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Quote Since you have been brought back to true life with Christ, you must look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is, sitting at God's right hand.

Let your thoughts be on heavenly things, not on the things that are on the earth, because you have died, and now the life you have is hidden with Christ in God. But when Christ is revealed — and he is your life — you too will be revealed in all your glory with him.

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Tragedies and triumphs POPE'S EASTER REMINDER ON TODAY'S WORLD He also passes where "there do not exist VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul ll contrasted Easter's message of hope with the conditions worthy of a truly human life through violence in "ever-beloved and tormented lack of housing, promiscuity, vagrancy".

Lebanon" and elsewhere during his traditional Likewise God passes "where selfishness Easter Sunday speech from the balcony of St withers the fruitfulness of marriage and the Peter's Basilica. family breaks up, where the innocence of Easter's truth is proclaimed to "today's world children is exploited and corrupted, where which in so many ways seems to be rushing violence is done to their defenseless goodness, headlong toward self-destruction and death", where the shameful commerce of vice is carried the pope told more than 100,000 people standing on and women are still its main victim", Pope in the sun-drenched Vatican square.

John Paul added.

As God passed through Egypt and freed the Following the speech, Pope John Paul read Jews in the event commemorated at Passover, so, Easter greetings in 55 languages, including 17 through the resurrection of Christ, God Eastern European tongues, Catalan, Swahili and continues to pass through the "tragedies and Hindu. triumphs of today's world", the pope said.

In English the pope wished all a "blessed God passes the "troubled and bloodstained Easter in the joy of Jesus Christ, the Risen Lord "men, where countries" various of horizon of the world". though they are brothers, fight one another in and Saviour still is as hatred and a scene of destruction The Easter Sunday Mass and speech were happening in the ever-beloved and tormented broadcast in 47 countries, including Hungary, Lebanon", the pope said.

South Korea and Jordan.

Absolution for these lucky six

Pope John Paul's Holy Week had included Holy Thursday Mass in St John Lateran's basilica where he washed the f eet of seminarians coming from Nigeria, Zaire, Uganda and Vietnam.

On Good Friday he heard his customary confessions in St Peter's Basilica, a symbolic time, he said, for him to remember that

hearing confessions is part of a priest's duty.

Only six were lucky enough to receive the pope's absolution.

He said it would have taken months to hear all those who had lined up expectantly but "the pope has another mission to perform".

He not only celebrated the Good Friday liturgy but also led the Way of the Cross to

the Colosseum, as 14 meditations were read from the work of Polish poet and journalist Marek Swarnicki.

One meditation said that today Jesus walked "among the immense crowd of naked humanity led to the gas chambers, among the leprous outcasts and incurably ill".

At the Easter Vigil celebration Saturday night, the pope greeted with "emotion and affection" 15 catechumens from Japan, South Korea, the United States, France, the Philippines, Iran, Egypt and Italy whom he baptised and confirmed during the ceremony.

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What you can do on Parish day ••• When your parish holds its Assembly Day soon, there will be a role there for you in this high point of the Year of Mission.

Every parishioner in the A rchdiocese will be welcomed at their local Parish Assembly day.

Each of us will be asked to: • Help the parish come to a clearer idea of its future priorities.

• Prepare delegates to represent the parish at Archdiocesan the Assembly.

Most parishes will hold their Assembly on the scheduled day — Sunday, April 9. Some have opted for other dates that their suit better parishioners.

Sr Joan Smith, who has been working closely with Year of Mission (YOM) Committees preparing for Parish Assemblies, has logged a count of 65 parishes in the Perth metropolitan area and four in the country that will hold assemblies, with more notifications expected to come in.

YOM Committees have been working assiduously to collate material from the parish GrassConsultations roots (GRCs) and shape it into a form that would provide a jump-off point at the Parish Assembly day.

Sr Joan says that most committees have worked impressively, feeding back to their parishioners the key issues and linked concerns that emerged at the GRCs. The Parish Assembly day will consist of three sessions of about an hour each.

The first session will

By John Doogue include a presentation by the YOM Committee of the main issues and concerns from the GRC. People attending the Assembly will break into groups according to issues and seek some consensus on key issues and concerns.

The second session will aim to put people back in touch with what the local church should really be on about today if it is to be true to the Gospel.

They will have a chance to focus on the Mission of the Church — assisted in many c.ases by the shared insights of those who took part in the AdventLenten programme.

In the Assembly's closing session parishioners will be asked to itemise the emerging issues and ideas on mission and to make the leap to say, "What are we. the church, going to do about it?"

The broad brushstroke ideas that emerge in response to this question will be what people consider to be the Pastoral Priorities for the local church, both at the parish and archdiocesan levels.

For many parishes the Parish Assembly day will become a social event attached to the formal sessions. Some parishes will intersperse their sessions with a barbecue or picnic lunch. Greenwood parishioners are taking the opportunity to link a bush dance proposed by their social committee with the Assembly day.

Facilitators, mostly chosen from outside the parish, attended training sessions on March 7 kind 8 to prepare for the Parish Assembly days.

In a lot of cases those attending had also been facilitators for the GRCs and, with that experience to encourage them, are enthusiastic and confident about handling the assemblies.

One of the main goals of the Parish Assembly (lay is to prepare delegates to represent each parish at the Archdiocesan Assembly.

One suggestion is that delegates will hear their fellow parishioners' views at first hand if they are group leaders, along with the YOM Committee members, in the small-group discussion sessions at the Parish Assembly.

Then they will be going to the Archdiocesan Assembly armed with what they have gleaned from the people in their parish.

Sr loan Smith has learnt one thing from working closely with YOM Committees.

"Committee people didn't really know what they were letting them. selves in for at the beginning," she says "But the Year of Mission process is becoming a whole lot clearer for people as the year draws to a climax.

"As they look back they can see that the year has been a truly formative time. From the point where they have been collating the GRCs and preparing for the assem blies, the whole year is starting to fit together."

Face of God's poor...

At a Pan-Asian Conference of the St Vincent de Paul Society held in Sydney last month Third World poverty an abstraction to most A ustralians - was given a shocking face and form by the delegates from 16 Asian and South Pacific nations.

"What you consider poor in Australia would qualify as rich among the poor of my country - in the average hotel here in Australia you could not get a dinner for $15, in my country for $15 one sack of rice can be purchased, and that would feed a family of seven persons for two days."

Representatives from those countries presented to us the tragic face of poverty - as a woman delegate from the Philippines put it:

This conference brings home to all of us the challenge that confronts us in the Third World where the mission of the church is our response to

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the cry of God's poor.

We are reminded of the little girl who sat in the dirt alongside the road leading out of lima in Peru.

A blanket and a bundle of rags were her only possessions.

A religious Sister passed her by - but then seeing the little girl she had to turn back.

All she had to give was a small over-ripe orange.

She reached out to give it to her but the little child grabbed the hand.

The religious sister wag compelled to ask herself - "if it was me - so destitute and poor what would I have grabbed first, the hand or the orange?" The truth memory the and haunted her...

their hands and in a remarkable display of generosity touched the lives of the poor brothers and sisters scattered throughout the world; on an Australia-wide basis the Diocese rates sixth place in contributions to the missions, the per capita contributions in some of our schools were the highest in Australia.

During the past year, thousands of people scattered throughout the Diocese of Bunbury, and thousands of children in our schools stretched out

I am very grateful for the opportunity of thankWe pray God that ing the priests and the teachers for their gener- together we may conous support and co- tinue the good work in operation to Deacon 1989.

The child held the hand long and hard. Then she took the orange.

Holy Week ceremonies at All Saints Parish, Greenwood, featured a dramatisation of the Last Supper on Holy Thursday, and an outdoor Way of the Cross on Good Friday.

Jesus (Kevin McKersey) is shown, below, washing the feet of one of the Apostles (John Hennessy).

During the Way of the Cross, Jesus (Kevin McKersey), above, is comforted by Mary (Sarah Haines), with a Roman soldier (Jim Sorgiovanni) standing guard.

• Pictures by W. Van Aken

Mick Flynn and myself in our mission animation campaigns.

With Bishop Quinn I am very proud of our great people and our school children.

To Nell Usher, who is our honorary book keeper and Warwick Carmody our honorary auditor - sincere thanks for your generous help.

Contributions from the parishes of the Bunbury Diocese: Albany $6688, Boyup Brook $901, $1596, Bridgetown Junction Brunswick $2569, Bunbury $13,257, Busse1ton $3011, Collie $1961, Dardanup $3373, $977, Donnybrook Esperance $4757, Harvey $1301, Katanning $3144, Kojonup $3260, Lake Grace $7448, Leschenault $940, Mandurah $5444, Manjimup 4754, Margaret River $5026, Mt Barker/Denmark $1501, Narrogin $3871, Ongerup $2680, Pemberton $4830, Pinjarra $1532, Wagin $1025, Waroona $1970.

Contributions from Schools: Albany - St Joseph's $923, Australind - Leschenault Primary $185, Boyup Brook - St Mary's $600, Bridgetown - St Brigid's $50, Brunswick - St Michael's $400, Bunbury - Bunbury Catholic College $850 - St Joseph's $900 - St Mary's, $283. Busse1ton - St Joseph's $255, Collie - St Brigid's $1200 - St Edmund's $100, Dardanup - Our Lady of Lourdes $265, Donnybrook - St Mary's $597, Harvey - St Anne's $365, Katanning - St Patrick's $1000, Kojonup - St Bernard's $600, Mandurah Assumption Primary $400. Manjimup Kearnon College $400, Narrogin - St Matthew's $700, Pemberton - St Joseph's $300, Pinjarra - St Joseph's $900, Waroona - St Joseph's $300.

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Guest Editorial

THE CATHOLIC WEEKLY At Easter in the shadow of the Cross we recall the crowning of thorns and with it all the homicidal madness, all of the sadism of human history.

But that shadow is obliterated by the Light of the Resurrection of Our Lord, which has lit a lamp in every heart and continues to show a shining path ahead, now and forever.

The Resurrection of Christ was not simply a return to earthly life, like those whom he had raised from the dead during his public ministry: the daughter of Jairus, the young man of Naim, Lazarus.

Extraordinary and miraculous indeed were these raisings to life but those persons reacquired through the power of Jesus' "ordinary" earthly life.

At a later time they again died.

In the case of Christ's resurrection, the situation was essentially different. In his risen body he passed from death to "another" life beyond time and space.

