrican bishops' conference ill retain his post d pite his continued detention by the South African government, the conference said.

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statement said the bishops reiterate "their vehement protest" agains the priest' continued detentio . Father Mk hat h a, the f'rst black to hold the confere e po t. •a detained on June 14 1986, l vo da s after the u African go ·ern-

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"De pit fi ·e Supreme court applic tions,'' the bishops ha e b en unsucce 1 in uring the prie t's release it said.

Sister Brigid Flanagan, the acting secretar general of the bisho • conference, said he i "well, ph sica ly and morall ,,. and she added he • visited regularly b his relatives and b , the prison chaplain. Ho ever, Bishop \ illiam 'apier of o tad, chairman of the bishop ' conference, -. as recent! • refu ed permission to • it him.

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Alan Clark, Britain's trade minister, recently spoke out sharply and urged closer coordination of overseas aid and trade. He wants to see aid used not so much to transfer resources to developing countries, but as part of a closer partnership based on mutual recognition of profit and advantage". Mr Clark sees two advantages in linking aid and trade: it would help British industry,· it would - he claims - make an aid policy more acceptable to the public. He is wrong on both grounds. There is a case for tightening up on the terms of aid. Billions of dollars spent by Latin American countries on wasteful projects have come to haunt both the countries and the international banks that lent the money. But there is absolutely no case for taking discretion over the terms of aid away from the recipient countries and instead using the money to assist British ;ndustrial companies. The sums given by governments in official aid are paltry. All the rich countries have fallen behind even the modest target of providing 0.7 per cent of gross nationaf product in official aid. Aid could be seen as the be9innin9s of a global income ax system hereby the rich countr·es provide some resources to the poor. The needs of hat Mr Clark calls "U.K. Lrd." are much less pressing than tho e of the desperately poor people of Chad; Bangladesh and other poor countries. The object should be to see that aid gets to benefit the poor and is not iphoned off e;/her by corrupt Third World polrli ians or inefficient British businessmen. 11

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TENSION MARS A NIVERSA y VILN US: Although 30,000 Ca holies attended Lithuania's 60oth anniversary celebrations in s·x city churches, there were tensions between the government and ch rch officials.

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Misconceptions about jam-making and brass cleaning would have been shattered bv a visit to the general a sembly of the World ,Un • n of Catholic omen's Organisations (WUCWO) held in London, Business- omen shared experience and prayers with manual worker. and hou ewive . all repr n ing na ion I Catholic orga i a • ns. The purpose of the meeting reached far bevond that of ,.awareness raising... Channels of practical vpport financial a d dvisory, were et up b tween de elop d and und ,developed nat ·ons. And women shared hopes for their families and far their own position in society w#hin a diverse mix of cultures linked by respect for Catholic te chng. WUCO could have a central ale to play in the advancement of Cathofi women expected to follow the Synod on the Laity. To do thi it must extend its r, "ches to more women, inside and outside the Church.

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Can going to church be advertised like soap powder? Four leading agenc ·e have ju t b n challenged to come up with advertising aimed at '#relaunching" the Church of England and rebuilding its pari hes in the face of a long decline in attendan e. This is a problem Catholics know about too: lapsed Catholic is a big religion. The admen's offerings are ngeniou. One agency has the Church offering to "fill the gaps in your life" - between baptisms, weddings and funerals. Antoh r, more controversially pictured Terry Waite and asked: ''He can't m e it to church this weekend. What#s your excuser Our favourite thought wa "Party t God' House. His place, unday• ., We like th t See

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Cardinal Ratzinger said the in ha 'a meeting is making an effort to combine other traditional frican form of marriage , ·ith the Chri tian tradition. p to now, he said, the \ e tern form of mat rimony "has ·not found an organic place in the way an frican approache marriage. " he objective i to find a form th t. on th

