The Record Newspaper 05 December 1991

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Power of prayer The scene at Aquinas College last Friday evening when nearly 2000 people heard Sister Briege McKenna tell of her personal healing and urge people to have strong devotion to the eucharist.

After the Mass which prayed for healing the Blessed Sacrament was carried through the crowds by Vincentian Father Kevin Scalton who along with Sister Briege had just conclud •d a five-day retreat with 80 bishops and priests.

Dossier on faitlifti PHNOM PENH: The Cambodian Catholic Church has risen from the dead but the government is watching it closely.

Officials monitor services and want to know how many worship and the details of Sunday sermons.

But it is better than the bolted doors behind

"It is supervised liberty," says Father Emule Destombes the first Western priest lobe allowed to say Mass since the Khmer Rouge devestated the Church after 1975.

There were five Cambodian priests, including two bishops, when the Khmer Rouge swept into Phnom Penh. All had been killed or had disappeared by the time Vietnam invaded just before Christmas 1978 to overthrow the regime.

The Khmer Rouge annihilated Camobida's Catholic clergy as "valets of imperialism".

Cambodia's 10 nuns also fell victim to the pogrom.

which a handful dared pray for a decade.

Cambodia had 5000 Catholics before the Khmer Rouge reign of terror, in which 1million peopled died. The number now stands at 3000, of whom 750 live in Phnom Penh, Father Destombes said.

At a late Sunday afternoon Mass, more than 1000 Catholics crowded into a church housed in the dormitory of Phnom

Penh's former Catholic seminary.

Cambodia's Catholic Church had been homeless since the Frenchbuilt cathedral that towered over central Phnom Penh in the days of French colonial rule was razed by the Khmer Rouge. Not a stone was left standing.

Even after the Vietnamese communists took

over, the handful of Catholics had to pray behind locked doors.

The first public service was at Easter 1990 when the country's Catholics were allowed to gather at a movie theatre.

After months of pleading the government finally gave Catholics one-third of the former seminary. Their first Mass in a place of their

own was celebrated last December.

Up to 1000 people now crowd into one of the seminary's former dormitories.

But the government wants the names and addresses of all church leaders. Father Destombes gives all information except the Sunday Sermon.

Goldfields Centrecare's kiss of life The opening of Goldfields Centrecare has been the culmination of three and a half years of planning, the chairman of the management committee said at the official ceremony.

One of the principal hurdles, the chairman Brother Barry Ward said, had been to been to secure and fund a qualified counsellor for the centre.

After a decision by the late Archbishop Foley to make the Goldfields operation a regional agency of Perth Centrecare, counsellor Patsy Hammer flew from Perth to give two days counselling per fortnight from February to December last year.

This had established a clientele, a reputation and evidence that the service was in demand, Brother Ward said.

The service had started with the local parish conducting a survey of needs in the area and how to provide resources to meet those needs.

Notwithstanding that assistance, funding dried up and the agency was faced with possible closure, he said.

Above: Brother Ward addressing the gathering after Goldfields Centrecare had been blessed by Bishop Healy and opened by Mr Julian Grill MLA. Left: Committee members of the Goldfields Centrecare management committee.

From left: Sr Pauline Dundon, Steve Farrell and Trish Hinchcliffe.

Maureen Sister McCarthy, who had taught in the Goldfields in the 1960's accepted the position of counsellor despite the funding difficulties and having to work out of the parish centre and without support staff.

In April this year, Mr Pietropiccolo, Tony Perth of director

Centrecare was able to obtain from the Attorney General's Department a specific grant of $140,000 for marriage counselling in the KalgoorlieBoulder area and areas from Leonora-Laverton down to Norseman.

The grant will be annual. The parishioners of Kalgoorlie-Boulder donated $16,000 in the

early stages of the development; Western Mining donated $10,000.

Brother Ward thanked the secretary Lyn Little and counsellor Margaret van Keppel for the assistance they had given.

He also thanked volunteer committee members Father Pires, Trish Hinchcliffe, Sr Anne, Ian

Paynter, Sr Pauline, Steve Farrelle and Mandy Pick.

Mr Greg Chidlow formerly at the Catholic Education Office has taken up the position of senior counsellor and will be administrator of the service.

Brother Ward leaves Kalgoorlie at the end of the year.

'Abortion on request' ADELAIDE: SA was close to having "abortion on request" despite the intentions of those who framed the state's abortion laws, the Member for Davenport, Mr Stan Evans said.

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Mr Evans was a member of the 1968 committee of enquiry into the law relating to abortion and was commenting on the 1990 report on abortions tabled in State Parliament yesterday.

"I would be surprised if any members who were on the committee expected the legislation to be interpreted as freely as it has been," he said.

"Iam confident that it wasn't my view and that the majority of the committee didn't have that view".

Mr Evans said he was "amazed" that 96 percent of abortions in 1990 were for specified psychiatric disorders.

"I am disappointed that this is happening," he said.

"As a society we have to be concerned that there is such a large number of people claiming this stress".

The Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Leonard Faulkner, today called for a rewiew of the working of SA's abortion laws and queried the

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figure of 96 percent of abortions being carried out for specific psychiatric disorders.

"It is a disgrace that these gounds are being used as an excuse for an abortion," he said.

"If there are so many women suffering from psychiatric disorders, this is a scandal for our state".

Archbishops Faulkner said the number of repeat abortions showed the counselling provisions of the law were inadequate.

He said it was "sad" that nearly 1000 abortions were performed on women aged 19 years or younger.

"We weep for our youth," he said.

"Our hearts go out to women who have had an abortion.

"They have suffered a great loss, as have the fathers of these babies and the doctors and nurses involved".

Archbishop Faulkner said the number of abortions carried out under South Australian law represented a "disastrous loss of children and young people" and was reflected in the loss of teaching positions and the closure of schools.

"Abortion can never be the solution for social and personal problems," he said.

The centre at 333 Hannan Street operates during normal working hours as well as some evening work for clients who are unable to attend daytime couselling.

Group work and seminars are conducted from time to time to cater for groups within the community who have common needs.

Workshops such as parent/teenage relationships, grief management and adolescent growth have been conducted through Centrecare over the past couple of years.

There is no fee charged for the counselling service, however clients are encouraged to give a donation according to their financial ability.

Priests speak up for East Timor Adelaide Catholic priests have called on the Australian Government to withdraw recognition of Indonesia's rule in East Timor.

The council has written to the Government to urge it to end Australia's military e xchange program with Indonesia.

The resolution also called on the Government to move in the UN General Assembly that the UN Commission on Human Rights investigate the Dili massacre by the Indonesian military without delay.

The priests said the ongoing regime of violence and oppression against the East Timorese was an injustice that must cease.

Australian The Government should not be afraid of incurring Indonesia's displeasure in speaking out for the East Timorese, the priests said.

By selling arms to Indonesia, Australia was reaping a profit by providing weapons that were being used against civilians and protesters and this too was unjust, they said.

NDA: Sisters remember of Sisters to Australia in 1855.

They studied English during their sea voyage and on their arrival in WA established their first residence in Henry Street, Fremantle.

The Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition have honoured two women who played a vital role in the founding of their Order by donating two Unit Scholarships to The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Established with a donation of $20,000 each, the scholarships will be known as the De Vialar Unit Scholarship and the Julie Cabagniol Unit Scholarship.

Since their arrival in WA the Sisters have maintained strong links with the Fremantle area.

Provincial Superior of the Order, Sr Margaret Anne Beech, said that the donation of the Scholarships would keep the presence of the Sisters alive in Fremantle.

"Many of our Sisters lived and were educated in the Fremantle area and the links are very strong", said Sr Margaret Anne.

St Emilie De Vialar founded the Order in 1832 in Gaillac, France.

At just 25 years of age Mother juile Cabagniol led a small group

Sister Margaret Anne Beech (right) and Sister Helen Giles outside NDA's first building in Mouat Street, Fremantle which is just a hundred metres from the first residence of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition in Henry Street.

... so do Highgate parishioners More than 450 parishioners and friends of Sacred Heart Parish, Highgate packed into Rossetti's Restaurant in Balcatta on November 15 and raised $10,700 for The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Members of the organising committee were delighted with the result of their hard work and applauded their local community for their donations of prizes for the raffle and the auction held during the dinner.

Proceeds from the dinner will go towards the establishment of the Sacred Heart Highgate

Perpetual Parish Scholarship.

The Parish has already more than $80,000 towards the Scholarship which will be awarded for the first time in 1992 to a student in NDA's College of Education.

The Parish Priest of highgate, Mgr Michael Keating, said the parish had started a "Friends of Notre Dame" group to coordinate fundraising for the Scholarship and to raise awarness in the community about the University's aims and services.

