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Personal relationships 'concern youth most'

By Peter Rosengren Personal and social relationships have been uncovered as the most important elements In the lives of young Australians in the first stage of the Australian Catholic Bishops' inquiry into youth.

The findings were released this week in a 32-page report entitled Lean on Me that will serve as the basis for the second stage of the bishops' consultation - reflection on the first stage findings during 1996 with a view to action.

The secretariat of the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (BCJDP) is conducting the consultation for the bishops. Secretariat members presented the report to the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' conference, Cardinal Edward Clancy, in Sydney this week.

The report says that a reference group of young people who

analysed the results of the consultations held around Australian dioceses had identified four key themes of importance to the youth of the nation: relationships, identity, unemployment and the Church.

Youth consultation project coordinator Bishop Kevin Manning said this week the report's title Lean On Me, was evocative of one of the clearest messages emerging from the listening - that young people gave enormous value to their personal and social relationships.

Racism was another issue raised regularly throughout the consultation, appearing in responses from almost every diocese.

Family breakdown, violence and abuse, the environment, violence and law and order, drug abuse and unemployment also featured prominently.

Although less numerous, responses on the subject of the Church indicated that young people questioned or rejected much

with the way priests related to the young.

The second stage of the consultation will ask the community to reflect on the themes raised by the report so suggestions can be developed to address them.

The third and final stage will see all participants asked to suggest and take action on the issues.

Responses from young people were gained mainly through discussion groups, open forums and questionnaires distributed in parishes and schools.

Cardinal Clancy, right, enjoys the report this week with BC,JDP secretariat members Sandie Cornish and Dr Michael Costigan, left, and Sydney Church Office workers Kym Donohue and Assunta D'Angelo.

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The vast majority who responded were linked to the Church through factors such as attending a Catholic school or being part of a parish youth group.

of what they saw in the Church.

"There was a feeling that the Church was not in touch with the community, that it was out of date and didn't address the things that are important to the

Consultations were also held with young people from nonEnglish speaking backgrounds, the armed forces, young people at risk or in crisis, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youth.

lives of young people," the report said.

Church teaching on sexual morality was widely questioned or rejected, while some of the material indicated dissatisfaction

National Churches Trust in God brings eternal youth back gun controls Leaders of fifteen Australian churches have given strong support to Government moves to restrict access to firearms, saying that they welcome the initiative taken by the nation's political leaders towards developing effective national gun controls.

The National Council of Churches also urged Australians to maintain their strong support for Federal and State Government efforts to control the sale and possession of firearms.

The Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clancy, told The Record that while the church leaders' statement was in part a response to the recent Port Arthur incident, it was also motivated by similar events in recent Australian history "Anything that leads us towards a less violent society is desirable," Cardinal Clancy said.

The cardinal said it was important for Australians to maintain their stand in favour of restricting access to firearms, especially in view of the opposition beginning to emerge from the gun lobby.

'The key word there is 'maintain' the strength of (community] support because obviously other voices are being raised now by those who aren't in favour of the

restrictions that are being suggested," Cardinal Clancy said.

"They will, of course, bring more and more pressure to bear on government."

He added that the heads of churches had thought it was appropriate at their recent meeting to add their own word of support to strengthen government resolve on the matter.

The church leaders' statement also commended government moves to investigate the impact of violence in the media, particularly the visual media.

Cardinal Clancy said he was personally convinced of a link between violence as it was portrayed in the media and real-life incidents.

"Violence in the media [has] an influence on people and [has] therefore played a part in the terrible occurrences that we have had in recent year," he said.

Representatives of the Salvation Army, the Uniting, Baptist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the Churches of Christ, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Armenian, Antiochan, and Romanian Orthodox churches signed the statement.

Youth in old age: Slovenian children surround Pope John Paul II on his birthday last Saturday.

By John Thavis LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (CNS) The familiar, wooded East European mountains helped set the mood. So did the sound of a Slavic language not so different from his native Polish.

But most of all, it was the presence of young people that stirred up memories for Pope John Paul H of his mother and the World War II sufferings of Poland on his 76th birthday.

Last Saturday, in the middle of a three-day visit to Slovenia, which borders Austria, Italy,

Hungary and Croatia, two meetings with youths offered an aging Pope rare moments for public reminiscence.

Gathered in the courtyard of his residence in Ljubljana, 100 schoolchildren sang an earlymorning "Happy Birthday."

They offered a few homemade presents and stammered through memorised poems.

Who could resist engaging in a little nostalgia? Not Pope John Paul, who watched from a balcony before joining the party "How old are you? Seven, 8?

You know, I was once 8 years

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old, too," he told the kids, glancing appreciatively at a book of drawings they gave him.

"But today I'm celebrating my 76th year, at five o'clock this afternoon, give or take a little," he said through a translator.

The children crowded around the beaming Pope, and he hugged a few of them. His years showed in the stooped pose and the small, somewhat halting steps through the courtyard. But his wide grin seemed to come straight from the Pope's own childhood.

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We must preach life to be faithful to Gospel p

entecost Sunday marks the end of the Easter Season. It always leaves with us a wonderful sense of joy and happiness.

This joyful theme pervades the Easter liturgy as we contemplate the wonder of the rising of Jesus from death to new life, a life which Jesus shares with us through the Holy Spirit in the Sacrament of Baptism, a life that is strengthened and nourished in the other sacraments of initiation which are Confirmation and the Blessed Eucharist.

This year we add a further dimension to our celebration of Pentecost.

This year Pentecost Sunday is also the celebration of a Day for Life, human life, as suggested by the Holy Father in his Encyclical Evangeliurn Vitae - the Gospel of Life.

A suggestion has been sent to every parish that people be exhorted to read that letter which

is available at Catholic bookshops.

Not only does the Holy Father clearly state that procured abortion and euthanasia are absolutely unacceptable, but he also presents us with beautiful teaching on the wonder, the grandeur, the magnificence of human life.

The introduction of the word Gospel into the title of the encyclical is significant in itself. It is the intention of the Holy Father to link this teaching on life to the total Gospel.

Jesus placed on His Church the obligation to preach the Gospel to the whole world, "Teach all nations".

So to preach the Gospel is to preach life.

We are not faithful to the Gospel if we are not preaching life and if we are not conveying to all men and women an understanding that life is the gift of God and is not to be debased by us.

It is only a living God that can

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give us the gift of life. God is a living God. This is a constant theme in the letters of St John the Evangelist and Apostle.

Jesus is, he writes the word of life". In Jesus "life was made manifest".

He is "the eternal life which was with the Father and was made manifest to us".

Not only does God give us human life but He bestows on us a sharing in the eternal life through Baptism.

So we are destined to eternal life and it is through this gift that our earthly life acquires its full meaning. What a stupendous act of love and generosity from God to us.

The Holy Father quotes St Thomas Aquinas "what words, thoughts or flight of the spirit can Praise the super-abundance of this grace. Mu surpasses his nature: mortal; he becomes immortal; perishable, he

The organisation representing the 220 men seeking compensation for abuse at the hands of Christian Brothers has written to the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Cardinal Edward Clancy of Sydney, asking the Australian bishops to persuade the Brothers to reach a settlement.

Bruce Blythe, director of the VOICES organisation, said the Brothers had resorted to using legal technicalities to prevent the case getting to court.

But the new leader of the Christian Brothers province of South and Western Australia.

Brother Tony Shanahan, rejected VOICES allegations, saying it was VOICES who .had initiated the court action with all its inevitable legalities and the Brothers had a right to defend themselves.

Mr Blythe said the approach used by the Brothers in the case currently before the Supreme Court in New South Wales was not in accord with the Australian bishops' statement released after their plenary session in Sydney recently.

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becomes imperishable; fleeting, he becomes eternal; human, he becomes divine".

How sacred then is the life of every human being, young and old, in the womb or in the full flesh of manhood or womanhood.

It is sacred because it was created by God and was ennobled by the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.

It follows that life must be protected with loving concern by all of us.

There is a strong movement to protect the environment in our time and rightly so.

Our generation would be seen as hypocritical if we at the same failed to protect human life too.

Indeed we should aim to lead all people, as the Holy Father writes, in songs of joy. praise and thanksgiving for the priceless gift of life.

At the launch were Stephen Smith, Federal Member for Perth (left), Centrecare Skills Training Centre manager Pauline Robertson, Perth Archdiocese vicar General Monsignor Michael Keating, graduands Simon Riley and lsilda Moura, and training programs' supporter Wayne Davies.

Eighty-two graduands had much to celebrate recently when a unique six- month retail training partnership with government, community and training groups translated into jobs for unemployed people.

Catholic agency. Centrecare Skills Training Centre (CSTC). was a major sponsor in the Myer New Work Opportunities Project launched in August 1995 whereby participants were funded jointly by CSTC and Federal Department of Employment.

Education and Training (DEE'T).

The trainees were given off- and on-thejob training in Myer's six metropolitan stores with support from CSTC as well as DEET and the WA Government's youth affairs body and other organisations.

The idea was to break the unemployment

cycle with all of the 102 participants having been unemployed for a minimum of eighteen months. Participants gradually shed their low self-esteem as they acquired skills, confidence and moved through the scheme to a successful conclusion.

Perhaps young graduand Simon Riley's story echoes others when he tells of being unemployed for almost five years with attendant low income, low self-esteem, and "lack of enthusiasm for anything of an official nature." Recommended by the Commonwealth Employment Service for the program. Simon's career prospects have done a turnaround with full time employment with Myer. self-confidence - and even a message for everyone out there when he says: "Your best asset is yourself - so use it!"

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Broome's first graduation Twenty-five students of Notre Dame University's Broome campus, the Kimberley Centre, graduated earlier this month on Friday 10 May in the far northern campus's first ever graduation ceremony.

The ceremony was a double first. Not only was it the first graduation ceremony to be held at the Broome campus - all 25 graduates were Aboriginal.

The function marked a milestone for Catholic tertiary education in the north-west of WA where until now students wanting to further their education have had to travel to Perth.

Notre Dame University vice chancellor Peter Tannock presented the graduands with certificates or diplomas in one of three fields: clerical foundation, education practice and education on Friday, 10 May. During the graduation. Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome praised the personal triumph of students who had worked so hard to attain their qualifications, adding that the goal of their studies was truth in all things. in any university, but especially in one steeped in the tradition of Notre Dame. it is worthwhile

saying again that truth is our ultimate goal," he said.

"Truth is not only the predicate of our endeavours but it is, at the same time, the process.

-Truth must be sought deliberately, even painfully at times, and may be found by only those who search while in the company of humility and other great virtues."

Bishop Saunders also stressed the importance of Notre Dame's role in helping to mould Australian ideas and values and issued a call for it to become involved in helping to shape society for the better.

On issues such as Aboriginal ownership of land and the process of national reconciliation, Notre Dame could become an environment for questioning and discussing such issues with the wider community, he said.

"To be a think-tank for vital issues is a noble task for NDA. lb be a leaven in the midst of society, to facilitate a valuable exchange of ideas and to initiate change that will work is an even more noble calling." Bishop Saunders said.

He also called on graduates to consider how they could best serve society and not to be afraid

Bishop Saunders, centre, Broome campus director, Sr Rhatigan, fourth from right, and Or Tannock, third from right, receive graduates at the ceremony. of addressing the important munity was proud of the graduates for their achievement. issues of the day.

Family members and friends of He reminded them that having graduates travelled from all over graduated they were now in a the Kimberley region to attend position to be able to bring eduthe historic ceremony. cation to others and share it with National Reconciliation Council their own communities. chairman Pat Dodson told the Rosemary Hill graduates the Aboriginal com-

St Vincent de Paul launches its fifth winter appeal Against a backdrop of beautiful woollen blankets knitted in a rainbow of colours. Perth Archdiocese' Vicar General Monsignor Michael Keating blessed the Society of St Vincent de Paul's Winter Blanket Appeal at its launch last week.

The Western Australian Police Service and other charity minded people such as the Lions International are helping with the appeal.

This is the Society's fifth annual appeal and the Police have created statewide collection points where people can donate blankets and bed linen to alleviate the cold for the many thouMonsignor Michael Keating launches the appeal watched by Acting Deputy sands St Vincent de Paul help Commissioner of Police Bruce Brennan, left, St Vincent de Paul official each year.

Lions International (Lynwood Maurice O'Sullivan and Bobbie Hitchcock of Lynwood Lions International.

District) representative. Bobbie Hitchcock presented the society with a cheque and 130 blankets to begin the appeal.

Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Bruce Brennan said it was pleasing to know that all funds and goods went directly to the cause without any dissipation through cost overheads.

