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couple walk up the steep incline which Monsignor Sean O'Shea paved himself last year and ask if they can have a look at the church at the top of the hill on Rottnest Island that looks out over the Indian Ocean. "You're very welcome ... you can even say a prayer; the 84 year old Monsignor says, and turns to me and gives me a mock-horrified look as if he just said something shocking. It's evangelisation by stealth - something the Monsignor has become an expert at in his 48 odd years as chaplain of Rottnest Island. The couple wave thank you and make their way up to Holy Trinity Church which the Monsignor had built in 1975 when Archbishop Launcelot Goody then opened and blessed it. Inside they will find a small church seating about 100, and be greeted by a Gregorian Chant CD playing faintly in the background. If you didn't know any better, you'd think you'd just walked into a Cistercian Abbey in Spain. That's just the way Mgr O'Shea likes it. "People act differently when they're on Rottnest Island. They're more relaxed than they usually are, and more amenable to the influence of something good when they're on holiday: he tells me.
Mgr O'Shea's hospitality is as famous as the ripping yarns he loves to tell. He always has a few rounds of pikelets ready to go should visitors drop in, to be enjoyed with the famous fig jam he learned to make from his mother in West Clare back in rural Ireland where he grew up. He uses island figs which he says were planted by the early settlers near Garden Lake. Since he was appointed Port Chaplain of the Apostleship of the Sea (otherwise known as Stella Mans) and given the responsibility of providing Mass for Rottnest in August 1961, Mgr O'Shea, 84, has developed quite a reputation. Even the WA Tourism Minister, Dr Liz Constable, noted his "humour and hospitality" which, she said, is "well known among those who frequently visit the island. "As one of the island's few residents, Mgr O'Shea has truly become part of the heart and soul of Rottnest: Dr Constable said when presenting him with the third Des Sullivan Medal for his contribution to the island on October 8 at the Tradewinds Hotel in Fremantle. Rottnest receives over 600,000 visitors annually, so it's crucial, he says, for the Catholic Church to have a presence. "If I'm not here, the church wouldn't be open:' he says. Prior to his appointment, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate had spiritual stewardship of the island, as it were, and celebrated Mass there at Easter and Christmas.
Rottnest receives over 600,000 visitors a year, so it's crucial, he says, for the Catholic Church to have a presence. But Mgr O'Shea's presence is vital. He constantly gets impromptu requests for baptisms; even from holidaymakers from the Eastern States who "pop over to have their children baptised". Business booms through the summer months, especially on school holidays and public holidays.
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Most days he gets hundreds of people - many non-Catholics - who avail themselves of the church to pray, or to just take some quiet time out. He celebrates Mass every morning at 9am sharp, but gets the most numbers on Sundays, when the church is full much of the time. In his 48 years on the island - though he's only lived there for the past seven he's celebrated Mass all over Rotto prior to Holy Trinity Church being opened - in the picture theatre, in the Old Hostel and in the Old Chapel that was also used as a school and community centre. Before the ferries started, he used to fly over to Rottnest with Captain Jimmy Woods, an old World War II pilot who provided flights to the island for years. Before he relocated to Rottnest, he was chaplain on the island while parish priest at Mosman Park and chaplain to Iona Primary, where he first started making fig jam when the Presentation Sisters running the school suggested he make jam out of the figs off the tree in his presbytery's backyard. He'd celebrate Mass at Mosman Park at 8.30am, jump on the 10am ferry and be at Holy Trinity Church by 11 for Mass. "There was no mucking about after Mass ... I had to step on the gas: he says in his still thick Irish accent. While he maintains a relaxed atmosphere in the Rottnest church, his ministry is still deeply centred in the Catholic faith. He ropes off the sanctuary when Mass isn't being celebrated, to remind people "this is a sacred space". He also gives Christians the opportunity to have their ashes placed under a brick in the church floor and a plaque with their name is placed on the wall. "They re people who have come here all their lives ... they may end up in a retirement home in Perth they have no particular ties to, and get buried at a Perth cemetery ... here, they get prayers from everyone who sees their name," he says. As a "sobering reminder" of friends past and of his own mortality, the gravestone of his old friend, Fr Joseph O'Hara who drowned with three Presentation Sisters 50 years ago, lies in his backyard Continued on Page 3
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Rosendo Salvado, one of the first Bishops of the Swan River colony, with local Indigenous. The Bishop visited Rottnest at least twice, Mgr O'Shea said, and had a great concern for Aborigines.
The stained glass window depicting carpenter John Watson, who ran a boys' reformatory on the island, where the boys tilled the land. Mgr O'Shea said the boys loved it so much they didn't want to leave.
