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Father Martin Roestenburg at the Mass of his ordination to the priesthood c arries to the altar the chalice and paten handed to him by Bishop Healy.
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An article in a vocations booklet and the appeal After five years of studies in Rome, mostly at differing points of view, I think the youth are of the "mixed" life of the Norbertines clinched the the Angelicum University, Father Roestenburg interested." decision for third Australian to be ordained for says the mood there about vocations is optimistic. Father Roestenburg had his own extended the Canons of Premontre. "The Church is here to stay and religious life journey to the religious life even though he had Last Saturday Father Martin Roestenburg was is here to stay," he said of the fact that new been interested in liturgy and the Church from ordained a priest by Bishop Healy in the new St religious orders continue to appear among his early years in Adelaide where he served at Joseph's Queens Park Priory Church. students at the Roman colleges. the cathedral. The mixIn between ing of the time, he contemplaspent four tive and years in Eurmonastic life ope, mostly with parish in Holl• See Page 2 and school and from duties was whence he what attractand his ed Father b studying at St Paul's Brother for 43 years, rothers, Five of the new was 12; Damon AngeWith ages ranging By Ian ESMOND was at one time princiRoestenburg lats (21) of Applecross from 21 to 61 and seminarians are at St after Seminary in Sydney for the pal of CBC Fremantle. is a biology graduate backgrounds as diverafter he had Francis Xavier Semideath of the the Perth Archdiocese. The six Perth semifrom Murdoch Universified as a funeral looked at the Adelaide. nary in parents, had narians who began Gerard and Peter will sity; and Michael Scpadirector and an exWith six new semiCapuchins migrated in their studies for the Gerard Dickinson be doing one-year Anglican priest, the rovich (33) of Spearnarians and four othand Dominipriesthood this year (60) was an Anglican the cam of courses instead of the have years first ers due to be ordained wood worked as a priest for 25 years, are not only a large boosted Perth's total cans usual six or seven. and an aunt who later this year — two funeral director before working in England, increase on previous number of students to had spent as priests and two as was present entering the seminary. Papua New Guinea and years' intake (only Vinh Van Dong (21), a two years at Adelaide, in (13 7 deacons 1 — it seems at last SaturAustralia seven in the last three before student from Maranthe St Franon one Harry Sydney, Argus (43), a in three 1 991 could prove to be day's cereyears), but they are as becoming a Catholic in garoo, was born in religious brother for cis Xavier a good year for priestly varied a group as one pastoral work in Whit1979; Peter St John Vietnam but has lived mony. could imagine. fords parish). (61), a Christian 16 years, is now vocations in Perth. in Australia since he Seminary in Since their Adelaide. arrival in The NorbAustralia, "A lot of young people are confused and are ertine emphasis on liturgy and the recitation of the Norbertines now have three local men being pulled in different directions and if the the Hours of the Church's prayer also *attracted ordained to the priesthood and another a Church could offer them something it would be professed Brother at the St Norbert's College. the priest who will return to Rome late next year great," he said. to complete his liturgical studies at San Anselmo Father Roestenburg says that now a few The growth of sects and cults shows that young University. European bishops are looking with interest at the people are looking for something. Norbertine idea of several priests living together In the meantime he will help with religious "If the Church would look at itself and be clear t eaching at St Norbert's College and in the for mutual support but going out to their cut in what it teaches and not have so many respective parish areas. Queens Park parish.
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By IAN ESMOND West Australian dioceses began taking a more direct role in the training of their priests this month when Fr Justin Bianchini represented WA at the inaugural meeting of a new-look Seminary Council. The policy-making body at St Francis Xavier Seminary in Adelaide, where most
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WA students for the diocesan priesthood have up to 50% of the students here," he "The seminary wants to know our ideas, are trained, has been restructured and for said. and council meetings are the regular the first time WA has a representative. "It's important that we put forward our forum in which we can do it," Fr Justin Fr Justin, who is also Vocations Director views regarding our own particular needs said. for the Archdiocese of Perth, said it was for the training of our priests." "WA will also be more aware of what is necessary for the West, and Perth in Fr Justin gave as a current example the happening in the seminary as I can see particular, to have input into the making need for a revised shorter seminary course developments first hand. and reviewing of seminary policy. for late vocations — two Perth students "It is also a good way for us to keep in "Although the seminary legally belongs have begun one-year courses this year (the touch with our seminarians as I'll be in to the South Australian dioceses, WA can normal length is 6-7 years). Adelaide for four meetings a year."
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Last Thursday night Bishop Healy launched the Directory of Adult Education by untying a bundle of the 120-page booklet. A 120-page book directory of Adult Faith Education probably puts Perth's effort ahead of anything similar so far in Australia. The book includes detailed lists of organisations, resource persons, interstate and overseas courses, and suggestions for planning local adult education. It is the work of Anne was who Harris employed last year to conduct an adult education consultation which eventually requested such a directory. "It's not complete and if any person or resource has been overlooked we will be happy to include it in the next edition,"
Anne said, pointing out that it would be updated at the beginning of each year. was book "The requested because many people were aware of adult education initiatives taking place but didn't know how to get in touch," Anne said. The book is aimed at priests, at major committees in parishes, at schools and other bodies who are involved in adult education and can be obtained from the Pastoral Planning office, 459 Hay St.
The book is dedicated to Foley Archbishop because of his strong interest in the project.
"I'll have one of those," said Sr Sonia Wagner as adult education directory order forms were passed around at last week's meeting of parish representatives.
Sr Sonia said the MLPs are the important communication people between pastoral planning and the parish communities and priests.
Sister Sonia, the director of pastoral planning addressed the 80 mission liaison persons (MLP) from 53 parishes who formed regional groups to compare notes on what they are doing.
Sister Sonia is currently visiting the zone meetings of priests and setting up the parish development teams. Her other project is the setting up of the Catholic Adult Faith Education Services (CAFES).
Fourteen parishes sent apologies and have been since contacted; nine parishes were not heard from and six do not have MLPs yet.
In further pastoral planning developments two parish development workers have been appointed until December 1992.
"They were very energetic and hopeful," said Sr Sonia. Initiatives are being taken and people are responding creatively and taking their own steps.
Marist Father Bernard McKenna will be full time and Mrs Marion Moran, MLP for Lesmurdie will be a part time worker.
The MLP meetings will now be conducted in the country parishes.
increasing daily," Mr by embarking on a Statewide program to involve Lambe said. many more people in the Right now the society is receiving more than 80 society's work — and the calls a day from needy drive for new members is families and which as urgent in the country require personal calls to as it is in the metropolihomes to assess their tan area." immediate needs as well He said he was confias to offer them encour- dent there were many agement and their men and women in friendship. parishes throughout the "We have to meet these State who could be challenges if we are to encouraged to come maintain the objectives forward and to become of the St Vincent de Paul involved in doing someSociety, and to further thing worthwhile to help extend the charitable, others less fortunate than welfare and other worth- themselves while at the while work to which we same time embracing the are committed," Mr ideals and objectives of Lambe said. the society as a means of "And the only way we improving their own can do this," he added, "is spirituality.
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Parish development work has been done part time for the past three years by Mrs Robin Beech.
As part of the recruitment program the society is planning short, but effective training programs to ensure quality home visitation and other aspects of its charitable and welfare work. "These programs will also help people who, because of shyness and inexperience in dealing with home visitations, have in the past, not come forward to offer their services. "At the same time," Mr Lambe said, "it should not be assumed that all of our work is concentrated on home and family visitations. We also require volunteers to
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assist in the collection and sorting of clothing for recycling, repairs to furniture and other household items and toys, street appeals, staffing of shops and centres, and prison and hospital visitations." Society conferences are established in most parishes and Mr Lambe said people who might be interested in joining could make contact with their parish priest who would put them in touch with local Vincentians or they could seek further information direct from the society's head office at Ozanam House, 17-19 Bronte Street, East Perth 6004 (Phone 325 3472).
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The UNIVERSE England Only the incurably self-righteous and blinkered can find cause for satisfaction as Saddam Hussein remains free to crush Kurds and Shias with undiminished ferocity. Yet the British plan to set up a safe haven of refugees is the only humane proposal on the table. There are, however, too many skeletons in too many cupboards, including our own, for governments to agree readily to intervene in the domestic affairs of other states. Although the UN has moved, for instance, into Cyprus and the Congo, it was also on invitation. Saddam Hussein has been swift to declare his absolute resistance to UN action within his own territory. Too many member states are certain to invoke the principle of non-intervention. But sovereignty does not confer on rulers absolute power to do so as they please within their own borders. No administration is above the law. None can be permitted to flout the basic human rights of its citizens nor engage in genocide against its ethnic minorities. States do not create or confer human rights. They recognise and endorse them. Iraq's behaviour is both a moral and legal outrage. Dialogue and diplomacy have proved woefully inadequate to deal with international criminals like Saddam Hussein. The relief supplies being flown in are welcome but much more can and should be done. The same efficiency and resolve shown by the coalition in the military enterprise have to be applied to the cause of humanity. Iran and Turkey cannot be left to deal with the tide of human suffering on their own. But any humanitarian aid tackles only the symptoms and not the cause. The regime of Saddam Hussein would seem to be beyond redempton. The international community should exert any pressure, short of war, to end this tyranny and genocide. Our prayer at this time must be intercession for the victims rather than thanksgiving for a very limited victory.
