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THAT'S THE YCW'S FORMULA FOR FAITH AND ACTION

The Young Christian Workers' answers because it indicated that formation aimed to make sure God has built into human hearts a there would be no gap between a genuine compassion for others and a desire for justice." person's belief and way of life, Archbishop Hickey said last In others who had a political Sunday. ideology or communism, he said, "I found it hard to see on what they What Catholic Action groups based their belief in the equality of stressed was a preparation for human beings who were manifestly action solidly based on the gospels, unequal in intelligence, ability or within the framework of the potential."

Church's teaching, he told the 50th Archbishop Hickey said it made of the YCW/NCGM in anniversary him search his own heart. He Australia. believed and still believes that it is The YCW raised the social from the gospel that the dignity of conscience of thousands of Australevery person is proclaimed in Christ ians, he said at Newman College, and his saving actions.

Churchlands.

That same motivation was the It gave them a source of truth and safeguard of the YCW. motivation "without which we can go wildly wrong".

"But the YCW had something more than a set of concepts or "Without a religious anchor ethical standards. people can justify the most outrageous things in the name of "They had a deep union with doing good. People of goodwill can Christ since prayer was part of the justify abortion or infanticide of At the YCW golden jubilee Archbishop Hickey who boasts a YCW athletic trophy caught up with vintage past process of reflection before action. members: Kevin Yuen, medical student in the 70s member of the East Perth group and diocesan president; Sylvia children with gross deformities.

"That wonderful method of Codalonga (nee Lynch), a ledger machinist in the 50s and a Victoria Park member; Ray Gleeson, a clerk and formation the importance of the "Hence should never be lost to gospels as a firm guide. Otherwise 1940s member of Claremont and state president; Donata Sullivan (nee Passamani) secretary and 60s member the Church. It is valid for all people, of the Bassendean branch. Picture Jan Jegorow. we can go badly astray." young or adult, workers or The YCWs founder professionals, employed "With the insights situation for the better." of that," he said of his related how as a univer- "Some were surprised or Joseph Cardinal CarunemplGyed. they gained from the In Australia, the arch- own YCW chaplain sity student in social at my question, finding dijn brought gospel "May the present gospel about the dignity bishop said, Young experience as a young science he would ask it simply intolerable reflection to the people Workers priest. his fellow students that their fellow human YCW, sadly reduced in of the human being and Christian of his day in Belgium the need to love and became "little apostles". "It was a wonderful about their motivation beings should live in numbers, continue to and across Europe as respect one another, "They were formed for chapter in the life of the behind their dedication poverty or suffer bring Christ to the world and energy to better needlessly. they faced appalling young workers radi- life. We don't have to Australian Church." through the lives of the cally altered their work look far to see evidence • Archbishop Hickey society.

"I respected their people they help to form? industrial conditions.

Technological miracle but...

"Brides of Christ" was a technological miracle, of television; but technology does not give balance, says a Perth Mercy commentator.

Television entertains and persuades the viewer that the whole story is being shown.

"It's on telly, therefore it must be true," she said.

"Brides" sparked many conversation and many controversies. The series unco-

vered bias, much of it. to go back and talk to The inescapable good the designer. bias was that religion The "Brides" vessel and religious life are was being told to turn by no means off in a particular directoday's agenda. If tele- tion. Nobody had vision producers and asked the designers of commentators are religious life if that hooked on "Brides", was the direction for the subject is far from which the vessel had dead, even for the been designed. hostile critics.

Religious congrega"Brides" had a lot to tions, like the Mercies, say about the crew of are going back to the the ship, about the designers, taking time navigators in that to study the original fantasy convent, about design and evaluate the energy and dyna- alterations that have mism of the vessel. taken place over the years. forgot But the series

In error!

SYDNEY: Eagle-eyed viewers of the final episode of Brides of Christ last week would have noticed an historical inaccuracy.

At one point in the show, Sister Pat draws Rain Lover in the Melbourne Cup sweep, "last year's winner", says the nun who draws the ticket.

But earlier we had witnessed the school's 1968 celebrations. Rain

Catherine McAuley's design was to listen to the plight of the social outcasts of her day and to give them the comfort of an answer.

She wanted a ship that would be patterned on the original design of Jesus' own craft — to make God better known in a world from which God is constantly driven, even by the believers. go • Mercies "tracking“: See pages 6 and 7.

It's essentially a story of ,unsung heroes

—1 Lover won his first Melbourne Cup in 1968, following it up 12 months later with a narrow win over the lightweight Alsop.

So not only do the producers have to contend with accusations that they have loosely treated Church history, but they have now offended another powerful group — Australia's racing fraternity!

And it was not just younger sisters who were excited at the prospect of change — some of the older sisters were SYDNEY: The controversial ABC TV also very pleased to see the arrival of the series Brides of Christ is essentially the new thinking, Sister McGuirk said. story of the unsung heroes in the Church Father Tony Doherty, Director of — the women who implemented the great Adult Education for Sydney Archdiochanges, says a consultant to the cese agreed. producers of the series.

"Brides was not just about Catholics.

The consultant, Sister Maureen It's about women in Australia. It's about McGuirk, a Mercy nun and long-time change. It's about our ache for a principal of Monte Sant'Angelo College spirituality that works," he said. at North Sydney declared that she was Responding to last Wednesday night's delighted with the series which finished discussion on Peter Couchman's its three-week run last week, amid much program which focussed on Brides, debate.

Father Doherty said that women's issues "It was a very feminine series which predominated as much as Catholic ones. was basically about women," she said.

(The Couchman program included in Sister McGuirk says she worked the discussion group many prominent closely with the series' producers, and Catholics, both present and past including believed that, while there may have been the ABC's head of drama Penny Chapsome exaggeration, the series essentially man, Fr Paul Collins MSC, Bishop George got it right.

Pell of Melbourne, and ex-politicians As a young teaching sister during the Susan Ryan and Lionel Bowen.)

60s, she could identify with the "They were connected, of course, but characters in the series, she said. i f we miss that point Ibelieve we fail to The changes that the 60s and Vatican understand much of what was 11 brought were great and it was only happening." now the role women played in He said the time was ripe for implementing the changes was recogby the Church. evangelisation nised, she added.

"However, we need to understand Because women religious formed a major component of the hospitals and more about the dynamics of effective the education system, the management communication — and develop a of the change was devolved upon them, greater confidence in what we have to offer.

Sister McGuirk said.

"Above all, we need to be seen as a "We were helping people to become in which the voice of community reconciled to the changes, elucidating it, giving leadership in the acceptance of women can be heard in the shape of our future," Fr Doherty said. the changes," she said.

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Replays of Salute to world's children horror for these two in Perth For at least two West Australians the tragic events in Croatia are replays of the harrowing times they experienced as refugees over 30 years ago from the same tyranny.

Marija Jurin of Wattle Grove remembers her father fleeing to Germany and unable to get his family released by the communists who continued to harass the mother and her young children for increased production from their small farm.

Marija remembers one occasion when she was a y oungster and her mother hid in a haystack to escape the tax collectors while the children had to bear the brunt of the official's demands and threats.

Pasko Jurin hears by phone of the preparations his relatives in Split have had to make to be

ready to flee when danger arrives. His mother will never leave Krusevo; she is determined to stay, he says fatefully.

He also knows the fate of refugees. Because of his opposition to the communist regime he refused national service and spent a week dodging guards and dogs in the mountains before gaining refuge in Italy along with thousands of other Iron Curtain escapees.

Now an exile from his country he was allowed just one brief visit home for his father's funeral in 1972.

Both the Jurins are working alongside thousands of other local Croatians at centres in North Fremantle and Gwelup to send thousands of kilos of clothing and medical supplies to Croatia which now has hundreds of thousands

A t Queens Gardens on Tuesday evening Archbishop Hickey and other church leaders helped children representing many nationalities launch candles to mark the first anniversary of the World Summit for Children to which Australia was a signatory. of war refugees.

The cost of repairing the damage, even if the hostilities were to cease tomorrow, is impossible to calculate they say.

In their view the con-

flict has little to do with race but much to do with ideology. It is a last ditch stand by diehard communists amongst the Serbs to control Croatia.

These hardliners, and

It's unworthy of humanity...

ROME (CNS): The fighting in Yugoslavia is "unworthy of humanity" and continues to take its toll on the defenceless civilian population, Pope John Paul II said during a Mass in Rome.

Pope John Paul described the Yugoslavian conflict as "a war which does not spare defenceless civilians, which destroys historic monuments and places of worship and prayer".

"What is happening in Yugoslavia is unworthy of humanity, is unworthy of Europe," he said. "One should pray in this critical moment for these peoples, for these countries, for our continent."

An editorial in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, gave strong backing to Croatia and Slovenia in their quest for sovereignty.

The newspaper defended the right of people to "freely choose their own future and democratically choose their institutions" as established by the Helsinki Accords in 1975.

The international community should demand adherence to the Helsinki principles "for Croatia and Slovenia, too, which have a right to see their independence recognised, not only on a moral level, but on a juridical level", the newspaper said.

It said the "time and manner" of independence could be negotiated.

The editorial compared the situation of Croatia to that of Lithuania, which until last summer was still seeking international recognition as an independent state.

The editorial also cautioned, however, that given Europe's current political situation, "it is not always possible that the territlry of every

'nation' can correspond to an independent state without federal ties".

In statements over the past few months, the Vatican has emphasised the right of selfdetermination as key to resolving the Yugoslavian conflict.

Yugoslavia's central government is fighting to keep control over independence-seeking republics following the decline of communism in the Southeast European country.

An Italian newspaper, Avvenire, quoted a Croatian Catholic bishop as saying that churches, monasteries and convents have often been primary targets in the fighting.

As of October 1, 151 Catholic churches had been destroyed or damaged, along with 17 monasteries or convents, eight Orthodox churches and one Protestant church, said Bishop losip Bozanic of Krk. The bishops of Bosnia-Herzegovina, a republic bordering Croatia, warned that if the fighting spreads to their land, the result will be "more tragic" than in Croatia.

