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Archbishop Barry Hickey shows Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith over the site of St Mary's Cathedral last week. The Minister, also the federal member for Perth, was representing the PHOTO. ROBERT HIINI Commonwealth, which has contributed $4 million to the $32.9 million project. ALSO: Progress report on St Mary's, Photos - Pages 6&7.
Out with a bang: Vatican closes Pauline year with a few surprises But Pope puts discovery secondary to the importance of standing up for the Faith. VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI relegated the identification of the sarcophagus containing the remains of St Paul as
secondary to the importance of standing up for the faith. During a vespers service at Rome's Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls on June 28, the Pope announced that the presumed tomb of St Paul contains bone fragments from a human who lived between the first and second century. On the same day, the
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dits from the secular public. In fact one needs courage to adhere to the teachings even if these contradict the thinking of the modern world. It is this non-conforming which St Paul calls an "adult faith". The Pope concluded that an adult faith calls for defending life from the first moment, opposing Continued on Page 10
HISTORIC FURNITURE The pews of St Mary's Cathedral are being lovingly restored for those who want a unique link with the history of the Church in WA but numbers are limited.
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Lovingly restored pews of St Mary's are ready for new homes The newly-restored seating from Perth's Cathedral is a once-in-alifetime opportunity for those who want a link with history The pews of St Mary's Cathedral that served generations of church-goers since the time of the Great Depression are being restored for members of the public who would like a special link with the history of the Church in Perth. The solid Jarrah pews, which many Perth Catholics will remember, were salvaged as the Cathedral was cleared in 2007 to make way for its completion. Archbishop Hickey announced in The West Australian last weekend that the Cathedral will be ready for Christmas this year. At that time Church planners removed the wooden seat panel from each pew and discarded the rest of the pews. However The Record is now refurbishing each to better than original condition so that members of the public can have a special part of St Mary's Cathedral in their homes. Each pew will carry a small discrete brass plaque attesting to its authenticity and will be individually numbered. The first to be produced is now on display at the The Record Bookshop. Record editor Peter Rosengren said he was delighted with the luscious natural Western Australian Jarrah wood tones of the refurbished furniture. "The quality and workmanship are simply outstanding:' he said. "They're extremely solid and look - and feel - just beautiful. "These pews have real history in them:' he said. "So many generations of Catholics in Perth sat in these very pews, prayed, witnessed weddings, baptisms and funer-
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Clelia, who was born near Bologna, Italy, sought holiness even as a child; she spent her days at home weaving and sewing or in church praying. She had her first mystical experience at 11, on the day of her first Communion. In her village she joined a catechetical group from which several young women later formed the Sisters Minims of Our Lady of Sorrows, a congregation devoted to good works and contemplation. She died of tuberculosis only two years after founding the order, and is considered the youngest founder of a religious community in church history.
als - and thought about the meaning of their lives?" He said the restored items would make wonderful feature additions to any family home. "I can just see something like this in someone's house, perhaps in an entrance hallway or in a sun-room, and it would make a wonderful feature and conversation piece:' Each can be made to order as a two-, four- or six-seater item. The idea to restore the pews, manufactured by Berry Brothers between 1926
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and 1930, had been part of the same general plan to turn scrap floorboards laid down in the 1860s into crucifixes, fountain pens, rosary boxes and the like. He said only a limited number - less than 90 - could ever be made. Mr Rosengren said he expects the pews will be of interest to Catholics with affectionate ties to St Mary's such as family events, parishes which might like to order one as a symbol of their own links with the Cathedral, or collectors. For further information contact Caroline on (08) 9227 7080 or via: bookshop@therecord.com.au
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Freinds: Montana McCann and her friends are planning a Ball for August 1 5 at St Kieran's Parish inOsborne Park. The theme of the alcohol-free event for those aged 15-25 will be chivalry, elegance - and fun. St Benedict's Catholic Primary School students in Applecross with the clothing they donated to St Vincent de Paul. St Benedict's and St Kieran's Primary School in Tuart Hill donated 8kg of clothing per student, earning their respective schools an award for the school that donates the most amount of clothing. In total., 39 Perth schools have donated PHOTO' COURTSY OF SVDP 31 tons of clothing as part of the Society's Mini Vinnies Clothing Drive for 2009.
Mexican coup inPerth for Italian mystic • By Robert Hiini
A HUMBLE community in Perth's southern suburbs dedicated to living the spirituality of Italian mystic Luisa Piccarreta has scored a coup in securing the speaking talents of world Piccarreta expert Fr Carlos Massieu.The Mexican priest will speak at their Casa di Luisa Piccarreta (House of Luisa Piccarreta) in Spearwood on July 18, 20 and 21 as well as at Catholic churches in Glendalough, Midland, Mosman Park and Beaconsfield. He will also be a guest speaker at the vocations conference taking place at St Thomas More College, adjacent to the University of WA, from July 13-17.The Casa di Luisa Piccarreta was established in 2004 by friends Jenny Troy and Michele Grabsch, fulfilling the vision they shared following a conference in Morninigton, Victoria, in 2001 on the Divine Will - the private revelation the mystic is said to have received over the course of
her mostly bed-ridden life. After the conference, Ms Troy returned to her family and primary school teaching position in Perth, beginning a Luisa Piccarreta prayer group with five of her friends. Ms Grabsch went home in Melbourne, wondering if God was calling her to build an apostolate with her Perth-based friend. In 2002, she made the move west, initially living in Yangebup before taking a further leap of faith - purchasing a house with the Troy family in 2004. The families also pray together whenever they can and host a prayer meeting on Tuesdays as well as all-day Adoration every Wednesday from 8am to 6pm (last year they held three months of perpetual adoration from March to May). Luisa Piccarreta was born in rural town of Corato, Italy in 1865 and was bedridden from the age of 16 to her death, aged 82, surviving, it is said, for the last 65 years of her life entirely on the Blessed Sacrament, without consuming food or drink.
She is also said to have experienced visions of God from the age of 12 and wrote 36 manuscripts of her experiences under obedience from 1899 to 1938 that detail private revelations made about the fulfillment of the Lord's Prayer that His will "be done on earth as it is in heaven:' Her cause for beatification has been before the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints at the Vatican since 2005 after diocesan investigations were concluded in the same year, having been opened in 1994. Fr Massieu, a former mechanical engineer, was asked by Mgr Carmelo Cassati, the then-Archbishop of Luisa's home-diocese, Triani, to organise an International Congress on the Divine Will in Costa Rica with Marianela Rosario Perez, the head of a group of Luisa Piccarreta enthusiasts in Florida, who will also be speaking in Perth. For more info on the talks of Fr Massieu and Marianela Perez see Panorama or call Jenny on 9494 2604.
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Group organises a Ball for young people - with a difference Get you're twinkle toes, tuxedos and ball gowns ready for the Chivalry Ball which a group of young Catholics are organizing for August 15 at St Kieran's Parish in Osborne Park. But the Chivalry Ball, as the name implies, will be an evening with a difference. In an era when many balls are opportunities for binge drinking and parents wince in foreboding at the likely costs and possible consequences, the emphasis will be on balls as balls should be an event with... style. Ball organizer Montana McCann told The Record this week she and her friends are planning an evening of fun and relaxation for young people aged 15-25 in an atmosphere of elegance, grace and charm. They have even set up a website to promote the event: www. chivalryballperth.blogspot.com She said the inspiration came from being at the Embrace the Grace conference held at New Norcia in 2008. The annual event organised by the Respect Life Office of the archdiocese runs over several days and nights and presents speakers on a range of topics relevant to the lives of young Catholics; a strong sense of youthful hi-jinks and fun dominates throughout. "It was at the Embrace the Grace conference late last year that I first encountered chivalry in action," she told The Record. "A dinner had been organised at which the guys had to serve the girls for the night; they escorted us to the dinner hall, pulled out our chairs as we sat down for dinner and waited on us throughout the night. "This experience left a deep impression on both myself and all the girls present. Not only did we realise what we've been missing out on, but it spoke to us on a much deeper level about our true dignity and worth. "Initially most of us felt awkward because we knew that it wasn't as if we couldn't serve our-
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we began to enjoy it and it made us think about why they were doing this - it wasn't because we couldn't do it for ourselves, but because they wanted to show us respect:' Montana and friends Mark Tenney, Sarah Laundy, Sonia Spadacinni and Ross Fletcher are putting a lot of thought into the planning of the first Chivalry Ball. A week before the event, on August 8, they will hold a formation day running from 10am5pm at Holy Spirit Parish in City Beach with talks, discussions, games, ballroom dancing lessons and food. Mass will also be celebrated at 11am on the day by Franciscan Friar of the Immaculate Fr Joseph Michael. "Our goal is to create a fun Catholic youth event which encourages youth to take up the challenge of living a pure and virtuous life," Miss McCann said. "We hope that through the event young Catholics will be able to do this and create strong and lasting friendships with each other and will continue to support each other through the rest of their faith journey:' She hopes talks on chivalry and modesty during the formation day will help. "We hope that guys will gain an insight into how to show girls respect and honour at a time when society promotes the opposite and for girls, the opportunity to discuss and share the challenges they face, with a particular focus on dressing elegantl without having to be immodest, and acting according to their true dignity:' she said. She and her co-organisers are planning a playlist of both contemporary and classical music so that there will be something for everyone. Only 100 tickets will be available at a cost of $35 each (supper and drinks provided) and the evening will be alcohol free. The dress code is formal; for girls, white dresses; guys, suits or tuxedos. For further information contact Montana on 0405561211 or by emaiL at: chivalryball@hotmail.com
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Busy weeks at Ocean Reef
A six-year project to install stained glass windows at Ocean Reef ended on June 21 when Bishop Donald Sproxton blessed the last four windows depicting the four Evangelists, shown above and at the PHOTOS COURTESY ST SIMON PETER PARISH bottom of this page.
Local artwork for stained glass windows and a local dramatisation of ther Gospel enliven St Simon Peter Parish.
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ishop Donald Sproxton visited St Simon Peter Parish in Ocean Reef on Sunday June 21 to celebrate Mass and bless the stained glass windows installed last December. The four windows towards the rear of the Church depict the four Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. The artwork for the windows was done by parishioner Mrs Dale Dee, and the windows were made by Mr Kim Fitzpatrick, of Traditional Stained Glass and Leadlights, Fremantle. The Evangelist windows completed a six-year project by the Parish to install two windows showing the Blessed Virgin Mary and St John adjacent to the large crucifix above the altar and the tabernacle; eight windows, four on each side of the altar, depicting events in the life of St Peter and the Church, beginning with his call by Jesus and ending with his taking the Church to Rome; and a window high on the back wall of the Church showing the Holy Spirit watching over and guiding the parish community. All of the windows were made by Mr Fitzpatrick. The whole project was funded in various stages by donations by parishioners distinct from their regular parish contributions. Parish Priest Fr Richard Sadowski SDS expressed his thanks to all those who had contributed, and particularly the three generous, but anonymous, donors who had made very substantial contributions to the Evangelist windows. The 10am Mass and blessing ceremony were followed by a sausage sizzle in the Parish Centre where Bishop Sproxton mingled with the congregation for an about an hour. It was a highlight a busy weekend in the parish which featured packed performances on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday evening of the play The Three Marys, written and directed by Gerald Searle, and presented by the St Simon Peter Players with support from Whitford and Wanneroo parishioners. Original music and lyrics were composed by the InSpiritUs music group and friends, with the 17 musicians and singers directed by Thierry Venaille. The cast consisted of 47 adults and children, and the production and creative team involved 35. Sponsors were the Knights of the Southern Cross, the Catholic Development Fund, Mgr Michael Keating, Bunnings Joondalup and Coles Wanneroo. The play covered much of the Gospel from the Annunciation to the Resurrection, focused through the experiences of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mary of Bethany (sister of Martha and Lazarus) and Mary Magdalene. It was warmly received by full houses at each of the performances in the Prendiville College drama centre.
