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St Mary's students mix art, nature

By Bob Michel, CEO Public Relations Officer

Proud St Mary's students hold up their Aboriginal inspired mural as collaborating artist Adrian Collarrl and art coordinator Connie Spinelli, left, and UNESCO coordinator Jean-Paul Orsini, right, look on.

Photo. Bob AticheVCE0

St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Bunbury is one of only 10 schools in Western Australia thosen by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation to spread the message about West Australia's biodiversity.

Sixteen St Mary's Year 1 to Year 7 students worked hard on the project for three months with the assistance of aboriginal artist Adrian Collard to produce a larger-than-life mural rich in colour with an indigenous style.

UNESCO coordinator Dr JeanPaul Orsini said the project aimed to bring together WNs artistic and natural heritage as a way of helping conserve the state's biodiversity.

St Mary's contribution can be seen at the ftemantle Arts Centre from 26 July to 25 August. The exhibon will then travel to Banbury and Margaret River.

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Illligrant cuts 'sign of selfishness' Howard Goverrunent cuts to refugee category at 4,000 net.

Australia's Despite this, the overall humanrefugee and migrant intalce were a sign of itarian program, of which the the selfishness afflicting strict refugee component is only Australian society, the one part, was reduced from Australian Catholic Bishops' 13,000 to 12,000 a year.

In the general migration proCommittee for Migrants and gram, the family reunion categoRefugees has said. ry was cut from 58,000 to 44,700 Committee chairman Bishop and the slcilled migrant category Peter De Campo of Port Pirie in increased from 23,600 to 28,00.

South Australia last week asked The bishops' committee said what had happened to the purpose of the refugee proAustralia's sense of compassion gram was to provide refuge for as the cuts would affect people those who had been displaced persecuted overseas as well as and disenfranchised within their the unity of migrant families own country. already here.

"Anyone who qualifies under "For years Australia offered the the htunanitarian program has a world moral leadership in its fear of persecution or loss of generosity towards refugees and their life or danger of severe other would-be immigrants. ," human rights violation," they Bishop De Carnpo said after the said. committee met last week.

The committee said of the more "Now we are seeing growing than 17 million refugees in the signs of national selfishness world today, 75,000 were suitable rather than international human- u II, der the United Nations' High itarianism." for Refugees' i CommIissioner for resettlement.

Federal Immigration Minister requirements Philip Ruddock said on 3 July the "Therefore decreasing the Govermnent had honoured its [refugee] program at a time when election promise not to cut the there is an increased need to refugee intake, keeping the help a vulnerable group - such as

Bidyadanga celebrates missioners - Page 8

refugees - is inappmpriate," they said. The bishops said that the decision to cut the Family Reunion component "debases" the importance of families by regarding economic rationalism as more important than families.

They also questioned the decision's basis in light of the Howard Government's pro-family policy espoused before the last election.

While they had no objection to increasing the intalce numbers for skilled migrants the bishops said it was paradoxical that the Govenunent was choosing at the same time to reduce mdsting labour market tra g programs structured specifically to target the long term unemployed.

The Government's program aimed at reuniting migrant was an important support for iiiii . i.ir the family in general and this in hum was pivotal to a supportive, cohesive and functional society, t committee said. hF Similar concerns with the migrant and refugee cuts were expressed last week by the heads of Catholic and Anglican religious orders at their amnia]. conference at Caloundra in

Queensland, by the Jesuit Refugee Service in Sydney and the Independent Council for Refugee Advocacy here in Perth.

These groups also criticised the Government's policy of preventing refugee organisations from gaining access to refugees and asylum seekers held in detention.

Critical of the Government for reversing its previous conunit113i1 ment, given "at the consultative level", to sustaining the current planned numbers of refugees under the Humanitarian program, the bishops' committee said the implication of the decision to cut intakes raised questions about Austrulia's commitments to global democracy when budget restrictions were put before the requirements of a vulnerable group of people.

"Australia Call hardly encourage a tmiversal htunanitarian approach to life and then, through the need to balance the budget, ply renege on our humanitarian obligation the bishops said.

"We must be consistent in our aIproach and be seen globally as a serious country that values humanity."

From Freo to Calcutta with love - Page 9

Bad health forces out Little, Pell takes over

Bishop George Pell presents Pope John Paul with a draft copy of the Australian bishops' report Common Wealth and the Common Good.

Melbourne Auxiliary Bishop George Pell is the new Archbishop of Melbourne following the resignation of Archbishop Sir Frank Little for reasons of ill health.

The apostolic pro-nuncio to Australia, Archbishop Franco Brambilla, announced Pope John Paul II's appointment of Bishop Pell in Canberra on Tuesday evening.

Bishop Pell. 55, has become well-known in the media for his defence of the Church's moral and doctrinal teachings.

Archbishop Brambilla did n S t elaborate on the reasons for Archbishop Little's resignation.

Born in Ballarat in Victoria In 8 June, 1941, Bishop Pell was educated at Loreto Convent and St Patrick's College in Ballarat and then at Corpus Christi College in Werribee from 1960 to 1963.

He gained his licentiate of theology from Propaganda Fide College in Rome in 1967 and a doctorate in Philosophy from Oxford University in 1971.

He is currently secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops' Committee for Education and chairman of Caritas Australia (formerly known as Australian Catholic Relief), the Australian Catholic Bishops' overseas aid and development organisation.

After ordination in 1966, Fr Pell worked in the Ballarat Diocese until he was appointed rector of Victoria Provincial Seminary, Corpus Christi, in 1985.

In 198Z he was made an Auxiliary Bishop of Amhdiocese of Melbourne.

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Real compassion sticks to God's morality A

lay friend told me recently At the same time, he offered us Church: "Homosexual persons enough to make our way in that this is a difficult time the means to rise above these are called to chastity" (2359) today's complex society, we also to be a Catholic. forces and be transformed by the To hold firmly to a position on need to be well educated in our I think she is right, but I don't love of God. principle can come over as Faith so that we can discuss matknow when it has ever been easy.

It is not only because of the uncompassionate, but to compro- ters at an adult level, and present The point seems to be that we public sins of Church officials mise on principle is to allow publicly, if needed, the basis for are called to live up to very high that we are being attacked. It is practices to grow up that are ulti- our position on many constandards, so that, when we fail also because of our beliefs, par- mately very harmful to the tentious areas. to do so, we are open to harsh ticularly about life and human human race.

The Catechism of the Catholic criticism. sexuality The world sees us very The most compassionate stance Church is one readily accessible We are living through a time of much out of step on these mat- is to be firm on principle while book that we can refer to. And opposition and criticism partly ters. On the question of euthana- remaining at the side of the per- there are plenty of others. because of the public failings of sia, we are being accused of lack son with problems, offering supI can also say that the Church some in leadership positions of of compassion, although our port, care and encouragement. must expect to be opposed in a whom we had a right to expect position, which can be summed What can I say to Catholics world of competing values, much more. up in the phrase "always to care, under siege? I can repeat Jesus' where the secular viewpoint is Even if most of the criticism is never to kill", is ultimately the words "Do not be afraid. I am often dominant. misplaced and exaggerated, we most compassionate. with you".

If her mission is to evangelise must wear it and redouble our We are accused of lack of comJesus knew full well that his fol- the world, to offer it Good News, efforts to live up to the standards passion in not approving induced lowers would be misunderstood, she will never do it if she enters expected of us. sterility, temporary or perma- misjudged, and would suffer as a into an easy compromise with Jesus predicted that in his nent, as a form of birth control result. He wanted them to stand the world in order to gain accepChurch the weeds would grow and for refusing to countenance firm, trusting in God. tance and ward off attacks. up with the wheat, and that we abortion under any circumI can also ask Catholics to study We can expect opposition to should not expect otherwise, stances. Imagine the reaction in the foundations of their Faith, ideas and values that challenge because of the inclination to sin certain circumstances to the brief especially the principles of and require personal conversion. which is part of the makeup of and powerful line in The morality that are to guide our Finally, I ask that people not be the human person.

Catechism of the Catholic actions. If we are educated discouraged by failings in

MARY MACKILLOP FEAST DAY THURSDAY 8 AUGUST, 1996 You are invited to celebrate with the sisters of St Joseph, associates, past pupils and friends at the following events 9:45 10:15 11:00 12:00

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Perspective Church officials. Wrong acts remain wrong and can never be justified, but Jesus said that only those without sin could dare throw stones.

Human weakness is endemic.

So is grace.

Art benefactor thanked Lay movements show 'strengths, weaknesses' A mixed picture of the strengths and weaknesses that face Australian Catholic lay movements emerged at a meeting between representatives of the movements and the Australian Bishops' Committee for the Laity in Sydney last week.

Committee secretary, Archbishop Patrick Carroll of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, told The Record lay representatives reported a number of "bright spots" of energy and growth as well as problems centering around falling membership of lay Victorian landscape artist Leonard Long DAM, right, was recently warmly wel- movements and motivation of Catholics. comed at the Archbishop's Palace by the Cathedral Dean, Fr Tom McDonald, Archbishop Carroll said the lay movements were centre and friend and fellow artist Tony McAlinden in thanks for Mr Long's donation some time ago of four of his Australian landscapes. They are stand- pleased by the double initiative of the bishops in relation to its national youth consultation - the finding before one of the four At Lake George NSW 1985. ings of which were recently published under the title of Lean On Me - and the Faith and Life on Campus study into how the Church could better minister to Catholic students in tertiary education.

But he said that the results of the consultation on youth were, in some respects, depressing. Young people were largely not involved in the Church and viewed the institutional and hierarchical Church as largely irrelevant to their lives.

Nevertheless, the fact that some were still involved in the Church projects meant they were still saying 'we really still want to be in contact." It appeared that there was still a basis for genuine dialogue, he added.

Another important need to emerge from the meeting had been the necessity for increased levels of communication between the movements as well as between themselves and the bishops. he said Fr Elio Capra, left, Fr *my Morrissey and Fr Tony Chiera chat RCIA Lay movements attending the meeting included the "One could not leave this semi- Knights of the Southern Cross, the Society of St The RCIA is both the beloved child and best kept secret of the nar without some reflection on Vincent de Paul, the Catholic Women's' Leave.

Vatican Council, Fr Tony Chiera of Parish and Church life in gener- Focolare, the Cursillo movement, Paulian lay misDonnybrook said recently after al.," Fr Chiera said. "What are the sionaries and the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.

Youth organisations included Antioch, the YCW, the attending a weekend seminar on priorities in our parishes? .... Are the Rite of Christian Initiation of parishes committed to imple- International Movement of Catholic Students in Adults given by Fr Elio Capra of menting this ancient rite that rev- Australia, the national diocesan youth coordinators' network, St Vincent de Paul youth and the YCS. olutionises our modern world?"

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MacKillop Centre keeps Mary's spirit alive

Have teachers really changed that much, wonder Sera, left, and Brenda Schiavoni at the MacKillop Centre, and two other tableau at the centre featuring Mary Mackillop as a young woman visit to the very impressive Mary which is part of the Josephites' new initia- daily the case in regard to difficult areas

By Colleen MoGuiness-Howard MacKillop Centre at 10.15 am, Mass in the tive - "Reconciliation: Moving the such as families which have been affected Blessed Mary MacKillop's feast day on sisters' chapel at 11 am with children from Boundaries". This will culminate with an by social change, and have now become Thursday, August 8 will be another St Coltunba's choir, followed by a simple afternoon tea at 3 pm, and the celebrations social and emotional deserts. will conclude at 7.30 pm with Mass in reminder to the people of Perth that her lunch with the sisters at midday.

The challenge, they believe, is to continThelma Street church. school Como's Josephites are encouraging The spirit is definitely moving among her sisue on into these new frontiers, to nurture, The Sisters of St Joseph believe that groups to come to the centre to learn more ters and flowing into mainstream people. and imbue in others that same spirit of The Josephite Sisters are encouraging about the spirit of Blessed Mary Blessed Mary MacKillop's fire and fight in shilling the boundaries to make the work Blessed Mary MacKillop "which is a gift to people to celebrate with them on 8 August MacKillop.

