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Northern Territory plan to legalise euthanasia threatens every Australian, say bishops PERTH, WA: February 23, 1995

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E NORTHERN Territory proposal to legalise euthanasia threatens every Australian, the Australian Bishops Conference said this week.

"This Bill would allow directly intended killing," they said in a statement of solidarity with Bishop Ted Collins who stood in protest last Tuesday night outside the NT parliament.

"Even worse than that, it offers scant assurance that the killing would be restricted only to those who might freely request it."

The legislation titled "Rights of the Terminally Ill" is misnamed said the bishops.

"The legislation does not enshrine, but actually ignores basic human rights. Most Australians see human life as sacred and want to live in a country which respects and defends that basic value.

"The Bill is not about providing treatments which ease suffering but may shorten life. It is not about ceasing burdensome and futile treatment.

"Those who oppose this legislation show genuine concern for the terminally ill. They know that the dying need love and specialised care and that this Bill offers nothing but a threat to their security and sense of belonging.

"The Bill does not address the current lack of palliative care available to terminally ill Territorians. Instead it is a proposal to withdraw the protection of the law from a vulnerable group of our fellow Australians."

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E CHURCH will always r respond to new challenges, Archbishop Hickey said last Sunday as the Sisters of St John of God celebrated their 100 years in Australia.

"We can he sure God will call forth today lay people and others who will show people that Christ loves them," the archbishop told the congregation that packed St Joseph's church for the centenary Mass.

Changes in insurance and other factors meant corporate changes in which responsibility was being handed on to lay people, the archbishop noted.

Although the change was inevitable, he said, there were good people responding to today's needs, moving into the field of special services in response to today's needs just as the Sisters had responded to the needs of yesterday.

The Sisters of St John of God arrived at the turn of the century in the second great wave of Catholic expansion in WA, coinciding with the gold discoveries and the subsequent economic development, with the Sisters going to Coolgardie to nurse miners suffering from water shortages and typhoid.

The Christian Brothers and the Oblates had just celebrated their arrival in the same period.

The St John Sisters tarted a school in Kalgoorlie in 1895 and by 1907 had started work in the Kemberleys.

The other waves of expansion, the archbishop noted, were the early arrival of Mercy Sisters and Benedictines with the founding bishop, the wave of migration after World War II, and the post Vatican II era of change in which the Church is still coming to terms with the modern world.

St John of God provincial superior Sister Corona Gainford is all smiles as she cut the centenary cake shortly after Premier Richard Court had unveiled a plaque to commemmorate the Sisters' 100 years of service to WA.

More and more at NDA T Tniversity of Notre Dame Australia's rapid growth has continued this year with a 40% increase in enrolments.

The university now has 575 undergraduate students and 180 postgraduate students and expects to grow to 2000 students by the year 2000.

Meanwhile, NDA celebrated last week the commencement of another academic year when more than 500 people gathered in St Patrick's Basilica, Fremantle for a Liturgy of Convocation.

The ceremony included the Chancellor, Mr Terry O'Connor QC, presentingthe University Medal to two students who had achieved the most outstanding academic results in 1994.

The undergraduate recipient was Keith Gilbert of Mundijong,who completed his secondary education at Lumen Christi College, Gosnells. medal.

"I worked very hard last year and was pleased to have done so well." Keith said in response to the award.

He plans to complete his Bachelor's degree (majoring in accounting and economics) and then to complete a fourth year of study for a Diploma in Education.

"I came to Notre Dame because its the best place to train to teach, particularly for a Catholic secondary school," he added. He loves the atmosphere o f Notre Dame and particularly enjoysthecloseinteraction with the lecturers. They arevery approachable and always available to students."

The graduate medal award went toRita McNamee who completed a Diploma in Education. She noted she wasamatureage student and said the one year diploma course wasin-depthand very demanding.

Rita and her family live in Duncraig and she is now employed at Mercedes College.

She said it wasn't an easy course but that it was an excellent induction to teaching and the workload involved.

A feature of the course for Rita was the practicum.

"Spending the whole of the third term in a school as part of the practicalteaching experience prepared me very well for the reality of school life."

"Notre Dame provided a wonderful atmosphere for Teaming - it was a fantastic year," said Rita.

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Above: A highHight of the Convocation Liturgy was an academic procession.

Left: A popular feature of Orientation Day was the opportunity for new students to sign up for University clubs.

The Drama Club, which presented its first play in November 94 was a popular choice. Second year students (from rear left) Nicky Nolan, Will Lamey and Penny Parkes dressed for the occasion.

Above left: Keith Gilbert receives the University Medal from Chancellor, Terry O'Connor QC Above: Rita McNamee is presented with the University Medal Left: More than 200 new undergraduates gathered in the University's hall for Orientation Day early in February.

Christian bodies join the protest

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of Christian Churches in the Northern M I Territory gave eight reasons why they cannot support the Rights to Terminally In Bill.

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In a letter to the Chief Minister they said: • There needs to be far more community debate before such a Bill is presented to the Legislative Assembly.

• There has been no acknowledgement in the Bill of Aboriginal understanding of life and death.

• The Bill is poorly constructed and raised more issues that it solves.

Can a doctor ever say with certainty that someone who may live for 11 months may not live for a considerably longer time?

There are no provisions to prevent Darwin becoming the euthanasia capital of Australia or even beyond.

If it becomes legislation, will the provision for euthansia create a pressue that did not exist before for people who are terminally ill or their families.

• Inadequate consideration has been given to long term implications and consequences of the Bill.

• There is a lack of clarity in the definition and terminology of the Bill.

• Advances in palliative care have demonstrated that even severe pain suffering and distress may no longer necessarily lead to the destruction of all quality of life: our society should be looking to place more resources toward palliative care.

• We support AMA's concern for health professionals who may be place in very difficult circumstances if this Bill is passed.

• The Legislative Assembly should take account of the existing legislative stances elsewhere in Australia before embarking on a course of ethical adventurism.

The letter added: "For us, life is a gift from God. We are urging all Territorians to express their views on this issue to their Member of the Legislative Assembly and to insist that this matter be referred to a Select Committe for proper consideration by the Legislative Assembly."

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Any and every container was pressed into service last Friday as Project Compassion geared up for the forthcoming Lenten appeal. Among the 120 parish representatives collecting materials after Archbishop Hickey had commissioned them at the Cathedral parish centre were: Tony Monisse of Osborne Park, Delta Toop of Manning, Agnes Wright of Gosnell, Australian Catholic Relief co-ordinator Margaret Collopy and Eris Toop of Manning.

Still on the payroll S (CNS) - The French bishops' conference, citing controversial Bishop Jacques Gaillot's dedication to Christ, will continue paying him his bishop's salary and benefits while supporting the Vatican's decision to remove him as head of the Evreux Diocese.

"Bishop Gaillot is not suspect in his attachment to Christ and in his efforts to be actively present among those on the margins of society," said a statement.

The bishops decided that Bishop Gaillot.

59, would continue to receive the salary and social benefits of a diocesan bishop.

Archbishop Duval of Rouen, bishops' conference president, plans an early trip to the Vatican for talks with high-level church officials and church sources say the Gaillot affair would be the No. 1 agenda item.

The bishops reiterated that the removal of Bishop Gaillot was a serious matter and an extremely rare decision, but said Pope John Paul II was justified in taking the action.

The statement cited a growing lack of unity between Bishop Gaillot and his fellow bishops and the pope.

The Vatican removed the bishop a month ago and cited the lack of unity sparked by his public stands in opposition to many Catholic moral teachings.

The French bishops' statement said debate over the issue had brought to the surface tensions among French Catholics, and they expressed regret that so many people have adopted a doubting attitude toward the church.

But to pretend that Bishop Gaillot was the only one working for those excluded from society was injurious to the many Catholic associations and lay people who work discreetly and efficiently on behalf of the needy, said the statement.

It said the bishops were considering Bishop Gaillot's future with great care out of "fraternity within the episcopate" and friendship toward him.

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ICO - Angry Mexicans turned a proFistfights broke out, and five shots were fired Army demonstration into a mob-like melee in in the air during the hourlong melee, as local front of the cathedral and diocesan offices of San Cristobal de Las Casas, demanding the resigna- police Chief Oscar Dominguez and armed police tion of Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia as peace officers stood by and watched. "Out with Samuel Ruiz Garcia," mediator in the Chiapas rebellion.

About 400 protestors - organized by municipal Rolando Villafuerte. a deputy of the ruling officials, ranchers and businessmen - hurled Institutional Revolutionary Party, shouted into eggs and chairs at the diocesan offices and a the public address system as the crowd turned small group of Mexican and foreign supporters surly and headed toward the cathedral CAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, MEX-

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Perseverance pays off...

St John of God Sisters mark 100 years here E POOR reception Ballarat gave the St They cannot divorce their work from this O lin of God Sisters in would have truth." tempted them to shake the dust of their 1n1915

feet. the centenary celebration gathering was told last Sunday.

"Thank God they did not," said Bishop Mulkearns of Ballarat. "And their perseverance has been a blessing for Catholics and nonCatholics alike.

"From being a group whose expertise and perhaps even motivation were suspect, they have won admiration and esteem for their professionalism and their commitment," he said.

What enabled them to fit into and influence the Australian church was their flexibility, he continued. Although founded as a diocesan congregation in Wexford in 1871 they were open to the needs of other dioceses and countries.

Opening a leprosarium in Broome the Sisters were prepared to take risks for those who were then without a cure. The Sisters will rejoice later this year at the beatification of Father Damien of Molokai who himself died eventually of the disease, he noted.

The Sisters had also become prominent in schooling for disadvantaged groups and in pastoral care, he added.

Asking why the St John of God Sisters were prepared to face the traumatic conditions of working in the Australian surroundings, Bishop Mulkearns said: "It is not what religious do that differentiates religious from the rest of the community but rather who. they are and why they choose to he who they are.