"If the civil war is imported here from outside, it will mean the burial of the civil and religious tolerance to which we have become accustomed," the bishops said.

Bosnia-Herzegovina's population is a mix of Catholics, Muslims and Orthodox.

The bishops urged the federal army to "demilitarise" the republic as much as possible, and in the meantime to protect all its people equally.

The popular Marian shrine of Medjugorje is located in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

the many Croatian communists have become used to the good life and don't want to give it up.

A referendum in Croatia that included many other nationalities as

Mass for peace Archbishop Hickey will celebrate Mass for peace in Croatia in St Mary's Cathedral at 2pm on Sunday, Oct 20.

"Enough is enough," say well, returned a 94% vote in favour of secession but the Jurins. Some explain the Serbian opposition the conflict in terms of would not accept the historical animosity Marverdict and have created ija said, but peace is racial hatred as an possible "but never again in Yugoslavia". answer.

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The claim that truth is the first victim of war is by far too simple in today's communication world. It assumes pompously that the consumer of news is entitled to truth.

The rot however starts further back: The consumer is deprived of information, let alone the truth; the consumer does not even know that the information is missing.

The Gulf War became the classic exercise in witholding information. The allied forces decided not only that the public would not get truth as opposed to falsehood; the public would be cut off from the details of the war.

Should everything be made known right down to freedom of information? Are the people any better off? If the information is available, do ordinary people want to know it?

Not so, say the media channels of communication that are bought and sold at hundreds of millions of dollars.

An Australian television bulletin lasts 30 minutes minus advertisements. That formula is fixed, whether there is much news or none.

Gulf War groupies found there were alternatives: CNS pumped out hours of non-stop "news" even if in retrospect the news revealed nothing.

The scramble by Australia's television stations to find the "right" moment to pump the evening "news'' into consumers is a blatant exercise to obtain the best advertising dollar return. The consumer pays at the checkout counter.

A newspaper's content, as witnessed in WA's monopoly daily, is governed entirely by the percentage of advertising that can be crammed on to every page. The first victim is not the truth, just the information itself — true or false.

Two weeks ago the daily's journalist and photographer visited New Norcia over the college's closure announcement. Their combined efforts did not involve truth. They simply managed not to tell the public what were the facts about the college's finances or about the people posturing for the photographer.

A fortnight later, the same journalist made a series of unsubstantiated innuendos and misrepresentations about the college. Not a single further fact was revealed.

Archbishop Hickey went to the extraordinary length of making a detailed statement to The West Australian. Ten days later the paper has refused to make any use of that information.

Only the readers of The Record know the facts, let alone the full truth of New Norcia's closure.

The same newspaper's offensive illustration of two naked males was momentarily held up in a grandstand performance of concern. The illustration was "accepted" (at thousands of dollars profit!) after it had been darkened. The difference between standards is the degree of darkness! Yet the advertisement blatantly condones certain sexual behaviour, contrary to what the evidence reveals. Information is denied, not just the truth about AlDs. On Tuesday night eight local church leaders including Archbishop Hickey huddled for 90 minutes in Queens Gardens for what was supposed to be a community celebration of children's concerns. The rest were 14 children, a few parents, a handful of officials and one junior state politician, and a few dozen disinterested ducks.

Not a sign of the parliamentarians, including Prime Minister Hawke who huffed and puffed on the UN world stage shedding tears for children a year ago.

Not a sign of hundreds of thousands of city commuters dashing home . . . to TV! No one will know that Perth's church leaders wasted their time because the media will deny the public that information, let alone the truth of children's plight.

Thus the Croatians struggle not just with the truth of why they are attacked but with the information blockage; a handful of guns seen firing in any direction is as much as a television or newspaper audience is allowed to hear, let alone test for its truth.

In a massive historical re-write a hundred witnesses now tell what really happened in the massacre of thousands of Polish officers. Not only was the Western world made to swallow a Russian lie for 40 years, the very information was suppressed.

The WA Inc Royal Commission reveals that the public are played for fools because that is how the public accepts being kept in the dark.

Information not truth is the real victim.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS): Mother Teresa of Calcutta is negotiating with the Vietnamese government to establish a centre for orphans, handicapped people and the elderly.

She visited Hanoi last month to inspect possible sites for the centre, to be staffed by the Missionaries of Charity, the religious order she founded.

Vietnam has the third-largest number of Catholics in Asia after the Philippines and India; 10 per cent of Vietnam's 67 million inhabitants are Catholics.

Jesuit case ruling gets thumbs up WASHINGTON (CNS): US and Salvadoran church officials said they were pleased that two army officers were convicted for their involvement in the murders of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter in El Salvador, but they said the convictions are just one step on a long path to truth.

"The intellectual authors and actual shooters have gone scot free," said Jesuit Father Dean Brackley, a professor at Central

American University in San Salvador, where the murders occurred. "This is a grave error."

"By convicting Benavides and Mendoza, the jury wanted to send the signal that the responsibility for the assassinations should be sought higher up in the armed forces," said Father Jose Maria Tojeira, provincial general of the Jesuits in Central America, in a prepared statement.

To find who is responsible higher up, Father Tojeira said that it is "of utmost importance to get US intelligence agencies to turn over the documentation they have on the case, documentation that they have hidden so far".

Jesuit Another Father Brackley said Ms Ramos' father, the university's landscaper, was "discouraged and upset" that the soldier who actu-

ally shot and killed his daughter was acquitted.

Appeals from a jury's verdict are not allowed by Salvadoran law. Judge Ricardo Zamora has 30 days to hand down a sentence for the two military officers convicted. Both men could be sentenced to 20-30 years in prison.

Father Brackley said that in the spirit of reconciliation, the Jesuits would support

a reduced sentence for the convicted, but they oppose amnesty.

It has been rumoured that President Cristiani will grant amnesty to the two officers.

Most important for the Jesuits is that they find out the truth about who were the intellectual authors of the crime, Father Brackley said.

"We know the truth will eventually come out, probably after the sentencing," he said.

Continue with the probe call WASHINGTON (CNS): The convictions of two Salvadoran army officers in the murders of six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter may signal "a new resolve to pursue justice" in El Salvador, but the verdict is "less than satisfactory", said Archbishop John R. Roach of St Paul, Minneapolis.

Archbishop Roach, chairman of the US bishops' Committee on International Policy said that the may convictions mean "some significant change after years of near-total judicial ineffectiveness and military impunity".

Another army lieutnona enant, commissioned officer

and five enlisted men were acquitted by the "Serious doubts remain, however, about this verdict and the Process that led to it," Archbishop Roach said.

"Credible allegations of evidence withheld or destroyed, of higher level involvement and of cover-up,

not to mention the complete exoneration of soldiers who had acknowledged their participation in the murders, leave this verdict less than satisfactory."

Archbishop Roach called for continued investigation of the murders to bring those "who authorised these murders" to justice.

He also called on the US Congress to place strict conditions on providing more military aid to El Salvador.

"Congress should continue to insist on strict limits and conditions until the peace and justice we pray for has been realised in El Salvador," he added.

What CIA papers suggest WASHINGTON (CNS): Soviet involvement in past political assassinations suggested Moscow might have played a role in the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II, the CIA said in documents declassified last week.

"The USSR has a long history of involvement in

assassinations of political enemies outside its borders," the agency said in a 1985 analysis commissioned by Robert Gates.

The study on the papal plot has become a central issue in a growing storm over Gates' alleged skewing of intelligence to fit

the views of his bosses, notably then-CIA Director William Casey.

The CIA paper said Moscow had a "strong incentive" to move against the pope, whose support for the Solidarity union in his native Poland was threatening Moscow's grip on Eastern Europe.

The paper, titled "Agca's Attempt to Kill the Pope: 'Fhe Case for Soviet Involvement," was not declassified.

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Critics charge that Gates, apparently at Casey's behest, pressed analysts to implicate

Moscow in the assassination attempt despite a lack of hard evidence.

The newly declassified documents indicated CIA analysts were asked to argue the strongest passible case for Soviet involvement by Gates, at the lime deputy director of intelligence, the CIA's top analytical job.

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"We make child-care a science," Father Peter said. "Love without science is sentimentality; science without love is manipulation."

Church faces setback KUWAIT: Migrant workers are beginning to return to Kuwait, but religious restrictions hamper the Church's ability to meet their pastoral needs, said Bishop Francis Micallef, apostolic vicar in Kuwait.

Catholics have only two churches in the entire country, are not allowed

to teach religion in private schools and cannot evangelise among the country's predominantly Muslim population, he said.

Besides traditional Catholic migrant workers from India and the Philippines, the bishop predicted that there would be an influx of Europeans in the next two years to help rebuild

Condolence to great servant...

VATICAN CITY: Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios I of Constantinople, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians who died October 2, was a "great servant of the church", Pope John Paul II said in of a telegram condolence.

The papal telegram referred to the 77-yearold Orthodox spiritual leader as "his holiness" and "our dearest brother in Christ".

Patriarch Dimitrios and Pope John Paul II made history with an exchange of visits to each other's sees and when they established in 1979 a high-level, international t heological dialogue commission.

Shortly after his 1972 election, Patriarch Dimitrios said in an interview: "I know that unity is on the minds of many

people. Even if the journey is long and tiring, I fully intend to stay on that road."

As the ecumenical patriarch, DimitriosIwas the spiritual head and symbolic centre of the world's Orthodox churches, encompassing 250 million members.

The Patriarchate of Constantinople has direct jurisdiction only over the estimated 3.5 million Greek Orthodox faithful in Turkey, Greece, the Americas, Western Europe and Australia.

Pope John Paul's 1979 trip to Turkey was mainly a trip to the ecumenical patriarchate.

The visit marked the first time since the great schism of 1054 that an ecumenical patriarch attended a Mass celebrated by a pope and, a day later, the first time a pope attended an Orthodox patriarchal liturgy.

the war-torn country.

Bishop Micallef, a 62year-old Discalced Carmelite from Malta, has headed the Kuwait vicariate for 10 years.