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DUBLI, , ( C): 'oung Irish girl's tale of an encounter 'th the Virgin Mary has set off a new \ ave of vision seekers. As Kathleen (her surname is being " 'thheld b her guardian) knelt for a brief prayer before a ne\ ly blessed statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in the remote Irish ·illage of Letterfrac la t spring, she said she

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1h , should I feel that I had c me om ? r don't have an; of ·our histor' 'n m , back· ground and ~e here I am Hn at home.

crm d of p ople ·n r citing the Rosar at the grotto, original! • built b a local man named Mr Patrick 1 fortimer. This is the second appar'f on stir in Ireland in recent •ears. Two ears ago, there 1 ere several reports that statues of Our Lad in variou parts of Ireland were seen moving, and people ru h d to the site .

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Catholic priests "have not tooted our o vn horns" about the priesthood enough with young people, said Bishop E den Curtiss of Helena. Young people often view priests' lives as "routine, boring and unspeclacu ar" because they are unaware of "the incredible •ariet ' of experiences 1. e have,"

Father James Corcoran, parish priest of St Francis Xavier parish Armadale hails from Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland. His younger brother Father Tim Corcoran is parish priest of Whitfords. Father James Corcoran studied a St Flannan's College, County Clare before entering St Kieran's College, Kilkenny where he was ordained on June 2, 1963.

Arri •ing in Australia in December that year, he commenced duties in he Cathedral parish ·nc uding a period as secretary to Archb' hop Goody in 1970.

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He then became assistant priest at Subiaco ntil his appointment to Ka balda n Octo er 1974, ollowed y a trans er lo Goo , ailing i 1978.

in his diocesan newspaper, The Montana Catholic. He said that priests should te 1 others, especially oun people, ab ut their "peak expel'iences '. He cite the camarad rie o the prie th d, t joy of "celebrati litur • and re ncil 1

Father im Corcoran of Armadale parish, befiev s more young men shou d be attra ted to pr·esthood:

arms in baptism," the friendships, the satisfactions, the shared experiences of prayer and spiritual grmvth, "our song and laughter, our hobbies and creati vi lies." Instead, he said, "we have been intimidated" by negative or romanticised images of the priesthood, and "we ha ·e not s ared our posith'e experiences." •• e have to break out of this holdi g pattern,' the b' hop aid in the mid-Ma, column, and • to shuck l d, long · eant ima riesthood which ha

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Revelation's vivid • ima ger y In the book of Revelation, images tumble out one after the other. Some are strange to say the least: a lamb with horns covered with eyes (5:6). or a huge humanlike figure with a sword coming out of its mouth (1 :16). There are sounds of trumpets, flashes of lightning and the smell of burning incense (8:3-5). Some of the images are frightening: plagues (6:8) and earthquakes (11:13), fierce dragons (Chapters 12-13). stars falling from the sky (12:4). At the end of the book, after a fierce battle in the heavens. the whole of creation disap· pears while a new heaven, a new earth ·and a new Jerusalem appear (Chapters 20-21) The combination of confu510n and fright puts many readers off. and the emotional pitch hardly makes for light reading . Unlike the Gospels and Epistles. which are fairly straightforward reading, the book of Revelation ~ s anything but easily approachable. But despite tts strangeness, the book of Revelation has a relevant mesage for today - though different from the predte· tions often read into it,

The book of Revelation stands out from the rest of the writing style of the New Testament. but actually it is an example of a rather common form of religious writing of that day: the apocalyptic form , Had we lived in the time of the first Christians, or even a hundred years earlier, we would have recognised that style as easily as we recognise the literary forms of an essay, a newspaper report. an editorial or a detective novel today. The apocalyptic form was a standard form of literature, and it included as a matter of course many of the things that at first make the book of Revelation so mystifying Symbolism predominated - weeks made up of years. numbers standing for names. beasts representing the nations nd emp,res of the time, gemstones and metals suggesting charac• ter traits Beasts. warm the heavens, destruction of the earth - all these things which we find so strange would have been expected by the first readers of the Apocalypse (Revelation), just es we expect to find horses. gunfights, posses nd cowboys in a Western

