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• Page 10 A t Darlington crossroads last weekend stood a cross fashioned out of a termite ridden log. It's simple message of Death asked: "Remember Me?" The cross was the idea and the work of Darlington Uniting Church members Brian Burton and Rudi Loran. Its message they said was not to preach but to encourage even non-Christians to think about Christ and to bring Him and His message into the mainstream of life, into the highway of the heart, into the traffic of life.

Great Easter reunion...

Mary's ift A promise to Our Lady has seen a cross of separation turn into a resurrection of re-union for a Vietnamese mother and her priest son.

Fr Francis Ly and his mother

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More than 90 people crowded Perth airport at 4.15am last week when 82year-old Le Thi No embraced her son Francis whom she had not seen since 1982 but whom she entrusted to Mary's keeping a long time ago. More than a hundred others have beaten a path to her daughter's Mount Hawthorn home while Father Francis was busy with the Holy Week and Easter commitments of the Vietnamese Catholic Community. When Francis was barely two, his mother had feared he would die like his other five young brothers. She took him to a church and placed him on the altar offering him to Mary if he lived. Francis was 14 when his mother told him of her promise to Mary. His parish priest and some

"I became very angry but seminarians he used to see on holidays turned his accepted it and kept going on with my vocation." thoughts to the priesthood. He is the only surviving son With the new communist rule and the youngest of a family in 1975, Francis and other that is still tragically split. seminarians were forced to His mother has left behind work for the government in Vietnam her five other during the day for food, and at daughters who are hoping night they studied. against hope that they will In 1979 Francis left off be able to come to Australia, studying to lead a beach parish two of them to join their of 500 and it was these people husbands who like their and his family that witnessed brother escaped the comhis ordination as deacon on July munist clutches. 3, 1981. Francis Ly has been in But Francis knew this was as Australia since 1983 but only two years ago did it far as he could go. seem possible that the "I accepted the government tragically widowed mother would not allow me to be might get her wish to see her ordained priest." son before she died. So Francis continued to Tragedy was to strike the "preach the Gospel only" to the family early in Francis' life. congregation. Francis was four years into Although he never encourhis Vietnamese seminary training when his father was aged them, his many parishiongunned down along with ers who escaped the country two other adults and two put Francis' position in jeochildren one night as he was pardy because he would be responsible to the government playing cards. The communist excuse for their disappearance. was that the father had been He was eventually forced to politically active in South flee the country himself in December, 1982. Vietnam.

"If I did not escape I would have been put in gaol." So he escaped one night by boat with 25 others, leaving his mother and six sisters behind. "I could not tell' my mother until a day before we left, for fear of being caught. "She was very upset. but she had to accept it." The boat was on the water for three days and two nights before they reached Malaysia. And it was on December 15 when he arrived in Perth to a welcome by the Church. "I was like a boy with the Church looking after me." He moved to St Charle, Vocational Residence in Febru ary 1983 where he was advised to learn English. As his English improved he moved to Mundaring parish to commence pastoral training. Today he is a priest leading the Vietnamese community in Perth. "Iam lucky because Iam here to serve the Church and bring Vietnamese people closer to Australians." His mother is the latest to join his flock.

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Crosses are becoming a feature of Lent and Holy Week. At Nedlands Holy Rosary Church a rough cross and a purple drape stood watch for the duration of Lent. In St Peter's Church Bedford a three metre cross dominated the Good Friday liturgy. At Attadale the story of the cross was enacted by Mel Maria Year Seven students.

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In defence of priests "Beware of attempts to destroy respect for priests and the priesthood," said Bishop Hickey at the Mass of the Holy Oils in Geraldton.

"There is a wave of anticlericalism sweeping certain sections of the Church today," he said. "Priests are targets, partly because of the key positions they hold in the Church and partly because they are men. "They are accused of being out of date theologically, of refusing to come to grips with contemporary thought, of being out of touch with the people and being incompetent spiritual directors. "Worse than that, they are accused of exploiting vulnerable women and

Where are you, Mr Pavlov? HMV needs you...

The West Australian's Notre Dame misrepresentation and bias has now become a virus infecting other press. The March 26 edition of The Wanneroo without — unashamedly Times acknowledgement — re-hashed The West's earlier piece by Robert Reid, complete with the original mistakes and a few extra for good measure. Reference to Notre Dame or its Alkimos land endowment apparently now absolves journalists from any semblance of honesty or accuracy. "Last week. . ." says The Wanneroo Times of a letter of the late Archbishop Foley circulated originally over five weeks ago. "A letter from the late Archbishop Foley . . . supporting the proposed 150ha land grant ." states The Wanneroo Times obviously, like Robert Reid, never having set eyes on the original. ". . south of Mindarie . . ." of all places, referring to Alkimos! The intrepid Wanneroo Times journalists and editors who must find it difficult to find the staff tea urn don't give a fig obviously that Alkimos is at least five kilometres NORTH of Mindarie. So much for the slapdash approach at least to these facts and sources by the Community Newspapers operation, hailed once by the premier of the day as a bastion of freedom and independence. Is the answer hard to find, when The West Australian now owns and reaps lucratively a 49 per cent share of the operation? The Russian scientist Pavlov discovered that if a lie could be told often enough to a puppy the lie would become the accepted truth. Thus it appears with journalists' indoctrination of the public about Notre Dame. Sit, Wanneroo Times, Your Master's Voice is calling .

children emotionally, and of being unfaithful to their vows of chastity. Therefore they are not to be trusted," he said. "It is one thing to admit the human frailty of priests. They share that with everybody else, and no-one denies it. "It is quite another matter to set out to undermine the confidence of people in their pastors, because by doing so they not only destroy the ability of priests to serve their people effectively, they undermine respect for the priesthood itself. have "Scandals occurred that cannot be denied, but the truth is that most priests, with all their faults, spend their lives serving God and

God's people to the best of their ability.

"It is easy enough to look only at the negatives. We must look at the positive side and see that the graces of Holy

Orders, the out-pouring

of the Holy Spirit that priests have received, in the gifts they offer, their dedication and selfsacrifice, their love and compassion, their struggle to live holy lives worthy of the mysteries they celebrate each day. "It is true that the priesthood is not a reward for virtue, but a call to service, and that a central leadership role within the Church community must encourage full participation of the people.

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tre Dame L ni‘ersit) is unlikely to change the minds of opposition parties. Last week. the Catholic Education CommisIntel sion released from the late archbishop William Foie) supporting_the proposed uni‘ersit and the I50ha land slant. south of Mindarie K eys.

for the church in Australia.National Parts leader Hendy Cowan said despite the letter his parts remained opposed to the land grant. Mr Cowan said it was unfair that the university was getting special state government assistance ahead of the state's four other uni.ersities. "I am of the opinion that the Catholic church has enough wealth to negotiate. as any other deeloper v.ould. to secure that land.- Mr Cowan said.

"There seems to be a view in some circles that men are constitutionally unable to curb thirst for power or their sexual drives. If that is so, God has created monsters. "Please be careful of simplistic condemnations of people, male or female, based on gender differences. "Abuses of power and

position can and do occur, but they are no more than evidence of sinful humanity. The answer lies in the spiritual remedies of repentance, prayer and cooperation with God's grace and love. "I ask you to see our priests in a positive light, their priesthood as a gift from God. I ask you to support them, love them, and if they fall, forgive them. "As our priests rededicate themselves to God and to you at this Mass of the Holy Oils, they need to know that you trust them. Defend them when attacked. Encourage them by your love and help them carry

out their essential role in the Church."

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Opposition education spokesman Fred Tubby said the Liberal Party would continue to support the university and the land grant.

Mr Tubby said the endowment was in line with Liberal Party policy of supporting private ventures. especiall in the area of education. The Lawrence government has deferred introducing legislation ratifying the grant in state parliament while the issue is further debated within party ranks.

Cases of flouting a basic rule of journalism — or reporting without checking the facts. Below we see a March 9 report in The West Australian where six mistakes were made in seven paragraphs. Following the contagious path of its half brother, The Wanneroo Times in its issue of March 26 published a report (above) on the same subject in which three inaccuracies appeared.

Church seeks support for land grant By ROBERT REID THE Catholic Church has launched a grassroots campaign to defend the Go‘ernment's grant of l5Oha of crown land to Notre Dame University and has called on ever% Catholic to support the grant. A letter front the late Archbishop William Foley supporting the proposed university and $7 million land gram has been sent to all Catholic schools and parishes by the Catholic Education Commission. T he chairman of the Catholic Education Commission. Dr Peter Tannock. is also a member of t he Notre Dante University board of governors. A rchbishop FolQ's letter. written weeks before his death last month. calls on "every Catholic to contribute to this new and important frontier for the Church in Australia-. It also asks Catholics to help the university financially. In another bid to answer criticism of the and grant. representati es of the Catholic Education Commission are visiting all churches during Mass to explain the reasons for the university and the grant. The campaign conic Thursday's a fter announcement by Premier.

Carmen Lawrence that

"Nevertheless, the special character of the priesthood is to be acknowledged. 'The special sharing in the priesthood of Christ, over and beyond that participation which all baptised people have, is a gift to the Church since the very beginning. I cannot imagine the Church without it.

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Easter People A great cause for thanks this Easter is that the Persian Gulf War is over. The devastating implications of the conflict are still felt, particularly in Asia, whose economies are reeling from higher oil prices and the loss of remittances from the thousands of Asian migrant workers displaced by the war. Although the fighting has stopped, persisting instability in the Middle East region casts a shadow over the future. The Middle East dilemma along with ongoing unrest in Europe, and hunger and poverty across the globe make for an uneasy peace this paschal season. The crucified Christ embraces the suffering people in war-torn lands, the hungry and abused. His agony is magnified by the vision of the world's self-centredness and its consequences. Brazil's Dom Helder Camara said of Christ's Passion that if Christians had set an example of always being readier to serve than to be served, then the world would be a better place. The sin of self-centredness is manifested too often in Christians' silence and lack of involvement in things that affect the lives of people in need. But the Resurrection offers Christians a choice: perpetuate the darkness or reflect the light. The risen presence of Jesus can transform the lives of Asian Christians so that they bear peace, reconciliation, sharing and hope to the suffering through renewed vigor in education, community-based projects, exchanges with non-Christians and in the active non-violent pursuit of justice. Transforming good intentions into good actions requires selfsacrifice, courage and commitment. God's love for us, so evident at this time, should provide the required inspiration. As diplomats resume negotiations for a lasting Middle East peace and as battered and bruised Kuwaitis, Iraqis and Israelis seek help to rebuild their nations, there are glimmers of hope. Easter people should seize the opportunities they have as a God-given grace to promote peace and rehabilitation efforts. Providing physical and moral support to interreligious projects that are working to heal the wounded, repatriate the displaced and foster amity between nations can be a starting point. The many Asian Christians going to the Middle East to help rebuild war-torn nations and those returning to their posts as contract workers have an important role to play in spreading Christ's peace. The Asian Church owes its migrant workers in Asia every support in their work, which is vital for the economic well-being of so many east of the Gulf. The great joy of Easter goes hand in hand with the challenge it presents to those who have discovered the empty tomb, the challenge to speak and act in ways that make the Gospel message come alive. The rhetoric of global leaders loves to proclaim a new world order, but the loving service of Easter people can really create a new world peace.

