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Donating organs 'act of love' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Donating organs can be an act of great love, but human body parts must never become items of commerce, Pope John Paul ll told an audience of medical experts.

Speaking to members of the Society for Organ Sharing, he said the development of organ transplantation had saved lives and was cause

for rejoicing. But the procedure has its "dark side", and sometimes leads to "shameful abuses", he said.

The pope outlined the Church's position on organ donation, which implies a "prior, explicit, free and conscious decision on the part of the donor" or someone who legitimately represents the donor. Such a dona-

tion cannot seriously endanger or harm the donor's own life, he said.

"It is obvious that vital organs can only be donated after death. But to offer in life a part of one's body, an offering which will become effective only after death, is already in many cases an act of great love," the pope said.

He compared it to Christ's sacrificial death, in which "in dying death is somehow overcome and life restored". Organ donation is a particularly eloquent act of generosity in today's world, which in many ways is utilitarian and anti-life, he added.

But the pope warned that in organ sharing, the

human body must always be treated as the body of a person. Otherwise, he said, organ transplant would amount to "the dispossession or plundering of a body".

items for sale or exchange. Such a reductive materialist conception would lead to a merely instrumental use of the body, and therefore of the person," he said.

"The body cannot be treated as a merely physical or biological entity, nor can its organs or tissues ever be used as

The pope said current abuses in organ transplantation call for "determined action" by medical associations, donor

societies and lawmakers.

The Society for Organ Sharing, an international group of medical experts formed in 1987, was holding its first congress in Rome. The group was established to facilitate and set up guidelines for organ transplants around the world, and to delineate ethical principles in the sharing of organs.

Priest mediator in drug

lord's surrender MEDELLIN, Colombia (CNS): An 84year-old priest, Father Rafael Garcia Herreros, mediated the surrender of the world's most wanted drug lord, Pablo Escobar, who gave himself up to Colombian authorities, saying he wanted to contribute to peace.

Father Garcia Herreros, who was in the helicopter. said Escobar, one of the

world's most feared traffickers, was close to tears as he boarded the aircraft.

Asked by reporters if Escobar actually wept, the priest said: "No . . . but he wanted to."

"I congratulated him very cordially in the name of Colombia:' the priest said.

When the helicopter landed in the prison, Escobar got off holding Father

Garica Herreros by the hand, witnesses said.

The priest shocked Colombia in May when he announced Escobar was willing to turn himself in. Speculation had been rife for weeks that he would surrender.

Escobar agreed to give himself up and confess in exchange for immunity from extradition and a reduced jail sentence.

God's message via eruptions MANILA, Philippines (CNS): Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila has said God is sending a message through the eruptions of Mount Pinatubo, but the churchman also said he is unsure what the message is.

"On bended knee, let us ask God what he is telling us through the calamities we have gone through,"

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Corazon President Aquino, seeking to allay the fears of her people and to counter critics who want her to quit, said that relentless natural disasters are not a punishment from God. The Philippines has endured a major earthquake, several typhoons and a prolonged drought.

"Sometimes I think about the events in our country that have come one after the other.I was told that my detractors, who never stop criticising me, say that perhaps this is also my fault," said Mrs Aquino, regarded as a near-saint by many Filipinos at the time of a 1986 popular revolt that swept her into power.

"But we who believe in

God know that God does not bring about these things as punishment for our sins," said Mrs Aquino, a Catholic, in an address to an agricultural co-operative.

Some Filipinos fear the unrelenting disasters carry a divine message, perhaps as retribution for widespread prostitution around two US

military bases in the country.

Father Tito Paez said many evacuees fleeing the hail of rock and ash spouting from the volcano compared the eruption around Angeles and Olongapo, next to the two US bases, with the biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Herman Montenegro,

vice president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, had a more pragmatic view. "The real cause of prostitution among Filipinos is poverty, not a desire to sin that God should punish," he said.

Former first lady Imelda Marcos identified her own plight — sitting in exile in the United

States — with God's supposed wrath.

She said God was punishing the Philippines because Mrs Aquino had banned her from bringing the body of her husband home for burial. Ferdinand Marcos, ousted from the presidency by the 1986 People Power revolution, died in exile in Hawaii in 1989.

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TRIBUTES FOR PRIEST AT BRUNSWICK OCCASION "I could not ask for a better priest," said Bishop Peter Quinn at the Jubilee Mass celebrating Father Bill Costelloe's 50 years a priest.

"He was one of the foundation priests of the Bunbury Diocese and for the past 46 years he has served with distinction and devotion throughout

the south west," the bishop said at a Brunswick celebration attended by 400.

as a man of God," was the common theme.

Hailing from County Kerry's Vale of Tralee and ordained in St Kieran's Seminary in Kilkenny in 1941 Costelloe Father arrived in Australia in

impromptu The responses from representatives of the various parishes in which he served were testimony to that devotion.

1942.

"Those were the war years. Our ship took us all over the place, as far north as Ireland and down the east

remember "We Father Bill for his gentle ways, good humour but above all

coast of America.

Forty two days later I arrived in Australia with one change of clothes and 13 ration coupons."

His first appointment was curate at Victoria Park and three years later he was transferred to Albany.

"I wondered what kind of a job I had done at Victoria Park," he mused,

"when I overheard the parish priest asking the congregation to pray that he would get a good curate."

He served later in Tambellup, Bridgetown, Boyup Brook, Donnybrook, Lake Margaret Grace, River, Katanning, Narrogin and Busselton Parish priest at Brunswick Junction for the past three years."

Deacon's ordination in Adelaide Deacon Albert Fulbrook, SDB, will be ordained a priest by Archbishop Faulkner in St Francis Xavier Cathedral Adelaide at llam on Saturday, July 13.

He was born in Malta in

1936 and received his

primary education at the Salesian School Sliema Malta; he also attended the Salesian Youth Centre (Salesian "Oratory") in Sliema.

Bert's father died when he was only four. His mother did her best to bring up her three teenage daughters and little son, who was eventually confided to the care of the Salesians.

Bert later migrated to Australia in 1950 with the first batch of Maltese boys under the child migrant scheme.

His mother and sisters all eventually migrated to England.

His mother died in 1959 and his eldest sister has also died. A surviving sister Anne is coming to Australia for Bert's ordination.

After being educated by the Christian Brothers at Tardun he joined them and was professed in 1959.

In WA he taught at Albany, WA (1965-69); Geraldton, WA (1970-71 and 1974-76); Collie, WA (1977-78).

In 1986 he worked as a pastoral associate in the Salisbury SA parish.

In 1987, feeling the call to the religious priesthood, he chose the Salesians with whom he had been associated in boyhood years.

While studying at Catholic Theological College Clayton, he went to the Don Bosco Hostel and Youth Centre Brunswick for a year of practical training in the Salesian life. ordination A fter Brother Fulbrook will conclude his studies at Clayton prior to an appointment in 1992 at one of the Salesian Houses.

Spirit of brotherhood the main attraction

"I NEED YOUR HELP FOR VILLAGES IN SOUTHERN JAVA"

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Fr Charlie Burrows, together with seven other priests from Australia, is an Oblate Missionary on the Southern Coast of Java.

For 15 years he has been tireless in— (a) Installing wells and pumps (b) Building clinics (c) Building dykes for land-reclamation (d) Establishing fish farms (e) Initiating nutrition programs In coastal villages — Southern Java. This zealous and energetic priest has devoted his life to God's poor in a difficult mission.

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"Religious life is an expression of the unity which God desires for all his people," he told those at the reception.

He traced his notion of joining the Brothers to Brother Pat O'Doherty whom he wanted to emulate at the age of 13.

He also paid tribute to the impression the Presentation Sisters had made on him when they taught him at Mount Magnet.

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The spirit of brotherhood persuaded Brother Barry Ward to join the Christian Brothers, he said after his Kalgoorlie final profession ceremony earlier this month.

By Year 12, he said, he had abandoned the idea of religious life but after four years teacher training he was "back in my

old stomping ground" at Tardun.

"I had been dumped on the shore by the whale and the only road led to Niniveh. Once again I came into contact with people who made a big impression on me."

He was professed as a Christian Brother in 1983.

Of his 1988 Kalgoorlie appointment, after two years at Trinity, he said: "I felt I was returning to the landIlove best — the wide open spaces, the bush, and the more sedate pace of life.

"The questions of our time about the value of Religious vocations can only be answered by the passage of experience which enables one to become convinced of the intrinsic goodness of a communal life based on prayer and service."

Back to take up a big challenge ...

Marist Brother Desmond Crowe has returned to Perth after some 20 years to take on responsibility for co-ordinating Adult Faith Education programmes in Perth archdiocese.

Brother Desmond has worked in the field of adult formation since the end of 1971 when he completed his appointment as principal of College at Marist Churchlands.

He was stationed in Rome last year when he accepted the invitation of the late Archbishop Foley to return to the Perth archdiocese.

Preparation for his work in the formation of Marist Brothers took him to the Philippines where he added Diploma of Pastoral Studies and an M.A. in Religious Education to B.A. and B.Ed. degrees gained earlier from the University of Western Australia.

Brother Desmond spent five years as dean of the Marist University College at Monash University and was master of scholastics in his province.

In 1979 he joined the resident staff and teaching faculty of the East Asian Pastoral Institute at the Jesuit Ateneo de Manila University in the

Philippines. He spent five years there engaged in the programme of formation pastoral attended by men and women from Asia and the Pacific.

During this time.

Brother Desmond was also involved in various programmes for the Marist Brothers in that country and in Sri Lanka, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Korea.

In 1983, while still working in the Philippines, Brother Crowe was appointed Provincial, responsible for Brothers working in the southern states of Australia and in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.

When he completed his term six years later he undertook work for his congregation under the direction of the superior general, mainly in Rome, with brief periods in Brazil and Kenya.