After lunch there will be time for reflec- of the Josephites accessible to all is very the Church today - if only people live by in a day of activities which commence at 9.45 am with morning tea followed by a tion at 1.30pm highlighting Reconciliation, much on their agenda today. This is espe- that spirit."

New ecumenical body for Aborigines created

By Peter Rosengren The National Council of Churches in Australia has decided to establish a new national ecumenical indigenous body serving the needs of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander church members.

The second NCCA national forum meeting in Brisbane this week gave approval for the creation of the new organisation after two days of discussion on a report presented by its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission.

Brother Graham Mundine, chairman of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council, who was at the forum, told The Record the new body was already in the process of being set up.

He said the new organisation would try to keep itself open to involvement from as many Aboriginal groups as possible.

Br Mundine said he had been involved in talks on the new body for the last two years and was delighted now that it was on the verge of being set up.

The new body, as yet un-named, would

serve as a forum for Aboriginal people, he and bringing their own culture, he pointed said, to speak about their own priorities out, and part of the role of the new organisation would be to win a legitimate place and agenda.

Brother Mundine, a Marist Brother and within the mainstream churches for an Aboriginal from the Bunjalung tribal Aboriginal Christianity's contribution to grouping in Grafton, New South Wales, Australian Church life. said the importance of the new body was He said existing bodies in the churches, that, while indigenous issues were on the such as NATSICC, had in part been agenda at meetings and forums such as expressions of Aboriginals saying to their the NCCA, they sometimes "got lost" in churches that their own culture had a conamong all the other issues. tribution to make too.

"Therefore it's important for a group like Br Mundine also said that NATSICC was ourselves to get together to sit down and concerned at funding for the inquiry into make sure that our agenda or the things the separation of Aboriginal children from that we talk about are of importance to their parents, currently being carried out us." he said. by the Human Rights and Equal The new body was also important Opportunity Commission, and it hoped because Aboriginal Christianity was cul- the Government would fund it "to the turally different to the mainstream extent that it can be done properly, not just Western or European churches, he added. a makeshift, haphazard affair:.

The President of the Australian Catholic But he emphasised that the new body did not represent a move to break away Bishop's Conference, Cardinal Edward Clancy, led the delegation of 12 Catholic from the mainstream churches.

The first Christian missionaries in representatives to the forum.

Cardinal Clancy told The Record Australia had failed to distinguish between bringing the Word to Australia halfway through the forum the NCCAs

reception of the report from its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, which had been critical in some aspects of the Federal Government, had been incorrectly reported in the media as a report from the NCCA. "There was a fairly vigorous discussion about the proposition which came from our commission on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders," he said.

The report had recommended the NCCA support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination and amendments to Federal laws to provide adequate recognition of Aboriginal and Islander churches and Christian organisations.

Member churches had also been urged to support the Federal Government's inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal children, he said.

The NCCA national forum is only the second meeting of the relatively new organisation, which replaced the old Australian Council of Churches.

The Catholic Church was not a member of the ACC but Joined the NCCA when it was formed last year.

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A flame burns more brightly on Antioch weekend of discovery for the friendships he cherishes in Antioch.

Antiochers celebrated life at Nathan Thomas from Appletheir annual FLAME weekend cross spoke on Community and held at John XXIII College in shared the richness of his comMt Claremont on the 13th & munity experience and how it 14th of July. had brought him to an underHave you heard the story standing and appreciation of a about Goldman and the Rabbi? relationship with God. Antiochers were reminded that Rob Wallace and Jill Sullivan God cannot do it all on His from Doubleview gave an hisown, He needs their support! torical review of the Eucharist Goldman had a beautiful gar- and an enthusiastic personal den and each time the Rabbi appreciation. walked passed he would stop The Leaders of the week-end and exclaim. "Goldman, you Dario Dalla Costa and Heather and God have done great work Metcalf from Applecross spoke here, you have a magnificent on Self Image. garden, Praise the Lord".

They shared with us the value The Rabbi continued his and importance of a good self walk. The next time the Rabbi image and with lots of humour passed he called, "Goldman, gave some tips on how to you and God have done great achieve a wholesome self work here, you have a magnifi- image. cent garden, Praise the Lord".

Visitors, Sean and Maura Goldman looked up, paused Killalea shared their story, their for a moment and said, "Well. . commitment to their marriage .. you should have seen it when and the anticipation of their Unfortunately, almost no-one attended the FLAME weekend apart from the three or four shown here. first child.

God had it all to Himself!"

They encouraged all to take Over 250 Antiochers and parents prayed, sang and celebrat- control of their sexual feelings ed their gifts together during and their future by saying 'no' the Mass concelebrated with to sex until one finds their ultiFathers Steven Truscott and mate partner to share the most intimate relationship for life.

John Archbold.

Three hours of 1960's and The liturgy of the word included a modern dramatisa- 1970's music kept an enthusiastion of The Good Samaritan', tic crowd on the dance floor on written by Dario Dalla Costa Saturday night.

The band treated everyone to and executed with style by a some wonderful entertainment. well rehearsed group.

All were impressed with Ben Sheridan on drums; Lejo Matthew Clarke and Clare Pike Ouwendyk saxophone; Jon for their open, honest, thought Fernandes bass guitar; Kate provoking and challenging Murray key board; Leaders, reflection on the Gospel read- Nicki Carter and Adam Phillips guitar, and vocalists Alicia Bain, ing.

Kat Corsen, Lorenzo Martinez Jenny Vandenberg and Janet and Anthony Roberts.

Yeo introduced the offertory Guy McAuliffe and Marianne gifts with a graceful and colourHicks led us through a humourful liturgical dance. ous play which highlighted the The first letter of the acronym Importance of being a witness FLAME stands for Friendship. to Christ by the way we live our Friendships were formed and strengthened in a weekend of discovering God's fore for each of us.

Chee Wong from Rockingham day to day lives. gave the introductory talk for Anyone interested in joining the week-end and shared some us for next year's FLAME call of his personal experiences of 328 9622. They get better each settling into a new culture, the year and satisfaction is guaranvalue and appreciation he has teed

By Margaret Fennessy

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And time for the odd bit of zany behaviour. These look suspiciously like the grandchildren of Woodstock.

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Caution note on 11-chip Moves by the Federal Government to tighten controls on media violence, including the introduction of V-Chip devices in television to block objectionable programs have been cautiously welcomed by the Australian Family Association.

State President John Barich said the association welcomed the Federal Government's clear recognition of community concerns about violence in media.

"Their specific proposals, when fully implemented, will go some way towards meeting community expectations for improved controls," he said.

The recommendations, made by a Ministerial Committee and endorsed by Federal Cabinet, include an industry code of practice for video and electronic games retailers; the building of Vchips into all new television sets; and restricting the broadcast of films with an MA rating to between 9.30pm and 5am.

Research into ways of identifying and assisting those most at risk from the portrayal of violence as well as a review of broadcasters' complaint mechanisms to ensure more responsiveness to community concerns were also among the recommendations endorsed by Cabinet.

Mr Barich warned that while the Vchip would be a useful aid for those parents who already supervise their children's television viewing, it could take up to 15 years before full penetration of the chips into the marketplace occurred because of the life-cycle of televisions.

Introduction of the V-chip would also do nothing to protect those children most at risk through lack of parental supervision; they were also probably more likely to be adversely affected by exposure to violent material, he added.

He also described one of the proposed measures - the broadcast of MA-rated programs after 9.30pm - as only a token measure, saying that this left other MA films with high levels of horror, drug

virginity Mary's 'biological fact'

use, sexual themes and adult content VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope John Paul II said free to be broadcast earlier. last week the Church's constant teaching on "The modification of R filins to enable Mary's virginity was not in terms of myth or them to be classified MA for television metaphor, but as a biological fact.

This runs counter to some recent theories that broadcast is of dubious benefit," he said. would seek to reduce the virginal conception of "Many R films can't be made accept- Christ to a symbolic expression of a theological able for television merely by removing truth, he said at the Vatican on 10 July. one or two scenes of explicit or violent The Pope said Mary's virginity was affirmed in sex," he said. three of the Gospel accounts, had been accepted "The AFA would prefer to see MA films by early Church fathers ,and has been confirmed banned from television altogether, or at by ecumenical councils throughout history. least a ban on modified R-rated films These authorities were speaking of a "real and and a uniform schedule time of 9.30pm historic virginal generation of Jesus and are far from affirming a virginity that is only moral or a for all MA films." vague gift of grace," he said.

He also called for increased represenThe Church's early teaching that the conceptation from family and community groups on the Classification and tion of Jesus was caused by an intervention of the Holy Spirit upon the Virgin Mary excludes Classification Review Boards. any possibility that it developed as a "pagan But he welcomed the recommendation mythological legend." he said. It also excluded of the Commonwealth Attorney General recent explanations that "would understand the and State Censorship Ministers, who virgin conception not in a physical or biological met this week, to amend the classifica- sense but merely in a symbolic or metaphorical tion guidelines for films and videos to sense." he said. remove high-level violence from the R The Gospels contain the explicit affirmation classification. of a virginal conception of a biological order, brought about by the Holy Spirit," he said.

He said that while the Church's teaching authority does not define the term "virgin," the normal meaning should be assumed: that of the voluntary abstention from sexual acts and the preservation of physical wholeness.

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`Stirabout' for the Irish Famine New CCI chief The one million who died in the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s will be remembered and honoured at an ecumenical Service of Commemoration in St George's Anglican Cathedral on Sunday, 4 August at 5 pm.

The Catholic. Anglican, Uniting Churches and the Society of Friends (Quakers) denominations will participate with a poem on the Famine - written by Speranza, Oscar Wilde's mother read by Jewish community member Adele Cohen.

The Quakers, whose ancestors brought Indian corn (maize) to Ireland despite attempted prohibition by economic rationalists, appropriately enough will serve participants in the 'famine meal' to be eaten after the service with "stirabout" which became the mainstay of the starving Irish.

The meal will be boiled corn flakes.

which is the nearest modern equivalent to 'stira- bout'.

Australian-Irish Heritage The Association is organising the symbolic and commemorative meal.

The association was founded in 1993 to research, publicise and foster the study of Australia's Irish heritage.

Association president. Group Captain Joe O'Sullivan, said the venue for the service venue and those involved in it demonstrated that the event was being organised, "not through any sense of self-pity or bitterness, but solely to commemorate our Irish forbears who died in the Famine, and to honour those who survived and laid the foundations of the modern Irish nation."

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Meditation Peter Dwan continues meditations on the readings for Sunday Mass.

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he response to today's responsorial psalm is "Lord, you are good and forgiving," while the readings give us a chance to further consider this truth.

Today's first reading (Wisdom 12:13-16, 19), shows that God's attitudes through the whole course of Israel's history and particularly His moderation with regard to His people's enemies - reveal how impartial and patient He is even with the most recalcitrant. This is a source of hope for everyone.

The reading talks of justice.

We need to remember that in Scripture, justice means goodness. (St Joseph is described in Scripture as a "just man.")

It concludes with the words: -By acting thus, you have taught a lesson to your people, how the virtuous man must be kindly to his fellow men, and you have given your sons the good hope that after sin you will be grant repentance."

The gospel (Matthew 13: 2443), is the parable of the wheat and the darnel. The parable tells us how when the servants saw the darnel, they went and said to the owner "Sir, was it not good seed that you sowed in your field? If so, where does the darnel come from?"

"Some enemy has done this," he answered. And the servants said: "Do you want us to go and weed it out?" But he said: "No, because when you weed out the darnel you might pull up the wheat with it."

We need to be patient like the owner. God is patient with us. Impulsive behaviour can have unwanted conseuences.

I was struck by the quote: "Be patient with me. God hasn't finished with me yet."

The longer form of the gospel also contains the parables of the mustard seed.