The CATHOLIC WEEKLY Sydney The New World Order which so enthusiastically applauded the Operation Desert Storm's glorious "turkey shoot" of 100,000 conscripts of President Saddam Hussein's army after the ceasefire stood idly by as the Iraqi Kurds were massacred by the army's remnants. The switch was from calculated aggression to an equally carefully reckoned inertia as Britain and the United States resisted calls to intervene to prevent the slaughter and starvation as rebellions by Kurds in northern Iraq and Shi'ites in southern Iraq were crushed. The cries of the victims could not compete with the fanfare for the return of the American troops. "The Kurds have no friends" is the slogan of this old and irrepressible Indo-European people. Muslims by religion, their country is divided up among five states — Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Syria and the USSR and the 20 million Kurds are alone and unaided. No country wants an autonomous Kurdish region. The Kurds were promised a Kurdish State in 1920, but this was sacrificed three years later by Britain and France when they signed the Treaty of Lausanne. The Kurds lost their dream on the altar of international greed and in the interests of modern Turkey, thus joining the Armenians as yet another "forgotten people", much like the East Timorese are ignored today. From the dawn of history the Kurds have not submitted to any empire or conqueror for long. They fought the Sumerian dynasties, they helped to overthrow Babylon and Nineveh. Neither Mongol, Turk nor Arab invader could subdue them. "The Kurds have no friends." Reluctantly an international airlift has begun dropping food to tens of thousands of Kurds fleeing from the Iraqi Army. The more we see what is happening to the Kurds, the more difficult it is to believe that peace, still less justice, has been brought to the region. 4
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ár of powerful a ainst the weak' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the Vatican's top doctrinal official, told a meeting of the world's cardinals that widespread abortion today is part of a "war of the powerful against the weak". At the start of a threeday meeting at the Vatican April 4, Cardinal Ratzinger warned that the church was losing ground in its struggle to protect the unborn, the handicapped, the sick and the elderly. The causes, he said, were a misunderstood sexuality, a modern failure of conscience and an artificial separation between personal ethics and political life. The cardinal suggested drawing up a new church document in defence of human life — one that goes beyond personal morality and deals specifically with the social and political sides of the issue.
"We are witnesses today of an authentic war of the powerful against the weak, a war that aims at the elimination of the handicapped, of those who are bothersome and even those who are simply poor and 'useless'," Cardinal Ratzinger said. "With the complicity of states, colossal means are employed against individuaLs — at the dawn of life, or when life is made vulnerable by an accident of disease, or when it is about to end," he said. While praising the prolife movement, Cardinal Ratzinger said that the church "must frankly recognise that the opposite movement has up to now been stronger," especially in pushing through pro-abortion legislation. He cited estimates that abortions worldwide now total 30 million-40 million a year. Many modern contraceptives actually work as abortif-
acients, he said, and it is impossible to calculate the toll of this "hidden massacre". The cardinal also denounced a number of medical practices: aborted foetuses that are used as "guinea pigs" in experiments or as a source of material for medicines; pre-natal diagnosis that is used to screen defective foetuses and target them for abortion; and moribund patients who are put to death "to respond to the demand for transplant organs," or who are experimented upon as "warm cadavers". Part of the blame for the "legislative victory" of forces supporting abortion and the other practices, Cardinal Ratzinger said, can be found in the divorce between ethics and politics, a mentality that sees "the total freedom of choice by each individual" as the only value deserving of respect.
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EVRY, France (CNS): Construction of France's first cathedral in more than a century has begun, but big business may eventually have the final word on the fate of the futuristic building.
Set in the new urban sprawl of Evry on the southern fringes of Paris, the red-brick, cylindershaped cathedral is the brainchild of Bishop Guy Herbulot of EvryCorbeil-Essonnes, who said he wanted to give the district a soul.
cathedral? You!" they suggested.
Church officials said 80,000 faithful sent in $3 million to help erect the cathedral, a tall tube with a roof sliced off on the diagonal that is to be topped by 35 maple trees ringing it. Intended ,to seat 1200 worshipers, the cathedral — the first for the 25year-old diocese — was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta to stand 35 metres high, about the same as an average 12story building.
Unlike his predecessors of old, however, Bishop A fter critics comHerbulot could not raise plained about the the funds for such a cathedral's design and mighty project from fund-raising techniques, church coffers alone, or which included making from a handful of pledges by credit card, wealthy donors. Pope John Paul II endorsed the project last turned to bishop The big companies and mod- May in an audience with ern marketing tech- Bishop Herbulot and niques. So far half of the cathedral supporters. estimated $12 million "It is natural to have a needed to complete the t wo-year project has work of contemporary art" as a "monument been raised. making sense to generaHuge placards went tions wanting to open the up in railway stations way to the third millenand along city streets and -IlitlITI", the pope said. tens of thousands of leaflets were mailed to The diocese provided potential donors. $2 million toward the "Who can build a cost, while the govern-
ment, bypa.s,cing France's 1905 law separating church and state. donated $1 million as a cultural subsidy, to help build a museum of sacred art inside the cathedral. Another $6 million still needs to be found if the cathedral is to be completed. To do that, the Church has endorsed the creation of a fund-raising committee made up of some of France's most prestigious entrepreneurs, who are seeking help from big business.
"This is the first time the state, the Church and private enterprise have banded together" in France, committee president Main-Dominique Perrin of Cartier International said. "It feels good to upset old traditionss in this way." The Church is optimistic that the money will be found. However, some French commentators fear the Evry cathedral could face the same fate as Barcelona's architecturally ambitious Sagrada Familia, which has been under construction for decades.
Given that the political voice of the powerful is stronger than that of the weak, he said, modern states should make sure that certain "objective fundamental rights" are protected above the beyond political and social conventions. This includes the right to life from the moment of conception. Cardinal Ratzinger said a second factor in the "war" against the weak was a dilution of the idea of conscience, which many people now understand as meaning simply "good intentions". The traditional church teaching that an individual must never act against his or her conscience, he said, has been turned into a "deification of subjectivity, in which the conscience is the infallible oracle." Modern sexuality, the cardinal added, has been depersonalised and exploited. It is largely experienced as an OCCA sion of pleasure and not
as a gift of self, he said. This is seen in the common attitude toward having children, which Cardinal Ratzinger characterised as: "A child, yes. But whenIwant and how I want it." Feminism appears to be a legitimate response to the exploitation of women, he said, but in fact it often adopts the same dualism between body and reason. "When a woman supports free love and is able to claim the right to abortion," he said, she acts "against her own ferninity," which includes the element of maternity. To those who suggest that birth control is an answer to widespread abortion, Cardinal Ratzinger said this theory is contradicted by experience. He said that where both practices are legal, both appear to increase. Contraceptive birth control, he said, does not aim at responsible procreation.
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VATICAN CITY: Pope John Paul's Good Friday Way of The Cross at the Colosseum saw seven non-biblical stations replaced bvaultthe id. traditional format still remains A live broadcast to 26 countries saw Pope John Paul "stop" at new biblically based stations: "Jesus at the Garden of Olives" (1), "Jesus betrayed by Judas is arrested" (2), "Jesus is condemned by the Sanhedrin" (3), "Jesus is denied by Peter" (4), "Jesus is scourged and crowned with thorns" (6), "Jesus promises the Kingdom to the Good Thief" (11), "Jesus on the Cross, his Mother and the Disciple" (12). The other seven stations remain unchanged although their order has been slightly modified in the new version. "This Way of The Cross," said Msgr Piero Marini, master of the pontifical liturgical celebrations, "does not intend to change the traditional text, which remains fully valid and could be taken up again in coming years". The tradition of the Way of The Cross goes back to the Middle Ages, having followed different forms regarding both the number of stations and their contents. The current form dates from the first half of the 17th century in Spain. The following century it was brought to Italy by St Leonard of Port Maurice, who personally erected 532 Ways of the Cross includiing the most famous — at the Colosseum — on the request of Pope Benedict XIV to commemorate the 1750 Holy Year.
Catholic-Orthodox ties worse ing claim KIEV, USSR (CNS): Orthodox R ussian bishops will not participate in Pope John ecumenical Paul's prayer service for Europe later this year if Orthodox-Vatican relations remain as they are, a leading Orthodox bishop said.
Metropolitan Filaret of Kiev told Western journalists April 3 that "at present we see a sharpening of relations with the Vatican." And the Russian Orthodox, often consi-
dered the driving force behind Orthodox unity talks with the Vatican, aren't the only ones feeling cool towards Rome, he said. The international PanOrthodox dialogue with t he Roman Catholic Church "has come to a halt," he said. As in the Ukraine, the emergence of Easternrite churches after decades of communist repression in Czechoslovakia and Romania has led to tensions with Orthodox churches there, he said.
In the Ukraine and Romania, the Eastern rites were forcibly merged with their Orthodox counterparts. Now the Eastern rites are trying to reclaim their property and their faithful. "All the Orthodox are concerned about the aggressive proselytism of the Uniates," he said. "Uniate" refers to churches which have an Orthodox tradition but are in union with Rome. Eastern-rite Catholics consider the term to be derogatory.
The Eastern-rite churches in the Ukraine and Romania continued functioning underground after they were outlawed in the late 1940s. But the majority of faithful participated in Orthodox services, which were the only legal form of worship. Many, but not all of them, are returning to their families' traditional Catholic faith. Metropolitan Filaret underlined his current with dissatisfaction Rome when asked about
a possible papal trip to the Soviet Union. "The pope was invited to the Soviet Union by the president of our country" when the two met in December 1989, "so it is a concern of our president and the pope," he said. "If the pope wants to be a guest of our church and not just of the government, then he will have to talk to us about that," the metropolitan said. Vatican officials have said that a papal trip to the Soviet Union would be unlikely before 1993.
Kievans studied the constellations projected onto the dome of the old church, while Catholics went to private apartments to attend the two Masses a month their pastor was allowed. Between the planetarium and the building's original floor are three floors of apartments and offices built by the Soviet government in the 1950s. The planetarium is now the chapel, its auditorium seats serving as pews.
Icons and religious paintings, most of which were gifts, hang on the purple and sky blue walls. A wooden pulpit and altar carved in Kiev are the only furnishings with a remotely matching style. Communion rarely includes wine for anyone but the celebrant because it's too expensive. The parish plans to gut the building and restore the church. Demolishing the structure and building a new church would undoubtedly be less expensive, but getting government permission to do so would be impossible, said the priest Fr Krapan. The only land the government seems willing to assign for new church construction is in the suburbs of this city of three million people. There were 27 Catholic
churches in Kiev before the Russian Revolution. There are now two — this parish of St Alexander and one in the suburbs, St Nicholas. Father Krapan was born in Latvia and has worked in the Ukraine for 23 years. He began ministering in Kiev in 1980, although he was allowed to spend only two days a month in the city. "Fifteen days after the catastrophe of Chernobyl in 1986 I received permission to celebrate Mass every day," he said. "The government wanted to calm the people" after the massive radiation leak at the nuclear reactor. Father Krapan estimates the Catholic community of Kiev to number about 12,000 people. The combined attendance at his five
J OHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNS): The social teaching of the Catholic Church has not had much of an influence on the conscience or behaviour of Catholics, said a leading South African bishop.
Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban, spoke at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg after receiving an honorary doctorate in law. In his talk on "Negotiations, Social Change and Social Ethics," the archbishop described the social teachings of the
church as "an attempt to apply the lessons of the Christian Gospel to social attitudes and situations".
we "allow the courtesy and respect to break down easily and we reach for our weapons".
He said Pope Leo XIII initiated the church's social teaching 100 years ago with his encyclical "Rerum Novarum" on work and workers' rights. From that beginning, the Church's social teaching expanded into other issues such as excesses of capitalism, As individuals, Archbi- ideologies such as fasshop Hurley said, we cism, Nazism, Marxism often behave "quite and racism, then to respectably" toward one international relations another, while as and such issues as war members of different and peace. nations, race, classes, cultures and religions, "In spite of the long
"What has been propounded in the matter of justice and love has been superb, but it has not rubbed off much on social behaviour nor sunk very deeply into the social conscience," he said.
drawn-out effort, Catholic social teaching is still the Church's bestkept secret," he said. "It has had little impact on the vast majority of church members." South Africa faces a tragic future if it does not act rationally and unselfishly as it passes from the apartheid society of today, with almost total political and economic power concentrated in white hands, to a sharing society in which the government will inevitably be in black hands, Archbishop Hurley said. "There is only one solution," he said. "We must recognise that we
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Bishops blast condom move DUBLIN: The Irish bishops have clearly stated that there can be no chahge in the moral law no matter what changes take place in civl law. The bishops' conference discussed a ;overnment proposal to reduce the age at which :ondorns can be bought from 18 to 16. Bishop Joseph Duffy, the spokesman for the hierarchy, said the bishops were concerned to remind Catholics that the teaching of the Church and civil legislation were independent of each other.
College's first Catholic provost DUBLIN: For the first time in its 400-year history Trinity College, Dublin is to have a Catholic provost. Professor Tom Mitchell, a 51-year-old classicist from Mayo, who spent his early career in America, will take up office in August. He was one of six candidates for the post, four of whom were Protestants. His religion was never an issue. "The little attention paid to it represents a change." His election still involved a nerve-wracking procedure where the 95 per cent poll, mostly full-time academics, voted five times in rapid succession, eliminating a single contender at each count. One of his main ambitions in his new post is to attract back to Trinity the large number of Northern Protestants who since the 60s have dwindled to a trickle. "I want to make Trinity a college for all of Ireland," he says. "It is an ideal place to gather together students from all over the country."
Brave priest dies at 80 ROME: Fr Tullio Folezzani, the Italian parish priest thought to be the model for the fictional Don Camillo in the novels of Giovanni Guareschi, has died at the age of 80. Like Don Camillo, the priest had a longstanding rivalry with a communist mayor, Allessandro Cassar, the model for Peppone in the best-selling books. Fr Folezzani was parish priest in the village of Neviano degli Arduini, where he won a reputation for stubborness and bravery.
Civil law could affect the way people thought about right and wrong, he said. Change in the civil law could give the mistaken impression that the moral law had also changed. The legislation on condoms could affect the way people thought about marriage, about the family and about fidelity. It could make living a decent life more difficult for the young. Bishop Jeremiah Newman of Limerick branded as a 'red herring' the argument that the move would combat the spread of AIDS. The Taoiseach Charles Haughey, putting
forward the AIDS argument, said it was not proper for the hierarchy to decide what legislators should do. But Bishop Newman said the move by Mr Haughey's government was as misconceived as it was shocking. He said countries in Europe where condoms were freely available were infested with AIDS. Archbishop Desmond Connell of Dublin said it was "extraordinary" that no political party would defend what many people saw as fundamental values of family life.
Nuns swap castle for villa BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNS): Six now famous elderly Belgian nuns who sold their convent and who in the face of a financial controversy fled by limousine to a castle in the south of France will settle down in Belgium again — in a luxurious 8 room villa, near Antwerp.
The nuns returned to Belgium in December
because their French castle had no heating. They have been staying at a holiday resort on the Belgian coast. The year-old saga began when the Poor Clare nuns, the numbering eight, sold their convent for $1.4 million and used
Budget prediction .
the money to buy the castle, the limousine and several racehorses. Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Brugge, Belgium, dismissed the abbess and another nun for failing to let the convent books be examined by the diocese and for refusing to let a church official enter the convent.
The nuns fled to France in the $110,000 limousine, leaving the racehorses behind. Meanwhile, their financial manager, Ronny Crab, was arrested on forgery, fraud and breach of confidence charges. He is free pending trial. The nuns plan to set up
a chapel above the garage of the villa, but Bishop Vangheluwe is unhappy with their plans. "They cannot just create a chapel like that. They have to ask for permission from the church authorities," a spokesman for the bishop said. "It's all a bit weird."
In the red
VATICAN CITY, (CNS): tions of the universal The Holy See estimates a Church. Peter's Pence is a special record $91.5 million shortfall in its 1991 fund by which Catholics can budget, a 6.5 per cent contribute money directly to the pope for his use. In many increase from 1990. countries, contributions The final figure may be come from a special collechigher because current tion. Before it began to be calculations do not include tapped to cover budget variations in the amount of deficits, Peter's Pence money that must be set aside money went to papal charbefore the end of the year for itable projects around the a pension fund, said a world. Vatican announcement. The Holy See's estimated The Vatican has not had a budget for 1991 lists total pension fund and in the past expenses as $168.1 million paid pension and other and total income as $76.6 retirement benefits from its million. No breakdowns of expenses and income are yearly operating budget. The deficit in 1990 was given. Expenses and income are nearly $86 million. calculated in lire, the Italian The Vatican hopes to make currency, since most up the deficit through a expenses are in lira. The combination of the annual Vatican converted the figPeter's Pence contributions ures to dollars at the current and an expected $13 million exchange rate of 1.250 to the surplus in the 1991 budget dollar. for the Vatican city-state. The Vatican said the 1990 The Vatican released the Peter's Pence contributions figures after a major meet- totalled $57.8 million, an ing of presidents of bishops' increase of 19.3 per cent conferences held to discuss from 1989. But it did not say ways of helping the Vatican whether Peter's Pence and meet the chronic deficit. the 1990 Vatican city-state The city-state budget, surplus covered the 1990 concerned with running the Holy See deficit of approxiphysical plant of the tiny mately $86 million. The 1991 Peter's Pence state, has income from property and the sales of contributions would have to stamps, coins and museum increase by 36 per cent to tickets. It is separate from meet the 1991 deficit when the budget of the Holy See, combined with the anticiwhich oversees the opera- pated city-state surplus.
VATICAN CITY: Peter's Pence is not the long term solution to funding the Vatican deficit and dioceses are being asked for support. At a two-day meeting of
100 bishops' conference presidents and other officials, Vatican officials emphasised that the Holy See could not keep relying on Peter's Pence — a papal discretionary fund — to cover annual deficits. A more permanent solution is needed, one based more on financial certainty than on a "methodology of hope", said Cardinal Szoka, head of the Prefecture for the Economic Affairs of the Holy See. The Vatican had an operating budget deficit of some $55 million in 1989, the latest in a string of shortfalls dating to the early 1980s. As in most years, the worldwide Peter's Pence collection was expected to make up most of the difference in 1989.
But the cardinal noted that Peter's Pence was not meant to cover the deficit. It was intended
for papal charity projects and other important tasks — for example, meeting the "urgent needs of the church in Eastern Europe," he said. Archbishop Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, said the Vatican's precarious finances made it "more urgent than ever" to examine the "practical forms through which the various dioceses can contribute to the needs of the Apostolic See." 'The Church of Rome gives much to the particular churches throughout the world, and it is therefore fair that it expects much from them in return," he said. Cardinal Lara, president of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See, said canon law clearly foresees that local churches should help finance Vatican operations. This is not a simple "exhortation", but a "clear obligation", he said. Cardinal Castillo Lara also offered a brief but spirited defense of the Vatican's overall fiscAl administration. The Holy
See's chronic deficit, he said, is not the result of bad management. Austerity measures have already been adopted, he said, but they are not enough. Nor would it be productive to eliminate some Vatican agencies, he said. The Vatican financial picture is especially worrisome because the Holy See's annual investment income is relatively limited, while operational costs have increased steadily. In 1989, income was about $88 million while expenditures totalled more than $140 million. As in most years, the Peter's Pence collection made up much of the shortfall in 1989. but Peter's Pence has varied over the years, and in fact was down $5 million in
Few if any bishops wanted to add a second collection for Vatican operations, Archbishop Pilarczyk said.
respect is a lot easier than giving for the needs of an institution," he said.
1989.
Additionally, it is subject to exchange-market fluctuations. Much of the collection comes from U.S. Catholics, for example, and the recent drop in the dollar's exchange value has caused serious additional concern for the 1990 budget.
Bishops pledge to help raise money VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Bishops representing the Church worldwide pledged to help raise whatever is necessary to cover the Vatican's chronic deficit.
ual diocese" in making sure the Vatican has enough operating funds each year. The bishops said they had agreed to "work together to cover what is necessary, in order to guarantee the work of the Apostolic See".
In a letter to their fellow bishop at the close of a twoday meeting at the Vatican, the presidents of bishops' conferences urged the "collaboration of every individ-
A separate Vatican statement said merely that the bishops had expressed "solidarity" with the Vatican and would now discuss the problem with other
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members of their respective conferences. Pope John Paul II summoned the bishops to Rome to help find a more systematic solution to the Vatican's annual operating deficit, which was $55 million in 1989. The deficits have largely been covered by Peter's Pence, an annual collection meant for papal charities and projects. Vatican officials empha-
sised that both canon law and Church tradition say local dioceses must help the Church's central administration pay for its operating costs. The bishops agreed. Archbishop Pilarczyk, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. said the meeting had produced a consensus that "Yes, we must support the Holy See, and yes, we
must support the Holy Father." Archbishop Pilarczyk said there were different opinions on the best way to raise additional funds. He said one suggestion was to "work real hard on Peter's Pence" as the single annual collection — with the understanding that this would be for the pope's use, but would also represent the contribution of the local Churches to Vatican operations.
He said that in the United States Peter's Pence has done well, increasing about 3 per cent over the last five years. One reason is that US Catholics see it as "our contribution to the pope", he said. "Giving for the needs of a person you recognise and
"I think Catholics in the United States are very fond of the pope. They see this collection as the pope's collection, and they want to contribute to it," the archbishop said. "Obviously, everybody can be doing more," he said, and that will be part of his message to US Bishops.