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island spiritual oasis is a labour of love Continuedfrom Page 2 on the island. Though there are strict rules against being buried on the island, he's already dug his own grave next to Fr O'Hara's gravestone, who was in All Hallows seminary with him, two years his junior. "It's a tradition among the Carthusians to dig their own graves ... it's a sobering thought," he laughs."You just need permission from the Minister for Local Government ... only, you don't get permission until after you die:' Mgr O'Shea was ordained at All Hallows, Dublin in 1955, a seminary set up to train priests to follow the migrating Irish. There was a strong emphasis on priestly vocations in Ireland when he grew up, he says. There were promotions everywhere for people to work for or pray for the missionaries. He requested Perth as his sister had already moved there in 1938. Archbishop Redmond Prendiville accepted him to the Archdiocese. He's proud of his heritage about half the priests in Australia were educated at All Hallows over a period of 50 years, he says. Holy Trinity Church, too, is steeped in history, despite being built in 1975. Stained glass windows at the back of the church depict Bishop Rosendo Salvado, one of the first Bishops of the Perth Swan River Colony, with local Aborigines. "He visited the island a couple of times to minister to the Aborigines:' Mgr O'Shea informs me. The other window at the church's rear depicts carpenter John Watson and some teenage lads of the Reformatory that was based on the island in the 1880s. "The boys apparently loved it so much they didn't want to leave,"
says Mgr O'Shea, who also happens to be a font of knowledge of the island's history. He built the church with a loan from the Archdiocese of $90,000. Today, he says, it would cost $500,000 to build. The bells in the tower can be rung with a simple keyboard. Children often have a go between 3-4.30pm. Ode to Joy is popular, he says. Bishop Salvado may have liked Holy Trinity Church. Like many buildings on the island, it's designed "with a Spanish air", with Mediterranean colouring. While he's largely a lone ranger - he built the pathway leading up to the church brick by brick himself - he received, just while I was visiting, his first offer to help clean the church from a Filipino woman who lives on the island. Mgr O'Shea is preparing her nine year old son for first Holy Communion. He introduces the boy to me, and asks him how many children are in his class. "Six," is the short answer. The Monsignor turns to me with his brow furrowed and says, "they may close the public school on the island next year ..." He's not only the spiritual beacon for the island, he's genuinely concerned with the day-to-day lives of those on the island. People know him; people love him. They recognise him as they return annually or more often to the island. In a place of constant comings and goings, he is a constant. A beacon. He'll be there until the end, but until that time comes he'll continue to plug away. "If the Lord spares me another winter, I'd like to line my grave with timber ..." he says while we're
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standing over his old comrade Fr O'Hara's gravestone. Many on the island, and back in Perth, and probably around the country, would be praying the Lord does just that, and many more winters beyond that. He certainly shows no signs of slowing down. Above: Mgr Sean O'Shea presents his pride and joy, Holy Trinity Church, and the sign displaying his commitment to daily Mass at 9am. Right: Mgr O'Shea's famous hospitality shines through as he chats to two holiday-makers after Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity Church. PHOTOS: ANTHONY BARICH
Fatima introduces Monsignor to beauty of figs BY ANTHONY BAR1CH MONSIGNOR Sean O'Shea is known for his famous fig jam, but he has the parents of Fatima seers to thank for his "first introduction to figs". When Monsignor was 18, before he'd even joined the seminary, he embarked on a remarkable 2,000km pilgrimage to Fatima from his family farm in West Clare, Ireland - on his bike. Having ridden from the Fatima
parish centre to Aljustrel, the small village where Jacinta and Francisco, who saw Mary in 1917, lived, he'd got off his bike and was walking around, not knowing what to expect. A kindly lady approached him and, though Mgr O'Shea's Portuguese was patchy at best, she motioned him to join her for tea. He followed her in, and met at her house some American pilgrims, who informed him that he was standing in the home of
Jacinta and Francisco, and that the woman who had kindly invited him in was their mother. She and her husband were highly respected in the village. They suggested that he take off to Loca do Cabeco, meaning 'the top of the hill', the grassy hill about a kilometre from the hamlet of Aljustrel where the angel appeared to the children. On the way, some local children started plucking fruit off trees on the way - "beautiful fresh figs".
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Cut the stems off the figs, which have the pectin, the white milky substance used as a thickener. Cut up the figs in little chunks, put them in a large container. Add the ground cloves, ginger and grated lemon on top of the figs. Add sugar, let it all rest without mixing it, letting it marinate overnight. The next day you'll find it's quite liquid. No water is needed, though the Rottnest figs thatIuse are drier than those on the mainland.
Put them on a heated stove, bring to the boil, turn it down and stew it for three hours. The more it's stewed, the browner it gets. Slowly stewing it makes it better. If you boil it too quickly, you'll burn it. Sometimes I skim off the excess juice if there's too much so the jam is thick and chunky, and put it on my porridge in the morning. In the pikelets that go with the jam, I put in a fist of dried black currents.
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Acolyte, Alzheimer's researcher gets top honour BY GLYNNIS GRAINGER THE WA Australian of the Year for 2010 is a devout Catholic, acolyte and family man as well as a world leader in Alzheimer's research. Professor Ralph Martins, 52, is famous for his research into Alzheimer's disease at the McCusker Foundation in Hampden Road, Nedlands, but his faith and devotion to his wife, Georgia, and three brilliant daughters is a hidden side of his life. The research premises are only temporary, with the three year lease expiring next year. More funds are urgently needed to enable his team to keep going. His eldest daughter, Jennifer, 28, is a medical doctor recently married to pharmacist Hamish Mackie; middle daughter Jodi, 25, is a pharmacist, now living in Glasgow, Scotland, and youngest daughter Rachel, 22, is returning to university to complete her psychology degree after working for a stockbroking firm. His wife of 31 years, Georgia, is a research officer with his team, specialising in establishing the blood banks, which today are the basis of the major research programs, that are directed towards the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. The couple met in first year at UWA and married two years later at the start of third year in 1978. The family home is in Maddington and he travels interstate and around the world to collaborate with other researchers. Georgia has a BSc majoring in anatomy and histology and already had a degree from Burma majoring in zoology and fish farming. Prof Martins has a degree in biomedical science, majoring in biochemistry with first-class Honours
and did postgraduate studies on risk factors that influence the onset of diabetes. During his postgraduate studies, his father-in-law developed Alzheimer's disease at a relatively young age, which motivated Prof Martins to get involved with Alzheimer's research in 1984. "At that time our understanding of Alzheimer's disease and its causes was very limited:' he told The Record at his Nedlands premises. "All doctors could do to determine whether someone definitely had Alzheimer's was to examine their brain for the appearance of amyloid deposits. ' So in 1984, in the laboratory of Prof Colin Masters, our small team isolated these amyloid deposits called plaques, and for the first time, were able to identify the major protein that made them up. ' This protein is called beta amyloid - a world first - today recognised as the central cause of Alzheimer's disease when its levels are elevated, and it's similar to what cholesterol is to heart disease. "As a result of this seminal finding, today, several drug companies have developed anti-amyloid drugs with the hope of targeting the underlying causes of Alzheimer's." In 1985, he was the first in the world to demonstrate that the Alzheimer's brain was 'rusting' the technical term is called oxidative stress - and the implications of this major finding that is recognised throughout the world are that antioxidants play an important role in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease. The laboratory has about 40 workers - team members - who range from postgraduate students, research assistants and post-doctoral assistants to clinicians.