"The dinner was a great example of how success-

ful a parish commuity can be when everyone gets together and works for a project," said Mgr Keating.

"We are indebted particularly to Rossetti's Restaurant for donating their premises and many of their services".

Mgr Keating paid a special tribute to the Luke 18 Groups from the parishes of Highgate and Mt Lawley.

"Twenty members of Luke 18 acted as waiters and waitresses for the evening and they did a wonderful job".

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A total of 38 men have attended the two information days about priesthood held this year at St Charles' Vocational Residence in Guildford.

The most recent, held last Sunday, attracted 13 men who were able to meet with Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy, priests and seminarians to discuss priesthood and seminary formation.

John Daly (31), a wool bailer from Cloverdale, John Evans of Mundaring and Craig Dowsett of Winthrop with seminarian Gerard said he attended the Dickinson of Bassendean who expects to be ordained next year. help to information day clarify his feelings about "The day was very said he had been think- ful to talk with seminarpriesthood. valuable for meeting like- ing about priesthood for ians about what semi"I've been harbouring minded people and for a few years and an nary life involvs so I thoughts about priest- getting the views of approach by a priest know what to expect if I hood and devoting my people in the priesthood about the information decide to go there." life to Christ for a long and those entering that day had prompted him to time," he said. come. spiritual journey."

Three men lived at St "I needed to clarify "The day gave me a lot Charles' this year, two of them and to find out John Gartner (18) from more information," he whom will begin their which direction they are Ballajura, who is doing a said. seminary studies in Adeleading to.

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Guest editorial ASIA FOCUS Hong Kong

Hopes for Peace During the past few weeks, the world has looked toward two troubled Asian countries with eyes of hope: Hope that one might build a foundation for peace and hope that another could tear down its walls of oppression.

For two decades, Cambodia was the victim of war and ghastly suffering. Those years of killing and torturing have devastated the land and its people.

But with the signing of a comprehensive peace plan last month in Paris, the world began to wonder if, finally, the country could end the destruction and rebuild itself.

The prospects for peace among people who have suffered so much, however, seem dim with terrible shadows of memory still looming throughout the country.

It will not be overnight that Cambodians can live peacefully with those who caused so much pain for so many years. Even as the peace plan was signed, there was said to be fighting in remote areas of the country.

The world can only imagine how difficult it would be to forget the years of killing, suffering, fear and hopelessness.

However tenuous the possibilities, people must not forget that this hopelessness — perhaps the worst aspect of life for those who have suffered — has been replaced with hope.

But as far away as peace seems in Cambodia, the end to oppression in Myanmar must appear as distant to its people as an island on the ocean's horizon seems to an exhausted swimmer.

Under the rule of State Law and Order Restoration Council, Myanmar has become one of the most isolated and oppressed nations on earth.

Soldiers killed as many as 3000 prodemocracy demonstraters in September 1988, and the police have crushed all forms of human rights. Last May, after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won elections by a landslide, the regime disregarded the results and arrested the NLD leaders.

From all this chaos, the awarding of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize to NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi has become a beacon of hope.

The recognition will show the people of Myanmar that they are not forgotten and their courage will not be ignored.

If the prize brings no other result, it at least shows the people of Myanmar that the world honours their stand against violence.

In August, when Myanmar's bishops made their first ad limina visit as a group in 30 years, Pope John Paul II urged them to live like Saints Peter and Paul.

"Their voices should have been drowned out by the overwhelming tide of culture, which had not yet received the good news of salvation. Nevertheless, the Gospel to which they testified, even to the shedding of their blood, triumphed," the pope told them.

We join in prayer with the people whose intention during this month of November is "that Christians who live in war-torn lands be workers for peace".

We honour and pray for the Catholic workers in these countries, who devote so much time to ease the agony yet receive so little attention.

We cannot bring back the lives of those killed, erase the memories of pain for those who have suffered, replace the years of waste and tragedy to victims of oppression. We can only continue to pray and assure the people of Cambodia and Myanmar that hope — for some, the only thing they have — will not be taken away.

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MOVEMENT DOES NOT ACKNOWLEDGE SIN, CHRIST OR REDEMPTION

MIAMI (CNS): Bishop McCarthy has issued a pastoral instruction on the New Age movement, calling the trend a substitute for authentic religion sought out by some people in a confusing modern world.

He said some aspects of the movement can have positive values, but that ultimately the New Age movement substitutes the self for God and does not acknowledge sin, Christ or redemption.

"The New Age movement espouses many of

the ideals of the church — peace, humanitarianism, respect for the dignity of the person, meditation and concern for ecology?' he said. "It however, embraces, many other elements that are totally incompatible with Christianity and our Catholic faith."

The New Age move-

ment "does not conceive of a personal God", he said. "God is within everyone. New Agers refer to this as a 'god'pure or force' consciousness'.

"It does represent a c ommitment to the sacred and the spiritual, a rediscovery of the transcendent that is a reaction to the scientific rationalism and secula-

rism of our day," he said.

But, he added there is a total omission of a personal God and of Christ.

"The Catholic Church offers many of the answers which New Agers are seeking," the archbishop said, citing the church's long tradition of mystical spirituality and mystics such as St John of the Cross, St Teresa of Avila and Father Thomas Merton.

Build and not bomb the country...

BELFAST: Londonderry's bishop says he would rather see Irish ready to build than bomb for their country.

"Instead of running around wanting to die for Ireland, I much prefer people going around trying to live for Ireland," Bishop Edward Daly of Londonderry said in an interview. "I much prefer people to build for Ireland, rather than bomb for Ireland."

The 58-year-old Bishop Daly knows the troubles of Ulster well.

Twenty years ago, Jan 30, 1972, he witnessed

the events of "Bloody Sunday".

A crowd had gathered for a civil rights march and peaceful demonstration less than a mile from St Eugene's Cathedral in Londonderry where then-Father Daly was assigned.

As he was walking back to the cathedral from visiting elderly parishioners, the army opened fire on the demonstrators.

He recalls giving the last rites to a teenage boy who was shot running next to him.

Bishop Daly said be believes the attack was unprovoked.

Bishop Daly said he does not anticipate the 20th anniversary of Bloody Sunday will be marked with more violence than normal.

But "the fact is that people cannot relax," he said. "You don't know when the next thing is going to happen. And that's almost like being in a state of violence all of the time.

"The tension is there, the fear is there," he said.

"Who is going to be the next victim?"

There will be no solution without an end to violence, he said.

"Shooting, killing, death, grief, anger, revenge, all simply drive any kind of sense out of the heads of people," the bishop said. "I think you need to have, first of all, a period where violence is put to one side."

If the politicians resume the aborted peace talks, that would be a step in the right direction, he said. "If we are to get rid of war, we have to get politics back to the centre."

Bishop Daly said he leaves free two days a week for people who want to talk, who are in trouble with the police or paramilitary groups, and for teenagers who are filled with rage at the situation around them.

He said he listens to them, allowing them to get rid of their anger — even if it's directed toward the church and himself.

Then "I try to understand them and hope that they too would understand me," the bishop said.

Vatican shares Buddhist joy ROME (CNS): Vatican founded to his son, dent of the Pontifical officials joined in the 85th Nichiko Niwano, who Council for Interbirthday celebration of a was one of the partici- religious Dialogue.

Japanese Buddhist leader, pants in the 1986 interc ongratulating him for his faith peace service The message included long promotion of inter- hosted by Pope John Paul Pope John Paul H's religious dialogue.

IIin Assisi, Italy. congratulations and best Nikkyo Niwano celeAt the ceremonies in wishes for the elder Archbishop leader and praise for his brated his birthday in Tokyo.

Tokyo, using the occa- Carew, apostolic nuncio son. sion to hand over the to Japan, delivered a presidency of the Rissho message from Cardinal Nikkyo Niwano, who Kosei-kai organisation he Francis Arinze, presi- founded the lay Buddhist

organisation in 1938, was an observer at the Second Vatican Council where he met Pope Paul VI, according to information released in Rome by Publishing Kosei Company.

Meeting the pope, he said, confirmed "that which I believed and searched for years, that

is, that the time of divisions between religions was passed and that the time for reconciliation among them had arrived."

After meeting Pope Paul, he formed the organisation World Conference of Religions for Peace, which now has offices on five continents.

'Not consulted' Cautiously...

CUAUTITLAN, Mexico (CNS): The newly reelected president of the Mexican bishops' conference has said that church leaders have not been consulted about recent legislative proposals which would give the church legal recognition for the first time in decades.

The matter has been discussed for years and it was rumoured legislation would be introduced in December.

Calling on the Mexican Congress 'to show sensitivity" toward the religious needs of the Mexican people, Archbishop Suarez said in a press conference that he believes legislators will have to amend "several" articles if they wish to remove anomalies from the Constitution.

church — is essential to rectifying other antichurch measures.

