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LESSED Mary of the Cross would have loved B Western Australia, Josephite congregational leaderSr Mary Cresp told last Sunday's cathedral congregation.

Although Mother Mary MacKillop only briefly stopped over in WA en route to Europe, she would have loved what WA portrays of the Australian national image, said Sister Mary who leads the 1300 Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart across Australia and New Zealand.

The Australian image is one of solitude, dry distant deserts, and long distances, Sister Mary said. Western Australia symbolises that image.

Mother Mary's sisters worked far and wide and Mother Mary herself was the Church for the people in the isolated areas.

She brought the Church wherever she went.

Mother Mary MacKillop went to the margins of society and brought hope. That is the challenge for us and tghe Church today. Sister Mary Cresp said.

Mother Mary had allowed the power of Christ in her to act. For her it was God who is the foundation of our community and of our unuion with one another.

Sister Mary Cresp after she had spoken in St Mary's Cathedral.

Perth's time to make prayerful song and dance about Blessed Mary of the Cross On the other hand she was a very char- own had been so favoured by the Holy 1.ESSED Mary of the Cross now had We receive her into opur midst because B to be owned as one of us and as a saint she showed us how to live as Christ did acteristic Australian, a woman of action, Father's presence. for all Australians, Archbishop Hickey said and to love people as God calls us to love not called away from the world but to last Sunday.

The Mass to honour Blessed Mary was a West Australian tribute to her but it was a national event also with the presence of Cardinal Clancy of Sydney, Archbishop Hickey said.

Last Sunday's ceremony included a rereading of the decree of beatification used

by Pope John Paul in Sydney last month and also a blessing of a portrait of Blessed Mary that will hang in St Mary's Cathedral near her loved St Joseph.

them," the archbishop said.

The occasion was a great testimony to the Sisters' mission to preach the gospel to the poor. The Sisters in their work have covered the whole of the state in its remotest parts and are still there today, he continued.

Blessed Mary is an Australian saint because she is like so many Australians today. In her Scottish ancestry she is typical of ordinary Australians who have ancestry from other countries.

immerse herself in the world to invite the world around her to follow Christ.

She had a practical spirituality, the archbishop said.

Whatever people may think of the Church, this woman is one of our own who practised virtue of an heroic kind.

The beatification of Blessed Mary had had an impact on the visit of Pope John Paul, the archbishop noted, and nearly all comment had been favourable and every Australian was proud that one of their

With present day thinking paying attention to sacred sites, the archbishop noted, the beatification of Mother Mary MacKillop had given Australia some new sacred sites. The places where she had live, worked, journeyed and where she died were now becoming places of pilgrimage.

Many people today are feeling the need for spirituality in their lives and many will be drawn by the spirit of Blessed mary of the Cross and will give thanks to God.

Sights, sounds

OVE was in the air as the beatification of Blessed L Mary of the Cross gave Perth some music sounds and sights to be long remembered.

.0( A At St Mary's Cathedral last Sunday, local Josephite leader Sr Maria Casey gives the sign of peace to the Premier Richard Court. Between them is Archbishop Peter Carnley and (right) Fr Boutros lssa of the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

In St Mary's Cathedral on Sunday morning, worshippers wheeled as Scottish pipes skirled ahead of the book of the gospels being carried by a Sister of St Joseph.

Ears pricked up to the tune "Ho ro my nut brown maiden", the very deliberate personal choice of military piper Terry Jones of Greenwood made just after he had been invited to take part in the ceremony.

It was the first tune he had ever learned on the pipes and when he saw a portrait of Mother Mary in her brown habit, he knew this was the piece he had to play.

On Sunday evening over 10,000 people heard different sort of tribute to Blessed Mary from hundreds of Catholic schoolchildren in a Power of Love concert.

A warm up session included music from some 150 musicians from the Corpus Christi and Mazenod concert bands and the Trinity pipes.

Nearly 150 other children then presented a 90 minute accompaniment to the drama narrative of Mother Mary's life, items being from schools on pages 14 and 15, from Sacred Heart Sorrento and MacKillop school Ballajura.

The idea had been hatched in October, briefly outlined before the December breakup and put together in two week since school had recommenced.

"It was possible because of the highly professional skills the schools have developed in the Performing Arts Festival," said Mrs Roberta Chapman, chairperson of the festival committe and who stage managed Sunday night's concert with a team of 20.

• See pages 6,7, 14 and 15.

Burial story is unearthed

He was in no position not to heed the advice, until during TH Blessed Mary of the Cross now in heaven's upper W anks a West Australian devotee can now tell of the rare ceremony he found Sisters flashing cameras in all directions.

Will begged to be allowed to join the photographers but the privilege he had during the lead up to the beatification. the

Some 18 months ago Ballajura parishioner Will de Smedt, from the only Catholic community then carrying the name Mary MacKillop, was in Sydney on a business visit.

At the urging his parish priest Fr legorow and a bit of not too subtle diplomacy, he attempted the impossible - to be present for the solemn re-interment of Mother Mary's remains at her Mount St Sydney chapel site.

He was grateful even to be shuffled apprehensively into abackseat especially when he realised that apart from government and funeral officials he was the only other male amidst hundreds of losephite Sisters - and among the few, or even the only. ordinary lay person present.

But his dangling camera was not wanted, he was sternly admonished.

permission was accompanied by the second firm injunction not to publish the photographs in any way, since the re-interment was a private event for the Sisters.

This week in Perth the superior general Sister Mary Cresp gave Will permission to publish the photos.

"I was totally amazed at the atmosphere of the occasion." Will said.1had expected it to be a solemn happening with a minimum of emotion.

"Instead, I found hundred of Sisters, many of them elderly, smiling, and removing their shoes to stand on the pews for a better view of the proceedings.

"Never before had I experienced a group of people being so jubilant. It was a very moving and happy occasion for all the Sisters."

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Top: Pope Paul praying at the tomb last month.

Inset: The former burial site adjacent to the new and the base - all that remained of the former wooden casing that had surrounded the lead container with Blessed Mary's remains.

Above and below: The new casket and the new burial site ready to receive it

First in the queue Among the first to admire the portrait of Blessed Mary of the Cross, dedicated last Sunday by Archbishop Hickey to hang in St. Mary's Cathedral were St. Paul's Mt. Lawley head boy and head girl David Putrino and Megan Jordan.

The 'inside' fire of a saint...

Sacking explained with both sides of the controversy, he said.

S (CNS) - Hierarchical unity was The decision to remove the bishop was not ind the sacking of a French bishop, says the M made because of his social stands or his use of the Vatican. the issue

The Vatican has responded to numerous letters concerning the removal of controversial French Bishop Jacques Gaillot as head of the Evreux Diocese.

Although many letters about Bishop Gaillot expressed "real suffering and authentic anxiety" over the decision, the Vatican said, hierarchical unity had to be preserved.

Bishop Gaillot publicly opposed or kept distant from many official church teachings, said the Vatican's letter.

But the latest Vatican letter "was not meant for publication, but to he used as a response to letter writers." said a bishops' spokesman.

The French bishops' conference has received several hundred letters regarding Bishop Gaillot's removal. said Valentin. Many expressed sympathy

media, it said, but to defend the unity of the faith. said the Vatican.

-A bishop is not authorized to allow his own opinions to prevail over those held by the entire episcopal college with the pope at its head," it said.

The Vatican letter did not criticize specific positions taken by the bishop.

Those positions include favoring a married priesthood for the Latin-rite church and use of condoms in AIDS prevention programs.

The Vatican document said Bishop Gaillot was removed after 10 years of dialogue between him and Vatican and French Catholic officials.