Archbishop Foley's call to ask if he might be free to work in Perth in the area of adult faith education and formation for ministry came in September last year.

"I've been here just five weeks," said Brother Desmond," and I have been greatly struck by the fact that while the archdiocese has expe-

rienced the drop in numbers of priests and religious felt almost everywhere else in the Australian Church, at the same time a great enrichment of other resources in the pastoral area has come about."

"There are the Institutions and established programmes like the Catholic Institute, Maranatha Institute, the Archdiocesan Catechist Service, and the new Notre Dame University about to open in 1992. The Catholic Library, too, offers a splendid service, providing both good reading and audio-visual resources for faith education in the parishes."

"Beyond these, an extraordinary number of initiatives in adult formation have been taken by numerous groups and individuals. I have noted that the Consultation on Adult Education held last year identified at least 83 different groups and organisations offering opportunities for faith development in the Archdiocese. That is an indication of the depth and the diversity of the resources at the services available."

"The Directory of Adult Faith Education is another indicator of the

healthy state of resources, particularly for the metropolitan area.

"My first meeting with people from country parishes have pinpointed some of their particular needs and the special difficulties they face.Iam also aware that within Perth itself certain groups have special needs. The task of the CAFES team is to maintain an overview of adult faith education in the Archdiocese — the needs, the personnel available, the resources — to co-ordinate these as necessary, to provide support for the providers, and to open up further possibilities for individuals, groups and parishes in their continuing growth in faith."

"I'm looking forward to the challenge" he said.

"We will be doing our best to put persons and groups in touch with resources. But adult faith education is never simply a matter of a programme here and a course there.

"We are talking about the ways in which people can be supported and assisted in their faith life — in making their ongoing response to the unique call which God addreses to each one personally.

"That call is heard in the deepest places within us as each day we confront life in the world, in society, in the workplace, in the family.

"Adult faith education helps us to understand these various contexts in which we live; it helps us to reflect on these in the light of the Gospel; in doing so it offers access to the experience and wisdom of the Church distilled by the centuries.

"Adult faith education is an opportunity for sharing our life experience, sharing our search for truth and integrity, sharing our insights, our hopes and our prayers.

"The dynamic at the heart of our faith life is conversion — not a once only event but a continuing conversion, a continuing growth towards God and a continuing reaching out to one another. Adult faith education groups stimulate that growth and that reaching out.

"In this way it provides a mutual affirmation and assurance that helps to sustain us in our faith journey. It opens up a community way to conversion, to the cycle of growth, change and new life."

3 'musts' for catechist The Word of God, prayer and formation are three essentials for a catechist, Bishop Healy said at the annual commissioning ceremony.

"It is not what we do that matters but what the gospel can do in us and through us," he said at the annual commissioning ceremony at St Joseph's Subiaco.

He commissioned 59 catechists from 27 parishes who had completed

the 14 training sessions held weekly at the Catholic Education Centre. Their ages ranged from 19 upwards.

Urging the catechists to pray for those they were instructing the bishop said St Paul prayed for his converts. Catechists had to be convinced of the need for this prayer, he said.

"God's plan for our salvation is not just something that begins to operate at the time of death or after death.

God's plan clearly requires us to polish our skills in communicating the gospel."

The training of catechists is a two edged sword, he said, not only preparing the catechist for catechising but also forming the catechist as an adult Christian.

"The message you bear is not only for the good of the children you form but also for your own spiritual growth and salvation."

Of the 800 catechists currently registered with the archdiocese only 200 teach in schools while the remainder are in parish based programs.

"They are great people to work with," said Father Nino Vinciguerra who conducted the first half of each training session.

"In parishes you have to bend an arm to get people to participate but these trainees made a remarkable commitment to their training and to

the sharing of their faith."

The second half of each session was on classroom skills and was conducted by volunteer trained teachers under the direction of Jennifer Healey.

Bishop Healy praised the contribution made by the co-ordinator Sr Elizabeth Devine and other helpers in the program.

The next catechist training course starts on July 30 and there will be another commissioning of new catechists later in the year.

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IN HIS FATHER'S NEW YORK (CNS) — In a constantly of God as his said. "It makes it particu- ship of equality, dignity, DAY Father's Day address Father. the same time, larly difficult for women love and sacrifice.

Cardinal John O'Connor of the cardinal said all in the church who want Cardinal O'Connor New York criticised radi- human beings, female as to assume rightful roles his homily with a HOMILY began cal feminist theology well as male, bear the of a valid feminism." story about a cardinal saying image of the Creator.

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it "really looks to the creation of a new church" and makes it more difficult for women to achieve the goals of "a valid feminism."

"The cardinal did not say, as a newspaper has alleged, that God is a man," says archdiocesan spokesman Joseph Zwilling.

"To claim that Cardinal O'Connor said otherwise is to grossly distort the cardinal's words."

In his homily, Cardinal O'Connor rejected feminist interpretations of God as a mother, pointing out that Jesus spoke

To illustrate radical feminism's deviation from orthodox Catholic theology, the cardinal quoted from a book, "Ungodly Rage," by Donna Steichen, in which a former Catholic nun stated, "For a woman to worship a male God is to deify her oppressor."

The cardinal also referred to a theologian, Rosemary Reuther, quoted in the book, who wrote that women "must emancipate themselves from Jesus as redeemer."

"This is sad indeed," he

Cardinal O'Connor emphasized that in criticizing radical feminism he was not attacking "that valid feminism" represented by "the struggle for equal rights, appropriate recognition, equal pay for equal work, the struggle to be treated with equal dignity."

from Africa who was one of 35 children. His father had been an animist and had many wives. After his son's ordination, the father became a Catholic, chose one wife and arranged marriages or gave dowries to the others.

He said Christianity has upheld the dignity of women, and Father's Day is a good time "to remind ourselves of what is intended by Christianity to be the true relationship between husand and wife, between man and woman," a relation-

In the man's action, Cardinal O'Connor said, "we see something of what true Christianity has done and is doing, if we truly live it."

"It was the women who were liberated truly through his acceptance of Christianity," he said.

Speaking the language of Jesus ZAKHO, Iraq (CNS): The faithful of St George's Church in the northern Iraqi town of Zakho speak the language used by Jesus.

But words of peace are rare regarding their Kurdish neighbours, who they fear threaten the existence of the 1000year-old Chaldean Catholic community which they say is the world's oldest.

Nervous Christians in Zakho, mainly of Assyrian descent, worship under paintings of a blue-eyed, fair-haired knight in shining armour slaying the dragon. They wish their own country's conflict was as simple.

7akho's 7000 Chaldean Catholics, like thousands of fellow believers in the zone now occupied by allied forces, make up

Fact-finding VATICAN CITY: German Bishop Karl-Josef Rauber, president of Ecclesiastical the Academy, has been asked by the pope to make a fact-finding trip to discuss the conflict with Swiss bishops, clergy and laity.

He was recommended by the Swiss bishops.

The dispute centres on the pope's appointment of Bishop Wolfgang Haas to the Diocese of Chur.

Priests and lay people there have protested, saying the bishop is too authoritarian and too conservative.

In April, the Swiss bishops were summoned to the Vatican to discuss problems, including that of Bishop Haas. A statement afterward said the bishops had asked the Vatican to help end the tensions in the Chur Diocese. For its part, the Vatican made clear it expected other Swiss bishops to show solidarity with Bishop Haas.

Last year, the president of the Swiss bishops' conference, Auxiliary Bishop Candolfi, said that if trust could not be restored between the bishop and the faithful,

Bishop Haas should "draw his own conclusions and resign".

Bishop Haas was named coadjutor bishop for Chur in 1988, and became head of the diocese when his predecessor retired in 1990.

His appointment took local church leaders by surprise and sparked protests. In 1988, hundreds of demonstrators lay down in front of the cathedral where he was being consecrated; in 1990, church bells rang out in opposition throughout the diocese.

Bishop Haas has complained that local Catholics still try to boycott and block his work. Last year, a regional synod of Catholics voted 88-1 to halt payments to the diocese, thus freezing the annual $300,000 contribution to the diocesan budget.

Bishop Haas said recently that two of his decisions have been especially unpopular: his plans to restructure the seminary, whose classes had been opened by his predecessor to lay men and women; and his attempts to strictly limit the practice of general absolution.

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islands of Christianity in a sea of Muslim Kurds.

In the dusty alleys of the Christian quarter, many said they feared a wave of religious victimisation if the Kurds won an autonomy agreement with Baghdad which gave them real control.

"Persecution of Christians here does not come from the government. It comes from the Kurds when we go into a shop

or just walk down the street," one man said.

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's secular Baath party has not harassed Iraq's Chaldean Catholic community though it political demands obedience.

The priest in Zakho, asked whether he would rather be ruled by Kurdish guerrillas or Saddam Hussein, paused

answering before quietly: "Saddam."

Father Louis Sabah said about 5000 Christians were among the last 12,000 refugees still in Turkish camps across the border after the return to Iraq of most of the half million people who fled there from Saddam's troops in March.

Many of the Christian refugees fear returning, not because they fought

China charge BEIJING (CNS) — China accused the Vatican of interfering in its internal affairs by appointing a dissident Chinese Roman Catholic bishop as cardinal.

Pope John Paul named Bishop Kung of Shanghai a cardinal last month he that revealing appointed the Chinese cleric in pectore (in secret) in 1979.

At the time, Bishop Kung was imprisoned for his loyalty to the Vatican.

The Vatican does not recognize the Chinese

communist government, maintaining links with nationalist Taiwan.

China and the patriotic association say another the runs bishop Shanghai Diocese. He is Aloysius Jin Luxian, a Jesuit connected to the association who was made head of the see Vatican without approval.