"Religious act as sign posts to the rest of us, pointing us in the direction of Jesus Chrsist and challenging us to live by the values of Christ."

The St John of God motto "The love of Christ urges us" calls on the Sisters to respect the dignity of each person as a child of God.

Bishop Mulkearns said the Sisters would be in the forefront of resistance to the present push to have thecreature play God in deciding when human life should be terminated.

"They appreciate too that what is technically feasible is not always right."

The St John of God Sisters have a commitment to the whole person and for a hundred years have witnessed to the truth spoken recently by Pope John Paul II that the "pathology" of the spirit is no less dangerous than the physical pathology."

Bishop Mulkearns said that the love of Christ had motivated the Sisters to be hospitable beyong call to the priests of Australia.

"Subiaco has been a place of hospitality for the priests of WA and St John of God communities throughout Australia have been places where priests, whether recuperating fromn illness or simply needing a safe haven for rest and relaxation could find a safe haven. In supporting the priests of Australia they have supported the Australian Church."

On the future of religious life, Bishop Mulkearns said: "I don't think we have to know. The religious life is not a numbens game.The witness of religious to our society is no less important because there are fewer giving that witness.

"I am convinced there will always be a place for, and a need for, religious life in the Church.

"I urge the Sisters of St John of God to look to their future with confidence, though without complacency.

"May God reward them for what they have accomplished and who they have been for the Australian Church over the past century. And may God be with them as they face the challenge of the future."

Bishop Mulkearns... "it has been a blessing"

Welcome to the club, she says E FORTHCOMING St "We can be a vibrant people said, had been the driving force John of God general chap- teaching the art of living and the for Bishop Furlong and has suster - the first outside Ireland - art of dying irrespective of age. tained the order throughout life. will call the congregation to be "Our pioneer sister and those The general chapter, she a prophetic people looking at who followed were prepared to Pointed out would look at the today's society's needs. endure hardships for the sake congregation's contemplative "It will be just as our founders of the kingdom. We today as stance, at being effective witdid in their time." said Sister- John of God's need to be as ness of God's love, enhancing CoronaGainford, the local con- steadfast." the quality of existing services gregational leader and a former Asfor mistakes in the past, Sis- and reading the signs of the general leader of her order. ter Corona said, "it is good to times for the unfolding future.

She was referring to the foun- realise that we would have no For the future, she said, there dation of the order in Wexford need of God if we were perfect. was a need "to be in partnerin 1871 by Bishop Furlong and "So welcome to the club - God ship with other men and Sister Brigid Clancy. will always leave the 99 and go women of faith who can share Sister Corona said it was a back to find one - and then He our values and and vision. question of liberation, of being rejoices. He is a God who calls "I pay tribute to our present open to God in our lives, a liber- us to celebrate life. I need to day John of God people who ation like Moses experienced, remind myself of this and act on shareourmission and carry it hut on God's terms and not it. into the future with outstanding Moses.'

The eucharist, Sister Corona enthusiasm and commitment."

Vocation crisis is 'good'

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46C•OD HAS taken us and the right questions, to stay with shaken us," Sister Corona them and to let them truly transsaid last Sunday referring to the form our innermost being. current vocation crisis.

"In doing so we will derive our And we are closer to the real faith-energy from our founders meaning of religious life than we and patron and particularly from have ever been, she added. our pioneer sisters. We will dis"I believe it is a good thing. By cover the power of Christ within this crisis God is evangelising us. ourselves and he at the cutting We do not know God's plan for edge of the Good News. religious life in thefuture-but we "Religious life stands at an extrado know God wants us to be part ordinary moment in its history that of that future, whatever it is. calls us to a new realisation of our SisterCorona called on her lis- identity, a graced moment for us teners to playa major part in this. impelling, urgent. rich in possibil"We need to be prepared to ask ity.

"We are closer to the real meaning of religious life than we have ever been. Religious life is meant to be a small prophetic movement within a healthy Church with the responsibility of mission being carried by the wider faith community, all of whom have been touched by the living power of the gospel.

"I believe that if Bishop Thomas Furlong and Brigid Clancy,our founders, and St John of God our patron were here today that is how they would see our call."

Tormented for having more than one child B

EIJING (CNS) — Catholic villagers in Hebei I L/province say they are being tormented by local officials for disobeying China's one-child policy.

Catholics in two villages said families that have more than one child have been fined repeatedly and brutally harassed by family planning officials since March 1994.

They pleaded for fellow Catholics outside China to help and pray for them. Sources claim that the two villages each of about 1000 people, mostly Catholic, were targeted and attacked by spot-check teams of the family planning department of the government of Ciyu town, about 150 miles southwest of Beijing.

A layman from Hebei province said that he observed similar hassles in other villages for Catholics who have more than one child because they reject abortion. The local church knows of the problem, he said, but can do nothing.

Most Catholics in the two villages, sources explained, are illiterate, poor peasants with huge debts from repeatedly borrowing money to pay fines.

The sources indicated some fines have been as much as 2,000 yuan (US$240). about 20 times the monthly income of an ordinary peasant.

Approached by UCA News, the family planning office of the Hebei provincial government in Shijiazhuang refused to comment on the matter.

Sources said priests and lay Catholics in neighboring areas complained to the county and provincial governments and to the people's procurator, but family planning teams ignored the procurator's order to stop their actions.

Instead, family planning teams blamed Catholics for causing problems.

A letter of complaint from one Catholic village alleges half the fines go into the pockets of local officials.

There are reports that other Catholics who paid fines years ago for having more than one child were asked to pay again.

Officials force those who do not pay to be taken away, handcuffed, beaten and locked up in a

town government jail, the sources said.

A couple was described as being dragged away and barred from caring for their infant, and neighbours who helped care for the child also were penalized.

Family members or relatives were taken away when targeted persons were not found at home.

A man present when a team came to get his relative was taken away, beaten and left with severe injuries.

Officials tortured detainees by putting them into hot garages or tying them to utility poles under the hot summer sun, while others were tied up outside their cells in winter, when it is usually below freezing, sources said.

Noting they were told harsh physical punishment would be used to coerce offenders to accelerate fine payments. villagers accused the family planning teams of demolishing houses of those who could not pay.

The officials also were accused of taking all saleable items, including wooden planks and tools.

Some villagers were beaten while suspended in the air, others had tongues jolted by electric batons when they cried out for Jesus to help, and single women detained to make families pay fines were beaten and sexually abused.

Pressed to get money to pay fines, some Catholics reportedly sold all their belongings. In one case, a man who could not bear to see his wife tortured in a cell for days attempted to sell their children in Beijing.

Another spoke of a divorced woman being forcibly sterilized and other women pregnant eight or nine months involuntarily injected to induce miscarriages.

The letters stress that Catholics most fear forced sterilization because it is against their faith, so many have taken to hiding in the fields.

To escape officials, villagers hide at night in straw piles or inside holes in the ground used to store sweet potatoes.

Illegal Chinese bishop dies a vice president and secretary general of the bishops' conferEIJING (CNS) One of the first bishops ordained in BChina-appointed in China without Vatican approval has died aged ence.

Bishop Michael Yang Gaojian of Changde, in China 1958

81.

a key figure in the government-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association since the 1950s, was a former superior of the Augustinians in China.

Bishop Yang was among the first Chinese bishops elected and ordained without papal approval in 1958. His diocese is in Hunan province, central China, some 800 miles southwest of Beijing.

In 1956. he attended the founding meeting of the national Catholic patriotic association, which was created to manage provincial, city and local associations. A year later he was elected deputy secretary general.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), he was sentenced to a labor camp. In 1980, a year after religion was again allowed under government rule, he moved from Changde to Beiing to work at patriotic association headquarters.

Bishop Yang was a vice president of the patriotic association, deputy secretary general of the administrative commission and

He wrote for the official magazine Catholic Church during the 1980s.

National patriotic association official Anthony Liu Bainian said a replacement for the bishop is unlikely to be named until the next congress convenes.

The obituary described Bishop Yang as an outstanding leader" in the Chinese Catholic anti-imperialist and patriotic movement, supporting the Communist leadership as early as the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

In 1931 he joined the Augustinian order and continued studies at the major seminary in Hunan and Hubei. In 1938, he was ordained a priest in Changde Diocese and became deputy rector of its minor seminary, principal of church schools and a parish pastor and dean of parishes.

In 1950, he was appointed administrator of Yuanling Diocese and Augustinian superior in China.

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Mary MacKillop lessons...

ARY MacKillop has many lessons to teach prise that large inthat time? words, Mary MacKillop handed it over to God to M all of us.

Her venture became as large or larger than work through other people's hearts to provide all My task of helping organise the publicity even required to carry out

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for the PowerofLove Concert has been rewarding as it afforded me the chance to study her life and come to understand why this woman has been singled out for sainthood.

There are two central lessons that Mary MacKillop has for me - a 46 year old, male layCatholic who, over recent years, has had more than his fair share of lessonsinthe University of Hard Knocks.

The first lesson Mary MacKillop teaches me is a lesson in faith. Like many of us, Mary MacKillop set out with next-to-nothing on the mission of the life's work she believed God have given her.

She only had the clothes on her back and a "dream" which she shared with one other person, Fr Juhan Tennison Woods. Her "dream" was to provide education where there was none - to the children of the poor and isolated families of the Australian colonies. She set out to realise this dream in 1866.

By the time she died 44 years later, in 1909, about 1000 other women were sharing and living that dream with her. She had established convents, schools and refuges throughout Australia and New Zealand. That itself is a remarkable achievement.

It is easy to imaginethe accolades any other 19th century person - man or woman - would have received had they built a business enter-

the biggest companies then operating in Australia. Think just of the capital involved in her undertaking - the schools and convents that were required.

These were not provided or built from the wealth of the Catholic Church in Rome. They were built from the begging and enterprise of Mother Mary and her Sisters of St Joseph.