"Every means was taken to return to harmonious relations," it said.

Bishop Gaillot and his supporters have called the decision authoritarian.

...and the spirit of God in focus TATICAN CITY (CNS) - The Catholic Church must thank V God for coming to understand that dialogue - not violence must be used to settle disputes, Pope John Paul II said.

Speaking about St. Catherine of Siena's work for peace among warring Italian principalities and between factions of the church in the 1300s, the pope acknowledged that he also supported the Crusades in the Holy Land.

"We must recognize that she was a daughter of her time," the pope said during a talk on women who have been peacemakers.a "In a correct zeal for the defense of holy places, she made her own the then-dominant mentality that said the task could require the use of weapons," he said.

"Today we must be grateful to the Spirit of God, which has helped us to understand more clearly that the appropriate way and the way more consonant with the Gospel - to confront problems that can arise in relations among peoples, religions and cultures is that of a patient, firm, but respectful dialogue," the pope said.

The pope said the secret of St. Catherine's "exceptional personality was the interior fire which consumed her: passion for Christ and for the church."

"Around her that which seemed humanly impossible happened: the hardness of hearts dissolved and each one began to taste again the joy of families and whole communities recomposed in peace," he said.

The pope prayed that modern Catholic women, like St. Catherine, would he courageous so that "in the church and society they would be weavers of unity and peace."

He also prayed that the church itself would become a more effective "sacrament of unity for all humankind: the unity needed first of all in relations among the disciples of Christ, and the unity to be promoted in every corner of the world tried by tensions and wars."

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'Crying' statue: Science steps in

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OME (CNS) - An Italian bishop las decided to seek scientific testing of a liquid coming from a statue of Mary in his diocese that eyewitnesses said cried tears of blood.

Bishop Gimlamo Grillo of CivitavecchiaTarquinia made the decision after preliminary testing by two doctors indicated that the liquid falling from the eyes of the statue

could be blood.

-I am still prudent," he said. The results showed -a biological liquid similar to blood:" but the test could not determine lilt was human blood, he said.

The bishop, 84, said he plans to ask a major Italian hospital to thoroughly examine the liquid.

Initially, Bishop Grillo said he was highly skeptical of the reports of a weeping statue.

"Personally, I don't believe it. There are too many crying Madonnas in Italy right now," he said.

The statue, owned by the Fabio Gregori family in Civitavecchia who kept it in their backyard, allegedly began shedding blood Feb. 2. Reports of the event drew thousands of people to the Gregori home, 39 miles north of Rome.

Photographs and television footage showed the statue with streaks of crimsoncolored liquid falling from its eyes.

The statue was brought to Italy last August by Father Pablo Martin, a parish priest in Civitavecchia, who bought it in Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina, at the site of alleged Marian apparitions.

Father Martin gave the statue to the Gregor' family. Gregori, a 32-year-old worker for Enel, the state electric company, built a stone shelter in his garden and placed the statue there.

The reports of the weeping statue drew immediate skepticism from Steno Ferluga, an astrophysicist at the Italian University of Trieste and editor of the magazine, Science and the Paranormal.

Ferluga told the Rome newspaper, Messaggero, that he had not examined the Civitavecchia statue but had investigated similar cases.

"Presently on the market are statues of the madonna of Medjugorje, which contain a special powder," he said.

"The powder, with time, becomes liquid, and the results of this process are visible externally," he said.

"It is altogether analogous to that which is defined as the tears of a statue." he said.

Eucharistic faith collapse warning N

EW YORK (CNS) - Two leading lay Catholics have warned that a "collapse of eucharistic faith" is causing a major crisis in the U.S. church.

In the February issue of The Homiletic and Pastoral Review, philosopher Germain Grisez and author and publicist Russell Shaw said U.S. Catholic belief in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, a central tenet of Catholic faith, "has not simply grown dim but, seemingly, been extinguished."

To counter that trend they urged a restoration of reverence for the Eucharist in Catholic churches, a revival of eucharistic devotions and a concerted effort by "catechists and priests to teach and preach sound doctrine" of the Eucharist.

Among church changes that have contributed to a falling-off in eucharistic faith, they said, have been the virtual disappearance of eucharistic devotions in many parishes and introduction of unauthorized practices into the liturgy.

Their joint article, "The Crisis in Eucharistic Faith," was one of several that have appeared in Catholic publications in response to a New York Times article last June on the beliefs and practices of U.S. Catholics.

The Times reported that when Catholics were asked in a TimesCBS News poll what best describes their belief about what happens to the bread and wine at Mass, most chose the answer that the bread and wine are "symbolic reminders of Christ" over the answer that they are "changed into the body and blood of Christ."

Among Catholics under 45 years of age, 70 percent called the "symbolic reminders"

description the best expression of what they believe.

"The New Testament and the whole Catholic tradition testify in unmistakable terms to the fact that the consecration of the bread and wine changes them into the body and blood of Christ," Grisez and Shaw wrote. "Not to believe this trivializes Scripture and the doctrine of the church."

They said one of the basic causes behind the apparent loss of Catholic faith in the Eucharist "lies in the pervasive secularization of Western culture under way for the last several centuries and still continuing."

U.S. Catholics were once rather successfully shielded from the effects of secularization, they said, but that has changed with the rapid assimilation of Catholics into the cultural mainstream since World War II. Grisez and Shaw also blamed some of the authorized or mandated changes in the liturgy since the Second Vatican Council, such as the use of English in the eucharistic prayer, the multiplication of the forms of that prayer, the emphasis on the celebrating community, the reduction of the eucharistic fast, Communion in the hand and the exchange of peace before Communion.

"Another important, though less obvious, cause ... is the decline in sexual morality among Catholics," they said.

The demeaning of the importance of the body that underlies lax sexual morality "subverts the incarnationalism and sacramentalism at the heart of Catholic faith. Specifically, it subverts faith" in Christ's real presence, they said.

Buddhists say thanks to pope liTATICAN CITY V (CNS) - Italian Buddhist leaders thanked Pope John Paul II for showing esteem for their religion and forpromoting interreligious dialogue.

The presiding committee of the Italian Buddhist Union handed the pope El letter expressing particular appreciation for his remarks about Buddhism during his recent stay in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Pope John Paul began his visit to Sri Lanka expressing "highest regard for the followers of Buddhism" and the Catholic Church's wish for "interreligious dialogue and cooperation in building a more just and fraternal world."

Sri Lankan Buddhist leaders, who represent some 70 percent of the island

ilittiun's people, boycotted a meeting with the pope because of remarks he made about Buddhism in his book, "Crossing the Threshold of Hope."

The Italian Buddhist leaders thanked the pope for recognizing the commitment of Buddhists to peace and harmony among peoples and the "great value" of the teachings of Buddha.

They said they shared Pope John Paul's hope for better relations among all the faith groups "so that all religions can contribute, including with common action, to building a more just and fraternal world more open to the spiritual values which are threatened by hedonistic materialism in the West and the East."

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Christians must fulfill their obligation to be united so the world can see the

God's people, a people made one with the unity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." the pope said.

It is the task of all Christians to work for unity while praying that God will grant that gift to Christ's followers, the pope said.

Only united with one another will Christians be able to bear witness before the world that God, "whose power is at work within us, is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think," the pope said, quoting from the Letter to the Ephesians.

The obligation of Christians

reconciliation and peace found in Christ.

Pope John Paul II Swiss ecumenical graduate students.

"The visible unity of Christ's followers constitutes the church as the sacrament of salvation, the living sign of the reconciliation and peace won for us by the blood of Christ," the pope said.

