Two wins and PERTH, WA: July 11, 1991
Registered by Australia Post Publication No WAR 0202
Number 2747
POST ADDRESS: PO Box 50, Northbridge, 6000 W.A. LOCATION: 26 John St, Northbridge (east off Fitzgerald St).
TELEPHONE: (09) 328 1388
FAX (09) 328 7307
PRICE 60C
Roy.. . . two wins, a second.
Colleen . . . a second prize.
two seconds
The Record has done it again — this time in a bigger way.
Entries came trom a host of churches — Catholic, Uniting, Anglican, Church of Christ. Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran and a number of independent groups.
In the Best Feature competition Jill Smith of the Newcastle Anglican Encounter took the top prize. The entry of The Colleen Record's McGuiness-Howard — Plan to give Aborigines and independence respect — received a commendation. The Record's sub-editor Roy Lazaroo took the prize for the Best Layout and the Best Headline. Commented the judges on the winning layout: "'The use of photographs, artwork and type (headings, etc), make an excellent layout which attracts the readers' eye. An outstanding example of creative newspaper design." The winning headline "Of sin, syntax, sex and sects" was viewed by the judges as being "arresting, humourous and entirely apt for the story beneath it."
The ARPA awards were presented by Melbourne's Anglican Archbishop Dr Keith Rayner.
Other Catholic publications noted in ARPA were the Catholic Leader of Brisbane for the best
It won two awards in the Australian Religious Association Press (ARPA) competition in Melbourne. It took top prize for the Best Layout and Best Headline in the newspaper section and received a certificate of commendation for the Best Feature (newspaper and magazine). The ARPA competition is an Australasian affair involving entries from Australia and New Zealand. The Record's efforts stood in three of 15 categories that had attracted 281 entries from 31 publications.
news story by Ray Owen, The Catholic Leader as being the most improved newspaper because of its introduction of colour, and the SVDP Record, edited by John McFadden. It was also recognised for having the Best Picture and Best Magazine reporting. The Catholic Life in Sale won the award for being Best Regional publication. At a separate Catholic press convention The Record which last year got best Australasian Catholic Press layout award was this year runner up to The Catholic Leader in the same category. The Far East magazine and The Catholic Leader were respective winners of the Bishop Kennedy Memorial Award, The Leader carrying also the best news story and feature while The Catholic Weekly carried the best editorial. These awards were presented by Catholic Archbishop Sir Frank Little.
The end of a long journey for him
He's priest now.. 20 years later Coming to the end of any long journey is a gratifying experience and in the case of newly ordained Vietnamese priest Minh-Thuy, particularly so. He had entered the seminary in South Vietnam in 1971. but when the communist takeover made its ugly presence felt in 1975, life became untenable.
Jailing of priests for and the risk of being spans of up to three years discovered by the spot meant no lectures and checks made in the night the day, by few books (most had or been seized) for the 30 communists. seminarians. Discovery would have Even the release of meant jail for all interned priests didn't involved. mean the continuance of The rest of the populastudies because the pri- tion fared no better with ests were forbidden to the introduction of resteach which meant clan- trictive measures which destine small group strangled all freedom of teachings without books initiative and movement
and for Minh-Thuy to even visit his family was fraught with danger. And in fact he counts as a miracle the fact that during a search they did not discover him on one occasion. Imprisonment of his father under appalling conditions and uncertainties of everyday life along with the cessation
of seminarian studies, were the backdrop for reinforcing his fabric of commitment to the priesthood, or tearing it. Minh-Thuy's ordeals served to strengthen it and after his successful escape on a crowded boatload in 1981 which resulted in his migration to Australia, Minh-Thuy recommenced studies at
St Charles seminary in Guildford and then completed them at the Adelaide seminary. So it's taken 20 eventful years for this man to become a priest and in new Australian surroundings to which his family has also migrated to as of the last 18 months. About 800 people
watched last Saturday as the main celebrant Bishop Healy said Mass in St Mary's Cathedral with the newly ordained Minh-Thuy along with 50 other priests comprising some Vietnamese priests from thorn the eastern states, and our local clergy. —C • See Page 11
WESTERN AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST TOYOTA DEALER IS PROUD TO SERVE THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY WITH THE BIGGEST SELECTION OF NEW AND DEMONSTRATOR TOYOTA'S AND Were raising the THE VERY BEST DEALS AND SERVICE. standard. OH WHAT FEELING SCHOOL BUSES, 4WD AND COMMERCIALS P ASSENGER CARS
DL '6:31
63 ADELAIDE TCE, PERTH. PH: (09) 325 8811
ALL ENQUIRIES TO JOHN O'NEILL A.fri (091 459 9593
GT EASTERN HIGHWAY, ASCOT. PH: (09) 325 8811
TOYOTA'
NDA will shape Notre Dame Australia university will be country, a smarter generation, improving great and will shape the future of WA, higher the economy through better education. education and the Church. "The agenda for higher education as we "I feel confident in predicting that approach the third millenium is a critical greatness, because I forsee that this one." university will fill an imporatant need said Professor Link questioned whether the the Vice chancellor Professor David Link at answer is simply increasing tertiary the inauguration. i nstitutions. "Political and other leaders throughout "I have often been asked whether the world talk about the importance of Western Australia needs another university. clever about a speeches hear education. We
The most unique Being Catholic is NDA's most unique feature, said Professor Link. "It is a summary way of explaining how we will be different — what special features we will bring to the overall higher education system — how our teaching and research will complement that of other universities. Since the beginning of the tertiary education system. universities contributed to society by teaching and research, he said. All universities had to adopt certain value a systems as consequence. "In fact, universities continue in a constant
the central question of exploration.
process of comparing values different within their studies — economic value, scientific value, historical value, sociological value, etc.
"The University of Notre Dame Australia will explore a variety of value systems in its and teaching research. But as a Catholic university, we will follow the early universities in considering the moral questions to be at the
In the early days, almost all teaching and the results of research were subjected to an examination of the moral values he said.
core.
"This should not be surprising since most of the great universities started from some religious tradition — Oxford, Cambridge. Paris, Bologna. Harvard. Yale and my own University of Notre Dame du lac.
"While certainly some universities should value economics at the core of what they do, while others see scientific proofs as central, and on through a variety of different central value options, an educational system cannot be complete without the contribution of
"In fact, at most of these universities the ethical dilemma was
institutions which subject every exploration to a moral standard. "Any university founded and maintained in the religious tradition has that as the theme of its mission. "Some ask whether it is possible to be truly Catholic and truly a university. Of course it is. "There is nothing inconsistent about being convinced about the source of truth and zealously exploring the search for and the understanding of truth. "Some institutions feel compelled by their mission or by certain pressures to
A beautiful creatio A Catholic university is a beautiful creation of the human spirit, the president of Notre Dame Indiana USA told Notre Dame Australia's inauguration audience. "A Catholic university is a place where the next generation should learn how to pray, how to think, how to ponder and wonder at the beauty of the creation around us. who can recognise the power of the spoken word, of music and song to enliven and to probe the inner mysteries of
existence," said Holy Cross Fr Edward Malloy. Catholic higher education takes seriously the needs of the whole person. Everything that is part of human experience is relevant. "All of us in Catholic education want to prepare students who are articulate, who can examine a problem and develop hypotheses and possible lines of solution; who can recognise that much of what we face is simply contemporary
Small, tough start Notre Dame du Lac university in Indiana celebrates its 150th birthday next year but it bad a small and tough start, Father Malloy said. A Holy Cross priest and six brothers started with 25 students, most of them with only primary education — they speaking English and their teachers French. During one academic year they lost 22 priests
2 *tie lisconit July
and brothers to cholera and typhus. There was a continual redefinition of what its purposes were. "But thank God, in the face of fire, and sometimes acrimonious disagreement among themselves, and the difficulty of recruiting students and trying to figures out how to define properly the nature of a Catholic school, we have been
able through good leadership and God's blessing, to come to be in the forefront of the Catholic universities of the world. "None of us can take credit for what has happened, but we can look back in genuine to a thankfulness founder who had a deep convictior. that there was something very basic and primary about Catholic education, that did try to pursue truth and beauty
existence in its complexity, and that perplexity is simply a function of the raw stuff of reality. "We're not trying to create places apart that are immune from the scrabbles and trials of everyday life. "Rather we want to be enclaves of systematic reflection where the most basic values of human existence, including our creativeness before God, our sense of obligation in the communities of which we are a part; to be agents of care and compassion and concern, are on the agenda.
"We want to be universities where the life of the Spirit and a reflection and goodness in the about the meaning of conviction and sense that human existence before each of these was a God can take place in an proper route to God, that open form, where people there was nothing can ponder why in fact human that was alien to innocent children suffer a Catholic educational in this world, why good effort, and that with the people are struc.k down right kind of forethought in an auto accidents or and planning, the right with cancer or heart kind of mustering of the disease, why some indihuman resources of our viduals in our midst community, that some- carry the burden of thing great and extraor- handicaps of one kind or dinary could be another, of how arbitrary it seems that some are achieved."
create a climate in which faithful and loving marriages can be the. typical form of human commitment and interaction? Wouldn't we like to find a way of training the next generation to be effective and caring, and even when necessary confrontative parents? Wouldn't we like to find "But in the Christian a way of interpreting the scheme of things, if we influence of the media, of would be brave we discovering humane would be the servant of ways of living in harmony with our wider the rest." environment? Fr Malloy said newsWouldn't we like to find paper and television tell a way other than war for us there is much beyond solving geo-political our control. conflict? Wouldn't we like to find "We need Catholic a way of appreciating the universities as centres of richness of the indigenlearning in collaboration ous cultures in all of our with all the other great societies? universities of this Wouldn't we like to find nation, as places with a way of offering equal sufficient leisure that to all people, dignity back pull can individuals as well as men. women from the fray at least for and old people young the moment, in which people of good will can people as well as those play out a variety of who are working? Wouldn't we like to find options and try to struggle to find solutions the proper mode of instead of simply becom- welcoming those from other cultures who come ing sinners or sceptics." to our lands at the same He asked: time preserving the best Wouldn't we like to and the richest of what know how we could our culture has to offer?
blessed with wealth and talent and power and ability, and yet we are reminded in the face of all that, in the kind of set social pecking orders that exist in any society, the Gospel reminds us of the great reversal at the end of time, that the first indeed shall be last and the last shall be first.
WA's future and will be great I don't know the answer to that question. something different to the education table. WA already has excellent tertiary education The setting of priorities can be done outside of any unified plan or centralised institutions. regulation, programming or pressure. The "The real question has to do with the need independent institution contributes by to add diversity to higher education in this doing research and teaching in a different part of the world. What I am able to say is way, by having a slightly different mission that Western Australia does need an and agenda. independent university and it does need a "I assure the representatives of the other Catholic university. great tertiary education institutions "Independent universities do bring represented here tonight, that Notre Dame
comes to you not as a competitor but as a complement. "We want to add to the higher education system of Australia in a qualitative way and confident in we genuinely seek your advice as to how we V I feel that predicting can best contribute. because I greatness "We want to do co-operative projects with that this unithese other fine universities and we commit forsee versity will fill an to answering any challenge that the needs important need of the higher education system in this country bring our way."
Quote
y
feature is being Catholic avoid the moral questions and evaluate all questions as if God did not exist. "For the university growing out of any religious tradition the opposite is the case. "Our belief that God exists compeLs us to seriously examine every aspect of the ethical dilemma. "Indeed, in many situations, Catholic and other Christian higher education programs have more academic freedom than those institutions that feel certain moral questions are off limits. "While questions like abortion or genetic engineering or nuclear war or
poverty may need to be tested from economic, scientific, historical and other perspectives, someone has to explore the morality of various solutions and do it in such a way that they don't believe they already know the answer. "We know that scientifically, nuclear weapons can be built, that politically they can be justified, that there can be economic grounds for stockpiling them, that there are sociological and historical explanations for their deployment. "But if the civilised world is to survive, we need to search for truth relative to the
morality of nuclear weapons. "There are interesting scientific quesregarding tions genetic engineering: interesting economic questions regarding the poor, homelessness and the third world; interesting legal and sociological questions regarding drug abuse. "Notre Dame Australia will explore thaw questions but at t he core of our research will be the moral dimension of t hese and other urgent issues. "We commit to becoming a significant voice and adding to what is already being done in these
areas of academic and ethics exploration. "We also have a further mission. In addition to being Catholic in our approach to teaching and research, we have a mission of service to the Catholic Church. "First of all, we think that we can be of considerable assistance to those institutions already involved in training teachers for the Catholic and other primary and secondary schools. "As the number of religious committing their lives to these schools has derninished, we hope to directly and in cooperation with others offer something different to newly
trained teachers so that they will bring a distinctiveness to their primary and s econdary assignments. "These teachers will transfer the sensitivity to moral values which they themselves have explored at the university on to generations of students for years to come. 'That goal explains why we start our university with a College of Education as our initial faculty, why we are anxious to get started with those degrees and why we have hired as our inaugural Dean of Education a man of the stature of Tony Ryan.