But the Congress will have to also consider modifying the other articles to prevent "inconsistencies" in the constitution, he said.

Archbishop Suarez said the church leadership did not feel offended over He said that amending not having been invited Article 130 — which to put forth its suggested denies recognition under amendments to the ConMexican law to any gress or political parties.

VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II and the leaders of the US Conference of Bishops met at the Vatican and discussed progress on the bishops' proposed pastoral letter on women.

Archbishop Pilarczyk, NCCB president, said they told the pope that work on the pastoral was "coming along nicely" and that a Vaticansponsored international consultation on the U.S. bishops' pastoral had been "helpful".

A second draft of the letter was released in 1990 and work on a third was well under way when the Vatican consultation was held last May. Archbishop Pilarczyk told a press conference then that the U.S. bishops were advised to "walk cautiously and go slowly".

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Drug abuse a 'new form of slavery' VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul ll compared modern drug abuse to a "new form of slavery" and said urgent steps were needed to cut down on illegal drug trafficking.

The pope told President Zamora of Bolivia, a source of much of the raw material for the world's cocaine supply.

The pope recalled his trip to Bolivia in 1988, when he said drug trafficking had sown "corruption and death" in the country. Since then, U.S. pressure on Bolivia to reduce coca production has led to clashes between police and coca plant growers.

The pope said the gravity of the drug problem today made it imperative to prevent young people from becoming users and to combat the drug trade.

Paz Zamora was at the Vatican to attend a conference on drug and alcohol abuse.

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Coping with more people VATICAN CITY (CNS): Pope John Paul II, speaking to demographic experts, said the world population increase calls for a fairer distribution of resources, not coercive birth control programs.

If developed countries are serious about feeding the world's hungry, the pope said they need to adopt a "new and more austere manner manner of living" and show more solidarity with the Third World.

"No political authority, national or international, can propose, much less impose, a policy contrary to the good of persons and of families," he said.

Any policy that infringes on the right to bring children into the world would be a "devastating tyranny," he said.

The pope made his

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remarks to participants in a weeklong workshop sponsored by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on the theme, "Resources and Population". The brought meeting together about 50 specialists to probe the relationships among mass poverty, rapid population growth and environmental destruction.

The pope said many experts see population control as the "easiest" way to solve the problem of feeding the world's inhabitants, given that redistribution of resources would be a lengthy and complicated process.

"The church is aware of the complexity of the problem. It is one that must be faced without delay," the pope said. He acknowledged that there has been a "notable"

increase in population around the globe, but added that the change is very uneven.

In fact, the pope said, often the countries with a "dwindling, aging population" are the biggest consumers of resources and the biggest polluters of the environment.

"Despite the fact that the world produces enough food for everyone, hundreds of millions of people are suffering from hunger, whilst elsewhere enormous quantities of food go to waste," he said.

The pope said public authorities have a responsibility to reconcile birth "containment" policies with human said freedom. He "responsible parenthood" — which for the church can include the decision to limit family

size through natural methods — is one element in dealing with population growth. But an effective strategy, especially in developing countries, must also include better education and job training, jobcreating investments and improving the situation of women, he said.

At the same time, the destruction of the environment caused by industry must be reduced, he said.

"A radical effort to change the current state of affairs is now required," he said.

If humanity faces this complicated challenge by sharing resources, it can dissuade public authorities from "legalizing solutions that are contrary to the true and lasting common good."

Ratzinger again!

VATICAN CITY, (CNS): Pope John Paul II has named Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to a third fiveyear term as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

The Vatican, in an unusual step, announced the extension on the very day Cardinal Ratzinger's term expired. Threeterm appointments are rare these days at the Vatican; Cardinal Ratzinger's curial tenure is the longest of any current head of a congregation.

The Vatican announcment put an end to speculation that Cardinal Ratzinger might retire because of ill health.

The 64-year-old German prelate was hospitalised for tests in August and convalescing at

home. He returned to work full-time at the in congregation November.

Vatican officials are required to offer their resignations every five years.

Cardinal Ratzinger, one of Germany's most noted was theologians, appointed prefect of the doctrinal congregation in 1981. Before that he had been archbishop of Munich.

It has initiated disciplinary action against some theologians seen as dissenting from church teaching, notably Brazilian Franciscan Father Leonardo Boff and U.S. Father Charles Curran.

Cardinal Ratzinger has been a chief protagonist in chuch debates and actions over the last decade. Known as one of the sharpest thinkers in the Curia, he caused a stir in 1985 when, in a book-length interview. he was critical of some directions taken by postVatican II church.

Under Cardinal Ratzinger's leadership, the doctrinal congregation has been one of the busiest and most controHis frequent, incisive versial Vatican agencies, issuing major documents comments on topics on liberation theology., ranging from ecumenpastoral care to homo- ism to abortion also have sexuals, bioethical ques- prompted a wide range tions and theological of praise and criticism among Catholics. dissent.

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Catholics are cautious National Catholic bodies have some praise and some reservations about the Coalitions consumption tax package.

The National Catholic Education Commission welcomes the zero rating of GST on Catholic school fees and purchases but the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission wants a detailed look at a number of questions.

The welfare body acknowledges that

the tax package seeks to compensate those on lower incomes and agrees with the objectives of stimulating activity and economic growth.

But the social welcommission fare wants to look more closely at things like: • whether some groups in the community (eg, the aged, families and rural communties) suffer (and would be compensated for) greater price increases than the estimated 4.4% average effect; • whether family

allowance increases of 6% will adequately compensate ordinary families with dependent children;

• whether new work disincentives will be created for families if their combined incomes exceed $30,000 (or $40,000) at which thresholds they lose family allowance increases; • whether the 25% tax on superannuation fund earnings are a disincentive to savings through superannuation and lead to greater long-term

welfare dependency on the age pension: • Whether the transition to a consumption tax will require a return to high interest rates to offset any inflationary pressures from generated increased taxation of goods and services by purchased consumers.

The Catholic education body also welcomes the proposed doubling of capital grants in 1993-4, significant increases in recurrent grants by 1996 and the abolition of the New

Schools policy.

The Catholic body says that it has approached both government and opposition over the past 12 months to stress the crisis facing Catholic education but without success.

The commission says the Coalition has a positive response to the needs of Catholic schools and that increased expendinonon ture government schools will save the public purse considerable dollars in public education infrastructure.

Certificates, medals to long-serving principals At a Catholic Education Office function last week medals and certificates were awarded to long serving principles relinquishing office.

The first five to receive the Bishop Brady medal for more than 10 years as principal in WA schools: John McTavish, Sr Consuela Sr Worthington, Mary Monaghan, William Woodruff, Sr Perpetua Gill.

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Powerful sign of the truth Emmanual is a powerful sign of basic Catholic truth, Archbishop Hickey said at the centre's 10th anniversary Mass.

"Today" he said "in celebrating ten years since the foundation of Emmanuel, we celebrate three central truths of the Catholic Faith.

"We celebrate

• the absolute equality of all human beings, • the call to inclusive love, and • the abiding presence of the Risen Christ.

"The world judges human worth by abilities, particularly the ability to succeed. Jesus taught us to look beyond the externals to perceive

firstly, that we all have abilities and disabilities that we must acknowledge, and that God loves us not because of any ability we might have, but simply because we are created by God, expressions of his universal love.

"Jesus taught us much about inclusive love in

his love for the lepers, the poor and the rich — all of whom he invited into his kingdom.

"If we only love our relatives and friends and lock out the stranger or those we don't understand, then we fail to comprehend how universal and inclusive Jesus' love was and is.

Emmanuel reflects that inclusive love to all who come here.

"We also celebrate the presence of the Risen Lord among us. Without an awareness of his abiding presence there is little zeal and little hope.

"With Jesus at our side, no, in our heart, we will do great things. 'Emma-

nuer means 'God with us'. This Centre, Emmanuel, is and will continue to be a sign of Jesus presence among us.

At 3.30pm choral items in Italian, Croatian and Vietnamese will be followed by Archbishop Hickey's address.

A consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary leads us to Bene-

diction at 4.10pm with the traditional 0 Salutaris Hostia and Tantum Ergo and Adoremus being sung in Latin.

The ceremony concludes with the Lourdes hymn.

Set for two-hour walk with Mary This Sunday's Eucharistic Walk with Mary is expected to take two hours and will combine Marian devotion with worship of the Blessed Sacrament.

Hymns open the cerem-

ony on Langley Park at 2.30pm and the rosary will be recited as the procession wends its way up Victoria Avenue. The Ave Maria refrain will be sung between each of the glorious mysteries.

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By 3pm the crowd is expected to have entered St Mary's Cathedral grounds and Archbishop Hicky at this point will have carried the Blessed Sacrament in procession from St John's Pro-

Cathedral on Victoria Avenue.

