The eRecord Edition #87 - 23 June 2016

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23 June 2016

Edition #87

2016 NCEC NATIONAL CONFERENCE:

Catholic Educators called to faith, leadership

Catholic schools cannot afford to be places where the topic of faith is “off limits”, said Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, speaking to some 1,400 representatives of the Catholic Education sector across Australia at the 2016 National Catholic Education Commission Conference. The Conference was held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Sunday, 19 June to Wednesday, 22 June.

By Jamie O'Brien

Focused on the theme, Lead to Faith, Faith to Lead, representatives from the Catholic Education sector across Australia this week came together to explore, reflect and engage at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe gave the opening speech.

IF THE GOAL of our leadership is to lead people to faith, then we, too, will need to be

people who have set out on the journey of faith ourselves, said Archbishop Timothy Costelloe this week, speaking to some 1,400 representatives from the Catholic education sector across Australia at the 2016 National Catholic Education Conference.

“We, too, need to… have had some experience of what that journey involves, and especially what it means to persevere in the journey when it proves to be more challenging than we had anticipated,” the Archbishop said, as part

of his official opening speech.

Hosted by Cat holic Education Western Australia, the Conference was held at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from Sunday, 19 June to Wednesday, 22 June.

The Conference commenced with ABC journalist, Karen Tighe, as MC and local Aboriginal elder, Dr Robert Issacs, conducting the Welcome to Country, accompanied by a performance by local Aboriginal dancers and the playing of the digeridoo.

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Continuing his opening speech, the Archbishop said that faith should never be a purely private matter and is, in fact, in our Christian understanding, always a communal reality.

“We will need to be willing to commit ourselves to walking with our students and their families, and with our staff and colleagues, as they, too, travel this journey.

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Catholic schools, said the Archbishop, cannot afford to be places where the topic of faith is “off limits”.

“Catholic schools need to be places where it is as natural to talk about faith as it is to talk about the football.

“I would not be telling you anything you did not already know if I were to suggest to you that faith is about much more than merely intellectual assent to a series of propositions, or teachings, or dogmas.

“It is about those things, certainly, and they can give us a solid base on which to build our understanding, however limited it might be, of the mystery of God at work in our lives. But knowledge about religious doctrine is not the same as faith.”

The Archbishop went on to recall the Gospel passage from Matthew, when Jesus calmed the storm, as an encouragement for the commencement of the Conference.

“When Jesus challenges His disciples about their lack of faith, it is not so much their lack of intellectual conviction about Jesus as it is their lack of trust in His care for them which Jesus is questioning,” the Archbishop said.

In conclud i ng, t he Archbishop explained that, to lead to faith, to lead to trust,

is to lead to Jesus.

“To have faith to lead is to have trust in Jesus who, through the gift of His Spirit, enables us to be the leaders, the guides, the formators of our young people that God is calling us to be.

“We can indeed do all things in Christ who strengthens us – so let us make sure

that He is at the heart of everything we do and say in our time together.”

Read the full speech of Archbishop Timothy Costelloe by visiting www.perthcatholic. org.au.

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REFUGEES GIVEN A WARM WELCOME

AT ST VINCENT DE PAUL PICNIC

By Caroline Smith

A DRAMATIC STORM the previous day was not enough to keep away attendees at St Vincent de Paul’s recent ‘Welcome to WA’ picnic for refugees.

The event, held at Carine Open Space on 22 May, attracted around 150 people who gathered to enjoy a shared meal and musical entertainment provided by DJ Felix.

Attendees included refugees from Iraq, Jordan, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Syria and Eritrea, as well as volunteers, students from Sacred Heart College and Chisholm Catholic College, and members of the wider community.

Food was provided by volunteers from various St Vincent de Paul conferences, who also brought toys for the children, while students from the supporting high schools helped with face-painting activities and other entertainment.

Chairman of St Vincent de Paul’s

Refugees and members of the wider community shared a meal and enjoyed entertainment at the bi-annual St Vincent de Paul ‘Welcome to WA’ picnic.

Migrant and Refugee Committee, Clem Astruc, said the event was one way for the Catholic community to show compassion towards people fleeing their

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homelands. “As the world and our country debate how best to respond to the refugee crisis, we, as Vincentians, must ask what we can do personally to 2

help in this tragic and overwhelming complex problem,” he said.

