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And the crowds were appalled on seeing him — so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human — so will the crowds be astonished at him, and kings stand speechless before him; for they shall see something never told and witness something never heard before.

And yet ours were the sufferings he bore, ours the sorrows he carried. But we, we thought of him as someone punished, struck by God, and brought low.

Yet he was pierced through for our faults, crushed for our sins. On him lies a punishment that brings us peace, and through his wounds we are healed. We had all gone astray like sheep, each taking his own way, and the Lord burdened him with the sins of all of us.

Yes, he was torn away from the land of the living; for our faults struck down in deth. They gave him a grave with the wicked, a tomb with the rich.

If he offers his life in atonement, he shall see his heirs, he shall have a long life and through him what the Lord wishes will be done. His soul's anguish over, he shall see the light and be content. By his sufferings shall my servant justify many, taking their faults on himself. Hence I will grant whole hordes for his tribute, he shall divide the spoil with the mighty, for surrendering himself to death and letting himself be taken for a sinner, while he was bearing the fault of many and praying all the time for sinners.

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'Satanic PTZ A cartoon published in The West Australian on Monday is a gratuitous insult to the Catholics of Western Australia.

It is a gratuitous insult

also to those Australians who have come from large families or who choose to have large families at a time when the nation must turn to migration for its economic and genetic survival.

As the recent census shows. Catholics are the largest religious denomination in Australia and

This was the cartoon published in The West Australian on Monday, March 13.

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in WA are close to equal with the largest grouping.

Bond Media boasts that it takes responsibly its monopoly control over the morning press in WA. The fact that out of the hundreds of editorial and production staff at The West Australian, not one employee saw reason (or was allowed?) to interfere with the printing of this cartoon is sufficient commentary on the exercise of that responsibility.

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Holy days: Have a say

to attend special Masses although they are welcome to do so to show respect for each feast.

Continual changes in the conditions tended to deliver a confused message to people, the bishop said.

Of four options discussed, councillors tended to favour the observance of the feast on its actual date (eg 1st Nov for All Saints).

Bishop Healy would welcome other opinions from interested persons.

Bishop Healy told members of the Diocesan Pastoral Council at last Saturday's meeting that consultation was invited about the observance of Holy Days of Obligation.

The Australian Bishops are to discuss current conditions which bind the Catholics of Australia.

Bishop Healy was referring to the feasts of the Ascension, the Assumption, and All Saints.

At present, when these feast days fall on Saturday or Monday, there is no obligation on Catholics

in Youth focus Sow the seeds of Youth was well represented at last Saturday's meeting of the Diocesan Pastoral Council.

peace this Lent.

The meeting was addressed by Andrew McLean, Eloise Hicks, Graham Douglas and Patrick Willix.

The Ugandan people paid a terrible price for twenty years of savage, brutal war.

Those tragic years of destruction and terror saw untold numbers of people killed, while countless others fled their homes in fear for their lives.

Now, after three years of relative peace, they are returning to the heartbreak of looted and devastated homes and overgrown farm plots.

By far the majority are widows and children, who now face hard heartbreaking work to clear the fields, plant their crops and rebuild their homes.

For 25 years, Project Compassion has worked in partnership with the world's needy and right now we're giving Ugandans the hand they need to get started again.

Through its Revolving Loan Fund, the Church is helping them buy farming tools and seeds and to repair their homes.

It will take many years to set aside the painful memories of war, but renewed spirit is already present as Ugandans look with hope to the future.

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and Developments events concerning youth in the Archdiocese of Perth were outlined.

The Charis movement for "older" youth (18-30 years) was explained, and after one year of operation the group will soon issue a program of coming events.

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It is hoped to have Diocesan youth representatives elected in Bunbury and Geraldton. and two-weekly tours to country centres will be undertaken by city youth workers in company with the new chaplain Father Joe Parkinson.

Ecumenical youth activities have also received attention and recently many churches were represented at the Conference of Churches.

A useful exchange took place when discussion was held about youth programs being undertaken by other denominations.

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many councillors purchased copies for display in their own parishes and organisations.

In the form of a wall chart, the directory covers a wide range of youth prefrom topics, adolescence, through secondary and tertiary to post school.

Other areas covered include welfare services, justice, ethnic youth, marriage preparation and resources.

The Catholic Youth Council and its organisation is also described in close detail.

An important initiative by the Youth Council in

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Parole Board chairman Howard C. Smith explained the workings of the Parole Board to members of the D.P.C. last Saturday.

A recently retired judge, Mr Smith has had eight years as chairman, and provided D.P.C. members with an erudite description of the board's history, and its important role in WA's penal system.

About 700 cases were heard by the board in a year and some prisoners had their cases considered as many as six or seven times.

Some 1400 decisions were made in the same period, which had farreaching humanitarian and economic consequences.

Mr Smith explained that it cost the taxpayers

some $96 a day to guard a prisoner.

The parole scheme had considerable benefits for morale, self-esteem and the families of prisoners.

The board was conscious that rehabilitation did not necessarily mean reform, but recognised that considerable changes do take place in prisoners' states of mind.

Besides fear of punishment, these could be mental and emotional elements, Mr Smith said.

Members of the Board included Mr Smith (a judge), the Chief of Corrective Services and a member of his department, police and three civilians appointed by the Governor — currently a female lawyer, a clergyman, and an aboriginal woman.

The community based work release scheme had also enjoyed a measure of success.

In the Pilbara North West. four full-time Aboriginal officers were working with member: of their own race.

Impressive results had been gained in the rehabilitation of prisoners. seeking Prisoners parole were encouraged to join programs being offered. "Voluntary" membership often ended by providing real help for prisoners convicted of severe offences, stress, anger and alcohol related crimes.

Recent amendments had been made to the Act and the review of June 1988 has resulted in changes in procedure, Mr Smith explained.

Discussion paper There was concern at last Saturday's DPC meeting about the Law Reform Commission's discussion paper The Medical Treatment of Minors.

Responding to a letter from the Bassendean Parish Council about the short time frame permitted to respond to propos-

als contained in the paper, the Council resolved to set up an ad hoc committee.

D.P.C. chairman Peter Fleay will head the committee, and councillors Patrick McNamara and Lesley McNee will participate in the

discussions.

It is hoped that further opinions will be accepted for consideration by the commission on such contentious issues as the age of consent, and the responsibility placed on doctors when prescribing for minors under certain conditions.

Rolozzie menace at Mass

Souvenir to take home. . . the dark blobs on the back of this lady are just a few of the mozzie bites suffered by her at last Saturday's evening Mass.

The mosquitoes of Nobody outside the Perth will leave an church was spared as the indelible memory in the mozzies had a field day. mind of a visitor to WA. They came from every-

The visitor, a lady, was where and claimed tattooed with mozzie many casualties. bites while attending Another lady remarked evening Mass last Satur- with a tinge of humour day in a south of the river that the mozzies were church. quite "romantic" too.

And that's only an One bold mozzie, example of the price according to the lady, people will have to pay to went straight for the keep the swampy river lower lip of her friend areas like this in its virgin and seemed pretty snug state. with the flirtation.

Around the shoulder A slap across the mouth region alone, the lady has by this concerned friend 13 bites. brief this ended For modesty reasons, "romance". she was unable to show At least two people had the other bites around the lower part of her to run for cover inside a motor car — with all anatomy. screens rolled up.

She was among more dozen late-comers A few kept away from than a who were punished by the church's entrance the swarm of mozzies where the blitz appeared hottest. outside the church.

Not even an application of insect repellant could put these bold mozzies off. They came in waves and attacked members of the congregation as they liked — most of them being attacked from behind.

A handful of people who were inside the church were bitten by mozzies.

Said the lady who was bitten most by the mozzies: "I thought your flies were bold. Now I have a pretty good idea about your mosquitoes too.

"I can only hope and pray that these mosquitoes are not carriers of any deadly disease.

"Perhaps, it might be a good idea for your Environment Ministry to look into your mosquitoe problem."

Kwinana centre shaping up Thanks to the generosity of the State Government and a favour from the local RSL, the Kwinana St Vincent de Paul Care Centre is heading down the road to its completion and opening.

The building was blessed recently by the 21st successor of St Vincent de Paul as head of the Vincentian order, Richard Father McCullen CM who was on a visit to WA. About 70 parishioners

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The project is expected to cost more than $100,000 for which a sizable grant has been made by the Lotteries Commission and by other donors.

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land provided by the State Government at the corner of Summerton Calista Road and Avenue. Thanks to the RSL which forfeited its prior claim to the site, the SVDP have a more central and accessible location than would have been possible.

At a reception following the blessing Father McCullen mentioned the

incident in the life of the Society's Founder Frederic Ozanam who when nearing his end was asked by Amelie his wife . . . "Which of God's gifts, Frederic, do you think is to be prized the most?" His answer came instantly.

"Peace of heart," he said.

"Without peace of heart we may possess everything else, yet be unhappy. Witl- it, we can bear the most difficult trials, and the approach of death."

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Kwinana Mayor Frank welcomed Konecny Father McMullen and presented him with a

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SVDP president Tom Fisher also welcomed the

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Record Those who hanker too much for the supposedly good old days of Catholic life can take a dose of cold comfort from the appalling performance of The West Australian's comics page this week.

There was a time when Catholics ware under -dogs, entitled to be the butt of humour when a headstrong and arrogant alliance of Anglicans and Protestants thought the British Empire and its establishment belonged to them alone.

Catholics in turn had their own rough justice versions of their opponent Christians who were keeping them at the bottom of the social scale.

A century, and two or three wars later, we are supposed to have outgrown that sort of jejune nonsense. Not so it seems.

Lest our protest be dismissed as mere overreaction let there be no misunderstanding about the status of religion in media today.

The television channels, both commercial and ABC, have long since passed the point of giving a damn about what viewers think of the lampooning of anything and everything that may be sacred to Catholics or any other faiths.

It is called comedy — because studio rent-acrowd buffoons are told when to laugh.

The television channels know they can behave like this because toothless tribunals don't stand a chance of redressing any public concerns, given that government backed licences are currently no more than machines to make money. Otherwise, a flock of Australia's burgeoning millionaires would not be climbing over each others' bank balances to buy them.

The West Australian, we are repeatedly lectured by the current administration, is a different matter. Notwithstanding that it is part of a monopoly stranglehold on publishing in this state, the paper goes to great pains to promote itself as a paragon of good sense and fairness to the public which obligingly fill its coffers.

Yet twice in almost as many months the paper has chosen to ridicule matters Catholic.

Since almost daily there are apologies on behalf of advertisers who have misrepresented the truth, one would wonder at what point the Catholic Church will be considered.

Alternatively, economic good sense would suggest the paper asks why it bites the hand that feeds it. Or can a monopoly morning daily count smugly the tens of thousands of dollars the Catholic schools of WA spend annually on advertising in its pages — for teachers of religion, no less?

The comics page may well be the paper's wasteland where intellect and good sense are neither required or possible, but if the same cartoon had targeted Aborigines, Jews, or any other prominent ethnic group, the consequences could well have been imagined.

The cartoon's slur on those who may choose to have large families in population-scarce Australia is not only insulting but a pathetic example of a witless cartoonist trapped in the sexual mire of a supposedly liberated society that has nowhere to go.

The wink nudge-nudge inference that large families are the products of mindless copulators who have nothing better to do is pathetic nonsense in a society where thousands and thousands of women pass weekly through the abortion mills because their offsprings are 'unwanted'.

Or are the stories being made up by the hundreds of Australian women who want millions of dollars damages because Dalkin shields and who-knows-what other infections have destroyed their health in the name of being sexually liberated from child-bearing?

In this instance unfortunately the subtle message is re-inforced that life born to parents is an intolerable burden, not a gift to the world and to our society. We destroy ourselves at our peril.

The Catholic Church, despite what The West Australian preaches, will uphold the right of parents to choose to have the children they desire. We have no need to apologise for proclaiming to the world that simple, effective and rewarding control over their combined fertility is being pratised by hundreds of thousands of Australians, far from all of them being Catholic or for any religious scruple. But this is a story that the condom culture of today's journalism does not want to tell.

It is an equally perverse commentary on media control of the public mind today that any further protest on this matter will only inflate the preening self -satisfactions with which any opinion contrary to their own is greeted.

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$6.7m jackpot win for priest SACRAMENTO, California: A Catholic priest won a $6.7 million lottery jackpot and then went on retreat to pray about how to use it.

The millionaire priest is Father Boleslaw Wdowiak, known as Father Bosco, associate pastor at suburban St Joseph's Parish in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Auburn, about 30 miles from Sacramento.

When he returns from his retreat, Father Wdowiak, a native of Poland who is in his late 50s, will receive the first of 20 annual after-tax cheques for $276,000.

The priest, who could not be reached for comment, left

a message at his parish for callers.

"Iam happy, confused and very thankful," the message said.

"The Lord has been good to me all of my life and I have tried to serve him as a priest. This I will continue to do.

"This money, when it comes, is also a gift whichI will try to use in a manner pleasing to the Lord who has blessed me. Because of the new responsibility this prize creates for me, I am going away on retreat to pray and reflect on God's will for me," the priest's message said.

Vatican trio for Armenia

VATICAN CITY (NC): Catholic officials in Rome will join a weeklong ecumenical mission to Armenia to plan a relief effort for victims of December's devastating earthquake there.

of three Caritas officials making the trip, said that the group would gather information about longterm relief to the Soviet region, where tens of thousands of people died and about a half a million were left homeless.

They will join members of the World Council of Churches and the A rmenian Orthodox Church.

Father Fitzpatrick, one

He said the Western officials would like to set up better channels of communication between the Armenian Orthodox Church and Caritas.

A key concern among Catholic relief officials has been that the Armenian Church have some control over the eventual aid.

Father Fitzpatrick said preliminary information from Armenia indicates the state would like to be responsible for all reconstruction, with outside charity organisations providing the equipment for hospitals and schools.

Father Fitzpatrick said, however, that relief organisations like Caritas probably would want to have some input in the construction phase.

Poor building construction was blamed for many of the deaths in the December quake.

Caritas has about $1 million in cash relief ready for Armenia, Father Fitzpatrick said.

He estimated that once

projects are presented for funding, there might be an additional $15 million to $40 million in aid available in the Caritas network.

In December, a Vatican official and two members of Italian Caritas made the first survey trip to Armenia.

In February, Caritas officials and an Armenian representative met at the Vatican.

'Defend, promote dignity of women' VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul ll marked International Women's Day with a call for the "defense and the promotion of the dignity of women".

The pope made his comments during his regular Wednesday general audience while greeting two groups of Italian women.

The pope expressed his hope that the

Relics of saint return VILNIUS, Lithuania: The remains of Lithuania's were saint patron returned to the traditional resting place of the cathedral here.

A procession through the city streets preceded the Mass commemorating the return of the relics of St Casimir, 15thcentury son of royal parents.