All who share faith in Christ and Christian baptism "share the dignity of belonging to

Sin le reetin with a twin reference

ASHINGTON (CNS) - When States, however. In fact they are the ninth Dublin-born Francis P. Kenrick was the nation his younger brother ordained as W Bishop Boland of Savannah, Ga., such pair.

22nd bishop in the history of the U.S. hier- first bishop of Walla Walla in what is now says "brother bishop," he may be

talking about his blood brother as well as brother in the faith.

Bishop Raymond Boland of Kansas City is his older brother.

The bishop, who is 59, and his brother, 63, were born and raised in Ireland and studied for the priesthood there, but both were ordained for U.S. dioceses.

Bishop Raymond Boland was made bishop of Birmingham, Ala., in 1988 and bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph in 1993.

The Bolands are not the first or even the only living sibling bishops in the United 4 The Record, February 16, 1995

The Hurley brothers, originally priests of the San Francisco Archdiocese, are also bishops.

The elder, 75-year-old retired Bishop Mark was an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco was made bishop of Santa Rosa. He retired from his diocese in 1986 to work on special projects for the Vatican.

His younger brother, Archbishop Francis Hurley of Anchorage, Alaska, recently turned 68.

The first - and easily most famous - siblings in the U.S. hierarchy were the Kenrick brothers.

archy when he was ordained in 1830 as coadjutor bishop and administrator of Philadelphia. He became bishop of Philadelphia in 1842 and archbishop of Baltimore in 1851.

His younger brother, Peter R. Kenrick, was also born in Dublin.

He was ordained in 1841 as a coadjutor of St. Louis. In 1843 he became bishop of St. Louis and in 1847 its first archbishop.

Two brothers from Quebec were among the founders of the church in the Northwest. Bishop Francis Blanchet of Oregon City saw, the year after his episcopal ordi-

the state of Washington, a diocese that was suppressed a few years later.

Other blood brothers in the history of the U.S. hierarchy were: Bishops Jeremiah F. and John W. Shanahan, first and thirdbishop, respectively, of Harrisburg, Pa. Bishops John S. Foley of Detroit and Thomas Foley, coadjutor of Chicago. Bishops Thomas M. Lenihan of Cheyenne, Wyo., and Mathias C. Lenihan of Great Falls, Mont. Bishops Michael J. O'Connor of Pittsburgh and James O'Connor of Omaha, Neb. Bishop Howard J. Carroll of Altoona-Johnstown, Pa., and Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll of Miami.

Anti-migrant feelings: New reminder S (CNS) - At a time when antiimmigrant feelings are growing, France's Catholic bishops have reminded Christians of their moral duty to receive newcomers to the country with hospitality.

The issue places "the very identity of the church" at stake, says the bishops' Committee on Migration.

Some church officials fear these words will fall on deaf ears, as have previous church calls to show sympathy for immigrants large number of whom are Arabs from France's former North African colonies.

Many Christians do not understand the bishops' message, said Father Jean-Francois Berjonneau, migration committee secretary.

Anti-immigrant and anti-Arab fears have grown since the December hijacking of an Air France jet from Algiers. Algeria, to Marseilles, France, on what was reported to be a suicide mission to blow up the plane over Paris. The hijacking was widely interpreted as a grim warning that the civil conflict in Algeria could spread to the 750,000 Algerian immigrant; in France.

Interior Minister Charles Pasqua claims broad support for his "zero immigration" policy of tightening entrance controls.

The church report says three aspects of immigration laws are damaging to family and human rights: Many foreign parents of children born in France are not allowed to regularize their situation. The children, hitherto regarded as French automatically on their 18th birthday, must now request French nationality.

Foreigners who marry French citizens cannot obtain permission to live in France for at least a year after the marriage.

Restrictive interpretations of international refugee accords prevent people who fear persecution or fear for their lives from claiming asylum.

The report notes that less than 7 percent of France's population is foreign, the same level as in the 1930s.

Census figures show a stable and established immigrant population.

According to the 1990 census, 30 percent of the foreigners were born in France and 80 percent had been resident in the country for more than 10 years. About 30,000 immigrants leave each year, about the same as those who arrive under family reunification arrangements, because they have a right to

live in France as citizens of the European Union: When tougher immigration laws came into force two years ago, the bishops' conference told foreigners that the measures gave "the impression that you have been singled out as the cause of everything that goes wrong in our society."

The situation of many immigrants also is precarious at a time of prolonged high unemployment.

In the past, immigrants from Belgium, Italy and Poland were accused of taking jobs from the French and committing a disproportionate number of crimes. Yet they successfully integrated.

Several reasons should help immigrants from Algeria and other North African countries assimilate just as well. Many come from a French-speaking environment and public opinion polls show that the vast majority want to remain and become integrated.

The church report says that there is no such thing as first-class and second-class citizenship.

A poll several months ago reported that 95 percent of North African immigrants see no incompatibility with living in a secular state and the practice of Islam.

Yet, fear of Islamic fundamentalism has come to dominate the immigration debate.

The wearing of head scarves at state schools by some Muslim female students has become a hot political issue. Some press accounts also tell of bearded fundamentalists gaining influence in the crowded and tense immigrant suburbs.

Father Berjonneau said that fundamentalism is gaining among young Muslims because of their feeling that society discriminates against them and denies them opportunities.

Attempts at Catholic-Islamic dialogue have become more difficult, he noted.

At the same time, many Muslim immigrants are more afraid of fundamentalism than their French neighbors. Arab women who have become accustomed to the freedoms of a secular society are being forced back into wearing head scarves or veils by militants.

Many North Africans have said that they are being forced to choose between France and Islam.

War nart of their cam al n

ONDON (CNS) - A prominent 1 -Cudanese bishop says the war in Sudan is part of a colonization campaign by fundamentalist Islam.

"The Arab-Islamic penetration in Sudan, using every means of war, terror, torture and famine, is seen by us Africans of Sudan as conquest and complete colonization, aiming at total assimilation," Bishop Taban told a delegation which visited his southern Sudanese Diocese of Torit.

Bishop Taban told the delegation that "the centre of Islamic fundamentalism is in Sudan, from where it extends into Africa and other parts of the world."

The Sudanese civil war pits black

African Christians and animists in the South against the Arabized Muslim government based in Khartoum in the North. The powerful, fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood has been a driving force in efforts to extend Islam throughout the country.

About 70 percent of Sudanese are Sunni Muslim. Some 5 percent are Christian and 18 percent animist. Christians and animists are primarily in the South.

The war has been about religion, ethnic autonomy and the control of economic resources.

Bishop Taban said Muslim fundamentalists have declared the year 2000 as

the beginning of the Muslim era and the end of the Christian, the report said.

Sudanese rebel commander Thomas Cirillo, a Catholic, told the delegation: "Our struggle is not against Islam or against Muslims, but is against a fundamentalist regime that wants to destroy our African heritage and faith."

He said it is discouraging to see the government getting aid from Muslim states, while the Christians in the South "receive no support from the Christian world."

Cirillo said that the southerners would continue to fight, according to the report, and vowed that "we will die for our faith and die as Christians."

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An unforgettable day for Cardinal Clancy (second from right) flanks Archbishop Hickey at the cathedral altar dressed with a frontispiece made in panels by laity for the St Mary's Cathedral altar in Sydney when Pope John Paul met the children of Australia.

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Left: Ballajura MacKillop pastor Fr Jegorow unveils the portrait of Blessed Mary to be blessed by Archbishop Hickey.

Above: Offertory gifts carried by Mrs Rose Narkle and Sr Diane Kingston and (below) by the Divilly family of Ballajura.