“Pope Francis has repeatedly asked us as Catholics to ‘take action to end the human tragedy now under way’ by protecting populations and helping victims.

“His Holiness even invited parishes and religious communities to welcome refugee families in preparation for the (Jubilee) Year of Mercy.”

St Vincent de Paul held its first biannual ‘Welcome to WA’ picnic in May 2015, with the next one planned for 20 November this year.

The event is also supported by the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre, Red Cross, Ishar Multicultural Women’s Health Centre and the Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASseTTs).

Mr Astruc said the picnics would

continue to provide a source of support and fellowship to refugees joining the WA community.

“We hope that, by our action, we are offering to the newcomers a path to opportunity and hope,” he said.

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MINI SEMINAR SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON ‘REAL’ SITUATION OF WORKING WITH REFUGEES

By Caroline Smith

AGENCIES and individuals in the Catholic community can play a key role in supporting newly arrived refugees, according to Edmund Rice Centre Director, Steve Bowman.

Speaking at a Perth seminar hosted by the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Catholic Alliance on 18 June, Mr Bowman outlined some of the resources and supports needed by people when they first arrive and explained why society as a whole can benefit from providing these.

“The importance of supp or t i ng hu m a n it a r i a n entrants is that they strengthen our multicultural community,” Mr Bowman said.

“It’s important to increase the confidence to contribute to shared knowledge and culture,” he said.

Despite some myths promulgated in the media and wider society, refugees did not receive over-generous benefits from Centrelink or other government agencies, Mr Bowman said – although the situation was complicated by various different visa statuses they held.

“The government refers to former refugees as humanitarian entrants and they have permanent residency here they get the same benefits as other Australians,” he said.

“They don’t receive public housing without being on a waiting list and they don’t get private health benefits.

“There are some emails that go around, particularly around election time, that are designed to unsettle people.”

For people who had arrived by boat, who were on Temporary Protection Visas or Bridging Visas, the support was much less, with the latter relying on charity and their own communities for support in the absence of Medicare, Centrelink or permission to work.

Temporary Protection Visas were given to people who arrived by boat before 2008 and were later released into community detention, while Bridging Visas are given to people whose claims for asylum are being assessed.

Exploring some of the needs of refugees – which included food, shelter, education, language support and teaching about Australian society and culture – Mr Bowman said agencies like Communicare and the Metropolitan Migrant Resource Centre (MRC) often provided these for new arrivals, while others such as the Edmund Rice Centre provided longer-term support for people who had been in the country for six months or more.

“Our focus is education, because it’s an important means of empowering people to take their place in the com-

Agencies and individuals in the Catholic community can play a key role in supporting newly arrived refugees, according to Edmund Rice Centre Director, Steve Bowman, who recently spoke at a Perth seminar hosted by the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Catholic Alliance.

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munity,” he said.

“With other organisations like the Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS), their big thing is counselling.

For Centacare, it’s counselling as well, and Mercy Care helps with aspects of employment and other life-skills programs.”

Mr Bowman added that, as well as providing educational support for refugees, migrants and Indigenous Australians, t he M i r r ab ook a-b a s ed Edmund Rice Centre also aims to bring them together with other members of the community to foster a sense of inclusiveness and sharing.

“Our vision is to help peo-

ple feel included, and have an active participation and contribution to society,” he said.

He added that, while refugees should be encouraged to integrate, they could do so without losing their own culture, but instead allow it to enrich Australian society with it.

“While we want people to integrate into the community, we don’t want people to assimilate,” Mr Bowman said.

“Assimilation is denying my culture – saying that my culture’s no good. Integration is ‘I bring my culture, and enrich others’ culture’.”

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Catholic philosopher reflects on faith, reason and Christianity in Australia

By Rachel Curry

MANY CHRISTIANS may feel as if they are currently under attack in Australia but, according to Catholic philosopher, John Haldane, they can take solace in the patterns of history.

A world-renowned academic and Papal Advisor to the Vatican, Professor Haldane was in Australia to teach a unit within the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney Campus.

In an interview with The eRecord journalist Rachel Curry while in Perth recently, he said history showed us that “what can look extremely important at a given time can turn out to be very superficial over the longer term”.

He believed this applied to the current progressive movement, which is behind the push for same-sex marriage and other reforms.