The Blessed Sacrament will be carried in blessing around the cathedral grounds before the entry to the cathedral at 3.20pm.

"As we approach the feast of Christ's birth, we acknowledge that Jesus is alive, risen, beside us and within us as we joyfully sing "Emmanuel".

The Bishop Brady Medal has been struck to recognise retiring principals who have given more than 10 years as principals in WA Catholic schools.

It honours the man who as Father Brady started Perth's first Catholic school in 1843 and later was its bishop, bringing the first Sisters of Mercy and Benedictines.

Five retiring principals received the medals from Dr Peter Tannoc.k, director of Catholic Education: John McTavish (Beaconsfield 17 yrs); Sr Consuela Worthington (Geraldton and Iona 16 yrs); Sr Mary Monaghan Bluff Point 10 yrs); William Woodruff (Aquinas and Prendiville Colleges 12 yrs); Sr Perpetua Gill (Newman Siena 19 yrs).

Sr Raphael Quirke (Rangeway 21 yrs) was unable to receive her medal and a medal is awarded posthumously to Mrs Pat Higgs (Applecross 16 yrs).

In another new move certificates were presented to principals retiring from their positions: Christine Booth (Highgate); Sr Mary Xavier Dullea (Hilton): Bro Patrick Carey (Kolbe College); Sr Therese Marie Fleming (New Norcia); Sr Mary Anne Jelinski (Beagle Bay); Sr Lucy Kert (Red Hill).

Bishop Quinn blesses with holy water the home of Mrs Patricia Smalley (right) watched

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Blessing of The gift last 12 e of lif home units The last 12 of 25 home units for the aged at St Joseph's Lodge, Albany, were blessed by the Bishop Peter Quinn of Bunbury at a ceremony on November 23 held in the central courtyard of the complex.

Completed at a cost of $774,000, the new additions provide two single-storey blocks and two twostorey blocks with each unit occupying one level.

All units have been rented or sold except the two $82,000 upper units in the two-storey block which has access from Munster Avenue. They have views across the town to Mt Melville.

The unsold units are spacious with two bedrooms, a living/ dining room opening on to a balcony, an atrium entry, bathroom, utility room and kitchen.

A central reading room is situated between the two unsold units.

Homeswest contributed to four of the ground-floor rental units in the two-storey block.

The new units were designed by architectural designer Larry Boston and built by Occano Homes.

The first of the 25 units for the aged at St Joseph's Lodge were housed in the former CBC school building in 1979, Chairman of the Board John Pieters told those at the ceremony.

"In 1985 two more added and three years later six units were built in front of the old school building facing Aberdeen Street.

"In 1990, the parish made more adjoining land available for the building of these final 12 units," he said.

At the end of the ceremony, on behalf of the parish, Bishop Quinn presented certificates of appreciation for their continuing services in establishing the complex to John Pieters and John Hunter.

Bomb rips church CAPETOWN: A 5kg bomb ripped through a Catholic church on South Africa's border with the black "homeland" of Boputhatswana in what parisioners consider an act of political vengeance.

Bishop Dowling said the people of the parish believed it was "the Bophuthatswana government against the church" because of the church's stand on human rights.

"We have worked for reconciliation and dialogue between all groups, and we have constantly been threatened," Bishop Dowling said.

Right-wing groups and the Bophuthatswana government have been angered by St Joseph's willingness to let community and political groups use its halls.

A meeting of the African National Congress and others opposing Mangope was still held at the church, despite what the bishop called "an incredible deployment of Boputhatswana security forces".

"They were beating up people at roadblocks and tried to prevent them from coming," Bishop Dowling said.

Bishop Wilfrid Napier, president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, called the bombing "an appalling act of barbarity" that would never "deter the church from its work for justice and peace now or in the future."

Christmas is a time of many things. Of love. Of sharing. And of giving.

Of all the gifts you can give, there are none more precious than the gift of life. Yet, of all gifts, the gift of life can be the least expensive and the most rewarding.

For unlike most gifts, it grows and keeps on growing.

It can take the form of vital sustenance - food and water, or of education, health, or a spark of hope for the future.

While our children might dream of that special toy - a bicycle, a doll or, in this age of technology, a computer the other children in our family are dreaming too. But their dreams are of the simple and basic needs that we so easily take for granted.

To choose the gift of life is the easiest gift decision you can make this Christmas.

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Are temptations to power all that bad?

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What was Jesus like? He was a healer, nurturer. He sacrificed for others — giving tic any temptation to center in on his needs alone His goodness was palpable.

Is this what power implies?

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She wanted me to start a crusade in the area where she lived and stir up people against casual drug users, which was how her son had made his first contacts.

If in the process we burned down a few of their businesses that would be OK too.

In one form or another I hear this kind of request frequently. But those making the requests are not just hoping to see the troops whipped into line.

What they are looking for is far more symbolic: an image of God as power.

They want a religious display of righteous power, and they see this as a holy thing.

How is a Christian to look at the idea of God and power?

That question is asked and answered at the very beginning of Christ's ministry.

Recall that at the beginning of his ministry Jesus goes into the desert and is tempted.

He is asked by Satan to turn stones into bread, to seize control of world powers and to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple.

By Father David K. O'Rourke These tempations have a symbolic dimension that is not as clear to us as it might have been to people 2000 years ago, but we can still grasp them. For the

world they were set in has not changed all that much.

In the ancient world there were three great evils: famine, war, plague.

Those old enough to recall the litany of the saints we used to recite in churches four times a year will recall one of the petitions: "From famine, plague and war, free us 0 Lord".

What Jesus is asked to do at the beginning of his ministry is to allow his divine power to end these three great evils.

• If you can turn stones to bread you can end hunger.

• If you seize control of the kingdoms of the world you can end war.

• If you take control of the forces of nature you can end disease.

Some might wonder, then, how could these possibly be temptations.

If this is what Satan wanted couldn't it have been his one good idea?

They are temptations

because they represent an end run around the human condition.

Satan asks Jesus to be a God of power, not a suffering Messiah who takes on the human condition in all its weaknesses.

And the Christian traditions says it is precisely in taking on the human condition and suffering the worst it has to offer that Christ redeems the human state.

Equating God with power is common in the religions of the world.

But it is characteristic of the teachings of Christ that, in this area, he turned from the to the expected unexpected.

So for Christians to look for a thundering God is to miss the point of their own religion.

Still, it is common.

Something in the human spirit wants to see not just a powerful God, but a God of power.

I think we can make a good argument that this comes not from Christian faith but from what religious writers used to call our fallen nature.

What we are called to do as part of our Christian living is to have this yearning for displays of power transformed by the teachings of a gentle Lord.

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere We all have heard it, and we may even have thought it.

"If God is so powerful, and if he is so good and if he loves us besides, why does he allow these terrible things to happen?"

These "terrible things" might refer to natural disasters such as earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides.

They might also refer to degrading poverty, homelessness, child abuse, suicide and drugrelated homicide.

The thought often comes as part of adolescent rebellion, as youths attempt to make sense of God.

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As human experience shows, the easiest thing to do with power is to release it.

That is when we see how destructive it can be. unleashed Power shows little or no sign of goodness and love. In a human being, we can it rage.

It takes real power to restrain power. This is when we see how creative it can be.

We find an excellent example of divine power in Chapter 40 of the Book of Isaiah.

The chapter begins with words of comfort for God's people: "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem!" A war is ended, and Jerusalem's iniquity has been pardoned. God is coming to visit Jerusalem and it's people. They must prepare the way of the Lord.

We hear that God is coming with might, and he will rule with a strong arm. God is about to reveal his power. All will see what it means for God to be almighty.

Then comes a most surprising description of divine power: God will come like a shepherd feeding the flock. He will gather the little lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom. Gently he will lead the ewes who are with the young. is power Divine expressed in gentleness and loving car. That takes enormous restraint.

It is something we human beings have a hard time learning. It is the only way power can be combined with

goodness and love.

Those who tied a young mother to a bed, taped her mouth closed and shot her as her 12-year old daughter looked on showed what power can do without goodness and love.

It is quite obvious they know nothing about restraint or the qualities of divine power.

"If only I were God," I thought. But then I would only have added to the violence, to the unleashing of power without goodness and love. I would have compounded the destruction The ahnighty's loving restraint in the use of power is something all human beings, including law enforcement agencies and even armies and nations need to learn.

John Kunsevich grew up in Eastern Europe. He was caught up, as are the peoples of that region today, in struggles for freedom and unity.

John was born in what then was Polish territory around 1580. His father wanted him to become a businessman and sent young John to Vilna to work with a successful merchant.

The man liked John, admired how quickly he learned and how hard he worked.

At one point he asked John to become his partner in business and to marry his daughter.