... and being independent
-In another way we serve the Church. Like other Catholic universities, we will be a place for the Church to do its thinking. We will be a place that, through a combination of faith and reason, will seek nuances and applications of truth, ever secure in our belief in the ultimate source of truth. "We will do this in an ecumenical way since the Church cannot do its thinking in a vacuum. We will be openly and truly Catholic, but people of all faiths will be comfortable studying here. "That is our commitment to you. We will
build here a great
university. Along with the other universities we will help shape the future of Western Australia. "We will help to shape the future of Catholic education at all levels. Along with other apostolates we will help to shape the future of the Church. We are dedicated to these missions. "We go about our work with a sense of purpose, a sense of tradition, a sense of co-operation, a sense of gratitude for the opportunity and most of all a sense of love for those whom we may serve. "We do all of this in t he name of our Notre patroness, Dame."
rr ALK TO 1SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS Prominent at the Notre Oame University inauguration were some of the 10 historic pieces sent by the Vatkin Library
as a foundation
gift to NDA. The centrepiece was the Cosmology of Claudius Tolornayus of 1472: other displayed items were Benedictine cakes of 1058 mod a 13th century copy of the New Testament and several ancient maps.
Notre Dame Australia will bring two important features, independence and being Catholic, according to Professor Linke. He said NDA would like to be identified as independent. The word private would connote that the university is controlled by a small private interest. Elitist Notre Dame is to be the opposite, he said. Stressing that an independent university is a
compliment to the public system he said. "I pledge that within that independence we are committed to the pursuit of objectives that will be acknowledged by the community at large to be in the public interest. Noting that financial support for WA's indeuniveristy pendent would be from a wide he constituency, continued:
"Some will give small versity. It is clearly amounts and others will intended to be a peoples' give much more, but we university. need to make sure that "Our wide constituency the base will be strong. fund raising campaign "Also, like other inde- concentrates on attractpendent universities ing student financial aid throughout the world, scholarships. Institutions we hope that our stu- like Harvard and Notre dents and research pro- Dame in the United jects will enjoy some States have developed government and public such extensive indefoundation support. pendent scholarship aid "Both the minor and packages that they end major contributors will up with highly diversicombine to form the fied student bodies. They ownership of this Uni- are the opposite of being
elitist; providing education to some people who could not even afford the public of fees institutions. "We intend to be the same so our first contribution to the education system of Australia, our independence, will allow us to perform public service but in a unique way relieved of the restrictions and pressures that might necessarily attach to any unified system."
Planning for the future welfare of your family is always an important consideration. If the unexpected should happen could they cope with the stress of arranging your funeral? Alleviate that emotional and financial responsibility by pre.-arranging your own funeral. We have always been dedicated to the comfort of families in times of crisis. So it is that we are able to offer a unique PRE PAID FUNERAL PLAN. You are able to plan everything to suit your own individual wishes. Contact one of our offices for our informative booklet — "Funeral Planning Because You Care".
BOWRA & O'DEA (Est 1888)
68 Stirling St, Perth 328 7299 502 Wanneroo Rd. Balga 349 0100 1307 Albany Hwy, Cannington 458 5017 131 Gt Eastern Hwy, Midland 250 1088 571 Stirling Hwy, Cottesloe 384 2226
A TRADITION OF TRUST .The Rec.90:1..4440.4921
The subject of AIDS is not pretty and human emotions and reactions being what they are it is inevitable that some of the sideline skirmishes are going to reflect the worst in us. What is wrong with the Bible? it may asked when it comes to finding some spiritual and carnal sanity in a world that has lost its sense of direction in its sexuality with dire consquences far beyond the pale of AIDS. But 'The Bible' was the insulting epithet hurled at Health Minister Keith Wilson this week by our state newspaper's cartoonist because he took issue with the minister's undisclosed information backing his recent veto. It is a grubby insult because it impugns the years that Mr Wilson served as a dedicated Anglican priest and which service he gave up with the full blessing of his church so that he could enter what he felt was his chosen vocation in politics. The mud is further raked with snide inferences in several press and television reports that Mr Wilson's religious faith is to be even further denigrated because of his recent espousal of Catholicism and about which neither he nor the Catholic Church have properly made no public mention. Mr Wilson's difference of opinion with his department over the condom publicity for teenagers is his own political business and if it was such a sudden death decision then it suggests there is more going on below the surface than we are hearing. To go, however, on a religious witch-hunt because the self-inflated spokespersons in various aids committees believe that only they have the true moral gospel in these matters is the arrogance we can do without. On the 'Bible' issue, the forthcoming census is likely to reveal that some 75°D of Australians purportedly take that scripture as their basis of faith. Have the new pagans and secularists now captured the media to the point where that fact does not matter and their puny and laissez faire morality is rammed down the public conscience, especially the rising generation? Would a cartoonist dare lambast the Koran or Buddhist scriptures in a similar vein. A narrow Bible-only approach to morality governing sexual and AIDS-related programmes is not necessarily the best educational method in current circumstances and church-related people have taken trouble not to invoke harsh Biblical invective precisely because of the negative effect it may have on the AIDS-caring industry where Christ's compassion is to the forefront and where many dedicated Bible devotees are in the front line. It is the new social technocrats who need to be put into the dock because of their assumption that they have the right to impose their so called safe-sex morality on youth. They start from very shaky ground by citing the sexual activity of some youth — alleged of course to be widespread so that their argument is seen to be proven before it is stated. Are all the other misdemeanours and irresponsibilities of youth in the late 20th century to be the basis of a new-do-it-yourself morality? Are the drug-takers and alcoholics to become the new yardstick of conduct for the rest of these youths lives? The real damage is done to youth by the presumption that they cannot be trusted, that they are amoral about any choices in their conduct and that they must henceforth be brought up in fail-safe straitjackets. Big Brother will tell them that their immorality is alright and Big Brother apparently will pick up the tab for their ruin and degradation. The free-wheeling moral engineers in youth sex education might ask a few questions about the sexual amorality that is blazoned for hours each week on ABC television that bleats now for protection from the impending razor gang. Sexual morality there is taught to the young adolescents as a yawn and a joke, yet who would challenge that pernicious mould of juvenile opinion, judged by its audiences? It is difficult to judge the programme axed by Health Minister Wilson precisely because the back-room public servants are making sure that only their side of the story gets favourable publicity. But if the minister's only fault in the current veto is to claim that young people have a right to be taught a way of life that is monagamous and chaste as the basis of sound living then the sooner other politicans start making the same 'faults' the better. 4
The Recor,i,J, ,July
19$1
Sinn Fein debates non-violent option
ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (CNS): The Catholic primate of all Ireland has said Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, is debating whether the armed struggle against British rule of the province should be continued. In an interview with a Dublin newspaper, the Sunday Press, Cardinal Cahal Daly of Armagh said that he inadvertently had seen documents about different options which were circulating "in the republican movement". Republican refers to the strongest advocates of reunion between the Irish Republic and the six counties that make up Northern Ireland. The cardinal spoke as discussions about the political future of Northern Ireland were getting underway. Sinn Fein has been barred from the Northern Ireland discussions for failing to renounce violence. Cardinal Daly, who later travelled to Rome for his June 28 installation in the College of Cardinals, also said he had met with republican prisoners in the Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and felt that arguments for the continuation of the IRA's violent
campaign were not the only arguments being considered. He said he is in constant contact with priests from the Armagh Archdiocese who provide him with valuable information about current political developments in the Catholic community. The cardinal said that the chasm in communications between himself and people who support Sinn Fein is not as wide as might be thought. Sinn Fein, on that point, said it would welcome "a chance to talk to" the cardinal if, as it seems, his attitude toward the party is softening. "Sinn Fein has continually advocated that the best way to resolve this conflict is through dialogue," the organisation said in a statement. Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams "has, on several occasions, sought meetings with the Church hierarchy to discuss the situation", it said. A Sinn Fein spokesman told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview that several options for action, including renouncing arms, are being discussed "all the time". "I would say this is an ongoing issue," he said.
Daly on underfunding ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (CNS): Cardinal designate Cahal Daly of Armagh, says there has been systematic underfunding of Catholic schools in Northern Ireland by the government. He said the Catholic own Church's researc.h had shown that twice as much is spent to educate the average Protestant pupil in a given area
'Partial ties not enough' VATICAN CITY, (CNS): It is not enough for Christian churches to have "partial relationships" which stop short of full communion, Pope John Paul ll said. The lack of Christian unity "continues to put obstacles in the way of the mission entrusted by Christ to his disciples", the pope told members of the World Council of Churches' Faith and Order Commission. "In the Catholic view of ecumenism the task of achieving, with God's grace, the full visible unity of Christians must always be a priority." The commission's "special contribution (to ecumenism) has been to keep before divided Christians the goal of seeking visible unity in the one apostolic faith, a unity which will have its highest ecclesial expression in eucharistic communion", he said.
as is expended on a Catholic child. He said he considered that "totally unjustifiable". Under the Northern Ireland education system. 85 per cent of parochial school operating costs are to be paid for by the state. Under new school integration legislation, a Catholic school
could receive a 100 per cent subsidy if at least 20 per cent of its student body were Protestant. British a But g overnment study sponsored reportedly shows that in the past 20 years, Catholic schools have received between 20 per cent and 30 per cent less in grants for books, equipment and pay for non-
teaching staff than the state schools, which are attended largely by Protestants and are 100 per cent government-funded. The report also says that the fact that the Catholic schools have to raise 50 per cent of the cost of capital building projects may new discourage building. "The government has frequently reiter-
ated its commitment to fairer employment," Cardinaldesignate Daly said. "But you cannot effectively implement fair employment unles you accompany it with fair education opportunities and that has a good deal to do with funding. "We are simply asking for fair and equitable treatment." he said.
Mediator priest says he should get reward BOGOTA, Columbia ( CNS): A Catholic priest who mediated the surrender of top Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar said he should get the $800,000 reward the goverment offered for information leading to Escobar's capture. But a security police report said no-one had
the right to the reward because it was offered only if Escobar were captured, not if he surrendered. Father Rafael Garcia Herreros, 84, said he would advise the government "not to promise anything ever again because when the time comes to pay they find problems and
sophistry not to pay". "Perhaps what they wanted was a shootout and there wasn't," he said on local radio. After several secret meetings, Father Garcia Herreros persuaded Escobar, boss of the powerful Medellin cocaine cartel, to give himself up voluntarily in exchange for a
government offer of lenient treatment. He said he would use half of the money, if he got it, to build a "University of Peace" at the prison where Escobar and other traffickers are held near Medellin and the other half to build a "Minute with God" university in the capital, Bogota.
Drugs real problem MEDELLIN, COLOMBIA. The consumption of drugs and not the production is the fundamental problem according to a priest in charge of social activities here. The church in Colombia is trying to educate its people against drug trafficking, but the cocaine industry will continue as long as there are big markets in the United States and Europe, said Father Nel
Beltran, director of the National Secretariat of Social Pastoral Programs. Colombia is often unfairly "demonised" as the source of the drug problem. The fundamental problem is not the production, manufacture and commercialisation of drugs, but the consumption that justifies it," he said. There is some drug use in Colombia, he noted, but not nearly as
much as in the United States and Europe. "The church is doing what it can to educate young people, but as long as there is the opportunity for international commercialisation with those prices. and with those profits. this will remain a business that invites many people to continue," he said. Father Beltran argued against what he called the "rather military"
approach to the problem being taken by the international community, which sees the drug trade strictly in terms of arrests and international relations. "I think this is a mistaken path. No doubt we need to rebuild international relations, but we also need to rethink efforts to educate young people in European countries and in the United States, as well as in our country" he said.
