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mu la, elu la "May the Risen Lord fill your hearts with the surge of confidence that comes from acknowledging His victory of evil and death" Easter message from Archbishop Hickey:

He has done so again in the strongest possible terms in his most recent Encyclical "Evangelium Vitae" (the Gospel of Life).

ISHARE with you the joy of Easter. May the Those who insist on immoral measures to conARisen Lord fill your hearts with the surge of trol population, such as sterilisation, contracepconfidence that comes from acknowledging His tion and abortion, have lost faith in God's provivictory over evil and death. dence.

Easter is the greatest affirmation of hope. DurThey see solutions in purely pragmatic terms, ing Holy Week we walked with the Apostles and claiming the moral autonomy to do so. They are with the crowds that followed Jesus as He made unable to believe that God cares for the world His way towards His death on Good Friday. We and that God has given us the proper means for saw Him being crushed by evil, treated unjustly population control - social development and the and cruelly, being jostled inevitably to His death. sharing of resources, international respect for We saw evil triumph. Or appear to do so. human dignity, education, and the elimination of His rising to new life on Easter Sunday mornwar, greed and exploitation. ing was the triumph of God over the forces of A commitment to the sanctity of life implies a evil. It was God's promise to all humanity that if belief in the providence of God. they follow Jesus and accept Him as Lord and In the light of the Resurrection our own trust saviour, they too would receive the gift of eternal in God's providential care can become comlife. plete and childlike.

Easter is about hope.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God, everything Hope is about trusting in God's providence. else will be added.

As our society moves more There is a caution though. and more away from God it While Jesus promises inner loses all sense of God's provipence, love and eternal life, He dence. does not promise that we will be free of suffering. Suffering is As it claims complete autonstill very much a reality, howomy over its own affairs, it ever much we trust in God. demands moral autonomy also.

Once a society rejects proviWe will still have to encounter dence in favour of its own complete moral autonomy it will inevitably in our lives the effects of sin. We will still come up against greed, envy, hostility and accept immoral practices. injustice.

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The Holy Father has been insisting for some time, almost shouting This is the real world that needs to be redeemed continually by Christ and by the message to the whole world, that we are subject to God and may those who carry His light into the world. What Easter has shown is that God leads do nothing that is not God's will. one through suffering to joy and new life.

He did so in his Encyclical Letter "Veritatis Splendor" in 1993. He To the Easter proclamation "The Light of Christ" we answer with all our hearts did so through his delegation on the world's stage of the UN Conference on Population and Development at Cairo in 1994.

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THE beginning of April last year, few people could have redicted the enormity of the disaster which the small African nation of Rwanda was about to experience.

The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana on April 6 unleashed one of the most horrific bloodbaths of the century.

Within weeks, hundreds of thousands of people were dead and more than half of Rwanda's seven million people had fled their homes seeking safety elsewhere.

Before the disaster began, the Catholic agency Caritas Rwanda was coordinating a large emergency food program for victims of famine in the country's south.

The famine was quickly overshadowed by the new disaster of millions of people forced to become refugees, fleeing on foot with few belongings, no shelter and no food.

Caritas Rwanda was as badly affected as any sector of Rwandan society. Within days, 210 of its 250 permanent staff were missing some killed but many more forced to flee to protect themselves and their families.

Rwanda's Catholic bishops acted quickly to appoint Fr Viekoslav Curic, a Bosnian missionary priest working in southern Rwanda, to take charge of the Caritas emergency program. Fr Curic drew together a team of volunteers to distribute the available famine relief supplies while international help was sought.

Australian Catholic Relief and Caritas agencies from all over the world responded with offers of financial and practical support.

Throughout the worst period of conflict, Caritas Rwanda was one of only a handful of agencies which continued to offer support to people inside Rwanda.

Risking their lives daily, Fr Curic and his plucky team coordinated truck convoys from neighbouring Burundi and distributed thousands of tonnes of food, clothing, medicines, household utensils and shelter materials to people in many parts of the country.

The Australian contribution - Australian Catholic Relief raised $3.4 million in five months - was important to the Caritas lifeline which kept alive thousands of people who may otherwise have perished.

The civil war in Rwanda was just one of dozens of emergencies large and small - to which Australian Catholic Relief responded last year.

In September, when erupting volcanoes destroyed the city of Rabaul in Papua New Guinea, Australian Catholic Relief was the first international agency to offer support to the local Church's response. Australian Catholic Relief's allocation of $40,000 helped Caritas PNG's efforts to house and feed the 23,000 people who sought refuge at church-run shelters at Vunapope, Bitapaka and Kokopo.

Throughout the year, Project Compassion funds were used to help disaster victims in 13 countries - the continuing civil wars in Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and Sri Lanka, a severe earthquake in Indonesia in February, the drought in Kenya, landslides in Nepal and cyclones and floods in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines.

Australian Catholic Relief's response continues long after the immediate emergency has disappeared from news bulletins.

In Rwanda, some funds raised in last year's appeal will help to support this year's difficult rehabilitation work throughout the country.

Caritas is continuing its work to help rebuild Rwanda's agricultural sector, by offering seeds to farmers for planting and organising schemes to find sufficient labour in areas where many people are yet to return.

In the confusion of the mass exodus of refugees, many young children became separated from their families. Caritas is caring for thousands of youngsters as the search for their families continues and is finding stable foster families for children known to be orphaned.

Millions of Rwandans remain in refugee camps. Even in places where international agencies have withdrawn, the local people of Caritas continue their work, maintaining food supplies and offering health services and basic assistance.

The most difficult long-term task is reconciliation. Caritas is supporting local Church efforts to bring together the communities so badly divided by the conflict, with the hope of building a peaceful future for Rwanda.

Donations to Australian Catholic Reliefs Project Compassion appeal can be made through Catholic parishes or to GPO Box 9830 in any capital city.

What West Aussies gave

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est Australians contributed nearly $50,000 of the $522,673 that Australian Catholics donated during the 1994 Good Friday collection.

Perth archdiocese contribution was $38,615 with Bunbury diocese giving $6,400, Geraldton $2,100 and Broome $1,218.

In the greater Sydney area the archdiocese gave $78,935, Parramatta $32,678 and Broken Bay $28,233, a total of $139,846.

Melbourne archdiocese gave $102,342, Ballarat $17,000 Bendigo $9,334 and Sale $8,228.

Brisbane donated $34,583, Rockhampton $10,368, Toowoomba $5,687, Townsville $5,056, Cairns $ 7,666.

Adelaide's contribution was $26,786 and Port Pine 5,291.

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The Good Friday collection, introduced in the Church 108 years ago, which is historically devoted to the Holy Places is distributed between the Custody of the Holy Land (65%), The Oriental and Latin churches in the Middle East(35%).

The latter has to cover Catholic shrines, parishes, schools, orphanages, and medical centres in Lebanon and Jordan as well as the Holy Land.

The exodus of Christians from the area since World War II means Christians are less than 2% of the population.

Recently the Franciscan friars established 20 apartments in Bethany in addition to the 42 established in Beit Hanina some time ago for families able to pay only a nominal rent.

Successful way tea celibate life...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - To successfully and happily lead a celibate life, priests must see women as their sisters. Pope John Paul II says in his traditional Holy Thursday message to clergy.

Every priest "has the great responsibility of developing an authentic way of relating to women as a brother, a way of relating which does not admit of ambiguity."

The theme of this year's papal letter is "the importance of women in the life of the priest."

Priests must look to the example of Jesus for a model of what their relationship with others should be, the pope said.

He included a long list of women who accompanied Jesus in his public ministry and remained to witness his suffering, death and resurrection.

"To live as a celibate in a mature and untroubled way it seems particularly important that the priest should develop deep within himself the image of women as sisters," he wrote.

Relationships with women are part of a healthy life, the pope said, but he also urged care on the part of priests and women so that nothing threatens the commitment to celibacy made by Latin-rite and many Eastern-rite priests.

"The vocation to celibacy needs to be consciously protected by keeping special watch over one's feelings and over one's whole conduct," the pope wrote.

"If in a relationship with a woman the gift and the choice of celibacy should become endangered, the priest cannot but strive earnestly to remain faithful to his own vocation," he said.

While marriage is a true vocation, the pope said, it is not the path for a celibate priest. "For him to abandon that path would be to break the word he has given to God." Pope John Paul offered special prayers for "our brothers in the priesthood who meet with difficulties in this area, and to all those who, precisely because of a woman, have abandoned the priestly ministry."

The pope's letter says seeing women as sisters to priests reaffirms that "they are in a sense 'set apart,'" that the relationship has clear limits from the start .

The papal reflection on the role of women in the life of priests began with a discussion of the priest's mother - a child's first teacher of prayer and often a young man's main support as he discovers and follows his vocation to the priesthood.

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Bishop changes over this 'miracle' OME (CNS) - A once-sceptical Rai"Alan bishop now believes a miracle is possible in the case of a Marian statue that eyewitnesses said shed tears of blood.