“By the end of the 19th century, in France and the United Kingdom and Germany, it looked like civilisation had reached an unparalleled peak,” he said.

“And that was represented in Britain by the long reign of Queen Victoria. At one point, two thirds of the population were under British governance; it was the largest empire the world had ever known.

“Within 50 years, you’d had two world wars that had shattered western civilisation and that empire was over.

And Britain is now, within a century, an offshore island in Europe that is not currently sure that it even wants to be part of Europe anymore.

“So, I would say to any young person, study history.

The so-called ‘right side of

A world-renowned academic and Papal Advisor to the Vatican, Professor Haldane was in Australia to teach a unit within the School of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Sydney Campus and also gave a public lecture at the university’s Fremantle Campus.

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history’ tends to collapse very quickly.”

Professor Haldane said the Catholic Church had been around for 2,000 years and was not going to disappear any time soon; the current form of liberalism, on the other hand, would end within a generation.

He added that the reason the progressive moment had taken hold so strongly in Australia was because the country was desperate to forge a new identity independent of its British past.

“In order to show that it’s modern, it has to reject its own past, so there’s a lot of the rejection of more historic images of Australia,” he said.

“Whether that’s from the question of the monarchy or Anzac Day on one side, or whether it’s family relationships or sexual ethics on the other, there’s a very determined effort to attack what it sees as institutions or beliefs or values that represent the older way.

“So, I think that’s one reason or example why the Catholic Church is under increasing attack in Australia.”

Professor Haldane’s own faith journey is a slightly unusual one.

Born in Scotland, he was raised by a Catholic mother and a Presbyterian father, who later converted to Catholicism.

However, as his fiercely anti-Catholic Presbyterian grandfather also lived with the family, he “grew up to some degree with two traditions”.

Professor Haldane said his religiously diverse background provided him with a solid foundation for his faith.

“At quite an early age, seven or eight, by that point I was already steeped in religion but also in philosophical interests and art interests, and I’ve never really since then seriously doubted, I’ve just added

layer upon layer upon layer,” he said.

“Of course, one questions and thinks hard and all the rest of it, but I would think having been brought up in a serious religious environment… that, from an early age, I had to think hard about it.”

Educated by the Jesuits, Professor Haldane went on to study visual art, education and philosophy, becoming particularly interested in the Catholic philosophical tradition.

The author of books including Atheism and Theism, An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Religion and Faithful Reason, he has a strong interest in the relationship between faith and reason.

However, he said that he didn’t believe it was necessary for faith to be based on reason, only that faith was rational.

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2016 LIFELINK WINTER APPEAL:

Rosary Care coordinator Dorothy Johnston and Catholic Outreach Director Peter Mc Minn.

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Catholic Outreach continues to offer a helping hand and a friendly chat

By Caroline Smith

IN A BUSY COMMUNITY, people often need extra support with little things like getting from place to place or planning meals and, at Our Lady of the Rosary Parish in Doubleview, one group of volunteers has spent more than twenty years providing such support to locals.

Rosary Care – which is part of umbrella agency Catholic Outreach – has been operating since the 1990s, providing transport, meals and visits to people living in the Doubleview area, many of them parishioners.

Coordinator Dorot hy Johnston said the services provided by the group were often just about reaching out to people in the community

and making sure they had help with simple things, where needed.

“If someone rings up and needs to go to an appointment, perhaps to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital or something like that, there’s an anxiety in a lot of people that a taxi won’t get them there on time,” she said.

“We found that taking people to an appointment was something that was needed, and people were comforted by having someone they know taking them.

“We also take people to Mass – we have one lady who’s decided that she won’t take the car anymore because she’s afraid of accidents driving at 93, so we have a coordinator who has organised to take her to Mass every Sunday.”

Mrs Johnston said that providing meals and drop-

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ping in to visit people were also important focuses for the group.

“Some of the people we deal with have been quite solid parishioners, so it’s important to keep in contact with them and keep looking after them,” she said.

“I visited one lady who was confined at home because of her illness, and her husband – a doctor - was away so I dropped in.

“She was just so delighted that she wrote a thank you card - so our help is there for everyone, regardless of what their income is. It’s caring for one another.”

She added that, when helping people who were elderly or infirm, Rosary Care volunteers were able to use this contact to check that people were all right, and alert medical services if they were not.