A top Vatican official has criticsed religious restrictions on Catholics in Arab countries.

In oil-producing Arab countries "there is a flagrant injustice which

the international community must clearly denounce", said Cardinal Roger Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

any freedom of religion", said the cardinal.

Bishop Micallef said all the Catholics in Kuwait are foreigners. Prior to the August 1990 Iraqi invasion, Catholic numbered between 50,000-

Of many Asians from India and the Philippines migrating to Saudi Arabia and the other petroleum states about half are Catholic, "but without

60,000.

The vicariate needs more churches, but is allowed only two: one in Kuwait City and the other in Ahmadi, he said.

Pope defends stand of Italian bishops LATINA, Italy (CNS): Pope John Paul II has defended the Italian bishops at a time when they are under fire from some politicians who claim they are throwing their weight behind the Christian Democratic Party.

interpreted by politicians of other parties as a call to vote Christian Democrat and as Church interference in partisan politics.

The Christian Democratic Party has no formal ties to the Catholic Church. Its leaders, however, are mostly laity whose political formation comes from Catholic social action movements.

Italian Catholics have a long tradition of not voting as a bloc. "

"I appreciate the commitment with which the Italian bishops follow the religious and social situations of the country, concerning themselves — as is the duty of pastors — that Catholics give a More than 97 per cent of Italy's coherent witness to evangelical principles," he said during a 57 million inhabitants profess pastoral visit to Latina, 50km Catholicism. In the last national elections, the Christian Demosouth of Rome. crats received about one-third of A week earlier Cardinal Ruini, the vote. papal vicar of Rome and president In Italy's multiparty political of the Italian bishops' conference, the Christian Democrats system, stirred controversy by calling for have been the biggest vote-getters a "unitary commitment of Catholthe end of the war and have since ics in the political field". dominated the series of coalition Cardinal Ruini's words were governments that have run Italy.

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Talking about future directions

Perth Congregation representatives at the Tracking Mercy Future conference. Joan Smith, Breda O'Reilly, Philomena Lowe, Maureen Cream, Dolores Coffey, Claire Keating, Sandra Smolinski, Mary Keely, Joan Eileen Carrol, Maureen McCarthy and Maura Kelleher.

Catherine McAuley founded the Sisters of Mercy in Dublin in 1831.

So in 1991, 150 years later, 30 Australian Sisters met at Collaroy near Sydney to talk about future directions.

They chose to have no key speaker. It was a time to listen to each other to look for the tracks into the future.

They looked at the relevance of life-long vows in today's world, at different ways of belonging to the large worldwide Mercy family.

They looked at the way they govern themselves and at the way they engage in a variety of ministries.

Teresa Gibson, a promoter of the Mercy way of life, spoke to Sister Sandra Smolinski shortly after the national Mercy conference on Tracking Our Mercy Future.

Starting point of decisions Sister of Mercy ourselves as dying — Sandra Smolinski as the media portrays says very deter- us — instead of stayminedly that the reli- ing with the fact that gious life is one of the we are changing," observed Sandra. given bases of rfe.

"What are changing It is a starting point

network of relationship with like minded people around the globe becomes important.

Laws and regulations that flow from the taking of vows become for so many other are the ways of less important than vowed decisions and it is a expressing a what the vows can congregareality that will always life. In some offer. out tions the living be present as those had become Sisters of Mercy take decisions and commit- vows and lacked oppressive four vows: poverty, ments are put into authenticity." chastity, obedience action.

An approach like this and apostolic service.

Sandra Smolinski gave the sisters an "Poverty, the expreswas at a Mercy conferopening to think of sion of sharing our ence which was not better ways of under- material goods, gifts afraid to raise the standing the vows. and talents for the awesome prospect Vows give flesh and good of others is a that their lifestyle blood to an internal natural way of living might by dying out. commitment and give and loving," said They had a different the religious the Sandra. response however, to power to focus their "Chastity is my primthat usually expected. lives on the things of ary commitment to It was not a matter of God and on service to God. Because of this dying but of a lifestyle others in a special intimate relationship that was changing, way. of giving myself to God said many.

In this sort of vision Iwillingly do not form intimate "We acknowledged the dependence of one another that we have got person on another is exclusive relationship. caught into seeing important. Having a "This is what I pub-

licly declared when I became a Sister of Mercy and agreed to live the four vows."

But it was about obedience and apostolic service that Sandra wanted most to talk.

"It's a listening and responding to God through meeting the needs of others.

"It's as simple as letting God be the centre or the directional compass in your life.

"With God as the centre religious life becomes a web of support and tension.

"This occurs through the living of the vows, community life and responding to needs in the wider community.

"This web of support has enabled the Sisters of Mercy to continue searching for more

adequate and appropriate directions and structures for the future.

"Sure there is confusion," says Sandra, "and about many issues.

"However there is also the constant reminder of the original reason the Sisters of Mercy got going.

"Those pioneers wanted to show mercy and to be mercy itself.

They wanted to be physically present in a world so much in need of mercy.

"We are sustained by the memory of Catherine McAuley who lived her life simply, who lived out the gospel message of living for others.

"It was in Catherine's listening to Godthat she went ahead to begin the group we still know 150 years

later as the Sisters of the married, single or Mercy." religious life are equal Sandra Smolinski and interdependent." was not phased when For Sandra SmoI put to her a question linski the choice of full often asked by stu- time commitment to dents in the schools I religious life was a visit: matter of publicly comm itting her life to "If it is possible to live God, to work to bring a vowed life, centred about the Kingdom on the gospel values as a single person, then through living her why would anyone vowed life as a sister of become a religious Mercy. siter?"

In this commitment Sandra's reply is that she also accepted in the past Catholic responsibilities to her women had a choice of fellow sisters and the only two vocations. limit to her freedom The married or the that these responsibilities entail. religious life.

A single lifestyle was This she has done never offered as an willingly and gladly option or a real choice because of her central she says. Even in commitment to God. worldly society single For Sandra, the women (in particular) vowed life, support were seen as having from and to her com"missed out". munity and the work "Today in society and she does all make it the Church we need possible to centre on the recognition that God.

New form of Mercy membership A new form of Mercy membership is through the Mercy Association.

Associates commit themselves to participate through prayer and a year of commitment to be associated with Mercy works. The commitment can be renewed each year.

Reflection, workshops and other participations in the life of the Order.

Sixteen recently renewed their one year of commitment and another group made their first commitment.

Seated L to R: Margaret Webster, Pamela Marsh, Kerry Harreson, Margaret Williamson, Aileen Budge.

Standing L to R: Vicki Hansen, Sue Lines, Lyn Marciano, Ann Stickland.

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WA police 'capture' the real McAuley one is sure how they match the reality.

more than happy to send the project to Sergeant Terry Dunnett.

Has the true Catherine McAuley finally "captured", been thanks to the technology of the West Australian Police?

In the 1990s however, we have the technology of the identi-kit.

Like so many of the Church's heroines, Catherine McAuley was born too early for the photographic machine.

If it can work for identifying police suspects why could it not uncover the real Catherine McAuley, thought Sister Wendy Hay.

Terry Dunnett was keen on the project because it would also contribute to his professional research.

There are no identi-kits of women in Australia and he is anxious to build up data.

There have been many "artist" sketches of Catherine McAuley but no-

She took her thoughts to Police Commissioner Brian Bull and he was

He went back to the prime sources. He read the letters of Catherine

The true Catherine McAuley as "captured" by the WA Police — thanks to modern technology.

McAuley to get an impression He concentrated on a description of Catherine by Sister Catherine Moore in 1837. ". . . She was sitting in the little parlour on the right side of the hall as you enter. She was then (1829) upwards of forty, but looked at least ten years younger.

She was very fair, with brilliant colour on her cheeks, but still not too red.

Her face was a short oval, but the contour was perfect, her lips were thin and her mouth rather wide.

Her eyes were a light blue and remarkably round, with the brows and lashes colourless, but they spoke.

In repose, too, they had a melancholy beseeching look that would light up expressive of hearty fun, or if she disapproved of anything they could tell that too.

Sometimes they had a strange expression of reading you through, which made you feel that even your mind was in her power, and that you could not hide anything from her . . . Her hair

was pale golden, ver. fine and silky."

Sergeant Dunnett used his research in physiognomy to create a portrait and on August 7 the portrait was presented to the Sisters of Mercy, Perth.

Catherine's vision was to respond to those in need wherever possible — little did she know she would be used in a police department in the twentieth century.

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Sister Maura Kelleher (right) reads the life of Catherine McAuley so that Mercy associate Louise Barrett can come up with her interpretation of the Mercy foundress.

Who was she

Some 150 years after Catherine McAuley's death there are still 20,000 vowed followers ministering in various areas of mercy.

Born in Ireland (1778) she was greatly influenced by the economic and political situation of the time.

She experienced wealth and poverty. She was particularly aware of those disadvantaged, uneducated and treated without dignity.

She had a particular concern for the plight of women.

She did not set out to be different but she was determined to make a difference.

The poorest person was able to approach her and placed confidence in her.

Living a fairly secluded life, working with a Quaker family for 20 years, Catherine was being led by God for a future she had never envisioned.

During these years she came to understand those in need.

She organised others to visit the sick, poor as well as teaching the children and women who came to her.

She used the fortune left her by the Callaghan family to continue her previously 'behind-the-scenes' ministry to the

disadvantaged, to build a House of Mercy in Baggot Street, Dublin.

Many women joined her in the venture which was called "Kitty's Folly".

Pressured initially by the hierarchy to become a religious, Catherine made her own decision as the best way to continue her works of mercy.

She knew that to bring about change or to make the difference she would have to work from within a structure.

Consequently she followed a religious formation program and took four vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and apostolic service to those in need — at the same time founding the religious institute of Sisters of Mercy.

For over 160 years Sisters of Mercy have reflected the commitment to the spirit of Mercy. The message of Jesus remains at the core of Mercy-sponsored ministries.

Catherine's ideas and convictions provide the power that continues to spark contemporary Mercy responses.

