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To our readers: Be happy in the Easter 'news' that Our Lord and Saviour has risen and is amongst us.

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Joseph of Arimathaea . . who lived in

the hope of seeing the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

Pilate, astonished that he should have died so soon, summoned the centurion and enquired if he was already dead.

Having been assured of this by the centurion, he granted the corpse to Joseph who bought a shroud, took Jesus down from the cross, wrapped him in the shroud and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of the rock . . .

Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Joset were watching and took note where he was laid.

Having risen in the morning on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary of Magdala from whom he had cast out seven devils. She then went to those who had been his companions, and who were mourning and in tears, and told them.

But they did not believe her when they heard her say that he was alive and that she had seen him.

After this, he showed himself under another form to two of them as they were on their way into the country. These went back and told the others, who did not believe them either.

Lastly, he showed himself to the Eleven themselves while they were at table. He reproached them for their incredulity and obstinacy, because they had refused to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.

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Wooden cross comes to life...

The bare wooden cross that has stood starkly since last May in Albany's new Holy Family Church comes to life this Easter.

A t the Easter Vigil, this latest work of sculptor Gerard Darwin will be unveiled in its position high on the cross to symbolise the Resurrection.

Albany commissioned the work for the new Church but North Beach Church has secured a copy that also will be unveiled during the Easter Vigil.

The completion of the life size figure was interrupted by an illness in the Darwin family but two parishes get a special Easter inspiration this year as a result.

Gerry Darwin's prolific output now includes six life-size cross figures, two mother and child sets and a mother and adolescent Jesus plus a life size Joseph and adolescent Jesus.

Poser over birth and death

By Fr Barry King In a two horse race, my money would be on Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer against Peter Rabbit any day.

Rudolph seems to have a better PR man behind him and everyone gets excited at Christmas time.

There are sales, presents, holidays, parties, the whole works.

And the basic message seems to manage to surface at least a little from under all the gloss.

We know that Christmas is about someone's birthday; most of us even know that it is the birthday of the one called Christ.

Maybe some people think his name was X, because that's how we often write Xmas. Fair enough.

X is the unknown quantity, and there are certainly lots of things about Christ that we don't understand.

How could a God who makes the sun and stars

Maybe death is not as important as birth. Birth is become a helpless baby? And why would he want to a beginning and there is something to look forward anyway? to. Death is the end. Or is it?

Mind you, if God did become this person Christ, we Easter would be the end too, except that while it ought to have enough sense to listen to what he said. is about death and a tomb, the tomb is empty.

He ought to know what he is talking about.

HE IS RISEN — in other words, he has started to For two thousand years, some people have listened live in a new way — another birthday! and that has changed our world.

And this time, birth means looking forward not just The basic values and laws of much of the world are to a life of a few years in a tough old world, but looking the result of what he and his Jewish ancestors taught. forward forever to a life without blood, sweat and So Christmas does matter. tears.

Easter is different. We know about bunnies and Hooray for him. But what about us? Does this Easter eggs, though what the connection is, is hard to see.

— this NEW LIFE — matter to us?

Bunnies and eggs are about fertility and birth but The person who rose from death was the same Easter is about death and a tomb. person who was born — born like us, lived and died The person whose birhday we celebrate at like us.

Christmas died at Easter and I guess we don't like to If this human person lived again, maybe we human think about death as much as we think about birth. persons will, too. Maybe Easter does matter?

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Pope John Paul sees the shortage of priests as having positive effects, Bishop Healy told priests on Tuesday night.

"People will see that they have a need for the priest and will develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the priesthood," the bishop said at the Mass to bless the holy oils.

It is the traditional occasion when priests renew their commitment.

Commenting on Pope John Paul's Holy Week letter to priests, Bishop Healy said the shortage of priests was the starting point of the pope's reflection.

"Priests will develop a greater openness to the Holy Spirit and a greater

confidence in the sacrament of holy orders," the bishop told the priests.

He quoted Pope John Paul who said: "We simply need to love our priesthood and to give ourselves completely to it so that the truth about the ministerial priesthood may become attractive to others", the bishop continued: "So we will be more effected in minis-

tering to people and will attract more vocations to the priesthood."

"When Jesus ordained the apostles on Holy Thursday, His intention was to provide priests to reo er.sent Him fnr all ages. They and their successors would not work alone of course but would have the collaboration also of deacons and lay people. This

would always be the pastoral plan of the church, at sometimes more honoured than at other times.

"The focus of the plan would be the priesthood because priests would not only minister to people in word and sacrament but would also inspire them by their leadership and by the witness of their lives".

Respect for human embryos hailed Statement from the Roman Catholic bishops of Western Australia on the human reproductive technology bill.

-We welcome many aspects of the State Government's proposed Human Reproductive Technology Bill.

"The Bill deserves to be commended as a positive move towards ensuring that the fundamental rights of every human being are protected in civil law.

"But we call for the Bill to require even greater care for the welfare of all participants in reproductechnology tive procedures.

"We believe that the embryo itself should be recognised as a participant in these procedures.

"Every human life, no matter how small, has a dignity of its own. This is not conferred by mother or father, or by any other outside agency.

"This inherent dignity must be the basis for every judgement in human reproductive technology.

"We do not approve of the creation of embryos outside the natural process.

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fled that the Bill recognises that embryos, created outside the natural processes may be created only implantation in specific women participants. We also need the assurance that full protection of the law is extended to the embryo from the very beginning of the fertilisation process.

"From the beginning, the new human life must be protected from experimentation and research, even if that research might eventually prove beneficial to other human beings.

"For it is never permissible to abuse or destroy one human life simply as a means to advance knowledge or to help another.

"Any foreseeable advantage to science is not sufficient justification for experimentation on living human embryos.

"Human embryos need to be protected not only from experimentation, but also from the indignity of being placed in frozen storage.

"Neither can a human embryo be considered the possession of another.

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Woman's birth quest contradicts creation LONDON (CNS): The effort of an unmarried British woman to achieve virgin birth through artificial insemination has come under fire from leading British Catholics.

Describing the process as "bizarre", Bishop Augustine Harris of Middlesborough, head of the Department for Christian Responsibility and Citizenship said it lacked the loving relationship which brings humanity to family life.

"It is also a contradiction of creation as we traditionally know it," he said.

Similar disapproval came from leading Catholic moral theologian Jesuit Father John

Mahoney, professor of moral and social theology at King's College, London.

"If any single woman wants to have a child without having relations with a man, then I think this is morally reprehensible because it is in fact creating singleparent families," he said.

"Although one can talk about her desire and her needs, one has to consider the interests of the child," Father Mahoney said.

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Greatest story, least being told Well before gospels and other scriptures were turned into big entertainment money spinners author Fulton Oursler came up with the catchy title: The Greatest Story Ever Told.

It was not an an irreverent title. It was meant to shock mildly the generations who measured the worth of a Bible by its morocco leather binding or its fine rice paper printing.

It was a new era that believed the Christian scriptures could be marketed wholesomely to a generation of digest readers who liked their good news in pleasant dollops.

The gospels would be presented as real 'good news to people who did not know what they were missing. Why should the devil have the best tunes? asked Salvation Army founder General Booth.

The operative word in the Oursler slogan was obviously 'greatest'. Against any other story, the Biblical narratives would carry the day.

To a degree, the 20th century mass popularisation of the Bible, in endless translations and paraphrases never looked back. Its printing statistics still break all records. Tons of Bibles have now to be poured into Eastern Europe after their decades of atheistic purging. They are hungry for the word.

The entertainers too could not pass up a good thing. Cinema and television saw their chance to dig deep into this rich story. The serious widescreen blockbusters claimed to be telling the story in an up-to-date medium. The cynical and trashy gospel send-ups would claim that people with religion lack a sense of humour.

Serious Christians took the whole business to heart and debated with furrowed brows the merits of Jesus Christ Superstar or Jesus of Montreal.

But all is not well despite the record shattering profits from films and musicals or even the Bible publisher's successes.

If Jesus' death and resurrection is indeed the greatest story it must be having the least ever impact on the post-Christian Western society that is losing its religious way.

It is hard to say that the events of Jesus' Three Days this week make an impact on the bored affluence shuffling around in desperation to find an escape for the Easter Break . .

Other gods hold sway and rush into the vacuum.

The Palm Sunday peace gimmickry that legroped even Christians into storming after another favourite Jesus to shout Hosanna has vanished in pitiful tatters. They weren't telling Jesus' story; only looking for a Jesus with a quick political fix or a quick ride to political power and popular manipulation. That can't be done on the back of a donkey.