The money and materials for it all came from the contributions of the people of the Australian colonies.

More often than not they were the contributions of those who understood the lesson for life in the Parable of the Widow's Mite - it is not the amount of money that you give that is important: it is the spirit in which you give it.

Do you regard it as your money that you are donating or do you look on yourself as merely the temporary guardian of something that has been entrusted to you by God? It is very difficult for us to understand how any person could assemble the capital and resources that Mary MacKillop did. She was not a capitalist; she didn't have any degrees in business administration yet she succeeded far more spectacularly than some of the most successful business tycoons the world has produced. How did she do it?

The answer is so simple as to be unbelievable: "Give us this day, our daily bread." In other

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His the resources that she will for her.

Mary MacKillop, by her life and what she built, proves the lesson in Matthew's Gospel: "So do not worry; do not say, 'What are we to eat? What are we to drink? How are we to be clothed?' Your Heavenly Father knows you need them all. Set your hearts first on his kingdom first, and on his righteousness, and all these other things will be given you as well. So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself."

The second lesson Mary MacKillop teaches me is in fortitude and patience.

It is clear that Mary MacKillop was extraordinarily successful. But the road to success was far from smooth. The pain and distress she had to endure in her life would have made a strong man cry.

She had to endure two kinds of pain - one the physical pain of illness; the second the emotional pain caused by conflict with neighbours, work colleagues and family.

One extraordinary fact in of Mother Mary's life is that the people who caused the emotional pain in her life were not people one would ordinarily describe as enemies. They were her fellow-toilers in God's vineyard.

This pain was caused by the same circumstance that caused the pain to Christ - our inability to listen to and understand what others are saying to us.

Just as in Christ's time many were too busy listeningtothemselves and unable to hear what he was seeking to say, so also in Mary's time herproblems with some bishops and even some members of her own congregation can be viewed as a problem of people too intent on their own concerns and pains to understand what she was trying to communicate to them.

In various ways we all experience both physical and emotional pain in our lives. Mary MacKillop shows us how to transcend pain and reach that inner peace which is the only earthly promise made to us by God through His Son. Nowhere does Jesus promise us material success. Nor does He promise us failure. Nor does He promise us something in between -such as material security.

"My kingdom is not of this world," he said. The only thing He promises us while we are on earth is peace in our hearts. That promise is absolute.

All we have to do is ask for it. It is available to all of us. It does not matter how rich we are, how poor we are or how materially secure we are.

God- andthe life of religion - is not about success failure. security or pain in day-to-day life. It is about making success, failure, security or pain meaningful in our lives. Mary MacKillop teaches us that God - and religion - is about transcending but not leaving our day-to-day concerns.

For all people in all walks of lifeour concerns become mentallyand emotionally "understandable" above all when we can smile and radiate love - even when angry with someone or our own circumstances. It is a paradox.

This trascendence of the here-and-now can only be found in how we treat our neighbours.

Religion is not a lesson in learning what our neighbours think about us but in learning how we treat ourneighbours. Thereisa big difference.

Again,itis a paradox.

Yet, even for saints - as the story of Mary MacKillop most surely shows - God's promise isn't given to us instantly. We have to train ourselves into it just as an athlete trains the physical body into an engine of physical endurance.

Unlike the physical training regime, spiritual training is not rigorous. Allit requires is a little time each day to we align our thoughts and actions for the day to the Will of our Creator.

Mary MacKillop also teaches me then is that the training track to finding "peace in one's heart" is composed of the human attributes of fortitude and patience.

Learn how to work hard, how to play hard and enjoy yourself but, above all, know also when to be still and rest. Know when to listen and patiently wait for the answers. These answers will he given not ordinarily through God reaching down from heaven and causing an atomic explosion in our mind but through the responses of people and events about us.

Learn how to show fortitude and patience when that answer is no.

For surely, when it is no, God has something better planned for usif wecan master fortitude and patience.

A Salvo warms to Mary and Lucy The War Cry, the national paper of The Salvation Army, and judged two years ago at the convention of the Australasian Religious Press Association to be the most improved religious paper that year - takes a look at Mary MacKillop as portrayed through the film "Mary".

Mary MacKillop played

by Lucy Bell, comforts Sister Paula (Roslyn Oades) after Mary's excommunication in Ky Pavou's Mary.

Brad Halse talks to Lucy Bell who played Mary in the film and looks at a recent book on Mary MacKillop

T ast month 250,000 or so people

rammed into Sydney 's Randwick Racecourse. Not for a horse race, mind you, but to celebrate the beatification of Mary MacKillop by Pope John Paul II. And therein lies a touch of irony. Australia's first saint (in the Catholic sense), acknowledged at a racecourse.

Mary was, of course, a very down to earth and pragmatic sort of a person, and by all reports a fine horse rider. Perhaps Randwick is doubly suitable.

Mary was born in January, 1842 in Fitzroy, Melbourne. In 1885 she founded, in partnership with Father Julian Woods, the Sisters of Saint Joseph, a religious order of nuns particularly committed to providing education for impoverished children.

This was at the remote town of Penola, near the South Australia/Victoria border.

She was a determined individual who found herself at loggerheads with various bishops throughout her lifetime, even being excommunicated for several months in the early 1870s for refusing to compromise her order's constitution.

She died in Sydney in 1909 and since then has been revered by many in the wider Australian community as well as the Catholic Church. Moves to have her beatified within the Roman Catholic Church commenced as early as 1925, although these were suspended some five years later and were not revived for various reasons until 1951.

In 1993 Pope John Paul II approved Mary's beatification, after nearly two decades of research into her life and ministry. The road to sainthood, at least as far as some understand it, can be a long one.

Let me say at the outset that, as an individual and as a member of The Salvation

Mary as a young woman.

In Lesley O'Brien's recent biography of Army, Id° not accept all that my Catholic Lucy is not a Roman Catholic, nor a brothers and sisters believe about this practising Christian, which means she has Mary, "Unveiled",Mary's holiness is eviplenty of company in this country. Despite dent. It may not be written in theological notion of sainthood.

The Army's theology regarding this is that or perhaps because of it her experi- or religious jargon (deliberately so, Lesley ence of researching the character of Mary wishing to write a biography available to pretty straightforward. her. all Australians), but it is there.

Firstly, we believe that all who exercise MacKillop impacted upon really basic things started out with "I It's there in her vision and determinaan active faith in Christ are saints. That's not to say that some are not more "saintly" like going to Mass on Sundays. There tion and single mindedness. than others in character and behaviour. were things I found surprisingly good It's there in her capacity to forgive (even Rather, it is to emphasise that the impor- about the Church ... the sense of commu- those who wronged her deeply). tant thing is to accept God's grace, by exer- nity, the amazing leap of faith which peoIt'stherein her commitment to the poor. ple have to make ... these were wonderful. cising faith in the saving work of Ghrist. all else, it's there in her love for Above "I am much more open minded than!And secondly, and perhaps more imporher outstanding faith.

God, in tanty, we say that in this matter of grace, was. It's funny isn't it. Some of us are very love that Mary showed for those "The there is only one mediator - Jesus. We open-minded about Buddhism or other stemmed from the love of God around her because Christianity religions, but eastern don't need any other intermediary. So, there are a few differences. But that is on our back doorstep we tend to be she felt inside her," O'Brien writes. This question of her inner devoton to God was doesn't mean that we don't recognise the quite closed about it." which was elaborated upon by something significance of lastmonth's eventfor the How true that is. the Hon Marie Tehan MP, Victoria's MinAustralian Church, and for millions of We talked about other things, like ister for Health, when she launched the Australians.

Mary's faith. Lucy was impressed: "Her book.

For months Australians were progres- faith kept her going when other people "We need to see more holiness in the sively primed for this occasion. Books might just have been too depressed by the about Mary were published or repub- whole experience ... It is such an impres- community." she said. Never a truer word lished, documentaries were televised, and sive story of goodness . . . It's a story which ... Would that a few more political and community leaders felt the same way. But an Australian feature film cum documen- says it is possible to change things." the fact that Mrs Tehan was speaking tary was screened around the nation.

Meeting Lucy proved interesting. Here about holiness in the everyday vernacular Simply titled "Mary", it features Lucy was an ordinary person, albeit a talented would have impressed Mary. It is not only Bell as the young Mary MacKillop.I spoke actor, playing a character whom many a Sunday morning subject. with Lucy when the film was first released regard as anything but ordinary.

We can all learn from Mary's attitude. (it was reviewed in the December 10 War Mary was a saint, they argue, not an We may not have had a vested interest in Cry). ordinary person. I'm not so sure about The first thingI noticed about Lucy was that. Being holy, being saintly, does not the proceedings at Randwick, nor might her ordinariness. And I mean no disre- mean one lives in another realm; it means we concur with the Catholic theology spect by that. one seeks to live with a purity of heart implicit in the whole process of "saintmaking", but if we are stirred to think She was bright and articulate, or at least within the cut and thrust of life. as bright and articulate as one can be first Indeed,one of the many attractive fea- about what prompted this young woman thing in the morning after a full round of tures of Mary's character was her ordinar- to head out to the hot, dry and harsh conmedia interviews the previous day. iness, her lack of pretension, her "let's get ditions of the Australian bush to offer a chance at an education, But there was a smallness about her, on with the job at hand" attitude. And that some poor kids will be the better for it. then we almost a plainness. Still, thatisoften one's appeals to Australians. If we're going to Quite simply, it was her profound belief reaction when meeting someone previ- have a saint in the sense that the Catholic ously only seen on the big screen, or on Church defines sainthood, then Mary that God is interested in, and loves, everytelevision, be they sporting personalities, seems our sort of saint, no disrespect one. That included those little tackers out Penola way. It also includes us. intended. actors, politicians, or whatever.