Sisters are ministering throughout Australia in outback, rural and urban areas.

They are working in Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, to name a few countries.

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How 'spirited' is your world?

By Do ores Leckey In the opening sett! of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", a ghostly figure appeirs. But the characters who first "see" the ghost i re not fearful.

They presume he Las something important to communicate: "Stay, illusion! If thou hast any sound, or use of volt!, speak to me."

The ghost is silent though, and drifts off, but only for a time. Index', in his critical role he is a force for justice -some would say revenge.

Ghosts, spirits, thngs unseen: These attract the interest not onlyof literature's devotees. The hit film of summer 1990 was "Ghost", about a young man murdeni on the streets of a big city while strolling horn with his girlfriend.

The audience saii his "spirit" leave his body, move through the relizninaries of joining the spirit world but retain on earth long enough to attend to the unfitished business of justice for his murder and hisrlfriend's protection.

People enjoyed he film's classic conflict between good and3vil, with the good spirits winning. They alsovarmed to the treatment of life after death,, with gave a fictional slant to traditional beliefs.

Beyond theatre aid films, surveys indicate that people are seek tg spiritual experience and spiritual developme t. Young people especially

are eager to be part of some spiritual stream.

From participation in prayer groups and meditation alone or with others, to more eclectic practices like vegetarianism and Eastern disciplines, it is evident that many people hunger for contact with worlds unseen.

Clearly, we do not live by bread alone.

The challenge for Christians is to reopen the door to things unseen, with all the safeguards and guidance tradition has garnered.

Take angels.

These beings are presented in the story of God's relationship with humanity from the beginning.

An archangel, Michael, took God's cause in hand in the creation account. Another, Gabriel, communicates God's plan of salvation to Mary.

Raphael accompanies Tobiah on what could be a most perilous journey.

At Masses during the time after Pentecost, the Church was reading the book of Tobit, where Raphael appears. One could not help but notice how attentive congregations were as this most human story of love, fear, trust and risk was recounted.

After each readingI found myself praying for a Raphael-like companion for my own journey.

Most Catholics of a certain age learned of guardian angels at the same time they learned their letters and numbers — as little children.

Classrooms were graced with images of the winged friends, and "Sister" taught us to "listen"

to their guidance. Some people later put aside for awhile recognition of angelic presence, thinking the devotion fit only for children.

The Amercian artist Thomas Cole beautifully depicted the ambivalence over angels in a series of four paintings called "The Voyage of Life". In the first, "Childhood", the artist shows a guardian angel and a boy at ease together.

The second painting, "Youth", finds the angel at some distance as the youth sets off in a small boat. "Manhood", the third painting, has the angel rather remote in the background. In "Old Age", the man and his angel are making their way toward a new shore together again.

Imust confess my own ongoing interest in and devotion to angels. Some 25 years ago, a German monk advised me during a confession to foster devotion among all in our household to the guardian angels.

Isuppose in quiet ways that happened. As one of our daughters was about to be confirmed years ago, she chose "Ruth" as her confirmation name.I thought perhaps she had read the book of Ruth. But she said no.

"Ruth" was her guardian angel's name. I asked, "How do you know?"

"Inamed my angel," she replied.

One Sunday long ago, just as our family was „gathering for dinner, there was a knock at our door. A stranger from out of town announced he had seen us at Mass, was waiting for someone

to fetch him, then asked if he could wait with us. He wanted to discuss the homily.

It happened that the priest was having dinner with us. We asked the stranger to join us.

We never learned his name, or we couldn't remember, and to this day everyone, including our now adult children, speaks of the time an angel came to dinner.

What is remembered is the laughter, the excellent conversation about the things of God and a presence that shed light and warmth in different ways.

These intermediaries known as angels prepare us to encounter the glory of God and shield us from rushing in where they themselves fear to tread. They inhabit the farthest realms of heaven, but also the deepest territories of the mind.

The poet Jessica Powers wrote about them this way: "Know that your soul takes radiance from angels.

"She glories in these creatures of her kind. "and sees herself thus lightsome, free as wind.

"She stands abashed when the flesh rudely brings "its homage to these pure intelligences "and tries to crowd their beauty into bodies "and weight their grace with gravity of wings." ("Ministering Spirits")

Dolores R. Leckey challenges Christians who hunger for spiritual experiences and development to "reopen the door to things unseen with all of the safeguards and guidance tradition has garnered". She cites angels as unseen intermediaries who prepare us to encounter God and who "inhabit the farthest realms of heaven, but also the deepest territories of the mind".

The secrets of creation

"Are we ever going to update the creed?" My slightly cynical friend was in top form.

"What do you mean?" I asked, stalling for time.

"There must have been 500 parishioners at Mass this morning and I'll bet there weren't five who understood what they were saying when they recited the creed."

I was willing to take the bet, but my friend kept going. "'Light from light': What does that mean? and 'things seen and unseen'.

That sounds like an old medieval superstition."

Iseized this opportunity, reminding my friend that

the creed used at Mass is not medieval but was formulated more than 1500 years ago.

"No wonder it doesn't make sense today."

Does it make sense today to profess belief in things seen and unseen?

First, it is important to look at the creed itself. It begins with a short list of beliefs about God. Each point was formulated to resist an error of that time.

• We believe in "one" God, not many gods.

• We believe in a personal God, "Father", not impersonal forces or fates.

• We believe God is almighty; there are no powers in the universe

DISCUSSION POINTS What does the word "faith" mean in your own words?

Selected responses from readers: "As a deacon, faith is what I'm all about. I believe in an authority beyond myself and I trust that there is a reason I am here. It all comes down to trust." — Don Marks "Inner strength; knowing that bad things happen but that God doesn't close one door without opening another." — Celia Swanson "To me faith means power at work in us who believe in Jesus . . if you take a leap of faith, this power will bring about the good things you wish for. It will happen!" — Dolores Carter "Faith means giving your trust to God even if he answers your prayers differently than you want.

Later, you'll find out he was right." — Audrey Oeser "What helps the mind's eye to clearly see those things which are invisible, now absent or in the soul's future." — Judith Marshall-De Cosmo "Total surrender of self to God; dependence on him as a child of God for all things large and small." — Mae Murphy 8 The Record, October 10, 1991

greater than God. This last point is elaborated two ways: biblically ("maker of heaven and earth") and philosophically ("of all that is seen and unseen").

The philosophical formula repeats the biblical idea: heaven, things unseen; earth, things seen.

The creed uses this philosophical expression because in the culture of the time there was widespread belief in various, distinct forms of creation ranging from merely materials things (like water, earth, fire) to purely spiritual beings (like souls, angels, gods).

By Father Robert Kinast The creed asserts that no matter how you understand the makeup of creation, God is creator of it all.

The future is an unseen reality all people know about.

People can envision, dream and plan, but the future is seen only when people create it.

The creed proclaims that God encompasses the future as well as the present and the past.

The belief that God is the creator of all that exists

was expressed to me by an astro-plasma physicist, who was explaining the obscure research he does for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

"The more I study the complexification of the universe, the more I marvel at the metatheoretic mind of God," he said.

Even in the world we see, there are many unseen forces and secrets.

For centuries, no one really knew how babies grew in a mother's womb or how seeds become plants.

People still don't know much about how the

brain functions or how language originated.

We are only beginning to realise the fragile balance of the ecosystem and how to preserve it.

The most treasured human experiences are ultimately unseen mysteries: love, truth, freedom, beauty.

The creed affirms that God is the creator of these seen and unseen dimensions of creation.

And human society affirms its belief that these unseen dimensions of creation exist by investigating them, conducting experiments, seeking to discover them.

We have a se se that there is more to he world of creat)n than has yet hen discovered.

Consequently there i a drive to get hold of creation's unseen din nsions, out of a belief at doing so will improve ur lives.

You could even say at this effort to una er creation's secrets g es glory to God. For it professes the hief that God's creation is good and that, as a molt, bringing creation's lidden dimensions to fuller light will helpIto live more fully.

Pastoral theologian Father Robert L. Kinast addresses the many unseen forces and secrets of creation, noting that "for centuries, no one really knew how babies grew in a mother's womb or how seeds became plants".

A vital sign of life

By Father John Castelot When Jesus tried to get across to Nicodemus the need for a spiritual rebirth, Nicodemus drew a blank.

Well, not really: In fact, the man's response was positive resistance.

Jesus spoke of this reality in the only humanly possible way, by using a figure of speech: "No one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above." (John 3:3)

The Greek word translated "from above" can also mean "again".

Nicodemus took it that way. "How can a person once grown old be born again? Surely he cannot re-enter his mother's womb?"

Jesus persisted. He tried to explain by giving an example from nature: "The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes; so it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

In other words, there are things we do not understand. But they are real, and we experience their action.

When Nicodemus still didn't get it, it was Jesus' turn to express amazement. "You are the teacher of Israel and you do not understand this?"

It was not that a learned man failed to grasp a simple example like that of the wind. But, as a teacher, Nicodemus should have been familiar with many Old Testament passages that

sit ke of the spirit of the La d. (be would have been Etkiel 36:25-27: "I will gee ! you a new heart and 0 e a new spirit within I will put my Olt within you and ce you live by my sn'utes, careful to oaerve my decrees." bliaal people had a lain awareness of what call "spiritual realitji", things unseen. 'iese people didn't ye words like "spirits", which tend to be

sotract.

They were down-toearth people, and even their theological language was earthy.

Their word for "spirit" was the word for "breath", which is a vital sign of life. It also meant "wind", with its dynamic power.

This made the unseen quite concrete. So real to them was God's spirit and their experience of it that they sometimes spoke of it in a material way, as something that could be divided up and distributed.

When Moses selected

70 elders to help him in matters of administration, the Lord took "some of the spirit that was on Moses" and "bestowed it on the 70 elders; and as the spirit came to rest on them, they prophesied".

(Numbers 11:25) The unseen, "the spiritual", was mysterious and incomprehensible, but it was something these people experienced.

They spoke of it in ways different from our ways, but they did think of it and speak of it.