Our Lord said that from the smallest seed, the mustard, the largest shrub grows. It is what starts out as the most insignificant that God often blesses with the most success.

Seldom has a smaller mustard seed been planted than when the Rosary Bouquet was inaugurated by the late Bern Foley and his widow, Margaret, on 19 March 1977 What was to have been a one-off effort to have 1,000 Rosaries offered as a Birthday gift to Our Lady on her Birthday, 8 September 1977 has grown into a rapidly expanding Movement around the world.

Further information about the Rosary Bouquet is available from The Rosary Bouquet, PO Box 86, Eagle Heights 4271, Queensland.

Today's second reading.

(Romans 8:26-27,) ends with the words: "the prayers of the saints expressed by the Spirit are according to the mind of God." If the Holy Spirit inspires us to pray for a certain intention, our prayers will be answered in God's own time and in His own way.

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,or the past three days I have been attending a Workshop presented by an American Educator, John Roberto.

A committed Catholic, Roberto has taught and written extensively in the areas of youth and family ministry.

He offered us a vision of Church that nurtures, supports and empowers the development experience in family. We are of a quality Christian life for chil- aware that each stage of family dren, youth and families - a life brings with it new challenges.

Church that ministers with famiIn a family, both parents and lies, in all their ups and downs. children are experiencing their We were shown that the way in own individual journeys. which families live, in all of their The dynamics of the 'new' famstruggles, are an expression of ily are much different to the famChurch; that as a congregation ily with older adolescents. we need to understand, honour, Who prepares us for these respect and encourage the family changes? unit, whatever that may be - a In the first years of marriage all couple and their children, single of our energy is focused on parent and child, or grandpar- • establishing a home, taking care ents whose children have left of babies and young children. home.

Who prepares us for this expeIn this vision, the congregation rience? would be serving families, not In the Sydney Herald last the other way around.

Monday, there was an article We would need to move from about young marrieds clamourcongregation at the centre of the ing to attend a new course estabChurch to a recognition that fam- lished in NSW to prepare them ilies are at the centre of the for young married life.

Church and society. We all Clamouring! What does that understand the changes that we word suggest? There is a real

need there! If we need help in the early years of marriage, it follows that we could use some help to prepare for each stage of our family relationship.

We have never 'been' there before. Where better to get help than from our Christian community?

The suggestion that the Church should go out to people in the home makes so much sense - in the early Church, the first way the Lord gathered us together was in families.

We were the 'domestic' Church.

As Christian families we not only belong to the church, but our daily life is an expression of Church.

That is not to say that we should not be part of the Church community - we are called to Christ through the sacraments and we

To Jesus through Mary. . .

. . . a column of Marian devotion

To mark the 150th anniversary of the appearance of Our Lady at the Alpine village of La Salette, Pope John Paul II sent this letter to Bishop Louis flufaux within whose diocese the apparitions occurred.

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all need the support of community - but our Christianity is expressed both in the Church and at home.

Effective ministry with families involves building a partnership between congregation and the home.

What would happen if we focused on the question "What would we like to see happen in the lives of families?' (Imagine each family being handed a bread roll at Mass one Sunday after communion, taking it home to share together).

What would it be like if we as congregation decided to help families discover that their daily lives are a true expression of Church?

How empowering that would be! What would our congregation look like if we did this?

What kinds of programs and ministry would we offer? Where would they take place?

We would be encouraging and promoting family faith development by empowering them to share and celebrate and live out their Christian faith at home and In the world. The possibilities are limitless. Exciting stuff!

he Diocese of Grenoble, the La Salette Missionaries and numerous faithful throughout the world are celebrating this year the 150th anniversary of the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in this Alpine locality from where her message has never ceased to radiate.

Such a commemoration can be rich in graces. I wish to be part of it, in union with the pilgrims who come to venerate the Mother of the Lord under the name of Our Lady, Reconciler of sinners.

Mother of the Saviour, Mother of the Church, Mother of men. Mary accompanies everyone on the pilgrimage of life. As the preparations for the Great Jubilee of the Redemption intensify, the year dedicated to the anniversary of the apparition of Mary to Maximin and Melanie is a significant step. In this place, Mary, Mother of all love, showed her sorrow at humanity's moral sickness.

By her tears, she helps us to understand bet- Mary: present in the Church as she was at the ter the painful gravity of sin and the rejection Cross and on the day of the Resurrection. of God, but also the impassioned fidelity that her Son maintains towards his children, he, of Mary does not burden with heavy conthe Redeemer himself, whose love is wound- demnation those who walk humbly in the ways of the Lord, but will grasp the hand ed by forgetfulness and rejection.

The message of La Salette was addressed to extended and bring to new life sinners rectwo young shepherds at a time of great hard- onciled by the grace of the Cross.

By their rigor and simplicity, Mary's words ship, when people were afflicted by famine at La Salette continue to have real timeliness and subjected to widespread injustice.

In addition, indifference or hostility to the for a world that still suffers the scourges of Gospel message was increasing. By allowing war and hunger, and so many evils which are herself to be seen wearing an image of her the signs and often the consequence of Crucified Son, Our Lady shows that, by asso- human sin.

Even today, she whom "all generations will ciating herself with his work of salvation, she shares in the trials of her children and suffers call ... blessed" (Lk 1:48) wishes to lead "all at seeing them estranged from Christ's her people", who are undergoing the trials of Church to the point of forgetting or rejecting this age, to the joy born of peacefully accomGod's presence in their life and the holiness plishing the missions which God gives man.

The La Salette Missionaries have not ceased of his name.

The radiance of what happened at La to deepen their study of La Salefte's message, Salette clearly shows that Mary's message is and they are endeavouring to show its lasting not limited to the suffering expressed by value for the approaching third millennium. tears; Our Lady calls for people to regain self- In particular, they are responsible for "passcontrol: she invites them to repentance, to ing on to the people" the call for the renewal perseverance in prayer and, in particular, to of Christian life which led to their foundation Sunday observance; she asks that her mes- In the Diocese of Grenoble. sage be "passed on to all her people", by the In this jubilee year,Iinvite them fervently to witness of two children. pursue their mission in the different areas of And in fact their voice was quickly heard. the world where they work.

Pilgrims would come; many conversions Ilikewise address my encouragement to the would take place. Mary appeared in a bright- La Salette Sisters and to the other institutes ness which calls to mind the splendour of whose foundation and inspiration are related humanity transfigured by Christ's Resurr- to the events of La Salette. I pray that the ection. La Salette is a message of hope, for Mother of Christ, in this significant year, will our hope is nourished by the intercession of assist them in the spiritual renewal they her who is the Mother of mankind. desire and help them devote themselves to The breaks are not irreparable. The dark- their tasks of evangelisation with the misness of sin gives way to the light of divine sionary zeal expected of them by the Church. mercy. Human suffering accepted can conFrom these lands of Savoy and the tribute to purification and salvation. The Son Dauphine where 150 years ago the Virgin

Mary made her message heard, the same call still resounds today for the many pilgrims who come up to this shrine as well as to those who visit the many other La Salette shrines.

I encourage them all, a few years before the Great Jubilee, to offer the Immaculate Virgin the hopes and sorrows of this world. May they be witnesses to reconciliation, the gift of God and the fruit of the Redemption for individuals, families and peoples!

May this pilgrimage help them not to let their Christian life be come tepid or indifferent, and never to forget to put the risen Christ first in their life! In the world may they be artisans of the peace promised by the Lord (cf. In 14:27) and be unfailingly convinced of the inalienable value of the lowliest of human persons!

Mary is present in the Church as she was on the day of the Cross. the day of the Resurrection and the day of Pentecost.

At La Salette, she has clearly shown the constancy of her prayer for the world. She will never abandon men created in the image and likeness of God and to whom he has given the power to become children of God (cf. In 1:12). May she lead all the nations of the earth to her Son. . . .

I cordially grant my Apostolic Blessing to all.

From the Vatican, 6 May 1996.

Soleinn Celebration of the Golden Jubilee of the Queenship of Mary St Mary's Cathedral Thursday 22 August Commencing 9.30am, with all day veneration of the International Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima, which WA is privileged to host from 18-26 August.

Rosary on the hour.

talks, Holy Mass 7.3Opm, with crowning of the Pilgrim Virgin Statue.

Celebrant: Archbishop Hickey

Organisations are invited to take part in candlelight procession, which is to be videoed as part of film for world wide circulation.

Contact: Margaret 446 1935, Helen 447 8596 (Sponsored by IC Mor1(1,, (:hestinit Hill Marian Io(1,;.

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any community organisations who depend in large part on Government funding to help the poor and disadvantaged are waiting in fear of next month's Federal Budget.

Whether the fear is well-grounded or Government would be giving priority in as another sign of a lack of compassion not is not clear. Gone are the days when immediate funding to labour market pro- on the part of the Howard Government.

This despite the fact that unemployed welfare lobby groups were amateurs at grams that she says will deliver real jobs the game of trying to influence govern- and the best long-term opportunities for people have had to report job seeking in ments, and are quite capable of, perhaps the unemployed - traineeships, appren- the past by other methods, especially unconsciously, beating up concern over ticeships and wage subsidies for busi- under the Hawke and Keating Labor ness.

Governments. So how the Howard an issue adding unnecessary fear.

Government is any more draconian in interim an was decision the Although This is particularly so when lobby groups emphasise the worst parts of any one in the lead-up to the Budget, it welfare policy in this regard is difficult to welfare policy change to the media with- appeared to sideline non-industrial, com- understand.

Conservative governments can be out taking a wider view that balances the munity-based programs such as Skillshare that have for many years tried tempted to argue that less government good with the bad. to improve the job skills of young unem- intervention in job support and creation It is no secret that welfare groups, both ployed people. will guarantee the best result for all.

Church and secular, have viewed Labor Jocelyn Minister Security Social Then On the other hand, some Catholics have somealbeit with sympathy, governments times a critical sympathy, in recent Newman announced this week that a tendency to argue as if Catholic social decades. So the election of a Federal unemployed job seekers receiving the teaching holds that government support Liberal and National Party Government dole would have to keep a diary of their and intervention in the economy is last March did not fill many welfare attempts to find a job if they were to keep always a good policy when, of course, receiving their dole payments. according to the call to use our talents workers with a warm inner glow. ten-fold, the opposite is true: we should workers community and welfare Again, last late This appeared to be confirmed on our two feet if we can. stand month when Federal Employment, with concern for the unemployed had provoked reflex anti-conservative their else can we have a sense of selfHow Education, lluining and Youth Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone said the and immediately condemned the move worth if we don't do things and take

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&Viers fo disposal - which is thirty seven thanks to the efforts of Father Dickinson and of whom at least ten have previously served alongside the special serving team - are more than capable of serving The Lord at His Altar at any Sunday or Solemn Pontifical Mass with the same reverence as any member of the special serving team.

Some may lack the experience or confidence to assist the Archbishop, but these servers will in time gain this with the help of the servers who already possess the knowledge, experience and confidence.

I would also like to point out that all servers come and serve as a matter of choice and often do so to the best of their ability.

The choice that has been made by the serving team is done so of their own free will and this choice may well enhance the serving and liturgy of their own parishes if they wish to continue serving the Lord at His Altar.

Gabriel Dzieciol Cathedral head server

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ongratulations on giving us an insight into the vitality of the Willetton-Brentwood parish.I felt the portrait was well balanced and captured the spirit of that community.

One important part, however, did not come through to me. It was - and is - the vital part played by the many gifted lay people in the parish. Probably, because of space, only the clergy got a mention.

But what makes Willetton-Brentwood such a good parish is the many lay people who contribute their time and talents in building up the city of God. It was a joy for me to see the explosion of vitality that happens when people experience the freedom and use their gifts for the Lord.

I would like to thank the priests and people of Willetton-Brentwood who are contributing $400 per month to the new parish of Port Kennedy.

This is a moral as well a financial uplift for us here. It also reflects on the Willetton generosity of spirit.