"An early diagnosis is essential for effective treatment of Alzheimer's. Currently, diagnosis is made when the brain is severely compromised, so that rescue with even the most powerful of drugs will be minimar Prof Martins said. "Therefore, the aim is to look at diagnosis at a much earlier level, before symptoms arise. In order to do this, I have brought to Perth technology that enables us to look into the brain during life to visualise the amyloid deposits. "In the past, diagnosis of Alzheimer's could only be made after death. "This new technology, in turn, allows us to develop specific blood tests that reflect the build-up of amyloid in the brain, and which can then be applied to the wider community, both for prevention and evaluation of treatment!' The Sir James McCusker Alzheimer's Unit is named after the late Sir James McCusker, who, together with his family, Malcolm McCusker QC and his sister Carolyn, have supported Prof Martins' research over the last 20 years. "If it was not for the generosity of this single family, the team that I have assembled over the years would not have happened," Prof Martins said. Graham Nixon, a farmer from New Norcia, drives to Perth and works tirelessly to raise funds for the Foundation, supported by an equally generous Board of volunteers. "I am very honoured to receive the award, so I feel privileged and very lucky out of 3,000 nominees to have made it to the finals out of four categories," Prof Martins said. "I also wish to acknowledge that this award represents a number of wonderful West Australians, which
Ralph and Georgia Martins in their Nedlands lab.
include the McCusker family, my research team, the McCusker Foundation, and instruments such as Hollywood Private Hospital, Edith Cowan University and volunteer groups such Lions and Rotary. "And last but not least, my family have been my major support, particularly my wife Georgia, who has sacrificed so much in order for me to devote my energy and time to Alzheimer's disease. "The award helps our cause and gives a lift to all of our team:' Prof Martins has been the inaugural Professor of Ageing and Alzheimer's at Edith Cowan University since 2004 and, as leader of the research team working on Alzheimer's disease, has been instrumental in bringing together researchers throughout Perth from all the universities, as well as aged-care providers Amana Living (Anglican Homes) and Hall and Prior, to form the West Australian Centre of Alzheimer's Disease Research and Care, of which he is the Director. "As an acolyte at Santa Clara parish, Bentley and in St Vincent de Paul - they are both services in which I take a lot of joy - I came
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to Santa Clara when my kids went to school there in 1990 and our home was still being leased. We fell in love with Santa Clara," Prof Martins said. "I am very proud of our current Parish Priest, Fr Francisco, who has done much to build up the parish and make it such a vibrant community. We have a very dedicated team of acolytes, but our numbers are very low, including Brian Kelly and Dr David Harris we have a need for new volunteers to assist. I want to see an end to Alzheimer's disease in my lifetime - I want to see a dent in that. "The drugs are not working because they are coming too late. "What I want to do is be able to look at your blood levels years before your memory goes. "Then, drugs can work" Next year he will travel to Canberra to seek more funding for his research when he attends the Australian of the Year presentations on January 25, 2010. For donations to the McCusker Alzheimer's Research Foundation Inc, telephone 9347 4200, or visit at email address: cnccusker. hph@ramsayhealth.com.au or website: www. alzheimers.com.au.
Crucial first five years of marriage to be strengthened Archdiocese of Perth launches Ministry to the Newly Married
THE Archdiocese of Perth will launch a new program next year to support newly married couples called Ministry to the Newly Married.
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PROGRAM COORDINATOR (Groups) Personal Advocacy Service (PAS) provides one-to-one support for people with intellectual disabilities to enable them to live fully as active members of their local community. PAS is seeking a motivated person to coordinate the delivery of the Personal Advocacy program in small parish groups throughout the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth. Specifically, this person will support the development of volunteer advocates as they respond to the emotional. spiritual and social needs of people with intellectual disabilities. The successful applicant will display the following attributes: • a high level of comfort with people with disabilities • commitment to the Catholic faith • the ability to become a leader within the organisation Ideally. the successful applicant will also possess: • tertiary qualifications • experience in working with people with disabilities • sound interpersonal and organisational skills • the capacity to work collaboratively in a team environment To obtain the full selection criteria and position description, please phone 9275 5388 or email admin@paswa.orq.au Written applications, including a curriculum vitae and names and contact numbers of three referees. should be addressed to the Executive Director, Personal Advocacy Service. PO Box 1261. Morley WA 6943. Applications close:
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The program aims to support couples through the first five years of their marriage. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, approximately one third of divorcing couples do so in the first five years of their marriage. Marriage formators say the first years of marriage can be critical as the couples develop their interaction patterns by trial and error: it can be a time of painful adjustments and sacrifices as they confront the realities. It is only when the couple are really into marriage that they know what help they need. Jacqueline and Simon Anthony (Western Unit Leaders of WorldWide Marriage Encounter in WA) and Karen and Derek Boylen (Derek is the Director of Catholic Marriage Education Services) will coordinate the program.