The relics had been placed in another church after the cathedral was

"indispensible contribution" of women to Church and society would be better and understood appreciated.

the defense and promotion of the dignity of women, of her equality" and of her "inalienable human rights".

"The active presence of women in the structures of political and social life of every country is certainly a 'sign of the times'," the pope said.

The recognition of the "sublime vocation of woman" in civil and ecclesiastical life must lead to greater by participation women in the development of the common good, the pope told them.

He asked for the "commitment of all to

Bishop backs out

LONDON: The Anglican Bishop of London, closed by the Soviet Dr Graham Leonard, no government in 1945. In longer regards himself 1956 the cathedral was as in communion with converted into an art Barbara Harris or with gallery. The cathedral the 55 bishops of the was returned to the Episcopal Church of the Catholic Church last United States of America who took part in her October.

St Casimir was born in consecration as a 1458 and was the son of bishop.

Casimir, King of Poland Reason: He feels the and Grand Duke of "Gospel is imperilled and Lithuania, and Elizabeth undermined by that Habsburg, a member of package of ideas which Austria's ruling family. finds expression in what St Casimir died in took place in Boston".

The package, the bishop Lithuania at age 25.

explains in his diocesan newsletter, includes attitudes to creation, revelation and tradition which he had criticised in a speech to the Lambeth Conference last summer.

He cites in particular "the desire to replace the Dominical instruction to say 'Our Father' with the words 'Our Mother' and a wholesale revision of the traditional Christian of understanding sexuality".

Twenty bishops who have parted from the

Anglican Communion on these questions met in Florida last month and agreed to form a Traditional Anglican Communion "for those beleagured Anglicans around the world who want to maintain the traditional faith and order of the Church in an unimpaired communion with the Anglican heritage".

Archbishop Louis Falk, of the Anglican Catholic Church in the United States, is acting primate until elections are held.

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Sit-in nuns told to leave WASHINGTON (NC): The Vatican has ordered four Carmelite nuns barricaded in the infirmary of their New Jersey monastery for the past five months to leave and has said that the fifth nun, who is 72 years old, may

remain if she "promises obedience".

The dissident nuns locked themselves in the infirmary last October to protest changes in the life of their cloistered community, including the purchase of a television

set, brighter lighting in the chapel and the serving of sweets during the morning coffee break.

"Despite the difficult situation created by some of the Religious, the fundamental principles of religious life were firmly

retained with prudence and charity," said Cardinal Hamer's letter from the Vatican to Bishop Rodimer.

Betty Sutton a spokeswoman for the barricaded nuns, told reporters that the letters from Cardinal

Hamer did not have "the Vatican seal" and would not be obeyed.

She also said the nuns have their case pending with the Apostolic Signature, a Vatican appeals court, and would not leave until it issued a ruling.

Vatican bank for shake-up

VATICAN CITY (NC): has Vatican The unveiled a major reform of the Vatican bank that is expected to lead to the departure of its current president, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus.

The changes will introduce several levels of control over the bank's operations, making it more directly accountable to an existing commission of five cardinals and a new council of five banking experts.

Archbishop Marcinkus, who has headed the bank since 1970, said he would help implement the transition and then make a decision about his future.

He called the changes "radical" but said that "there are a lot of things we suggested a long time ago that I'm happy to see".

The archbishop said he "might be involved in picking the people who will come in" to the bank's management.

Asked if he would leave the bank, the archbishop said: "Not necessarily.

But if there's no more presidency of the kind I hold, why hang around?"

The archbishop is in line to become head of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State.

The new changes should see a continual supervision of the bank's operations, something a number of churchmen have been calling for since 1983, when the Vatican bank became involved in an Italian banking scandal.

Known officially as the Institute for the Works of Religion, the bank serves primarily the Holy See and religious orders and organisations.

Under the bank's new statutes, the existing commission of five cardinals will name a secretary — specified as a priest but not a bishop — who will follow closely the bank's operations.

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The Vatican said annual contributions to Peter's Pence, the pope's discretionary fund that is normally applied to the budget deficit, had increased five per cent to about $53 million in 1988.

But even if Peter's Pence increases at the same rate this year, the Vatican would face a $20 million gap for 1989, according to the figures.

The Vatican has warned that this would mean selling off properties and investments to raise the cash.

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mission will name a be approved by the structures" of the bank, council cardinals' commission. which has been operatsupervisory ing under bylaws that made up of "five experts The new statutes also date to its reorganisation in economic and financial activities, selected foresee the appointment in 1942. from various countries", of three inspectors or Pope John Paul II auditors, who would the statement said.

The supervisory council respond directly to the participated in this month's meeting of carwill, in turn, name a supervisory council. dinals in a meeting on director vice and director The statement said the March 7, in which the to carry out the actual bank management. The statutes would "pro- new statutes were management team will foundly modify the discussed.

dered most Vatican expenses to be justified by the needs of the universal church, but was still recommending "using every means to reduce them".

Vatican deficits in the past few years have ranged between $50 million and $60 million.

In an interview Cardinal Krol, former archbishop of Philadelphia said there were serious questions about L'Osservatore Romano's function and usefulness.

The jump in the predicted 1989 deficit has been caused by the inclusion of the operating costs of the Holy See's 110 nunciatures around the world.

"How many people are interested in articles about 14th century archaeology?" he asked in reference to the paper's often specialised content.

Meanwhile, it is suggested that the surplus from the separate Vatican City state budget which last year totalled about $7.1 million be used to help out the Holy See.

Until now nunciatures have been financed by a special fund set up by Pope Paul VI, but that fund is now exhausted along with other reserves used to help cover Vatican deficits in previous

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In the face of economic pressure the Vatican will take steps towards cutting expenses at Vatican Radio and in Vatican publishing.

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$78m shortfall forecast

VATICAN CITY (NC): The Vatican estimated that it will face a budget shortfall of $78.2 million for 1989, a record-high deficit that apparently will not be made up by worlwide Catholic giving.

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Last year much of that surplus went towards establishing a fund for severance pay.

The Vatican statement said it was counting on the support of local churches and the faithful of the world but did not make a direct appeal.

It is believed the cardinals council wants to avoid an appeal until some concrete action is

taken to cut expenses.

The Peter's Pence collection for 1988 — $53 million — included $33.4 million from the world's dioceses, $9.2 million from religious orders and the rest from individuals.

The Vatican did not say how the 1988 deficit of $11 million had been covered but Cardinal Caprio said last year that gaps would have to be made up from "the patrimony", through the direct sales of stocks and investment properties.

Cardinal Krol reported to the council that the Papal Foundation he had helped establish in the United States had collected some $2 million of' the $10 million promised.

Under the plan, half the fund's interest will be given to the pope.

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If you've been chasing rainbows on the job market for more than a year, don't despair.

There's still hope.

Turn to the Centrecare SkillShare (not Skil!scare as published last week) in Stirling Street, and the people there will put you on the right path towards employment.

The centre will help brush up your skills and prepare you for the job market.

Funded by the Commonwealth government the centre previously known as Community Youth Support Scheme (CYSS).

It adopted its new name since the beginning of this year when it moved into its new premises in Stirling Street, next to the Sunday Times building.

The archdioces of Perth plays an "umbrella role" for the centre.

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Commission said: "The Church gives moral as well as financial support.

You can say it is the sponsor."

In its final year as CYSS (that's last year), the centre helped train 1200 people and managed to get jobs for a high percentage of them.

Pauline Robertson, the Project Manager, said SkillShare's doors were open to jobseekers who had been unemployed for more than six months, migrants, disabled or Aboriginals seeking employment.

"Age is not a consideration providing the person is eligible for employment," she stressed.

There were also a handful of "street kids" who turned to the centre over the years for help.

The courses run include office skills, industrial sewing, language, hospitality, retail skills and kitchen and food preparation.

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"At any one time we could have 10 courses running. We offer training in four different areas," she said.

There are three fulltime staff and between 10 to 15 part-time instructors.

The centre works on a budget of $200,000 a year but there are moves afoot to get another $20,000 to ensure a better foothold in its traning plans.

"We will be able to offer 50 per cent more training," said Ms Robertson.

She forecast that 1600 to 1800 people will be trained at the centre this year.

She added: "We have been very successful in our employment placement rate, too.

"We have a contract with the Federal Government to secure employment for a minimum of 50 per cent of our participants. Indications to this point suggest we will have no problem reaching this target."

Dawn Allen teaching in her pre-vocational migrant course.

Bishop Healy during his first visit at Centrecare Skil!share centre gets a feedback from project manager Pauline Robertson.

Others in thepicture are senior training officer Rob Spinks and Tony McAlinden.

in heart of the city

Donna Sieubert, the clerical assistant operating the administration computer.

•, Cynthia Gee operating a photocopier.

Staff members

Pauline Robertson . . . the Project Manager.

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What wo Id you sa) Jesus, the healer and worker of wonders, is brought into clear focus in this Lenten edition of the NC Religious Education Package.

Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere discusses what the phrase "kingdom of God" might mean for people today. Ref-

erring to the kingdom acknowledges God's rule over each person, each family, each community and nation, the biblical scholar says.

For Jesus' teaching to be fully alive for us, Father Robert Kinast writes, we must do what he did: We must ground his words in

the kinds of deeds he performed.

Eucharist and daily life.

Katharine Bird interviews Father Gerry Creedon, pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Alexandria, Virginia. He tells her about parish efforts to make a connection between Jesus as the bread of life, the

Referring to Jesus as the "light of the world" has a double meaning, says Father John Castelot. It means that Jesus brings sight to the blind, but also insight to the spiritually blind.

ers and staff members in many small parishes struggling against enormous odds in inner cities helping those caught in the cycle of poverty to fight their way to better housing and daily food.

On the home front, think of the patient spouse striving to handle the emotional stress caused by living with an alcoholic mate.

Perhaps this person finds God's help by attending regular sessions of groups organised to help the families of alcoholics.

Then there is the youthful Christian who isn't doing anything extraordinary, just quietly moving among his or her classmates lending a

helping hand when a need arises or offering a cheerful countenance and the willingness to listen when someone seems troubled.

Briefly.

Once an old man with a sorely twisted spine lived near Lourdes in France.

Often he went to the shrine of the Blessed Mother at Lourdes to entreat her help in healing his back.

But though he went to the shrine frequently, "always with frustration, bitterness and grief", his back remained the same.

As time went by, however, his bitterness about his situation gradually disappeared.

Finally he realised that "there are all kinds of lameness and all kinds of cures. I no longer am crippled in the mind or in the soul".

And, he concluded, "that's a miracle I didn't know I was seeking until

it was granted".

Sister Mary Hester Valentine retells that story in "Miracles" in the Guidelines for Contemporary Catholics series.

Her point is that an outstanding physical cure is not the only sign God still is working wonders today.

Think about her comment and many instances of God working wonders are likely to spring to mind.

Often God works through people.

Think of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity sisters opening hospices in major US cities to care for AIDS victims no one else will come near.

Think of the parishion-

It can be tempting to think of the period when jesus walked the earth as the only time of real wonders. People then were witnesses to the many marvellous works Jesus performed.

Wishing to actually travel back in time is an exercise in futility.

Instead, why not take a look at the people around you — including your family — and see how and where God is working his mighty deeds right now, in your very midst.

How so e signs become actions On the bulletin board prominently displayed

By Katharine Bird inside the church door, plastered with pictures of children's faces, its For instance, as John that connection, the sign proclaims proudly: tells of Jesus multiplying program includes a spe"We celebrate the the loaves, he shows cial Eucharist which the Eucharist."

Jesus making it clear to children help prepare.

Next to each photo- people that the physical During the Offertory graph is the child's name food shouldn't be their procession the children emphasis. and the reason why he or primary carry their photographs she wants to receive First Instead, Jesus stresses and their written reasons Communion.

Some that "he is the bread of for receiving Communlife for them", Father examples: ion up to the altar before Leo: ". . . to get closer to Creedon said. they are displayed on the God." The Eucharist today bulletin board.

Chris: ". . to join with "has the same dimenA similar emphasis can my friends at the table of sion", the priest added. be found in various the Lord."

The eucharistic bread programs and activities Amanda: ". . . to receive and wine bring us into parish adults are contact with "the person involved in; many are the bread of life." active in hunger-related Graham: So "I will be a of Jesus". good friend."

Considerable attention projects.

Since one way Jesus The parish First Eucha- is paid to communicating rist program, which the idea of Jesus as the revealed himself as the Messiah was through presents Jesus as the bread of life to people. bread of life, is "straight The parish First Com- feeding people, it is out of the Gospel of munion program appropriate for us to do John", said Father Gerry encourages children to something about hunger Creedon, pastor. identify Jesus as their too, Father Creedon said.

John's focus is on "the friend, as someone who During Lent, for person of Jesus", not so wants to have a personal instance, the parish takes much on the works he relationship with people. part in the campaign to performs.

To help children make help the hungry.

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To stress the campaign's connection with the Eucharist. a bowl as well as a cross is carried at the head of the entrance procession at thestart of Mass.

Donations go to hunger relief projects in the Third World and locally to help fund hunger projects.

Parishioners also are involved in a nutrition program for the elderly and with a diocesan food and shelter outreach program.

For Father Creedon, such parish activities are linked with John's portrayal of Jesus as a worker of wonders and signs.

Reaching out to others in need "provides signs that are ordinary signs", he said. But, in terms of Church life they become "extraordinary signs of faith" and a way of passing on "our tradition through living works".

Being a disciple of the Jesus presented in John's I the pain and turmoil of the world, says Father t?obe opportunities to plunge into the needs and hurt, of

Soar eagt One of the most challenging feats of my Catholic boyhood — after mastering the Latin responses as an altar server — was matching the four authors of the Gospels with their traditional symbols.

For some reason, I always could remember to connect John with the eagle.

Years later, during my seminary studies.I found out why the eagle was used to depict John's Gospel. His theology seemed to soar above the telling of episodes in Jesus' life; it had such a transcendant, spiritual quality.

This is the quality found, for example, in the long discourses Jesus gives in John's Gospel.

Jesus is the rabbi par excellence: teaching. revealing, offering to his disciples a new vision.

But Jesus is not a bookish teacher. He teaches from deeds.

The deeds of Jesus are called "signs" in John's Gospel. They usually are responses to people's needs. Out of those responses Jesus draws his teaching, inviting listeners to go deeper

Fr

into the meaning of actions.

The pattern begins i John's Gospel when les cleanses the temp (Chapter 2:13-22). 11 action is followed by ti lengthy discussion wi Nicodemus about bell reborn into the kin gdO of God (3:1-21).

Next Jesus himself bill tises (3:22), then inol diately engages 111 Samaritan woman at ti well in a long disc:owl about baptism and tit worship (4:1-26).

When Jesus cures ii royal official's son (4: 54) and the sick 01 who never could get the pool first for healll (5:1-15), he uses events to teach opponents the t meaning of the Sah and God's work (5: 47).