Bishop Girolamo Grillo of Civitavecchiae has established a theological commission to investigate the case after growing evidence that something extraordinary happened.

X-rays uncovered no evidence that any device had been placed inside the statue to secrete liquid, he said at a news conference in Rome.

The possibility of a trick "does not exist," he said.

More than 40 witnesses, many of them "highly qualified," have testified that they saw the tears fall, he added.

The bishop first expressed strong doubts when a family in Civitavecchia reported in February that the statue in their backyard had shed the tears.

"I have changed or events have changed," he said in admitting the possibility of a supernatural event.

"Many doubts remain," he said, welcoming further tests on the statue. "I do not know if the church will succeed in eliminatingall of them," said Bishop Grillo.

"Often the church says it has no information in favor of a supernatural explanation, but that also there is nothing to say it did not happen," he said.

The statue probably cried about 14 times over a four-day period, he said. The bishop added that he was giving an update of the situation, not a final judgment.

On Feb. 28, Bishop Grillo received a medical report of tests taken on the crimson-colored liquid. Some were to determine if it was human blood. The results have not been made public, but news reports citing unnamed sources said the tests showed that the liquid was human blood.

The statue was given to the Fabio Gregori family of Civitavecchia by their parish priest, who brought it from Medjugorje, Bosnia-lierzegovina, where alleged Mar-

ian apparitions have been taking place since 1981.

Eyewitnesses said the crying began Feb. 2.

The Civitavecchia case is the most publicized of at least eight statues said to have cried since the start of 1995. It also has undergone the most rigorous scientific testing and official church scrutiny.

On March 1, Bishop Grillo presented his findings to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Ratzinger, at a March 22 Marian congress in Loreto, Italy, said miracles are possible but urged caution because faith must be based on deeper roots.

Miracles can reawaken a sense of the supernatural hut are not the culmination of faith, he said.

The cardinal said believers should not be disturbed if an unexplained event turns out not to be supernatural.

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EXICO CITY (CNS) - Mexico's new ambassador to Fellow ranchers reportedly prevailed on the Jimenez M the Vatican helped cover up a plot behind the mas- Morales family to have Gov. Jimenez Morales intervene in sacre of 23 Mexican Indians in a region controlled

OCA RATON, VIA. (CNS) - The Fort LaudB erdale Sun-Sentinel has apologized for accepting an advertisement that religious leaders

by his family while he was governor of Puebla state, Mexican human rights activists and church workers allege.

The new envoy, yet to present his credentials, is Guillermo Jimenez Morales, 62, the political scion of the landholding clan of the same name in the Huauchinango area of Puebla's mountainous Sierra Norte region.

The Jimenez Morales family is said by rights activists and church workers to be the most powerful. and some say dangerous, in the region.

Jimenez Morales was governor of Puebla 13 years ago when gunmen in the hire of ranchers, reportedly allied to his family, killed 23 Totonac Indians.

The Indians had sought to reclaim land they said was stolen from their community by ranchers nearly 40 years earlier.

Although the Puebla state Attorney General's office investigated and pursued cases that resulted in the sentencing of several individuals, the jail terms didn't hold.

Some individuals were sentenced to 11 years in prison including some of the ranchers themselves - but within months they were free.

denounced as anti-Catholic, and which was placed by a former Catholic.

A four-page advertisement with the headline "Earth's Final Warning: A New World Order is Coming!" attacked the papacy, the Roman Catholic Church and politicians such as President Clinton as being aligned with Satan. It included an address and phone number, but named no sponsor.

The advertisement was met with outrage from the Diocese of Palm Beach, the Boca Raton Association of Religious Leaders and the New Yorkbased Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, as well as from local clergy, many of whom spoke from the pulpit about it.

Sun-Sentinel publisher Scott Smith apologized and said the newspaper's advertising policies had been modified "to clarify that we will not accept ads that include attacks of a religious nature," the newspaper reported.

The ad was placed by the Rev. Rafael Perez of the Eternal Gospel Church. Perez told The Florida Catholic that money for the ad was provided by members of the local Seventh-day T AGOS, NIGERIA.(CNS) - Only a Ltransition to civilian rule and the estabAdventist church. lishment of democracy can save Nigeria The content was similar to that of ads printed from repeated military coup attempts and in newspapers elsewhere in the country and in bloodshed, the nation's bishops said. bulk mailings, said Mr. Perez, who called himself Gen. Sani Abacha, who seized power in a former Catholic.

1993, announced in early March that his The Florida Conference of the Seventh-day government had uncovered a plot 1 f w.....n Adventist Church said Perez and his congrega- the military to overthrow him and that 29 officers had been arrested. tion are not affiliated with that church.

"The Catholic bishops of Nigeria have Much of the material in the ad came from "The been greatly disturbed by recent reports of Great Controversy," a book available in any Seventh-day Adventist bookstore, according to Mr. an alleged coup plot. If indeed there was a Perez. He said it was not intended to be anti- coup plot. it intended to impose on Nigerians yet another military regime," said a Catholic or an attack on Pope John Paul II. statement signed by Father George Elm"We will come up with another message to try Salli, deputy secretary-general of the to explain that we are not doing this for hatred," Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria. he said.

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the successful case that had been built by his attorney general.

Some in the state believe the attorney general's subsequent dismissal resulted from the fact that he pursued the arrests.

Vatican sources said they would not comment since the ambassador had not presented his credentials.

Human rights activists and church workers say the Jimenez Morales family of rural "caciques," or power brokers, are believed responsible for repression of Indians who speak up for land and other rights in the largely indigenous Sierra Norte Region of Puebla.

"Traditionally, they have led the toughest groups of ranchers." said Sister Ogarita Fernandez Mier, president of the Neteco Human Rights Committee in Nuevo Necaxa.

Land disputes involving the Totonacs and nonindigenous cattle ranchers have simmered in the Sierra Norte for decades. About 198,000 Totonacs subsist by farming corn and beans and growing coffee.

According to Father Santiago Aguado, a diocesan priest and pastor of the Nuevo Necaxa parish, Jimenez Morales during his term as governor promoted violent groups that spread terror among.

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the bishops are not the only Nigerians who wonder if there really was a coup attempt or if Abacha was using the allegation to justify further controls on political opponents.

After their March plenary meeting, the Nigerian bishops called on their fellow citizens to "be firm in their rejection of military rule as a form of government," said Father Ehusani's statement.

The statement also expressed concern over the fact that "there is a lot of speculation about an imminent bloodbath in our land."

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"Any resort to further bloodshed will only serve to increase the anger. resentment and trauma that already pervade the land," the statement said.

The only way to put an end to recurring military coups, the bishops said, is through the announcement of a program for the "effective and definitive disengagement of the military from governance," something Abacha promised more than a year ago.

Nigeria, the bishops said, needs to return to democratic rule "where there would he the rule of law, freedom of expression, legitimate opposition and an orderly procedure for a peaceful change of government."

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League's bid to stop 'Wsmut' Priest movie ASHINGTON (CNS) - Calling the film "smut" and "sacrilegious," the American Life League has announced it will mount a $250,000 television advertising campaign against the movie "Priest."

The campaign will seek the withdrawal of the film, and the dismissal of Disney chief executive officer and president Michael Eisner. Disney owns Miramax, the studio distributing "Priest."

It also will ask people to cancel subscriptions to cable's Disney Channel, to stop b lying Disneylicensed merchandise and stay away from Disneyland and Walt Disney World, and asks U.S. Catholic priests to deliver a sermon on the subject.

The first 30-second commercials will air during Easter Week. More spots will be aired "depending on how many emergency grants we can get," said Judie Brown, American Life League president.

The commercial, which features the cross of a rosary draped over the arm of a chair and slowly swinging, says "Priest" "attacks the universal virtues of truth."

While the movie is "eager to point out the hypocrisy within the church," there is hypocrisy in "where the message is coming from," says the commercial's script.

It explains that the company distributing "Priest" is owned by Disney, which has a reputation for family films.

"The blasphemous nature of 'Priest' does not accurately depict the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church. It is smut, it is sacrilegious, and it must be withdrawn.

The minds of the American people should not be poisoned against the very church that has consistently stood up for moral values," said a league statement.

In a separate statement, the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights supported the call for a boycott against Disney.

"We are also asking the public to call Disney and tie up the lines by making a complaint," said William Donohue, league president.

The league also called on Catholic organizations that own any Disney stock to sell it. "Perhaps most damaging, we will use every means of

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TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Using rosaries made of Bello explained that the cross on the rosary had a speV lied cotton and later of knotted jungle vines, seven cial connection to a hostage killed by the captors. missionary nuns kidnapped in Sierra Leone prayed Another long pause followed when a reporter asked their way through 55 days of captivity. the nuns how they knew some of the hostages from The members of the Xaverian Missionary Society of Kambia were killed.

"We saw," Sister Bello said.

Mary, who were freed last month, gave one of the "bush-rope" rosaries to Pope John Paul II March 27.

"We saw moments of humanity and moments of violence, moral violence, in the same people," said Sister While the seven nuns said they were well-treated and respected by their captors and were free to pray Mosconi.