Currently, couples receive premarriage education as a condition of marrying in the Catholic Church. Many couples return to Catholic Marriage Education Services to attend Together in Harmony, a follow up program for couples one year into their marriage offered at no charge. World Wide Marriage Encounter, a marriage enrichment program active in the Archdiocese since 1977, is an enrichment program for couples a few years into their marriages. Ministry to the Newly Married fills the gap, providing newly marrieds with ongoing support and contact. "The early years of marriage are among the most challenging times for a couple," said Jacqueline Anthony, "the transition to parenthood, changing careers and managing finances create enor-
.c .< ART EXHIBITION Local Artist, Margaret Fane, will hold an exhibition of her paintings at St Pauls Mt lawley after all Masses. See Mass times at: www.perthcatholic.org.au/parish/index.html Contact Margaret on 9443 1853 or 0432 834 743 Margaret has studied Art and Spirituality in Rome and has held
successful exhibitions across the Archdiocese. Her paintings are in oil and watercolour, ranging between $40 to $4,000. This exhibition is a fundraiser for the completion of the Cathedral.
mous pressure:' Ministry to the Newly Married, a five year program beginning in the first year of marriage, puts couples who are just embarking on this journey in contact with other couples who have navigated this period for support and advice. Each year the newly married couples are assigned a new mentor couple whom they meet three times throughout the year. At each meeting the couples have an informal discussion about particular topics related to marriage. Couples will get to know five couples and discuss 15 topics including dealing with feelings, finances, good communication, fears, working on true love, forgiveness and planning our life together. Ministry to the Newly Married began as an initiative of Fr Joseph Hayden in the United States and within 10 years of its inception over 100,000 couples had completed the program. In 1990, Bernice and Maurie Boland introduced the program in the Archdiocese of CanberraGoulburn and the first group graduated in 1995. The Archdiocese of Canberra-Goulburn currently has 50 couples in the program. Newly married couples interested must be in their first year of marriage and can contact either Jacqueline and Simon Anthony on 0414 285 884 or Karen and Derek Boylen on (08) 9405 4465. Alternatively, email newlymarried@perthcatholic. org.au. Closing date for registrations is December 11.
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Kambalda honours priestly model BY HARRY ARGUS
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versary of the death of St John Vianney, the patron saint of priests, Pope Benedict XVI has asked the Catholic Church throughout the world to celebrate the "Year of the Priest." This special year for priests started on June 19, which is the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It seems as though St John Vianney's Church in Kambalda may be the only Church in the whole Archdiocese of Perth that has been dedicated to the saint. If so, the Parish of KalgoorlieBoulder and the Kambalda Church and town itself should have a special place in the Archdiocese of Perth and the whole Catholic Church in general for the "Year of the Priest:' The short history of Kambalda will always have the distinction of being the first location where nickel was found in 1966 that led to the great nickel boom of Australia. Gold was first discovered by Pierce (Percy) Larkin on the western shore of Lake Lefroy near Red Hill in December 1896. The prospectors that came there named the area as Red Hill Camp; but by December 1897 the town was gazetted with seven surveyed streets and named Kambalda with about 1,000 people living there. It was known that Kambalda had a store and post office and two hotels named the Commercial and Victoria by 1905. With a population of that size, it would be most likely that the early Catholic priests stationed at Coolgardie or Kalgoorlie would
have travelled there to celebrate Masses for the faithful. Kambalda's population, like most towns of the Goldfields, suffered during the First World War, and did not recover following the war's end. The very few prospectors who prospected the area between the two World Wars only found small amounts of gold. However, by 1954 a prospector by the name of George Cowcill had found traces of nickel and copper, which prompted Western Mining Corporation to drill their first hole in the area in January 1966, when the metal price was commercially profitable. This first hole found the beginning of what was to become the fabulous nickel deposits of the area and began the famous nickel boom of the 1960s and 1970s. Western Mining Corporation soon developed a town there, and Fr Toop, who was the parish priest at Kalgoorlie at the time, celebrated the first Mass in the new town on July 9, 1967 in the single men's canteen. About 15 members of the Miller, Rymer and Willans family attended that first historical Mass. As the months passed by, weekly Masses were celebrated at the Miller and Tamlin homes in New Clayton Street; and then later from 1968 at the Club House and the State school. By June 1968, the population was about 1,000 and growing. The new town of Kambalda was completely built and owned by Western Mining Corporation. On June 4, 1968, the manager of the mining company, Mr John Oliver, gave an assurance that a site would be located for a Catholic Church in the town. Meanwhile, the mining company proceeded with its own plan to build an inter-denominational chapel. In March 1970, Kambalda historically became a separate parish from Kalgoorlie, and Fr Dan Foley became its first parish priest,
The Crucifix made in Poland, that sits inside the church, bought by the grandmother of Andrew Krowalski, a Kambalda parishioner. PHOTO: HARRY ARGUS.
who lived and travelled from the Boulder Presbytery. During the early years of the 1970s, especially 1971, the miners were forced to go on strike by the unions for quite a long period of time. This caused families to suffer many hardships. Some families had to sell their furniture to pay the rent and purchase food so they could survive. The St Vincent de Paul Society began a soup kitchen in Kalgoorlie and Kambalda for people and families affected in this way. In the early 1970s, the Sisters of Mercy in Coolgardie began a Motor Mission, which included visits to Norseman, Kambalda and pastoral properties throughout the Goldfields. This was a great help for the priests in the parishes of the Goldfields. On May 12, 1974, the parishioners of Kalgoorlie, Boulder and Kambalda conducted a "walkathon" between Kalgoorlie and Kambalda, and met halfway. The walkathon raised $4,035 to help pay for a new church and presbytery in Kambalda.