I look forward to reading many parish portraits.

Fr Richard Doyle Port Kennedy

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responsibility for ourselves? But Church social teaching in its common sense realises that all is not equal on the economic playing field and teaches that governments have a duty to help the poor help themselves. This is something different from creating a bureaucracy of public servants and social workers to allegedly help the poor..

The Howard Government, in its Budget deliberations, needs to draw upon the philosophical reserves of the Menzian tradition of Tory conservatism and support those conununity groups which help the poor help themselves. This includes programs such as Aboriginal self-help programs as well as those for the unemployed.

But the Church knows the poor will always be with us, as Jesus told us, and the State has a noble role in supporting them, as compassionate Coalition governments, just as much as Labor ones, understand.

• The opinions expressed in this editorial, and any other Record editorial, are not necessarily those of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Perth.

he decision to disband the special serving team (Letters, 4 July) was made by the sub-committee of this team on the basis of the guidelines set by the Dean of St Mary's Cathedral.

The guidelines may well be restrictive but they are the wishes of the Dean of the Cathedral and, whether one agrees with them or not, the guidelines are there and we must work within these guidelines, just like any other parish within the Catholic Church.

The disbanding of this team is not a sad loss when one really thinks about it.

There is a team of very dedicated servers already at St Mary's Cathedral under the very capable leadership of our director of liturgy, Father Dickinson, and myself as head server, who have and will continue to serve not only at the Solemn Pontifical Masses but also at every Sunday Mass, as they did prior to the creation of the Archbishops Special Serving Team.

As for the standard of the serving and the liturgy at St Mary's Cathedral, let me assure everyone that the standard will not fall dramatically in any way, shape or form, as the servers that Ihave at my

t is with pain and sadness that Iwish to reply to Joy McMullan (Letters, 4 July).

In the first instance I did say 'almost everyone' and not 'some Mass-goers'. In the second place I believe that God knows the true interior disposition of 'everyone' before and after Mass and not 'almost everyone'.

The catch phrase of the modern Catholic Is 'Do not be judgemental'. This allows for the closure of our eyes to the errors and misconceptions in our individual beliefs and that of others. Does not Scripture tell us to correct and rebuke those in error?

We should look up the Catechism of the Catholic Church and read 'Respect for the Dignity of Persons' (p 550). We should

remember that Mary. The Mother of God, is the only true Sanctuary of God so let us not be presumptuous and make ourselves equal to her.

Adults who cause children to follow their bad example by speaking in church while others are trying to pray are scandalising these children and the 'severe judgement' I referred to in my May 9 letter is given in Matthew 18:6.

Our holy Popes have always asked us to be silent in church and we must obey them.

Further, we see Christ in each other when we obey His teachings, which is the Magisterium of the Church.

Eric Rebeiro Rockingham Park

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aedophilia has raised its ugly head again, as deplored by Bill Muehlenberg of the Australian Family Association. (The Record, 4 July) Now, a writer in The Spectator of London. Michael Coren (29 June), takes to task a Canadian academic, who not only advocates for paedophilia but, on his own admission, prostitutes himself to homosexual men.

What worries this journalist of high moral principle is that lesser scribes are defending the likes of the Canadian.

What is also worrying is that we have similar apologists here in Australia.

The real issue is, according to The Spectator, that "a man whose views and behaviour would have been unacceptable In any civilised society a few years ago is now considered to be so fashionable by the modish classes that he is championed and lauded."

The universities have let civilised society down, and become "hotbeds" of a political correctness and left-wing extremism that regards the masses as terribly vulgar.

In spite of this the masses have a real

grasp of natural law and immutable ethical standards, realising that 'good must be done and evil avoided.'

George Russo Marrnion

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ne dollar for The Record in colour. A bargain? What do you think folks?

Obviously there is judgement within the broad Australasian Catholic community that the Record produces some good stuff.

(The Record, 4 July: Record wins top news award.)

I, personally. am well happy to donate a weekly dollar. In fact, if short of loose shrapnel on a Sunday morning in the past, I have often put-in the odd dollar.

Do I, will I. get value for my dollar? Who knows? Who cares? What does value mean in this context?

Do I read my weekly-dollar-Investment?

Sometimes a little; sometimes a lot.

For that matter, on reflection, I buy The Sunday Times for its Readers' Mart and the Saturday West Australian for the Real Estate.

But what I do value is the existence of a Perth-based weekly which refutes (or has a potential to refute) "unprofessional and unfair journalism".

Yes, dear editor, a dollar is fine with me.

But what about a marketing-drive to get every Catholic family in WA to at least purchase a copy every week Surely, a bottom-line can argue for a weekly dollar donation (it must be a better cause than the seculars).

A middle-line could argue for an opportunity to have a say (Letters to the Editor) in Catholicity in WA and the world.

A 'top-line', of course, would be a chance to "keep holy the Sabbath-day" by extending the spiritual.

Peter Tilley Balcatta

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Bidyadanga's helpers return

Former lay missionaries are blessed by Bishop Saunders and Bidyadanga community members at Sunday Mass.

Bishop of Broome, Christopher Saunders, with Roger Henry of Bidyadanga at the celebrations. Roger carved the bishop's crosier. The Holy Spirit is represented as a dove descending.

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t is now a few weeks since the celebrations of forty years of Lagrange Mission - Bidyadanga Community.

We've all had time to calm down and think about what a good time it was for all of us.

It was great to see so many lay missionaries wanting to come back to see how Bidyadanga had changed since their time. They were all very impressed with the changes.

It was good to see many friendships revived and new ones start-

ed, as well as to see old lay missionaries meeting young ones and talking about how things were at different times over the last forty years.

It was also good to hear the stories of the beginning of the Mission, of how Fr Francis came with Sr Mlle Evans, jack Sahanna and Philip Cox from Beagle Bay Mission late in 1955, and so we heard stories from this time right up until the present.

Lay missionaries who came back were: Margo Baker (Toohey); Anna Mills (Winter); Kate Diggins; Ellen Mary

Williamson; Marita Taverner; Vera Kanagae; Jack Sahanna; Liz Cuzner; Danny Fyffe; Ron Charles; Joe Molloy and Mary Legg.

Some of those who couldn't make it wrote letters.

The weekend was a full program of events.

It started on Friday morning of June 21 with an open day at the school starting at 8am. This was followed by an opening Mass a 10am.

The activities at the school continued with sports up until a sausage sizzle midday.

In the afternoon many gathered at the cemetery to pray for those whom we have lost over the last forty years.

Bishop Christopher Saunders blessed and prayed over the graves after Angie Wilridge, Joey Munro and Linda Badal had led a time of prayer.

We concluded with a decade of the Rosary and the song 'Wayirti mapu jarntu', a hymn to Our Lady in Karajarri.

The school became the focus again for old movies in the evening after the formal welcome

by Bella Wilridge and Molly Smiler.

Saturday morning began with a

buzz. Baptisms were scheduled for 0am, but didn't commence until about 10. There were divided loyalties with the basketball and football carnivals which were timed to start together.

Anyway, everything got under way eventually and Merridoo Walbidi, Agnes Walbidi and Isabel Bullen assisted Bishop Saunders to baptise eight babies and one old Lady, Bessie Bidgie.

The babies baptised were; Lauren Mandijalu, Jaylene Balbal, Keifer Chad Peter, Hanna Ruth Johnstone, Nathan Shovellor, Tyrone Davis, Vinica Richards and Yvonne Jadai.

Sports dominated the rest of the day, with teams from Yandearra, Jigalong, Looma, other communities and Broome competing for the trophies.

A barbecue in the evening was preceded by the Ninji Ninji dance led by Samuel Munro and Ian Hunter.

The old people provided the singing while Harold Nardi played a crucial role as the emu.

The evening continued with the Dreamtime Dancers from Broome performing in the Hall before the Frankie Shovellor Band kicked off.

For those looking for a quieter alternative, slides were shown on

the back wall of the Church to a large crowd.

Sunday morning was off to a slower start but by 10:30 Mass was ready to begin.

Roger Henry introduced the Liturgy, giving some of his own story, while Purtungana Bangu read.

Bishop Saunders then preached on the necessity for us to fight to keep our community a good place, a place where the Holy Spirit reigns, God's place.

Many prayers of the faithful were prayed for those that helped the community develop.

At the end of Mass there was a moving blessing of the visiting former lay missionaries by the Bishop and the Church leaders.

After the blessing Joe Molloy and Margo Baker responded on behalf of the visitors.

'Bind us together' was sung as the concluding hymn - all of us joined hands in a symbol of unity across the years and the country.

A picnic at Injudine started the wind-down of the weekend, which continued with another community Barbecue.

At the end everyone was very tired, but happily so. It was a great weekend, one we will remember for many years.

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elite and graceful John XXIII student Julia D'Allessandro of City Beach has much to dance for joy about.

Despite stiff opposition she has just won two firsts and three seconds in the Royal Academy of Dance competition.

To date, Julia has won seven perpetual trophies and O5 small trophies for a range of achievements, including theatrical and tap dancing, song, dance, and jazz.

She has also won 12 medals.

Twelve year old Julia has been dancing since she started ballet at the age of five with Madame Kira Bousloff.

Madam Bousloff said "she dances from the soul, which is a quality you can't teach."

Later Julia attended a theatrical school which saw her dance in many productions.

According to proud mother

Josephine, Julia always gains distinctions and honours in ballet.

Contrary to some who see the pursuit of dance as necessarily diminishing school commitment, Josephine says once you largely eliminate TV from your life, and fill those hours with something as stimulating and culturally satisfying as ballet you're way in front.

Julia spends about 12 hours weekly in practice and instruction.

During competition she practices even more.

However she never watches TV during the week, limiting herself to about an hour on the weekend.

She prefers to swap what is often seen as a sedentary, negative pastime for active, creative achievement.

Her school work hasn't suffered either, asserts Josephine, "because of her high level of discipline, especially with ballet -

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because it is a highly disciplined form of dance, which is why she works so hard at school."

As for this little ballerina who's been given the principal role of Fairy, in Pinocchio scheduled for October, there's another big, and most important factor in her success.

That is because Julia never dances without wearing her brown scapular and Miraculous Medal concealed even in her tutu.

She has dedicated special dances to Our Lady, and always asks for her protection and that of St Michael the Archangel whenever she performs.

As Julia wants to be a professional ballerina and loves performing on stage, it looks as though Our Lady and St Michael are also in for a lot of travel - as this talented young girl treads the floorboards and fronts the stage lights in a lot of places where her star is set to shine.

Julia D'Allessandro - a little ballerina with some big achievements.

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From Fremantle to Calcutta with love and Mother Teresa

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'm a nobody! Just a pair of hands privileged to share in a demanding task that is right before you day and night, asserts Sister Ella Williams modestly.

Modest indeed, because working in Mother Teresa's institutions which take in the "filthy bundle of rags," - who are in fact the dying, maggot ridden bodies of the diseased, and lepers, reduced to totally rejected miserable tatters of humanity - is a job not many could attend to without their stomach turning over.

Found in the gutters, doorways, streets, and rubbish bins, those who are "considered the last," become the "honoured few" when brought into the loving, caring, God-inspired institutions of Mother Teresa in Calcutta in Bangladesh aided by her selfless Missionaries of Charity Sisters, and their helpers.

"Honoured few" because her Institutions are only open to the destitute and the dying.

Sr Ella is one of those who regularly spends a year in India helping Mother Teresa's cause.

Formerly a Sister Of The People with the Methodist Church, which has now been disbanded, Sr Ella, 80, was inspired by Malcolm Muggeridge's interview with Mother Teresa and went to see her work That was back in 1976, and since then it's a year in India, home for another two years, and back again.

In Calcutta, it's about as hands on as you could get in this work of lovingly ministering to the raw humanity who are brought in wherever they are found or abandoned, and it's the job of Sr Ella and others like her to strip them and wash their usually revolting bodies so they can be put into clean clothes, given a bed, and the love of the sisters who show them God's love and caring.