A colourful and readable overview *Unveiled, Lesley O'Brien, Collins Dove, 1994, pb, 270pp. * Julian Tenison Woods: 'Father Founder' Margaret M. Press rsj, Collins Dove, 1994 (revised edit), pb,277pp.

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ESLEY O'Brien's book on Mary MacKillop is just one of several that are currently on the shelves of major book retailers around the nation.

And it deserves its place.

It's a colourful and readable overview of a remarkable life, written as a journalist writes - for the mass market and in bite sized

pieces. O'Brien is an experienced journalist in both the radio and print media, having worked for several mainstream magazines.

If you are looking for the complexities of the church politics and personalities of the era, you would be best to move on from this to other works.

But if you want to learn without expending huge amounts of intellectual energy, Lesley's book might be the one. Written with the full cooperation of the Mary MacKillop Secretariat, it carries a

good range of photos to break the text.

I am not sure that I agree with all of the author's conclusions, like her tendency to "reduce" some (and maybe much) of Mary's motivation to her upbringing or character or gender (thereby making her a role model for various interest groups) as opposed to her absolute faith and devotion to God and the Church; or her statement in the epilogue that

Mary's beatification is "one more sign of Australia's maturity".

itual director and co-founder of the Sisters of Saint Joseph order.

But this revisionist tendency is always there with biographers and historians.

Woods was not only a charismatic Catholic figure in his younger days, but also a considerable scholar in the fields of educations, science and journalism.

Despite this, it is an enjoyable read and a useful addition to the history of Australia and its people.

Another book, related to the subject, and well worth a lookis "Julian Tenison Woods: Father Founder", by Margaret M. Press rsj. Woods was Mary's spir-

This tells his story in a thorough and scholarly manner, with his correspondence to Mary making for engrossing reading. BWH.

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The spirit of your memory

By Father Lawrence E. Mick

Holy Spirit "the church's living memory" (No. 1099)

I think the Holy Spirit often does a good ent is a time to exercise the memory.

To do that well, we need the Holy job for us without being noticed. In the L Western world, at least, the Holy Spirit Spirit.

Think about the importance of your has received less attention from most memory. For thinking about that helps to Catholics than the Father or the Son. clarify the importance of the Spirit in the Perhaps that's because it is easier for us church. to relate to our mental images of the What happens when people develop Father and the Son than to relate to the amnesia and lose their memory? The dove or wind or fire that symbolize the answer is simple: They don't remember Holy Spirit. In any event, the age of the who they are. They lose sight of their church is the age of the Holy Spirit. But we still need to learn to recognize the identity.

Spirit's presence clearly.

Our memories shape our identity.

The new catechism may help Catholics During Lent, we who are Christans attempt to remember who we are. If to appreciate the work of the Holy Spirit we've been forgetting what we are all more fully, for it frequently refers to the about, we hope in this season to recover Spirit's action and to the Spirit's role in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. our lives.

And this is why the Spirit of God matBesides the section of the catechism ters so much. It is the Spirit who restores devoted to the eighth article of the Aposour memory, reminding us who we are. tles' Creed ("I believe in the Holy Spirit"), I find it intriguing that the new Cate- the catechism often refers to the Spirit in chism of the Catholic Church calls the its other sections.

A wake-up call delivered with spirit...

By Father John J. Castelot

Ilow does this "work"? St. Augustine used an illustration that helps us understand the process.

words constituted a "wakeTheup"following call in early Christianity:

When a person wants to convey an idea to someone, that idea first exists as a "mental word" in the mind. But how does the person get that mental word into someone else's mind?

"Awake, 0 sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light" (Ephesians 5:14).

The words seem to have been part of an early baptismal celebration. They called the one to be baptized away from the death of pagan conduct into a vibrant Christian life.

The author of Ephesians immediately went on to say: "Watch carefully then how you live."

This wake-up call originally addressed to those about to be baptized now is addressed to the already baptized. It is a call to grow in virtue, to be -filled with the Spirit" (Ephesians 5:18).

It is an alarm that rings insistently in every age.

Anyone who reads this Scripture is invited to get up and get going.

It is not only this passage, however, but all of Scripture that alerts us to the insistent voice of the Spirit. Reading Scripture puts us in communication with the Spirit, the abiding dynamic power of the risen Christ.

We speak today of the miracle of modern communication, but the miracle of communication with the Spirit is far from modern.

The risen Lord, who promised to be with us all days, has been calling people for centuries, opening the lines of communication through the Scriptures.

When we read the Scriptures with open minds and hearts, we "pick up the receiver" and are in communication with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit's "mental word" has become ours.

We hear the Spirit's tireless and timeless urging: "Awake, 0 sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light" - and life."

Here is what the Letter to the Romans has to say about wakefulness: "It is the hour now for you to awake from sleep ... (for) the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness (and) put on the armour of light" (13:11-12).

Food for thought You might say that Lent is like an extended retreat leading to Easter the church's greatest celebration of new life. As often happens on a retreat. Lent becomes for many a special time of learning: learning geared to the "new life" at Christianity's heart.

And what areas might this kind of learning cover?

With that question in mind, I was pleasantly surprised, when planning materials that our offices would produce for Lent 1995, to happen upon the outline of a "catechesis for the newness of life" found in No. 1697 of the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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A catechesis — or education in the faith — directed to the newness of life, it says, should focus on the Holy Spirit; grace; the Beatitudes; sin and forgiveness; the virtues; the two-fold commandment of charity set forth in the Decalogue; and on the church and its people.

"The first and last point of reference of this catechesis will always be Jesus Christ himself," the catechism insists (No. 1698).

So there you have it! A catechesis for the newness of life, beginning with the Holy Spirit — "the interior master of life according to Christ," "a gentle guest and friend who inspires, guides, corrects and strengthens" the new life in Christ.

which we were saved. As the catechism puts it, "Christian liturgy not only recalls the events that saved us but actualizes them, makes them present.

"The paschal mystery is celebrated, not repeated. It is the celebrations that are repeated, and in each celebration there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit that makes the unique mystery present" (No. 1104).

So in this way, too, the Spirit serves as the church's living memory.

• The Holy Spirit reminds us of all that Jesus taught.

The Holy Spirit brings us into communion with Christ, shaping us into the body of Christ animated by the Spirit's love.

The Holy Spirit impels us to go forth to spread the word of God and to serve others in Christ's name.

The Holy Spirit provides the memory that enables us to be Christ's church.

Without the Holy Spirit, the church would be a mere human organization spiritually a lifeless corpse. The Spirit

gives us life so that the church is the living body of Christ.

And every time the Eucharist is celebrated we pray for this - we pray that the Holy Spirit will make us more fully the body of Christ.

What is being acknowledged is that the way we are in contact with the living Christ is through his Spirit.

It was in baptism that each of us first received the gift of the Holy Spirit, and that same Spirit, dwelling within us, constantly calls us to a closer union with Christ and the Father.

So what is the Holy Spirit up to? The Spirit is doing us a lot of good. though as I suggested the Spirit at times seems to go almost unnoticed. The Spirit wants to wake up faith, convert hearts and invite adherence to the Father's will (Catechism.

No. 1098).

That is why opening ourselves more completely to the action of the Holy Spirit is an important first step we can take to observe Lent fully.

How the Spirit wakes you up

It first must be translated into spoken or written words. When the person at the other end of the line hears or reads these words, they become mental words in his own mind. Communication has been established; there is now a meeting of minds.

When the Spirit wants to get a "wake-up call" into our consciousness, words that we can understand are used, human words, the words of the biblical authors. As Vatican Council II put it, God speaks to us "in human fashion" through others (3:12).

It is in the section on the liturgy, for example, that the catechism makes the intriguing statement that "the Holy Spirit is the church's living memory" (No. 1099).

But what on earth does that mean?

The church traditionally ascribes the inspiration of the Scriptures to the Holy Spirit, and the Scriptures form a crucial part of our common memory as a community. They remind us of God's actions throughout history and of Jesus' teachings.

Nonetheless, it is the Spirit who is our "living" memory, the catechism says.

What are we to make of this. When the Scriptures are procclaimed during worship, it is the Spirit who animates the lector to proclaim the Word of God with power. The same Spirit, dwelling in each of us, enables us to hear that powerful word and welcome it so that it can shape our lives.

Making Scripture a living word is one way the Spirit is the church's living memory.

In similar fashion, the Holy Spirit makes present in our worship the events by

Talking point Think of spiritual life as an "awakening." What do you think the Spirit is awakening you to?

Selected responses from readers: "Discovering my true self — what God intends me to be.... When you reach your 30s and 40s, you start putting off all false selves and learn to be your true self." — Jenni Stevens.

"The Holy Spirit is calling me to be more aware that there are so many hurting people and to be Christ to them." — Dorothy Wertis. "The Spirit keeps bringing me back to the importance of praying — especially for other people." — Dolores King.

"To serving the Lord! I find that it is easy to think that I am serving the Lord. But it's not just one set bloc of time where now I'm going to serve the Lord. It's every moment of every day, asking what the Lord wants me to do now." — Linda Arthur. "To find my own potential, to find what I have to offer the world and the way I can serve."

— Susan Murphy.

"To be consciously aware of God's love as a blessing and as a universal law of unimaginable proportions and repercussions! It is ... an inspiration to discover talents and abilities to respond to challenging relationships and situations." - Mary Anne White.

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first thought of the Holy Spirit awakening us from sleep. It is an awakenprocess that may use many - and ing A friend who must get to work quite - alarms. varied early each morning sets three alarm clocks. The first one is a standard During Lent especially, we listen to electric clock set to go off at the nec- the sound of the Spirit trying to wake essary rising time. us up! a has clock The second alarm Like the man who easily sleeps snooze button that rings at four - through various alarms, many minute intervals. That clock is set to Catholics even those with many years go off a half-hour early so that my of religious education - don't seem friend can have the luxury of shutting awake to the Spirit. They've heard it off and the security of knowing he many good words, but for some reawon't be late. son the personal connection with The third clock is the just-in-case their God was never made. alarm. It operates on a battery and sits across the room, thus forcing my Two recent conversations come to friend to get out of bed to shut it off. It mind. A woman named Sally was is set to sound at the latest possible recalling her sense of alienation from the church and her distance moment.