But John's heart was not in the business of buying and selling. He felt more and more drawn to become a monk. So, in 1604, he and his best friend entered a monastery in Vilna.

John changed his name to Josaphat. Five years later he became a priest.

Josaphat impressed people deeply by his powerful preaching and how he

lived.

He worked hard to bring about unity between the Catholic Church and Eastern Christians who were not in union with Rome.

His example drew many young men to live as monks. In 1614 he became abbot at Vilna.

Josaphat's peaceful life of prayer and study came to an abrupt end when he became bishop of Witebsk in 1618, which today is in Byelorussia. He faced huge problems.

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Josaphat deeply loved the Josaphat preached and Roman Catholic Church. taught. He visited the sick He also deeply loved his and the poor. He is ited Eastern European culture. priests and monks rum He treasured the Polish, Poland to help him.

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was sad to see the divisions between churches.

He wanted unity among Christias and worked for it. But some spread rumors that Josaphat wanted them to use Latin instead of Polish, Russian or Lithuanian in their prayer.

More and more people became upset. Riots broke out.

The king of Poland backed Josaphat. Other powerful people accused Josaphat of forcing Christians not wanting union with Rome to become Roman Catholics and to

DISCUSSION POINTS What is one reason that God's power makes a difference for you or the world around you?

Selected responses from readers: "My daughter has been wanting children for a long time. She was expecting twins. Unfortunately, they came 10 and one-half weeks early. It has been very rough but the Lord has brought them through each crisis. I feel the Lord guiding them, giving them peace and stamina". — Arlene Newer.

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But the thought can come anytime in life, whenever we feel overwhelmed with meaningless violence or great suffering and we think of God.

The ancient Israelites viewed power the way other people viewed it: as a means of getting what they wanted.

The Canaanites had the land the Israelites wanted and so, under Joshua's military leadership, they invaded and conquered. The book of Joshua glorifies his exploits.

After gaining control of the territory, they needed power to keep it in the face of constant attacks from neighbours.

David, their ideal king, warded off the Philistines, subjugated them and extended the national boundaries to their fullest extent.

In all this, later historians saw the hand of God. They projected their militarism onto God, portraying a warrior God. However, there were other writers who possessed a more refined theological sense. For them God transcended history and its ugliness.

give up their language. customs and tradtions.

Josaphat continued to work courageously for union and harmony.

Aware of the dangers, he went in 1623 to Witebsk to preach peace and unity.

After a church service, a group of angry people broke into his house. They beat Josaphat and finally shot him.

European Eastern Catholics long honoured Josaphat as a saint. In 1867 Pope Pius IX canonised him.

"It gives me hope that in the end all things will be good, that God's power will make it all work out." — Debbie Shaffer.

"I went through an illness and was taking medication that gave me nightmares. One night it was so bad that I thought I was going to die in my sleep. I tried to wake up but couldn't. I called out to Jesus and I could feel him pulling me out of that nightmare." — Lynn Chrysler.

"It is so awesome to comprehend someone with the power . . . to make no two flowers, no two clouds, no two stars, no two snowflakes alike." — Virginia Patterson.

"It makes life easier . . . (God) doesn't do everything for me, but he offers his powers to help me make the right decisions." — Tammy Skidmore.

"We're here because of him. He keeps me alive from moment to moment." — Vera Veldamp.

In their stories of creation they gave a different interpretation of divine power — the awesome power to bring the whole vast universe into being.

It was creative, not destructive, power. Everything God produced was good. A recurring refrain is that "God saw how good it was".

It was in this context that God created people.

They were to share God's own creative power, to be positively creative, not destructive.

God blessed them, saying, "Be fertile and multiply; nu the earth

and subdue it".

The received the power, not just to procreate, but to create, to control creation in a constructive way. power was empowering: ering: the power to enable other creatures to achieve their full potential.

This is the Godintended purpose of human power to create, not to destroy.

To create, to enable, is to be Godlike.

"God's power, which is shared with others, is the power to love.

Power used for any other purpose is dehumanising, depersonalising, brutalising.

The author of Psalm 8, mediating on the effects of God's creative love, expresses this truth.

He begins, "When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place..."

Then he breaks off in stunned amazement, and exclaims: "What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? "You have made him less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honour". You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet".

However, God put all things under human feet not be stomped upon, but to be directed, developed, creatively and lovingly.

The psalmist contemplates God's creative power and marvels that God deigned to share his power, this creative love, with human beings, to create ethem "in his own image".

This kind of power is the only power worthy of

the name: the power to create, not to destroy, the power to control but to control constructively for the good of all creation.

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Teach faith to your kids

re inder to parents Above left: Father Paul Fogarty with Jean Gardner and Geraldine Davies.

Above right: Stephonie Crees at the wheel of the bus from Perth, showing Archbishop Hickey the Perpetual Help icon that always travels with the group and which came originally from Moscow.

Confessional queues under the gum trees, a child is loved so that the love of God can be midday angelus bell calling groups to pray spoken of with conviction. publicly were features of the seventh day of He told the adults that they are special that country prayer and reflection. they do not have a licence to do what they like, Some 230 people converged on St Joseph's that all are sinners and fall short of the mark. church Northam, the farthest travellers being He called on the sacrament of penance not a holiday couple from Singleton NSW. to be abandoned but for people to turn to Mary The day's theme "Love Of God" bonded in her sinlessness to make them conscious of people together in faith, friendship and in the what they had done wrong and to be sorry. eucharist.

Archbishop Hickey also invited the Archbishop Hickey alluded to these points congregation to make known their concerns when he noted that the country days of prayer either directly to him or through priests. have come about through the laity's love of The archbishop joined the 12 priests in Mary and organised by them as the life blood confessions, under shady trees, on hearing of the Church. verandahs and in the church — a confession He called on parents to teach faith to their children since each parent is a catechist with practice that has become a common feature the role of teaching prayer and a at country days of prayer.

In the afternoon program Father Paul consciousness of God. Children become confused and cannot talk Fogarty asked who is going to help youth hear of the love of God because they do not know the Lord knocking at their door and to open that door. warmth and love in a family he said.

Can the love of God be talked about in a Archbishop Hickey also spoke of the use of tests to detect genetic defects in children so world in which so many young people have that babies with abnormalities could be experienced turmoil, confusion and sadness, he asked. aborted.

He called on Catholic communities to give Wars, world disasters, unemployment, the lead and make sure that each individual family break-ups were bad news to the youth,

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he said, and made it difficult to speak of the love of God. Faith and life had to be one, he said, and each person had to be a witness of the love of God in their lives, to say God is their Father and they belong to him.

Father Fogarty spoke of attendance in Poland last year at the world youth rally where more than one million youth met Pope John Paul.

It was a living witness of faith and the universality of prayer and faith notwithstanding persecution in many of their countries.

Youth want to know God personally, Father Fogarty said, and needed a real community of faith to support them, to accept them as they are and help them persevere in prayer.

The more a person prays, the more that person wants to pray, he said. God becomes a person in their lives and from their personal experience they can say: "God is my father.I belong to Him," he said.

The country day of prayer finished with Mass celebrated by Archbishop Hickey and eleven priests.

The next day of reflection takes place at Kellerberrin in March.

— Margaret Bowen

He always had a In fact one of his former What a dull world if we were all off the assembly students was playing in line. Or people thought 'Buddy' in Sydney and is we should be! now playing in London's West End in that variety of Having a Brother Russell F who production. personalities various is also nearing the end within the 'God team' on of his pastoral period earth, means there is Brother Russell is not lacking in talent and was with the Midland somebody within it, to working as a waiter and Friars, is 36 years old, which everyone can entertainer in a concept comes from Sydney, relate. restaurant — which is and is a very interestEach person going to not quite a theatre ing man with an equally the diocesan priesthood restaurant — Bobby back- and religious orders McGee's. interesting ground and a lot of is seeking someone by This required the waitwhom they can be ers to adopt a character character.

His maturity and life undersood. Someone with its particular dress experiences make up special to help. An initial and to entertain, and sing part of his own particular impression of Brother is as that character, while charisma; and the wond- that he is of a quieter and waiting on restaurant patrons. erful thing about the more serious bent. clergy and religious Then as you talk to him It's an unusual venture orders, is that they are you discover some char- and Brother Russell was made up of highly indi- acter riches worth on Current Affairs TV and vidualistic (preferably), uncovering. in The Australian newspeople.

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By Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Spunky friar speaks... has a twin brother, and a sister.

Brother Gregory Jakubik is a 26 year old, spunky, good looking young man which in fact undoubtedly many a young lady has also observed.

He plays the guitar, been into surfing, skiing, enjoyed the casual and serious side of life as well as earning a living — so you'd wonder why would he give it all up to join the Franciscan Friars?!

But then that is the enigma of a religious vocation.