The story behind this sketch By Father Dino Torresan, SC
It is always the same dilemma: which way to go? Pity the poor priests and t eachers: they seem to be the meat in the sandwhiches. Whichever way, whatever enterprise or whatever side they take, they are criticised. It seems there is no way out. The more one wants to incarnate the Good News, the more in trouble one seems to be. But difficulties do not reveal the reward to be reaped; they simply darken the picture. However, for people believing in the Risen
Christ that is the difference between the empty tomb and the Christ of the Resurrection.
and hearts, because both hands and hearts are inclusive of the whole person.
The believers know that there is no Good Friday without Easter Sunday, as there is no Easter Sunday without Good Friday.
Let me share with you a story.
The Archdiocesan Pastoral Planning calls us to be inclusive. At the Attadale Archdiocesan Assembly we voted inclusiveness to be one of the first priorities of our local Church. The Convention on Multiculturalism and the Catholic Church in WA, to occur within three weeks, May 14-16 at the Catholic Education Centre, Leederville, wants to bring to fruition a dream which comprises hands
There was once upon a time a very bad king. He gave orders to cut off the hands of anyone caught giving something in charity to others. Everyone in his kingdom was frightened: no more help of any kind was given to anyone. A beggar one day knocked at the door of a poor woman. "Please, give me something to eat!", he implored. "I can't!, said the woman, "the king will cut off my hands". "In the name of God," he
Click! So
pletely lost; but towards sunset here is an oasis with plenty of good The woman was deeply water to drink. touched, and gave him She bent down to two loaves of bread. quench her thirst, but the Some time later, the little boy on her cruel king heard about shoulders fell into the the woman's action; he water, and was drowncalled for her and had ing. She burst into tears. her hands cut off. Suddenly, two men But she was a beautiful appeared beside her and woman, and he liked her, asked what was the so he wanted her to stay trouble. "I had a little boy," she at the palace. said, "and when Ibent to But the other women drink he fell into the became jealous of her water, not having any special treatment; and hands, I can't resuce accused her of having him!" betrayed the trust of the So the two rescued the king. little one. Thus the king, furious, They they asked: sent her into the desert to "What about your die, herself and her little hands? Do you want to child. have them back?" She wandered around "Oh yes!," she said. And the whole day corn- her hands were returned.
insisted, "please help me!"
igrant memories
Young Hungarian women who arrived in 1959.
A Dutch family (the Verschurens) on their arrival in 1954.
Vicki Mackey, photographic archivist on The West Australian in Perth, was dusting off her newspaper's 130-year collection of photographs in preparation for an office move when she came across box after box of pictures of newly arrived migrants.
Calwell's "populate or perish" dictum, shiploads of migrants came into Fremantle their first port of call to Australia.
"It was just amazing," she said. "I'm an old sentimentalist, soI was extremely touched by the photographs. Obviously, here was a photographic record of part of our state's history which needed to be indexed and put together. "When I approached management with the idea of publishing some of the photographs they were enthusiastic and supportive. The result is The Migrant Album, which gies migrants the unique opportunity of finding themselves in some of these photos." When migration to Australia was a novelty after Arthur
"Do you know who we will transform our country into a heart, an are?, they finally asked "No, I don't!," she inclusive heart (even the physical shape of Austraanswered. speaks of a heart!). lia "We are the two loaves of bread that you gave to I believe people are the beggar." lonely because they build Having said that, they walls instead of bridges. Thus don't look for flaws disappeared. as you go through life; it The Logo of the Con- is easy enough to find vention of Mulitcultural- them. It is wise to be kind, ism tries to convey the and sometimes blind, message on how we can and to look for the virtues transform a situation of behind them. tension into a reality of love. The Archdiocesan Convention on MulticultuInside Australia there ralism and the Catholic are many people on the Church in WA is the move (the feet): are these right opportunity for us people still walking on to get together and the outskirts of our lives? discuss the different To avoid such situations viabilities for our local of refusal, we must create Church and communipleasant opportunities of ties and hence build the welcoming (the hands). right bridges which will It is then that we as make us One in our Christians (the cross) diversity.
Photographers from The West Australian got on board and took pictures of people who were disembarking as well as those who were in transit to the eastern states. Many are pictures of people leaving Perth by train for the east having arrived here by ship. The Battye Library in Perth put me on to the urgency of some ethnic groups searching their roots in this country. Not all ofthe 1200 photographs could be published in the
48-page catalogue, but all are listed in chronological order
and are available for purchase.
The Migrant Album is available for $4.95 from The West Australian press photographs counter, 219 St George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, or by telephoning Vicki Mackey on (09) 482 3002.
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Finding hew angles 11 old gospel stories
DISCUSSION POINTS What insight or principle, perhaps, discovered through reading or during a seminar or small-group meeting, enables you to read the Bible more profitably? Selected responses from readers: "I'm able to read the Bible most profitably when I associate what I'm reading with my personal, daily activities . . . I read it to gain faith and direction for big decisions; for example, when we were making the decision to adopt." Heidi Curtin "Through different Bible study groups . . . I've learned it's a help to share and discuss with others because each person sees something different in a particular passage." — Pat Johnson "I use study guides, or an article, or a person's recommendation to help me focus my attention on a certain theme — like Lent, or Christmas, or how Scripture can stengthen us during times of sadness or stress." — Bonnie Cluts "Through a Bible study group, I learned how to analyse a Scripture passage in regard to its historical context. I've found that to be helpful. I also try to compare different translations that can lead to a deeper understanding of what the original writers were trying to say." — Rick Hardebeck "I think it's important, too, to realise that the Scriptture shouldn't be interpreted without looking at it within the context of the whole. It should be studied with all the aids that are available — especially with a difficult passage." — Sharon Chari
FOOD FOR THOUGHT We still don't know the Bible well enough. At least you get that impression from biblical researchers. The species of biblical researcher comes in many varieties. There are, first, the scholars in ancient languages. They labour alongside archeologists
to decipher texts unearthed from biblical times. Aided by historians, they keep alert to the tendency to misunderstand ancient texts by interpreting them as though they were new — written according to thought modern patterns.
unfolding by itself. That ur old images keep is how it is with stories ' truding. we know very well. ake the story of the But do we really know ultiplication of the them? Often our familyes (Mark 6:34-44), iarity with them may !carting with the way we blind us. rfer to it. Many Bible stories are Even before he finished part of our memories ks written by St Mark those first few words, my from childhood, and that -rd the other evangelists, mind clicked, "Ah yes! is how we hear them, just le individual stories The multiplication of the as when we were ithin each Gospel were 3t given any titles. Their loaves.Iknow that story." children. With that I stopped The same Bible stories, ties in our translations listening. the Gospels were however, have great Instead, I let the story power to sustain and rovided by modern flow from my memory. I challenge us way beyond litors. imagined Jesus, the disci- childhood and even into 'The Multiplication of ples, their dismay over our old age if we read Naves" is a popular title Jesus' instructions and them afresh. any use. In our English their excitement when For that, we must try to litions of the New the bread seemed to be listen to them as though 3stament, we read titles coming out of nowhere. we had never heard Ke "The Feeding of the It was like a dream, them before. But how? )00" and "The Miracle
The priest started reading the Gospel: "By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, 'This is a deserted place and it is already late' "(Mark 6:35).
A different variety of biblical researcher is the theologian who aims to discover a biblical layered account's meanings.
Do you concentrate only on the son? What happens if, instead, you concentrate on the story's father or the brother?
One researcher I know says a researcher's task is to take a "second look" at what already stands before us in hopes of getting to know it better.
To understand this researcher's role, consider how you read the parable of the Prodigal Son, for example.
By doing so, the biblical researcher would say, you discover that the story is multilayered and richer than you imagined.
In this case what already stands before us is the Bible. The biblical researcher's claim: We can still know it better.
The writer tells how the efforts of biblical researchers are helping us to find new perspectives on familiar Gospel stories.
of the Loaves and the Fishes". Notice how "The Multiplication of the Loaves" and "The Miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes" draw all our attention to the loaves. As soon as we hear them, we think of the food Jesus miraculously provided. But is that really what Mark considered the primary element in the story? Let's look again. "The Feeding of the 5000", focuses on the huge crowd and how they were fed, not on the food itself. That is quite different, but again, is that what Mark wanted to emphasise?
By Father Eugene La Verdiere, SSS Rereading the story, we cannot help but notice that people and their hunger, and the way their hunger was satisfied, are certainly more important than the loaves by taken themselves. Still, "The Feeding of the 5000" presents the people as passive. The crowd did nothing. By contrast, Jesus was active. With the help of the disciples, Jesus fed the crowd, as when someone feeds a baby or a helpless adult.
It struck me recently, however, that the 12 baskets seemed oddly out of place. If the crowd had five loaves and two fishes, what were they doing with 12 baskets? It was as though someone knew exactly what was going to happen and foresaw the need. Or could it be that we should think of the story as "The Multiplication of the Baskets"? With that I decided to take a really close new look at the whole story. Note how the story starts as Jesus looks at the crowd and is deeplymoved on their behalf because they were like sheep without a she-
Even modern Jews and Greeks would have to study the biblical forms of their language. But there are people who undertake such study in a scholarly way and then put their expertise at the service of the Bible-reading public. It is a demanding, timeconsuming task. Every language is rooted in and expresses a culture, and so it is not a matter simply of learning a language. One must become immersed in the thought world, the psychology, the sociology of ancient peoples. Otherwise, there is danger of translating words, but not a language. Scholars have to learn all they can about the people who used those languages. Fortunately, archeological discoveries have brought to light literally thousands of documents in a number of different
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By Father John J. Castelot ancient Semitic languages. They are not always biblical languages, but they reflect the mindset and modes of expression of people whose culture the biblical authors shared. This opens up vast areas of study: archeology itself and then the languages of the recovered documents, like Assyroand Babylonian Phoenician. Then, when it comes to the Bible itself, they have to make sure that the texts they translate are reliable copies of the originals. Biblical books were copied by hand for centuries before the invention of printing. Copyists often slipped. They omitted words, misread them, copied them twice, transposed them. Subsequently copyists passed their mistakes on to their successors. Or, they "corrected" them, sometimes writing their corrections in the margins. At times, later copyists took these marginal
jottings and wrote them in the text itself. Over the centuries this process produced a welter of conflicting manuscripts, with thousands of variant readings. This necessitated the development of what is called textual criticism, which attempts to restore the original texts as closely as possible. It is an obviously labourious enterprise. But scholars have devised techniques and criteria which have enabled them to sift through the mountains of evidence and get back to the original texts. Until recently, for instance, the earliest copy of the Old Testament, preserved in the library of Petrograd (now Leningrad) went back to only 982 AD. This left a gap of about 1000 years. Then, beginning in
1947, came the discover-
ies of the Dead Sea scrolls, which bridged the gap and brought us back 1000 years closer to the original. These discoveries were
very reassuring. They demonstrated that the texts of 982 AD were more than substantially the same as those from the second century AD. But reading the scrolls was itself a challenging task and, while a great deal has been accomplished, the work is still going on. And how does one understand the sermons of the prophets without a knowledge of the historiocal situations they addressed? What is true of the Old Testament
By Jane Wolford Hughes
is true, in
varying degrees. of the New Testament as well. But thanks to the dedicated work of countless scholars, people who read the Bible today can rest assured that they are reading authentic texts expertly translated. And when they read the introductions to the books and the explanatory footnotes to individual passages, they are profiting from the incredibly hard work of innumerable experts in a variety of fields. The work continues, with a view to rendering the word of God as accurately and as clearly as possible.