Most important, they lived it.

Do you have an aptitude to trust the spiritual?

Some say the aptitude to trust what we cannot see has diminished in a century that places trust in scientific proofs, technological advances and explorations into the once mysterious reaches of outer space.

We trust what can be demonstrated — modern

medicine's powers, for example.

Others say the thirst for the spiritual is growing.

In these times of scientific achievement a new spiritual focus is developing, nonetheless.

People trust that there is more to life than meets the eye.

In this world, the visible is a sign of the invisible.

greater than people may think.

Consider what it means to trust that individuals addicted to alcohol, work When one strives or power can rise out of against all odds to reach their addictions and a noble goal, his actions become transformed. It is reflect the inner reality of to trust that, despite what hope. present appearances suggest, there is a human Their own aptitude for spirit that always is a placing confidence in poised for spiritual realities is breakthrough.

Thus, the physical act of giving care to someone is a sign of the spiritual reality of compassion.

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Unique formula to know a new parish

Above: Parish Church blessed on August 10, 1941. Altar set up in pre Vatican mode.

Left: Foundation students of 1943 — Fred Colum, Marie (Price) Eastcott, Veronica O'Rourke, Margaret (Price) Dolin, Eileen (Sheridan) Carr, Maureen O'Connell.

Rosie (Lardi) Jamieson, Margaret O'Connell, Sr Margaret Kane RSJ, Bob Della-Franca, Josephine O'Rourke, Judith O'Connell.

Below: Vocations from the Parish — Sr Margaret Kane RSJ, Fr Tony Chiera, Sr Pauline Dundon RSJ, sisters Sr Aileen and Sr Michaela Rafferty of the Christian Community Inc. Below left: Fr Russell Hardiman.

Faced with getting to know a new parish Father Russell Hardiman has a unique formula: start planning a local history book.

After years in Donnybrook his 120page volume came off the presses and now another 200-page volume celebrates 100 years of faith in the Waroona and Yarloop districts.

The secret, he says, is not just in getting together a memory bank of the local families, their inter -connections and histories.

The history of a parish is the microcosm of what is happening in the wider Church and in local social history, Fr Hardiman points out.

The radical change in the Church's attitude to frequent communion starting in 1903 was to have a profound effect later on in the sodalities that everyone remembers so well.

So did the interest of Pope St Pius X in Gregorian chant — The Record at the time noticing that local priests in 1904 were taking courses in the subject.

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both also mirror the arrival of two groups which are important to the development of Catholic life in WA, the Irish and Italians.

Donnybrook had a convent established

by Irish nuns 23 years before the first priest would come to live in the parish.

Later the district would receive large numbers of Utahans from around the Mount Etna volcano in Sicily.

At Waroona Father Hardiman found a similar rich field for research on Italian migration which he has studied at Murdoch University.

Waroona's Italians come from the north, centre and south of Italy but they are the result of a deal between the Australian government and Mussolini who did not want his sons going too far afield when the colonies of Africa beckoned.

Italian migrants in the '20s and '30s had to have £40 and someone who nominated them to come: the 'all° di chiamo'.

The Irish call to Waroona was equally tied to government policy.

The railway pushing south to Bunbury persuaded Forrest that small farming was to be encouraged and not the former large grazing leases.

Bishop Gibney and his brother Father Pat Gibney went home to Ireland with a mission. The bishop persuaded 15 adult relatives and 40 of their children to come and settle in the Waroona district.

But they found the farming hard, Fr Hardiman notes. The land was bone dry in summer and under water in winter before the drainage canals were built.

Today very few of the Gibney relatives remain in the district.

Waroona's earlier Catholic roots go back even further to the young Spanish men brought out by the New Noricia Benedictines but who found other opportunities and whose Spanish names are scattered widely in WA farming areas.

A study of history would even have a lesson for those quibbling over a university land grant, says Father Hardiman. So many church sites and other properties were the result of direct

government grants.

"They show an ignorance of past history and are talking out of pique," he says.

The big helps to his work were the local families with photographs and histories, says Father Hardiman.

Using local anecdotes is valid history, he says, because they are the local examples of what is happening in the bigger picture.

The Perth archdiocesan archives and the sisters working there were another great source while The Record newspaper is truly a record of what was happening.

Even so, Father Hardiman had to work full time for the past two months and get through typesetting and printing of the book in 10 days in time for the Waroona Yarloop centenary of faith celebrations.

The book is a centenary of faith and people, says Fr Hardiman because they are more important than the church buildings or even the famous priests like Father Fahey who served them.

All's set for blitz against crime Crime Prevention Week is set to start on October 20 and will run through 'till October 26.

Co-ordinated by the Office of Crime Prevention, it's aimed at educating and increasing public awareness of crime prevention initiatives and encouraging us all to take positive steps to increase security of our homes, business, motor vehicles and personal safety.

Break ins cost us an estimated $40 million in 1989/90 with crime costing even more at $52 million a year.

We're a funny lot really. Because you always get the knockers who will criticise, complain and condemn, in some instances about everything and anyone.

And the hard core who have nothing better to do than apply that on-going criticism to the police force whom we all turn to if affected by crime.

Every single person who destructively criticises the police, nevertheless expects instant action if they're hit by crime.

So from some points of view working for the force must be a disillusioning and heartless task.

But that's part of our democracy isn't it?

Along with our comfortable double standards whereby we expect policemen and policewomen to have the highest standards while not necessarily possessing them ourselves.

Expecting them to be incorruptible, obeying the letter of the law, turning the

other cheek and being beyond reproach.

While we ourselves are not, as pointed out

by Professor Brian Lawrence of the Edith Cowan University during his speech at the ecumenical church service during Police Week on September 17.

During that speech, Professor Lawrence elaborated that freedom comes at a price but can easily be snuffed out.

And so we look to an independent and professional police force to protect our freedom of speech, assembly, religion, children, our homes, and above all our democracy.

But freedom goes hand in hand with crime, because as Professor Lawrence suggested, with freedom comes the freedom Police Commissioner Brian Bull sporting the t-shirt promoting Crime Prevention to commit crime, lie, steal and be aggressive. Week with its motto: Be Wise Before the Event.

Sadly however, he said, we don't value And one can only add to those comments our police while recognising the importance especially when they are publicly lied — of their work.

"We don't train them as we do our about, denigrated whenever possible and lawyers and judges even though their Work their image demeaned.

But then Professor Lawrence in his final is as important, and we respect and pay address told the police they are respected them less," he said.

Democracy too depends on the quality of and drew the parallel of Jesus who was policing, Professor Lawrence told the himself ridiculed, mocked and spat upon.

Yet He was the one who gave up His life assembly, and while we may have noble thoughts about this field, police work in a for us. "And was He not the Good Shepherd graphic, real world of broken bodies being who guided and protected His flock?" scraped from roadways and in ugly world Like Jesus, he said, they are also of the of drug addicts and pushers, corporate people and for the people "and as you hold thieves and child molesters. the lantern, protect the stragglers and bring So then he poses the question: How do back the wayward, hold sacred the trust that policemen and policewomen stop from the Good Shepherd and His flock have being cynical, disillusioned and despairing? placed in you".

Facts in focus Facts on crime and schedule for Crime Prevention Week whose motto this year is Be Wise Before the Event.

Sunday October 20: Social activities on Neighbourhood Watch: Facts: Neighbourhood Watch covers more than 700,000 people in WA of which 43% are scheme members, bringing total membership to in excess of 320,000.

Participants believe the scheme is successful in preventing crime, improving community spirit and public relations while providing a sense of security.

WA members are reportedly more active than successful overseas schemes and to date 70% have used the free engraving service.

On that day church services throughout WA will acknowledge the

BE WISE BEFORE THE EMT.

broader impact of NeighBy Colleen bourhood Watch which McGuiness-Howard is people caring for their neighbours.

Monday focuses on car costs us some $1.2 million annually. crime. planned Activities Facts: Unauthorised use around young people. of motor vehicles and Wednesday is given over stealing from cars accounts for about a to business and crime.

Facts: Crime affects quarter of all recorded and ememployers crime. ployees alike and busiCar crime costs over nesses have great poten$52 million a year with tial for involvement in about one in ten of the crime prevention and 15,835 cars reported reducing crime, both missing each year never internally and externally, being recovered and with which is part of good one car being stolen management. every 33 minutes.

Thefts reduce company Activities planned for profits while violence various venues. and fear of assault can Tuesday zeroes in on affect absenteeism. youth action.

Local businesses are Facts: Fifty eight per encouraged to develop cent of all known offend- schemes which protect ers are under 17 yo with their staff, prevent shopmales aged between 16- lifting, safeguard prop24 being the most fre- erty and support crime quent assault victims prevention within the while school vandalism local community.

Activities planned cent of break and enters around that. are through unlocked Thursday is on positive doors and windows with steps to be taken for 64% occurring in daylight hours. personal safety.

Facts: Less than 6% of all It is quoted that 80% of recorded crime is violent burglaries are not comwith sexual assault mitted by professional accounting for less than criminals and the community cost for this 1.8% of violent crime. crime was around $40 And although women million in 1989. the elderly feel at and greater risk, it is young Activities feature local males who are by far the shopping centre static displays with home main victims of assault. booklets Women and the elderly security often have a fear of crime, available.

Saturday is all about disproportionate to the Rural Watch. actual risk.

So while allaying their Facts: Total population fears and simultaneously involved in Rural Watch stressing the relatively as at 1989/90 was low risk, it is important to 125,876 with 67 Rural bolster confidence by Watch committees operprovision of practical ating in WA. information on how to Activities on Rural keep themselves safe.

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T HANKS May the Sacred Heart of Jesus he adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus, pray for us. St Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude, helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Say prayer nine times a day for nine days and promise publication. Thank you St Jude. F.M. My grateful thanks to the Infant Jesus of Prague, Our Lady of Mt Carmel, the Holy Spirit St Joseph, St Anthony and St Lucy for my sisters successful eye operation.