Nobody can understand it except the person involved.

And maybe sometimes they can't understand it either!

Anyway this delightful young man is over here doing a few months pastoral experience with fellow novice Brother Russell F. They've been based at the Midland Friary and been involved in a host of activities which have endeared many to the Friars with the particular enthusiasm and spontaneity they've shown to join in and be part of the parish scene.

Brother Gregory is Melbourne born and bred,

be true to it and himself.

"I saw in the Eucharist the real presence of Jesus working in this unstable world and being a means of bringing peace into the world".

And because Brother Gregory saw what the lack of peace in the world brought with its division, hatred and disharmony, "I believed that for me following Jesus is a more peaceful and simpler existence and could see in the Friars the need for prayer and a life Eucharistically centred.

He admits to having come from a happy and prayerful home and during a year or two before joining the Friars in January last year, although living a carefree and casual life, intermised with the serious business of earning a living as a painter and decorator, Brother Gregory was doing some positive thinking about his value system and life objectives.

The setting for all that thinking was rather sublime if you had the inclinations of a 'beach bum' because while heading north to Queensland to paint his grandmother's house, he lived in his car for a month and satisfied (relatively speaking), his stomach out of a can.

Intermix that interesting way of life with surfing, being part of a circus for a couple of days, and living on the beach and yes, Brother Gregory was nevertheless doing some serious thinking.

Being young — if you've got imagination as well as youth! — is a magnificent experience because you feel as though you are standing on the threshhold of a universe full of fresh, wonderful, exciting experiences and untold goodies. All for the taking!

In a way it's like spring lambs or young puppies who bound around looking for new experiences all dewy eyed with fresh pastures to check out.

Brother Gregory was doing that, human style, with thoughts of travelling around Australia

"And I wanted to help this bunch of blokes in their work for God."

Brother Gregory Jakubik in Midland on pastoral work (he'd been to New Zealand twice) and then the world!

Maybe even on board a sailing ship, which beats air travel any day.

However having arrived at his grandmother's house to paint it as promised, Brother Gregory discovered she was a Secular Franciscan.

At that time too he was attending a few Franciscan Masses, which he considered to be very prayerful, and met Father Finian OFM — his first Friar.

The charism of the Friars started to work and was furthered by readings on St Francis of Assisi.

St Francis has long exercised a fascination for many, especially men, because of his powerful charisma and simplicity of life which allowed him to achieve so much.

Because of this many have sought to emulate

his lifestyle by joining the Friars which is symbolised by the simple brown robe with its white knotted rope belt and brown sandals.

Brother Gregory's spiritual life increased and deepened during that period aided by daily Mass and frequent prayer which deepened his faith and started pointing the way.

He was impressed by the poverty of St Francis and saw that as part of the mystery of God and believes that "if St Francis hadn't lived that way, we wouldn't have known him today.

"I was looking at the materialistic side of the world and part of the realisation which struck me was the world's vulnerability in terms of security." He was also struck by the Eucharist and wanted to make it the centre of his life —to

The postulancy was also similar to a tribunal initiation in his view — where you are taken into the jungle and introduced into the societal ways.

It was a time of learning "to live with blokes who'd done similar things, and others not. To encourage the others and realise the need of building a loving and witnessing community to the gospel life.

"While understanding what it means to live a gospel life."

During this past period being a postulant and a novice, Brother Gregory has been introduced to various aspects of the church, to ecumenism, the litugy and its purpose, to understand what it means to live the gospel life, and to gain an insight into the wisdom which lay within the Friars."

Working through all this meant Brother Gregory had to make a decision whether to go with his previous life, "or knock on the Friary door — which is probably the hardest thing I'd ever done because I knew I was making a definite Since entering the novcommitment; I'd be tak- Rate last September, life ing a step which I has been "very challengbe ing" he believes, and with to believed irrevocable". it getting to know himBut it was also in a self, recognising his gifts, questioning though com- as well as areas of weakness "which either mitted way "And me or stifle my suffocate wanted to try it". growth as a human So Brother Gregory being. And the need to started his training with tackle them". six months in Auckland, And now the realisation New Zealand, in the Holy "that I'm on the right Spirit province which road. I'm following this embraces NZ, Australia through in the life of God and Singapore. and have become a better There were 150 Friars human being since I've working in the province been with the Friars. and they'd recently been "This gives me hope through a time of rene- that I will become an wal which was an impor- even better person — tant period involving and I can help other planning for the future. people by that."

For Brother Gregory it Brother Gregory is was a time of learning to returning to the eastern live with relative states this month and strangers, and learning to hopes to take his simple know and love them. vows in February 1992.

desire to be a Franciscan worked as a film and TV contacted the Friar cha"But looking back I can extra. plain at the college. seeIwas unprepared," he To be part of the Brother Russell gave reflected," and placed Franciscan order was a him a ring, expressing his myself in their hands, desire since early days interest at receiving which meant taking with Brother Russell. information on the power out of my own and When he was at school Friars, but was met with over the direction in my the Friars did a parish a "What the hell are you life, and giving it to them.

"I'd never do it again". mission which he fol- calling me for?!" lowed up by a retreat in "SoI just put the 'phone After the interviews, their Sydney house. down and gave it a miss". they rejected him.

And although from Brother Russell got a "I remember I was those early days wanting teaching job and was skiing in the Snowy to be a priest, he did happy "being with the Mountains when my nothing about it. kids." mother read the letter "And in all humility — out to me over the However having finished teacher's training, I was a very good phone." at the end of his college teacher!" . Distressed, he walked That was in Sydney. days he was approached down to the lake — "but by a Christian Brother Then six years down it's calm didn't spread to lecturer who asked him the track, as he still me". had he ever considered a wanted to be a FrancisWhen he returned to vocation with the can priest, he decided to Sydney he contacted the Brothers. make contact with the vocations director and Indicating he wasn't vocations director and had a chat — the interested, Brother Rus- ask about the possiblity outcome being that sell said he was however of joining the order. when Brother Russell inclined towards the The response was posi- went to the tomb of St Friars. tive this time and the Francis during his At this, the Christian interviews started and second forthcoming Brother suggested he proceeded fairly quickly. overseas trip — he would

pray for the both of them Initial reaction was "He showed us the way there. negative because they and I wanted to live the When that day arrived, were standing among gospel life as he'd done; he was the only one at several people, but then so this is now central to the Mass which was upon invitation, Brother my life." celebrated by a Francis- Russell saw him priBrother Russell also can attended by a young vately and found himself believes he had a good saying "It's all I ever backer in the form of the Friar.

Holy Spirit "— to whom And there he prayed wanted to be .

I owe so much. He's the St Francis prayer — This time, with a new 'Lord what would you interviewing team and as always guided me and have me do?' a now changed and been a big influence in Having given it over to matured man through my life.

God and feeling that it the intervening years "Not only that — he was the Lord's will, he since his first interview, brought me to Perth, and gained some peace and Brother Russell was in I'm grateful for that". returned to Sydney greater control of his And with that, Brother where he continued direction.

Russell quoted a few teaching and developed a lines from the Hound of And he knew what he Heaven, showing how "good and full life". wanted and where he "The Lord Chased me Some years later he was going, because andI fled Him. returned from teaching although "I always felt in the United Kingdom "But He eventually when he came across the my life was good — it caught up with me . . ." wasn't good enough.

Friar psychologist who And that for Brother was the college counsel"This came about Russell has proven to be lor there. becauseIknow what the the end of one journey.

He asked Brother Rus- gospel message was and And the beginning of a sell if he was still knew I wasn't living in richer and more satisfyinterested in becoming a the way St Francis ing one for which he'd Friar. intended. longed.

Brother Russell F. Joining the Friars meant the end of a long journey — and the beginning of another.

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'Loyal son of the Church' from Fr Frank O'DEA SSS, Como Sir, As one who has known Fr Tony McSweeney for many years and benefited from his wise direction, I can assure (The Martyr Doris Record, November 21) that Tony is a loyal son of the Catholic Church.

He is a firm believer that at Mass we do gather around the altar of sacrifice from which we are nourished with the precious food of the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is such a rich experience that it can never be adequately described in a few sentences taken from an interview or even a book, or indeed a whole library.

The Eucharist is not only a sacrific. It is also sacrament, it is food for

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the journey, it is Real Presence, it is the memory of Jesus dying and rising, it is evangelisation, it is the source and summit of the Christian life, it is forgiveness of sins . . . it is so much more than mere words can express.

It hurt me deeply to see a phase like "protestant pap" thrown at Tony who has such a rich, orthodox and total approach not only to the eucharist but to any aspect of religion or life.

It was on the very aspect of not gathering around the Eucharistic table as brothers and sisters tha Paul rebuked his followers in 1 Corinthians 11:1 7-34.