The Universe England

Not the Last Word The verdicts in the three major terrorist trials of the '70s have now been shown to be unsafe and unsatisfactory. It is a damning indictment of the system, even if police, forensic experts, the DPP and the judiciary have to accept a heavy burden of responsibility. British public opinion is also to blame since it seems to have an insatiable urge to find scapegoats at any price. The present witchhunt against Lord Lane is not unlike the previous campaign of vilification against alleged terrorists. The appointment of a Royal Commission is necessary in the circumstances. In the meantime it would be refreshing if the Lords of Appeal, Lloyd, Mustill and Farquherson could bring themselves, in their published judgement, to say sorry to the Birmingham Six on behalf of us all.

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Great confusion in the Church STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (CNS): Clergy-laity tension is the greatest issue in the future Catholic Church and not priest shortages, women's ordination, married clergy or problems of sexuality, according to Bishop Ottenweller. The conflict comes from the Church itself, Bishop Ottenweller said as he approaches retirement. The Second Vatican Council Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity "raised laity to a new level of importance," he said. But at the same time, the Catholic Church is hierarchical by constitution, with the powers and responsibilities of the pope, the bishops, priests and deacons clearly defined. "Great confusion in the Church today is finding a way to put these two images together: people of God and hierarchy — the blending seems almost impossible, like making a circle out of a vertical line," Bishop Ottenweller said. "Unless they come together however, in the mystery of church, we stand to lose either order or use of all the gifts of God's people for the building up of the Body of Christ. He explained that the bishops at Vatican II said in Chapter 2 of the Constitution on the Church in the Modern World the "church is the people of God." That prompts "images of laity participating, taking responsibility, collaborating. "On the other hand," he said, "in Chapter 3, they reestablished the pyramided hierarchy: bishops, priests and, at the bottom, laity. Side by side were two models that

seemed to contradict each other. It was like they handed them to us and said, 'Make something of that.'" As a result, parishioners become disillusioned because they give their advice when asked, only to have the pastor decide matters, a complaint Bishop Ottenweller said was familiar to him. And even the world Synod of Bishops spends time in discussion, only to have the pope make the final decision, he added. "I can see the frustration of laity," he wrote. After being told that they are important and are supposed to take charge and that their gifts are valued, the laity run into the hierarchical structure, in which decisions are made by priests and bishops. "It's a sort of 'Father Knows Best.' lay people are back at the bottom. The clergy call the shots. . . "This is the hardest nut to crack in church renewal," Bishop Ottenweller said. "The church is not a democracy. On the other hand, lay p ersons have a dignity and rights through their baptism and confirmation that cannot be denied." But he remains optimistic. "It seems to me through all the agony the Holy Spirit is bringing to birth a kind of spiritual governance never before experienced by humanity," he wrote.

Maintain religious Pilgrimage tolerance: Suharto to the JAKARTA (CNS): Maintaining religious tolerance among people of various faiths could help Indonesia develop in the religious field, said Indonesian President Suharto.

gious should be aimed at building good moral attitudes among people, he said. The Indonesian president praised civil servants working in the religious ministry as persons directly involved Tolerance does not in the development of the mean there is no conflict. nation's religious life. Suharto said religious "I hope all of you will tolerance contains the make your best effort to meaning of life in togeinternalise religious therness, he said. values into the life of our Suharto also said reli- nation," he said. gious education is not Representatives of the just the transfer of Muslim, Protestant and information to make Catholic churches in the students experts in reli- country discussed religious knowledge. Reli- gious pluralism at a

seminar in Jakarta.

Abdurrahman Wahid, the Muslim chairman of Nandlatul Ulama; the Rev Eka Darmaputera of the Union of Indonesian Protestant Churches and Harry Tjan Silalahi, a Catholic layman, said they believe that the existance of a number of religions in Indonesia currently provides rather than unites the nation. The religious representatives called on believers to establish a more creative, dynamic, authentic and existential harmony.

Bishops on 'scandalous requirement' BRASILIA, BRAZIL (CNS): The Catholic bishops of Brazil have denounced a requirement by several major companies that potential female e mployees present a sterilisation certificate before being hired. The bishop termed the requirement "scandalous and unacceptable" and

warned about the increasing drop in fertility in Brazil. Many companies in Brazil impose the sterilisation requirement in order to avoid having to grant maternity leave to the workers. The decrease in the nation's birthrate is not a free decision based on the

Ball at their feet VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II asked Turin's Juventus professional soccer players to be examples of teamwork for their fans and their communities.

"Success, it has been said, is not the result only

of individual physical c onditions and fine appearances, but also of a prolonged and methodi-

dignity of the human person and responsible parenthood but "corresponds to institutions such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation". The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics has said that only China has more sterilised women than Brazil.

cal training undergone patient inner effort". together by team The pope asked the members," the pope said. Winning is the result players to "transmit the "of multiple qualities of joy of healthy fun" to the spirit, among which their fans, especially are self-control, solidar- youngsters. ity, collaboration, humilHe also asked them to ity, perseverance and bring the positive values respect for others," he which spell success on said the soccer field into their Such values come family life, community from "strength of will, activities and everything love of sacrifice and they do.

Holy Land becomes a crusade PORTLAND, Ore. (CNS): What began as a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for Larry and Mary Hansen of Portland has become a crusade to save a small parish outside Bethlehem.

In 1989 the Hansens met Father Madros, a priest of the Latin-rite Patriarchate of Jerusalem who heads Our Lady of Fatima Parish, the only Catholic parish in Beit Sahour Israelithe on occupied West Bank. Beit Sahour gained worldwide notoriety in 1989 when resi-

dents joined in a tax boycott to protest the lack of public benefits from the revenues they were paying to the Israeli government. The Israeli military cracked down, sealing off the town and seizing property. "I have not even been able to go to Jerusalem to see my own mother," Father

Madros said. "Children cannot attend school, and less than 30 per cent of the

infants can get milk," he said.

The Hansens asked

what they could do to help and the priest told them the people needed jobs. The Hansens set out to finance one job in the parish, at a cost of $3000 through the contributions of friends, relatives and fellow Catholics. "Father Madros said the first employment would be for a catechist so that the word of God can be taken to the homes of those unable to make it to Mass," Hansen said. Under the present curfew law, catechism classes have been cancelled in Beit Sahour and evening Bible or religious studies must take place in homes. The Hansens reached their initial $3000 goal this March

21but have decided to make an "ongoing commitment" to the project. "It's not just an effort to raise money," he said, "but to raise consciousness about the situation of Palestinian Christians who are the descendants of the first believers."

Big cut back in weekend Masses

WEXFORD, IRELAND: A bishop has announced a cutback in the number of weekend Masses and says priests in his diocese must only celebrate one Mass a day in future. Bishop Brendan Comiskey says there has been a "needless multiplication" of weekend Masses in his Ferns diocese in Co Wesford. The Bishop, in the fourth and final pastoral letter on the Sunday Eucharist, says he knows his decisions will not be popular, but it is his task to make the final decision as to how many Masses are sufficient. He has directed that from the weekend after

Easter — no Mass will be celebrated later than 12.30pm on Sunday and that Saturday evening Masses and Mass on eves of holy days should be celebrated from 7pm and not later than 9pm. He has also directed that weddings may not be celebrated in the diocese on Sundays. The directives are in line with decisions taken by bishops in other Irish diocese since the introduction of the Saturday vigil Mass. Bishop Comiskey also tells his priests that they must in future get his permission if they find there is a need to

celebrate a second or third Mass. He reveals that the use of the faculty of allowing a priest to celebrate more than one Mass on any day of the week has caused him concern. The fact that some priests act with the best of intentions and for the convenience of people is not an important enough reason for ignoring a most important law of the Church, he insists. In a previous pastoral letter last month, Bishop Comiskey criticised Catholics who "shopped around" for the most convenient Mass outside their own parish.

The Bishop explained that laws governing the celebration of Mass are of the gravest importance since they touched on the very heart of the Church, namely the celebration of the Mass. That law, which has been in effect since the nth century, permits a priest to celebrate or concelebrate Mass more than once a day on Holy Thursday, at the Easter vigil and the second Mass of Easter and at the three Masses at Christmas as well as at the concelebrations with the Bishop on the occasion of a synod. Other times were at a pastoral visitation, or a

meeting of priests, on which occasion the priest has already offered or intends to offer another Mass for the benefit of the people. Bishop Comiskey has also advised members of religious communities and other groups to take part in the parish Mass on Sundays and holy days rather than have separate celebrations. He feels that multiple Masses attended by a few, and small group Masses on Sundays and holy days, tend to detract from the value of the Eucharist as a sign and source of unity.

Move to curb Mass abuses VATICAN CITY, (CNS): The Vatican has issued rules to curb the practice of combining intentions of more than one person making an offering for a Mass. Such Masses do not fulfill the expectations of donors and could be seen as an abuse of the offerings they make to priests, the Vatican said. The rules in a five-page decree were issued after with consultation bishops' conferences and in response to widespread requests for clarification, the Vatican said. Normally no more than one offering should be

accepted for each Mass, and only the donor's intention should be applied to that Mass. A priest who accepts such an offering should celebrate the Mass himself or find another priest to do so, it said. This rule should be especially heeded where numerous offerings from pilgrims arrive, it said. Mass intentions can be combined only if the previous and explicit consent of the donors is obtained, and as exceptions to the rule should be celebrated no more than twice a week in any

one Church. The rule himself celebrate the would not apply to large number of Masses, situations where Mass he should seek help from offerings and intentions other priests or his are meant to be collective bishop rather than reject — such as in poor the requests, the decree parishes where periodic said. offerings of goods and In general, the documoney are routinely brought to the Church at ment said, the practice of Mass time. The rules Mass intentions deserves clearly allow a group of protection from the Catholics to agree on abuse of a "collective" various intentions for a celebration. Mass. The secretary of the Most Mass intentions clergy congregation, are for the deceased and, Archbishop Gilberto in practice, many offer- Agustoni, said individual ings . for individual intentions and offerings Masses arrive on All were one of the best ways Souls' Day or other feast for Catholics to share in days. If a priest cannot the Mass.