This risen body of Jesus was filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and shared in the divine life of glory.

So it can be said of Christ, in the words of St Paul, that he is the "heavenly man". (1 Cor 15:47).

It is no wonder that theologians, modern and ancient, have pondered deeply on the Resurrection in their explorations of its significance.

Christ's Resurrection is beyond the purely historical dimension; it is an event pertaining to the transhistorical sphere, and therefore eludes the criteria of simple human empirical observation.

It is true that Jesus, after the Resurrection appeared to his disciples; he spoke to them, had dealings with them, and even ate with them; he invited Thomas to touch him.

However this concealed another life which was now his, and which withdrew him from the "normality" of ordinary life and plunged him in "mystery".

Christ's resurrection is the greatest Event in the history of salvation, and indeed in the history of humanity.

In 1989 we can say with confidence — despite the anxieties caused by the rip of the ozone layer, the growth of nuclear weapons or the anger and horror c aused by poverty, injustice, wars and famine — EVIL HAS BEEN DEFEATED! DEATH HAS BEEN DEFEATED! The Cross makes us call to mind the grossness and cruelty we encounter. The whole world revolves around the Cross, but only in the Resurrection does the Cross reach its full significance of salvific Event.

The Cross and the Resursection constitute the one paschal mystery in which the history of the world is centred.

The Universe Easter celebrates the victory of life over death. We rejoice that total love has proved once and for all that hatred, selfishness and sin have no future. They are doomed to end in utter frustration and despair.

That is a religious and moral truth. It is also valid in all human affairs.

A t Easter, then, Christians, although conscious of being engaged in a struggle against the power of darkness until the end of time, are already assured of ultimate victory. We can look confidently for the signs that the battle is being won.

Religion has for decades been relentlessly ridiculed andundermined. It stubbornly refuses to die. The hunger for God and absolute values is as urgent today as ever. World religions are in many cases adopting fundamentalism. It has led to deplorable excesses on occasions but it underlines dramatically the continuing human need for God. Despite the decline in churchgoing nationally there is without question a positive growth of commitment and sincerity. There is among many people, especially the young, an eagerness for prayer and genuine spiritual experience. Faith often means more than it did in the days when the Churches enjoyed social approval and public endorsement.

In socialmatters we easily overlook what is good and forget the brutality of a bygone age.

Worldwide there is now a radical liberation of women from inequality and oppression. We are a more equal and tolerant society. Religious and ethnic minorities, the weak and handicapped are given better protection and opportunities. Compassion is sometimes derided but almost invariably the public responds spontaneously and generously to disasters and world hunger.

On the international scene, nations are becoming aware that the future depends on better stewardship of our planet's limited resources.

A sea-change has also transformed international relations. A pragmatic Communist leadership, bowing to economic necessity, now proposes progressive, verifiable disarmament andan opportunity for a new world order.

Only rarely are prayers so obviously answered.

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Annulments in U.S. 'a problem'

VATICAN CITY (NC): Cardinal Achille Silvestrini, head of the church's highest court, told U.S. bishops to exercise more "vigilance" in their martribunals riage because they are granting too many annulments, calling into question the validity of their procedures.

But at a special Vatican meeting to discuss evangelisation in the United States, several American bishops defended U.S. tribunals saying many annulment more requests are refused a hearing each year than the number of annulments granted.

The high number of

annulments granted in the United States, accounting for most of the world total, "is a source of surprise" and "a serious problem" said Cardinal Silvestini, head of the Apostolic Signature, the church's supreme court.

Citing 1985 figures, he said 36,180 of the approximately 48,000 annulments worldwide were granted by U.S. church courts.

"One may deduce that various tribunals in the United States have introduced their own method, not fully in conformity with the Code of Canon Law," he told the 35 member U.S. delegation.

The Vatican official

criticised the "high percentage" of annulments "on the grounds of socalled psychological incapacity," frequent use of written statements rather than direct interviewing in deciding cases, and not enough attention to defending the marriage bond.

Cardinal Silvestrini criticised "confusion" over use of "psychological incapacity" to understand the marriage commitment as grounds for annulment.

"There is confusion between maturity in the psychological sense and in the canonical sense of the term, between authentic incapacity and difficulty in assuming

the essential obligations of marriage, between valid marriage and happy marriage," said the Vatican official.

Even if many modern psychologists say few people reach psychological maturity, marriage "cannot be considered or reserved just to a chosen few," he added.

"Canonical maturity requires only that minimum of intention and will which is necessary to validly contract marriage," he said.

"It is to be hoped that valid marriages are also happy ones; but it must be made clear that only true incapacity to assume the obligations of marriage and not just

difficulties encountered by the parties causes nullity of marriage from the outset," the cardinal said.

In some U.S. cases there are "grave violations of the right to defence" when only one party wants the annulment, he said.

The cardinal also criticised "the frequent use of so-called 'affidavits' in taking depositions and written testimony."

"A marriage nullity case demands a particularly diligent investigation," he said.

"The bishops, even more than the officials who make up the tribunals, are responsible for the administration of justice," he added.

Two of the strongest defenders of US marriage courts were Archbishop Mahoney of Los Angeles and Cardinal Szoka of Detroit.

Archbishop Mahony, cited recent annual figures for his five million-member archdiocese, said Los Angeles tribunals refused to hear 13,000 annulment requests while granting 1000

annulments. other Several bishops made the same point. There is a national ratio of from three to five refusals to hear cases for every annulment given in many dioceses.

In their refusals "tribunals review in a preliminary way the initial grounds for annulment," he said.

Cardinal Szoka was "extremely strong" in defending US proce-

dures, said a spokesman. "He feels that the concern of the Signature was largely one of numbers, not he procedures," added.

Cardinal Szoka and several other bishops invited Cardinal Silvestrini to visit their tribunals for a firsthand look at how they operate, said the spokesman.

Many bishops said "the number is high

because the cultural situation, and its negative influence on marriage, is strong," the spokesman added.

"Several US bishops said the cultural milieu in which we live really strongly impacts the moment of consent in marriage," according to the spokesman.

Archbishop Quinn defended US marriage courts, saying their work shows

"that the church takes the indissolubility of marriage very seriously."

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Special place given to women VATICAN CITY (NC): Christ appeared to people after his death not to confront his enemies but to encourage his followers to "build a new era of history", Pope John Paul ii said.

The pope, at a general audience, said there was no hint of "triumphalism" in these postresurrect ion appearances.

Christ "showed no wish to confront his enemies, and there is no sign that he did appear to them", the pope said.

Instead, he "spoke as a friend to his friends", gradually making clear that he was entrusting the Church's future, and the mission of evangelisation, to them, the pope said.

non"Many Catholics, in love desire to be received into communion with the church or to marry a Catholic. petition our tribunals to examine the nullity of their marriages which have been previously dissolved by a civilian tribunal," he said.

His remarks were part of a series of explicatory talks on the Creed. As he has done previously, the pope emphasised that the risen Christ appeared to women first.

"Perhaps he wanted to reward their gentleness, their sensitivity to his message, their strength which led them even unto Calvary," the pope said. Or perhaps in choosing women first,

VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul ll will beatify two popular local figures and meet with youths in three countries and a part of overseas France during his trip to southern Africa this spring, the Vatican announced.

The trip, the pope's fifth to the continent, from April 28-May 6, will take him to Madagascar, Reunion, Zambia and the pope suggested, Malawi — his first visit to Christ wanted to show each. kindness and respect to Among the liturgical "the people who counted highlights of the visit will least in the larger world be the beatification in of his time".

Madagascar of Victoire "This special place Rasoamanarivo, a native given to women is an woman who refused inspiration to the government pressure to Church, which in the divorce her alcoholic and course of history has womanising husband been able to rely on them during the period of the nation's so much for her life of island faith, prayer and aposto- evangelisation. late," the pope said.

On the neighbouring

island of Reunion, a French overseas department. Pope John Paul will beatify Brother Scubilio, born Jean-Bernard Rousseau, a French missionary known as the "Apostle of the Slaves" for his work in favour of rights for sugar cane workers.

The pope's separate encounters with youths in each of the four stops underlines the Church's concern about Africa's growing population of young people and the new social problems they are facing.

The pope also will meet with non-Catholic leaders in Zambia and Malawi, two countries where ecumenical relations are generally good but where the Church is worried about the spreading popularity of Protestant sects.

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Gunned down in prayer Catholic father of 13 in Ulster horror

BELFAST, (NC) — A 63-year-old Catholic father of 13, David Braniff, was shot dead in his home in north Belfast on the night of March 19 while saying the rosary with his wife, Mary, police said.

Mrs Braniff reportedly tried in vain to shield her husband by throwing herself on him, but the two masked attackers continued shooting.

Mrs Braniff was uninjured.

Braniff died on his way to the hospital, still reportedly clutching his rosary.

He was the 10th victim in 12 days in an

Five new saints CITY VATICAN (NC): Pope John Paul ll has approved f ive people for canonisation.

Blessed Clelia Barbieri will be canonised on April 9. No dates were given for other the canonisations.

The founder of the Little Sisters of Sorrow, Blessed Barbieri was born in Italy in 1847 and died in 1870. She was beatified in 1968.

The others whose canonisations were approved by the pope were: • Blessed Agnes of Bohemia.

A 13th-century Poor Clare abbess, she was the daughter of the king of Bohemia.

Agnes Blessed founded a hospitaler order, a Franciscan friary and a Poor Clare convent before becoming a member of the Poor Clare order.

She needed the intervention of Pope Gregory IX to end negotiations for her

marriage so she could become a Religious.

Blessed Agnes was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1874.

• Blessed Gaspa re Bertoni, founder of the Order of the Holy Stigmata of Our Lord Jesus Christ, was born in Verona, Italy, in 1777 and died there in 1853. He was beatified in 1975.

Albert • Blessed C hmielowski . founder of Sisters and Brothers of the Third Order of St Francis of Assisi, Servants of the Poor.

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Blessed Albert died in Krakow, Poland, 1916.

He was beatified by Pope John Paul in 1983.

• Blessed Riccardo Pampuri, a doctor and a professional Religious of the Hospitaler Order of St John of God. Born

in

1897,

Blessed Riccardo died in Milan, Italy, in 1930.

He was beatified by Pope John Paul in 1981.

upsurge of sectarian murder in the troubled British province.

