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to JOI t e new WA Confere ce of C s was a ob igation he had o challenge he pe p e of e Ch rch, Arc bishop Foley said a an i au ural service ast Su day. "I was a c a le ge o o see ec me ism as an o ion o urn away from, bu a c a le ge he Lord ace before hem," es id int e p lpit of Wesley Ch rch.

He said h was "d lighted" in ing able to make this first step in what would be

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Tour discloses a better • mage "Australia has a very good image in Kampuchea," said Archbishop Foley on his return to Perth from a visit to Kampuchea and Thailand. "When the Karnpucheans spoke of the proce s for reconciliation and peace for their country, Australia wa named individually, along with India, a a po ible member of an Internation I ommi

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nvestigating how wealth s a red • n Aust On Social Justice Sunday in September 1989 the Australian Catholic Bishops intend to release a Statement dealing with the distribution of wealth in Australia. This document will be the outcome of a consultative process which is highly educational very public and open to the total community. Although the subject is daunting in its complexity, the bishops have cho en to address it because it is not only an e anomic but also an ethical is ue, one which raise difficult que tions about s ial justice indi 'dual rights and re p nsibility or the eneral good.

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MORE THAN SCHOOLING

As most Australian children have either begun or returned to school by now, it is appropriate that we consider, in a broad sense, what education is really about. In this regard, it is essential that we accept right from the beginning, that there is no more to education than schooling, while not denying, or course, that formal classroom training is an integral and essential part of the overall development of the child. No good educationist will deny, however, that it is in the home that the education of the child must start and be continued. It is in the home that respect for the school and the specialised skills the child will be taught there must be encouraged. It is in the home that the Christian spirit engendered in educa · n at a Catholic school must be augmented, enriched and put into practice. There are few things in the world more beautiful than a loving family. This is the fitting setting for bringing children into the world. Children to be properly brought up must be surround by love. f a child does not arn of lov in the ome, where in he world will he or she I rn of it?

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ROME ( 1C): I raeli P1 ime ini ter Yitzhak Shamir has de .ided not to meet with Pope John Paul II or other Vati n official during hi trip to Rome thi month.

VATICAN CITY: According to the V tican's 1985 tatlstlcs, of the 4.03 million Cathohc marriage ceremonies, 8.1 percent were mixed marnages. The percentage of mixed marr· ages has been static throughout the 1980s. The United State had the ixed mar' 112,93 , than all of

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pies). At the urn , Po e John Paul did not give a publication d te.

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M re freedom urged EAST BE LI : East German Cat elics should be allow o contribute to the nation's social development without aving to b co e members of the Co munist Party, said Cardi al Meis er f Berli .

Catholics must have "a op in the social development of t e country," e said. T e cardinal also criticised the expulsion of several East Ger an Protestants w o rotested at a gover ment raid last Dece her on a churc co mu ity called Sion, whose members i cl de enviro mentalists a d eace activists. T cardinal s p orted other East Ger n churches pressuring the gover ment to allow the expelled people to retur . T e cardi al also com fained that others wis to leave East Germa y e ey object o co itions t ere ot gra ed exit vlsas,

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LONDO ( C): he Church of England will part company with Catholic opinion with he general synod's rejection of a total ban on embryo experiments. The synod welcomed the British government's commitment to establish an independent licensing authority to regulate research and infertility services. The synod al o sup rt d th pro al that all surrogate motherhood arrang ments hould be I ft outside t e protec ion of the law in or r to discourage the pr ctice. Howev r, it rej ct d th id a of outlaw· ng all e p rimentation on human embryo . u ort r earch on em ryos p o 14 day a er co nee ti

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An Oblate Italian missionary who helped establish the Church in northern Laos is now traversing the world in search of Laotian Catholics who became refugees. Bishop Alessandro Staccioli, on visit to Perth, has found three Catholic families among some 200 Laotians believed to be here. Sister Patricia Byrne OLM has made contact with them through her work with Vietnamese migrants.

Italian Oblate's sea re

Three seminarians who pent their ummer alongside the i ionarie of Charity in Calcutta ay they ill · n ay be the ame spiritually and emotionally as when they eft. Thi as to a y nothing of he eigh their famil · e sa · th r had lost, ac ording to e tern tra ian memb r of the gro p ony Vall" , a third rear erninari n at de . e.