The sisters set regular prayer times in the morning, at together, the rosary they gave the pope gives witness to midday and in the evening. Soldiers who were not occuthe dark side of their experience as well.

The seven missionaries, whose ages range from 35 to pied with other duties at the camp would sometimes 65, were kidnapped from the polio rehabilitation centre join in. they said.

Sister Marsili said the nuns were not forced to carry they ran in the northwestern town of Kambia. Intense activity by rebels in the area had forced them to close heavy loads of loot like the other hostages were on the long trek into the jungle. They crossed rivers, savanna the clinic in early January. and fire, perhaps set by people trying to ward off the to collect personal hostages were given no time The belongings, so to aid their prayer on the six-and-a-half- rebels.

"Prayer life became so very important - the only thing day march, the nuns made little rosaries out of cotton strips, Sister Bertelli told reporters after meeting with we could do," she said. the pope.

"The Bible, the Psalms, became so very real. I really The missionaries would not go into details and understood the situation in which they were comseemed momentarily shocked into silence when Sister posed," Sister Marsili said.

He's a practising Catholic now LNIUS, LITHUANIA (CNS) Lithuanian President Algirclas Brazauskas, former leader of the Communist Party, has become a practising Catholic, said a Vilnius priest.

Father Jan Kasiukiewicz, pastor of Holy Spirit Church in Vilnius, said the government leader had conic back to the church at a March 17 Mass.

"As a practising Catholic, the president will pray together with us that the merciful God will help him in carrying out his duties and in defending the human rights of all citizens," the priest said.

Afterward, Father Kasiukiewicz said Brazauskas was baptized as a child in the pre-World War II period, as were most Lithuanians.

He "returned to the church," after communist rule, said the priest.

During the Soviet era, Communist Party members were required to be atheists.

Brazauskas headed Lithuania's Communist Party during the 1989 break with Moscow party officials and was a leader of the 1990-1991 fight for Lithuania's independence from the Soviet Union.

He became the first ex-communist boss

to be democratically elected head of state in a former Soviet republic.

Brazauskas was praised by church leaders in February for refusing to sign a controversial parliamentary amendment that would have restricted the return of churches confiscated under communist rule.

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ERUSALEM (CNS) - Cardinal Bernardin, winding up his first visit to Israel with a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, said he believes both Israelis and Palestinians want peace.

"One thing that became very clear to me as I listened to both sides is the real desire for peace and the commitment to the peace process," the Chicago cardinal said after the meeting on the West Bank.

"At the same time the situation is very complex and there are obstacles that have to be overcome," he said.

The cardinal led a joint Catholic-Jewish delegation from Chicago on a tour of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.

Besides Arafat, the delegation met with Israeli officials including Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Jerusalem's Mayor

He also said that although his delegation's visit might have just a small impact on the development of peace "even if it's just a drop in the ocean, it's a drop."

ENNA, AUSTRIA (CNS) - Many Austrian bishops and priests have united behind Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer of Vienna after a former seminarian said he had been sexually abused regularly by the high-ranking clergyman more than 20 years ago.

The accusations have been denied by Vienna's t wo auxiliary bishops, who said they are a reminder of Nazi times when a clergyman could be processed "under the pretext of homosexual offenses."

Josef Hartmann, 37, told a Vienna weekly magazine, Profil, that he had sex repeatedly with the cardinal during 1972-1976, when he was a student at the Hollabrunn Seminary near Vienna and the cardinal was a seminary teacher.

The magazine published an article, titled "The

Downfall of Gmer," in late March based on Hartmann's account of his relationship with the now 75year-old prelate.

Hartmann said he decided to go public after reading about a February pastoral letter the cardinal wrote criticizing homosexual acts.

Hartmann's article is an example of "yellow journalism," Auxiliary Bishops Helmut Kratzl and Christoph Schonborn said.

Two priests, Msgr. Helmut Schuller and Msgr.

Wilhelm Muller, who had the cardinal as a seminary teacher, expressed solidarity with the churchman and said they were not aware of any homosexual tendencies on the part of the cardinal.

Also defending the cardinal were Bishops Paul lby of Eisenstadt and Johann Weber of GrazSeckau.

INSK. BELARUS (CNS) - Catholics have been given control of the Soviet-confiscated Holy Rock Church in Minsk after occupying it for almost two weeks to protest its desecration.

The church had been turned into a state concert hall under Soviet rule, but has been used for morning Masses since 1993 under an agreement with the Belarussian Cultural Ministry.

However, Catholics decided on an occupation after finding a drunken night watchman carousing with a half-naked woman in the sacristy.

The guard was arrested for drinking on duty, but was not reprimanded for injuring religious feelings.

On March 22, concert hall directors said they had agreed to give Catholics the responsibility

for administering the church building and protecting it from acts of desecration.

Ehud Olmert, former Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, and Mayor Elias Freij of Bethlehem.

In his conversation with Arafat, Cardinal Bernardin said that authentic peace will begin "only when the security needs of both Palestinians and Israelis are respected by both peoples."

He said that "acts of terrorism feed the tragic cycles of violence that have been so much a part of the history of this region."

The cardinal said that he believes serious obstacles to the peace process can be overcome "as long as there is hope."

Under Catholic control M YORK (CNS) - Pope John Paul II has told 75 year old Cardinal John O'Connor to continue as New York's archbishop "until other provisions are made."

Sources say the phrasing used in notifying Cardinal O'Connor was unusual. Unnamed "sources in Rome" say the "cryptic wording" of the message from the pope could mean Cardinal O'Connor will remain archbishop until he is 80 if he remains in good health.

Cardinal O'Connor submitted his resignation, as bishops are required to do by canon law, on his 75th birthday, Jan. 15.

(Born the same year as Cardinal O'Connor, Pope John Paul will turn 75 on May 18.)

Speaking to the Priests' Council, the archbishop said he had found the message had come by fax when he returned to his residence March 17 after serving as the first archbishop of New York to be named grand marshal of the St. Patrick's Day parade.

Cardinal O'Connor told the priests that when he got the message from the pope he went to the chapel in his residence and "told God that whatever he wanted me to do, that's what I'll do."

"1 feel very highly privileged and deeply grateful to our Holy Father to be given this continuing opportunity to serve God's people in New York," he said.

Almost 14 percent of the country's 10.3 million inhabitants profess Catholicism.

ARSAW, POLAND (CNS) - Poland's bishops of church-state separation, recalls our postwar experiW oppose government plans to declare the state ence when nonbelievers received favors and the relineutral on religion, said

Bishop Tadeusz Pieronek, secretary-general of the Polish bishops' conference.

"The word 'neutrality' awakens real fear" and has "negative implications," he said.

The bishop said no deal had been struck with the government to accept such terminology in a proposed constitution.

The bishops have rejected any description of the state as "neutral" on religious affairs and raise the image of religious repression during communist rule.

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Since 1993, Holy Rock Church has been linked with the opposition Belarussian Patriotic Front following a decision by Cardinal Kazimierz Swiatek of Minsk-Mohilev to make it the only Catholic church having exclusively Belarussianlanguage Masses. The other Minsk churches also offer Masses in Russian and Polish.

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It was the third Minsk Catholic church to be returned since 1991. Under Soviet rule, the only Catholic place of worship in Minsk, a city of 2 million, was a small Polish-built chapel in a suburban cemetery.

gious dimension was excluded from public life," the bishops said.

"The constitution should ensure the permanence of moral values rooted in the history and tradition of our nation, which is mostly composed of believers and which has lived with the Gospel for 10 centuries," they added.

"Its preamble should refer to God as the upreme authority and final protector of all human rights," they said.

Beatification

RUSSELS, BELGIUM (CNS) - Pope John Paul II Beuster, plans a June beatification of Father Damien de the 19th-century Belgian missionary 4

who worked among Hawaii's victims of Hansen's disease.

The beatification is set for Brussels during a papal visit, during a morning outdoor Mass.

The pope had been scheduled to beatify Father Damien. as he is known, last May, but the trip had to be canceled after the pope broke his thigh bone.

Father Damien was a Flemish-speaking Belgian born in 1840 as Joseph de Veuster. He is often cited as an example of missionary dedication because of his commitment to victims of Hansen's disease, then called leprosy. He was known as the "leper priest."

Father Damien went to Hawaii in 1864. In 1873 he volunteered to work in a colony set aside for Hansen's disease patients on the island of Molokai.

The priest gained a reputation as a pastor, medic, adviser and guardian to the 800 members of the colony.

He contracted the disease in 1884 and died at the age of 49.