After feeding the m tude that had be following him (6:1 1,11 he presents his teac on the bread of life (6:1 69).

So it is with the wonil caught in adultery (8 11). To all such peoPi Jesus declares himsl

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MARCH 1989

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CLASS OF '88

The 1988 Tertiary Entrance Examinations are over and last year's secondary graduates have made their career choices. Some have gone on to tertiary studies, others have opted for studies in different fields, some of our country graduates have returned to their homes to work on farms, others have joined the public service or the services and still others have decided to try for a higher TEE score.

In this issue are some individual answers to the question — what has become General Exhibition Winner For former Trinity College student Rohan Van Den Driesen there was no difficulty in deciding his future plans — Medicine at UWA — and with a TEE score of 489 Rohan had no difficulty in entering his chosen field of study.

Rohan's excellent score also earned him a General Exhibition as one of the 20 highest achievers in the TEE throughout the state.

Rohan, who had attended Trinity since Year 4, was full of praise for his old school. "It's a great school, the best," he said. He was pleased that his Exhibition win would add to Trinity's very successful 1988, the year in which the College won the Public Schools' Association athletics carnival as well as taking out the PSA titles in soccer, tennis and hockey.

Tops in accounting Luciano Pangiarella, known as Lui, is heading for Curtin University and a Business degree which he hopes will lead to a career in Accountancy. Not surprisingly Lui won the Subject Exhibition for Accounting. Lui has just completed nine years as a student at St Brendan's College, Hilton which he describes as a friendly school with good teachers and good mates.

University An Arts course at UWA was the choice of former Newman College Senior School student, Kirsty Cranley. Kirsty gained top marks and a Subject Exhibition in Politics. She hasn't yet decided on her future career.

More stories on page 3.

of the class of '88? Three students who have definite ideas on their future careers were among the State's top TEE students and were presented with special awards at a ceremony at Government House in January. Rohan Van Den Driesen of Trinity College was awarded a General Exhibition Prize and two students, Luciano Pangiarella of St Brendan's College, Hilton and Kirsty Cranley of Newman College, Doubleview, were awarded Subject Exhibitions.

1988 Exhibition winners Lui Pangiarella, Rohan Van Den Driesen and Kirsty Cranley proudly show their Exhibition medals following the presentation at Government House in January.

Unique project underway at Nulungu Nuiungu College, Broome has been chosen to take part in a unique and exciting project which will have long term benefits for Aborigines.

According to Mr SinaThe project, Aborigi- senior lecturer of Landscape tra the project will nal Education in Lands- RMIT's cape Architecture, has Architecture Unit, Jim foster a greater awarebeen set up by the Sinatra and 16 RMIT ness and understanding of the merits and Royal Melbourne lnsti- students.

They are spending role of landscape architute of Technology.

Through this project, four weeks at the tecture and its applicaand for the first time in College while they tion within Aboriginal Australia, Aborigines establish a design stu- culture.

"The students will be will have the opportun- dio as part of a contract ity to acquire skills and for the Water Authority provided with a knowlknowledge in lands- of Western Australia on edge of the importance cape architecture so water conservation and of landscape architecthey can properly the renourishment of ture in land managedesign and manage the Broome. The studio is ment and it will encoursignificant land resour- being established at age them to apply for ces in Australia for Nulungu and will and participate in tertiary landscape archithey are involve the students. which stewards.

The second stage of tecture programs in Nulungu College the project, to be Australia," he said. enrols 193 Aboriginal carried out early next Exciting prospect students from the year, will see Aboriginal Principal of Nulungu Kimberley region in students from Nulungu College, Br Peter Years 8 to 12. The at RMIT where they will Negus has welcomed students will be intro- participate in formal the RMIT involvement. duced to the landscape design studios and "The project appears to architecture vocation classes in landscape be an exciting prosthrough the design architecture. pect," he said. "Jim projects run at the Project aim Sinatra has already College through an The long term aim of visited Nulungu and educational exchange the project is to have has been most impresrelationship with RMIT. Aboriginal students sive and the RMIT enrol in landscape students want to be Stage one underway Stage one of the architecture courses at actively involved with project began earlier the Institute and even- the Nulungu students this month with the tually to become in and out of school time." arrival in Broome of the faculty members.

FOCUS ON SECQNDARY EDUCATION Secondary education in Catholic schools will be in the spotlight this year.

The Catholic Education Commission has committed resources and personnel to strengthen its service to schools.

Increased retention rates, proposed changes to upper secondary certification and tertiary entry requirements and the introduction of the Unit Curriculum are just a few of the changes which have placed increasing pressure on secondary schools.

In order to support and assist schools as they face these pressures the Catholic Education Office has reorganised its secondary section and has begun to implement a program which will see the establishment of support networks for subject teachers and an extension of professional teacher development activities.

New head Spearheading this program is Patrick McManus who was recently appointed as Senior Coordinator of the secondary section. He heads a team which includes specialists in the key areas of English, Social Studies, Mathematics, Religious Education and Science.

Patrick has extensive experience in educational administration and in the teaching of science in metropolitan and country secondary schools. He holds Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Education degrees from the University of Western Australia and has been a principal of government secondary schools since 1977. His most recent appointment was Principal of Craigie Senior High School. He has been seconded to the Catholic Education Office through a unique arrangement with the Ministry of Education.

Patrick was involved in what has been one of the most significant changes in secondary education in WA, the introduction of the Unit Curriculum. He was one of three people who formed a team within the Ministry of Education to develop the curriculum structure based on recommendations from the Beazley Report. The unit curriculum was piloted at a number of schools and Patrick was involved in this stage of the project and subsequently in its implementation at Craigie Senior High. During the development stage he worked closely with other educational bodies, including the Catholic Education Office.

His involvement in Catholic education has been primarily as a parent. He was active on the school board at St Pius X School, Manning and served as chairman of the school board at Yidarra Catholic Primary School, Bateman.

Quality of teaching According to Patrick the success of a school depends on the teachers.

"I strongly believe that the quality of the teaching is the key issue in a school," he said.

"If we can maximise the skill of the teachers and assist them to improve the quality of their interactions with students then we can set up the key conditions for quality education."

Patrick said the new -look secondary section will be providing assistance to schools.

"We are not about telling schools how to do their job," he said.

"One of our long term aims is to assist teachers to improve their skills and abilities so they can help with curriculum development in their own schools."

Video production

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A "first" in the history of Catholic education in Western Australia has been achieved with the production of an educational video to accompany the Supporting Children in Further Literacy (SCIFL) program. The video will be launched at a special function by the Minister of Education, Dr Carmen Lawrence, on March 20.

Made late last year at team from the Catholic from Kingwest Produc- but the video actually Orana Catholic Prim- Education Office. It tions spent two days at shows a reading conary School, Willetton, builds on the language Orana to produce the ference in progress and the video gives practi- development begun 30 minute video which highlights the rapport cal demonstrations of with the Early Literacy contains 9 segments between the child and Course each related to one of teacher," said Irene. the teaching strategies Inservice The lack of suitable introduced in the (ELIC) in junior primary the SCIFL workshops.

Production was partly video material which years. course.

Irene Sorensen, the funded by a grant of supported a whole lnservice program Catholic Education $12,000 from the language approach in The SCIFL program, Office's primary lan- Canberra-based Cur- Years 4 to 7 was one of already introduced in guage consultant was riculum Development the reasons why the many Catholic schools, responsible for coordi- Centre. The video will SCIFL developers is an inservice program nating the develop- be listed on the Austral- believed the video for teachers of children ment and implementa- ian Curriculum Infor- should be produced. in Years 4 to 7. tion of the SCIFL mation Network and "There was a real need The program is intro- program. This involved will be made available for it," said Irene. duced to teachers by leading a team of four to other systems and generally trained tutors who teachers, Vicky Carl- schools interested in "Teachers don't have enough conduct a series of 10 ton, Jenny Garswood, obtaining it. opportunities to look in weekly workshops. The Judith McAuliffe and "One of the best video will be used to Vicki Mews, who were things about the video on other classrooms support these inservi- seconded to the CEO is that it reflects the and see new strategies put into ces as well as a series in 1987 as Primary approach to literacy being practice." of parent workshops Language Advisory teaching being introThe SCIFL video will and a Distance Educa- Teachers to develop the duced in all our help to remedy that tion program currently program. The script for schools. It doesn't problem. being developed. the video was develop- show just a special, The SCIFL program Literacy ed during the writing of one-off situation," said itself already is attractIrene Sorensen.

Supporting Children the SCIFL course. ing interest outside the Producer Vicki Mews, Help for parents in Further Literacy was Catholic system. wholly developed by a Irene and a video crew Tutor Meg Lane of "As part of the parent workshop material the Bunbury is currently video will give parents conducting a SCIFL VETTER WRITING BOARDS an idea of what hap- workshop for teachers government pens with language f rom Manufacturers of • Chalkboard • Magnetic Whiteboard • Pinboard teaching in classrooms schools in the Harvey • mobile Display Units • Acoustic Screens and explain some of the area and teachers from changes taking place. It some Perth independSuppliers of all accessories, i.e. pens, magnetic strips will also be useful for ent schools have comand erasers at competitive prices.

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Watch out, Peter Waltham and Jana Wendt, Toby Lawrance has his eye on your job!

Toby, from Bullcreek. completed Year 12 at Aquinas College last year and has been accepted at the WA Academy of Performing Arts to study Media Performance.

After completing his two-year Associate Diploma course, Toby hopes to make a career in radio or television. He is particularly interested in becoming a newsreader or an investigative journalist.

"I have always been interested in the media and performance and I love acting and debating," said Toby. "I'm also a social person and I like the idea of being a media personality."

Toby's already had a taste of the bright lights.

He was a member of the Aquinas College debating team and last year played the part of Malachi Stack in Santa Maria College's production of Th8 Matchmaker. He has also taken part in Music Hall productions at Aquinas College and in public speaking competitions.

Toby was one of 18 students selected from more than 200 young hopefuls who applied for places at the Academy this year. He was chosen on the basis of an audition, an essay, prepared and unprepared speeches and a current affairs quiz.

Toby's ultimate ambition is to emulate his idol, Jana Wendt and host a current affairs show. In the meantime he hopes to get some practice doing commercials, voiceovers and "extra" work for the local media, and acting with young acting groups in Perth.

Toby Lawrance "at home" behind the microphone at the WA Academy of Performing Arts.

Serving the public Former Servite student Jason Fogliani is currently getting a taste of life in the WA Police Force.

When Jason left Servite at the end of last year he was too young to become a police recruit, so instead he became a police cadet.

Cadets undertake clerical duties and learn about the internal structure of the police force until they are eligible to become a recruit at age 19.

Jason's decision to join the police force was not a sudden one — he spent a lot of time last year finding out about the cadets. "The more I learned about it, the more I liked it," he said.

At present Jason is working in the video unit at the Maylands Police Complex. Later he will spend several months at police headquarters in the city and at a suburban or country police station.

During this time he will accompany police officers on their duties and observe how the system works.

Jason hasn't yet determined which area of police work he would like to specialise in. "I want to start with general duties, then see what happens," he said.

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Justine (left) and Kirsten Duckett enjoy a break from lectures in the University grounds.

Among the last graduating class at St Thomas Aquinas College, Bedford were young Dianella twins, Justine and Kirsten Duckett. After completing Year 12 at only 16 and with excellent TEE scores behind them, the girls have now launched a twin attack on Science degrees at the University of Western Australia.

Kirsten and Justine have always enjoyed, and been good at, learning.

When they started primary school — at Our Lady's Assumption School, Dianella — they were placed in Year 2 because they could already read and knew more than they would learn in Year 1.

This early promotion has meant the girls have been the youngest in th ir classes throughout their school years. but they haven't found that a disadvantage.

"We really enjoy studying," said Justine simply.

The girls also enjoyed being students as St Thomas Aquinas College. "It was a really good school, students helped and encouraged each other and the teachers were very approachable. In Year 12 they treated us like adults," they said.

However, after five years at St Thomas Aquinas, Justine and Kirsten have found life as University students to be more relaxing.

"Last year was so hard," they said. "As well as six hours of school we had to spend four or five hours a night studying. Here we have only two or three lectures a day."

"You need the breaks because you have to concentrate so much during the lectures," said Kirsten. "It's up to you — not like school where there was interaction with the teacher all the time."

Medicine and research Kirsten is keen to study Medicine and hopes to transfer after completing a year of Science. Justine hasn't yet decided on her future career, but is considering combining Science and Law studies and eventually going into the research field.

Both girls studied the same subjects — Maths 2/3, Physics, Chemistry, English Literature and Economics — for their TEE and have chosen similar subjects this year. They are both studying Maths, Human Biology and Chemistry but Kirsten has chosen to continue with Physics while Justine has branched out into Psychology.

Incentive Does it help to have your twin sister doing the same subjects? "Yes," they agreed, "we can help each other, but we are very competitive and that acts as an incentive to help each of us do better."

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Archbishop Foley welcomed more than 800 teachers and staff of Catholic schools to the Teachers' Mass held at St Mary's Cathedral on 26 February.

In his homily the Archbishop commended the teachers for responding to a special call from God. "You have responded with generosity and commitment," he said.

However, he reminded teachers that their teaching vocation involved responsibilities.

"You have hundreds of young people in your charge and you have the responsibility to lead them forward to the fullness of life and to a mission they are still searching to understand."

Build bridges The Archbishop said that Catholic education requires the cooperation of school, home and parish.

"You need to build bridges between yourselves as a teaching community and the parents."

Archbishop Foley warned that there is a danger in the Church that priests and parents tend to blame the school for shortcomings of faith practices that they may experience in their children.

"To overcome this a spirit of cooperation is needed in the Church," he said.

The Archbishop told the teachers that as members of the Catholic schools' community they have the right to expect that their professional and personal interests be respected at all times. However he reminded them that there are also obligations involved. "I call on you to continually renew and develop your faith.

"The Church is more than just an employer and your position in the school is more than just a job — it is all bound up with your faith."

Diplomas presented At the conclusion of the Mass graduates of the Catholic Institute's Diploma of Religious Education course were presented with their diplomas by Archbishop Foley.

The Archbishop congratulated the graduates for the commitment involved in undertaking such a course of faith renewal.

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Stella Mans College Geraldton Arts flourish

Stella Mans College, Geraldton, a girls' College run by the Presentation Sisters, will soon celebrate 100 years of caring, laughter and Christian education.

When the Presentation Order was invited to Geraldton by Bishop Gibney in 1891 the Sisters opened their first school in a small cottage near the railway station. In 1902 the school was moved to its present site adjacent to St Francis Xavier Cathedral.

Stella Mans College in 1989 accommodates more than 400 students including 112 boarders. Like its brother school, St Patrick's College, Stella Mans now has third and fourth generation descendants of past students among its present day enrolment.