Frequently they are near death and, instead of dying in despairing filthy degradation and rejection, they die with dignity and care.

Everyone who is brought into Mother Teresa's establishments is treated as though they were the figure of Christ himself, summoning utmost respect, care and love.

To Sr Ella and thousands of others like her, mostly young people who come from all over the world to help this cause for India's unloved, unwanted and despised, these helpers consider it an honour to give service.

For Sr Ella, her rust exposure to the work of Mother Teresa was a huge shock, when the she compared Australia's "immaculate hospitals and patient facilities, to the emaciated female bodies I had to wash, covered in sores."

But Mother Teresa's workers have to accept the suffering around them if they are to achieve anything in the face of the demanding and colossal task at hand.

Sr Ella later moved on to the Shishu Bhavan (children's homes), and discovered the reali-

ty of children being brought in from the rubbish dumps. Sr Ella recounted how, two years ago, a man saw a dog hovering over a bag at roadside which occasionally showed a little movement The dog was waiting for movement to cease so he could grab it, but the man got there first and found it was a newly born baby in a plastic bag with a tiny little hole in it.

One of the sisters tried desperately to keep the baby girl alive, hardly leaving it night or day.

After a week, Sr Ella looked in and at that moment saw the baby open its eyes.

Excitedly Sr Ella exclaimed: "She's going to live!" but then the baby died, leaving the sister mourning her loss.

But then she saw another beautiful little girl looking through the slats of a cot with curly hair and big brown eyes and was told how she too was brought in like the dead child but was now healthy, strong, and ready to go to a family in Italy for adoption under a scheme Mother Teresa runs for such children.

Sr Ella also told of a "repulsive leper sitting on a filthy mat at the huge Howrah railway station, the home of the beggars.

"He was calling out "Bakshee" (give me money) but people were repulsed at the sight; most avoided him but some threw money from a distance.

Mother Teresa was also on the station and hearing his cries, she stopped, knelt beside him on his filthy mat, put her arms around his decaying body and said: "I have not coins to give you today, but I want to tell you God loves you."

If you could have seen the look which came over this leper's face, Sr Ella said, "this man who hadn't been touched for years."

He could buy food with the coins given him, she said, but because Mother Teresa got right down and held him, and told him that God loved him, the love she spoke of became a reality "flowing into this revolting body.

"And the challenge for us Christians today," Sr Ella remarked, "is how real do we make the love of God to those about us in need, and we won't be asked to touch a leper either!"

There are opportunities around us for our love and understanding, Sr Ella pointed out, who quoted Mother Teresa when she said the biggest disease in the world today, is not leprosy or TB, "but rather the feeling of being unwanted, unloved, deserted by everybody. The terrible indifference towards one's neighbour who lives, as it were, by the side of the road, assaulted by exploitation and corruption; but do we know, and do we care?"

Another classic story of Mother Teresa was when she and a sister went to visit this little Hindu mother with eight children, whom she'd been told were starving and hadn't eaten for days.

They sought her out and discovered her hovering over her

Children rescued from degradation

Sr Ella at home with a picture of her beloved Mother Teresa

Sr Ella helps feed a child in need with one of Mother Teresa's Sisters and, below, with Mother Teresa herself

children who were glassy eyed of 60. That's when Sr Ella's with hunger. Mother Teresa gave Mission-aries of Charity connecher some dhal, bread and rice, tion started and, as far as she's and then watched as she imme- concerned, she'll always be interdiately halved it and disappeared ested in returning and helping.

The sisters are not there to briefly.

When the Hindu mother preach to people, explained Sr returned, Mother Teresa asked Ella, but to hold their hand while where she'd gone to. Simply she they are dying, pray for them in replied: "There is a family next that spiritual atmosphere, and door and they are hungry too." help them understand how God Sr Ella joined her order in 1948 loves them. and worked for seven years with Mother Teresa and her sisters the Fremantle Central Methodist regard themselves as God's serMission, then the Adelaide vants and work to help His peoCentral Mission, before returning ple. to Perth to work for another 11 Sr Ella has also helped Mother years and then retiring at the age Teresa in Ethiopia's capital, Addis

Ababa, where she lived for three months in a compound with 600 men, women and children who'd been rescued from the streets, "all of them sick and in need."

Bright, cheery, compassionate, willing, the slightly built Sr Ella may have put the major part of her life behind her, but with the girlish enthusiasm she has for her special mission - "It's an honour and privilege to work for these people," she says - one could never doubt her sincerity and determination to help God's most neglected crying out in the slums of Calcutta for as long as she can.

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Bringing back the trust implicit in Hippocrates' oath

By Nancy Hartnagel Am retired Catholic physician in Boston is promoting a odern restatement of the ancient Hippocratic oath in which physicians promise to reject abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Dr Joseph Stanton, 75, who was an associate professor of clinical medicine at llifts University and practiced at St Elizabeth's Medical Centre in Brighton, has spent the last year and a half coordinating an effort to restore the oath as a "broad standard of conduct" for physicians.

The original oath is attributed to disciples of the Greek physician, Hippocrates, around 400 BC. It marked the physician "as a moral operator," spelling out a code of sexual behaviour and a code of confidentiality, Stanton told Catholic News Service on July 11 in a phone interview.

He also called the oath "an Ithou contract" on which the basic trust between patient and physician - "an essential part of successful medicine" - is founded.

The oath "stood as a roadblock to abortion, assisted suicide and euthanasia," said Stanton.

"But in the late '80s and '70s, the fix was already in. Abortion was necessary as part of something called population control."

Stanton, a member of St Joseph's Parish in Needham, said he has been "speaking about the Hippocratic oath ever since Mr Blackmun axed it."

He was referring to the 1973 Supreme Court decision, Roe vs Wade, in which Justice Harry Blackmun wrote the majority opinion legalising abortion.

Over the intervening years, Stanton said doctors increasingly wrote and spoke about the oath as irrelevant.

"How could that ever have been judged to be irrelevant?" he asked.

He also "had collected 20 or 30 adaptations (of the oath) that Hippocrates would not recognise."

But a few years ago, when challenged to write "a Catholic Hippocratic oath," Stanton said he rejected the idea because "it's not Catholic, but the property of the profession."

Early last year, he wrote to colleagues and contacts around the country - physicians, ethicists, philosophers, a Church historian - asking if it was "possible to restate the Hippocratic oath In our time."

After "a very busy few months," said Stanton, the group reached "an absolute and total consensus" on the wording.

They retained the format and language of the original whenever possible, he said.

The Hippocratic oath - a basis for trust between doctors and patients

In April 1995, the group released the "AD 1995 Restatement of the Hippocratic Oath."

Among the 35 signers and supporters were Dr C. Everett Koop, former US surgeon general, and Dr Edmund Pellegrino, who is director of the Centre for Clinical Bioethics and John Carroll professor of medicine and medical ethics at Jesuit-run Georgetown University in Washington.

Stanton said 10,000 copies of the restated oath have been distributed.

It has been posted on the Internet and is being translated Into Spanish.

Inquiries have come from the Netherlands, Italy and Russia.

He said British physicians also are talking about updating the Hippocratic oath.

One inquiry came from two medical students about to graduate from Brown University.

Their call prompted what Stanton believes is the only public ceremony in which physicians have taken the restated oath.

At the May 25 ceremony, representatives of three Boston organisations, the Catholic Physicians Guild, Caritas Christi, and the Value of Life Committee, witnessed seven doctors and a dentist recite the oath.

In addition to the graduates, several relatively new practitioners also participated.

Though she did not receive her certificate of graduation from Brown University until two days later, Dr Sandra Lora told those gathered at St Elizabeth's Medical Centre for the ceremony "Today,I am a doctor."

"It is today" she said, "joining this company of physicians faithful to life-affirming principles of the Hippocratic oath, that I am really a doctor."

After guiding the Value of Life was since it Committee formed in 1970 "to defend human life," Stanton said the education and service group has entered an inactive phase. Because of increasing physical disability, he now uses a wheelchair, a longterm consequence of the polio he had in 1935.

Of the restated oath project, Stanton said, "It's launched and it's a good thing, because I'm just about out of steam."

A promise to always act for the benefit of the sick, avoiding corruption.

The new oath for life

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I will maintain the utmost ere is the text of a modern restatement of the respect for every human life Hippocratic oath for from fertilisation to natural death physicians, drafted and signed in and reject abortion that deliber1995 by a group of 35 physicians, ately takes a unique human life. ethicists, philosophers and With purity, holiness, and Church historians across the beneficence I will pass my life United States: and practice my art.

I " swear in the presence of the Except for the prudent correcAlmighty and before my family, tion of an imminent danger.Iwill my teachers and my peers that neither treat any patient nor according to my ability and judg- carry out any research on any ment I will keep this oath and human being without the valid stipulation: Informed consent of the subject To reckon all who have taught or the appropriate legal protector me this art equally dear to me as thereof, understanding that my parents and in the same spir- research must have as its purit and dedication to impart pose the furtherance of the a knowledge of the art of medi- health of that individual cine to others.

Into whatever patient settingI Iwill continue with diligence to enter,Iwill go for the benefit of keep abreast of advances in med- the sick and will abstain from icine. every voluntary act of mischief or Iwill treat without exception all corruption and further from who seek my ministrations, so the seduction of any patient. long as the treatment of others is Whatever in connection with not compromised thereby, andI my professional practice or not will seek the counsel of particu- in connection with itImay see or larly skilled physicians where hear in the lives of my patients Indicated for the benefit of my which ought not be spoken patient. abroadIwill not divulge, reckonI will follow that method of ing that all such should be kept treatment which according to secret. my ability and judgment I conWhile I continue to keep this sider for the benefit of my patient oath unviolated may it be grantand abstain from whatever is ed to me to enjoy life and the harmful or mischievous. practice of the art and science I will neither prescribe nor of medicine with the blessing of administer a lethal dose of medi- the Almighty and respected by cine to any patient even if asked my peers and society, but should nor counsel any such thing nor I trespass and violate this oath, perform act or omission with may the reverse be my lot." direct intent deliberately to end a Copyright: the Value of Life human life.

Committee.

No one can give better education than prepared parents reaffirms this in "Familiaris Consortio": "The right and duty of parents to give education is essential, since it is connected with the transmission of human life; it is original and primary with efore going into the practi- regard to the educational role of cal details of young peo- others, on account of the uniqueple's formation in chastity, ness of the loving relationship it is extremely important for par- between parents and children; ents to be aware of their rights and it is irreplaceable and and duties, particularly in the inalienable, and therefore incaface of a state or a school that pable of being entirely delegattends to take up the initiative in ed to others or usurped by oththe area of sex education. ers," except in the case, as menThe Holy Father John Paul II tioned at the beginning, of physFurther excerpts from the Vatican's Pontifical Council For the Family's guidelines for education within the family on human sexuality

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ical or psychological impossibility.

This doctrine is based on the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and is also proclaimed by the Charter of the Rights of the Family: "Since they have conferred life on their children, parents have the original, primary and inalienable right to educate them; hence they ... have the right to educate their children in conformity with their moral and religious convictions, taking into account the cultural traditions of the family which favour the good and the dignity of the child;

they should also receive from society the necessary aid and assistance to perform their educational role properly."

The Pope insists upon the fact that this holds especially with regard to sexuality: "Sex education, which is a basic right and duty of parents, must always be carried out under their attentive guidance, whether at home or in educational centres chosen and controlled by them. In this regard the church reaffirms the law of subsidiarity, which the school is bound to observe when it coop-

erates in sex education, by entering into the same spirit that animates the parents."

The Holy Father adds: "In view of the close links between the sexual dimension of the person and his or her ethical values, education must bring the children to a knowledge of and respect for the moral norms as the necessary and highly valuable guarantee for responsible personal growth in human sexuality." No one is capable of giving moral education in this delicate area better than duly prepared parents.