By Father Fran!< Majilca Some elements added to the overall drama and sense of scale (a third of the stars being swept from the sky for instance). When symbols in Revelation stood for actual people, places and things. they were keyed to the world of the readers. The harlot Babylon is pagan Rome (17,9). The woman pursued into the desert as the church (12:17), Th beast whose number IS 666 IS Nero (13 1 8). The reader is called to make assoaa tions with happenings in lhE Old Testament. The plagues (Chapter 16).

God's triu mp h made I C ea r Like a dramatic play or an opera, the book of Revelation might be at its best when aloud read straig ht through. Biblischolar cal J.P.M. Sweet that makes interesting sugin gestion "Revelat ion" (Westmin ster Pelican Commentar ies,

for example, suggest tha1 like the slaves in the Exodus. the new people of Israel car look forward to deliverance. The early Christians knew how to read the book of Revelation. It was a familiar literary form, and it was written for their situation. There is a message in the book for today, too. But those who read its symbols literally, or see them referring to present-day nations and politics do not realise that the Apocalypse is an Revelation apocalypse. In apocalypitc language the author presents the war of evil against God. Those who first read Revelation are assured that the victory has in fact already been won in Jesus. The author was sayrng to hlS fellow Chris• tians: "You are nght. A war is raging . It is the great war, the ultimate struggle. But the rssue of that war ,snot in doubt. So have courage and stand fast 1" Like the Gospels, the book of Revelation presents good news

Wh at is this book called Rev misunder The book of Revelation too often remains closed to people. It is the most misunderstood, yet strangely fascinating book in the Bible, writes Father John Castelot. Revelation ha a message of hope for Christians today. But to grasp its message, it is vital to understand the fonn in which the book was composed, the writer explains. Father Castelot teaches Scripture at St John's Seminary in Plymouth,

Michigan. Jesuit Father Frank Majka discusses some of the fantastic images that appear in the pages of Revelation. pointing out that the combination of confusion and fright puts many readers off. This book of the New Testament is not light reading, but it can pay dividends to those who persevere, he says. Father Majka is a pastoral minister and theology teacher in Milwaukee, WtSCOnsin. To uncover the meaning of the book of Revelation for Christians today, Katharine Bird turns to a book by biblical scholar J.P.M. Sweet and interviews a biblical scholar, Benedictine Father Daniel Durken, director of the Liturgical Press in Collgeville, Minn. Revelation is meant to encourage, not discourage, to inspire faith, not fear, Father Durken says. Ms Bird is associate editor of the NC Religious Education P ckage.

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The book of Revelation 1s the difficult. mo t mo t mi undertoad and yet trangel , fa cinating book in the Bible. 'o v. onder! It 1s \ ritten m a literary form \.\ ith which mo ·t people are totally unfamiliar: the apocalyptic form. Actua 11 y, the book's overall form is that of a letter While it contain· even letter to church commu01t1es in pecific places, each letter 1s intended for all tho ·e churches.

It helps to realise that Revelauon 1s a letter written to Christians in sia Minor We tern (now Turkey). It was meant to help them live the Chri tian life in difficult circumstance . The author call this book a "prophecy". That has led to the wild interpretations . For "prophecy" in modern peech sugge t pred 1ct10n of even future events

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In the Bible. prophec) wa an m ·ightful interpretation of current events rn the hght of faith. The great Old Te tament prophet were men of their time , concerned with the "now·• situation. The book of Re,elation i prophecy in that biblical en e. It interprets the current socio-polit1cal and relig1ou situation from the viewpoint of Chnstian faith. It warn reader again t compromi ing with a dangerously eductive value sy tern , But why on earth did the author convey hi

me age in uch ob ure langu,1ge? ) 111 hol 1c. ctually 1l wa not all that ob cure to h1\ audience.