Neighbours said they believe that the killing was in revenge for the murder by the Irish Republican Army of a former leader of a Protestant extremist paramilitary group, Jack Irvine.

Braniff was the father of 13 children who converted to Catholicism when he married.

One of Braniff's sons, Anthony, was shot dead by the IRA in 1981. The IRA said that he was an informer.

Snub for Soviets

VATICAN CITY (NC): Soviet authorities in the Ukraine have allow to a greed Eastern-rite Catholics there to celebrate religious services in Latin-rite churches, but the offer was expected to be refused, Ukrainian Church leaders in Rome said.

Myroslav Cardinal Lubachivsky, spiritual head of the worldwide Ukrainian church, said in a statement that Ukrainian Catholics should be able to worship "in their own churches."

The Ukrainian Catholic Church is an Eastern-rite church.

The recent offer was made to Ukrainian bishops by "local Soviet authorities and KGB in Ukraine," who said they would not interfere with services if held in Latinrite churches.

The move is viewed by Ukrainian underground church sources as "a manoeuvre to avert

practicing Ukrainian Catholics," he said.

In recent months, leaders of the illegal Easternrite church have been more bold in asserting their right to worship and practice their faith.

Recently several Ukrainian bishops held talks with authorities in Moscow and requested that their church be legal full given recognition.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church was officially "reunified" by Soviet decree the with Orthodox Church during a synod in 1946.

Most Ukrainian Catholics repudiated the synod and have continued to consider themselves members of the Easternrite Catholic Church, worshipping either privately or in Orthodox churches.

In recent months, Eastern-rite liturgies have been celebrated by priests and bishops semi"These churches could publicly in the Ukraine, not serve the needs of the according to church estimated five million sources in Rome.

serious discussion of the legalisation of the Catholic Ukrainian Church," the statement said.

"This offer has been made to Ukrainian Catholic bishops before and has always been Cardinal declined," Lubachivsky said.

He said most Catholics in the Ukraine would not "compromise" their tradition by worshipping in Latin-rite churches.

"Our people have the right, as Soviet citisens, to worship according to the faith they choose and in their own churches," he said.

The cardinal, who left the Ukraine in 1938, said that before the Ukrainian Church there was "liquidated" in 1946, it had 4000 than more churches and chapels.

The much smaller Latin-rite church has an estimated 80 churches in the Ukraine.

Human rights lawyer barred SINGAPORE: Wellknown British human rights lawyer and Q ueen's Counsel, Anthony Lester, has been barred from working in Singapore by the government.

According to The Straits Times weekly overseas edition (March 11), Mr Lester was told last month that he would

not be granted any more professional visit passes to the country.

Mr Lester had been r epresenting Internal Security Act detainee Teo Soh Lung in her application for a release order.

The Singapore government claimed that Mr Lester had gone beyond his professional duties

and championed Teo's cause outside the courts, thus involving himself in Singapore's domestic politics.

Mr Lester had thrice argued for his client's release.

He failed before the High Court last August, He had made a "condi- but succeeded before the tional apology", but what Appeals Court on a he said and did subse- technical point last quently showed that his December.

His client was released attitude to the Singapore government remained and re-arrested, and Mr and Lester appeared for her "combatitive again in early March in a truculent".

fresh hearing which has since ended.

One of the points outlined by the Singapore government was that Mr Lester agitated British legal circles over his client's detention and urged them to exert pressure on the British government to express concern to the Singapore government.

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Grassroots in action The Perth College of Divinity (PCD) is delighted with its first Catholic graduate, Colleen Lark, and believes she is the forerunner of many such success stories which will emerge from this ecumenical initiative.

The PCD was formed by the Catholic, Anglican, Uniting and Baptist churches in 1985 and is of Murdoch part University.

"It's marvellous!" says Dr Michael Jackson, Doctor of Divinity and Psychology, "because this is grassroots in action."

There are 160 students at the college with about 20 Catholics, "and that number is growing," he said.

The Baptists teach their students at Bentley, and the remaining three churches at Murdoch, in what is known as the joint faculty of theology within the PCD.

The ecumenical aspect has distinct advantages Dr Jackson believes, because "we learn how our brothers and sisters think and their approach to their faith. And the students are getting to know the future ministers of the other churches as friends."

He believes the ecumenical benefits of this endeavour may not be immediately evident "but will certainly bear great fruit in the years to come as the students grow in appreciation and understanding of others' faith, while deepening their own tradition."

PCD students reflect a wide diversity in age and working backgrounds.

They range from the early twenties to the midfifties and are all there to search and deepen their faith and to then give out and help their fellow Christians.

Some seek answers to questions arising from

By Colleen McGuinessHoward their work involvement and they bring to these studies their own life experience and a lot of questions. "They know what they are looking for from the Church's teaching," said Dr Jackson.

One student is a mother of seven children; a young girl is there who wants to work as a Catholic marriage counsellor and is striving for a good theological background; a man working with a caring agency for marginalised people is seeking answers; a lady from Focolare is there to gain a deepened theology base for the movement and there are religions who are getting an update.

Dr Jackson is a full time lecturer in theology at Murdoch and is coordinator of all Catholic

Mother of two in top feat THEOLOGY DEGREE GIVES HER A 'FIRST' Three years of hard grind has paid off for Colleen Lark, wife and mother of two children, who is the first Catholic to graduate from Perth College of Divinity (PCD) with a Theology Degree.

Four years ago the Catholic, Anglican, Uniting and Baptist churches formed the PCD which is part of Murdoch University.

The intriguing question comes to mind, however, as to why would a wife and mother want to study for a Theology Degree. Time and general resources being at a rather low ebb during times of child rearing and optimum needs.

Curiosity was a motivating factor — the desire to find answers which couldn't be answered by others in church groups.

"It was like ignorance following ignorance," said Colleen, who had been involved in most 6

theology students.

He is the representative within the PCD of Sister Eleanor Carter (Director of the Catholic Institute) and lectures in systematic and pastoral theology with Father John Prendiville SJ (lecturer in scripture and Church history) and Father Pat Bishop SJ (lecturer in theology and liturgy).

There are five major study areas — Old Testament, New Testament, Church History, Systematic and Pastoral Theology.

"Students have quite a range of choices within these areas so they are free to tailor their courses in order to meet their own pastoral and spiritual needs," said Dr Jackson. "and programs are developing."

Although the PCD is a teaching body formed by the Churches, its degrees are conferred by Murdoch.

"The Melbourne Col-

lege of Divinity confers its own degrees but ours are University, so we're one step further on," he said.

"One of the tragedies in Australia is that theology, which in Europe has always been part of the University, has not been part of ours, as if religion and the life of faith had no part in the intellectual life.

"Especially is this true of Catholicism with its rich intellectual tradition as well as that of the heart.

"So in fact we are bringing theology into the intellectual life of Australia, to dialogue and commune with other disciplines, which is an immense bonus in itself."

Our future leaders will come to see that faith is an integral part of intellectual, social and professional life, said Dr Jackson.

Dr Jackson • • • "It's marvellous."

While it is an ecumen- in discussing theology ical faculty, "it is also within the Catholic theoimportant that Catholic logical student body. courses have a solid "We're trying to build a Catholic input, so Christian community so Catholic tutorials are run they can go back to their to supplement lectures people to share and with a Catholic empha- help." sis. So they really get an The PCD, which is appreciation of the funded by the Catholic Catholic faith in the and other Churches, is context of other Chris- hopeful that its value will tians' understanding of be recognised by the their faith," he said. government who will to support it Tutorials will often then wish financially. involve a shared lunch and an afternoon spent

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demanding study, the whole family makes sacrifices and has to believe in the importance of the parent's study objective. Without family support and sacrifice too, it just can't be done.

parish should pitch in and give them a hand — "even if it's cooking a meal or picking children up from school".

Colleen and her family have not put financial gains to them as a priority and that's how her degree has been achieved. And she believes the stringent study demands and elimination of social life have been worth it too, for the rewards she has gained.

But when lay people put themselves out at a cost from every point of view, the people of the Church are enriched by someone with ministerial skills who can contribute and so we all benefit. And thanks and appreciation should be given appropriately. . .

Colleen also strongly urges others to study as she has done and reap the personal rewards which can be then channelled on to others.

"If can do it —so can you," she says adamantly.

"It's all worth it."

Mrs Lark with her husband Terry and children Christopher and Narelle.

groups but still couldn't chit-chat with others of find the answers because other faiths, it gives you there weren't enough a chance to clear up trained people to hand myths they may have out the knowledge. had about Catholicism So she decided to do and vice versa." something about it and Steeped in purely from a nursing back- Catholic background ground, moved forward and social interaction, to take up the challenge Colleen believed she was of theology study. Which suffering from tunnelhas paid off, because she vision, but through the has now gained a BA ecumenical study oppor(Theology) and has tunity, "I achieved a found the knowledge panoramic view." search an enriching The challenge to study experience with added such a degree is also in rewards of self- answer to Vatican II, confidence and enrich- which calls for the laity ment of faith. to be trained so they can Colleen believes study- minister to others, said ing ecumenically is a real Colleen. "And Perth has plus "because it gives you now provided this opporthe opportunity to think tunity with the establishabout questions raised ment of the PCD. from people of different "The Catholic Church faiths. And in answering has so much to offer and those questions, you because the Church is realise the deep tradition people, we've made misof your own Catholic takes but the Second background", and this Vatican Council has at questioning and least looked at these thinking-through, is a mistakes and attempted faith fortifying process, to bring the Church in she believes. line with the modern "Also, with the social world.

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Success delights lecturer

By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

"There is a lot of work out there to be done, with the sick, lonely and marginalised groups, and I want to play my part."

Colleen hopes to use her degree in conjunction with her nursing expertise to aid and counsel sick and the dying, especially AIDS victims in their own homes or a hospice.

She now has, too, a knowledge base to share with other adults. "Not that you ever know all the answers," she says, "but I have the skills to find some of the answers.

At the end of these three years full time study, I have even more challenging questions which encourage continuance of study.

"Because getting to know God is a fulfilling

learning and experience process which you can't do on your own. We need one another to share our faith, experience and knowledge.

"The desire to know God calls you and you keep moving towards Him but each time you move towards Him there is a little more left to reach Him — and I don't know whether you can ever close that gap."

Colleen believes she couldn't have achieved what she has, without the support of her husband Terry "who was more than supportive and so willing to take over some of the home roles, and Narelle (12) and Christopher (9), who were prepared to go without mum on weekend outings".