Cat holic Out re ach Director Peter Mc Minn said that groups like Rosary Care have flourished in parishes and areas across Perth, providing a range of needs through dedicated volunteers.

“There are currently about 30 groups across the Archdiocese, with help available in many communities,” he said.

“The programs are managed by coordinators - they receive requests for help, then make an assessment to see whether it fits within the scope of the group.”

Mr Mc Minn explained that Catholic Outreach had started in 1990 to provide services to people that were outside the scope of the local priest.

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PANORAMA What's happening around the Archdiocese FRI, 24 - SUN, 26 JUN

BENEDICTINE EXPERIENCE WEEKEND

Benedictine Spirituality is more readily experienced than defined. 24-26 June; other weekends available in August, October and December at the New Norcia Monastery Guesthouse. Beginning with Vespers at 6.30pm on Friday, concluding after lunch on Sunday, the weekend will provide the opportunity to enter fully into the monastic rhythm and balance of prayer, work, Lectio Divina, hospitality and community life. There will be opportunities to ponder the riches of the scriptures and monastic literature, both in group discussions and personal silence and solitude, bringing from the ‘storeroom, things both new and old’.

Suggested donation: $250 (for those who can afford it), includes accommodation, meals and entry into the Museum and Art Gallery.

Further info and bookings: Guesthouse Manager, 08 9654 8018 or guesthouse@ newnorcia.wa.edu.au SAT, 25 - SUN, 26 JUN MONSTER BOOK SALE 2016 Pater Noster Parish, Myaree will be having a Monster Book Sale on 25-26 June, from 9am-4pm both days at the School Parish Hall. Entrance via Evershed St, Myaree.

Further info: Margaret, 08 9330 3848 or peg.cabassi@ bigpond.com.

SUN, 26 JUN

COMMUNITY SINGING – ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL MUSIC PROGRAM

St Mary’s Cathedral Music Program will be presenting Community Singing on Sunday 26 June, 2-4pm at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth. It will be an afternoon of fun,

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singing and fundraising for all ages and all levels of singers.

Cost $15. Concession $12.

Register at the Cathedral Piety Stall or music.cathedral@ perthcatholic.org.au.

MON, 27 - WED, 29 JUN

PARISH MISSION

St Francis of Assisi Church, Maida Vale, will hold its Parish Mission from Monday, 27– Wednesday, 29 June. Fr Michael Truong Luan Nguyen CSsR, from Houston, Texas, Our Lady of Perpetual Retreat Centre, will conduct the Mission. For program, details visit: www.stfrancisofassisi. org.au.

TUE, JUN 28

TALK – COPING WITH CHANGE

Emmanuel Centre and St Bernadette’s Parish, Glendalough warmly invite you to a mental health talk titled Coping with Change.

The session will cover how change can affect individuals and how individuals can learn to manage emotional wellbeing and proactively build resilience. Participants will learn strategies to proactively reduce personal stress and develop an individual plan to support themselves through times of change. Tuesday, 28 June, 7-9pm, St Bernadette Parish, 49 Jugan St, Glendalough. Presenter: Tasha Broomhall from Blooming Minds Cost free. Further info: Angela Spina angela_spina@ optusnet.com.au or Barbara Harris emmanuelcentre@ westnet.com.au.

WED, 29 JUN CATHOLIC WORSHIP BOOK II ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH LAUNCH Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB cordially invites you to the Archdiocese of Perth’s launch of the much anticipated Catholic Worship Book II published by Morning Star

Publishing. Wednesday, 29 June, 5.30pm at St Michael the Archangel Chapel, Catholic Education Office, 50 Ruislip St, Leederville. Refreshments later. RSVP by Monday, 20 June. Further info: 08 9207 3350 Geraldine Schivardi or cfl@perthcatholic.org.au.

THU, 30 JUN

RESPONSORIAL PSALMS AND SELECTED MUSIC CATHOLIC WORSHIP BOOK II - WORKSHOP

The Centre for Liturgy will be running a Workshop on the Catholic Worship Book II Responsorial Psalms and Selected Music with Jenny O’Brien, Member of the National Liturgical Music Board and Member of the Editorial Committee for the Catholic Worship Book II. 7-9pm Holy Family Catholic Church, 45 Thelma St, Como.

Register by Monday, 20 June.