The College has a fine tradition of history apparent in the College houses — Nagles, Finns, O'Connells and Russells — named after the founder of Presentation Order and the first Presentation Sisters to arrive in Geraldton in 1891.

A committee has been formed to celebrate the College's centenary in 1991. The committee is trying to trace all former students and teachers to invite them to join in the celebrations.

Communications is the general heading under which many exciting activities are grouped at Stella Mans College.

In to this category fall language studies, theatre arts, English, literature and media studies.

Stella Mans College encourages its students to undertake language studies. The difficulties of isolation, obtaining teachers, and remoteness from examiners not withstanding, the College has achieved a reputation for a strong languages tradition.

For the first time this year Japanese is also being offered to students.

Media — new option Media Studies is a new option made available at the College this year.

It is designed to give the students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge in

Drama student Amber Hynes. that area. Included in the media area are units on advertising, film and television, and photography.

Media Studies teacher Melissa Carter said the students are loving Media Studies because it is part of their everyday life."

Theatre Arts is popular another study at the College for students in Year 9 and up.

FOCUS Education for Christian leadership "At Stella Mans College we are very much committed to the full development of our students as potential Christian leaders," says College Principal, Sister Lucy van Kessell.

"We emphasise that we don't just see them as little cogs in the wheel, we try to educate them as Christian leaders in society.

"As part of that education I see every Year 12 student individually at the beginning of the year and encourage them to establish aims so that every student has a definite goal for the year."

Academic excellence Stella Mans students do very well academically — of last year's 69 Year 12 students, 72 per cent qualified for tertiary entrance, a

Varied RE program

Miss Yvette Hutchinson with Nicole Eastman in the Year 8 Social Studies class.

Religious Education in a country secondary school such as Stella Mans can differ considerably from that in city schools.

Stella Mans often has students who, because of their isolation, have had little religious instruction before they have come to the school.

Religious Education Coordinator, Sr Christine Clarke said that a number of students are prepared for the sacraments of the Eucharist and Confirmation in Year 8 because they haven't had the opportunity before.

Last year the school also prepared one student for Baptism.

The school's Religious Education curriculum is based on the Archdiocese of Perth Guidelines.

"Teachers are very happy with the guidelines and find them helpful," said Sr Christine.

As well as the traditional RE classes, Stella Mans students participate in a range of related activities.

Some Year 12 students join with boys from St Patrick's College in a noncompulsory marriage preparation course while other students are mpmhPrs of the school's Young Christian Students group.

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Principal, Sister Lucy van Kessell discusses the sports program with Year 12 students. typical result for the school.

Academic excellence is not, however, the College's only goal.

"I am trying to encourage the less academically -able students to stay on to Year 12 knowing that non-TEE subjects are important and that their studies are valuable," said Sister Lucy. "Whatever they are doing we want them to strive for the best possible marks, to do as well as they can."

While emphasising the need for excellence, the school also recognises the need for relaxation. "We try not to pressurise the students," said Sister Lucy. "We advise them to keep a balance in their lives with recreation as well as study."

Enthusiasm for life "I am pleased with Stella Mans — I think the girls are unsophisticated, fairly practical, enthusiastic for life, and interested in people. other Genuine enjoyment and liveliness and a good solid core of Christianity are the basis of their lives.

The teaching staff are marvellous. They are caring people, who often spend extra time out of school tutoring children, help students in free time, know the students well and the students get on well with them.

"There's a good atmosphere in the school — the students and staff are friendly and there is a very supportive Parents and Friends Association active in the school," said Sister Lucy.

Home away from home

St Patrick's College was established by the Christian Brothers in 1926 at the request of the then Bishop of Geraldton, Bishop Richard Ryan who asked for a school to provide educational and boarding facilities to meet the needs of boys in the town and region.

The school opened in small premises in the centre of town. Within two weeks of its opening, on 2 February 1926, the school boasted an enrolment of 10 boarders and 60 day boys.

St Patrick's has continued to expand since then and now has some 370 students with almost one-third being boarders from the surrounding

agricultural region, the northern mining centres and as far south as Perth. Some of the day students travel to school from as far away as Northampton and Dongara.

New, modern boarding houses scattered through the school grounds have replaced the dormitories, and several new classroom wings have been added during the years.

A strong family tradition is evident at the school, with some present students representing the third or fourth generation of St Pat's boys.

Present principal, Br John Murray is himself a St Pat's old boy.

St Patrick's College is set high on a hill overlooking the calm, clear waters of Champion Bay. It's a delightful setting ;Jr for a school which encourages its students to participate in outdoor activities, including many related to the sea.

Surfing is a major sport at the school and the afternoon surfing sessions led by Br Joe Murphy are always popular.

Surfing, however, is not the only sport enjoyed by students. St Patrick's Outdoor Education Program i ncludes scuba diving on the reefs surrounding the Abrolhos Islands, Navigation and Electronics (to assist Surf's up. Br Joe Murphy and more than 30 students who will enter students head for a few hours in the surf after the the fishing industry), day's work is done. sailing and board sail- As well as water sports the more traditional sports ing, orienteering, kar- — cricket, football, tennis, hockey and basketball ate and judo.

— are encouraged at St Patrick's.

Natasha Morrissey, Rosie Bozanich, Sonia Morrissey and Katie Seivwright are enjoying their first taste of "real" school life.

Librarian, Mrs Shirley Duplex, who has been at the College for 12 years, assists Year 12 students during the Early Childhood class.

College Principal, Br John Murray is in a favoured position to talk about the development of St Patrick's College.

Br Murray has been a teacher at the school for seven years and principal for the past five but his association with St Patrick's began in the early 1950s.

"My lasting impression of this school as a student was the dedication of the Brothers to the boys' academic and personal welfare.

The school didn't have much money, we had very basic facilities and the Brothers had to work exceptionally hard," he said.

Br Murray considers himself fortunate to have been at St Patrick's while College founder, Br Charles Celsus O'Donnell was teaching there.

"I think we have fulfilled Br O'Donnell's wishes for the school. It has certainly developed since his time."

St Patrick's is conscious of the differing needs of its students, and the varied backgrounds from which they come.

"We are trying to prepare our boys to be self-fulfilled at school; to give them skills to continue their development after leaving school; to make them prepared to use their talents in the service of others; and to have a strong commitment to Christian values," says Br Murray.

The school has a proud record of academic achievement, numberfng among its past students a Rhodes Scholar and many who are prominent in the fields of medicine, law, sciences and in the services.

"The need in the Geraldton region is for quality education. At St Patrick's we are keen on the pursuit of excellence in a caring environment," said Br Murray.

"Like all schools, we have been caught up in the economic situation which has led students to stay longer at school.

Therefore we have broadened our curriculum to offer something for those students who are now staying on beyond Year 10 but

who are less academically able. To meet their needs we are offering subjects such as applied computing, physical education, metal construction and furniture woodwork.

"We have to make sure those of our students who want to go on to tertiary studies have the necessary p re req u sites, and that others have the skills to enable them to gain suitable occupations."

Good employment record St Patrick's students have a good employment record and each year the school follows up its former students to ensure they have been suitably placed.

Of last year's graduating class, two thirds of the students have moved on to tertiary studies and most of the others have gained a pprent iceship positions.

Tertiary In the Entrance Examinations the school had a 100% pass rate in the difficult subjects of Maths 2/3, Physics, Chemistry, English Literature and Computing.

Summer spells surfing

Music teacher, Mrs Jenny Lavett enjoys a singing lesson around the piano with her Year 8 class.

This year's new boarders include four girls who have never before attended a regular school. For the first time in their lives they are learning to cope with regular lessons in classrooms, the extra-curricular activities offered at school and living with hundreds of other students.

Twins Sonia and Natasha Morrissey, from Munbinia Station, near Mt Magnet and Katie Seivwright, of Glen Station, near Cue, have until now received all their schooling at home, through the.Meekatharra School of the Air. Long-distance schoolmates since their pre-school years, the three have finally become classmates at Stella Mans.

Rosie Bozanich, whose previous schooling has been through the Carnarvon School of the Air, is living at Stella Mans while completing Year 7 at St Francis Xavier Primary School. She will start Year 8 at the College next year.

The girls have found the move to school a little different, but not as hard as they thought it would be. Sonia and Natasha have two sisters who had already attended Stella Mans and a brother at St Patrick's, so they knew what to expect. They are enjoying living in the city — "There's so much more to do," said Natasha. "We can go out to the shops and movies."

Katie also is enjoying the change and thinks she is "coping pretty well" with the many new subjects she is learning.

Sr Helen Brennan, who is in charge of the boarding house, said that coming to the school was a big adjustment for most girls, but the "old hands" supported the younger ones and helped them settle in. "Many of the girls have sisters or cousins here and that also helps."

Pursuit of excellence

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Prefects of St Patrick's College received their badges of office at an Installation ceremony held during the school's opening Mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral.

Head prefect, Warwick Ley (front left) was "pretty thrilled" to have been selected as head of the school. A member of a pioneer Geraldton family, Warwick is carrying on tradition by following his two brothers at the College.

Metal construction is one of the popular options for St Pat's students. George Matchell shows his skills during the class.

Year 8 student Stephen James appreciates the advice of talented music teacher Br Gerald Crooks.

Students positive about RE

Religious Education Coordinator of St Patrick's College is Br Joe Murphy who has been at the school for the past nine years. It is Br Murphy's second term at the school. He had previously spent a six year term at St Patrick's during the early 60s.

Br Murphy believes that there has been a great change in the teaching of RE in that time.

"Religious Education is much less stereotyped now. There is less emphasis on memorising of catechism formulas and theological terms and more emphasis on personal development. It has followed the trends of other subjects. Religious Education now is more activity oriented, there are more experiential type activities, more time for discussion and projects and it's also more personalised than it used to be.

"There is more to faith than external religious practice," Br Murphy said. "A school is only as good as the family is — it can only build on what is already there. It cannot replace both the family and the parish, although it can support both. If the school has a good Christian atmosphere about it, if the students are not negative about RE, and there is a good spirit in the school, then it must do some good."

Art teacher Gabriella Lynch with student C Durack.

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Palmyra links with Solomon Islands "Velaka sivala", or thank you very much, was the message sent last month by school children in the Solomon Islands to students at Our Lady of Fatima School, Palmyra. The messenger was Sister Margaret Scharf, the director of the Diocesan Catechetical Centre at Moli on the island of Choiseul who was visiting the school to thank students for donations they have made to the Centre.

For the past two years school supplies such commercial companies were eight, fascinated the Solomon Islands as exercise books, for donations of goods. the students and missions, and Moli in pens and pencils and One book supplier, brought forth a barrage particular, have been first aid supplies to Wooldridge Dominie, of questions. Equally gave many books and fascinating to the childthe focus for the stu- Moli. dents' mission fund"The excitement of posters to the school ren was the display of artefacts from the raising. the whole school com- for forwarding to Moli. region which Sr Marclose link munity in participating Children spell-bound T he garet brought with her. between the school in this effort has been Sr Margaret's visit to and the Moli mission good to see," said the school provided her During the day the was arranged by the Principal, Mr Tony with an opportunity to students held several school's Religious Edu- Giglia. "Kerry White's describe to the children fund-raising activities cation coordinator, enthusiasm has been a at first hand the lifestyle and a cheque for the Kerry White who is a major force in organis- of the students at Moli. proceeds was preslong time friend of Sr ing the activities," he Senior students lis- ented to Sr Margaret.

Margaret. Before leav- said.

"We intend to contened spell-bound as Sr ing for the Solomons, Mr Giglia said that the Margaret described a tinue our support for Sr Margaret spent three children had arranged culture completely dif- the Moli mission," said years at Morawa serv- many different activi- ferent to their own. Her Mr Giglia, "and Sr ing with the Motor ties, including icy pole descriptions of a coun- Margaret's visit has Mission. sales, money lines and try where children given the children a fancy dress days, to often faced a two-hour positive link with the Fund-raising activities As part of their direct raise money for the walk through jungle to results of their efforts." reach their school; involvement with the mission.

Note: Velaka sivala is Parents, after seeing where turtle eggs and mission the students have corresponded the work done by the possums were a nor- from the Warisi lanwith Sr Margaret and in children, had volun- mal part of the diet, and guage, one of many response to her sug- teered their services where children did not languages spoken in gestions have sent and had canvassed start school until they the Solomon Islands.

Chisholm celebrates

The Installation of Prefects of Chisholm Catholic College, Bedford, was held 20 February at St Peter's Church Bedford. Gathered after the ceremony were three of the Deputy Principals and two head prefects. Pictured ( from left): Mrs Pat Rodrigues, Head Boy Justin Italian°, John Armstrong, Head Girl Victoria Moore and Michael Megaw.

"Today we are creating history!" With these words Bishop Robert Healy welcomed staff, students, parents and friends of Chisholm Catholic College to a special Mass at St Mary's Cathedral on 26 February.

The Mass was held to celebrate the inauguration of the College in Bedford which opened this year with more than 1300 students.

Concelebrating the Mass with Bishop Healy were priests of the Bedford region.

In his homily, the Bishop spoke of Caroline Chisholm, after whom the College was named. He said that it was a break with tradition not to name the College after a saint but that Caroline Chisholm was a great model for the students. Bishop Healy said that it was appropriate because she was an Australian

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Four Aboriginal Teaching Assistants were in Perth this month to commence studies for a Bachelor of Arts in Education at the Western Australian College of Advanced Education (WACAE).

Leonie, who teaches at Sacred Heart School, The Teaching Assistants were Nola Bell, St Joseph's School, Mingenew; Jean O'Reeri of St Beagle Bay, will be the first fully qualified female Joseph's School, Wyndham; Leonie Kelly, Sacred teacher from the Beagle Bay Community when Heart School, Beagle Bay and Jeff Hunter, Holy she completes her studies. An important part of her reason for studying is that she can provide a R osary School, Derby.

More than 70 Aboriginal Teaching Assistants positive role model for the Community and the are employed in Catholic schools. They act as children.

"They will say if she can do it, then so can I," assistants to the classroom teacher and provide said Leonie. the and the school community. a l iaison between Nola Bell of St Joseph's School, Mingenew is As part of their professional development they are provided with time for personal study and no stranger to the classroom. She is in her eighth encouraged to undertake further post-school year as a Teaching Assistant at the school. studies. At present six Teaching Assistants in Because the school is small with just 21 students, K imberley Catholic schools have qualified as Nola and the other Teaching Assistant look after all the classroom teaching. "With the assistance teachers as a result of the program.

The WACAE course, at the Mt Lawley campus, of the principal we prepare our own programs."

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Jean O'Reeri has been a Teaching Assistant for "Even though it will be a long hard road, it is ten years and she loves it. important to me to be recognised as a fully "I love the children and while I enjoy being a qualified teacher," she said.