But when "the grind became a drag" and she questioned whether she should give it up, her family said "No way!".

When a parent undergoes continuous and

But the interesting element in this particular degree is that it is not financially rewarding.

Families struggle and celibates rarely do. So one can only admire the motivation of this family which helped mum to study with no hope of ultimate financial reward from this particular degree, to help fill the family coffers.

Colleen's aim was to help fill the "coffers of knowledge" for the Catholic Church and its people and for this selfsacrifice and that of her family, she must surely be awarded top marks.

Colleen also believes that if people are to follow the call of Vatican H and be trained in order to minister, then the

Church no secret anymore SIAN, China (NC): A Catholic " secret" which China, in hurch C maintains loyalty and links to the Vatican, is not very secret, according to many familiar Chinese w ith Catholicism.

In at least one case, underground clergy are said to meet regularly with a sympathetic the of bishop government -approved church, which rejects ties to Rome, and celebrate Mass in his church.

Officials of the statesanctioned church said underground priests and their bishops, who are Vatican -approved, are well-known to local authorities. One called the "clandestine" church a "noisy" organisation.

A 21-year-old Catholic who identified himself as an underground church member said many of his fellow Catholics "don't want to go to the Mass" in a church under a bishop belonging to the church approved "because they are afraid excombeing of municated".

The young man spoke to a group of Catholic journalists during their

November 17 -December 3 seven-city look at Catholicism in China.

The trip was sponsored by the International Federation of Catholic News Agencies.

The tour was organised t hrough arrangements with the governmentapproved Catholic Church and Chinese government officials.

No provision was made on the itinerary for meeting with the clandestine church members. But members of the journalists' group were able to make a handful of such contacts.

In a letter to the world's bishops on the Chinese situation, the Vatican said the clandestine church "refuses every with compromise government authorities" and said it commands the loyalty of a majority of Chinese Catholics.

By some estimates there are three million Catholics in the underground church — the same number estimated for the officially recognised church.

by NC foreign Editor Bill Pritchard

some Chinese Catholics move regularly between the two.

The leader of the church is generally recognised to be Bishop Peter Joseph Fan Xueyan of Paoting. In 1987, Bishop Fan was released after many years of imprisonment, but remains on parole in a private home in the diocese. A bishop of the government -approved church was assigned to his See.

Leaders of the government -favoured church were upset with instructions for Chinese Catholics, attributed to Bishop Fan, which includes an assertion that joining the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association is evil as is receiving But no census has been sacraments from a priest taken for either body and who is an association there is evidence that member.

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The Patriotic Associa- considered illicit under tion was formed in 1957 canon law and are to promote loyalty to the automatically excomstate among Catholics. municated.

Priests and bishops are regularly ordained in the underground church, but even those sympathetic to the clandestine group express concern that some Catholics have become bishops without adequate training.

While most criticised underground the church, elected bishops who spoke about the clandestine church with the journalists' group differed in the severity of their criticism.

Conference-acting president, Bishop Joseph Zhong Huaide of Tsinan and Chowtsun, in an interview accused the clandestine church of "many committing All but four of the 58 heresies" and blamed the the Vatican. bishops of government -approved "They are organised by church have been elected the Vatican itself," he by bodies in their dio- said."They interfere in ceses — a practice begun the internal affairs of in 1958 after the China and they cause government-sanctioned confusion in the church." church began.

"We firmly oppose The elected bishops are that," he said.

Bishops of the official Chinese church have accused the underground organisation of wholesale ordinations of unqualified men.

Country has more believers than communists SHANGHAI, China (NC) — Protestantism is called the "new religion" in China, but it is working hard to become fully Chinese, according to church officials.

It was given the "new" label, they said, because it was the last religion to come into the country from the outside, arriving with Western missionaries centuries after the import of Catholicism. the in Leaders government -recognised Protestant Chinese Church also said it has a new image as a fully Chinese institution free of Western domination.

Less than a decade after the communists took power in 1949, Chinese Protestantism underwent a kind of forced ecumenism.

Protestant denominations were required by government to join under one organisational banner.

The union was only partial, however, a Chinese Protestant leader said, because denominational differences in

worship and status of clergy are still being worked out.

The evolution of Protestantism in the world's largest officially atheist country is called the "Three-Self Movement."

That means the estimated four million Chinese Protestants are to selfa develop selfadministering, supporting and selfpropagating church.

An organisation called the Amity Foundation handles relations with foreign church people. leaders Protestant spoke with a group of Catholic journalists in China from November 17-December 3 to look at the state of religion, particularly Catholicism, in the People's Republic.

The trip was sponsored by the International Federation of Catholic News Agencies.

It was organised in conjunction with official Church and state authorities.

Evangelical Protestant groups not part of the officially sanctioned church are still subject to

arrest and prosecution ment, said in an interfor unauthorised reli- view in Nanking that "in China, Protestantism gious activities.

Roman Catholicism and Ministers of such groups have been are considered two difarrested and their semi- ferent names for God." naries closed.

Bishop Ting also said The government has that "good things are sought from time to time getting better and bad to control an evangelical things are getting worse" "house church" move- for Chinese Christians. ment which grew from He said the overall underground prayer climate for religion has groups which began improved considerably meeting in the 1960s in China, but some when repression of reli- "ultra-leftist" officials gion in China was and provincial authoriharsher. ties are making life Some Hong Kong-based difficult in spots. missionaries estimate the For example, Bishop number of underground Ting noted that he and Protestants at 50 million, other Protestant leaders but Western analysts are protesting a new have said that is probably regulation on religion too high. issued by Guangdong The Three-Self Move- province, which includes ment is an effort similar the southern Chinese to that which created a city of Canton.

Catholic Chinese The rule requires "place Church independent of of religious activity" to be Vatican influence and registered and allows the control. local Bureau of Religious But there is little ecu- Affairs to decide which menical activity between will be accepted for Chinese Catholics and registration.

Protestants.

Bishop Shen Yifan, an Bishop K.H. Ting, as Anglican who was Anglican and president elected bishop in the of the Three-Self Move- interdenominational

church of Shanghai, said Chinese Protestants began working for an independent church at the turn of the century.

At that time, Christianity was regarded by most Chinese as an energy of the Western powers which had forced unfair economic and political concessions from the Manchu crumbling empire.

Bishop Shen, who is also vice president of the government-recognised China Christian Council, said friction between foreign missionaries began in the period of the "Unequal so-called Treaties."

Now, particularly with the advent of the ThreeSelf Movement, Chinese Protestantism has been integrated into Chinese society.

The new image "helps the cause of the Gospel ' Bishop Shen said, because "more people are willing to listen" to a church considered fully Chinese.

Bishop Shen said one example of the effort to

He called the underground priests and bishops ill-educated.

"Some of them have only finished primary school," Bishop Zhong said. But Bishop Anthony Li Duan of Sian said that while he considers most underCatholics ground "narrow-minded", in faith and doctrine "there is no difference" between two Chinese the churches.

The secret church members "think that if one deals with the government he will repudiate his faith", Bishop Li said. "So they have to live as an underground church and they regard their faith as the complete faith."

No reconciliation of the rival Catholic churches is on the horizon, he said.

"We will leave it to God" to work out, the bishop said.

Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai, elected to his post in 1988, commented that nominates "Rome secretly a number of bishops", but "secret bishops are useless because they can't keep (themselves) secret".

"They are not a silent church," Bishop Jin said.

"They are a noisy church."

The bishop is one of the more prominent examples of the split in Chinese Catholicism. He occupies a See which by the rule of the Roman Catholic Church rightly belongs to 87-year -old Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei. Bishop Kung was imprisoned 30 years for resisting the governmentforced split with Rome and is now living in Connecticut, where he has undergone medical treatment. He was not allowed to regain the Shanghai See after his civil rights were restored by the Chinese government in 1987.

Bishop Jin, a Jesuit, also represents a problem for the Society of Jesus.

Because of the split of the Chinese-approved church with Rome, he has been out of formal contact with the order for many years. Yet he is still on its rolls.

But, said a knowledgeable foreign Jesuit, there is an underground Society of Jesus in China which still swears allegiance to the pope.

A young seminarian stands in front of the seminary of the Chinese approved Catholic Church. unite Protestantism was a compromise worked out on the role of bishops with churches which have no episcopal tradition.

"The new bishops do not have dioceses and they do not have adminstrative power," the bishop said. "We are rather pastoral and spiritual leaders of the church."

Bishop Shen said that although China is officially atheist, there are more religious believers than Communist Party members.

"In this way, you can say we are a pluralistic society," he said. "We can agree to differ (with the party) but we can cooperate in common efforts in building the country."

Zhao Fusan, an Anglican priest and scholar who directs the Institute of World Religions in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, attributed the nearly sixfold growth of Chinese Protestant numbers in the past 40 years to success of

efforts to "not be an appendage of Western expansionism."

The Three-Self Movement of which he is vice president, has shown Chinese "that Christians are not secondary foreign devils but full-fledged Chinese . . . with a faith."

Zhao, who did not use a religious title, said he believes that as Chinese society evolves and reforms, Christianity will benefit. "People would naturally ask what is the meaning of anything, and they would naturally turn to the Christian Church and ask," he said.

Christianity is "better prepared than any other religion or any other system of thought to offer an answer," Zhao added.

Zhao, who was banished to the countryside during the politically radical period of the Cultural Revolution, said strong prejudice against religion exists among some Chinese Marxists.

"Historically, religion has been abused by political powers for their ends."

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Gospel holds the key When two disciples of John the Baptizer started walking behind Jesus, he turned and asked them, "What are you looking for?"

When they expressed interest in where he was staying, his answer was simply, "Come and see."

The question Jesus put to the two disciples is not just an empty conversation opener. It is one of life's most important questions: What are you really looking for? What

drives you, motivates your activity, inspires your hopes?

The person who can answer that question clearly and unambiguously has found the key to self-identity, to success, to happiness.

But where is the answer? "Come and see."

Jesus invites us to come to him for the answer. He is "the way, the truth the life," as the fourth evangelist describes him (John 14:6).

During Lent and Easter serious Christians face the question of their identity and destiny in a special way.

It is the season to retied on life, death, resurrection.

That is why the fourth Gospel has such a prominent place in the Lenten-Easter liturgies.

More than any of the other Gospels, it is a resurrection Gospel, written from mature Christian faith in Christ's

victory over sin and death and in his divinity.

