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amilies must not suffer in this budget. be paid to all families as a tangible sign might deliver a bright moment in the May "The Federal Labour Government could F They have been through enough in the that the government values the nurturing budget. not continue to call itself a reformist govlast 12 months including having to wear of newly born children as a vital part of economically last December's interest rate rise.

Tax increases appear not only inevitable but responsible.

However families must not bear the brunt of any tax increase.

It is time for Australia's corporations to accept a higher degree of social responsibility shoulder any tax increases.

So says Father David Cappo, National Director of the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission.

He says: "In fact families must benefit from this budget.

"The paid maternity allowance must be put in place as already promised. It should

family life.

"I disagree with the argument that it should be targeted and means tested. It will cost more as a universal payment but surely it is time for Australia to give a clearersignal in our social policies that we value families and the care of children.

"The vast majority of other OECD countries have put this benefit in place; some even extend it for a year or more, while we are arguing over 12 weeks.

"Proper housing that is affordable is fundamental to all citizens. It appears that new bousing policies for people in public housing and in private rental situations

"I refuse to accept that an responsible budget cannot deliver benefits to families and respect the dignity of the unemployed.

"Surely a government that has been in power for 12 years has developed the sophistication and good sense not to be mesmerised by economics alone but to be in solidarity with the human, family and social needs of its citizens.

"Labour Market programs for the long term unemployed, a universal maternity allowance, more support for housing needs, and if there are tax increases, they should be directed to large corporations and away from families. These are top priorities in the May budget." He concludes:

ernment with a social justice agendajf it takes one step back from its commitment to the White Paperon Employment and its funding of labour market programs for the long term unemployed.

"Any cutback or curtailing of employment programs is totally unacceptable.

These programs are a life line to dignity not only for the unemployed but also their families.

"Playing with the ongoing viability of unemployment programs not only degrades people who are unemployed it also casts the government in a very cynical light"

Big role by women on Good Friday fATICAN CITY (CNS) V Women helped carry the cross that formerly the pope himself was able to carry during the Good Friday Way of the Cross.

Throughout the Easter events, the pope highlighted the role of women. He said it was significant that the first witnesses of the resurrection were, in fact, the women who knew Jesus.

At the Way of the Cross on Good Friday, women also played a prominent role. The meditations for the 14 stations were written at papal invitation by Sister Minke de Vries, superior of the Grandchamp Community in Switzerland, which is affiliated with the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

The pope, shielded from the rain by a large umbrella, carried the bare wooden cross for only

the first and last stations. He passed it to a nun from Sister de Vries' community; lay men and women and a Russian Orthodox priest also carried it for later stations.

In between, the pope walked with his cane behind a candlebearing young woman and young man; in the past, the acolytes had been young men.

The effort of leading the liturgical ceremonies sometimes showed in the expression of the 74-year-old pontiff, particularly as he maneuvered the steps and stairs at Rome's Colosseum during the late-night Way of the Cross.

"We seek to be ever more united," the pope said, thanking Sister de Vries and recalling that the 1994 meditations were written by Orthodox Patriarch

Bartholomew I of Constantinople.

"We have participated together in carrying the cross of Christ," he said. "Together with the pope, bishop of Rome, various people have carried the cross, most of them lay people, brothers and sisters."

"As we approach the third millennium, all of this says we want to be ever closer to one another, ever more intimate because Christ has united us in his cross and in his resurrection," he said.

The meditation takes on particular significance, he said, in 1995," a year of tragic anniversaries: of Auschwitz, the hideous extermination camp; of Dresden, razed to the ground; of Hiroshima, the city of enormous destruction."

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"Once again Jesus climbs Mount Calvary with us, in us and for us so that once again humanity can contemplate in his bloodied face the supreme revelation of the love of the Father," the pope said.

Sister de Vries' meditations, read at each station, focused not only on the biblical events recounted, but on how they reflect the attitude or actions of modern Christians.

For the third station, "Jesus is condemned by the Sanhedrin," she wrote, "Everything was terribly false in this trial, like in many trials throughout history provoked by rivalry, by the fear of losing power and of losing authority."

But Jesus remains silent and does not condemn the Jewish leaders, she wrote. "You never

disowned your people: 'Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.' And that which they did, we your church do after almost 2,000 years."

The prayer for the station asked for forgiveness for times when Christians have acted as if their faith was their property and not a gift from God. The prayer also begged God's pardon for the way Christians have treated the Jews: "Forgive us also for having denied your people, for having derided them, even in our liturgies."

Earlier on Good Friday, the pope walked into St. Peter's Basilica and heard confessions for an hour or so - a tradition he began years ago to highlight the importance of the sacrament of reconciliation

New spirit after walk in the rain TATICAN CITY: Rain and cold weather V descended on Rome throughout Easter but the pope who walked in the Good Friday rain got a new spirit by the time Easter Sunday came round.

To peoples waiting for their "deepest aspirations" to be recognized, like the Palestinians and Kurds, the church proposes dialogue as the only path toward a solution, he said.

The bleak weather caused the Mass traditionally celebrated in St Peter's Square to be moved from St Peter's Square into the Basilica where 100,000 flowers sent from Holland cascaded around the altar.

The 75 year old pope was in full form and full voice as he celebrated Easter Mass and then, from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, offered greetings in 57 languages. His blessing "urbi et orbi" (to the city of Rome and the world) was televised to some 65 countries.

"The church proclaims the Gospel of life, with the power of the one who has vanquished death," he said.

"Christ opens the way of life! To families torn apart by war, to the victims of hatred and violence, as in Algeria, in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in Burundi and in southern Sudan, the church does not hesitate to renew the paschal message of peace," he said.

And to those tempted to put their hopes in armed struggle, as in the Caucasus and in Ecuador and Peru, the church at Easter insists that violence contradicts human dignity, he said.

In an Easter blessing to the world, the pope said the church's Gospel of life contrasts with the "all too many signs of death" in today's culture, especially conflict among nations.

The night before, the pope stayed up past midnight for the Easter vigil. During the service he baptized 12 adults from Albania, China, Indonesia, South Korea and the United States, and led the dramatic lighting of candles in the darkened basilica.

On Holy Thursday, the pope celebrated Mass in St John Lateran Basilica with Rome clergy and washed the feet of 12 elderly priests.

Greenwood smiles A t All Saints church Greenwood on Holy Saturday night it was smiles all round and a dash of cake cutting for RCM candiates who had entered the Catholic Church during the vigil ceremony.

From left: Full communion candidates Russell Flynn and Jennifer Greenhill and catechumens whe were baptised, Wendy Quinn and Michael John.

Helping people rediscover the truth - that God is love

liATICAN CITY (CNS) - The V Catholic Church's new evangelization effort must help people rediscover the truth that God is love, Pope John Paul II told members of the Pallottine family.

"This was the theme of the continual and untiring preaching of St. Vincent

Pallotti, which was based on his personal experience of feeling loved by God without condition and without limit," the pope said.

In a message marking the 200th anniversary of St. Vincent Pallotti's birth, Pope John Paul asked the priests, religious and lay people belonging to Pal-

lottine orders and organizations to be untiring witness of God's love and of the Catholic faith.

As part of the anniversary celebration, more than 1,300 members of the Union of the Catholic Apostolate Youth, a lay group which traces its foundation to the

saint, came from 21 countries to Rome for a five-day symposium.

The saint was born in Rome April 21, 1795, was ordained to the priesthood in 1818, and spent his life working with the

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his eight years on the Goldfields, Father I fTony Pires had developed a great sense of community, the chairperson ofthe Kalgoorlie and Boulderparish council, Mandy Connor said ataPalmSunday farewell function.

"He empowered people. His guidance and encouragement inspired groups and individuals to contribute more fully to parish life, to take on new ministries and to take new steps in their own faith journey," she said.

The farewell came at the end of Mass celebrated in the grounds of the Little Sisters of the Poor Home where primarcy school children laid cloaks and palms as the John Paul College students dramatised the readings, with music by the college choir and parishioner soloists during the reading of the passion narrative.

Trent in light of Vatican II

E (CNS) -Nearly years since the Rr ouncil of Trent began Pope John Paul this Pope to confront week is paying Trent city a visit to comemorate the work of that council. ecumenism Trent stands 500km north of Rome in the 450

mountains to the north of Venice and the visit gives the pope an opportunity to discuss church reform and ecumenism, two issues bearing the stamp of the 16th-century council.

The council approved a sweeping set of church reforms establishing doctrinal and disciplinary measures visible in today's church.

These included requiring a seminary education system for future priests and mandating that bishops must live in the church jurisdiction under their spiritual and administrative care.

Trent also condemned numerous doctrinal positions of the Protestant Reformation, creating ecumenical knots needing to be painstakingly untied in the post-Second Vatican Council era.

On Sunday the pope will speak in Trent's St. Vigilius Cathedral, where most of the council sessions took place.

The commemoration will stress the relationship of Trent's work to the post-Vatican II church and its role "on the long road of reconciliation with Reformation Christians," said a Trent diocesan announcement of the papal program.

Doing this can be tricky, however, because of the difficulties in understanding the Council of Trent outside of its historical era, when Christianity was in turmoil, said several church scholars.

The Council of Trent began Dec. 13, 1545, and ended Dec. 4, 1563. Besides church reforms, it launched the Counter-Reformation, the massive church effort to regain Catholics lost to the newly formed Protestant churches. It also produced a catechism for the universal church, which remained in force until 1992, when a new one was published.

"We can't speak of a direct line from Trent to today," said Jesuit Father Jared Wicks, dean of the Gregorian University theology faculty.