He also said it was heartwarming to see even the elderly and arthritic put their weight behind the appeal by knitting blankets while other citizens raised funds by various endeavours to purchase wool for the blankets. All of this, he enlarged. is human nature and the community working together at its best."

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One of Europe's leading church men, Jesuit Cardinal Carlo Martini, archbishop of Milan, will launch a new Catholic cable TV channel in Australia in early August, according to a report in the latest edition of the Jesuit published magazine. Australian Catholics.

But Jesuit Father Michael Kelly, who was the planned cable TV channel's project officer several months ago, would not comment on the report in Australian Catholics.

Fr Kelly has been the main force behind the proposal to establish a Catholic pay-TV channel while Australian Catholics is Jesuit of publication a Publications, of which Fr Kelly is the director.

While in Australia. Cardinal Martini will also meet business leaders to discuss ethics in public life, celebrate Mass with Melbourne's Italian community, meet the media and conduct Scripture-based meditations for members of the public, the article says.

Teachers' ethics seminar held Principals and parish priests from Catholic schools and parishes in the Perth region studied the issue of the lifestyle of teachers in Catholic schools last week at two special seminars at the Catholic Education Office in Leedenille.

The director of the L f Goody Bioethics Centre. Father Walter Black MSC, the Archdiocese's judicial vicar. Father Greg Carroll. and two CEO officers responsible for industrial relations spoke on different aspects of how to deal with any difficulties that might arise when staff in a Catholic school act publicly in a way that is contrary to Catholic belief and ethics. The procedures that can be used under Church and secular law while trying to were problem a resolve explained.

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A rigid approach to youth not the answer

By Bruce Downes, Director Catholic Youth and Young Adult Office

circumstance is a lack of understanding of "peer ministry" today.

When this idea first surfaced, some people interpreted it to mean that older people should not be involved with younger people in youth groups, that youth groups should be left entirely to

Finding new methods of meeting the needs of today's young people is a major challenge for youth ministry in the Catholic Church.

The biggest need young Catholics are expressing today is the need to belong and the need to understand our Church.

Many people are asking why so many young people are, apparently, simply not practising their faith or are actively turning to other Christian denominations.

While there may be no single answer to this question, I believe that one contributing factor is that we simply are not meeting the needs of our young.

It is essential that we realise very clearly that, while the needs of young people today may be similar to those of past years, the way of addressing these needs today is very different.

Young people in our parishes are lacking contact with people who can be their friends, and at the same time answer their questions and give them guidance on faith and life.

These touch on two key circumstances which have radically affected young people in our parishes over the last 20 years and which only now are coming The need for methods which speak to youth to light.

The first is that, in years past when the young. Experience and training there was more than one priest to a were not considered essential - it was all parish, many young priests were chap- a matter of learning together as you go lains to youth groups, which was just along.

While this may have some value in about the only type of parish youth some circumstances, in the vast majorigroup there was.

Today, because there are not as many ty of cases it led to a rapid turnover of priests as there were, our young people youth, youth groups and those with are not having this type of contact which some leadership talent. many of their parents had. The second Groups would start because of the

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YOUNG PEOPLE AND THE FUTURE A National consultation with and about Young People.

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enthusiasm of the young, but could not be sustained because of a lack of ongoing substance, a lack of the experience and training needed to answer the needs of maturing young people.

Nationally today we see a growing balance between youth and experience among church workers.

Whatever success there may have been in the past, it is no longer possible to meet the real needs of young people by simple repeating the same old formula.

We need to adjust our approach to young people, to take into account modern patterns and modern culture.

Sadly, methods and the message get confused when we talk about ministry with young people.

The method, by necessity, needs to change to adapt to the circumstances and environment of the time and place but the Gospel message of Jesus remains the same.

In the terms of Pope Paul VI, many of the older methods simply do not speak to modern young people in the language and symbols of their culture.

Therefore we have to face reality, and explore the possibility that our future parish youth groups may be very different from those of the past.

Meetings may need to be planned on a regional basis, to make use of the joint resources of several parishes In meeting the need of their youth. while one style of group will not suffice any longer.

Youth activities will need to become more pro-active and professional in style and presentation.

But the biggest resource lacking in youth ministry is a people resource people prepared to gain experience of faith and life, and share that experience with our youth.

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A son of Edmund Rice devoted to Our Lady OBITUARY: Br Bernard Manion CFC Well known, highly respected, greatly talented and much loved - Brother Bernard Casimir Manion CFC may well rest in peace after a life's work of 79 years given with extraordinary devotion.

Br Manion died at St Vincent's Aged Care Home, Guildford on May 15.

His last five years there were spent as a wonderful example of how, even in suffering and diminished power, a treasure house of prayer was generated, and his life became a living reparation," said Yolanda Nardizzi of the Marian Movement of Priests.

Brother Manion had also been editor of the Marian Centre WA newsletter (sent throughout Australia), for eight years until ill health forced him to resign.

Nevertheless, his many visitors continued to call for prayer and counselling and he continued to lead three prayer groups weekly.

His "tremendous gifts, leadership. knowledge and ability to uplift and inspire, were greatly appreciated and will long be remembered," Mrs Nardizzi said.

Born in Perth on March 4. 191Z 'Cas' as he became known, was educated by the Sisters of Mercy and the Christian Brothers in Kalgoorlie and Perth.

Having finished secondary education at CBC in The Terrace. he entered the Christian Brothers in 1934 and was finally professed on December 25 1942.

That was the beginning of over 60 fruitful, unselfish years spent well in his own scholarly attainments.

He became, according to Brother John

Correction Last %‘eek's story on retired acolyte Mr Les Smith should have said Mr Smith was a member of the Attadale parish, not the Applecmss parish as reported. This was a reporter's error.

Father Tim Foster was also incorrectly named as Fr Jim Foster.

Brother Bernard Casimir Manion CFC Carrigg CPL. "a scholar and teacher of considerable stature with a blending of spirituality, scholarship and teaching which came naturally to him; each area of deep personal commitment enriching the others."

For more than 40 years Br Manion excelled with senior students and taught subjects for public examinations with considerable success.

But his focus remained on the people he taught, with a foremost interest "primarily in helping young people understand themselves, develop as 'quality' human beings and grow to full Christian maturity."

"Cas belonged to that generation upon whom the splendid Catholic education system of today is built," Br Caririgg said.

In addition to religious education. Br

Manion taught languages, humanities, mathematics and science and was also an artist, sculptor and outstanding dramatic producer.

He graduated in psychology at the University of Melbourne, later gaining another degree in education at UWA. As a qualified clinical psychologist he helped many who came to him for counselling over the years.

He was a foundation member of the Australian College of Education, being made a Fellow in 1968, and chaired the inter-Church committee for the teaching of religion in WA government schools.

A deeply spiritual man, he was a member of the first Leader's Group of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

He gave retreats, proving an excellent teacher of Life in the Spirit seminars through to the mid eighties when he taught Growth Seminars, and continued to write the Charismatic newsletter, Charisma.

Br Cas maintained an interest in the Focolare Movement when it came to Perth in 1979. said Julie Wilkinson. who described him as a very human and kind person "you could believe what he said: he was a man of his word."

In response to requests, E.J. Dwyer published his prayer volume The Quiet Time - Contemplative Prayer for a Busy World.

Provincial Br Tony Shanahan said he was one of the faces of a Church that was in dialogue with the modern world. as called for by Vatican II. Br Cas was very much a man of God, he emphasised ". . . . a son of Edmund Rice. whose spirituality was fervent and his devotion to Mary was a particular feature of it."

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By Peter Rosengren Sometimes it's hard not to think that many Catholics don't have a very clear idea of what they're doing at Mass or who it is that they meet there.

But American Blessed Sacrament priest, Father Bob Rousseau, who was in Perth last week to run a special seminar for lay people on the central importance of the Eucharist in their lives, was posing the questions that need to be asked.

How much do we understand the importance of the Eucharist, what happens at Mass, Christ in the tabernacle, and the connection between these and our role as laity and evangelisers in the world?

Fr Rousseau, who is the director temporary eucharistic spiritualiof the Centre for Eucharistic ty: celebration, contemplation Evangelising in Cleveland, Ohio, and communion." visited the Blessed Sacrament By looking at the actual celecommunity and parish in South bration of the Eucharist Fr Perth to give his innovative Life in Rousseau gets people to consider the Eucharist seminar and its fol- what it is that happens at Mass low-up Lay Empowerment pro- and what role it plays in their gram. lives. The second element is conFr Rousseau developed the templation - looking at the seminar over several years in importance of Eucharistic adoraresponse to a need he saw for lay tion and contemplative prayer in formation and evangelisation the daily realities of peoples' based on the Eucharist. existence.

Extraordinary ministers of the Here, he said, it was important Eucharist and lectors usually to emphasise the Church's tradireceived good initial formation tional practice of reserving Christ from dioceses but there was in the tabernacle and spending often not much after that, Fr time before Film". . . . and not to Rousseau told The Record. see adoration as a cult disassociThe seminars introduce people ated from the Mass, but rather to what Fr Rousseau calls the that, having been powerfully "three essential elements of con- encountered by Christ in the cel-

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Fr Rousseau shows the way at the Como seminar last weekend.

'Make each parish a new Pentecost that brings many cultures together' That people of many different nations could understand the Apostles at Pentecost was one of the most spectacular events in history.

Father Adrian Pittarello CS, Perth Archdiocesan coordinator of the multicultural apostolate, argues parishes should use Pentecost as the inspiration for including migrant parishioners in parish life.

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The account of the Pentecost should be seen both as a description and as the program of each modern parish.

Modern mobility moves people from everywhere in the world to everywhere in the world. Australia remains one of the nations most changed by migrants.

This has drastically changed the make up of every city and town, and therefore of every diocese and parish.

n the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended on the disciples of Jesus in shape of tongues of fire, other extraordinary phenomena happened.

The first mentioned in the account of Luke, the author of the Acts, is that "they began to speak in foreign languages as the Spirit gave them the gift of speech".

And the second was that those who had gathered around the house where the Apostles received the Holy Spirit could understand them in their own language.

"How does it happen that each of us hears them in his own native language?

Parthians. Medes and Elarnites: people from Mesopotamia. Judea and Cappadocia. Pontus and Asia, Phrigia and Pamphilia. Egypt and the parts of Libya Fr Adrian Pittarello round Cyrene: as well as visitors from Rome - Jews and proselytes alikeThe celebration of Pentecost should be Cretans and Arabs: we hear them for each parish an occasion to reflect on preaching in our own language about the message of this festivity. the marvels of God." (Acts: 7-11) How is each parish announcing the It is evident that Luke is trying to marvels of God so that people of every include in his list all the known world of nation and language can equally hear it the time. That salvation was not restrict- and understand it in there own laned to the Israelites any more: it was guage? That is, is each parish, in its woroffered to all the nations of the earth. No ship and pastoral planning inclusive or one was excluded. Everyone was made exclusive of people of all languages, culequally participant. tures and religious traditions?

We should read the account of There is no parish in the archdiocese Pentecost not so much as a description which does not comprise parishioners of what happened on that day, as of different culture and languages. Each instead what the mission of the Church parish should therefore see how God's was to be from that day onwards. message is announced to them all, so It was a programmatic account of the that all they "understand in their own work of the Church. She had to pro- language" the marvels of God. claim the marvels of God to the peoples This cannot be done without a positive of all the earth and bring them together effort and specific planning.

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No parish can assume that everyone of its members is given equal access to the gifts that Jesus left us.

Inequality is a harsh fact in any society. Inequality slips gradually and inevitably into forms of social injustice.

It is only through the positive action of a good government that inequality and social injustice are combated.

What is true in the wider society is true also in the religious realm. In any parish there is inequality, that is, there are people and sections of the parish community which have less access to the spiritual goods that the parish offers, and receive less than others.

The causes of inequalities are not always easy to overcome. However, this Is not a reason for not acting and planing against them.

Different languages. cultures and religious traditions, introduced by migrant groups constitute a richness for the parish but can become inevitably sources of inequalities.

It is difficult to provide equally for those who do not speak English well, who have a different culture and different religious traditions.

This is why each parish should be constantly engaged in seeing how it reaches minority groups. The task of coming to the help of migrants so that they may "understand the word of God in their own language" is never accomplished. It must he constant.

To think that people of different linguistic and cultural background can easily, without any specific program, integrate in the parish community and be treated equally is fallacious.

Each parish should be resourceful in setting up initiatives and structures geared to reach those who cannot be reached in the normal way.

Each parish should strive to have its own Pentecost, so that each parish becomes a truly universal church in miniature, where people of "every nations, race, tribe and language" become equally members of the same parish community.

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Yet many people registered shock and greed and an extra holiday.