Also for improving my financial situation which I hope you will solve completely soon. Your loving Child, I.W.

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pray for us. St Jude worker of miracles, pray for us. St Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us. Thank you Sacred Heart of Jesus and St Jude. Thanks also to Our A CCOMMODATION Lady of Perpetual Succour, St Joseph, St Anthony and the A VAILABLE Little Flower. M.W. Excellent location near 0 Hay Spirit you who solve all problems, light all roads so Aquinas, shopping, trans- that I can attain my goal you port, 4 bedroom, 2 gave me the divine gift to bathroom, lounge, formal forgive and forget all evil dining, larFe family room, against me and that in all modern kitchen, laundry. instances of my life you are Solid home, big pool, with me. I%/ant in this short reticulation, low mainte- prayer to thank you for all as I wish to confirm nance gardens. (09) things that I never want to be 450 6306. separated from you even in spite of all material illusions.

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and AX 450 electronic type- mine. Thank you Sacred writer. 6000 character text Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of storage. Full line lift off Perpetual Succour, St Joseph, correction memory. 16 St Anthony and St Jude.

MW character LCD. Built-in Spirit 67,000 "word-spell" dic- Hotic mi , you who solve all ro S light all roads so tionary. 3 'different P "pitch": 10, 12 15. 3 that I can attain my goal. You me the divine gift to different "line": 1, 11 4 / 2. gave forgive and forget all evil Brand new and hardly against me and in all used. Negotiable $400. instances of my life you are Phone 310 7991. Prefera- with me. I want in this short bly after 6pm. prayer to thank you for all things as I confirm once again that I never want to be T HANKS separated from you ever, in of all material illusions. spite Hearts Sacred Thanks to the wish I to be with you in of Jesus and Mary, for prayers eternal glory.

Thank you for answered for a successful hip your mercy towards me and operation. Sacred Heart of mine. This prayer must be Jesus and Mary, may your said for three days after names be praised and which the favour will be glorified throughout the, granted. The prayer must be world now arid forever. Amen. published immediately. E.F. M.J.

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Also please pray for Mabel RICHARDSON

recently

deceased

27.4.1899-25.10.91. May they rest in peace. Yin, Bet and family.

Perth's Legion goes for old The Legion of Mary is successful because it has a strategy for getting things done says a long serving Perth Legionary.

In addition to prayer

and spiritual formation the weekly meeting organises a job that has to be done, says Elizabeth White who has served the Legion for over 30 years.

"If you are on your own, you will say: `Next week will do' but a Legionary has to go back and report on that work."

Some people find that discipline hard, she says, but "it does get the job done".

The Legion of Mary is THANKS celebrating 50 years of having got the job done Holy Spirit you who solve all in Perth. Although a problems. light all roads so that I can attain my goal. You praesidium was started gave me the divine gift to in 1939 it was not until forgive and forget all evil 1941 that the Legion was against me and in all established with its own instances of my life you are with me. I want in this short local council. prayer to thank you for all A two-day conference things as I confirm once again this weekend will that I never want to be separated from you ever, in involve the Legion in spite of all material illusions. looking at what it has to I wish to be with you in do to be part of the eternal glory. Thank you for Church in the 1990s. your mercy towards me and mine. This prayer must be said for three days after which the favour will be granted. The prayer must be published immediately. My grateful thanks. CAM

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

I wish to be with you in eternal glory. Thank you for your mercy towards me and mine. Grateful thanks to the Holy Spirit Our Lady, and St Jude for a special favour granted V.W. May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved and preserved throughout the world now and forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus hear our prayer. Saint Jude, worker of miracles, pray for us. Saint Jude helper of the hopeless, pray for us.

Say nine times for nine days then publish. Your prayers will be answered. T.P. Thanks to Our Lady and St Claire. Pray nine Hail Marys for nine days, lighting candle and letting it bum out.

Request three favours. Publicise this devotion. F.P.

Thank you St Clare for request granted. Make novena to St Clare. Nine Hail Marys for nine days with lighted candle. Ask three favours — one impossible. Leave candle bum out on ninth day.

Bernadette.

Elizabeth White says that in 1921 the Legion set out to do what the popes were telling the Church to do in the 1960s.

"Maybe we did it better then than we do now," she says.

She also quotes Pope John Paul's Christifideles Laici saying that it is not permissible for anyone to remain idle in the Church and that is what the Church and Legion both advocate.

"It is not the fault of the Legion system if we are not doing it," she says. An extension committee is looking hard at how to attract members in the 1990s.

Because

of different working commitments some groups now hold meetings in the day time and this should suit parttime workers, especially women with other home responsibilities, she said.

The basic Legion work is house to house visitation especially in new areas and Elizabeth's experience is that there are no knock-backs.

Lapsed Catholics are

elk AI

Elizabeth White likely to make the first move in declaring their status and there are plenty of people, Catholic and otherwise, who want the opportunity to talk.

Although the Legion does not engage in material relief it works in close association with the SVDP and other parish groups that give help.

Many Legionaries have become involved in catechetical work, in both schools and parish programs. Elizabeth says that with the additional time given to preparation these Legionaries are doing far more than the two hours weekly that is demanded of members.

Albany has a very strong Legion group and is actively involved in the parish RCIA program.

Other groups such as Elizabeth's Victoria Park group keep up a long association with the blind, visiting and holding socials especially for the older blind, many of whom have become blind in later life and are

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to the Editor from Mrs Anne BIGGS, Mt Hawthorn Sir, As a Catholic, I found it rather disturbing to read (The Record, September 19), that a Catholic school, namely La Salle College, had to be "congratulated" on accepting a Spina Bifida child into their school.

This "magnanimous decision" was made despite cost, time and a revision of the timetable!! And then the archbishop saw it necessary to "ask" other schools to follow this "wonderful example"!!

What has happened to Christianity in our Catholic schools? from Ray STUDHAM, Mt Lawley Sir, The delegates attending the ALP state conference must consider Catholics place more importance on land and money than on life.

The ALP pro-abortion platform was overwhelmingly supported with no demurrer to the Catholic vote but when the land grant to NDA was raised, a key issue of the debate was the

m aintenance of the Catholic vote.

What an image for the Catholics of Perth to have!

What scandal we present to our fellow Christians and the young of A ustralia!

from Mrs G.M GONZALES, Willetton Sir, I am concerned that the views of a vocal, feminist minority and not those of the majority of Catholic women were represented in the ABC's "Couchman" of September 19.

The silent majority of Catholic women are happy with their role in the church and accept the fact that Christ instituted a hierarchical not a democratic church.

The church is not a social institution. She is concerned with the spiritual well being of her people.

She can never sacrifice the truth for social change, the whims of a pluralistic society or the demands of a power hungry minority.

The self sacrifice, committment to education and love of the church of our past (and some present) orthodox nuns will not be forgotten.

I wonder if the same can be said for the "nuns" on Couchman's panel?

finding it hard to adapt.

Junior groups were once a strong element in the Legion and they are still functionary in Melville and Kelrnscott.

In other cases children can be involved as helpers in Legion work, Elizabeth says, because it is the Legion's task also to facilitate others.

In recent moves, the Legion has been reestablished in Maylands and a new group founded at Queens Park.

Three groups exist for Italians, at Osborne Park.

Leederville and Geraldton while a Vietnamese group meets at Highgate.

The country is represented by three groups at Geraldton, another at Port Hedland and also at Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Busselton and Bunbury.

At St Mary's Cathedral another group looks after the counter for religious articles. Fremantle group is well known for its visitation of the many lonely people in boarding houses in the port area.

Priests on the move Dominican Father Jos BREEN has been appointed priest in charge of the Mundaring parish where he earlier spent a year as acting parish priest.

Originally from Cork, he joined the Dominicans in 1959 and was ordained priest in 1966.

He holds degrees in theology from the Angelicum University in Rome and in educational psychology from Trinity College in Dublin.

He came to Australia in 1985 from Newbridge College and has spent two two-year terms in Gosnells as well as Mundaring.

Father Anton HESSE who resigned from Lockridge parish because of ill health has been appointed pro-tem chaplain to the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Glendalough.

Father Bruce JONES who resigned from Bedford parish in order to undergo heart surgery has commenced light duties at Dianella parish.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

Parishes join for Luke 18 The current explosion of interest in youth events touched the parishes of Highgate and MtLawley recently when organisers of the region's first Luke 18 Weekend were inunwith dated registrations.

Over 50 young people, including 37 recruits aged 11-15 years, took

part in the program held at St Paul's Primary School in Mt Lawley on the weekend of August 30-September 1.

Leader Loretta Jennings said that the weekend was a great success, although it had been 'a hard slog' for the 14member team drawn from the parishes' older youth groups.

They received great support from Highgate priest Fr Vincent Glynn and parent couples Sue and Warwick Lavis, Maria and Bill Wainwright, Carmel and Ross Weston, and Alan and Anne Jennings.

Luke 18's rapid growth in Perth parishes justifies great optimism in the future of younger Catholics.

Thirty-seven Lukers and fourteen team made the first joint Highgate-Mt Lawley Luke 18 Weekend at St Paul's Primary School.

Youth interest rates on the rise In a remarkable Antioch, Luke 18 and response to the recent several other groups "Next Step" youth rally drew enquiries from at the Claremont those present at the Superdrome, over 170 rally, through an inforyoung people have mation card distribindicated interest in uted on the night. joining existing Catholic youth groups Details from the cards in Perth. will be passed on to the YCS, YCW, CPY, TYCS, relevant organisations,

and those who have indicated interest will be contacted with the information sought.

A further benefit of the exercise is the trickle of replies from parents and others at the rally wishing to help offset the costs of the event.

August's "Youth Appeal

The Redemptorist Lay Community presents

IN GOD'S IMAGE A WEEKEND FOR MARRIEDS (Not live-in)

October 19-20 St Denis Primary School Joondanna A Christian weekend program of sharing on marriage, family life, communication, personal and community faith. (Babysitting services will be available.)

Cost: Just $40 a couple.