Abortion at top of pope's agenda VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Abortion, long a pivotal issue for US Catholics, is being nailed to the top of the universal Church's agenda by Pope John Paul II. From the beginning of his pontificate, the pope has condemned abortion as an attack on society's "weakest and most defenceless members". But he has now seized upon the issue with new energy and a new sense of urgency. In April he called an unprecedented meeting of the world's cardinals to discuss "the struggle between the culture of death and the culture of life". Opening the session, a Vatican official estimated that 30-40 million abortions are performed each year — calling it part of a "war of the powerful against the weak". During the pope's June trip to his Polish homeland. abortion quicidy
became the most controversial issue. The pope compared abortions in Poland — estimated at half a million per year — to the genocide that took place in the Nazi death camps. The comparison drew criticism from several Jewish groups. Then in late June, the Vatican released the text of a papal letter to each of the Church's 4000 bishops, calling for a vast mobilisation against what the pope termed a modem "slaughter of the innocents". The tone of the pope's letter was unusually pressing, and his instructions were specific: bishops were to speak out against abortion and other anti-life practices "at every opportunity", keep closer watch on what their seminaries are teaching and on what Church-run hospitals are doing, and support pro-
life legislation and political initiatives. All this is likely to be crowned in coming months with a major papal document on abortion and the sacredness of human life, Vatican sources said. In fact, the pope noted that the College of Cardinals asked him to "solemnly reaffirm" in a document, preferably an encyclical, the value of human life in light of the "attacks which threaten it today". The pope's concern is not limited to abortion. He often expresses apprehension that euthanasia may also be gaining acceptance in some countries. And when he lashes out at a "prevalent death mentality" in modem culture, he is thinking of the sick, the handicapped and, to some extent, the poor. But abortion is the main issue, and the most crucial moral battle-
ground for the pope. Vatican sources said the pontiff was deeply impressed by abortion statistics furnished during the April meeting of cardinals, and by the number of prelates who legislative reported efforts in their country to legalise abortion. "The problem is not new, but unfortunately it seems to be worsening daily throughout the world," said Vatican Joaquin spokesman Navarro-Valls. He said the pope recognises that the Church faces a double task: rebuilding sound moral judgement and sharpening consciences among Catholics, and, in the larger society, denouncing abortion as a grave violation of human rights. Both sides of the problem were clearly visible during the pope's trip to Poland, where the population is almost entirely
Catholic and where the fall of communism has given the Church a new voice in social issues. Shortly before the pope arrived, the Polish parliament deffered action on a bill that would have made abortion illegal; the pope's disappointment was palpable throughout his visit. "What human institution, what parliament has the right to legalise the killing of an innocent human being?" he said. "What has happened to motherhood among Polish women?" he asked on another occasion, while noting that it is often men who push women to have abortions. Under communism, abortion could be blamed in part on the country's leaders. But in post-communist Eastern Europe, the pope wants a rollback in laws that make the practice legal. Legislatures have been slow to respond.
A Pakistani promise ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNS): Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the government is establishing a commission to recommend means of guaranteeing equal rights to religious minorities in mostly-Muslim Pakistan in the wake of Parliament's passage of a bill establishing Islamic law as the law of the land. Shard. speaking at a national conference of non -Muslim judges organised by the Catholic Peace and Justice Commission of Pakistan, said the country cannot be
divided into Muslims and non-Muslims. The country, he said. "is a great heritage of the entire Pakistani nation". Law provides equal protection for each citizen to life, property and honour, Sharif said. "Religious minorities in our eyes are our sacred trust and I assure you that we would protect this trust more than our lives". The prime minister's speech, delivered in late May, came in the context of protests by nonMuslim groups of the socalled Shariat legislation.
Secret's out
ROME (CNS): Cardinal not allowed to read the Ignatius Kung Pin-Mel of Bible" or any other Shanghai was named a religious literature, he said. cardinal 12 years ago. He didn't know he was He was not allowed a secretly named cardi- visitors and the prison nal; he didn't know there provided only "the was such a person as a thoughts of Mao and secretly named cardinal. Chinese newspapers". He was in a Chinese Cardinal Kung was prison at the time. paroled from prison in A dozen years later, 1985, but was under dressed in a plain black house arrest. In 1988 he cassock and wearing a was allowed to go to the pectoral cross given to United States for medical him by Pope John Paul II, treatment. He has been the 89-year-old cardinal living there since. said that there was no During a 1989 meeting, way he could have Pope John Paul told him k nown that in 1979 Pope he was the secretly John Paul II named him named cardinal, but a cardinal "in pectore". asked him to keep the During his 30 years in a secret until the pope Chinese prison, "I was called a new consistory.
Minority and women's groups argue that the law will turn them into second-class citizens with legal little protection. Although one clause of the measure guarantees the "personal laws of the minorities," opponents argue that minorities are governed by the law of the land, not the law of their groups. However, 10 minority members of the National Assembly, the Parliament's lower house, voted for the bill, which passed the assembly on May 11.
The measure passed the Senate in May 1990. A Catholic member of John Parliament, Sahorta. introduced Sharif to the conference and with praise demands. He gave the prime minsiter credit for trying to establish an Islamic welfare state, but said minorities should be represented in the Senate and in local governmental bodies and women should be given seats in the National Assembly. Sharif said those and
other demands by minorities "would certainly help us devise a more practicable, dynamic strategy towards protecting the rights of minorities". Catholics make up about 0.65 percent of Pakistan's 105 million population. which is 96.6 percent Muslim. All Christians comprise about 1.55 per cent. Other religious minorities include Hindus (1.5 per cent) and a scattering of Buddhists, Parsees and smaller groups.
'Stole from the dead' CAMDEN, NJ (CNS): A 13-year-old boy and a homeless man were charged with stealing a gold pectoral cross and bishop's ring from the body of the late Bishop Guilfoyle while it lay in state in the rectory of Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Camden. The 77-year-old bishop, retired two years ago after heading the diocese for 21 years. The loss was discovered after someone was awakened by noises at the rectory about 1.30am. Police questioned people at the cathedral's soup kitchen, which feeds about 400 or 500 peonle a night, and a
kitchen worker gave them a tip on the teenager. Both defendants frequented the soup kitchen. Authorities recovered the amethyst ring and the chain from the cross that was around the bishop's neck from a pawn shop whose owners had bought the items for $400. Police were still searching for the cross. "These things happen," Camden Bishop James T McHugh said. "The cathedral in the inner city is there to establish church presence, to serve the poor. These things occasion-
ally happen. It's unfortunate when it happens to be people from the city. We can't forget the fact high figures in government, industry and commerce also do things that are wrong. . . we can't be judgmental." He added that what was most important about the ring and cross was not their monetary value but their worth as memorials to the work and efforts of Bishop Guilfoyle on behalf of the diocese. The bishop's will specified that the ring and cross be displayed at his funeral and then passed on to his successor.
Arrange your funeral now and give you and your family peace of mind. Horizons, the Donald J. Chipper est Son Pre-Arrangement Funeral Plan. Horizons is the sensitive and realistic approach to planning your funeral. It means your loved ones won't have the burden of having to face such distressing decisions at a very difficult and emotional time. And you'll be assured that the funeral is carried out according to your wishes. Horizons allows you to pay for your funeral in advance. This once-only, inflation-proof payment protects your pension and guarantees you'll receive all the dignity and honour of a Donald J. Chipper & Son funeral. Call Kim Chipper now to discuss details of this special Funeral Plan. Telephone 381 5888 (24 hours a day). (
Iii
Donald J.Chipper & Son. Funeral Directors
COMPASSION, KINDNESS & CARE_
SUB1ACO: 385 Rokeby Rd. Tel. 381 5888 BOORAGOON: 506 Marmion Sc. Tel. 330 6344 ROCKINGHAM: 6 Robinson FL Tel. 528 1244 MANDURAH: Arnold Sc. Tel. 535 4166
•.,
The Daughters of Charity
NEED YOUR HELP for their work for the development of the underprivileged
URGENTLY NEEDED Clothing, clean, wearable — household goods — nick-nacks — ornaments, jewellery etc. Deliver to 534 William Street, Highgate For truck to call — Phone 227 6616
Flags of all types Holland and venetian blinds, canvas and aluminium awnings, flyscreens, tarpaulins.
TUDOR HOUSE
286 ALBANY HVVY, VIC PARK 361 1620 361 1539
ELLIOTT & ELLIOTT Optometrists CONTACT LENS CONSULTANTS Perth Piccadilly Arcade Fremantle 30 Market St
321 8151 335 2602 •
Something to SAY? Something to SELL?
ADVERTISE!
This space would cost $18 The Record, July 11, 1991
5
China sacks priest ENGAGED IN ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES CHARGE HONG KONG (CNS): An Italian priest allegedly engaged in illegal activities relating to the case of an underground bishop in Shanghai, China, was expelled from China on June 29. Father Ciro Biondi, 45, a student at East China Normal University in Shanghai, was accused of helping Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang of Shanghai "maintain contact with a foreign power", UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Hong Kong, reported. Father Biondi, a member of the Pontifical Institute of Foreign Missions, was accused by Shanghai security officers of conducting religious activities in a manner contrary to Article 36 of the Chinese Constitution. The article states that Chinese citizens "enjoy freedom of religious belief (and) religious bodies and religious affairs are not subject to any foreign domination." Bishop Fan is a member of the clandestine Church which maintains loyalty to the atholic C Vatican.
The Irish getting disgusted with the IRA
VATICAN CITY (CNS): Catholic support for the Irish Republican Army is falling steadily and is being replaced by "disgust" and a longing for peace, said the primate of all Ireland, Cardinal C ahal B. Daly of Armagh. The Irish primate told Vatican Radio in early July that people see the "futility" of the IRA's violent attempt to end British rule in Northern Ireland. Cardinal Daly, a longtime critic of the outlawed guerrilla organisation. was interviewed by the radio station before the July 3 collapse of talks aimed at reestablishing provincial governmental control. ending the violence which has led to the deaths of some 3000 people in the last 20 years and reconciling the Protestant and Catholic communities. The primate, who was made a cardinal on June 28, said his primary task in the 1990s would be to make people understand that "what Ireland needs is really a return to Christ and to his spirit of love and peace, because that is the only ultimate answer to our problems". "AndI thank God there are so many in the Protestant communions who also dearly love the Lord Jesus Christ and who look to him also for
leadership in a very
difficult situation." he
said. "What's impossible to man is possible to God." The cardinal said there is "a basic deep spirituality" in both Irish Catholics and Protestants "which gives us great hope for the future". Cardinal Daly was asked if during his previous assignment as bishop of Belfast he personally knew any members of the IRA. "No, one would never know," he said. "They are so secretive: they are highly trained, most sophisticated. "The Irish have the most sophisticated terrorist operation that there is anywhere in Europe," the cardinal said. "They have 21 years of experience, battlehardened, tried and skilled, so one never knows who are the active members of the IRA." He said the sophistication and the secrecy are what makes the IRA "such a very complex security problem, such a very complex pastoral problem as well". "But I do know that the level of support for them is falling steadily and that increasingly there is disgust," he said. "There is weariness. There is an utter sense of the futility of the whole operation and a strong desire that it should end."
6 The Ricard, July 11-, 1991
After interrogating the priest and searching his room at the university, the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau put him on a flight to Hong Kong. The priest then returned to Italy. Spokesman of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Shanghai municipal government, said Father Biondi "has violated stipulations of our country's constitution and has engaged in activities not in accord with his identity". Asked if Father Biondi would be allowed to revisit China, he said: "The authorities will handle the matter according to necessary measures." Father Biondi's expulsion apparently was prompted by a note he sent on June 10 to Bishop Fan as a favour for friends living outside China. The bishop was arrested soon after. Father Biondi denied that his action constituted "interference with the religious affairs" of the Catholic Church in China. He described the intervention by the Chinese authorities as "unfounded and unwarranted".