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Signs along our journey

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ne beautiful, V./sunny day in Texas several years ago I sat on our patio watching our 7-yearold daughter swim, smiling to myself as our dog kept his usual vigil, circling the pool, perhaps waiting to play lifeguard.

I was reflecting on the work I'd just completed - some writings o f mine on life and happiness. In preparation, I'd spent many hours pondering the journey that had brought me to where I was. It was truly not a fairy tale journey of happiness, but instead a journey of living.

I was preparing for a divorce and a long move back to my native Kentucky. I felt anything but happiness over that. But I knew the words I was writing were embedded in my soul. I had lived them.

Whatever insights, conclusions and affirmations I wrote, I had arrived at because of what my life had been - a life of tremendous joy and sadness.

Despite the pain and the fears, I was rich in experience and in the knowledge that God had held me every step of the way.

O ften throughout my life I had asked why. Why did pain have to find a place in my life? Why couldn't things run smoothly or at least somewhat so?

Why was there so much tough experience to learn from?

I did something different that afternoon in Texas. I became grateful yes, even for the pain.

I knew I wouldn't be the person I was, the

By Linda Allison-Lewis person I was beginning to be happy with, without the journey and all the experiences that formed it. I knew I had grown immensely in my life, even though it often hurt.

I heard a tape many years ago that invited listeners to believe that God may be waiting for us at the end of our life with great anticipation and excitement.

When I heard the tape I pictured God with a huge smile anxiously saying, "Well, Linda! What did you think?"

Finally, without containing the excitement anymore. God blurts out. "How did you like it? Your life was my gift for you!"

I'll be honest. At the time I heard that tape

and envisioned God's excitement, I wasn't t oo thrilled about things.

I hadn't figured anything out at that point.

I still felt a lot of anger.

And while I still haven't figured it all out. I understand some of it. I'm now able to feel the gift of life more often and know that even during painful times it is still a gift.

That's life!

"The event of the cross and resurrection ... draws everything toward life," says the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (No. 1084). "The way of Christ 'leads to life,' the catechism says elsewhere (No. 1696).

Christianity is all about life. But what does the word "life" mean in this context?

Popular notions of who is "full of life" or what it means to be "lively" could confuse us.

Probably you feel full of life when things are going well or when you experience a success. Perhaps you feel exuberant then. Even the dictionary says the word "exuberant" means "full of life."

child is in pain because of a wrong choice or decision he or she made. It can be tough to parent and yet allow one's own children the experiences that will someday culminate in a meaningful life of their own.

At such times you may feel favoured by God. You may feel that God is close to you.

The question is, however, are you less alive when you don't sense the presence of God so exuberantly - when it feels, given the struggle you're facing, as though God must be absent?

Christianity is all about birth and coming to life. Centuries of testimony from saints, however, suggest that people can be "born" more fully into Christ not only when they're rejoicing, but also when they mourn or when they're perplexed enough to pray about it

Here's an updated principle...

By Father John J. Castelot

he biblical authors employed some quaint Tand graphic images to express profound One wrote that God "blew into" the truth. nostrils of the first human creature "the breath of life" (Genesis 2:7).

Since this was God's own breath, life is a treasure.

Throughout most of the Old Testament period, when people had only the fuzziest ideas about life after death, long life was considered a special blessing, a sign of God's favour. When Third Isaiah looked forward to an ideal future, he envisioned it in these terms: "No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days.... And he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed" (Isaiah 65:20).

Of course, the life referred to in such Old Testament passages was the life communicated to people by their parents. But the New Testament authors consistently wrote of a new type of life, an exalted principle of being and action, a share in the intimate life of God. This is especially true of the fourth evangelist.

Speaking of the Word made flesh, he wrote: "But to those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name, who were born not by natural genera-

tion nor by human choice nor by man's decision but of God" (John 1:12-13).

One of the most striking expressions of this wonderful reality is in the passage dealing with the Bread of Life: "just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me" (John 6:57).

Just before this we read: "Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood 'has' eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day" (6:54).

This "eternal life" is not life in the hereafter, which is also promised, but an actual share in the life of the Father and the Son here and now - a new principle of being and action.

Birth into this life, a share in the life of the risen Christ, takes place at baptism.

Paul says: "Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as (being) dead to sin but living for God in Christ Jesus" (Romans 6:11).

Since life is the well-spring of action, a person's conduct must reflect it. Christian "life" is life above the ordinary, a whole new mode of existence: "If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above.... For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory" (Colossians 3:1,3-4).

his Week's Discussion Point: "Get a life!"

T So the slogan goes. What is your idea of getting a life?

How God can take suffering, joys, wrong decisions and choices, and help us experience Ire through them will always be something I struggle to understand.

What God gives us is the opportunity and freedom to experiI do believe, howence life in concrete situations and to ever, that someday know that we will God may be waiting move forward or back- for me, smiling and ward because of what asking, "What do you we do with it. think, Linda?" And I'll Life moves forward be able to smile and on its journey when I say, "I understand. Life must hold one of my is a journey, and I kids and know the loved it!"

Selected responses from readers: "Focusing on strengths rather than weaknesses and ... on the positive rather than the negative. I see so many people dwelling in negativity.... But if you're looking for errors or what's wrong, that's what you're going to see." Barbara Barry.

"They need to get in contact with God, with their spirit. They need to get into relationships with other people....

Relationships take work, and that always helps people improve their lives." - Sister Damary Soto.

"They need to start praying and seeking support from friends and family. I had a good friend who tried to commit suicide.... I felt badly that I had lost touch with 'ler because of having a baby. When found out, I tried to reach out to her with inspirational cards and encouragement to seek the support of others." - Kathy Gilliland.

"Turn to the Lord. taught in parables and why he often conStart in on Scripture. cluded by saying, "Let the one who has ears Paul's letters are a. listen." good place to start he writes to because Beer Patricia O'Connell Killen and John de about how to people have just published a helpful book called "The worldly away from get Art of Theological Reflection" (Crossroad, things and get a life.

1994). But it isn't just for theologians. It is a Don't he led astray by practical guide for people who want to reflect what you see and on their life and to derive the full spiritual hear." - Joan Wakebenefit of their experience. field.

"I believe to 'get a Jesus was not content with the status quo; he we must do the life' conversion. called for continual best we can to lose our Jesus was not content with half-hearted lives.... We have to pleasantries; he wanted passionate commitmake a genuine effort ment. to lose our lives for him, our family and Jesus was not content with thoughtless friends. In the final belief; he said and did things that demanded only this will analysis reflection. These are signs of the abundant give us a life." - Bill life he offered.

Schlich.

1:1111/1 110111! 11111C11 alive are you.

This theme was continued in the early demands of this way of Christ (Nos. 1696church. One famous saying from that era 1697). esus contrasted his mission with that of came from St. lrenaeus. He proclaimed that The end result is a newness of life, a deep, others who exploited people, usually for the glory of God is the human person fully fresh, dynamic experience of the life we are already given but can have more abunfinancial gain, by providing worthless ser- alive.

A few centuries later, medieval theologians dantly. vices that fed upon people's fears and superaffirmed that grace builds upon nature. Thus What are some signs of this life, and how stitions. they tried to show how the truths of God does a person know that this life is growing? It Jesus, on the other hand, appealed to the make people more human, not less. is hard to be specific about this because each strengths in people and urged them to cultiVatican II in the Council 1960s put its own person's circumstances are different. Howvate their gills in the most human way possistamp on this tradition. When describing its ever, there are some general signs that indible, the way God intended. desire to help solve modern problems, the cate the newness of life in Christ.

He drew this contrast when he explained his council declared that "faith throws a new light The first sign is conversion. This is what mission by saying, "1 came so that they might on all things."