The disciples wanted to send the crowd of people away to take care of themselves. But Jesus showed them how to nourish the crowd. Like him, the disciples were to be shepherds for the crowd, not out of their own resources but by inspiring people to share the little they had. The 5000 are certainly not meant to be passive. So Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven spoke the blessing, broke the bread and gave it to his discples to set before the people. Jesus' action has clear eucharistic overtones. Mark wants readers to
recognise the Eucharist in this event and to learn something about it. What then shall we call the story? Is there a title that can steer our understanding in the right direction? How about "The Breaking of Bread"? Mark himself seems to invite this title by the key words describing Jesus' action: "He broke the bread." "The Multiplication of the Baskets" is certainly not a good title, but it did give our childhood memory fresh lighting, a new background and a great setting. There is more to those stories than meets a child's eye.
The work of translators trickles down
What does a biblical researcher actually do? Most people read the Bible in translation. They do not have the leisure required to master the original languages, Hebrew and Greek.
pherd. With that, Jesus began to teach them. Jesus became a shepherd for the crowd. But what about the disciples? When it got late, the disciples went to Jesus and asked him to dismiss the crowd. The disciples could not imagine that they could do anything that would make a difference for so large a crowd. They were overwhelmed by its size, and hunger, and their own lack of resources. By paying attention to the story's beginning, we notice that its focus is on the disciples, their predicament and the way they handled it.
Father John J. Castelot says that the work of the biblical researcher is lemanding, time-consuming task" which involves delving into "the thought world, the psychology, the sociology of ancient peoples" in addition to translating the/languages.
In my lifetime Bibles have become much more readable and enjoyable. The expert work of biblical translators has entered into the common life of the people. I remember the days of the Douay version of the Bible. In today's terms it wasn't a "userfriendly" book. In the preface of one edition (1911) it states, "She (the Church) has even restricted by legislation the promiscuous reading of the Bible by the uncultured and the ignorant, who sometimes have presumed to interpret even the most difficult passages in it." At one time, most Catholic families put "The Book" — often a leatherbound and gilt-edged wedding present — in some honoured place. It was opened only to record births, marriages and deaths on exquisitely illuminated pages. It reminded me of a wealthy elderly relative's parlour which she opened for wakes. Both the Bible and the room smelled of dead roses, which some families pressed in the Book as remembrances of deceased loved ones. As I grew older, the best sources of Scripture were the missals we took to Mass, with the LatinEnglish Douay text and then, happily, the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine translation in the 1950s. Still, there was something lacking at Mass. I felt too wedded to the pages I was following so faithfully.Iwas still a spectator. The power and
drama of the words seemed to demand a more personal experience. Then Vatican Council H's Constitution on Divine Revelation was passed overwhelmingly 2344 to 6 on November 18, 1965. It did not come easily, for it was on the agenda for five years. But its approval gave a positive signal to Scripture scholars and to Catholics to claim their Scriptural heritage. And now we have incorporated the new translations of the Bible into our daily prayer lives. "The Book" has left its isolated place of honour and gone to places of usefulness. In my case, I have a copy on my nightstand, my desk, and smaller editions in my briefcase and car glove compartment to read while waiting in offices and in traffic jams. My husband and I together pray the Liturgy of the Hours, a Scriptural source of daily prayer previously known mainly for its use by clergy as the Divine Office. The fire of Vatican Council H cast a long, warm light on the communal celebration of the word in the liturgy, helping Scripture to regain its place as the centre of our spiritual lives. Isalute the biblical scholars who have "broken open the word" for me and who patiently laboured to bring about an understanding of the Bible which, in the words of the prophet Isaiah, "gives life to the spiritual aridity of human existence". The Record, April 18, 1991 9
Easter joy The Easter Vigil at All Saints church Greenwood included the baptism (picture below) by Father Ahern of Gary Robinson, attended by his sponsors Annette Campbell, his wife, and Monica Bob, and also the confirmation (picture on the right) of Des Howlett, left, and Peter Campbell. At a later celebration, (picture, below right), Gary, Des and Peter helped another candidate Jean Swanson make short work of the festive cake.
Bullsbrook celebration More than 700 gathered at Bullsbrook to celebrate with SACRI Association the 44th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin of the Revelation to Bruno Cornacchiola, his conversion and foundation of the SACRI Association on April 12, 1947, in Rome. Bishop Healy celebrated Mass which was followed by a rosary procession around the boundaries of the Bullsbrook Church land. As the celebration concluded the large crowd dispersed around the groups of the Church in family groups for picnic lunches while the bishop was entertained to lunch by SACRI Council and members. Numbers of people continued to pray in the church before the Blessed Sacrament throughout the afternoon. The Bullsbrook church land which was formally divided by a creek has been channelled through large concrete pipes convered with thousands of tonnes of fill in preparation for ongoing development of an outdoor santuary. SACRI plans include reticulation of the area, planting of grass and additional trees during this year. 10- Theecord,AprsL18,. 1991
They're off with a big 'thank you The Little Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel left us last week having given us 15 years of their prayerful hospitality spiritual and support. Based in Fraser Street, Swanbourne, the sisters kept their house and chapel open to the wide variety of people who came to them for spiritual nourishment. People came from all walks of life from the ranks of government, clergy, religious, individual lay men and women, teenagers, and whole families.
They would spend anything from an hour to a week's retreat and sought out the sisters' home as a haven to re-energise themselves spiritually and take another look at the direction in which they should be heading. Caught up in the dizzying speed of life and our commitments, it's sometimes hard to get off the merry-go-round and ask ourselves: What are we doing and where are we going? Obviously for many, the Little Sisters provided that spiritual oasis from which to
Sisters Nuala (left), Simone and Cate — leaving Carmel Swanbourne with a store of 'wonderful memories'. mother in the Swantude for what the frugally with no drink — and then bourne Carmel". Lord and His mother luxuries. move on back into the have accomplished". The sisters said their Yet they invited all to mainstream of life. special prayer, with the them share with Their order origiThe Little Sisters Mary, will always be simplicity of their nated in Victoria but express their also that His Presence, lifestyle and the richis now South Austral"deep and sincere in the especially prayer their of ness ian based. They folgratitude to Bishop conwill Eucharist, life. low a contemplative Healy, priests relitinue to grow and They are gentle, lifestyle and one of gious, and the people deepen in the lives of warm and empathetic their objectives is to of Western Australia all they've come in and will be missed by share and foster confor their help over the contact with, "as we all those who knew templative prayer years". go on together in them. helpamong people, prayer". Distance, they said, ing them achieve a For their part, they will make no differdeeper union with If anyone wishes to say they are leaving God and a greater love ence to their continukeep in contact the wonderful with ing prayers for the for each other. sisters said, they'd be memories, and taking spent the last year at people of WA as they delighted to hear no credit for the good As the three departhas Swanbourne leave the diocese, and from them. The work they've done, ing Sisters Simone, already returned. they take with them address of their actual they simply say Nuala and Cate said: wonderful memories house is Carmel Herthey're grateful if The sisters lived an "People joined us in and praise God that so itage House, PO Box people have gained in extremely simple life, the rhythm of our many found the pres115, Hawker, South prayer "and we leave stripped of all nonlife." Australia 5434. ence of Jesus and His with a sense of gratiessentials, and dining Sister Janet who
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Building repairs and maintenance. All facets of building trades, eg carpentry, plumbing, roof carpentry, studwork, stumps, pergolas, carports, additions, concrete, etc. References available, A/H please phone Bob on FURNITURE CARRIED. 410 1436 One item to housefulls. Bricklayer requires large Small, medium, large vans or small jobs, free quotes. available with one or two men from Ring 447 6128 or all areas. $24 per hour, Cartons and 405 3426. cheap storage available. Handyman painting inte- Mike Murphy 330 7979, rior/exterior repairs, gut- 317 1101, 444 0077, ters, yard cleanups, gar- 447 8878, 272 3210, dening, cleaning 378 3303, 384 8838. windows, landscaping. Country callers: Ask for Martin, 377 2314 008 198 120 before 8.30am. lic Master plumber and gas Are you dissatisfied with modernised fitter, No 140, bathroom today's renovations, sewer conver- liturgy? Then you should sions, all maintenance work, read the recently pubnew houses. Good rates, all lished book, "QTV hours. Contact John on McCarthy's Case". Dis457 7771. tributor: Joseph Omlor, Electrician for all residen- Box 650, South Perth. tial and commercial work. $6.50, includes postage. New power points, lights, Eirene Home Retreat fans etc. Free quotes. offers sanctuary and Phone Brad Capper space for any Christians 344 8249 (messages who would like to with446 3600). draw from the busyness of their lives and spend time with God, in quiet, caring, SITUATIONS simple, rural surroundWANTED ings. Pleasant gardens and walks. 9km from Augusta. Caretaker/handyman. Do Contact Sheelagh or Peter you need a reliable, Akerman (097) 58 4581. conscientious worker PO Box 166, Augusta experiencedin all aspects 6290. of caretaking and general maintenance of buildings, SITUATIONS gardens and grounds? Then please phone John MASSAGE by a qualified for further information o therapist combined with 349 8789. Resume, CV reflexology (foot masand references available sage). Helping relieve on request. Country tension, back to and neck enquiries welcome problems. For more inforCurtain cleaning. Have mation please phone your curtains profession- Loretta 444 7534. ally dry-cleaned. Guaran- Developers I will buy teed no shrinkage. Fre* asbestos tile houses that metro pick-up & del ot could be transported or bring in this add and ge transport buildings, all 20",% disc. Phone 381 4377 types, for relocation. Perth House Transport Picture fuming, 272 3831, State Wide work and genuine reasc nable prices. Family pho- Service (098) 41 5288 tos. prints, certificates, baptismal, marriage, birth PERSONAL trade, etc etc. Care taken C. Kiernan 279 6035 or Man 34, interested in 279 4760 meeting an outgoing lady aged 30-36. Call Garry 3287985.