The church has been marked by numerous other challenges and responses since Trent, he added. Father Wicks cited the 19th-century First Vatican Council and the more recent Vatican II, held from 1962-65.

Trent's influence on the modern church "is dwarfed by Vatican II," he said.

The changes caused by Vatican II broke with the church's anti-modernism of the early 1900s rather than with the Council of Trent, said Father Wicks.

Another problem cited by church scholars is a too-easy comparison of the Council of Trent and Vatican II, which encouraged ecumenism and allowed local languages to be used for the Mass after Trent codified Latin as the official tongue.

"It would be an error to interpret Vatican II in the light of Trent," said Father Iginio Rogger, Italian church historian.

"We have to understand Trent in the light of Vatican H," which is the council for our era, he said.

Father Rogger added that many of Trent's institutional reforms "were not resolved in a radical way." They were sufficient, but left room for further development in later eras, he said.

Father Rogger, now retired, taught church history at the Trent diocesan seminary for 40 years and helped organize academic events for the Council of Trent anniversary.

Regarding ecumenism, the key to reconciliation often means returning to the early church rather than the Council of Trent, said Father Rogger.

"We have to look at the things that do not divide, such as the traditions that go back to the apostolic church and the fathers of the church," he said.

Father Wicks said that the ecumenical atmosphere is much better now, aided by the pope's encouragement of ecumenical activity.

Yet some of Trent's condemnations "pose difficulties today," said Father Wicks.

The theologian was part of an international theological panel asked by the Vatican's Council for Promoting Christian Unity to study the Council of Trent's condemnations of Protestant positions in the light of contemporary theology.

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'Jesus did not teach by poll' W

ASHINGTON (CNS) - Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles went on CBS "60 Minutes" to answer earlier attacks on church teaching.

Commenting on opinion polls that indicate Catholic disfavor with certain teachings, Cardinal Mahony said "Jesus didn't teach by opinion poll. Jesus said, 'If you want to be my followers, then you must deny yourself, take up your cross and come follow me.

And live the kind of life that I lived.'"

Cardinal Mahony defended church teaching that prohibits women priests and a married priesthood.

The ban on the ordination of women, he said, "has nothing to do with equality as far as you and the hierarchy are concerned.

It has a great deal to do with equality, with a lot of women who givetheir lives to the church."

Women are needed "in the highest leadership roles" the church can offer, Cardinal Mahony said.

"If I didn't have the top flight women in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in charge of all the things they're in charge of," he said, "we'd be closed down tomorrow."

He noted how Pope John Paul II acknowledges a need for more women in such positions at the Vatican. "Real leadership positions," the cardinal said. "And I know he's concerned about that, and I think you're gong to see some changes there."

On married priests, Cardinal Mahony said, "Who knows, with the presence and the power of the Holy Spirit, we may have a reinstatement of married priests.... The Holy Spirit is the life of the church. And the Holy Spirit will bring all of these things at the right time."

He added it would "possibly not" come during Pope John Paul's pontificate.

The key to Catholic life in the United States and worldwide is "the vitality of our parishes," Cardinal Mahony said.

"Our people want to be fed spiritually and nourished spiritually. And if we offer it, they'll come."

Getting legal umbrella RIS (CNS) - The French bishops want to Archbishop Duval expressed outrage to his felestablish a legal association to defend the low bishops at what he described as attempts to church's interests against attempts to distort its desecrate the Easter period for commercial gain or image. propaganda purposes.

Their action follows widespread church indignaThe archbishop said he was condemning comtion over the release during Holy Week of "Priest," a mercialization and exploitation, not freedom of British movie about a fictional Catholic clergyman speech. struggling with his homosexual tendencies, and the The church must not respond to aggression with publication of a doctored edition of a papal encyclical that accuses Pope John Paul II of being a mur- aggression, he added. derer.

Referring to the movie, he said that there Is no Archbishop Duval of Rouen, the bishops' confer- question that some priests have a problem with ence president, protested that during Holy Week celibacy. But the release of the movie on Holy the doctored edition of the pope's March 30 encycli- Thursday, the day commemorating the inauguracal, "Evangelium Vitae" ("The Gospel of Life") was tion of the Eucharist and the priesthood, was an insult to France's 30,000 priests, whose commitment published by Act-Up Paris, an AIDS activist group. is beyond question, he added.

Some pages of the encyclical were overprinted in In the United States, critics of the film were able large red letters with the slogans: "This pope is a to persuade the makers of the movie to change its murderer" and "Yes to condoms, no to sermons." scheduled national release date from Good Friday, An independent group challenged Act-Up and April 15, to April 19. the publisher of the doctored encyclical in court, but About the doctored encyclical, Archbishop Duval the case was rejected on the grounds that the group said that he was amazed that not a single voice had was not properly constituted to defend the pope.

Archbishop Duval said the decision made it nec- been raised in protest against its publication and its essary for the bishops to form a special association insult to the pope as a religious leader and head of with its own legal identity able to initiate court state. cases.

Many people had bought the document in good He also said the bishops' action was necessary in faith at news stands, only to discover later the sloa deteriorating social climate where democracy is gans printed over the text, he said. threatened by a lack of respect for people and instiThe church must not be made the scapegoat for tutions. the AIDS epidemic, he added.

Rebuff for Protestants DRAGUE (CNS) - A Czech archbishop has rejected .i. Protestant criticisms that declaring the sainthood of a priest killed by Protestants in 1620 will damage ecu-

menical relations and rekindle hostility among Christians.

The holiness of Blessed Jan Sarkander is evident despite the violence of his times, said Archbishop Graubner of Olomouc, Czech Republic.

Pope John Paul II will canonize Blessed Sarkander next month in Olomouc, the city where he was killed during a religious war.

Some Protestants objected to the canonization because the region was Protestant before Blessed Sarkander's death, and Catholic Hapsburg rule was subsequently, and violently, reinstated.

"Violence was used on both sides in the name of the same Christ," said Archbishop Graubner.

We cannot criticize Sarkander for not being ecumenical, since this was not the character of his times." the archbishop added.

"Today, this holy person encourages and obliges us to seek a new path of closeness. Though some say the canonization will retard ecumenical relations, the evangelical order of unity for which Christ prayed cannot be treated so superficially," he said.

Blessed Sarkander shows the "power of faithfulness" under trying circumstances, he said.

He remained faithful until his martyr's death, when they tore his hands from his wrists, leaving him to turn the pages of his breviary with his tongue," he said.

Blessed Sarkander was tortured to death by Olomouc's Lutheran rulers at the start of the Thirty Years War. He was accused of helping an invading Polish Catholic army, but denied the accusation.

The pope's visit to the Czech Republic and Poland includes a stop in Skoczow, the southern Polish city where Blessed Sarkander was born in 1576.

The pope will not find "the same enthusiasm" as on his first Czech trip in 1990, shortly after the fall of communism, said the archbishop.

Half of Olomouc's Catholic parishes are still without priests, and many active pastors are well beyond retirement age, he said.

Some Czechs voice disapproval of the "duties and disciplines" of Catholic life, he said.

The history of the 20th century has not favored the growth of Catholicism, he said.

"Until World War I. we were still feeling the Reformation's effects," he said.

"Some people later left the Catholic Church to join a new national church, and then there were the spiritual disasters caused by 40 years of communist rule," he said.

More than 40 percent of the Czech Republic's 10.9 million citizens listed themselves as Catholics in a 1993 government census.

Of service - even in death

CHNY, Ill. (CNS) - Divine Word Religious don't shudder at the thought of Father Louis Luzbetak. 76, will not let their own mortality, the volunteers agreed. old age - or even death - get in the way of Many of them have seen one of their his commitment to service. members suffer the debilitating effects of He is one of 448 priests, sisters and Alzheimer's. brothers who are part of a research proParticipants include Chicago archdioceject, now in its second year, on priests, Augustinians, Benedictines, san Alzheimer's disease and other chronic Christian Brothers, Dominicans, Francisneurological conditions. cans, Passionists and Servites.

The volunteers, who are not suffering Women's religious orders taking part form Alzheimer's, undergo tests for memory, language and motor skills. Upon include the St. Joseph, Mercy, Holy Spirit, death, their brains are removed for study. St. Casimir and Holy Family sisters as well as Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin "The basic idea of Christianity is love of Mary.

God and fellow man.

The volunteers, all age 65 or older, are This is a wonderful way to give something back to him and to your fellow man," put through a mentally rigorous series of tests. They are asked to recall details of Father Luzbetak said. stories and lists of unrelated words. They The religious and clergy were recruited are also analyzed on motor functions like for the study after researchers found no walking and getting up from a chair. takers among the general population. Lay elderly don't mind submitting to the tests Nine volunteers already have died and while alive but draw the line at donating undergone autopsies. Rush has staff on their brains, said project director Dr. David call 24 hours a day in various cities to Bennett. quickly remove their brains upon death.

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While lay people have declined to take part because of objections from family members, support for the project in the religious communities is strong.

"I can see where people have a problem with their families.

We're in a family where it's accepted," said Divine Word Father Edward Norton, 76, a former missionary in China and the Philippines.

Volunteers said the only drawback to the study is the strain of the tests. They also suffer from some good-natured ribbing.

"We had our picture in the paper last year," said Divine Word Father Frederick Rudolph, 67, a former vocation director and educator. "A friend said, 'I didn't know so many SVDs had Alzheimer's. I didn't know you had it.'"

Researcher Dr Bennett, a non-Catholic, said the eager participation of religious, who have a long history of volunteering for medical research, impressed him.

"The church gets a lot of bad press," he said. "For every guy that makes the front page there are hundreds who are altruistic without giving it as second thought."