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A musical priest with a large head Obituary: Fr Ernest 'Chappy' Rayson SSS

Fr Ernest 'Chappy' Rayson

Whilst on holidays in Queensland with his family on 3 July, Fr Ernest 'Chappy' Rayson, who was based at the Blessed Sacrament Congregation community in Perth from 1975 to 1981, collapsed and died of a heart attack.

Fr Chappy Rayson was born in 1930, raised in Bairnsdale, Victoria, and ordained a priest in Blessed Sacrament Congregation at its monastery in Lower Templestowe, Victoria. in 1956.

Appointed to Sydney, his interest in music led him to form his first choir which he named after St Peter Julian Eymard, founder of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation.

This first Julian Singers discontinued when he moved away from Sydney. He was subsequently appointed to St Francis' Church in Melbourne and within six months, besides his pastoral duties, he

investigated the possibility of reforming St Francis' Choir, which has been disbanded in 1955.

His deep interest in the role of fine music in the liturgy was his constant source of delight and governed much of his work from that time onwards.

As Director of Music of St Francis' Choir from 1961 to 1966 he built the strong foundations which have since been brought to fruition by his successor Roger Heagney.

In 1972 he was appointed Superior of St Francis' Church and was influential in the design of the present sanctuary appointments and the commissioning of the present church organ.

In 1975, he was appointed to Perth as a foundation member of the Congregation's community here at the invitation by Archbishop Goody to undertake the pastoral ministry and service at All Saints Chapel in Allendale Square. While in Perth, Fr Rayson formed a third Julian Singers.

In more recent years, he was appointed to Sydney where he continued his pastoral

ministry, taught music at St Patrick's College [seminary]. Manly and derived much pleasure from singing in the Choir of St Mary's CathedraL During the past six years Fr Rayson opened new horizons through his pastoral ministry with the AIDS community.

Fr Rayson was a large man with a wonderful heart. His ministry as priest and religious, as a musician and composer. will remain as a wonderful testimony and legacy to the Church and the wider community; but perhaps his true and lasting memorial will be in the hearts of all those people who were touched by the spirit of this very gentle, understanding and holy man.

Fr Rayson was due in Perth at the end of this month to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Julian Singers Choir that he founded in 1976. The celebrations will proceed as planned, and will include a special memorial remembrance dming the festive anniversary celebration of the Eucharist at Holy Family Church. Como. at 730pm on Thursday, 1 August.

Collie gives thanks for Sisters Port Kennedy hosts

Life in Spirit seminar

The work of the Presentation Sisters in Collie was honoured on Pentecost Sunday with a Thanksgiving Mass in St Brigid's. Collie. Excerpts from the address of the WA Superior General of the Presentation Sisters. Sister Anna Fewer. follow.

The gathering in this Church this morning is both like, and unlike, that first gathering in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. on Pentecost Day. Like, because we, too, are Past pupils and parishioners give thanks for the Sisters at Mass gathered from many places Collie, Albany. Bunbury, Perth, Karratha. and many other places - to celebrate and pray; and unlike, because we, having already received the Spirit, are not fearful or afraid, having been empowered by that same Spirit . . . .

This gathering celebrates 95 years of service by the Presentation Sisters, in the Collie community. . . . a day of joyful reflection of those Sisters who have touched the lives of many people in this town, and the difference which this has made, for both the Sisters and Candice King, the 4th generation of her family to be taught by the the people.

Significant in our memory is Presentation Sisters at Collie, lights on Pentecost Sunday a candle repre1902, when we first arrived in senting one of the Sisters who have worked in Collie.

Collie; the post-War years, when we saw the influx of cc. but we know that the Spirit. and a happiness which was migrant families into a small breathed into that first commu- definitely visible.

Collie always has been, is and mining town, and the town's nity by God, is still alive and . be, dear to the hearts of here. will visible a active . symbol consequent expansion; and Sisters.

Presentation gathered this community. in 1995 - the sad day when our Generations of past-pupils are . . . . Paul, in his letter, speaks presence in the school could no longer be continued; however, of the variety of the gifts of the gathered here. We are proud of we rejoice that our involvement Spirit. We have all, in some way you. and we speak of you with in Collie can still continue, or other, seen the fruit of those great love and affection.

We have shared life, memory. through our ministry in the gifts made visible in the minstory with you; and recall and these the in of Sisters istry Parish. spent together. We have times of area the Religious in years Joy and sadness come togethand secular education; in art. been enriched by you: while music, speech, much was given, much was business, and also received . . . . The comphysical edu- mand to proclaim the Kingdom and, of God was taken up by the cation; more impor- Sisters, but must now, in turn, tantly, in gifts be taken up by you. This is posof self..... gen- sible because that same Spirit joy, which was in them, is in you. erosity, as taught by Fr John Main OSB

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Praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit at the Port Kennedy seminar

The first Life in the Spirit seminar to be conducted by the Servants of the Lord prayer conununity in the southern Perth suburb of Port Kennedy attracted 26 participants from Port Kennedy and surrounding parishes when it was held last month.

The seminar was conducted by the prayer community leader, John Acland, using a mix of videos tapes and presentations from local speakers.

The highlight of the course, which was held over four weeks, was the charismatic Mass attended by about 75 people and celebrated by Fathers Michael Brown and Finbar Walsh.

Mass included the laying on of hands and the process which has come to be known lately as baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Members attended their first fellowship night a week after the seminar concluded and witnessed to how Christ had touched them when it had been conducted.

The seminar will be followed this month by a series of teachings on the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Mr Acland said Life in the Spirit seminars were planned to be held regularly, probably every three to four months, throughout Perth's southern suburbs as part of the prayer community's outreach to other parishes.

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In Brief Lebanese elections

JERUSALEM (CNS) Lebanon's Maronite bishops have expressed concern that the upcoming national elections will lack electoral representation.

"From past experiences we know that electoral success depends on the ability of the candidates to ingratiate themselves to influential personalities, letting their personal interests dictate their behaviour, with total disregard of the superior interests of the country," the bishops, headed

by Cardinal Sfeir said.

The Syrian-controlled government has not yet set a date for the elections.

Cuban warning OTTAWA (CNS) - A fivemember church delegation that included two Canadians received a warning from Cuban security police at the end of a two-week visit to Catholic churches across the country The group of four officials from Aid to the Church in Need and one Canadian journalist entered Cuba in midJune and was warned on June 27 that it needed permission to participate in religious activities.

Bishop on trial VANCOUVER, (CNS) - Two women have told a British Columbia court that Bishop Hubert O'Connor forced them to have sex with them decades ago.

One of the women said the first incident occurred 32 years ago and, nearly three years later, she delivered Bishop O'Connor's child.

The bishop, now 68 years old, resigned as head of the Prince George Diocese in central British Columbia in 1991 when he was charged with criminal offenses.

Polish vote WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw said a vote by parliamentarians to postpone discussion of Poland's concordat with the Vatican reflects their "narrowly defined interests."

The government chief of staff strongly defended the vote, saying it furthers churchstate separation.

The 29-article concordat. signed in July 1993, would give international treaty status to Church rights in areas ranging from teaching in schools to equal status of Church and civil marriages.

Moral problems

Finding water in a dry land Court OK's annexation

By Judith Sudilovsky NAZLEH SHARQUIYEH, West Bank (CNS) - In a village with no paved roads and only one telephone, the arrival of a water network is a big deal.

So when Catholic Relief Services - the US Bishops' relief agency - and four Palestinian partners approached the village of Nazleh Sharquiyeh to help build a water distribution network, the residents readily accepted.

They established a village committee and began to take part in planning the project.

"There is a pressing need for drinking water in this village," said Nazleh resident and committee member Jamil Ktaneh, 38.

"The household cisterns are contaminated and it is expensive to buy water through tanks.

The whole village has come together with CRS as partners in the development of our village."

Most of the funding for the fiveyear, $9 million programme comes from CRS, but villagers are also required to provide a percentage of the funds, depending on what they can afford.

Establishing a water system can cost up to $250,000.

Until recently, many West Bank villages depended on a village

JERUSALEM (CNS) Interior Minister Eli Suissa has said that work will begin within weeks on the Har Hooma neighbourhood slated to be built on land confiscated from Christian Palestinians.

According to the plan, some 6,000 housing units are to be built on the land to alleviate a housing shortage in Jerusalem, with 2,500 units built in the first NSCRS stage.

A boy on a donkey transports water jugs to a village in the West Bank.

The land is on a hill known in spring for water or had to buy October 1995 the village has had Arabic as Jabal Abu-Gneim and water from water trucks and running water because of the belongs to residents of the store it in individual reservoirs.

CRS project. 'There are 10 peo- Christian village of Belt l'sahur ple in my family," said Hamdeh and the Muslim village of UmmIn the village of Marda, south'alba, southeast of Jerusalem. west of Nablus, the village spring Wawnneh, 42.

Israeli Deputy Housing Minister would slowly dry up every year "It helps me a lot that there is and by late July there would be water at home. Before I would Meir Porush also said he suplittle water left. have to go every day to the spring ported the project.

Porush and Suisse belong to Sewage from the Jewish settle- and carry the water on my ment of Ariel, on a hilltop over- head. Now I can have hot water religious political parties that looking Marcia, flows into the vil- and use the spring water for my make up Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud coalition government. lage water system, making it home garden." technically undrinkable.

The government ministers annThe village water systems are Yet many of the villagers still hooked into existing Israeli water ounced their support for the used it, said Bassam Kort, the lines but it can take months, even new neighbourhood after a Jerulocal CRS International Develop- years, to get a permit from the salem District Court judge rejectment program director. Since Israelis to tap into the water sup- ed petitions against the project.

US parties jockey on abortion policies

By Nancy Frazier O'Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) Hoping to avert a floor fight over abortion at the Republican National Convention on August 12-15 in San Diego, Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole announced an agreement on GOP platform language that calls for "tolerance ... as we struggle to forge a national consensus."

The new language was announced on July 12.

The revised platform plank on abortion would retain previous platforms' call for a human life constitutional amendment and the appointment of federal judges who respect "the sanctity of innocent human life."

It also praises "those who provide alternatives to abortion" and condemns President Clinton's "indefensible veto" of the PartialBirth Abortion Ban Act. In addition to the abortion plank, the GO? platform proposal includes a statement of principles, a specific "tolerance principle" and a separate plank on tolerance.

The agreement drew immediate support from the Republican Governors Assoc-iation, meeting in Puerto Rico. and from some Republican politicians who support legal abortion.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) Pope John Paul II urged Paraguay to make sure its economic problems are not made worse by moral breakdown in areas of the family, human life protection and civic honesty.

Welcoming Paraguay's new ambassador to the Vatican on July 8, the Pope said the country needs to recuperate a sense of ethics and justice if it wants to consolidate democratic reforms. ,• The 'Record, July 18 1996 Page 12

But Ann Stone, head of Republicans for Choice, called the proposal "a disaster," and Bay Buchanan said her brother, Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, "will fight to alter it or replace it" at the forthcoming convention.

Meanwhile, a similar platform clause acknowledging that Democratic Party members have differing views on abortion is a signal that pro-life Democrats are welcome, according to the leader of the US House of Representatives Pro-Life Caucus.

The first draft of the 1996 Democrat election-year platform released in mid-July refers to abortion as a "fundamental constitutional liberty" but follows with this clause which says the Party respects the individual conscience of each American on "this very difficult issue."

As the platforms were being prepared Catholics around the country observed the National Day of Prayer and Fasting for Life July 11 with special Masses, prayers, fasting and appeals to legislators.

US bishops designated the day to call attention to an upcoming vote in Congress to override President Clinton's April 10 veto of legislation banning the partialbirth abortion procedure.

Celebrating parish day in Bali style TUKA. Indonesia (CNS) Once a year, the only Catholic village on the predominantly Hindu island of Bali turns an annual Church feast into a traditional Balinese celebration.

Parishioners of Holy Trinity Church in the village of Tuka, eight miles west of the provincial capital of Denpasar, have continued the annual Parish Day tradition since the parish was founded 59 years ago.