The apoc,1I) pile form of wntlng ,,as ,er:, popular in the period between the econd centur B and the cond centur) ,\0. The ) mbob were tandard, their meaning contant. l he right people would get the mes age, people' the while couldn't oppres ors proH what wa meant. fhat wa • good. for thi wa sub,er i,e literature directed again t the pre1,a1lmg power structure. Had the author written in unmistakably clear prose he would have been probabl) arrested, executed.

The fir t clear example of thi type of apocalyptic wnting 1s in the Book of Daniel, written about 165 B . It bol tered the courage of the Jew dur-

ing the horrcndou per ecuuon launched by \nuochu IV of Syria II indication uggc t that Re,elation wa circulated toward the end of the reign of the Emperor D01111t1an( 1-96,\D) t that time, the problem for the hn uan wa more ubtlc and dangerous than o,ert per ccu11on. It wa a 11mc of relat11,c calm There were sporadic, local per ecu11011 ( cc ReHla11on 2: 11), But 1n general quite were things peaceful

DOD Therein lay the pen!. Christian could be lulled into helieving that Rome real!) what 1t wa claimed to be: a,1our of the world . Wor hip of the emperor wa zealous!) promoted in the province . Religion wa woven into the very fabric of life: e,cry trade guild had it "dinne" patron and its own liturgy. D1dn 't common en e dictate that Chri tian go along with the y tem·l author Revelation'

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1th a re ponded re oundmg no Don: uan ,, a not "our lord and our God," a he cho e to be c lied, C hri t was. t\nd Rome' ,alue ptem wa diametrically oppo ed to the Go pel.

ODD 1s ud 1en ce fhe reminded of ero ': sa,age per ccutwn. He no'n t) p1f1ed the " 10us char· acter of Rome In Chap· ter I J Re, elation call him "the bea t" and ref· ers to him b, the code number 666. \\ h)' Each letter had a numerical ,alue. and the letter in , •ero Caesar added up to 666

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DOD The book' o,erall me sage 1s one of hope Rome I d tined lor s lfdes1ruct1on, all inhuman regime earn the eed, of their own dis oluuon

Christian must stand fast, God will be ullimatcl) victoriou and at the end-time all evil. incarnate no in pagan be will Rome , vanquished. This message is always meaningful. espec1al1) in regimes which claim to be in trument of God and where patrioti m (love of country) ri k degenerating into patriolatry (wor hip of country) , God· word cannot be exchanged for deceitself- erving ful, propaganda.

To an u ware read rt book of Ruelation can strike like a bolt of light ing. Compared with the crystal clarity and straigbt, forward presentation of ev nts anch ecdotes ia the Gospels and the epistles of e New Test ment, Revelation's quite different style can seem murlly difficult to und rstand. H can fright n people away. Yet, like the rest of the New Testament, Revelation has a message to present about the Cood News. It too is talking about Jesus the innocent lam slain to redeem others, bout his Father, about the relation hip of Je s' followers with others in the man community. "Revelation's owerall essage is intend d to give people hope," said Fatller John Castelot, a professor of Scripture at St John's Seminary in Plyouth, Michigan. In pr se ting Cood News, Revelation relates to the N w Tes~ment rest of "by foe ssing on the cenme of Je5115' teac tral iag": the reign of Cod w ich Jesus inaug rated with his death and ressurrection. Revelation curies the N ws about the kin C dom of Cod "to its lti mate co I si : that Cod's ,icthat tory will co e" forces of evil will lie o, r' Fa r Cast tot said.