To a world becoming a touch uncomfortable with the Son of God being born to a Virgin for the salvation of mankind, the shoppers' Santa Claus and his money trail has become the new god and opium.

To a country that boasts 75 per cent of its people being believing Christians, the pain of Christ's death or the glory of His rising can be anaesthetised in the supermarket: Let us discover our deeper pagan roots, say the endless articles, and bow to a rabbit, to an egg, to a chocolate, but not to Jesus on a cross.

Get away from it all. Pray for real conversion, like better safety on the roads or fine weather at the resorts. Good times make it easier to forget.

Fulton Oursler forgot to warn us that we would stop telling the story no matter how great it was.

A good story has to be told by word of mouth, not just out of a book.

The story of Jesus' death and the disbelief of the disciples in His resurrection had to be told by one person to another. There were no books, no newspapers.

The story has to be told by those who have lived the story themselves. We have to live and die and rise like Christ, said Paul, or we have no story to tell Parents stop telling Jesus' story, their own story, to children. Teachers look feverishly for a book, or an egg, to get over their Easter embarrassment.

Adults fear telling each other: Jesus is risen.

The once chosen tribes are wandering aimlessly in the desert of life. False stories abound.

The Greatest Story desperately needs to be told, because it has been lived. . by those who are

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Pulling out the tube seems to be okay ETHICS BODY ON DIFFICULT QUESTION ST PAUL, Minn.

(CNS): A biomedical ethics commission of the Archdiocese of St Paul and Minneapolis, while opposing assisted suicide and euthanasia, says withdrawing a feeding tube from a permanently unconscious patient c an be morally permissible.

"The whole issue is a difficult question," said Archbishop Roach.

Citing the well-known case of Nany Cruzan, whose parents had taken their battle to stop her feeding to the US Supreme Court, as well as the current case of a woman whose father wants her moved for evaluation and perhaps removal of her feeding

tube.

"To regard decisions in cases such as this as absolute or easily arrived at, is to ignore the complexity of the moral issues," said the archbishop.

Praising the commission's statement, Archbishop Roach said it would not please those "who move comfortably with the notion of euthanasia" nor those "who feel that any concession made on the food and hydration question is, at least, the beginning of a slippery to leading slope euthanasia".

He said he had asked his biomedical ethics commission to draft a statement that would serve as a basis for teaching on the subject.

The commission responded with a statement that said, "Human dignity implies the sanctity and inviolability of innocent human life.

"Neither suicide nor euthanasia, even with the consent of the patient, can ever be an acceptable solution to a medical problem," it said.

"Euthanasia includes not only active mercy killing but also the omission of treatment when the purpose of the omission is to kill the patient," it said.

The Catholic statement called the assisted suicide of Janet Adkins, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease by retired Detroit pathologist Jac.k Kevorkian "a violation of the most

fundamental principles of medical ethics".

Initiatives to legalise physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia as have been proposed in California and Washington state "pose a grave danger for the future of our country", the statement said.

Respect for human life "also implies an obligation to sustain life by ordinary or proportionate means", it said.

"There is no obligation to use means which are excessively burdensome or relatively useless" for a particular patient, it said.

Some think that a feeding tube for totally and permanently unconscious patients is "useful and obligatory in

Theology essential in catholic university ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS): Theology is essential at a Catholic university and should be central and closely related to other fields of study, Jesuit Father Avery Dulles of Fordham University said.

"Theology should make an impact on other disciplines and it can benefit from other disciplines as well," Father Dulles said at Marymount University in a talk co-sponsored by the school and the Diocese of Arlington. For example, the achievements of the Renaissance could not be studied without some knowledge of Christianity, he said.

However, "the view of the centrality of theology is not accepted in all quarters of the world", Father Dulles explained. Critics of theology in Catholic universities object to the lack of academic freedom, inability to question authority and infringement upon the schools' autonomy.

The influence of secular pluralism has forced many major universities in the United States including Harvard, Columbia and Chicago "to abandon their original religious

such cases because it can sustain life indefinitely", the statement said.

"Others think that the feeding tube is not useful enough to be obligatory, since nothing can be done to restore the patient to consciousness," it said.

Both of these opinions, the statement said, "accept the inviolability of human life and the obligation to sustain life by suitable means. Both attempt to apply these principles conscientiously to a difficult case".

Withdrawing a feeding tube from a permanently unconscious patient "may plausibly be viewed as the withdrawal of disproportionate or extraordinary means", it said.

identity", he said. "Their original charters are forgotten memories."

Especially since the Second Vatican Council, some Catholic universities have shown signs they may follow the same route, Father Dulles said. He cited a rush by Catholic schools during the late 1960s and early 1970s to distance themselves from the Church.

But "theology deserves to be respected as a scholarly discipline", Father Dulles argued. He said parents and students have a right to expect Catholic theology to be taught at Catholic universities.

Such contact with theology benefits the university and the other disciplines and it would be reckless to erase it from Catholic teaching institutions today, he added.

"Academic freedom is not an absolute" at any university, since it often is restricted by such things as moral law and the common good, Father Dulles said. And the autonomy of the university is also subject to civil laws of the state, he added.

Cardinal's body Radio Doubts over blitz drug to go home shut VATICAN CITY (CNS): The body of Hungarian Cardinal lozsef Mindszenty, who died in Austria after being exiled by his country's communist government, will be returned to Hungary to the cathedral in Esztergom, where he served as

archbishop.

Last May the Hungargovernment ian annulled the life sentence given to the cardinal in 1949 after he was arrested on controversial charges of treason, espionage and illegal money changing.

He became a symbol of Catholic opposition to

communist repression after his arrest in the early days of Hungary's communist rule.

The cardinal was released from prison in 1955, but remained under house arrest. He was freed during the popular uprising of 1956 and was given asylum in the US Embassy in Budapest before Soviet troops crushed the revolt.

He remained in the embassy until 1971 when, after Vatican.

Hungarian negotiations, he was allowed to leave the country. He died in Vienna, Austria, in 1975.

M ANILA, Philippines (CNS): As the Philippines celebrates the fifth anniversary of the 1986 "people power" uprising, Radio Veritas, a major influence on the event, prepared to end its domestic service and put 25 employees out of work.

Auxiliary Bishop Buhain said a lack of funds and the need for more relevant broadcasting were behind the closing.

Since 1986, the station has struggled to survive in the new free media climate.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNS): Bolivia's Catholic Church has expressed strong doubts about the government's plan to employ the army to fight drug traffickers.

The Church said that the army's involvement "would lead directly to a conflict and internal division in the country as well as a high level of corruption in the armed forces".

The United States has been pressing for army deployment against traffickers in Bolivia and other countries along the Andean Mountains.

Colombia's army is fighting in the drug war, but Peru has rejected army involvement.

The Church, a number of Bolivian politicians and unions have strongly opposed employing the military in the drug war.

Critics, including members of Paz Zamora's party, say that army involvement will plunge Bolivia into the kind of violence that has plagued Colombia and could lead to massacres of peasant farmers.

Kids with AIDS in Zimbabwe 25-30 p.c. DIE FROM THE DISEASE HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNS): Between 25 and 30 per cent of all people who die from AIDS in Zimbabwe are children, said the country's leading Catholic bishop.

Archbishop Patric F Chakaipa of Harare, also said at least 9000 Zimbabweans had died of AIDS since 1985 and that 500,000 were infected by the disease's HIV virus.

There are no official figures for AIDS deaths in Zimbabwe, but Health Minister Timothy Stamps, who has led an AIDS awareness campaign since his appointment last year, says the disease is spreading rapidly.

Archbishop Chakaipa dismissed recent remarks by one parliamentarian that the church was doing little to help control AIDS. "As a church, we are working in our own way — quietly — to deal with this serious disease," he said.

Mission hospitals were adopting and caring for AIDS sufferers, some of whom had been thrown out of government health centres, he said.

During his trip to Africa last fall, Pope John Paul I I urged the international community to make "supreme effort" to help the continent's millions of AIDS victims.

The threat of the disease is so great, he said in a speech in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, that any indifference on the part of public officials, "condemnatory or discriminatory practices" towards AIDS victims or "self-interested rivalries" in the search for a cure should be considered "forms of collaboration in this terrible evil."

Later, Pope John Paul dontated $10,000 to AIDS wards he visited in Burundi.

Walesa: My remarks wrong WARSAW, Poland (CNS): Polish President Lech Walesa, reacting to public suspicions he is antiSemitic, apologised for remarks he made during his presidential campaign and said he blundered when he told a rally he was "clean" because he had no Jewish ancestors.