According to Asianews, a Catholic news agency based in Milan, Italy, Bishop Fan's arrest seems to be "Beijing's answer" to the installation of Bishop Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei of Shanghai as a cardinal. Cardinal Kung, 89, had been jailed for 30 years. He was secretly named a cardinal in 1979 by Pope John Paul II and was installed in the College of Cardinals June 28. The deportation of Father Biondi coincided with the installation ceremonies. Cardinal Kung's authority over the Diocese of Shanghai is not recognised by the Chinese government. The government instead recognises Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian, elected by the progovernment Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, which does not recognise Vatican authority in Chinese Catholic affairs. Asianews expressed hopes that "genuine religious freedom may be restored soon" to China and that Chinese authorities will refrain from interfering with Catholic believers.
Vatican daily goes cold type... VATICAN CITY (CNS): Readers of L'Osservatore Romano turned over a new leaf when they read the 130th anniversary edition of the Vatican newspaper. The pages were the first printed by computerised photo offset composition. This replaced the museum-piece Linotype system which used melted lead to cast stories in metal type from a huge keyboard. This type — in bars of one line each — became the basis for page molds smeared with ink for printing. Although major newspapers began switching to the cheaper, easier and faster offset method decades ago, changes come slow at the Vatican. The transformation was the most important at L'Osservatore Romano since the clatter of t ypewriters replaced the scratching of pens over 50 years ago, noted Angelo Scelzo. editorial secretary. Viewed from the outside, L'Osservatore Romano has been "a happy Arcadia in the
tumultuous kingdom of information", said Scelzo, ideaman behind the changeover. But "after 130 years. those columns of lead no longer exist", he added. The transformation took place July 1. Immediately noticeable were clearer photos, easier to read print and six columns rather than seven columns per Page. A side benefit to readers was cleaner hands. The ink does not rub off as it did under the old system. The transformation also was accompanied by promises to use livelier photos and more graphics to illustrate stories and texts. L'Osservatore Romano began as the trusty recorder of papal words and deeds on July 1, 1861, and has become the authoritative chronicler of 10
popes stretching hack to Pope Pius IX. It was founded to give voice to papal concerns during the struggle for Italian unification. There was heavy political and military pressure on Pope Pius IX to give up temporal rule over
central Italy so as to complete Italian unification and make Rome the capital. Page One of the first edition in 1861 was filled with a lengthy
sively to papal events and texts, in seven languages. Although L'Osservatore Romano reports papal events and prints full texts of his editorial defending the pope's speeches and documents, the temporal rule over Rome and newspaper is not considered by the surrounding area. the Vatican as the official L'Osservatore Romano is publication. The official Italian for Roman Observer. recorder of papal speeches and The publication des--.ribed itself texts is the Ada Apostolicae as a "political moral news- Sedes, a yearly tome. paper" and one of the founders However, L'Osservatore was Marcantonio Pacelli. Romano is considered authoritgrandfather of Pope Pius XIII. ative in that its editorials and Military action eventually specially marked articles reflect stripped the Church's temporal the thinking of the pope and role in 1870, but the newspaper top-level Vatican officials. continued. The pope made clear this Today, it describes itself as a special relationship in his letter "political-religious daily" and of congratulations on the 130th publishes six days a week. anniversary and the switchover in printing methods. resting on Sunday. The newspaper, printed in "The new phase allows hope Italian, is not limited to for still better fruits from the reportage of Vatican and papal service which this newspaper events. Its pages contain the authoritatively renders in the latest international. Italian and seedbeds of the papal magisteRoman news culled from news rium." wrote the pope. agencies and its own reporting The magisterium is the staff. Church's teaching authority. It also publishes weekly The pope's letter ran on Page editions devoted almost exclu- One of the anniversary edition.
Medjugorje travel update WASHINGTON (CNS): Civil strife in northwestern Yugoslavia is having mixed effects on Marian pilgrimages to Mediugorje, according to US travel agencies. The Persian Gulf War and the recession earlier this year hurt such pilgrimages far more than unrest in Yugoslavia, said Edita 1Krunic, president of Select International, a New Jersey travel agency that organises numerous Catholic pilgrim
groups.
But Anel Armada, Medjugorje specialist at RC1', a Los Angeles agency for pilgrimage groups, said, "We have a lot of cancellations."
could be dangerous because of the civil strife.
She said East Coast travellers were not as affected by the air fare increases, but pilgrimages Potential pilgrims from the everywhere were sharply West Coast were dealt a triple curtailed from January until blow, she said — the Gulf War April because of the Persian until April. air fare increases of Gulf crisis. several hundred dollars to "Ihad four groups in August," Yugoslavia, and then a US State she said, but one of them had Department advisory at the end cancelled and another was of June that travel to Yugoslavia doubtful as of July 3.
Since the mid-1980s Mediugorje has become one of the most popular sites in the world for Marian pilgrimages, although the alleged appariremain tions there controversial. After a lengthy investigation Yugoslavia's bishops said this April that they have found no convincing evidence yet of supernatural apparitions or revelations there, but they are continuing to study the matter.
As II see it!
FATHER DINO TORRESAN, CO-ORDINATOR OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS EXPANDS ON THE TOP 10 ISSUES DISCUSSED RECENTLY
"Inculturation is a slow journey. It involves those working in the Church's mission 'ad gentes', the Christian communities as they develop, and the bishops, who have the task of providing discernment and encouragement for its implementation." (Vat. II, Ad Gentes 22).
f
Father Dino Torresan who was literally kayoed by a kidney ailment during the r ecently -concluded convention on Multiculturalism and the Catholic Church in WA has had a feedback of what transpired in his absence. While recuperating he flipped through a wad of notes taken at the convention and studied the top ten areas of concern discussed then. There were in fad 25 issues raised. He was not present at these discussions because he was admitted to hc6pital soon after the opening — only to be discharged after the convention. While perusing the notes he could not help but make his personal observations on each of them. Today we produce the areas of concern and his opinions. Breaking down ignorance within the church and Community. Building up understanding of the posivalues tive and c ontributions of all cultures, languages and faiths. Experts in education, community life and community worship, the participants realised that without this basic knowledge and effort we as a community would be chasing rainbows rather than working for the country. Inculturation means the intimate transformation of authentic cultural values through their integration in Christianity and the insertion of Christianity in the various human cultures.
In other words, we people, welcome together with their cultures, into our own communities. We come to know them: they come to know us. We become family.
The vision given by teachers to young people is fundamentally important in the process of formation of a typical Australian culture and for the respect of minorities' culture.
The establishment and on-going continuity of parish policies and structures % hich support multiculturplism as a form of participation and inclusiveness.
Cultures can enrich each other through sharing, respect and search for common good. No one is ever rich enough to do without a neighbour. The ability to convey a strong sense of vision is the key of true success for a teacher.
It is interesting to notice
how modern emphasis is on participation in the workforce. Can that be applied to the church reality? It is a fad: people now look for a much higher level of leadership than before. They expect to be consulted: to be listened to: to be informed: to be kept in the picture. Good leaders create that sense of being a team, of involvement and commitment. Making another person feel good in the course of a day is the very essence of leadership and community life. Parish policies and structures must be there to implement constant participation and inclusiveness. Ensuring that the most important and urgent issues related to multiculturalism are taken into account at all levels of the school education system in the manner appropriate to each level of the curriculum (include social skills). This issue, is spelt out in the document "The Religious Dimension of Education in a Catholic School" (nos. 51-53,96).
Young people (and adults too!) need some kind of vision around which they can rally. And they will be more likely to do that if they have been actively involved in shaping that vision. The next issue reminds me of what Pope John Paul Il said in 1986 to Aboriginal People in Alice Springs: "The Church herself in Australia will not be fully the Church that Jesus wants her to be until you have made your contribution to her life and until that contribution has been joyfully received by others." (13) The issue, recognised as top fourth priority by the Convention, reads: In any understanding of multiculturalism Aboriginal experience of culture and spirituality should be recognised — its application for the past, present as well as the future. It is a bask need. We will be unfaithful to the land and unreali• sitic in our effort to creating a true Australian culture, if the Aboriginal expe-
rience and culture is not included. They are part of the heart and soul of this land which we call "ours". The Dominant Culture must not take things for granted. It cannot presume that others can understand or are familiar with what it takes for granted. It seems to me that the challenge of this issue can be summarised in these words: a true leader is someone who takes a broad view, does not harbour many fears, and loves to explore the new. The question then cites: do we want to be leaders or managers? The leader challenges the status quo, whereas a manager accepts it. It seems to me that the key to the participation process is to get the maximum out of people. It is important to encourage them to offer all of themselves: creativity, resourcefulness, and sense of responsibility. Only then can they share a genuine sense of "ownership" and belonging. Ethnic women must be treated as responsible and skilled human beings, capable of responding positively to the needs of society and Church. They are not accessories, but an essential part of both, society and Church. This is the challenge: Through lack of recognition of their presence, ethnic women are isolated: a. language barrier b. home duties; c, lack of' friends (ethnic group and other); d. lack of significant involve-
ment in the Church; e. lack of significant involvement in the c ommunity; f. lack of employment. In a parish the risk to reduce the search for equal opportunities to a one-sided affair is always high. A parish is like a family: everyone has different needs and equal rights. Vat H said: -The Spirit's presence is in every member, who are thereby equal in dignity and capacity to serve." The Convention recommended: The people in the parish have different needs and equal right to be and be seen as part of the parish to receive pastoral care and to have access to its resources.
Issue No 9 is more than a corollary of the above.
In its conciseness it spells out the responsibility we have as a community, as family. as Church to open up to each other through mutual knowledge. understanding and appreciation. It says: We, the Church, must
be instrumental in helping people to really know, understand and appreciate our cultures. We will never get the best from people. unless there is a shared sense of purpose that appeals to people's imagination, feelings and values. The last issue is about inclusiveness, and more specifically inclusiveness of Aboriginal people in parish life. I personally think that this is not a problem. Inclusiveness in its Ipersonally believe that the best way to have practical viability implies people respond is to let the process of underthe message get out to standing. sharing and everybody that we really operating together, like a care about their cultural well functioning body. experience and invite Theory is like an aroma: them to to come together. it does not give you the Education: looking at real thing until you taste ways we can embrace it. all people in liturgical I would like to close celebration. these comments with Pope John Paul's words: We must learn how to Thanks to this action share our richness as within the local individuals and as a Churches, the universal community, and share Church our cultural faith- enriched herself is with forms of expressions in liturgical expre ssions and values in celebrations. the various sectors of When people awaken to Chrisitan life, such as the fact that the Church evangelisation, worship, cares enough to bring theology and charitable them together and listen works. She comes to to them, a lot of interest know and to express can be revived. better the mystery of I think that clergy in Christ, all the while general and leaders are being motivated to constill harbouring the idea tinual renewal. that adults are kids. That (Redemptoris Missio, 52). will have to change or we And Aesop concludes: will go nowhere. Never despise anvtioth
" The Negated, Juir,11., 1814
Prayer of Faithful in focus By Father Lawrence J. Madden, SJ
It happens frequently enough at Sunday Mass. Despite all good intentions, the Prayer of the Faithful gets "done" without many people paying serious attention to it It doesn't feel like prayer, and it doesn't feel like it has been their prayer, though it is supposed to be the prayer of the faithful. Restored to the Roman liturgy in our times, this prayer once was seen as a very important element in the Church's ancient eucharistic: liturgy. What were its origins and why has the Church restored it? Like most other elements of the Christian Eucharist, the Prayer of the Faithful has its roots in Jewish liturgy. The liturgy of the synagogue contained a series of 18 blessings. These blessings
What's good abort the child's prayer for his pet gerbil or Aaat lisle's bad cold daring the Prayer of the Faithful is that "such prayers are curreort, personal and usually heartfelt", says Father Lawrence E. Hick. He adds, however, "what is problematic is that they often cannot actually be embraced by all those presewt".
contained requests for universal and individual needs. By 150 A.D., a similar prayer could be found in the Sunday liturgy of both the Eastern and Western regions of the Church. St Justin Martyr, describing a secondcentury Eucharist, tells us what was done after the readings and homily: "We rise together and pour out our prayers." A remnant of the early form of this prayer used at Rome can be heard in the solemn prayers on Good Friday. The Prayer of the Faithful had special importance for several reasons. First, it was the prayer of the "faithful". Participation in this prayer was seen as a special privilege of the baptised, who were members of Christ the high priest. The prayer expressed their special priestly function of praying for the needs of the whole human race. Catechumens, the
This prayer also had special importance precisely because of the concern it showed
for the welfare of the whole world. It was not to be directed just to the needs of one assembly gathered to pray. That is why it is also called the General Intercessions, or more accurately, the "universal prayer". In the General Intercessions, the Church
advises us to pray "for the Church, for civil authorities, for those oppressed by various needs, for all mankind and for the salvation of the world". Although the priestpresider introduces the Prayer of' the Faithful by inviting the people to pray, it is significant for a dea-
con or another minister to introduce the intentions. It was the deacon in ancient times whose special ministry was the care of those in need, such as the widows and orphans. If a deacon is not present, another member of the faithful proposes the intentions to pray for.