Why should we be surprised when we surprise and said they couldn't undera media which is so hostile to have like place a in stand why it happened Catholic Church leaders that they are Australia.

Why should it cause so much surprise incapable of focusing on the positive.

Shouldn't we expect massacres if the when the process of secularisation is so cult of violence and death we are cultimuch in evidence in Australian society?

What do we expect from a society vating, among other things, sanctions the where it is fashionable to believe in noth- massacre of innocents in the womb, ing or anything and where we have a something most Catholics are indifferent myriad of social problems which can all about?

The above are all part of the same evil be traced to the same source - rejection of in a society which has largely turned to the Christian Gospel?

Why should we be surprised when the Satan rather than Jesus, but pride preinfluence of Christianity has been vents us from taking that sort of talk seriremoved from all positions of authority ously.

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Cross and by working to establish the Old Rite of Mass in the Church as a legitimate act of worship of Almighty God, we may assist some of those millions return to the practice of their faith.

Gerald Morton The Rock NSW

'lb the media as to most Australians evil. health problems. Explaining away evil sin, hell, purgatory and Satan are vague, and sin by using modern cliches and highbrow psychological terms - ignoring outdated concepts like the Church itself.

Indeed we could be forgiven for think- the role of Satan and Hell - is expected of ing that these realities have no place in modern liberal, secular societies but Christianity so rarely are these things surely Catholics do not have to imitate them. We need to say that the devil and mentioned, even in our churches. angels "wander through the world for his the ignore to fashionable It has become the ruin of souls". dark side of our spiritual dimension.

If we don't, we allow Satan to deceive us Now the anti-Christian forces are thinking that evil is not as vile as it is into stronger than ever, due to people's indifference to Christianity. As secularism has or even that he does not exist.

Catholics must never forget that there is progressed, old fashioned sin and evil constant battle going on between good a have taken a bow.

The focus is not on the causes of evil, and evil and they should pray to St man's fallen nature, or what can be done Michael the Archangel that the devil be to prevent it, which is to constantly seek restrained.

God's grace through prayer and the Patricia Halligan Sacraments but on gun laws and mental Mandurah try and support their stand. It continually quotes from authentic Church sources.

The other thing it does is it solidifies your confidence in the Holy Spirit.

If the Ecclesia Dei Society really want a Latin Mass, then they should be pushing for the Novus Ordo to be said as it was originally intended.

Paul Sheridan Maylands

s chairman of the Ecclesia Dei Society (EDS) in Australia, I would Ike to correct some of the misconceptions of your correspondent, Paul Sheridan (The Record. 9 May). I can ony Evans (The Record, 16 May) assure your readers our society sponsored states he did not hear an attack on Michael Davies' lecture tour of Australia the Pope, the Second Vatican ard on the heels of Fr Richard and New Zealand and that he was here to Council or the Mass at Michael Davies' McBrien's comments anticipating promote the traditions and authentic lecture. This is quite understandable since the death of the Holy Father (The teachings of the Catholic Church.

Mr Evans thinking is obviously in alignMr Davies is the chairman of Una Voce ment with Mr Davies.

Record, 9 May) comes Sr Carolyn Osiek's International which is a world-wide body If Mr Davies didn't attack the Novus expressed desire for a 'quiet death' (albeit of Catholic lay people. He works closely Ordo why did someone come up to me a metaphorical one) for the Bride of with the Papal authorities, particularly the after the lecture and ask the question: "I Christ.

Wishing death for one's enemies seems Ecclesia Dei Commission established by thought the New Mass was legal?"

Pope John Paul II himself. I am sure Mr Mr Davies' opinion of the New Mass can to be the latest weapon in the arsenal of Davies would not last long if he were dis- be clearly grasped by his statement that dissenting theologians feeling under siege obedient to those authorities. the Novus Ordo (New Mass) . . . "must be by papal and episcopal teaching. Oh well, The EDS does not claim, "the removal of a mistake". Mr Davies clearly attacked the they can still be confident of a friendly reception in Australia. the Tridentine Rite was the cause of the New Mass. post-Vatican II turmoil." By promoting the Fr McBrien's latest edition of Catholicism Mr Evans states that the "confusion and traditions of the Catholic Church the EDS rejection" felt by some after Vatican II was was recently rejected by the US bishops' Is exposing the 'straight-out disobedience caused by abuses in the liturgy. So by Mr Committee on Doctrine as unsuitable for of the liturgical abuse", which is causing Evans' own admission, it is the abuses of beginning theology students due to its the turmoil. the Novus Ordo liturgy that caused the unbalanced and flawed presentation of The EDS is obedient to Pope John Paul II problems, not the Novus Ordo itself. This Church teaching. in endeavouring to assist his fellow shep- immediately invalidates Mr Davies stand.

Sr Osiek visited Perth in 1994 as a guest herds act on his request that they use a Mr Davies' statement that the Novus speaker at the Catholic Education Office. "wide and generous" application to pro- Ordo is a mistake, clearly spells out his Her talk was attended by many teachers, vide the Old Rite of Mass for those rejection of the Novus Ordo, and his hope some of them as part of a compulsory reliCatholics who wish to worship Almighty that in the future the "return" of the gious education in-service, others using up God with that Rite.

Tridentine Mass will solve the Church's one of the "pupil free" days available to I am saddened by Mr Sheridan's claim problems. This point of view is also clear- schools for in-service. that millions of Catholics feel their good ly spelt out in his writings and his lecture, Sr Osiek, in her book Beyond Anger supfaith is called into question by the a point of view that is outrightly rejected ports women's ordination, objects to the Traditions of the Church, and it causes me by the Vatican.

Church's opposition to lesbian sexual to wonder Does the Ukrainian Rite of I strongly urge anyone who has been activity, endorses the use of the "Christa" Mass cause those people to feel their good feeling the confusion sown by Mr Davies, (a female image of the crucified) and faith is called into question? to obtain a copy of the book The Pope, the accuses "the institutional church and all I would like your readers to please be Council and the Mass. This can be Its male leaders as participants in. if not assured, the great concern of the Ecclesia obtained from Catholics United for the perpetrators of, a concerted effort to Dei Society is for those millions of Faith. undermine the human dignity of its Catholics who have given up attending the It clearly and authoritatively answers all women". re-offering of the self-same Sacrifice of the the questions the "traditionalists" dig up to One hopes that Fr McBrien has to wait

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ister Glenys Yeoman (The Record 16 May) makes the classic move of setting up a straw man only to knock it down by implication when she jokingly suggests that those who object to the choice of families in the Centrecare "survey" do so because the families included are not Catholic.

This is no joking matter. The objection is that some of the families are not families and some of the marriages are not marriages. which makes them totally inappropriate as subject-matter for a Catholic organisation to study and celebrate.

Particularly disturbing is the section of the video dealing with a group which includes a de facto couple. the man's daughter and her live-in boyfriend.

Many Catholic parents are now faced with the difficult situation where their adult children whom they love and do not want to alienate, are involved in extramarital cohabiting which they cannot, as Catholics. condone.

The message from the Centrecare video seems to be that they should accept it. even under their own roof.

Revealingly, at one stage of the video. Mr Pietropiccolo remarks: "There isn't an objective right or wrong if you like:I don't think that exists."

I thought the video was very amateurish and the ultra close-up photography distractingly unflattering.

I cannot think who it is aimed at.

Catholic schoolchildren?

I certainly hope not, but if not them, then who?

Elizabeth Green-Armytage Claremont

Pat gives glory to God with flowers for the love of her Tom

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ecently, Tom died. Our parish is a close community, and so it is no surprise that when those of us who knew Tom heard that he was terminally ill, we were incredibly saddened.

But Tom's death, for me, was a different story. Although I would pray for nothing more than for it comes to arranging Tom to be well again and still be when It would be impossible flowers. with his family and friends, his the times over the years count to death was full of the promise of hands have transPat's that the resurrection. formed the altar of our church Tom and his wife Pat were into a place of true beauty. founding members of our parish Whenever I have commented and we have grown to love Pat's to Pat about the beauty of her sense of humour and her warm, arrangements, she has always welcoming nature and Tom's answered "it was Our Lady". delightfully boyish smile and The night before the Thankslove of life. giving Mass for Tom's life, a Pat is a very gifted person in large number of family, friends many ways and especially so and parishioners gathered to say

the Rosary at Sts John and Paul and we walked in to be greeted by a glorious display of flowers that spoke very strongly of the joy of the resurrection.

It seemed so right that Pat, together with Our Lady, would give glory to God in this way for the life and love of her Tom. On Easter weekend, eight days before he died, Tom celebrated with family and close friends, what he knew to be his last Mass.

Father offered Pat the Body of experience to watch his friends Christ, and because Tom could lovingly and reverently drape not swallow, she in turn very his coffin with a St Vincent de gently broke off the tiniest piece Paul flag and place a Missal and and offered the Body of Christ to an Irish Cross on top. Symbolic her husband, a beautiful sign of gestures which spoke volumes unity and love between God and about Tom Callaghan.

In experiencing that Mass, the husband and wife. It is a testimony to Tom's courage and love prayerfulness, the homily and of life, that before the end of the the eulogy,Icame away not only evening, he was seen dancing in with an even deeper appreciation of the man Tom was, but the kitchen. about our own lives. pondering In listening to Father Doyle's How deep is our faith? How homily, and a eulogy delivered by a close friend of Tom's, we well do we love and serve othcould not help but build up a ers? Father had commented in mental picture of a gentle, his homily that the only question Christian man who loved deeply God will ask of us when we and received great joy in serving meet Him face to face is "how well have you loved?" others.

I would like to be like Tom and Tom had a long association with the Society of St Vincent de be able to answer, "I have loved Paul, and it was a very moving well".

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In life, love is the conquering force The Australian Catholic Bishops have designated this Sunday as a Day for Life to remind Australians of the necessity to welcome and defend human life. Perth parish missioner Norma Woodcock tells here of how one woman found forgiveness for the abortion she had 40 years ago.

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tiring a mission I was giving in a parish, I had the powerful experience of seeing one of God's children move from death to life.

With her permission, albeit anonymously, I would like to shear her story.

Let us call her 'Mary".

Mary told me that when she heard me speak at the Sunday Mass, she wanted to see me and share her story.

We arranged a time and as Mary began to speak. I could see how hard it was for her. so I gently encouraged her.

She said. "Norma, I have only talked to a couple of priests about this and to no-one else.

Forty years ago. I aborted my baby and I have never, never, been able to get over it. I just can't. I just can't. .. ."

On her face there was pain, guilt, fear, darkness, death.

I could see her agony so I said "Mary, let's bring Jesus into this."

She nodded her head.

I asked her to go, in her imagination, to her favourite place - to imagine she was there, either in a special room, a garden or wherever she felt most at home.

She nodded her head.

I looked at her as she sat, hands moving restlessly in her lap, pain and disquiet written on her face. her eyes closed.

"Now", I said, "lets ask Jesus to come and bring your baby to you in this special place". She nodded.

"Firstly Mary, get a sense of this place. Look around, Touch a cushion, a picture, smell the flowers, listen to the sounds around you". She nodded.

"Mary", I said, "picture Jesus in

this special place. Does he have on the long white robes of his day? Look at his face. His beard.

His eyes. Mary, does he hold your baby in his arms?"

She nodded. "Yes", she said.

I looked at her face. I saw no change, only pain and grief.

"What is Jesus doing Mary?" I asked.

"He's looking upwards and praying", Mary said. I said "Mary, can you hold your baby?"

She nodded. "Yes".

"Mary, can you name your baby?" I looked again at her face and saw the pain, agony and guilt.

"No", she said in a dead voice, "I can't think of a name".

I said. "Mary, what's Jesus doing?"

She said, "He's taken the baby back and He's leaving the room.

He says He'll look after the baby".

I looked at Mary. There had been no change at all in her expression, or her posture or her voice during the whole imaginative meditation.

I was amazed. I had been praying like this with people for seventeen years and had always seen some movement in them towards healing and peace.

I didn't know what was happening in this instance, but I knew Mary had not entered into the peace and healing that Jesus died to give her.

I said, "Well Mary, Jesus has the baby and maybe this is the first step towards healing".

The pain on her face was evident - forty years of pain.

Then this thought came to me and I asked Mary, "have you ever taken this to the sacrament of Reconciliation and received absolution!?"

"No", she said.

"Do you want to Mary?" I asked.

"Yes, yes", she said.

I saw a glimmer of hope as she obviously desired with her whole heart to seek forgiveness for what she had done.

I then left the mom and found the parish priest and asked him to please see Mary so that she

might receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

He agreed and went into the room where Mary was waiting and closed the door.

Sometime later, he came out and said Mary was waiting for me.