Mystery within a mystery

...or taking a closer look into the deep well of Vatican intrigue TATICAN CITY (CNS) - It was a The priest said he was in contact with V mystery in a mystery, a look into the Italian underworld bosses who claimed deep well of Vatican intrigue. to hold Emanuela and wanted to deal At least that's how the story was with the Vatican. eported in the Roman press in midMake a deal for her release? Not March. exactly. They apparently wanted to deal The cast of characters was right out of for money in exchange for their silence a movie script: a kidnapped teenage girl on the "real truth" behind the case. from Vatican City, a priest who mediates Father Intiso said Emanuela was with her captors, a Curia cabal plotting reportedly living in southern Italy with a against the pope, and a pope so appre- 5-year-old child. He also cited speculahensive that he can confide only in one tion that Emanuela was supposedly the person a Polish nun. daughter of a Vatican cardinal, adding a Even by Vatican standards, this tale bit weakly: "These are only rumours." ranked high on the bizarrometer. And it That was enough to mobilize Rome's didn't take too long for the plot to start police, and Father Intiso was arrested unraveling. the next day. Investigators said they The missing girl was Emanuela were charging him with orchestrating a Orlandi, a Vatican City resident and the false campaign to extort up to S25 mildaughter of a Vatican usher. She disap- lion from the Vatican. The priest's peared in 1983 following a music lesson bishop described Father Intiso as in Rome. Soon afterward, messages imprudent but hardly the type to comfrom her alleged captors demanded the mit extortion. release of papal assailant Mehmet Ali In any case, the Vatican made clear Agca, who was and is serving a life sen- that it had never believed the priest's tence in Italy for his 1981 shooting of tale and never entered into any negotiations. But the story - and Vatican Pope John Paul II. But investigators never got very far on headaches - were not over.

On March 23 II Messaggero published that track, and Agca later said he had nothing to do with the girl's disappear- excerpts from a police interrogation with Oral Celik, a suspected Turkish terance.

Emanuela was largely forgotten rorist who knew Agca and claimed to except by her parents, who still walk know the background of the Orlandi every evening to a statue of Mary in the case.

He said Emanuela had never been Vatican gardens to pray for their daughkidnapped but had dropped out of sight ter's safe return.

Then on March 21, the Rome newspa- because she was having a relationship per II Messaggero published an inter- with "a monsignor."

According to this scenario, she was at view with a priest from southern Italy.

Father Antonio Intiso, whose story gave first kept in a Rome monastery, then the Orlandis new hope and gave Vati- flown to Colombia (in a religious habit, no less), where she now lives with two can officials a massive headache.

children. banking woes.

In early March, the Italian magazine More ominous was Epoca's claim, Epoca had proffered another variant of supposedly reflecting a working hypoththis theory, citing the statements of Car- esis of the investigators, that those dinal responsible for all this trouble were Silvio Oddi, a retired Vatican official. inside the Vatican - and still hold imporCardinal Oddi had once referred to tant Curia positions, threatening the rumors that Emanuela had in fact very security of the pope.

The situation was so bad, the magareturned that June day in 1983 from her music lesson and was later seen leaving zine reported, that on important matters the Vatican in a black car. The magazine the 74-year-old pope now trusts and also quoted an Italian intelligence ser- confides in only one person - a Polish vices report that suggested Emanuela's nun. disappearance was planned by someThe magazine's credibility was not one "well-placed in the church hierar- enhanced when the "nun" was later chy." reported to be Wanda Poltawska; Mrs. No evidence has ever emerged to sup- Poltawska is a longtime papal friend and Polish psychiatrist who is married port that claim.

But, according to Epoca, the Emanuela with several children.

And a Vatican official, Msgr.

Orlandi story was only the smaller mystery in the larger vortex of conspiracy Francesco Salerno, said by Epoca to inside the Vatican. In what might be have briefed magistrates about security called the mother of all intrigues, this concerns at the Vatican, told Catholic one supposedly linked Emanuela's dis- News Service the report was false. "I appearance, the papal assassination have no idea where they came up with attempt and the Vatican bank scandal of this," he said.

1982.

As for the pope, it can be safely The magazine, again citing testimony assumed he doesn't read Epoca. But a supposedly taken by investigating mag- lot of Italians do, and Vatican officials istrates, hypothesized that Emanuela say privately they are worried that this may have been kidnapped to pressure kind of journalism feeds an anti-Vatican the Vatican into assuming part of the bias. The Vatican press office has cho$1.2 billion debt of the collapsed Italian sen to ignore most of the reports, but bank, Banco Ambrosiano. (The Vatican, that hasn't kept the story off the front which said it was a victim in the bank- pages. ing scandal, eventually made a S240 Meanwhile, the pope was going about million "good-will" payment to Banco his normal business. The Orlandi family Ambrosiano's former creditors.) kept praying for Emanuela's return. And The 1981 papal shooting, the theory Romans were waiting to see if the latest goes, was meant to warn the pope. not "revelations" about Vatican mysteries to kill him - perhaps this, too, in relation turned out to be anything more than the to the Vatican's as-yet unpuhlicized workings of exaggerated imaginations.

15,000 in demonstration MEXICO CITY (CNS) - More than 15.000 Mayan Indians and an international delegation of Catholic and Protestant church leaders demonstrated last month 26 in support of Bishop Samuel Ruiz Garcia of San Cristobal de Las Casas, a controversial advocate of Indian rights.

The procession and Mass marked the first day of a two-day commemoration of the 450th anniversary of the arrival in San Cristobal of the first bishop of what is now Chiapas state in 1545, Fray Bartolome de Las Casas, a staunch defender of the rights of indigenous peoples in the Americas.

In San Cristobal, helmeted riot police looked on the crowds from throughout Chiapas arrived in procession for the commemoration.

An Indian speaker read a message on the arrival of the marchers in which he said that many of them had "come from our far-off territories. leaving behind our families, our lands and our work to be with Don Samuel."

Referring to Bishop Ruiz in the respectful and affectionate Tzeltal Mayan form of "Tatic." which means "father," the spokesman said the Indians of Chiapas "recognize your work as a prophet, because that is what you are - a prophet who has been persecuted and threatened with death by those who follow the example of the ones who killed Jesus."

In a homily given during the Mass, Bishop Pedro Casaldaliga of Sao Felix. Brazil, turned to the bishop and said that "we could now refer to you as Samuel Ruiz de Las Casas. worthy successor of that great missionary who struggled against the (Spanish) empire and against fellow bishops and theologians."

Because his defence of the Indians brought him into conflict with powerful political and economic interests in Spain's New World colonies. Bishop Bartolome de Las Casas spent less than two years in Chiapas before being forced into exile in 1546. In exile in Spain. he resigned his post as bishop but continued to argue for the dignity of indigenous people until his death in 1566.

Since heading the Latin American Bishops' Council's Department of Indigenous Missions in 1968-72, Bishop Ruiz has been a leader in the defence of indigenous rights and the promotion of an indigenous theology in Latin America.

"If there were no indigenous theology, the Indians throughout this Amer-India of ours could not believe in God, the true and authentic God of all peoples. of all cultures and of all individuals," Bishop Casaldaliga said in his hominy.

In recent weeks, crowds abetted by local cattle ranchers and businessmen have staged large demonstrations in front of the San Cristobal cathedral.

What next after Taiwan visit?

rilAIPEI, TAIWAN (CNS) - Cardinal Laghi's visit to Taiwan could be followed by high-level church visits that should see six cardinals from the Vatican travelling to the Republic of China.

There is wide speculation on the state of Beijing-Vatican relations.

Observers in Taiwan say the fact that senior Holy See officials are visiting the island indicates relations between Taiwan and the Holy See are steady.

Like all visitors from the Vatican, Cardinal Lighi, head of the Congregation for Catholic Education, refuted any suggestion that his trip had a political mission regarding Sino-Vatican relations.

Invited by Taiwan's foreign ministry and Fu Jen Catholic University, he insisted his purpose was to "see friends" en route to a meeting in Indonesia.

But the cardinal also met with Premier Lien Chan and Foreign Affairs Minister Fredrick Chien Fu. Scheduled to visit next is Cardinal Francis Arinze, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Cardinal Arinze is to take part in an interreligious dialogue organized by the Catholic Church and Buddhist leaders at a key Buddhist pilgrimage site.

Cardinal Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, is to

be in the country Sept. 18-20 to preside over a Holy See-sponsored meeting on Asian population.

He also visited in September 1994 and presided at a church International Year of the Family celebration attended by senior government officials.

Speculation peaked with the visit of Cardinal Etchegaray, president of the Pontifical Council for justice and Peace, whose visit to Beijing in 1993 reportedly was related to stalled China-Vatican negotiations.

However, he and Taiwanese officials said the subject of Taiwan-Vatican ties did not come up in his talks with President Lee and Foreign Minister Chien,

This support could be lost soon NITED NATIONS (CNS) - The qualified support the Vatican gives UNICEF could be U lost entirely in the coming months, according to a

Vatican representative on the U.N. agency's board.

John Klink said the United Nations Children's Fund faces two "pivotal" decisions that could cost it church support.

The first, he said, was the expected replacement within a few weeks of James P. Grant, the former UNICEF director who died in January.

Klink voiced concern that the Clinton administration was pushing some Americans who support legal abortion to be considered for the post.