The study is expected to yield some findings in about five years. The study may also help people better understand Parkinson's disease and strokes.

A similar study involving religious but more focused on physical functions is under way in Kentucky.

Father Luzbetak, a scholar, said that as a priest- anthropologist he views science as an ally.

"We live in a scientific period," he said.

"We have to use all our strength - including our scientific strength - in love for our fellow man."

He added, "God gave me everything I have. The least I can give him is a piece of my lousy brain."

Joked Bennett, "We understand it's a very good brain. We haven't checked it yet, though."

MANNING & ASSOCIATES

Sex abuse: Church pressure on cardinal to resign "In my denial, I also include the sweeping suspicions of priests and others teaching religion as well as the well-attended schools of the Roman Catholic Church," said the cardinal.

Two days later, 65-year-old Father August Wanger admitted that he sexually abused a male student 30 years ago and asked forgiveness.

"This was a single case and I regret it.

Apart from that time I never hurt anybody sexually," said Father Wanger the same day that the accusation appeared in the weekly magazine, Profil. Bishop Kapellari o f Gurk said he favored the cardinal resigning his Vienna post despite the "good conscience" denial.

The cardinal's nearly two weeks of silence since the accusations began were a "long drawn-out Good Friday," said the bishop.

Bishop Stecher of Innsbruck said he would have "immediately withdrawn" from his church post if he had decided to remain silent.

Bishop Krenn of Sankt Polten said the cardinal should remain in his Vienna post.

Bishop Weber, bishops' conference president, said that an impartial investigation is needed into the accusations because "the question arises as to whether there has been a loss of confidence in the church."

He said he wanted to form a council of experts to gather information about the

allegations and advise the cardinal of its findings.

Previously, Bishop Weber had said that it was up to the Vatican, not the Austrian hierarchy, to determine if the cardinal should resign, and that he planned to discuss the issue with Vatican officials.

Last October, the cardinal turned 75, the normal retirement age, but the pope had not yet accepted his resignation when the accusations surfaced at the end of March.

Vienna is Austria's most important church jurisdiction. More than 80 percent of Austria's 7.9 million people profess Catholicism. The cardinal was appointed archbishop in 1986 and made a cardinal in 1988.

Immediately after the accusations were made, several bishops and priests expressed support for the cardinal. Among the supporters were priests who had the cardinal as a teacher and said they knew of no homosexual tendency on his part.

But as more allegations were made and the cardinal remained silent, church groups increased pressure on the cardinal to resign and on other church officials to examine the allegations.

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Two bishops said they would have resigned in similar circumstances - even if innocent - because the cardinal's initial silence when the allegations surfaced gravely harmed thecredibility needed to head a diocese.

Cardinal Groer has already resigned as head of the Austrian Bishops Conference.

His successor said he would organize an unofficial council of experts to examine the allegations against the 75-year-old cardinal because they threatened the church's credibility.

The bishops' conference is not empowered to start an official investigation because only Pope John Paul II can order that, said the new president, Bishop Weber of Graz-Seckau.

All three Austrian bishops spoke after Cardinal Groer issued a denial almost two weeks after the accusations started. Austria has nine dioceses and 12 bishops.

One bishop publicly supported the cardinal after his denial was published in the daily newspaper, Neue Kronen Zeitung.

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Work, at the other level, is "the task with which we have been entrusted by God, a sign of his confidence in man and a testimony of the creature's love for the Creator," Pope John Paul said.

"Cultivate, during the fruitful years of university studies, a just 'professional passion' and enrich it with a deep yearning for holiness," he told the young adults.

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IRMINGHAM, England (CNS) - The British government's education funding policy is inadequate, causing many public and private schools to face acute shortages of money, said Cardinal Hume of Westminster.

Limited resources were forcing cutbacks in church funding for Catholic education, he added..

Nearly 2,000 publicly funded schools in England and Wales are facing financial cutbacks as the government of Prime Minister John Major restricts the spending power of the local authorities that fund schools.

"Schools are having to cut back on teaching staff, increase class sizes and put up with inadequate teaching resources

and dilapidated buildings. This is unacceptable," said Cardinal Hume.

The cardinal, a former teacher at one of Britain's most famous private schools, Ampleforth College, said he realized there was only a limited amount of funding available for a given level of taxation.

"But our society can be very shortsighted. Quite apart from the fact that all young people have a right to expect good schooling,I do not see how our society can possibly afford not to educate every young person to his or her full potential," he said.

Lack of money means Catholic schools cannot keep up with the demand for enrollment, he said.

Some Catholic schools had been denied the government's permission to expand in

areas where there were surplus places in non-Catholic schools, he pointed out.

"Government policy has repeatedly stressed the importance of parental preferences, and yet present restrictions effectively deny many practicing Catholic parents the right to a Catholic education for their children. This is an unacceptable situation," he said.

Cardinal Hume said that education was one of the most vital contributions the church could make to the renewal of cultural and social life.

He said parents were the first and primary educators of their children and no Catholic school could be a substitute for a loving home.

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TAMAN CITY (CNS) - University years for a V Catholic should be a time for professional preparation and striving for holiness in every activity, Pope John Paul II told thousands of students attending an Opus Dei gathering in Rome.

Holiness takes place in the everyday surroundings of home, school and work, the pope said.

Even if work is tiring and boring, it has value, the pope said.

Young people from some 300 universities in more than 60 countries attended an annual Holy Week congress sponsored by Opus Dei, an organization made up mainly of lay people who emphasize living their faith through their professional work.

"Work offers us the place, the environment, the instruments and language of our response to the call of God's love," he said.

Work, even when it is tiring or boring, has a value on two levels, the pope said.

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ANILA, Philippines (CNS) While churches in the Philippines are busy campaigning for clean and honest elections, two priests are under bans for standing as candidates.

The priests campaigning in Leyte province, about 170 miles southeast of Manila, are in violation of canon law, which prohibits priests from seeking public office.

Archbishop Dean of Palo, who has jurisdiction over the two priests, has imposed sanctions on them. They are Father Romeo Ribo who is running for mayor in his hometown, and Father Ben Aniceto who is running for the Leyte provincial board.

tions.

Excluded are the unemployed, women's organizations, environmental groups and the elderly, said the justice office.

The central bargaining system involves the government, employers' organizations, labor unions and farmers' groups. It produces national programs providing social and economic improvements and phased wage agreements to reduce the risk of strikes.

Ireland's Central Bank estimates that the gross national product will increase by 5.5 percent this year, while the inflation rate is not expected to exceed 2.5 percent.

Despite these generally positive indicators, unemployment is falling very slowly.

Currently, there are more than 280,500 people unemployed - 14.4 percent of the work force. Of these, nearly 133,100 are longterm unemployed - people out of work for more than one year.

Father Healy sees church social teaching with its emphasis on justice as a main element if Ireland is to progress with peace and harmony.

The view is shared by others such as sociologist Joseph Lee. "The church is a bulwark, perhaps now the main bulwark of the civic culture. It is the very opportunism of the traditional value system that leaves religion as the main barrier between a reasonably civilized civil society and the untrammeled predatory instincts of individual and pressure-group selfishness," said Lee.

Missionaries today are, in a sense, imitating Christ, the "first missionary" who died on the cross for people's salvation, he said at a general audience.

The pope did not specifically refer to recent missionary deaths around the world, but in 1994, for example, at least 21 Catholic missionaries were killed. In recent years, many

have been slain during outbreaks of civil strife in places like Rwanda and Algeria.

The pope recalled that Christ exhorted his disciples to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth, but told them they would be despised for their activity.

"The missionary activity of Christ culminates in the offering of sacrifice," he said. "It is a matter of following the divine teacher on the path of the cross. This is the path of the church and of its missionaries."

But the pope emphasized that it is not only missionaries who have a duty to spread the faith. That belongs to all the faithful, he said.

"Even if not everyone is called to travel to missionary lands, everyone in the church and with the church has the task of propagating the light of the Gospel," he said.

He said that for all the faithful, the Holy Spirit is the ultimate source of missionary zeal.

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ARSAW, Poland (CNS) - When Sister Atanazja Holubova became one of Slovakia's two Gypsy nuns in the 1970s, she had to rely on fellow Gypsies to keep her religious activities secret.

Now that communist rule has collapsed, she is helping her downtrodden people by preparing more than 100 children for confirmation.

She is one of a growing number of East European church workers dedicating themselves to working with the Gypsies.

Estimated at 4.8 million, Eastern Europe's Gypsies make up half the world's total. They are the region's largest minority. They are also poorly organized and often detested by society.

In the past, spiritual needs of Gypsies were neglected, Sister Holubova said.

"Even now, there's still nowhere near enough priests working among them. Most lack time or are too nervous" about dealing with Gypsies, she said. "Others are just indifferent."

The Slavic word for Gypsy is "tsigani," meaning "untouchable." It dates from the 13th century, when the nomadic Gypsies reached Europe, probably from India.

Slovakia's Gypsy minority is put officially at 253,000.

Gypsy organizations say the real number is twice as

large and comprises a fifth of the inhabitants in the republic's eastern districts.

Half the Gypsies of Bardejov, where Sister Holubova works, live in a slum at the edge of town. After a cultural center began hosting Masses in 1991, more Gypsy families have re-established links with the church.

"Most were baptized Catholics, but had given up practicing," said Sister Holubova. "Today, most parents want their children to attend church. They think it's good for them - that they'll feel better as Catholics."

A Slovakian church commission is encouraging Gypsies to preserve their customs and is trying to foster tolerance among the general population.

But Sister Holubova said it will be an uphill struggle.