I went into the room. "Now Mary", I said "let's see Jesus back in your favourite place". She closed her eyes.

"Mary, can you imagine Jesus there?" "Yes", she said. "He's smiling".

I looked at her face. It was gentle and relaxed and smiling also.

"Mary. does Jesus have your baby?"

"Yes", she said joyfully.

"Mary, can you hold your baby and can you name it?"

"Yes, yes", she said.

I looked at this woman who had been tormented for some forty years. On her face was peace, joy and life.

As she continued to hold her baby in her mind's eye, I saw the mother-love flow. She named her baby. She was transformed before my very eyes. She had moved from death to life.

Mary, in the meditation, sat holding her baby for a while, then she gave the baby back to Jesus to care for until she joined them in heaven one day.

I suggested to Mary that she see her priest and have a Mass said for her baby.

"Yes", she said. "This day is as though my baby was born and I'll always remember it every year.

Mary had a Mass said for her baby.

At the end of the week's mission, Mary came up to me and said, "I feel wonderful, I feel wonderful!"

I told her to go and tell the parish priest just how wonderful she felt, that he would be so pleased for her. She did, smiling all the while, light of heart and light of step.

My heart was overwhelmed with gratitude to our Lord, as I said "Good on you Jesus. You've done it again"

Catholics could learn much from Jehovah Witnesses Record contributor Peter Ilwan continues a regular series of meditations on the readings at Sunday Mass. This week the Gospel accounts of Pentecost.

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hen things are difficult to describe, people sometimes try to overcome the difficulty by comparing the thing concerned with something else.

An example of this is found in today's first reading (Acts 2:1-11), in which St Luke compares the coming of the Holy Spirit to a mighty wind, fire and tongues.

The analogy of wind is an instructive one, for just as a powerful wind blows things away, the Holy Spirit worked through the Apostles to blow away erroneous religious ideas.

The Holy Spirit has a similar role to play today. Through the Council convoked by Pope John XXIII, the Holy Spirit sought to blow away conservative attitudes which were a barrier to ecumenism and other much-needed renewal.

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The Holy Spirit came in the form of tongues of fire. The tongue is the instrument of speech, and the gospel message is to be proclaimed by word of mouth.

This means that, besides the indispensable witness of example, we need to use our tongues to proclaim our Faith.

The Apostles received the gift of tongues to help them to preach the Gospel.

While we should use our tongues to pray for the conversion of Australia, let us not be so naive as to think that God will answer our prayers by sending plane-

loads of Irish missionaries to charm the churchless with their lilting brogue.

It will be the zeal shown by Australian Catholics which will largely determine how evangelisation in Australia is to go.

The Holy Spirit came in the form of tongues of fire. We need to show a fiery zeal if evangelisation is to progress rapidly here.

There are many uncommitted Australians today, and if they are to be brought to Christ, it will be largely due to the zeal of the laity.

We should remember that for every convert to Catholicism, the Jehovah Witnesses make five.

They go from house to house, talking about their own religion.

If only we Catholics would imitate their zeal, albeit misguided zeal, then the New Pentecost for which Pope John XXIII prayed would quickly come.

Some are in a better position to win souls to Christ than others. The second reading, (1 Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13,) says: "There is a variety of gifts, but always the same Spirit in them all; there

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are all sorts of service to be done hut always to the same Lord.

We may be unable to do great things, but there is always a contribution we can make.

We mightn't have great opportunities, but this should only make us more determined to use those that come our way.

Today's gospel passage, (John 20:19-23.) is known as the Johannine Pentecost and is an account of Our Lord's appearance to the Apostles on Easter Sunday, during which He breathed on them and said: "As the Father sent me, so am I sending you.

Receive the Holy Spirit.

Those whose sins you forgive they are forgiven, those whose sins you retain, they are retained."

These words show how closely Our Lord has linked evangelisation with sacramentalisation.

Some converts have been drawn to the Church by the sacrament of Confession, which gives the certainty of forgivenness.

May we all do our part to help bring about the New Pentecost for which Pope John XXIII prayed. ,

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Bidyadanga: the happy diary of an Aussie country priest

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leaders - people prominent in the Church - will come up to them and lay hands on them and pray with them. That has caught on in a big way and people do that (now)," he said, instancing how inculturation is used to bridge the gap between a particular culture and the work of the Church.

The Mass celebrated with the Aboriginal communities is recognisably different to its urban format too.

"We celebrate Mass in .. . five languages . . . . and most of it is sung. reminiscent of the tribal tradition of singing songs, (where) you remember your culture by

musical instrument, it's two boomerangs hit together," he said.

The smoking ceremony, used more in other ceremonies than at Mass, is something Australian Catholics saw when Pope John Paul II visited Sydney in 1995 for Blessed Mary of the Cross's beatification.

At Bidyadanga it is often used and is one example of the way things of spiritual significance in Aboriginal society have been married to the Church's efforts to make the Gospel come alive for the people.

"The smoking's very important down our way as a sign of purification," Fr Digges

ere is the Church, here is the steeple, open the doors and here's all the people.

Many remember learning the childhood rhyme that, in an off-hand kind of way, conveys the Europeanised image of the Church that most Australians have.

But in the Kimberley diocese this is not the way it is. Here things are different.

Father Matthew Digges, a young priest who grew up in Sydney on the other side of the continent spends his time in a Church setting that most Australian Catholics have not seen. It is recognisable and yet full of surprises.

It is the parish of Bidyadanga, formerly known as the LaGrange mission, and in size alone it dwarfs anything similar in Australia with few exceptions.

Located on the coast approximately 200 kilometres south of Broome, Bidyadanga parish covers an area of 260.000 square kilometres.

It has a Catholic population of about 1200 making it one of the biggest but most sparsely populated parishes in the world.

It is here, mainly among the Aboriginal communities but also the stations and mining outposts of the outback and tropical north that Fr Digges carries out his ministry - flying himself from one stop to the next as he visits Bidyadanga's isolated Catholic community Thirty-one years of age, and ordained in 1991 for the Broome diocese. Fr Digges was drawn to Broome after meeting (the then) Father Matthew Digges: helping Aboriginal people develop an Aboriginal Catholicism Father Chris Saunders who had been sent to Sydney by Bishop Jobst for singing it," Fr Digges said. said, adding that it was often used in pastoral experience in a city environment.

Much of the pioneering work in the field Baptism.

But how different is Church life in this of liturgy and Aboriginal language was "So any child is smoked not long after remote outpost? carried out by Father Kevin McKelson, they're born as a sign of purification. It's Fr Digges told The Record that while the who these days works from the University done by putting green leaves on a small essentials remain, some of the ceremonies of Notre Dame Australia's Broome cam- fire and the child is placed on the leaves Australian suburban Mass-going Catholics pus teaching theology and acting as chap- (amazingly) the child never cries." were used to would at least look different. lain.

Or again it could be used in a house After all, in an era of inculturation, adaptFr McKelson, well known as a pioneer in somebody had died, again as a sign when ing ceremony to traditional culture to Aboriginal culture and language, was the highlight areas of significance is an impor- first to write down the five languages spo- of purification of the deceased's premises.

Inculturation in Australia was given a tant part of communicating the Gospel. ken at Bidyadanga for posterity and referboost by comments made at Alice Springs "(Traditionally,) when people are sick, ence. different people from the community will Complicating an outback priest's work is by Pope John Paul on his papal visit to come up to them and lay hands on them, the fact that Aboriginal culture and lan- Australia in 1986 and also from his special people from the community will guage can vary widely, depending on encyclical Redemptoris Missio. do that to them and sit with them," he said. where it is to be found.

The bulk of the parish's Catholic com"(So) what we've suggested to the people "People have different traditions. So, for munity are the 600 or so Aboriginal peois that at different times when people are instance, people at La Grange don't know ple from the five tribal groupings. sick, if they're Catholic people, the Church what a didgeridoo is and, when they use a There are other outlying groups, mainly

European, who have to be visited on outlying cattle stations. Telfa, the largest gold mine in Australia and located 9001cm from Bidyadanga by road is one of stops.

But Bidyadanga is the main hub of his work and every day there is a different challenge, sometimes initially frustrating to a European clock-conscious eye.

"You can't map a day. And then the thing that I think city people find hard to understand is that working in a small country parish, or in an Aboriginal community, if you've got a meeting - a meeting's in the morning - it might be six o'clock or it might be eleven o'clock - and everybody will come together and sit down to get ready for the meeting." he said.

"And then somebody won't be there, so they go off to get them.

Maybe three people go off to get them and come back in half an hour's time and by that time has left. else somebody Everybody's got to be there for it to happen."

But he is philosophical about things like the waiting. "(So) a lot of your pastoral work is done waiting for things to happen. There's a lot of time where you just sit down with people in the Aboriginal communities.

"You sit down with people and you're just talking with people while waiting for something to happen. And that in itself is significant. . . . but that's the way it Is." His two-week program includes three days in the Great Sandy Desert where he will visit a community and celebrate the Eucharist with them, staying overnight and leaving the next day. "You always stay overnight with a community, because things happen at night. For example, the liturgy happens at night - it's the best time of the day, it's cool, people are relaxed, they feel more at ease and they're not the centre of attention and it's usually too hot during the day."

One of the goals of his work at Bidyadanga, he said, was helping Aboriginal people chart their own course and find an authentic, as opposed to an artificial, place in the Australian Church.

But even in this regard he sees himself as a midwife in the process. "I can never teach the people Aboriginal Catholicism I can help them to understand it and I can help them to develop it themselves . . . . I want to help these people develop into being Aboriginal Catholics. I don't want them to be European Catholics because that's not authentic."

Pope's smile shows how trust in God brings youth in advancing age Continued from Page 1 The youngsters sang another song, accompanied by a flute, two violins and two guitars.

The Pope half-closed his eyes and listened: "I'm a child of Mary, "My path is dear, "For the angels of heaven "Are always near."

The Pope said he was happy his birthday fell in May, a month dedicated to Mary, a mother for all.

"In this moment,I have to thank my own mother, who gave me life," he said, almost as a prayer. His mother died when he was nine years old.

That afternoon, meeting on a green slope outside Postojna with some 50,000 teenagers, the Pope briefly revisited another r 4

chapter of his private life as Karol Wojtyla: his "underground" years during the Nazi occupation of Poland during World War II. The Pope has spoken often about the war's effect on his country, but rarely about its effect on his psyche. At this second birthday party, though, he called it an "unforgettable experience of danger and fear."

"I was 20 years old when World War II broke like a storm over Europe and the world, sowing death and destruction," he said. There was "fear of bombardments, fear of deportations and fear of reprisals," said the Pope, who spent most of the war years as a student in a clandestine seminary in Krakow.

"Unfortunately,I know what it's like to be afraid," he said. His

remarks came in response to a question from the young people about handling fear. His point was when young that people were afraid, they tended to close in upon themselves and close out hope.

Today, this often takes the form of escapism - toward drugs and alcohol, for example, he said.

The only real answer to this kind of fear was faith in Christ, he said. That was true for him 50 years ago and was true for young people today, he said.

The youths cheered his words, delivered in Slovenian, and 'waved banners that read, "Long live Karol."

They gave him simple gifts of cheese, wine, oil and herbs, and strung a 12-foot-long flower chain around his neck. They

sang "Happy Birthday" in English ("I didn't know you were American," the Pope joked) and then in Slovenian ("It was just at this hour," he mused, glancing at his wristwatch.)

Most of all, they gave him the kind of foot-stomping, sloganchanting, flag-waving welcome that teenagers do so well.

The three-hour song-and-dance festival contrasted with the cordial but low-key greetings the Pope received elsewhere in Slovenia. Earlier, at lunch, Slovenia's bishops gave the Pope a huge birthday cake decorated with the papal seal - but no candles. "I feel at home here," he told the prelates. He planned a private mini-celebration with his entourage that night.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin

Navarro-Valls told reporters the Pope at 76 remains mentally alert and enthusiastic about his job, even though the years were clearly taking a physical toll.

"It's obvious that his body doesn't respond like it did when he was elected at age 58. But his capacity to lead the Church and the Curia with plans, ideas and energy is not in question," the spokesman said.

He said the Pope's "creative machine" was still working just fine. The pontiff has laid out detailed plans and programs stretching over the next 12 years and was not looking toward the end of his pontificate, Dr Navarro-Valls said.

On the other hand, the Pope had clearly entrusted the term of his life to God, he added.

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Movie Reviews

Just don't ask where the car is Reviewed by Br Luke Saker

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Actors Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt run from a tornado in the action-adventure film -Twister."

ost of us, when we see a storm "brewing", run for cover whereas, in Jan de Bont's soon to be released film, Twister, we see the cast, actually, chasing the Tornado, which will eventually drop its deadly twister.