Czech legend calls it a day PRAGUE: The legendary defender of the Catholic Church in Czechoslovakia, Cardinal Tomasek has retired finally at the age of 92. He was appointed apostolic administrator of Prague in 1965 but was not allowed to take official possession of the archdiocese until 1978. For 13 years the communist government refused to allow Cardinal Tomasek to officially begin his ministry as head of the Prague see. It was during that time, in 1976, that Pope Paul VI named him a cardinal secretly. His nomination to the College of Cardinals was announced a year later, when the communist government allowed him to travel to Rome for a consistory. Until the fall of the communist government in 1989, Cardinal Tomasek raised a constant call for religious freedom in Czechoslovakia, repeatedly offered to mediate between the government and dissidents, and called on democracy advocates to press their cause non-violently. In 1988, when he wrote to the government giving his support to a petition

signed by hundreds of thousands of citizens calling for religious liberty, a high government official complained of the cardinal's "confrontational" tone. Cardinal Tomasek said the government's policy toward religion, "conceived in the spirit of Stalinism 40 years ago", must be revised. In January 1989 when police were breaking up pro-democracy demonstrations, Cardinal Tomasek protested to the communist prime minister that "crude violence" was being used. "The justified yearnings of citizens to live in a free environment, something which has become a matter of course in the 20th century, cannot be stifled by crude violence," he wrote. As the pro-democracy movement gained hold and the country's hard-line communist leaders resigned in November 1989, Cardinal Tomasek used the nation's first televised Mass to declare, "in this historic moment in the fight for truth and justice in our country,Iand the Cathclic Church are on the side of the people".

Those who argue that the practice overly "privatises" the Mass do not have a proper understanding of the Church, he said. The Church has constantly taught that the fruits of the Mass are variously distributed. Likewise, he said, it was unrealistic to think that the Church could do without cash offerings in this day and age. In fact, he said, the majority of today's priests draw in some way on these offerings for their own support and the support of parish activities.

Austrian call to simplify documents VIENNA:— If the Church wants more people to understand and follow its teachings, it must use simpler language in church documents, an Austrian bishop said. People don't agree with the positions of the church mostly because a deep understanding of the doctrines is made difficult by complicated language, said Auxiliary Bishop Kuntner of Vienna. The bishop made his comments during a symposium on Pope John Paul ll's new encyclical "Redemptoris Missio" ("Mission of the Redeemer"). Bishop Kuntner said that frequently even a bishop must read church documents three times to understand what it means.

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The forces undermi basic values clai VATICAN CITY: Abortion, euthanasia and drug addiction are among modern forces undermining fundamental values and leaving the family in a critical situation, said the head of the Pontifical Council for the Family. Cardinal Trujillo also said some aspects of feminism, such as support for abortion, threaten family values because the child is seen as an aggressor and new life is not always welcomed. A woman should be the greatest defender of life and see her role as transmitting a gift, he said. But the cardinal also said that feminism's emphasis on the dignity of women and their rights should be encouraged. While offering no solutions to modern assaults on the family, he said, speaking through a translator, that his council's task was to raise consciousness about the rights and needs of the family, and about its purpose — to serve as the home of life. Besides study and reflection on how to combat

the challenges facing the family, he said, the council would see how it could work with the bishops of the world to respond more effectively to the needs. Cardinal Trujillo, said the pontifical body not only studies the family but such life-related issues as abortion, euthanasia and genetic manipulation. He went on to say that another problem of modern society affecting families is the situation of mothers who have traditionally been the centre of their families but have to go outside the home to work. He also said modern families are often weakened because members have less time together and less opportunity for communication with each other. Drug addiction, Cardinal Trujillo said, is the product of weakened families as well as a threat to families. It is especially destructive to young people, he added.

Drug addicts are more numerous where family structures have broken down, added the cardinal, who, before his appointment to the council post was archbishop of Medellin, Colombia, a focal point of drug traffickers. He said trade in illicit drugs would not diminish as long as there were so many consumers, especially in the richer countries. These countries, he said, can counter drugs by presenting other ideals to their people. For the Church, he said, the family's strength is based on the sacrament of marriage and the commitment of faith, a perspective that must be conveyed to Church members and enable them to understand the spirituality underlying family values. Cardinal Lopez Trujillo said that society must grasp the meaning of life. In the absence of that, society, he said, is left in a desert condition. The Church's task, he said, is to use its voice in declaring God's will for the human person.

Helping hand from Muslims

Sequel to priest's detention

CHANIKA, Tanzania (CNS): Several Muslims were among the 50 villagers who gathered in a building owned by the Catholic Church to help solve a hand pump problem serving 4500 people. It was not lost on the Muslims that village Catholics invited them to participate in the repair discussion, even though a Catholic women's group had pushed for the pump and Catholic Relief Service had installed it. "People realise that they can actually solve their own problems." said Darryl Jordan. a Catholic Relief representative. "Our aim, is to empower the people to

KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia (CNS): Having published that authorities had detained a Catholic priest for alleged subversive activities, a newspaper's chief editor has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which carries a minimum three-year jail term and a $20,000 fine. Prosecutor Abdul Gani Patail said in court the government saw no need to call the priest, Father Benjamin Basintal, to testify at the trial of editor Pung Chen Choon of the Borneo Mail. Patail said that evidence given by Bishop John Lee of Kota Kinabalu and his vicar general, Father Cornelius Piong, on the first day of the trial last October, was enough to

help themselves," Jordan said. CRS installed the pump in 1986 on the condition that the villagers maintain it. The pump had worked perfectly until now. Government help is not forthcoming. Per capita annual income of $180 ranks Tanzania the seventh lowest in Africa. There are few miles of good paved road left in the country. Left to their own devices, the villagers let Anton, the village catechist, chair the meeting in Swahili. One villager suggested that the "10-cell" leaders make the decision. Under Tanzania's brand

Thanks to Mother Teresa VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Thanks to Mother Teresa, for the first time in more than 45 years, a Vatican diplomatic delegation was sent to Albania to explore the possibility of establishing diplomatic relations and improving Church life in the constitutional atheist country. The Vatican's apostolic delegate in Albania was expelled from the country in 1945, the year after the communists gained control of the country. "Mother Teresa opened the door," said a Vatican spokesman. The Yugoslavia-born founder of the Missionaries of Charity, an ethnic Albanian, had frequently spoken of the need for religious freedom in Albania, which declared itself the world's first completely atheistic state in 1967. 6- T1t6.Retortt,

In early March, Mother Teresa and members of her order went to Albania, to open a home for the aged. Officials from the communist government's health ministry met them at the airport and participated in a ceremony opening the home. Although the 1967 ban on religion has not been overturned, the government has tolerated religious activity since December. Albanian Catholics lost all ties to the Vatican in 1951 when the government nationalised the Church, in a way similar to China's formation of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. But even that statesanctioned form of religious expression was outlawed in 1967. 199'1

of socialism, every village was divided into cells of 10 families, with each cell electing a leader. Another villager replied that the 10-cell leaders received an invitation, but none came. Anton said, "perhaps they thought it was just for the Christians". All the 10cell leaders are Muslim. Eventually, another villager suggested that each family contribute 150 Tanzanian shillings — about 75 cents — for repairs. He was roundly applauded. What took 50 people more than an hour to decide is a prime example of the type of development CRS is trying to promote.

indicate that the report was untrue. Bishop Lee testified that during the time in question Father Basintal was on leave. Father Piong said the priest saw him July 20 and said he had been with his brother-in-law in Sandakan, west of Kota Kinabalu. Patail said it would be "too costly" to bring Father Basintal back to take the stand, but invited the defence to call him as their witness "if they wished to do so". The newspaper report in question, which appeared in the July edition of the Borneo Mail, said Father Basintal was "believed to have been" arrested and

detained under Malaysia's Internal Security Act for alleged involvement in a plot to take Sabah state out of the Malaysian federation. The security act allows detention without trial. The article also stated that police were looking for another Catholic priest in the interior region of Sabah. When the report was published, Father Basintal was rector of St Valentine's Church at Beaufort, south of Kota Kinabalu. Evidence from senior police officers who testified for the prosecution at the hearing indicated that no statement was taken from Father Basintal.

'Bishops overstepped bounds'

ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS): "I don't think the US bishops should have bishops or other clerics left judgments on whether as a whole are in the best the Persian Gulf conflict position to make the was a "just war" to application," he said. "I "people in the military think they can articulate and political realm", the principles, but then Jesuit Father Avery Dulles it's up to people in the said. military and political Describing the just war realm professionally to principles as "valid and make the best judgments helpful", Father Dulles they can and sincerely said the difficulty comes try to apply these in applying the principles." principles. The just war theory —

outlined in the classic sense by St Augustine — maintains that lethal force may justifiably be used against an aggressor to protect innocent victims. Among the requirements for a just war are that the foreseeable good to be achieved by a war must be proportionate to the death and destruction it brings and that war can be entered only

as a "last resort" after all peaceful alternatives are exhausted. Many US bishops expressed doubts before and during the war. "Many thought there would be a lot more casualties, at least on the American side, and that the war would be a great deal longer than it was," Father Dulles said. "There was a lot of damage and loss of life

SANTIAGO: There is a willingness among Chileans to move toward reconciliation and the Church is trying to assist with this, says Archbishop Oviedo. "We want to reach the point where Chile is a community of brothers and sisters," he said. Archbishop Oviedo,

threw Marxist President Salvador Allende in 1973, but remains head of the army. Archbishop Oviedo said the Church's work for reconciliation included efforts to reconcile civil society and the armed forces. Archbishop Oviedo said torture and other institu-

tional violations of human rights had ended in Chile. But he said the Vicariate of Solidarity, a Church agency that gained international acclaim for its championing of human rights during the Pinochet years, would continue to operate its legal department.

Towards reconciliation who formerly headed the Archdiocese of Antofagasta in northern Chile, was installed as archbishop of the national capital in the spring of 1990, just after Patricio Alwyn succeeded General Augusta Pinochet as president. Pinochet led the military coup that over-

inflicted on the Iraqis, but we still don't know how great that was." The noted theologian said it was also "too early to judge" what good would be achieved by the war. Father Dulles said the US bishops "sometimes compromise their own authority by making applications in a field in which they are not expert".

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He said it also carried out educational work in human rights and provided some medical aid. "We have been appealing to the people to refrain from vengeance," he said, calling for the conversion of past offenders rather than their punishment.