Mary of Bethany, the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalen take centre stage waiting for the Holy Spirit, above, and at the Crucifixion, far right, while Mary and Jesus are portrayed at Cana. The St Simon Peter Parish production, authored by Gerald Searle, played to full houses in the Prendiville College Drama Centre. PHOTOS: ST SIMON PETER PARISH
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Cathedral presbytery Two seminarians head to Rome Talk on new gets a lift 149 years Missal transferred after construction • By Anthony Barich
Perth seminarians Michael Cornell (pictured at bottom, right) and Brennan Sia (pictured, left) are off to Rome on July 18 having declared their candidacy for the priesthood before Archbishop Barry Hickey at St Charles Seminary on July 7. The pair will undertake a fouryear course at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where, upon completion, they are likely to be ordained as deacons at the start of their fourth year and ordained as priests in Perth after the end of that fourth year. Candidacy signifies another step towards the priesthood, where the Archbishop also publicly acknowledges their serious commitment to journey towards the priesthood accepts their intention to complete the necessary formation in order to be ordained as priests. Michael, 23, joined the Salvatorian Religious order in Perth for three years after graduating from St Pius X Christian Brothers College in Sydney in 2003, before discerning a call to enter St Charles Seminary in 2004. Brennan, 27, graduated from Aquinas College, Manning in 1998 and worked as a pharmacist after graduating from Curtin University, then joined St Charles' Seminary. The pair are the second to be sent to Rome by Archbishop Hickey to complete their studies for the priesthood after the Archbishop sent Gannon Jones
at the Vietnamese Community is Wednesday 26 Centre August from 9.30 am to 1.00 pm, concluding with lunch Fr Paul Turner, a priest of the Diocese of Kansas, has a degree from Sant'Anselmo in Rome and is a facilitator on ICEL, the body producing the New Translation of the Roman Missal. Fr Turner will speak on: English • The New Translation of the Roman Missal. • The General Instruction on the Roman Missal. • The Implementation of the New Missal.
Archbishop Barry Hickey has informed clergy that Fr Keith Pecklers SJ who was to speak on the New Translation of the Roman Missal has had to cancel his trip. At Fr Peckers' suggestion a replacement speaker, Fr Paul Turner, has been invited and has accepted to take his place,. However the date for the original talk has been transferred. The new date for the talk
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Brennan said that, despite the pair both having already spent a number of years discerning their calls to the priesthood the trip is
to the Ni44h Ent DEEPLY saddened by the crisis engulfing Christianity in the Middle East, Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) to provide urgent help. In many parts of the land Our Lord Jesus Christ knew so well, the faithful now live in fear as increasing poverty and growing extremism threaten the survival of these ancient communities. A mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East is now taking place. For some it is a question of escaping bloody persecution. In the Holy Land for example, the proportion of Christians has plummeted from 20% to as little as 1.4% in the last 40 years. The liftwell is swung into place at the Cathedral Presbytery last Thursday in the ongoing renovation and expansion of the 1855 building. PHOTO FR MICHAEL SLATTERY
The liftwell for the Cathedral presbytery opposite the Cathedral in Victoria Square was lowered into position last Thursday at the third attempt. The operation had been scheduled for each of the two previous weekends but had been cancelled because of the wet and windy conditions. In calm and sunny conditions on Thursday the work went smoothly. The lift will run from the top floor to the basement where it will connect with the new parking area beneath a
promenade that will extend from the previous front entrance. There has not previously been a lift in the presbytery which was opened in 1855. The renovations will involve extensive changes to the accommodation for bishops, priests and visiting clergy. The work has been undertaken while the Dean and priests of the Cathedral parish have been located at the Pro-Cathedral in Victoria Park. It will be completed for their return and the re-opening of St Mary's Cathedral.
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Minister takes a tour Archbishop Barry Hickey showed Foreign Affairs Minister and Member for Perth, Stephen Smith, around St Mary's Cathedral last week as workers push towards the expected Christmas completion date. The guided tour was in recognition of Mr Smith's personal interest in the project and the $4 million the Federal Government has contributed in heritage works funding. A shortfall of $7.4 million due to increased costs, remains.
St Mary's frontage has been augmented with a new, modern tower (left) containing a lift and stairs up to the choir loft. PHOTO ROBERT HIINI
Tiler, Gordon McDowell, above, repairs the mosaic of St Mary's original sanctuary. He is one of 400 workers who have worked on the building since restoration work began in February 2007.
Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, a Catholic, and the Archbishop admire the accomplishments of the building professionals working on the mother church for Catholics in the Perth Archdiocese. PHOTO ROBERT MINI
Painter, Justin Grainger, works on the walls of the newly built, multi-purpose crypt area, above. The heart of the crypt lies directly beneath the cathedral's altar (right) and will house the remains of many of Perth's bishops. The new sanctuary is already in place (left) and provides easy access for disabled c ongregants and will be visible from any seating in the revamped building. TO MAKE A DONATION For more information about the progress of St Mary's Cathedral or to make a donation visit www.stmarysappeal.com.au or call 9427 0322.
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The site of worship: The Rt Hon Stephen Smith and Archbishop Barry Hickey stand where the new altar will be, in the centre of the cathedral, situated exactly above the refurbished crypt. The confessionals (right) are in the process of being refurbished while the new design provides for many multipurpose rooms underground (below).
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Ending sordid trade a Church priority
New forms of slavery: more attention turns to sexual trafficking victims. • By Father John Flynn L(
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he Vatican and groups of women Religious have long been actively working to stop the trafficking of persons, and a recent message of support sent by Benedict XVI to a meeting on the issue held in Rome in June reiterated that this is a Church priority. The Pontiff said it is important to bring about "a renewed awareness of the inestimable value of life and an ever more courageous commitment to the defense of human rights and the overcoming of every type of abuse." The issue is also being debated in England. A June briefing published by the Christian Institute explained that the government's Policing and Crime Bill includes significant changes to the law regarding prostitution in England and Wales. The changes are designed to deal particularly with the problem of sex trafficking. The proposals, still to be voted on by Parliament, contemplate that a purchaser of sexual services would be committing an offence if sex was purchased from a prostitute who had been subjected to force, deception or threats, according to the briefing. The concept of force would include coercion by psycholVcal means, including exploiting someones vulnerability. The Christian Institute said that this would be a strict liability offence, meaning that the buyer could be guilty regardless of whether they knew the prostitute was subjected to force or whether they made attempts to find out. The institute noted that it is impossible to know exactly how many prostitutes are working in the United Kingdom; however, many have put the figure at around 80,000. Among the estimates, one from 2008 suggested that up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, have been trafficked into UK brothels.
Global problem On June 16 the United States State Department published its annual "Trafficking in Persons Report" for 2009. It said that sex trafficking comprises a significant portion of overall human trafficking. There are a variety of ways in which women are forced into the sex trade, the report noted. It can come about through coercion, deception, or debt bondage. Quite often women and girls are forced to continue in prostitution through the use of a supposed "debt:' purportedly incurred through their transportation to a Western country. The report cited data from UNICEF, according to which as many as two million children are subjected to prostitution in the global commercial sex trade. The State Department observed that sex trafficking has devastating consequences for minors, including long-lasting physical and psychological trauma and disease. Infections by sexual diseases, drug addiction, and social ostracism are also common.
Heinous crime A recent book, published earlier this year, examined the subject of trafficking from an economic point of view. The book is "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" (Columbia University Press), by Siddharth Kara. Kara was an investment banker before
A young tsunami survivor stands in the rubble of a rehabilitation shelter after a fire broke out there in 2005 in the southern Indian town of Kargil Nagar. An anti-trafficking activist from India recently told Catholic News Service that post-tsunami conditions give traffickers an opportunity to take advantage PHOTO. CNS/REUTERS of vulnerable and desperate people.
putting aside his corporate career to become involved in efforts to abolish human slavery. While dispassionate in his economic analysis of the people trade, Kara is clear in his ethical judgment on the issue: "Sex trafficking is a heinous crime against humanity:' he declared at the start of his book. Kara described how the acquisition of sex slaves comes about through a variety of ways. Some are deceived by false promises, others are sold by their parents. Seduction is another method, and some are recruited by former slaves. In some countries, false marriage offers are a common way to lure young females who look for a way to gain legal rights and social acceptance. Traffickers also take advantage of the multitudes who are confined in refugee camps, to whom any offer of escape provides an attractive alternative. Kara provided testimonies, often graphic, of how the process of converting women into sexual slaves involved methods such as rape, torture, humiliation and the use of drugs. The intention is to make the women completely submissive, and therefore attractive to potential buyers. The sex trafficking industry, Kara concludes, involves the systematic rape, torture, enslavement, and murder of millions of women and children, whether it be through homicide, sexually transmitted diseases or drugs.
Economic analysis Kara calculated that the total annual number of individuals trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation is between 500,000-600,000. The exact numbers, he admits, are difficult to establish. The US State Department estimates the overall number of internationally trafficked persons is between 600,000-800,000. This number doesn't include the millions who are trafficked internally. Regarding the profits made from the overall form of human slavery, not only sexual, Kara cites the US State Department figure of A$11.9 billion per year. The International Labor Organization estimates it to be closer to A$39.8 billion. Kara breaks down some of the statistics, and he calculated that in 2007 the sale of trafficked sex slaves to brothel owners and pimps generated revenues of around A$1.25
billion, which represents approximately A$2373 per slave. After costs, these sales generated approximately A$751.5 million in profits, he calculated. On a global basis he estimated that in 2007, the total revenue generated by all forms of human trafficking reached no less than A$152 billion, with profits of A$91 billion. The most profitable form of trafficking was that related to the sex industry. While they accounted for only 4.2 per cent of the world's slaves, they generated 39 per cent of slaveholder's profits, according to Kara. The profits to be made from such an activity has attracted criminal groups from the local level to international syndicates, he explained. The international mafias operating in Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe cooperate with the local national criminal organizations to lease territories for the exploitation of victims. Kara asks, how can we explain such a trade in human lives? On the supply side we can look at factors that range from poverty, lawlessness, military conflict and economic breakdown. As well, the post-1989 transitions and the extension of global integration also played a part in facilitating the trade in human persons. On the demand side, Kara pointed out that the majority of males do not condone the vulgarities associated with the sex trade. But the lowering of prices for commercial sex due to a greater supply has increased revenues: "Sex slavery is the profit-maximising version of prostitution," he argued.
Neighbours The Second Vatican Council document "Gaudium et Spes" mentioned the problem of human trafficking. The council fathers invoked our obligation to be the neighbor of every person and urge all to help those who are abandoned or suffering. Abuses such as those of human slavery and prostitution were described as a violation of the human person. Treating humans as "mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons," is an infamy, they declared, and it poisons human society (No. 28). More recently, Archbishop Agostino
After being separated for more than four years, Lucy Magambi welcomes her son, Brian, from Kenya at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey in late July, 2007. The Catholic Charities Refugee Resettlement and Human Trafficking programs worked tirele ssly for years to help reunite the mother and son. PHOTO' CNS/COURTESY OF FAMILY
Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Travelers, spoke at a forum held in Vienna in February 2008 on the theme of human trafficking. Easy solutions do not exist, he admitted. Dealing with these abuses of human rights requires an approach that not only takes into account the best interests of the victim, but also the just punishment of those who benefit from it. He also recommended the introduction of preventive measures such as raising public awareness of the problem. It is also necessary to deal with the root causes of the phenomenon, including the economic factors involved, he concluded. Not easy matters, indeed, but the right answers could positively affect millions of lives that are currently hanging in the balance. - Zenit.org
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The Pauline Chapel is seen in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on June 30 following a five-year restoration project. Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated the newly restored 4. chapel - decorated with Michelangelo's murals of the conversion of St Paul and the crucifixion of St. Peter -- during an evening prayer service on JulyCATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO PHOTO: CNS/L'OSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA
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Michelangelo's mural depicting the conversion of St. Paul is seen in the newly restored Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on June 30. The chapel underwent a US $4.5 million, five-year restoration funded by donors. PHOTO: CNS/LOSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA REUTERS
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he private Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace is a place for the Pope and his closest aides to contemplate their call to follow the crucified and risen Christ and to lead believers in hope, Pope Benedict XVI said. The Pope inaugurated the newly restored chapel - decorated with Michelangelo's murals of the conversion of St Paul and the crucifixion of St Peter - during an evening prayer service on July 4. The prayer service was attended by members of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums from the United States, England and Ireland. They donated the $4.6 million needed to restore the pri-
vate papal chapel. "Solemn celebrations with the people are not celebrated here. This is where the successor of Peter and his collaborators meditate in silence and adore the living Christ, present especially in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist:' the Pope said in his homily. "The Eucharist is the sacrament in which the whole work of redemption is concentrated: In Jesus the Eucharist we can contemplate the transformation of death into life (and of) violence into love," the Pope said. Pope Benedict said it was interesting to note that Michelangelo depicted St Paul as an old man when he was converted on the road to Damascus, even though the apostle probably was only in his 30s. The artist's choice recognizes that maturity in faith comes from being enlightened with divine
grace, the Pope said. The face of St Peter in the mural on the opposite wall, the Pope said, is not that of a man in pain, but of a man who is searching for someone or something. "He realizes precisely at that moment the culmination of following" Christ, the Pope said. "The disciple is not greater than the master, and now he will experience all the bitterness of the cross, the consequences of sin that separates us from God, all the absurdity of violence and lies." Pope Benedict said the chapel invites the Pope and his aides "to meditate in silence on the mystery of the cross, which accompanies the church to the end of time, and to welcome the light of faith, which - thanks to the apostolic community - can extend to the ends of the earth the missionary and evangelizing action entrusted to it by the CINDY WOODEN/CNS risen Christy'
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Mozart,woundedby beauty, revers In gods mercy Mozart's Requiem translates the concrete reality of the Christian virtue of hope for doubters and believers alike, says Communion and Liberation member John Kinder. • By Anthony Barich
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eauty can wound the heart, and open it up to the presence of something divine. Such is the case with Mozart's Requiem, according to John Kinder, a Professor of Italian at the University of Western Australia who also leads two discussion groups in Perth's western suburbs following the charism of the late Italian Fr Luigi Giussani - one in Claremont and one at UWA. Fr Giussani, a close friend of Pope Benedict XVI, founded Communion and Liberation in 1954 when he established a Christian presence in Berchet high school in Milan with a group called Gioventh Studentesca (Student Youth), GS for short. The current name of the movement, Communion and Liberation (CL), appeared for the first time in 1969. It synthesises the conviction that the Christian event, lived in communion, is the foundation of the authentic liberation of man and is today present in about 70 countries throughout the world. There is no type of membership card, only the free participation of persons. The basic instrument for the formation of adherents is weekly catechesis, called "School of Community." Today, CL's members - many of them university students based mostly in Italy - are among the most passionate supporters of Pope Benedict XVI, who has often championed the link between faith and reason. While still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict used the term 'Wounded by beauty' in 2002 when speaking at the CL cultural festival in Rimini known as the 'Meeting for Friendship among the Peoples'. Ratzinger said: "In a platonic sense, we could say that the arrow of nostalgia pierces man, wounds him and in this way gives him wings, lifts him upwards towards the tran-
scendent. True knowledge is being struck by the arrow of Beauty that wounds man, moved by reality." Later, he spoke of the wounding power of beauty as a means of opening his eyes to reality when, having experienced a Bach concert in Munich sitting next to a Lutheran bishop, the two looked at each other and said, "Anyone who has heard this, knows that the faith is true". But, "if faith is only based on a book (the Bible), we're in trouble," says Prof. Kinder. "Belief is best experienced not just by agreeing to things that are found in the Gospel, but we believe because we have verified them in my our own life." Fr Julian Carron, Giussani's successor as leader of CL, said that faith is not about things unseen, but about things we can see; our own experience and reality. We just need to be able to see them for what they really are, Prof. Kinder says. Faith is a way of knowing, a way to truly see the reality we are immersed in. The light of faith clarifies things. When seen in the light of The Resurrection, faith is certainty in the present; hope is certainty in the future.