The film comes from the creators of Jurassic Park (executive producer Steven Spielberg) and produced by Kathleen Kennedy.

Also involved is the director of Speed (Jan de Bont). With these credentials one can enter the theatre expecting, and getting, the adventure of a lifetime.

Yet, the adventure, unlike a lot of films, is not violent, for the sake of violence. It shows the devastation that these twisters unfold in the communities of Oklahoma.

Jo (Helen Hunt. Mad About You) has every reason to find out the inner workings of these deadly twisters because thirty years before her father is killed by one.

Bill, played by Bill Paxton (Apollo 13) joins in the scientific search for answers which will allow the people lining in "tornado alley" to be better prepared for the on-coming twister.

With an excellent supporting cast, including Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz - the chase is on. And it is non-stop action.

The story centres around two opposing groups of scientist attempting to launch their scientific equipment inside a twister

with the aim of saving people's lives and earning a place in meteorological history.

To do this, the scientists must put their own lives at risk as they must put themselves directly in the paths of the Twister, always staying just ahead of the impending devastation, hoping to anticipate its every move.

In the opening scene the buildup to the first twister is eerie in its stillness. Yet, in compete contrast when the twister 'hits' one can feel the fury resounding through the theatre.

The power of the film is the contrast between the apparent vulnerability of the people involved and the sheer force of the twister.

We have all heard the term ' the quiet before the storm' and this feeling is brought to reality by de Bont's brilliant direction.

The dialogue from the actors appears to be simplistic and, at times, trivial. Yet it is here, in this comic relief, that the audience is allowed a moment of reprieve before the next fearsome twister appears.

The little town of Wakita is completely destroyed by one twister and one cannot help but be moved by the devastation.

Jo's aunt is injured and is to be taken to hospital. The aunt states that she can drive herself to hospital and then asks where her car is? The policeman answers, "Parked around the corner up a tree."

In another action-packed scene, Hunt and Paxton are chasing a

twister to get in front of it. After 5 minutes of devastation, Jo asks, "Where is my car?" At that very moment her car falls within ten metres of her having been given a 'free' ride with a twister.

The audience, at the preview I was at, laughed at this point and I again thought of the sheer genius of Crichton's screen play to contrast the humanity of the people with the inhumanity of the twister.

The cinematography is brilliantly handled by Jack Green.

The brightness and sense of stillness before the twister arrives is contrasted by the bleakness and devastating action when it finally arrives.

The camera angles, as well as the close-ups kind long shots only add to the high adventure in which the audience is fully involved.

The special effects are spectacular. From cows to tractors to trucks (and lots more) rushing across the screen, the audience experiences some of the most amazing footage ever created for the screen.

But the real star of the film is the twister while the dramatic support is given by the actors.

This is an unusual scenario for any film but this makes Twister unique and speaks volume for the cinematography and special effects. It is this combination that makes the film work so well.

From emotion to humour and then sheer action, Twister is a film well worth the price of a ticket.

All the ingredients are there, so where did the film go?

Reviewed by Frances Brown

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was warned to have a box of tissues with me as I watched the latest offering from Australian director Jocelyn Moorehouse.

I was told that How to Make an American Quilt would be another chicks flick tear-jerker.

My own expectation was that this film would be a big Hollywood breakthrough for another female Australian film-maker.

Two years ago Gillian Armstrong pulled off an exquisite rendering of Little Women and I was really hoping that Moorehouse could break new ground with this film.

But it was disappointing.

With American Quilt, she has all the ingredients - appealing actors, a beautiful location, a script based on a best-selling novel and the backing of Steven Spielberg's production company Amblin Entertainment.

Moorhouse also has a strong track record. In 1991 she did so well with her debut quirky black comedy Proof which she wrote and directed.

It showed she was a director and writer of much originality.

But sadly, American Quilt is let down by story-telling that over reaches itself.

It tries too hard to be a deeply moving tale of love and life but it is really an unsatisfying survey of a few characters who we can never really care about.

Post-graduate student Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder), is spending the summer at the home of her grandmother Hyacinth (Ellen Burstyn) and great Aunt Glady Joe (Anne Bancroft). Surrounded by groves of orange trees, her grandmother's house is a quiet haven where Finn intends to finish her thesis and think over a marriage proposal from her boyfriend.

Except, she has a wondering eye and starts an affair with the local hunk who The, Reqqrci May 2A19.96, Nage 10

hangs out at the community swimming pool.

Hyacinth and Glady toe's home is also the headquarters of a quilting group; seven women who come together to sew quilts.

They assemble to make a wedding quilt for Finn and then they start to tell stories about their own loves and heartbreaks.

Each character reveals tales of the women in their lives dating back to the 1960's. Fine. In this way we get to hear a lot of story telling.

But in trying to infuse each character with a lifetime of joy and sorrow we only get to know a little bit about them - not enough to make me able to empathise with them.

The flashbacks are irrelevant to Finn and her dilemma, and are too disjointed to have any real emotional impact.

The best scene in American Quilt is where the confused Finn is reunited with her messed-up Sixties flower-power mother Sally, played by Spielberg's wife Kate Capshaw.

The film could have had a greater dramatic impact by drawing out more of the mother-daughter conflict, rather than focusing on all the stories from characters who we care so little for.

Sally has obviously failed as a mother.

She divorced Finn's father years ago and consequently neglected her child.

But she has decided to remarry Finn's father, throwing Finn in to turmoil because she has come to believe that marriage is an outdated patriarchal institution and of no use to women.

I recommend this film if you want to see real female characters - women who are not stereotyped as prostitutes or impossibly good saving angels.

But it does not break any new ground which is a shame for Moorhouse and other female directors.

Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, about to spend a summer making an American guilt.

Pentecost Sunday 1996

A Spirit of courage in adversity

By John Haught

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long with many other Christians I often have wondered how to appreciate the presence and work of the Holy Spirit.

Is such savouring reserved only for pentecostalists or charismatics?

Or is there some way to connect the Creed's "I believe in the Holy Spirit" with a more mundane kind of experience?

As the sacrament of confirmation implies, the work of the Spirit includes the bestowing of confidence, courage or empowerment.

But how can we connect this teaching to real life?

We might begin by asking what It is that most empowers us.

What gives us the courage to live and act?

How often do we associate our need for courage with the work of the Holy Spirit?

The late sociologist Ernest Becker noted that our confidence usually comes to us most immediately from easily identifiable components of our environment.

The approval of parents, family and friends is enormously important in grounding our self-assurance.

Likewise, acceptance continually heartens us - acceptance by Individuals and social structures

(for example, acceptance by uni- doubt and confusion, that we versities) that measure academic, may be led to at least some athletic, financial, political, social appreciation of what Christian faith calls the Holy Spirit. or ethical achievements.

Christian faith allows us to Most of the time we hardly notice how deeply our lives are measure our self-worth accordenmeshed in a complex social ing to standards that go beyond network of power sources that those of the society around us.

As the Lord and giver of life sustain us.

Some of us are even able to go everywhere, the empowering through life completely oblivious Spirit of God is also the ultimate to the fact that whatever individ- source of our own vitality.

And for us humans the core of ual heroism we have achieved is impossible without the environ- vitality is courage, as the 20thing "system of heroics"- a term century Protestant theologian referring to the social criteria by Paul Tillich wrote.

So we may look for the work of which we measure our success God's enlivening Spirit at those or worth.

There are occasions, however, points where we recognise our when one or more of our ordi- need for encouragement.

The Holy Spirit resides nary power sources fails to deliver. beneath, behind and within all Since these are all finite, they the more proximate sources that Inevitably bear flaws that will give us our confidence. disappoint us.

Humbly and quietly this divine Our parents are not perfect and font of courage energises the they don't live forever, our friend- Immediate powers we normally ships often fade; the social fabric tap into for our strength that measures our accomplishIdeally we would see these ments and even our ethical finite power sources as sacraintegrity begins to come apart. mental embodiments of an ultiWe get fired from a job that mate and inexhaustible wellgave us considerable prestige. spring of courage.

Or we simply grow older and But, in fact, we often treat the find it increasingly difficult to various loves of our life as idols, measure up to the prevalent expecting from them an inexsocial standards of self-worth. haustible strength that they canThe need for courage, however, not deliver. never goes away.

Their slightest flaws, Becker And it is by confessing this Insightfully notes, can then be a need, especially in moments of major threat to our self-esteem.

ANOTHER ADVOCATE The Holy Spirit descends on St Peter and Mary, the Mother of God

However, in those critical moments when our immediate power sources disappoint us, the sense of a deeper empowerment may establish its presence beneath our lives.

Sometimes we may find that such experiences leave us stronger than before.

If this has ever happened to you, you can understand, even in

such an ordinary event, at least something of what is meant by God's Spirit.

The psalmist heartens us: "The Lord is near to those whose courage has failed."

Through those who know their own need of courage. the power of Christ's Spirit pours into the world and begins to "renew the face of the earth."

We, too, can become a healing presence

By Father John Crossin, OSFS

W As the Lord and giver of life everywhere, the empowering Spirit of God is also the ultimate source of our own vitality

Power of love mysterious, real

By Father John Castelot One of the shortest, saddest verses in the Gospels describes how Jesus vt).es abandoned when he was arrested in the garden: "They all left him and fled" (Mark 14:50).

Even Peter "began to curse and to swear" that he did -not know this man about whom you are talking"' when a maid recognised him as one of Jesus' followers (14:71).

Not long afterward, things changed.

Peter and John were arraigned before the same august tribunal that condemned Jesus.

Then they said: "Whether it is right in the sight of God for us to obey you rather than God, you be the judges. Ills impossible for us not to speak about what we have

seen and heard" (Acts 4:19-20).

When they rejoined their little community and recounted their experience, everyone was filled with the Spirit "and continued to speak the word of God with boldness" (4:31).

What happened that turned frightened, timid people into bold, fearless proclaimers of the "You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses ... to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8).

Who is this Spirit? Who brought about such an astonishing transformation?

The Spirit is mysterious, but as real as the action of the wind.

As Jesus told Nicodemus, "The wind blows where it wills, and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes" (John 3:8).

Like the wind, the Spirit is also dynamic and powerful. Over and over in Scripture the Spirit is linked with power.

St. Paul said that the Spirit is given to each person for a reason - "for some benefit" (1 Corinthians 12:7).

In fact, the Spirit still empowers people to rise above their weaknesses.

Why not?

Because as Paul makes clear, through the Spirit the love of God is "poured out into our hearts" (Romans 5:5).

The Spirit's power, you see, is tied directly to the Spirit's love.

This power is real, but unique.

For it is the power of love.

No wonder the Spirit is the basis of Christian hope - the sort of hope that St. Paul says "does not disappoint."

hat's in a name? The Holy Ghost of my youth somehow became the Holy Spirit a few decades ago.

The renamed Holy Spirit, however, continues to be the third person of the Holy Trinity.

The Spirit, at the heart of the Catholic tradition, is associated with the virtue of hope.

The Holy Spirit is a spirit of hope in a world too often full of despair.

People look around and see parts of society gone awry.

Honesty and integrity seem lost.

Having prided ourselves on control, we find ourselves and our lives out of control.

Where once we thought we could do everything, we realise our limitations.

Curiously enough, such "hopelessness" can lead to trust in Christ's Spirit.

We need not despair. Life is in God's hands, not ours. A loving Spirit can heal us and restore our hope.

Christian hope rests in the conviction that the Holy Spirit led us down through the centuries and will continue to be our community's guide.

And we believe that the gifts of the Spirit, distributed widely in the community, work together for the common good.

What does the Spirit do? The Holy Spirit turns us toward Jesus.

But will the Holy Spirit also find a convenient parking space for us at the shopping mall if we pray for one, as some say we ought to do?

This half-serious question gets to the heart of things in terms of the Spirit's turning us toward Jesus.

For, if we seek to turn our whole

lives over to Jesus, shouldn't we ask for everything? Because something seems small or trivial, is it immune to grace?

A good brisk walk might be good for our physical health.

A complete turning to Jesus in his Spirit is vital for our spiritual health.

How the Spirit turns us to Jesus is more seriously visible in our prayers for healing.

Healing services continue to be popular among Catholics.

People experience the Holy Spirit active in this way just as the Spirit was active in the early Church.

But the Spirit of Christ turns us to Jesus just as often, if not so spectacularly, through prayer and the sacraments.

For instance, in the sacrament of reconciliation our deepest hurts, our tragic choices and their consequences can yield to the power of God's love.

When we can bring ourselves to acknowledge our faults - no easy task - the Spirit gives us the peace so greatly prized in our violent world.