Salvatorians gain ground The Salvatorian order is having a "nett gain," says its superior general but that is coming from Poland and Africa. I n the First World we are doing not well at all and in Western Europe very bad," says Father Malachy McBride who is half way through his six year-term. He heads a congregation of 1300 members and Tanzania and Zaire are the new frontiers of the order with the first black priests appearing there 20 and 10 years ago respectively. The other success story is Poland where the order has expanded from its 40 members at the end of World War II to a total of 400 today. The Polish members are going to be valuable in re-building the order in Czechoslovakia and Romania. Germany, from where the Salvatorians took their roots, is doing well, Fr McBride said, but not well enough.

Salvatorian general superior Fr Malachy McBride, mission consultor Fr Wladslaw Pawlik, Polish superior Fr Jan Socha and WA regional superior Fr Andrew Pyka. On the centenary of the Salvatorians first venture into India just eight years after their foundation, the order is back in India again with one Indian priest

and a number of candidates. The break had come when the original Salvatorians, all German, had been during expelled

World War I. The Salvatorians are no strangers to expansion overseas. Salvatorian The Order had its beginnings when German

diocesan priests were prevented from joining orders during the KulturiCampf of the last century. Fr McBride, himself from Belfast, is one of

a number of Irish who joined the Salvatorian Society in England at a time when some of the newer congregations were having difficulties gaining

access to Ireland. Joining the order in 1948, he says he has seen all the changes of the Church in that period. From a rigorously structured, hierarchical and strict obedience society he has seen it become one of sharing, with a sense of belonging to one another and with a sense of community. "We are a community," he tells his conferers. "Where we exist we are the Body of Christ. We are here to build up the people of God. It is our privilege and our calling." The charism of the Salvatorians is broad, he says — -to preach the gospel in the conditions as we find them". The reality is as broad as that, with parishes on every continent as well as schools and missions. "Our work hasn't changed but our attitude has changed. We see greater participation of the laity, with a greater emphasis on what they can give us.

Brothers make history By Dom Francis Byrne, OSB Two young brothers from New Norcia Catholic College recently made history when they took out the swimming awards at the annual meet. Year 11 student Daniel Moren and his brother Chris, a year 9 student, won the open and junior events respectively. The Moren brothers, who come from Kambalda, have outstanding achievements in sporting activities at the college. Their mother, Charmaine, was a Queensland State swimmer. She and her husband, Noel,

had made the long trip for the carnival held in perfect conditions. Daniel, 15, and Chris, 13, have been keen swimmers since kindergarten school. The Morens come from Mt Isa. "Between the two of us there is great competition," Daniel told me this week. "We're natural waterbabies. It was a big occasion especially with Mum and Dad being present to see the awards being made." Also in the diving section Daniel came equal first and Chris finished in the top three. Winner of the Junior Girls' section was the 13-

year-old Fiona Forman, a Year 8 student, from Perth. In the Senior Girls division Sally McKecknie, aged 15 of Geraldton took out the honours. The School House Award went to McKillop. Second was Salvado and third Torres. The Principal of New Norcia Catholic College. Sr Therese-Marie Fleming presented the trophies and congratulated all those who had particpated in such a memorable carnival. The College's next task was the Moora Swimming Carnival where it was hoped the Moren brothers would shine once again. . . !

New Catenians in Bunbury A new Catenian group is going to start in Bunbury. Amongst those interested are: From left, back row: Peter Lloyd, Gerard Rosman, Peter Ward, Brian Marley, Anton Van De Ven, Jack Scharf. Front row, from left: Lloyd Wyss, Roddy Beare, from Mansfield and Dukeries UK, Reg Newman, chairman, Kevin Brady, Tony Lane.

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By Father Robert Kinast I was chatting with the passenger next to me on the airplane. Our conversation began when he glanced at the theology book I was reading and asked what it was about. I soon discovered he was a businessman and active in his church. So I decided to turn the tables and ask him a question. "What's it like trying to do business in modern society while remaining true to Christian values?" He paused and then said, "It's like the Word

Jumble in the newspaper. To make sense of the scrambled letters, you have to study them, use your knowledge of the language and try different combinations until you get it right. "And," he added, "you listen to the suggestions of others. My wife always figures out the ones that stump me". Christians may often feel that they live in the midst of a word jumble. There are so many value systems and lifestyles and priorities competing for one's attention. How does a Christian sort through them? It helps to do what my

fellow air traveller suggested: study the situation, use your knowledge, try different combinations and listen to others. In the world of work, committed Christians do this more and more. One recent example is a project on "Moral Character and Development at Work," sponsored by the Episcopalian Cathedral College of the Laity in Washington, DC. The project brought executive officers together to discuss the impact of company structures on their workers' moral formation. The officers tried to

discover the C tian values hidden the language of b ess concepts. They translated uality control," "c er satisfaction" and e of the market into Gospel terms. Th they asked how to pulose concepts into pra e (to "walk the talk" • posiness jargon). Encouragement this kind of study an ion is provided b fhe Servant Society, network of Christi ho carry out their co rate leadership rol as "servants". The society be • a Christian style of ant

leadership is good business as well as a way to live the Gospel. The society's newsletter highlights individuals and companies who are actually implementing this goal. Not only business, but culture itself often needs some unscrambling. A creative high school teacher I know uses advertising for her religion textbook. She asks students to bring in examples of their favourite advertisements. The class then studies the values and the depiction of life found in the ads, and compares them with values found

in the Gospels. In the course of a year, they may discuss why there is need for so many weight reduction products, why new automobiles are usually shown travelling at dangerously high speeds, what is promoted as a means of handling frustrations, whether individual or group accomplishments are extolled. The shortest ad lines often stimulate the longest discussion: "Be all that you can be"; "Just do it"; and "Know when to say when." These phrases have implications beyond the products they advertise.

The students also are encouraged to involve their families in choosing the ads and discussing their meaning. The discussions are not limited to negative criticisms. At the end of the year, each student presents the ad which best expresses the meaning of life from a Christian perspective and the whole class writes to the company, affirming the ad. Whether in business, school or the broader culture, the challenge of Christian living in the modern world is neither to endorse what we find nor condemn it, but to unscramble it.

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'Trying to imagine Most of the early Chris(ourselves tians were city people. in) the They lived in Antioch, world in which Paul Damascus, Ephesus, and the Corinth, Thessalonica and others first Rome. preached Before long, there were the Gospel Christians in all the cities helps us to of the Roman Empire. see what it was like to It is not easy to get a be a picture of what it was member of like for them to live in an early those cities. For restored Christian community," first-century ruins and buildings now are surwrites rounded with Christian Blessed churches and shrines. Sacrament Father What was once a pagan Eugene world has become a LaVerdiere. world of Christian symbols.

This was their way of life By Father John J. Castelot The followers of Jesus had to live in the world of their day, one in which power and violence as well as greed played roles. This value system seemed to make sense in a world of hard reality. And it exerted a constant pull on Christians. It was a daily struggle. Sometimes the Christian

value system won, sometimes it lost. We have no record of how this family or that individual reacted, but the Gospel interpretation of the parable of the Sower reflects the situation — and the challenge — in the first Christian generation. —The sower sows the word. These are the ones on the path where the word is sown. As soon as they hear, Satan comes at once and takes away the word sown in them.

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"And these are ones it bears no fruit. "But those sown on rich sown on rocky ground who, when they hear the soil are the ones who word, receive it at once hear the word and accept with joy. But they have to it and bear fruit thirty root; they last only for a and sixty and a hundredtime. Then when tribula- fold" (Mark 4:14-20). tion or persecution The good news, with its comes because of the revolutionary value sysword, they quickly fall. tem, has always had to "Those sown among compete with opposing thorns are another sort. and deceptively attracThey are the people who tive systems. It is not that hear the word, but the world as such is evil, worldly anxiety, the lure but it can become hostile of riches and the craving to human happiness. for other things intrude Paul Oyes a terrifying and choke the word, and picture of the moral

climate Christians lived with in pagan society. In the prevailing value system, he says, people are "full of envy, murder, rivalry, heartless, ruthless" (Romans 1:29-31). That's not a particularly attractive value system, but it could exert a powerful influence. Enticement to a pagan value system was difficult enough to resist. But the threat of persecution called for real Christian heroism. That such pressure was

applied is reflected in the first letter attributed to Peter "But even if you should suffer because of righteousness, blessed are you. Ik) not be afraid or terrified with fear of them, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. "Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks. . . but do it with gentleness and reverence . . . For it is better to suffer for doing good . . . than for doing evil" (1 Peter 3:14-17).

But none of this exikd in the days of St Paul ie apostles and ie evangelists. To really know ‘vhi it was like, you ha o spend some time in ig "pagan" city. My 1st experience of that via n Bangkok. The word "pagan"iiy wof not be the best o use in an age whentre have learned to resrt the world's other it religions, but it help ;o convey whatImean be: a city where all ie r eligious shrines and sYms' pu c expressions of relit! n are o foreign Christianity. In Bangkok, the relign is Buddhist. There 'e

great and wonderful temples and little street shrines everywhere. On the streets you see saffron-robed monks. In the homes you find family shrines with offerings of fruit and incense. Especially in the older parts of the city there is always something in sight to remind you of the religion. In a Christian city you would see domes and steeples. Here you see stupas. Instead of shrines to Our Lady, there are neighbourhood shrines to Buddha. The world of early Christianity was not Buddhist, but like Thailand it was a very religious world, filled

St John the A lmsgiver "lived during a time of war in the Middle East as fighting ravaged Egypt, Syria, Israel and Persia," writes Janaan Manternach. He did so much with his own personal wealth to help those who needed food, clothing, medicine and housing and was elected Patriarch by the citizens of Alexandria in 608 AD.

with the religious shrines the circus for the races, and monuments of there were prayers and ancient Egypt, Persia, religious offerings to the Greece and Rome. gods of the Roman When a Christian Empire and even to the entered a Roman home, emperors who were he passed by a little deified at death. shrine honouring the It is hard to fully family gods, much like imagine such a world. In Christians who have a our world, when there statue of Our lady or a are public prayers they favourite saint. are Christian, Jewish or The Romans even had a broad enough to include small shrine in the everyone present. Not so bathroom, a little statue for the early Christians. of the god Fortune in a Prayers to the gods of Rome and the emperor niche in the wall. When a first-century put the Christians in a Christian went to the difficult position. When the early Christheatre in Corinth or Athens to see a play by tians remained silent Sophocles or Euripides, during the prayers and to the amphitheatre to refused to participate in see the stuntmen and pagan sacrifices, they trained animal acts, or to aroused suspicion.