The patriotic association says that Bishop Kung, now in the US, is retired. But the Vatican still lists the cardinaldesignate as Shanghai's bishop.

House for priests VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Korean bishops plan to open in 1992 a house for Korean priests studying in Rome.

During the 1990-91 academic year, some 60 Korean priests were in Rome, most completing

studies they would need in order to teach in seminaries in Korea.

According to Vatican statistics for 1989, Asia leads in the world in a number of seminarians

per 100,000 Catholics, with about 23 candidates for every 100,000 Catholics. The region's rate is more than double the world average of approximately 10 per 100,000.

For the same year, Korea had the second highest number of seminarians for 100 priests.

Nigeria had nearly 155 candidates for every 100 priests, and Korea had 123. In the same year, the United States had about 12.

Baghdad like the Kurds, they but because deserted the Iraqi army in the chaos that followed the Gulf War. In Zakho, it is hard to find young Christians who do not want to leave — provided they can somehow gain entry to the promised land of the West.

Speaking in Aramaic. the tongue spoken by

Jesus himself, Father Sabah said the Gulf War had hastened the decline of the ancient Christian presence in northern Iraq.

"We want the young people to stay. We have been here since before Islam existed. But it is so hard," he said. "In my 50 years at this parish, I have seen nothing happy among Kurds, Arabs and Christians."

Internal exiled bishop dies VILNIUS, Lithuania — Lithuanian Archbishop Steponavicius, who spent nearly three decades in Soviet-imposed internal exile, died at the age of 79.

Archbishop Steponavicius was for years a symbol of the church's resistance under communist repression, and later became a measure of the new religious freedom gained in the Soviet Union. apostolic Named administrator for Vilnius in 1963, he was not allowed to assume his

ministry there until a quarter of a century later, when the "perestroika" campaign of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was in full swing.

In what was seen as a moral triumph, he took possession of his see in 1988 and was named archbishop in Vilnius the following year.

After a Soviet army crackdown last January left 14 people dead in Vilnius, he publicly compared Gorbachev to Pontius Pilate for attempting to wash his hands of the killings.

Show of concern VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope John Paul II has sent Cardinal Roger Etchegaray to South Africa for meetings with government, church and social leaders.

The cardinal, president of the Pontifical Commission for Justice and Peace, will remind the Catholic community of its "Christian obligation on behalf of the promotion of fundamental human rights and for the

creation of a climate of dialogue and tolerance among all members of South African society," the Vatican said.

His visit also is meant to "confirm the constant concern of the Apostolic See in view of a peaceful sociopolitical evolution of South Africa," bringing "an authentic civil coexistence rooted in the human and spiritual values of justice, nonviolence and reconciliation," it said.

Mother Teresa in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNS):- Mother Teresa, who has devoted her life to helping the world's poor, began a long-planned visit to Iraq to see how she can help deprived families.

She was the guest of the Iraqi government and would be working with the health ministry and had been planning a trip to Iraq since early in the Persian Gulf crisis.

"She has been thinking about this since the crisis became serious when over a million refugees passed through Jordan," said a spokesman.

She had first asked in October, five months before the United States and its Gulf War allies ejected Iraq from Kuwait by force.

Although booked into Baghdad's Rasheed Hotel Mother Teresa opted for the Chaldean nuns of the Immaculate Conception convent on the city's fringe.

Hip surgery did not stop ordination ceremony that almost didn't take place.

Father Mitchell had slipped at home and broken his hip, requiring hip replacement surgery just a week before his scheduled ordination.

But he felt he'd waited too long already to He was ordained at St become a Catholic priest Jerome Church in Fort and so decided to go Lauderdale as his wife, through with the ceremNoel, a lifelong Catholic, ony, wheelchair and all.

The Second Vatican looked on. It was a MIAMI (CNS): Father Walter "Mitch" Mitchell was a priest for 30 years.

But it wasn't until this June, after several years of searching and growing, that he became a Catholic priest, and then he nearly missed out.

He'll remain in the Ukraine LVOV, Ukraine: Cardinal Lubachivsky will remain in the Ukraine — ending nearly 30 years of exile of the rite's Eastern leadership.

The cardinal, who is 77, returned to the Archdiocese of Lvov in late March for the first time in more than 50 years.

The headquarters of the major archbishop of Lvov, leader of the

Eastern-rite church, has been based in Rome since 1963 when Cardinal Slipyj was released from a Soviet prison and exiled.

The Ukrainian Catholic Church was legalised officially last fall after almost 45 years of underground existence. The church was forcibly merged with the Russian Orthodox Church by Josef Stalin in 1946.

Council seemed to be the clincher for his entry to the Church.

"I was very much impressed with the Vatican II documents and the vision and thrust of them," he said.

Another sign came to Father Mitchell when a friend, also an Episcopal priest, called to say he had decided to become a Catholic priest.

pope has named a layperson to be an undersecretary of a Vatican office since the curia reform of 1988 made it possible.

Rothlin, 50, is a member of the Focolare movement and has been a consultor to the council since February 1990.

He was the Germanlanguage editor of a

Catholic school, has been very supportive.

"I was most fortunate.

She never said anything about my becoming a Roman Catholic priest," said Father Mitchell. "I know she's prayed for me. She has been a most gracious person, my friend and partner, and has given a tremendous amount of encourageHe said his wife, who ment throughout all teaches eighth grade at a this."

Another married priest Cardinal Lubachivsky discussed his decision with Pope John Paul II during meetings in Poland this month.

Cardinal Lubachivsky, then a newly ordained priest, left the Ukraine in 1938 to continue his studies in Austria. World War ll and the subsequent Soviet repression of the Ukrainian Catholic Church prevented his return until this year.

Highest ranking lay official VATICAN CITY (CNS): The new undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications will be the highest ranking layperson at the Vatican.

The appointment of Hans-Peter Rothlin, spokesman of the Swiss bishops' conference marks the first time the

"It seemed almost like a door was opening for me," he said. "So I asked him about what he was doing and he said he had been advised to apply" through the program established by the Vatican for Episcopal (Anglican) priests, married or not, who want to become Catholic priests.

special Vatican Radio program during the Holy Year of 1975 and has taught religion in Zurich and Bern.

Rothlin studied philosophy at Louvain, and theology at Chur, Switzerland. He speaks German, French, Italian, English and Spanish.

ATLANTA: A former Episcopalian married priest will be ordained a Catholic priest now that he has returned from the Gulf War. Thad Rudd, 52, went to the Gulf as a lieutenant colonel of the Georgia National Guard.

In the month after his return, he-was required to take an eight-hour essay-type test on eight different church subjects and then to be questioned on his written exam by a group of theologians and church experts from around the country.

He passed all eight subjects with distinction in moral theology, ethical theology and canon law.

At the time he was notified that he had to take the exam, "I hadn't cracked a book in seven months," he said.

Rudd's ordination is permitted through a pastoral provision in effect since 1980 in the United States when the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made the decision to admit former Episcopal clergymen, some married, to the Catholic priesthood.

Rudd will be the 50th to make the change. Three more prospective candidates took their exam with Rudd and hope to be ordained.

He was received into the Catholic Church in 1989 along with his wife of 30 years, Sherri, and two daughters and a group of Episcopalians from his former church. The Rudds also have a son and two grandchildren.

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Filipi os' first celebration

Perth's Filipino Catholics came together earlier this month for a first celebration of their newly established chaplaincy service.

More than 300 attended Mass celebrated in the Cathedral Parish Centre by Father Robert Carillo, the Filipino chaplain.

Using the theme of unity through the Sacred Heart of Jesus the Mass included the presentation and display of many replicas of the Sacred Heart.

Also presented at the offertory were Australian and Filipino flags.

Visiting cadets are regulars at this parish Eight Air Malta cadets have been training in WA since February in a course that will see them graduate in November.

They train at Jandakot and are regular worshippers at South Lakes parish.

They attended the recent graduation of 29 new pilots at RAAF Base Pearce where they are pictured with RAAF chaplain Father Michael Gatt who served in the RAF in Malta before studying for the priesthood.

The cadets are: Vincent Agius, Stephen Brincat, Samuel Refalo, Frank Scerri, Trevor Schembri, Matthew Scott, Philip Vassallo and Etienne Zammit Lupi.

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Set for launching of Patrickcare This weekend St Patrick's Fremantle will add another caring service to the range of services it already offers the parish and the community.

forward so as to accommodate people needing help during the cold winter months.

Father John Hannah, a member of the Diocesan Outreach Committee "We the Parish" com- said that "the addition of mittee decided recently Patrickcare to the parish to bring the launch will be marvellous for all

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concerned, especially those unable to attend to their own simple needs".

Back row (left to right): Mr Robinson (Robby), Paul Solarski, Kevin Searcy, Margaret Singh.

Front row (left to right): Fay Golding, Gabrielle Robinson, Martha Amato.

Father Carillo told the gathering: "Let the richness of our Filipino values, traditions and faith be our humble contribution to the Australian way of life — our masterpiece — so that we can paint a beautiful image of a FilipinoAustralian community in unity."

Keyboard boost for Albany college A new keyboard is the helping c atalyst expand Albany's St Joseph's College music horizons so that by 1994 the school should have three or four bands from which a representative school band will be formed.

Religious Education Coordinator John Waller said only a few students could play the organ but many more could master the portable, more versa-

tile keyboard.

"St Joseph's College has always been strong in music, especially the piano, but with the arrival of the keyboard music will become even a greater part of school life."

It would be used at assemblies and could be easily transported to outside events and to the church for liturgical music.

The first band of 25

year-eight students were this year developing into a concert band with all learning together. Instruments included woodwind, percussion, brass, saxophones, trumpets and trombones.

In future, each year a new band would be formed from pupils starting year eight.