He added that the book of Revelation's "beautiful, positive message" comes rough especially well in C apter 21:4. H re Revelation presents a highly poetic vision of "the new Jerusalem" where the faithful will d•ell in h pp, iness with Cod. It r ads:

details, Sweet said. Its total effect appeals to the emotions as well as to the intellect.

moment when pain and trouble may seem overwhelming and Asked what he look to the future recomwould when God will mend to a reader triumph. who wants to get A main concern the most out of in Revelation "is r reading Revelato wake up the tion, Father churches which By Durken suggested are slipping into talcing a good look Katharine conformity with at the book's foottheir world, at the Bird notes and referenexpense of their ces. For the reader witness to it," who does so, a Sweet said. It "collage of Old warns that people Testament figures The message of need to be shown and passages, Revelation "is "the deadliness of color and events'' timeless", said compromis e in soon appear , he 1979). tine spite of its apparIn the hour BenedicDaniel ent re\,ards - explained. RevelaFather looks "in to and a half such Durken in an and the real tion past to see the a reading takes, interview. It is as rewards of wit- how God will book's valid for people ness to the truth bring us through" the striking lan- today as it was for in pite of its a long dark night. ui iguage, charged fir t-century apparently dal folly." Revelat ion battle scenes Christians. Father Durken i director also reveals that "God and contrast- of The Liturgical The book reminds Chris- did it all before," images Pre s, College- tians that they Father Durken ing come to life. ville, inn. "Reve- have a vital part to added. For The listener lation is meant to fill in bringing in tance, with an encourage not about God's final God's help, the forms impressio n of discourage, to triumph. During Israelites beat the faith not this prolonged the Revelati on's inspire Father time, they have a Egyptians and fear," s yrian message "as a Durken said. It role to fulfil, coop- e caped from whole", with- encourages peo- erating with God exile in Babylonia getting ple to take the in bringing about and survived the out bogged down long view, to look a "new earth" and destruction of the the a "new heaven". Temple. 1n its man beyond

"He shall dwell with them and they shall be his people he sh II wipe every a tear fr m their ey s and re shall be no more death or o rning, crying ovt or pain." For an attentive re der, t e Cood News is the priming through ary theme all the books in e New Testa nt, Fath r Castel ot ded that the said. He mea ing of the Cood News can be mmed p in a few words: "T is is w at Cod has d Chrisl" T e Cood News reveals tbt "Je s by is life a d death and res rrection frees s from all that e Ines s, from the twisted val e system which St Paul calls si ," the scholar co ti ed. "It also giv s us llope ohictory ov r death." Getting tile message the Cood News "is i portant beca se it gives a ·n to h ma life," the scholar conti111ell. "Witlu.llf it hu I ity w hi still lte enslnetl i• a less cycle." viciou

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Mass to celebrate 50 years of faith

: : :: : : ChurJII Moderator Reverend :::: Barry Dangerfield called church disunity!:!: "The ugly blasphemy which mocks the Cross of Christ and insults his :::: name." :::: He said that the Christians In Dialogue stu- ( dies based on the Lima :;:: St Aloysius parish, Shenton Park, is documents "Have been celebrating "50 years of faith in action and an historic meeting we welcome all former parishioners to the place for many ChrisMass and jubilee reception afterwards/' said tians who for a time have been able to rejoice :;:: parish priest Father Holmes. in areas of genuine :::: Mass will be at 2 pm, Sunday, August 16 and Christian agreement !:]: the subsequent reception at Onslow Lodge in the rather than in maximis- :::: Shenton Park Village complex "will provide ing their difference ." / people with an opportunity to greet old and new He quote Mahatma ;::: friend ," said Father Holmes. "Any handicapped Ghandi's answer to a :::: people will be assisted." query on what he { thought was the greatest } The present parish community thought it a good threat to Chri tianit , in :::: opportunity to record the history of the parish and India. He answered in a i:i have put together a b oklet containing contribuword . . . Chri ti ns! :=: ion from lay and religious people who've be n "The Indian loo ·ed at :\: iated with St lo ius. the divided Body of { hri nd in our div- :::: w parish of h nton Park named Rosalie, i ion the aw p ople bli hed in Ma 37 a ather more intent on upholdD ddy appointe i h t. i g deno inational ilding i Henr tructu e that up n the :::: nv nt pr pe ty nily whi h f Ch i ' pray r f r Hi :;:: hur h. :;:: od ( r n m v - :::: th pirit :::: lpcd bl .. n )