Jeff Hunter will be the second teacher in his Teaching Assistant I always wanted to be a family. His wife Janet, who also teaches at Holy teacher."

Becoming a fully qualified teacher has been a Rosary School, Derby, has almost completed her Bachelor of Teaching course through WACAE. dream of Leonie Kelly's for many years.

Arts Degree students, from left, Leonie Kelly, Jean O'Reeri and Nola Bell.

Students and teachers!

Sr Kathleen Dawe, Fr Finbar Walsh and Mrs Catherine Collins are the new members of the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia.

A parish priest, a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and a primary teacher from Bunbury have been appointed as members of the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia.

Mrs Catherine Collins, a teacher from Bunbury Catholic Primary School, has been appointed as the lay teacher representative on the Commission.

Mrs Collins has been actively involved in Catholic education for more than 20 years as a parent, teacher and education consultant. Mrs Collins has taught in three Australian states, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. While teaching in Townsville she was a member of the Diocesan Education Advisory Board.

Mrs Collins is a former education officer of the Catholic Education Commission of WA and has lectured in Religious Education for the Catholic Institute of WA. At present she is the Year 3 teacher at Bunbury Catholic Primary School.

Fr Finbar Walsh has been appointed to the Commission as the representative of the WA Council of Priests.

Fr Walsh has been parish priest at Rockingham for the past 13 years after spending 19 years at St Mary's Cathedral.

During his time in Rockingham Fr Walsh has been involved in the development of Star of the Sea School from single to a double-stream school, and with the establishment of the new Catholic secondary school, Kolbe Catholic College.

Fr Walsh serves on the boards of both Star of the Sea School and Kolbe College. He is also a member of the Commission's General Policy Committee.

Sr Kathleen Dawe, a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, has been involved in secondary education in Western Australia for many years. She was a teacher in various Catholic schools and was principal of St Joseph's School, Bunbury when it was a secondary school. Sr Kathleen also was involved in the amalgamation of La Salle College and St Brigid's School in the early 1970s.

Sr Kathleen is at present the Coordinator of Formation for the National Congregation of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. In this position she organises renewal programs, leads retreats and gives spiritual direction to members of the Order.

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS BREAK THROUGH WITH

Students have become teachers at St Anne's School, Harvey, through the school's computer education program.

Above: Mr Geoff O'Dea, who began the program at St Anne's last year, with students Rebecca Zappia, Cosimo leraci and peer tutor, Adam Ross.

Children with a special interest in wordprocessing are given extra tuition in this area, then pass on their skills t o fellow students through a peer tutor System.

The peer tutor program was begun in f ourth term last year with students in years 5, 6 and 7 participating.

This year it is being extended to include students in years 3 and 4.

Parents involved Parents have become involved in a similar program, with those

who have already learned to use the software training other parents as well as the in helping classroom.

The tutor program is based on a similar program in use at St Thomas the Apostle School, Kambah, ACT, and was introduced to St Anne's by principal, Mr Shane Baker and the school's resource c olleague, Mr Geoff O'Dea. Use of computers in the classroom is relatively new at St Anne's.

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The school's Parents' and Friends' Association purchased one computer and printer and funds were allocated by the School Board for the rest of the hardware.

The computers are used by all children from years 1 to 7 and in a variety of ways wordincluding processing, logo, language, maths and problem solving.

Through the use of the computers, these topics are presented in such a way as to make learning enjoyable.

Computer Club Another innovation at the school has been the establ ishment of a Computer Club which operates out of school hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

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Sport enters computer age Sport in Catholic schools has entered the computer age with the development of a series of computer programs, Sports Carnival Managers, which organise and score major events and activities.

The programs were developed by the Director of Sport for the Associated Catholic Colleges, Rob Langer and Nigel Dutton of the Willetton Senior High School Computing Centre to streamline the recording of sports results.

As Director of Sport f or the Associated Catholic Colleges, Rob has first hand experience of the painstaking recording and calculating required to determine the results of events such as the annual inter-school swimming and athletics carnivals. Rob's and Nigel's development of the sports oriented Servite College, Tuart Hill already has begun using the Sports Carnival computer software Managers computer program. Above: Servite's sports coordinator, Mery White means that this type of (left) gets some hints on the program's use from one of the developers, Rob manual record keeping Langer. is now a thing of the events Australian results of as swimming and West past. athletics; others are Government Schools entered as they take Instant results Records which once used for ongoing com- Sports Association and place. The computer took many hours to petitions such as inter- the Ministry of Educa- tallies individual and complete, quantkies of school football and tion's Sports Services team scores progressively and can give an paper and much filing cricket. There also is a Division. up-to-date reading at for program suitable Rob and Nigel have space can now be any stage. as cross events such the prodeveloped contained on floppy disc and accessed in country runs, triathlons grams over five years. Swimming carnival minutes and results at and fun runs where The inspiration came debut large from a need to provide are Computer scoring sports carnivals can be there of a numbers standards-based made its debut at the determined quickly as competition to stimu- ACC Swimming Carnithe computer main- competitors.

Rob believes that due late interest among vals held this week and tains progressive to the individual analy- children in participat- will also be used for the scores throughout.

The programs allow sis available through ing in sports carnivals. annual cross country records to be main- the program, students To cater for the events and Athletics tained and updated. will be motivated to increased participation, Carnivals later in the Progressive and total improve and compare scoring of these events year.

Several Catholic colscores are instantly their efforts and partic- became an almost leges already are using available. As well, team ipate more keenly from impossible task.

The computer pro- the programs to moniand individual compet- year to year. gram made it possible tor school-based itor analysis can be Stimulate interest Sports Carnival Man- to have progressive sports and others are instantly obtained. The program also can be agers were launched at results, champion boy planning the introducused as an assessment a seminar last month and girl and final results tion later in the year.

The programs also are aid for students taking which was attended by available at the press of suitable for use by physical education sports coordinators a button.

To use the program at other sporting associafrom Catholic schools units.

Some of the programs and representatives the sporting venue, the tions such as Little the Public computer is taken to Athletics and football are suitable for use at f rom carnival and leagues. annual carnivals such Schools' Association, the

Schools in the News • Seven Japanese visitors from the Immaculate Heart College, Kagoshima are currently spending five weeks at St Norbert College, Queens Park. The visit by the Japanese students is part of the College's annual exchange program.

• The St Kieran Primary School community is working on a vision statement which will clearly explain what is special about the school and what is its mission.

• All ex-students of St Joseph's College, Northam are invited to attend the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the arrival in Northam of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition. The culmination of the celebrations will be a Mass to be celebrated by Archbishop Foley in the Church at 11am. After the Mass a picnic will be held in the grounds of the Church and Convent.

For further information contact: Sr Marietta on (096) 22 1110 —54 Chidlow Street, Northam 6401.

• An outdoor Mass for the whole school community was held at Servite College, Tuart Hill on Sunday 19 February. The Mass was held in the amphitheatre of the reconstructed and landscaped quadrangle which was blessed during the Mass. The school's new administration building also was blessed and the Blessed Sacrament was placed in the new prayer room established to commemorate the Marian Year. Mass was concelebrated by the Vicar Provincial of the Servite Friars, Fr Chris Ross and the College President, Fr Liam Mackle.

• Two new Catholic schools in Western Australia will have their official openings next month.

St Luke's Catholic Primary School, Woodvale will be opened on Sunday 2 April and Kolbe Catholic College, Rockingham will be opened on Sunday 9 April.

• Promising junior tennis player, Stephanie Martin, a Year 11 student at St Norbert College, Queens Park has been chosen to play in the Shell Junior National Tennis championships in Sydney next month.

• Students of Liwara Catholic Primary School, Greenwood last week enjoyed a visit from Fr Brian Gore, Columban Father. Fr Gore visited the school to thank students for their mission donations.

Items (or your school newsletters) for the Schools in the News column should be sent to Norma Rainey, Media Services, Catholic Education Office.

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Support for Principals Changes in education, social structures and family life combine to place even more pressure on the already pressured principals of Catholic primary and secondary schools. Here in Western Australia, the principals of both sections join together to further the ideals of Christian education through mutual support and professional development.

Chairman of the Catholic Primary Principalc' Association, Miss Anne Nolan gets to know Nicholas Martin and Peta-Lee Robins, Year 1 students at Liwara Catholic Primary School, Greenwood.

Principal of Sacred Heart College, Sorrento and 1989 chairman of the Catholic Secondary Principals' Association, Mr Bernie Boss chats with students Sean Cassar and Amber Southwell

New chairman Mr Bernie Boss, Principal of Sacred Heart College, Sorrento and new chairman of the Catholic Secondary Principals' Association of Western Australia (CSPA) says The basic purpose of our work is to ensure that our students continue to receive a sound, Christcentred education."

"The CSPA does this by providing independent perspectives on a variety of issues relating to Catholic education in Western Australia," said Mr Boss.

"While being independent we enjoy a close and cooperative working relationship with Dr Peter Tannock (Director of Catholic Education) and other officers of the Catholic Education Office," said Mr Boss. "The Association's executive meets regularly with Dr Tanflock and invites representatives from the CEO to CSPA meetings. Principals repre-

sent the Association on many of the Catholic Education Commission's committees and working parties."

The CSPA is a profesassociation sional which provides support for its members and a forum where problems and issues related to being a principal can be discussed.

The Association also provides opportunities for its members' spiritual and professional development through reflection days, retreats and guest speakers at meetings.

"At present the Association is working with the Catholic Education Commission's General Policy Committee to provide further development opportunities for senior administrators. These opportunities are needed in the spiritual as well as the professional field," said Mr Boss.

Professional development The Catholic Primary Principals' Associa-

tion (CPPA) also is concerned with the support and professional development of its members.

Principal of Liwara Primary Catholic School, Greenwood, Anne Nolan, the 1989 chairman of the CPPA says that the executive plans to increase communication with its members this year.

"There is more pressure than ever on principals now and we need to look at ways of coping with it. We want to establish links with f irst-time principals to support and help them."

Holding regular dinner meetings with guest speakers is part of the Association's professional development plan. The CPPA also holds an annual conference which focuses on a particular aspect of a principal's role.

Miss Nolan is concerned that all princi-

pals of Catholic primare schools ary assisted by the Association. "The south-west region is now represented on the Association executive, but we must look at what is happening in the rest of the state and assist our members in all isolated regions," she said.

Closer liaison The CPPA also is investigating closer liaison with government primary principals and principals of other independent primary schools through a proposed Professional Development Centre for Principals.

"There have been dramatic changes in schools in recent years in the areas of education, social structure and family life. There is a greater need for specialists," said Miss Nolan. "We need to define this and plan for where we are going in the years ahead."

the kingdom of God is?

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

"The kingdom of God" is an expression that keeps coming up in the Gospels. Jesus went about proclaiming the k ingdom of God. In Luke's Gospel, Jesus also announced that the kingdom was already in our midst.

JO doesn't mean soaring blissfully like an eagle above (inast. Instead, it means looking with an eagle's eye for erS.

with bert Kinast "the light of the world' (8:12).

After curing the blind man (9), Jesus clarifies that he is "the Good Shepherd" (10:1-18).

The raising of Lazarus (11:1-44) allows him to proclaim: "I am the resurrection and the life."

Perhaps the most striking example of his teaching from deeds is the washing of the disciples' feet at the Last Supper (13:1-11). Using t his experience, he explains what he expects of his followers after his death.

We have Jesus' words and the truths they convey. But it can seem so abstract, even confusing, as we read or hear the discourses in John's Gospel.

For his teaching to be fully alive for us, we must do what he did; we must ground his words in the deeds he performed.

To know the meaning of God's healing, we must help someone, like the sick man of Bethesda, who can never get to the resources because there

is no transportation or encouragement.

To know the meaning of the bread of life, we must feed those who cannot provide their own food.

To know the meaning of the resurrection, we must set free those who, like Lazarus, are bound by prejudice or poverty or fear.

To know the meaning of the Good Shepherd, we must guide those who, like the blind man, cannot see where they are going in life.

To know the meaning of forgiveness, we must be able to see ourselves in the misery and hurt of those who do wrong, as Jesus invited the accusers of the adulteress to do.

To be a disciple of the Jesus presented in John's Gospel is not to soar blissfully like an eagle, above the pain and turmoil and confusion of human life. It is rather to look with an eagle's eye for the opportunity to plunge into the needs and hurts of others, to give ourselves generously and humbly as the foot -washer did.

It is a matter of learning from experience what the meaning of Jesus' teaching is.

The death and resurrection of Jesus constitute a critical moment in the history of the kingdom of God. One of those who died alongside Jesus asked to be remembered when Jesus entered into his kingdom.

All over the world, Christians continue to pray: "Thy kingdom come."

From all this it is clear that the kingdom of God pervades much of the religious thinking of the New Testament. It is a basic component of Christian faith.

But what does the expression "kingdom of God" mean? Very few people I know would be able to say.

An important expression and notion like this risks becoming a religious catch-all.

When we do not know how to name a religious goal, we always can say that we are working for the kingdom of God. No one can reproach us for that.

We need to be careful.

Vague understanding and usage are one thing.

But the idea of the kingdom of God also can be distorted and applied to a kingdom that is all too human.

Humanly speaking, the kingdom of God is an image drawn from the great kingdoms of the ancient Near East.

Israelites themselves often did.

In the prayer and preaching of Jesus and throughout the new Testament, the expression "kingdom of God" enjoys the riches of this development.

To refer to the kingdom of God is to acknowledge God's rule over each human being, each family, each community, each nation and grouping of nations.

It is to say that all of these are subject to God and that no one person or nation has absolute sovereignty over any other.

All ultimately are God's subjects and must be respected as such.

In the United States, people speak of "one nation under God", and rightly so, as long as they do not think theirs is the only nation under God. All the others are also.

The biggest challenge is to recognise God's rule and to act as citizens of the kingdom of God. All of Jesus' teaching was intended to show people A castle conjures up a picture of a kingdom on earth with kings and queens and how to do that. courtiers. But the picture is woefully inadequate when it comes to portraying the No one person or nation kingdom of God, writes Blessed Sacrament Father Eugene LaVerdiere. God's realm ever lives up fully to the is so much more. It is as broad as the universe itself. demands of the kingdom.

Those demands call for There was Sumer, authority over their name of God against perfect fulfilment of the lived who people other Babylon, Assyria, Egypt subjects. will in all our God's territory their outside are that and many others But due to their unique with one dealings well known from the Old faith in God the kings and did not share Israel's require would It another.

God. in faith Testament. In all of these themselves also were harmony kingdoms, kings ruled subject to God, who had With time, the notion of total peace and in the international supreme. supreme authority over kingdom of God was order, as God intended in limitathese of purified them and over all their For a long time, Israel tions and the ancient creating the first human subjects. couple. too was a kingdom. Like It was normal therefore Israelites recognised that other kingdoms its kings all Unfortunately. over only not ruled God ruled supreme over their to think of God as a king them and their king but human beings from time subjects. The Bible has and to refer to God's over all peoples, nations to time are rebellious given us their names, the realm as the kingdom of and kings. This was an subjects in the kingdom best known being King God. extraordinary break- of God. King In the early years of through. and David We live in hope.