Bishop Staccioli was for eight years vicar apostolic of Luang Prabang before being expelled by the communists. For the past 10 years he has been an auxiliary bishop of Siena in his native Italy, with pastoral charge for Laotians now in diaspora.

ODD early half a million Laotians fled their country. More than 100,CXX) are in Thailand with some 20,CXX) children and 80,CXX) w nt to the US, 45,()(X) to France, 13,000 to Canada. This was a blow to th local Catholic Church that had only 33,(X)() m mbers out of a po ulation o three million. Bishop Staccioh was an early m mb r of an Oblate team that started from scratch in the north nd s w th Lao ian church grow o h point wh re it h d 6(X)()

communist takeover. Today the bishop of V1 ntian rs fr e but th bishop of Ta h k is und r hou arrest. The few Laotian priests remaining must confine th ir activiti s strictly to their

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Reflect on past week Reflect for a moment on the way the past week has gone for you. Try to recall the various roles played by other people as the week unfolded. Think too of how you have felt physically and emotionally - and how this has influenced you. Surely your week has had its ups and downs. You have seen people give each other encouragement and support; but you've also witnessed how people can detract from each other's days. tf nothing else, the days of your week probably have not gone totally according to plan. Did a thousand interruptions - welcome and

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unforeseen developments force you to recast plans? If voure hke many people, the days of your week didn't unfold quite as neatly as you might have wished Against this background. you hear again on Sunday that "the Word became flesh" Perhaps without irreverence you ask, Why? Why would the word of God choose to enter this kind of world, to become one of us? Basic to Chnsnarutv rs the Incarnation - the belief that God became man But the reality of the incarnation easily slips from view Or n rs taken for granted, treated as a simple fact of Chnstrarurv.

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To recapture the Incarnation - to regain a perspective on rt - tt ,s worthwhile to contemplate the fact that this rs not an abstraction The incarnate Word rs someone - Jesus Christ It rs a person you are contemplati ng This person interrelates with others, has feelings, teaches, listens Because the Word became flesh, because of this presence of God, one can conclude that human beings and their world are themselves transformed One can reason that human dignity has fresh meaning and that the world itself rs meant to be respected But 11 rs not only a process of reasoning that leads to these conclusions The fact rs that Jesus Christ as a person lived and acted and spoke in ways that enabled people to "see" what the dignity of human hie implies, what human rights are all about. In the Jesus of the Gospels one sees what love in the rather untidy confines of human hie can mean Undoubtedly no human person fully understands why the Word became flesh or precisely how vital the Incarnation rs for the transformation of the real world m which we lead our human hves 8

Anything lor publi ty, some would snicker Imagine this sign posted somewhere on the earth: "God slept I( here." Passers-by likely would read it and snicker while saying, "Imagine the audacity of that statement's writer. Anything for publicity!" There is something which cautions all of us , from too quickly affirming divinity in anything or anyone. People tend to be wary of anyone claiming divine support. /

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Yet a most fundamental beliefofChristians is that the Lord God, the creator of the universe, the absolute beginning and the final end or all that is, - became one of us. He not only slept here but ate here, spoke here and

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died here. And you know the rest of the story. But it is a story which easily can lose its wondrous tone when it becomes just routine. Like two friends or two spouses who know each other so well and begin to take each other for granted. The excitement caused by new knowledge, the joy experienced by that first declaration of affection, all that can grow stale if not refreshed with new ideas and approaches.

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A similar spirit of blandness can overshadow our belier in the incarnation. \\'e mav recite the words of belief, but we might as well be

The experience maned a major shift in Faaer Merton's spiritual lfe. Where pre,iously heaw his spirituality larg,1 as a personal relatimaip

But it should. Tra11st Father Thomas Meii ,n once told how he reached an unelCpel,d new understanclin1 of the incarnation du� a visit to a doctor. On ;s first trip outside ., abbey in more thai a decade, he was ll a comer waiting to er:� the street when 1e suddenly was st�;k with the realisation t all the strangers stanang around him were reked to God the same wa,he was.

with God, he now grasped more profoundly that the incarnation meant seeing God's presence in his neighbour as well. It meant learning to love others as Jesus loved them. From that point on, Father Merton's spirituality took a more outward focus. His interest in the things and people or the world led him to work on such issues as war and peace, and the relations of the world's great religions. Sometimes meditating on the ancient credal statement that Jesus was both God and human can help to renew our understanding of the one who pitched his lent among us and who remains among us in

ways somewhat hidden, but very real. Let me illustrate what I mean through the meditation that follows:

I believe in Jesus who joined personally together the two most opposite realities in the universe: the uncreated with the created. In that joining, the created part was changed forever. Atoms, elements and molecules were drawn into the space of God as representative of all atoms, elements and molecules. The universe was now a new and changed place and the earth was made to be a most special place.