"Mozart's Requiem is a determined, confident request, with full belief in the Resurrection, embraced in the mercy of God that he knows for a fact is there. It brings a whole new light to the very notion of prayer." It's about taking the Incarnation seriously - the concept that, in a very real way, God 'got his hands dirty' by lowering Himself to share our humanity. Therefore, the presence of the Divine is here and now. Christ came on earth and remained with us, as He promised He would. Faith is recognising the presence in our reality, with certainty. The deep longing within each of us responds to beauty, to Christ, if only we let it. At Giussani's funeral in 2005, Ratzinger described his friend's search thus: "Fr Giussani grew up in a home - as he himself said poor as far as bread was concerned, but rich in music, and thus from the start he was touched, or better, wounded, by the desire for beauty. He was not satisfied with any beauty
and to give me the answer to these urgings of my heart," Prof. Kinder said. "Too often we speak of God, Jesus, the Church, without remembering that these words can be empty if they do not rise up in us out of a recognition of 'what is the question', the question that Jesus claims to be the answer to." Mozart's Requiem asks such questions, forcefully. It is written for a symphonic orchestra, a large chorus and four soloists. Anna owa-Sin The orchestra is reduced, Helga Muller MolifIhri 'Vinson 'Cole with fewer instruments Paata Burchuladar4 than most of Mozart's Wiener Singverelle;other large-scale works. All the attention is on WienerPhilharmoniker the chorus and the soloHerbert von Karajan ists, and therefore on the words. Mozart grouped the various prayers of the Mass for the Dead into five sections. As the first combines the entrance prayer and the Kyrie, the Requiem opens in peace and calm. We first hear one instrument, then The CD cover of Mozart's Requiem that contains Fr Luigi Giussani's text, from which John another and another and Kinder drew from for his speech at Claremont parish hall. finally the chorus sings the opening prayer. The mood is one of profound whatever, a banal beauty. He sought Prof. Kinder addressed a group meditation on the dramatic nature Beauty itself, infinite beauty, and of over 100 on May 18 at St Thomas of human existence - a drama that thus he found Christ; in Christ he the Apostle parish, Claremont on suddenly breaks into a cry to God: found true beauty, the path of life, this subject, based on reflections by Requiem aeternam dona eis, the true joy..." Fr Giussani contained in the book- Domine; Mozart's Requiem displays let of a CD reissued in 1998 in the et lux perpetua luceat eis. a determined courage to hope Spirto Gentil series. Eternal rest grant them, 0 Lord; because of the evidence of our realA Requiem is a reflection on and let light perpetual shine upon ity that reveals God. death, which is itself a reflection on them. It is not a sorrowful event. It life - a provocation to ask what we When we have a Mass for a loved is a determined, confident request, think death is and therefore what one who has died, we often focus with full belief in the resurrection, we think life is all about. The way these days on "thanksgiving for the embraced in the mercy of God that one looks at death shapes the way life of the person" or "celebration he knows for a fact is there. one looks at life. of the life of the person". But this It brings a whole new light to the Christ said that He was the way, was not always the case. In earlier very notion of prayer. the truth and the life - in short, the times, the funeral Mass was priIt's natural, Prof. Kinder says, to answer. But what is the question? marily about asking - asking for be certain about the future if we're The question is what all humans meaning, for life, for an embrace of certain about the present. yearn for, as Fr Giussani says - hap- wholeness. Music, or everything that is beau- piness, truth, justice, beauty and The opening statement of tiful in this world depending on the love - questions that are written Mozart's music is a statement of individual's tastes, awakens some- in the heart of man, our deepest begging: "Give them rest, grant thing within us. When a person awareness of ourselves and all realthem light", begging for that "exterfeels this, Fr Giussani says, his soul ity. nal intervention", that action from immediately harkens to await 'the Try as we may, we are structur- outside ourselves, something that other thing'. Even in the presence ally incapable of answering these will show us the meaning of our of what he can grasp, he awaits questions. God - the answer - is lives and our deaths and something 'another thing' - an infinite being forgotten. that will show us the way to reach_ that is true beauty - God. "We need an intervention from that meaning. This is not a cry of Mozart's Requiem, then, is a outside ourselves. I need some- desperation, but a clear and firm reflection on life and the human thing other than myself to break request, pronounced word by word condition, on this certainty of God's through, to puncture the horizons "et lux perpetua". love. of my being in order to show me After a very brief statement of
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praise from the solo soprano, the full chorus resumes a forceful repeat of the request: "hear my prayer". This moves immediately into the Kyrie, the great cry for mercy. Mercy for what? Fr Giussani writes: "Mozart presents in his Requiem man's evil, the world's hate, and sin's malice within the reverberations of the mercy of God. On one hand he leads us with his music into the tremendous choice of the man who refuses God. The word that best expresses this refusal is forgetting; it refers to an experience that adults have. A child is attentive, but when an adult withdraws his attention from something, it is deliberate. So forgetting is refusal." Our deepest forgetting, he says, is the most obvious and most profound thing that one can know about oneself: that "I do not owe my existence to myself. I did not give myself my life, but I exist because some mysterious Other, outside myself, has given my being and is holding me in being in every instant. The deepest self-awareness I can come to is that 'I am You who make me'," Prof. Kinder said. Fr Giussani also wrote: "The world's injustice is a forgetting of God, injustice in your life and my life is the forgetting of God, this is the "crime" from which all other crimes derive." The "Kyrie" is a plea for mercy for this forgetting. This ancient prayer, Prof. Kinder said, is given majestic setting in a monumental fugue, in which the four voices of the chorus take turns in singing the tune on the two phrases "Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison". Round and round goes the music until the chorus unites in a final "Kyrie eleison".
"The way one looks at death shapes the way one looks at life." The music is strong, vibrant, confident, and ends with chorus and orchestra at full volume, in a strong open chord with beating drum. "This is no meek plea, made out of fear or hopeless guilt. This is a question that demands an answer, the cry of a beggar who demands to be heard, a question made in the certainty that it will be heard and answered," Prof. Kinder said. This intensity leads directly into the second section of the Requiem, the "Sequence", a medieval poem that was always included in the Catholic funeral Mass until the 1960s. It uses biblical images of judge-
ment in a powerful meditation on the Last Judgement, consisting of 17 verses of just three lines each. Mozart divides it into six parts, each with its own distinct feel, reflecting the meaning of the words. The opening "Dies Irae" section announces the awesome greatness of the Lord who will judge all creation, in a short piece of relentless energy. The "Tuba mirum" has four soloists, all of whom have moments when they are heard clearly and distinctly but are soon brought back into an ensemble. This very structure reflects a deep theology of man, Prof. Kinder says. "We could think of the soloists as a kind of mini-chorus, as opposed to the general chorus. The Requiem is a reflection on our common destiny. It is all ensemble, collective expression. The destiny being reflected on here, is ours, it is for all of us, none of us can escape the mortal condition the work puts before us. We are in it together," he said. The soloists are heard in turn, from lowest to highest. The Bass sings of the trumpet summoning all creation to judgement and the Tenor describes the book containing all things being opened. The Alto presents the figure of the judge, and the Soprano introduces the theme of humanity in its immense misery. Then all four come together to repeat the last line twice, in a statement of human smallness in the face of Infinite Being. The "Rex tremendae" section presents the figure of the Eternal Judge. The word "Rex" (King) is repeated three times by the chorus, at full volume, and then the first two lines are sung over a few times. But then, "in contrast to the unbridgeable distance that separates us from the eternal King of the world, comes the unexpected sweetness of the invocation 'Save me, oh fount of mercy7 First the female voices, then the male voices and then whole chorus "ends humbly in an embrace already foreshadowed in the sweet final notes". In the long fourth section "Recordare", the chorus implores Christ directly, reminding Him that He entered human history to save all people. One verse introduces the theme of hope: "You who absolved Mary (Magdalen), and granted the thief's request, to me also have you given hope." The quietly certain music underlines that this hope is sure and has good grounds, Prof. Kinder says. "(The music says) I believe in faith that Jesus showed mercy to, among others, Mary Magdalen and
the good thief and this gives me grounds for hope in mercy being shown to me. This understanding of hope speaks to us modern people, in our hope-poor postmodern world. We need a hope that the Holy Father has called 'realistic' (Spe Salvi: 30) and Fr Giussani called 'reasonable' (Is It Possible to Live This Way, Volume 2: Hope). Where might such a hope come from? Fr Giussani describes faith as the recognition of a presence, which allows man to experience the answer to the yearnings of his heart, which can only be something of divine origin. The experience of this presence is the foundation of hope. One's hope is realistic and can be certain, as Pope Benedict says, if it is grounded in a present certainty. The music returns, in the "Confutatis maledictis" section, to the contemplation of evil, and the judgement that will defeat it. The theme "The damned will be condemned and thrown into harsh flames" is sung imperiously by the male voices, with a whirling rhythm in the orchestra. Then in the third line, we immediately hear, again, the entreaty, the begging, entrusted to the female voices: "Call me among the blessed": The entire chorus then joins together in prayer "I beg you, prostrate and imploring" - this is in the gesture of hope grounded in faith. The final "Lacrimosa" section was added some time after the rest of the poem was established. Amid tears, expressed through the sobbing rhythm of the chorus and orchestra, the sinner will hear the judgement as he rises from the flames. A surprise is in store in the final two lines. The entire poem has so far expressed the perspective of the individual, "save me", "call me': Now in a gesture of boundless charity, the gaze moves out to embrace all the dead, all humanity, with whom we share a common destiny, Prof. Kinder says: "Merciful Lord Jesus, grant them rest. The final 'Amen' is delivered with conviction, in the certainty that the questions in my heart arise because they have an answer." The Communion prayer, the final prayer of the Requiem Mass, echoes the words of the Entrance Prayer. Mozart has underlined this by using the same music from the Entrance and the Kyrie, creating a mighty frame to the entire work, which opens and closes with the theme of begging and mercy. Soprano and chorus repeat the entreaty "Eternal rest grant to them, 0 Lord; and let perpetual light shine
upon them, 0 Lord". The final two lines are miraculous in the way the music and words combine. The line "with your saints forever" is set to the same mighty fugue as the opening Kyrie, and as we hear this phrase repeated over thirty times through the chorus, we know that this is the basis of our hope: our conviction that the saints are already in the presence of God, this gives us the certainty to make the final statement. And the final statement is delivered with force in a majestic final affirmation of the victory of mercy
over evil: "for you are merciful". The work thus ends not with a statement about death, about us, about our sinfulness, our unworthiness, Prof. Kinder says. It ends with a statement about the source of our being, the God who made us, who holds us in being and restores us to fullness through his gratuitous gaze of mercy. This statement is based on faith, the lived experience of encounter with Christ, and because it is based on faith, it is a statement of certain hope. That is why Mozart's Requiem is, ultimately, a statement of hope.