"I stumbled on this. I crashed into antiSemitism . . . Twice I gave clumsy answers," Walesa said before visiting Israel.

Asked if this was a confession of wrongdoing, he replied, "Right, right. It was just clumsi-

ness. I paid for using an unfortunate expression.I made jokes several times but only because I was sure nobody would accuse me of antiSemitism.

"But it seems nobody is sacrosanct. Every unfortunate move is counted against you," he said.

Walesa, a Catholic who became president in December, aroused suspicions that he shared the anti-Semitism attributed to many Poles with remarks he made during the presidential campaign.

Walsea denied heatedly that he was personally anti-Semitic and said

Polish anti-Semitism in to counteract the general resulted from "a prejudice. political game" rather The council will eduthan popular hatred of cate Polish youth on the Jews. issue and explain diffi"I have got quite a lot of culties of Polish-Jewish evidence that I have relations to the world. nothing to do with antiThe Polish bishops have Semitism," Walesa said. begun building their "Apart from anything own anti-prejudice camelse you know I am a paign, enlisting the aid of practicing Catholic. I American Jewish groups. attend Mass here every Poland had a centuriesday andItreat my beliefs old Jewish community of seriously.

Since becoming presi- 3.5 million, the biggest in dent, Walesa has taken Europe, before Nazi steps against anti- Germany destroyed it Semitism, pledging that after invading Poland in it will not be tolerated World War It under his rule and Only a few thousand inviting 20 leading intel- Jews remain after postlectuals to form a council war emigration, and a

she said.

Sister Eibl was captured during an attack by UNITA, the Portuguese acronym for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, in 1984. She had already completed 20 years as a missionary in the southern African country.

A member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Holy Savior, a French order, she was brought to UNITA headquarters at Jamba in the

south-eastern jungle and decided to offer her skills as a nurse specialising in maternity care for female soldiers.

"War is war," she said of her kidnapping with a small shrug. "They took me to the bush and since then I've been here.

"Why do I stay in this environment? Because I want to help my brothers and sisters. In this situation it is not necessary to make great sermons and preach-

Walsea's actions against anti-Semitism follow efforts of the Polish bishops, who in January condemned and apologised for the phenomenon in a letter read in churches.

The bishops explained at length that Jews should not be blamed collectively for the death of Jesus and made a rare admission that some Poles helped the Nazis kill Jews.

But Christians, only about three per cent of the Palestinian population, sometimes feel

pressure from the dominant Muslim community, they say.

Relations with Muslims are generally good, but there is concern about the rising profile of extremist Islamic groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas.

"We are facing two problems," said Father

John Sansour, an assistant to Latin-rite patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem.

"For Jews, Christians are backing the Arabs — so they are considered against Israel. For some Muslims, Christians are sometimes seen as part of the western world that supports Israel," he said.

ings," she said in an back to Germany twice, invterview at a UNTIA in 1965 and 1984, where base several hours' travel she was impressed by the from Jamba. modern medical facili"We have nurses, mid- ties. But she has no plans wives and doctors. Some- to return. times there is a shortage "We were already here of pills," she said, "but we when there wasn't a war, always have something to work with sick people. to offer."

Sister Eibl said she is Our missions were never frightened during always in the bush away bombings because the from the cities," said 16-year-old Angolan war Sister Eibl. has become part of her "I can help the people, life. and so of course I will She said she has been stay."

Rabbi David Rosen, coliaison to the Vatican for the Anti-Defamation League's of B'nai B'rith, said the Christian situation in the West Bank is "an extremely complex and rather unhappy one".

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Kidnapped nun who stayed back AT A REBEL BASE, Angola (CNS): A nun turns out to be a kidnap victim who chose to stay and take care of her captors — guerrillas fighting the Angolan government.

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New church opens BIG DAY AT QUEENS PARK The Year of Mission taught that the Church is made up of the people of the parish, Bishop Healy said at the opening of the new St Joseph's church at Queens Park.

"We are not just a church of bishops and abbots and priests and religious but a community of all those baptised and confirmed and nourished at the table of the Lord," he said.

The St Joseph's day ceremony was attended by the abbot general of the Premonstratensians, Most Rev Marcel Van de Ven, Abbot Kevin Smith of Kilnacrott Abbey from which the Premonstratensians at Queens Park and York were founded.

Referring to the long list of parishioners in the booklet, ceremonial Bishop Healy said: "It lists all the dignitaries but it also has a far longer list of parishioners this in involved celebration.

"People who represent the whole parish and their contribution to the building of this house of God. "The agony of planning and building and financing has been yours but so now is the celebration as

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shipped at Mount Gerizim, the Jews at Jerusalem, where should she worship God? "Jesus says that Jerusalem is the place to worship for the time being.

"However, that will all

be changed soon. Then true worship will centre not on a place but on the person of Jesus Himself.

"The believer comes to know the Father and to enter into a relationship with Him thro' Jesus and thro' the action of the

Holy Spirit in His life and in the life of the community that is the parish.

"You may be proud of your church and you have good reason to be proud. You may admire its many wonderful features and feel very

comfortable in its confines.

"What really matters, however, is that it attracts you and me to the words and the person of Christ and through Christ and the Holy Spirit to the Father of us all."

Top: The new St Joseph's church is the result of parishioner project manager Ben Bianchini using parish voluntary help including trades wherever possible and being able to shave an original estimate of $1.2 million down to a total cost of $960,000 for the construction whose licence was issued on March 19, 1990 for its official opening just one year later. Some 500 manhours are estimated to have been saved.

Above: St Joseph's is a priory church with special sanctuary seating for the Norbertine Canons. The sanctuary elements and baptismal font are in brown Italian marble. The tabernacle is an original 1962 gift to the Norbertines "Kerry Downs" monastery at York.

The Stations of the Cross were carved by Godfrey Bonavia, assisted by Wayne McGoorty and Jim Vincent. The figures were made from Jeiutong, not only because of its yellowish colour contrasting quite well with the jarrah board, but also the Indonesian timber represents the many immigrants that come to settle in Australia, which in turn is represented by the jarrah. The style is semi-conventional and semi-modern, starting with the Last Supper, while The Condemnation, is placed fourth. The Veronica is missing, the three falls are not there; the last station is not The Burial anymore, but The Resurrection.

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The Statue of St Norbert and that of Our Lady of the Assumption (above) are both made from solid Queensland ash, with a trim on the edge made from mahogany, as is the statue of St Joseph with the child Jesus in the niche.

Australia's Mary MacKillop

Step towards sainthood Mary MacKillop, Australia's first likely declared saint, had a faith that the world needs in 1991 says a promoter of her cause.

-Her faith had a vision of the world that the world does not have. It is what we need in 1991 as purveyors of the faith but who have no faith," said Jesuit Father Paul Gardiner.

He said that the death and soundness of her faith were even more striking to him than the public aspects of her life and her acts of charity which touched so many people.

"Her vision of things was quite unworldly yet she was mixed up every day in wordly affairs.

"It was a wonderful mixture and it grew on me," says the priest author who has compiled a 1800-page opus on Mary MacKillop that is soon to be studied in the next step towards declaring the Australian foundress a woman of heroic virtue.

Before picking up his pen, Fr Gardiner admits, he had only a "gentleman's knowledge" of the foundress of the Australian Sisters of St Joseph, "but as my knowledge grew, her personality, godliness and attractiveness emerged".

"If she sat in front of me now I would feel at home — perhaps rather ashamed. I would know how she thinks and she would not be hard on me."

His encounter with Mary MacKillop came after a career teaching philosophy in a seminary and in a curial position with the Jesuits in Rome.

When the WA born general superior Sr Elizabeth Murphy went in search of a potential author, the Jesuit provincial superior, Fr Paul Duffy, handed over the task to Fr Gardiner.

Father Gardiner had to pick up on work that had started in the 1920's but was suspended for 20 years.

After the cause of Mother Mary was introduced in Rome in 1973, further research was done by Father Aldo Rebeschini, a secetary to Cardinal James Knox, then in Rome.

All that needs to be done about Fr Gardiner's findings now is to get nine experts to meet at an agreed date to study his material, then a similar study by a group of cardinals follows and finally a recommendation to the pope that Mother Mary be recognised as a Venerable.

A proven miracle and other evidence will be needed for the further steps of beatification and canonisation.

Father Gardiner is philosophical about the time these things can take in Rome.