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Because of the Incarnation, I cannot treat the land, the water and the people as if they were merely created realities. They are now bonded with God. They deserve to be cherished . The same holds true for myself. I am altered qualitatively hecasue Jesus became human. For six years, my wife and I have taken care of foster infants for varying periods or time. Taking care of those little ones, 40 so far, is tied to the incarnation for us.

Caring for these infants is our special way as a family of showing the connection between our faith in Jesus and our concern for others. It makes our abstract belief in the incarnation concrete.

Pope John Paul II has the custom of kissing the ground of every new nation he enters for the first time. It is ground already blessed by God's involvement with the earth. It already has been touched by God in Jesus.

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My Oaar Brother Silvius. GrHlings in th, lord. I trust that all in in your hous,ho/d 111 will and that 111, gr,in and oil I am sonding will continu, to find a profitabl, mark1t in Rom,. It is now three y11rs sine, I optntd our war,hous, her, in Eph,sus. As long as God

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shipwr,ck and th, 1mp11or k,1ps th, SUS p,ac,ful we should do well My family and I initially miss,d hf• in Rom,. But Eph,sus is a rich and cu/tur,d en,. It is warm and sunny. and buutifu/ly set so near th, sea. lik, Rom, w, a,. b/,ss,d with traditions and 11/ics of th, lord's apost/,s. For St John. St

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Luk, and Marr Magdal,n ar, buri,d h111, and th, numb,r of !1/i1r1rs is growing.

As you know. this city always has b11n a s11db1d of str1ng1 cuhs ,nd bizarn idus. Unfortunately this is tru, 1r1n 1mong t.J,os, who claim to b1 follow,rs of 111, lord. My Claudia. who miss,s the so/idifr of h,r Roman church. says that cults grow out of th, "'1 soil h,11. A g1n1r1tion 190 th, bishop, an imp11ia/ appoint11 n11d/1ss to s,y. was unarthodoL Fortunat,ly w, har. a 1ood bishop now.

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Spuking of bishops. 1ur w1r1hous1 is housing 1n1 among th, sacks of 111in and jars of olir, oil. R,n,tus. a bishop from som1wh111 north of 1111 Alps - fr•s. brothar Silvius. th,11 ar, 111/ p1opl, north of tb, Alps. though I think 111,y fir, in swamps) - has com, to Eph,sus for a council o/ all th, bishops. Th111 ar, 150 bishops now in th, city. and thos, of us witll room ta spar, bar, 0H111d them 111, hospit,lity of our hous,halds. Emp,ror Tj1odosius has call,d all 111, bishops h111 ta put an 1nd. I trust ta this talk coming from som, that 111, L11' J,sus was not truly God and man. This R,natus is a s,mp/1 man and. I am told. r,sp,ct1,/ by his p1op/1. H, w,s a monk until 111, p,ap/1 in bis town choi, him to b1 111111 bishop. w, 0H11,d him a couch. but fl, s/11ps like a s,rrant 111 1111 w111hous, floor.

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H, tills us som, pri,sts and bishops wbo conllnu, to say that 111, Lon J1sus is not truly Gad ,,.,, truly "'"' but tbat h is a pagan hero. half God ,Rd hall man. likl H,rcu/,s. Th111 fami/i,s bar, bH• Chnst11R for at /11st 100 y11rs. wt sam, still think likl ald-llm, ,,,ans.

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Charlie was waiting patiently for me after Sunday Mass as the worshippers filed out. After the last one wished me a good day, Charlie approached. In his band was a thick paperback, his finger sandwiched inside to a special passage. "Got a minute, father?" he asked opening his book to the designated page before I could answer. "Sure, Charlie," I said. "I was reading this passage the other day and it really shook me

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up." He began to quote frorn the Second Vatican Council document, The Church in the Modern World: "The pivotal point of our whole presentation will be the human person, whole and entire, d I d bod h sou an y, eart an conscience, mind and will," He stood there waiting. "Wh Y did 1 th a t s hak e you up?" I asked. "Well," he said, •• 1 . .