These prayers, except on Good Friday, disappeared from the Roman Mass for centu centuries. They were restored by the reforms of Vatican Council II. Why is it that despite their theoretical importance the General Intercessions can sometimes seem to be an unimportant
ending to the Liturgy of the Word? I suggest t hat this happens when the intercessions are not experienced as prayer. They are not felt to be prayer sometimes because of the ways they are composed, spoken or sung. They sometimes resemble an examination of conscience
based on the Scripture readings of the homily just delivered, not an interior act of prayer. That is not their purpose. Sometimes they seem to instruct God to take specific actions to remedy certain needs. That is not their purpose either. Sometimes they are simply too wordy and to preachy in tone. They are not supposed to be minihomilies. Then sometimes they are said in a way that gives no time to the assembly to truly pray. This situation can be improved if a period of silence is observed after the intention is voiced. The deacon or other minister then breaks the silence by saying or singing We pray to the Lord. And the assembly responds: Lord, hear our prayer. Another option is for t he assembly to simply pray in silence without frj,ving any spoken response to
each intention. Usually a better atmosphere of prayer can be created by using an appropriate musical setting for the General Intercessions. Contrary to some advice given to liturgy planners,I don't feel it is a good idea frequently to vary the people's response More often this practice distracts from the prayer rather than promotes it. Although these intercessions are "general", there is a place in them for the local community's needs. As a rule, the sequence of intentions is: a) for the needs of the Church, b) for public: authorities and the salvation o f the world, c) for those oppressed by any need and, finally, d) for the local community. Of course, in particular celebrations such as marriage, confirmations or funerals, it is appropriate to have the intentions focus more closely on the special occasion.
"For my Aunt Elsie, who has a bad cold, let us pray to the Lord." "For my pet gerbil, who died yesterday, we pray to the Lord."
• 41
,313-dle
N tle01 .461A +se
It happens frequently. "ours". Our family exchanges If the liturgy gives to us, concerned glances during we also give to it. Each the Sunday liturgy when community brings itself the community is asked to — its hopes, fears and pray tor someone we know needs — to the liturgy. — often someone who is The Prayer of the sick or injured. Faithful is among the One recent Sunday we opportunities for a parlearned during the ticular community to Prayer of the Faithful open its spirit to God, and that a 4-year-old girl for for its members to open whom our daughters their spirits to each other, baby-sit was in the inviting each other's hospital. support. The fact is, you learn a So the petitions individlot during the Prayer of ual parishioners express the Faithful, and it may are not silent prayers, to move you into action on be uttered barely above someone's behalf. one's breath. But these prayers are They are meant to be more than news flashes. heard. When they are They are one way the heard, they may even call liturgy, celebrated members of the comthroughout the world, munity into concerned becomes local, becomes action.
The Record, July 11, 1991
111! P.Int ... •
41110 ,
'Despite all good intentions, the Prayer of the Faithful gets 'done' without many people paying serious attention to it, states Jesuit Father Lawrence J. Madden. He suggests that this happens 'when the intercessions are not experienced as prayer".
PreparIng for this important prayer By Father Lawrence E. Mick
Food for thought
8
people preparing to enter the Church through baptism, were not allowed to participate in this prayer and were dismissed from the assembly before the prayer began.
"That I will pass the spelling test I didn't study for, let us pray to the Lord." So it goes sometimes when elementary school children are invited to
speak spontaneous pitions at the Prayer olio Faithful. What is good is itt such prayers are curio t. personal and irstil y heartfelt. What is pra matic is that they citi cannot actually it embraced by all time present. The Prayer of the Faithful — or lie General Intercession,— is the part of the bits that is most current ad most local, an opportnity to express the tal-
cerns of the local worshipping assembly. At the same time, it is necessary that the petitions can be embraced as the prayer of the whole assembly, not just the particular concerns of few or a one worshippers. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal indicates that the general intercessions should always include at least one petition in each of four categories: the needs of the Church, public
authorities and civil society, those oppressed and in special need, and the local community. Petitions for these categories help keep the prayer universal and not too narrow. We pray for the needs of the whole world and not just for issues in our own back yard.
The odds were overwhelming, but the author of the book of Daniel, a man of deep faith, refused to abandon his trust in God.
Time and time again, during their arduous trek to the Promised Land, the Israelities got discouraged. Then they took matters into their own hands and risked giving up their identity as God's people.
In the name of his beleaguered people he humbly acknowledged that they were reaping the bitter fruit of their infidelity. Nonetheless, he prayed:
But each time, Moses pleaded with God to be patient with them. He prayed not for himself, but for the people. The Prayer of the Faithful is prayer for the faithful. The book of Daniel was written in a time of national crisis. A maniacal tyrant threatened to wipe out God's people by striking at what really constituted their identity: their religion.
"But yours, 0 Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness. . . When we present our petitions before you, we rely not on our just deeds, but on your great mercy . . . 0 Lord, be attentive and act without delay" (Daniel 9:9, 18-19). This type of petition was not limited to the Old Testament or to times of crisis. St Paul started almost every letter with a prayer for his people.
"I give thanks to God at very remembrance of you, praying alwap with joy in my every prayer for all of yo . . And this is my prayer that your lof may increase ever more and more in knol edge and every kind of perception, to cern what is of value, and that you may ix pure and blameless for the day of dirist" (Philippians 1:3-4, 9-10). Prayer of and for the faithful is a rked by selflessness. It asks not for peonal favours but for the well-being d the community. Perhaps because d its unselfishness it is heard. John's Gospel says that whateveYou ask in my name,Iwill do, so that the tither may be glorified in the Son. If yoi ask
One reason is that many parishes rely on published books of petitions and do not compose petitions based on the current concerns of their own community.
Those local issues, however, also are important and should be included.
Published materials can serve a valuable purpose as models and starting points for locally composed prayers.
A lack of local relevance and timeliness is probe-
The problem is that publishers cannot know
By the faithful, for the faitliful By Father John J. Castelot
bly much more common than petitions that are too particular.
anything of me in my name, I will do it" (John 14:13-14). Those words are encouraging and instructive. They tell us what kind of prayer we can expect to be heard. It is prayer in his name, that is, according to his intention, not necessarily according to OUTS.
We cannot see farther than the ends of our noses. But God's view is limitless. He sent the promised Messiah — but a "suffering" Messiah? That was totally unexpected and disconcerting. But what a delightful surprise it turned out to be. The God revealed by Jesus in Luke's Gospel is a faithful God, but also a God of surprises. God is true to his promises, but often in a surprising way.
months in advance how events will turn out — the outcome, for example, of the recent Gulf War. Yet prayer about that crisis was needed as it developed from day to day.
should become the focus of the community's prayer.
Parishes have found various ways to develop appropriate petitions for the Prayer of the Faithful. Some have planning groups that meet briefly each week to identify concerns in the parish and current events that
Sometimes the petitions are composed by the group. but many find it better to entrust the actual wording to one person who can write poetic yet clear, language. Other parishes entrust formulation of the prayers to several individuals who each take responsibility for a given Sunday. Each writer is expected to be in touch with the
needs of the community so that the prayer is truly the prayer of the whole parish.
universal and particular? Are they written in poetic language of proper beauty for worship?
Other parishes place a book in the vestibule where any parishioner can suggest prayers.
Do they sometimes challenge the community to broaden its concern, as good prayer does? Is sufficient time allowed for people to really hear and pray for each petition?
A writer or group of planners then uses this book as a starting point. How can this part of parish worship be evaluated? Ask questions such as these: Are the prayers current? Do they reflect the community's concerns? Are they both
To sum up, do the prayers evoke a heartfelt response from the assembly? Then they are pmbably a true Prayer of the Faithful!
DISCUSSION POINTS If you were to add a petition to the Prayer of the Faithful at next Sunday's Mass, what would it be?
Persian Gulf War) and search for the hopeful side in all this." — Jim Cheney.
Selected readers:
"That people's hearts would be softened and attitudes changed so that we could all accept each other and live together in harmony." — Arlene Woelfell.
responses
from
"For the parents of abused and neglected children, that they might. . . learn to give and receive love in their own lives." — Laura Madden. "Lord, grant us the gift to know the dangers of drugs and alcohol." — Adeline Perrino. "For peace for the afflicted world, home and family, sick and dying, those trampled down by the enemy." — Louis KuKanich. "For the virtue of patience." — E.I.M. "That we claim what we did to the Iraqi people (during the
"I would pray the prayer of the Indian: that all people put themselves in the moccasins of another so that we could understand each other and be nonjudgmental of others." — Sue Seckinger. "For those alienated from Mass attendance for whatever reason . . . For those whom the Church has neglected or hurt in any way, whether real or imaginary." — Mary Ann Wilcox. The Record, July 11, 1991 9
Growth of services and proof of it Visitors to the first A lbany Hospice Open Day on Sunday, June 23 saw material evidence of the centre's expanding services in the form o f a transportable building donated by Westrail. The Secretary for Railways, Mr Doug Munyard said: "In recognition of the benefits of hospice to the Albany region and the support of the project expressed by the town and shire of Albany, we are pleased to donate this surplus accommodation unit." Once used as overnight accommodation for visiting railwaymen, the building, which adjoined the railway station, would be removed to
make way for future foreshore development, he said. Transported, free of charge, by Ray Pomery and Co, it will be renovated to prepare it for its new role. "The renovated unit will be known as 'Storm Cottage' as a memorial to the late Michael Storm," said Hospice Administrator Fr Hugh Galloway. "It will be used by trained counsellors giving emotional support for families and others facing life threatening illness and as a bereavement service drop-in centre for the whole community not necessarily only families of guests (i.e. patients).
Discussing relocating the transportable unit, donated by Westrail, were L-R: Hospice Board member Joan Terry, cartage contractor Ray Pomery, Westrail Resident Engineer Steve Garner, Hospice Administrator Fr Hugh Galloway and Sr Juliana. Picture by Keith Murray.
"Training sessions and containment meetings will also be held in the cottage." During renovations, an internal wall would be removed leaving a meeting room seating 40 people and a small room for private interviews. Verandahs would be added to two sides of the cottage which would be painted internally and externally. It would be reroofed with material matching the existing hospice building. "We would be most grateful for donations of services and materials for the renovations. Those wishing to help may phone the hospice (098) 42 1747. weekdays," said Fr Galloway.