On the other hand, Pope John Paul is personally interested in the cause of Mary MacKillop because he is keen to see saints declared in places where there are none.

Mother Mary MacKillop. . . her faith had a vision of the world that the world does not have

Fr Gardiner

"He feels that Australia without a saint seems to lack something," Father Gardiner said.

Similarly Pope John Paul is likely to show a keen interest in the processes of Cardinal Newman because of the universal impact the English convert has had on many cultures and countries.

Asked if writing about Mary MacKillop meant reading hundreds of other lives of the saint, Fr Gardiner said he had taken a very different approach and his mentor in the Vatican had been pleased.

He is now trying to get his large official text down to a size where it can be published for popular readership.

As a Jesuit helper in the process, Fr Gardiner continues the link that Mother Mary had with a prominent Jesuit in Rome from whom she received much advice about spirituality and the exercise of authority in religious life.

Seeing Mother Mary raised to the Church's high ranks is not a matte' of national vanity or olympianship, says Fr Gardiner. "It is a matter of faith.

"She was predictable but in a lovely and not a boring sense. She had courage, tenacity, clear mindedness, intelligence and simplicity of style.

"She was not a complicated woman even though she got herself into complicated situations.

"She showed goodness to the high and low, to the gentry she met in England, to prostitutes and to little lads.

"If she had a predilection for kids with no shoes she was not trying to make a point of cultivating the poor so that she would not talk to the rich.

"She was thoroughly part of her time but brought a vision and interpretation of values which put the world apart.

"We need to study her mind, acquire her values and her vision of Christ in the world as a contradiction of wordly values."

Asked what sort of image he might like to see painted of Mother Mary. a traveller on horseback in her earlier days, Fr Gardiner said: "I'd like to see her on horseback, but I don't think we'd get away with that!"

Invasion of stable school Penola, South Australia, was invaded in force earlier this month and it didn't matter that the average age of the invaders was 80. They were the West Australian contingent of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart who were determined to do justice to St Joseph and to the 125th birthday of their congregation. The first ever such pilgrimage, organised by the local superior Sr Maria Casey, was to the stable school established in 1866 when Mother Mary was just 24 years old and which the WA veterans had never seen. But the 10 golden and three diamond jubilarians had been always close to their roots because as young women they lived with the pioneer sisters who had known Mother Mary.

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flame of the Easter candle and begin to pass the flame to others in the assembly, all of whom hold candles.

One by one, each person's candle is lit. The darkness begins to dissipate. Slowly, softly the Church becomes a glow with the light of 100 or more flickering candles.

The procession reaches the altar. Again the deacon intones, "Christ

A single voice rises from the back of the dark church. "Christ our light", the deacon sings as he lifts high the Easter candle, lit from the new fire. Its small flame quivers briefly, then grows strong.

"Thanks be to God," the

assembly responds. A procession of whiterobed ministers, led by the deacon carrying the candle, moves forward and stops in the middle of the Church.

"Christ our light," the deacon chants again, this time one pitch higher as he raises the candle.

Again the assembly voices its thanks to God. The ministers light their own candles from the

Few places are busier than a church sacristy just before the most important liturgy of the year begins on Holy Saturday night.

One Holy Saturday nearly 20 years ago, a pastor gathered together his Mass servers in the sacristy.

A pioneer in the liturgical renewal, he found an opportunity to teach in the midst of all the preparations.

"Now, boys, you know that Thelma jarowski has given a lot of time to decorating our Easter candles again this year and I think we need to understand her beautiful work," he would say as a prelude to his explanation of the rich symbolism which decorated the parish's paschal candle.

One of the servers, hung on Msgr. Hellriegel's every word. Now aged 29, he creates Easter candles for churches and chapels throughout New and the England Midwest.

"Things that I am now familiar with stem from being associated with Msgr. Hellriegel and Holy Cross Parish,"

explained Martin Marklin. "Monsignor was very good at explaining everything so that his parishioners understood every aspect of the liturgy," he added.

Circumstances were to lead Marklin and his entire family into an even deeper involvement with the Easter Vigil and its most prominent symbol.

One year, the immigrant couple who always had decorated the paschal candle for Holy Cross Parish no longer could maintain the tradition. That was when Marklin volunteered to try his hand at the craft.

"It was a mess," he recalled. "We finished the candle, but we knew there had to be an easier way." For the next three to four years, Marklin experimented with a technique called wax inlay.

With no formal training, he hand carves a design into a pillar candle. Marklin does not orders from eight or nine use paints or decals for other parishes. The the symbols and letter- entire Marian family ing. The displaced wax is became involved in the coloured and poured fledging enterprise. back into the grooved "It was a Trappist who design on the candle. saw the potential of this While perfecting his work and recognised that technique at Holy Cross, it was a ministry in the Marklin he began to receive Church,"

explained.

Marklin currently operates a studio in a 180year-old barn on the church's grounds. He crafts a variety of paschal candles.

"Each candle bears the mark of human hands and may take anywhere

between 30 three hours to Marklin explaii "The candle stands as the symbol of Chri rection, the fun tenet of the faith.

"As such, it

steps out of the past and wants us to bare our souls.

He was waiting.

"I'd like to think that I am," I replied. Andre gave a similar response.

In turn, James gave us a pamphlet on salvation.

He assured us that as long as we "acknowledge Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, the victory is already won" and we were in fact "saved".

"I see that 'I Love Jesus' button you're wearing," he said to me. I had forgotten about the pin on my leather jacket. "Be serious about it and you'll be all right, praise God," he added, inviting us to Easter sunrise service at his Church.

I asked about his brother, Eugene. He smiled and pointed to the man on the far corner with a loudspeaker

imploring passerk .to commit to Jesus inst.

Twins, indeed.

James moved otO3ur car was ready ail we headed home.

I felt as good as was disturbed abo the for whole experie James was a re rto me of what I, a Catholic, should "8 my — according unique gifts — to ess my own faith to'

He walked up to my husband and me that cold Holy Saturday evening, greeted us warmly, and asked, "Are you saved in Christ Jesus?"

His gaze was intent, unflinching. For a moment I was genuinely speechless. It dawned on me:Iknow this man!

one year ahead of me in my brother's class in grade school.

How impetuous those fair complexioned, curlyhaired brothers were, real heart-throbs even back then in 1955. James is his name.

Here Andre and I were, stranded at a gas station while waiting for a tyre repair. That section of Baltimore was rough enough. Now this man

our light", and again the answers, assembly "Thanks be to God".

The deacon places the candle on a stand in a prominent part of the sanctuary. "Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels! Exult, all creation around God's throne! Jesus Christ, our King is risen!" the deacon sings the opening words of the ancient Easter proclamation.

the Church's liturgical describes the symbolism year. this way: The candle itself is a "All the light comes rich symbol, engaging from (Christ). We pass it both our sense and our to one another; we imaginations. As the become a source of light Church moves from for each other and then darkness to light, the follow him together: candle recalls Christ's from darkness of death own passage from death into light of new life." to life — and the promise Although its origins are of our own. not entirely clear, the "Celebrating the Easter custom of using a candle Vigil" (Pueblo Publishing or lamp as a symbol of Co., New York, 1983) the Resurrection is

"Christ has corvred!

Glory fills you! DO mess vanishes forevet the proclamation cool ues.

The lighting 11 the paschal candle 4 the beginning of th aster Vigil, the su tuent illumination the Church as each candle is lit, the' rring chant proclaimik the Lord's resurrect*, all form one of till most powerful ceremgies in

recognised and under"If in my own way Ican stood by the faith com- help an assembly in munity. All too often, the worship by the beauty, designs are too small, too elegance or simplicity of complicated, too symbol- one of my candles, I laden." believe that this work is Marklin works to indeed a very meaningachieve simplicity and ful ministry." beauty in his work. "If a Marklin calls the weeks design is going to be leading up to Easter a zoo good," he said, "you have as he faces rush orders to start with something and an occasional broken and rework it until you item. At any rate, the can finally say that it is reward comes through. done."

At an Easter Vigil these While Marklin says he days, Marklin does not does not undergo any find himself in the intense spiritual prepa- sacristy. rations for his work like Instead he waits anxother church artisans iously in the nave of the such as icon painters, he Church for the start of feels his work is nonethe- the liturgy. less imbued with his own He says he's gratified to spirituality and input one of his candles see from various priests. in a worship used And his work reflects a service. strong commitment to the church's liturgical "Few things give me guidelines. such pride as seeing a "Basically, the Church candle (of mine) brought guidelines call for liturgi- down the aisle in the cal art to be authentic, entrance procession as beautiful and of good the Exultat is being quality," Marklin stated. sung," he beamed. "I also "I have adopted these like to sit back and see people look more closely principles personally."