In the Roman view, good citizens prayed to the gods of the empire. The behaviour of the Christians led many to think of them as irreligious or traitorous. To develop better understanding of the religious world of Rome in which Christianity first developed, I often read personal letters preserved from that time. Many personal letters have been preserved, especially in Egypt. They were written on papyrus, which does not deteriorate in the dry climate of the Egyptian desert. One of those letters was written by a young man from Alexandria in Egypt, who had just

begun to serve in the Roman navy. He came from a devout pagan home. He wrote the letter from Naples, where the Romans had a port. A fter greeting his father, the young recruit expressed gratitude for the way his parents had brought him up. Thanks to them and his religious upbringing, he was managing well. He then assured his whole family that he prayed regularly for them. There is a story in the Acts of the Apostles where we can get a good idea of what it was like for the early Christians. St Paul was travelling with Barnabas, the one who introduced him to

the Christian community at Jerusalem. They had come to Lystra, a place now in southcentral Turkey, when they came upon a man crippled from birth who had never been able to walk. When Paul healed the man, the crowd started to call Barnabas Zeus and to call Paul Hermes. To the people of Lystra, the two looked like gods in human form. The priest of Zeus even brought oxen and garlands so he and the people could offer sacrifice. Paul tried to explain that he and Barnabas were just human beings.

John the almsgiver John lived during a time of war in the Middle East. Fighting ravaged Egypt, Syria, Israel and Persia. John's last name is long forgotten, but people cannot forget him. He was born rich sometime around 550 AD, a nobleman in the city of Amathus on the island of Cyprus. His father was governor of Cyprus. John married as a teenager. He and his wife had several children, but they all died as infants. Then his young wife also

died. Sorrow led John to rethink his whole future. John soon decided to spend his life serving God by reaching out to the growing number of poor and homeless. He began to use his energy and riches to provide people in need with food, clothing, medicines and decent places to live. For years, he did so much for so many that his reputation as a great and good man spread beyond his island homeland. When he was about 50, the people of

Alexandria, a large city in Egypt, invited him to be their religious leader. They elected him patriarch of Alexandria in 608. John immediately had a census taken to discover how many people in Alexandria were living in poverty. The number was so large that John distributed the Church's great wealth to the poor. He commanded Catholic merchants to use honest weights and measures instead of cheating the poor. He forbade officials to accept presents as

bribes. When the Egyptian governor took large amounts of the Church's money to use for war, John forced him to give it all back so it could be used for the poor. Twice a week John sat on a bench outside his great Church. People of every class and situation came to him to settle fights or to obtain help. Everyone trusted him because he was so honest, compassionate and just. His reputation allowed him to be a peacemaker in the Church

But for the people of Lystra it was pretty hard to beleve that ordinary human beings could perform miracles like this. Trying to imagine the world in which Paul and the others first preached the Gospel helps us to see what it was like to be a member of an early Christian community. Sometimes we find our cities difficult places to preach the Gospel and live a Christian life. We think the early Christians had it much easier. There is nothing like a look at the religious world of early Christianity to correct that notion.

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and in the world at large. As patriarch, John had many Churches and monasteries built in Alexandria. He set up camps for war refugees from Syria and Jerusalem. He had hospitals built for the sick and injured.

possible luxury. His example led many wealthy citizens of Alexandria to imitate their leader's simple lifestyle and generosity to the poor.

He personally visited the refugee camps and hospitals to care for war victims. He sent help to those suffering in Jerusalem.

As the Persian army invaded Egypt in 619, John set out with the governor to consult with Emperor Heraclius in Constantinople. Along the way, John felt death was near, so he sailed back to Cyprus, where he soon died peacefully.

John lived simply, even though his position would have allowed him every

St John the Almsgiver remains a model of compassion, justice and peacemaking.

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Farmers find fair way to beat system economy. City folk are farmers, they say, sur- say, to politicians and not necessarily aware vived by milking cows city folk, that they are not of the country people's and selling cream for whingeing no-hopers, dire straights, whereby butter or making butter but hard working and they are struggling to and selling to private enterprising. keep their farm homes customers, selling eggs The Fair will have a and properties and dressed chickens variety of goods for sale together. from the farm and selling such as craft goods,

Things are rather desperate in our Australian rural sectors with the disastrous

In an endeavour to • farm slaughtered meat. survive the recession, However with regulapeople in the Shire of tions, restrictions and Corrigin are determined quotas this is disallowed to help themselves as today even on a short much as they are allowed term basis so the farmers to, by having a Corrigin are forced to find other Country Fair at Wesley ways. College, South Perth on The Fair is one of them. Saturday, April 13 from Within these legal lim9.30am to 5pm. itations, the country folk During the Great will bring their products Depression many to the city, proving, they

yabby tasting, spinning wool, poultry wheat, mallee roots, garden manure and fast foods along with a host of other enticements. With a view to highlighting the difficulties families are experiencing in the rural sector, I contacted two Catholic families — one was a shearing family in

Corrigin and the other a Corrigin farming family. O'DoAnne-Marie noghue's husband is a shearer. They have five children with the youngest six and the eldest 16. They came over from New Zealand two years ago looking for a better life because the recession had hit there already. Unable to sell their house because of the recession there, they have to make monthly payments on that and rent in Corrigin at $80 weekly. Two of their eldest children are at a country

boarding school hostel and although they receive Austudy, "there are still a fair few expenses to meet," said Anne-Marie. The younger ones go to the local school but having an uncertain income with no regular' full time work, makes it hard to budget and save. The family has been on unemployment benefits since late November and only during the last month has husband Jim been able to get regular casual work. In order to supplement their income, Anne-

Marie takes in dressmaking and makes lovely smock dresses for any age group from babies upwards which will be available for purchase at the Fair. In fact while two children were walking in Perth in Anne-Marie's dresses she'd made, they were stopped by an interested purchaser as to where she could buy them. If anyone is interested in buying smocks or making contact with Anne-Marie, they can do so by ringing 090632498.

Taking up the challenge

The good thing about my kind of job, is that you come across a wide crosssection of humanity which you wouldn't otherwise detect In the process, you also discover some rather wonderful people who restore your faith in humanity (which can sadly flag if not die out rapidly!) And discovery of these 'rare finds' outdoes any side effects from dealing with the nasties, who leave you with a rotten taste in your mouth. Mrs Trish Doyle from Corrigin, is one of these. She and her husband Derek are farmers on a big property they share with his married brother and wife, and also his parents. They have struck tough times too whereby the farm can no longer provide them with a living. 'Enterprise' is the keynote to success for people who really want to help themselves and this couple certainly seem to have loads of that. They have a little business at which they work during the night after their normal day's chores. And on the weekend Derek plays football which earns them an income also. Although they live on the farm, these other activities are their real support during these times of duress. Trish says that struggling farmers have eliminated luxuries from their buying potential and a trip to the city is merely for a specific business related purpose,

and shopping, seeing a "Everyone has to pull cardiac arrest which I refused to believe he movie or having a meal together and lift each resulted in some brain wouldn't be okay out, are not possible. other. And out of it will damage. becauseIhave such trust Now I guess that most come something good. Having given birth to a in God and Our Lady." farmers are following Being negative, produces seemingly So there was the bomhealthy baby that format, and city negative results." who then suffers such a bardment of Heaven dwellers also in financial The family has con- physical trauma is catas- with prayers, backed by difficulties, but what tinued with sports and trophic to a family. the essential trust and makes Trish rather spe- church groups, the CWA belief in the power of the Especially when the Almighty, cial is firstly her attitude. and so on, because of the and then medicos have gone home being super need to remain part of a She's completely posipositive on a tive in everything she tight-knit country com- and you're left with this day to day basis. does and says. Her munity, whereby eve- small child to rehabiliHer intuition as a attitude is that the rural ryone needs each other tate and 'get back on the mother told her Clint road again'. crisis may be there for a to survive. knew everything that reason, but in any event, But there's another It's also hard when was going on and he just it's a challenge for the reason which sets Trish people give you all the needed help to get him rural community. somewhat apart, and that negative prospects and up, on his feet, and So she and her husband is the second aspect of aspects and you appar- performing everyday listen to positive tapes, her and the family, ently have to accept that. physical things other But Trish didn't. She children his age were. read positive books and which allows one to see and her small family, and do everything they can to how special they are. So the rosary beads lift up themselves and They have two sons, six then her extended family were always close by and others in the rural year old Luke and three and community prayed. always at night, and their community to get year old Clint. When he "We prayed so strongly rural community proved through the crisis. was two, Clint suffered a and constantly for Clint. themselves worthy by 10 The Record, April 4, 1991

tive, including filling the house with laughter and love, giving her two small sons the reassurance and confidence they need to develop.

setting up a roster to give little Clint therapy. Two hours in the morning, with Trish giving him another hour in the afternoon, and then her husband having come in from the farm giving him therapy whenever time permitted. Trish's mother has Clint on various prayer chains and with the combined efforts, love, faith and prayers of anyone who cared, results are now apparent. Clint is three now and is walking, crawling and sitting, with reestablished vision virtually normal which had deteriorated badly after his illness. Trish said everything the family does is posi-

Little Luke constantly prayed to God to "Please God help Clint to walk, to talk . . ." and so on. This six year old, with a perfect set of priorities, now thanks God for the miracle which has taken place during the last year. And now says "Thank you God for making Clint walk. talk . . ." Not enough people thank God for what He's done for them, says Trish. But this small family does, and quite frankly, the faith, belief, and trust in God coming from this mother, and her family, is an inspiration. She believes Clint was sent to them for a reason and one day will bring many to God. Speaking to this young mother, emanating positive vibes to make sure her young son keeps firmly on the road to total recovery, while raising her six year old in a strong faith. and healthy gratitude to God, at his tender age, while keeping their financial boat afloat, is a classic instance of positive thinking combined with great faith in God and love for Our Lady. A bungled economy and bad times are spirit dampeners of the worst kind, but they haven't succeeded in getting this gutsy little mum down, and with her attitude, I believe her family have backed a real winner.

A strong local effort bears fruit with birth of new church

A Southern Cross stained glass window is the work of David Smith of the Old Court House BusseIton to a design by parishoner Bill Prior. it is the backdrop to a wooden statue of the Dunsborough seascape carved by Englebert Piccolruaz of Sydney.

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The sanctuary furniture was designed by parishioners Juditl and Mark Fisher and constructed by Mark in jarrah with sheok inlays. A sheoak cross is suspended below the altar and the bowl of the baptismal font is shaped from sheoak. The roof is lined with western/red cedar relating to limestone hue brick walls and carpet throughout. Alan Button designed and constructed a processional cross and refurbished the Old Stations of the Cross.