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Holy St Jude apostle and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke you. Special patron in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you whom God has given great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition, in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers and three Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour and invoice your aid. Publication must be promised. This novena has never been knqw_n to, fail. B.M,13.
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WANTED Leeman Church still needs benches; statues, size 1 metre: Our Lady, St Francis of Assisi; candle sticks; square tabernacle to be made rotatable 360°. Contact Fr Tolboom, Three Springs (099) 54 1040.
THANKS Grateful thanks St Jude for granting my request. May all those in need turn to you and honour you. Please continue to help. Eileen H. Grateful thanks to St Jude, St Martha, Our Lady and the Sacred Heart for ongoing favours received. E.C.
The Record, April 18, 1991
HIGGINS: Sr Mary Elizabeth, suddenly on Mar 29
1991, dearly loved daughter of Francis and Mary
(both deceased), loved and respected sister and sister-in-law and aunty of John, Gwen and family. Love and sympathy to the Sisters of St Joseph of the
Apparition. May she rest in peace.
IN MEMORIAM DUNN. In loving memory of my darling Eddie,
whose anniversary occurs on April 20. Please pray for his eternal salvation. Peg
and children.
KEAST (jack Francis) Treasured memories today and always of my dearly
beloved husband Jack, passed away 13th April
1985, dearly loved father of Sandra and Michael, father in law of Neville, very special Cramps of Catherine, Paul and Angela. Never more than a prayer away. Loved and remembered every day. In God's love and care.
SITUATION VACANT HOUSEKEEPER, companion/live-in, 55 + for retired doctor and his wife at Floreat. Full housekeeping duties. Good cook. Flexible hours. Own bedsitting room with bathroom. Pensioner preferred, salary negotiable. References required. Phone 383 2432. DOUBLEVIEW, furnished room for rent, all mod cons, close to church and transport, nice gardens, suit mature girl or lady. Ph
445 2972.
A CCOMMODATION AVAILABLE FLATMATE WANTED. Female mid 20s, non-
to share two bedroom townhouse in Mt Lawley. Fully furnished, except bedroom. Own balcony, courtyard
smoker
and carport. Close to city, shops and transport and in quiet street. Rent $60pw plus expenses. Phone Catherine on (H) 272 7590, (W) 427 8221.
THANKS May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored and glorified throughout the whole world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St Jude worker of miracles pray for us. St Jude, helper of the hopeless pray for us. Say this prayer nine times a day for nine days and publish this devotion. It never faik. T.P. Novena to St Clare. Ask for 3 favours — 1 business and 2 impossible. Say 9 Hail Marys for 9 days if you have faith or not. Pray with a lit candle and let it burn to the end. On the 9th day publish this notice. D.S. and J S Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. May your name be praised and glorified throughout the world now and forever. Grateful thanks. E S Thanks to St Clare. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning. Ask for three favours, one business, two impossible. Burn candle to end and publish on last day. M.A.
express our faith from Patrick HARVEY, Tuart Hill
Sir, Reginald Maher (The Record April 4), uses the saying "there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church", and states this is a dogma (without any references to support this), and uses this as the basis for his argument. This is not the teaching of the Church. Indeed, in 1947, an American Jesuit, Fr Feeney, was condemned
by Rome for teaching this. The saying that he quotes, is a statement by Saint Cyprian (arguably in another context), and is certainly not representative of the mind of the Church today. The Vatican Fathers urge us to look to what unites humanity, not to what divides us. The Church recognises that Christ works in other denominations: "The Spirit of Christ has not refrained
from using them as a means of salvation." (Unitatis Redintegratio, 3).
"seek God with a sincere heart . . .may achieve eternal salvation".
The Church sees that there is some truth in non-Christian religions, for, "She has a high regard for . . . (their) precepts and doctrines", although they differ from Christian teaching. (Nostra Aetate, 2).
Such fundamentalist understanding of the Church, as expressed by Mr Maher, can only mislead people, and do harm to ecumenism. We need to recognise that there is more than one way to express our faith. We also need to be tolerant of people with different ideas from our own.
Indeed, Lumen Gentium, (16) states that non-Christians, if they
From incomprehensible to inaudible from Paul DONNELLY, Claremont Sir, Of the late Archbishop Foley the words of Ecclisiasticus 15.5 were applicable that "In the midst of the Church he opened his mouth and the Lord filled him with the spirit of wisdom": and what he said was spoken with outstanding clarity of speech and enunciation. In this era of new importance attached to the liturgy all too often what used to be
incomprehensible in Latin is now inaudible in English. Quality of speech is therefore of greater importance.
of women, in the majority, taking over the scriptural readings, lacking declamatory volume in their voices.
the homily are still considered by many to be ancillary to the actual Eucharistic celebration.
Too often what comes over to congregations is a blurr of vowel sounds bereft of forceful consonants; of words run into one another; of sentences which die away as they end. Speech may even be muted and imprisoned behind tightly closed lips. Another disability arises from the developing practice
As modern practice is to communicate via microphones and loud speakers this electronics side is often far from satisfactory_ Too often several speaker outlets are used. This can result in a confusion of sounds; a reverberation like that of an echoing cathedral. At the present time the scriptural readings and even
The time may come that through shortage of priests, Sundays without a priest may become common. The Word and its rendering and possibly the reading of a circularised homily may assume greater importance. The ability of lectors to make the Word impressively heard would then be of greater moment.
Extra $10,000 for Kurdish refugees More than $10,000 has been received by Australian Catholic Relief to assist Kurdish refugees.
gees through Caritas Turkey.
"ACR had already made an initial $25,000 emergency grant to the refu-
"The Caritas agency is working in close conjunction with Kizil Ay (the Turkish Red Crescent — the equivalent of the Red Cross), and they have provided supplementary food, baby food, powdered milk and fresh meat. "Because the critical situation will last for some time, and the long term needs of the Kurdish people met, Australian Catholic Relief has
THANKS
THANKS
Thank you St Jude for great favour received. E.V.
Holy St Jude apostle and martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke you. Special patron in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg you whom God has given great power to come to my assistance. Help me now in my present and urgent need and grant my earnest petition, in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Say three Our Fathers and three Glorias. St Jude pray for all who honour and invoice your aid. Publication must be promised. This novena has never been known to fail L M B
"It is another example of the generous way in Australians which respond to the needs of others, when those needs have been made known — most especially by the media," said Mr Michael National Whiteley, Director of ACR
Most holy apostle, St Jude faithful servant and friend of Jesus, the Church honours and invokes you universally as the patron of hopeless cases, of things almost despaired of. Pray for me. I am so helpless and alone. Make use I implore you, of that particular privilege given to you, to bring visible and speedy help, where help is almost despaired of. Come to my assistance in this great need that I may receive the consolation and help of heaven in all my necessities, tribulations and sufferings particularly — (here make your request) and that I may praise God with you and all the elect forever. I promise 0 blessed St Jude, to be ever mindful of this great favour, to always honour you as my special and powerful patron and to gratefully encourage devotion to you. Amen. L.F. Ask St Clare for one business and two impossible favours. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning. On ninth day let candle burn out. Publish this notice in paper. M.C.R.
May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St Jude worker of miracles pray for us. St Jude helper of the poor pray for us. Say this prayer nine times on the 10th day your prayers will be answered. Never known to fail. Publication must be promised. M.A.
launched this appeal. We
know we have the means to deliver assistance to the refugees. "We remain very con-
cerned, however, that the plight of the millions of refugees and displaced people in Africa is being forgotten. "In the Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, millions are displaced by civil war and famine. "The people of Mozambique are still harassed, tortured and killed by forces marauding through the countryside,
and 1.5 million of their people are now living in neighbouring countries. "In Cambodia and Sri Lanka also, the hundreds of thousands of refugees and displaced people are being forgotten, although their needs too continue. "So the needs throughout the world continue, and we are thankful that
the Australian public, even in this time of economic pressure, persevere in their support of people less well off than themselves." MIXED PENNANT
b y TON BRANCH
TRINITY CLUB
Social tennis for members and non members is played each Sunday afternoon at the
Trinity courts in Manning Road, Manning. Currently between 20 and 30 members are
participating each week. The skill level ranges between beginners to "A" grade players; those unsure of whether their standard of play compares with existing members can be assured of other players of the same standard. Play commences at 1.30pm and continues until approximately 5prn, at which time coffee and tea facilities are available. The cost per afternoon is $3. For further enquiries, contact the Association President, Mr Bryan Kukura, on telephone 276 2907.
Five "A" grade and six "B" grade teams have already nominated for the forthcoming 1991 WACLTA Mixed Pennants. Teams consist of three men and two women with all players participating in four sets during the afternoon. All sets are doubles matches and no singles are played in the mixed pennants. Team nominations close with the pennant organiser, Mr Michael Messer, on Wednesday, April 24. Entry forms should be forwarded to him at 119 Yale Road, Thornlie. Those wishing
to play, but unable to form a team, should contact Michael Messer on 459 8183 and all endeavour will be made to include them in a team. The mixed pennants commences on Saturday, May 4 at the Trinity courts in Manning with play starting at 1pm sharp.
TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
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Luke 18 — a stepping stone to greater things? Morley bikers at play during a break in their program . . . Morley pastor Fr Greg Burke, OCD celebrates Mass for Lukers and parents during their recent weekend, March 8-10.
Luke 18 to grow Luke 18 is set for nings of Mt Lawley, on spectacular growth in 271 1653. Perth parishes this Each group needs a pool year, if the response to of parent supporters. last week's story on including a contact couMorley's recent week- ple, a team of youth end is any guide. leaders aged 15 years or
. while Lukers, leaders and parents show great interest in the action!