Meanwhile, Bereavement Services Coordinator Joan Terry said practical experience in the first six months had shown that auxiliary services could not be housed in the existing cottage if quality care were to continue. "At present two groups of bereavement support volunteers are being trained for a number of additional services. "Although training is ongoing, the 12 trainees will complete their initial course next week and will he operational when Storm Cottage is completed. "Group workshops will be conducted for emotional support and sharing for people with life-
"I NEED YOUR HELP FOR VILLAGES IN SOUTHERN JAVA"
FR C BURROWS, OMI
Fr Charlie Burrows, together with seven other priests from Australia, is an Oblate Missionary on the Southern Coast of Java.
threatening illnesses and their families." These would be divided into three segments: For the ill person, for the 'guest' and family and for meditation focusing on reducing stress and tension and considering pain relief by relaxation techniques. The bereavement dropin centre would incorporate re-socialisation, advisory services by the community and emotional support. "We will develop a support group to care for the volunteer carers who also can 'fall in holes' and need to share and shed their stored emotions. "We now have 50 carers, who can find that
their personal experiences can be resurrected when a 'guest' or family with whom they are involved can cause discomfort with their own feelings of loss. This can cause the volunteer real distress as old wounds are re-discovered," said Mrs Terry. "There is a community need for a bereavement drop-in centre due to our large retirement population and also for younger people with children who struggle alone with little support. "We will cater for the vastly differing needs of age groups, not only concentrating on emotional issues but also on the more practical issues
of learning to cope with living alone. "Pastor David Gogoll, of the Lutheran Church, will be participating as a on volunteer the Bereavement Support Programme." As part of the ongoing training program for volunteers it was hoped. in September, to have Petrea King visit from Sydney and conduct a session on caring for the carers and workshop retreats. She had been conducting this type of service for eight years and now lectured in many Eastern States hospitals and would be in Perth to address Hollywood Hospital Palliative Care ['nit.
Patrickcare is now open for service
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.
Can you help him? Will you help him? All donations of $2 upwards are tax deductible. The title of the fund is "OBLATE MISSION INDONESIA" All donations will be acknowledged. Cheques and money orders payable to Oblate Mission Indonesia and posted to Fr D. McCarthy OMI PO Box 384, Camberwell. Vic. 3124 MY GIFT TO HELP THE OBLATE PROJECTS IN JAVA $ Name (Mr Mrs Miss)
(Block Letters)
A ddress.
Post Code Bankcard/MastercardNisa 0 000000000000000
7t t
Patrickcare is now open for service. Patrickcare was launched recently with a tremendous response from the parishioners for St Patrick's Fremantle. Over 143 people have volunteered their time, skills and expertise, offering approximately 250 services to the Parish community. It is expected that there will be many more volunteers signing up over the next couple of weeks.
By Monday evening the Coordinating Committee of Patrickcare and the Diocesan Outreach team were in a position to present a well organised volunteer service to the parish community. Father Hannah had no doubt that his parishioners would respond to the call for Patrickcare volunteers. He said "it is typical of the caring nature of the people in this Parish". WELL DONE FREMANTLE! "
A family struggle For Father Minh Thuy the road from altar server to priesthood had been a long and testing one, Bishop Healy said at the ordination Mass. -A11 of us are tested by God. Our ordinand has been tested not only by his and his family's suffering in war torn Vietnam, but also by the length of his preparation for the priesthood. "In k'ietnam itself, he spent seven years in a minor seminary, the normal course in secondary education, and two years in a major seminary preparing for the priesthood. "When he came to Australia, he experienced all the trauma of learning a new language and a new culture, all the while completing a full course of six and one half
years at Xavier's Adelaide.
St Francis Seminary,
-This morning sees the completion of that journey, not only for Minh Thuy, but for all his family." His two brothers and two sisters came here in August 1981 and his parents joined them in 1989.
-They gather with him here to see him ordained a priest. God will continue testing him in the course of his life as a priest as He does all of us but He will always continue to love Him as He loved Peter and all the disciples. So I invite you all — consider carefully the position to which he is to be promoted in the Church," added Bishop Healy.
Fr Peter Minh-Thuy with his happy parents after the ordination. It was the completion of a long journey to priesthood Fr Minh-Thuy.
fitt
Right: Fr Minh-Thuy blesses his parents after his ordination. Coincidentally, it was also their wedding anniversary. .
I.EADERS SHARE The top of the table clash between Queens Park and Dianella failed to achieve a result because of bad light. When play was abandoned. Dianella led 5 sets to 3, but this was not enough lead to achieve a result so the points were shared. As a result, Castledare, who had a resounding 10 love win over Thornlie, moved into second position over Dianella. St Benedict's had the bye. "B" Grade high flyers. Dianella, were toppled from their unbeaten perch when they went down to Yidarra. Yidarra took revenge for their narrow two game loss in the first round and went to the top of the table on percentages. The absence of No 1 player, Pat Mitchell, from the Dianella team tipped the scales in Yidarra's favour and they won 6 sets to 4. There was something of a surprise result when Queens Park downed the more fancied Attadale 6 sets to 4. Attadale considered themselves a little unlucky as they held an 8 game a dvantage. In the other Ninie Willetton thrashed St
Mark's 10 love. Pignatelli had the bye. Results "A" Grade: Castledare 8/ 84 defeated Thornlie 2/50: Dianella 5, Queens Park 3 — game abandoned; St Benedict's — bye. "B" Grade: Willetton 10/ 90 defeated St Mark's 0/35; Yidarra 6/71 defeated Dianella 4/60: Queens Park 6/ 67 defeated Attadale 4/75; Pignatelli — bye. Thble -A" Grade 11 Queens Park 10 Castledare 9 Dianella 4 St Benedict's 0 Thornlie "B" Grade 12 Yidarra 12 Dianella 10 Willetton 7 Attadale 6 Pignatelli 5 Queens Park 2 St Mark's This weekend there will be no pennants played because of the school holidays. Social tennis will be played at the Trinity Courts, Manning on Sunday as usual at 1.30pm. Bryan Kukura
Lett; Some of Fr Minhwell-wishers Thuy's (mostly Vietnamese) at the reception after the ordination.
Jubilee Mass draws 200 At Waroona on Tuesday Father Russell Hardiman is pictured demolishing his silver jubilee cake following Mass and a reception at the recreation centre. A large contingent of Bunbury clergy and a solid representation of his Perth and Geraldton clerical golf friends concelebrated Mass for nearly 200 of his present and former parishioners and friends and associates, as well as his wider family. Fulsome praise was heaped on Fr Hardiman by Bishop Quinn, parish council president Darrel Fitzpatrick and Mitchell MLA David Smith on behalf of the visitors. Father Hardiman spoke warmly of a Rome reunion last month of 33 of his class of 64 with whom he had not previously had the chance to concelebrate Mass due to age in 1966 occasioning him to return to Australia for an Albany ordination. The Recos1,4* 11419,94 .11
• ECORD CLASSIFIED Retiring rector honoured ADVERTISEMENTS
Minimum $5 for first 28 words. Post or deliver. No phone ads. Closes noon Wednesday. BUILDING TRADES
PUBLIC NOTICE
DEATH
Painting, quality work at the right price. John Freakley. Phone 361 4349.
FURNITURE CARRIED. One item to housefulls. Small, medium, large vans available with one or two men from $24 per hour, all areas. Cartons and cheap storage available. Mike Murphy 330 7979, 317 1101, 444 0077, 447 8878, 272 3210, 378 33C3, 384 8838. Country callers: 008 198 120 RETIREMENT Are you planning ahead for a comfortable retirement? Superannuation is still tax advantaged and the best way to save. Start some AMP super today by phoning Brian Jarvey on 364 9999 or A/H
BIANCHINI: Passed away peacefully at home on July 6, after a year's illness, John, of Langler Street, East Victoria Park. Husband of Lena, father of Fr Peter, Stephen, Rose, Marie and Dianne, fatherin-law of Robyn, Wayne and Joe. Grandfather (Pop) of Amanda, Tamara, Kristy and Elanie. The funeral took place at the Lawn Cemetery. Karrakatta on Wednesday, July 10 after concelebrated requiem Mass celebrated in Our Lady Help of Christians Church, East Victoria Park. Bowra & O'Dea, Funeral Directors 328 7299.
MASONRY REPAIRS and restoration: Chemical tightening of soft mortar, re-pointing fretted brickwork, damp-proofing with silicone injection, tuckpointing. Country enquiries welcomed: Please phone Steve 481 0753.
Building repairs and maintenance. All facets of building trades, eg carpentry, plumbing, roof carpentry, studwork, stumps, pergolas, carports, additions, concrete, etc. References available, please phone Bob on 350 6179. 410 1436 MASSAGE by a qualified Bricklayer requires large therapist combined with or small jobs, free quotes. reflexology (foot masRing 447 6128 or sage). Helping to relieve tension, back and neck 405 3426 problems. For more inforHandyman, gardening. mation please phone remove rubbish, small Loretta Crameri 444 7534. repairs, painting clean gutters. 377 2314 before 8.30am
IN MEMORIAM
LYNCH Una Mice: Passed away July 7, 1990, loving memories of our dear mother and grandmother. Phil and Maureen, Gloria and Paddy and families. May Perpetual light shine upon her. LEONE Tony: Third anniversary of Tony Leone, Lk Master plumber and gas Travel companion loving husband of Iris. fitter, No 140, bathroom needed, female 25-35 Gone are the days we renovations, sewer conver- years for seven weeks, shared together, not the sions, all maintenance work, trip. Dec/Jan memories, they last foreworld round new houses. Good rates, all hours. Contact John on 91. Accommodation/air- ver. God bless. Iris. fare approx $5000. Pre- SANT1OW (Edna): July 17, 457 7771. vious companion had to 1990. In loving memory of ROOF PLUMBER all roof cancel. Enquiries phone our dear sister who passed plumbing, metal and Fiona A/H 457 3849. away peacefully at home Super Six. 458 6979. one year ago today. You Electrician for all residenare daily in our thoughts tial and commercial work. ACCOMMODATION and prayers. Loving AVAILABLE New power points, lights. brother and sisters. fans etc. Free quotes. Phone Brad Capper Winter sunshine, summer THANKS 344 8249 (messages breezes. KALBARRI. Self 446 3600) contained chalets by the Holy Spirit you who solve R EGISTERED CARPEN- sea to unwind and relax. all problems, light all 7 special holidays TER skilled in all areas of School roads so that I can attain the building trade, reno- days for 4 persons $190. my goal. You gave me the 1849. (09) 459 Ernie Tel vations and extension, divine gift to forgive and roofing and roof plumbforget all evil against me, ing, fixings, pergola's. PERSONAL and that in all instances of gazebos, sanding my life you are with me. and polishing. Good Gent 31 interested in I want in this short prayer workmanship guaran- movies, wining, dining, to thank you for all things teed. Call Joseph on dancing, dinner parties, as I confirm once again 271 4200. would like to meet similar that I never want to be outgoing lady 21-30 with separated from you ever, Christian values. Phone in spite of all material SITUATIONS Gerry 457 0971 or write illusions. I wish to be with W ANTED PO Box 50, Northbridge you in eternal glory. 6000. Thank you for your mercy CHURCH FURNITURE Guy 30 yrs non-smoker, towards me and mine. MAKER, pews, altars, good sense of humour. Pat. lecterns, chairs, tables, Interests are beach, music, Holy Spirit you who solve all made to order. Old movies, wining and din- problems, light all roads so church furniture, repaired ing etc. Would like to that I can attain my goal. You looking as new. Refer- meet a similar outgoing gave me the divine gift to ence available. Ring M. lady, 24-30 yrs for friend- forgive and forget all evil in all and D. McGuirk, Wood ship and possible relation- against memyand life you are of instances Specialists, on ship. Write to Rod c/- The with me. I want in this short (09) 279 9449. prayer to thank you for all Record. as I confirm once again GENT, 51" 122 pounds, things that I never want to be S lUATION VACANT nice personality, slim separated from you ever in build, not bad looking like spite of all material illusions. CARETAKER prefer cou- to meet nice looking slim I wish to be with you in ple, required for general lady 45-50 yo. If you can't eternal glory. Thank you for assistance in parish activi- handle affection, love, your mercy towards me and ties. A parish house is passion, romance then mine. My grateful thanks to available. Would suit don't reply. Please phone the Holy Spirit Our Lady, St St Jude and St young pensioners with- Andre on 458 5890 and Joseph, Theresa for favours granted. out own house; to let's talk VW. become part of the parish Holy Spirit, you who solve all Filipina sincere Genuine team. Must be keen to light all roads so work for the Church. For lady seeks penpal and that I can attain my goal. You marriage, please view more information contact gave me the divine gift to the parish priest — write to: Miss Maria Lerio forsive and forget all evil Vuntilla, San Antonio 457 2424 against me and that in all Abao, Cogon, Orrnoc instance of my life you are Caretaker couple City Leyte Philippines and with me. I want in this short r equired to live-in and Miss Erlinda Ruta Baran- prayer to thank you for all run Stella Mans Seafarers gay Seguinon, Albuiera things as I confirm once again Centre in Fremantle. Leyte Philippines. that I never want to be Duties include some separated from you ever, in spite of all material illusions. cooking, supervising of I wish to be with you in cleaners, driving bus to eternal glory. Thank you for collect seamen from ships and other duties as WILL SWAP Genes gold & your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be required. For more infor- diamond jewellery for said for three days after mation please contact small 4 cyl car to the value which the favour will be Eamonn McGrath on of $3000. Phone granted. The prayer must be 493 1583. published immediately. P.H. 458 5890.