For details and registration contact: Susan and Chris Sorensen Angela and Kevin Broderick Bridget Barry Julie Taylor

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1991" saw a small but

dedicated number of collectors take to the wet and windy streets for the doorknock annual campaign.

Final figures are due almost any day, but indications are that the amount collected should be in the range of $5000$6000.

This is comparable with last year's total, but still well down on earlier Youth Appeals which yielded up to $15,000 for youth Catholic organisations. their Maintaining record were Perth's Antioch groups. whose dedication brought in around $4000 alone.

Antioch has also seen significant growth in other ways, with new

groups launching in three Perth parishes and two country areas in recent weeks.

Hills Antioch (Kalamunda and Lesmurdie parishes) held their first weekend on September 27-29, and Midland Antioch on last Luke 18 leader Loretta Jennings and Highgate's Fr Vincent Glynn weekend, while Doublecheck details of the weekend program held recently. view has an initial in the weekend pipeline.

Antiochers from sevARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH Several young people eral Perth communities from the north-west made the trip to New town of Newman made South Wales to join in the Hills weekend and the festivities, while a have returned to begin group of eleven from Applications are called for the position of a new community Victoria Park Antioch Archdioces an Youth Worker in Catholic there, while some from travelled to Adelaide as Youth Ministry, Perth (metropolitan area).

K algoorlie -Boulder guests of the Brooklyn attended the Midland Park community.

The position commences in February 1992 fo ran weekend with a view to initial term of two years, with an option.

More on these next launching in the week.

The successful applicant will assist in various Goldfields. youth formation and leadership training Also interstate recently programs, resourcing, coordination of communThe challenge now is were members of the ication and other archdiocesan youth initiatives. to continue supporting YCW and Christian Life Applicants should be 20 years or older with an the country Antioch Communities, who traunderstanding of and commitment to the groups as they reach velled to Adelaide for Catholic ethos. Those with relevant previous out to local young celebrations of the centeexperience and/or tertiary training will be people, a task compli- nary of the social encycpreferred. A current curriculum vitae and two cated by WA's vast size. lical "Rerum Novarum". references are required.

Meanwhile we await Further details available from: Last weekend also saw a news from some of our local celebration of 50 Catholic Parish Youth representatives at Anti- years of the YCW in och's Tenth Anniver- Perth, with a gathering of PO Box 194, North Perth 6006 sary celebration at the current and former or phone (09) 328 8136 during office hours.

Sydney Opera House members for Mass at Applications close October 25. recently.

Newman College.

YOUTH WORKER

The Evangelisation and Development Department of

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DARE THE DREAM CATHOLIC YOUTH CONVENTION 1992

AQUINAS COLLEGE, MANNING JANUARY 17-21, 1992 Meet and share with other young people,

learn, be inspired and explore our future in the biggest Catholic youth event in recent times.

For information and registration form: Call KRIST1 on (09) 328 9622 office hours The Record, October 10, 1991 13

Reading fun

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Cecilia's love for music

litlor M. Brom-Dwr CHANGES FOR THE CHALET SCI-1001,

Glories of old Mother Goose

Chaos!

Changes for the Chalet School by Elinor M Brent.

Dyer, published by Armada $5.95.

There are changes in store for the Chalet School and this time the school is moving to Switzerland.

Everyone is thrilled to be returning to the Alps, but Bride Bettany, the Head Girl, is kept frantically busy all term preparing for the move.

At least she can be thankful ' that the excitement has kept everyone out of trouble . . . that is until the disobedient Dawbarn twins plan a midnight adventure which ends in chaos, giving them the frights of their lives.

Cecilia lived and died in Rome long ago when the Romans were persecuting Christians because of their faith in Jesus Christ. family Cecilia's belonged to the Roman nobility. But they were Christians and raised Cecilia to know and love Jesus Christ. She grew up with everything a noble, wealthy, Roman girl could want.

When she was a teenager, her father decided it was time for her to marry.

Back then parents arranged the weddings of their children. He selected a young nobleman named Valerian to be his daughter's husband. Valerian was not a Christian.

Cecilia was not eager to get married, but she had no choice. It was a beautiful wedding. Cecilia sang to God in her

heart as the musicians played and sang Roman wedding songs.

Cecilia wanted her husband to become a Christian. She told him about Jesus. She prayed for him. Soon her good example and her words led Valerian to ask for baptism. Not long afterward his brother, Tiburtius, also became a Christian.

Cecilia was proud of the two brothers, who spent much time helping people who were hurting.

They carefully buried the bodies of Christian martyrs who gave their lives for their faith.

Roman soldiers soon noticed Valerian and Tibertius. They arrested the two brothers. At their trial the two bravely refused to deny Christ and to offer sacrifice to idols. The judge con-

demned them to death.

Cecilia became the leader of a growing community of Christians who met regularly at her home. Her goodness attracted many to become Christians. Once, when Pope Urban visited Cecilia, he baptised 400 women and men whom Cecilia drew to Christ.

Once Roman soldiers came to arrest her. They insisted that she turn from Christ and instead worship false gods. She refused, and actually convinced them to become followers of Jesus.

Sometime later a Roman officer arrested her and brought her to trial. He ordered her to pray to the gods of Rome. Cecilia refused. She tried to tell him about Jesus, but he became angry and sentenced her to death by

Countingby Numbers, by Roger McGougb. illustrated by Marketa Pracbaticka, published by Viking KestreL

So many numbers

suffocation.

Soldiers took her to her own home, locked her in a room and turned up the steam heat until it was unbearable. When they saw that Cecilia was still alive after several hours, one soldier struck her three times in the neck with a sword.

Seriously injured and bleeding, Cecilia lived for three days. Pope Urban and the Christian community stayed with her.

Before she died she gave her house and her possessions to the Church. Pope Urban buried her body in one of the Roman catacombs.

How much of the legend of Cecilia is true, no one knows. But the Church honours St Cecilia as the patroness of music and musicians. Artists picture her with a small organ or viola.

Where to begin?

Wiggle your finger And count me in.

A little hardback with numbers and associated drawings to help learn the art of counting.

Roger McGough

COUNTING

BY NUMBERS

Illustrated by Marketa PrachatIcka

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As the sun rises over the hill, the birds begin to sing

and the animals to wake up.

With sounds and pictures you can follow them through their perfect day.

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The Mystery of the Flying Monk by Antonio Tarzia (Alba House through St Publications Paul $16.95).

Everyone was talking about this holy friar who flew so high into the heavens that he

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Literature land Scourge of alcohol

You Must Give In To Win. Alcoholics and Their Families on the Road to Recovery by Eric Gaudry (Collins Dove $19.99).

Alcoholism is an hereditary disease that effects one in ten Australians. The effect of an alcoholic in the workplace and in the family touches the lives of many Only 4% of alcoholics seek treatment for their disease.

Dr Eric Gaudry has lectured on alcoholism around Aus-

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You Must Give In To Win was written by Dr Gaudry in the hope that alcoholics will choose this book rather than the bottle.

Key issues

The Faith Community by the Rev Edward Braxton, (Collins Dove $14.99).

In the Faith Community Edward Braxton presents a pastorally sensitive, articulate and well reasoned exploration of some of the key issues in the Catholic Church today. He begins with a dynamic review of the marks of the Church which become the organising theme for clear and insightful reflections on pluralism, the question of a distinctively American Catholic Church, ministry priesthood, liturgy education, Black Catholics and South Africa.

He writes from what he calls a "moving viewpoint", helping him to bring into

perspective the concerns of theologians, the magisterial concerns of the bishops, the spiritual struggles of ordinary families and the street religion of the "faithful" who are never in the churches.

He understands the concerns of both "traditional" Catholics and those who have embraced the reforms of Va.ctican II and seeks to make sense of the Church for both groups.

In a book hammered out in the concrete situations of Church life, he describes his approach as "comfortably Catholic" and presents helpful suggestions for the direction pastoral ministers and religious educators might take in a changing Church.

He's alive and well The Devil". . . alive and active in our world" by Corrado Balducci. Translated and adapted by Jordan Aumann, OP. Preface by Jobn Cardinal O'Connor. (Australian distributors St Paul Publication $17.95).

The author enjoys the reputation of being one of the world's most highly respected living demonologists. An expert in matters concerning diabolical possession, he brings to this book a clarity which is uncommon in works of this kind.

They Will Be Done. A spiritualportrait of Terence Cardinal Cooke by Benedict Groeschell CF7? and Terrence Weber (Alba House dist through St Paul Publications).

This is not a biography in the strict, historical sense of the word but rather a spiritual portrait of a great Christian who deeply touched the lives of thousands of ordinary people, one of whom he humbly felt himself to be. And he managed to do so at a time of extraordinary upheaval in the Church and in the nation by faithfully fulfilling his

That the devil exists is, for him, not only a reasonable article of faith but one whose reality can be illustrated by the ordinary and extraordinary signs of his evil presence in the individual and in the world.

He sets forth criteria for diagnosing cases of diabolical infestation and possession and suggests means to prevent and cure them.

Father Jordan Aumann, OP, of the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome, has adapted his translation of this comprehensive study of the devil for a world-wide English speaking audience.

challenging responsibilities as priest, bishop and archbishop of one of the largest metropolitan sees in the world.

All the while he was battling, in heroic silence, the insidious cancer which would ultimately take him to his grave.

His love for life, family the priesthood and his friends was only exceeded by his love for Jesus who inspired all the rest.

This moving account of his life is a heartfelt tribute to a man of God who may well have been a saint.

Our Parish: The Local Church, by Peter Neville (St Paul Publications, $9.95).

Many good things are happening in the Church in Australia as individual parishes seek to translate the vision of Vatican II into vibrant practice.

It is beneficial to share this experience of the growth of the local Church and this is what the author of this book does. Fr Peter Neville describes the reality of building a sense of local Church in his parish, which is comparatively new and situated in a multicultural region.

He does not seek to provide a model for parishes everywhere to follow But the story of one parish's progress will hearten, and be a source of ideas, for all who are serious about the growth of their own local Church.