Klink said the other crucial decision concerned the direction taken in the writing of a UNICEF mission statement, which will be a major consideration at the annual UNICEF meeting in May. "If the mission statement and the general direction of the new executive director run directly counter to our moral principles, we would have to make that clear to the general public," he warned.

"One can only imagine what donor reaction would be should UNICEF. which is charged with the care of the world's children, become charged in any way with promoting the death of the most vulnerable of all children - the unborn," he said.

"For my delegation and for many millions of donors it would represent the end of UNICEF as we know it."

Klink said the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands were the most insistent on pushing UNICEF into abortion and family planning.

He said the Vatican not only opposed such programs, but pointed out that they would duplicate work already done by other U.N. agencies, particularly the Fund for Population Activities and the World Health Organization, The Record, April 13,1995

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What St. Luke would say now

Lambs of God...

By Father Eugene LaVerdiere, SSS at would St. Luke say to us if we met him Wi today? Luke would have liked this question. With a good Hellenistic education, he had

to answer questions like that as part of his early schooling.

Wherever Greek culture spread, students were expected to write farewell speeches for famous historical personages. In those speeches they wrote what someone like Pericles would have said to people long after his death.

To do that well you had to know a lot about Pericles, or Socrates, or whomever. You also had to know a lot about your own times.

When Luke wrote his Gospel, he wrote a farewell speech for Jesus at the Last Supper (22:14-38).

In that speech, Jesus spoke not only of the Last Supper then, just before he died. He also spoke of the Lord's Supper when he would once again eat and drink with the disciples in God's kingdom.

What would Luke say to us for Easter 1995?

First, I think Luke would address us as his brothers and sisters in Christ. but also as Christians who often do not know where to find the risen Lord.

By Stan Konieczny ost of us probably wouldn't presume to become shepherds, not knowing all that much about M sheep. What are we to make, then, of Jesus' words on

the shores of the Sea of Tiberias after the resurrection when he said to Simon Peter and his fellow fishers, "feed my lambs ... tend my sheep ... feed my sheep."

The words held meaning for Peter. He grew up in the Jewish tradition with its sacrifice of the unblemished best of the flock. He lived in a society where sheep were a valued commodity. Perhaps his neighbours or in-laws earned their living by tending flocks.

Christ's imagery was not lost on Peter.

Unfortunately, today, sheep knowledge often is limited to nursery-rhyme references. Which leads me to the value of retreating to the sheep pen on the grounds of the Adorers of the Blood of Christ Provincial House.

For the last three years, the Adorers have raised a small flock of Morita&le sheep on the rolling grounds of their provincial house.

The sheep were introduced for practical reasons, influenced by the Adorers' strong commitment to stewardship of the earth. The sheep trim grass on sections of the convent acreage. The wooly creatures reduce personnel hours and energy resources formerly used for mowing.

The Montadales are sheared and their wool sold to market, although some sisters have experimented in weaving with Ruma-raised fibres produced by the home flock, which now numbers 12 ewes and one ram.

About five goats also are kept with the flock.

The animals have become special pets especially for the senior Adorers who continue a prayer ministry while receiving special care at the provincial house.

And members of the provincial house staff take the sheep to area schools and nursing homes for sheering exhibitions.

The Adorers have made a spiritual investment by providing sisters and visitors with opportunities for sheep-pen retreats.

Hiking through the meadows, the phrase "pastoral setting" from art appreciation classes of years past assumes new meaning. Beyond the outbuildings and silos, you come to the sheep pen.

If you watch the sheep long enough you forget the chill and you don't notice the farm cat brushing against your cuffs.

Soon you notice that a visitor's cough or the wind rattling a loose piece of sheet metal on a shed can send the sheep scurrying for group protection. The need for the soothing, concerned voice of a trusted shepherd becomes clear.

The animals seem very communal. They graze together, play together and cautiously eye visitors in unison. But occasionally a trusted lamb will stray, tempted by a blade of grass or succulent shoot of wild onion.

She will stick her neck through the fence for a tasty morsel. And she will show you how that one stray, the constant concern of Christ the Good Shepherd, could easily be distracted from the fold or get stuck in briars or a fence.

"I have found the moments with the sheep nourishing for my spirit. Wisdom can come to us in many ways even through sheep and goats," commented Sister Janet Smith, one of the Adorers who frequently visits the sheep.

"In quiet moments at the sheep pen, I have developed a greater consciousness not only of the connectedness of humanity and all nature but of our connectedness to God, the Creator, the Great Mystery, the Good Shepherd," she added.

And through her own watching and concern especially for the newborns to the fold, she has grown in her relationship with the Good Shepherd.

Jesus taught us in images that may be lost in our world of deadlines, shopping malls and concrete office buildings. What, me? A shepherd?

The image of a Iamb appeals to the heart, speaking to our capacity to give and to receive care. And it invites us to simplicity, to reflection, to love of life and to prayer.

It is a symbol for Easter.

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"Like the women who went to the tomb of Do you recall how the women who followed earth.' Every day we are discovering what that we need to seek the living one among the Jesus, Jesus from Galilee expected to find his body in means. living. the tomb? Then two men in dazzling garments "We are brothers and sisters in Christ. There appeared, and asked: "Why do you seek the liv- can be no strangers in the family of God. It is "We need to remember the disciples on the ing one among the dead?" (Luke 14:1-12) hard to live like that, but with faith in Christ and way to Emmaus who met the Lord but did not Second, Luke would not be afraid to chal- as members of the church community we can recognize him at first. The disciples were lenge us, but he would do it compassionately. learn to do it. telling the risen Lord how terrible it was that That was his way. women at the tomb, "As I showed in my two-volume work, Luke Jesus was dead. Like the Here is what Luke might include in his and Acts, our life as Christians is a journey of these disciples had sought the living one among speech to us. Most likely, Luke would begin faith, love and hope. On that journey we need the dead. Now they had all but given up. with a summary of his Gospel and of the Acts of to keep the goal in mind.

"Still there was a glimmer of faith, enough to the Apostles: "As Jesus told the disciples of Emmaus, Christ sense something extraordinary, enough to "In my Gospel I wrote of things long ago. I had to suffer the passion in order to enter into extend hospitality to a stranger on the way. wrote of Jesus' birth, of his mission among us, his glory. Should we expect it to be different for Then they recognized Jesus in the breaking of his teaching and his ministry. I also wrote of his us? the bread. Remember? death - a gift of life - and his resurrection, "And that is where we find him - not among "The women who followed the Lord from which is a life we never could have imagined.

They tomb. the in dead, but among the living, celebrating the him for the looking were Galilee "I wrote of his disciples, the Twelve Apostles, livthe seek on Easter." you do 'Why Eucharist reminded: be to had they how him, accompanied who the women dead?' the among one ing formed a community in Jerusalem. I showed That's what I think Luke would tell us this how, in spite of persecution - or was it with the "But many of us still look for the living one Easter. But I'm sure all the readers of this artihelp of persecution? - the early Christians among the dead. cle could write down their ideas about what brought the Gospel message to Jews and genLuke might say now. And were Luke to read all never can that past a in him seek "Some tiles alike. would say, come back, pretending they are still in Galilee these compositions, he probably "Today, many years later, we are those disci- or trying to relive the first days of the Jerusalem "Yes, I think that would be part of it." ples. We are that community, the church, community, full of youthful enthusiasm.

Of course, you could try your hand at writing bringing the Gospel message to people every"Some seek him in rational proofs of Jesus' such a composition. What would Luke say to us where. The world is much bigger now, and differplaces that were once far apart are much closer. resurrection, as though faith were only a matter so that this Easter would really make a lives? our in ence reason. of the of ends 'the of spoke The prophet Isaiah

How to join the Gospel's cast

By Dolores R. Leckey

This week's discussion point: What about Jesus captures your imagination today?

Selected responses from readers: "I see a man with eyes that are very alive, very interested in people, very honest, very faithful. I see someone who is unusually alive." - Rita Versace. recently "Having experienced the deaths of my prematurely born son and my father-inlaw, I am now more than ever in touch with the Christ of compassion. I have found Jesus to be a close companion ... during our time of great sorrow." Leah Sealey.

"Although Jesus lived 2,000 years ago, he had a message that is more fresh, timely and full of hope than you're likely to hear in any of the newspapers today. Nothing else has the inspira-

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tion and solidness that his Gospel has."

- Richard McGinnis.

"His compassion and love are what I would love to have If we could all do that, what peace there would be in the world!" - Dick James. "The simplicity, the love and the positiveness of Jesus.

The media is drowning us in all that is bad in the world.... It gives you a mentality of being under siege He is calling us to see the good in one another and believe in it." Pamela Atkinson.

"I know he's still alive. I he's know there all the just time, t hrough nature, the way it repeats itself, the way children are born.

All of this speaks of Jesus. That's what captures my imagination." - John Ferrington.

he Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola encourT age us to use our imagination to enter into the Gospel scene by visualizing first-century Mediterranean sights,

sounds, smells.

You might envision the fields of Galilee ablaze with poppies, the exciting pulse of busy Jerusalem or the women of Bethany and the boy with barley bread.