In a sense, it is the risen Lord we encounter in its pages, not uprooted from history but transcending history.

This Gospel, written about 100 AD, is the result of some 70 years of prayerful reflection on the meaning of Christ in the lives of his disciples.

It calls not just for reading but for personal reflection.

A valuable aid to such

By Fr John Castelot reflection is sharing insights and reactions with others whose insights match ours.

This shared reading and reflection is an ideal Easter devotion for a family, large or small.

It helps immeasurably to keep in mind that when families thus encounter the Lord, they are in dialogue not only

If a child objects that the is important to me to do For a long time Sam than most parents are.

By Katharine and his wife, Maria, It can be downright project is boring, parents this." even had talked about read- embarrassing, Bird can ask why it's boring Getting participants ing the Bible at home intimidating, to consider and talk about ways to committed to any kind of with their children. sharing one's thoughts, If people feel "invested make it less so. project also involves They thought the pro- feeling and experiences in something, if it is In the case of Bible finding ways to make it ject would be beneficial about the Bible in a important to them, they reading with young relate to people's lives. will work for it," said children, occasionally Thus, mining the Bible and group setting. educationally spiritually.

One way to overcome Carmen Vaughan, a letting them act out a for philosophical issues Bible reading in a brief and for its treatment of "But even though we such hesitant feelings social worker. wanted to share our faith about reading the Bible Planning can be used to skit adds interest. good and evil can pique with our children at at home, whether it is the get people committed to Teens often offer fierce the attention of teens, Ms home, we always put it Gospel of John or some the joint project. resistance to any kind of Vaughan said. off to a better time," said other book, is to think In a family, Ms Vaughan family project. But par- Another tactic that can a religious about it as a special kind suggested, parents can ents shouldn't Sam, be work with adults and educator. get children to think alarmed unduly about teens, she added, is of family meeting.

Then just before Lent Many elements that about the project before such reactions. asking participants how one year, Sam and Maria contribute to making a the first group planning Teenagers "generally they see a biblical themes realised there never family meeting work also session. Sometimes it don't want to do any- or story relating to a would be a perfect time. can be found in group helps to talk to each child thing with parents," Ms moral issue of today.

"We've been busy for Bible reading. individually, she said.

Vaughan noted. "For These are some suggesthe last 10 years," Sam Three keys to success Other times telling them peers are more tions that may help said, "and we'll be busy are commitment, careful them about the project important." families and groups that for the next 10 years." planning and clear around the dinner table At the same time, want to undertake a joint They also realised that communication. to project. works just as well. need parents their daughters, two Paying attention to Then, at the initial remember that they are My suggestion is that teen-agers and a six-year- these three elements can planning session, get in charge. you consider reading the old, were growing up up the chances that a people's feelings and Parents can say to teens, Gospel of John together, rapidly. Time was run- family or a group of objections out on the "I know you don't want talking about it and ning out. to come and I will letting it guide your spirit adults can read the table.

The couple's reluctance Gospel Exploring feelings and accommodate your sche- at Easter. together to try family Bible read- successfully. objections as well as the dule, but you are Though there are no ing is not unique.

In any group setting and nuts and bolts of the expected to be there," Ms guarantees, you just Though Sam is a reli- with every type of family project provides "an Vaughan said. might celebrate Easter gious educator and well- undertaking, it is crucial opportunity to talk with To get teens more with closer bonds and a versed in how to educate to get everybody — family members about favourably disposed, she satisfying sense that you children and adults reli- including children — why it is important," Ms suggested, it can help if have discovered somegion, he is no more involved at the outset Vaughan said. "And it parents add, "I want you thing valuable from John comfortable initiating and interested in making engenders a sense of there because you are and his view of Jesus and such a project at home the project work. family bonds." part of the family and it his friends.

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Taking into consideration the needs of all family members is one difficulty people encounter in trying to read the Bible at home, H. Richard McCord Jr., says.

Religous educator Lauru Meagher offers some principles to guide home Bible reading during Lent.

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Their sharing is a dynamic source of unity and love.

They hear the reassuring words: "I am the vine, you are the branches.

Whoever remains in me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without me you can do nothing" (John 15:5).

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Families with small children may find reading the Bible together more successful if they stick to the Gospels at first, reading one from start to finish, or with a section of Scripture that tells a story, such as Jonah. (Etching by Marvin Hayes, from God's Images.)

After 30 years, my memories of the family rosary remain vivid.

The seven of us would gather in the evening before the youngest child's bedtime.

We knelt before a crucifix, or we clustered around a statue of the Blessed Mother when one of us was selected to bring it home from school.

We treated this form of family prayer seriously and, allowing for the occasional twitching and giggling, practiced it regularly although not daily.

Irecalled this childhood experience recently when talking with a friend about how difficult it is for families to sustain the habit of reading the Bible together — despite their good intentions.

It seems there are two main obstacles.

First is the pace of our lives.

Reading the Bible, especially as a family ritual, requires that we clear away the clutter and distractions that fill our days — at least temporarily — and that we ourselves recollect enough to be attentive to each other and to God's word.

Second, the Bible is not written for small children.

As a consequence, it is hard to find ways to bring them into the activity at their level of understanding without ignoring the needs of the adults.

How can a family deal with these difficulties?

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By H. Richard :Cord Jr Perhaps a look at what contributed to making the family rosary a successful, satisfying experience might offer some clues.

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the Good News versions with popular are families.

If there are little children, it's a good idea to use a children's Bible not only because of the simplified language but more importantly for its colour illustrations that engage non-readers.

's important also to ect a modern translan of the Bible. The Timing. We established .nAr American Bible and a regular time for praying the rosary, a time judged to be convenient for everyone. It became part of our family schedule. Only rarely was it pre-empted.

There are some goals Likewise, it is important that you get the feeling to make family Bible you can more easily reading part of the achieve on your own. family's expectations and Construcively involving routine. It should be others in them — now undertaken at a convethere's a real nint and regular time, challenge. perhaps once or twice a Suppose that like tens of week. t housands of other For many families this Catholics today you might come at the begindecide to explore the Bible. ning of the evening meal, perhaps in conjunction You can undertake the with the usual prayer. project on your own simply by setting aside Solemnity and ritual. the time for it, by The structure of the collecting or borrowing rosary provided a certain books to consult or by rhythmic ritual. Solemjoining a parish group. nity was introduced with a special statue or some In the beginning there other religious object is, as they say, nothing to around which we knelt. it but to do it.

To involve family When the family reads members in an explorathe Bible together, they tion of the Bible is more could light a candle, complex. recite an opening prayer or place the book in a Undoubtedly, no such project gets under way at place of veneration. home without the initiaParticipation by all. In tive of someone who is its family the case of the moving force. rosary there usually were For purposes of dicusenough prayers and decades to give everyone sion, we'll assume that you are this person in a chance to lead. your home.

During family Bible Like any project that reading sessions, differyou move forward, this ent family members

Briefly... one will require that you clarify in your own mind the priority it holds for you.

Then you'll need to your communicate wishes to the others in your family.

This is a key point, since communication is so critical in successful that undertakings involve two or more people.

Remember, however, that you're not bringing your family members into a time-consuming class. You're planning a brief time together several days a week, perhaps only five or 10 minutes.

And awkward feelings about doing this are only natural. They will pass.

Once you've decided to go ahead, remember to keep things simple and to involve family members in preparing the sessions.

People learn and grow through activities in which they participate actively.

If you're reading the Gospel of John, help your children plan a reading of the Wedding Feast at

Cana that actually will conclude with a little feast — a treat to represent the best which has been saved for last.

Reading about Lazarus and the theme of new life, plan to talk over all the signs of life within yourselves and in your home.

And remember to allow your biblical reading to help connect your homelife up with the world beyond your doors.

Let it help you to focus on people in any way and on others whose gifts from God are valuable to you.

Lent is an opportune time to explore the Bible.

Check your parish for booklets and other aids it may offer at this time.

Check out your parish library. Join with parish small group activities if possible.

Why undertake a project of biblical reading?

Well, it might just prove to be quite interesting, all the while joining you to the church's long tradition of celebrating gracefully at Easter.

Taking off the Bible's wrappings...

Sharing the Bible together as a family or with friends may seem impossible.

It's not, but it takes a commitment of planning and some homework. It also requires realistic expectations.

Here are some principles to keep in mind.

1. The Bible was written for adults. Children have a hard time reading it by themselves. They need help in reading and understanding the Bible.

But with a little help even the newest reader can proclaim Scripture in the family setting.

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These are not meant as substitutes for personal reflection, but as aids to understanding. For there is more to the Gospel of John than meets the eye.

It aims not at information so much as at formation — at deepening of faith and love.

It is written so that people "may believe": "Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples that

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For families and friends

Can families and groups of friends really succeed in reading the Bible together, the NC Religious Education Package makes some suggestions on how readers might set about making a practice of home Bible reading.

One approach is to view Bible reading as a special kind of family meeting, writes Katharine Bird. It is important to get all family members committed and involved in plan-

with him but with the first Christians, whose faith they share.

Still first-century Christians thought and expressed themselves rather differently from us.

They had their own language and the evangelist, known in antiquity as "the theologian," had his own distinctive way of saying things.

That is why a group should avail itself of the help offered by one of the

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By LAURA MEAGHER pings. Perhaps the most first few chapters of serious disservice we do Genesis probably have to ourselves and children been read more freis neglecting to look quently than any othei behind the words of books of the Bible.

Scripture to their mean- Exodus may be a close ing. It is as if we cherish second. Brave souls who a gift's wrapping and make it that far inevitably bog down at Levitinever open the gift. cus. Then the Bible goes Reading the Bible in a back on the shelf until way that does justice to the next burst of enthuits riches calls for home- siasm arises. work. The original authors of the Bible may Don't try to read the have been inspired, but whole Bible. Families contemporary readers with small children do can't rely on direct best to stick to the for Gospels at first. Reading inspiration understanding. a Gospel from start to 3. Start at the end. The finish over a number of weeks or a section of Scripture that tells a story, such as Jonah, are good ways to begin.

If your children are young, this shouldn't be difficult to establish. Let older children help choose the time, place and frequency of the gathering.

5. Put words into action.

Particular passages may lend themselves to actions that will bring them to life. Practical applications are meaningful, especially to children.

6. Be patient. The Bible came into being over several generations. Your family won't master it in one Lenten season or even in a lifetime.