Living in the Spirit also transforms our relationships with other people and is another way the Spirit turns us to Jesus.

We focus outward. We become more concerned with others' well-being than our own.

Our relationships become more characterised by concern for the spiritual growth of our friends than our own control and comfort.

This kind of outward focus also dispels the despair I spoke of earlier.

Living in the Spirit, we don't give up the ghost. Rather, we become a healing, vital presence for others.

Ultimately, we live in hope.

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To Jesus through Mary. .

By Cindy Wooden VAFICAN CITY (CNS) - The grace of God that filled the Blessed Virgin Mary is offered to all believers and is the source of their happiness, Pope John Paul II said.

"The faith of the church and the experience of the saints teach that grace is the source of joy and that true joy comes from God," the Pope said on May 8 at his weekly general audience.

"In Mary, as in all Christians, the divine gift generates a deep happiness," he told visitors and pilgrims in St Peter's Square.

Continuing a series of commentaries on the Angel Gabriel's words to Mary announcing her imminent motherhood, the Pope said the phrase "full of grace" was another passage which lost some of its nuance in the translation from Greek to other languages.

The week before he had said that a better translation of the angel's opening words would be "Rejoice, Mary" instead of "Hail, Mary."

He moved on to the second phrase on May 8.

'To convey more exactly the nuance of

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the Greek word, one would not simply say, 'full of grace,' but 'made full of grace' or 'filled with grace,' which would clearly indicate that it is speaking about a gift made by God to the Virgin," the Pope said.

Pope John Paul said God's action in Mary's life was "certainly surprising."

"Mary did not have any human claim on receiving the announcement of the Messiah's coming," he said.

"She was not the high priest, the official representative of the Jewish religion, nor was she a man, but a young woman lacking influence in the society of her time.

And, what is more, she came from Nazareth, a village never cited in the Old Testament."

The fact that Luke's Gospel makes no mention of Mary's behaviour or faith before calling her blessed and filled with grace provides more evidence that God's choice was not the result of her merits, but of "divine favour," the Pope said.

"In her, the favour God had shown his chosen people, particularly the humble and the poor, reaches its culmination," he said.

The church encourages all believers to

realise that God loves them in the same grace at work in the life of Mary and her way, regardless of their merit or social being chosen as mother of the world's redeemer, the Pope said. standing, he said.

The reflections, he said, led to the conAnd the church invites believers "to share Mary's humility and poverty so that, clusion that the fullness of God's sanctifyfollowing her example and thanks to ing grace in her life implied "a perfection her intercession, they can persevere in of holiness which, to be complete, necesdivine grace which sanctifies and trans- sarily must have marked the beginning of her life." forms hearts," the Pope said.

The Catholic Church has proclaimed the Continuing with his theme, a week later Pope John Paul said that for the Virgin teaching officially in the doctrine of the Mary to have been truly "full of grace," she Immaculate Conception, which says that must have been without sin since the Mary - unlike everyone else born after Adam and Eve - was conceived without moment of her conception.

Greeting Mary at the Annunciation, the the mark of original sin.

"She who was destined to become the Angel Gabriel calls her "filled with grace" as if that is her name, the Pope said on mother of the Savior could not have had May 15 at his weekly general audience, anything other than a perfectly holy continuing his series of audience talks beginning without any sin," the Pope told thousands of visitors and pilgrims in St about Mary.

In the Semitic languages, the Pope said, Peter's Square. 'names express the reality of the persons God's action in Mary's life and his gift of and things to which they refer. Therefore, grace to her is extended to all of humanity the title 'full of grace' manifests the most through Jesus Christ, the Pope said. profound dimension of the personality of "The original holiness of Mary constithe young woman from Nazareth." tutes the unsurpassable model of the gift Over the course of centuries, theologians and diffusion of the grace of Christ in the have reflected on the implications of God's world."

Send medicine, not guns, to Liberia: leaders

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The heads of four religious orders which still have members in Liberia pleaded with the international community to send food and medicine rather than more weapons to the African nation.

The four superiors general launched their appeal on May 13 "in the name of human dignity and freedom, which are being attacked hour after hour in Liberia, in the name of God, the father of all, and especially in the name of the poor and oppress6d."

A dozen members of the Hospitaller Order of St John of God, the Salesians, the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception remained in Monrovia, Liberia. after a mid-April evacuation of foreigners when the country's 6-year-old civil war reignited.

The Catholic hospital, where all of the foreign missionaries have been living and working since the fighting began, is treating the wounded and the sick as well as distributing emergency food aid.

Child soldiers in the streets of Monrovia on April 25. Riot° CNS/Reuters

But supplies are running short. the superiors said.

Despite the presence of a multinational African peacekeepingforce and an international mediation effort, in which the United States is actively involved, fierce street fighting between various Liberia factions continued to erupt.

Tens of thousands of Liberians,

especially those living in the capital, have attempted to flee the fighting.

The remaining foreign missionaries including two US Salesians - "have decided to share the destiny of their people because they do not feel they can abandon the service they carry out from the Catholic hospital, being aware that this service is more important than ever for Liberia," said the superiors' statement, published in the Vatican newspaper.

When new fighting began on April 5, they said, the war made news in several countries "because some of the people living in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, were citizens of those countries."

The religious leaders asked foreign countries to stop the flow of arms into Liberia and to send food and medicine instead.

Famine and epidemic disease are serious threats, they said.

They also asked the international community to increase its efforts to stop "the struggle between brothers who are killing each other and destroying the few natural resources their nation has available."

Culture first, and the rest will follow WASHINGIUN (CNS) - Jesuit gion and society at Fordham theologian Father Avery Dulles University in New York, delivsaid on May 13 that Pope John ered the keynote address at a Paul II's 1991 social encyclical daylong conference at The "Centesimus Annus" ("The 100th Catholic University of America to Year") "bears not on politics and mark the fifth anniversary of economics in themselves but on "Centesimus Annus." culture as the sustainer of both."

The encyclical celebrated a cen"In the United States we seem tury of modern papal social to be caught between the seduc- teaching. tions of the welfare state and libIn "Centesimus Annus" the ertarian capitalism.... To tran- Pope "calls, above all, for scend the dilemma it is neces- a restoration of the order of culsary to recognise that politicisa- ture Only when we have citition and commercialisation are zens who are concerned with not the only alternatives,- he these transcendent values can we said. overcome the tendency to put Father Dulles, professor of mil- Profits ahead of people and self, The Record, May 23 1996 Page 12

indulgence ahead of responsible service," the Jesuit theologian said.

He said a strong culture needs the support of strong institutions of culture, but such institutions "can scarcely sustain themselves in our society without support from, and dependence on, either the state or the private sector of the economy."

"Our churches, universities, museums and other cultural institutions are generously supported by wealthy benefactors," he added, "but not to the degree that is required to reorient our culture as a whole."

A runner's loneliness can be a spiritual thing

By Jay Copp MUNDELEIN, Illinois. (CNS) Every human experience has physical, mental and spiritual dimensions. Even sports.

"Watching a football game can be mental or spiritual.

Reading a book can be mental or spiritual," said Father John Shea, a theologian who spoke at a May 3-5 conference on sports and spirituality at the Centre for Development in Ministry in Mundelein.

Sport is a bridge to God, a layered experience that is social, psychological, mental and spiritual, all at the same time, Father Shea said.

"Artists are always Connected minds) to (in people's spiritual activity" while athletes, wrongly, are not, he said.

"Spirit is a human potential. It gets activated for different people in different ways," he added.

There is not enough reflection on the spiritual dimension of sports, said Juan Lorenzo Hinojosa of the Hillenbrand Institute, which sponsored the conference.

The question for Catholics is: How might sports be more aligned with what Pope John Paul H calls the 'culture of life"?

For Catholics, the physical is intimately linked to the spiritual.

Father Shea told of the passage in John's Gospel where Jesus - knowing he came from God, was going' to God and entrusted all things to him rose from the table and began to wash the Apostles' feet.

The priest noted that John, in writing his account, moved from the transcendent to the physical in one sentence, linking the material and the spiritual in one breath.

Runners race in Colombia in South America recently.

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-Sports have great advantages for creating spiritual experiences," according to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychologist on the faculty of the University of Chicago.

Csikszentmihalyi said he was puzzled why artists devoted themselves so passionately to a work in progress and then seemingly put their finished product aside, no longer interested in it.

Csikszentinihalyi began studying athletes, among them basketball and tennis players. and discovered a similar pattern.

What counted most was the "flow- that was achieved the state of mind when a person was completely involved in an activity that was enjoyable.

While • Csikszentrnihalyi is a scientist, and not a minister, he said he does not disagree when people interpret "flow" as perhaps a spiritual experience.

Sports can be a way to God. he says. It can be an immersion into the deepest dimension of humanity.

Church not a cult home PARIS (CNS) - The French bishops rejected a claim that there are sects within the Catholic Church.

The claim is made in anthology of personal testimonies by 15 people who used to belong to Catholic charismatic groups, but felt obliged to leave because they found the lifestyle demanded was endangering their personal,

human and spiritual freedom resembling sects.

The book is titled, "Shipwrecked by the Spirit: Sects Within the Catholic Church."

The bishops' statement said the book appeared to be "simply a list of accusations," with "blanket condemnations, some of which, frankly, are no more than throwaway remarks."

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St Louis Jesuits reunite for a recording session

By John Roscoe PORTLAND, Ore, (CNS) - The St Louis Jesuits, whose music changed the way American Catholics sing in church, have reunited in the recording studio for the first time in 11 years.

Jesuit Fathers Roc O'Connor, Bob Dufford and John Foley, and former Jesuit priest Dan Schutte, four of the five original members of the group, re-recorded six songs in April that in the early 1970's had been recorded in a basement.

They didn't record any new songs, and this time the recording was done at White Horse Studios in downtown Portland.

Like old friends, the men showed no outward sign that time had passed.

Warming up, Father Foley's fingers danced over the piano keys to test out a suggested note change while Father O'Connor, hunched over his 12-string guitar, knocked out a few chords from a 1970s rock song.

They eventually recorded

Schutte's "Yahweh, The Faithful One" in four takes, their heads bobbing in sync with the melody.

In between takes they joked and suggested changes.

They met as seminarians at St. Louis University, sharing ideas about how to develop liturgy in accordance with the guidelines set forth by the Second Vatican Council.

Considering music a method of prayer, they began writing songs based in Scripture.

The St Louis Jesuits brought to this tradition acoustic guitars and simple melodies, and words that didn't need to be translated into English.

The music is "friendly to the user, people can sing it ... and it has an effect; that is, it prays well." Father Foley said, explaining that liturgical compositions aren't solitary prayers.

"When I'm in a congregation, it is 'us' that prays," he told the Catholic Sentinel, Portland's archdiocesan newspaper.

"We' pray in a different way than I would if I were alone."

Lutheran, Catholic forgiveness backed VALLEY FORGE, Philadelphia.

(CNS) - Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia expressed hope on May 11 that the Lutheran and Catholic mutual condemnations on justification would be lifted in 1997

The cardinal made the comment in an address to the annual assembly of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, held in Valley Forge.

"It is my prayer and hope that the lifting of the mutual condemnations will be effected in 1997, a year which marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Lutheran World Federation as well as the 450th anniversary of the condemnations on justification by the Council of Trent," he said.

"Such an act three years before the celebration of the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ would be a humble, courageous and major advancement to the full and complete response to Jesus' yet unanswered prayer 'that all may be one,- the cardinal added.

"Justification" is the theological term for the nature of salvation.

Differences in understanding and explaining the doctrine of justification were at the heart of theological disputes at the time of the Reformation.

Cardinal Bevilacqua noted that the assembly was considering "three important ecumenical proposals" calling for the mutual condemnations to be lifted, and

urging full communion with the Episcopal and Reformed churches.

"Unity, then, is affirmed as an essential element of the Church's mission and witness as well as the goal of its ecumenical endeavour," he said.

The cardinal said the "issues of ecclesiology, ordained ministry and teaching authority need yet to be addressed" in dialogue between the two churches.

"Yet the Catholic Church faces, indeed looks forward to, these future dialogues with eagerness and hope," he said.

"For as the Catholic Church prepares for the celebration of the Third Millennium, it finds that preparation imbued with what Pope John Paul II has called an essential ecumenical element."

Cardinal Bevilacqua also spoke of two local initiatives in southeastern Pennsylvania.

In one, he said churches of the greater Philadelphia area are "formulating a covenant to listen, speak, pray and act together."

"An essential part of this covenant implementation is a joint effort on the part of all the churches to strengthen the fabric of family life and community as the proper context for the care and nurturing of our children," he added.