'The Mass, church music, and readings are all in Balinese.

All churchgoers wear local traditional costumes," said parish council leader Alex Nyoman Gunarsa.

Called "odalan" (big party) in Balinese, the Parish Day was held in early June this year.

The event is organised by the parish council, but all parishioners are usually involved.

The 167 Catholic families in Tuka and 15 outside the village cover the cost of the festivities.

Each family contributes about 85 cents, one coconut and a piece of firewood, and the parish provides pigs and rice.

Odalan activities are easy to organise, Gunarsa said, becau-

se parishioners in Tuka have a good sense of belonging to the parish.

"People have been accustomed to serving the Church in regular turns," he said.

The day before odalan, parishioners help clean up and decorate the Church.

Odalan opens with "mebat," outdoor cooking and dining, from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the church courtyard.

After lunch, with traditional music by the Catholic gong music band, parishioners took meals to the elderly and sick In the evening, they wear traditional costumes to the concluding Mass, called the "Misa Gong" (Gong Mass), a name derived from the traditional Balinese gong music incorporated into the liturgy.

Except the homily, which is in Indonesian because the priest is not Balinese, the whole liturgy is celebrated in the local language.

Odalan helps Balinese Catholics not to feel inferior, since they are surrounded by Hindus who often celebrate traditional feasts, Gunarsa noted.

Lay agency helps farmers

KEFAMENANU, Indonesia looking for market opportuni(CNS) - A lay-Catholic-run ties for them. The Found-ation, agency in western Timor is based in the Diocese of Atamtraining farmers in new farm- bua, does not pressure farmers ing methods with a market-ori- nor promise them financial ented strategy.

Incentives.

"We motivate them to get rid Seeing the results of demonof traditional subsistence farm- stration plots, he added, the ing and improve their lives majority of farmers in North through modern farming with Central Timor have joined. a market orientation," said "In the long run, we expect Martinus Duan, director of the groups to be independent.

Developing Timor Foundation.

Members of every group could Activists have formed farmers organise discussions and activinto groups to encourage them ities together. We just accompato increase production while ny them in the beginning."

International News

The body is weaker, but the spirit still strong sources said his top aides convinced him to stay a few days Pope John Paul II headed off for longer than usual in the mounhis annual summer vacation in tain retreat of Lorenzago, mid-July, back to the northern where the official watchword is Italian mountains and their high- "total repose."

Many at the Vatican are hoping altitude hiking trails.

But at age 76, the Pope was no the clean air and relaxation can longer setting out on the half-day help recharge John Paul ll's enertreks of years past, when he gy level - and, evidently, so is he.

"I really need a rest," he would put his entourage through quipped when he arrived in their Alpine paces.

In public appearances in recent Lorenz.ago on July 10.

During a general audience at weeks, the pontiff has appearthe Vatican a few hours earlier, ed to walk with difficulty.

He has not returned to the cane the Pope was greeted with the which he employed following usual applause and camera thigh surgery in 1994, but that flashes as he made his way to the may be because he no longer oversized chair in the Paul VI attempts to stride into a hall or Audience Hall.

He read through the speeches basilica.

Instead, he takes small and hes- and greetings in 13 languages, itant steps. His personal secre- delighting the visitors, but with a tary, Polish Monsignor Stanislaw pronunciation that has become Dziwisz, is almost always at less distinct in recent months.

At the end of the audience, he his side.

Following a bout with fever and had trouble standing for a flu last March, the Pope's general moment after he got out of his chair. health was said to be good.

But visitors and dignitaries this In the days preceding his summer have noticed that he departure, the Pope accepted sometimes appears tired. Vatican the credentials of two new

By John Thavis

Pope John Paul takes a walk during his holiday in the Dolomite Alps in northern Italy last Monday. ' , Geo CNS from Ms Whew

ambassadors at the Vatican.

The Vatican published speeches by the Pope, as is the norm.

But both embassies said afterward that the pontiff did not actually give the talks; instead, he posed for photos and chatted

Informally. Though not widely known, this has become a common practice, Vatican sources said.

Most of the Pope's daily meetings are off limits to the public and the press.

Pope prays for peace in Northern Ireland LORENZAGO DI CADORE. Italy (CNS) - After a week of renewed sectarian strife in Northern Ireland. Pope John Paul II prayed for peace and urged all sides to show respect for human rights.

"I am thinking of the suffering of so many men and women who are tried in body and spirit," the Pope said last Sunday while vacationing in northern Italy.

"I ask you to pray in particular for peace in Northern Ireland, peace that respects the rights of every person and every social group. Mary, Queen of Peace, Intercede on behalf of that dear nation," he said.

The papal comments came A Catholic woman pleads with Protestants marching down Garavaghy Road after several days of rioting and on July 11 in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland. the bombing of a hotel that threatened to ignite paramilitary wave of riots. livo Catholics were Northern Irish police force and warfare after a two-year truce in killed in the week of violence, questioned if there was a dual Northern Ireland. one a taxi driver shot to death standard for ruling Northern The disturbances began when and the other a demonstrator run Ireland.

Northern Ireland's police force over by a military jeep. More Cardinal Daly told Catholics at banned a traditional Loyalist than 200 people were injured. the Church of St John the Baptist march through a Catholic area in Irish Cardinal Cahal Daly said in Portadown their futures were Portadown, setting off Loyalist last Sunday the British govern- in the hands of God, noting that it violence throughout the ment had abdicated its responsi- was "easy to fall into the deepest province. bility when it allowed the chief pessimism about the possibility The police then reversed their constable to reverse his decision of any peaceful and just future in decision and allowed the march on the march. our society" to take place, using force to clear The cardinal also said the deciAnd he also said that while he the streets of protesting sion virtually eliminated deplored the decision to allow Catholics. That prompted a new Nationalist confidence in the the march,

"I totally condemn all recourse to violence, all rioting, all throwing of stones or, even worse, of petrol bombs."

Cardinal Daly said many fundamental questions had to be asked and answered about what had happened to justice and to truth in recent days.

"It is said that the police authorities simply could not hold the line against the overwhelming numbers of Orangemen." he said.

"But surely the authorities of the state have the responsibility to protect its citizens in all circumstances and in face of all threats from other citizens.

He how asked many Orangemen were arrested and charged for the illegal activities.

British Cardinal George Basil Hume of Westminster sent a message to Cardinal Daly, saying: "I share the deep anxiety you expressed too well and the sadness and dismay you feel at the decision taken to allow the Orange parade down the Garvaghy Road."

"Although I am obviously not informed on all the details concerning what must have been a difficult decision for the authorities, the anger of the Nationalist community seems wholly understandable."

Take some 'time out' for nature and God

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy (CNS) - A vacationing Pope John Paul II praised the splendor of the mountains and said environmental destruction was a sin against creation.

Speaking from the porch of his Alpine retreat in northern Italy on July 14, the Pope said human beings must be pressed to establish "a more respectful relationship with nature."

"Increasingly aware of the value of the cosmos, we are stimulated to meditate on the seriousness of

so many profanations of the envi- ed around to listen to his Sunday ronment, often perpetrated with blessing and talk, broadcast by unacceptable thoughtlessness," Italian television. he said.

It was one of only two schedPope John Paul said many peo- uled public appearances for ple today are fascinated by the 76-year-old pontiff during his "false myths" and thus lose sight two-week stay, which Vatican of the richness of the created officials have called a period of world, which can inspire strong "total repose." spiritual sentiments.

Facing the peaks of the Italian The Pope made the remarks Dolomites, the Pope said it after three days of rest and occa- was impossible not to think of sional walks in the mountainous God looking with satisfaction area. upon what he had created in the Several hundred people crowd- natural world.

He said it was good for people to get away for a time from daily life, which is often "frenetic and sometimes even alienating."

Spending time close to nature, especially the majesty of the mountains, brings out a natural sympathy with the greatness of God, he said.

A Vatican spokesman said the Pope was dividing his time between walking in the woods and reading books - literature and anthropology - and was off limits to journalists.

Speech-giving has been cut back notably on foreign trips, as well.

Not only are the speeches shorter, but the Pope now frequently skips over passages or lets someone else read them. , During his May trip to Slovenia, Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls told reporters that while the Pope's body is feeling the strains of age, his mind is still sharp.

For example, he does not forget things or confuse names, he said.

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

Navarro-Valls said.

In past years, Navarro-Valls emphasised the pontiff s physical stamina.

But recent papal trips have been brief.

And after the Pope makes two more short visits in September, to Hungary and France, he has no foreign trips lined up until next April.

Church's need for media use VATICAN CITY (CNS) Effective use of mass media is the key to future evangelisation by the Catholic minority in Asia. the Vatican's top communications official said.

US Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, encouraged Asia's national Church communications offices to embark on an ambitious program of media education. TV and radio programming, lobbying and Internet home pages.

'The communications media will remain the most effective means to make Christ's Good News known now and in the future," Archbishop Foley told media representatives of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, who met from July 8-12 in the Philippines.

He said the Church's media presence is all the more important on a continent like Asia. which has half the world's population but the smallest percentage of Christians, and which is experiencing faster economic growth than any other region.

"In a world where money means power, that means that Asia will have a growing importance and influence on the world stage," he said.

But Asia's expanded role is "little influenced by the social doctrine of the Catholic Church" and offers little access for the Gospel values in policy-making areas, including communications, he said.

Archbishop Foley said the greatest communications challenge in Asia may simply be getting the message of Christ through the media to the people.

He said his dream was of a world in which all will at least be able to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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International News

A penalty too hot to handle

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) - Twenty years ago this summer, the US Supreme Court upheld new capital punishment statutes passed by Georgia, Florida and Texas, reinstating state-sponsored executions four years after previous laws were found to be arbitrary and cruel.

In the intervening decades, 331 people have been executed by 25 states, while 3,112 more sit on death row in 34 states and in federal prisons.

It has become a standard tactic for politicians to portray themselves as tough on crime by backing capital punishment, along with about 80 percent of the countrY. Despite evidence of capital punishment's firm place in American society, abolitionists remain committed to ending the death penalty.

US Catholic bishops regularly declare their opposition, recently relying on a 1995 papal encyclical and the "Catechism of the Catholic Church" to support their belief that executions are unnecessary in the modern world.

But the feeling remains that American society is too attached to the idea of capital punishment to accept what its opponents have long contended - it's no deterrent to crime and it still is applied inequitably.

"Nothing has really changed," acknowledged Steven Hawkins, executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty "All the problems that the Supreme Court thought it remedied 20 years ago have just evolved and are just as virulent."

Just as when the court in 1972 tossed out the nation's death penalty laws, the vast majority of people convicted of capital crimes under the "improved" post-1972

statutes are African- American or Hispanic But when given a choice between execuand poor. tion and life imprisonment without Lack of adequate legal representation is parole, support for capital punishment a significant factor in capital convictions drops by half, Bedou said. and cuts in federal legal aid funds over the Politicians have succeeded in linking last two years are expected to only worsen fears of crime and the "quick fix" of the the situation. death penalty to the point that convenThe July 3 release of four men whose tional wisdom holds it to be political suiconvictions for a Chicago-area murder cide to oppose capital punishment, Bedou were overturned when someone else con- said. fessed after 18 years showed that "there "There is not a single important national are still all the problems with the number spokesman opposing capital punishment of innocent people there," Hawkins said. today," he noted.

Even ardent supporters of the death Since former New York Governor Mario penalty admit it seems to have no deter- Cuomo left office in 1995, no politician rent effect with criminals, he added. with any kind of a national profile has Yet public support for capital punish- been a conspicuous abolitionist, he said. ment has increased since the mid-1970s, The release in 1995 of the Academy Hawkins said.