Amadeus Mozart, whose Requiem piece was his last composition and was incomplete when he died. The eccentric count Franz von Walsegg, an amateur chamber musician himself, commissioned the Requiem from Mozart anonymously through intermediaries acting on his behalf.The count wanted a Requiem Mass he could claim he composed to memorialise the recent passing of his wife.
Deep kinship between music, hope: Pope Benedict XVI says music can bring hope to a wounded world. VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Music can bring hope to a wounded humanity, Pope Benedict XVI said. At the end of an evening concert held in his honour on April 24, 2008 to mark the third anniversary of the start of his pontificate, Pope Benedict said there is "a mysterious and deep kinship between music and hope, between song and eternal life." The musical arts, therefore, have enormous spiritual value and are called to "instill hope in the human spirit so scarred and at times wounded by earthly life," he said. Milan's Giuseppe Verdi symphony orchestra and chorus performed works by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven and Luciano Berio in the Vatican's Paul VI hall to a large audi-
ence that included the Pope's elder brother, Mgr Georg Ratzinger. Italy's President Giorgio Napolitano, who sat next to the Pope during the performance, offered the concert to the Pope as a gift. Pope Benedict told the audience the joy music and song bring is "a constant invitation to the faithful and people of good will to dedicate themselves to offer humanity a future rich with hope." Any "authentic art" is just like prayer and never represents escapism from reality, he said. Rather the arts, like prayer, prompt people to improve the world and cultivate it so that it can bear the fruits of peace and goodness, he said. Pope Benedict praised Italy's rich cultural and artistic heritage, urging the country to be an example to the rest of the world. Young people need to learn about "authentic beauty" and have the opportunity to let art "refine their soul and guide them toward the building of a world that is open to spiritual ideals."
Pope Benedict XVI plays the piano at his summer retreat in Les Combes, Italy, in this photo released by the Vatican newspaper in 2006. The Pope played music by Wolfgang Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach on the upright piano that was moved into the Salesian-owned chalet in time for his first visit in 2005. PHOTO- CNS/UOSSERVATORE ROMANO VIA REUTERS
By appealing to the intellect in youth in speaking about faith as a concrete reality, Fr Luigi Giussani grew a hugely successsful movement of young people eager for a personal relationship with Christ.
Fr Luigi Giussani addresses university students in Italy.
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or various reasons, my mother became dissatisfied with the Catholic faith. She became 'born again' in a fundamental, charismatic, Pentecostal group. My father was a nonpractising member of the Church of England and he also joined that group. According to that particular group's beliefs, the gift of speaking in tongues is a necessary part of salvation. They believe that without this gift, you don't have the Holy Spirit and therefore will not be saved. I received this gift at the age of 11. Despite my wife to be not being 'saved' I fell in love with her. After we were married, the differences between our two religions became troublesome. I was disillusioned with my own church as I saw hypocrisy in my friends. Eventually I could not tell the difference between the people in the church and anyone else - except that most other people were not as judgmental. I stopped going to church for some years. I believed all religion was fundamentally and hopelessly flawed and therewith Debbie Warner fore not worth my time. Ironically, the main thing that ensured that I retained my faith in God was the miracle of speaking in tongues. The first of our three daughters arrived in 2003. This had the greatest impact on my wife who was a 'cradle' Catholic. It reaffirmed her faith when considering what she wanted for her children. As our family grew, we looked a little into other religions. However, the strongest influence remained Catholicism. I grew up being taught that the Pope was the Antichrist, so I still had some obstacles to overcome. Despite this I didn't object to my children being baptised Catholic. Through my wife's and family's involvement in Ss John and Paul Parish, I increasingly saw similarities between the Catholic faith and my own - minus the divisiveness. After attending church for about nine months, I joined the RCIA so that I could properly learn what my children would be taught. The RCIA process firmly established the core components of Christianity. It brought to life the traditional and symbolic meanings behind the operation of the Catholic faith. Additionally, the RCIA leaders struck me as genuinely and wholeheartedly committed to their faith in God and their place within Christianity as a whole. Actions speak louder than words. Almost to the end of the RCIA process, I did not intend to actually become part of the Catholic Church. A key turning point was the understanding of the beauty within the true meaning of the Catholic Mass - the single meeting point of all Christians, before us and after us. It is the moment where Jesus forgives our sins for all time through His sacrifice. My decision to become Catholic was largely because of my wife, her family and the desire to be of the same faith as my children. It didn't hurt that I was returning to my roots. Since converting I feel reaffirmed in my faith in God and my sense that "all things work together for good for those that love the Lord" (to paraphrase). Ibelieve that everything that happens in our lives is to God's plan; good and bad.I also try and really live Jesus' prayer "Not my will Lord, but yours". My life would be simpler without my faith but it would also be significantly less in purpose and meaning.
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ur household was recently rocked by revelations from my two-year old daughter that Jesus had appeared to her. My bewilderment, however, was quickly subdued when she announced that He had told her that she no longer had to eat her vegetables. She may not be a visionary, but Ana certainly has a lot to teach me about human nature. I see her creative attempts to avoid the things that she doesn't like as a microcosm of the world we live in. In her innate desire to engage only in pursuits that are pleasing to the senses, she is willing to forgo those things that are actually good for her health. It reminded me of why I want my life and those of my children to be guided by the teachings of the Catholic Church. Without them I know that my thoughts and actions would become slaves to my desires and instincts and more often than not this would result in self-gratification rather than the greater good. It is why Pope Benedict XVI continuously warns us of the dangers of moral relativism. If we do not have a foundation on which to construct our lives then we will instinctively create our own. And such foundations, because they are not set in rock, will ebb and flow as our emotions and circumstances change. It is why support for abortion and euthanasia is gathering momentum and it is why I am becoming increasingly at peace with the Church's immovability on such issues. The preciousness of life is being eroded at its extremities largely because secularism is dictated by free-
dom of choice, and choice is generally dictated by self-interest. There is no firm ground to stand on once one has stepped off the solid foundation preserved by the Church. The tattered edges that one may try in vain to cling onto begin to further unravel. We have gone from allowing abortion due to rape to permitting it for inconvenience. With embryonic manipulation advancing as it is, it is only a matter of time before genetic selection becomes the norm. Once we have stepped off the rock there is no justification for stopping the momentum. Likewise, euthanasia, once embraced, will snowball from individual cases of < "mercy" to include those who are interfering with our own quality of life. As overstated as the connection may sound, the childish precepts that motivate my daughter to shirk her vegetables are powerfully at work in our society. There remains a deep desire within all of us to be the ruler of our own domain and if left
to our own choosing we will devise and manipulate our environment to fulfil this presumed right. Those looking from the outside may argue that Catholics are imprisoned by the rules and regulations that they perceive are at work, but the irony is that there is true freedom in not being manipulated by our senses. What these onlookers fail to see is the love that underpins the foundations that have been laid. It is no different to the parent who insists that their child holds their hand when they cross the road or stops them sticking a knife in the toaster or forces them to give back the toy they snatched from their sibling. The child may not want to do these things, but it is love that will ensure that the parent will not negotiate with their self-interest. It is the same love that inspires the Church that Jesus founded - and the same love that will ensure that Ana does indeed eat all her vegetables.
Daily Mass not mandatory but crucial By Fr John Flader
Priests and daily Mass I have heard priests say that while on holidays they don't celebrate Mass but attend it on Sundays along with the congregation. Also some priests don't seem to celebrate Mass in their parish on their day off Aren't they required to celebrate Mass every day?
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riests, while earnestly exhorted to celebrate Mass each day, are not strictly required to do so. The Code of Canon Law, in a Canon on the special obligation of clerics to seek holiness, says that "they are to nourish their spiritual life at the twofold table of the sacred Scripture and the Eucharist; priests are therefore earnestly invited to offer the eucharistic Sacrifice daily, and deacons to participate daily in the offering" (Can. 276 §2, 2). This invitation contrasts with the obligation to pray the Liturgy of the Hours, or Divine Office, each day: "Priests, and deacons aspiring to the priesthood, are obliged to carry out the liturgy of the hours daily, in accordance with their own approved liturgical books" (Can. 276 §2, 3). Why should priests be required to pray the Liturgy of the Hours and not to celebrate Mass, when Mass would seem to be more important? Perhaps the most important reason for this distinction is of a practical nature.
In order to celebrate Mass, a priest needs all the required objects: hosts and wine, a chalice, cruets, altar cloths, corporal and purifier, missal and lectionary, vestments, etc. There are times when these are simply not available, especially when the priest is travelling and there is no Catholic church within reach. For this reason the Church does not require a priest to go to extraordinary lengths to say Mass. To pray the Liturgy of the Hours, on the other hand, all that is needed is one volume of the Breviary and every priest has this. This does not take anything away from the great importance of the Mass in the life of the priest and of the Church. According to another Canon in the Code of Canon Law, "Remembering always that in the mystery of the Eucharistic Sacrifice the work of redemption is continually being carried out, priests are to celebrate frequently. Indeed, daily celebration is earnestly recommended, because, even if it should not be possible to have the faithful present, it is an action of Christ and of the Church in which priests fulfil their principal role" (Can. 904). The Second Vatican Council spoke of the Eucharist as the "source and summit of the Christian life" (Lumen gentium, 11) and said also that the Eucharistic Sacrifice is "the centre and root of the whole life of the priest, so that the priestly soul strives to make its own what is enacted on the altar of sacrifice" (Decr. Presbyterorum ordinis, 14). If so many of the lay faithful go to great lengths to attend Mass every day, it is understandable that priests should do so with even more reason, since this is, as the Canon just quoted says, "their principal role". Fortunately, most priests do regard the celebration of Mass as the most important activity of their day.
In this regard, Pope John Paul II wrote in his book Gift and Mystery on the occasion of the golden jubilee of his priestly ordination, "The priesthood, in its deepest reality, is the priesthood of Christ. It is Christ who offers himself, his Body and Blood, in sacrifice to God the Father, and by this sacrifice makes righteous in the Father's eyes all mankind and, indirectly, all creation. The priest, in his daily celebration of the Eucharist, goes to the very heart of this mystery. For this reason, the celebration of the Eucharist must be the most important moment of the priest's day, the centre of his life" (p. 75). The Cure of Ars too was very devoted to the Eucharist. Pope Benedict, in his letter for the Year for Priests commemorating the 150th anniversary of the death of this great saint, says of St Jean Vianney: "He was convinced that the fervour of a priest's life depended entirely upon the Mass: 'The reason why a priest is lax is that he does not pay attention to the Mass! My God, how we ought to pity a priest who celebrates as if he were engaged in something routiner In this Year for Priests, we can thank God for our priests, who make Jesus Christ present to us, and we pray for their holiness, asking Our Lord to send many priestly vocations our way.
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SPOTLIGHT ON SAINTS St Camillus de Lellis
Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614) was a very tall and powerful man, yet he had a painful leg problem that made him lame for most of his adult life. In 1571, Camillus entered a hospital in Rome for patients with incurable illnesses. After nine months there, he was told to leave the hospital because of his argumentative personality. He then became a soldier in the war against the Turks. Camillus was also a compulsive gambler, and he lost his money and even his weapons. Now in total poverty, he swore to change his life, so he worked for the Franciscans as a labourer. He wanted to join the Capuchins, but was refused because of the disease in his leg. He returned to the hospital that had thrown him out, where he became a devoted servant of the patients. Camillus formed a group of like-minded workers called the Ministers of the Sick. Eventually he was ordained a priest, and Pope Leo XIII declared him to be the patron of the sick. We honour him on July 14.
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BIBLE ACCENT: Jesus was always concerned about the needs of the people who came to hear him preach. He fed the crowd with only a few fish and five loaves of bread. But there are other stories in the Bible where hungry people were fed, because God was watching over them. Probably the most well-known example is when God sent manna from heaven when the Israelites were wandering in the wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. When Elijah was hungry, ravens brought him bread and meat (1 Kgs 17). Psalm 146 says, "The Lord ... who made heaven and earth ... gives food to the hungry." But there is one type of hunger God wants us to have, and which Jesus said comes with a reward: "Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied" (from Mt 5). We should always pray that God sends "our daily bread" to our families and to every family.