Catholic Youth Formation Centre
EAGLE'S NEST
YOUTH OFFICE DIRECTORY
Enquiries should be directed to either the Youth Office on 328 9622, or the Luke 18 co-ordinator, Loretta Jen-
CALLING FORMER MEMBERS! RENEW OLD FRIENDSHIPS SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT
NOVEMBER 29— DECEMBER 1 In Adelaide, SA
Details: YCW World Council Office
9IB West Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone & Fax: (08) 231 9549
Understanding Teenage Faith Development
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This popular centre for youth retreats and other youth formation programs is located at 116 O'Brien Road, Gidgegannup. Able to cater for up to 55 persons, Eagle's Nest is available to Catholic schools and parish youth groups. For further information and bookings contact the Chaplain's Secretary, Catholic Youth Ministry on 328 9622. The following are currently free dates at Eagle's Nest — asterisk indicates a free weekend. APRIL 25-26, 30 JULY 1-5, 15-16, 22-23, 31 SEPT 9-12 19-20 NOV 1, 4-8, 11-15, 18-22, 25-26 MAY 1, 3-5* AUGUST 5-7, 12-14, 26-30 OCTOBER 14-18, 21-25, 28-31 DEC 12-17*
The Youth Office in North Perth received a number of calls this week regarding this successful and fast-growing parish youth group for 11-14 year olds.
over, and the parish priest's support. All of these need to be introduced to the mentality and methods of Luke 18 by way of preparation meetings with Loretta and the guidance of the offical "Luke 18 Manual". Judging by the interest shown this week, Loretta could have her work cut out for her!
YCW REUNION
YOUNG WORKERS' FESTWAL 25 NOVEMBER —1 DECEMBER in Adelaide, S.A. A national gathering of young workers, unemployed, students. Meet young workers from around the world! Cost: just $120
Deatils: YCW Ofiice 328 9667
CHAPLAIN: FR PARKINSON 328 9622
ANTIOCH 328 9622
CPY 328 8136
YCW 328 9667
CRY0 328 9622
YCS 227 7061
TYCS 328 4071
A six-week course discovering more about the faith journey of teenagers today, covering: peerpressure, Mass-going, communicating with teens, etc. Six Thursday evenings from May 9, 7.30-9.30pm
(Includes Accomodation, excludes travel to andfrom Adelaide) Bookings close April 30
MP
at the Catherine McAuley Centre 18 Barrett Street, Wembley Donation $25 (according to means)
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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! The Record, April 18, 1991
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Storytime and books
Suffering Saint Fina Well loved classic
They called her Fina, for short. Her real name was Seraphina. No one remembers her family name.
Her mother and father were poor. They lived in or near the small Italian village of San Gimignano. Fina was pretty when she was very young. But life's twists soon took away her physical beauty. It all began with her father's death while she was still a child. Her mother raised young Fina as best she could. She taught her daughter to help around the house. Not long after her father died, Fina became ill with a strange sickness. Her body slowly bent and twisted oddly out of shape. Her lovely young face lost all its beauty.
Fina suffered almost constant pain and became increasingly paralysed. She had to spend her days in bed, often unable to move at all. No one in the village was able to cure her at all of this puzzling illness. No medicines eased her pain.
Fina's mother did her best to care for her, but she also had to work outside the house to earn money. Fina spent long hours alone, day after day. During these long hours, alone with the crucifix her mother left on her bed or in her hand, Fina turned to Jesus. She prayed, asking him to help her bear her sufferings as he bore sufferings of his crucifixion. Through prayer, Fina slowly learned better to cope courageously and
peacefully with her condition. Her mother was touched by an inner beauty glowing in her daughter. Fina also prayed to St Gregory the Great. She heard that this famous pope suffered much during his life. She begged him to help her bear her sufferings bravely and patiently. Then her mother died, worn out by the struggle against poverty and the strain of caring for Fina. Now Fina had no one, except for one friend — Beldia. Most people found it hard to look at Fina because of what the disease had done to her body. But Beldia visited her, fed her and chatted with her. By now a teen-ager, Fina grew weaker and weaker. But the people of
San Gimignano grew in admiration of her because of how she bore so much suffering so gracefully. Some whispered that she must be a saint. As the disease steadily progressed, Fina became more and more helpless and physically deformed. She knew she could not long. Prayer live remained her main source of strength, together with the visits of her friend, Beldia. Finally, just 15 years old, Fina died on March 12, 1253. The villagers honoured her as a saint, burying her broken body in their church at San Gimignano. They still call the white violets that grow in their village "Santa Fina". The Catholic Church honours young Fina as a model for those called to lives of suffering and pain.
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The Adventures of Tom Sauyer by Mark Twain_ Collins Children's Classics. Hardback $14.95.
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Weedy Me by Sally Christie and Peter Kavanagh. published by Young Lions/Jets $5.95. Have you ever felt all wet
and weedy?Iused to feel like that till the day I got mixed up with the canoe, the Coke can and the dead eel. Then I found out what it's like to be really wet.
Dear Mill by Wilbebn helm Grimm wrote to a little Grimm and Maurice Sen- girl in 1816, a letter that dak. Published by Viking remained in her family's KestreL Hardback $24.99. possession for over a century On September 28. 1983. and a half. It tells of a mother the discovery of a previously who sends her daughter into unknown tale by Wilhelm the forest to save her from a Grimm was reported on the terrible war. The child front page of The ,Vew York comes upon the hut of an old Times. "After more than 150 man, who gives her shelter, years," the Times noted, and she repays his kindness "Hansel and Gretel, Snow. by serving him faithfully for White, Rumpelstilskin, and what she thinks are three Cinderella will be joined by days. another Grimm fairy-tale Actually, thirty years pass. character." News of this When she finally leaves to dramatic find made head- return to her mother, the old lines around the world. Now, man hands her a rosebud five years later, we take and says: "Never fear. When particular pride in publish- this rose blooms, you will be ing the first edition of Dear with me again." Mill, magnificently illus- As for the pictures that trated by the preeminent interpret Dear Mili, they are children's book illustrator of clearly a milestone in his time, Maurice Sendalc. Maurice Sendak's career, the The story of Dear Mill was work of a master at the preserved in a letter Wil- height of his powers.
The Secret in the Compost Bin by Margaret Pearce published by Omnibus 'Puffin. Its not fair! Jeremy and his parents have moved into a house of their own at last, but he's still not allowed to have a pet. His parents say pets cost too much to feed, and they're messy Then Kate, his cousin, came to the rescue. Her tortoise has been laying eggs, and she says Jeremy may have one. But the egg Jeremy finds looks nothing like a tortoise egg. It's much too big. and it's the wrong colour. Jeremy doesn't care, though. he decides to take it home and put it in the compost bin to keep warm, and when it hatches it will be his secret pet — whatever it is! An endearing fantasy about a most unusual pet.
Tom Sawyer and his friend Huckleberry Finn are perhaps the most famous characters in American
literature. Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) set their adventures in a small 19th century town, but these wild and mischievous boys are universal characters. Tom's most famous escapade has attained mythical status: when made to whitewash a fence as punishment he induced his friends to do the work by pretending it was enormous fun as well as a privilege. But the central adventure of the book is more serious: Tom and Huck witness a murder in the local graveyard. The boys swear to "keep mum about this and wish they may drop down dead in their tracks if they ever tell and Rot." But when the wrong man comes before the judge, Tom decides to tell the truth . . This wonderful story of two carefree boys deserves to be read by children and re-read by those same children when they are grown up.
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The Blue Moon Day by Alison Prince, published by Piper. $6.99. The morning Dave wakes up to find his pyjamas don't fit, and he seems to be growing a beard, it's clear something very strange is happening. When a brand new car, complete with phone, appears in the
garden, he knows it must be a real Blue Moon Day A day when wishes come true . . . In four wonderfully funny short stories big surprises lie around every corner. For Dave, Fergus, Ralph and Julia it's the difference between an any-old-run-of-the-mill day and a hilarious adventure!
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Cupid by Babette Cole, (Picture Lions $6.99). WARNING! No one is safe from Cupid's dart
He'll get you straight, right through the heart Love is blind, but apart from that He is a naughty little brat!
Secrets by Sue Welford (Macmillan through Pan
$10.99).
Bobby Baseball by Robert Kimmel Smith (Piper $6.99) . . and it's another home run, folks! The Hawks win again!' 10 year old Bobby Ellis loves everything about baseball — especially playing on
a winning team. And he loves nearly everything about his Dad. Mr Ellis is the coach of the Hawks. And out there on the field he's the toughest coach there is. Which leaves Bobby with two opponents to beat. The other team and his Dad. .
Was it Jason's imagination or did his sister go pale when she saw the box of chocolates? He knew she was health-conscious, they all were. But a treat now and then did no-one any harm . . . For Jason, life is just great. He's passed his first-year exams at college. He's almost saved up enough money to buy a car. Marie fancies him like mad. Then his sister gets anorexia and the bottom falls out of his world.
Fete and literature lE Mercedes' gifts and fun aplenty
If you're looking for an nut shy, needle in the affordable and attractive haystack, fresh vegetaitem for Mother's Day — bles, face painting, books, look no further! bottles, fun photographs, a dunking machine, Mercedes college in entertainment, choir. Victoria Square is having, dancing, gymnastics, what sounds to be, a orchestra, jazz band, terrific fete — the week fashion show and a before Mother's Day! chocolate wheel. The students and moth- The raffles should also ers have been involved in provide a big draw card putting together a big with their prizes of assembly of beautifully $10,000 on the main raffle made cottage industry with only 250 tickets being goods which would sold at $100 each. delight any feminine Another big raffle will be a 'Hilda' JDK — German, heart. porcelain doll crafted by Lace and pretty fabrics in Marie Rowles who has items, embroi- been an exhibitor at the appealing 4. dered baby wear, teddy Victoria Rose exhibition • bears made out of flour with a second prize of a bags, friendship bears and patchwork teddy bear teddies to cuddle! — are and third prize a patchall there along with work all purpose bag. general arts and crafts, Yet another raffle is of a home made sweets, pre- 'log cabin' lap quilt, 60cms serves, a jumping castle, x 90cms. plants, white elephant Fun and games start at stall, recycled clothes, 10am on Sunday, May 3 Indian banana pancakes, until 3pm when the raffles Italian and Asian food, will be drawn. sausage sizzle, hot dogs, Good luck Belgian waffles, afternoon teas, Italian ice cream, Mr by Colleen McGuinessStash Taylor, one of the ladies in the Mercedes craft stall, who under the co-ordination of Janice McKeaig, have produced some outstanding Whippy, Coca Cola, cocoHo ward items for sale, along with the first class contributions by some of the Mercedes students.