Solomon.

Israel's history, people That is why we have to They saw that the In many ways, Kings tended to identify the kingdom of God was as keep praying "thy kingDavid and Solomon kingdom of God with a broad as the universe dom come". Christians ruled like the kings of particular people and itself. God was Lord of all, may not always live up to even of those who did not the ideals of the kingdom other nations, but also territory. his lordship or of God, but they never reocgnise people that This meant were different. The kings of Israel had supreme could go to war in the rebelled against it, as the lose sight of them.

Miracles and signs There are some 29 miracles in the first three Gospels. The Gospel of John, however, has just seven and they are pointedly called "signs".

This suggests that the evangelist's main interest in recording them was their significance. He carefully avoids sensationalising them.

The change of water into wine at Cana, for instance, is not described at all.

There is simply a "before" and an "after".

Where there was water now there is wine.

By comparison with the other Gospels, the account of the walking on water (John 6:16-21) is restrained. of element The softis "wonder"

pedalled. The story's main point is Jesus' reassuring words: "It is I. Do not be afraid."

In Greek (the original language of the Gospel), the words "It is I" literally mean "I am".

So this is a clear allusion to the divine name revealed to Moses and a clear statement of faith in Jesus' divinity, with the clear implication that as long as he is with his community, they have nothing to fear.

Jesus' signs point to his identity and to his saving the in presence community.

The cure of the paralytic in Chapter five serves as an introduction to an important instruction on the universal lordship of Jesus.

The main element in

his disciples in the brings not only sight to community's sacramen- the physically blind but insight to the spiritually tal, eucharistic life. blind. mistaking no is There Again, an identification the eucharistic language the cure is the fact that it used to describe Jesus' of Jesus and a statement was performed on a actions in John's account: of his relationship with "Jesus took the loaves, humanity.

Sabbath day. gave thanks and distribThe evangelist was of ire the aroused This them to those who selective. He used relauted some, and they protested. were reclining" (6:11). tively few miracles from Jesus' defence was a the rich tradition but he important, more Even of statement magnificent as the chose them well, with an his oneness with God in the account serves bread of eye to their potential as running the world. "My occasion for the which vehicles of his theology. in discourses ife l until work at is Father Jesus that learn we He summed it up by now, so I am at work" of bread the is himself saying: "Now Jesus did (John 5:17). life. many other signs in the The multiplication of Again, the miracle is a presence of disciples that loaves is one of the few narratives the four evan- sign of something, the are not written in this gelists share. But the identity of Jesus and his book. But these are crowd's feeding is nar- relationship with his written that you may (come to) believe that rated by John not just disciples in all ages.

A similar point is made Jesus is the Messiah, the because it is amazing but because it tells readers in the next dramatic Son of God, and that story, the identification through this belief you that the risen Christ is the same who fed the of Jesus as the light of the may have life in his crowd and still is feeding world, the one who name" (20:30-31).

By Fr John Castelot

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Original architect Hamish Cameron Smith and builder's assistant Father Hugh Thwaites Si have come from Zambia and London to see the chapel they designed and built in Changi in 1943/44, now relocated and dedicated in Canberra as the national memorial to the 35,000 Australian prisoners of war from the Boer War to Korea who suffered and died.

Of the 22,000 Australian prisoners in South East Asia during World War Two, 8000 died in captivity.

Because the original designer and builder's assistant couldn't be located at that point, reconstruction took place from old photographs, drawings and sketches aided by recollections of former POWs. The two met together in Perth this week and moved on to Canberra to see a building which was built amidst misery, suffering and death, emerge as a memorial to those who gave their lives for their country, and those who suffered and returned.

Father Thwaites was a lieutenant in the British Army and had only been in Singapore for two weeks when it fell to the

Changi chape duo's Japanese on February 15, 1942.

"We were given barbed wire and told to 'wire ourselves in' "said Father Thwaites.

There were among the captured "some very good Australian priests who said Mass for all the Catholics".

"The Japanese forced us to work on the BangkokMoulmein railway project to make it easier for them to invade India," said Father.

"I had dysentery and never went on the initial working parties. I was in H Force which wasn't meant to be working, but the Japs tricked us by saying they'd send us to a rest camp in the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia. It was of course a lie and there was no rest camp. We were forced to work on the

railway too."

There were originally 10,500 in the working group and within nine months, 6000 were dead.

Of the H Force group of 300 officers 150 were dead within a month.

"That group had been made up of 100 Aussies, 100 Gurkhas and 100 British.

"The Aussies in our camp were terrific! They. were always very much on the ball.

"For instance we would march through the jungle and the Japs would tell us to stop. While the British were debating where to pitch their tents, the Aussies had pitched theirs and cooked their meal!"

Once they "found a load of cattle wandering in the jungle" and brought them back undetected to the meat starved men.

Citing another instance "to demonstrate the great resourcefulness of the Aussies" Father Thwaites said the men used to watch the mouth watering sight of 'beef on the hoof' as an Indian herder drove his cattle past the men daily.

"The Aussies dug a pit and covered it with leaves and branches and grabbed the last beast as it ambled past. Within a fraction of time, they had

During his visit to Perth, Changi survivor Father Hugh Thwaites glances over the issue of The Record detailing the re-construction and re-dedication of the Changi chapel in Canberra.

skinned it, gutted it, and cut off the desired portions, and thrown the skin and bones into the pit, hiding any evidence.

"The herder rushed back looking for the beast — but couldn't find any trace of it!"

Telling of their ingenuity, Father Thwaites mentioned how one Aussie entrepreneur was given the task of taking petrol from the warehouse down to the dock.

"He sold every other tin privately, and when the

warehouse was empty — he sold the lorry!

"The men also found in Changi that chin straps made quite good electric resistance wires for electric heaters, so they would tap the electricity and boil the salt water down to extract the salt. They had it going all night, but the Japs never found out."

In Thailand they were very short of salt and people got palagra (a vitamin deficiency caused skin disease). The

doctor used the salt for medical purposes.

"Dr Kevin Fagan, who is now a sheep farmer near Canberra, saved my life (and many others), with this jungle sore I had. 'Don't thank me.

Thank God,' he said.

"Before they got hold of anaesthetic, they had to hold the patients down for operations and treatment," said Father Thwaites.

The men in the camp were all skin and bones he said, and one man

asked the doctor what was the hard lump when he pressed his stomach.

"It's your backbone," the doctor said.

Jungle sores, along with TB, cholera, malaria and other diseases, were among the common scourges which often led to death.

Initially when the doctors had M & B tablets, they would powder them up and place them on the wound to kill the bacteria.

"These sores, caused by bacteria, spread and so you had a big open green coloured wound which smelt. Later on when there was no medicine available, the doctors would collect grubs from the latrine, put those on the wound, and cover it with banana leaves which were stuck down with latex from the rubber trees.

"When removed after a period of time, the grubs had eaten out all the bacteria and the wound was clean."

Restoring flesh was however the problem at that stage with only a cupful of rice and vegetable leaves to live on.

Father Thwaites sold his Rolex watch so he could buy eggs from the villagers.

"Iwas so hungry late 14 eggs in one day!It was the

World news extra!

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New fidelity oath now IN PART IT PROMISES COMMUNION WITH CATHOLIC CHURCH VATICAN CITY (NC): Newly appointed seminary rectors and professors, deacons and pastors must take an oath of fidelity as well as recite a revised profession of faith, the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has announced.

The new oath in part promises "communion with the Catholic Church" in words and deed and the avoidance of "those teachings contrary to the deposit of the faith".

Along with the oath, the doctrinal congregation published a revised profession of faith, with three added sentences "to better distinguish the type of truth and the relative assent requested", according to an explanatory note.

The new oath and revised profession of faith, both published only in Latin, went into effect on March 1.

The oath of fidelity "is a

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public commitment to sion of faith when they exercise one's office in first begin their terms of the Church with fidelity office according to canon both to the profession of law. faith and to the particuThese include pastors, lar obligations inherent seminary rectors, profesto one's office", Francis- sors of theology and can Father Umberto Betti philosophy in seminartold Vatican Radio. ies, deacons, rectors of Father Betti, a consultor ecclesiastical or Catholic to the doctrinal congre- universities, university gation, said this public teachers "who teach commitment explains disciplines which deal why the Church takes with faith or morals" and certain actions, such as superiors in religious removing the teaching institutes. faculties of some theoloThe six-sentence oath gians it decides have promises to undertake strayed from their one's office "with great commitment. diligence and fidelity", to "preserve the whole Removal of the faculties deposit of the faith", to "is not an oppressive "pass it on and explain it measure, but simply the faithfully", and to avoid verification that one has contrary teachings. not remained faithful to The oath declares one's the commitment which one assumed to teach in willingness to "follow the the name of the Church", discipline common to the he said.

Church" and to obey Because bishops and canon law. cardinals already have It also commits the their own oaths of fidel- oath-taker to "follow ity, the new oath directly with Christian obedience affects those officials those things" which the who must make a profes- teachers and leaders of

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the Church state and to Creed. assist diocesan bishops In addition three new so that "all proceed in sentences have been communion with the added which "make a Church". triple distinction of docA person would take trines proposed by the the oath with his or her Church", said Father hand on the Bible.

Betti.

Until 1967 all priests "With a firm faith I also and Church officials believe all those things were required to take which are contained in "the oath against moder- the word of God, nism". The 1910 oath was whether written or a strongly worded and handed on, and those long statement rejecting things which are to be specific modernist errors believed as proposed by and affirming specific the Church whether by a Catholic teachings. solemn judgment or by Modernism was an the ordinary and univerearly 20th-century sal magisterium as Catholic intellectual divinely revealed," the movement which looked first of the additions says. at Church doctrine Father Betti said an through new methods of example of such a dogma historical criticism and would be papal infallibilevolutionary philosophy. ity or the Immaculate It was condemned in Conception.

1907 by Pope Pius X. "I also firmly embrace The anti-modernist and retain all and oath was dropped in everything which is 1967 when a new profes- definitively proposed in sion of faith was drafted. doctrine either about The newly revised pro- faith or morals by the fession of faith retains a Church," the second recitation of the Nicene states.

Father Betti said it was his opinion that the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), which condemns artificial birth control and abortion, would fall into this category.

1967 profession of faith, which was a declaration to "embrace and retain each and everything which has been proposed by the Church regarding the teaching of faith and morals, whether defined by "In additionI adhere by solemn judgment or religious assent of the asserted and declared by will and intellect to the the ordinary magisteteachings with either the rium, especially those Roman pontiff or the things which concern college of bishops declare the mystery of the holy when they exercise the church of Christ and its authentic magisterium, sacraments and the sacrieven if they do not intend fice of the Mass and the to proclaim them by a primacy of the Roman definitive act," the profes- pontiff". sion concludes.

While the profession of Father Betti did not give faith "is the condition an example for this which enables one to category, saying only that assume an office in the it covered "doctrines in Church", Father Betti movement". explained in the Vatican "These also merit not an newspaper L'Osservaassent of faith, not a tore Romano, "the oath of definitive assent, but fidelity is the public always a religious assent commitment to exercise by which one adheres to it well before the Church itself and before the that teaching," he said. institutions and persons The new additions for which it was replace the ending of the assumed".

trip down memory lane

better diet which created flesh. But many died through the sores and the s tarvation diet. One man's sore covered a lot of his leg. The flesh was all eaten away and then one day as he rolled over, his bone just snapped."

Later on when the medicos got hold of some potassium permangenate, they used it to burn out the wound.

Daily heroism in the midst of captivity and death, are not easily forgotten.

"One medical orderly lived with the cholera patients; he was a good Catholic man. And I remember an American Jew gave me a clean bandage which under those circumstances was a great gift," said Father Thwaites.

"When we first worked on the railway, the death toll was rapid and high because we had to work 12 hour shifts. Fearing there wouldn't be anybody left alive to build it (the engineer had threatened to commit Hari Kari if we didn't meet the deadline), they changed them to eight hour shifts.

"One man was coming off a shift as his sick mate came on. Realising he was too sick to work the shift, he took his place and completed the 16 hour shift for him."

The Japanese were not notable for prisoner compassion, nor seemed to show little for their own men, "who were just sent out into the jungle with a few bullets and some rice". But the men and their priests were heroic as they tried to sustain each other through their captivity.

Father Thwaites remembered Father Bernard Quirk OFM, brother of recently deceased Father Ray Quirk OFM from Midland parish: "He was such a gentle man, smiling and friendly. But he suffered much anguish because of the war and internment.

"Father Lionel Marsden, SM, was a priest most active in my area. He got permission to go up and down the railway line saying Mass in different camps.

"He came to Hintock — our camp, and when we got back from our day's work, we'd construct an altar out of fishing crates, using candles stuck in their own wax."

The priests were out of communion wafers, so on a work party clean-up in Singapore, Father Thwaites slipped away from the main group to see the French bishop and try and get some communion wafers.

"He was playing billiards when I got there and agreed to give me the 200 I'd requested but insisted on counting them out one by one while I anxiously watched the time, hoping they hadn't noticed my absence!"

Father Thwaites considered taking a risk to get wafers to ensure continuance of Mass, was worth it. He had been considering the Anglican priesthood prior to joining up, and was baptised a Catholic eight weeks before being taken prisoner.

And was "full of such joy" — even to the extent of writing to his parents after his release, saying that he had just spent "the happiest three and a half years of my life".

"Such was my happiness through conversion to Catholicism."

Altar wine was made out of currants bought from the locals and fermenting the fruit.

Three drops of wine were used and one drop of water. Ultimately they used flour instead of wafers but then they had nothing, so Mass ceased for the last few months of 1945.

The prisoners had to hose down the pigs for the Japanese "but the flour for the pigs had

Ban chemical weapons call VATICAN CITY (NC): The Vatican's top diplomatic official called for a "complete and unreserved" ban on chemical weapons, saying they represent a type of pure "cruelty" that cannot be legitimised in the name of national defense.

Cardinal Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, said at

disarmament meeting nuclear disarmament was also urgently needed, but added that a completely nuclear-free world might be unrealistic.

Cardinal Casaroli recalled that chemical weapons have already been responsible for "horrors" that are difficult to forget and that still produce damaging effects decades after their use. a

prayers with a regime it disapproved of.

The faithful, the bishops added, were free to attend the funeral ceremonies as individuals; but they asked the clergy not to celebrate a requiem Mass on the Sunday after the funeral (that is, last Sunday) or to take part in ceremonies organised by authority locally.