CHILDREN'S STORY JESUS FEEDS 5,000 WITH A FEW LOAVES, FISH By Joe Sarnicola After Jesus had crossed the Sea of Galilee, a large crowd followed him, because they knew he had healed many sick people. Jesus climbed a mountain with his disciples, and he could see that the crowd had gotten very large. Jesus could see that the people were hungry, the men, women and children. He said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" Philip just shook his head and said, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little (bit)." Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Jesus, "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?" Jesus told his disciples, "Have the people recline." There was a large, grassy field that was clear and flat enough for all of the people, which numbered about 5,000. Jesus took the food that the boy had, said a prayer of thanks and had his disciples start passing out the bread and fish. As Jesus gave them food, they walked through the crowd and gave it to anyone who wanted, as much as they were able to eat. When the disciples finished, there was enough food for everyone and there were still uneaten portions. Then Jesus said, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." The disciples did as Jesus asked and went around with baskets to collect anything that had not been eaten. It took them quite a while to gather the food, but they filled 12 of their baskets with what they had picked up. The crowd was amazed that Jesus had fed them all to their fill, with food left over, yet he had brought no food with him. There was only the bread and fish provided by the boy. "This is truly the Prophet,"they said, "the one who is to come into the world." Jesus knew that the crowd would have liked to pick him up and carry him off to declare him a king, but he did not want that to happen. He quietly slipped away, hiding behind his disciples, and he left them to climb higher up the mountain where he could be alone.
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UK disintegrating as faith recedes Britain's leaders warn on effects of the loss of common values. • By Father John Flynn LC
ROME (Zenit.org) - The decline of Christianity and moral values in general is reaching new lows in Britain. While the number of faithful has been decreasing for some time now, warnings about the situation are starting to come from all quarters. Britain is no longer a Christian nation, affirmed Anglican bishop, Paul Richardson, in an article published on June 27 in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The Anglican prelate was also critical of his fellow bishops for not understanding just how serious the change is in contemporary culture, and for their lack of action in dealing with this serious crisis of faith. Only around one per cent of Anglicans attend Sunday services on average, according to Richardson. "At this rate it is hard to see the church surviving for more than 30 years though few of its leaders are prepared to face that possibility," he warned. He also noted that out of every 1000 live births in England and Wales in the period 2006-07 only 128 were baptised as Anglicans. This compares to 609 per thousand in 1900. Just the day before, in the Times newspaper, Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, chief rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, deplored the lack of a shared moral code in Britain. Reflecting on the current financial crisis and the recent revelations of scandals over Parliamentarians' expenses, he commented that these and other problems have resulted in a loss of trust in society. There is an underlying problem, however, that is much more serious, he said: the loss of the traditional sense of morality. We are very moral in some things, such as world poverty and global warming, the
Rabbi contended, but these are remote and global. Sacks declared that when it comes to matters closer to our own lives we have lost our sense of right and wrong regarding our personal behaviour. "Instead, there are choices. The market facilitates those choices. The state handles the consequences, picking up the pieces when they go wrong," the Jewish leader observed. It's no use just treating the symptoms with more laws and surveillance systems. "Without a shared moral code there can be no free society," Sacks argued. While opinion polls have limitations, a couple of recent surveys provided confirmation of the warnings by religious leaders. A study carried out by Penguin books, albeit in conjunction with a promotion of a recent book on the topic, said that nearly twothirds of teenagers do not believe in God. According to the June 22 report in the Telegraph the study of 1000 teens showed that 59 per cent thought religion has a negative influence on the world. The survey also revealed that half of those questioned have never prayed and 16 per cent have never been to church. A week later the Independent published the results of a survey about Bible knowledge. The June 29 article reported that many are ignorant of the stories and the people who are fundamental to the history of Christianity. According to preliminary results of the National Biblical Literacy Survey, carried out by St John's College Durham, as few as 10 per cent of people understood the main characters in the Bible and their relevance. About 60 per cent were unaware of the story of the Good Samaritan and figures such as Abraham and Joseph were also foreign to many. According to the Independent's article, Anglican priest David Wilkinson from St John's, said the consequences of such ignorance go well beyond just being unaware of the Bible. Knowledge of these stories and persons in the Bible is essential in order to understand our history and culture, and not least art, music and literature, so much of
Atheist Bus Campaign creator Ariane Sherine poses in front of a bus bearing an atheist message during the launch of the campaign in London on January 6. The atheist advertisements were to appear on 800 buses and 1,000 subway trains in Britain. PHOTO. CNS/ANDRE WINNING, REUTERS
which is bound up with religious themes, he observed. This is an ignorance that the well-known proponent of atheism, Richard Dawkins, is trying to promote. A June 28 article published in the Guardian newspaper reported that he is organizing an atheist summer camp this year in England. Camp Quest UK, will be "free of religious dogma," the article added. Apparently the five-day camp, subsidized by a grant from the Richard Dawkins Foundation, is fully booked. The recent warnings from religious leaders followed on the heels of similar expressions of concern. On April 5, Anglican bishop Michael Nazir- Ali published an article in the Telegraph newspaper on the occasion of his resignation as bishop of Rochester. In his nearly 15 years there he said: "I have watched the nation drift further and further away from its Christian moorings", leading to a loosening of the ties of law, customs and values, and also to a loss of identity and cohesiveness. "Our ideas about the sacredness of the human person at every stage of life, of equality and natural rights and, therefore, of freedom, have demonstrably arisen from the tradition rooted in the Bible," he added. The new Catholic leader of England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, addressed the same topic shortly before becoming the Archbishop of Westminster. In a March 29 article in the Telegraph he
affirmed that Britain has sold its soul by pursuing a purely secular reason over religion. As a result, faith is now confined to a purely private pursuit and values are drawn from secular and material sources. Not only do Britain's politicians live in a purely secular and material world, but they also do not allow for a mature consideration of the key role of religious belief in society, he contended. The affirmations by Archbishop Nichols were published in a recent book of essays titled The Nation That Forgot God. In common with the other religious leaders Archbishop Nichols also pointed out the lack of social cohesion that results when there are no shared moral principles and values. The secular, liberal view of the human person is mistaken and simply won't work, he argued. His predecessor, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, was of similar views. In a report last December in the Telegraph he commented that Britain has become an "unfriendly" place for religious people to live in. His comments also came from a contribution to a book of essays, Faith in the Nation. The rise of secularism has resulted in a society hostile to Christianity, and in general, religious belief is looked upon as "a private eccentricity:' He also noted that atheism is now more aggressive and that there is now a vocal minority who argue that religion has no place in modern society.
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violence upon the most defenceless and recognising marriage as a union of a man and a woman for life. Just two days before the announcement, officials from the Pauline basilica cleverly dodged questions about whether experts had been poking around inside the tomb. During the June 26 press conference detailing the highlights of the Pauline year, the basilica's archpriest, Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo, said, "It certainly is tempting" to open the enormous marble sarcophagus, "which has been there for 20 or 19 centuries and has never been opened:' A Vatican engineer for the basilica, Pier Carlo Visconti, said they tried to X-ray it to see what was inside, but the 10-inch-thick marble was impenetrable. When asked specifically if they still deny that a hole was drilled in the marble to insert a small camera and whether bone fragments were found, the cardinal replied, "I am not changing what we have said:' The cardinal obviously didn't want to steal the Pope's thunder., the Pope said a "very tiny perforation" had been drilled into the marble to insert a small probe and withdraw fragments of what was inside. Experts found traces of purple linen, a blue fabric with linen threads, grains of red incense and
A restorer uses a laser to reveal an image that Vatican archeologists believe is the oldest in existence of St Paul the Apostle, dating from the late fourth century, on the walls of the Santa Thecla catacomb beneath Rome in this undated photo released on June 29. PHOTO. CNS/PONTIFICAL COMMISSION FOR SACRED ARCHAEOLOGY, REUTERS
bone fragments that date from the time of the apostle's death, the Pope said. Then, as if the Apostle of the Gentiles knew his special year was soon coming to an end, he made a surprise appearance before Vatican archeologists restoring a catacomb in Rome, not far from the Pauline basilica. Restorers with the Pontifical C ommission for Sacred Archeology used St. Paul's feast day to announce in the Vatican newspaper that they had uncovered the oldest known depiction of St Paul. While using a laser to blast off limestone encrusting the ceiling in
the catacombs of St Thecla, archeologists made the important discovery on June 19. The beauty and detail of the fourth-century portrait was so stunning "it took the restorers' breath away," said one article in the two-page newspaper spread devoted to the discovery. The image of a bald man with a stern expression, a high forehead, large eyes, distinctive nose and a dark tapered beard tipped experts off that this was St. Paul because it matched images of him from later centuries. This portrait is in fact one of "the oldest and most detailed" portraits found in ancient Christian art, the paper said.
Even though the year of St Paul is officially over, St. Paul probably will continue making headlines. Archeologists working at the catacombs of St Thecla are expected to uncover more important artwork as their restoration project continues. And Cardinal Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo said on June 26 that the Vatican has not excluded the possibility of conducting a complete study of the presumed sarcophagus of St Paul and its contents. As part of the sarcophagus is wedged beneath building material, opening it would mean demolishing the papal altar above it and removing the 13th-century marble baldachin. He said that the Pope did not want such an invasive project to be done during the Pauline year, but "if afterwards it could be studied and done, we will think about it," said the cardinal. The Vatican also plans to begin a massive expansion of the Pauline basilica's facilities. The cardinal, who has a degree in architecture, said he has designed a new three-stone building that will cover 10,700 square feet not far from the basilica. The extra space is needed, he said, because the basilica has no storage or office space, and modern restrooms and a first aid centre for pilgrims and tourists are needed. The building was delayed while the cardinal waged a minor battle with Vatican archeologists who did not want any construction
done near the basilica. All the deep digging necessary to lay the foundations would have disturbed layers upon layers of old construction going back to the fifth century, he said. He said the archeologists wanted him to place the new building further away from the site, but he said he told them, "No, I'm making the facilities close by. I can't send pilgrims a quarter of a mile away to go to the bathroom:' "After fighting for two years, finally we have found a compromise:' he said. The building will be constructed near the basilica, but a belowground museum will be constructed to allow visitors to see some of the archeological finds. The cardinal said the core samples and vertical digs came up with little of value, in his opinion, but he admitted that as an architect he is biased against what he sees as unreasonable demands in the name of preservation. It's impossible to dig anywhere in Rome without uncovering something from the past, but not all of it is valuable or important, he said. For example, Vatican archeologists found construction debris dating from the seventh century and told him a convent for nuns had been built there. "Humph! I say, to be able to tell from a chunk of wall that it was a convent, I find that a little difficult," he said. - Additional reporting by The Record
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New social encyclical to hit sore spots Pope's new encyclical to link safeguarding human life, feeding poor, protecting environment with ethical economics. • By Cindy Wooden
ROME (CNS) - When Pope Benedict XVI's social encyclical is released, Catholics shouldn't just ask, "What does the Pope say I'm doing right?" but "What should I do to act more morally?" said the head of the Knights of Columbus. Supreme Knight Carl A Anderson, who heads the 1.7 million-member fraternal organisation and its enormous life insurance business, spoke to Catholic News Service on July 1 in Rome. The Vatican announced that the Pope's encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth), would be released July 7. Anderson said he would ask the top executives of the Knights of Columbus insurance program to read the encyclical and look at ways it is calling the Knights to make changes to their business and other programs. Too many people, he said, already are predicting that the encyclical will validate their ideas about the economy, finance, business practices and development aid. Catholics need to allow the encyclical to challenge them to act with more integrity, more morality and greater charity, Anderson said. "I hope it is going to lead to a moral reassessment and open the
door to more ethical values in our business and economy," he said. Announcing the encyclical on June 29, the Pope said it would reflect on "some aspects of holistic development in our age in the light of love in truth," and he said he hoped it would help those working for "sustainable progress in full respect for human dignity and the real needs of all." L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, said that Pope Benedict hit some of the same points made in the encyclical during his homily on June 28 closing the Year of St Paul. "For Christians truth and love go together," the Pope had said. In fact, "love is the proof of the truth," so those who truly believe will be committed to acts of charity and to defending the truth of the dignity of the human person and the sacredness of human life. Anderson said he believes the current global financial crisis highlights a weakness in the global economy that Pope Benedict, thenCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, spoke about in 1985 when he said the success of the free-market economy requires the participation of people who are free to act morally. "The Pope would say a Christian cannot ask the question Cain asked, 'Am I my brother's keeper?' because a Christian knows you are. To be a Christian means to be a person for others:' Anderson said. The Knights' insurance program has more than $17.58 billion in assets and some $89.15 billion worth of insurance in force, Anderson said. For the 34th year in a row, the program has earned the top rating
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Priest in hiding after Honduran soldiers attack protesters TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (CNS) - An activist priest in Honduras went into hiding after soldiers attacked a group of protesters who had blocked a rural highway in support of ousted President Manuel Zelaya. Fr Jose Andres Tamayo, the parish priest in Salama, told Catholic News Service by telephone on July 1 that he and hundreds of other residents of the rural province of Olancho were on their way to Tegucigalpa on June 29 to join a pro-Zelaya march when soldiers shot out tires on their seven rented buses near the town of Los Limones, about 100 miles from the nation's capital. "Since we couldn't proceed to Tegucigalpa, we decided to block the highway there. The army came twice to warn us to leave, and then they returned at 2am today and started beating us," he said. Fr Tamayo estimated about 200 soldiers confronted some 200 demonstrators in the raid.