Further info: 08 9207 3350 Geraldine Schivardi or cfl@ perthcatholic.org.au.

FRI, 1 JUL ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER SUNDAY As many of you are aware, the Australian Community is about to celebrate National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (NAIDOC) Week, 3-10 July. The Australian Catholic Bishops have nominated the first Sunday of July as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday, a day for the Church to recognise and celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the contribution they make to the Australian Church and wider community. The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) have prepared some resources to support this day in parishes, schools or communities. Download resources www.natsicc.org.

au/natsicc-resources.html.

Further info: vicky.burrows@ perthcatholic.org.au or 08 9328 7529, 0412 529 656.

SAT, 2 JUL

DISCERNMENT RETREAT DAY FOR MEN

The Vocations Office will be hosting a Discernment Retreat Day for men who are considering the priesthood or who would simply like a chance to pray about their life’s vocation. It will take place on Saturday 2 July, 10–4pm at St Catherine’s House of Hospitality, 113 Tyler Street, Tuart Hill. The day will include a couple of presentations, as well as time for prayer (including Mass).

This is a free event, and is open to Catholic men aged 18-40. Lunch will be provided.

Please RSVP by Wednesday 29 June to Fr Mark, fr.mark. baumgarten@gmail.com.

REFLECTION, SHARING AND PRAYER EVENING

An invitation “Come and See” come and enjoy an evening of reflection, sharing and prayer followed by a light meal. Why Winter? The spiritual journey of the dormant time. Saturday, 2 July 3.30pm-8pm, Mary MacKillop Centre, 16 York Street, South Perth. RSVP: Alma Cabassi rsj, cabassi@ gmail.com, 0419 044 136 or Leonie Mayne rsj, leonie. mayne@sosj.org.au, 0437 120 337.

SUN, 3 JUL DIVINE MERCY An afternoon with Jesus and Mary will be on 3 July, 1.303pm at St Frances Xavier Church, Windsor St, East Perth with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Confession, holy Rosary, Divine Mercy prayers, Benediction and veneration of the relic of St Faustina Kowalska.

The talk will be on the Precious

Blood and Our Lady by Fr Giles Maria FFI. Refreshments will be provided in the hall later. Further info: Julia and June Murphy 08 9457 7771.

WORLD YOUTH DAY 2016 – COMMISSIONING MASS

Join Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB as he commissions all World Youth Day pilgrims travelling to Poland in July. The Commissioning Mass will be on Sunday, 3 July, 11am at St Mary’s Cathedral.

All WYD pilgrims, friends and families are welcome to join the prayerful send-off for our young pilgrims. This WYD is expected to reach 2.5million young people with Pope Francis in Krakow, Poland. Further info: Catholic Youth Ministry 08 9422 7912 or admin@cym.com.au.

WED, 6 JUL

BIBLICAL WALK THROUGH THE MASS

Our Lady of the Mission, Whitford Parish, as part of its adult faith formation is providing a 4 week Bible Study workshop focusing on the Mass from a Biblical aspect.

The Introductory Session will be held in the Parish Hall, 270 Camberwarra Drive, Cragie, Wednesday 6 July, 7pm.

Further info: Carol Wright clwright@bigpond.net.au or 0419 948 411.

THU, 7 JUL

PSALMIST TRAINING COURSE

Beginning 7 July, a four-week course of four two-hour sessions will be held at Centre for Liturgy, 28 Marda Way, Nollamara, 7.30-9.30pm.This course is intended to prepare people for the ministry of proclaiming the Responsorial Psalm in the Liturgy of the Word. It covers both the liturgical background of the ministry and practical work.

Cost $60. Further info: 08 9207 3350 or www.liturgy. perthcatholic.org.au.

NEWMAN AND UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

It is with great pleasure that The University of Notre Dame Australia and the Sisters of St

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John of God welcome visiting scholar Monsignor Roderick Strange to the Notre Dame community. Please join us for his public lecture on Newman and University Education in the Twenty-first Century, Thursday, 7 July, 6pm, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Santa Maria Lecture Theatre (ND1), 19 Mouat Street, Fremantle.

For registration, visit nd.edu. au/ssg/visiting-scholar. Further info: fremantle.events@nd.edu. au or 08 9433 0575.