Echoing his early men- at the work." tor, Marklin said: "The Marklin has furnished paschal candle can be the paschal candles used as an educational which will glow in a vehicle. You can use the warm witness to the symbols on the candle as risen Christ for several a means of instructing hundred churches this the assembly.

Iwondered if I'd ever be as intense, as on fire, as James was. I wanted to know what makes a person that way. Whatever it was it was in control of him.

I would not see James and Eugene again for well over another year.

But during that time,

much would happen to further challenge my faith.

When my doctor told me last spring that I needed major surgery to remove tumours, I started relishing each day.

I also turned to prayer asInever had before, and to prayerful people such as my friend Joan Briscoe of Landover, Md.

ancient, said Father John Gurrieri, secretary of the U.S. Bishops' liturgy committee.

Most likely, the blessing of the light stems from the Jewish practice of blessing the Sabbath lamps or candles, Father Gurrieri said. The early Christians probably adapted this custom, as they did many others, using lighted lamps to represent the risen Lord.

By the mid-fourth century, there are records which indicate the Christians in Jerusalem would carry fire in procession from the Holy Sepulchre to the Church at the start of their weekly Saturday vigils, Father Gurrieri said.

In the fourth and fifth centuries, the blessing of the paschal candle could be found in Africa, Spain, Gaul and Italy, he indi-

cated, although there is no evidence that the papal liturgy included the rite before the 11th or 12th century.

In Roman Catholic liturgical practice, the Easter candle remains lighted at Mass throughout the 50-day Easter season. It is also lighted at baptisms and funerals, to symbolise our baptism into the death and resurrection of Christ .

Awkwtotoft ,

One day Joan confided that she felt most Catholics simply weren't sharing their faith enough.

Messiah, but that still didn't keep them from failing Christ even with him in their midst every day," she added.

I thought of Peter's denials, the apostles falling asleep in the garden, Judas' betrayal.

"The Catholic Church today in many respects is like the apostles were when they walked with Jesus," she told me two days before my sche"The Church needs to duled surgery. be more like the apostles "They were good men were after the Holy Spirit who were sincere in their came," Joan stressed. "It belief of Jesus as the was then that they boldly

went forth and began "Then there appeared preaching." in them tongues as of fire, which parted and came It was a magnificent to rest on each one of contrast, I had to agree, them. And they were all recalling Acts 2:1-4: filled with the Holy Spirit "When the time of and began to speak in Pentecost was fulfilled, different tongues, as the they were all in one place Spirit enabled them to together. And suddenly proclaim." there came from the sky Those were key words: a noise like a strong "driving wind", "filled", driving wind, and it filled "enabled". And this same the entire house in Spirit will empower each which they were. one of us if we open our

hearts to it.

I went into surgery in August feeling so enthused that it is no wonder that all went so well.

Two weeks before Ash Wednesday this year, I saw James again. True to form, he and Eugene were evangelising at another intersection known for its drug traffic.

He said he is "compelled" to always do this.

Faith alive in Rockingham

Rockingham parish council president Mike Broderick needed plenty of sustenance for the parish mission he and his council had organised.

Redemptorist missioner Father Pat Kearney with parish council vice president Maureen Birchenall.

NEAR CAPACITY CROWDS AT OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH MISSION HELD IN EARLY MARCH ,

By Sonia Faccin

Rockingham's Our Lady of Lourdes parish mission organised by the parish council, attracted almost capacity crowds to the Church between March 2-10.

Council president Mike Broderick and vicepresident Maureen Birchenall devoted more than six months to the preparaton for the mission which was given the full blessing of parish priest Fr Finbar Walsh.

Mr Broderick said their intention was to welcome back lapsed catholics and create a deeper understanding of the catholic faith for all.

This was done through a series of guest speakers and celebrants at the daily masses.

"The mission was not a message of fire and brimstone but events to re-inforce people's selfimportance, love and forgiveness," Mr Broderick said.

"Each day's speaker was individually selected on the way they could convey their particular message to people.

Alive in Faith, the mission's theme, was highlighted throughout the opening Mass celebrated by Monsignor Michael Keating of Highgate.

He emphasised the family relationship within the Church and

Rockingham pastor Fr Finbarr Walsh. affirmed that no-one was a stranger "We are all brothers and sisters — some of whom we have not yet met".

Carmelite father Fr Frank Shortis continued on the relevance of Christ in contemporary society during Monday's Mass when he spoke on 'Christ our leader in today's world'.

The Church's views on marriage, sexuality and the family were highlighted by medical ethics advisor to the archdio-

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cese Fr Walter Black on Tuesday.

Fr Black developed aspects of being "selfgiving, love-giving, lifegiving and forgiving".

During the organisation of the mission each parish group was invited to participate, in all aspects of the Mass, from serving tea and coffee, to Church decorations and the offer to try procession, Mrs Birchenall said.

The children had a special Mass celebrated by former local priest Fr

Rockinham parishioner Ann Beard.

John Orzanski who led the children through a self-examination of their faith.

The mystery of the priesthood was examined by Tardun parish priest Fr Ray Nevem and Our Lady was honoured

by Fremantle parish priest Fr Frank Hannah during Friday's mass.

The mission concluded appropriately on the theme New People, New Life, a term beloved by the late Archbishop William Foley who had

accepted an invitation to celebrate the mass shortly before his death.

For that finale Redemptorist Father Pat Kerney stepped in to welcome Rockingham parishioners into their new dimension of faith. He examined the understanding of faith and the realities of God as love and forigveness.

To illustrate the mission's objective to encourage lapsed cathol-

ics back to the Church, a unique reconciliation ceremony was held on Saturday by Sister Marie-Therese Ryder of Our Lady of Missions Maylands.

"We chase a woman to conduct the reconciliation paraliturgy because the gifts of loving, caring and forgiveness are feminine attributes," Mrs Birchenall said.

The mission resulted in a series of follow-up seminars and faith development programs ow-

nised by the parish council.

"We're hopeful that having done something that has brought people together we will be able to keep them," Mr Broderick said.

The fellowship and special friendships developed during the mission were reinforced on Sunday with a social barbeque luncheon, to celebrate the parishioners' journey towards becoming new people with a new life.

It's home at last

This amazingly well preserved Hungarian Sisters trio of Sisters Maria Remigia Kovacs (80), Maria Lidvina Konig (87) and Maria Gertrudis Schmidt (78) are leaving after almost 40 years in their adopted Perth to return to their motherland. They will be remembered with much affection and gratitude for all their good works to the people of Perth and the Hungarian community.

Peace (now in her 90's) for the last seven years, and in retirement at 54 Hamersley Road, Subiaco, are the remainig three — Sisters Maria Remigia Kovacs, 80, Maria Lidvina Konig 87, and Maria Gertrudis Schmidt, 78.

Primarily a teaching order, owing to their inadequate English, the sisters worked at Clontarf and Castledare in the dining rooms of boys and brothers and took care of In one sense, The Poor the sick boys.

Sisters of Our Lady, Then in December 1952 popularly known as the they opened a convent, Hungarian Sister, have Marianum, at 14 Heytsbeen an enormous asset bury Road, Subiaco with to the communists in the intention of running Hungary and China. a creche and a kinderHaving built up exten- garten for the Hungarian sive property holdings in community and teaching both instances, they were music. moved on with their Then later they opened property confiscated by up Marianum as a rest the `take over experts' home for 23 elderly who consider it a wond- ladies. However age erful way to get consider- ultimately forced the able assets, for nothing. sisters to close it and Foolishly however, they retire. lost out on a driving force The four have now been whose only intent was to asked by their superior in help the inhabitants of Hungary, to return and that country. so Perth will farewell However, if 'helping these good sisters on April 9, thanking them others' isn't on your list for the 40 years dediof government endeacated service they have vours, then who cares?! given through the long Such were the cases in years, especially to the point. Democracy thinks ungarian people.

H with a different and from the beginStarting Christian oriented menning, their order was tality which is meaningfounded in France in less and worthless to ruthless atheists.

1592 and flourished, extending itself to GerHaving said that, their many, Czechoslovakia great loss was our gain. and Hungary in 1860 Because when the forwith 1000 sisters teacheign religious were in 65 convents by ing finally expelled from 1945.

China in 1951/1952, Their aim was to serve Archbishop Prendiville God in schools, orphaninvited the Hungarian ages, homes for the aged Sisters here and Perth and medical clinics. welcomed 18 of them.