Malden remembered for famous priest portrayal WASHINGTON (CNS) - Oscaractor winning Karl Malden, who famously portrayed Father Pete Barry, a mob-combating priest Catholic in 1954's On the Waterfront, died on July 1 in Los Angeles of natural causes
given by AM Best and for the 17th year in a row it earned Standard & Poor's top rating. "The thing about the K of C is that we have tried hard to run our business enterprise according to the social doctrine of the church," Anderson said. "We are not perfect at that, people make mistakes," but "at the end of the day we have tried to run an ethical enterprise and it has succeeded." The Knights are "very conservative" in their investments and have ethical guidelines for purchasing stocks and bonds, he said. The guidelines, for instance, rule out investing in pharmaceutical companies that make abortifacients, companies engaged in embryonic stem-cell research or those involved in pornography. "And yet our return consistently beats the S&P 500 or equals them:' he said. "The values the Church talks about as far as how you ought to run your affairs as a business can work. That doesn't mean that we don't have investments that go bad," he said, but overall "you can compete in the free-market system ethically and you can survive." "Doing the right thing isn't always the most profitable," he said, but that is not the point. "You are called to be faithful not because it will make you successful, but for other reasons. And hopefully you are successful." An Italian newspaper reported on June 27 that the Pope's encyclical would include a section reminding people that safeguarding and valuing human life, feeding the poor and protecting the environment are interconnected obligations flowing from the rec-
aged 97. A Catholic, Malden portrayed a priest four times on television and in film, including a 2000 appearance on NBC's "The West Wing," the final role of his career. For the part, Malden used the same stole and breviary he had used nearly 50 years earlier to play Father Barry. Malden's portrayal of Father Barry was largely based on the true story of Father John Corridan, a Jesuit priest who fought corruption in New York City longshoremen labour unions during the post-World War II era. Malden's performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor.
Americans believe in lifelong marriage, but don't live it ST PAUL, Minnesota (CNS) - Although the majority of Americans want to get married and believe marriage should last a lifetime, the American dream often doesn't match the reality, social scientist Barbara Dafoe Whitehead told an audience of family life ministers in St Paul. "You might say that Americans are enchanted with the idea of marriage and the aspiration to marriage, but disenchanted with being married, particularly to one person for a lifetime:' she said. And Catholics are showing tendencies more like the general population than in previous generations, she said in a June 25 keynote address at the annual conference of the National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers. Titled "Becoming a Marriage-Building Church: Implementing the US Bishops' Pastoral Initiative on Marriage," the conference offered a range of workshops and featured national speakers on marriagerelated issues. It was held June 25-28 at the University of St Thomas. The US bishops have named marriage a top priority and in 2004 launched the multiyear National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage. They also plan to release a pastoral letter on marriage.
Modern Social Encyclicals 1891 Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) Leo XIII on the rights and duties of capital and labor 1931 Quadragesimo Anno (On Reconstructing the Social Order) Pius XI on the 40th anniversary of Rerum Novarum 1961 Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) John XXIII on Christianity and social progress 1963 Pacem in Terris (Peace on Earth) John XXIII on universal rights and relations between states 1967 Populorum Progressio (The Progress of Peoples) Paul VI on human development and social justice 1981 Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) John Paul II on the dignity and rights of workers 1987 Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concerns) John Paul II on the 20th anniversary of Populorum Progressio 1991 Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year) John Paul II on Rerum Novarum in light of the collapse of communism Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) John Paul II on the sacredness of all human life 2009 Caritas in Veritate (Charity in Truth) Benedict XVI on charity as the heart of the church's social doctrine 02009 CNS
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ognition of God as the creator of the universe. The newspaper said that the Pope would tell people that "openness to life is at the centre of true development" because "if you lose the personal and social sensitivity of welcoming a new life," the other forms of welcoming and acceptance that make peaceful coexistence possible begin to dry up. Anderson said: "A Christian, if
Disasters prompt Papal Haiti plea VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community to continue to help Haiti recover from recent natural disasters by offering concrete aid and support. Hurricanes swept through Haiti last year, killing hundreds of people, devastating agricultural production, crippling the nation's infrastructure and displacing about 9 percent of the population. The Pope said he hoped the solidarity that has been shown by the international community would continue. "It is necessary that, in this particularly delicate period in the life of the nation, the international community offers concrete gestures of support to people in need:' he said in a July 6 audience with Haiti's new ambassador to the Vatican, Carl-Henry Guiteau, who presented his credentials. Haiti's vulnerability to natural disasters has led to more awareness about the need to safeguard creation, the Pope added.
he or she is serious, sees a person as a gift of God. If a person is (considered) 'a contraceptive mistake,' that's a really different attitude." When people realise they are a gift of God and so is everyone else, "then everything changes," he said. If each life has value, then everyone has an obligation to work to ensure that everyone has the food and other things they need to survive, he said.
and is a member of the National Catholic Office for the Deaf and the International Catholic Deaf Association.
Blast near Philippine church 'ignoble gesture': Pope VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI deplored a July 5 bomb blast inside a vendor stall that killed five and injured dozens near a cathedral in the southern Philippines. He called the July 5 attack "an ignoble gesture and condemned "the recourse to violence which is never an appropriate way to solve existing problems." At the end of his July 5 Angelus address to pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Pope condemned the Philippine attack and continued violence in the world. "Human blood continues to flow as a result of violence, injustice and hatred:' he said. "When will people learn that life is sacred and belongs to God alone? When will people understand that we are all brothers and sisters?"
Retreat, Mass in sign language for deaf Cardinals blame HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (CNS) Father Michael Depcik, an Oblate of St Vatican deficit on Francis de Sales, knows full well the challenges of catechizing and tending to the economic crisis spiritual needs of deaf Catholics. He is one of only six "culturally deaf" priests in the United States. Culturally deaf people are those who are born deaf or who become deaf early in life. They rely primarily on sign language to communicate. In late June Fr Depcik visited the Diocese of Harrisburg to lead a prayer day for deaf Catholics and celebrate Mass in American Sign Language at St Patrick Cathedral in Harrisburg. "Deaf people grow up not really understanding their faith, not really understanding their relationship with God," said Fr Depcik said. Fr Depcik, 39, who ministers to deaf Catholics in the Archdiocese of Chicago
VATICAN CITY (CNS) - The global economic crisis, along with some extraordinary maintenance work, had a big impact on the budget of Vatican City State, which usually ends the year with several millions of dollars in surplus. The budget, which includes the Vatican Museums and the care of Vatican buildings, ended 2008 with a deficit of more than A$26.3 million, the Vatican reported. The separate budget of the Holy See, which includes the offices of the Roman Curia, finished 2008 in better shape than a year earlier, but still registered a deficit of more than A$1.58 million.
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Turning 'First into 'Last' Communion CFFL survey reveals that a number of Perth parishes are running parenting groups.
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he CFFFL recently conducted a survey of programs that focussed on family and life issues in every parish in the Archdiocese. Some of these results have been published in The Record previously. One of the categories of the survey looked at "Parenting" issues and 27 parishes indicated that they run parenting groups. Some parishes had "Mothers' Group" or even a "Fathers' Group". Barbara Harris, Vice-chairperson of the CFFFL said, "Supporting parents is a very important concern for the Committee and we are always keen to hear what is happening:' Barbara said that an on-going issue for parents and a very important part of parenting responsibility lies in the preparation of children for the Sacraments, specifically Reconciliation, Eucharist and Confirmation. Angela Youens, part-time Parish Sacramental Co-ordinator at Infant Jesus Parish Morley points out that over the last thirty years "this responsibility has been delegated more and more to the Catholic school and the Parish Religious Education Program Co-ordinator (PREP). In our parish, this has resulted in the development of two excellent but separate programs which are mostly isolated from the activity of the parish". In 2008 Archbishop Hickey in his pastoral directives on the Sacrament of Confirmation indicated a change of direction in the preparation and celebration of Sacraments. That move places Sacrament preparation responsibility back with the family. Under the direction of the Archbishop the preparation of children for the Sacraments is to be 'family focussed', 'parish based' and 'school supported': Angela Youens said, "The overarching objective, the central consideration is in including all the children of the parish as closely as possible in the faith life of the parish in a way that will enhance their spiritual growth as well of that of their families7 What does that policy look like on the ground? What do parishes actually do in their Sacrament programs that reflect the policy? Fr Brian Harris from East Victoria Park Parish said, "For many years I have insisted that it is from the family that children learn about the Sacraments. Children enrolled in a Sacrament Program either at the Catholic School or through the Parish Religious Education Program (PREP) out of school classes, work through their lessons. The child is then given a letter indicating that the child has taken part in the lessons. After that, it is up to the parents to make an appointment with me:' Only then do Fr Brian and the parents decide on a date for the celebration of the Sacrament. "I've celebrated First Communions on 17 different occasions this year in the parish; Fr Brian said. When asked about children who do not come for an interview, Fr Harris said, "It is the parents who have made that choice. I make myself very available. The child comes together with their parents and I first find out what they know about the Sacrament they wish to celebrate!' Fr Brian works closely with the school and the PREP team so that the families will receive all the help they need to prepare their children for the Sacraments. Believing very strongly in the idea of the "parish base; Fr Brian refers those families who do not choose to be involved in the East Victoria Park Parish to their own proper
First Communion at Mt Lawley Parish. The Parish helped make the daw memorable by providing a sit-down breakfast for the children. PHOTO: CFR.
parish. Fr Peter Bianchini from the Highgate Parish operates a similar program as his mentor, Fr Brian. Fr Peter said, "parents receive a letter from me inviting them to contact me and set up an interview, if they wish their child to be involved in a particular Sacrament. "If the parents do not follow up this invitation, then it goes no further:' Asked if he would feel badly that some children would miss out, Fr Peter said, "If the parents do not support the child, the child has no chance:' That seems to be the common experience of many parish priests. "Not all children are ready for the Sacrament at the same time,' Fr Peter said. It is important that opportunities are not missed because a child celebrates a Sacrament before they are ready. Unless children are supported by their families it could well happen that the 'First Communion' is the 'Last Communion: Children deserve better than that:' Fr Peter went on to say that during these interviews with the children in the presence of the parents, the parents are many times surprised and edified about how much their children know. First communionsd in the Highgate parish are celebrated throughout the year. Parents choose with Fr Peter at which Mass the Sacrament will be celebrated. Fr Peter has, however, set a limit of 6 children at a time. When these First Communions occur during a weekend Mass, the whole parish is reminded of their own first communion as well as encouraged to know that the faith is still being handed on to the younger generation. It is really uplifting. Kerry Hewitson, Assistant Principal at St Paul s Catholic Primary in Mt Lawley is herself a parishioner of Sacred Heart Parish in Highgate. She points out that her own children's preparation and celebration for the Sacraments were very different to what happens at St Paul's in Mt Lawley. Jack, her son, for example, celebrated his First Communion very importantly on his own at Sacred Heart Parish, Highgate. "It was so family-centred and parish-oriented. "Jack really loved it" Kerry said. Recently St Paul's in Mt Lawley, where Kerry teaches, celebrated First Communion in a very formal style, including a sit-down breakfast for the children. Barbara Harris, Vice Chairperson of the CFFFL recently met with Carmel Suart and Diana Altieri from the Catholic Education
Jack Hewitson, a student at Trinity College, receives his First Communion certificate from Fr Peter Bianchini, Parish Priest of Sacred Heart, Highgate. Like all other Catholic schools, Trinity College encourages parents to approach their parishes for the reception of Sacraments.