This make, us hu• n beings seem more impl an l th an God . A t I eaf. It sure bl urs l h e • 1e between the two." Right then I knew lis was going to take lire than a minute. I p.Jli it further ' "You are right. Ch.ire. The lines are blurred Then. taking hiscopof the council documea 1 turned to the passage dt after the one he which says, "Thus be mission of the chll'h will show its reli� and by that very fadl � h u�n supreme I y chararter" .,. 1 looked at him. · '1 1 =.ms to say the. rn> religious sornethins s,

the more human it is. doesn't it?" "Yeah," Charlie answered looking a bit stunned. The reality of the incarnation had hit home again. For the next hour or so. Charlie and I redisoovered the profound and s., tahircht in l es ) ug s'bdr1 tfhf i emear �:_e , • ��, The lines between God and us, heaven and earth, nature and grace, time and eternity are blurred. dist l is true that we can · tinguish these words · an d give t h em c 1 r definitions. But that's just the point.

concepts. It is an experience, a life, a person. This realisation gripped the early Christians. In the first letter of John. for example, we can almost , I h ,ee l e aut h or bes'ieging us with it:

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rience. In our feelings, in our questions, in our · our re I anon· d reams. rn . . . hi s rps, in our creations, m our memories, in our si I ence we ha vet h e point of contact with God. The human person is the pivotal point. hut the pivotmg is always toward s God . good haC �:!ep�!:��;::\��

there in the midst of his human experience God came t o hi m. Jesus made the possibility of such closeness a reality. After Jesus, our · very h umanness IS l he medium for God's presence ied th' If Ch ·1. gharie cafm h h h!S thou t muc urt er e ��u!�;e:l;��l/1::"..J

Discussion Points The first chapter of the Gospel of John says,

"In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God." The gospel also says that "the Word became flesh and made his dwelling amoung us". • If you contemplate the reality of the incarnationasseenintheJesusoftheGospels, wh f s:'o r inc::o::n � � implications of the

Paop/a in this ,nd al th, world still s,t gr,at ster« ,n paganharo,s. Thrr1ish11dl'' a hill outsid, 111, en, wrthout an a/111 or shnn, of som, h 111 or othar. An,/ 11111 _.._..,1 shoMld know b,ttar would make th, Lor,/ inti just •• f ·• anomlf O tnem. Andth1y11fus,tosp11kaf Marr as Iha math,r if God.

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He by saying that "a spirit of blandness can tn, � an mat"'' • g" thought the pivotal pomt Christianity is not first lion: God is discovered had had enough lines overshadow our belief in the incarnation?" Marr rs. "01 111' matll,r of of our faith was God. of all a system of ideas or within our human expeblurred for one day. 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"'"5 their own. l§ Thly .,1111, ,mp,rar wil Castelot Mark tells of tis overwhelmingly divinity of Christ the data of revelation do ManyChristians,captithe§ Regarding probably 1,11111, opposin, reaction on the divine, almost more eternal high priest and not permit this vated by Christ's human body as mor- ¥. sid,s in th, canflictti makl of the disciplS: "the Son of God" divine than human. his very real human- "either-or" stance. It is divine Soosbip, took a ally Indifferent, they § p,ac, with an, anoth,r. Yet even here, in John lty: "Surely he did not a matterof"both-and". dim view of his felt they could do with § Appar,ntly 11, w,nts RI "Who then is lls (Matthew , 14 33). id l:l4, w_e read what is help angels but rather humanity. This had It as they pleased. l§ r,ncor ., turmoil in th, whom even 1;:1'a\:: bar!:�� and serious consequences They could eat and § 1mpir,. Historically, ��e s,mp!est, mos} the descendants of and sea obe''" rect. sta ement o Abraham; therefore quite understandably, In their"-a� of living. drink what. and as§ I, for ,n,. w,uld pr,f,r II (4:-!l) betweenthe""Titingof the two Gospels, Chris- Ch�an truth on this be had to become like C..thoUcs have empha- Paul dealt wtth this as much as, they wanted; l§ tak, th,s, h,ri-warsJupp,rs his brothers in every sised Christ's divinity. early as b'." first letter th_ey could go to bed § dawn 10 th, port ..,,,,, ,,,, !O tian faith In the divine sub1ect: Writing almost For the divinity usu- to the Connthians. with whomever they l§ sailors coa/d ,xplams things '71:!e Word became w-ay" (2:16-17). deeof Jesus Sonship MattJIV years later, Matthew flesh." One could these two ally w,15 the point Sin for them l§ 1, tll,m. Biii. ,1 c,ursa. ,,. pened. Balancing concludes his �nlanymembersofthc wished. .,..,15 a matter of the § .,., ,.,r asks .,,. that deve- hardly "'-ant a blunter, aspects of faith alw-ays denied or que tioned. express--,, Christian community mind th• uJ �., iderably ex paol.," aw--ne . tarker word than has been difficult. ' � so . =- I -I ••ad ·•,s •,11,r ....... account of a dO- loped -� Unfortunately, reac- In Corinth, already -•, - "' " "'"' Tb Pa I bad "fl h" th the tlme the es to express � Maintaining a balance lion Christians to taken with the .us, u to § tfla Hxt 1111• slupm,ot. utter, by �h by quite scene arable P fourth Gospel .... a, reality. of Jesus between divinity and these denials often phll0<;0phyofthe day, Insist on the lmpor- § pr,png aQ lll1SS1ngs •• ,_11 the disciples favtg humanity gives rise to became overreaction. exalted the spiritual at tance of the body in § food 1111/tfl 11 you. 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•· then I had ov rcom II the paraly i from th tro e and as still on medication "At first I ept f lling over and the taff memb r ept pie mg me up! "But then I had the remi ion and became gr dually b tter, until by 1984, no one uld have no I had S " he