Jesus expected of those who heard him have life and have it more abundantly" (John Thus, faith guides people toward "fully preach. To convert is to be open to change, 10:10). That was part of his description of the human" solutions to modern problems. to be willing to see things differently. good shepherd who calls his sheep together, The new Catechism of the Catholic Church Instead of seeing things from one's own leads them out to the good pasture and pro- continues this emphasis. It recalls Jesus' role point of view - how they will benefit me pertects them from enemies and dangers. as a good shepherd by asserting that the way sonally - Jesus advocated seeing things from The good shepherd serves the life of the of Christ leads to life. The catechism says it is God's point of view and how they will affect sheep. the purpose of catechesis to reveal the joy and everyone together.

By Father Robert L. Kinast

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For everyone, conversion is a constant chal- flamboyant or loud. It only has to come lenge. For life keeps changing and demand- from genuine conviction. ing conversion yet again.

I have just returned from the wedding of a friend. After completing her college young Passion is a second sign of the newness of she volunteered for a year teaching degree, life in Christ. I was reminded of this recently children in Jamaica and has spent the poor when I met with two parishioners from the at a Catholic Worker house two years last first parish I served over 25 years ago. serving the homeless.

I noticed that one person kept talking about At the wedding reception one of her college the people and issues we dealt with back then classmates told me that what she most while the other person described current admires about Heidi is her passion for the involvements and new challenges. The first poor. "We all learned about the poor, but person's mood was somewhat heavy and dis- somehow teaming came alive for her," she tant. The second person was much more ani- said. mated and engaging even though some of the Which brings me to a third sign of the Ire topics dealt with frustrations and disappoint- that Jesus brought: reflection. Human beings ments. reflect on what is important to them. They try To be passionate means literally to be to make sense of their experience. moved, to be affected. Ordinarily passion is Jesus expected the people of his day to think associated with intense feelings which can- about the things he told them and to ponder not he hidden, but passion doesn't have to be the example that he gave them. This is why he

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WA's link to the lilac[(Mop glory was a West Australian con1 y- 71=n in Mary's path to beatification, says Fr. Brian O'Loughlin of mount Lawley, who joined with 150 pilgrims from Ballajura and others from throughout Australia and New Zealand at Sydney's Randwick racecourse to witness the Pope beatify Mary MacKillop.

According to him the connection was Cardinal James Knox who was born in Bayswater and studied as a priest for the then New Norcia diocese.

He was sent to Rome to study theology and later Canon Law and while there met and formed a friendship with a minor Vatican official, Giovanni Battista Montini, who later as Pope Paul VI called Cardinal Knox to work in Rome.

"Previously, while visiting Sydney in 1970, at the encouragement of Cardinal Gilroy Pope Paul VI had prayed at the tomb of Mary Mackillop in the Sister's chapel at North Sydney.

"While working in Rome as Prefect of the Congregation for the Sacrainents, Cardinal Knox showed great interest in furthering the canonical process, which had faltered for the second time.

"By his highly placed interest, Cardinal Knox gave impetus to Mary's cause and encouraged his former Melbourne secretary, Mgr. Aldo Rebeschini to research and study Roman documents relating to mary MacKillop.

"This interest and work were crucial to the cause, as is acknowledged by the Postulator of the cause, Br. Paul Gardiner in his authoritative work `Mary MacKillop : An extraordinary Australian.'

"The beatification of Mary MacKillop now means that a Mass will be celebrated on her feast day, August 8, as we pray and look towards her recognition as a saint of the universal Church.

"Inviting the Pope to declare Mary MacKillop Blessed, Sydney's Archbishop, Cardinal Clancy thanked Pope John Paul for making the effort to travel all this way in order to celebrate Mass and make the declaration on our soil.

"Beatification means that we Australians now have a heavenly guide and intercessor, one of our number who walked and rode on horseback. the red earth of our land to bring love of God, hope. kindness and goodness especially to the poor and disadvantaged.Mary MacKillop was born on January 15, 1842 in Fitzroy, and was baptised at St. Francis Church, Melbourne on February 28, 1842.

"Mary as the eldest in her family, from an early age was a great help to her mother in caring for the family.

"Mary's father was not a good provider, even thing for himself money given by a relative for a piano.

"After completing her schooling, Mary worked as a shop assistant and

The author of this story, Fr Brian O'Loughlin at Blessed Mary MacKillop's tomb.

later taught school in Portland, Victo-

strong dediction of Sr. Mary.

"Mary went to Penola South Australia to work as a nanny.

"The parish priest, Fr. Julian Tenison Woods, confided in Mary that he had a dream or vision to bring free Catholic education to the poor, country children.

"Mary manifested a desire to teach the poor and live a consecrated life.

"She was invited by Fr. Woods to o ffer her lift to God and so was founded the Institute of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.

Other young women Mary gathered around her were called upon to live the Gospel values of chastity, poverty and obedience.The poverty of Mary's day meant that there were many children who wee unable to attend school.

Mary was imbued with a desire to share faith and learning with these unfortunates.

"In the homily at the beatification, Pope John Paul honed in on Mary's profound concern for the dignity of each person. This was her motivation in the dedication of her life to God and in service of his people.

The Bishop of Adelaide appointed Fr. Woods to oversee the Catholic schools and transferred him to Adelaide, thus giving greater opportunity for the expansion of the Institute.

"Some jealous priests opposed the innovations of the Institute and the

"They denounced her to the Bishop, who listened to these false accusers and excommunicated Mary for disobedience.

ria.

The sickly Bishop lifted the penalty before his death.

"Mary travelled by sea to Rome, making her only visit to Western Australia en route.

"In Rome, Mary's character and her vision for central government of the Institute were vindicated.

"But Rome made a change in the Rule regarding poverty and the ability o f the sisters to own property.Fr. Woods and Mary were keen to have the Sisters live a life of freely chosen poverty in imitation of Jesus.

"This meant it was intended that the Institute would not even own the property in which the Sisters lived and worked.This was not acceptable to the Roman authorities, because of the inherent risks and vulnerability, so Rome made a change to the rule in that area, which brought about a rift between Mary and Fr. Woods.

With the discovery of gold in the Yilgarn, the Sisters of St. Joseph, affectionately known as 'Brown Joeys' because of their coarse, brown habit came West, first to Southern Cross and then to New Norcia."

Heartening aspects at the beatification S

YDNEY: January 19 brought crowds of people and great excitement to Sydney as people from around the country gathered to celebrate the beatification of Mary MacKillop by John Paul II. It was a special rejoicing for one group and that was a group of Aboriginal people from N.S.W. This group represented all the indigenous people of Australia and welcomed the Pope and performed a traditional healing and reconciliation ceremony at the beginning of the Mass.

I am sure Mary MacKillop was smiling down with great pleasure. The people she had longed to serve came to perform an important role in the ceremony and through this celebration Aboriginal people, their spirituality and culture were acknowledged.

We all know that Mary MacKillop showed great compassion and kindness for all those struggling and suffering but not too many know of her concern for Aboriginal people.

Mary always wanted her sisters to be with Aboriginal people and we read of this in her letters. She was well aware of the terrible plight of the original people of Australia. As well as seeing the unenviable state of the Aborigines in the more urban areas, her brother Donald, a Jesuit priest who ministered for 10 years to the Aborigines of the Daly River Mission area, kept her informed of what was happening in the Northern Territory.

His writings show great understanding and appreciation of the Aboriginal people of the area and also great frustration with the authorities of the day who ignored his requests for help.