It was hoped that students eventually would form their own

Keyboard players (l-r) Natasha Zasun, Jodie Raudino, Brian Hogben, Michael Aulfrey. small groups which entertain would throughout the community and at lunchtime jam sessions.

"A bonus from the expansion of our music department into these bands is the building of confidence and the spirit of teamwork and cooperation," said John Waller.

On May 18 at the 6pm Eucharist, the keyboard

was used in the Church of the Holy Family for the first time with students providing the music which had been selected by teachers.

Mr Waller said three played the keyboard supported by base and rhythm guitars, flute and 13 singers.

"There was a good attendance of parents and students and we plan to make it a monthly feature," he said.

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Sportsfun winners...

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Principal Graham Mander presents a Sportsfun shirt to Narelle Holt who coaches touch rugby. recent assembly, presentations were made to winning rowing crews who competed in the Albany Head of the River and to student coaches p articipating in the Sportsfun program at St Joseph's College.

Winning crews were:

First eights — Cox. D. Strickland; stroke, B. Hogben, M. Aulfrey, J. Boyce, K. Mason, J. Madden, D. Smart; bow, M. Brand.

Boys' fours — Cox, D. Strickland; stroke, B. Hogben, M. Aulfrey, D. Smart, M. Brand.

Girls' fours — Cox P.

Male; stroke, J. Koeijers; J. Boyce, J. Madden; bow, K. Mason.

John Anderson, a former Hale School Head of the River rower, coached all the teams assisted by teacher Michael Brand.

St Joseph's College has

won the boys' fours three years in succession and the girls' fours in 1988.

College principal John Manders, in presenting Sportsfun shirts to student coaches, congratulated them on their community spirit in giving up one hour after

school on Tuesdays and Thursdays to coach students in hockey, cricket, touch rugby and basketball.

Ten coaches are engaged in the program which is sponsored by the Department of Sport and Recreation.

$2500 from fun run About $2500 was raised by students, parents and teachers of Albany's St Joseph's College who participated in a Fun Run on May 31.

A sum of $1000 will be given to the Albany Hospice as part of the school's pledge to donate $1000 a year for five years.

In the 5km event, Michael Brand, teacher, first home in the Fun Run, checks his watch as he completes the course.

teacher Michael Brand was first in the time of 16.49 and second place went to student Robert Whalley, 20.74. Hospice Administrator Fr Hugh Galloway was placed 15th.

Money remaining after the Hospice donation will finance student projects selected by the student council after consulting their Pastoral

Care Groups.

Initiated by the student council, the run was supported by parents and friends who supplied officials at checkpoints and as timekeepers and recorders.

Graham Principal Manders thanked all who had participated and assisted with the successful event.

St Joseph's College students took out seven firsts, six seconds and three highly commended places out of the 21 piano sections in this year's Albany Eisteddfod.

Kate McIntosh won the piano solo under 15, the Bartok piano solo under 13 and was placed second in the piano solo under 13.

For the third year in succession, brilliant clarinettist 16-year-old Juanita Koeijers (pictured) won the open clarinet solo. She also won the clarinet solo under 18 and, with Japanese exchange student, Satomi Tanioka, won the instrumental duets under 18.

Juanita will be the youngest musician to have ever performed at the Albany Arts Council lunchtime recitals scheduled from June 4 to 7.

A final-year student at St Joseph's, she has studied the clarinet for seven years and is looking forward to resuming clarinet studies in Perth next year when she hopes to attend the University of WA. St Joseph's Primary Choir was placed second and Michelle Jones secured second place in the flute solo under 16.

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The power of touch

We take our senses for granted: sight, hearing, taste, smell and most of all touch.

Senses are simply part of being alive.

Sensing is like breathing. Does anyone ever think of breathing?

When we become aware of our senses, it is because something has gone wrong.

Blindness or loss of hearing, for example, are terribly isolating. .

Jesus and the Gospels

did not take senses for granted, not even our lower senses, not even our sense of touch, said to be the lowest and most basic of our five senses.

Jesus knew the importance of touch. He knew its power and so did those who gathered around him.

True enough, touch could be for good or for ill. Jesus and the Gospels understood well that touch, something meant to be holy, could become a desecration.

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There was the touch of Judas whose kiss was a touch of death. And there was the touch of Jesus, always a healing and reconciling touch.

Jesus' touch today is described as sacramental and salvific, the touch of God's word made flesh, communicating God's life and salvation to all who approach him.

What would it be like to be unable to feel anything, to have no sense of touch?

We can see from a distance, hear from a distance and smell from a distance.

We cannot taste from a distance, but that is because taste is so closely related to our sense of touch.

Touch puts us "in touch". Touch is basic to our sense of belonging.

We can survive without our other senses, even without sight and hearing, but we cannot survive without touch.

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS

the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these" (Mark 10:14).

We notice the imporJesus even told his tance of touch with children. Sometimes disciples that whoever when a baby is crying all did not accept the kingit needs is to be picked up dom of God like a little child would not enter it. and cuddled.

People use to bring With that he would children to Jesus. The embrace children and disciples tried to prevent bless them. them, no doubt out of Hearing and watching consideration for Jesus.

Jesus, we can understand When they did that, the meaning of the Jesus said to them: "Let incarnation. It is simply a

matter of God wanting to be in touch with us.

We can extend that presence of God by reaching out and touching the human beings arounds us, even people we do not know, and say: "The peace of Christ."

Peace is communicated not only through our words but through our touch.

The elderly show us th( meaning and importanu of touch. As people ge. older, both men anc

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Does the sign of peace make any sense?

She was the first one I came to that day in a group of several people who were preparing to become members of the Church. I was imposing hands on their heads during the first scrutiny in Lent — one ritual in the Rite for Christian Initiation of Adults.

What difference does the exchange of peace — or handshake of peace — during the Mass make to you? What is its value?

Selected responses from readers: "It gives you an opportunity to notice the people around you . . . You get to communicate with them on a deeper level than just a nod."

— Susan Winiger.

"It makes your heart grow bigger." — Brian McNulty, sixth-grader.

"It gives us a chance to be friendly and to know each other better . . . It will make your day go better." — Jessica Medvetz, sixthgrader.

"The exchange of peace . . . reminds me that . . . I must . . . check on my love of neighbour as a requirement in showing my love for God." — Sister Marie Pillion, RSM. "The sign of peace makes the Mass more personal for me . . It is also a reminder to reach beyond ourselves." — Beth Schoentrup, Shelbyville.

"This practice is the most unsanitary action I have had to participate in . . . Thank you for letting me say my piece." — Doris L., St Petersburg.

"It's a graphic way of showing . . . that the liturgy is not just between me and my God, but an expression of my relationship with God and my community." — Sister Loretta Hennekes.

Afterward she told me it was a good thing she was the first in line and that she had time to wait where she was until I finished with the others.

If I had asked her to move right after I had imposed hands, she said, she couldn't have done it.

For the experience was so powerful that she was overwhelmed. It was as if every molecule of her body was set in motion because the presence of God was so real.

She had really been "touched" by God.

his fictional hometown, Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, to conduct the exchange of peace solely with a handshake — and without any eye contact!

Much is written about the tendency of harried

When word got around in Corinth that a letter had arrived from Paul, the church was abuzz with excitement and impatience to hear what he had to say.

Father Lawrence E. Mick writes about the purpose of the sign of peace. He says: "The sign of peace reminds us that vi dare not receive the body of Christ in the Eucharist unless we are willing to accept the body of Christ around us."

people today to rush past each other, barely noticing one another's existence. Is the exchange of peace at Mass, then, countercultural? Its purpose obviously is to thrust people into

contact.

The church, from its beginnings, believed the community's members were transformed by the Spirit within them.

The exchange of peace

was a physical way to express their faith in the spirit within and to share it.

At times, the value of human touch is cheapened in television pro-

grams and movies that exploit it.

Nonetheless, touch, as seen in the exchange of peace, has an authentic, spirited power worth noting for Christians — the power to create

The most common form Her experience is a reminder that God's of touch in our worship power is at work when today, however, is the people gather for wor- sign of peace. ship, and it can reach them mightily through Many people think the another's touch. sign of peace is a new For many Catholics, the element in worship, but idea of physical touch in it dates from the church seems a bit Church's earliest days. strange.

Yet our worship has always included human touch in a variety of forms.

Infants are anointed on the chest and later on the top of the head during baptism. The seriously ill are anointed on the head and the hands.

Penitents in the sacrament of reconciliation have hands imposed on their heads as the prayer of absolution is said.

Those being confirmed are anointed with chrism on the forehead.

The bride and groom at a wedding hold hands as they exchange their vows and then place rings on each other's hands.

St Paul, in three different letters, tells the early Christians to "greet one another with a holy kiss (Romans 16:16, 1 Corinthians 16:20; 2 Corinthians 13:12).

Justin Martyr, an early Christian writer, notes that this gesture was part of the Lord's Supper around 150 AD. Over the centuries, this

is exchanged, it should be a prayerful moment.

People should wish It is placed in our liturgy those around them the intentionally as part of peace of Christ, sincerely the Communion rite, an praying that the Lord's important element in our peace will fill their lives preparation for sharing and that all will live in the body and blood of the Christ's peace together.

Such openness to all Lord. those who belong to The sign of peace Christ is precisely the reminds us that we dare attitude needed for not receive the body of receiving the body and Christ in the Eucharist blood in Communion. unless we are willing to accept the body of Christ In this contemporary age of isolation and around us. alienation, the sign of To do so, Paul insists, is peace invites people to to eat and drink a reach out to those judgment on ourselves (1 around them, to get in Corinthians 11:29). touch with their brothers Receiving Communion and sisters in Christ, to edge our neighbour's means entering into stay in touch with presence even before the communion with the Christ's body and to let Mass begins. whole body of Christ, Christ touch them When we gather as the head and members. through others. assembly of God, we If there is a need for Christ may want to use need to learn to be reconciliation with oth- the hand of the person hospitable toward one ers in the community, we another and to recognise must be willing to make next to us in church to the presence of Christ in peace with them before touch our hearts and each community we approach the table of remind us of his great love for us and the peace member. To wait until the sign of peace to say the Lord (Matthew 5:23). he gives to us.