In 1974, the parish of Norseman became part of the Parish of Kambalda when its last priest, Fr Joseph Depiazzi was transferred, due to the shortage of priests and the decline of the population of the town. On May 31, 1975, a great number of local parishioners gathered at the new Catholic Church in Salmon Gum Road, West Kambalda to celebrate the official opening and blessing of the new St John Vianney's Catholic Church. Archbishop Lancelot Goody conducted the blessing and concelebrated a Thanksgiving Mass with Frs Ken Keating, Ted Hewitt, Maurice Toop, Justin Bianchini, James Corcoran (PP), Timothy Corcoran, Dan Foley and one other unknown priest. The presbytery that had been built in 1971 and attached to the new church was also blessed at the same time by Archbishop Goody. John Landers, a local parishioner and builder, built the church with the help of fellow parishioners. The crucifix situated inside the church was sent from Poland by the grandmother of Andy
Krolowski, a local parishioner; and the large crucifix in the ground of the church was designed and built by a local parishioner, Tom Lafferty. The population of Kambalda who are mostly single and married young people with families are employed in the mining industry and have always been very active and progressive in their outlook. During the union strikes in the early 1970s, money was hard to obtain but it didn't stop them putting a little money aside, which helped them to eventually build their presbytery and church during that period. Due to the shortage of priests, the Parish of Kambalda became part of the Parish of KalgoorlieBoulder in 1997 when their last priest, Fr Douglas Hoare, was transferred to Bencubbin; and now is served with a weekly Mass and other weekly visitations from the priests from Kalgoorlie. The Missionary Sisters of Charity, who are situated in Kalgoorlie, often visit or attend the Mass in Kambalda with the faithful. On July 26, 2009, KalgoorlieBoulder parish priest Fr Joseph Rathnaraj attended a special Mass in St John Vianney's Church to celebrate an early feast day of the saint and the Year of the Priest. Due to the small number of parishioners who attend St Joseph's Church in Norseman for Mass, a large number of pews in that church are not being used. In the last few months, ten of these pews have been brought from St Joseph's Church in Norseman to St John Vianney's Church in Kambalda and added to the seating arrangements there. In doing so, the wooden pews have added to the character of the church. It would be wonderful if the faithful could obtain at least one Plenary Indulgence for attending a Mass at St John Vianney's Church in Kambalda on a designated feast day during the Year of the Priest.
Bus used to fight Aboriginal isolation BY ROBERT HIINI Parish Reporter A BUS may seem a strange solution for fighting isolation. But for Fr Emil Ciecierega SDS, Director of Perth's Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, the new acquisition will be key to building greater connectedness amongst the Indigenous people who call him and his two co-workers friends. The purchase of the 14 seater bus was made possible through a Lotterywest grant of just over $52,000 and was presented to Fr Emil and Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton on November 27 at Big Rock Toyota in Wanneroo, where the vehicle was blessed.
Fr Emil said that the bus would enable his organisation to transport Indigenous family members to funerals and other significant life events as well as social occasions where his clients, often from isolated communities in the country, can make new friends in the Perth metropolitan area. Together with colleagues including Sr Anula OSM, originally from India, and layman Reg Carnamah, from Indigenous communities around Geraldton, Fr Emil makes weekly visits to six of Perth's major public hospitals and regular visits to over 300 addresses. Here he catches up with friends he has made since joining the organisation two years ago.
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Prior to taking up his current role, the Polish-Australian priest worked in the Bidyadanga community, 2.5 hours out of Broome for four years. While Aboriginal Catholic Ministry is keen to reach Indigenous people of any or no creed, Fr Emil said that those who work in the organisation know they are only reaching a little under a third, or 1,500, of the 5,000 Catholic Indigenous in Perth. This is a situation they are constantly trying to improve. Fr Emil celebrates Mass for any Indigenous people who wish to Layman Reg Carnamah with the van that started it all at attend at his Holy Trinity Church parish Big Rock Toyota in Wanneroo. PHOTO: ROBERT HIINI in the north-east suburb of Embleton on Sundays at 11am. For more info on Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, contact 9328 7529
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Catholic social services threatened Tax exemption change could close Catholic hospitals, aged care centres BY ANTHONY BARICH National Reporter CATHOLIC aged and healthcare would have to outlay $120 million in payroll tax alone and services would be cut or shut down if the Federal Government withdraws their exemption from payroll tax, Catholic Health Australia said. The figure could rise to over $200 million in subsequent years. On October 14, the Federal Government's Productivity Commission issued a draft research report into the contribution of the not for profit (NFP) sector, and is currently reviewing the tax status of charitable works that generate revenue, including Catholic health and aged care bodies. CHA warned that its 75 key hospitals and hundreds of aged care providers could be forced to reduce their charitable activities if the Government removes tax concessions currently extended to employees of not for profit health and aged care services. "If this happened, there would either need to be a cut in hospital and aged care services or, in some cases, they may be financially unviable and may need to reconsider their ability to exist?' CHA
chief executive Martin Laverty told The Record. In its submission in response to the Productivity Commission's draft report, CHA has instead proposed retaining tax concessions and capping staff meal entertainment benefits. A report by KPMG, commissioned by CHA and released on November 19, found that to prevent staff leaving the sector if payroll concessions are removed, Catholic providers would be forced to redirect funds towards increased salaries and benefits, at a national estimated cost of $120 million. This would very likely result in cut-backs or even closures to charitable and mission-based activities, KPMG found. Addressing the Australian Bishops' Plenary Meeting in North Sydney last week, Mr Laverty outlined the need for Government to improve sustainability of Catholic aged care services, the threat to Catholic private hospitals posed by possible changes to tax concessions and the possible role of Catholic hospitals in the Federal Government's health reform agenda. The Bishops made a submission on November 24, which CHA and Catholic Social Services contributed to, which said that the NFP sector has for many years had significant acquittal and financial reporting requirements for Government funding, especially in the education, health and social welfare
sectors. "No significant problems have been identified in the acquittal of such funds provided to the Catholic Church. Accordingly, any additional acquittal or reporti4 burden would need to be justified,' the Bishops said. The Bishops believe that the enquiry into tax exemptions is part of a wider -inquiry into tax, undertaken by Dr Ken Henry AC, Secretary to the Treasury, to be completed by Christmas Eve and released in February in time for the May Budget. Former St Vincent de Paul Society NSW President Robert Fitzgerald, arguably Australia's leading expert on franchise law, is Commissioner of the Productivity Commission. KPMG also found that health funds pay NFPs lower rebates than they pay public hospitals as NFPs have a lower cost profile due to the tax deductions they have. If tax deductions were removed, the costs would go up. While some submissions have argued that Catholic hospitals are no different from for-profit organisations, the Bishops argue to the contrary, as Church organisations plough any profits back into their own services, while for-profit bodies give profits to stakeholders. The Bishops also argue that the Catholic Church also goes into areas that for-profit bodies will not touch, like palliative care. Hospices are usually run by community and church groups, particularly by the Catholic Church.