Award-winning movie, "Dead Man "The public's fear and perceptions about Walking," about Sister of St Joseph Helen violence have caused them to react out of Prejean's experiences as a death-row fear," he said. counsellor has been hugely successful "People are more and more frustrated In stimulating discussion about capital about crime. And their support for the punishment, Bedou said. death penalty is a symbol of their frustraBedou attributes continuing public suption and feelings of powerlessness." port of capital punishment to a lack of Since January 197Z when Gary Gilmore education efforts, which he doesn't became the first person executed in the expect to change any time soon.

United States in a decade when Utah had In the absence of a strong political figure a firing squad, all but 12 states and the to lead such efforts, religious leaders have District of Columbia have revived the had the issue all to themselves. death penalty.

The Catholic conferences of more than Of those with capital punishment, 13 15 states have in the last few years issued states have not executed anyone; four - public statements or pastoral letters New York, Wyoming, Kansas and against capital punishment.

New Hampshire - have no one on death Several such statements have been row. updated since the 1994 publication of the "Support for the death penalty is a mile "Catechism of the Catholic Church," wide and an inch deep," said Hugo Bedou, which says capital punishment is inapproa las University philosophy professor priate in a society where alternate means who is working on the fourth edition of his are available to keep the public safe and book, 'The Death Penalty in America." punish the offender.

When asked the simple question, "Do And based on Pope John Paul Il's 1995 you support capital punishment?" about encyclical "Evangelium Vitae," ("The 80 percent of Americans say yes.

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lions about the death penalty will Ix, incorporated into a catechism revision, according to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, head of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

In the encyclical, the Pope said punishment "ought not to go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible to otherwise defend society."

Although the Catholic hierarchy has moved significantly in the last 25 years to oppose the death penalty, Bedou doesn't expect the bishops' leadership to have much effect on Catholics, who support capital punishment at about the same rate as the rest of the nation.

Court rules on abusers' liability Mass graves 'a testament to

By Mike Brown PROVIDENCE. Rhode Island (CNS) - Under a strict interpretation of the statute of limitations, the Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled on July 11 that in any alleged case of sex abuse that occurred before 1993, victims can sue only the individual they say perpetrated the abuse.

The 3-1 decision affects current lawsuits filed against Bishop Louis Gelineau of Providence and the Providence Diocese as nonperpetrators in cases of alleged sexual assault by priests In the diocese.

The ruling applies to alleged assaults that occurred before July 1993, when the state expanded the statute of limitations from three years to seven years after the date of injury or after discovery of injury from sexual assault.

Virtually all existing cases in the courts are based on alleged assaults before 1993.

The decision said that in such

cases, the defendant "under the law can only be the person who actually commits the criminal sexual act, namely the perpetrator, and not his or her employer or supervisor, unless that employer or supervisor actually aids and assists in the commission of the criminal act."

Since it heard arguments last December, the state Supreme Court had been deliberating on legal questions raised by dozens of civil lawsuits brought against Bishop Gelineau and the diocese.

Most of the alleged incidents occurred between 1967 and 1985, when the alleged victims were between the ages of 8 and 18.

In a July 11 statement issued by Bishop Gelineau regarding the court decision, he said he was "grateful that our legal position has been upheld" and that the ruling "speaks for itself."

The bishop said the difficulties of these past years when there have been dozens of civil lawsuits against him and the

Providence Diocese over alleged sexual abuse by priests "have been the source of great pain. anger and confusion for everyone in our community," "I ask that you continue to pray with me. . . . for the victims and their loved ones, for those who have caused harm and for their loved ones who too suffer.

Please pray for the Church and the community which have been scarred by scandal and disillusionment and are also in need of healing," he said in the statement.

The matter reached the state Supreme Court after a federal judge in Providence handling a paedophilia case sought answers to questions on suits against nonperpetrating parties, on when the statute of limitations should begin, on whether the inability to recall the alleged abuse constituted a disability, and on whether revisions in the statute of limitations law could be applied retroactively.

West's timidity' on Bosnia

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The civilian bodies exhumed where Serbian forces overran a Muslim enclave in Bosnia are evidence of the war's horror and Western timidity in stopping it, the Vatican newspaper said.

The newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said the world expects International organisations to make sure justice is done regarding those responsible for the slaughter.

"Day after day, there is distressing confirmation of the atrocities committed in the name of the ferocious, absurd concept of 'ethnic cleansing," it said.

The comments came in a frontpage article July 12, the day after a UN war crimes tribunal issued international arrest warrants for the Bosnian Serb political leader, Radovan Karadzic, and his military commander, General Ftatko Mlalic, on charges of genocide.

Bosnian investigators exhume bodies in the village of Svrake near Sarajevo on July 15.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church The revelation of God as Trinity The Father revealed by the Son 238 Many religions invoke God as a Father." The deity is often considered the "father of gods and of men." In Israel, God is called "Father" inasmuch as he is Creator of the world. Even more, God is Father because of the covenant and the gift of the law to Israel, "his first-born son."

God is also called the Father of the king of Israel. Most especially he is "the Father of the poor," of the orphaned and the widowed, who are under his loving protection.

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239 By calling God "Father," the language is neither man nor woman: he is God. He was the Word, and the Word was with of faith indicates two main things: that also transcends human fatherhood and God, and the Word was God a; as "the God is the first origin of everything and motherhood, although he is their origin image of the invisible God"; as the "raditranscendent authority, and that he is at and standard: no one is father as God is ance of the glory of God and the very the same time goodness and loving care Father. stamp of his nature." for all his children. God's parental tenderness can also be expressed by the image 240 Jesus revealed that God is Father in 242 Following this apostolic tradition, the of motherhood, which emphasises God's an unheard of sense: he is Father not only Church confessed at the first ecumenical Immanence, the intimacy between in being Creator; he is eternally Father by council at Nicaea (325) that the Son is Creator and creature. The language of his relationship to his only Son who, reci- "consubstantial" with the Father, that is, faith thus draws on the human experience procally, is Son only in relation to his one only God with him. The second ecuof parents, who are in a way the first rep- Father: "No one knows the Son except the menical council, held at Constantinople in resentatives of God for man. But this expe- Father, and no one knows the Father 381, kept this expression in its formulation rience also tells us that human parents are except the Son and anyone to whom the of the Nicene Creed and confessed "the fallible and can disfigure the face of Son chooses to reveal him." only-begotten Son of God, eternally begotfatherhood and motherhood. We ought ten of the Father, light from light, true God therefore to recall that God transcends the 241 For this reason the apostles confess from true God, begotten not made, conhuman distinction between the sexes. He Jesus to be the Word: "In the beginning substantial with the Father."

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t Francis of Assisi, well known for his and create a wonderful sense of realism, love of all God's creatures, would feel at from which the believers benefit. home in All Saints Parish, Greenwood, The parish was formed early in 1972 when in the northern suburbs of Perth .

Liwara Catholic Primary School was opened Over the past two years, a very friendly under the care of the Sisters of Mercy, and a New Holland honeyeater has built its nest in Mass Centre was built in Hamersley. a shrub outside the front door of the presThis was used for fifteen years until 1987 bytery. when the church was built in Greenwood, on In due cow-se, two small offspring hatched land adjoining the school. out and flew away and it was proudly Our church was the first in Western J I announced to the congregation that twins Australia to use a rear projection system. A had been born at the presbytery! screen was built into the rear wall of the Love of God's creation is not hard at All sanctuary, and a room behind the sacristy Saints as the church, school and neighbour- houses a projector, slides and carousels. hood are situated in a natural nd setA projectionist in the congregation, using a bushlaII and remote control, produces the words of hymns ting, with large tuart gums, banlcsias other trees and shrubs, and with a variety of on the screen, together with reflective slides birds nesting in the trees. and Gospel slides.

Even the surrounding streets are named We have an excellent team of musicians, after trees, including Protea, Melaleuca, with music at every weekend Mass and at Zamia, Bottlebrush, Sheoak, Coolabah, many other liturgies. The congregation conLeschenaultia and Tuart. sists of a large group of young families, Two priests minister to almost two thousand teenagers and a number of mature age peofamilies. The parish covers the suburbs of ple.

Greenwood, Warwic.k, Hamersley, and parts All Saints has always been a very lay orienof Duncraig and Carine. tated parish, with over forty different lay Liwara Catholic Primary School is situated organisations that help to develop a sense of in Tuart Road and has over 500 pupils from lay involvement and responsibility. Luke 18 pre-primary to year 7 and Antioch cater for yotmg parishBoth the school and the church overlook ioners. Other groups include Majellans, the school oval. The oval is used by parish- Refugee Support, Charismatic Prayer ioners for an outdoor Christmas Vigil Mass, I I the• Rite ' •I of Christian Initiation of when about 4,000 people attend, and an out- Adults, Catenians, Christian Life, door Way of the Cross on Good Friday, when Children's Liturgy, Schoenstatt about 2,000 attend.

Mothers, St Vincent de Paul, plus our These littirgies are enhanced by enactments Seniors Group and Catholic Women's

Outdoor Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at Greenwood BULLSBROOK PILGRIMAGE Next pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation takes place on July 28 at 2 pm at the church of Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, Chittering Rd, Bullsbrook. There will be Rosary, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and homily preached by Rev Fr Noel Tobin. The pilgrimage concludes with blessing of the sick. All welcome. Phone 444-7565 for bus bookings from Marangaroo, Tuart Hill, Perth, Highgate and Midland.

For Fremantle bus 339-4015. Further information SACRI Assoc PO Box 311, Tuart Hill, 6060 or tel. 447-3292.

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League for some of our more mature parishioners.

Forty-five nationalities from varying backgrounds all contribute to a ric.h blend of people in the parish. Our pastoral care workers and Martha Group serve parishioners' needs in many areas.

Parish priest, Father Pat Ahern, says the parish aims to develop a sense of mission by responding to people's needs and reaching out in a spirit of Christian charity.

We also aim to be a people of faith and prayer who are witnesses to others in the surrounding neighbourhood. Combined Services with other churches in the area are held at Christ:Inas and Easter as well as other ftmclions organised periodically by the local isters fraternal.

All Saints is also part of the Northern Zone of parishes, and there are often combined functions involving a number of parishes.

In the parish, a lot of things are done by groups and ind duals. But the focal point is All Saints Church.

It is here that we proclaim ow. true identity as the Body of Christ, and draw strength to go out with confidence to bring his peace and love to all we meet.

At a Glance: Name of parish: All Saints, Greenwood Phone: 447 6225, Fax: 246 2692 Priests: Fr Pat Ahern PP, Fr Nguyen Van Huynh.

Parish Secretary: Kay Donnelly Masses: Saturday Vigil: 6.30pm.

Sunday Masses: 7.30am, 9am and 10.30am.

Liwara Catholic Primary School: caters for children from Pm-Primary to Year Z Plincipal: Mr Kim Baker.

Secretary: Helen Iddon Phone: 448 3811, Fax: 448 8256

An acolyte reads from the Word of God at weekday Mass at Aft Saints last week ....

Archdiocesan Parwrama

formerly Parish Scene

BROOME PARISH Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish, Weld St, Broome will host two talks given by Alan Ames on his conversion experiences.

Saturday 3 August 6 pm Mass/Talk/Healing and August 4 pm Sunday 4 Rosary/Talk/Healing. Tea and coffee afterwards (please help with a plate). Enq Fr Paul Boyers (091) 935888 or Russel (09) 274-6018.

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION COMMUNITY WA is holding its first ever seminar on Learning to Meditate in the Christian Tradition on Saturday 3 August at Whitfords Parish Meeting Room, 270 Camberwarra Drive, Craigie from 9.30 am to 4 pm.

Books and teaching tapes will be on sale.

Entrance $10 payable at door.

EUCHARIST WORKSHOP The Liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed. At the same time it is the fount from which all the Church's power flows. What does this mean for us today?

Presented by Fr Vincent Glynn Tuesday 30 July 7.30 pm to 9.30 pm Willetton Parish Centre, 5 Ingham Court, Willetton.

Cost $5. For further info and registration please contact Kylie, Archdiocesan Liturgy Office, phone (09) 221-1548.

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