In a sermon in Adelaide in 1897, he frustratingly1 stated that "for years and years I tried, but tried in vain, to get a grant of some land" for the Aboriginal people 10 The Record, February 16, 1995

By Sister Clare Ahern (RSJ) and he complained that they "could not obtain from a Christian government the right to retain against all comers, even so much as one acre of their own native land."

Fr Donald's sincere and concerned interest in the Aboriginal people connected with Mary's compassionate heart. She was eager to be amongst the Aboriginals and was so pleased when the sisters decided in 1889 to open a mission in the Northern Territory.

She longed to go with the first group of sisters but it was not to happen. In April 1898 she says "I am sorry, sorrier far than I can say" that the sisters were not with the Aborigines.

When it did become possible, unfortunately the Daly River Mission, where they were to go, had closed down due to flooding.

However over the years, through her brother Fr Donald she met some Aboriginal young men from Daly River.

She visited them at St Mary's (N.S.W.) and some stayed with her at Lithgow. She said, they were "dear boys, so good and intelligent."

Her attitude was so different to the negative attitudes that were prevelant in Mary's days, attitudes that said Aboriginal people were inferior.

Writing to one of her sisters she told the following story showing her understanding of the young men and their feeling of compassion for her.

"Tell Father MacKillop please that the boys are wonderfully well and growing big and strong. But they are troubled about him and tempted to think he has gone

back to the Territory without them. I had to go up on Saturday to reassure them. They are really good boys.

A lady gave Charlie (the big one) sixpence on Sunday, and the dear boy, hearing that I was short of money, brought his sixpence to Agnes and told her to give lig to "Mother" - that he did not want it. Tell Fr Donald this - he will be pleased."

The action of this young man was so typical of Aboriginal people. Mary was in need and he gave away his all, his sixpence in the days when sixpence was valuable, to someone who was in greater need.

As well as wanting to be amongst Aborigines herself.

Mary would have loved her sisters to be there too.

In New Zealand she saw one of the sisters teaching the Maoris in their own language and expressed the hope that some of the sisters would do the same for the Aboriginal children.

Even though Josephite sisters taught Aboriginal children wherever they attended Josephite schools, it was not until the 1980s that the first Josephite sisters went to remote areas with the specific intention of teaching Aboriginal children.

Their involvement with Kimberley Aboriginals began in 1964 and 1989 with the Territory people.

So I was glad that the indigenous people of Australia were excited about being at the beatification ceremony and exposing some aspects of Aboriginal culture.

I was pleased too, that together we honoured Australia's first saint in the making but I was especially happy that Mary MacKillop met the people she longed to be with, at Randwick race course.

Preventio of AIDS drives not effective TATICAN CITY V (CNS) Many AIDS prevention programs are not proving effective, says the director of for programs Catholic Caritas Internationalis.

With the World Health Organization reporting 6,000 new HIV infections every day, it is vital that present AIDS education programs be resaid evaluated, Jesuit Father Robert Vitillo, head of programs at Caritas Internationalis. the umbrella organization for Catholic development and relief agencies.

Father Vitillo said imposing Westerntype solutions - such as an exclusive concentration on the use of condoms was ineffective in many Third World cultures.

"What's the point of spending billions of dollars sending condoms to Africa, where people are not used to them and where they seldom discuss sexual matters? Besides, women have no power to bargain with their partners" in most African cul-

tures, said Father Vitillo.

He said reports from Africa do not show a significant change in sexual behavior.

AIDS awareness programs should get back to basics, he said, and t alk about the of importance human relationships and fidelity.

The rapid spread of AIDS was confirmed by the WHO which reported a 60 percent increase in AIDS cases in 1994.

The organization estimated that there are at least 4 million AIDS cases worldwide. By the year 2000 this figure is likely to reach 10 million, with at least 30 million people infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Another problem, Father Vitillo said, was the unfair distribution of finances for AIDS education programs.

The World Health O rganization reported that while 90 percent of AIDS cases are found in developing the world, they receive only 8 percent of an estimated $14.2 bil-

lion annual expenditure on HIV/AIDS care and prevention.

The other 92 percent on spent is HIV/AIDS patients in the industrialized world.

For example. an average of S32,000 a year was spent on treating each AIDS patient in the United States compared with $395 a year for a patient in Uganda, said the World Health Organization report.

The organization estimates that HIV prevention programs could be implemented successfully in all developing countries for between $1.5 billion and $2.9 billion a year.

The figure represents about 5 percent of the money spent on the Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Father Vitillo said.

Caritas allocated $1.5 million in 1994 to AIDS awareness programs and led several workshops educating Catholic bishops in Africa and Asia about the disease.

Compensation for nuns not justice N

EW DELHI, India (CNS) The Indian Supreme Court's compensation order to two Franciscan nuns raped more than four years ago is no substitute for justice, say Church leaders.

"No amount of compensation can substitute for the administration's failure to arrest the real culprits," Carmelite Father Alex Ukken, national secretary of the Conference of Religious India, said.

"What Christians in India wanted was not compensation but prosecution of the culprits. After years of investigation, the offenders are still at large."

Father Victor Panna, Catholic Bishops' Conference of India assistant deputy secretary-general. said compensation "is not a substitute or alternative for justice."

The high court ordered the Uttar Pradesh state government Feb. 6 to pay 250,000 rupees (USS8.100) to the nuns.

The women were raped by armed men July 13, 1990. at Our Lady of Graces Convent at Gajraula, about 70 miles east of New Delhi.

Franciscan Missionaries of Mary Sister Anne Mathew, a Supreme Court lawyer, said that the compensation is "an eye-wash" aimed at diverting attention from police failure to makerrests.

"The culprits are known to many police officials, but (the police) are under political pressure to protect them," she said.

The Supreme Court suspended three Uttar Pradesh police officers and a doctor for "lapses and misconduct in the investigation" that allowed the rapists to remain free.

The court also ordered the state government to recover from the police the payment it is required to make to the victims.

In December 1992, the federal government ordered India's Central Bureau of Investigation to probe the case, offering 100.000 rupees (USS3,225) for -useful clues."

Lilly Thomas, who pleaded the case before the high court, said she expected "more than a compensation order from the court.

"The court is virtually helpless, as even after the CBI investigation the culprits are not arrested." she said.

But the suspension of the officers will show the "court disapproves the way the case has been investigated."

Nazareth Sister Shalini D'Souza of New Delhi's Indian Social Institute observed an "increasing tendency" in India to offer compensation to victims instead of bringing criminals to trial.

She described the order in the nuns' case as "buying off women."

Looking at marriages 'VATICAN CITY (CNS) Social sciences, V psychiatry and Christian teaching about human nature must all be taken into consideration when judging the validity of a marriage, Pope John Paul told the Church's top tribunal.

On the other hand just as church marriage courts cannot ignore human weakness, they cannot forget a person's ability to do good and to make lifelong commitments, Pope John Paul II told The Rota.

With the help of divine grace. "certain Gospel requirements which from a purely earthly and temporal view would appear too harsh, not only are possible, but are able to bring benefits essential for the person's growth in Christ," the pope said.

The truth is not served and justice is not done when marriage courts rely exclusively on scientific teaching that ignores the individuals' Godgiven dignity and the grace that comes through the sacrament, he said.

Pope John Paul also told the tribunal officials that while the church has always taught that people must act in accordance with their consciences. that does not mean that the conscience is an autonomous and exclusive source for determining what is good and what is had.

"The judgment of a person's conscience cannot pretend to establish the law; it can only recognize it and make it its own," he said.

When doubts arise in marriage cases, the pope said, "reference must be made to a judgment correctly coming from the legitimate authority and not from a presumed private judgment, and even less from an individual's arbitrary conviction."