12 The Record, July 11;1991
Retiring rector of St Thomas More College, Fr Pat Bishop Si was honoured by the St Thomas More Ex Collegians Association's annual gathering on June 22 to mark the feast of St Thomas More. A ssociation president Mr Pat Kirby •••.1,
from Neil SMITH, Lesmurdie Sir, Doris Martyr (Record, June 27), in very dogmatic terms, relegates me to the legion of heretics together with dissident theologians, militant feminists and protestants in general I can assure her that I am not dissident, feminist or protestant but. I hope, openminded enough to learn something from all of these. Some protestant churches, i ndeed, have preserved aspects of the Eucharist which we Catholics have, in the past, neglected to the detriment of our worship. No, I am not 'totally wrong' as she suggests; but then, on the other hand, I am not totally right The depth of mystery has to be acknowledged. We need to explore with the help of the Holy Spirit the many facets of the mystery which is the Eucharist. The ongoing revelation of mystery by the Holy Spirit, acting within the Church and within each individual like a leaven in dough, compels us to hold all aspects of mystery in a balance, and to be ever open in minds and hearts to the inspiration which would enable us to enter ever more fully into the mystery The danger to our growth in the Spirit arises when we become fascinated and obsessed with the beauty of one aspect of a mystery and close our minds or do not other respond to possibilities. Our understanding of the euchanst cannot be res-
Many thanks prayers answered B M S Sacred Heart of Jesus, Infant Jesus of Prague, Mother Mary, Holy Spirit, Saint Joseph, grateful thanks for impossible favour granted. Devout prayers continued for desperate favour requested urgently. T.C. Ask St Clare for three favours. one business, two impossible. Say nine Hail Marys for nine days with candle burning. On ninth day let candle burn to end then put this notice in paper. M.T.C.
presented him with an attache case for his invaluable and continuous support (see picture).
Father Bishop and the late Archbishop Foley were the two foundation patrons of the association. Also concelebrating
13
Mass in the college chapel were the newly appointed rector, Fr Timothy Quinlan, Si, and Fr Adrian Lyons, Si, the relieving chaplain to the University of Western Australia. Professor William Reed, head of the Department of Medi-
cine and Associate Dean (Clinical) of the Faculty of Medicine within the University of Western Australia, an old boy of the college, proposed the toast of the college and of the association. Another old boy, Mr Owen, Justice responded.
to the Editor
tricted by the theological theorising of Thomas Aquinas and some of his contemporaries which gave us the term 'transubstantiation', nor by the dogmatic fulminations of the Council of Trent which enshrined this theory, together with its theological implications for an understanding of sacrifice and priesthood, for four hundred years of posterity, effectively and thus excluded any re-evaluation of the euchanst in terms of scripture and the practice of the primitive church To be fair, the Council of Trent was responding to the immediate needs of the Church in the crisis times of the 16th century and had no intention of addressing the whole spectrum of the mystery of the eucharistic sacrifice. Neither, for that matter, did Vatican II, in its liturgical renewal, through its adopting of a different theological emphasis, claim to address the wholeness of the mystery. As regards my own orthodoxy, I can give the assurance that the sources I have drawn upon are the Bible and documents of Vatican ll together with a variety of authors whose works bear the official imprimatur of the Church. In relation to the part of the assembled community in liturgical worship, I offer just two quotations from Church documents. ". . every liturgical celebration . . is an action of Christ the priest and of his which is the Body church . . . (Sacrosancturn Concilium 7).
A CCOMMODATION A VAILABLE WANTED FLATMATE, female mid 20s-30 yrs, non-smoker to share two
bedroom townhouse in Mt Lawley. Fully furnished
except spare bedroom. Own balcony and carport, courtyard. Close to city and transport in quiet street. No pets. Rent $60pw plus expenses. Phone Catherine on (H) 272 7590, (W) 427 8222.
the church, the spouse and minister of Christ. performs together with him the role of priest and victim, offers him to the Father and at the same time makes a total offering of with herself together him (Eucharisticum Mystenum Intro C3) And to draw on St Paul "Everyone is to recollect himself before eating this bread and drinking this cup, because a person who eats and drinks without discerning the Body is eating and drinking his own condemnation Now you t ogether are Christ's Body . . . •• (1 Cor 11:28. 1 2:27). As my "half-baked protestant symbolism". I would remind Mrs Martyr about the universally accepted definition of sacrament, i ncomplete though it be "Sacraments are symbols which effect that which they signify." Without symbols we have no sacrament Without water and pouring we have no baptism; without bread and wine, and eating and drinking we have no euch anst. Christ's presence in the eucharist is effected through sacrament, that is, through symbols; and this presence is "real" presence. Christ's presence in the community assembled to offer the euchanst is also sacramental, and also "real presence. In the matter of altar vs table, though Mrs Martyr has every right to express her incredulity that a Catholic should express an opinion different from her own. I do not think that right extends to making personal Judgements, I am not given to sneering at other people's beliefs. I am of the opinion that the type of altar used in many of our churches is symbolic of the bloody sacrifices of pagan fertility rites and of the old Covenant sacrifices of the Israelites, and is therefore an inappropriate symbol for the type of sacrifice which was Christ's. As St Paul states. "Every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are
proclaiming the death of the Lord
"(1 Cor 11 26)
if eating and drinking is the way in which we celebrate Christ's sacrifice, then the table would appear to be the more appropriate symbol Really, we only need to look at any artistic representation of the Last Supper, with the notable exception of one outrageous representation which depicts Christ distributing wafers from a ciborium to apostles kneeling reverently before him one by one Incidentally, and I would put this as a serious consideration, what would have been done about the crumbs scattered about after twelve men had got up from the table? As for Paul Sheridan's fears about "trying to pull God down to our level by concentrating on the human side of Christ's nature", I would point out that God himself pulled himself down to our level by incarnating his own divine Son — making him totally human in order to reveal to us, in human terms, the nature of the Trinity. Jesus was at great pains to reveal to us that God was to be thought of as loving Father and that he should be addressed in familiar terms characterised by the term It was in his humanness that Jesus lived the Kingdom, in human terms he preached it, in his humanity he died for it and finally gave us a very human way of celebrating that death. The way we treat our fellow humans, and the extent to which we can recognise Christ in our neighbour is the measure of our Christian faith (Man 2531-46). The measure in which we recognise him in the community assembled to celebrate the salvation he has brought to us, in and through his humanity, is the measure of the integrity of that celebration. The sacraments, particularly the eucharist are all very human and earthbound celebrations.
TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson
Adelaide to host YCW world meet Finding translators in fifteen languages for several hundred international delegates is just one of the many major tasks to be tackled as the Australian Young Christian Workers Movement gears up to host their World Council in Adelaide, beginning on November 25. The World Council office, located next to Archbishop's House in Adelaide, is buzzing with activity as Bernie McEvoy and her team prepare for the big event. The Council, held every four years, will be preceded by a workers' festival which will see up to 200 young workers and unemployed engage the South Australian public in an enquiry into major worker issues in Australian society. Five of these issues are already under investigation, and Bernie hopes that a formal report will be ready for presentation during the Council, and
to unions, government and Church bodies. As well as unemployment, relationships and the rights of the disabled, Bernie says that casual work is a major issue for youth in Australia today. "Over 3000 questionnaires have been sent into various places of work, to discover what young people think about this important question," Bernie said. "In addition, the issue of spirituality in the lives of young Australians will be under review," she said. "We are trying to discover what young Australians value most in life, the bottom line for them," she said, "as well as uncovering their deepest aspirations." The World Council opens with a Mass at St Francis Xavier Cathedral on November 30, followed by the opening ceremony next door at Christian Brothers College, Wakefield Street.
Bernie says that the opening ceremony will have a festival atmosphere, reflecting Austramulti-cultural lia's society, with various well-known entertainers adding to the occasion. She also expects a representative from the Department of Foreign Affairs to attend, since the department is helping to sponsor several overseas delegates to attend the event. Sunday, December 1 will see many former members of the YCW gather at Mercedes College for a reunion marking the 50th anniversary of the movement in Australia. To mark the anniversary around Australia, special Masses will be celebrated in each state on September 8, with the proceeds of a national Day's Pay Appeal to be brought up in the offertory of the Mass. Barbara Colgan of Floreat Park is co-ordinating the Anniversary Mass in Perth.
As delegates from Africa, Asia and South America converge in Adelaide for the Council, they will pause for regional meetings in various Australian cities. "It is rare for young workers from around the world to gather and share on issues of importance to young workers internationally," Bernie McEvoy says. "There is great value in travelling to such meetings, and gaining exposure to other cultures," she said. "The values, methods, visions and initiatives of other cultures really broaden the horizons of delegates, and help to explode myths we hold about those cultures." Bernie said she thought it likely that the YCW would avoid the kind of recently criticism levelled at the World Council of Churches in the light of their comments on Australian society.
"It is not the role of the YCW to judge society in areas where the YCW is not directly involved in action," she said, "so the Council will leave these matters to the Australian YCW movement. "The YCW recognises that it exists in a multicultural, and not a purely Anglo-Saxon, society," she said. "The YCW needs to move further in contact with Aboriginal youth in Australia, and our link with that issue will be examined leading up to the Council. "The African regional meeting prior to the Council will be held in Port Pine, and an enquiry into the Aboriginal question will be made at that time," she said. Other multicultural initiatives are planned for the local movement, with up to ten teachers in Adelaide offering their services to teach English to young Australians of
g0 Ng) 111 !t ii) MVPs"
La Salle College, Viveash Registration: 2.30pm
SATURDAY, JULY 20 COST: $20
ANNUAL DOORKNOCK APPEAL
Registration forms available from itotir Antioch community. Sloe of Antioch's young leaders and parent couples met at the Youth Office on Awe 23 to farewell Sr Emilie Cattalini and plan next week's Flame Weekend.
The Redemptorist Lay Community proudly present two important programs
EXODUS WEEKEND FOR SINGLES JULY 27-28 ( not live-in) St Denis Primary School, Joondanna Cost $30 (negotiable) For singles aged 21-121 years! (Including divorced, separated, single parents, etc). Explore with others the importance of being single in our society
Details: Chris 349 6467, Sean 456 5674, Sheelagh 275 2614, Treacy 276 4523
laide's Archbishop Leonard Faulkner, and it had given great impetus to the YCW in South Australia as the movement entered into various cooperative ventures with other youth bodies to prepare for the big event.
JULY 20-21
PPtAL A o 00
BE GENEROUS ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 18.
I ndochinese bac.kground. This will commence in July, echoing a similar plan already operating in the Sydney region. Bernie said that the council had received great backing from Ade-
ANTIOCH FLAME WEEKEND
HELP YOUTH TO HELP THEMSELVES
Conducted by Catholic Youth Services and Police and Citizens Youth Clubs
Perth YCW worker Inez Rosario, in Adelaide for a World Council planning meeting.
CREATE AND GROW An exciting way to develop your self-awareness, senses, imagination, movement, feelings and ability to communicate, all in a Christian context.
Register now!
V VVIII V VVVV Welcome to the Third Annual
ANTIOCH
Musicians Weekend AUGUST 9-11 Corpus Christi College, Bateman
16 Thursday evenings
A weekend to help Antioch musicians use their gifts for God and be better music ministers. Includes vocalists.
August 1-November 28
All Antioch musicians welcome.
St Denis Primary School, Joondanna (With a break for school holidays)
(LIMIT OF 5 FROM EACH commt-Nrm
Details: Angela 444 0352, Vesna 339 8422, Eileen 279 6726,
Registration forms will be circulated soon.