In 1926 the sisters Out of that original moved into China before number forty years ago, four remain. Sister Maria their expulsion in 1951 and 1952.

Ulrikeo Eichinger has been in the Home of In Kalocsa, Hungary,

the mother house was established along with a high novitiate, convent and educational facilities from kindergarten right through to teachers' college plus a big boarding school.

Around 1948 the communists threw them out and took control of their facilities, only allowing them to keep a girls' college in Budapest.

They would not let the sisters congregate or live together so they were dispersed throughout Hungary and other countries.

Some returned home to their family homes (the same situation exists today in Hungary), and went to work from there.

They were forbidden to wear their habits or to teach religion and although the state didn't forbid them from attending Mass or praying, if they were caught doing so and had a government job of any kind, they were sacked.

So the church went underground to an extent and baptisms and marriages within the church took place in secret.

Even mothers praying with the children at home, had to warn their children to deny it when questioned by teachers at other and school authorities.

As a result of this persecution, said Sister Kovacs, a whole generation has grown up without any knowledge of God or even His existence.

The repercussion of this, is that there only two vocations outside China.

With the communist takeover, all religious orders were persecuted and the only ones allowed to remain were

those who signed a government paper relinquishing all control over their orders and giving autonomy to the state.

They then decided how many postulants they were allowed to have and so on.

Today the status quo largely remains unchanged in as much as the communists still retain the sisters' property and even at the girls' boarding school in Budapest, only a few are allowed to live there together.

In any event, when the Perth sisters return, (with Sister Ulrikeo going into a nursing home), they will go to Budapest but uniting the sisters in one congregation is not only frowned upon by the state but also impractical because they have no way of sustaining themselves with the confiscation of their property.

Currently one is still not allowed to practice their religion and keep their job! and some of the Hungarian Sisters teach in schools, work in offices (in civilian dress), with a few sisters being invited into some parishes by priests where they work and are supported by the parish.

In China, the set up there is designed to kill Catholicism," but this can never be. They'll never achieve that!" said Sister Kovacs.

Sister Kovacs and Konig left for China from Hungary in their mid twenties during the thirties with Sister Schmidt arriving in 1948 and being expelled in 1952.

They had a big and industrious complex at Tamingfu which boasted a very big convent and where they ran goats, pigs, cows, and donkeys

for turning the grinding They confiscated the stone for grinding wheat sister's valuable property for flour. and expelled them from They had a big garden that province. So the and ran a kindergarten sisters moved on to other through to a teacher's provinces where the college with 20 Chinese communists were not and where they were teachers employed.

The sisters taught cate- welcome.

However the commuchists who then went into the parishes to help nists' tentacles reached out, and all over, until the priest.

Sister Kovacs used to they had taken the whole teach, Sister Konig of China which meant turned out culinary the final expulsion of all delights in the kitchen! foreign religious in 1952.

When the Hungarian and Sister Schmidt Sisters left, the commutaught the novices.

These three sisters nists would not allow Chinese born sisters to speak Mandarin. leave.

During her years there, They also had to disSister Rovacs was being expelled perse, responsible for the contheir convent, and from version of 3000 Catholics, and there would have were not allowed to wear been many more she their habits or practice said, but the system is their religion.

But despite the rigours designed to prevent it as and secrecy imposed, much as possible.

For example in China, sisters were trained for betrothals take place the sisterhood and prowhen a boy and girl are fessed in secret.

Today only three of the small children.

Chinese sisters original If when the girl matures into a young woman and remain, but there are wishes to become a altogether 20 sisters and Catholic, she has to ask eight postulants.

They too, like their permission from her Hungarian sisters are betrothed's parents.

If they refuse, then she forced to wear civilian cannot be baptised. If dress and go out to work they agree, and he also like any other Chinese a women, and are only doesn't become Catholic, then she is not allowed to attend Mass allowed to practice her once a month.

In Hungary there are religion after marriage or raise the children as only 104 sisters left in a religiously arid country, Catholics.

In one case, the young with one sister in Canwoman wanted to ada, 16 in Germany and become a Catholic sister, three sisters in Rome at and as she was betrothed, St Stephen's Pilgrim sought permission from house.

Communism has deciher betrothed's parents mated this order which to negate her betrothal. just before the commuIn this case they agreed, nist take-overs had 1200 because she didn't have sistes. But although they good health and they may have wreaked havoc didn't want her. with their numbers, it The communists then hasn't succeeded in snufmoved into China in fing them out, because 1951 and took it over the flame still burns. province by province.

Sister Kovacs returned

to her two sisters, a brother and other relatives, Sister Konig to a sister (who is a sister of the same order), a brother who is a brother at Fatima, and Sister Schmidt to a sister (who is a sister), a priest and two brother nephews who are priests. parish Expressing regret at their departure after so many years, Shenton Park parish priest Father Pat Holmes said the sisters have been a wonderful example of Christian service in the parish over the last 40 years through their care of the elderly at their nursing home in Subiaco.

"They have been benefactors of St Aloysius parish and both myself an the parishioners saw them as a living example of their religous life and the church of former years."

Many people will remember them with affection, he said because of the way they still wore their habit.

Stating what a great help they've been to the priest and laity alike, Father Holmes said they've also been a marvellous rallying point for the Hungarian community in Perth.

"Especially after the Hungarian uprising in 1956 which saw many people flee Hungary and come to Australia."

During the late Cardinal Mindzenty's visit to Perth, said Father Holmes, he dined with the sisters.

Regretting their loss, Father Holmes said the Hungarian Sisters will be remembered with much affection and gratitude for the benefactors they were and the help they gave.

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I wish to be with you in THANKS eternal glory. Thank you for To our Lady of Czestochowa your mercy towards me and Sacred Heart of Jesus and mine. This prayer must be Mary Blessed Virgin of the said for three days after Revelation, St Jude, Antonius, which the favour will be Martha, Clam, Theresa, All granted. The prayer must be Saints, St Faustin. Please hear published immediately. Our our prayers and he as in our grateful thanks most Sacred very finà case, we need Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of your he urgent, you are our Revelation, St Jude and St only hope. We promise Teresa for your constant help. publication and thanks. B. H.Y.

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me see everything and who show me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift to forgive and forget all that is done to me, and who are in all the instances of my life with me. I want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. This prayer said on 3 consecutive days with only one request will be granted.

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Thanks, LP. Special thanks to Saint Joseph, the very powerful intercessor for favours granted. KZ. A prayer to the Blessed Virgin never found to fail to be said daily till your request is granted. 0 most beautiful Flower of Mount Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendour of Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist me in this my necessity. 0 Star of the Sea, help me, and show me herein you ,1: : ,c are my Mother. 0 Holy Mary, Mother of Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succour me in this necessity; there are none that can withstand your power. 0 show me herein you are my Mother; 0 Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee. (3 times). Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hands. (3 times).

0 Holy Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You gave me the divine gift to forgive and forget all evil against me and that in all instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be separated from you ever in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy toward me and mine. Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St Joseph, St Anthony and Little Flower.

M.W. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, hear our prayer. St Jude worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day. By the eighth day your prayers will be answered. Say it for nine days, it has never been known to fail. Publication must be promised. Thank you St Jude. NY. Our heartfelt thanks to Sacred Heart, Our Lady of the Revelation, St Jude and St Clare for favours received.

Please continue to hear our prayer. J. & T. Thanks JMJ and Infant of Prague and St Anthony for answering my prayers. Kathleen Sincere and grateful thanks St Jude for favours granted.

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from George COLLOPY, Rossmoyne Sir, To Brian Peachy (The Record, March 21) re Mary Jo Meadows — the Whiteheads and the so-called dangers in Meditation say firstly that we must always be respectful of the person or persons involved in any conflict, and our differences need to be directed at the subject matter only and not at the person.

Whatever the shortcomings (and we all have them) in the philosophy of Mary Jo and the Whiteheads we must admit that they are very genuine and dedicated people and worthy of our respect.

Quite a number of

points put forward by them are worthy of deep thought and could well be taken into our thinking where and as appropriate.

All of us are on a journey and none of us including the Church have all the answers.

It is good for us to listen to the way other people think and to hold their views in respect even if we are not in agreement.

The difference I see between other forms of meditation and "Christian" meditation, in the form promoted by the late Father John Main and others is that in Christian meditation we prepare ourselves in the first instance, to be at peace with ourselves, so that

we are capable of appreciating the peace of the Godhead within us.