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or the srde of your head, dragging you off to your death7 I wouldn't Sure, Jesus ate fish Can we be sure he isn't asking us to progress a bit now, 1950odd years laterl After all, he drdn"t campaign against slavery, either. God's original law on food (in Genesis chapter 1) was 'I give you all the seedand all bearrng plants the trees wnh seed-bearing frurt, thrs shall be your food" The concessions came later God 1s waiting for us to go ba to our original relat1onsh1p wrth his creation When do, there won't be any frshermen

Sir, I commend Ken Lawrence (The Record, July 30) on his apprecIatIon of the article on Father Geoff Aldous and hrs pastoral ministry In regard to hrs query about the meaning of the advert,seme t for the priesthood all I can say Is what I seem rt t speaks to me of the role of a priest as a hfe grvrng one. It Is open ended and h s unending hfe as rts main goal. I hope too many do not g t the enlightened message that Ken Lawrence received If they do, then the very meagre trickle of enquiries I receive from any advertisement would dry up altogether! This series of articles on priests and various aspects of their ministry 1s a priestly vocation promotion It was suggested by a lay person, taken up enthus,astrcally by The Record and contributed to generously by our busy priests One of our reservations about the venture was that It may not reach many I am very glad that Ken Lawr nee and others who have spoken to me personally hav both noticed and at h s been offered so f r appreciated I would hope that adults and parents could use these articles as a d1scuss1on starter with young people on the subject of priestly vocation

Service shortage

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Belmont P ri h and SVOP talwart worker aurice Jones died of a sudden seri s of eart , is week. a ed 54. attack thr e months until there er Born m Durban. South Afric he saw his f am1ly pht by no h11e a ers for hrs adver South Africa· partherd law lrsed position. nd had to or m a non- pprentice becau e ome of the eleven ituation for f1 e ye r before eluded, ainmg trade quahhc 10n as In South Africa he from th 1r Car ican mother even though their father as pr 1dent of Ourban YC and YC national tr surer Germ n•Welsh He m, rated o Australia m 1972. o mg for nm year th Vang ard. nnt r of T Record In h, Belmont pan h he had p r, h council been 1th n intema member. pre 1den of th onery firm he had SVDP conferenc and night of the South rn Cro olour d tatu for

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Thomas' superb opera 'Mignon' a great success l

Chosen as the artistic highligh during the 20th anniversary year of the Western Australian Opera Company, Mignon, on open·ng night, was an outstanding success. The sets were superb, the costumes stunning ·n colour and design, sing·ng and acting excellent and the opera, composed by Ambroise Thomas in Paris in 1866, beautifu.

The story content was light and satisfying and the whole production was a pleasure to watch and listen to. Jt is hard to imag·ne why this opera has not been performed ·n Australia for the past 60 years, as it is such a delight. Performances yet to run will be at His Majesty's Theatre on August 12, 14 and 15. All performances are sung in English which adds to its appeal. The cast was Deborah Riedel as Mignon, Jenn·fer McGrego as Philine, Christopher Doig as Wi helm, Canal Coad as othario, Anne Cunn •ngham as Frederic , Bernar Hull as Laertes and Ian Vayne as Giarno, with the WA Opera Chorus (Chorus Master Gary May) and the WA Arts Orchestra Leader John Pokorny . Musical Director was Gerald Krug, Producer James Christiansen, Assistant Con uctor Gary ay, Designer oli Pa azoglou and lighting Designer Kenneth Rayner. e story is based on Migno , who s olen as a child from er fathe s cas i sod • to sla ery to a Gyps master. Res ued b p me t for her freedom rom a trave ling stude t, e rsuades him o tak r a ong o hi tra e . r t of th o ra ·s gi en over to finding he ide ti and bi hplace. And •he ultima - her fa her, o ince h r bduct· h b n wan ri g half raz d, in an effort t fin I