Peter 478 2136
Cost: $35 Details: Youth Office 328 9622.
A AAAA11.411kAlkAlka. Thp Reco!d, July 11099.1 13
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard
Farewell Fleadh '91!
Irish Christmas in July
complete with crib
Former Irish Club president during 1974 and 1975 Michael Dennehy with wife Teresa who now live in Co Kerry but made a point during their Australian holiday to take part in the Fleadh celebrations. Below: Some of the previous presidents of the Irish Club fraternising during the dance break at the Fleadh finale Christmas in July dinner last Saturday. (Left) Paddy Costello, Joe Crozier, Michael Gavin, Michael Dennehy (visiting from Co Kerry), Paul Tanham and current president Ed O'Connor-Smith.
Being with the Irish is a celebration in itself and saying goodbye to another successful Fleadh meant a lot of fun, laughter and good old camaraderie had just flowed by. But through the Irish Club and its year long activities, the Fleadh is really just the highlight of what they do all year! 14 W410304,July 0,1991
Top: Ed O'Connor-Smith dancing with his mother, Mrs Marie Smith, who taught him dancing and who, despite her advanced age, still is! Above: Vinnie Cunningham being visited by Santa Claus lie man himself!" who was busily and cheerily dispensing goodies to Christmas in July patrons.
Luke 18 and books Mundaring Luke 18's Chidlow weekend 1
by Colleen McGuiness-Howard 1 Cbarmaine Solomon's Complete Vegetarian Cookbook (Angus & Robertson, bb, $39.99). More and more people are finding out about the subtle delights of vegetarian cuisine. No longer are vegetables confined to being an accompaniment. Both in restaurants and family kitchens people are discovering a cuisine that combines elegance with fresh and nutritious ingredients. In this book there are over 600 delicious recipes from all over the world, including India, the Middle East, Asia and the West Whether you favour French, Greek, Italian, Lebanese, Indian or Asian dishes — or a combination of dishes from different countries, you skill find them in the Complete Vegetarian Cookbook The dishes have been created and tested by best selling author Charmaine Solomon. They are easy-tofollow and designed to make !,our cm-Acing simple and pleasurable. The origin and the history of many of the dishes are included, making
Charmaine Solomon's COMPLETE - --
this both an interesting and practical guide to vegetarian cooking. A glossary of terms and ingredients, advice on combining dishes as v.ell as seasonal menus are also included. Beautifully illustrated, the recipes in the Complete Vegetarian Cookbook are
nutritious and healthy, and guarantee to delight the palate, making even the most ardent meat eaters wekome a change. This book is a valuable kitchen companion and an inspiration for both novice and experienced cooks.
collection of intimate personal accounts of pregnancy and preparation for childbirth, labour and delnery. and life after birth. There are stories of 'natural'
Above: 'Interviewing angels' Trish Gayton (left), Noel Murphy aid Sally Cooligan, check out Inez Daniels with various questions to see if she qualifies to eater 'heaven'? at the Luke 18 camp held at Chidlow. This delightful procedure is set with a backdrop of 'heavenly sheets' awl simulated cotton wool deeds with 'angels' appropriately attired. 'Heaven' is the weekend, and from the way the ceikiren enjoy these weekends, apparently it's rather like that with much wonderful activity and peer grew interaction. Below: Part of the music and song team are Jemtna Riddell (left), Michelle Tuner and Donna Riddell.
Birth Stories. A collection of personal experiences edited by May mprell (Angus & Robertson $1695). "It was a good thing I was lying down for the scan, or I would have collapsed with shock. There on the screen was not only our third child, but our fourth and fifth as
Luke 1 is all about the young celebrating God and His wonderful world in a loving atmosphere of sharing and caring. It's about appreciating, and reaching out to others. And being grateful to the God who gives us all.
well!'' "It's a weird feeling. knowing rlu're going to have a baby any minute. very unreal." "By the twelfth, you should be used to it!" Sometimes moving, sometimes funny. sometimes surprising and always absorbing. Birth Stories is a
births at home and in hospital; hi-tech births; Caesarean births and even an aclopticxt There are stories of unexpected twins, the arrival of triplets in a family which already had two children, and the experience °Clewing birth for the twelfth time. A little boy tells how it felt to watch his sister being born. A group of Abonginal women discuss traditional birth practices in central Australia A migrant women talks about giving birth to her first child in an Australian hospital. Single mothers share their pride in becoming parents. And fathers describe their feelings about being at the birth. Out of these accounts, one sure truth emerges: childbirth can not be described in simple terms. It is. above all, an adventure.
Wood work The Woodworker's Pocket eook by C. K. Hayward (Unwin Hyman thmugb Collins $11.95). A handy pocket reference for the craftsman containing a wealth of information on tools, timber, fittings. joints. mouldings, and chemical formulae. In fact, all the basic information a woodworker needs at his fingertips
The Record. July 11, 1991 16
Think CARPET! Think Peter RINEY 242 1002 All 446 6238
DIAL-A- CARPET 504 Charles St, North Perth (opposite Charles Hotel)
Carpets for home, school, church and office.
TWILIGHT RETREAT
The "Twilight Retreat" is designed particularly for but not exclusively for, the working man and woman.
Monday, August 12 pm concluding Thursday, 15 am We invite you to come Monday 5.30pm onwards, have some time for quiet personal prayer. Evening meal at 6pm retreat - reflective time until 9pm. Stay overnight, have Mass and breakfast before going to work. Repeat this programme until Thursday am. Cost $71. Conducted by: Frs K. Henry & P. Kearney
C.Ss.R. Contact: Jan Broderick. Redemptorist Retreat House 328 6600.
PRIESTHOOD ME?
Come and see INFORMATION DAY about
Priesthood at St Charles' Seminary, 30 Meadow St, Guildford.
Sunday, July 21 Begins at 10.30am and concludes with Mass 4pm Enquiries: Fr Justin Bianchini (09) 279 1310
EXPERIENCE OF PRAYER
A series of one-evening sessions. An experience of prayer in its different forms. A guide to growth in personal prayer.
Wednesday, July 31 Wednesday, August 7 5.30pm arrival. Bring a sandwich. Tea & coffee provided. Cost $5. Conducted by: FT P. Kearney C.Ss.R. Contact: Jan Broderick. Redemptotist Retreat House 328 6600.
We're countrywide too . . !
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
is as close as your phone
(008) 11 4010 (free call) (Metro callers please use 221 3866) Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square Member of the Australian 'Council of Natural Family Planning Inc
16 The Record;
, 1991
THE, _ _ ARISH _ P _ SCENE
STUDENTS NEED HELP?
CATHOLIC NURSES
WAROONA/YARLOOP JUBILEE
The Catholic Nurses Guild is
holding their annual general meeting at 11 Ellesmere Road, Mt Lawiey, on Tuesday July 16 at 7.30 pm. Open to the public. President: Mrs Margaret Hubery.
MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly meeting of the Marian Movement will be held at 2 Frazier Street, Swanbourne on Tuesday July 16 at 10.30am.
CAR MEL MASS A solemn Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel will be celebrated at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd, Nedlands, on Tuesday, July 16, at 7pm by Bishop Healy. A choir from the Redemptorist Monastery will lead the singing. All are most welcome at the Mass and the supper to follow.
PRAYER TALK Fr Aloysius, father -general of the Rosarians, a contemplative order of priests and brothers based in India will conduct a three night course of sermons on prayer in St Denis' Parish. Each session will conclude with Benediction of the Most Holy Sacrament on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 23, 24, 25 at 7.30pm.
BEGINNING EXPERIENCE The Beginning Experience wee. kend 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.
A MA PRESIDENT General practitioner, Dr Roly Bott (47) of Carlisle, has been elected president of the WA Branch of the Australian Medical Association. Dr Bott has been active in the A MA branch for several years and was vice-president last year. He is also active on the committee of the Catholic Doctors Association.
BURMA RELIEF
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, 8prn 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.
Archdiocesan Calendar JULY 13 Mass Solo Parents national conference, Bishop Healy. 14
Mass CVVL Bishop Healy
15
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board cocktail party, Mons McCrann.
16
Our Lady of Mt Carmel mass, Carmelite Monastery, Bishop Healy.
21
Day of Enquiry, St Charles' Seminary, Bishop Healy. Mass, Flame Weekend, Bishop Healy.
state
conference,
23
Meeting St Lazarus of Jerusalem, Bishop Healy
26
Kalgoorlie debutante ball, Mons McCrann
28
Mass, 450th Anniversary of birth St Ignatius, Bishop Healy.
29
Mass, St Alphonsus Day, Bishop Healy.
30
Civic Reception Ambassador of The Netherlands, Mons Keating.
31
Confirmation Bishop Healy
Mosman
Park,
AUGUST
Confirmation Mercedes College, The Australia Burma Mission 2 Bishop Healy Relief Society will hold a jumble sale Confirmation Armadale, Bishop at the Holy Trinity Church Parish Hall, 4 Healy. 8 Burnett Street, Embleton on Confirmation Mt Lawley, Mons Saturday. July 27 from 4pm to Keating. 8.30pm. And again On the following Service for Churches Commission day Sunday from 8.30am till after on Education, Fr G. Holohan. the 9am Holy Mass. 6&7 Bishops' Central Commission Donation of electrical goods, Meeting, Bishop Healy. kitchen utensils, warm clothing, 9 Confirmation North Beach, Mons cakes, pot plants and bric-a-brac will J. Nestor. most gratefully be accepted. Enquir- 10 & Confirmation Leederville, Bishop ies 272 1379 or 342 1053. 11 Healy.
We have qualified and experienced
school teachers who will assist you with your studies in your home. All subjects, all years, all areas. TUTOR HOTLINE 310 6771 444*.
Progressive Home Tutors
PILGRIMAGES TO LOURDES AND FATIMA Travelling to Europe? Why not consider a pilgrimage to either Lourdes or Fatima while you are holidaying in Europe? We have regular departures from London and Manchester and you have the opportunity of sharing with other pilgrims from England and other parts of the world. Each departure is accompanied by a spiritual director and guide to ensure that you obtain real enjoyment and spiritual fulfilment on your pilgrimage.. For full details and bookings contact Alan O'Meara
Professional Travel Services Pty Ltd lie No. 91'A 00487 INC WA A.C.N. 009 367 828 PO Box 251, 1304 Hay Street. West Perth 6872. Western Australia. Tel: 61 + 9 + 324 1234 Fax: 61 + 9 + 481 0890
Do you know enough? To get right visas, inoculations, avoid seat cancellation. make a successful insurance claim. International trasel can be hassle free if you book with
Maria O'CONNOR 364 8170 A ALBORG TRAVEL
Lk No 9TA 00524
SMALL BUSINESS ACCOUNTING REQUIREMENTS INCOME TAX We provide experienced professional service in accounting and income tax matters at reasonable rates. Join our valued satisfied clients. No charge for initiarconsultation. Telephone Bob Burns.
ROBERT W. BURNS CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
110 CHARLES STREET, PERTH
PHONE 227 6110 Accounting For Your Success
BOOK BARGAINS Thousands of books greatly reduced in price including those by the popular author John Michael Talbot who visits Perth soon His books include: Retail price
Sale price
$13.95 $13.95 $13.95 $35.95
$9.95 $9.95 $9.95 $26.95
Fire of God Simplicity Lover and Beloved Changes Reflections on the Gospels Volume One Volume Two Regathering Power Hermitage
$15.95 $15.95 $15.95 $19.95
$10.95 $10.95 $10.95 $13.95
We also have 26 different music cassettes by this artist. Cut-out and present this advertisement and we will give you 10% discount off any purchase of his tapes or music books.
Dtkvitti 858 HAY ST PERTH 6000 PHONE (09) 321 6655
Lord, what do you want me to do? Francis of Assisi asked this question 750 years ago. Every serious-minded young man should do the same. The CAPUCHINS, followers of Francis, can help you answer it. C APUCHINS AUSTRALIA C APUCHINS AUSTRALIA C APUCHINS AUSTRALIA
For further information, please write to: Fr Andrew St Lawrence Friary. 392 Albert Street. BALCATTA. W.A. 6021 Ph 349 2837