Under East European communism, Gypsies could get unskilled jobs, housing and health care. Since communism collapsed, many Gypsies say their situation has worsened. A decline in traditional skills has brought high unemployment, while social hostility foments alienation and lack of educational opportunities.

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willingness to make heavy sacrifices, even of one's life, Pope John Paul II said.

nUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) - Almost one-third of the Irish ing system, which sets national social and economic condipopulation is below the poverty line say Irish religious and the government should take quick remedial action.

At the forefront is the Conference of Religious in Ireland, representing 16,000 religious, 75 percent of whom are women.

The number of people living in poverty is about 1 million and growing, and the gap between rich and poor is widening, said the directors of the conference's Justice Office, Father Sean Healy of the African Mission Society and Marist Sister Brigid Reynolds.

Father Healy welcomed the pledge Prime Minister John Bruton made in March to implement an anti-poverty program, but said action is needed immediately.

"It's a major scandal that while wealth has grown dramatically in the Irish Republic, one-third of the population has not benefitted from this growth," said Father Healy.

Social Welfare Minister Proinsias de Rossa said that the government hoped to have the framework of an anti-poverty strategy prepared by the end of the year. He expressed hope that it would include provisions for poor people to contribute to the debate about the program.

"The key to the strategy will have to be the provision of much more employment," he said. "Of course, education and community development will also have a part to play in it."

The minister agreed with Father Healy's estimate that almost one-third of the population is below the poverty line.

The Conference of Religious in Ireland's Justice Office has complained that many people earmarked to benefit from the anti-poverty program are excluded from the central bargain-

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While most Gypsies are now settled, they're fragmented into tribes and by different dialects. Many are Catholics and have looked to the church for support.

Gypsies have lived in Poland for six centuries, but today's 50,000 Gypsies are not recognized as a minority. Since the mid-1980s, a Jesuit-run pastoral service has worked to integrate Gypsies into the church, while a Marian shrine at Litmanova, in the southern Tatra Mountains, has hosted Gypsy pilgrimages.

"Many people still dislike Gypsies because of past experiences," said veteran pastoral worker Father Stanislaw Opocki.

Gypsies "could contribute to Catholic life if the church responded. Although their faith contains magical, ritualistic elements, they inherit a powerful sense of good and evil and take the sacraments very seriously," he said.

East European Catholics also are helping develop awareness about the history of persecution against Gypsies. In April 1993, Polish church and state leaders gathered to commemorate Gypsy deportations to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It was the first time the 500,000 Gypsies killed by the Nazis in World War II had been officially remembered.

The Gypsies call the mass slaughter "porajmos." meaning Gypsy holocaust. Many Gypsies are bitter about the wartime silence of the Catholic Church, to which most of the Gypsies belonged. But the situation is improving.

In a 1993 message, Pope John Paul II pledged "Christian solidarity," acknowledging that Gypsies remain "even today, victims of prejudice, intolerance and discrimination." The pope has since made similar statements.

"The sympathy and warmth shown by the pope has been very important," said Andrzej Mirga, head of Poland's Gypsy organization.

Church efforts have coincided with Gypsy assertiveness. An international union of Gypsies is promoting greater representation in national parliaments, and in May 1994 the first European Gypsy congress was held in Seville, Spain.

Yet much work lies ahead, according to Gypsy leaders. Until recently, Gypsy women in the Czech Republic were offered money to undergo sterilization.

Bulgaria's 800,000 mostly,Muslim Gypsies comprise 8 percent of the population, but account for 25 percent of recorded crimes.

Hungary's 600,000 Gypsies became the first to elect a governing council on April 10, but the school dropout rate is 40 percent and living conditions remain poor.

Vatican can be flexible, too TATICAN CITY (CNS) China may One Vatican source said the bishop's V be willing to compromise on the comments were being viewed with "great appointment of Catholic bishops in interest" at the Holy See. the country, the Vatican hopes.

A solution would have a tremendous

Vatican sources say a solution to the thorny problem of bishops' nominations still seems a long way off.

But they said the climate was improved by remarks made by the head of the government-sanctioned Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China, Bishop Zong.

Bishop Zong offered a flexible approach to the naming of bishops, suggesting that the process could include proposals and discussions by both the Vatican and the Chinese government.

Bishop Zong said China might present two or three names for the pope to decide, or China could present one name and the pope another for both to discuss, or the pope could propose one or more candidates for a decision by China.

impact on the church's pastoral life in China, because it presumably would involve not only the naming of new bishops but the regularizing of clandestine bishops loyal to Rome.

The Vatican has always viewed the ability to appoint bishops as crucial to normalizing relations with China. China severed ties with the Vatican in 1958 when it began to ordain bishops without papal approval; Bishop Zong was among the first so ordained.

The bishop's comments were among several recent developments that have given Vatican officials food for thought.

In January, Pope John Paul II traveled to the Far East and sent a radio message to Chinese Catholics. Church officials in Rome said the pope's words summed up

the Vatican's central position regarding China: that communion with the pope is basic to being a Catholic.

At the same time, Vatican experts said the pope recognizes that even among the government-sanctioned patriotic church, there are many who are faithful to Rome.

The pope wants to work with this, making sure he does not cut off any opportunities for reconciliation.

That's one reason the pope was happy to see a delegation of priests from the Chinese patriotic church at a World Youth Day Mass in the Philippines, the Vatican sources said. Despite jockeying over the political significance of the priests' presence, it was seen in the end as a positive sign by the Vatican.

Last December, the bishops of the Chinese underground church issued a sharply worded pastoral letter that was carefully reviewed at the Vatican. Among other things, the letter declared as non-

Catholic the bishops and followers of the government-sanctioned church organizations.

Vatican sources, while highly sympathetic to the underground church in China and the real difficulties they face, said the letter's characterization of the patriotic church as out of communion with Rome was not in line with the Vatican's position.

The pope and the Vatican have carefully avoided describing the patriotic church as schismatic.

Among the positive recent developments in church-China relations, Vatican experts pointed to the visit to China last November of Hong Kong Cardinal John Baptist Wu Cheng-chung. The cardinal is viewed as an important future leader of dialogue with the Chinese government; Hong Kong reverts to Chinese rule in 1997.

River baptisms a tourism potential ON THE BANKS OF THE JORDAN RIVER, Israel (CNS) Will peace between Israel and Jordan open the way for year round baptisms in the traditional site of Jesus' baptism?

Last week 5000 Greek Orthodox pilgrims flocked to the site of Jesus' baptism where Greek Orthodox Patriarch Timothy Margarits celebrated the traditional pre-Easter Divine Liturgy.

It was one of the few times during the year the restricted Israeli military zone is opened.

But if local government bodies have their way, the area would be open all year to the faithful and the curious.

Because of its proximity to the border with Jordan, the winding stretch of the Jordan River where Jesus is said to have been baptized by John the Baptist has been a closed area since the 1967 war, when Israelis gained control of the area.

Starting in 1981, at the request of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch, the civil administration agreed to open the location topilgrims three times a year: once in October for prayer by the Franciscans; once in January for the Greek Orthodox Epiphany; and once more during Easter Week, also for the Greek Orthodox.

The Greek Orthodox celebrated Easter on April 23 this year.

But the Jordan Valley and Megilot Regional Councils want the 37.5-acre strip of land, which houses ruins of 12 monasteries, open for good.

"It is a good opportunity to develop tourism here, which is important economically for us," said Jordan Valley Regional Council head David Levy.

Pilgrims who want to be baptized in the Jordan River now go north near the Sea of Galilee where Kibbutz Kinnerth built a baptismal site on the banks of the Jordan River.

Levy said this is just a "substitute" and he would like to see every Christian who wants to be able to come to the actual site of Jesus's baptism.

Young Poles today and in my time: Pope TATICAN CITY (CNS) - Poland's new V political and economic environment may make it harder than ever for young people to remain true to their Christian values, Pope John Paul II told youths from his homeland.

"Today, when many want to limit the presence of religion exclusively to the private realm, it becomes particularly important to reawaken an awareness of the social dimension of faith, religious experience and apostolic commitment," he told the Polish youths.

The pope met April 15 with 500 members of the Polish Association of Catholic Youth, an organization affiliated with Catholic Action, a group committed to

bringing Christian values to bear on social questions.

The youth group was re-established in Poland after the fall of communism and now has some 20,000 members.

The pope's remarks in Polish, with a translation in Italian, were published in the April 18-19 edition of the Vatican newspaper.

"I remember when I was a young priest and worked first in the parish at Niegowic and then in Krakow, I was adviser to the ACY clubs," he said. "Soon after, however, during the brutal struggle against the church, ACY was dissolved by the communist authorities."

The pope, who was ordained to the priesthood in 1946, said the last meeting he attended was with a Krakow group of

university students studying the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas.

"It must have been 1954. We were still active, but those were the last meetings. A couple of weeks later, ACY was defini-

tively suppressed in the two dioceses where it still existed: Krakow and Poznan," he said.

Young people today must draw on the heritage of their predecessors in the movement, but must adapt their actions to new times, the pope said.

"Here I am, I am ready," is the motto of the association, he said. "I remember when this resounded in the time before the war.

I remember that again after the war one could hear these incisive and eloquent

words.

"Times have changed, and in some ways they have become more difficult. I remember the old times because I lived them. Now I rely on news, observations and, indirectly, on the experience of others," the pope told them.

It seems, he said, that "confusion in the

minds and hearts of many faithful, including your peers, has grown. In this situation it becomes easy to fall under the influence of false prophets."

Young Poles need much courage and wisdom "to distinguish the true from the false and to be able, when necessary, to go against the current," especially new fads and fashions promoted by the media, he said.