When I asked this friend which from God. alarm actually awakens him, he She indicated she had been caught responded that any of them, or some- up in some internal politics at a partimes all of them together, do the job. ticular parish. For her peace of mind, The image of my friend shutting off she said she had stopped going to alarm clocks came to mind when I Mass. Yet a restlessness within herBy Fr Herbert Weber

self told her that that was not the answer.

When we talked, she was able to trace her awakened heart all the way back to a tdp to Alaska. There, as she gazed at the pristine mountains and unpolluted rivers, she felt the awesomeness of God. She became aware of all that God had done for her and for all humankind.

And this awareness sounded the awakening alarm in her soul. Such grandeur, she realized, had to come from a gracious and loving God. The other conversation reflected just the opposite. A man named Bill told me that his renewal started not from finding God's goodness, but from becoming aware of God's absence from his life.

Bill said that his life simply was empty and nothing that he was doing satisfied his inner hunger. But the hunger itself indicated that the Spirit was at work.

In both these cases the people involved had discovered that God's Spirit was working in its own time in their lives.

Sally discovered the display of God's goodness.

Bill discovered the emptiness without it.

But I want to point out an element that was essential in their discoveries: reflection.

The final step in awakening to the Spirit's movement is to reflect on one's life.

This is happening these days when lay people, as well as religious, priests and deacons seek spiritual direction join discussion-reflection groups, keep journals or go on retreats.

Whenever the time and energy are set aside to listen to and review what is going on in one's life, then it is possible to discover that -and how - the Holy Spirit is awakening us from our sleep.

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Meet little 'donkey' who carries Jesus around

by COLLEEN McGUINESS-HO WARD

'D never heard of Father Emilien Tardif I MSC, nor had I any knowledge of the Charismatic Renewal.

Thus in total ignorance and with an open mind I interviewed, albeit very briefly in the time permitted, this unpretentious. average looking French Canadian priest who also speaks English and Spanish (due to his work in the Dominican Republic).

That night I was among about 2,000 people who packed St Mary's cathedral and overflowed outside, in order to gain more background on this charismatic healer.

Later I read his two books (page 14 this week's Record) Jesus is Alive (translated into 20 languages and with over a million copies sold), and Jesus is the Messiah.

(Father Tardif has written a third yet to be translated into English).

Emphasising that Jesus is the healer and he is merely the instrument, Farther Tardif also sees himself as the little donkey who brings Jesus to the five continents he's visited and the 66 countries in which he's preached.

The healing ministry began for Father Tardif, when suffering from acute tuberculosis in June 1973, he was hospitalised facing a year of medical attention and recuperation and during which he was (albeit reluctantly on his part!) prayed over by visiting charismatics.

Not surprisingly, God's power was speedier and he was completely healed and discharged the next month!

However while being healed he was also given the charism of healing by the Holy Spirit.

Previously a little sceptical about chartsmattes, he decided after his cure to investigate them further; he experienced within months the charism of healing which enabled him to heal a wheelchair patient.

"Prior to my cure, I'd never experienced anyone being healed in 17 years as a priest!"

Thus commenced a 20 year apostolate which has been filled with vast numbers of healings, cures and alleged miracles -primarily, but not always, being associated with the Eucharist.

Asking Jesus to heal His people and always with the emphasis not on the healing, but on the power of Jesus who - he constantly asserts and proves! "is alive and heals! Just the same as He did 2,000 years ago".

"I seek, through Jesus,to heal the paralytic - not the paralysis," Father Tardif points out, and sees healing as an aid to evangelisation rather than merely an end in itself.

He states in his book that frequently

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there is a healing of the spirit before a physical healing takes place and certainly some of them are quite outstanding.

One such case is that of baby Isabel Maria, blind from birth and whose mother sought a medical cure when the baby was two months old, but was told by a medico in Miami, Florida, that it was impossible because the optic nerve had atrophied and she simply had to accept the fact her daughter would always be blind.

Undeterred, in 1994 the mother took the then seven months old baby to Father Tardifs presbytery where he and other charismatics prayed over her, resulting in a cure which can only be described as miraculous, the baby receiving perfect vision for which the medico could not give any explanation.

Having seen her again at 14 months old, Father Tardif confirms the baby's sight is perfect.

About six years ago when Father Tardif was in Australia, a boy was healed from glaucoma-related blindness at the time a guide dog was being prepared for him. His eyesight was restored, the guide dog was not required! And Father Tardif saw him recently when he confirmed his eyesight is excellent.

Three years ago during a national conference in Rimini, Italy, at a meeting of 60.000, 101 medically documented healings were confirmed.

Just as Jesus healed the lepers, sick and lame 2,000 years ago, He is still doing the same today asserts Father Tardif who on countless occasions, has prayed over people and told them to get up and walk And they've done so! Some carrying their now redundant crutches, walking sticks, and leaving their wheelchairs.

Another, who was like "a rag doll lying on the floor" with paralysed limbs and hands, was told by Father Tardif through the power of Jesus to get up and walk and did so praising Jesus and glorifying God. Last September Father Tardif was at a healing Mass in Beirut, Lebanon, with 40,000 people, during which among those healed were five Muslims who said they now wish to become Catholics: "It was a call to accept Jesus".

But it is not enough merely to see signs, cautions Father Tardif. "because after awakening the people we have to feed them with the word of God; the signs are a call to open their hearts to Him." Convinced that these signs (of healing) accompany the new evangelisation which the pope is calling us to, Father Tardif amplifies this by adding "new in the method, new in the fire, and new in its expression."

Asserting that "the Holy Spirit is coming with the fire in the new evangelisation and the signs give authenticity to the Word of God we are proclaiming," he continues that "He will renew all life.

"And when Jesus comes with the Second Coming of Christ," states Father Tardif, "He will destroy the anti-Christ and re-establish peace on earth."

But how does this charismatic priest know who is being healed?

Quite simply, it is through the Word of Knowledge "written in the epistle of St Paul to the Corinthians, who announced it as a

step in faith."

Although they receive "a movement of the Holy Spirit that someone out there in the crowd is being healed, we're never quite sure until we get their testimonies.

But in fact, we do know that Jesus never issues us with a complete list and there are many more being healed, and who will continue to be healed, that we do not receive through the Word of Knowledge."

If he is celebrating a Mass, it is during the Consecration and subsequent distribution of Holy Communion.

But this form of knowledge is a word which comes into his heart, he explains, and then "when I remove one layer of tissue, it reveals yet another (with more explanation), and yet a third."

As an example he described how during his Melbourne meeting which took place two weeks ago, with an assembly of 13,000 people, the Word of Knowledge given to Father was 'abortion'.

Then came a further revelation which told him that a girl of 19 had fallen pregnant and was being pushed by her boyfriend to have an abortion, but she had decided not to.

He repeated this to the assembly with God's words which were that "God is praising you for not having an abortion and will bless you and your child" and that she should seek absolution during confession and she would receive help.

The next day the girl, who turned 19 last week, confessed she was the one, but despite pressure to have an abortion, had decided "not to kill my child, because I heard my unborn baby crying to me in the night during a dream".

The day after, the young woman voluntarily testified before the crowd.

In response to a question as to whether there were more healings experienced within the charismatic movement, Father Tardif said that although certainly healings took place outside of the charismatic movement (and cited Padre Pio's healings), there did seem to be more from within, "because the gift of healing is one of the charisms of the Holy Spirit."

Commenting that although the charism of healing is given to few, the gift of healing is often evidenced in a group of people.

The Holy Spirit gives the gift and then Jesus does the healing.

Father Tardif also comments in his book how he had been unable to affect a healing in some instances, but once he prayed in tongues, a healing then took place.

Back to St Mary's cathedral and my first experience of a Healing Mass - and what an introduction it was!

A number were in wheel chairs, using walking aids, or were obviously infirm, and short of space, people even spilled over onto the sanctuary steps.

The Disciples of Jesus music ministry did a marvellous job joined by an enthusiastic congregation; the Disciples also arranged the liturgy.

Crammed in the former choir loft we looked down on the congregation who'd all come, as Father Tardif noted, with faith, hope and trust.

And many were not disappointed. In truth no one could have been disappointed that night, whether their healing took place

"Jesus is Alive!" exults Father Emilien Tardif MSC, "and I'm just the little donkey who carries Jesus throughout the world proving He heals today just as He did 2,000 years ago."

or not, because Jesus was so vibrantly. majestically, unmistakeably there in that cathedral with His people.

His presence was so evident and real.

Then He moved among the crowd, healing poor hearing and deafness, bad eyesight, crushing kidney stones - as Father Tardif said with a Word of Knowledge for one man.

"There is a man here with kidney stones who was in great pain and desired to leave the cathedral. But that pain was Jesus crushing those stones and tonight you will pass them out naturally."

And then: "There are two wives, married for years who cannot conceive a child. This very day in a year's time, you will both have a child in your arms".

To others he told of spinal blockages which prevented their mobility and some in wheelchairs, which were being healed.

Another believes himself now cured of epilepsy and Father Tardif said four would be cured of cancer within weeks while another with a brain tumour requiring delicate surgery would be cured within a month; that even while he spoke Jesus was shrinking the tumour.

One Italian man in our choir loft had climbed up with a walking stick - then Father Tardif said two men had knee problems which prevented them from bending their knee, but they were being healed.

The Italian left his walking stick, fought his way through to the altar, genuflected, gave his testimony, and in proof, genuflected again before moving to embrace Archbishop Hickey who rose to reciprocate that joyous embrace.