When the sign of peace So, keep in touch! hello is illogical.

ritual underwent a var- than half over doesn't iety of changes until it make sense. was restricted to the The first thing to realise clergy in recent is that the sign of peace centuries. is not intended as a The ancient gesture was greeting, a time to say restored to the whole hello and to see who is congregation at Mass sitting behind us. following Vatican CounWe should greet one cil II. another and acknowl-

People today still sometimes complain that the sign of peace interrupts their preparation for Communion.

And parish worship commissions sometimes suggest that the ritual should be moved earlier in the Mass, noting that to greet one another when the Mass is more

So the sign of peace is not a first greeting of our neighbour.

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Both Grandma and greeting someone Grandpa would place a the take the person's hand on each of mine as hall, not perfunctorily I sat quietly between bu gently and warmly. them. rs is a gesture of lo g welcome, with not The touch of their aging hands is my clearest alliance of fear. image of the touch of [member how it was Christ and what it must wa my grandparents. In have been like for those tic last years I would who came to him. sik by their home and vk with them. On That touch is also my Win days we would sit fondest memory of my °the porch overlooking grandparents.

By Father Lawrence E. Mick

Garrison Keeler of radio's "Prairie Home Companion" once asked how shy people should exchange the sign of peace during Mass.

He said a decision was reached at the parish in

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That would not have done much good anyway, for the ability to read was the exception in those days.

The people had to wait for the next liturgical

gathering on the Lord's day.

Then the letter was read to them. Paul knew, of course, that they would be assembled for liturgy when they heard his opening words: "All the brothers (and sisters) greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss" (1 Corinthians 16:20).

A holy kiss? The liturgical embrace was a warm expression of the love which is Christianity's

hallmark. "This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35).

That love finds unique expression in the Eucharist where Christ gives his own body and blood as the expression of his love.

This incomparable love invites a corresponding love on the part of those who share the sacredmeal: "As I have loved you, so you also should

By Father John J. Castelot love one another" (John 13:34).

Unexpressed love eventually withers and dies.

Jesus reached out and touched people, and his touch was healing in more than the obvious sense.

His touch said: "I accept you as a person.Irespect and love you."

reputation drifted in, fell at Jesus' feet and covered them with tears and When one of these kisses. His shocked host unfortunates made bold cringed. to approach him and ask "If this man were a to be made clean, "moved prophet, he would know with pity, he stretched out his hand, touched who and what sort of him and said to him, 'I do woman this is who is will it. Be made clean.'" touching him, that she is a sinner" (Luke 7:39).

(Mark 1:41).

After putting him in his He touched him! One place, Jesus said to the can just hear the bys- woman: "Your signs are tanders' gasps. forgiven."

Once, at a dinner hosted I once attended the by a Pharisee, a woman Eucharist in a church in with a rather unsavoury the Dominican Republic.

Lepers were the untouchables of his day.

The people arrived early.

Apparently one woman had suffered the recent loss of a loved one. As the others came in, they spontaneously approached her and gave her a big hug. This heartfelt embrace told her more than any words could possibly express.

She knew that the community was with her in her grief, that she was loved and supported.

Gathering for the celebration of love incarnate, they too expressed love.

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Indian vision sent him on Christian Brother and author, Trevor Dean, is back in Australia for a home visit after four years in West Africa.

He is greatly inspired by a remarkable lady, Olive Allerton, who despite muscular dystrophy which combined with overweight forced her to rely on crutches, left the security of her Queensland nursing home at the age of 77, jumped a jet, and went to help Mother Teresa in Calcutta.

She was a grandmother who, in her particular circumstances, proved you don't have to vegetate or opt for a sedentary life if there are bigger challenges up ahead.

She moved from there to Mithra in India, and then on to the Salesians' Don Bosco Beatitudes in Madras, about five miles away.

She worked there by sharing her love and presence with all the mentally and physically handicapped of all age groups, and especially those with leprosy. During her time there she returned to Australia to raise funds to help India's afflicted, and it was during this first visit that Brother Trevor Dean was so inspired by this selfless lady that his ultimate interest achieved fruition in his recently published book

on her — Touched by God: The story of Olive Allerton (Fount $10.99).

Through this book, Brother Dean believes Olive's inspiration to help others will continue to motivate others.

Her tangible efforts of help will remain in many ways, the obvious one being the $40,000 she raised — $30,000 during her Australian trip — to build a new wing for the sons of lepers at Beatitudes.

It was government practice to remove children at the age of six from a leprosy affected parent, in case the child caught it.

Beatitudes had provision for girls but none for boys. After Olive's fundraising endeavours here, this was accomplished.

And with contributions from other countries, "extraordinary developments have now taken place there within the last four years," according to Brother Dean.

However, there is more to relate about Brother Dean, because he has spent the last four years in West Africa involved with the training of seminary students.

Prior to that he had been in Adelaide writing religious material for Catholic education and was involved with the

ecumenical movement for 30 years.

So after six months' sabbatical to various parts of the world to research material for Olive's story, he returned to Australia and was preparing to launch into ecumenical work again, when he was given the chance to go to West Africa.

He accepted the offer and went straight to Gbarnga, Central Liberia to help with trainee formation at the Catholic seminary there.

After six months he took the vacated position as scripture lecturer.

Unfortunately however, Gbarnga is the headquarters of one of the rebel faction leaders who began the Liberian rebellion, Charles Taylor, and when warfare broke out last Easter it forced the seminarians, 12 of the 17 priests, Brother Dean, and the sisters, to reestablish at Sierra Leone.

Three remained in charge of the schools but one recently had his vehicle confiscated from him.

One seminarian had been grabbed, stripped naked and hands and feet tied ready to be shot, when someone realised he was a seminarian and he was released.

But an African priest

whose three brothers had been shot, went back to the area to rescue his mother; he was captured, made to drive the rebels wherever they wished, and in the meantime chained to the vehicle night and day for three weeks where he had to remain for toilet requirements, eating and sleeping. just came News recently that he has now been released.

Gbarnga is now expecting a counter attack which targets it as a highly dangerous place to remain in.

With the seminary's new Sierra Leone location, transporting books created a problem for Brother Dean who had to skirt around obvious danger zones in order to

get them from Gbarnga, money on maintenance, roads, rail and public back to Sierra Leone. facilities generally deteriThis necessitated going orate in disrepair. through 25 checkpoints.

Mismanagement also These, like the Gbarnga Catholic seminary which hasn't helped civil servants or the education is now housing war system with teachers orphans, is guarded by a 12 year old boy with a commonly being unpaid for four to five months at sub-machine gun. a time.

These young guerillas This in turn has led to wield the power of life wide absenteeism on the and death, according to part of students and Brother Dean, because teachers alike. you are entirely dependCorruption, allied to a ant on this boy's discretion as to whether he will tremendous deterioraallow you to pass or not, tion in standards, is a way of supplementing a to live, or to die. teacher's income such as Arms, it is generally the format for arts and believed, have been liberally supplied in big crafts students whereby, submission of a finished quantities to Liberia by Colonel Gaddafi, "and product to the teacher is everyone has arms! The requisite for a student to fear is however, that graduate as a teacher. So the students go out and these children have now become so de-sensitised buy a commercial product and submit that as by so much killing, that they have no respect for their own.

The teacher is fully life," said Brother Dean.

"This is in Liberia and aware it isn't their workmanship but the pattern is also emergdoesn't care because he ing in Siera Leone." can then sell the items Initially, he said, mov- to supplement his ing to Siera Leone was income. refreshing because of the Further on in the different atmosphere corruption scene, a semifrom the war zone in doing social narian was Liberia, "but that is changing there too, and work just prior to ordinathere is a fear that the tion and assisting with whole of West Africa will the distribution of food to refugees. Wanting to be become that way." rid of him so they could Children, however, are control the food themdelighted with the power selves, the local adminisbase of a machine gun of tration put the press onto their own and revel in him and set him up as that power. being guilty of criminal One 12 year old said activities.

"It's wonderful! Now I This scheme had can do anything I want!" worked in the past in With war and corrup- eliminating blockages to tion, the West African their get-rich designs, by scene is not looking good, targetting, smearing, and with the public installa- clearing the scene for tions of 30 years ago now themselves, but in this in a sad state of neglect case, the local priest with a corrupt bureau- knew their game and cracy unwilling to spend saved him.

The Sierra Leone seminary operated very well with 70 students drawn from Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia, with most students from Siera Leone, until this Easter, just two months before students would have graduated, when this was too seminary attacked from Liberia.

So the seminary was closed again for the second consecutive year.

When Brother Dean returns in a few weeks, he hopes they'll be able to re-open in Makeni, "but if they've taken over that part of the country too, we'll perhaps try for The Gambia."

With the ravages of war "and an uneasy peace in Liberia for the last eight months but with a counter attack expected which would lead to bloody warfare," said Brother Dean, "the only good thing coming out of it is the realisation that the Church needs to be much more locally based and more deeply rooted".

Up until now, he explained, the Church in Liberia had been a missionary Church, ministered to by foreigners.

"But now the people recognise they must own the Church with the realisation they can address the problems and solve them."

Only six local priests have emerged in Liberia within the last ten years, but paradoxically Sierra Leone which is 50% Muslim, 40% animist, and ten per cent Christian, is much more vital according to Brother Dean, with numerous vocations and with 45 out of the 70 seminarians being from Sierra Leone.