"You must be strong in the faith," the pope said. "Do not be ashamed of your ideals."

"This is an idea which has been around for 10 years," he said. "But now we are hoping that with the peace with Jordan we will be able to go through with

mines and rolls of barbed wire fences off most of the land. For now, only the uninhabited Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. J ohn is accessible. Another monastery just down the road is still off-limits and stands behind barbed wire and an electric chain-link fence.

On April 18, the area, which is about 15 minutes south of Jericho, was also open for the first time to nonpilgrim tourists and a handful of Jewish Israelis trickled At the banks of the river, a gendown to the site after the Greek erator pumped Jordan water into Orthodox liturgy. plastic tubing overhead. The According to tradition, the site water streamed out of numerous is also where Joshua crossed over holes as pilgrims jostled with one the Jordan River with the another to fill plastic bottles.

Israelites on his way to conquer Jericho.

Most came from Greece, but The entire area, called "The Greek Orthodox Palestinians and Land of the Monasteries" by local Israeli Arabs also attended the residents, is sown with land ceremony.

Counting on Catholics to help boost sales EW YORK (CNS) - The American on the figures in Variety reporting that in N distributor of the British film "The the week following its March 24 premiere, Priest" counted on Catholic protests "Priest" grossed S160,820 on 8 screens in against the movie to build some notoriety in the press and boost curiosity at the box office.

How much they counted on this can be gathered from the "Newsweek" piece quoting a Miramax staffer as saying they were terrified that there would be no controversy.

Indeed, Miramax knows only too well that American moviegoers are preoccupied with the latest Hollywood blockbuster and that the patrons of "Forrest Gump" are never going to queue up to see "Priest."

But the film began garnering favourable reviews on the international film festival circuit in 1994.

Perhaps the decisive review was the one in the industry publication Variety, which in September observed that the film "could generate strong, upscale action theatrically if promoted properly."

Because of the film's subject - a Catholic priest struggling against his homosexual proclivities - Miramax calculated that there might be a chance that they could market the film to a broader audience than art theater patrons. moviegoers.

Making the average movie fan aware of a small, unknown import like "Priest" is next to impossible unless interest can be drummed up by something more substantial than the movie itself.

Certainly the film's chances of commercial popularity would appear slim based

two cities.

If "Priest" is to have a future as a

national release, it has to score big at the box office during its first weekend showing on 300 screens (out of the 25,000 screens across the country).

By and large, the secular reviews have mainly been variations on the familiar theme of "interesting but flawed," though a few praised it unreservedly and a few objected to its treatment of Catholic clergymen.

Besides some public calls for protest, no contentious critical debate between movie reviewers has emerged to attract the curiosity of potential moviegoers.

Miramax knows full well that "Priest" is no box-office sensation, but by trying to stir up some controversy, they are hoping to make some money beyond the art theater venue.

Miramax could not care less if the wide publicity about "Priest" offends the sensibilities of a portion of the public as long as it brings in a few extra bookings and a

couple more dollars at the box office.

It's all a very calculated marketing strategy couched in a kind of commercial cyn-

icism that gives the movie business a bad name.

But in the long run, despite whatever profits Miramax makes from its sharp distribution tactics in the marketing of "Priest," the film is destined to be but a minor footnote in movie history.

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Can the way you speak make things go wrong?

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am a psychotherapist. Psychotherapy is not unlike confession. It is like Jchotherapy, a psychic place to which one repairs when things fall apart. In psya person shares - through the gift of speech - his or her loss of

meaning and direction.

If the psychotherapist is able to help the "lost" person, it is often by helping the person rediscover the way to talk, inside and out, about the experience of him - or herself in the world.

The loss of the power to communicate entails a loss of self. When such a loss occurs, we fall away from the ways we order and direct our lives.

That is why the counsellor or psychotherapist tries so hard to help the client repossess the power to "speak" - to communicate.

These rules guide me: 1. Speech is violent if it is designed to hurt and not to celebrate life and to teach.

2. Mental health can be restored only when a person can respond to speech in his or her surrounding environment. To misunderstand what we hear results in responses that not only are inaccurate but also sick.

3. Speech is a means of active involvement with others. Along with times of silence, communication is necessary to health. Remember also its importance in prayer.

4. Healthy relationships exist only when there is creative speech and creative silence.

5. The gift of good speech integrates the life of the person who feels "lost" with all those in his or her world.

St. James was no fool. He knew, and continues to tell us through Scripture, about the potential violence of speech. He knew that those whose tongues are gentle and who communicate in just ways are those whose hearts are striving for union with the Lord.

And while some don't believe it, those who negotiate their lives with grace and conduct themselves with a sense of unselfish possession are often those whose tongues communicate truth, and peace, and justice.

Those who are clinically "healthy" in body and spirit are those who understand the gift of speech.

The gift of speech is one of God's treasures. Remember that John's Gospel speaks of Christ as the Word made flesh.

The mystery here is that now we who are flesh have the possibility of shaping a language of the heart and mind that can transform creation, making it Christlike.

But one who loves speed must also treasure silence. Not the kind of silence that backs away from the world, but a silence of contemplation. I'm talking about the kind of contemplation that allows us to listen attentively to others, to listen for the voice of God in the world around us.

People who are clinically ill do not understand the gift of creative silence.

One who treasures the gift of speech treasures the humanity of every other person. So rather than drowning out other people with an ocean of prejudices and preconceptions, this person wants to hear others' voices and thus to begin to know who these others really are, what they are really like, what they really mean.

Recognizing that the other person is made in God's image gives birth to the conviction that the other's voice needs and deserves to be heard.

The person who treasures the gift of speech must also treasure the gift of listening. I find it interesting that in Ghana no one would ask "Do you understand Twi?" (or any other language); rather one would say, "Do you 'hear' Twi?" When we hear what others communicate, we can begin to understand them. So listening prepares us to respond, prepares us for what we will say how we will speak.

One who treasures the gift of speech listens and then acts - after what is heard is clear.

One of the most apparent failings of people who have the greatest diff iculties clinically is their inability to provide themselves with the inner silence of attention that permits them to hear. The words spoken to them fly off, glance off, explode - whatever - but they are not heard.

Finally, I believe that a person who treasures the gift of speech will attempt to communicate as clearly and as exactly as possible. Even in fun, language can be controlled so that its aim suits its goal.

Whether in the psychotherapeutic relationship or in jest, whether in prayer or play, speech always is intertwined with our encounter with God. The way we speak is a sign of God's presence and it can lead toward God. So the way we speak deserves our care.

ification on what they think they heard." - Teresa Dorningez.

"People set different priorities. If it is not important to one person what the other is saying, then they stop lis"Lack of listening skills!... Conversa- tening." - Mike Truax. tion is not a monologue of telling, but "We're too busy thinking of our a give-and-take of trust with words." - wants, needs and desires to pay Marie McConnell. "Fear. Fear of lis- attention to the other person's wants, tening, for then one might have to act; needs and desires." - Cathy fear of speaking, for then one would Hoewelor. have to trust." - Ann M. Livingston.

"Not realizing that there is more "Not communicating feelings. We one way of looking at things.... than that Marriage Encounter learned in the communication of feelings is one We don't take into account that each of the most important factors that person has a different way of underkeeps a marriage alive.... Not being standing ... because of our unique available for dialoguing is another personalities and experiences." cause in the breakdown of communi- Laura Cain Robinson.

"We're too quick to answer and cations." - Beth Colcombe. "When people are in a conversation, there judge. They may be saying one thing needs to be patience. Sometimes and we think they are saying people will react before they get clar- another." - Cecelia Lingentelter. at is the biggest cause of a breakdown in human conversations?

Selected responses from readers:

Why do you sound the way you do...?

By Father David K. O'Rourke, OP ggression and violence can mark the way people speak to each other.

A course, people can speak in ways that convey respect for another person and acknowledge the person's dignity. But human communication also can be Of

exploited in order to coerce or threaten others.

I regard the way we speak as something, worth working on. I even would say that how we speak can be a virtue.

When I was young and convinced that I would live forever, I took just enough care of my health to keep out of medical trouble. That is to say,Ididn't pay much attention to my health at all.

But with the years creeping up on me,Ihave cnanged my ways. Now I work at staying healthy every day.

All of which has something to do with the virtue: A virtue is nothing more than a good habit, something good that we work to develop, just as a vice is a bad habit developed by working at it.

The idea that we can have virtue in the way we speak may sound strange.

We all were taught to use of vulgar words, of course. But beyond that, what does ft mean to develop good habits in the way we First let me give an example of what not to do.

One of my school friends is a contract negotiator in a tough industry. His job is to get the best deals and most favourable conditions for clients in a line of work where people are rough, pushy and demanding.

He said to me, "You go to work knowing they are going to push you, and you go to work already to push right back" He has trained himself to think of others as opponents or adversaries. He relates to others in an adversarial way. He talks the way he thinks and relates.

And then he started to carry these speech patterns home.

Whereupon his wife called a halt. "When you ask Billie if he's done his homework, or you ask me, 'What's for supper?' it sounds as though you expect us to give you an argument," she told him.

He had to begin to learn to keep aggressive words and attitudes out of his speech. His wife and children weren't his adversaries, after all. And they didn't like being talked to as though they were. ...as seen by Father John J. Castelot That is what we shouldn't do: We shouldn't train ourselves to speak aggressively in ways that treat others as adversaries. But what does it mean to work at good habits of speech?