I saw him leave that night with his walking stick horizontal in his hand - no longer required.

Others too had been cured of various things that night,and gave their testimony to the congregation, the two doctors and an assessment team.

Generated in part by his healing ministry, great numbers of thriving prayer groups have sprung up in the Dominican.

Republic and in a population of seven million, there are now 2,800 prayer groups.

The day of the Cathedral Mass, 700 had attended the Bethel Community for Father Tardifs teaching session, and the next night in the Supreme Court Gardens, Father Tardif was instrumental in affecting more healings amidst the 1,400 who gathered for his Eucharistic celebration.

To many of us, the signs of the Holy Spirit and Jesus at work and in our midst have always been very obvious, hut for those unsure or the sceptics, Jesus' power was indisputably in stark evidence during Father Tardifs Mass celebrations.

Just asked those who were cured!

Anyone requiring more information or who have further testimonies, please contact Dennise Hennessy on 246-2769 or your local prayer meeting.

Next issue - What is the Charismatic Renewal

Speaking and hearing within distance

— Christians and those of Semitism, and said any discrimination based The church's approach to traditional reliD other faiths are "within speaking distance on race, color, religion or condition of life is gions has emerged as a priority under the leadand hearing distance" just years after the foreign to the mind of Christ. ership of Cardinal Arinze, whose parents ALLAS (CNS)

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Second Vatican Council's declaration on nonCardinal Arinze praised the U.S. bishops for Christian religions, said a leading Vatican offi- taking the task of ecumenical and interrelicial. gious dialogue seriously and for seizing appro"The climate of meeting one another, listen- priate moments to advance understanding, citing to one another is better than it was 30 years ing Christian-Muslim consultations during the ago," said Nigerian Cardinal Arinze, president Persian Gulf War. of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious DiaThe increasing diversity of believers in the logue.

United States confirms the reality of religious "Before you can really communicate in great pluralism and the need for dialogue, the cardidepth, before you can really work together, nal said. understand another, there must be some rea"Religious plurality is a fact," he said. "Theresonable trust, confidence," he told an interreli- fore, the church has no choice except to relate gious consultation, that a year ago involved to other believers. If other believers want to be Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist and Christian Christians, then there would be no more need scholars. for our office in the Vatican, but it has not hapVatican H's Declaration on the Relationship pened yet. of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, pro"And religion is proposed, not imposed, so if mulgated in 1965, said the Catholic Church they want to remain in their religion we at rejects nothing that is true and holy in non- least want to build bridges of friendship with Christian religions, called for an end to anti- them and good understanding," he added.

Suharto told of `ninja' hit squads in East Timor Bishop Belo, On Jan. a so-called "ninja" hit-squad D apostolic administrator of Dili. has written abducted five Dili youths. The youths' bodies Indonesian President Suharto to advise him of were found in the western outskirts of Dili the ILI, East Timor (CNS) -

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belonged to traditional African religions and who was baptized at age 9 after attending a Catholic school.

The term "traditional religion" describes what were once called pagan or animist religions, known differently in different countries.

"Our office puts as a priority a careful and sympathetic study of these religions by Christians with a view to understanding them, with a view to helping those who have come from the background of these religions and are now Christians...," he said.

The focus, he continued, is on helping those new Christians "become more and more at home in the church, identifying the elements in these religions that are good or noble or true which Christianity can adopt or adapt or ennoble, so that the church will not appear foreign among people of that religious background and culture who are not Christians."

Anti-medicine anti-life anti-choice

increased human rights violations in East next day. Other "ninjas," roam the streets at Timor since December. night stoning houses and assaulting people.

Bishop Belo said he is concerned over a Father Matneos da Rosario da Cruz, head of series of civilian deaths, and various incidents, the Diocese of Dili's justice and peace comincluding civilians killed by security forces and the terrorism tactics of a marauding gang mission, said that since the Jan. 12 incident in r11-11CAGO (CNS) - Despite protests from Catholic and pro-life officials, all obstetrics residency programs must ensure abortion training by dubbed "the ninjas," because they strike at Dili large numbers of women gather outside Bishop Belo's residence almost daily.

1996. night and cover their heads with masks.

Cardinal Mahony, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life If the Indonesian president does not Father Rosario said the women complain Activities, called the action "the most outrageous and coercive yet taken by respond to his call for human rights guaran- about continual unrest in their neighbourpeople who advocate abortion" and said it was "anti-medicine, anti-life and tees, Bishop Belo said, "I will report (these hoods caused by the "ninja" gang. even anti-choice. cases) to the United Nations secretary-general "We will leave no stone unturned in bringing about a reversal of this Draand ask international communities to look into People also crowd his office eager to report conian measure." he added. the suffering of East Timor people." incidents. Father Rosario said. A boy with The Catholic Health Association said such a requirement "would comAuthorities claimed that the six people large cut on his head had just reported to the promise the Catholic obstetric programs as they try to conform to stanrecently killed were Fretilin guerrillas, but priest that masked men broke into his house dards and moral teachings of the Catholic Church." at dawn and beat him until he was bloody.

Wanda Franz, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said the local people said they were civilians. regulation council "is using strong-arm tactics to force medical schools to become trainers in abortion techniques."

Signs of cooperation

Cardinal Mahony told promoters of the legislation such a requirement violates the conscience rights of Catholics and the Hippocratic oath.

ARSAW, POLAND (CNS) - Local bloc. Catholic-Orthodox dialogue has discuss mutual objectives.

"Coercing people and institutions to particiW Catholic-Orthodox cooperation has stalled since the collapse of communist pate in the destruction of innocent life is a great former Lenga in the Bishop Catholic flourished in many parts of Eastern rule. Orthodox leaders in several countries

Europe despite serious problems between the two churches at the international level.

Even in the former Yugoslavian republics, where Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs are on opposite sides of the war, there are small signs of cooperation.

Last year, Orthodox bishops accompanied their Catholic counterparts on a pastoral visit to Serb-occupied parts of Croatia.

Serbia's first ecumenical chapel was dedicated by Catholic and Orthodox bishops last November.

In Latvia, where Catholics form 20 percent of the 2.7 million inhabitants, Archbishop Janis Pujats of Riga said in 1994 that Russian military pressure had enhanced Catholic links with the Baltic nation's Russian Orthodox.

"Our relations with the Russian church are good in practice as well as theory," the archbishop said.

Throughout much of the former Soviet

were angered by the revival of previously illegal Eastern-rite Catholic churches and their claims to property given to the Orthodox during the communist era.

The major problems involved the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches.

The Catholic Church was accused of establishing parallel structures in Orthodox areas, and Orthodox leaders have been backing Russian legal curbs on foreign-based religious associations.

In Russia, the Orthodox hierarchy has kept its distance from Catholics, but this has not prevented local communities from developing ties.

Last April, seminarians from both churches held their first joint seminar in St. Petersburg. During last year, there were several major interchurch conferences that debated abortion, refugees, religious legislation and the Chechen war.

An ecumenical group is working on a joint edition of the Bible, and a coordinating commission of Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant leaders is meeting monthly to

Soviet republic of Kazakhstan, said that Catholics and Orthodox were working together to rebuild religious life.

"If reconciliation occurred at the top level, there would be few problems," he said.

Even in the Ukraine, where Catholics and Orthodox have feuded over rival jurisdictional and property claims, leaders of both marked the Jan. 7 Orthodox Christmas with a joint appeal for national unity.

In mostly Catholic Poland, when Orthodox Archbishop Sawa of Bialystok-Gdansk became the military bishop for his church in January, his Catholic counterpart, Bishop Slawoj Leszek Glodz, ordered his chaplains to begin sharing chapels.

In Albania, Catholics, Orthodox and Muslims have helped rebuild each other's places of worship after 50 years of harsh communist rule. The country's first ecumenical Bible hit the bookstands last December.

evil," he said.

"I find it difficult to believe that medical organizations would require doctors who specialize in caring for unborn children and their mothers to learn how to kill the former and jeopardize the physical, emotional and spiritual health of the latter," the cardinal added.

Although Catholic health care institutions will be able to seek protection under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Cardinal Mahony said, the most serious harm will be to the medical profession itself.

"For a profession that makes abortion into the routine and expected norm for medical practice - that places the killing of its patients on the same moral plane as their cure - has denied itself the status of a healing profession," he said.

Cardinal Mahony said the change "will open up a new and even more emotional phase in the

abortion debate, further dividing a society in urgent need of respectful dialogue and reconciliation."

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Congratulations! from Peter and Veronica Dymond, Toodyay Sir, Congratulations to everyone involved in the organisation, preparation and performance of the Power of Love Concert on February 12.

To see and hear the tremendous talent of our Catholic shcool children and youth was indeed a real treat Had the production been at the end of a school term it would have been classed as a great achievement; to occur within a couple of weeks of school re-opening after the long summer break may well be bordering on the miraculous. Thank you all.

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Time to play and pray Getting to know you the Salesian Summer Camp way.

youngsters and their leaders on this their last night of a five-day camp, as they scramble through the forest path on USTRALIA DAY. 26 January 1995 that last half hour of Australia Day. Leaders and campers, with vegemite ' Twelve minutes to midnight, and the dark silence of the jarrah forest at smeared on their faces to repel the Nanga Brook is pierced by dozens of mythical "drop bears" high up in the flashing torches and shattered by the trees of Nanga Brook Forest, enjoy the shouts and shrieks of more than fifty joke they are playing on themselves.