Recalling the teaching of Vatican Hon the value of dialogue between

religions, the Japanese bishops affirmed that it was important for Catholics to understand Shintoism; but a clear distinction had to be made between traditional Shintoism, which was the heritage of ancient Japan, and "the Shintoism of the State" in the name of which Asian peoples, and not the Japanese only, "had been constrained to offer blind obedience to imperial absolutism".

out of the camp on a stretcher to the hospital ship, he asked a doctor with a camera to take a photograph of the chapel and send it to his mother.

The doctor was so struck with the Chapel's beauty, that he got the engineers to dismantle it, crate it up and ship it back to Australia.

He then wrote to Hamish's mother telling her this. Hamish meanwhile had to spend two years convalescing in Africa, and later, because of the condition of his lungs, returned there to live in Zambia where he is now a practicing architect.

"All these years Hamish had been trying to find out what happened to the chapel.

"Eventually in August year. Hamish last received a phone call from an Australian he'd enquired of visiting Zambia, and learned the chapel had been rebuilt and was to be consecrated as a national memorial."

The search was complete both for Hamish and those who were trying to find the missing duo.

According to Soviet news agency Tass, the magazine will be sold at state-run magazine stands.

Tam reported that the magazine will

describe "different aspects of the faith and of Catholic morality, helping readers to study more deeply sacred Scripture and Catholic liturgy".

And for Father Thwaites the circle is complete.

He discovered Catholicism just before his incarceration. Sweat, ingenuity and love built the chapel, which is now a monument for those who never returned.

Now as a Jesuit priest it is his turn to offer Mass in the chapel he so often worshipped at.

And where all the faller will be remembered.

Father Thwaites says he never allowed himself to hate the Japanese "because I knew they were just pagans, and pagans have always treated the captured as slaves".

"But I'm thankful for the dropping of the atom bomb, because we found out that the Japanese had orders that as soon as our people landed in Malaysia, all the outside working parties were to be killed and all the officers.

"So the dropping of the bomb saved many, many Prior to departing for lives. A lot of people Canberra, Father said would never have how much he was look- returned to their families ing forward to offering if that hadn't stopped Mass in that little chapel. them."

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gone off and been their dinner,I would lift dumped in the rubbish them up and spirit them bin. So we grabbed it and away! ate it; we were starving.". "When the chapel was After nine months in finished and the tabernaThailand on the railway, cle installed, our priests Father Thwaites installed the Blessed returned to Singapore Sacrament. Having Our and considered it a Lord with us in the camp luxury to sleep on a bare made all the difference!" concrete floor, after the Other camp heroes rigours of jungle life. were the men who This is the period when constructed, concealed the famous Changi and listened to the news chapel was built. "Wher- to pass on to the men. ever there were Catholics "Within half an hour and priests, the men we'd spread it from to would try and build group to group. worthy little chapels," "Eventually Hirohito said Father Thwaites. surrendered. My captiv"My friend Hamish ity had lasted exactly Cameron Smith three and a half years to designed this beautiful the day. chapel and mostly built it "We heard the news on himself; I was just the our radios which the laps unskilled labour force." could never find but the were Japanese Commander in Materials scrounged from where Chief of the island they could, with outside refused to accept that the working parties bringing Emporer had surrenin "the faking sick" on dered, and a member of stretchers improvised the Imperial family had with long timbers, which to be flown out from were then used for the Tokyo to convince him.

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"By this time my friend was seriously ill, Hamish "We got a lot of innocent amazingly charitabut pleasure out of this and using our wits to gain the ble. After paying his Mass sub's, he would necessary materials.

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"He would chat and drains which we needed to carry off the rainwater cheer up, roll a cigarette from the roof, so while and bring bits to eat."

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to the Sacred Heart. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, may your name be praised and glorified throughout the world Most Sacred Heart of now and forever. Amen. Jesus may your name be (Say nine times a day for praised and glorified nine consecutive days and throughout the world promise publication.) now and forever. Grateful Thanks to the Sacred thanks for favours Heart for prayers ans- granted. W.D.B. wered. Liz. Ask St Clare three favours, Holy St Jude, Apostle and one business, two imposMartyr, great in virtue and sible. Pray nine Hail rich in miracles, near Marys, light candle and let k insman of Jesus Christ, burn out on ninth day. faithful intercessor of all Publicise prayer. Thanks St who invoke your special Clare. I. patron in time of need, to you I have cause from the you Sacred Heart depth of my heart and Thank humbly beg of you to of Jesus, Our Lady, St whom God has given Anthony, St Joseph, St such power to come to Jude, St Rita for favours my assistance. Many granted past and present. thanks for granted Mary. f avours. K.L. Thanks to St Jude, the Thanks to Sacred Heart, St Holy Spirit and Our Lady Jude, Holy Mary, Mother for answering my prayer. of God for prayers ans- May you praised wered. C.W. f orever. J.M. Novena

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from Richard EGAIV, Ferndale Sir, I hope Sr Veronica Brady can forgive The Record for its scandalous act of printing an interview with a courageous man who has suffered for speaking the truth of Christ under the Soviet regime.

This regime is built on lies and on the determination to maintain power at any price. At times during its history it has temporarily allowed greater freedom, both economic and religious, in order to prevent widespread popular revolt and gain additional support from the West.

To date these periods of relaxation have always been followed by periods of renewed persecution and suppression.

There is nothing un-Christian or uncharitable in viewing the Gorbachev initiatives in the light of past history.

In fact we fail in the duty of charity to the Russian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian and other Soviet subject peoples if we assist in strengthening their oppressors through ready and naive acceptance of their supposed goodwill.

Sr Veronica distorts St Paul to imply that there is no difference between communist and non-communist. In context (Galatians 3:27-29) the reference is to those who are "baptised into Christ." Communists, and the Soviet ruling elite, remain enemies of Christ and of freedom.

We are commanded to forgive our enemies not to become their dupes.

I am confident The Record will continue to allow full freedom of speech for our brothers and sisters from Communist regimes despite Sr Veronica's appeal that their voice be silenced.

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from Mary McDONALD Sir, The views of feminist theologian Edwina G ately, (The Record, March 9), highlights her talents as a very good story teller with a bent for a personal perspective of matters spiritual and moral.

Her labelling of the Catholic Church as 'male dominated' destroyed all the good things she was trying to achieve for prostitutes her by lectures.

Christ the head of the Church demonstrated by His example and action with St Mary Magdalen, His special love for the sinner. This example and action has been adopted and carried on by His Church to the present time, regardless of a feminist intent of using prostitutes and prostitution to cause division among men and women within the Mystical Body The fact that Mary is both our blessed Mother, given to us by Jesus Christ to imitate, establishes the highest role of any human person, thus establishing forever, the wholeness of His Holy Catholic Church through Mary, by Jesus, and as ordained by God Himself.

Thanks for the uncensored publication of Fr Svarinskas' message (The Record, March 2) Prudence, vigilance and justice are valuable virtues worth parading, especially if they are presented by a credible witness who renders testimony to what he has seen After all, so many years of prison camps warrants the medium himself to be part of the message The "Suffering Servant- figure fulfils the precept "be simple as doves and as wise as serpents".

Hope needs some basis to build upon, otherwise it is doomed to disappear like a mirage in the desert.

Though it is imperative to follow God's initiative in the Glasnost renaissance that is occurring in the Soviet Union, caution nevertheless is not to be thrown out the window!

The Christian faith has fought bitterly to survive in communist lands and its method in part has been to create an informed public opinion about its plight. But written critical accounts of the discrimination of believers have been illegal and therefore relegated to an underground resistance movement. Those found spreading and disseminating such documented information as "The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania" have been imprisoned on the unfair charge of "slandering the Soviet State".

Nevertheless since 1972, many numbers of -The Chronicle" have continued to inform the free world about violations of the rights of believers in the Soviet Union. For far too long has the struggling Church of Silence in the East been scandalously ignored and deprived of sympathetic understanding and the solidarity of believers in the West.

Therefore, I thank you for having given Voice to Fr Svarinskas' message in the local Catholic press as well as the steady flow of information on this theme that you have published throughout the past.

... and much more from Mrs Patricia HALLIGAN, Mandurah Sir, Thanks for headlining Father Alfonsas Svarinskas's message to the world and in particular the Catholic world.

I was privileged to assist at the beautiful Mass where symbols of the suffering of this tiny Lithuanian nation which is predominantly Roman Catholic were carried to the altar by ladies in national costume.

Afterwards I attended the reception given for Father Alfonsas where I was able to say a few words of welcome on behalf of "The Friends of the Prisoners" an ecumenical group of correspondents joined in faith to support prisoners of conscience.

Father Alfonsas impressed me greatly and meeting him, however briefly, serves to enrich one's life especially after reading about the testimony of his priesthood for the last few years, detailed in the Chronicle of

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the Catholic Church in Lithuania, an underground journal published at great cost to the personal freedom of those collecting and compiling the information and smuggling it out to the West.

He is one of those very special people whom it is impossible to forget and he virtually radiates a peace and joy which can only come from having complete trust in Jesus and I was sorry I could not understand the language.

However, when one has that disadvantage it makes it easier to observe other things and it was obvious that this priest has a very generous and loving heart for all people and especially his fellow Lithuanians whom he sees as his special responsibility. The common criminals with whom he was obliged to cohabitate (the Soviets do not discriminate in allocating separate accommodation for prison-

ers of conscience) he regarded as a vocation within a vocation.

It is a great pity that more Catholics in Australia do not become informed about the effects of "glastnost - that we hear so much about in the media. Mr Gorbachov realises that he must have the co-operation of all believers in the Soviet Union ( including Moslems and Jews) if he has any hope of pulling his country out of the economic mess it is in as they make up 40 per cent of the population but he has not renounced Leninism which has at its heart atheistic godlessness.

Genuine reforms can only come if Catholics will obey the instructions of the Mother of God at Fatima, and show their practical solidarity with Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Polish and other Eastern bloc countries, by swamping governments and individuals with polite, brief letters assuring them of that solidarity

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Caring can be so tiring

Holidays for tertiary students are an opportunity to do either some voluntary or paid work in the community.

The Slow Learning Children's Group holds annual camps that cater for approximately 250 guests and thirty volunteer staff over a three week period in January.

Point Peron was the site this year where water sports were the prime activity.

Body painting and mask making added

another avenue to their creative expressions.

While the sun was up, guests and staff spent time enjoying the outdoor pursuits — with the more adventurous attempting the skis and the kneeboard.

Night brought with it the releasing of pent-up energy and inhibitions as everyone moved on the dance floor to contemporary tunes.

Many fine shows of callisthenics and ballet had every spectator

out suffering the losses.

Excursions to the Deer Park, restaurants and a local carnival encouraged conversation about the day's adventures.

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applauding such talent.

These guests taught us how to receive the most out of our limited existence on earth.

Rather than taking a passive view, the path is laid clear for us to take

independent each moment and enjoy it as it is.

The night of the Peron Casino will be remembered for giving us all the chance to experience a world of winning with-

Eagle's Nest date

While this all may appear as a jolly fine holiday for the volunteers, who had no expenses, the lime spent in caring for the guests took its toll with physical exhaustion.

A mother's daily existsuddenly is ence understood!

Each person was

responsible for six guests, most of whom were fairly capable. others, who The required regular assistance filled the day with basic activities.

The learning gained from working alongside people who operated at a slower rate gave us a depth of patience we may overlook in our lives.

The reward of such an experience can only be measured in the weight of the smiles from the joyful holiday makers.

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by Graham Douglas The Vision Weekend will ratify the group treasurer's division of $18,900 state government grants.

Movements and groups like Antioch, Catholic Parish Youth and the Jocisit movements YCS, YCW, and T'YCS and others like Catholic Rural Youth Outreach, groups, This year the council tertiary student associated those and hopes to increase the the Redemptorists membership of its execu- with a slice of the receive will tive by having represencake. tatives from each of the The council has existed four diocese in WA. one form or other in At times country youth 1945. since leaders complain of It has enhanced the minimal consultation on of the differcooperati about decisions. ent groups and preThe council coordinates unnecessary vented the annual Perth youth competition duplication. rally, maintains contact Youth movements are between dioceses, pubto share resources able youth lished its first directory, distributed and plan social and fundgovernment grants and raising events.

It is concerned about encouraged other short small movements scheterm projects.

The Catholic Youth Council of WA meets for its annual vision this weekend at Eagle's Nest Gidgegannup. It's a chance for different youth movements, and local parish groups of WA to have their say about the priorities for the next eighteen months.

CYC REPRESENTATIVES Movements, dioceses and youth organisations are encouraged to appoint their respective delegates to the Catholic Youth Council of WA. New delegates should be ready to take part in the annual Vision weekend on March 17, 18, 19 which brings together some 30 young people, their chaplains from various organisations to reflect back on the previous 12 months and make concrete plans for the months ahead.

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Unnecesary clashes like this can be avoided once workable contact is made.

The council is one forum of contact.

Government State funds are sought and distributed by the council for the Perth diocese.

Bunbury and Geraldton own their make application.

Each council member comes from a particular Each movement. member including chaplains and adult assistants have a vote.

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Individuals not associated with the council have had the opportunity to have a say through a regular advertisement on this page.

The council sets its goals from suggestions made by individuals and from what has been resolved at the previous statewide youth conference, not forgetting suggestions from the chaplains and assistants.

Sub -committees for 1989 will increase to nine with the addition of a planning committee for the 1991 Australian Youth Convention. committees Other include Liturgy, Parish Contract Link, School visits, Youth directory, Youth Rally, Youth Survey and Campsite maintenance.

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Reluctant nun Clarice Mariscotti was in love. Whenever a certain handsome young nobleman came to her parents' castle, Clarice dressed in her very best.

She looked lovely. She believed that he loved her too.

Clarice was in her teens around the year 1600, but most of her girlfriends already were married.

That was the custom in Italy then. She dreamed of marrying her handsome marquis.

Then one day Clarice made a shocking discovery. She found the marquis was in love, but not with her. He wanted to marry her younger sister.

Clarice was hurt deeply.

She was angry and jealous. She became moody.

By the time she was 20, Glance's parents were

insisting that she become a nun. They sent her to join the Franciscan sisters in Viterbo. Clarice had no choice but to obey.

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She charged everything S I M A S to her father. She was determined to enjoy life.

E L P S A After 10 years of soft H M A R Q living, Sister Hyacintha became ill with headaches Jan°Dai .saLpopaay and stomach aches. She was depressed and tired.

The other sisters called a it was hard and she began recover rapidly. She put to slip back into her old on the poor habit of a Franciscan priest to visit ways. Soon she was ill nun, gave away her fancy her. again. clothes and furniture and The priest was so Feeling that no one said goodbye to her cook. shocked to see her luxurious rooms that he loved her, Sister HyacinSister Hyacintha now refused to do anything for tha began to pray to St prayed regularly. She her unless she changed Catherine of Siena whose became a caring, compasher lifestyle. Sister Hya- statue was by her bed. sionate and understandcintha broke down and One day she had a strong ing person. Her sisters feeling that St Catherine and cried. then the townspeople As she gradually began loved her and God loved began to confide in her to feel better, she worked her too. and ask her help. She She then began to became novice mistress of at changing her life. But

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She nursed the sick with unusual gentleness and organised groups of people to care for the poor and sick, and to visit prisoners and find housing for the homeless.