In my preaching, I sometimes have to talk about controversial topics. My is to address the topic without bringing in the controversy. Ihave to challenge members were amazed at their eloquence: "Observing that people might be fighting about in the press or on the something explain the boldness of Peter and John and perceiving them to TV news without using fighting words - words or images or examples that be uneducated, ordinary men, they were amazed" (Acts coerce or manipulate people, or even violate their inner privacy.

4:13).

That is where virtuous speech comes in. It involves working to cut out the charged language and consciously not using the words and emotionally Without effective communication, life can be a madpeople who like to create controversies. by used images dening mess of misunderstanding.

Finding words that express clearly and accurately what I want to say rather In all situations where we have to make ourselves than using the ready-made slogans that so often serve only to steam people up clear to others, we feel the need for a power mere without informing their minds takes time and effort. words don't have. That power is available if we trust Time and effort: These are two key building blocks of the good habits we the help that the Spirit is anxious to give. know as virtues.

Miscommunication's maddening mess he first Christians were unlettered people, by and The early Christians were assured that, when the time Jeremiah was frightened when he was called to 'See, I place my words in your mouth...'" (Jeremiah 1:6T large. They certainly were not trained in public came, God would enable them to speak effectively. deliver God's message to the leaders of the people. 7,9). speaking. No wonder they were terrified at the After all, Jeremiah a famprospect of getting arrested and having to defend themselves in a court.

But listen to what Matthew's Gospel told them: "When they hand you over, do not worry about how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at the moment what you are to say. For it will not be you who speak but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you" (Matthew 10:19-20).

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Getting your ideas across to another person is not merely a matter of opening the mouth and uttering sounds. You must begin with clear ideas and convictions, and then express them in a way that communicates effectively.

This is difficult enough under normal circumstances, but when the other person is hostile and unreceptive, it is a daunting challenge.

was a relative youngster from ily with no standing in the community, a member of a deposed priestly clan living in a suburban village.

And he was supposed to go to the movers and shakers in the dissolute capital and persuade them to change their ways! He began to stutter his protest: "Ah, ah, ah, Lord God....I know not how to speak; I am too young."

But God insisted: "Say not, 'I am too young'.... Then the Lord extended his hand and touched my mouth, saying,

Paul was an effective writer, but seems not to have been a skilled speaker. Still, he spoke with a power that more than made up for his lack of native ability.

In his first letter he reminded his converts: "Our Gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the holy Spirit and (with) much conviction" (1 Thessalonians 1:5).

When Peter and John, unschooled fishermen, had to defend themselves before the Sanhedrin, the court's

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Gospel of Life versus Culture of Death (abridged version)

Evangelium Vitae

Pope John Paul ll's encyclical Evangelium Vitae, 'On the value and inviolability of human life', is addressed to 'the bishops, priest and deacons, men and women religious, lay faithful, and all people of good will'. We publish an abridgement.

"The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus's message", the text begins. "At the dawn of salvation, it is the birth of a child which is proclaimed as joyful news."

The human being has "incomparable worth".

"Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God." Yet a "new cultural climate" is develop ing which leads "broad sectors of public opinion" to "justify certain crimes against (life in the name of the rights of individual freedom, and on this basis they claim not only exemption from punishment but even authorisation by the state, so that these things can be done with total freedom and indeed with the free assistance of health-care systems".

The Pope elaborates his concern: "All this is causing a profound change in the way in which life and relationships between people are considered. The fact that legislation in many countries, perhaps even departing from basic principles of their Constitutions, has determined not to punish

these practices against life, and even to make them altogether legal, is both a disturbing symptom and a significant cause of grave moral decline.

"Choices once unanimously considered criminal and rejected by the common moral sense are gradually becoming socially acceptable.

Even certain sectors of the medical profession, which by its calling is directed to the defence and care of human life, are increasingly willing to carry out these acts against the person.

"In this way the very nature of the medical profession is distorted and contradicted, and the dignity of those who practise it is degraded.

"In such a cultural and legislative situation, the serious demographic, social and family problems which weigh upon many of the world's peoples and which require responsible and effective attention from tinational and international bodies, are left open to false and deceptive solutions, opposed to the truth and the good of persons and nations."

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 tum 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 /993)

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.

Special Guest Speaker International Evangelist & Author

International Catholic Evangelist & Author

Rev. Dr. Russell Sage

Eddie Russell (FMI)

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The voice brother's to me from Present-day threats The Pope reflects on the biblical story of the murder of Abel by his brother Cain (Gen.4:2-60).

"The Gospel of life is contradicted by the painful experience of death which enters the world and casts its shadow of meaninglessness over' man's entire existence". After the murder, God asks Cain: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood is dying to me from the ground."

The Pope comments: "The Lord's question is addressed also to the people of today, to make them realise the extent and gravity of the attacks against life which continue to mark human history: to make seriously the consequences which derive from these attacks for the existence of individuals and peoples."

Violence against life takes multiple forms. The encyclical will concentrate on a particular category of attacks "affecting life in its earliest and in its final stages".

These "tend no longer to be considered as crimes"' but "paradoxically, . . assume the nature of 'rights', to the point that the State is called upon to give them legal recognition and to make them available through the free services of health-care personnel".

The Pope discerns a "structure of sin" which has produced "a culture of death".

He goes on to specify these different threats to life: "In order to facilitate the spread of abortion, enormous sums of money have been invested and continue to be invested in the production of pharmaceutical products which make it possible to kill the foetus in the mother's womb without recourse to medical assistance "It is frequently asserted that contraception, if made safe and available to all, is the most effective remedy against abortion. The Catholic Church is then accused of actually promoting abortion, because she obstinately continues to teach the moral unlawfulness of contraception.

"When looked at carefully, this objection is clearly unfounded. It may be that many people use contraception with a view to excluding the subsequent temptation of abortion. But the negative values inherent in the 'contraceptive mentality' - which is very different from responsible parenthood, lived in respect for the full truth of the conjugal act - are such that they in fact strengthen this temptation when an unwanted life is conceived.

"Indeed, the proabortion culture is especially strong precisely where the Church's teaching on contraception is rejected. . . .

"The close connection which exists, in mentality, between the practice of contraception and that of abortion is becoming increasingly obvious.

"It is being demonstrated in an alarming way by the development of chemical products, intrauterine devices and vaccines which, distributed with the same ease as contraceptives, really act as abortifacients in the very early stages of the development of the life of the new human being.

"The various techniques of artificial reproduction, which would seem to be at the service of life and which are frequently used with this intention, actually open the door to new threats against life.

"Apart from the fact that they are morally unacceptable, since they separate procreation from the fully human context of the conjugal act, these techniques have a high rate of failure: not just failure in relation to fertilisation but with regard to the subsequent development of the embryo, which is exposed to the risk of death, generally within a very short space of time.

"Furthermore, the number of embryos produced if often greater than that needed for implantation in the woman's womb, and these so-called 'spare embryos' are then destroyed or used for reasearch which, under the pretext of scientific or medical progress, in fact reduces human life to the level of simple 'biological material' to be freely disposed of....

"Threats which are no less serious hang over the incurably ill and the dying. In social and cultural context which makes more difficult to face and accept suffering the temptation becomes all the

Gospel of Life versus Culture of Death (abridged version)

of your blood cries the ground' to human life greater t resolve the problem of suffering by eliminating it at the root, by hastening death so that it occurs at the moment considered most suitable.

"Various considerations usually contribute to such a decision, all of which converge in the same terrible outcome. In the sick person the sense of anguish, of severe discomfort, and even of desperation brought on by intense and prolonged suffering can be a decisive factor.

Such asituation can threaten the already fragile equilibrium of an individual's personal and family life, with the result that, on the oft hand, the sick person, despite the help of increasingly effective medical and social assistance, risks feeling overwhelmed by his or her own frailty; and on the other hand, those close to the sick person can be moved by an understandable even if misplaced compassion.

All this is aggravated by a cultural climate which fails to perceive any meaning or value in suffering, but rather considers suffering the epitome of evil, to be eliminated at all costs.

This is especially the case in the absence of a religious outlook which could help to provide a positive understanding of the mystery of suffering.

"Another present-day phenomenon, frequently used to justify threats and attacks against life, is the demographic question. This question arises in different ways in different parts of the world.

In the rich and developed countries there is a disturbing decline or collapse of the birthrate. The poorer countries, on the other hand, generally have a high rate of population growth, difficult to sustain in the context of low economic and social development, and especially where there is extreme underdevelopment.

In the face of over-population in the poorer countries, instead of forms of global intervention at the international level - serious family and social policies, programmes of cultural development and of fair production and distribution of resources - anti-birth policies continue to be enacted.

"Contraception, sterilisation.and abortion are certainly part of the reason why in some cases there is a sharp decline in the birthrate. It is not difficult to be tempted to use the same methods and attacks against life also where there is a situation of 'demographic explosion'.

"The Pharaoh of old, haunted by the presence and increase of the children of Israel, submitted them to every kind of oppression and ordered that every male child born of the Hebrew women was to be killed (cf. Ex.1:7-22).

Today not a few of the powerful of the earth act in the same way. They too are haunted by the current demographic growth, and fear that the the most prolific and poorest peoples represent a threat for the well-being and peace of theie own countries.

Consequently, rather than wishing to face and solve these serious problems with respect for the dignity of individuals and families and for every person's inviolable right to life, they prefer to promote and impose by whatever means a massive programme of birth control. Even the economic help which they would be ready to give is unjustly made conditional on the acceptance of an antibirth policy."

The Pope considers that "humanity today offers us a truly alarming spectacle".

For "we are in fact faced by an objective 'conspiracy against life', involving even international institutions, engaged in encouraging and carrying out actual campaigns to make contraception, sterilisation and abortion widely available.