But stay with it, even if one has anything to no Parents or older children after a particular say should prepare the pasYour children reading. sage beforehand in order surprise you by may to stimulate discussion. recalling significant pas4. Choose a time and sages in years to come. stick to it. Keep the time Mine have.

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frame short at the start.

This is the most difficult part of beginning the practice of family Bible study.

CCE hit by lack of f unds The Churches' Commission on Education was set up in 1971 under the chairmanship of Brother Cas Manion and its prime responsibility is to provide Christian education and concern for Christian children in government schools.

The prime aims are therefore to provide religious instruction in primary schools and chaplaincy services in secondary schools.

which stretches from Wyndham to Esperance, and chaplains in secondary schools may be lay or religious, young or mature age.

Some schools may elect and have the personnel to teach specific religions, but most are ecumenical teachers instructing in a course which is agreed upon by various the denominations.

Mr Tony Mordini, who for the past four years This is done ecumeni- was RE Co-ordinator cally in that broad base with Corpus Christi, Christianity is taught in became the new Executhe primary schools by tive Director of the CCE religious instructors in January this year. (over a thousand) under He said there are 11 t he CCE's umbrella church bodies repres-

Veterans unique venture

Western Australia's Veterans' Affairs Department has come up with an initiative which is unique in Australia.

Mr Tony Mordini who has been RE co-ordinator for the last four years with Corpus Christi.

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work in the school's student services areas.

Which in government schools means working with the pastoral care team made up of the guidance officer, youth education officer, school nurse, and in some cases the school policeman, said Mr Mordini.

"They work with that team as an extra adjunct to what the school can offer in the way of student services."

ented on the Commission and the chaplaincy program in government secondary schools is his main focus of attention currently.

There are 23 school chaplains under the Commission and another 10 approaches have been made by The CCE is handischools or districts to put a chaplain into their capped through lack of funds "because to get a secondary schools. chaplain and therefore Qualifications for such a position stipulate that pay a salary, the school the chaplain must offer a and church communities Christian witness in the have to fund raise." If school, and be able to they're successful, they

Bishop George Pell, Auxiliary, Melbourne, left, was guest speaker at the commissioning of the Rev Steven Russell an ecumencial chaplain to Monash Universty. In his address entitled God And The Universities, Bishop Pell looked at how greater concentration on religion in universities would not only benefit the institutions themselves but also society at large. encounter The between Jesus and the Jewish leader Nicodemus, which John recounts so early in his Gospel, details a sophisticated encounter between the young religious leader and the older man on the nature of faith.

It also looks at the unpredictability of this divine gift, the difficulty of moving from the things of this world to the one great unseen God and concludes with a section on the good and evil in our hearts, the struggle perpetual between light and darkness.

Nicodemus came by night, presumably incurring less publicity, but this visit was more than most of his fellow leaders managed.

Nicodemus is in a way an appropriate symbol for many occupying positions of leadership in Australian life.

I am honoured to be asked to give the address at this Christian ecumenical service in such a university setting here at Monash.

Most Australians are unaware that the institu-

tion of the university first developed in medieval Catholic Europe, in such cities as Bologna, Paris, Oxford and Cambridge; that many of the most prestigious American universities are Protestant foundations; that there are hundreds of different Christian tertiary institutions in the United States alone.

In many ways our tradition is otherwise, aptly described by Cardinal Newman in his work The Idea Of A University which is quoted on the few occasions in Australia when the role of universities is discussed.

In his description of a gentleman, "one who never inflicts pain," which is not so much a panegyric as an ironic indictment, Newman describes the gentleman's religious attitude in this way.

"He honours the ministers of religion, and it contents him to decline its mysteries without assailing or denouncing them."

Hans Mol, the Australian religious sociologist now working in Canada, once claimed that there are 10 times the number

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of atheists and agnostics on the staffs of Australian universities in comparison with the Australian population generally.

Another American survey about journalists, which showed that only eight per cent of the media elite in the USA went to church (and that in a country where more than 40 per cent are churchgoers, nearly twice the Australian rate) probably is a replica of religious attitudes among the media.

I suspect that these situations are more the fault of Christians than of the universities.

We have been so busy doing good, so convinced that the world of ideas has only a tenuous connection (at best) with the real world of action, that we have been tempted to ignore God and be content with flying the flag, occasionally, in Australian academic and cultural life rather than being a regular, and noticeable participant.

Religious people have been tempted to adopt the style of those few people in Australian life, who are seriously antireligious.

We remain silent about our unseemly claims to the reality of the supernatural, our mystical tradition and the good consequences of Christian living which follow in public life and in the lives of individuals.

There is also no serious study of the intellectual claims of Christianity in any Melbourne university — something which is not as true in other Australian universities and indeed in other tertiary colleges, outside the universities, in Melbourne.

There would be more university study of theology in Communist Poland than there is in Melbourne.

Theology was once known as the queen of the sciences. The motto of Oxford University is Dominus Illuminatio meaning (God My Light).

Some 73 per cent of Australians call themselves Christians; more than 80 per cent of us believe in God. There is historical precedent for the study of theology in university circles. I would suggest that such study would also be socially useful.

get a chaplain; if not they don't.

"My vision is to form a working party with the heads of churches, the Ministry of Education and corporate bodies to establish a foundation to generate income to support the chaplaincy program," said Mr Mordini.

"We would then have a capital base to help finance more chaplains for more schools because there is currently no fund to service salaries.

"One finance company has offered its expertise free to help put a c.apital base project together, and I'd be delighted to hear from anyone who expresses interest in such a venture."

Mr Will Smithwick, Regional Contact Officer, is servicing the suburbs of Carlisle, Victoria Park, Lathlain and East Victoria Park in a trial venture which has been set up to help those veterans who are unable to personally get to certain venues unaided or even telephone the department because of hearing disabilities.

"These suburbs have a high concentration of ageing population and unless we go to them, they can't get to us in some instances," he said.

"My job is to take our services closer to the clients and bring them to Autumn Centres, RSL subbranches, pensioner leagues and anywhere else in the community where our client can have access to.

"If it proves successful after this six

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Mr Smithwick. month trial, it will be extended to other outreaches."

So far the project has been well accepted by the community at large, said Mr Smithwick, who said he found his job particusatisfying larly because it assisted people in claiming extra benefits or getting additional treatment who wouldn't have had knowledge or access otherwise.

"We are also interested in speaking to people who are not aware of the Veterans' A ffairs Department but who've had military service. "This applies not only to Australian servicemen but also to allies such as British, Canadian, American and so on." — C. McG.H.

Why religion should play bigger role in universities But all tertiary colleges, especially universities, must be places where people learn to use their minds, to weigh evidence, to see inner connections, to advance towards a general view.

In other words, where young adults are helped to be better people, good members of society; people who are not coerced by local custom into avoiding ultimate questions, people who know at least in basic terms what is evil and why it is evil.

Not just vicious or even kindly sceptics, but people who love society while aware of its imperfections; who do not think greed is good; who will be interested in social issues beyond the threat of tertiary fees.

Something like the scribe man from the Book of Ecclesiasticus; upright; learned; serving his society; knowing where his people came from; God fearing; respected in this life and remembered with gratitude by future generations.

If Australian universities helped many towards these goals,

Australian society would be grateful, and Australian universities would enjoy higher popular esteem even if research, pure or applied, limped a bit.

The study of theology, the study of the Christian moral tradition could make a useful contribution to the enhancement of these perspectives.

I want to end where I began with that terrible and confusing vision found at the start of the book of Ezekiel.

It is a strange and bizarre vision, at first glance confirming the easy strictures of the writers from the Humanist Society about the illogicalities of religion.

Such simplicisms, such as an easy rejection of religion are no longer possible in our world of Recently! was reading a AIDS and the atomic graduation address by a bomb; in the bewildering senior American aca- intellectual world of demic in which he some sub-atomic physquoted the example of ics; and, at the other end Edward Kohlrausch, of the spectrum, the apparently a very well- world of incomprehensiknown German legal ble space, of quasars and philosopher. black holes.

He was also a relativist I hope and pray that and positivist and often amidst the many wondlectured and examined ers, often confusing and stating simply that "a sometimes contradiccrime is that which is tory, that throw thempunished." selves into our gaze from When he was removed modern life that we shall from his chair by Hitler, discern the presence of he might have seen this our great God, the glory Nazi despotism and his of Yahweh, full of light fate as one logical conse- and beauty, signified by quence of his positivism the rainbow (DH. Lawand cynicism. Religion rence's Rainbow), which can, and must help is always a sign of God's prevent this type of grim covenant with his people — The Advocate. progression.

The worst disasters are not likely but they are possible.

Requests to Mother Mary MacKillop Every kind of human "She is a real champion heartache . . . every From Barbara Mead for people who are in kind of joy and comdistress, in the housing fort . . . These are whether it is trying to Catholic Leader what each morning's buy or sell a family home mail brings to Sister or in cases where pe6ple Anne Marie Power.

Visitors to the Mount need to find suitable The stories in the letters Street convent, where it accommodation for parbecome the stuff of is rare to see Mother ents who are aged, prayer, offered each day Mary's tomb unattended people who are termiby the assembled com- by someone at prayer, nally ill or needing munity of Sisters of St have taken the knowl- special care.

Joseph at the Order's edge of her — "her Mount Street, Sydney friendship" — home and "There have been some convent. shared it with family and remarkable happenFrom throughout Aus- friends. The letters come ings . . . like nursing tralia and increasingly back to the convent from homes with long waiting from other countries, the Canada, the US, the lists suddenly and unexletters fall into two United Kingdom, Sri pectedly offering a vacancy." groups . . . pleas for help Lanka, Malta. . . and words of gratitude.

"Illness of family Sister Anne Marie The help sought is often members or friends is the culled these letters at practical, the way of most common story of random from the past six seeking is spiritual, the letter writers," said months' correspondence: through prayer asking Sister Anne Marie. the intercession of the "Sometimes a restora- • An alcoholic recofoundress, tion to health is not in the vered. Everything has Order's Mother Mary MacKillop. Lord's plan but always changed in this home from misery and breakMother Mary, said Sis- the letter will arrive down to happy security. ter Anne Marie, is prov- telling of peace of mind ing herself "a powerful and acceptance for both • Legal matters conadvocate for those who the patient and the sad cerning custody hearther people who have to break, marital difficulfor pray intercession". watch them go. And after ties, even compensation Predominantly, she all, what more can we ask — people have written said, writers seek Mother for loved ones who are most touching letters of how they felt helped Mary's intercession in dying?" family matters which There are the "happy through such ordeals. "seem to be her special endings" letters, many of • And a job-finder. area. I suppose this is them seeming to reflect Grateful mothers have understandable when the understanding of the written to say their sons one knows Mother practical needs of fami- had great improvements Mary's own family lies that was so evident in in their work after history".