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The bright, modern a dairy complex is 1,000 square metres and was opened a year ago. It has p to date equipment and a feature among t e many other facilities, is the p ol for hydrot erapy use. One woma who had 't walked for many years, entered the pool for the first time and walked in the p ol, w ich is made easier without t e gravity p I. The ce tre has come a lo g way si ce its i ception in Ja uary 1973, when it numbered 10 S people a d one carer. Now there are 25 staff a about 30 S people co e thro g daily to utilise t e vario s facilities. olu teers play a big p also and man the "salt ine!" w ich is the clerical office. They also n the kitchen a d elp · a variety of other

working. It's a social hub where people can come to get help. "All members of the society nearly always come here at one time or another to use some of the facilities, but lot of people don't want to s e d a whole day here. " ostly we pick them up o a bus a d they go home again." Only three per cent of S people live in a nursing o e, said Sister. T e rest live wit their fa ilies. There are too, a lot who do 't want to be identified with t e disease for fear of losing their jo s a d so t ey stay away from the centre. ''A diagnosis of S doesn't ean e e d of the world either. e have people who have been diag osed at 20 a d who are ow 78 years old, t ey walk wit a walking stick." There is a familial tende y towards the isease, said Sister." r c ildre are 10 to 20 times ore likely to get it, t it · s ot ereditary. ave a o t 10 w me i o r ose others ad S.

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LIMERICK: On Sunday February 21, Chn topher Haydn Limeri k will be baptised at the Ocean Reef parish of St Simon Peter by Father Carson. Parents: Mi hael Haydn Limeri k and Mary-Ann Joan Limerick, nee Sharman. Godparents: Lisa Sharman, Gary Locke.

Hstory Dept, Rangoon University, expired on Saturday, February 13 at RGH. M be celebrated at 9am on Sunday, February 28 at Sacred Heart Church, Mary st Highgate.

�rnrtmrn@ Detainees liberated

Zaki HAMZAH, Singapore High Commission, Canberra Sir, In your report "Singapore in focus" (The Record, February 14), it stated that Vincent Cheng remains in prison without trial along with five other detainees. For your readers information, all the detainees, except Vincent Cheng, have been released from detention. The five detainees referred to in your report were released on December 20.

Catholics squeezed!

from Mrs Catherine HODGSON, Ku/in Sir, I agree totally with the sentiments of Professor O'Farrell (The Record, January 14) that it is so

easy to decide what is best for everybody else. It is enjoyable to divide up somebody else's property among the poor in theory. If the members of the Catholic Social Justice Commission still have "two coats" then they are frauds (to me)! The genuinely disadvantaged in our society need to be looked after tenderly. The rest are entitled to jobs and to contribute to the community in which they live. The Tenth Commandment remains the same: Thou shaltnot covet thy neighbour's goods'. Personally I own virtually nothing. My husband is well off through two generations of near slavery on the land. I see the middle classes being squeezed ollffif the Catholic Church by the socialists. This do s not mean that one has to pander to the

aforementioned classes but one does have to give them a fair go. It is amazing how many families in this district

have Catholic ancestors and good sol id Protestants they are.