This teaching antedates the protestants by 1 500 years.

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South Lake Parish celebrated this month its second sacrament of Confirmation since the parish was formed in 1989.

Monsignor Michael Keating confirmed the children who were prepared by Paul and Brendwyn

Ziegelaar. Two adults were also confirmed, along with two sisters from Hilton Parish prepared by Sr Marie Townsend.

— Story and picture by Ian Esmond.

Rear: Monsignor Michael Keating, Sr Marie Townsend, Lorraine Foulkes, Fr Peter Bianchini (Parish Priest).

Centre: Matthew Slater, Alyssa Taylor (Hilton Parish), Natalia Tapias, Andrea Malone, Filomena de Araujo, Brendwyn Ziegelaar. Front: Luke Arkinstall, Karine Taylor (Hilton Parish), Tarryn McMullen, Thea

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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 that 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.

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YCW clergy call The support of parish priests is one vital factor in the rebirth of the Young Christian Workers' Movement in Perth, said Archbishop Barry Hickey during a clergy meeting held at the Youth Office on Tuesday November 12.

The gathering, hosted

by YCW fulltime worker Inez Rosario with the help of other workers for the Jocist movements, drew a small but enthusiastic group of priests to the North Perth venue.

Archbishop The explained that YCW founder Joseph Cardijn understood the neces-

sary distinctions between the role of the priest and the role of the lay person in the world.

The YCW helps build a bridge between one's faith and the realities of life as it forms people to be agents of change in the world.

The movement relies on priests to see how the YCW forms young workers and leaders for this important role in the Church and the world today.

"If priests are convinced that lay formation is needed to change the world, they will back the YCW," the Archbishop said.

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Book and story time

The defender of the rights of the Church

Min Min magic

The Watching Lake by Elaine Forrestal (Puffin $7.95).

"Don't you know what a Min Min is? It's this spooky sort of light. It comes out of the lake on misty nights and tries to get people to follow it. It's not real."

Once again the Min Min stirs . . .

And this time it has chosen Bryn.

Bryn and his family have just moved to a new house by the lake. The area is beautiful, teeming with wildlife.

But soon there are scars on the landscape where the houses are being built — bulldozers tear at the earth, the sound of machinery rends the air.

This contemporary novel combines a strong conservation theme with beautifully poetic writing.

Hildebrand was born at Saona in Italy around 1020 AD. His parents recognised early that their son was unusually bright. Since there were no schools like today, they sent him to the only place he could get a good education, a monastery.

Hildebrand was so intel- rules. Henry IV was Church's freedom had ligent and wise, so honest furious. He declared that failed. "I have loved and sincere, that the pope he was deposing the pope. righteousness and hated consulted him regularly. Then Gregory excom- iniquity; that is why I die The pope also knew municated the king. Most in exile," he said.

Hildebrand had the cour- people backed the pope, But his efforts led 30 age to stand up for what so King Henry decided to years later to the Concorhe believed. ask forgiveness. dat of Worms, which After Gregory VI died, guaranteed freedom to the next five popes also He did so on a bitterly the Church to carry out cold day in January 1077. its spiritual mission.

In the monastery, Hil- relied on Hildebrand as a covered the Gregory forgave him. tru sted adviser. He Snow debrand studied hard. He grounds. King Henry IV But the king was deteralso spent hours each day became one of the most walked barefoot through mined to reassert power working on the monas- influential and respected the snow toward Pope over the Church. Nine tery's large farm and persons in Rome.

Gregory VII when the years later he invaded praying with the other Then in 1073, Hildepope agreed to see him. Italy, attacked Rome and monks. He must have brand was elected pope liked life in the monastery himself. He took the The king, dressed in demanded that Pope because he decided to name Gregory VII. Like sackcloth, knelt down Gregory crown him holy other popes, Gregory before the pope and Roman emperor. become a monk. begged forgiveness. Pope soon found the king may seem strange today. Gregory refused, so the His superiors sent him interferin g in Church But a thousand years ago king named someone else to Rome to study more. affairs. anti-pope. He ordered his it was part of a life and One of his teachers was new anti-pope to crown John Gratian. When In those days it was death struggle for the him. Pope Gregory John Gratian became common for kings and Church's rights and escaped to the town of to choose freedom.

Pope Gregory VI, Hilde- princes Salerno, where he died brand's life changed bishops.

A s Gregory neared some months later in dramatically. The pope The new pope decided death in exile in Salerno, 1085. asked him to be his to free the Church from he may have felt his Popes deposing kings secretary. the control of secular efforts to protect the and kings attacking popes

Let the Celebrations Begin! by Margaret Wild & Julie Vivas (Omnibus Books $17.95).

As the second World War nears its end, Katya and the women plan a very special party for the children in the concentration camp. "Ilriey are making toys — out of scraps of material, rags, bits of wool. Hans will have an owl, Magda an elephant.

Six million Jews perished in the Holocaust. Against all odds, about 1.5 million survived the camps. Margaret Wild wrote Let the Celebrations Begin! after she came across a reference to a small collection of stuffed toys which had been made

by Polish women in Belsen for the first childen's party held after liberation.

This is a very special book about human courage and love in the face of terrible adversity Julie Vivas' stunning illustrations bring it all to life with simplicity, warmth and dignity

Human love and courage

The Magic Hat of Mortimer Wintergreen by Myron Levoy (Piper $7.99).

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A series of five books on Farm Macbines„Seasons, Noises, Alphabet Book and Counting Book by Jane Miller published by Picturemac/Pan, $5.99.

A new series all on the farm.

Jane Miller's superb photographs illustrate simple text telling of daily life on a farm throughout the various seasons and showing the animals, machinery and farm activity

Prayer and culture

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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THE PROMISES OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY To St Dominic and Blessed Alan For souls devoted to the Holy Rosary To all those who shall recite my Rosary 8. Those who shall recite my Rosary will devoutly, 1 promise my special find during their life and at their death protection and very great graces. the light of God, the fullness of His grace, and will share in the merits of Those who shall persevere in the the blessed. recitation of my Rosary will receive some signal grace.

9. 1 will deliver very promptly from The Rosary will be a very powerful purgatory the souls devoted to my armour against hell: it will destroy vice, Rosary. deliver from sin and dispel heresy.

10. The true children of my Rosary will The Rosary will make virtue and good enjoy great glory in heaven. tvorks flourish, and will obtain for souls the most abundant divine 11. What you shall ask through my Rosary mercies; it will substitute in hearts love you shall obtain. of God for love of the world, and elevate them to desire heavenly and 12. Those who propagate my Rosary will eternal good. Would that souls would obtain through me aid in all their sanctify themselves by this means! necessities.

Those who trust themselves to me 13. 1have obtained from my Son that all through the Rosary will not perish. the confreres of the Rosary shall have Those who shall recite my Rosary for their brethren in life and death the piously, considering its mysteries, will saints of heat 'en. not be overwhelmed by misfortune, nor die a bad death. The sinner will be 14. Those who recite my Rosary faithfully converted; the just will grow in grace are all my beloved children, the and become worthy of eternal life. brothers and sisters ofJesus Christ.

Those truly devoted to my Rosary will not die without the consolations of the 15. Devotion to my Rosary is a great sign church, or without grace. ofpredestination.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra, known locally as the WASO, was established by the then Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1950. With 86 players, the WASO has grown to become the State's largest fully professional performing arts organisation.

The Orchestra has developed a remarkably wideranging repertoire in its job of serving the community.

It performs the major symphonic repertoire, it consistently presents music of the 20th century, and it has the capacity to be the back-up band for pop music artists.

The Orchestra's artistic direction is in the hands of Chief Conductor Jorge Mester. Of Hungarian descent, maestro Mester studied at New York's Juilliard School. His affinity for the music of traditional composers (particularly that of Mahler and Mozart) and his encouragement of the works of contemporary composers have combined

to bring him wide renown.

He is noted for the quality of his recordings as well as the excitement he brings to live performance.

Russian maestro Vladimior Verbitsky takes up the position of Principal Guest Conductor commencing 1992. He has developed a special rapport with audiences over the five seasons he has appeared in Perth.

In 1992, well over 100,000 people will attend more than 100 performances by t he Orchestra, which include the WASO subscription series in the Perth Concert Hall, extensive commitments to the national and state opera and ballet companies, open air summer concerts, and a busy Festival of Perth season of special events, namely their performance with Joaquin Achucarro playing Ravel; Lutoslawski Brahms, and in the closing concert with the WASO chorus, playing Berlioz-Romeo and Juliet.

The WASO's area of responsibility is the size of

Western Europe, and through its relationship with ABC Radio and Television, the Orchestra delivers fine music to as many Western Australians as possible. With increased corporate sponsorship and support from the Gordon Reid Foundation for Access to the Performing Arts, the WASO has been able to go "live" again on tour to country centres.