Nor can it be denied that the mass media are often implicated in this conspiracy, by lending credit to that culture which presents recourse to contraception, sterilisation, abortion and even euthanasia as a mark of progress and a victory of freedom, while depicting as enemies of freedom and progress those positions which are unreservedly pro-life."

Perverse idea of freedoms..

he whole idea of human rights - cities of people who are rejected, mar- of principles of fundamental equality, T "rights inherent in every person and ginalised, uprooted and depressed." but is transformed into a tyrant state, prior to any constitution and state legiswhich arrogates to itself the right to dislation" - is now subject to "a surprising contradiction".

"Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death."

The Pope repeats: "These attacks go directly against respect for life and they represent a direct threat to the entire culture of human rights. It is a threat capable, in the end, of jeopardising the very meaning of democratic coexistence: rather than societies of 'people living together', our cities risk becoming

The Pope blames a false sense of freedom which "no longer recognises and respects its essential link with the truth".

Then "the person ends up by no longer taking as the sole and indisputable point of reference for his own choices the truth about good and evil, but only his subjective and changeable opinion or, indeed, his selfish interest and whim".

At the level of politics and government the right to life can now be "questioned or denied on the basis of a parliamentary vote or the will of one part of the people - even if it is the majority".

In this way democracy, "contradicting its own principles, effectively moves towards a form of totalitarianism. The State is no longer the 'common home' where all can live together on the basis

pose of the life of the weakest and most child to the elderly, in the name of a public interest which is really nothing but the interest of one part".

When this happens, the Pope concludes, "the process leading to the breakdown of a genuinely human coexistence and the disintegration of the State itself has already begun".

The heart of the tragedy is "the eclipse of the sense of God and of man, typical of a social and cultural climate dominated by seealarism, which . . . succeeds at times in putting Christian communities themselves to the test". The Pope quotes Vatican II: "When God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible".

Eclipse of God and man is already on the path to the most Lire explains: "Man is no longer able to see H l himself as 'mysteriously different' from other alarming corruption and the darkest moral blindearthly creatures; he regards himself merely as ness."

(Is.5:20), it

one more living being, as an organism which, at most, has reached a very high stage of perfection.

"Enclosed in the narrow horizon of his physical nature, he is somehow reduced to being a 'thing', and no longer grasps the 'transcendent' character of his 'existence as man'. He no longer considers life as a splendid gift of God, something 'sacred' entrusted to his responsibility and thus also to his loving care and 'veneration'.

Life itself becomes a mere 'thing', which man claims as his exclusive property, completely subject to his control and manipulation."

A further consequence is that "the very idea that there is a truth of creation which must be acknowledged, or a plan of God for life which must be respected", is rejected.

In this context "suffering, an inescapable burden of human existence but also a factor of possible personal growth, is 'censored', rejected as useless, indeed opposed as an evil, always and in every way to be avoided".

The results are alarming. "A large part of contemporary society looks sadly like that humanity which Paul describes in his Letter to the Romans.

"It is composed 'of men who by their wickedness suppress the truth' (1:18): having denied God and believing that they can build the earthly city without him, 'they became futile in their thinking' so that their 'senseless minds were darkened' (1:21); 'claiming to be wise, they became fools' (1:22), carrying out works deserving of death, and 'they not only do them but approve those who practise them' (1:32).

"When conscience, this bright lamp of the soul (cf. Mt.6:2223). calls 'evil good and good evil'

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On the other hand, "consciences cannot be stifled".

There are also "positive signs". One must not give "a one-sided picture".

The Pope gives credit to married couples "with a generous sense of responsibility"; families which accept those who are less fortunate; centres in support of life; volunteers who offer hospitality to people without a family; medical scientists who search for new remedies; pro-life movements throughout the world: "when . . . such movements act resolutely, but without resorting to violence, they promote a wider and more profound consciousness of the value of life, and evoke and bring about a more determined commitment to its defence".

Then there are "all those daily gestures of openness, sacrifice and unselfish care which countless people lovingly make in families, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the elderly and other centres or communities which defend life".

The Pope notes that "the Church has always been in the front line in providing charitable help".

Another sign of hope is "the spread of a new sensitivity ever more opposed to war", and "in the same perspective . . . a growing public opposition to the death penalty". There is also the growth of ecological awareness and reflection and dialogue in bioethics.

So "we are facing an enormous and dramatic clash between good and evil, death and life, the 'culture of death' and the 'culture of life"'.

came so that they may have life'

But "over and above the specific misWhen the rich young man asks Jesus he Gospel of life "consists in the Tproclamation of the very person of what he should do to inherit eternal life, sion of parents, the task of accepting and Jesus replies that he should keep the serving life involves everyone, and this Jesus".

The fullness of this message was prepared for in the Old Testament. "The life which God gives man is quite different from the life of all other living creatures, in as much as man, although formed from the dust of the earth, is a manifestation of God in the world, a sign of his presence, a trace of his glory."

The Pope stresses that "the commandment regarding the inviolability of human life reverberates at the heart of the 'ten words'in the covenant of Sinai".

commandments, "and he quotes, as the first of these: 'You shall not

The Pope reflects on human responsibility for life. Men and women were said by Vatican II to enjoy "a certain special participation" in the "creative work" of God. This is because "a man and woman joined in matrimony become partners in a divine undertaking: through the act of procreation, God's gift is accepted and a new life opens to the future".

task must be fulfilled above all towards life when it is at its weakest".

The same applies to the last moments of life. Certainly "the life of the body in its earthly state is not an absolute good for the believer" but "no one ... can arbitrarily choose whether to live or die; the absolute master of such a decision is the Creator alone, in whom 'we live and move and and have our being.'"

The Pope concludes this chapter with a reflection on the death of Jesus. "It is the very life of God which is now shared with man."

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Our Catholic Faith

by Colleen McGuiness-Howard

THE TRIMMIN'S ON THE ROSARY

Ah, the memories that find me now my hair is turning gray, Drifting in like painted butterflies from paddocks far away; Dripping dainty wings in fancy - and the pictures, fading fast, Stand again in rose and purple in the album of the past.

There's the old slab dwelling dreaming by the wistful, watchffil trees, Where the coolabahs are listening to the stories of the breeze; There's homely welcome beaming from its big, bright friendly eyes, With The Sugarloaf behind it blackened in against the skies; There's the same dear happy circle round the boree's cheery blaze With a little Irish mother telling tales of other days.

She had one sweet, holy custom which I never can forget, And a gentle benediction crowns her memory for it yet; I can see that little mother still and hear her as she pleads, "Now it's getting on to bed time; all you childer get your beads."

There were no steel-bound conventions in that old slab dwelling free; Only this - each night she lined us up to say the Rosary; E'en the stranger there, who stayed the night upon his journey, knew He must join the little circle, ay, and take his decade too.

I believe she darkly plotted, when a sinner hove in sight Who was known to say no prayer at all, to make him stay the night.

Then we'd softly gather round her, and we'd speak in accents low, And pray like Sainted Dominic so many years ago; And the little Irish mother's face was radiant, for she knew That "where two or three are gathered" He is gathered with them too.

O'er the paters and the ayes how her reverent head would bend!

How she'd kiss the cross devoutly when she counted to the end!

And the visitor would rise at once, and brush his knees - and then He'd look very, very foolish as he took the boards again.

She had other prayers to keep him. They were long, long prayers in truth; And we used to call them "Trimmin's" in my disrespectful youth.

She would pray for kith and kin, and all the friends she'd ever known, Yes, and everyone of us could boast a "trimmin— all his own.

She would pray for all our little needs, and every shade of care That might darken o'er The Sugarloaf, she'd meet it with a prayer, She would pray for this one's "sore complaint," or that one's "hurted hand," Or that someone else might make a deal and get "that bit of land"; Or that Dad might sell the cattle well, and seasons good might rule, So that little John, the weakly one, might go away to school.

There were trimmin's, too, that came and went; but ne'er she closed without Adding one for something special "none of you must speak about."

Gentle N'as that little mother, and her wit would sparkle free, But she'd murder him who looked around while at the Rosary: And if perchance you lost your beads, disaster waited you, For the only one she'd pardon N'as "himself" - because she knew He was hopeless, and 'twas sinful what excuses he'd invent,

Old Father Pat! They'll tell you still with mingled love and pride Of stirring deeds that live and thrill the quiet countryside; And when they praise his tours-de-force, he sure it won't he long Before they talk about his horse the old gray Currajong.

For twenty years he drove him through the hush and round the town Until the old white stager knew the parish upside down; He'd take his time, and calculate, and have his wilful way, And stop at every Catholic gate to bid them all good day.

But well I mind the stories told when Father Pat was young At least, when he was not so old - his scattered flock among; When health and strength were on his side, you'd see him swing along With that clean, easy, sweeping stride that marked old Currajong Through all the years he ne'cr was late the second Mass to say, And twenty miles he'd 'duplicate,' and pass us on the Nvay

Hard-held and heating clean tatoos, the old gray, stepping kind, Like gravel from his twinkling shoes would fling the miles behind.

And often some too daring lad, a turn of speed to show, Would straighten up his sleepy prad and give the priest a 'go'; But, faith, he found what others found, and held the lesson long, That nothing in the country round could move with Currajong.

And, oh, the din! and, oh, the fuss! mere words were vain to tell Of how they stopped the night with us; and don't I mind it well?

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So she let him have his fingers, and he cracked them as he went, And, bedad, he wasn't certain if he'd counted five or ten, Yet he'd face the crisis bravely, and would start around again; But she tailed all the decades, and she'd block him on the spot, With a "Glory, Daddah, Glory!" and he'd "Glory" like a shot.