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African search The interesting thing, he mused, is that many of these seminarians must have Muslim or animist parents and come from polygamous families.

One seminarian came to him distressed because his 50 year old mother had been told to leave by his Muslim father who had several wives.

Although Africans work on a different time set to Westerners, when an appointed time means little and things only happening when people eventually decide to turn up "in the seminary — it runs like clock-work!"

Brother Dean pointed out.

"Some of the students are as gifted as you'd find anywhere." The African people are very God conscious, he states, with a great sense of family and the importance of people.

"It's hard to imagine an African being an agnostic or atheist. They're not afraid to show it either with signs on their vehicles which state slogans such as 'God is good' It's God's time' or 'Praise be Allah.'

One of the key issues in a lot of countries, is

inculturisation, said Brother Dean, "which means to what extent can the Church use African customs when practising Christianity? Are their customs African or pagan?"

The inculturisation of the liturgy has progressed a long way, he states, but discernment is needed to decide which African customs can be integrated into Christian worship as an authentic expression of Christianity.

In the medical field, that part of Africa was popularly known as "the white man's grave" with the high incidence of many killer diseases such as Lassa fever, hepatitis, cholera, yellow fever and others.

They still exist, with malaria being considered an occupational hazard, quipped Brother Dean, "but improvements in medical science have made it possible to live and work there satisfactorily."

Nevertheless, although there is the established Loreto Clinic run by the Holy Rosary Sisters and the Cluny Sisters which gives free basic health care in Makane, and the

St John of God Brothers' hospital at Lunsar, 40 miles south, "if anyone is seriously ill, they are flown to Europe, because we do not have laboratory facilities to diagnose diseases," said Brother Dean.

Regarding the Catholic sisterhood, African sisters have joined European congregations and African congregations have been established — one having fairly recently being formed in Sierra Leone.

The Catholic Church has introduced a significant initiative in Sierra Leone to help the people called the DELTA program which is a development of leadership training.

It reaches out to people outside the Church too, and they are sensitising people and local groups to become active in improving their conditions and rectifying injustices.

An instance of this effective instruction was apparent when people in one town queried the disappearance of money which was raised from renting local market space by the local administration.

As a result of their probing the money 'reappearedl and was made available for town improvements.

The Catholic presence is important in West Africa, Brother Dean believes, and he will return there after his Australian break to continue with his "challenging work. It needs to be done andIcan do it."

Facing him is the relocation once again of the seminary which is recognised by the Vatican and whose conferred degrees are recognised by the Liberian government.

In fact should a seminarian decide to leave after four years and has passed his exams, he is then equipped with a BA with which he can take up a teaching job.

Meanwhile the Church continues despite war hazards, with a significant number of adult and youth baptisms taking place from Liberia and Sierra Leone.

"It's their desire to belong," he said.

"A recognition that this Catholic community has something to offer . . ."

Above: Author Brother Trevor Dean with the book he felt he had to write about Indian crusader Olive Allerton.

R ight: Olive Allerton during a visit to Perth 10 years ago.

Left: Brother Dean on his own journey teaching scripture to West A frican seminarians while they dodge bullets in a civil war.

She's deep in her ambition

Year 12 student Kath- has a strong interest m erine Ditchfield of oceanography.

Ursula Frayne College, She hopes to obtain a Victoria Park, has bachelor of science, every reason to be' majoring in oceanoelated, along with her graphy, and to be a naval college. officer.

According to principal She has won a Royal Mrs Anne Parker, KathAustralian Navy scholar- erine is an outstanding ship which provides leader who is currently financial backing for this head girl, a councillor, year's tuition, to help her and has won several strive to gain entry to the awards.

Australian Defence For- With eyes now firmly in Academy ces set on her Canberra Canberra. target, which will require Western Australia can further exams here in feel justifiably proud also WA to qualify for Janubecause 50 scholarships ary selection, and the were awarded Australia TEE waiting up ahead, wide, of which WA won Katherine is one charm10; four of these to girls. ing and determined Katherine has been a young lady who's going Naval Reserve cadet for to give it everything she's the last four years and got to achieve her goal.

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from Mrs Doris MARTYR, A ttadale Sir, Neil Smith (The Record, June 20) is concerned about the "perversion of Catholics away from participation in the Church's liturgy", and says this arises "from the i mpoverishment of the symbolism with which we celebrate this very liturgy".

I share his concern, but find different and more dangerous causes, an important one being the impoverishment and perversion in teaching that passes for Catholic in many places today — including, unfortunately, Neil Smith's letter.

Mr Smith, for instance, is totally wrong when he says ". . the most significant reality in any liturgy is the community which performs the action", relating it to the liturgy of the Mass.

In traditional Catholic teaching, the most significant reality in the Mass liturgy is the action of Christ the High Priest offering Himself in sacrifice through the ordained priest, and feeding us, as members of His Mystical Body, with His own Body and Blood in holy communion. This is the major difference between the Catholic Mass (where Christ Himself acts) and other church services (where people act).

In Catholic teaching, the Eucharist is far more than Mr Smith's o ne -

dimensional " . action, an involvement in the life, death and resurrection of Christ through the symbolism of a shared meal". It is a sharing not in a symbolism but in a divine Reality, holy communion with the sacrificed Lamb of God, made present on the altar by the ordained priest through transubstantiation.

teaches that the Eucharist is ". . . an action of Christ which can take place only in and through and in proportion to the active participation of the assembled community". Ideally, every Mass should be filled to overflowing with a reverent community of participating Catholics who appreciate its magnificent worshipping, intercessory, thanksgiving and redemptive power; for as Vatican II says, it is "full public worship performed by the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ, that is by the Head and His members (Flannery, p.5). But a valid Catholic Mass can be celebrated by an ordained priest even without a congregation. Our Lord Jesus Christ is not limited to seeking permission from a community for the celebration of His Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

The Catholic Church does not, contrary to what Neil Smith says, teach that the Eucharist is ". . the action of Christ present in the assembled community and acting through that community by means of the hands and voice of the celebrant who is primarily, through baptism, one of that community; and that action is breaking bread together with all that means in biblical terms".

Catholic teaching is that the priest is chosen by Christ for his special vocation, for which he is ordained by the bishop (successor to the Apostles). His priesthood is at the service of the Church, but it does not depend on the community, nor does he act as priest only through the community And it is a perversion of Catholic truth to limit the Mass to merely "breaking bread together", without mentioning what Cardinal Ratzinger calls "the absolutely OTHER' that takes place in every Mass.

This stress on the need for the presence and authorisation of a "community" for a true Eucharistic celebration is not Catholic truth. It is a Protestant concept, popular among dissident theologians and militant feminists who reject the hierarchial nature given to His Church

by Christ and want to remain Catholics but have priests, male and female, chosen and "ordained" by any community from among themselves for their own purposes.

Sadly, Mr Smith goes on to sneer at the Catholic altar as " more resembling a

Mr Smith is also wrong when he says the Church

sacrificial slab associated with the veneration of the fertility gods of old than it does the Table of the Lord".

It is incredible that a Catholic should speak so slightingly of this altar of hallowed Catholic tradition and practice. For close on 2000 years Catholics have gathered round an altar — often at risk of their lives — to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice (a term widely used by Vatican II).

He is very conscious of symbolism, yet fails to recognise the holy symbolism of the Catholic altar as not only the Table of the Lord (or a pagan slab) but the place of the Sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the sacrifice that paid the awful price of our redemption.

One reason Catholics have stopped going to Mass is certainly that so many, young and old, are no longer nourished by constant teaching on the divine realities of Catholic truth, and are fed instead the sort of half-baked Protestant "symbolism" that Mr Smith seems so fond of.

His problems about Church architecture, music and art also spring, I believe, from this same perversion of Catholic teaching. They will solve themselves when Catholics again have a true understanding of the magnificence of their faith, and live it in all its vibrant, devotional, worshipping, loving, Christ -given fullness.

They differ on communion theme from Paul SHERIDAN Bassendean The Sir, most significant reality in any Catholic liturgy is that Christ becomes physically present (body, blood, soul and divinity) during the consecration.

Communion is not a -symbolism of a shared meal-. Communion is not a meal at all. It is Christ giving himself totally to all who receive communion under the appropriate conditions.

It is probably quite fortunate that the -thin wafers" used at Mass do bear little resemblance to bread since it is hard enough as it is to appreciate fully that the wafer is no longer bread but the total presence of Christ.

totally remove (or uncreate) the universe, so that not even a vacuum would remain When such a being becomes physically present on the altar, surely we need to show the greatest revera nce possible Trying to pull God down to our level by concentrating on the human side of his (Christ's) nature, simply results in a watering down of the faith and a loss of the sense of the sacred.

If leavened bread was used, it would make it harder to appreciate transubstantiation (the complete changing of bread and wine into Christ's physical body and blood) since it would have more appeal to our sensual perception.

Since the consecrated bread is totally Christ, then, as the Church teaches, so is the smallest crumb. If the Church used leavened bread, the risk of abusing Christ would be so much greater, since bread crumbles very easily. Also the wafer lasts a considerably longer time than bread, before deterioration.

CILiE from Mrs MART/NO, Bassendean Sir, Neil Smith (The Record, June 20) is unhappy with the way Mass is celebrated.

His comments tend to be Protestant, and the

The reason the priest and the altar are set apart and above the people, is because of this physical presence of Christ. A being who is infinite in everything that is good, who has the power to

worship of man seems more important than the worship of God The Mass is a sacrifice, therefore an altar is necessary. A meal is not a sacrifice and requires only a table (a Protestant view). Likewise -breaking bread together -, after the consecration it is no longer bread, but the Body of Christ.