The Fifth Annual Salesian Summer Catholic teenagers who are celebrating Australia Day with their own version of Camp at Nanga Bush attracted fifty-four Catholic teenage girls and boys from lights and noise. around the parishes of the Perth ArchThe heavens join in sympathetic diocese during the last week of the vibration with intermittent flashes of school holidays. lightning and rolls of thunder. A few The five-day programme of fun and drops of rain are not sufficient to games was organized and run by fifteen dampen the mad enthusiasm of these youth leaders who call themselves the

By Father Bert Fulbrook, SBD

West Australian Young Salesians camp, the homilist drew on the "Body (VVAY.S.). This youth team was ably led Game" and Paul's metaphor of the Mysthis year by guest director, Salesian tical Body for inspiration. In his wisdom, Brother, Peter White, a theology student God has gifted each one of us with spefrom Melbourne. Back-up support was cial personal gifts for the good of the provided by a team of lay Salesian whole Body of Christ. the Church. But Cooperators, and two Salesian Brothers God, wisely, has also placed limitations and a Priest. on each one of us so that we can appreThe programme included games and ciate the gifts of others and work activities that encouraged friendship together as a team. and teamwork, in an atmosphere of Through our personal gifts and limitaChristian fellowship, prayer and fun.

Abseling, under the direction and tions God draws us into the Body of instruction of another Peter White, the Christ, the Church. The Church must owner of Dwellingup Adventurers, continually reach out to young people, acutely tested the campers' levels of enabling and empowering them to use trust in themselves and in their mates. their gifts for their own development At the Eucharist on the final night of and for the good of the Body.

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Prayers from Fr Tardif's books on healing May their filithgrow, May their trust in you be renewed, And may they be open to the marvels of your lore, So that they also may be witnesses Of your power and of your compassion.

We ask you that, Jesus, By the Power of your Holy Wounds, By your Holy Cross And by your Precious Blood shed for us.

Heal them Lord.

Heal them in their body.

Heal them in their heart.

Heal them in their soul.

Give them Lift, abundant Life.

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Some efficacious prayers taken from Father Emilien Tardirs book Jesus is Alive. This book and his other book Jesus is the Messiah (Manna Publications and available from Pellegrinis $10 each) are books I would very highly recommend for personal usc and also gifts.

Written in simple honesty, they arc full of encouraging, positive, certain signs of Jesus at work while containing many inspiring testimonies from those who've had a cure, healing, or a miraculous recovery.

In giving this PRAYER FOR HEALING, Father Tardif urges the sick to have faith, and place their lives in the hands of Jesus: Lord Jesus, We believe that you live and are risen from the dead.

We believe that you are really present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, and in each one of us.

We give you praise and we adore you, We give you thanks, Lord, for coming to us, As Living bread from Heaven.

You are the Resurrection and the Life.

You, Lord, are health for the sick.

Today we hold up to you all the sick Who read this book, Because for you distances do not exist, Neither is there time, nor space, are the Eternal Present and you know them all.

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Nov, Lord, We ask you to have compassion for them.

Reach them through our Gospel, Proclaimed in this book, In order that all may acknowledge, That you are Alive in your church today.

We beseech you, Jesus, Have compassion for all who are afflicted in their body, Those who suffer in their heart and those who suffer in their soul.

As they pray and listen to the testimonies of what you are doing By your Spirit which renews everything throughout the world.

Have mercy on them Lord, Right now, we ask you: Bless thrm and restore many to health.

We ask you that through the intercession Of your Mother, The most Blessed Virgin Marv, The Virgin of Sorrows, The one who was present, standing at the foot of the Cross, The one who was the first to contemplate your Holy Wounds And whom you have given to us as our Mother.

Today, Lord, We hold up to you in faith, All the sick who have asked Jim prayers, And we ask you to relieve their sufferAnd to restore them to health.

We ask you for the glory qfthe Father in Heaven, To heal the sick who will read this book.

Father Tardif writes that this prayer FOR HEALING OF MEMORIES invites the Lord to heal the hearts of those who admit that they need such a healing.

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Father Kindness, Father of Love, Ibless you,Ipraise you andgive you thanks Because out of Love you havegiven me Jesus.

Thank you Father, By the light of your Spirit We understand that He is the Light, The Truth and the Good Shepherd Who came so that we may have Life And Lift to the today Father, We hold up (name) You know that son/daughter of yours by name.

Ihold him/her to you, Lord, So that you may cast a Father's eve on his/her life.

You know bis/ber heart And all the wounds of his/her past.

You know what be/she wanted to do and did not do.

You know the wrongs he/she has done a nd the wrongs that were done to him/her.

You knoll' his/her limitations, his/her failings and his/her sins, The traumas and hang-ups of his/her

Grant that they mavgron, in faith and in life, And that they be restored to health fir the glory ofyour name, So that your reign may continue to spread More and more in their hearts, Through the signs and the wonders of your love.

Today, Father, we ask you, By the Love of your Son, Jesus Christ, To pour out your Holy Spirit on this brother/sister So that the warmth of your healing love May penetrate into the innermost recess of his/her heart, You who heal the broken hearted And bind their wounds.

We ask you this Jesus, Because you are Jesus, You revealed to us that von have taken upon yourself All our sufferings and that by your Holy Wounds we have been healed.

Heal him/her, Father, enter his/her heart As you entered the house Where the disciples were, allfrightened.

You who appeared in their midst and said to theM: "Peace be with you".

Enter this heart andgive it your peace, Fill it with Love.

You are the Good Shepherd and we are all little lambs of your _flock.

We are so certain of your lore, That, before knowing the result of our prayers, in faith we say to you: Thank you Jesus, For all that you are going to do in each one of them.

7hank you Jesus, for the sick, That you are healing right now, That you are visiting with your mercy.

Thank you Jesus For all that you are doing through this book, We leave it in your hands as from today, Immerse it in your Holy Wounds, Cover it with your Divine Blood, And through this message, may your Heart of Good Shepherd Speak to the hearts of so many sick people who will read it.

GLORY AND HONOUR TO YOU, LORD!

We know that love drives out fear.

Come into his/her life and heal his/her heart.

We know Lord That von do so each time ire ask you, She who was at the Wedding Feast of Cana, When the wine had run out, you granted her request, Changing water into wine.

Give him/her a generous heart, full of gentleness andgoodness, Give him/her a new heart.

Burst forth in him/her Grant him/her the fruits of your Spirit: Love, peace and joy.

Make the Spirit of the Beatitudes descend on him/her, So that he/she may enjoy and seek God each day, Living without complexes or traumas,

Mass bouquet for our pope

11101UNBURY coordinator Maud Beatty of unit 1 Ocean Star Villas, Mangles Street,

Bunbury 6230 has written inviting as many people as possible to join in with their diocese in offering up a Mass for Pope John Paul II's birthday, on May 17

Point is, the Mass doesn't have to be said on that day, but as near as possible in order to give our Pope as much heavenly support as we can to help ease his burden and strengthen him from attacks which the truly committed attract.

He's a great pope and a true leader for our times, so any help behind the prayer wheel would undoubtedly benefit him. A card will then be compiled with all the parishes involved and forwarded onto him.

So if you wish to participate with this excellent birthday gift, please advise Maud at her above address of your intentions and she'll add on your parish's name to his birthday card.

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With his/her spouse, family, brothers and sistcr.,. 'give you thanks, Father, For what you are doing today in his/her life.

We give you thanks for your divine heart, For it is you who heal us, You who liberate us, You who break our chains andgirtus freedom.

Thank you, Lord, For we are the temples of your Holy Spirit, And that temple cannot be destroyed Because it is the House of God. We give you thanks, Lord, For the Faith, for the Love which you have placed in our hearts.

How great you are, 0 Lord!

ALL GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU, LORD! A willingness to completely surrender oneself to God is fundamental to healing, writes Father Tardif, "and that surrender brings with it a profound peace which the material world cannot give.

He commends to all Father Charles de Foucauld's prayer: Father, Isurrender invself into Your hands.

Use me however You will.

Ipraise andgive You thanks, For whatever You want to do with me.

Iam ready for anything, Ready to accept all, So that Your will may be done in me, and in all Your creatures.

Idesire nothing else, Father, Iplace my soul in your care.

Igive it to You my God. With my whole heart of love, BecauseIlove You. A ndIneed to give myself to You, To surrender myself into Your hands, Without limits, Without reservation, With absolute confidence, Because von are my Father.

Why God Made Little Boys

God made a world out of His dreams of magic mountains, oceans and streams, prairies and plains and wooded land, then paused and thought - I need someone to stand on top of the mountain, to conquer the seas, explore the plains and climb the trees.

Someone to start out small and grow sturdy and strong - like a tree. And so...He created boys full of spirit and fun to explore and conquer, to romp and run, with dirty faces and banged-up chins. And when He had completed the task He'd begun, He surely said "That's a job well done."

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by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

Al Home with tbe Spirit: On retgreat in daily life by Tom O'Hara SJ (Aurora Books/David Lovell Publishing) At home with the Spirit is a complete, portable faithrenewal program, a series of retreats, in the Ignatian manner, that can be e xplored in an 'at home' setting. This well thoughtout course offers people a spiritual vitamin pill to refresh and renew their faith midst the stresses of daily life. It is recommended that a person making such a retreat should meet a spiritual director each

week, or that a group meets with a facilitator.

With its clear development of the dynamic of the Spiritual Exercises, the book will be an invaluable resource, not just for home retreatants, but also for retreat directors, teachers and students, those making annual retreats and members of the Christian Life communities. It can also be most profitably used for days of recollection, for weekend retreats or simply as a source for daily prayer, especially to fit in with the Church's liturgical seasons.

TOM O'HARA Si.

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the horn, by way of contrast with the other leading instrument, the violin.

Described as the finest horn player in the world" and almost superhuman". Melbourne-born Barry Tuckwell has established a reputation which approaches the venerable. His smoothness of tone. matchless agility and thrilling virtuosity make every performance and recording he makes unforgettable.