Guidelines to set out Catholic hospitals' obligation to the mission ofJesus Christ' BY ANTHONY BARICH National Reporter AUSTRALIA'S Bishops and Catholic Health Australia have decided to develop a new Guide for Catholic Governance for health and aged care bodies. The CHA Board resolved unanimously at its October 28 board meeting to propose to the Bishops a project to articulate guiding principles for the governance of Catholic health and aged care services. The Bishops approved the concept when CHA proposed it to them on November 24 at their Plenary Meeting in North Sydney. Work on the guide should begin by January and be completed by December. CHA chief executive Martin Laverty said that for a director or board member of a Catholic organisation, there is at present no single document that explains the roles and responsibilities of such people in the Church, especially regarding Canon law as it affects services. "There is ambiguity about how
people in governance can best serve the Church," Mr Laverty told The Record. "The guide will fill in some of the gaps for governance positions to exercise their roles fulfilling the mission of the Church. If you're a board director for a for-profit hospital, your obligation is to provide a return. Catholic hospitals' obligation is to the mission of Jesus Christ. So how we articulate in a contemporary sense of providing care in fulfilment of Catholic principals is a major task, and a crucial one." CHA, which represents 75 hospitals and 550 residential and community aged care services operated by the Catholic Church in Australia, will consult Canon lawyers for the project.
Catholic Church euthanasia teaching 'ahead of the curve' Catho c bioethicist weighs in on paralysed man thought to be unconscious for 23 years BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNA) - The awakening of a patient thought comatose for 23 years shows that Catholic teaching on feeding coma patients is "ahead of the curve", a bioethics expert says.
A paralysed man who was misdiagnosed as comatose for 23 years is again communicating with the world after new brain scans showed he was, in fact, conscious. A Catholic bioethics expert suggests the case shows the wisdom of Catholic teaching on the duty to provide sustenance for those believed to be comatose. Rom Houben, a former martial arts enthusiast, was paralysed in a 1983 car crash. The Daily Mail reports
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that his doctors in Zolder, Belgium used the internationally accepted Glasgow Coma Scale to assess his physical and verbal responses, but each time he was graded incorrectly. "I screamed, but there was nothing to hear?' said Houben who, after therapy, now communicates with the aid of a computer. "I dreamed myself away?' John Haas, President of the Philadelphia-based National Catholic Bioethics Centre, told Catholic News Agency that Houben's mistaken diagnosis was a "perfect example" of why artificial nutrition and hydration should be continued. The US Catholic Bishops last week passed a modified version of Directive 58 of the Ethical and Religious Directives (ERDs) for Catholic healthcare, which spoke of "the moral obligation to continue to provide hydration and nutrition to patients in a compromised state' "This obligation extends to patients in chronic conditions (eg the 'persistent vegetative state') who can reasonably be expected to live indefinitely if given such care the ERD said. "The Bishops have always held to that position?' Haas explained, but some other Catholic voices have not. In 2004, Haas noted, Pope John Paul II delivered an allocution in which he again said it is necessary to provide hydration and nutrition as long as it is "achieving its end" of nurturing the body. Houben's recovery, he said, would seem to be "a case
where the Church's position was actually ahead of the Curve". Asked about the difficulty of a patient permanently labelled as "unconscious," Haas said he hoped health care providers would not have negative attitudes towards such patients. However, he noted that Pope John Paul II described how "regrettable" it was that the medical term for such patients was "persistent vegetative state". Some doctors' comments and medical terminologies "do tend to devalue and demean these people, which is really unfortunate?' He said the case could help confirm the position of those who oppose physician-assisted suicide, but where the practice is legalised the patients are generally required to be conscious and responsive. Houben's However, case would be relevant to those with advanced medical directives who say they want artificial hydration and nutrition removed if they are unconscious and unlikely ever to wake. The Catholic tradition holds that hydration and nutrition cannot be removed if a person will die of dehydration and starvation, Haas reiterated. Three years ago, new technology scans showed Houben's brain was still functioning almost completely normally. His case has just been reported in a scientific paper by the doctor who discovered the mistake, neurological expert
Rom Houben, left, in his current state, haying been misdiagnosed as having been in a coma for 23 years. Right, in his former life as a martial arts champion. Dr Steven Laureys of the
Coma Science Group and Department of Neurology at Liege University Hospital. Laureys' re-evaluation of Houben showed that the patient had lost control of his body but was still fully aware of what was happening. "Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt?' Houben said. "I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me - it was my second birth?' Dr Laureys explained that medical advances caught up with the patient. His study claims that there may be many similar cases of false comas around the world, the Daily Mail reported. According to Dr Laureys, in Germany alone
about 100,000 people suffer from severe traumatic brain injury each year. About 20,000 injuries are followed by a coma of three weeks or longer. "Some of them die, others regain health. But an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people a year remain trapped in an intermediate stage - they go on living without ever coming back again," he said. "Anyone who bears the stamp of 'unconscious' just one time hardly ever gets rid of it again?' Houben may never leave the hospital, but he now has a special device which lets him read books lying down. "I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people knowI am not dead," he told the Daily Mail.