As for consecrating a loaf of bread instead of wafers, what would become of all the crumbs or particles? Every particle, no matter how minute, is still the Body of Christ. It is only logical that wafers be used to a void sacrilege and abuse.

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Giving living witness

How many times, on seeing the enthusiasm and incredible energy of young people enjoying themselves, have you been asked, "Wouldn't you love to be 16 (or 18, or 20) again?"

Whenever I am asked that question, I answer "No way!"

The truth is, the late teens and early twenties have always been difficult stages of life, times of personal doubt, ques-

tioning and more than framework of values and questions are rarely the just a touch of anxiety behaviour for older adult best and most selffulfilling in the long run. about the future. life.

We young people need This probably more Under the combined to see older Catholics true today than ever before, and the paradox strains of personal uncer- choosing to live, and live is that this age of tainty and contradictory in a fulfilling and positive uncertainty is also the models of behaviour, way, the faith and the today tend values proclaimed by most energetic and active many people the most Christ. to choose period of one's life. apparently rewarding, We need much more A good part of that enjoyable, "fun" kind of than a theoretical knowenergy often is con- lifestyle. ledge of positive Chrissumed in questioning Yet part of the message tian values and the almost every attitude and opinion gained in child- of the Good News is that benefits they bring — we hood and early adoles- the easiest and most need concrete, visible cence, and in forming a direct answers to life's examples of living Christian people.

We need the positive

witness of committed, faith-filled and faithful Catholic adults.

The ideas that "faith is caught, not taught", and that faith and life are not separate but are intimately interwoven, are by no means new.

But, if older people in our Christian community are ever inspired by the energy and enthusiasm of youth, then we young people need to repeat this call loudly and constantly to our older Catholic brothers and sisters.

As long as mum is close by, life is easy when we are young. It doesn't stay that way forever.

Redemptorist programs set to run Two initiatives for young singles are among a package of programs to be run by the Redemptorist Lay Community in Perth over the coming months.

Little kids learn from the witness of their elders, but who is giving witness to older youth?

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane invites applications for the position of

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• Management of youth centre and liaison role.

Applicants need to have: • Strong commitment to Catholic faith and practice.

• Experience with, commitment to youth ministry.

• Appropriate theological and pastoral background.

• Team leadership and administration skills.

The long-established lay community are holding an evening for singles on Thursday, July 4 at the St Denis Primary School in Joondanna, beginning

at 7.30pm, and an "Exodus Weekend for Singles" on July 27-28 at the same venue.

These events are open to any single persons over 21 years of age, including the divorced, separated, widowed, single parents or engaged.

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Forced to get a job to pay his rent, Rapscallion Jones. the mischievious fox. decides to become a writer.

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by Rapscallion is suddenly reminded of a talc from his youth and so he begins the tale of how one clever fox outsmarted two crocodiles.

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When Sebastian was discovered beside the body of his dead mother on the side of a road. he was just four months old. Near death himself, the tiny wombat was nursed by the author until he reached full maturity and finally returned to the wild.

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Beware of the Noorie with long hairy arms." But Jack is not afraid — he is Jack in the bush, he is Jack in the moon — he is Jack running fast, running wild, to the spark in the dark which is home.

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Hildegarde Hildegarde was born in experiences became more Germany, near Mainz, frequent and more 900 years ago. From birth intense. she was a sickly child.

Hildegarde told a priest When she was eight, her about them. He asked her parents placed her in the to write down all that care of a holy woman God revealed to her. He named Jutta who lived sent her writings to the alone in a cottage beside bishop and some theoloa monastery near Speyer. gians. They all agreed She taught Hildegarde that Hildegarde's expethe skills a woman of the riences were really from time needed, like cook- God. ing, cleaning and sewing.

Over the years she wrote She also taught her what about her religious expefew women in the Middle riences. She also wrote Ages ever learned — to two lives of saints, many read and write. More hymns and homilies, a important, Jutta taught play and hundreds of her new ways to pray and letters to popes and how to live as a commitbishops, emperors and ted Christian. kings, and other imporHildegarde admired and tant people all over loved Jutta. She wanted Europe. She invented a to be like her. So did new language, wrote a others. By the time book about medicine and Hildegarde was a tee- a book on natural history. nager several other young Hildegarde became one women had come to live of the most influential with Jutta. They formed people in all Europe. She a small community foltravelled widely, dealing lowing the Rule of St with the important issues Benedict. of the time. Rich and

When Hildegarde was 15, she was clothed in the habit of a nun. For the next 13 years she lived an uneventful life in the community which Jutta guided.

Jutta died when Hildegarde was 38 years old.

Hildegarde then became the abbess, the leader, of the small community.

She and the other nuns moved to a new monastery near Bingen.

From the time Hildegarde was a young girl she had remarkable religious experiences. She was a mystic. At times she could feel God's presence within her. She heard God speaking to her, telling her what God is like and what life is really all about. Now these

and famous poor, unknown, turned to her for help.

As she grew older, Hildegarde's health steadily weakened. She could no longer stand up and others had to carry her from place to place.

But she continued to help all who came to her for advice, encouragement or healing.

Ever since her death many people have honoured her as a saint, even though she has never been canonised.

Today Hildegarde the mystic and pioneer scientist is more popular than ever. Many people still turn to her writings to learn more about God, about life and about prayer.

Festival for young opens Perth's Festival for Young People coordinated by the Perth Theatre Trust opened last Thursday with a multi faith church service, street parade and opening ceremony (event one) as a lead-in to other Stage One activites which commence this Monday, from July 1 to 5 (event two), and from July 6 to 20 (event three).

Event Two: Day long workshops for young people in years 7-12 on Monday, July 1-Friday, July 5 in Forrest Place and surrounds.

Schools are invited to bring along groups of students in Years 7-12 for a day of quality workshops conducted by professional Arts people.

Students will pre-select two or three workshops from a selection of six.

The cost to students is $6 for a day of learning,

creative exploration, sharing and fun and provide a stimulating end of semester treat.

There are no parking problems as buses can be parked on the Railway Station Forecourt, so bring a group along, with one teacher or helper per 25 students please.

Workshop selection sheets will be forwarded to you on booking.

Event three: Comprising stage one festival activities for both in term and holiday times, takes place free of charge with an enormous variety of marquee events in Forrest Place. They cater for all school years and embrace activities which have every sort of appeal for young folk.

To book or for further information please contact Mara Basanovic or Lynne Burford tel 221 3699.

Waltzing Matilda -Waltzing Matilda- is the song most closely identified with Australia and Australians everywhere. The tale of the old tramp travelling the bush with his swag on his back — or 'waltzing matilda' as it was known — is familiar to children and adults the world over.

Now Spare Parts Theatre with its own special blend of puppetry and music brings this beloved Australian yarn to the stage in a production that will appeal to children and adults alike.

The idea for the production of Once a Jolly Swagman opening on July 5 to 20 at Fremantle and then touring the north of WA, came from artistic director, Peter Wilson, whilst watching a group of magpies in a park one day.

-Their antics reminded me a lot of the many outback characters I had met whilst on tour throughout Australia.

Some were born losers, others inherited that same larrikin spirit so reminiscent of many Australians. Their inquisitiveness, cheek and sheer delight had me humming our national song and very soon after, the Swagman as Magpie

was born. Then came the ponderous Coolabah Tree followed by an adventure seeking Jumbuck off to see the world, the Squatter, the Trooper and the towns people who reflect the attitude of a farming community born out of the blood, sweat and tears of their labou The colour and magic of the Australian outback has been captured by set designer Steve Nolan with delightful puppet characters designed and constructed by Colleen Crapper. Don Kay's imaginative music sets both the mood and pace for this colourful interpretation of the Waltzing Matilda story.

The production of Once a Jolly Swagman sees Spare Parts Theatre return to a more traditional style of puppetry not seen in recent productions. A style that retains the magic and quality of performance and production that Spare Parts Theatre has gained an international reputation for.

Sean Puppeteers Masterson, Peter Jagger and Shauna Weeks bring the characters to life under the watchful eye of director Peter Wilson.

Roundu11111[ AGWA presents... tions of people working in the newly cleared Australian bush environment of the late 19th century.

Buvelot's paintings were to have significant influence on the young Frederick McCubbin and Tom Roberts and future Australian impressionists.

In celebration of the 700th birthday of the Swiss Confederation, the Art Gallery of Western Australia proudly presents Swiss Artists in Australia 1777-1991, now open in the Westpac Gallery through to August 4 — entrance free.

This magnificent exhibition, organised by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in conjunction with the Consul General of Switzerland, celebrates the two centuries affiliation between Australia and Switzerland.

The exhibition comprises six artists' paintings — each contributing a major role in the trends and movements of Aus-

tralian art since before settlement — some 214 years ago.

The oldest paintings in the exhibition are by John Webber (1751-1793), artist and illustrator on Captain Cook's third voyage to Tasmania and the Pacific region between 1776 and 1780. It was during this voyage that Cook met his tragic death — an event Webber recorded with the chronicling of the first significant contact between European and Pacific peoples.

Louis Buvelot (1814 to 1888), deemed to be the father of Australian painting, includes magnificent untouched landscapes and breathtaking depic-

In conjunction with this exhibition is The Basel Connection, a tribute to

Compagnie Philippe Genty, master puppeteers and illusionists, are about to open their Perth season organised by the Perth Theatre Trust at His Majesty's Theatre on July 9-20 and complete a seven month tour of Australia.

And what a tour it's been, critics and audience have and raving been applauding.

And what makes this astonishing show such a success is Compagnie Genty's extraordinary skill at creating apparent reality and turning it into breath taking fantasy. The Adelaide News described Genty as "the Steven Spielberg of the stage".