Growth of local Church OUR

PARISH

The Spiritual Canticle SaintJobn of the Cross by John Venard OCD. (Ej Buyer $19.95) The only one of St John's works which covers the whole gamut of spiritual life.

He describes the spiritual journey in the burning words of a great lover of God from speaks who experience.

He portrays the astonishing intimacy of the spiritual marriage in language which draws its inspiration from the very love song of God to humankind in the Old Testament's song of songs.

All this places God in an exciting new perspective for those who genuinely seek to experience Him in this way.

The livingFlame of love SaintJohn of the Cross by John Venard OCD (EJ Duyer $14.95).

Could well be called the Saint's last will and testament — his final word on the wonders of God in the soul.

He relates "things so interior and spiritual that words commonly fail to describe them".

The loving union of which he treats is even more complete and perfect than that described in The Spiritual Canticle, in which the soul, inflamed, becomes one living flame with The Living Flame, The Holy Spirit.

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With The Praying Church by Anthony M. Buono (Australian distributor St Paul Publications $11.95).

The Roman Catholic liturgy contains thousands of prayer texts which cover every phase of life. They are saturated with the word of God and with the Church's centuries-long experience with human nature and human prayer. It would be difficult to surpass them in orthodoxy of doctrine, beauty of language, variety of theme, relevancy of content and understanding of human nature.

Before looking elsewhere for inspiration, all would do well to become familiar with this storehouse of prayer which forms so much of our Christian heritage.

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DAY OF REFLECTION

FOR ALL ENCOUNTERED COUPLES AND PRIESTS

At Emmanuel Centre 25 Windsor St, Perth

World-Wide Marriage Encounter

October 20

SCE

10am-5.30pm

HEAL/NG ( Gabriel Whiteley — Healing of hurts in our lives, relationships with family & others.)

(Sam & Vesta Gamalatge — God Heals.)

1-2prn — Lunch provided 2-3prn Scripture

(Fr John Harte, SJ — The healing miracles of Jesus.)

3-3.30pm — Afternoon Tea 3.30-4pm — Personal Journey

(Mrs Maureen Brennan — A mother shares Jesus' healing in the life of her family.)

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4.30prn — Mass

(Archbishop Barry Hickey presiding with Fr Rodney Williams, Chaplain for Mental Health, principal celebrant.)

Sponsored by The Catholic Concerns Committee On Psychiatric Issues Child minding — Respite available in your home for the day.

Available on request Contact: Barbara Harris 328 6113.

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Booking necessary for catering.

Donations gratefully received.

Part of Mental Health Week

SACRED HEART GOOMALLING PRESENTATION CENTENARY Celebration Mass

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Saturday, October 26

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llam BYO shared luncheon

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Enquiries: Carmel (096) 291044 Lorraine (096) 291149 27

We're countrywide too . .

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING

meeting in Sydney, Bishop Heaty.

Clergy tennis and golf.

Archbishop Hickey.

Ecumenical Service at King Edward Memorial Hospital, Mons J. Nestor.

Group 50 21st birthday.

Bayswater Parish, Archbishop Hickey.

St Mary's Cathedral St Luke's Day Hospice Service, Bishop Healy.

KSC Mass and AGM, Archbishop Hickey.

St Mary's Cathedral Mass for Catenians, Archbishop Hickey.

Mass and blessing of fishing fleet, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Bedford, Mons Keating.

GreenConfirmation wood, Father G. Carroll.

Catholic Doctors Mass, Father T. Quinlan SJ. Mental Health Week Mass, Father Rodney Williams.

Mental Health Week, Archbishop Hickey.

Confirmation Bayswater, Mons Nestor.

University Murdoch Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

Presentation Day at Goomalling, Bishop Healy.

Confirmation Beaconsfield, Father Chris Ross OS M. St Brigid's Mass and visit Italian Club, Archbishop Hickey St Mary's Cathedral Mass for Senior Citizens Week, Archbishop Hickey.

(008) 11 4010 (free call)

The Little Sisters of the Poor invite their friends to join the family bbq in the grounds at the Home, Rawlins Street, Glendalough on Sunday. October 20, at noon. BYO. Tea and coffee provided.

Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc

THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA

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LIBRARY TECHNICIAN A qualified library technician is required to perform a wide range of duties in reader services, acquisitions and cataloguing. In the first year, the successful applicant will be part of a small library team which will grow in future years as the College develops A comprehensive library automation system will be used and experience with such a system, and particularly its implementation, would be an advantage. The library will be joining the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN) and training and experience with ABN would also be an advantage.

Applicants who may be lay or religious, should be qualified and experienced in academic or comparable libraries A willingness to promote and support the University's Catholic values and ethos is essential.

Familiarity with Education collections and the management of teaching-related resources would be an advantage.

The University reserves the right to fill the position by invitation.

Further information may be obtained from the University Office, 36 Cliff Street, Fremantle, PO Box 1225 Fremantle, 6160. Telephone (09) 430 5822. All enquiries will be treated as confidential.

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Applications, with curriculum vitae and the names of three referees, should be sent to Mr Bob Hoffman, College of Education Librarian, at the above address.

The closing date for applications is Friday, 18 October, 1991.

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St Gerard's Mass will be held at St Joseph's Church, Salvado Road, Subiaco on Tuesday. October 15 at 8pm. After mass supper will be served in the parish centre. Please bring one plate of supper per car.

Celebrant Father Pat Cunningham.

Please invite other chaplain priests to concelebrate at this Mass.

HOSPICE SERVICE

The annual ecumenical service of thanksgiving and remembrance for the combined Hospice Services of Western Australia will be held on St Luke's Day, Friday, October 18 at 7.45pm at St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square, Perth.

Beachside Function Centre 188 The Esplanade, Scarborough Friday, November 29 at 8pm Music By "Redback", supper, doorprizes.

Dress: Formal $20 single

PHONE 275 2992 FOR TICKETS

THERAPY TRAINING Based on Christian Values

* For psychology graduates and required supervised experience or * For people looking for a change of career.

HOFBAUER CENTRE

The Catholic Health Care Association has organised a Mass to celebrate the commencement of SENIORS' WEEK

Offers two three-year courses of theory input, practical experience in its clinic, intensive supervision, and the promotion of personal growth.

to be celebrated by Archbishop Hickey at St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday, October 27 at 2pm.

* PSYCHOTHERAPY * MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY AS WELL

Enquiries: Mr Peter Jack CHCA. Ph321 5641.

PASTORAL TRAINING

S TUDENTS , Progressive ft ADA Home Tutors

We have qualified and experienced school teachers who will assist you with your studies in your home.

All suburbs, all subjects, all years.

310 6771

NEW NORCIA 1991 Sat, November 30 and Sun, December 1 The beginning of the Advent season will see the participants coming to appreciate an opportunity to reflect about and celebrate the mystery of the Lord's birth amongst us.

All inclusive cost: $55.

Closing date: November 15 Number of places: 21 Enquiries: Cath: 383 2002 Sponsored by The Mandorla Centre of Inner Peace

for established Pastoral Workers 93 Alma Road, East St Kilda 3182 Phone 529 7861

GROUP FIFTY Group Fifty Charismatic Prayer Group will be holding special birthday celebrations Thursday, October 17, commencing at 7.30pm and including a concelebrated Mass of Thanksgiving.

Supper and fellowship in the Retreat House will follow.

All welcome, especially past members of Group Fifty and current members of other Prayer Groups.

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HIGHGATE — NDA Sacred Heart parish, Highgate is holding a dinner/dance on Friday, November 15 at Rossetti Restaurant, 13alcatta, to raise funds for The University of Notre Dame Australia Scholarship Fund. Tickets $20 (all inclusive). Other parishes welcome to make up tables of 10. Inquiries Alan 271 1653 or Nick 370 3803.

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THE BENEDICTINE COMMUNITY OF NEW NORCIA warmly invites ALL CATHOLIC PARISHES AND RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES

BURMESE FETE

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A food fete of various Burmese food and sweets sponsored by members of the Australian Burma Mission Relief Society in aid of St Joseph Sisters Novitiate Maymyo Burma will be held at Sacred Heart Parish Hall on Sunday. October 20 from 10am to 1pm.

ANNUAL

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EUCHARISTIC REPARATION

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27

The next Holy Hour for the World Apostolate of Fatima will be held on Sunday, October 13 at 3pm, in Our Lady of Fatima Church, Foss St, Palmyra. Fr K. Stuglik will officiate.

Mass — 10.30am Followed by procession

CATHOLIC DOCTORS

Annual Mass at LJ Goody Bioethics Centre, 39 Jugan Street, Glendalough on Sunday. October 20 at 9am followed by breakfast and annual general meeting. Celebrant: Fr Tim Quinlan SJ.

Special Features: The Julian Singers St Gertrude's Chapel Open Mandorla Exhibition of Religious Art Monastic Art, Crafts and Foodstuffs Afternoon Tea Available

CAR MEUTE FEAST

Mass for the solemnity of St Teresa of Avila will be held at the Carmelite Monastery, Adelma Rd, Nedlands, on Tuesday. October 15 at 9am celebrated by Archbishop Hickey.

The lona Junior School will sing Open to the public with morning tea to follow.

A SUPPORT COURSE

Redemptorist Monastery, North Perth

ADVENT RETREAT

CUP LUNCHEON In aid of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at their home, Rawlins Street, Glendalough on November 5. Tickets $17 at the Home or phone 341 1495.

A one-year part-time course for those interested in helping in a parish or other setting.

Prayer Group

directed by Father Kevin Long OSB

GLENDALOUGH FRIENDS

Natural Family Planning Centre 27 Victoria Square

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MAJELLAN MASS

Is as close as your phone (Metro callers please use 221 3866)

15th Anniversary Ball

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Archdiocesan Calendar

10-11am — Healing Relationships

11-11.30am — Morning Tea 11.30am-1pm — Meditation — A Help To Healing

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Enquiries (9am-5pm): Monastery Secretary (096) 548018 Coach Bookings: Alan Johnson (09) 401 8798

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