As you pray, you are encouraged to see Jesus in his homeland, with friends (and enemies), with people of that time, and to interact with Jesus encountered in this way. * I see him astonished as the paralytic man is lowered through the roof of a house. * I see Jesus deeply moved by the woman who washes his feet with her tears. Do his tears mingle with hers? * I see Jesus striding purposefully toward Bethany, where hospitality awaits. I tag along, with questions or requests.

Usually, I'm out of breath.

What does Jesus look like?

The great Russian iconographer Andrei Rublev has given me Jesus' face, the oneI see most often in these meditations: All of humanity is there; and all of God is there.

The eyes are key. Jesus' eyes see through me to the heart of the matter. He's reading the human heart, with all its complexity and mixed signals.

Jesus knows that people make a mess of things, but that the mercy of God reaches into the mess and transforms it.

I see Rublev's Jesus telling the story of the self-righteous religious official (the Pharisee) and the public sinner (the tax collector). The Pharisee expresses gratitude that he is not like the rest of humanity - greedy, adulterous.

Meanwhile, the tax-collector, aware of his human failings, simply prays for mercy.

I get the feeling that Jesus doesn't have much patience with religious arrogance.

More than anything I think Jesus deals with the essence of life, not the accidentals. I see Jesus calling people to a sense of personal responsibility and awareness of human need.

Jesus enlivens people's freedom with the example of his own. On the Sabbath he cures the ill; he defends his hungry disciples who pick corn on the Sabbath.

The Jesus I meet in these meditations honours the human condition. * He weeps - for his friend, for his city. * He laughs and celebrates - at weddings and dinners.

Jesus draws people into the centre of their own souls, constantly asking them to name their desires. And Jesus loves his friends, forgiving them their betrayals.

I also think the poet Jessica Powers saw those eyes. For she wrote in The Mystic Face: Neither the night nor day can find a place where I have not been shaken with surprise at the white beauty of a holy face and two great lonely eyes.

All through the Gospel Jesus' eyes tell his story.

He raises his eyes and notices a large crowd coming toward him. They must be hungry, he says, so he feeds them.

He's approached by a rich young man who wants to join the followers of Jesus but can't let go of his securities. Jesus looks at him with love as the young man goes his own way (Luke 10).

With a great and holy icon like Rublev's, the eyes are said to see into the heart and soul of the beholder.

And so with Jesus - living in Scripture, in the sacraments, in one another. He looks at us all with love, understanding our great need for mercy, helping us see how things really are.

The early Christians'nicely balanced view of Jesus

By Father John J. Castelot he view of Jesus among the early Christians T was nicely balanced. They worshiped him as Son of God but felt deep intimacy with him as Son of Man.

God's revelation that this disgraced, executed man was in fact his Son could have completely baffled the followers of Jesus. Instead, it helped to keep him from becoming a remote myth to

them. The memory of his life and death anchored him in their reality.

This view was reflected in the New Testament books.

Paul, who had a personal and stunning experience of the risen Christ, never lost sight of the human Jesus he once detested.

For Paul, Christ was an object of worship but also of practical imitation.

Paul expressed this complex view in his adaptation of an early Christian hymn. He

urged his readers to make their own the attitude of Christ Jesus, "who, though he was in the form of Cod__ emptied himself, ... humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, even death on a cross.

"Because of this, God greatly exalted him, ... that at the name of Jesus ... every tongue (should) confess that Jesus Christ is Lord" (Philippians 2:8-1 1).

This delicately balanced view determined Paul's whole life: "I live by faith in the Son of

God who has loved me and given himself up for me" (Galatians 2:20).

Mark opened his Gospel with a stirring proclamation of faith: "The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ (the Son of God)" (Mark 1:1). But, having made this profession of Jesus' divine sonship, Mark went on to tell the story of the misunderstood, rejected, betrayed and abandoned Son of Man, which is essential for understanding his significance.

This same balanced view is expressed in the self was tested through what he suffered, he is last Gospel, even though it highlights Jesus' able to help those who are being tested" divinity. It begins outside history, in eternity: (Hebrews 2:17-18).

"In the beginning was the Word.., and the And, in one of the most consoling Scripture Word was God." But it proclaims the Word's passages, this author assures us: statehistorical reality in the strikingly stark ment that "the Word became flesh and made "We do not have a high priest who is unable his dwelling among us" (John 1: 1, 14). to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one Similarly the author of Hebrews, who extols who has been similarly tested in every way, the eternal priesthood of the risen Christ, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach writes that "he had to become like his brothers the throne of grace to receive mercy and to (and sisters) in every way.... Because he him- find grace for timely help" (Hebrews 4:15-16) The Record, April 13, 1995 9

It's your feast clay! that we have become God's beloved children through the sacrifice of God's only Son. When we hear the saga of the Exodus, we recognize that we have come out of the slavery o f sin to the promised land of redemption.

When we hear the prophet Isaiah speak of God as Israel's spouse, we can see ourselves as the beloved of God. When Isaiah invites us to come to the water and to share in God's banquet, we remember our own baptism and our sharing in the Eucharist.

When the prophet Baruch calls us to live by the wisdom of God, we recall that God has given us wisdom through the gift of the Holy Spirit.

When Ezekiel speaks of God pouring clean water over us and giving us a new heart and a new spirit, we hear echoes of our baptismal rebirth.

When Paul reminds the Romans that in baptism they have died with Christ that they might live a new life, we rejoice that baptism has put sin to death in us and given us new life.

And as we hear the Gospel account of the resurrection of Christ, we know that we have risen with him to share his life.

This is what makes Easter so joyful, not just that Christ has risen but that he shares his new life with al: of us.

During the whole 50 days of Easter that begin with the Easter Vigil, we rejoice with the newly baptized members of the church and reflect with them on what it means to live this new life we have received through baptism. Having renewed our baptismal promises, we seek to start afresh.

Like the newly baptized, we try to live "fresh from the font," refreshed and renewed. So remember, Easter is your day!

By Father Lawrence E. Mick

T et me tell you why Easter is your

east day.

What do we celebrate at Easter?

The obvious answer is that we celebrate Christ's rising from the tomb to new life. The answer is correct, yet it is not just a past historical event that we celebrate.

Another answer is that we rejoice in a special way at Easter with those who experience the death and resurrection of Christ in their own lives through baptism. In those who are baptized at the Easter Vigil the catechumens - we see the mystery of Christ's death and resurrection still redeeming the world today.

All through the year or more that the catechumens have been preparing for initiation, the rest of us shared their conversion journey in various ways. So perhaps the best way for us to celebrate Easter is to put ourselves in the place of the newly baptized. As they celebrate baptism at the Easter Vigil, all of us renew our baptismal promises at Easter Mass.

This, then, is my third answer to the question I began with. While Easter is about the resurrection of Jesus and the baptism of the catechumens, it is also a celebration our own death and resurrection in baptism. In other words, this is our feast day!

The songs and prayers and readings of this feast are all about us.

The readings of the Easter Vigil, for example, are readings that speak about us and what has happened to us. When we hear the story of creation in Genesis, we are reminded that we are part of the new creation in Christ.

When we listen to the reading about Abraham and Isaac, we know

A familiar, haunting Easter

By Father Robert L Kinast t was my first year in the seminary and I the first time I was away from home for Easter. It was also the first year the seminary implemented the restored Rite for Holy Week, which Pope Pius XII promulgated in 1955.

The highlight of the three-day liturgical celebration was undoubtedly the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday night. We knew it was going to be special because we were all sent to the dormitory after dinner for a two-hour nap to ensure we would stay awake for the entire service which began at 11 p.m.

The chapel was completely dark when the seminary rector began the liturgy by lighting the new fire and preparing the Easter candle. Then the procession moved to the front of the chapel where the Easter candle was placed on a large holder and the head cantor stepped before it.

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He began singing, in Latin, the most beautiful, haunting melody I had ever heard. His rich baritone voice glided through the unfamiliar chant with ease and grace.

I didn't understand all the words but I felt their meaning. In the dark silence of the chapel a single light and a single voice were gathering all of creation to proclaim the Saviour's resurrection.

There was no way I could have fallen asleep. It was the most dramatic, moving liturgical event I ever had experienced.

I didn't realize it then, but I was being introduced to one of the most ancient hymns in the Western liturgy, so ancient no one is quite sure when it originated or who composed it. We still hear it each year at the Easter Vigil, but now, of course, in English.

What is certain is that it was a prominent part of the Easter Vigil from early days when catechumens were finally baptized after their long period of preparation.

Like many ancient liturgical texts, it was modified, expanded, embellished and adapted over the centuries. Its name remained stable, however, taken from the first word in the Latin, Exsultet (meaning rejoice, exult). It is more frequently and accurately described today as the Easter Proclamation.

The proclamation's introduction calls upon heaven, creation and the whole church to join the cantor in proclaiming the mystery symbolized by the lighted Easter candle. The proclamation itself begins by praising God for redeeming us through Jesus.