Liturgy to stay

"The Australia Day Lfturgy has been approved for each year and can be used on January 26 each year. According to the laws of liturgical precedence a celebrant would have the option to celebrate the Liturgy for Australia Day or to celebrate that of St Timothy and Titus." Readers of The Record who have permanent missals may care to retain the Australia Day Liturgy text as a supp ment for use on January 26 ·n future years.

from Father Brian O'LOUGHUN, Cottesloe Sir, Many thanks for publishing the Australia Day Liturgy in The Record (January 21 ). It seemed unclear to me whether the texts were available for each year or only for 1988. A reply from the National Liturgical Commission states:

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RECORD CLASSIFIEDS

The pr. sid, nt of the new Church is Angli n Assistant Bi hop Bri n Kyme cretary is Reverend John (right} nd the full tim .....____... Neal (l ft} pictured at the commi ioning rvice. Catholics t king part in th Conference of Churches inauguration includ d Fath r Peter Whitely of Bstemsn I. bove l ft), Brother Simon Ke n (b low l ft) of Trinity Coll g and a group of children liturgical d. n ers dir cted by Sister Kerry R M.

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YOUTH FORUM

estimate 12,000 young Catho ics in Western Australia are between the ages of 17 and 19. At our recent Catholic Youth Council Statewide conference, 160 people young attended from parishes around the metro and country areas. I wonder, where were the other 11,840 young C tholics that could have enjoy d to r excitays of f Ith ing growth, fun and frantics? ot for one second am I critic sin th ard of h

and reorganising. I know of the constant hard work necessary to convince young people to participate in faith-life seminars. And I m aware of the

fee too much for individuals, families or parish communities? I don't know all the reasons why more young peo le id not ttend. I do

know more people, young and old, are needed to contact and influence young Catholics! Long journeys and big events begin with the fir t small step. I'm glad many are taking that first step. I hear of exciting I turgie happening at St Thomas church, Claremont each Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. Some say it's a yo th liturgy revolution. Go to ee for yourself.

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should not be called the mother of God. He seemed to believe Jesus was not fully divine. Mary, 1 e torius indicated, is only the mother of Je us the man.

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By TOM BRANCH

At a recent meeting of the executive of the WACLTA, proposals were submitted by the Tournament Committee for a change ln format for the forthcoming pennants and annual championships.

LEEDERVILLE REUNION

The Bicentennial reunion of exstudents of Aranmore, St Mary's, CBC, Leederville (1903-1987) will be held on Sunday April 10, with Mass at 10.30am in St Mary's Church, followed by a buffet luncheon from 11.30am onwards in St Mary's Hall. The cost of the luncheo is $17. To assist catering arrangements, tickets must be purchased by March 31, from Mrs Mary Boyd, 137 Shakespeare Street, Mt Hawthorn, WA 6016.

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SCRIPTURE SESSIONS

Six scripture sessions 'ntroducing the Holy Land, New Testament, and St Mark's Gospel will be conducted by Sister Elizabeth Devine RSM on Wednesday evenings at 7 .30pm commencing on February 24 through to March 30 at St Dennis' pari h house, Joondanna. Further enquiries p ease contact Aita Kelly on 4440499.

GALLAGHER VISIT

Father Charles (Chuck) Gallagher, SJ of New Jersey will be in WA at the e d of May 1988. The main reason for Father Gallagher's visit is to present a Parishio er Empowerment Weekend on May 27-29. The non-residential weekend · s directed at mall represe tative and groups from several paris through a series of exercises the groups discern th ir gifts and talents and are given the opportu ity to discuss how best those gifts may be used for the good of the who e parish.

ST JOSEPH'S PAST PUP LS

The above hod ir nnual meeting at the South P rth Con nt on Su day arch 13, at 7.30p . All former udents and friends ar most lcom.

Greyhounds - with The Record Tipster

MARIAN CALENDAR

Archdiocesan . Calendar Trainee teacher Jenny Vale holds her daughter, while Billings teacher Betty Namnik. explains the workings of the new Manjimup centre to Bishop Peter Quinn and Father Evan Penberthy.

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