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The lead 87 Club Show was the final presentation by the Irish Club, ma king he end of five weeks of great entertainment There i a lot of talent within their ranks and seen within the warmth a d conviviality of the Club surroundings, it a added up to area y successful rish festival. Produ ed and presented by Paddy Larkin, the Club Show featured Sean Byr e on guitar, Joe and Lottie Crozier with folk songs and gu·tar, Jimmy Rogers enterta·n·ng, Kiaran A n singer and the Sean Doherty Ceili Band playing traditional musi . Two sket hes were put on: The Spinster by ileen Walsh and Compensating Jem by

Annette Do nelly. As usual, rish performers are great for t ese homely comedy fun ketches, and th y wer great to watch. All round it wa wel worth attending with a ca thoro gh y e joying th laughs and talent.

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MARIAN CALENDAR

RIVERTON: At Schoenstatt Shrine the crowning of Our La~y as Queen of the Family on August 22, at 2.30pm. Archbishop Foley will officiate at the celebration. The Schoenstatt Family of WA invite all who love the Mother of God to participate. For further inform;1tion phone 457 2966.

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As part of the celebration of the 78th anniversary of the death of Mary McKilBUUSBROOK: lop. Servant of God, Co-Foundress of our The annual Mass for Our L dy's Birthday will be Co grega ·on of the Sisters of St Joseph celebrated on September 13, at 11 m, in the church of the of the Sacred Heart. there will be a Mass Virgin Mary Mother of the church. at 7.30pm, Monday August 10 in the Also on every first and third Sunday of the month, Mass North Perth Redemptorist Church. will be celebrated at 9 .30am. For more informaton phone 057- 11699. If no answer ORTHAM - GOOMAW G 444 2285. Because of a re-arrangement of Masses

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Thirty-four acolytes from thirteen pari es in the Eastern Zone gathered at Infant Jesus Church, Morleyfortheirthird annual day of recollection. The Retreat Master was Fr Raymond Clasby ODC, who poke on devotion to Our lady and The Marian Year, howing acolytes their relationship with Christ thro gh The Mother of God. During the day many men received the Sacrament of Reconciliation, nd particbefore I ch, co ipated • Holy cludi g with The Rosary at 4pm. ad "nclude a year Activitie for ocial evening for all Eastern Zone nd their partners in February co yte 1988, a d culm"nati g with the 1988 retreat in July.

between Northam and Goomalling parishes the following schedule now operates: Bakers Hill: Sat 7pm (1st, 3rd, 5th w/ e ds). Bogart: Sat 7pm (2nd, 4th), Sundays 8am (1st. 3rd, 5th). Dowerin: Sat 6pm (1st, 3rd. 5th), S ndays 1 0am (2nd, 4th). Goomalling: Sat 6pm (2nd, 4th), OSBORNE PARK: S nday 1 0am (1st. 3rd, 5th). Lady At St Kier. n's the solemn novena in honour of Our Jennacubbine: Sundays 8 m (2nd, starts August 7 nd will be conducted by Father D n Foley. 4th) . For more infonnation phone 444 1334. Toodyay: Saturdays 8am (2nd, 4th), Send items for 'Marian Year Calendar' in Oam (1st, 3rd, 5th). WRITING to: 38 Great orthern H19 way, Wu dowie: Su days 10 m (2nd 4th) Midland, WA 6056 .

KW/NANA : At St Vincent and Our Lady of the Assumption church, Hope Valley, three davs of devotion to Mary starting Friday, August 14 at 11 m with the crowning of Mary's statue by St Vincent's school students. Vigil Mass Saturday, 7pm at Hope Valley church, concluding Sunday wit_h Marian devotion nd Benediction. For further information phone 419 2920.

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