She became famous in Viterbo before her death in 1640 at 55. In 1807 Pope Pius VII canonised her.

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The stories and poems collected here included some of the best imaginative writing by today's children and yt)ung adults.

They are the award winners of the competition, selected by an independent panel of judges.

This collection is refreshing evidence of the considerable talents of a wide range of children.

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Golden Apples. Poems for children. Chosen by Fiona Waters. Pub by Pan. $7.99.

A poetry anthology for 8-12 year olds to wander through and return to at any age.

A seasonal, lyrical, comical collection of poems, some simple, some challenging, from the familiar to the completely new.

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There are also pieces from some favourite children's authors such as Allan Ahlberg, Russell Hoban and Kit Wright.

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Kite. The haunting story of a boy's coming of age in the rural south by Ed Minus. Published by Penguin. $9.95.

The Baptist orphanage is the only home fourteenyear-old Kite Cummings has ever known, until his aunt and uncle send for him to be a kind of replacement for their only child who died in a mysterious fire.

To Kite, their warm, comfortable. rural Souther home — with its mountain views, delicious food, and offers of love and friendship — is a kind of paradise.

As he struggles with his urgent sexuality in an effort to be worthy of a place in this new world, adult morality and experience threaten his sunny, idyllic life and push Kite toward a fateful decision.

With his clear, vivid prose Ed Minus depicts the unaffected conversations of adolescent friendship and the atmosphere of 1950's South Carolina peach country.

Kite is a convincing, evocative tale of coming of age in the South.

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Young thinker The End of the World Girl by Joanne Horniman. Published be Collins Dove. $6.95.

Kylic O'Brien is worried.

Her sister wants to he prime minister. Her brother wants to be a cow Her best friend

doesn't seem the same anymore.

But Kylie is worried about nuclear war, and no-one wants to listen except her dog, Rowdy. Besides, how can one twelve-year-old change the world?

Animal Tails by David Smith. Published by Penguin. $12.95.

"Science is about having fun with ideas," says author David Smith, and this is amply demonstrated in his collection of essays, Animal Tails.

Animal Tails covers a dazzlingly wide range of topics from endangered species such as tigers, pandas, mermaids (! ) and snow leopards, to paired sperm and the Autonomic Nervous System.

Why is it that a whale can dive for 90 minutes, a duck can dive for 20 minutes, but a human can only dive for about 31/2 minutes?

David Smith also tackles a survival problem for scientists — are they too an endangered species? So far, they have succeeded in isolating the community, making them disinclined to fund scientific research.

How can scientists make science more accessible, without promoting the 'furry animal syndrome?'

Antarctica is the last great wilderness left on Earth but is at risk of being ruined by over -harvesting and pollution.

Why is it so? The book for enquiring minds. The very best Millergrams of Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Pub by Penguin. $6.99. The books are available through all Red Cross Shops as well as bookshops and newsagents.

Professor Miller's experiments, still being introduced to new audiences by Cad-

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He regarded himself as a failure.

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In four volumes. more than seventy historians describe the view from the kitchen, the assembly line, the workbench the schoolroom and the other places where people spend much of their lives.

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A Division of the Spoils byPaulScott. Fourth book In the Raj quartet.

The British are negotiating their withdrawal from India in 1947. It is the end of an era and also a new beginning.

The Hindus and Moslems, entrenched in their ideological and political positions, are prepared for the inevitable post-war recriminations and future territorial wrangles.

As the British presence in India moves inexorably into its last days the personal parting of the Laytons, Captain Merrick and Guy Perron are swallowed into the great upheaval.

The Jewel in the Crown

by Paul Scott. First book in the Raj quartet. Pub by Pan. $12.99 ea.

In India in 1942 two rapes take place simultaneously — that of an English girl in the Bibighar Gardens in Mayapore, and that of India by the British. In each physical violence, racial animosity and the coercion of the weak by the strong all play a part, but playing a part too are love, affection, loyalty and recognition that the last division of all to be overcome is the colour of the skin.

As the whole story unfolds, the whole spectrum of Anglo—Indian relations is vividly evoked in a brilliant assessment of the emotions, personal clashes and historical reasons that eventually prised India — the jewel in the Imperial Crown — from its setting.

The Towers of Silence by Paul Scott. Third book in the Raj quartet.

As the war moves convulsively into its last bitter stages, the possibility that Japanese soldiers with guns and paper umbrellas may appear on the golf course at Pankot and that an Indian army might fight beside them, cannot be denied.

Already gathered in Pankot is a microcosm of English society — rigid with the sense of duty and brittle with the awareness of class.

Mabel Layton. doyenne of Pankot society has withdrawn to her inner %-ieW of India and her preoccupation with her rose garden, taking with her Barbie Batchelor — forthright, talkative and of simple background. Both are shaken in their belief in the old order of things. while the like of Captain Merrick and the British military struggle to uphold the myth of British invincibility in the face of irreversible change.

The Day of the Scorpion Second book in the Raj quartet.

Published by Pan. $12.99.

The Congress Party calls on the British to quit India in 1942 — and so begins the erosion of the tradition. continuity and sense of balance preserved till then between rulers and of the ruled. With acute subtley and drama, Paul Scott shows the British side of the picture and the effect of the threat to India on families such as the laytons, who have lived and served in India for generations and who must now face the confusion and tragedy of the violent and often brutal years that lie ahead.

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The autobiography of Bede Griffiths, a man who, having drifted away from orthodox religion, gradually rediscovered the meaning of the Bible and of Christianity and finally turned to the Roman Catholic Church and the monastic life. His descriptions of the nature of this religious experience and of the fulfilment he found at Prinknash Abbey are both vivid and moving.

Bede Griffiths now lives in an ashram by the sacred river Cavery in India where, as a Benedictine monk, he has created a prayer-centre where people of different religious traditions can meet together to seek the truth.

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A Baby At Last. Having a baby later in life byJillian McFarlane, Yvonne Bostock and Maggie Jones.

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A book of guidance and affirmation for parents and children who wish to walk the Christian path.

This book is highly recommended with beautiful verses and advice on the nurturing. lovilig process and would make an excellent hook to keep for guidelines or as a gift to "family raisers."

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Ascension Thursday

OBITUARY Father Cornelius Mercovich who died in Melbourne last Friday had been a Jesuit for 43 of his 63 years. He had been a priest for 30 years.

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His association with WA began in 1962 at St Louis MERCEDES FETE School where in the same year he took his final vows as a On Sunday, April 16, Jesuit. Along with Father 11am-3pm, Mercedes Dann Day SJ he was to hold fete patrons will be the fort at St Louis in its latter entertained by the CBC days, teaching later also at Fremantle band, with Fremantle until joining the St over 20 stalls, pizzas, Thomas More College staff. For Asian food, hot rolls, over 13 years he was chaplain homemade cakes and hams, fancy goods, to the Hungarian Sisters.

In 1984 he returned to raffles and rides.

Campion Retreat House Melbourne where he gave retreats DIVINITY SERVICE until his cancer condition The annual service of the forced him to move to nearby Perth College of Divinity Caritas Christi hospice in Kew. will be held on Sunday, His confrere, Father Jim April 2 at 8pm at the Dynon of Glendalough, writes: Baptist Theological Col-There were five in Corrie lege of WA, Hayman Rd, Mercovich's family. Father, Bentley. The theme of mother and three sons. In the service is, "CelebratMelbourne, I was chaplain to ing Our Life", with Sir the Catholic Tramwaymen and Ronald Wilson, presiMr Mercovich, a quiet, dent of Assembly of the impressive man, was their Uniting Church in Ausleader. Mrs Mercovich was very tralia as guest speaker. active in the Jesuit mothers' group and also with the Jesuit Commissionaries.

CHITTERING MEDITATION "During his twenty plus years, on this side of Australia, he During the Easter Medgradually lost his heart to the itation, March 24-26, West. He was a shy man, not public Stations of the confident in his own ability but Cross will be held in the he made life long friendships. bushland setting of Old boys of St Louis knew of Peace Be Still at his many interests, his sporting 11.15am on Good interests, his interest in Friday. mathematics and also in 'ant' A weekend of Easter expeditions. r eflection is being held "When he came to Saint for those who want to Thomas More College, he fitted quietly contemplate on in easily. The students he knew what this holy event were deeply attached to him signifies.

Wendy and chatted over life's Contact 571 8108. Cost $105 problems with him.

"Even when he went to for three nights.

Melbourne in 1984 he did not For Peace Be Still, travel forget WA and it was on a visit up Great Northern Highto Perth some two years ago way and turn right at that a brain tumour was Bullsbrook and travel diagnosed. With courage and 13km along Chittering faith Corrie began his long final Road. preparation for heaven."

A Requiem Mass for the VINTAGE BLESSING repose of the soul of Father The annual Mass and Mercovich, SJ will be held at blessing of the vintage at Saint Thomas More College, Leeuwin Estate, MarCrawley, on Monday, March 20 at 5.15pm. All are welcome to garet River will be held on Easter Sunday, take part.

March 26 at 11.30am.

The Bethell Covenant Community will supply the singing ministries.

YOUR Anyone in the district is VOCATION welcome to participate in the Sunday ceremony and use the BBQ and picnic facilities afterwards.

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As the parish and schools of St. Joachim's Victoria Park, celebrate their 90th birthday a fete and community fair, will be held in the ground of St Joachim's High School, Saturday, April 1 from 11 am to 4 March 18 Conclusion Balcatta Mission. Archpm.

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at the Little Sisters of Carmel 2 Frazer Street Swanbourne on Tuesday March 21 at 10.30 am enquiries 387 2198.

GREENWOOD STATIONS A dramatised outdoor Way of the Cross will be held in the grounds of All Saints Church, Orkney Road, G reenwood, on Good Friday, March 24 at 10am. Visitors are most welcome.

PREGNANCY HELP Pregnancy Help thanks those who generously responded to requests for maternity clothes, baby clothes, prams, pushers, cots, etc. More nappies and hand knitted baby clothes are needed.

Phone 325 5592, CATHEDRAL TENEBRAE MUSIC

Probably the most beautiful and dramatic of 16th century composer Tomas Luis de Victoria's Church music, are the Responsories for Tenebrae, 14 of which will be sung at 7.30pm on Good Friday, by the St Mary's Cathedral Choir as choral reflections on the Stations of the Cross.

BINDOON HOLY WEEK Keaney College: Holy Thursday 7.30pm, Good Friday: Stations of the Cross 11am, Celebration of the Passion 2pm, Holy Saturday: Easter Vigil 7.30pm.

Easter Sunday: Bullsbrook Church Mass 9.45am; Guilderton Hall Mass noon; Lancelin Church Mass 3.30pm and 5pm.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE

The end of month pilgrimage will be held Sunday, March 26 at the Bullsbrook Church at 2pm. The Association will not run buses on this occasion.

Anniversary Mass will be held on Sunday April 16 (note alteration of date) at 11am, rosary procession at 2.30pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 2285 for Perth, Highgate, Fremantle & Midland buses. SACRI Assc Inc, PO Box 311 Tuart Hill, WA 6060.

Including papal audience

Departs April 23 For further details contact tour leader

Stephonie Crees 330 7390

bishop Foley.

Feast of St Joseph, Little Sisters of the Poor, Glendalough. Bishop Healy.

1989 Blessing of the Highways.

Archbishop Foley.

19 Palm Sunday Mass at St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

21 Mass of the Chrism, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

22 Business Leaders Holy Week Breakfast. Archbishop Foley.

23 Mass of the Lord's Supper, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

Mass of the Lord's Supper, St Pius X. Manning. Bishop Healy.

24 Celebration of the Lord's Passion, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

Good Friday liturgy, Mosman Park.

Bishop Healy.

25 Easter vigil, St Mary's Cathedral.

Archbishop Foley.

Easter vigil, Mosman Park. Bishop Healy.

26 Solemn Mass of Easter, St Mary's Cathedral. Archbishop Foley.

29 West Australian Bishops' Meeting.

29& Conference of WA Institute and 30 Bishops of WA. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

30 Reception for Governor General at Government House. Archbishop Foley.

Murdoch University Graduation.

Archbishop Foley.

31 Orientation Day for Priests. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Civic Welcome for Governor General. Rev Dean John Orzanski.

Curtin University Graduation.

Bishop Healy.

April 1 Investiture of Knights of Holy Sepulchre, St Mary's Cathedral.

Archbishop Foley.

2 Blessing Kingsley/Woodvale school.

Archbishop Foley.

Legion of Mary Acies, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy.

4 Founder's Day Mass, Knights of the Southern Cross. Archbishop Foley.

6 Council of Priests' Meeting. Archbishop Foley & Bishop Healy.

7 John XXIII Debutante Ball. Archbishop Foley.

9 Bless and Open Kolbe College.

Archbishop Foley.

Mass for Seniors' Week, St Mary's Cathedral. Bishop Healy. Parish Assembly Day.

Expression of interest in no way obliges you to participate.

Subject to minimum group of 25 pilgrims.

1989 EASTER TO PENTECOST PROGRAM FOR SMALL GROUPS

"KEEP MY WORD" Foreword by Rev. John Thornhill SM A way of prayer andlistening to the Wordof God. Six sessions using the Sunday readings between Easter and Pentecost starting the Third Sunday of Easter.

Book (for individuals) $4.00 Recommended song tape: "Dreaming Free" — Kevin Bates SM $13.00 (postage extra)

To order, please contact:

PARISH DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES (A Marist Fathers — Laity collaboration)

PO Box 504, Eastwood, 2122

Telephone (02) 858 5228

WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER

WORLD-WIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER

. . . provides weekends of renewal and celebration of love and faith for married couples — almost every month.

Next weekend: April 7/9 Followed by: May 19/21 Ring Chuck & Gloria Lusk (09) 271 0907 to secure your booking NOW! •

NEWMAN SOCIETY Father D.J. Bourke CM, will speak on: "William Kelly, The First Bishop of Geraldton", on Tuesday, March 21 at 8pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, open to all interested. Contact no: 446 1628.

LEGION CEREMONIES

Acies Ceremonies will be held as follows: Eastern Districts Curia: Sacred Heart Church, Highgate. March 19, 2.30pm.

Senatus of Perth: St Mary's Cathedral. April 2, 2.30pm, Fremantle Curia: Our Lady, Queen of Peace Church, Willagee. April 2, 2.30pm, Northern Districts Curia: St Gerard's Church, Mirrabooka. April 2, 2.30pm.

Active and auxiliary members and all f riends of the Legion are invited to attend.

The Daughters of Charity

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