The second effort involves four Lutheran synods and four Catholic dioceses in preparing a video for use in LutheranCatholic lay dialogue at the parish and congregation level.

Jesuit Fathers Dan Schutte (front) and Roc O'Connor strum along during a recording session, reunited for a taping for the first time in 11 years.

It was and remains natural for the Jesuit musicians to wed Scripture and community to their music.

many times as the basis for our writing," Schutte said. All four continue to compose music for church.

"One of the things that distinguished our music from others' is that we went to Scripture texts at least for the inspiration and

In liturgical music circles, having the St Louis Jesuits recording together again is equivalent to the Beatles coming together in

their "Anthology" series. Members of both groups are slightly older, more paunchy versions of the musicians who produced songs wildly popular among their respective audiences.

One crucial distinction is that very few people could spot the St Louis Jesuits in a crowd, while the Beatles are instantly recognisable to virtually anyone older than 25.

The St Louis Jesuits decided early on they wouldn't have their faces on album covers or perform for groups.

Today, they don't like that image of the reunion of stars, saying the comparison to the Beatles may be natural, "but it isn't right," Father Foley said.

The rebuff is not just a matter of humility: The men simply have a clear sense of the reason and place for their music and themselves, and are adamant that they are simply the "organs by which this body, the church, creates its own music," Father Foley added.

"We're not selling a personality," Father Dufford said.

Leading Asian theologian faces threat • of excommunication for writings Human Liberation." published in HONG KONG (UCAN) - An 1990, to be incompatible with the Asian human rights group has faith of the Church. urged the head of the Oblates to intervene in the Vatican's threatIt said the book downplays ened excommunication of Oblate Church tradition; minimises the Father Tissa Balasuriya, calling validity of faith; presents original excommunication a "grave act of sin in a way that casts doubts on inhumanity."

Christ's divinity and role as savThe practice is against human iour. and Mary's role in salvation rights, and incompatible with history; and implies that reliJesus' teaching of love and gion's role is basically to aid decent human behaviour, said an humanistic liberation.

April 16 letter from the director Shing noted that Father of the Asian Human Rights Balasuriya has been asked to Commission/Asian Legal Resoursign "a punitive act of faith" that ce Centre. includes the assertion: "I firmly Fr Tissa Balasuriya Signed by the Hong Kongaccept and hold that the Church based commission/centre direc- ers' freedoms are condemned, as has no authority whatever to contor Wong Kai Shing, the appeal in the cases of Thaslima Nasrine fer priestly ordination on was sent to Oblate Superior of Bangladesh and Salman women."

General Father Marcello Zago in Rushdie, it would be a pity to The Asian human rights activist Rome. have other cases showing that said in the letter, "We condemn Wong expressed disappoint- religious leaders and congrega- this statement imposed as a docment with the Congregation for tions have double standards on trine of faith as it is completely the Doctrine of the Faith for human rights," the letter said. against the rights of women who threatening Father Balasuriya are in every way equal to men." the theological Meanwhile, over the theologian's book Mary He also noted his understandCatholic of the commission and Human Liberation, and urged Father Zago to stop the Bishops' Conference of Sri Lanka ing that Father Balasuriya has said on April 27 that the constantly called upon Church excommunication.

Citing the Universal Declaration Congregation for the Doctrine of authorities for a discussion of the on Human Rights and other the Faith and Oblate theologians issue with no direct response.

There are numerous methods international human rights have carefully studied Father of conflict resolution more instruments, Shing asked Father Balasuriya's book.

"The matter is now within the appropriate to the sitJation than Zago "to prevent violation of the rights of (Father) Tissa Balasuriya purview of the Sacred Congreg- "such crude medieval practices" as a human being, a writer and a ation and the Superior General as threatening excommunication of the Oblates of Mary "for the purpose of coercing a priest.

"We specifically call on you to Immaculate," said the statement person to submit," he suggested.

Excommunication must be condefend the rights of expression, signed by commission chairman publication and conscience in Bishop Rayappu Joseph of demned as "a grave act of inhumanity, as humans continue to terms of the universally accepted Mannar.

The Sri Lanka bishops' confer- exist by communication and human rights norms."

"At a time when attacks on writ- ence earlier found "Mary and indeed in communication.

Monks flee machete-wielding attack ROME (CNS) - The Trappist monks at Our Lady of Mokoto Monastery in eastern Zaire fled their compound with hundreds of Rwandan refugees after receiving information that they would be attacked.

According to the International Red Cross, the monastery was attacked on May 12 after almost everyone had left; 10 people were killed and 30 injured.

Trappist Abbot General Bernardo Olivera said the 22member Mokoto community decided on May 10 that the majority of monks should abandon the monastery temporarily.

"An armed group, supposedly

made up of Hutus, was to attack the monastery to get the Tutsi monks," the abbot told Catholic News Service in Rome.

Sixteen monks travelled to Goma on May 10 to inform the local Catholic bishop and army officials of the threat to the monastery, which was giving shelter to more than 800 Tutsi refugees from Rwanda.

The Zairian army already had stationed a "symbolic presence" of five men at the monastery to protect the monks and the refugees, the abbot said.

"The next day, the tensions continued, so it was decided everyone - including the refugees with

many women and children should leave by foot for Goma," Abbot Olivera said.

News reports said that when the attack began on May 12, the five soldiers withdrew in the face of the estimated 200 attackers.

The abbot said that while the monastery had been attacked he did not know if it had been destroyed.

Rwandan state radio, which human rights groups have accused of fuelling ethnic violence in the African nation by broadcasting exaggerated reports of Hutu attacks on Tutsis, had reported that 750 Tutsi civilians died in the church.

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Would-be Papal assassin 'Dr Death' verdict appeals for jail release In Brief

DETROIT (CNS) - Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit has reacted strongly against the latest verdict by a Michigan jury on May 14. acquitting Dr Jack Kevorkian of two counts of assisted suicide.

"There are no winners in these verdicts, only losers," Cardinal Maida said in a May 14 statement.

Sherry Miller, 43, who had and multiple sclerosis, Marjorie Wantz, 58, who had severe pelvic pain, died with Kevorkian's help in 1991 in a cabin in a rural part of the county. Neither were terminally ill.

Pope, Dalai meet VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II met the Dalai Lama at the Vatican near the end of the Tibetan Buddhist leader's tour of Italy to offer guidance and to publicise the plight of Tibetans living under Chinese rule.

It was a spiritual meeting, with prayer and an exchange of thoughts on religious themes," a Vatican source said after the May 20 meeting.

The Dalai Lama is recognised by many as the spiritual and temporal ruler of Tibet.

Land wrangle JERUSALEM (CNS) - The Israeli Supreme Court has postponed the court date for an appeal by Bethlehem residents against the building of a new security road along their northern border.

This is the fourth time the appeal has been postponed.

A Bethlehem residents' committee opposed to the road contends that some 350 acres of land will be used for the project and that 40 families will be directly affected by the latest plans.

Confession tape PORTLAND, Oregon. (CNS) - Lawyers for the Archdiocese of Portland were in negotiations with the Lane County Sheriffs Department for a settlement they hoped would result in the destruction of a tape recording of a sacramental confession.

Jailers in Lane County secretly tape-recorded an April session in which Conan Hale, a 20-year-old murder suspect, received the sacrament of reconciliation from Father Timothy Mockaitis, pastor of St Paul Parish in Eugene. Both were unaware they were being recorded.

Writer quits ROME (CNS) - A Jesuit Journalist who raised Vatican ire for writing that Pope John Paul II has Parkinson's disease or colon cancer will no longer write about church affairs.

Jesuit Father Pedro Miguel Lamet, Vatican affairs reporter for the Spanish newspaper Mario 18, said he decided to stop writing about church affairs after his superiors Insisted he follow Jesuit rules requiring approval of articles before publication.

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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Fifteen years after he shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in St Peter's Square, Mehmet All Agca thinks he's served enough time in prison.

Claiming a moral metamorphosis, the 38-year-old Turk told Italian TV that he's a new man and now considers his attack an 'infantile" attempt to make historY• "I have atoned for my guilt. I have paid for my mistakes, which I recognise," Agca said in an interview broadcast on the shooting's anniversary, May 13.

He urged the Vatican to formally back his clemency request.

"I am not a social danger. I can be useful to society," he said.

His mother arrived in Rome to back him up.

At a press conference on May 14, she said she felt bad about what happened to the Pope but it was time for her son to go home.

His brother told reporters that Agca's early release could even help Improve Muslim-Christian

Pope John Paul II meets failed assassin Agca in his prison cell in 1985.

relations. But at the Vatican, Agca's push for freedom fell flat.

'The Pope has already forgiven All Agca, as is well known," said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.

And while the Pope is sympathetic to Agca's mother, he has faith in the Italian justice system - so no specific Vatican

appeals were planned, the spokesman said.

Navarro-Valls went on to express scepticism about Agca's recent change of heart.

Agca's failure to fully explain his earlier versions of events "introduces some doubt about his repentance," he said.

That's a view shared by Italian

prosecutors. Over the years, the papal assailant has changed his story many times, alternately tantalising and disappointing investigators.

The Vatican's arm-length attitude toward Agca was not surprising.

Many at the Vatican remain convinced that the Pope's attacker should not be pardoned until all the pieces of the assassination attempt are put together.

After shooting the Pope through the abdomen and the hand during an outdoor general audience on May 13, 1981, Agca was disarmed by a nun and other bystanders.

At his first trial, he said he had acted alone.

But after several years in prison, following visits by Italian intelligence officials, Agca told investigators details of an alleged plot involving Bulgarian and 'Rakish accomplices.

A second trial ended in their acquittal for lack of evidence, in part because Agca retracted key testimony.

I will withdraw excommunication if Plight of Pope tells me to: Bishop Bruskewitz Filipino WASHINGIDN (CNS) - Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, said he expects that Pope John Paul II would back him up in the bishop's controversial move to excommunicate Catholics who are members of any of a dozen organisations operating in his diocese.

In an interview broadcast on May 14 on "Dateline NBC," Bishop Bruskewitz also said, however, that "if the bishop of Rome, who's the supreme bishop of the Catholic Church and the vicar of Christ on earth, the successor of St Peter, were to tell me to rescind or amend anything in this legislation I would do it immediately."

NBC News' John Hockenberry then asked him, "Do you expect that will happen?" Bishop Bruskewitz replied, "No." The program aired the day before Bishop Bruskewitz's "extra-synodal legislation" took effect on May 15.

On March 22, Bishop Bruskewitz announced he had formally warned Catholic members of groups supporting legal abortion or euthanasia that they would be automatically excommunicated if their membership continued after May 15. Groups the bishop Planned named included Parenthood, Call to Action, Catholics for a Free Choice, the

Freemasons and four affiliated groups, and two groups that oppose the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and celebrate Mass in the Tridentine rite without the permission of the local bishop.

His ruling said any Catholics "in or of the Diocese of Lincoln who attain or retain membership" in any of the organisations after April 15 were automatically "under interdict and are absolutely forbidden to receive holy Communion."

Excommunication would result one month later if there was "contumacious persistence in such membership," the legislation said.

In the NBC interview, Bishop Bruskewitz said, "There are people today, of course, who might just be cultural or nominal Catholics. I suppose there have been many through history.

"I am sure that Mafia dons think that they're good Catholics when they're really vile people in grave violation of the principles and teachings of the Catholic faith."

Bishop Bruskewitz said he does "not necessarily" think Catholics under threat of excommunication in . his diocese were, in Hockenberry's words, "vile people at odds with the Catholic Church."

He did say that Planned Parenthood, one of the groups listed in his legislation. "is the largest abortion purveyor in the country. It's an organisation that's inherently evil."

He said that some principles of Call to Action, a national group. "are opposed to the Catholic faith."

Call to Action seeks the ordination of women, an opening of the priesthood to married men, and urges a change in Catholic teaching on birth control.

About one-third of its 15,000 members are priests and nuns.

"It's an organisation that in some of its activities is probably post-Christian and New Age," Bishop Bruskewitz said.

At St Bernard's Church in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Bishop Bruskewitz was the focus of a special Mass of support on May 13.

Offered at his former parish, it drew 20 priests and about 1.000 lay people, who prayed for the Lincoln bishop and also for the Catholics affected by his ruling.

Monsignor to According Timothy Thorburn, Lincoln's chancellor, news of the Mass was one of similar messages the diocese has received "from all over the globe," including a letter of support from a priest in Japan.

Drama deep in the heart of Texas WASHINGTON (CNS) - Texas Attorney General Dan Morales and Corpus Christi Bishop Rene Gracida have sued each other over the bishop's control of the multi-million dollar Catholic foundation formed by oil and cattle heiress Santa Kenedy East.