Church will celebrate but carefully TATICAN CITY (CNS) - There will V be a party for the Catholic Byzantine Eastern rite at the end of the year but the Church will be careful to keep the feelings of their Orthodox brothers and sisters in mind.

The celebrations will mark the 400th anniversary of the Union of Brest-Litovsk and the 350th anniversary of the Union of Uzhorod church agreements that brought Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Slovakian and Hungarian Byzantine-rite faithful into communion with Rome.

A renewal of faith, an examination of conscience and work for the unity of Christians are key elements in the celebrations planned for late 1995 and 1996.

The challenge for the celebrants is to ensure that while giving thanks for the existence and fidelity of Eastern-rite Catholics, everyone remains aware that the hoped-for unity between the Christian East and West was not achieved.

In addition, for Orthodox Christians in the region the two unions were, in effect, a breaking of the communion of their churches.

The Vatican's approach to the celebration is essentially that found in a recent document from the international CatholicOrthodox theological dialogue.

The 1993 document said that while the Eastern-rite Catholic churches "have the right to exist and to act in answer to the spiritual needs of their faithful," the model

used for their union with Rome is not an appropriate model for future unity.

By bringing individual groups of faithful into communion, the agreements basically presented the Catholic Church "as the only one to whom salvation was entrusted," the document said.

But the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and of recent Orthodox synods recognizes that "what Christ has entrusted to his church" - including the apostolic faith, the sacraments, the priesthood and the apostolic succession of bishops - "cannot be considered the exclusive property of one of our churches," it said.

In addition to the unions' failure to reestablish unity between the East and West, the existing division was "embittered by

these attempts" at partial union, the document said.

Future steps toward church unity must focus not on bringing someone over to one of the churches, but to reconciling the churches to each other, it said.

Pope John Paul outlined to the organisers his ideas for getting ready for the jubilee year 2000, focussing on the need for conversion, forgiveness and penance, with a special focus on the broken relationship of the Christian churches.

"Among the sins which require a greater commitment to repentance should be counted those which have been detrimental to the unity willed by God for his people," the pope wrote in the encyclical "Terho Miltenni° Adveniente" on preparing for the year 2000.

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OBITUARY

Thomas Christopher O'Brien who died at Nazareth House, Geraldton was the sixth last survivor o f nine sons and two daughters of Kojarena, pioneers of Greenough, Bootenal, Mullewa and Geraldton districts - his grandfather Michael and wife Hannah from Ireland arriving in Fremantle in 1860 and settling at the back flats of Greenough and having six children, the eldest son James being the father of Thomas O'Brien.

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LETTERS from Fr. Hughes, 0.M.I. Mulgrave Vic Sir To your interesting page coverage of the life and b eatifications of Fr Joseph Vaz, there is a further point of interest for readers of the Recor February 9.

The postulator or promotor of the cuase of Fr. Vaz. is Fr. James FitzPatrick O.M.I. a West Australian.

Fr FitzPatrick was educated at the fromer St Louis' College in Claremont before joining the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He was ordained in 1959 and spent time teaching in Oblate Colleges in Melbourne and Brisbane.

He was the fundation Rector of Mazenod ColMulgrave, lege, Enquirey Centre before being posted to Rome in 1987 as Postulator General and hence in charge of the causes of

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Oblates and others who have been put forward for canonization. from P.D. Maclean, General Manager, Metropolitan Cemetries Board Sir In a letter to The Record dated February 2, 1995, Mike O'Brien is endeavouring to stir emotions against the mausoleum project at Karrakatta Cemetery. However, in discussions which I, and other members of the Metropolitan Cemetries Board, have had with him, it is not clear what Mr O'Brien is seeking to achieve.

Over the past 25 years several neglected and sometimes desolate sections of the cemetry have been beautified and transformed for further use. This not only perpetuates the use of the land for cemetry purposes but also pays respect to those origi-

nally buried there.

The Catholic FA setion will become the site for Western Australia's first mausoleum. The garden mausoleum will be built around a courtyard and will incorporate a large central shelter for people to rest pray and contemplate. Arguably, it will be Autralia's finest mausoleum.

In the process, those people mentioned by Mr O'Brien and others who are buried in the section will, for the first time, be recorded on a memorial in the area.

They will rest in a lovely landscaped area which will be in stark contrast to the undeveloped, mainly unmarked site in its present form.

A model and artist's perspective of the mausoleum are on display at Karrakatta Cemetry which will surely reassure the public and relatives of the people

buried in that section of the integrity and quality of the mausoleum project from Fr Joseph PARKINSON, St Charles Seminary, Guildford Sir From the tone of her letter (The Record Feb 9) Mrs Child obviously misread my article on "The New Face of Youth Ministry Today".

As a former YCS and YCW chaplain myself, indeed as a former member of both of these bodies in my youth, I would hardly disparage the method or intrinsic value of these movements.

I believe that a closer, more objective reading of my article will bear this out However, since the question has now been raised, I am happy to respond to Mrs Child's comments.

Of course there was always a formative element at the core of the YCW no one would claim, me least of all, that sport was the sole function of the movement. Nevertheless, many former members and chaplains have told me that it was the sporting and social facets of the movement which drew, most participation, and which are remembered most fondly. Their value, in their time, cwmot be so easily discounted.

And while it may-be true that the YCW still exists in Perth, no one could claim that it is particularly healthy in comparison with the 'heady' days of the 1950's and Perhaps the 60's. demise of the social and sporting sides has something to do with this?

My article made no comment on the forma-

tive metbods of the YCW, which are as valid today as ever. But without the attractive force healthy a of social/sporting life, how are these methods 'packaged' today?

Perhaps the YCW today might consider reinstating these aspects of the movement, as a spoonful of sugar.

Indeed, the good news of Christ is eternal. My article made comment only on the efforts being made by CYM to ensure that the 'packaging and presentation' of that good news retains its attractive force in a world of rapidly changing emotions among our youth.

I am sure that neither YCW nor CYM would wish to claim to have the only answer.

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TOMORROW TODAY with Father Joe Parkinson

1GHT of Perth's Luke range of successful activi- being E 18 communities were ties last year, various State coordinators represented at the first groups said that in Catholic

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regional meeting for the year, held on Sunday 29 January at the Saints John and Paul Parish Centre in Willetton.

Sixty youth and adult leaders met to review the considerable achievements of individual communities in 1994 and to establish goals for 1995.

Building on a wide

they hoped to run regular visits to senior citizens, to be more involved in parish liturgies, and to raise funds for charity.

All groups said they planned to make Luke 18 meetings more prayerful, and to make a greater effort to instil in the 11-14 year old Lukers a real sense of the value of

Mike and Liz Foley of Noranda said that they planned to visit every Luke 18 group during the year, to remind communities to continue supporting one another.

One major addition to the calendar will be another Family Mass, repeating the success of last year's event held at Morley, at which every Luke 18 group in WA was represented.

It is expected that the Family Mass will become an annual event The meeting was also to opportunity an farewell retiring youth chaplain Fr Joe Parkinson after six years of support for Luke 18 communities.

Former Luke 18 coordinators Peter and Veronica Dymond made a small presentation to Fr Joe on behalf of the whole Luke 18 Outreach Team.

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Applications must be in writing: - Telephone 328 9622 for Selection Criteria, Duty Statement and Job Description.

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Focus on young workers S

ix members of t he local Young Christian Workers Movement attended the national leaders meeting in Adelaide in January, joining seventy other YCW leaders from around Australia and New Zealand.

The meeting focused on identifying the current status of young workers in Australia, the challenges they face today and possible paths of action by the YCW movement.

Leaders Perth's returned excited and enthusiastic about taking up the challenges brought by the new year, where the focus of the local movement will continue to be initiation of new groups and new members.