Every morning and evening of every day of our life we offer this 2030 minutes of "quiet time" to God as an act of love.

Our minds remain alert but silent. We endeavour to keep out distractions of any kind. We allow the Holy Spirit to pray within us. It is simple but not easy.

Anyone wishing to know more about this beautiful story of Christian meditation will find it all very simply explained in Father John Main's books and tapes which are readily available at any Catholic book shop, or by attending introductory sessions at the St Mary's Cathedral Parish Centre, 450 Hay Street, Perth, on the four Saturdays of April 6, 13, 20 and 27, from 2pm to 4pm.

We do not look for anything in return for this

Be in it! I promise you will never regret it.

It is trying to die to ourselves — to quieten our ego by putting out of our mind all thoughts put there by our ego, even good thoughts.

T HE PARISH SCENE LEEUWIN MASS & BLESSING The annual Mass and blessing of the vintage which will be held again this year on Easter Sunday, March 31 with Fr Leon Russell as celebrant and music supplied by members of the Bethel Covenant Community's Singing Ministries group.

Leeuwin Estate this year hosted the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra who performed a Concert of their own Anton Dvorak's music to a crowd of almost 5000.

The Mass and thanksgiving will be held on the lawns in front of the winery at 11.30am and anyone in the district is welcome to participate in the ceremony and also to utilise the barbeque and picnic facilities afterwards.

One collection will be taken and this will be offered to Fr Kevin Glover who has now left the Margaret River district to take up missionary wori( in the Cook Islands.

MUNSTER FETE A fete will be held on Sunday, April 7, between llam-4pm at St Jerome's school grounds, Troode Street, Munster.

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quiet prayer — Our Father knows our needs.

If the devil tries to worm his way in he is dealt with like any other distraction — and try he will.

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BUNBURY RETREAT Bunbury Diocese's annual retreat for acolytes and special ministers attracted 85 people from all over the South West.

The theme of the retreat was "Journey", given by Sister Elizabeth Devine RSM who reflected on the special people and events which had shaped and directed our lives. There was also a Time of Quiet to thank God for each unique journey.

BUSSELTON PILGRIMAGE

The annual Marian pilgrimage will take place on Sunday, May 5 with Mass at 1.30pm — followed by Rosary procession and Benediction.

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Archdiocesan Calendar APRIL Catholic Teachers' Mass, Boulder 6 — Bishop Healy.

Invest of Knights of Holy Sepulchre in St Mary's Cathedral — Monsignor Keating.

7 Open extensions St Mary's School, Kalgoodie — Bishop Healy.

Legion of Mary Acies, St Mary's Cathedral — Monsignor S O'Shea.

13 Ordination to Priesthood Martin Rostenbem at Queens Park --Bishop Healy.

GROUP FIFTY PRAYER GROUP Reclemptorist Monastery, North Perth.

Mass and healing service, normally held on first Thursday in each month, will be held on second Thursday of April, May, June.

TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Work priority for youth Work opportunities for young people must be a priority in Australia today, according to Melbourne priest Father Denis Sheehan, national chaplain to the Young Christian Workers Movement, who recently concluded a visit to Western Australia.

National YCW chaplain Father Denis Sheehan, who left Perth last week after his visit to WA.

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Current figures show that nearly 25% of those under 21 are registered with the C.E.S. as being unemployed.

Many more in this age bracket have returned to school rather than face the dole queues or take on some form of unsatisfying work.

"Work provides an essential opportunity for friendship and purpose in life, especially for young people," Fr Sheehan said.

"The changing work situation in Australia could mean that these unemployment figures become 'acceptable'. This must not happen.

"The resources of our society, and this includes the Church. should be made available to school leavers," he said.

"We have to make a choice to support young

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"The aim of the festival the Church as a whole the YCW around Austraworkers." i s to celebrate the dignity has an interest in young lia, saying that dates had During his visit, Fr Sheehan also promoted a of young workers, people at a crucial time not yet been set for his next trip to the West. national festival for including the unem- in their lives.

"I would hope that young workers to be held ployed," Fr Sheehan said, In other YCW news, it in Adelaide from "and to represent the every parish could have was announced recently November 25 to issues and concerns such a community or that the opening of the affecting young people in leaven among young International Council December 1 this year. workers and the unem- meeting, the rirst ever to The gathering is for all Australia today." ployed in their area," Fr be held in Australia, The festival is open to school leavers — workwould also be the occaing, unemployed or ter- all, and further enquiries Sheehan concluded.

The national chaplain sion of a national reuntiary students —and will can be directed to Fay coincide with the Inter- Gasper at the YCW office left Perth last Saturday to ion of former members of continue his work with the YCW and NCGM. national Council of the in North Perth.

Christian Reflecting on his visit to Young Movement Perth, Fr Sheehan said Workers being held at Aquinas that current parish YCW College in Adelaide, groups are like small expected to attract up to communities of the lay 130 delegates from apostolate movement for around the world. young workers.

25 NOVEMBER — 1DECEMBER close build groups "The (The YCW was recently in Adelaide, S.A. granted provisional sta- friendship and a social and together, life tus as an International A national gathering of young Catholic Organisation by through their contact workers, unemployed, students. with friends they attract the Apostolic See.) Fr them," to join others Meet young workers from The young workers' festival has been orga- Sheehan said. around the world!

"To attract others, the nised to celebrate 50 Cost: Just $120 years of the YCW in leaders often visit other (Includes Accomodation, excludes travel Australia, and the cente- young people in the parish and gradually to andfrom Adelaide) nary of Pope Leo watershed encyclical develop a sense of misBookings close April 30 Novarum", sion to school leavers," he "Rerum said.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 13 St Mary's (Aranmore) Hall Cnr Franklin & Oxford Sts, Leederville 7.30pm — 12 midnight Tapes, photos, T-shirts and windcheaters ordered during the conference will be available for collection.

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20 day tour ex Sydney August 6-25, 1991 Visiting Poland for the world gathering of youth with Pope John Paul II at Czestochowa, plus Vienna, Venice, Assisi and Rome.

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Jesus

our light in the Saintly Bede darkness

Alleluia!

Jesus is alive

Fireman Sam Fireman Sam, wellknown hero to millions of children world-wide will be in Perth soon for the Australian premiere.

From last Wednesday Fireman Sam and his crazy friends from Pontypandy will be on stage at His Majesty's Theatre for a series of daytime shows until April 27.

Fireman Sam to the Rescue is a spectacular show for children based on the award winning BBC TV series. It was voted the most popular children's stage show in the UK in 1990.

In this action packed and hilarious production you'll meet nosey Dilys Price and her naughty son Norman.

Fireman Sam and his fire fighting friends Station Officer Steel, Elvis Cridlington and Trevor Evans along with Bella Lasagne, the twins Sarah and James and the station's famous fire engine Jupiter.

Tremendous heroics, loads of songs, lots of laughs — for Mum and Dad as well.

The show runs for 90 minutes and is ideal for children from 2 to 8 years of age.

Fire safety information designed for West Australia conditions and easily understood by young children is included in the show. But above all, Fireman Sam to the Rescue is terrific fun.

This lavish production incorporates special staging effects, full theatrical lighting, live music, bouncy songs and a marvellous working fire engine.

Fireman Sam to the Rescue will commence its national tour in Perth, will be cast here and the marvellous sets created in the Performing Arts Workshop in Belmont. British writer/director Charles Savage is in Perth to direct the Australian production.

A top quality chidren's entertainment is a rare find and Fireman Sam to the Rescue fits the bill!

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Whenever we jot down a date and add A.D., we might think of the Venerable Bede. He was the first to begin dating events in relation to Jesus Christ, "Anno Domini," which means "in the year of the Lord".

Bede was born about 672 in northern England close to Sts Peter and Paul monastery. The monastery, with its twin houses at Wearmouth and Jarrow soon became Bede's home. His parents placed him there while still a young child to be educated by the monks.

Except for a few visits to other English monasteries, Bede lived at Jarrow until he died there about 735 A.D. Bede was liked by his brother monks and his many students for his joyful disposition. The centre of his life was what the monks called "God's work", the praying of the psalms together several hours a day in the chapel.

Bede admired the manual work of the other monks — farming, cooking, building, copying manuscripts. But his own work was to study, write and teach. Luckily the monastery at Wearmouth-Jarrow had the best library in England.

This was long before there were books as we know them. Manuscripts had to be copied by hand, letter by letter.

Bede spent his days in a rhythm of prayer, study, teaching and writing. He learned Latin and Greek and some Hebrew so he could read ancient

manuscripts. He shared what he learned with the world through his writings.