FRI, 8 - SUN, 10 JUL

SEEK PEACE AND PURSUE IT

The word Pax, peace, is often used as a motto of Benedictine monasteries. Within the daily rhythm, quiet and prayer of New Norcia, we will explore what it means to seek peace and then what we must do to pursue it.

We will reflect on peace within our own hearts and peace with one another, those with whom we live and work. What, then, are the implications for a world that seems so devoid of peace? Presented by Margaret Malone SGS and Abbot John Herbert OSB. Recommended cost: $260. Further info: Dr Carmel Posa SGS on 08 9654 8371, carmel.posa@newnorcia. wa.edu.au; Jill O’Brien, jill. obrien@newnorcia.wa.edu.au.

SAT, 9 - SUN, 10 JUL

FOCOLARE PERTH – DAYS IN ROCKINGHAM

The Focolare invites you to attend a fullday program on Saturday, 9 and Sunday, 10 July, at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Hall, Rockingham.

S a t u r d a y,10 a m - 4 .1 5 p m , concluding Mass 4.30pm. Focus will be on the power of living the Gospel and its impact on family life nowadays; connecting with each other, dealing with the digital age, praying with children, living with younger and older generations. These will be explored through talks, life experiences, games and workshops. Sunday 9.30am Mass followed with tea, 10.30am, concluding 4.30pm.

Focus on meaning and value of suffering lived in the light

of unity with specific emphasis on disabilitiy and terminaly illness in families. Further info: Focolare Centre 08 9349 4052 or ffperth@primus.com.au, or www.focolare.org/en.

SUN, 10 JUL

ABORIGINAL CATHOLIC MINISTRY COMBINED PARISH MASS

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday combined Parish Mass, Sunday 10 July, 10am at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 8 Burnett St, Embleton.

This will be followed by shared morning tea, bring a plate of food to share. Further info: vicky.burrows@perthcatholic. org.au or 08 9328 7529, 0412 529 656.

THU, 14 JUL

HOLY MASS AND HEALING: TALK BY ALAN AMES

The evening will start 7pm with Mass and healing at St Brigid’s Catholic Church, 69B Morrison Rd, Midland, followed by talk and prayers. Alan has been speaking and praying for healing around the world since 1994 and has spoken in more than 40 countries. Alan will speak after the holy Mass and share his unique conversion experiences. Alan has the permission and support of Archbishop Costelloe for these talks. Further info: Keith 0411 108 525.

ART AND DEVOTION

Religious people need religious art. It strengthens and enlivens our response to the sacred through visual art, music, movement, architecture, floral arrangements, vestments, vessels, books and any other medium that we use. This lecture titled Art and Devotion will look at how art is used in the past and present. Thursday, 14 July, 7.30pm, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Tannock Hall of Education (ND4), cnr Croke and Cliff Sts, Fremantle.

The three presenters, Dr Petra Kayser, Prof Ted Snell and Rev Dr Tom Elich, are in Western Australia to judge the Mandorla Art Award on Friday, 15 July.

Further info: Deborah Sinclair 08 9433 0138 or fremantle.

theology@nd.edu.au.

THU, 21 - SAT, 23 JUL

RETREAT - THE YEAR OF MERCY

Please join us for a series of talks by Fr Elio Capra, a Salesian priest who currently lectures in Liturgy and Sacramental Theology at the Catholic Theological College in Melbourne. It’s easy to forget that God’s mercy is at the heart of Jesus’s teaching.

Let us reflect more deeply on God's call to mercy and what we can do to become a visible sign of that Mercy. Evening sessions, Thursday, 21 July and Friday, 22 July, 7pm; morning sessions, Saturday, 23 July, 9am and 11am, St Thomas More Catholic Church, 100 Dean Rd, Bateman. Cost: Donation.

Further info: stthomasmore. faith@gmail.com.

SAT, 23 JUL

LITURGY COMMITTEES WORKSHOP I

The Liturgy Committee Workshop I will offer the Archdiocesan Guidelines for the preparation of Parish Sunday Masses while also offering a template for Liturgy Committee meetings and the roles and responsibilities in preparing liturgies, including communication with the wider parish community.

Saturday, 23 July, 9am-12 noon, Centre for Liturgy, 28 Marda Way, Nollamara. Cost $10. Registrations are essential.

Further info: 08 9207 3350 or registrations.cfl@perthcatholic. org.au; www.liturgycentre. com.au.

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