Mother Mary's lifetime. prayers for intercession.

RSJ associates Meg and Tony Phelan, Sister Dora Maguire (rear) Mary McCormack and Helen Maiolo.

Josephites recruit lay people

As the feast of St Joseph was being celebrated on Saturday (one day early because March 19 was Palm Sunday) the Sisters of St Joseph in WA were quietly celebrating the formal entry of lay people into the Josephite family.

At a recent weekend of prayer for the Sisters and lay people, four West Australians were formally enrolled as RSJ Associates in Mission by Sister Dora Maguire, the order's co-ordinator of the project in the West.

Next weekend, several more people will be formally accepted into the Josephite family as associates in a ceremony at South Perth.

RSJ Associates are w omen and men, either married or single, who desire to explore with the sisters, what it means to be a follower of Christ in today's world.

They are asked to commit themselves to witness that by living faithfully the way of life to which they have been called.

Sister Dora said many people have worked with the sisters in many ways, and the associateship is a way of recognising that contribution in a practical way, besides the mutual enrichment of all concerned.

"It will also develop lay leadership in the Church.

"These people share the spirit of St Joseph with us. It has come from the Lord, and I believe it is

by Jill Mather the Spirit at work allowing us to identify very closely with one another, and to work on the mission of the Church together," Sister Dora said.

Even Mary McKillop found that attraction and affinity among women with a special relationship with St Joseph.

"According to one of her letters, women came from far and wide as soon as they heard she was forming the Sisters of St Joseph, because they had been waiting for that special call from the Spirit."

Close to 90 people have expressed interest in RSJ Associates in Mission in the two years since the first invitation was sent out by the sisters.

Not all of those attached to the WA sisters live in the west — some are in Thailand, while others are in Peru and Zambia In that time, several groups of associates have evolved in WA, but the first formal ceremonies have only just taken place.

The associates are guided by a province team that consists of RSJ nuns and one lay person, Meg Phelan.

Eventually the sisters will take a less active role on that team, and will be replaced by lay people.

However, we will ensure the spirit of the Josephites is maintained, Sister Dora said.

"We had no preconceived idea of what an associateship meant, and under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we have allowed the vocation to develop according to the needs of the associates.

"We are all employed on the mission of the Church," Sister Dora said, "and through the associateship people will be more able to bring that fact into their daily lives, as part of the ministry of the mission of Jesus Christ."

Each person chooses the best way for him or her to commit themselves for the 12 months.

Some, such as priests are associates in prayer, others do catechist work, while special ministers may devote that work to their mission.

Other associates have formed special support groups for people in special need.

One group of people has chosen to deepen their understanding of married life, and the ministry of children and families.

The associates are an innovation for the Sisters of' St Joseph, although other religious orders have formal arrangements with the laity.

Six years ago, the idea was brought to the Chapter and the congregation gave the sisters a mandate to form the RSJ Associates in Mission.

A pilot program ran for 12 months and then the other provinces followed suit.

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Can busy people be good Catholics? the best of their resources and which deprived them of any vision of the Sir, I compliment Bishop tremendous internal Healy on his comments potential each one concerning Perth's street possessed. kids, (The Record, March 9). I recently completed a By setting the objective six month assignment as of providing a loving and executive director of welcoming environment, Jesus People Welfare a sense of belonging, Services, the largest young people were non-government agency attracted into our cenhelping these unfortu- tres; there was no need nate young people, and to go out and find them. so have first-hand expeIt was a marvellous rience of the problem.

Bishop Healy was spot experience for me to on: the young people I watch as youngsters had the privilege to serve aged 15 'going on 30' suffered in general both would gradually, over a f rom 'familylessness' few weeks, turn into true and from a lack of self- 15 year -olds again as the esteem which paralysed strain of living on the their motivation to make streets and the effects of From Francis Xavier HARMAN, Nedlands

from Veronica GOERKE, Dianella

Sir, I remain perplexed at the confused statements by Mary McDonald (The Record, March 16).

I ask how the labelling of our Church by Edwina Gately as "male dominated" (a simple truth) could possibly affect Edwina's work with prostitutes?

Secondly, since when,

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Or could it have been a sign, a symbol of the almighty power of God?

'The sign of the Son of Man will appear in the heavens.- Mat 24:30. Holy scripture reveals that the second coming of the Lord, of the Son of Man, is certain.

Unlike the first coming in weakness and obscurity, a sign that is to be rejected, the second coming will be very solemn in great power and glory. It will be associated with fire, a consuming fire to destroy sin, a refining fire to make the just shine in the image of God.

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kids are made to feel at home Most of the hundred or more street kids I met were not badly in need of highly specialised professional care, but did need a loving attitude and a good dose of inspiration, leadership and teaching of sound values in order to be able to "go and do better'.

Our Lord is presenting us with an opportunity to show how much we care for Him. On our doorstep large numbers of our most precious national asset, our youth, are suffering and drifting. We must go and share with them our hope and trust in Him.

and by what means, have feminists — let alone Edwina Gately — "used prostitutes and prostitution to cause division among men and women within the Mystical Body"?

I propose that the

Catholic Church — especially the women of our Church — should give thanks for the gift of people such as Edwina Gately, who continue to encourage and challenge us to live lives which are more Christ -like.

Denial or coincidence?

Sir, I wonder whether the largest solar flare in recorded history that occurred recently precisely when US biblical scholars were denying that Jesus is the Son of Man, was just a coincidence.

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the use of alcohol and other drugs wore off.

The sometimes 20-hour working-days flashed by like 20 minutes in this exciting and rewarding work.

We in the Catholic Church do much already to help youth. I believe we could do so much more.

In this respect, I believe that one of our particular charisms is to bring the love of Jesus to these youngsters by living out our traditional view of human relations: by providing day centres or accommodation where the cold and clinical is banished along with the stress and strain of street life and where our street

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i mportant questions for delegates to the Diocesan Assembly.

Can "a busy business person" who only goes to Mass on Sunday and is not involved in other parish devotions and activities, still be considered a good Catholic?

Can "a 55 minute a week" Catholic still be a committed Catholic and a holy person?

The Assembly should look carefully at the question of lay spirituality, so -that people will value themselves and their lives at home, work and at leisure, because there they give witness to their faith in Jesus and to his gospel.

It is important too, that diocesan and parish organisers recognise people's daily lives as the main resource of the church in our mission to the world, when planning diocesan and parish activities.

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Scientists from Holloman Air Base in New Mexico saw that the flare was 36 times the size of the earth, and extended 112,630km into space. Violent eruptions on the sun produce cosmic rays that have important consequences on Earth Already, over Western Australia, there has appeared the Aurora Australis, a very rare event in this part of thz., world. It appeared in brilliant colours of green cloud, and red and white lights. The director of the Perth Observatory said

There shall be a visible change in the heavenly bodies and in nature.

The second coming will be sudden. No one knows the hour, or the day.

It is wise to prepare for this coming of the Son of Man in this day of vengeance and retribution, and not to be like people in the time of Noah who did not listen, who did

not realise what was happening.

'The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then with a roar the sky will vanish, the elements will catch fire, and fall apart, the earth and all that it contains will be burnt up.- (2 Peter 3: 10-12).

Even now, the glory of God is revealed in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

Yet the world, under the influence of our adversary, the evil one, who is a liar, and the father of all lies, denies that Christ has come into the world, that He has died, that He is risen, that He will come again.

To expose the deceit of the evil one, God sends his modern day prophets into the world to proclaim His word.

St Grignon De Montfort prophesied that the second coming of Christ would be the triumphant and glorious reign of God in the hearts of all mankind.

He explained it was not to be confused with the last coming in glory at the end of the world.

The second coming is through the power of the Holy Spirit of God, just as it was in the first coming of Jesus into the womb of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This time, the Holy Spirit is coming, not just upon Mary, but into the lives of all who accept Jesus as their Lord and God. Our Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, sees Mary, the Mother of God, as a prophetic messenger guiding her children, the Church, through these troubled times.

She, who is the perfect image of God's Church, is ushering in a new age of peace now at this time.

-Who is she that comes forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in battle array?"

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Above: Happy faces at the last Antioch weekend in Mundaring.

Left: YCW members are all smiles after a hectic cycling session.

Easter's link with youth ' YOUNG ONES HAVE SPECIAL PLACE' VATICAN CITY (NC): Pope John Paul II celebrated Palm Sunday and the beginning of Holy Week in a St Peter's Square liturgy attended by thousands of young people from around Europe.

The March 19 ceremonies capped a weekend of activities marking the fourth World Youth Day of Pope John Paul's pontificate.

The previous day, a papal audience in the Vatican's Paul VI hall featured the performance of an Italian pop singer as well as speeches by the pope and various young people.

This year World Youth Day will also be celebrated Aug 15 at the Sanctuary of St James in Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

On a warm Palm Sunday morning the pope began Holy Week observances at the Vatican with a Mass and Angelus attended by an estimated 40,000 young people.

In his Angelus talk, the

pope said there was a connection close between Easter and youth.

"Is not the young generation a special 'place' for the Easter event?" he asked. "How can one not see in youth and in their values — life, health, beauty, physical vigor, enthusiasm, joy — almost a forerunner of the resurrected Christ and his glorious return?"

The pope said the task of young people was to make real in their lives the victory over evil and sin accomplished by the Resurrection.

Afterward, the pope greeted youthful pilgrims in the square in Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, Slovakian and Polish.

Speaking in Slovakian to a group from the Yugoslavian Archidocese of Zagreb, the pope invoked the theme of World Youth Day, telling them that "Jesus is truly your way, your truth and your life."

Before the Angelus, the pope celebrated Mass for the thousands of young people, many waving palm and olive branches, in St Peter's Square.

With his resurrection Christ "comes in the name of the Lord to every new human generation with his paschal mystery," the pope said.

The pope encouraged the young people in the square to meet in August in Spain for that "important ecclesial event."