Bede delved into every area of knowledge available to him. One thing that interested him was how to date events. He helped the Church settle on a date for Easter and other feasts.

His writings helped create and shape the English language. His books on the Bible helped educate priests and scholars throughout the Middle Ages.

Perhaps Bede's most important work was as a historian. He wrote an ecclesiastical history of England up to his own time. In it he traced the Church's missionary activity in England and the critical role the Church played in England's development.

Bede set new standards of honesty and accuracy in historical writing. He also recognised the importance of historical events in God's plan. He showed how the decisions and actions of individuals affect the course of history.

Bede's study of the Bible and history deepened his faith that God is acting in life's changing challenges and in what people do as they face them.

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This Easter spiritual experience of "unity in diversity through inculturation" has been shared as a reminder of the forthcoming Convention on Multiculturalism and the Catholic Church in WA (May 14-16, 1991 at the Catholic Education Centre in Leederville, Ruslip St).

The Risen Christ is the Christ of Pentecost, the moment of the Church's opening to all nations and people.

This can be our Easter spiritual experience too at the Convention.

Pope John Paul II, in Redemptoris Missio 52, said: "Through inculturation the Church makes the Gospel incarnate in different cultures and at the same time introduces peoples, together wih their cultdres, into her own community. (. . . )Through inculturation the Church, for her part,

becomes a more intelligible sign of what she is, and a more effective instrument of Mission."

Through Chaos to Prophecy It is Easter, a time of Resurrection.

Ilook around to see the new creation, to touch in wonder the inner ontological change — not a false blunder! — of people's interacting gage.

Multi-racial and multi-cultural is my society today: tensions of death, so unnatural, Ifeelfrom within, with dismay.

0 Christ of the Resurrection, are you the new man that has come with inculturation to bring a new plan?

An empty tomb is not resurrection: silent doom of human invention!

Iask myseIf, in this day of glory, what be the difference for our human story, for the simple man walking my land, for the one refused while stretching his hand.

Can we find a cultural matrix the differences to disband?

Will your new creation suffice the hurts andfailures to amend?

Resurrection is new life snd inculturation not a strife.

Out of our tomb we all must come 'nd of our hearts the defences overcome.

It is all about sharing and trust, andfor a new world this is a must: the pain of Calvary and Good Friday is the necessity of Easter Sunday I dream of Easter as a caring community, where from refusals there is

Idream of the Spirit's dynamic force that will transform the stubborn horse.

A feeling communityIdream, with open hands and heart: a community full of beam, resurrected, in guard.

Yes, for a healing communityIlong to which with joyIwant to belong: healing the faults, limitations and pain, so that my journey to unity is not in vain.

Iknow only dreams this longing 'll not be: the inner power, from which life streams, my Risen Christ — today — will be.

This is why this Faster is very special: inculturation will avoid racial tension, because we love one another and mutual knowledge to have we bother.

May the isolation's empty tomb be a reality of the past.

May Faster resurrection bloom into our lives very fast.

Fragmented community, alienated, chronic temptation of loneliness: let the Risen Power heal the wounds.

Broken Family — both fragmented and Christian? — relationships of emptiness: let the Unified Christ mend the glooms.

Then through the chaos of indignant mocking the prophecy will rise of loving flocking: from bitter death and barren wood the Tree of Life will hear the fruit.

— Dino Torresan

An ancient Slavonic legend immunity:

By Janaan Manternach

One Easter Sunday morning, just after Mass, more than 1,000 years ago, the townsfolk gathered around a visiting storyteller in the square of an old Slavonic village.

The wise storyteller knew the people were struggling with their new faith in Jesus Christ.

Their parents and grandparents had taught them to worship the great god Svetovit and all the gods and goddesses of the Slav peoples.

So the storyteller told the people a story that still is told.

"On the first Easter Sunday morning, a flash of light pierced the darkness that covered the earth. Jesus Christ stepped out of his stonesealed tomb, full of new life.

"All the gods and goddesses watched with awe as the risen Christ grew with every step. He soon towered over the trees. Minutes later, his head appeared over the mountains.

"They eagerly followed the risen one until he led them here to our land."

The storyteller paused and took a deep breath.

The people waited in the deepest silence for his next words.

"The risen Christ stood tall, his feet resting on the peaks of two great mountains. The gods we used to worship, the gods and goddesses of the Slays, challenged him.

"I send crackling lightning bolts through the skies,' boasted the mighty god of thunder.

—I shower life-giving hands and feet embraced waters down on the the four corners of the thirsting earth,' said the earth. His head and gentle goddess of rain shoulders broke through the lofty clouds. and snow.

"His thorn crown fell —I light the days and warm the earth,' the sun through the clouds to the earth. In its place a lush, god bragged. green rain forest grew "And you, Christ Jesus,' up. Streams of milk and challenged Svetovit, the honey flowed from the greatest god, 'what can nail wounds in his hands you do? No human ever and feet onto the barren crucified one of us.' deserts until flowers poked up through the "Jesus said not a word. sands.

But as the gods and "Rays from his pierced goddesses of old looked on, he began once more side gave new light to to grow. Slowly his blinded eyes and new

warmth to chilled hearts.

"He raised his hands in blessing over all people and things. Warriors put down their swords and Weak embraced. humans found new strength.

"The mutes and the deaf heard their song, to which those crippled danced. Tears gave way to smiles.

"Then sun and moon, plants and trees, animals and birds, humans old and young sang out: 'Our Lord lives! Christ is

Special quiz for you at Easter Here's a little quiz for Easter, spend a few minutes with it, testing your biblical recall. Then, for some extra help, open a Bible to the Gospel of Luke. Read from Chapter 23, verse 50 to Chapter 24, verse 53.

1. Who took Jesus' body down from the cross and buried it? (a) Joseph of Arimathea (b) Mary, the mot)ter of Jesus (c) Peter (d) The women had followed Jesus from Galilee.

2. Who granted permission to bury Jesus? (a) Pilate (b) Herod (c) The Sanhedrin (d) No permission was sought because none was needed.

3. Who did the women find at the tomb on Easter morning? (a) Two men in dazzling apparel (b) Jesus, disguised as a gardner (c) John, who had just beaten Peter in a race to the tomb (d) No one, the tomb was empty.

4. How did the women react? (a) They were perplexed and frightened (b) They were filled with exceeding great joy (c) They returned immediately to tell the disciples the tomb was empty (d) They sang a hymn of praise to God. 16 The Record, March 28, 1991

(c) Matthew 5. When the women told the apostles what (a) Simon (d) Nathaniel (b) John they had seen: (a) The apostles thought it was an idle tale and 10. When Jesus appeared to the disciples in did not believe them a group they: (b) They were filled with exceeding great joy (a) Were startled and frightened (c) They sang a hymn of praise to God (b) Sang a hymn of praise to God (d) They were perplexed and frightened. (c) Discussed among themselves who this might 6. Luke records the account of the disciples be (d) Fell to the floor and bowed their heads. of Emmaus. Where is Emmaus?

11. Jesus tries to convince the disciples that it (a) About seven miles from Jerusalem is truly he by: (b) It is a suburb of Nazareth (a) Telling them to touch him (c) In Samaria (b) Singing their favourite psalm with them (d) On the Dead Sea (c) Praying with them 7. The disciples of Emmaus had visited the (d) Quoting Scripture to them. empty tomb before they decided to return 12. Jesus even ate something to try to convince home? them that he was alive. What did he eat? (a) True (a) Broiled fish (c) An egg (b) False (b) Bread (d) Olives 8. When did the disciples of Emmaus 13. What did Jsus command the disciples to recognise their walking companion as Jesus? do? (a) When he was at table with them, took bread, (a) Stay in Jerusalem blessed it, broke it and gave it to them (b) Immediately when he joined them on the (b) Preach the news of his resurrection in Galilee road (c) Go to the temple and pray (c) After Jesus vanished from their sight (d) Tell Pilate that he had risen from the dead. (d) After the Holy Spirit descended upon them 14. After the resurrection, the discples never at Pentecost.

9. Which specific apostle does Luke say ran entered the Jewish temple to pray again? (a) True (b) False to see the empty tomb?

risen!'

"All the gods and gathered goddesses around the risen Lord and added to the song: 'You alone, Lord Jesus, mighty and merciful. are God of all! We are your servants! You are our God!" The storyteller smiled as he ended his story. The villagers in the square affirmed their new faith with one voice: "Jesus Christ is risen! He is alive and with us! He is everywhere!"