December 2 2009, The Record
US, UK prove charter danger
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Vatican blocks women deacons ordinations in Catholic church
Cardinal George Pell, left, shares a moment with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, right, at the Australian Christian Lobby national conference in Canberra. PHOTO: AL
BY ANTHONY BARICII
National Reporter
BREACHES of religious freedom in the guise of human rights protections in the United States and Britain should serve as a dire warning as Australia considers its own human rights charter, Cardinal George Pell said. Discussing Religious freedom and public policy at the annual Australian Christian Lobby national conference in Canberra on November 21, Cardinal Pell said: "The US and Britain are still a long way away from where we are now (in regards to religious freedom breaches in the name of human rights), and that is where we want to keep it". Paul "London barrister Diamond, who visited Australia last month to talk about the charter of rights, has explained that antidiscrimination has become an official priority of public policy in the UK, with serious consequences for the rights of Christians as people who are held to be inherently 'discriminatory": Cardinal Pell said. "In the United States, scholars have been turning their minds to the public policy implications of same-sex marriage, which is of course a part of the anti-discrimination agenda. "We need to be clear about what is happening elsewhere in the world and be both vigilant and confident in protecting all human rights, including the right to religious freedom, especially through the parliaments. "When the human rights industry starts to treat religious freedom as a problem, it makes itself an ugly Goliath. But we should not be cowed." He said the current debate in Australia over human rights has revealed similar threats to religious freedom, citing Human Commission's Race Rights Discrimination Commissioner Tom Calma expressing concern (in the ABC's words) "at evidence of a growing fundamentalist religious lobby, in areas such as same-sex relationships, stem-cell research and abortion". The Archbishop of Sydney said that the problem for the Human Rights Commission and "those who share its world view is that human rights often get in the road of their particular secular agenda". "The rights to life, to marriage, to family; the recognition of the family based on marriage as the fundamental unit of society; the rights of parents to determine the moral and religious education of their children; and the rights to
freedom of religion, belief, and conscience are all recognised by the major international human rights agreements:' Cardinal Pell said the view that "religious opinion and religious people in the public square are somehow a problem, perhaps even a danger" runs through the discussion paper that the Commission issued on December 10, 2008 to commence the National Human Rights Consultation. The National Human Rights Consultation Report, issued on September 30 this year, recommended the implementation of a human rights charter, but Cardinal Pell said that majority opinion, and especially those in favor of religious freedom as well as freedom of speech'', should be opposed to such a charter. He warned that a human rights charter in Australia "will be used, as it is now used in Britain, to threaten and harass those manifesting religion in public life and especially the Christian religion". "Christians believe that everyone should be free from unjust discrimination, but anti-discrimination laws which do not respect fundamental human rights such as freedom of religion and conscience, are unjust laws," he said. "We should not be afraid to say this. We have a right to foster religious communities. "Those who want to cancel out this right need to show why this right should be removed:' The Cardinal noted that human rights statutes such as the Victorian Charter, which claim to implement International instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) "have often what is at best a promiscuous relationship to those instruments". He said it would be "a recipe for trouble and oppression" if a federal human rights charter were to be implemented with the same guidelines as the Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, which was implemented in 2006. This is proven, he said, in the fact that the rights included in the Victorian Charter can be limited or redefined according to whatever is required "in a free and democratic society based on human dignity, equality and freedom". He said that this clause gives judges and other decision makers an "enormous discretion to reinterpret, redefine, or simply ignore human rights if there are more important priorities set by the government of the day".