On March 18, the pope held a late-afternoon audience that featured the songs of pop singer Franco Battiato. The

Sicilian singer performed for the pope, curial officials and an enthusistic audience made up of 10,000 young people from Rome.

Three young people also spoke to the pope about the problems facing youth today, including drugs, unemployment — particularly for women — and violence.

Afterward the pope told his audience that they were the future of the church, society and the family.

"What will be tomorrow depends in large part on your imagination, courage and commitment," he told them.

The pope urged them never to compromise the Gospel values but at the same time to seek solutions to the problems of life.

"Don't squander these precious years giving in to the delusions of consumerism," he said.

"The consumerist mentality can pollute even love."

The pope asked his

audience not to mistake "the premature experience of pleasure" for "the joy of the total gift of self in the context of a love" which is "without reservations."

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People of Perth

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

success Trinity Breen!

Farewell Fr

Popular acting parish priest Father loss Breen was farewelled by Mundaring Chidlow parishioners after a nine months supply period.

Father Breen chatting above with Meg Phelan (left), Debbie Safe and Anneliese, departs this weekend for a three weeks holiday in the United States visiting his sisters before taking up a temporary posting at Gosnells. oma.eme"Mao.\....ewoa.

The James Nestor Award, for solo instrumentalists was won in December last year by Trinity student Tomaso Pollio.

He won the award for his piano playing of The Engulfed Cathedral by

Debussy, Kabalevsky's Study in C and Arietta by Leo. Tomaso, a student of music for the last 10 years, is now studying music at the University of Western Australia.

The Nestor Award was inaugurated in 1987 and is

a high standard competition open to instrumentalists and singers in Catholic schools.

Eighteen entrants participated in the first stage of the award and six finalists gave a recital for audience and adjudicators.

(Above left) Siobhan Sadler, John XXIII, holding the trophy for the Aggregate Senior Girls' Points.

(Above right) James O'Toole and Katrina Fitzgerald of Newman College with the overall aggregate trophy.

ACC highlights of swimming carnival Eight records fell time of 27.61 seconds, while during the Associated team mate and school champion Katrina Fitzgerald Catholic Colleges took only 37.62 seconds to swimming carnivals win the girls' 50 metres held last week at the backstroke event and set Beatty Park Aquatic another record.

Centre and the Clare- Other records went to: Brooke Ayre, Mercedes mont Superdrome.

College, girls' under

15 The A Division carnival, 100m freestyle (A Div); Ben won by Newman College, Horgan, Sacred Heart Colsaw new records set in six lege, boys' under 13 50m events. backstroke (A Div); Miranda Newman competitor Rian Sibraa, Kolbe Catholic ColMcDermid won the boys' lege, girls' under 13 50m under 14 freestyle in a record backstroke (D Div); Rebecca

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Morgan, St Brigid's College, girls' under 13 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle (A Div); and Dean Glenny, Lumen Christi College, boys' open 50m backstroke (B Div).

In the A Division competition, the Newman team gained 742 aggregate points to win comfortably from second place getters, John XXIII College with 659.5 points. Newman won both the senior boys' and aggregate boys' trophies, and came second in the junior boys

section. The Newman girls' squads came fourth in the junior section and third in the seniors, with an overall third place in the girls' aggregate. It was Newman's fifth successive win in the ACC Swimming Carnival.

Sacred Heart College, Sorrento won the junior boys' section, while Mercedes College won both the junior girls' section and the girls' aggregate trophy. John XXIII won the senior girls' section.

Among the many outstand-

ing performers during the four days of the carnivals were three swimmers who gained a total of 45 out of a possible 48 points for their efforts in individual events.

In the open section Newman swimmers James O'Toole contributed to his team's success with wins in the 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly and 50m backstroke and a second place in the 50m breaststroke.

Sacred Heart College swimmer Ben Horgan, corn-

peting in the under 13 boys' events gained 45 points and Rebecca Morgan of St Brigid's College gained 45 points in the girls' under 13 events.

which took out first place in the junior boys' section was second in the aggregate.

C and D Divisions St Stephen's School, with first in the boys' aggregate B Division and second in the girls' Last year's B Division aggregate, won the C Divwinners, Corpus Christi ision overall aggregate from College almost scooped the Mercy College. pool again this year with wins in the senior boys, In D Division Prendiville boys' aggregate, junior and Catholic College with 623 senior girls' sections, girls' points won from St Mark's aggregate and overall aggre- Anglican Community gate. Lumen Christi College, School on 585 points.

More Irish doings

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Lucy Foale and her sister Joan Salter, members of the Tara School of Irish Dancing run by Aileen Nevin of Forrestfield, gave a dancing performance with Grainne Collins on St Patrick's night.

Joan is a remarkable young mother of two young children, who three weeks before, gave birth to a son whom she brought along to make certain he didn't go hungry.

Paddy and Vera Larkin (above) playing the bodhran (Irish drum) and fiddle, gave open house hospitality during the week preceding St Patrick's day, with free Devonshire teas for anyone wishing to view their marvellous display of Irish goods at their Blarney Castle theatre restaurant.

On display were Belleek ment. Vera, who is chief of and Tara china, crystal the culinary craft, has from Dublin and Water- won awards in Ireland for ford, a 200 year-old her Irish soda and child's lace shawl, Irish wheaten breads and has linen, Irish newspapers, done catering for the Irish publications and books Club for the last eight plus other items ot years. interest.

Paddy, of 6NR The Irish On St Patrick's night, the in Me fame, is quite at restaurant was full with home in his entrepreneurpatrons enjoying typical ial role because of his Irish hearty fare and a long time involvement great night's entertain- with Irish theatre.

Irish tenor Kieran Aherne with Greg Scott on fiddle and Ian Smith piano accordian, entertaining a packed house with Irish songs and music.

John Cleary in between dancing performances at Blarney Castle, adds a bit of background support with the bodhran to Mary Kingsley, a singer at the restaurant.

Some of the members of the Australian Irish Dancing Association who danced at various venues around Perth and suburbs on St Patrick's Day, giving many their first glimpse of the delights of Irish dancing.

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by TOM BRANCH

Quiz Night The WACLTA will hold a quiz night at the Manning Hotel on Tuesday, April 11 commencing at 7.30pm. Entry fee is $5 per person and tables will be comprised of six people. The quiz master for the evening will be Channel 10 newsreader and association member, Greg Pearce. Members can obtain tickets from their club secretaries. Previous association quiz nights have been a great success, and the forthcoming night should be no exception. The association committee have worked very hard to ensure that there are some tremendous prizes to be won throughout the evening. Association members and their

friends are stongly urged to support this function.

Corpus Christi Trophy Day Corpus Christi's first trophy day for 1989 has been scheduled for Sunday, April 2. Play commences at 1.30pm at the Corpus Christi College courts followed by a barbeque at the John Paul Parish Centre. All new members most welcome. Any enquiries should be directed to club secretary, Anne Warren on 332 1614.

Executive Meeting The next association e xecutive meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 4 at the home of Kathy Williams, 20 Bricknell Road, Attadale.

The meeting is scheduled to commence at 7.45pm sharp.

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INNALOO JUBILEE St Dominic's parish lnnaloo will commemorate Fr George O'Leary's 25 years of service to the parish with a Mass 9.30am on Sunday, April 2 with a luncheon in the school grounds to follow. Ladies please bring a plate.

Gents please bring a drink.

FLOR EAT RECITAL At St Cecilia's, Floreat Park, a pipe organ recital of classical and popular music will be given by Myrna Ligan and Ross McMahon — classical guitar, on Friday, April 14 at 8pm.

Subscription $5. Proceeds to Project Compassion.

DAY OF REFLECTION

/DOGS' RACE ONE: Parade of Dreams 1, Zinglemania 2, Black Reward 3.

RACE TWO: Woody Dne 1, Tiger Cub 2, Satin Bow 3.

RACE THREE: Black Patriot 1, Moon Dreamer 2, Win Sandy Win 3.

RACE FOUR Crown Royale 1, Blue Crusher 2, i'onegal Dream 3.

RACE FIVE: Western Nillie 1, Royal Esteem 2, 2apricorn Ten 3.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Anniversary Mass will be held Sunday, April 16. (Please note alteration of date.) Main Celebrant will be Bishop Healy. Mass 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.

RACE SIX: I'm Busy 1, Ghetto Glider 2, Fremantle Echo 3.

RACE SEVEN: Mexico 1, Nora's Pride 2, The Albatross 3.

RACE EIGHT: Fiery Duke 1, Delaware Beauty 2, The Cougar 3.

RACE NINE: Merry Tune 1, Mary Bromac 2, Kiss of Life 3.

RACE TEN: Special Charm 1, Brad's Ace 2, Estuary View 3.

Majellans are holding a day of reflection on Thursday, April 13 a the Leederville Parish Centre commencing at 9am finishing at 2.30pm approximately. The day will be under the guidance of Sr Paula Quinn.

There will be a creche, for all those young mums wishing to attend, so if you wish to take advantage of this facility please ring Bernadette 276 2487 or Toni 342 5741.

Bring your own lunch, but tea and coffee will be provided.

CANNINGTON JUBILEE

On April 16, St Francis parish, East Cannington, celebrates the silver jubilee of its Inauguration.

Bishop Healy concelebrates mass at 5pm. A multicultural supper will follow in the parish hall. Past and present parishioners are invited.

March 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 recently appointed priests. Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy.

Civic Welcome for Governor General. Rev Dean John Orzanski.

Curtin University Graduation.

Bishop Healy.

Pictured at a recent marriage preparation Sunday course are Tony Loiacono and Nena Bacic who will marry at St Joseph's Church, Subiaco on April 22.

April 1 Investiture of Knights of Holy Sepulchre. Archbishop Foley.

Blessing New School Kingsley/ Woodvale. Archbishop Foley.

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

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

Council of Priests meeting. Archbishop Foley & Bishop Healy.

John XXIII Ball. Archbishop Foley.

Blessing and Opening Kolbe College.

Archbishop Foley.

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

Parish Assembly Day. 18 Final Vows Sister Mary Joseph, Carmelite Monastery. Archbishop Foley.

23 Commissioning of Rev Les Goode at Cottage Hospice. Archbishop Foley.

25 ANZAC Day Service. Bishop Healy.

26 Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Archbishop Foley and Bishop Healy (till May 5).

28- Archdiocesan Assembly. Archbi30 Foley and Bishop Healy.

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