Dunsborough's pride

Dunsborough's new Mike McMullen of church Our Lady of The Dunsborough chaired Southern Cross is a the committee of seven strong local production which planned the probut it is looking forward ject and Busselton parito the area's holiday shioner builder Bill makers and visitors to Eades and his sons help defray the cost. Andrew, Jamie, Stephen More than 850 people and Christopher coma ttended Christmas `pleted the project ahead Masses. of schedule for the first

Mass on Christmas Eve. As an apprentice Bill had constructed the original Dunsborough pews still in use. Engineer Theo Newhouse and plumbing consultant John Cartwright also offered help and forester Barney White diagnosed the

condition of every tree on the 3.27ha on which native trees and shrubs have been planted by busy bees under the direction of Margaret and Peter Richardson and son Scott. Dunsborough The Ladies Auxiliary has raised more than $8000

by cake stalls and a variety evening. The building has glass doors and full length windows to the north so that overflow crowds greater than the 400 interior places can be accommodated on an adjacent brick paved area.

The rear section of the church with an adjacent kitchen can be partitioned as a meeting room. A covered driveway entrance provides a shelter for the infirm and elderly in the wet weather. A priest's residence has

been built near the complex and there is room for a school when the need arises. The building is considered a community asset and has been already used by the Anglican and Uniting Church communities at Christmas.

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THE SERVITE FRIARS will be holding a Day of Prayer for young men considering the Religious life on Sunday, April 14 at the Senate Priory, Tuart Hill, beginning at 10am. If you are interested in spending a quiet day in prayer and reflection to consider what the Lord may be asking of you in life, then you would be most welcome. For further information contact:

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L_J1] .) to the Editor

Thanks, dear sisters... •

from John VESZELY, Nollamara

Sir, The local community of Hungarian extraction thanks you dear Hungarian Sisters for all you have done, not only for the community in general here in WA during the last 40 years, but for all you have done for the benefit of the whole Hungarian community in WA as well. While I worked on the chapter of history dealing with the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady, of Kalocsa (the Latin title of the order: lnstitutum Pauperum Sororum Ludimagistratum de Domine Nostra Colocensium) I came across The Record (November 15, 1951) as the first mention in Western Australia of the existance of this order and their work in Red China. The paper's yellowing page registers the fact that Archbishop Prendiville invited the nuns to WA when the Chinese communist regime banned them from that country. The article at that time also had a picture attached to it, which had shown the first six sisters, as they talk to a boy at Clontarf Boys Town. When Cardinal Jozsef

There is a twist to the fate of all people. One day before the good sisters leave this place which was their home for almost 40 years, a man arrives to say: Thank you, God speed, at the same time. On April 8, Bishop Attila Maikloshazy SJ arrives in Perth during his lightning visit to Australia. He is the bishop pope John Paul II elevated to the high office as the Bishop of the Hungarians in Exile on August 12, 1989. He arrives just in time to also thank the sisters, for all they did in their long lifetime.

Mindszenty -- who is shortly to be taken from Austria's Mariazell cathedral to Hungary, to the cathedral of Esztergom, which has been the seat of the Hungarian Primate's and the Church from the year 999 to this day — was here in Perth, he too thanked the Hungarian Sisters for the remarkable

work carried out for the glory of the Lord amongst the Australian and Hungarian communities The accompanying picture alongside was taken, when during that visit, the great churchman Hungarian placed some flowers at the Karrakatta grave of the sisters buried there

The Hungarian community of Perth will be happy to meet the Jesuit father who was ordained at Toronto in June 1961 . He is the second bishop the pope gave the Hungarians, but is the first who managed to come to visit us. We shall be happy to see the bishop arrive and will be sad to say goodbye to the good sisters. May the Lord bless them over their remaining years.

More on meditation from Sam GAMALTAGE, Thomlie

brings us closer to "God within- than do most other forms of prayer. In the words of the psalmist, "Be still and know that I am God".

meditation has been the cause of many seeking a deeper spiritual life from the various Eastern traditions, particularly amongst our young. This doesn't speak well of our own Church, for religion without this inner work results in the blind leading the blind. Father Richard Rohr says that religion is one of the most dangerous places to be, as we can hide there under the disguise of respectability. The very function of prayer is to be revealing these hiding places, so we as a Christian community can bare the beams of love.

Sir, I read with interest the letter, (The Record March 21). I share some of Brian Peachy's concerns. However, his conclusions, drawn from Clive SHEARER, partly from hearsay, Esperance appear to be somewhat meditation Christian Sir, harsh and uncharitable. has always existed in the I wonder what evidence Catholic Church, but for Mr Peachy has, if any, some reason has almost regarding Satanic pos- been lost, and with severe session of the many consequences for the people who are practis- Church. It has existed in the ing transcendental tradition known as the Apophatic, under such meditation. teachers and practitioners A Christian believes, as Evagrius, John Cassian, through faith, that God St John of the Cross, St dwells within us by the Theresa, the anonymous power of the Holy Spirit author of the Cloud of given to us at Baptism Unknowing, and more and Confirmation. Then recent teachers as Thomas for Satan to possess us, Merton, Bede Griffiths, Dom either we must deliber- John Main, and Dom Laurence Freeman. to mention ately drive the Holy Spirit a few. out of ourselves or This tradition has much in concede that Satan is common with some Eastern more powerful than God. traditions such as Zen Christian meditation is Buddhism and the Hindu faith. Good advice from based on the teachings of Christ. By the interior some of the above teachers repetition, during a is that we can dialogue and share with these other period of silence and traditions, but there is no stillness, of a single need to adopt or inter -marry prayer word or phrase them as we have our own taken from Scripture, Christian tradition. Perhaps Christian meditation the loss of our own Christian

Sir, In the Mary Jo Meadows controversy one most important fact appears to have been overlooked: the dogma "Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus" — outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation. This dogma is surely based on the words of Our Lord Himself: "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. No man cometh to the Father but by me" (Mat 14.6.). Then we have the words of St Peter: "Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven

topics. She herself was an enthusiast for the Old Testament, and her lectures on this are still remembered. They were often extended to 12 weeks by popular demand, always ended with Mass, and produced quite a crop of Bible lovers, not to mention a few converts. Anxious to bring Adult Education to the country, Sr

Elizabeth produced the three CPI Reflection Discussion Books on the Sunday Liturgical Readings, that were very well received and are still being sought at home and abroad. Some of her former students said this week: "We always wanted more", -She could not see bad in anyone": "A true Franciscan, she saw herself as God's instrument"

and an enthusiastic communicator.

Sr Elizabeth Curran, FMM, who died in Adelaide last week was well known in Perth during the 70's and 80's as a great lover of Holy Scripture

The departing sisters were at all times true to their -motto: Cause harm to no one, be of use to all!

For eight years she was Director of Adult Education at the Catholic Pastoral Institute. During this time she set up some 12 regional centres throughout the parishes of Perth, where morning and evening courses were conducted on a great variety of scriptural and theological

from Reginald MAHER, Coolbellup

given to men whereby we must be saved" (Acts 4.12) and finally the words of the Psalm 95. "All the gods of the Gentiles are devils-. Surely it is ridiculous for Catholics who have the Way, the Truth and the Life, to be rambling around looking for the way in other religions. This is an affront to Catholicism.

from Brian PEA CHEY, Woodlands Sir, George Collopy (The Record March 28) is right. We must have respect for persons such as the Whiteheads and Mary Jo Meadows. They, like all of us, are made in the image and likeness of Almighty God. There is, however, an obligation for us to know what they are teaching and to pray for them. We all have a responsibility, no matter how distasteful, to object as vehemently as possible to heresy and their attacks on the Magisterium of the Church. It is as much the responsibility of my friend George Collopy and especially that of every bishop and priest to oppose their attacks, as it is mine. If we do not do so, many souls could be misled and lost for all eternity.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Challenge for workers Experiences of tertiary study and the workforce, as well as involvement in several different youth groups, were invaluable in shaping Inez Rosario's decision to work fulltime for the Young Christian Workers Movement in Perth, a position she took up in February this year.

New YCW fulttime worker Inez Rosario.

Inez, 21, of Swanview, says her work experience prompted her to try and help young workers discover their dignity, and to maintain that dignity in the face of pressure to conform to the standards of "the

group". "I found that I didn't like the cliques that form in the workplace," said Inez this week, "or the fact that some young workers are pressured into putting on a mask in order to fit in with the group. "In work and social life, there is a fear of people who are different. If you are strong, not afraid to stand on your principles, you tend to be looked down upon as 'not conforming'," she said. "There is plenty of social life with your workmates, but no real support for your per-

sonal life, and this is whereIfeel the YCW has something to offer." After leaving La Salle College in Midland in 1986, Inez studied primary teaching at Mt Lawley for eighteen months before taking up a job in a bank. She left the bank after seven months to return to college, this time to early childhood studies at Churchlands, but after two years realised that teaching was not really where her talents lie. "I'm a people person," she says. "I enjoy meeting and talking with people. With my different expe-

riences since leaving school, I feel I have something to offer young workers." Her experience in several different youth groups, including Antioch and Luke 18, also played a role in her decision to work with the YCW. "Ihave had no previous experience with the YCW," Inez said, "but I'm learning more all the time through talking to people in the movement. Father Denis Sheehan (national YCW chaplain) is particularly supportive and encouraging." The movement in Perth,

Pope's 'passion for peace' In a talk marking World Youth Day on Passion Sunday, March 24, Pope John Paul II said that a 'passion for peace' and a sense of service to others were essential parts of the

Christian spirit.

Speaking to over 40,000 young people gathered in St Peter's Square in

Rome for the Palm Sunday eucharist, the Pope reflected on the importance of peace in

6TH WORLD DAY OF YOUTH

the world today. "How essential is the Christian message in today's world, which is still deeply wounded by wars, conflict and violence of every kind," he said. "It is the task of Christians — and it is your task, dear young people — to remind humanity with word and

ANTIOCH PILGRIMAGE

YOUNG WORKERS' FESTIVAL

20 day tour ex Sydney

August 6-25, 1991 Visiting Poland for the world gathering of youth with Pope John Paul H at Czestochowa, plus Vienna, Venice, Assisi and Rome. Closing date: April 20 Details available from the Youth Office: 328 9622

example that God is the Father of all, and that we are all brothers and sisters." later pope .1 he addressed a special message to young people of the English-speaking world. "May each of you grow in your love for the Lord, and come to an ever deeper appreciation of His gifts of freedom and

"Firstly, we need to make young workers more aware of the YCW, and the fact that there is some form of support available to them," she said. "We also need to build up numbers in the various groups, to increase enthusiasm and build a more active awareness within the movement. "For YCW to get back onto a firm footing,

individual groups need to accept more ownership of the movement." The major issue facing young workers today is unemployment, and the need to retain a sense of their own dignity even if workers lose their jobs or are among the long-term unemployed. Inez feels that her biggest personal challenges are the fact that there is not enough time in the day to do all that should be done, and the need to communicate the real nature of the YCW to young people, many of whom believe that the Church has nothing to offer them.