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Honouring our men in song The West Australian Symphony Orchestra opens the 1991 Fantastic Fridays season with a special tribute in music and song to the brave men and women everywhere who have served their country in wartime. The Orchestra will stir your spirit with a rich range of familiar melodies from Chariots of Fire, Hogan's Heroes, Bridge Over the River Kwai and epic screen other adventures. James Brookes, the
soloist for the evening, was an outstanding success in last year's 'Broadway' Fantastic FriFor concert. days Heroes!, he'll sing a host of favourites, including Bring Him Home from Les Miserables, and a medley of World War II hit songs including I'll Walk Alone, Bless 'Em All and I'll Be Seeing You. Heroes! — one performance only on Friday,April 26 at 7pm in the Perth Concert Hall. You can book at all BOCS ring or outlets,
484 1133.
1"nderstanding (be Sunday Eucharist by Brian Grenier (St Paul Publica(ions $4.95). Faith and Prayer Education 1. Since the Second Vatican Council. serious attempts have been made to renew and, where necessary, to reform the liturgy of the Eucharist. This has entailed many changes. not all east!) understandable. This simple instructional booklet, which treats in sequence the various parts of the Mass, is intended to assist Catholics to participate more fully in the Sunday Eucharist. It can be used by secondary school students and adults alike.
Has God What Joined. . . The Sacramentality of Marriage by Peterf Elliott. Much has been written about marriage from the sociological and psychological point of view and as an object of civil and canon law. But in terms of systematic theology this treatment of marriage as a sacrament may very well be unique. Every effort has been made to keep the text from becoming too academic while at the same time providing the average educated reader with a wealth of original insights into the "mystery" of marriage: in
Praying the Psalms (St Paul Publications $4.95). Faith and Prayer Education. The psalms contain all the things we want to say to the Lord, in just the right words . . words inspired by the Spirit of God. Whether we need words to express love, or sorrow; whether we need words to
creation and as transformed by Christ. Chapters cover sacramental consent, bond. and covenenat as well as the quest for the sign. Such thorny problems as the role of faith in the sacrament. marriage with an unbaptised person, the most pressing ecumenical questions and the relationship between the sacrament and contraception are studied in depth. Finally, the "sacrament of family" is treated at sonic length with an eye to its social and redemptive dimensions. sing God's praises, or just to express quiet trust, we can find them all, and more, in the psalms. In this book. Fr Rippin selects verses from 48 psalms, and offers a short commentary or prayerful expansion on them, guiding the reader to find in the psalms prayers that touch the heart and express one's deepest longings.
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Beware of the sun Tbe Sunburn Free Generation is a (4 song) cassette of songs about skin cancer awareness suitable for pre to primary school students. The songs were written and composed by Perth singer.' songwriter "guitarist, Mike Blake.
Hidden chemical threats to your health in Food and Household Products Chemical Allergies by Dr Richard Mackarness, (Pan $12.99). A look at the long-term effects of the synthetic
chemicals in our food and water proving that more and more illness is being caused by pollution in the atmosphere and our modern diet.
Cassettes are available from the cancer foundation in West Perth or from Mike at a cost of $6. Mike's "Education and Fun Show" features songs on skin cancer awareness, recycling, environmental issues, aussie wildlife, anti smoking and world peace, and others. Enquiries to Mike Blake, PO Box 81, Gosnells, 'WA 6 110. Phone (09) 490 2344.
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Fr. Gino Henriques CSsR DIRECTOR OF "EVANGELIZATION 2000 ' — O CEANA
— THEME — "SHARING CHRIST IN
THE EVERYDAY WORLD"
You are welcome to a time of Good News & Celebration.
7.30p.m. Mon. 22nd. Tues. 23rd. April R EDEMPTORIST MONASTERY VINCENT STREET, NORTH PERTH
CATHOLIC SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMISSION ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH
Invitation for new members
The Catholic Social Justice Commission is seeking nominations from people interested in serving the archdiocese as members of the CSJC for a two-year term of office beginning July 1991. Information on the work of the commission, including charter, constitution and description of members' responsibilities, is available from the commission office at: 459 Hay Street, Perth 6000 or phone executive officer Peter Stewart on 325 1212. Written expressions of interest are needed by: FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1991.
Join our priest escorted pilgrimage to MEDJUGORJE departing Perth June 20 for 13 days. Twin share $2769, and experience first hand the reason why many pilgrims visit and re-visit this wonderful village. Full details from Australia's largest pilgrimage operator with six offices.
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at New Norcia May 10 (6pm)-12 (1pm) Directed by Fr Kevin Long, OSB This retreat hopes to provide an atmosphere of spiritual preparation and expectation for the coming of the Holy Spirit among us again. By sharing in the liturgy of the monastic community, through times of meditation, teaching and fellowship the group will
be able to prepare richly for this feast.
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For 125 years of promotion of Our Lady of Perpetual Help a Family Mission Novena will be held on May 13 to May 21 at the Monastery, Vincent Street, North Perth at 7.30 each evening conducted by Fr D. Magill, CSsR and Fr W.D. Creede, CSsR.
BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE
BENEDICTINE PRAYER
Rosary, homily and benediction will be held on Sunday, April 28 at the Bullsbrook church "Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring 344 4054 for Marangaroo, Dianella, Perth, Highgate and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus. The church is open every day and is available for both parish and private pilgrimages by appointment (ring 571 1699). Sacri Assoc Inc, PO Box 311, Tuart Hill WA 6060.
St Gregory's Chapter of the Benedictine Oblates will hold a prayer meeting on Sunday April 21 at 2.30pm at lona Presentation College, Mosman Park. Father Placid Sperrit OSB, Prior Administrator of the Holy Trinity Abbey New Norcia will speak on the subject of obedience as covered in the Rule of St Benedict. Vespers will be held in the Chapel. Visitors are most welcome.
NIGHT HELP Emmanuel Centre is looking for someone to come in on a regular basis for one or two nights a week to one of its houses for people with disabilities. Duties would include cooking the evening meal and perhaps staying overnight. If interested, contact Barbara Harris at Emmanuel Centre on 328 8113.
McGREE JUBILEE
The parish of Mt Barker/ Denmark will honour the silver jubilee of Fr Tom McGree on Saturday, May 11 with Mass at 6pm followed by dinner at the shire hall. Cost $8. Bar available. R SVP April 26 Mrs A. Del:ledge Kendenup 6323. Billets available -please ring (098) 54 2039, (098) 51 4057, (098) 51 4197, (098) 51 1119.
Archdiocesan Calendar
BUSSELTON ROSARY On Sunday May 5 Mass at 1.30pm will be celebrated by Bishop Quinn followed by Rosary procession and Benediction at Boves Grotto 20km south of BussPtton on BussPII Highway — follow signs. Open to all. Bring a picnic lunch. For transport etc phone Paul Galea (09) 244 2626, further enquiries (097) 55 4174.
April 20 At St Francis Xavier Seminary, Adelaide, Bishop Healy. 23 Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference till May 2, Bishop Healy. 25 Anzac Day Service, Monsignor Keating. May 3 Law Society Service, Uniting Church, Mons Keating. 5 Bless and open pre-primary centre, Kelmscott, Bishop Healy. Mass and procession St Leone Association, Fr G. Carroll. 10 Mass for Religious, Redemptonst church, Bishop Healy. 14 Convention on Multiculturalism. 16 15 Mass for centenary Return Novarum, Mirrabooka, Bishop Healy. 18 Confirmation, Midland, Bishop Healy. 19 Bless and open St Jude's, Morley, Bishop Healy. Confirmation, New Norcia, Mons McCrann. St Mary's Cathedral, Mass for Charismatic Renewal, Fr Bob Carden OF M. 24 Artcenta 91, Bishop Healy. 26 Open Star of the Sea, Rockingham School extensions, Bishop Healy. Dedication of Rock of Remembrance TPI Association, Como, Fr James Petry MBE. Confirmation, Rivervale, Mons McCrann. Confirmation, Doubleview, Fr T. Corcoran. 28- Confirmation Newman Junior, Fr C. 29 Ross.
PSYCHIATRIC CONCERN People with psychiatric issues, their familes, friends and those who work with them are welcome at Mass and social at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, Perth on Sunday, April 28 at 3pm -- Fr Rodney Williams, Chaplain to Mental Health in Western Australia will be celebrant - to share with others and feel supported. Further information from Clare Zilko 450 6176, the Pastoral Centre at Graylands 383 6666 or Barbara Harris 328 8113.
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NEWMAN SOCIETY Scripture Study Group: Tuesday April 23 at 11am. Acts of the Apostles chapters 9-12. This meeting to be presided over by Father Dyan at 13 Dean St, Claremont. Open to all interested. Contact number 446 7340.
MAJELLAN RETREAT
Book now for the Majellan Retreat at St Joseph's Retreat House, Safety Bay, from May 24 to 26, cost $50. Please forward deposit of $20 or the full amount to Mrs B. Townsend, 23 Daglish St, Wembley 6014, cheques payable to "Maiellan Groups of WA". A bus leaves on Friday evening. Please book your bus seat when making retreat booking. The Spiritual Director is Fr Luke Fay CSSR.
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Rerum Novarum Centenary Mass WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 7 30pm St Gerard Majella Church 37 Changton Way, Balga Concelebrated by Bisixv Robert Healy Mass will be followed by a talk over supper on Rerum Novarum by Jack Clancey from thc Asian Centre for the Progress of Peoples. Sponsored by: The Catholic Social Justice Commission and Catholic Social Apostolate/Christian Life Groups
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Jurgen Moltrnann is one of the most distinguished of European theologians today. He is most famous as the theologian of hope, by which he does not mean that everything is going to get better and better, but that, because we see God as one who was crucified and then raised again to life, we can maintain hope even in the worst of situations. In recent years he has concentrated on the life of the Church in the modern world and is concerned to help us see where our calling lies today. His most famous works are his theological trilogy: ''Theology of Hope", 'The Crucified God'', and 'The
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