The astounding deed of salvation is described in three stages: the Passover liberation of Israel from Egypt which will be elaborated in the readings to follow; the baptism of the catechumens which brings them into the redeeming power of Christ; and the conquest of death for all people.

You will recognize the Exsultet by its phrase, repeated again and again by the cantor, "This is the night when..."

The central theme throughout the hymn is night. The ordinary meaning of night as a dark, empty, even dangerous time is contrasted with this night - a different night, the night of God's saving work.

The proclamation concludes by drawing attention to the Easter candle whose light, divided among all those present through their own lighted candles, does not diminish but rather intensifies.

The image of many worshipers holding their own lighted candles in the darkness suggests the stars of heaven and anticipates the light of eternal life symbolized by the morning star "which never sets."

This year, listen carefully for the words of the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil. This is the song of the church, not of a single composer or poet. It arose with the experience of Christians entering new life through baptism, and it continues with each new Easter Vigil.

So positive and prayerful More than 5000 show up at successful Gosnells Family Mission Novena

Thoroughly enjoying the Family Mission Novena - tailor made for families, are these St Munchin's children (left) Colleen Fleay, Simone Moss, Stacey Pereira, Shanon McAleese, Andrew Ross, David Devellerez and Andrew Nield with PP Father Joss Breen. At the rear are Max and Carmel Hitchcock (married in the original Gosnells wooden church 44 years ago), Lauren Hitchcock, a veteran missioner, Father William Creede and Patrick Majid.

by COLLEEN McGUINESS-HOWARD

Lvery satanic force has been used to split asunE der families over the past many years, ranging from government policies to lax morals.

No wonder then that with a vast number of families in tatters and a bolder, more public homosexual-lesbian lobby vying to take their place as 'families' - complete with innocent children in tow to make the composition 'look right!'

- the world needs as never before the spiritually unifying means to re-align, re-join, consolidate and unify this integral part of society...the family.

An endeavour to achieve this, is the Family Mission Novena. Although mission work is a 200 year old Redemptorist tradition. the Family Mission Novena (FMN) was instigated by Father William Creede CSsR several years ago, and has proven to be very successful.

Formerly based in Perth, Father Creede's home is now in Ballarat, Victoria, from where he sets off to give missions, within Australia and beyond.

Recently, at the invitation of new Gosnells parish priest Father Joss Breen, Fr Creede gave his mission at Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament parish.

Numbers of 5,000 upwards have responded to the nine (novena) day FMN, with whole families flocking each night - some coming straight from shift work - and with good attendances also at the daily Mass.

Confessions were heard day and night, and all day Sunday - also given over to the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - and there was a constant stream seeking reconciliation with God "whereby the lives of some were changed" according to Father Creede.

The parish was well prepared for the FMN however, with 72 parishioners ("because Our Lord sent out 72 disciples") visiting families the week before the mission, to invite them along. As for Father Breen, returning as parish priest where he was a few years back an assistant, he was equally impressed with the "atmosphere of participation and celebration" during the FMN, "the joyous participation of the children" and the efforts of the elderly to attend with the most common response being...1 wouldn't miss it for anything!"

5th Annual Flame Congress 1995 Friday April 28th. 29th. 30th. 1995 John 23rd College Lecture Theatre. John 23rd Avenue, Mt. Claremont.

"Let The Bridegroom Come" (The Baptism Of Fire) What does it mean to let the Bridegroom come? What is the significance of the "Baptism of Fire?'

What is God's purpose for Christians in the nineties up to 2000 AD?" How do these things effect your life and the world around you?

The speakers at this Congress have had first hand experience of the "Baptism of Fire."

They come to share with you the power of this anointing which has been seen and experienced in several countnes around the world.

'What you are seeing now, is what my heart has longed for, and what you have prayed to see. This fire is now upon the earth. From this moment onwards you will be hearing report from various places around the world. This fire will come even without the laying on of hands. It will be seen in great numbers as people who are gathered in prayer turn their hearts to me. Even where there is only two, it will be seen. Even though they have not prayed for it, it will come. You have received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, it is now time for the Baptism of Fire.

Be ready and be prepared.' (Prophecy 1993)

THE SPEAKERS International Speaker

Frank Tassone (FMI) Has many years experience in Youth Leadership & preached around Australia and England.

International Catholic Evangelist & Author

Guy Sutton-Mattocks (FMI) Has preached in USA, Pakistan, England & PNG. He has many years experience in CCR Leadership.

International Catholic Evangelist & Author

Special Guest Speaker Intemational Evangelist & Author

Eddie Russell (FMI)

Rev. Dr. Russell Sage

Has preached in England many times. Taught "SMPOF" Seminars in B,Ham & P. Borough UK & had many years experience in CCR Leadership.

Has preached in USA, Malaysia, Singapore, England, Pakistan, Hungary, Holland, India & Philippines.

THE PROGRAMME: Public Rally Fn. 7.30pm "Behold the Bridegroom" Workshops Sat. 9am 'With the crozvd or with the Cross" Sat. llam "By My Spirit says the Lord" Sat. 2pm "Stirring up the Gift within you" Sat. 4pm "Becoming doers of the Word" Public Rally Sat 7.30pm 'The Baptism of Fire" Sun. 9am "Mass" your Salvation" out 'Work llam Sun. Workshops Ministries" Five Fold Sun. 2pm "Discerning the Sun. 4pm "Empowering the Believer" Public Rally Sun. 7.30pm "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me"

"PUBUC RAWES" Are open to the anyone without Registration.

A "Love Offering" will be taken up.

DAYTIME REGISTRATIONS Adults $50 - Married Couples - $40ea - Unwaged $30 Single Sessions $10.

You may Register on the day but an early Registration is advisable.

Phone: (09) 382 3668 for more information.

A special highlight for Fr Breen was the Saturday healing Mass for the sick which, he said, was "a moving ceremony with so many elderly and sick people being brought along by their families.

"It was obvious that their faith was a solidi strength and support to them; and for my part,.

I'm thankful to be starting my Gosnells term in such a positive and prayerful way."

MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL (A Preaching/Teaching Ministry in the Catholic Church Serving the Body of Christ)

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EYE Praise for three recent liturgies from Brian COYNE. South Perth.

Sir, May I praise those have been who responsible for three recent liturgies I have been privileged to witness at St Mary's Cathedral.

Two of them were some months ago, one when the Prague Chamber Choir provided the music to accompany an otherwise regular Sunday Mass. To be present at that Mass was a deeply moving experience.

The other was the solemn Mass for the proclamation of Blessed Mary of the Cross.

Both of these liturgies Prompt me to the view that there is a reemerging understanding of the importance of sacred ritual in making the presence of God real in our lives.

The third event was the Chrism Mass on Tuesday. It was a virtuoso liturgy celebrated

by Archbishop Hickey , Bishop Healy and some 140 priests. The moving moment was listening to the assembled priests,packed arpound the altar, united in a superbly sung conclusion to the Eucharistic Prayer.

This is our church communicating to our God - and to ourselves -at its very best. To echo the words of the archbishop's homily, the "externals" of the sacraments and liturgy are an important path to making the mystery of Father, Son and Spirit actually present in our lives.

The Cathedral was comfortably packed for these liturgies I attended. As the news spreads of what is occurring in our liturgies I feel it will not be long before we need to complete the long overdue extension to the cathedral.

Congratulations all round. My only trifling criticism is that at St Mary's we have both a superb organ and a superb choir but the "balance" between the two requires fine tuning, This is a minor adjustment that the musical directgor might take on board and is no criticism of her virtuosity with the instrument, merely of finding a balance of volume between singers and instrument.

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CONVENTION '96 COMPETITION January 14-20, 1996

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Musi/ icians Team taking a moment out from practise in St. Benedict's Church, Applecross for their Musicians and Vocalist Workshop vveeken at John XXIII College Hall from April 21-23.

Enquiries and registration froms available, ring 328 9622.

Above: Back Row:(L-R): Narelle Lark, Tom O'Halloran, Storm Bowman, Ben Sheridan, Jon Fernandes, Nicki Carter, Adam Phillips.

Front Row: Meredith Whitely, Tim Harris, Denise Wijasuriya, Lorenzo Martinez.

Below; Right and Below Right: Fremantle Mosman Park Antiochians celebrating their recruiting weekend 10th-12th March.

Bottom: Leaders from Fremantle Mosman Park Antioch; (L-R): Melanie Saw and Kath Foley. The coloured dots represent a positive quality of themselves as seen by others.

Win a free registration to the 1996 Catholic Youth Convention.

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Send your entries to:

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Camp Be Quick Come to a weekend at Eagles Nest with all the crew from the Catholic Muth Ministry.

May 26-28, 1995 For more information call us on 328 9622.

Places are filling fast.

VOCATIONS MASS Come and meet friends from the Convention at the Vocations Mass

FRIDAY MAY 5 St Mary's Cathedral Parish Centre 7.30pm This will be followed by an evening with the Convention Band at the Cathedral Parish Centre.

Do not miss a great night!

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Cultural Notes!