- Annemarie de Cruz

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EAGLE'S NEST 1406 O'Brien Road Gidgegannup

Set in 17 hectares of natural bu§h adjoining Walyunga National Park and just 45 minutes from the city, Eagle's Nest can take groups of up to 55 in perfect surroundings for youth retreats, christian living camps or other youth formation programs. Priority is given to Catholic parish youth groups, schools and other church youth organisations.

THE FOLLOWING DATES ARE STILL AVAILABLE FOR 1995 (Dates in bold indicate a weekend) 6-7, 20-21, 27-Mar 2 February 1-2, 7-9, 13-16, 20-21, 27-30 March 5 -6, 14-16, 19-20 April 1-2, 8-11, 15-16, 22-23, 29-June 1 May 4-7, 12-13, 17-18, 19-22, 26-29 June 2-6, 10-14, 15-16, 17-21, 22-23, 24-25, 31 July 1-3, 6-8, 14-16, 21-23, 28-31 August 11-13, 15-17, 18-21, 25-29, 30-Oct 1 September 2-5, 9-13, 14-15, 16-19, 23-27, 28-29, 30-31 October November 1-3, 4-5, 6-9, 12-17, 18-19, 20-24, 25-26, 27-30 11-15, 16-17, 18-22 December For Bookings and Enquiries, phone Eagle's Nest direct on 574 7030

CD Launch The Childers

(formerly the Rally Band) To mark the release of The CHilders new CD -The Magnificent Wave", the band will be playing at the Irish Club in Subiaco on Friday 4th March 1995. old friends or just come as you are for an with up Catch absolutely wild night.

Friday March 4, 1995 WHEN: 8.00 pm TIME: WHERE: The Irish Club cnr Townsend and Hay Streets, Subiaco $5.00 COST:

An Alcohol free event

Top: Liz Anthony with National YCW President Joe Magri at the National Leaders Meeting.

Centre: At the National YCW Leaders meeting in January were (l-r) Belinda Smith, Sally Bampton, Annemarie da Cruz, Andrea Romiti and Liz Anthony.

Above: YCW members making music.

Young Christian Students Movement Perth

RIVERCRUISE Friday, 24 February

8pm-Midnight From the Barrack Street Jetty Fully Supervised.

Tickets just $10 available from YCS Office 459 Hay Street Perth Ph 325 7208 or after hours Anna on 385 0330 No alcohol or drugs - bag searches will be made The Record, February 16, 1995

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Power-fu concert Meet those who helped make it a success Popular Karen Knowles puts feeling into a song

Carmel Chartton sings one of her compositions

Left: Senator Eoin Cameron, M.C. for the Concert of Love tells Blessed Mary of the Cross how his Scottish ancestors, who were settled in Victoria, were related to Mary MacKillop and how he was taught in South Australia by two Josephite sisters.

Above: Mary MacKillop's last days played by Jenny McNae in her wheel chair.

Left: St Paul's Primary sing to Mother Mary "Consider Yourself One of Us." Below: Mother Mary and her little Scottish dancing friends.

'Consider yourself one of us' in song

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Sr Frances Maguire and Chris Wadden sing Where is Your Song My Lord

Sr Margaret Scharf OP giving her rendition

Elizabeth McCrae with a dazzling performance

Mary MacKillop's First Communion Day performed by lona Primary. lona Primary Year 6 performers

A very happy Sister Maria Casey thanks the Power of Love participants and the assistance of Sister Joan Buckham (below) of the Catholic Education Office.

Mater Del students perform Bryce Courtenay's Recipe for Dreaming.

Rap dancers from Aranmore College.

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MARANATHA INSTITUTE Catholic Education Centre LEEDERVILLE

MARIAN MOVEMENT The monthly cenacle of the Marian Movement will be held at St Paul's Church Swanbourne o n Tuesday, February 21 at 10.30am.

ST BENEDICT The Benedictine Oblates of Perth meet on Sunday, February 19 at 2.30pm at lona College, Mosman Park. Dom Francis Byrne OSB will talk on the Rule of St Benedict for lay people.

Inquiries Tony Smurthwaite 337 8212.

EASTER PREPARATION Easter preparation will include music for Easter ceremonies.

Saturday 25 February, 10.30am 3.00pm, Leederville Parish C entre, 40 Franklin Street, Leederville.

S5 donation.

Please bring your own lunch, tea and coffee will be provided. For further information and registrations please contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE R osary, Homily and Benediction will be held Sunday February 26 at 2pm at the Bullsbrook Church "Virgin Mary M other of the Church" 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook. For bus reservations please ring 444 7565, 458 6302 for bus to and from Bullsbrook via Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland. 339 4015 for Fremantle bus. Sacri Association Inc. P.O. Box 311 Tuart Hill WA 6060.

CLERGY MOVES Fr Joss Breen OP currently at Mundaring will be parish priest of Gosnells from March 4 for a, period of six years.

Fr Liam Keating, SMA is parish priest of Beaconsfield, since the retirement of Fr Ned Donovan, SMA,who will reside at St Brendan's College. Fr Michael Evans, SMA, formerly of Albany, is assistant priest at Beaconsfield.

JOSEPHITE FUND The Sisters of St. Joseph thank last Sunday night's concert contributors to the Mary MacKillop Foundation. Further d onations (over S2 tax deductible, receipts issued) may b e sent to Mary MacKillop F oundation WA, PO Box 593, South Perth 6151.

BUSINESS MASS All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday February 24 at 7 am followed by a breakfast meeting at The Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of Breakfast S8. For enquiries phone 384 0809.

A rchdiocesan Calendar FEBRUARY 18 Bless St Gerard's School, Mons Keating.

19 Centenary Mass, St John of God, Subiaco, Archbishop Hickey/ Bishop Healy.

25th Anniversary, St Gerard's, Mirrabooka, Archbishop Hickey.

St John of God Sisters Centenary Mass, Subiaco, Archbishop Hickey and Bishop Healy.

Tuesday, February 21 9.30-noon Liturgy Fr Vincent Glynn (10 weeks) 1 -3pm Spirituality Today Fr Bob Carden OEM (10 weeks)

Friday, February 24 9.30-noon Jesus the Pastor

Sr Mary Berry RSM (7 weeks) 1 -3pm Getting to Know the Old Testament Br Des Crowe FMS (10 weeks) Brochure, enrolments: 388 4311

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The current enrolment, from Year 8 to Year 12, is 700 students.

The principal invites applications from enthusiastic and suitably qualified and experienced teachers for the following positions:

Upper School Early Childhood Studies and Independent Living Lower School Home Economics

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The following temporary full-time positions will be created by teachers proceeding on long-service leave at the times indicated: Term 2 1995: Computing (preferably with Economics) Term 3 1995: Middle School Social Studies and English Term 4 1995: Computing and Electronics Written applications, clearly indicating the qualifications, experience and other qualities which would make the applicant a suitable person for appointment, should include a comprehensive curriculum vitae and name two current professional referees. Applications close on Friday, March 3: they should be addressed to The Principal, Nagle Catholic College, Box 97, Geraldton 6530.

AQUINAS COLLEGE

ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS Two scholarships for entry to each of Years 8 and 1 1, 1996 at half tuition fees, have been made available from the estate of the family of the late Brother Michael Redmond of Aquinas College.

They are awarded on the basis of academic ability and financial need.

Applicants are required to sit the A.C.E.R. Cooperative Scholarship testing programme on Saturday, May 6.

Application form available from Aquinas College, Mt Henry Road, Manning WA 6152. Phone 450 5222, fax no 313 1901.