YCW REUNION

newness of life. "Let your love for Him be effective in your service of all those around you who need your helping hand." Pope John Paul was speaking on the Sixth World Youth Day, for which he had already published a message to the youth of the world, to appear on this page in coming weeks.

CALLING FORMER MEMBERS! RENEW OW FRIENDSHIPS SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT

29 NOVEMBER — 1 DECEMBER in Adelaide, S.A. Details: YCW World Council Office 91b West Terrace, Adelaide SA. 5000

Phone: (08) 231 9549

Back to the crossroads!!

25 NOVEMBER — 1DECEMBER in Adelaide, S.A. A national gathering of young workers, unemployed, students.

1991 Youth Conference Reunion SATURDAY, APRIL 13 St Mary's (Aranmore) Hall Cnr Franklin & Oxford Sts, Leederville

Meet young workers from around the world!

7.30pm — 12 midnight

Cost: Just $120

Tapes, photos, T-shirts and windcheaters ordered during the conference will be available for collection.

Bookings close April 30 Deatils: YCW Ofiice 328 9667

Drinks & snacks on sale

( Includes Accomodation, excludes travel to andfrom Adelaide)

PERTH CATHOLIC YOUTH MINISTRY PRESENTS ITS SECOND

YOUTH RALLY FOR 1991 7.30pm Saturday, May 4 CLAREMONT SUPERDROME

Great music and drama with a message. Youngpeople of all ages are welcome!! ADMISSION FREE!

which currently consists of five established groups and three in formation, faces a number of major challenges, according to Inez.

BE THERE!

YOUTH OFFICE DIRECTORY

CHAPLAIN: FR PARKINSON 328 9622

ANTIOCH 328 9622

CPY 328 8136

YCW 328 9667

CRYO 328 9622

YCS 227 7061

TYCS 328 4071 The'Record, April 4, 1991

Story and books

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Mother of Montreal The old sailing ship sprang a serious leak several days out to sea. On board was a brave band of men and women sailing from France for a frontier village known then as Ville Marie, Mary's city. Today it is called Montreal, Canada. One of those on board was a 33-year -old teacher, Marguerite Bourgeoys. Fortunately the leaking ship was able to return safely to France and the passengers boarded a safer vessel. The voyage was long and hard. Marguerite cared tirelessly for the sick. After two months at sea the ship arrived at Quebec in September 1653. From there they went on to Ville Marie. The rough frontier town, founded just 12 years earlier in 1642, was to be Marguerite's home for the rest of her life. It was far different than Troyes, France, where she grew up with her 11 brothers and sisters in her parents' comfortable home. As Marguerite walked around Ville Marie, she may have recalled the day

she decided to give herself totally to God. She was 20 and walking in a procession honouring Mary. Looking at Mary's statue, Marguerite felt Mary calling her to give herself to God and God's work. She decided to become a nun, but none of the she communities approached would accept her. It was then that she learned of Ville Marie and its need for a teacher. She volunteered. Ville Marie was rough, undeveloped, primitive. Marguerite began to teach catechism, educate young women and help at the hospital. In 1658 she opened the first school in Montreal in an abandoned stone stable. It served also as home for Marguerite and three of her seven students. Next she began a school for Indians and an Indian mission. Then she started a boarding school for the French merchants' daughters and a school for the poor. Marguerite recruited helpers first from France, t hen from Canada. Young women, French, Canadian and Indian,

joined her. Gradually they formed a new kind of religious community. They dressed like the poor and were free to go wherever people needed them. They chose the name Congregation of Notre Dame. Marguerite and her community accepted no gifts of money. They supported themselves by sewing and lived poorly so they could share with the poor. Marguerite and her sisters worked along with the carpenters and stonemasons, in addition to teaching, when the comunity decided to build a shool even though it didn't have enough money for it.

Hetty and Harriet by Graham Oakley, published by Picturemac $6.99. Excellent value for this

price, this book is beautifully illustrated with lots of interest in story and picture to stimulate and entertain children.

The hours are long and tough and Dicey has to learn some things the hard way She also has to ignore anything that isn't the goal. Ignore Jeff's calls. Ignore Gram's illness. Ignore May-

beth's and Sammy's personal struggles. When a drifter calling himself Cisco turns up at the shop, offering his help for free, she accepts, reluctantly. Gradually Dicey begins to welcome his help and his endless talk. She comes to trust him. But does she trust him too much? Seventeen Against the Dealer is the last story in Cynthia Nbigt's cycle about the lineman family. It is fitting that Dicey should be heroine as she was in the first story Homecoming.

Elephants Don't Sit on Cars by David Henry Wilson (Piper $6.99). 'Mummy,' said Jeremy James, 'there's an elephant sitting on Daddy's car and the car doesn't look very happy about!' But elephants don't sit on

cars,' said Mummy. Or do they? If there's trouble about — with elephants, habysitters, burglars. or a shopping trip to the supermarket — Jeremy James will find it. Enjoy more of David Henry Wilson's stories about Jeremy James and his hilarious adventures in Piper.

Seventeen Against the Dealer by Cynthia Voigt (Collins $14.99). Dicey Tillerman is determined to earn her living at what she does best — building boats. She has the shop, the tools and a hank account. All she needs are orders.

Sister Marguerite's example drew more and more young women to her community. She began schools in seven other towns, including Quebec. Ill health forced her to retire to a life of prayer several years before her death in 1700. Today her sisters work around the world. In 1982 Pope John Paul II canonised her as a saint. Prince Cinders by Babbette Cole. Published by Picture Lions. $6.95. Prince Cinders only ever gets to clean up after his hairy, bullying brothers who won't let him go to the palace disco. One night a small, dirty fairy falls down the chimney and makes his dreams come

Mischief at Muddy Bend by Lynne Taylor (Greenhouse Publication). Things are not so peaceful at Muddy Bend on the Murray river.

Rutus the river rat and his friend Gorton, the goanna, are just two of the animals who have decided that something has to be done about the newcomers.

The companion volume to the much loved Princess Smartypants, this is the sixth hook by Babette to he published in the Picture lions series. Between them they have sold over quarter of a million copies.

Grandma Cadbury's safari Tours by Dianne Bates. Published by Angus & Robertson bb. $15.95. Cadbury's grandmother has sold Tootsie, her 36 tonne truck, to buy a 22 seater turbo-charged, custom-built minibus! More riotous adventures in the sequel to Grandma Cadbury's II-ticking Tales, winner of the 1988 WA Young Reader's Award. Join them on this hilarious safari in Australia. . .

PUSSYCAT ATE THE DUMPLINGS Rhymes for the Nursery

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Address Book with illustrations by Julie Vivas (Omnibus). A cute little address book

L il puss Pussycat Ate The Dumplings. Cat Rhymes for the Nursery. Compiled and illustrated by Robin Michael Koontz. Published by Michael O'Mara Macmillian. through $5.99 A collection which will statisfy cat lovers and nursery rhyme lovers with its fresh and funny treatment.

\ ‘, Sum, Feather by Lorna Hill (Piper $6.99). ‘XOuld the swan feather always bring Sylvia luck?

with a sturdy cover for little hands and imaginative illustrations.

As Sylvia Swan leaves Newcastle Central Station she looks forward to a new life at the Royal Ballet School — any young dancer's dream! And once arrived she's lucky enough to meet bubbly Vicki Scott — the daughter of famous prima ballerina Veronica Weston — who helps her get over the first difficult weeks at Sadler's Wells. As Sylvia dances her way to a bright future she never forgets to wear her lucky mascot: a swan feather. And falling in love with handsome Sir Nigel seems to be the luckiest step of all . .

A Close Call by Amanda Harvey. (Macmillan London, bb, $14.95.) Will the nurse get her baby hack?

Her adventures in the dark and mysterious house of the old woman test the nurse's courage and ingenuity

Theatre and literature

Educating Rita!

Amanda Muggleton, renowned Australia wide for her amazing performance in the title role of Willy Russell's delightful comedy Shirley Valentine, returns to Perth at the Hole in the Wall Theatre, Subiaco, to appear in an equally well known show, Educating Rita, also a comedy by Willy Russell. Muggleton's performance is simply superb with its fresh naturalness, synonymous with the part she plays as Rita. Her vigour and youthful approach to the part, endears and makes totally believable, the central character Rita. Since its premiere performance in London in 1980, the multi-award winning comedy Educating Rita has become a favourite with audiences all over the world. The Hole presented the Australian premiere production at Southport Street in 1982 with a return season in 1983. Many people will have seen the film of Educating Rita starring Julie Waters and Michael Caine. Joining Amanda Muggleton in Educating Rita is Alan Cassell, a name synonymous with the development of professional theatre

in Western Australia and one of the founders of the Hole in the Wall. You'll adore Willy Russell's smash-hit comedy about the Liverpool hairdresser who decides to get herself an education. She's enrolled in an Open University literature course because she wants to know. She wants to know everything! She meets up with Frank, her tutor, a middle-aged academic in a north-county university. His bookshelves hide whisky bottles and his acid humour hides his failures. Frank is torn between helping Rita fulfil her ambitions whilst realising that by so helping her, Rita will take on a bourgeois predictability that supplants her former warmth, spontaneity and charm. Educating Rita is directed by Edgar Metcalfe, designed by Ian Jackson with lighting by Lyz Philp. Having opened on March 28, the show will run through to May 4 with Saturday plays, Wednesday and Saturday matinees and running nightly at 8pm from Monday to Saturdays indusive. Bookings at all BOCS outlets with concessions where applicable.

Local author's two gems

Amanda Muggleton in her splendid and delightful presentation of Rita co-starred here with Alan Cassell at The Hole in the Wall in Educating Rita.