Blarney Players making them laugh at Blarney!

Above: Vera Larkin as Julie in All The King's Horses by John McDonald, directed by Jimmy Rogers, with Joe Purcell as Mr Applebloom and Pat Dunne as the Police SargeanL The play will continue on April 19, 20 and 21, at 8pm at Blarney Castle.

Right: Michael Glover, as William McStay - after a bit of a 'dust upi'.

WASO Retracing and chorus steps of in Mgr Hawes concert T

HE West Aus- UANCY a tour of Monsignor John Cyril tralian Symphony 'Hawes country?

Orchestra with Chief Well tour leader Charles Eadon-Clarke Conductor Vernon his background of historian, geographer with Handley and the WASO a former mayor of Geraldton, knows a and Collegium Choir's lot Monsignor Hawes and this tour about Female Chorus will preplanned for the height of the wildflower seasent two great concerts son, will include talks on this extremely talon Friday April 21 and Catholic ented priest who was also an archiSaturday April 22 at the tect, builder, horseman and horsebreaker.

Perth Concert Hall, inspired by the magic of The seven days, six nights tour covering the night skies: much of the Victoria District, will depart

Reliving the majestic CBC on the Terrace

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YLIE Carman-Brown, Executive Officer of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society next o a photo' of Christian Brothers College (CBC) in 1917. The Perth Thro' Pictures: A Century of Change exhibition currently at Stirling House, 49 Broadway, Nedlands, revealed that CBC was founded in 1894 when two Brothers started teaching in premises adjacent to Government House.

There were 100 day students, 66 boarders plus teachers and the college was built with pressed bricks and Sydney free-stone. Historical notes further stated that "when fully finished it will have an eastern and western wing, with arched balconies in the centre, facing St George's Terrace on one side and overlooking the Swan River on the other. The building will be ornamental with a large central tower, so that when all is complete this will be one of the handsomest of the many fine colleges erected by this well known teaching Order in Australasia."

The successful college further expanded until 35,000 Australian pounds had been spent by 1913, making it "an impressive Terrace landmark" In 1937 CBC was re-located to Mt Henry and became Aquinas College. Meanwhile the Terrace location housed Trinity College until 1962 when they re-located to Riverside Drive and the Terrace building was bought and demolished in 1965 by the Commonwealth Government on which site they built (the now re-located) Commonwealth Taxation Office.

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Mozart's Symphony No 41 in which jovial high spirits abound in this music devoted to Jupiter. This is one of the composer's most perfectly proportioned and loved works.

Perth August 4 and visit Bullsbrook, Bindoon, New Norcia, Perenjoni, Morawa, Yalgoo, Tardun, Mullewa, Geralidton, Bluff Point, Greenough and Northampton.

Monsignor Hawes, initially an Anglican minister for eight years before becoming a Catholic priest for 41 years, had already left his unique stamp on buildings in other parts Host's The Planets of the world and continued to do so after he with its powerful open- left Australia to become ultimately a hermit ing rythms and vigorous on at Island in the Bahamas where he died.

themes for trumpets and horns which represent Mars to the hushed sounds of the behind the scenes WASO chorus.

This spellbinder was inspired by the heavenly bodies of Venus the bringer of peace, Mercury - the winged messenger, and Neptune - the mystic.

Archbishop Hickey, previously Bishop of Geraldton, will conduct a short service at 6 pm, the evening prior to departure and Bishop Bianchini will conduct a service in Geraldton's cathedral at the tour's end.

For further details on this Catholic Pilgrimage and Wildflower Tour of the Murchison, Mid-West and The Midlands, please contact Charles Eadon-Clarke on (09) 279-1293 or write to 9 Sutherland Close, Guildford 6055.

The triumph of Easter

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

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On The Road To Calvary by Frank Pash, from his book The True Vine

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HRISTIANITY is a solid religion because it is based on fact - namely the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who chose to be born of Mary, live among us as a human being for 33 years, allow Himself to be unjustly crucilied on a Cross for our sins, but who then proved His immortality by rising from the dead.

Supremely man he died with the greatest dignity, and three days later rose majestically God in ultimate supremacy.

In the history of the world He has had no equal, nor can He, because no mere mortal can even approach His perfection.

Because He rose from the dead, He proved He was God and forged with heavenly indissolubility, the linch pin of our Catholic Church which He established, bequeathing to Peter the earthly position of pastoral head of His Church, before He died.

It's all so simple really isn't it?

He walked with us, told us what to do to join Him in heaven, performed miracles, explained the dangers of sin and where that would lead, established His Church, gave us His mother, was killed, rose again, remained with us for 40 days, ascended into Heaven - promising He would remain with us until the end of time, and then sent down the Holy Spirit to enlighten, energise and inspire us.

So you'd wonder why anyone would tread another path, woudn't you?

But they do. And when I've sinned, which indeed I have, I too have walked that dark downhill path - and then, thanks to God's forgiveness and the hope, trust, and light of my Catholic faith - I've found my way back to the beautiful, happy, peaceful path of sunshine which one walks on when at peace with God. This path goes upwards and has a canopy of blue - which is surely Our Lady's blue mantle! atop.

As you lightly tread it, the perfume of the colourful flowers which are either side of it, assail you.

The trees allow the dappled sunshine to fall on this path, and in their branches arc myriads of birds who too, follow your heart, and burst into song, chittering and cheeping.

Although we travel this path alone, which ultimately we must on our walk to our eternal life, we are never truly alone because Jesus is there to beckon us onwards. The Holy Spirit fills us with the desire to climb higher spiritually, our beloved Mother Mary is walking beside us, holding our hand, and our guardian angel accompanies us on the other side.

However, nowhere in this life are we safe from satan who hates us to be happy and who above all, wants us to fill his eternal dominion.

That's where temptation comes in and the seduction starts.

Looking back, given the sage distance of time, we wonder how we could possibly have been seduced, or taken in by this or that sin.

It's so hard to imagine how, or why that particular deed had such appeal?!

But that's because satan's temptations are very alluring! They have to be, or he wouldn't get fools to fall into his traps!

And a distinct advantage of growing older, is not only that you've made plenty of mistakes and hopefully learned from them! but also because Eternity seems to be looming nearer!

That's your red alert signal to smarten up your conscience and pray one heck-of-a-lot more, and better.

However, the fact is with the precarious uncertainties of life, no matter what age, we can drop dead and NOBODY can bribe another second of life than that which is ordained.

The message is therefore, that regardless of what age, be smart and take out a virtue stocked insurance policy with the Almighty just in case He's made plans that we don't know about!

It's cheap and painless insurance and in doing the right thing in His eyes - as against what you tell everybody else! - you'll 'walk on air' in sheer joy with the outpouring of graces He gives for the astute ones who have joined His team.

It's so easy to be disillusioned with the human race, because there are so many out there to do what they can to cheat and destroy others for selfish gain.

Evil, and crime across the board in Australia, has risen dramatically and now we are rapidly heading towards the American standard where a majority of people fear for their lives.

This will certainly happen here too, unless each one of us makes a decision to resist evil.

To be better.

Travelling as much as I do, and rubbing shoulders with people so often, I see such an incredible amount of selfishness, Godlessness, and evil motivated people, that it's tempting to opt out of the human race (and dare I say it take a few of the Baddies with you!!)

But then that's the negative way out. Hiding away from the world doesn't diminish the evil in it.

What does lessen the evil is us! Each tiny individual matters.

Just as the Baddies make their presence felt let's make ours felt!

Let's indvidually and collectively negate evil.

To start with - give everyone a smile you meet - friend or stranger. You'd be amazed how infectious it is and how many smile back.

Pray not only for everyone you know, but also those who smile back at you.

Also the people behind the counters, and in the shopping centres.

Instead of mentally sticking pins into the Nasty and Evil Ones - offer them up in prayer.

Each day en route to work, keep a pair of rosary beads in your pocket and try and say as many decades as you can.

Or get a rosary cassette to put in your car.

Speak to God more often. As soon as you open your eyes in the morning say "G'day dear Father! My God! Thank you for another beautiful day. Please walk with me today, help me on my way, and may I ever be worthy of being your child, your creation."

Instead of simply thanking those who are good enough to serve us in shops or wherever - add "God Bless you!" Then if some stranger does something particularly nice for you - give them a special blessing.

I usually say to them: I extend to you and your loved ones all the blessings of Our Lady of Medjugorje.

This is invariably met with stunned appreciation. Their eyes light up and there is such softness and gratitude in their voices when they say quietly: Thank you!

That's because all the world is thirsting for God, and His graces of love, and kindness; they need reassurance in this seemingly Godless world that He is not only 'up there' but walking with us.

When people see faith in action and in our words - it fills them with fortified hope. It's as though you threw them a lifeline which so many millions need.

We desperately need Jesus, but He also needs us to be His hands and feet.

If we became true disciples of Jesus, and were better, more positive examples of Christianity, we'd lessen evil, help save more souls, and above all - let Him see that His agony on the Cross was so worthwhile!.

By Colleen IlleGukins-floward.

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