The Orchestra will also gain increased national and international exposure through recordings to be released on the ABC Classics label.

The West Australian Symphony Orchestra continues to be funded by the ABC for its day to day operations, in conjunction with the Government of Western Australia through the Department for the Arts. The WASO welcomes the support of private benefactors and business sponsors for the Orchestra's development programs, which include educational activities and touring.

exhibiti on AWGA Local author on AWAS on Chambers

Eileen Tucker (nee who wrote the book to fill Reilly) of Cloverdale, has in the gap depicting the written a great book Western Australian aspect which is well researched of the Australian military and should appeal to the history. nostalgic side of many The book is about the who experienced the war women who joined the threat to this magnificent Australian military forces country of ours. between 1941 and 1945 to And watched many of serve their country and be our wonderful men and appointed to base posiwomen going away to tions in order to release fight to defend our medically fit men for front country from the line service. We Answered the Call is written Japanese. in a very easy style with We Australians have plenty of photographs ot much to be proud of, yesteryear for visual because our men and interest. women earned them- Its publication — which selves an international was launched at Anzac reputation for bravery, House on August 13 — dependability and mate- was to celebrate the 50th ship in a world which was anniversary of the WA torn apart by mad war branch of the Australian despots.

Women's Army Service represented (AWAS).

They decency and all the good These ladies are certainly and true values in life, and celebrating their year with in order to defend them great gusto too. from the enemy, had to Apart from a year of leave the safety of their Australia wide celebrahomes and shores leaving tions, there was a huge their loved ones behind. dinner for 800 (more Eileen Tucker enlisted wanted to come but they along with other women ran out of seats!) and to not only help out their anyone with even the country, but especially vaguest imagination, their men who were could imagine the chatter going to the front line and and anecdote swapping who were incarcerated in that went on with all those prisoner of war camps ladies! throughout Asia and The book sells at hb $30 Europe. plus $4.30 postage and pb "And we would have $22 plus $3 postage, from done anything to help Eileen Tucker, 319 Fulham them out and bring them Street, Cloverdale 6105, back home," said Eileen, tel 277 6065.

In the tradition of the Art Gallery of Western Australia's major surveys of significant Western Australian artists, the Douglas Chambers exhibition charts the artist's career since his arrival from Great Britain in 1970.

Seventy-five works illustrate a chronological development from the technically experimental and abstract work of the 1970s to the richlypainted figurative work of recent years.

Chambers' art is a reflection of his life and

his experiences. He has evolved a strong vocabulary of images, water, rainbows, carnival-type f igures and animals, which are often a metaphor for aspects of humanity or the artist himself.

Now living in Albany, Chambers graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 1961.

He travelled extensively and lived and taught in Jamaica for seven years moving before to Australia.

Since then he has established himself as a

painter of significant stature who has made a considerable contribution to art in Western Australia, both as an artist and a teacher. He has received many awards for his work including the highly regarded Matilda Bay Art Prize.

The exhibition of his works at the Art Gallery of Western Australia which can be seen until January 21 next year is accompanied by a substantial colour catalogue the a vailable from Gallery Bookshop.

Answering the call We Answered the Call by Her research has been very friendships made, which Eileen (Reilly) Tucker. thorough, and no doubt, at have endured for 50 Nears. I Reviewed by Marion K times very tedious. But she am certain that there are Wilson, formerly has made certain that all her very few AWAS who regretWF45260, Captain Mar- facts and figures are accu- ted their years of service. ion K Browne. Available rate. For this I sincerely "We Answered The Call" from Eileen Tucker, 319 congratulate her. covers all facets of service Fulham Street, Cloverdale 6105, phone 277 6065. bb Everyone of us who joined provided by women who $30 plus $4.30 postage the AWAS is justly proud of replaced soldiers for front and ph $22 plus $3 our contribution to the War line duties, many times EffOrt. There were many big proving they could do the postage.

I was delighted and sacrifices made to join the job as well as, if not better honoured when (Mrs) services. The pay was poor than the men! It is a most Eileen Tucker asked me to and sometimes the living interesting book and I write the Foreword to her conditions were very hard commend it to all Servicewbook "We Answered The and primitive. Certainly very omen past and present, and Call" which she is producing different from what we had to everyone who has an to celebrate the 50th Anni- been used to in civilian life. interest in Australian life in versary of the Western But the comradeship was the Army, during the Second Australian branch of the something one had to World War, and who admires Australian Women's Army experience to appreciate, the pioneering spirit of our and there were many lasting women Service.

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RENEWAL COURSES FOR PRIESTS AND PASTORAL ASSOCIATES, 1992 The Centre will offer two Courses The first will be open to priests, religious and lay men annd women of five years experience in Parish Ministry.

The second will be open to diocesan and religious priests engaged in Parish Ministry. • DATES: Course 1 — April 28-July 23, 1992 Course 2 — Sept 1-Nov 26, 1992 CONTACT.

Director, Fr Peter Christie (06) 248 5527, (06) 249 8974

THE PA ISH SCENE NEWMAN SOCIETY Vatican II Study Group: Tuesday, December 10 at 11am. Decree on Missionary Activity of the Church Chapter I Section 7. Venue: Our Lady of the Missions Convent, 40 Mary St, Highgate. Open to all interested.

Contact number 446 7340.

R OTTNEST MASS

Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Church Rottnest Island has been adjusted by one hour to 10am for the duration of the summer season.

MAR 1ST FAREWELL

Lord, what do you want me to do?

Francis of Assisi asked this question 750 years ago. Every serious-minded young man should do the same. The CAPUCHINS, followers of Francis, can help you answer it.

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For further information, please write to:

Fr Andrew St Lawrence Friary, 392 Albert Street, BALCATTA, W.A. 6021 Ph 349 2837

MERCY ENDEAVOUR

Iam compiling a register to help "Mercy Endeavour" grow in WA. Could any ex-students of the Mercy Sisters' schools/ hospitals please contact Maureen Colgan (nee Quilty) 3 Kinnane Place, Attadale 6156.

Phone 317 1009

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED

TO LIVE-IN Friday night thru to Sunday morning The Emmanuel Centre, a self-help centre for people with disabilities, is looking for a number of responsible adults (male or female) to be on roster to live in a voluntary capacity in it's Christian Community from Friday nights through to Sunday mornings.

Please apply to Barbara or Fr Paul at Emmanuel Centre on 328 8113.

Finished with your childbearing years ...? Learn how your body adjusts from

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING 221 3866 Country clients welcome. Phone or write.

Phone (008) 11 4010 (local charge)

Natural Family Planning Centre 29 Victoria Square Member of the Australian Council of Natural Family Planning Inc.

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A Mass to farewell the Marist Fathers from the parish of BelmontRedcliffe will be held at 10am on Sunday December 22 followed by an informal lunch and bbq on the McCabe Oval, St Maria Goretti School, cnr Stanton and Morrison Street, Redckffe. Enquiries phone Ken Sullivan on 277 5131.

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DECEMBER Ordination to Priesthood of Tony 7 Vallis, Archbishop Hickey.

Mass for Feast of St Nicola, 8 Archbishop Hickey.

Eucharistic Walk with Mary, Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Healy.

Balcatta Mass for Feast Immaculate Conception, Archbishop Hickey.

Hamilton Hill Jubilee Mass, Bishop Healy.

Doubleview Mass in honour Sr 9 Perpetua, Archbishop Hickey.

Miraculous Medal Novena Closure, Bishop Healy.

10 Western Zone of Priests, Archbishop Hickey.

12 Council of Priests.

13 St John of the Cross Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

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Karrinyup Mass and breakfast, Archbishop Hickey.

Candidacy of priesthood Michael Rowe, Archbishop Hickey.

Ordination to priesthood John Martis SJ, Bishop Healy.

St Lucy Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

Candidacy of priesthood, Ian Esmond, Bishop Healy.

"Preparing for Christmas" with Religious, Archbishop Hickey.

Christian Brothers Jubilee, Bishop Healy.

Rotary Club Breakfast, Archbishop Hickey.

Fremantle Zone of Priests, Archbishop Hickey.

Camillus House Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

22 Belmont Mass to farewell Marist Fathers, Archbishop Hickey.

Aboriginal and Islander Community Mass, Archbishop Hickey.

Carols by Candlelight, Archbishop Hickey.

SPIRITUAUTY TALKS

A conference for everyone interested in the spiritual journey, to celebrate St John of the Cross, the great teacher of the ways of prayer, at the Catholic Education Centre on December 11, 12, 13, commencing each day at 9am. John Welch will give public lectures each evening at 8pm. Information: Fr Greg Burke, OCD, 276 8500.

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Seminar December 11-13 from 9am.

Public lectures each day at 8pm

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