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BRANDNAME RECIPE COOKBOOK The Australian Brand Name Recipe Cookbook (Viking O'Neil $18.99). Remember making chocolate crackles, ice-cream from evaporated milk and dips with French Onion Soup? And how the next time you went to make them you'd last the packet with the recipe on it? The Australian Brand Name Recipe Cookbook is the answer to all those lost packets. Containing over 500 all-time family favourites, it is a collection of most requested recipes produced, tried and tested by Austra-

lia's leading food manufacturers — all prepared from the sides of packets, jars and cans and enjoyed by Australian families for decades. In addition, The Australian Brand Name Recipe Cookbook provides all sorts of solutions for those trying times when the refrigerator is bare and you have extra mouths to feed at the last minute. By using either the conventional Index or the Index of Brand Names, you will find a wealth of recipes. Above all, it is full of convenient easy-to-make recipes that will be enjoyed by everybody A Song at Twilight by Bryan Forbes. Published by Collins. bb $29.95. It is London, 1990. and the Right Honourable Toby Bayldon heads a Socialist government presiding over an increasingly anarchic Britain. When a boobytrapped corpse kills two policemen in Hyde Park it also sets off an investigation which starts to threaten the stability of the regime — and the secret intentions of Bayldon's shadowy Russian masters.

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

The Lemon Tree by Rae Desmond Jones, published by Imprint. $16.95. Broken Hill. the Silver City An industrial town that is quietly disintegrating in the harsh economic climate. Unemployment if rife and families are feeling the pressure. The Lemon Tree is a multilayered novel of three generations of the Evans family. It focuses on the life of their only son. John, who drifts from job to job, hostel to boarding house, from Sydney to Whyalla; and his sister Ellen, who wants to 'make it' in the Big Smoke. Moreover, it is a novel about work, the lack of it, and the poetry of life's little dreams.

Potpourris and Other Fragrant Delights by Jacqueline Heriteau. Published by Penguin. $7.95. This practical and entertaining guide gives detailed advice on how to create over a hundred potpourris and other delights such as bath sachets, herbal pillows, moth repellents, scented candles, tussie-mussies, herbal teas and scented inks; and traces the history of the spices and perfumes which have given so much pleasure over the centuries. As well as many modern preparations from all over the world, there are authentic early recipes from the old manuscripts, herbals and stillroom books of Elizabethan England which draw on the ancient knowledge of perfume and medicine,

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cooking and gardening that has been handed down from generation to generation.

Fields Gold: A story of the Yalgoo Goldfields ($9.50) and Poona WA and the Seekers of its Emeralds ($10) by Alex Palmer (Published by and auailable from LAP Industries, 165 Progress Drive North Lake 6/63. Phone 09-3375331No two treasures of nature compliment each other more than the yellow of gold and the green of the emerald. Exploiting this enhancement are Alex Palmer's two

latest books: Fields Gold (update $9.50) and Poona WA and the Seekers of its Emeralds ($10.00). Both explore the discovery and production of gold and emeralds, in until now two little publicised areas of Western Australia Each contains a wealth of detail on the location of these exclusive minerals together with many anecdotes and short biographies of those who, over the past ninety years, attempted to reap the rewards.

The Australian Oxford Paperback Dictionary. Edited by George and Beryl Turner based on The Oxford Paperback Dictionary compiled by Joyce M. Hawkins. Pub by Oxford University Press, $11.95. The Australian Oxford Paperback dictionary is compact, easy to use, and now includes encyclopaedic information. This revised and updated edition is based on the Oxford Paperback Dictionary but has been prepared in Australia under the aegis of the Australian National Dictionary Centre. Its features include: • 60,000 entries, including over 4000 encyclopaedic entries on people, places and institutions as diverse as Bermelong, Yasser Arafat, SWAPO, The Lodge and Medibank.

• A minimum of abbreviations and symbols. • Straightforward, authoritative definitions and meanings, numbered for clarity with many examples to illustrate usage. • An easy-to-use pronunciation system which reflects s tandard Australian English. • Special symbols to identify words which are easily confused, to clarify grammatical points and to indicate the origins of common expressions. • Up-to-date and informal words, like aerobics, compo, glasnost and yuppie. • Names of countries, capital cities, British counties, Australian and American States, Canadian Provinces, major mountains, rivers, seas and constellations.

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For Small Groups 1991 Easter to Pentecost Program

REMAIN IN ME Six sessions of prayer and scripture following Sunday readings beginning third Sunday of Easter, April 14. Book for group members $7 incl post/handling Song tape by Kevin Bates, SM $9 incl post/handling Of ordering multiple copies, we will invoice you.)

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GRACEWOOD invites you to deepen your relationship with the Lord under the direction of Fr Des Williamson OCD. Private and directed retreats for individuals or small groups available at your request. Feel free to contact us anytime. Some vacancies exist in the following retreats.

DIRECTED Retreats — April 2128 and July 6-13.

POUSTINIA Weekends

Evening April 12-14, evening August 2-4.

Long weekend May 31-June 3. Plus direction if requested. What is a retreat? Is it for you? More details and bookings please contact Mrs Betty Peaker, Box 24, PO Cowaramup 6284. Phone (097) 55 6212.

CARETAKER COUPLE Perth based Catholic charitable work requires the services of a live-in caretaker couple. The position is a responsible and fulfilling one and would be suited to a semi-retired middle aged couple. Apply in writing to Stella Mans, 12-16 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle 6160.

FOR SALE The Family Farm 2500 acres prime wheat and sheep country 12km west of Nungarin For further information contact owner

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The Catholic Concerns Committee for Psychiatric Issues is holding its Annual General Meeting on April 11 at 5.30pm at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, Perth. (On the Lord St side of the Perth Railway Terminal). The Catholic Concerns Committee for Psychiatric Issues includes professionals working with people with psychiatric issues, others who have experienced psychiatric hospitals as patients, and family members, friends, priests and religious. The committee has established a number of working groups including * Visiting and befriending to encourage and train people. * Spiritual Support to supplement the services already being provided by the Catholic chaplain to Mental Health and the Pastoral Ministry Team. * Awareness and Public Education raises awareness of the Church.

Our Lady's College, Victoria Square, Mercedes Leaving Class 1960, Junior Class 1958, will hold a reunion on Saturday, September 21, 1991. For further information contact Julie 291 6608, Gabrielle 386 3449, Jill 293 3504, Frances 293 3296.

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* Accommodation and Resources to increase Christian accommodation for those in transition from hospital to the wider community. * Ethics, a forum for ethical issues in the field and in policy formation. Interested people are invited to join the committee and to attend the AG M. Contact Fr Rodney Williams 383 6682, 364 2540, Clare Zilko 450 6176, Barbara Harris 328 8113.

EXPERIENCE PROGRAM The Beginning Experience (WA) offers widowed, separated and divorced people: Level 1 — 9 week support program. Ring Jenny 447 3795. Level 2 — Beginning Experience Weekend. Ring Gemma 447 2922 A /H or Noel 447 9725. Level 3 — Continued Beginnings. Level 4 — 10 week program for those who have done the weekend. Ring Steve 370 2065 A/H or Jean 350 6073 A/H.

MINISTRY MISSION A People in Ministry - Reverse Mission will be presented by Fr Bernie McKenna SM who worked in lay ministry training in the Solomon Islands for 10 years and by The Fullness of Life centre at Leederville Parish Centre, Leederville. On Wednesday, April 17 at 7.30pm. Bookings 227 6883.

GRACE WOOD POUSTINIA Spend the weekend as a hermit in the quiet of 200 acres of unspoiled bushland and beautiful timbers. See advert this issue. For contact and bookings — Mrs Betty Peaker, Box 24, PO Cowaramup, 6284. Phone (097) 55 6212. Fr Des Williamson OCD resident director.

NEWMAN SOCIETY On Wednesday, April 10, at 7.30pm in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College. Fr Joseph Parkinson, Chaplain, Catholic Youth Apostolate, will lecture on "Catholic Social Principles — Theology and Morality". This will be the second lecture in the Social Justice series. Vatican ll Study Group Tuesday, April 9 at 11am: Decree on the Missionary Activity of the Church Chapter 2. This meeting to be p resided over by Father Dynon at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Both events open to all. Contact number 446 7340.

FOCOLAR E The Focolare Movement invites the public to its annual gathering, Mariapolis, to be held at Fairbridge Village, Pinjarra from Friday to Tuesday, April 12-16. Whole families, single people, young people, clergy and religious, people of goodwill, of all churches are welcome. There will be talks, workshops and practical experiences on living the Gospel in daily life, with an aim to promote unity in the family, at work, in the parish, with friends. Separate programmes will be available for children and a creche for babies. Contact: Women's Focolare Centre 381 6170, Men's Focolare Centre 271 3222.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE The annual Mass and Procession in honour of the 44th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin of the Revelation will be on April 14 at 11am at the Bullsbrook Church 'Virgin Mary Mother of the Church". Bishop Healy will be the celebrant. Young girls dressed in white are invited to come forward and form a group for the procession. Picnic and barbecue facilities are available. For further information and bus reservations please ring 344 4054 for Perth, Highgate, Dianella, Marangaroo and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus. Novena commencing Friday, April 5 through to Saturday April 13 will be held at the church each evening at 7.30prn. Sacri Association Inc PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060. Telephone 571 1699.

Duties: The successful applicant will provide secretarial support to the director, and assist in the administration of a resource centre for the study and teaching of Catholic moral values in medicine and health care. This responsible person, able to keep confidentiality, will require skills in typing, shorthand, recording minutes, word processing, filing system, receptionist duties. The applicant will be committed to Catholic moral values and able to relate confidentially to a wide range of professional people. Apply in writing by April 12

Fr W. Black MSC 39 Jugan St, Glendalough 6016 Tel: 242 4066

MEET VISITORS

With an anticipated increase in those wishing to participate in the Fremantle

STELLA MARIS SUNDAY SOCIAL this weekend, an invitation is extended to young people in the Catholic community to help entertain members of the 1500 strong crew of the USS MISSOURI who are being invited to attend. The Sunday evening proceedings begin with Mass in the Stella Mans Centre Chapel at 7.30pm. Stella Mans Centre contact number 335 1958. An enjoyable evening is assured.

Directory of Adult Faith Education 1991 NoWAVailable 'This Directory, then. in isting together for the first One the rill harvest of woe* at , expend* elm:toll faith edlication incur community. is a celebration of the commit,* andachievnvres of so many gnx,ps and incin•iduals. as eelas a resource for othe seeiring information in this held.• Boohoo Robert Huey The Directory can be used by incbviduats. groups. parishes and organisations • enlisting the type of erperlise arid resources needed lo plan tor adult lath educalo The Directory InclUdes• CI Cl Cl Cl ,1

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Easter at St Peter's Bedford was a double happiness for Sonya Maisey who was receivedinto the Church and this weekendmarries Everard figueredo. 411111111111111110111111

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