Compagnie Philippe Genty has won the Australian public's hearts

using puppets large and small. Any idea that puppets are for children only is dispelled from the first moment a miniature train crosses the stage and a full size over coated man apparently steps off.

In Sydney the company's season during the Sydney Festival sold out and was described as the highlight of the Festival. In Mel-

The twentieth century also boasts a strong Swiss contribution; Paul Haefliger (1914 to 1982) and Sali Herman (b 1898), one of two contemporaries represented in the exhibition and renowned for his suburban proletariat subjects.

the Basel-Perth Artists Exchange program between the Christoph Merian Foundation in Basel, Switzerland and the State Government of Western Australia.

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Five artists have benefited from this exchange and are represented in the exhibition. They are Mary Dudin, Cecille Williams and Jurek Wybraniec from Perth, and Daniel Goettin and Bruno Seitz from Basel.

This exhibition is located in the Project Gallery.

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Touching on the Infinite Exp/oratiom in Human Hope by Tony Kelly CSSR (Collins Dove $19.99).

From Leading Australian theologian Tony Kelly comes a valuable contribution to a neglected area of theology and religious culture. Touching on the Infinite succeeds in re-assessing and reinterpreting the "Last Things" within a general context of Christian hope.

As we move toward the end of a tragic and wonderful century it is time for a study of what will emerge from this past era. Tony Kelly argues that the past century has left us stripped of everything except hope.

After reflecting on a contemporary account of Christian hope, some features of the traditional expression of the last things — death, judgement, heaven, hell are examined. Kelly explores the passion, death, and resurrection as a fundamental Christian parable of hope. and argues that the Eucharist is hope's basic sacramental form.

bourne the sold out signs were put up outside The Athenaeum Theatre. This has happened in all other cities where the Compagnie Philippe Genty has performed on this marathon tour.

While in Western Australia Campagnie Philippe Genty will also peform in Bunbury and Albany.

Often the things that hurt, ratlit. than the things which feel good — (like giving up something we really wanted for the sake of someone else).

Many times it can be the 'no's rather It is the littlest things that build human dignity.

—That person next to you in a checkout queue who

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somehow feels so alive and warm and comfortable to be with even though you've never met them.

Little things. Little ways. God's hand reaching out to us as we go through everyday life.

Sometimes we can be so closed to him. So blocked off — for many different reasons — that he cannot come to us through the usual avenues of prayer, or the blessedness of everyday life.

Instead, He must reach us through the little unexpected moments where He finds us with our barriers down — and slip in His gifts when we're not expecting them — only realizing His presence after we have received them — when we become aware of an unexpected joy.

How much greater than us is this God who can touch us in our darkness.

Even when we hide our face from Him — afraid of our own unworthiness.

We can be lost and alone Spinning, it seems, in circles

Let's Go 1991. The Budget guide to New York City (Pan $24.99).

Did you know: • You can ride a camel for $2 in the wilds of the Bronx Zoo? • You can eat a full Texan, Hungarian, Afghani or Italian meal for $7 or less?

• You can stay in a gorgeous Renaissance-style mansion, complete with winged cherubs, for $35 a night?

Let's Go is the definitive budget travel guide, whether you're in search of city nightlife on your first trip or off-the-beaten-track adventure on your tenth, whether you're hoisting a backpack or renting a car.

For example: In New York City we list 22 hotels or hostels for under $36 a night.

In Manhattan alone we tell you about 15 museums and galleries that you can visit absolutely free. In the East Village we'll show you eight restaurants where a full meal comes to less than $6.

And where other guides may change a price here, an address there, we return to all the places listed. If last year's secret find becomes a destination on some travel company's grand tour, we'll warn you.

Until He comes and reaches in Despite ourselves To raise us up again.

How important it is to keep hope.

Even in moments of darkness.

No—one is too lost for God No darkness ever too black to be pierced by His light.

Even when we've given up hope of ever resurfacing He can lift us from despair.

All we need do is to wait Believing in Him despite the gloom Hoping in His Glory and Power and refusing to focus on, or be drowned by, the darkness.

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THE PARISHSCE- NE: Dianella Leads Both the "A" and "B" grade competitions are led by Dianella teams. In the "A" grade they convincingly downed Thornlie 8 sets to 2.

Thornlie who are yet to win a fixture, started well taking the ladies' doubles in a tie breaker. However, they were not able to maintain their momentum and won only one more set for the afternoon.

Queen's Park, who shared top spot with Dianella, had a comfortable win over St Benedict's 7 sets to 3.

Castledare had the bye.

Dianella and Queen's Park now have a three point break over their closest rivals, Castledare.

Dianella retained their unbeaten status in the "B" grade when they beat Attadale 5 sets to 4, the final set not being completed.

Dianella have won several of their matches by small margins. However, they still remain the only undefeated team in the competition.

Willetton remain on track for a final berth with a 9 set to 1 win over Queen's Park.

In the other match, Pignatelli had too many guns for St Mark's and kept their final aspirations alive with a 8 sets to 2 win. Yidarra had the bye.

Results "A" grade: Dianella 8/88 defeated Thornlie 2/51; Queen's Park 7/75 defeated St Benedict's 3/57; Castledare — bye.

"B" grade: Willetton 9/81 defeated Queen's Park 1/46; Pignatelli 8/78 defeated St Mark's 2/48; Dianella 5/63

defeated Attadale 4/55; Yidarra — bye.

"A" Grade Dianella Queen's Park Castledare St Benedict's Thornlie "B" Grade Dianella Yidarra Willettton Attadale Pignatelli Queen's Park St Mark's

CANCER PRAYER

The Mass of Saint Peregrine — the patron saint of those who suffer from cancer is celebrated and the blessing with the St Peregrine relic is given on the first Saturday of each month at the Priory Chapel in 2 Morgans St, Tuart Hill at Barn. The next Mass is on Saturday, July 6. Open to all.

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On July 21 St Joseph's Parish, Mingenew will hold a Family Mass and picnic at Coalseam Park, at noon.

Bring Your Own Everything.

BBQ's available. For further enquiries: Roma Parker 099-72 8033 Anne Fairhead 099-28 1183.

Quiz Night At a very successful electronic quiz night at the Manning Hotel approximately 170 people attended.

John and Donna Ward who organised the function were thanked by the president in his address for a wonderful job. The president also introduced four of this Quest Queen year's entrants. Current Miss WACLTA Sasha Pendall also attended.

KOJONUP PRAYER A day of recollection will be held in St Bernard's Church, Kojonup, on Monday, July 15, commencing at 9.30am and concluding at 3pm after Mass. Enquiries ph (098) 24 1213 or (098) 25 8230.

WAROONA/YARLOOP JUBILEE A reunion at St Patrick's Waroona, on the weekend of September 2829, celebrates one hundred years of Catholic life in our district, which began with the arrival of the Eastcott family in Wagerup, and the golden jubilee of the present church in 1941.

A dance on Saturday, September 28, 8pm at the recreation centre, Hill Street, Waroona. Sunday, September 29 Mass in the St Joseph's School grounds, Waroona, at 10am followed by a barbecue and social mixing. Enquiries can be directed to: Helena Maiolo (097) 33 1523, Lina Look (097) 33 1261, Margaret Bevan (097) 33 1133.

Side Lines Past president, Peter Messer, celebrated his 40th birthday recently with a Back to School day party for family and friends.

Former teaching staff of some of the colleges and schools would have had great difficulty recognising their ex students in their slightly undersized uniforms.

The Yidarra Club fund raising function in a Karaoke night was a huge success. Some entertainers of great potential were unearthed!

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BEGINNING EXPERIENCE The Beginning Experience weekend for the separated, widowed and divorced will be held at St Joseph's Convent, Safety Bay, on July 26, 27 and 28. For further information please phone Jenny on 447 3795 or Dianna on 448 2940.

NEWMAN SOCIETY On Wednesday, July 10, at 7.45pm, in the Senior Common Room, St Thomas More College, Crawley, Father Timothy Quinlan will lecture on -The Jesuits, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" as one of the events celebrating the end of the Ignatian Year, which is commemorating the birth, in 1491, of St Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits.

Open to all interested. Contact number 386 8192.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Rosary, homily and Benediction will be held on Sunday, June 30 at the Bullsbrook church -Virgin Mary Mother of the Church" at 2pm. For further information and bus reservations please ring 444 7565 for Marangaroo, Dianella, Perth, Highgate and Midland bus and 339 4015 for Fremantle bus.

PSYCHIATRIC CONCERNS To celebrate the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul those interested are invited on Sunday, June 30 at 2.30pm to St Francis Xavier's Church, Windsor St, Perth for Rosary and a talk by Fr Dynon SJ followed by a social with music and afternoon tea next door at the Emmanuel Centre. Please bring a plate. Open to all.

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JUNE Confirmation Riverton, Bishop 30 Healy.

Confirmation Scarborough, Mgr Keating.

St Mary's Cathedral Mass for St John Ambulance Commandery, Fr Orzanski.

JULY 2 Proclamation Mass University of Notre Dame Australia at St Patrick's Fremantle, Bishop Healy.

Inauguration Ceremony of NDA University at Concert Hall, Bishop Healy.

Ordination to Priesthood Minh6 Thuy Nguyen at St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Healy.

13 Solo Parents National Conference, Bishop Healy.

14 Mass CWL State Conference, Bishop Healy.

15 Metropolitan Cemeteries Board, Mgr McCrann.

16 Our Lady of Mt Carmel Mass, Carmelite Monastery, Bishop Healy.

21 Day of Enquiry St Charles' Seminary, Bishop Healy.

Mass for Flame Weekend, De La Salle College, Bishop Healy.

Mass 450th anniversary of birth St 28 Ignatius, Bishop Healy.

29 Mass for St Alphonsus Day, Bishop Healy Confirmation Mosman Park, 31 Bishop Healy.

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