Bishop John McCarthy of Austin told CNS on May 14 that Morales contacted several other Texas bishops before he took e ,1

action. Morales' suit, filed on May 2, asked for the removal of Bishop Gracida as president of the John and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation.

The attorney general charged that as foundation president, Bishop Gracida has improperly channelled millions of dollars from the fund to the Corpus Christi Diocese and its institutions under his control. This vio-

lated "the spirit, intent and language" of two legal agreements governing the foundation and constituted an "inherent conflict of interest," Morales said.

For years it has been an open secret that other bishops in Texas were upset at the foundation board's unwillingness under Bishop Gracida to accept their grant requests while it gave numerous grants to his diocese.

homeless MANILA. Philippines (CNS) - The Philippine government's National Shelter Program suffers a severe backlog that housing advocates blame on official insincerity and a lack of political will.

"The government has failed to face up to one of the most difficult social problems we have today," said Jesuit Father Joel Tabora. co-chairman of the Bishops-Businessmen's Conference committee on urban poor concerns.

Many Filipinos earn an average monthly wage of from 2,000 to 4,000 pesos (US$76-$152).

The cost of the cheapest National Shelter Program housing package, at 150.000 pesos cash, is prohibitive.

To survive in cities, rural migrants end up at garbage mounds, canals or vacant lots.

The housing council says 3.7 million new houses will be needed between 1993 and 1998.

But the Philippine government's total building target for the same period is only 1.2 million units.

Housing officials blame a lack of funds for the shortage.

Advocates for the urban poor say that an anti-squatting law decreed by the late President Ferdinand Marcos prevails 10 years later.

However in Manila last March, President Fidel Ramos announced it would be repeal ed.

But Father Tabora said no changes in legislation or policy can effectively address the country's chronic housing problems unless they are anchored in changes in society's attitudes.

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Alleged victims of abuse ask bishops to talk to Brothers Continued from Page 2 "Recognising the sentiments expressed in your letter, would you please discuss the issue with the Christ* Brothers and persuade them to show humility and concern for their victims as outlined by the Australian Bishops?"

Mr Blythe wrote.

"The least they can do is stop hindering the legal process or, perhaps, instruct their lawyers to come to an agreeable settlement."

Mr Blythe told The Record the Brothers' approach to the case represented a re-victimisation of the men involved.

"This case had been going on for over two years now and its been held up for so long because the tactics used by the Christian Brothers' lawyers in dragging out the technicalities every time we

get to court," he said. "And it seems to me that its quite wrong.

They're victimising again the victims who they victimised forty [and] fifty years ago."

The sooner the case was settled the better for both sides, Mr Blythe said.

"If the Christian Brothers are really dinkum about things then why don't they approach our lawyers and see if some settlement can be arranged?" he asked.

Mr Blythe said the Bishops' letter on abuse by clergy and Religious had spoken of humility, healing for victims, assistance to other persons affected as well as the abused and offenders and future prevention.

"It just seems to me that if they're really dinkum about that they should be doing something

about persuading the Christian Brothers to show the same sort of attitude towards their victims," he said.

But Brother Shanahan told The Record VOICES needed to be aware that it was VOICES who had chosen the courts as the venue for the dispute.

"Given that [VOICES] initiated the legal action, the Christian Brothers are quite within their rights to defend their legitimate interests using those rights and provisions that are in the law for peoples' protection," Br Shanahan said.

Br Shanahan said that the technicalities referred to by VOICES in their letter were the request by the Brothers for a ruling on whether the case would be heard in Western Australia or New South Wales and the question of

the statute of limitations which applied to civil cases of the kind VOICES had initiated.

Br Shanahan also said that Mr Blythe had consistently overlooked the fact that the only successful prosecutions in matters where allegations stretched back over decades had occurred were where the accused had pleaded guilty "And if the accused person said 'I didn't do it' its just one person's word against another and it's forty years after the event, then [as the DPP decided] I think it makes perfect sense that you can't decide the issue one way or another," he said.

"I think that's regrettable because we all want to see justice done land] have the guilty punished but we've just got to face the fact that it may not be

possible to sort out guilt or innocence in situations like that," he said. The Brothers were more interested in pastoral outcomes which would help former students in need.

-We don't need any pressure put on us to want to achieve the most pastoral outcome in all of this, and we are open to that. . . . we'd much rather spend our money on something that was going to assist former students who were in real need, rather than paying squadrons of lawyers," he said.

Mr Blythe said the case, which commenced in August of 1993, would be before the court again in June where ten days had been set aside for hearing.

On current progress he expected a result some time in 199Z he said.

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THOMAS MORE CENTRE SEMINARS

THE PARISH S CENE

CATHOLIC APOLOGETICS

"Always be prepared to make a defence to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you a Peter 3:15I Are you prepared to explain to anyone who asks - non-believer, Protestant or disillusioned Catholic - WHY you believe WHAT you believe? This introductory series of seminars on Catholic apologetics will help equip you with some of the answers and show you how to defend Catholic beliefs in a reasonable, convincing way. Exploring why we believe also helps our own understanding of our faith to grow. Thomas More Centre Seminars give plenty of opportunity for questions and discussion 3with other who are exited about their Catholic faith.

The first half of this series has been well attended and provoked stimulating discussion. New participants are most welcome.

May 26 Did Jesus rise from the dead?

June 9 Was the Catholic Church founded by Christ?

June 23 Are Catholics right about Mary?

July 7 Are Catholics right about the Mass?

All seminars will he held from 730pm - 9pm on Sunday evenings at St Mary's Parish Centre, 40 Franklin St, Leederville

THOMAS MORE CENTRE Rev Fr Paul Stenhouse, MSC

The Church before the New Testament was written and

The primacy of the Pope Fr Stenhouse has been the editor of Annals Australia from 1966-1976 and 1981-1995. He is the Catholic chaplain to Asian students at Sydney's three universities. He has lectured frequently on all aspects of Catholic apologetics.

In a recent editorial in Annals Australia, republished in AD2000's May issue. Fr Stenhouse offered an incisive critique of his confrere Fr Paul Collins "anti-papal writings".

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DIVINE MERCY St Mary's Cathedral, Victoria Square on Sunday 2 June at 1.30 pm.

Program: Rosary, Divine Mercy prayers. Benediction.

Sermon: Chastity. Film: Chastity Challenge. Information Adam 448-0002 or John 457-7771.

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A NIGHT TO SAVE THE WORLD The second all night vigil in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be held at Holy Spirit Church, Keaney Place, City Beach, commencing at 8 am, Friday 31 May with Rosary, (Confession available between 8 pm and 9 pm), concluding with Holy Mass at 9 am Saturday 1 June, (Rosary and Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary will precede Mass).

All are invited to join in the Rosary and prayers at commencement of Vigil on Friday evening. If you can spend time with the Lord during all night vigil, please contact Margaret 446-1935 or Lorraine 446-9682 to confirm time slot. Prayers will also be offered in reparation for abortion.

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BUSINESS PERSONS' MASS will be celebrated at All Saints Chapel, Allendale Square, Perth on Friday 31 May at 7 am, followed by a Breakfast Meeting at the Venice Cafe, Trinity Arcade, Perth. Cost of breakfast S8.

Guest Speaker will be Anna Lopez, coordinator of Catholic Migrant Centre. Enq: 384-0809.

C ATHOLIC PRO LIFE HOLY HOUR in reparation for abortion each Sunday at 7 pm. Includes Rosary and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Holy Spirit Church.

City Beach. All welcome.

ASTHMA FOUNDATION STREET APPEAL This non profit, community based organisation needs volunteers on Friday 14 June in city or suburban areas. City collectors' tins issued from our depot at the Perth Town Hall, cnr of Hay and Barrack Sts, Perth from 7.30 am to 5 pm. Cans may be taken to work. Funds for vital Asthma research. Contact Renae Rhodes at the Foundation on 382-1666.

Official Engagements

1996 CHESTERTON MEMORIAL LECTURE Presented by the GK Chesteron Soc of WA, Wednesday 29 May at 7.30 pm, Notre Dame University, Mouat St, Fremantle.

Guest speaker Annals editor and journalist Fr Paul Stenhouse MSC f rom Sydney.

Subject: The Challenge to Christianity by Islam. Guest and members of public welcome. Cheese and wine. Donations to help cover expenses. Enq. 339-1403.

CATH. CHARISMATIC RENEWAL FAMILY REUNION. PENTECOST 1986 - PENTECOST 1996.

Francis Rebuild My Church Prayer Group cordially invite all to join in the reunion on this night at the Church of St Lawrence and Mary Immaculate, 392 Albert St, Balcatta, as we celebrate at the time of Pentecost, on Wednesday 5 June at 7.30 pm starting with praise and worship followed by Holy Mass celebrated

by Fr Michael Brown OFM and Fr Philip Perreau.

All welcome especially past prayer group members who have gone out to be witnesses for the Lord in so many wonderful ways. Anointing with Holy oils and prayer ministry will be available after the Mass.

Please come and rejoice with us in giving praise and thanks to God through Jesus Our Lord, rejoicing with Mary, the Mother of God, and St Francis and all the angels and saints.

THE BIG STORY This course is especially designed for persons wishing to see how their lives make sense.

Using the works of Campbell and Houston and Masters to understand the stages of the journey of the hero, participants will be led, through writing, drawing, input and exercises to mythologize, i.e. to put the sufferings, hurts and apparent disasters of each individual's life into a meaningful evolution of my fully human potential. Of the many possible archetypes, we shall use Mary MacKillop, possibly Australia's first saint. Seven Tuesdays commencing 28 May, at the Upper Room, Lot 2230 Barham Rd, Glen Forrest.

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JUNE Golden Jubilee, Fr Michael Byrne 2 Bishop Healy Confirmation, Manning Monsignor Nestor 3 Golden Jubilee. Fr McGrath Bishop Healy Civic Reception tor the Ambassador of France - Rev Fr J Prendiville SJ 5 Visit Confirmation candidates.

Willetton - Archbishop Hickey

MOUNT LA VERNA RETIREMENT VILLAGE (INC) Invites

VIETNAMESE PASTORAL CENTRE The new Vietnamese Pastoral Centre at 33 Chipala Rd, Westminster (Balga) will be blessed and opened by His Grace, Archbishop Hickey on Sunday 26 May commencing at 4 pm followed by concelebrated Mass. After Mass refreshments will be served. All welcome. Enq contact Fr Francis Ly on 4401200 or 440-1678.

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MAY 24 Our Lady Help of Christians Mass, St Mary's Cathedral Archbishop Hickey Visitation Balcatta - Bishop Healy 26 Centenary Mass, Sisters of Mercy West Perth, St Brigid's Archbishop Hickey Mass and Blessing of Vietnamese Centre, Westminster Archbishop Hickey, Bishop Healy Confirmation, Nollamara Monsignor Keating Ecumenical Service UWA Rev Fr Kevin Long 27 Alexander Library Lecture, Irish Ambassador - Bishop Healy 29 Reception Irish Ambassador, Westralia Square - Bishop Healy 30 Blessing and opening of Accommodation Support Service, St Vincent de Paul Archbishop Hickey Group 50 Thanksgiving Mass Archbishop Hickey 31 Visitation and Confirmation, Wanneroo - Archbishop Hickey

applications f rom suitably experienced persons for positions at the soon to be opened ST FRANCIS HOSTEL

Cook Carers Kitchen Staff Cleaners Recreational Assistants Receptionist (Parttime)

Applicants must be supportive of a Catholic Environment and Ethos in Aged Care Written Applications to: Mrs J McNally, Hostel Manager 678 North Beach Road Gwelup Further Information phone: 019 115 450

Luurnpa Catholic School Balgo Hills requires a qualified

Primary School Teacher to commence 22 July 1996 for Yaka Yaka - an Aboriginal Community 350 kms south of Halls Creek in the East Kimberley of WA. The base school Luurnpa, is 90 kms to the north of Yaka Yaka.

This position would be ideal for those who wish to live and work amongst disadvantaged people of another culture, but who presently need the salary and conditions of Australian teachers.

Special skills needed include:

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the ability to teach all years and levels ESL skills the ability to live in an isolated Aboriginal community and work with the rhythm of an Aboriginal outstation - the ability to relate to tribally oriented Aboriginal people.

The applicant will reside at Yaka Yaka (luring the week and usually return by the school vehicle to Balgo Hills at the weekends.

Applicants must be fully supportive of the objectives and ethos of Catholic education and must submit a curriculum vitae including the names and contact numbers of three referees, one of whom must be the current employer to Brother Leo Scollen fsc, Principal Luurnpa Catholic School, PMB2, Halls Creek 6770, Fax 091 688 961 by Friday 7 June 1996