The life of Erna Dohnanyi. an eminent Hungarian pianist. composer. conductor and teacher. was James was one of the In Mark's Gospel torn apart by the Second World most important Jewish- Jesus' relatives are at War. His son was executed for his Christian leaders in the first critical of Jesus' role in the abortive attempt to exe- early church. He was ministry. Like many of cute Hitler. after which Dohnanyi Jesus' relative, perhaps Jesus' relatives, James his cousin. probably had problems moved to Austria and, later. the Unlike James the United States. His music, which Great, the fisherman son with Jesus' words and combines a Classical attention to of Zebedee, whom Jesus actions. formal details with all the passionate called at the start of his Apparently he did not gestures of late European Romanti- public life, this James change his negative atticism, is well exemplified by the Sex- not a follower of Jesus tude toward Jesus until during the years of Jesus' a fter Jesus' death and tet in C major. Op 37.

USIC Viva Australia presents the seven-piece Australia Ensemble with eminent horn virtuoso Barry Tuckwell in the opening concert of it's 1995 Fiftieth Anniversary Season in Perth at the Perth Concert Hall on Monday.

March 6 at 8pm.

"First rate" "great stars". "eminent". "excellence...taken for granted". are common praises for the Australia Ensemble whether the music is Mozart or Nlartinu and whether the performance is at home or abroad so that audiences are assured of an amazing musical experience, and doubly so when Tuckwell and the Australia Ensemble combine.

The concert program showcases the performers' versatility. Mozart's Quintet in E flat major K407 calls for 2 violas instead of the more usual pair of violins, which helps to emphasise the romantic sonority of

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Dohnami's personal history parallels that of Musica Viva, whose founder, viola player and inventor Richard Goldner, was a war refugee from Vienna.

Melbourne-based Brenton Broadstock is one of Australia's most important composers. with a large body of work, ranging from chamber works to symphonies. to his credit. The Australia Ensemble will give the premiere performance of Celebration, a new work commissioned by Musica Viva to commemorate its Fiftieth Anniversary.

Cardinal Mintzenty, a leading church man of Hungary, imprisoned for eight years by the communists, almost died, having been beaten, scarred and treated very inhumanely.

He had however great devotion to his own mother and all mothers and said: "The most important person on earth is a mother.

She cannot claim the honour of having built Notre Dame Cathedral.

She need not.

She has built something more maginificent than any cathedral - a dwelling for an immortal sole; the tiny perfection of her baby's body...

The angels have not been blessed with such a grace.

They cannot share in God's creative miracle to bring new saints into heaven.

Only a mother can.

Mothers are closer to God the Creator than any other creature; God joins forces with Mothers in supporting this act of creation.

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a letter to the Christians Jesus Christ, whether the a t Corinth that soon kept Moses' law or not. a fter Jesus rose from The more conservative death to new life, he Jewish Christians insisted that all converts keep appeared to James.

That experience led the Jewish law.

James, as leader of the James to change his life dramatically. He now Jerusalem church, then became a passionate dis- made one of the most ciple of Jesus whom he important decisions in now believed to be the the church's history? He long-awaited Messiah. said non-Jews who wantWithin the next 10 ed to become Christians resurrection. Pa wrote,in years James became a need not observe the leader in the growing entire Jewish law.

Christian community.

His decision made it He gradually took over possible for Christianity from the leadership of to move out freely into the church in Jerusalem. the world at large, while Like many faithful Jewish -Christians like who became fol- Jews, were still free to Jews a==:. lowers of Jesus, James follow the law of Moses. continued to observe the As the Christian comlaw of Moses. As leader munity grew in of the Christian commu- Jerusalem, some Jewish nity in Jerusalem, he leaders turned against kept up good relations the church. One day in 6 with the large Jewish A.D. they attacked community in the city.

James as he prayed at The Jews in Jerusalem the They temple. respected and admired dragged him to the top James as much as did o f one of the temple the Christians. And the walls and threwn headChristians loved him, long down into the valboth those who were ley below.

Jewish and those who The fall did not kill were not. him, but he was seriousJames presided over ly injured. Someone the church's first coun- then clubbed him to cil, the Council of death.

Ever since his death as Jerusalem. The apostles and other church leaders a martyr, Christians have came together to decide honored James as a whether non-Jewish con- saint. But for centuries verts to Christ had to he was though to be the observe Jewish laws or same person as James, the son of Alpheus, who not.

Peter, Paul and was one of Jesus' Twelve Barnabas argued that Apostles. Now most Ciod saved everyone Bible scholars doubt through the grace of that.

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The January baptism at Cottesloe by Father Steven Casey of How Casey Glossop and Nicholas Casey Whitfield marked the 100th anniversary of the wedding of William Thomas and Mary Ellen Casey, the family's founding members in WA. Assisting in the ceremony and among the 200 relatives attending the later reunion at lona College were acolyte George Ayres, attar servers Matt Howells and Ben Cotton, Sister Denise Casey RSJ, singer Monica Mullikin, and Marist Brother Redmond Casey who updated the family genalogy and received the Casey coat of arms from the palriarch Robert Casey.

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"Picking up the Pieces" - for people who have experience separation and/or divorce.

Looking at denial, grief, letting go and learning new skills in a safe environment, by Fullness of Life Centre, Elizabeth Kadmos, Saturdays March 11 and 18, 9.30am to 4.30pm at Oasis Lotteries House, 37 Hampden Road, Nedlands.

Bookings and enquiries phone (09) 389 8550.

READERS

Preparing for Easter workshop for proclaimers of the Word to: read and reflect on the Easter Triduum readings, review presentation and method of proclamation.

Thursday March 2, 7.30 to 9.30pm, Bedford Parish Hall, 93 W ood Street, Inglewood. $5 donation. For further enquiries and registration contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

SPECIAL MINISTERS

The first of our induction sessions for NEW Special Ministers of the Eucharist during 1995 ( only one necessary).

Wednesday March 8, 7.30 to 9.30pm, Leederville Parish Centre, 40 Franklin Street, Leederville OR Wednesday March 22, 7.30 to 9.30pm, Highgate Parish Hall, cnr Vincent and Harold Streets, Highgate. $5 donation. For further information and registrations contact the Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221 1548.

DIVINE MERCY

An afternoon of prayers and reflections on March 5 at 1.30pm at St Mary's Cathedral, including Rosary Sermon by Fr. Tarditi: Joy of the Cross, Divine Mercy Chaplet and Praises, Benediction. At 3.30pm at the Mercy Convent a film "CALL TO HOLINESS" (featuring Fr. Jozo from Medjugorie). Information: Adam 448-0002, John 457-7771.

HEALING MASS

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Casual Recreation Assistants

Charismatic Healing Mass with anointing of the sick on Friday March 3, at 7.30pm at the St. John and St Paul Catholic Church, Pinetree Gully.

Fellowship and refreshments after.

BETHEL APPEAL As part of its sixteenth year of

service, the WA Bethel Community will hold its Strret Appeal on Friday 3 March. To help as a collector, please ring 388 1333 during office hours.

(Several Positions) Part-time

Recreation As.ststants work to enable people w it'll an intellectual disability, and high support needs, to take pan in recreation activities of their choice in the loci! community.

You will: • ideally be a student.

• have some experience/exposure to the intellectually disabled.

• be able to work flexible hours - evenings, weekends.

• a drivers licence.

• a reliable car.

The successful applicants must be willing to refk.tt through their work the organization's philosophical basis of: Social Role Valorization.

Developmental Model.

Catholic (Christian) Ethos.

You will be paid on hourly casual rate and receive training. Hours are from 2 - approx 9 a week (depending on availability) Approx 3 hours per client per week.

For Duty Statement please nng 474 3303 during office hours. For further information please ask for Lesley Wilkinson.

Applications should be submitted in writing by I March 1995:

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PRAYER DAY

World Day of Prayer, Friday, March 3, at St Edmunds Anglican Church, Pangbourne Street, Wembley at 10am.

COUNTRY PRAYER

C ountry day of reflection, M onday, February 27, at St. Mary's Church, Merredin, commencing with Rosary Cenacle 9.30am concluding 2pm with Mass. The theme is "Prayer" and the speaker Fr. Angelo Gatto, O.C.D. Bring Your Own Lunch. Tea/coffee supplied.

Please wear name tag. Contact No's Tessa (090) 41 2293, Clare (090) 41 157.

GLENDALOUGH FAIR Little Sisters of the Poor Family Fair Day at the Home for the Aged, Glendalough, Sunday, March 12, 11am and 2pm.

Snacks available, variety stalls and entertainment

ST PATRICK'S PARADE

Mass in St Patrick's Church, Fremantle at 11 am followed by the parade and concert, details for which are: Date: Sunday 12th March 1995 Time: 12.00 line up for 12.30pm step off Assembly: Parry St and Ellen St, Fremantle Concert A free family concert of cultural items such as singing, traditional I rish dancing and folk music will be held on the Esplanade Reserve from 1.30pm to approximately 4.30pm.

Any interested groups/associations wishing to participate in this non-political, non-sectarian e vent can contact Francis Conlan - Public Relation Officer on 384 7578 or write to the Secretary, TARA Sports Social & Cultural Club of WA (Inc), c/- 12 The Quarry, Swan View, Western Australia 6056.

The 1995 parade will feature all the old favourites of local traditional Irish musicians, dancers and pipe bands.

Archdiocesan Calendar FEBRUARY 26 10 am Mass, St Mary's Cathedral with Prague Choir - Archbishop Hickey 28 Heads of Churches Conference Archbishop Hickey MARCH 1 St John of God Centenary Mass, Murdoch Hospital - Bishop Healy 3 World Day of Prayer - Fr Kevin Long

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Pre-Marriage Education

Catholic Marriage Preparation Perth Archdiocese This agency is looking for men or women interested in the marriage apostolate wishing

to train as

MARRIAGE EDUCATORS

to take part in the presentation of diocesan marriage courses The training commences in March.

1995.

This training course is looking for people who are experienced in teaching or public speaking.

Application forms are available phone 325 1859.