Office. Carmel Suart has 3 children, now in their twenties. She became involved early in their religious education to the point where she completed a Doctorate in Family Catechesis and is employed by the Catholic Education Office to encourage the spread of family catechesis in the Archdiocese. Diana Altieri, has two children who took part in two very different styles of preparation and celebration for the sacraments. Diana is the Team Leader of the Religious Education Curriculum and Teacher Education K-12 at the Catholic Education Office. "The Church keeps telling parents that they are the first educators of their children. My goal; Carmel said, "is to empower parents to make a conscious decision regarding the spiritual lives of their children!' Family catechesis opens up,for parents to be better equipped to exercise their right and responsibility of being the first educators of their children. With family catechesis not necessarily restricted to preparation for Sacraments, families build up the skills they need for a whole of life approach to faith, at the same time firmly returning faith development to be family-focussed and parishbased. Diana and Carmel indicated that one of the first hurdles to overcome is the a "class mentality" that she says "stipulates that children need the support of their classmates to
meet Jesus in the Sacraments." Carmel, in her work with the Catholic Education Office, is called on to be involved in many parish sacrament programs in the Archdiocese. She begins this process at meetings by inviting parents to reflect on why they had their child baptised. Carmel asks the question of the parents, "Was the whole class present when you child was baptised?" Parents realise that not all children born the same year as their child were baptised together. Carmel says, "There is no magical year of school that indicates a child's readiness for a Sacrament!' Carmel said, "In the present scheme of things the Sacrament of Reconciliation has been downplayed." "For example", Diana said, "in some cases in the past the children will have First Reconciliation on a Friday and their First Holy Communion on the Sunday. "Empowering parents to be better educators is not easy. Parents will feel uncomfortable and ill-equipped in the family catechetical approach but they are not alone. For growth in the child's faith and spiritual life the child must have the support of their families7 Both educators indicated how important it is for parents to use the everyday happenings in the family to impart knowledge and values in their children. Parents are encouraged to see that they have values and how they are connected to an understanding and a relationship with Jesus. For example, if children are already familiar with a process of being reconciled to their brother or sister at home, then the process of celebrating the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be positive and faith filled. "Sacraments are about life and they are celebrations of that life lived. Not all learnin needs to come from a book or a program,' Diana said. Co-ordinating the Parish Religious Education Preparation program at St Mary's Leederville, Diana Altieri shared an outline of the parish's confirmation program. A key component was to ask the parents "what do you need to prepare your child?" Diana and her team then resource the parents so that the parents are able to prepare their children as a family. "The family approach requires real effort and is hard work" said Carmel and Diana. A committed parish team including Parish Priest, School personnel, PREP team, Liturgy committee, Parish Council, Parish Social Committee, and the welcoming and interest of all the parishioners is vital, Diana said, "and involves everyone". The school, the parish and the family all need to work together and support one another, if the children are to be given the best environment to grow into mature, faith-filled men and women:' Carmel said, "One of the most exciting developments is that parishes and schools are seeing the importance of offering family faith sharing opportunities outside the structured family catechesis of sacramental preparation Priests, schools and parishes that have really taken to heart the concept of "family based, parish focussed and school supported" are seeing the program as a positive experience and more families are returning to the parishes after involvement in Sacrament preparations.
For further information contact Fr Brian Harris (9361 1167), Fr Peter Bianchini (9328 3433), Angela Youens (9276 8500), Carmel Suart and Diana Alteri (6380 5338).
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C OMMITTEE FOR FAMILY AND FOR LIFE
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vinnies: more t The members of the Whitforas Conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul want to be friends with the people they help. The St Vincent de Paul Society has been helping those in need in Western Australia since 1865, and continues to respond to calls for assistance from the community to this present day. Over 3000 volunteers give their time in kind to ensure the needs of people struggling to make ends meet are met so they can have a chance at a brighter future. One particular program that is making many people's future a whole lot brighter is the "Family Friends Program". Initiated in 2007 by the members (parish based volunteers) of the Whitfords Conference, the Family Friends Program is the first of its kind and provides support to single parent families who are disadvantaged. Statistics show that over 30% of people who call on the St Vincent de Paul Society for assistance are sole parents in need of long-term support and guidance. Currently there are eight families around the Whitford area in the Program who enjoy the friendship of their "family friends" and benefit from regular phone calls, a direct phone number to call when times are tough, regular visits to their home and gifts for their children's birthdays. The Program is also run in conjunction with other charitable groups such as youth groups, pregnancy assistance, and the Legion of Mary. One single mother who is part of the program is 39 year old Delwyn. Struggling to care for her children after the tragic murder of her eldest son, she spiralled into a depressive state and found it impossible to function normally and care for her family. It was then, in 2004, that Delwyn met Pat Cunneen, a Society volunteer who responded to her call for assistance and, upon visiting her home and providing material assistance, realised the problem was far greater than a food parcel. Delwyn says Pat and other Society volunteers gave her a great deal of support in her tough times and even just having someone
Bringing the love back to parishes
The children of 39-year-old Delwyn - someone who sought and received help from the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Whitfords, in their Family Friends Program. The initiative is designed to help disadvantaged single-parent families in times of need.
to talk to and listen was very important in her recovery. She says they were never judgemental and were there for her when she desperately needed help. Over time their friendship has developed and the future is looking promising for Delwyn as her youngest child is almost at school age and she plans to start working and studying again. At present Delwyn is facilitating a children's fashion parade in honour of NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee) week, 5-12 July 2009 and is enjoying the challenge of organising a group of very excited young children. A letter from a another single mother helped in the Family Friends Program relates of the same hopeful outlook: "My children were acknowledged by the St Vincent de Paul Society's love and recog-
nition and were nominated for the Society's youth camp and children's fun day at the local high school. They also acknowledged the birth of my fifth child. "My life is not an easy one at all, but it has been made less of a burden by the local St Vincent de Paul Society's love and support. They have not only helped me by supporting me but they have helped me grow as a person by showing me what true love and compassion are. Thank you to all at the St Vincent de Paul Society." The Family Friends Program has the full support of the St Vincent de Paul Society's State Council and through the Social Justice Committee it is being introduced to all of the 74 conferences State wide for consideration in their own areas. For more information please contact (08) 9475 5400.
Making families resilient A Perth man is taking his mix of Ignatian spirituality and cutting-edge psychology to families, to improve relationships.
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urray Graham has given a large part of his life in the Archdiocese of Perth providing Parent Programs on a regular basis as Director of the Inigo Centre, and as a member of the secular Franciscans Order as well as being a part-time teacher at John XXIII College. Murray's goal for many years has been to expand his programs to a parish base making his programs available to a wider audience. Late last year this vision came to fruition and Murray has now presented to a number of parishes a talk to parents entitled "Creating a Loving and Resilient Family': Murray combines the Ignation Spirituality of Love with the latest psychological findings on Resilience in the family. Resilience is the ability to bounce back in tough times. Murray said, "Spirituality and Psychology complement each other with the Spiritual providing extra depth." The program focuses on achieving a balance between Rules and Relations, Discipline, Boundaries and "Give and Take:' Murray helps parents and grandparents to experience faith and love, discovering Ignatian Spirituality and creating family resilience. Wim van Alebeek who is on the Parish Pastoral Council of St Benedict's Applecross talked about his experience of Murray's pres-
entation in their parish. "Murray", Wim said, `was able to connect with people. In a survey in the St Benedict's parish. after the presentation "92% of respondents said they would attend a follow up presentation:'
"It's an hour and a half well spent:' wrote one participant. Murray Graham can be contacted on graham.murray@johnxxiii.edu. St Bendict's Parish in Applecross can be contacted on 9364 1120.
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The Strongest Link "It takes a whole village to raise a child," according to the African proverb. "That may be the case, but the truth is that it takes a lot of solid, stable marriages to create a village," says leading marriage expert Diane Sollee. Director of Catholic Marriage Education Services (CMES) here in Perth, Mr Derek Boylen says the same is true of parishes. Strong vibrant parishes have a solid base of stable marriages and families. That's why in 2008 CMES introduced a new program for parishes "The Strongest Link". Developed by the Family Wellness Associates, Derek said, " The Strongest Link is a one day program (or over several evenings), designed for parishes. It is intended to help couples strengthen their marriage". "The program was developed with all married couples in mind. A stable loving marriage forms the best foundation for families. We want to help equip couples with plenty of skills to have a fulfilling, meaningful marriage. Good marriages are good for the two people in them, the children that grow up in them and all those around them, which includes the whole parish community:' The Strongest Link is not like other programs. Participants are not just sitting and listening. It's dynamic and interactive. "We don't just want couples to sit and hear about interesting and useful skills and strategies. We use a variety of techniques because we really want couples to get into and explore the ideas presented. To try them on for size," Derek said. "The program uses, presentation, group discussion, role play, couple work, coaching and human sculpture as just some of the strategies for exploring the ideas raised". "Feedback is extremely positive," he said. The topics covered in the program include: 'building a strong team', 'managing two worlds and one relationship', 'knowing what you want', 'communicating well and 'keeping intimacy alive'. The Strongest Link was developed from a faith perspective. Its faith basis makes it ideal for use in a parish setting. Married couples are continually faced with life changes and challenges; managing money, a new child, career changes, the empty nest, in-laws, etc. There is an ongoing need for couples to turn toward each other and develop the skills for navigating these hurdles. The Strongest Link is one way that parishes can respond to this need and build communities with plenty of strong married couples.Couples need examples and support to build their relationship in times where they are often separated by work schedules, deployments or cultural and language differences. Being a team requires skills and practice. Parishes interested in running The Strongest Link can do so by contacting Catholic Marriage Education Services on (08) 9325 1859 or at derek.cmes@perthcatholic.org.au.
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PANORAMA
July 08 2009, The Record
A roundup of events in the Archdiocese
Panorama entries must be in by 12pm Monday. Contributions may be emailed to administration@therecord.com.au, faxed to 9227 7087, or mailed to PO Box 75, Leederville, WA 6902. Submissions over 55 words will be edited. Inclusion is limited to 4 weeks. Events charging over $10 will be a put into classifieds and charged accordingly. The Record reserves the right to decline or modify any advertisment. Wednesday July 8 CHAPLETS OF THE DIVINE MERCY 7.30 pm at St Thomas More Catholic Church, Dean Road Bateman, A beautiful, prayerful, sung devotion held on the second Wednesday of each month. Devotion will be accompanied by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and followed by Benediction. All are welcome. Eng: George 9310 9493 home or 9325 2010 work.
Wednesday July 15 HOLY HOUR ADORATION FOR CHILDREN 4pm to 5pm at St Bernadettte's Church, 49 Jugan Street, Mt Hawthorn, with two Brothers from the Congregation of St John based in the United States of America. This is for children aged 4 and up. Children will have a greater appreciation of the Real Presence. All children welcome. Eng: 9443 3240.
Wednesday July 8 MONTHLY MASS IN HONOUR OF BLESSED MARY MACKILLOP 6pm Sisters of St Joseph's Chapel, 16 York Street, South Perth. Everyone welcome. Eng: Sr Maree 0414 683 926.
Wednesday July 15 to Sunday July 19 CYM HOPE CONFERENCE Chisholm Catholic College, 1104 Beaufort Street, Bedford. Based on the WYD09 Theme from h im 4:10 and the Pope's 2007 Encyclical 'Spe Salvil The conference will include seminars, workshops, guest speakers, music, drama and other activities to inspire and empower our youth. Open for youth teenagers to 35 years. Eng: adminr,a)cym.com.au or 9422 7912.
Thursday July 9 GROUP 50 CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP 7.30pm, Praise and Mass at Redemptorist Monastery. Winter recess July 16 to August 6 inclusive. Meetings commence 13 August at 7.30pm with Praise and Mass with Anointing of the Sick. Thursday July 9 to Sunday July 12 MARIAPOLIS 2009 - LOVE CREATES WISDOM 2pm at the Institute of Agriculture, Curtin University Campus, Muresk, Northam. Come for spiritual renewal. Emphasis will be on living the Gospel together and learning to build relationships based on Jesus' New Commandment, so as to take that experience back to our environment. Eng: 9349 4052 or www.focolare.org. Saturday July 11 ST PADRE PIO DAY OF PRAYER 8.30am at St Mary's, 40 Franklin Street, Leederville, St Padre Pio DVD, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, Silent Adoration and Benediction. 1 lam Holy Mass using St Padre Pio Liturgy, celebrant Fr Tiziano Bogoni. Confessions available. BYO shared lunch. Tea and coffee supplied. Eng: Des 6278 1540. Saturday July 11 PRAYER GROUP 1.30pm to 3pm at St Cecilia's Parish Centre, Grantham Street and Peebles Road, Floreat, all welcome to pray the Rosary for the sick. Bring a plate to share, optional. Coffee and tea provided. Sunday July 12 THE WORLD APOSTOLATE OF FATIMA AUST INC Holy Hour of Reparation. 3pm at St Mary's Church, Franklin Street, Leederville, all welcome. Eng: 9339 2614. Sunday July 12 BULLSBROOK HEALING MASS 2pm at the Shrine of Virgin of the Revelation, 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook, Rosary, followed by Mass. Confessions in English and Italian prior to all celebrations. All welcome. Eng: SACR 9447 3292. Monday July 13 to Tuesday July 14 RAYMOND DE SOUZA AUSTRALIAN TOUR - TALKS 7.30pm at St Joseph's, 22 Hamilton Street, Bassendean, and 14 July at 12.30pm Bio Ethics Centre, Jugan Street, Glendalough, after the 10.30am Mass. Will talk on De-Christianisation, the Culture War and the Gospel of Life. 7.30pm St Bernadette's, Jugan Street, Glendalough talk on The Third Secret of Fatima, what was it all about? Eng: Geoff 0418 933 152. Tuesday July 14 to Tuesday July 21 FR CARLOS MASSIEU MASSES AND TALKS ON THE COMING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD 10.30am-12noon 14 July, St Bernadette's Church, Glendalough. 14 and 15 July Oceania Vocations Conference. 7.30pm-9pm, 17 July, St Brigid's Church, Midland. 18 July Casa di Luisa Piccarreta, 59 Newton Street, Spearwood, 2pm-4pm. 19 July Corpus Christi, Mosman Park, (Spanish). 20 July Casa di Luisa Piccarreta, 10am-2pm. 20 July, Christ the King, Beaconsfield, 7pm8.30pm, (Italian). 21 July Casa di Luisa Piccarreta, 10am2pm and again at 7.30pm-9pm. Eng: Jenny 9494 2604.