She would portion out the decades to the company at large; But when she reached the trimmin's she would put herself in charge; And it oft was cause for wonder how she never once forgot, But could keep them in their order till she went right through the lot.

For that little Irish mother's prayers embraced the country wide; If a neighbour met with trouble, or was taken ill, or died, We could count upon a trimmin' - till, in fact, it got that way That the Rosary was but trimmin's to the trimmin's we would say.

Then "himself" would start keownrawning* - for the public good, we thought "Sure you'll have us here till mornin'. Yerra, cut them trimmin's short!"

But she'd take him very gently, till he softened by degrees "Well, then, let us get it over. Come now, all hands to their knees."

So the little Irish mother kept her trimmin's to the last, Ever growing as the shadows o'er the old selection passed; And she lit our drab existence with her simple faith and love, And I know the angels lingered near to bear her prayers above, For her children trod the path she trod, nor did they later spurn To impress her wholesome maxims on their children in their turn.

Av, and every "sore complaint" came right, and every "hurted hand"; And we made a deal from time to time, and got "that bit of land"; And Dad did sell the cattle well; and little John, her pride, Was he who said the Mass in black the morning that she died; So her gentle spirit triumphed - for 'twas this, without a doubt, Was the very special trimmin' that she kept so dark about.

But the years have crowded past us, and the fledglings all have flown, And the nest beneath The Sugarloaf no longer is their own; For a hand has written "finis" and the book is closed for good There's a stately red-tiled mansion where the old slab dwelling stood; There the stranger has her "evenings," and the formal supper's spread, But I wonder has she "trimmin's" now, or is the Rosary said?

Ah, those little Irish mothers passing from us one by one!

Who will write the noble story of the good that they have done?

All their children may be scattered, and their fortunes windwards hurled, But he Trimmin's on the Rosary will bless them round the world. *Grumbling, "grousing."

By John O'Brien, pseydonym of Father Patrick Hartigan, parish priest for 27 years at Narrandera, NSW, from Around The Boree Log. For more information on Father Hartigan and his book please contact his nephew Fr Frank Meacham, 97 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield NSW 2025.

The boree log ablaze 'inside,' made gay with rug and mat; The 'front room,' to the world denied, made snug for Father Pat. We knew his distant hoof beats, ay, and grief they could forebode; So, when we heard a horse go by, clean-stepping down the road, Round many a log-fire burning bright there pass the word along, "There's someone sick and sore the night; I'll bet that's Currajong."

Whereat you'd hear the old men tell - perhaps a trifle add - Of some sick-call remembered well, when "so-and-so took had."

"You couldn't see your hand in front," "Twas rainin' pitchforks, too."

"The doctor jibbed, to put it blunt - hut Father Pat went through."

Av, he went through in shine or shade; so, when the days were fair, And at our simple sports we played, 'twas good to see him there.

And under troubled, angry skies, when all the world went wrong With aching hearts and misted eyes we watched for Currajong.

We watched, and never watched in vain, whatever might befall, When summoned to the bed of pain, he answered to the call.

He came through rain or storm or heat; and in the darkest night We heard his hoofs the music beat, we saw the welcome light.

And when again, with plumes ahead and horses stepping slow, We followed on, behind our dead, the road all men must go, A loitering line; with knots and gaps, the funeral passed

along, And half a mile of lurching traps was led by Currajong.

But, as the good priest older grew, and aches and troubles came, His buggy and the white horse, too, were stricken much the same.

The springs went down the side he sat, and altar-boys, and such Kept sliding in on Father Pat, and woke him at the touch.

Then, pensioned off at last and done, a sorry thing it stood, With sagging cobwebs round it spun, and nest-eggs in the hood.

Just once a year it lived again, and groaned and creaked along, To fetch the bishop from the train with limping Currajong.

All, newer methods, younger men! the times arc moving fast, And hut in dreams we tread again the wheel-ruts of the past; The eyes are filmed that watched of old, the kindly hearts are still, And silent tombstones white and cold are glimmering on the hill.

While scorching up the road, belike, with singing gears alive The curate on his motor-bike hits up his forty-five; But tender, tingling memories well, and love will linger long In all the stirring yarns they tell about Old Currajong.

Taken from Around the Boree Log and Other Verses

by John O'Brien, pen name of Father Patrick Hartigan, PP of Nerrandera, NSW. For more information on Fr Hartigan and availability of his book please contact his nephew Fr Frank Mecham, 97 Dalhousie Street, Haberfield, NSW 2025.

ST PATRICK'S DAY 'Tis the greatest splash of sunshine right through all my retrospection O n the days when fairies brought me golden dreams without alloy, When I gazed across the gum trees round about the old selection To the big things far beyond them, with the yearning of a boy.

Drab the little world we lived in; like the sheep, in slow procession Down the track along the mountain went the hours upon their way, Bringing hopes and idle longings that could only find expression In the riot of our bounding hearts upon St Patrick's Day. There were sports in Casey's paddock, and the neighbours would assemble On the flat below the homestead, where the timber fringed the creek; With Australian skies above them, and Australian trees a-tremble And the colours of the autumn set in hat and hair and cheek.

Mighty things were done at Casey's; mighty bouts anticipated Made the Sunday church-door topic for a month ahead at least; On the cheerless Sundays after, with misguided hope deflated, We explained away our failures as we waited for the priest.

So when morning Mass was over, it was trot and break and canter Helter-skelter down to Casey's, banging, pounding all the way,

And the greetings flung in Irish, and the flood of Celtic banter, And the hectic flush of racial pride upon St Patrick's Day. .

Everywhere was emerald flashing from the buggies, traps, and jinkers, There was green in every garment, and a splash in every hat, In the bows upon the cart whips, in the ribbons on the winkers, In the wealth of woven carpet `neath the gums on Casey's Flat.

There the new dress faced the critics, and the little beaded bonnet And the feather flowing freely like a sapling in a gale; And 'himself' inside his long black coat that bore a bulge upon it Where for twelve forgotten months its weight had hung upon the nail; And the 'splather' of a necktie only once a year paraded, And the scarf that came from Ireland, "ere a one of you were born," And the treasured bunch of shamrock - old and withered now, and faded, Blessed by every tear that stained it since the cruel parting morn.

Mighty things were done at Casey's. Men of solid reputation, Ringing bells and giving orders, kept the programme moving by; And they made you sickly conscious of your humble situation When they glared upon your meanness with a cold official eye.

Every smaneen' with a broken voice and backers there beside him,

And his socks outside his breeches, was a hero in his way; Every nag around the country with a raw bush lad astride him Was a racehorse with an Irish name upon St Patrick's Day. Oh, the cheering that betokened those I knew so well competing, With their long legs throwing slip-knots, and the look of men in pain Put me back into the reach-medowns, and let me hear the greeting, Set me loose in Casey's paddock, where I'd be a boy again!

Yes, 'twas good to be a pilgrim in a world that held such wonders, Though eternal bad behaviour put me `neath parental ban, Though the staring, and the wandering, and a score of general blunders Got me gaoled behind the taffrail of the Old Mass Shandrydan.

"Yerra, Johnnie, stop that gawkin'." Is it - with pulses pumping, And the little heart high-stepping to the music of the drum Is it "stop it," with a something in the young blood madly thumping With a foreword of the purpose of the pregnant years to come?

Mighty things were done at Casey's. Mighty impulse was behind them, 'I-was the sacred spark enkindled that was burning to the bone; Never yet were men more loyal to the holy ties that bind them, And the love they gave their

country made me conscious of my own.

Never vet were men more loyal.

Be they met in thousands teeming, Be they gathered down at Casey's with their kindred and their kind; They are marching on for Ireland, with the beauteous vision gleaming Of the altar-fires of Freedom in the land they left behind.

Not a torch was ever lighted at a tomb where Freedom slumbered, But it smouldered - grimly smouldered - till the stone was rolled away; When it flashed across the halflight, rallying rocket glares unnumbered, Like the spangled blades of morning that bespeak the march of day.

Not a voice was ever lifted, but an echo never dying Flung the slogan once repeated when the hand was on the gun; Though the prophet tongue was ashes, came the conquering banners flying With a dazzling watchword flashing, blazing signals in the sun.

Yes, the world has ever seen it in its journey down the ages, Seen it writ in living, scarlet in the blood that has been shed; And a hand re-writes the headline deep across the lurid pages, When the stricken, fearless living meet the deathless, martyred dead.

Thrills a leaping thought within me, when I see ,a land around me That has never seen the fore-

man's steel, nor heard the foreman's shot, At whose shrine I lit the tapers, when her witching sweetness bound me With an iron vow of service of a pulsing pride begot; To that big free land I've given all the love that courses through me; That her hands have rocked my cradle stirs my heart in every beat, An Australian, ay, Australian oh, the word is music to me, And the craven who'd deny her would I spurn beneath my feet.

Thrills the thought that, did the traitor stretch a tainted hand to foil her, DidI see her flag of silver stars a tattered thing and torn, Did I see her trampled, breathless, `neath the shod heel of the spoiler.

And her bleeding wounds a byword, and her name a thing of scorn, There would flash the living bayonets in the strong hands of my brothers, And the blood that coursed for nationhood, through all the years of pain, In the veins of patriot fathers and of Little Irish Mothers Would be hot as hissing lava streams to thrill the world again.

Taken from Around the Boree Log, a selection of versa by John O'Brien, pseudonym for Father Patrick Hartigan, PP of Herrendem, NSW. For more &formation and availability of kis books, please contact his nephew Fr Frank Mecham, 97 Balhousie Street, Haberfield, NSW 2025.

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