Wednesday July 15 TAIZE MEDITATION PRAYER 7.30pm to 8.30pm at St Thomas More Catholic Church, 100 Dean Road, Bateman, all welcome to come and spend an hour in Group Prayer and relax after a busy workday in a candlelight atmosphere of prayer, song and meditation. Eng: Daisy/Barney 9310 4781. Wednesday July 15 LESMURDIE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT GROUP 7.30 - 9 pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Church Hall, 207 Lesmurdie Road, Lesmurdie. Anyone welcome. Eng: Marge 9 495 1919 or Ann 9 291 6670. Thursday July 16 INTRODUCTION TO PASTORAL CARE 9am to 12.30pm at Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation, 8 week course covering people skills, different behaviours. Principles of Christian counselling and, applying theory in diverse pastoral care situations. Eng: Jane 0401 692 690. Thursday July 16 CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP 9am to 12.30pm Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation, 8 week course exploring bask principles of Christian Leadership and how to grow in leadership. Practical aspects and dynamics of living in the Body of Christ, how to grow in participation and service in the life of a Christian Community. Eng: Jane 0401 692 690. Thursday July 16 YOUTH MINISTRY 9am to 12.30pm Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation, 8 week course covers the 5 key aspects in ministering to young people today. Learn strategies that help to evangelise youth, how to provide opportunities for fellowship and discipleship. Investigate how to engage young people in active ministry to their peers. Eng: Jane 0401 692 690. Thursday July 16 MID -YEAR INTAKE FULL TIME COURSE Acts 2 College of Mission and Evangelisation, Certificate IV in Christian Ministry. Learn more about the Catholic faith, evangelisation, communication, your spiritual gifts and sacred scripture. This is a life changing experience. Eng: Jane 0401 692 690. Thursday July 16 SOLEMNITY OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL 1 lam at the Carmelite Monastery, 100 Adelma Road, Nedlands. A sung Concelebrated Mass with Bishop Don Sproxton as Principal Celebrant. All are most welcome, morning tea will be provided. Friday July 17 CATHOLIC FAITH RENEWAL 7.30pm at St John and Paul's Parish Hall, Pinetree Gully, Willetton, Fr Greg Donovan will lead you through Scripture - Genesis to Apocalypse. All are welcome. Eng: Maureen 9381 4498 or Rose 0403 300 720.
Saturday July 18 ST PADRE PIO DAY OF PRAYER - ITALIAN 8.30am at St Lawrence Church, 392 Albert Street, Balcatta, St Padre Pio DVD, followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, Silent Adoration and Benediction. llam Holy Mass using St Padre Pio Liturgy, celebrant Fr Tiziano Bogoni. Confessions available. BYO shared lunch. Tea and coffee supplied. Eng: Des 6278 1540.
Friday July 31 MEDJUGORJE - EVENING OF PRAYER 7pm at St Anne's Catholic Church, Stirling Highway and Alfred Road, North Fremantle. All are invited to an evening of prayer with Our Lady Queen of Peace. Evening commences with Adoration, Rosary, and Benediction, followed by Holy Mass. Free DVD on conversion of Don Calloway who was drug addict, committing felonies but later became a Catholic priest. Eng: 9402 2480.
Sunday July 19 DOMINICAN LAITY OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY 2pm at St Catherine's Convent, 31Williamtown Road, Doubleview. Visitors are welcome. Eng: Jeff 9446 3655.
Saturday August 1 DAY WITH MARY 9am to 5 pm at St Simon Peter Church, Ocean Reef, video on Fatima. Day of prayer and instruction based upon the Fatima message, Reconciliation, Holy Mass, Eucharist Adoration, Sermons on the Eucharist, and Our Lady. Also Rosary, Blessed Sacrament Procession and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Eng: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286.
Sunday July 19 TAIZE MEDITATIVE PRAYER 7pm at Mary MacKillop Centre 16 York Street, South Perth, come and join in the meditative prayer remembering Brother Roger's Anniversary, founder of the Taize Community in France. A time for silent and intercessory prayer, singing chants and scripture readings. The Chapel is heater warm and comfortable. Everyone welcome. Bring along a friend and a torch. Eng: Sr Maree Riddler 9334 0933. Monday July 20 to Tuesday July 21 ELECTIONS AND FRATERNAL VISIT Fr Michael Brown OEM, WA Regional Minister and a member of the WA Regional Executive of the Secular Franciscans will be in Geraldton for elections and fraternal visit. Anyone interested in learning more about the Franciscan way of life should contact, Helen 08 9937 1052 or Colleen 08 9921 3315. Saturday July 25 PRAYER GROUP 1.30pm to 3pm at St Cecilia's Parish Centre, Grantham Street and Peebles Road, Floreat, all welcome to pray the Rosary for the sick. Bring a plate to share, optional. Coffee and tea provided. Saturday July 25 to Sunday July 26 400 YEARS CELEBRATION FOR LORETO SISTERS Three Springs Parish 6.30pm Saturday at Three Springs Shire Hall, dinner. llam Sunday Mass held in St Paul's Church followed by BBQ lunch. Accommodation, Three Springs Tourist Lodge 9954 1065 or Commercial Hotel: 9954 104. Those wishing to attend these celebrations, please advise ASAP by July 1. Eng - Convent: 9954 1010 or Myrtle 9954 1135, or jackkeogh@wn.com.au Sunday July 26 ST ANNE'S BINDOON FIFTH ANNIVERSARY MASS AND BLESSING OF GROTTO 12noon BYO Lunch, followed 1pm Holy Rosary, Exposition, Hymns, Benediction. 1.30pm Marian Procession and blessing of the Grotto. 2pm Holy Mass, Main Celebrant Bishop Sproxton, followed by Chaplet of Divine Mercy and tea. Depart for Perth 4pm. Transport booking: Francis 9459-3873 or 0404 893 877. Eng: Jean 9576-0006 or Fr Paul 95711839. Sunday July 26 CATHOLIC DOCTOR'S ASSOCIATION WA DAY OF REFLECTION AND MASS 10am at Redemptorist Mater Seminary, 26 Camboon Road, Morley, with Fr Michael Moore. An invitation is extended to any Medical parishioners who would like to attend. Lunch will be served. RSVP by 12 July, for catering purposes to Suzanne ljgbc@iinet.net.au or 9242 4066. Thursday July 28 PRAYER DAY Reflecting on Hope with Mary MacKillop, 9.30am at Mary MacKillop Centre, 16 York Street, South Perth, from 10am to 1pm, talk on, facilitated by, Dora Maguire, RSJ. RSVP: Monday 20 July. Cost, donation. Eng: marymackillopcentre@sosjwa.org.au or 9334 0999.
Sunday August 2 DIVINE MERCY 1.30pm at St Joachim's Church, Shepperton Road and Harper Street, Victoria Park, any afternoon with Jesus and Mary, Holy Rosary, and Reconciliation. Sermon with Fr Sharvel F F I on St Maxmillian Kolbe followed by Divine Mercy Prayers and Benediction. Refreshments will be provided. Eng: John 9457 7771. Tuesday August 4 FAITH ENRICHMENT SERIES - PROFESSOR MARTIN PHILPOTT 7pm to 8.30pm, St Benedict Parish Centre, 115 Ardross Street, Ardross, Prof Martin Philpott will give a talk on, Stress busting, how to identify and manage stress in everyday life! This will be most informative for people of all walks of life. Coffee and tea provided. Eng: Wim 0421 636 763. Friday August 7 to Sunday August 9 BEGINNING EXPERIENCE WEEKEND PROGRAM SEPARATED, DIVORCED, WIDOWED A weekend program at Epiphany Retreat Centre, Rossmoyne, designed to assist and support people in learning to close the door gently on a relationship that has ended, in order to get on with living. Eng: Maureen 9537 115 or Bev 9332 7971. Sunday August 30 to Wednesday September 2 CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE - AUSTRALIA BIENNIAL NATIONAL CONFERENCE 3pm at Redemptorist Monastery Church. Opening Mass celebrated by Bishop Don Sproxton. All welcome. Conference will be held at Novotel Langley Hotel, Perth. Wonderful guest speakers lined up including Celia Hammond, Vice Chancellor of Notre Dame University, Fremantle, who will present the keynote address. Eng: Maria sec.cwla@westnet.com.au or 9751 1936. AL-ANON/ALATEEN FAMILY GROUPS If your home is unhappy because someone drinks too much. . .. We can help you. For understanding and support to families and friends of problem drinkers. Eng: 9325 7528. SACRED HEART OF JESUS - PIONEERS Any Pioneers to the Sacred Heart of Jesus out there in society, we invite you if you would like to meet other members in prayer and reflection. Eng: 9457 7771. Every Sunday LATIN MASS 2pm at the Good Shepherd Parish, 40-42 Streich Avenue, Kelmscott, according to the 1962 missal, with Rosary preceding. All welcome. Every 1st Thursday of the Month PRAYER AND MEDITATION SERVICE - TAIZE SONGS. 7.30pm at Our Lady of Grace, 3 Kitchener Street, North Beach, come for a prayerful meditation singing together beautiful easy to learn chants from Taize. Spend time in meditative silence, bathed in candlelight reflecting upon themed readings. Eng: Beth 9447 0061 or 9448 4888.
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Classifieds: $3.30/line incl. GST DEATH NOTICE Brophy: Francis Laurence (Frank). 04/06/1928 - 28/06/09 Formerly of Mt Lawley. Died peacefully at St Rita's Nursing Home North Perth. Son of John and Helen, brother of Helen Fenessy (all deceased) and Patrick. Now reunited with his parents and sister; in the house that (his father) Jack built. May Perpetual light shine upon him. Thank you to all at St Rita's for the care that they have given Frank over the years. Please pray for the happy repose of his soul. Funeral services have taken place.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI asked leaders of the world's wealthiest countries to "listen to the voice of Africa" and poor countries during their summit in Italy. The global economic crisis threatens not only to derail efforts to end extreme poverty in the world, but also could plunge other countries into ruin as well, the Pope said in a July 4 letter to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, host of the Group of Eight summit. The only way to find solutions that will match the global dimensions of the crisis and have long-term positive effects for all peoples is to "listen to the voice of Africa and the countries leastdeveloped economically; the Pope said in his letter. The G-8 summit that took place from July 8-10 in I:Aquila, Italy, was to bring together the heads of governments of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Pope Benedict XVI signed the decree recognizing as miraculous the healing of a U.S. deacon, which clears the way for the beatification of British Cardinal John Henry Newman. While the Vatican announced on July 3 that the decree had been signed, it did not provide information about when Cardinal Newman would be beatified or where the ceremony would be held. The decree recognised as a miracle the healing in 2001 of Deacon John Sullivan of Marshfield, Massachusetts, who had a debilitating back injury. Deacon Sullivan had prayed for the intercession of Cardinal Newman, who founded the Oxford movement within the Church of England
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before becoming a Roman Catholic in 1845. He is the founder of the Oratories of St Philip Neri. press A s tatement from England's B irmingham Oratory, founded by the cardinal, quoted Deacon as Sullivan Cardinal Newman saying, "Upon hearing of the recent developments in Rome regarding Cardinal Newman's cause for beatification, I was left with an intense sense of gratitude and thanksgiving. The press statement said the date and place of beatification had not been decided, but encouraged supporters of Cardinal Newman's cause to make donations to help pay for the ceremony. The Pope signed the decree regarding Cardinal Newman's cause along with 11 other decrees, including the recognition of the miracle needed for the canonisation
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killed by the Nazis in 1942 in the Dachau prison camp; and Auxiliary Bishop Zoltan Meszlenyi of Esztergom, Hungary, killed by the communists in 1951. Other decrees declared that four candidates for sainthood heroically lived the Christian virtues, a recognition marking the initial stage in their causes. One was another Dachau victim, Marianhill Missionary Father Engelmar Unzeitig, who died in the camp in 1945. The other three involve Sister Anna Maria Janer Anglarill, the Spanish founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Urgell; Sister Clotilde Micheli, the Italian founder of the Sisters of the Angels; and Teresa Manganiello, an Italian laywoman who died in 1876 at 27. 4111P,
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