Bishop Joseph Grech, second from left, introduces Papal Nuncio Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, left, to Sandhurst youth at a November 2008 national youth gathering. The Nuncio initially agreed to let an Anglican Bishop ordain women deacons in a Catholic church as it is allowed in Canon law, before the Vatican overruled. PHOTO:YVETTE NEHME
BY ANTHONY BARICH
National Reporter
THE Vatican has overruled an Australian Bishop's decision to allow four women to be ordained as Anglican deacons in a church in his diocese. consulting with A fter Archbishop Giuseppe Lazzarotto, the Papal Nuncio to Australia, Bishop Joseph Grech ofSandhurst, Victoria originally allowed the November 29 Anglican diaconate ordination of three men and four women at St Kilian's Catholic Church, Bendigo as the 140 year old St Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Melbourne had been closed in January due to safety concerns. that understood It is Archbishop Lazzarotto approved the event in the first place as Canon law does allow for a Catholic church to host Anglican ordinations if the Anglicans do not have a suitable venue. However, after concerned local Catholics • wrote to the Vatican, Archbishop Lazzarotto rang Bishop Grech to pass on a message from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments advising him to cancel the event. It is the second time the Vatican has stepped in to stop collaboration between Catholic and
Anglican dioceses in Australia this year. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments asked Catholic Bishop. Michael Malone of MaitlandNewcastle to cancel a joint confirmation service scheduled for May 31 at the Catholic Sacred Heart Cathedral in Maitland. A November 23 statement from Bishop Grech said that "after further consideration and discussion of this matter with the people involved it was thought best not to proceed with these plans so that any possible misunderstanding of the Church's teaching about diaconate and priestly ordination be avoided. Both Bishops acknowledge the goodwill of the people involved and pledge to continue working together to promote Christian unity". Initially, after consulting Archbishop Lazzarotto, Bishop Grech had agreed to allow the event to take place in a Catholic church, telling the Bendigo on newspaper Advertiser November 6 that while "it's not in our tradition to do that ... it's a question of our gesture of friendship". Once the Vatican order came through to cancel it, the Bendigo Advertiser quoted Bishop Grech on November 24 as saying there
would have been "wider ramifications" if the ordination had gone ahead. "The Catholic Church's doctrine on the ordination of deacons and priests is very well known," Bishop Grech told the Advertiser. "There were certain issues within the doctrine that created problems. It's the best thing for both churches." He said the Catholic Church "did all its homework" before agreeing to allow the ordinations in St Kilian's Church, adding that he continued to "have a great rapport" with Anglican Bishop Andrew Curnow of Bendigo, who asked his permission to use one of his churches in the first place. "This relationship is maintained on honesty and we'll continue to work together in the future," Bishop Grech said. The ordinations instead took place at St Andrew's Uniting Church on November 29. Bishop Curnow told the Advertiser he was not aware of the reason for the decision, but understood there was an issue of women being ordained in the Catholic Church. The Anglican prelate said it would have been the first time an Anglican ordination had taken place in a Catholic church in Bendigo, and likely in Australia too.
Another stolen generation from gay marriage? Children's rights trump same-sex marriage: Galaxy poll WITH a Galaxy Poll revealing 86 percent of Australians believe children should be raised by their biological parents, the Australian Family Association has welcomed the Senate inquiry's recommendation to oppose a same-sex marriage bill. spokesman John A FA Morrissey said that the push for same-sex marriage is aimed at widening gay access to children, but nobody has the right to a child any more than a man has a right to a woman. "The new Galaxy poll shows Australians believe that marriage and children go together and that Australians don't want another stolen generation of children growing up without one or both
of their biological parents:' Mr Morrissey said. The Galaxy poll, conducted last weekend for the AFA, asked 1,053 Australians: "Ideally, wherever possible, should children be raised by their biological mother and their biological father?" Eighty-six percent of respondents said yes, including 81 percent of 18 to 24 year olds. This is despite Fr Frank Brennan SJ's claim on the ABC's Q A program in October that, based on his findings during the Consultation on Human Rights, young people do not have a problem with same-sex marriage, and that most who do are older people who "happen to be married". "This should be a wake up call for the Federal Parliament, particularly Kevin Rudd's Labor Party, as the strongest support for children's rights (90 percent) came from the lower income fam-
ilies, which form Labor's heartland:' Mr Morrissey said. "Yet, at its 2009 national conference, the Labor Party changed its policy on marriage. Labor no longer defines marriage as between a man and a woman only, leaving the way open for legalising same-sex marriage and even polygamy." Recently, Mr Rudd and Malcolm Coalition leader Turnbull apologised to the many children who were denied knowledge of their parents and families after World War II. Mr Rudd has promised to now help them find their biological parents. "Yet we now have the push for same-sex marriage, which will contribute to yet another 'stolen generation' of children who will be denied the right to be raised by both their biological mother and father. Are our politicians so blind?" Mr Morrissey said.
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Advent more than a liturgical feast for Our Lady of Lourdes
BY AN-n{0NY BARICH National Reporter
THE first Sunday of Advent was more than an essential feast day to kick off the Catholic Church's new liturgical calendar for Rockingham parish. It was the occasion to farewell married couple Karen and David Ross, parishioners who were central to the parish's mission activity. Karen Ross The pair are set to return to Queensland for David's work after 10 years at the parish, during which time the pair set up Rockingham's 'sister parish' in Watulari, East Timor six years ago. The parish has a monthly collection to build a primary and high school for 250 children in the village in East Timor's mountain region. Karen has been the parish choir organist for three years and was a member of the Star of the Sea Primary School board, of which David was the president. Recently she has been a special needs teacher's assistant at Kolbe Catholic College. Left is a photo of the children from six local public schools taught catechesis once a week by six volunteer catechists from Our Lady of Lourdes parish. Above left, parish priest Fr Michael Separovich consecrates the host; above, acolyte Robin Giles lights the first Advent candle.
Euthanasia 'a surrender to mediocrity': bioethicist BY ANTHONY BARICH National Reporter EUTHANASIA is "a surrender to mediocrity", according to LI Goody Bioethics Centre director Rev Dr Joseph Parkinson. As regulations for applying the Consent to Medical Treatment Act came into force on November 17, WA Greens MP Robin
Chapple said they were the "first important step towards West Australians being allowed to choose how their life will end", and said he would continue to press for his Voluntary Euthanasia Bill 2009 to be introduced into Parliament by conscience vote. Rev Dr Parkinson said, however, that the Consent to Medical Treatment Act, and the statutory forms for creating Advance Health
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We have an Altar (II) This week, one of Australia's leading liturgists continues his series for The Record on the significance of an altar in a Church BY BISHOP PF:ITR J ELLIOTT
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he first Christians used two Greek words to describe their eucharistic table: thusiasterion, meaning "altar'', and trapeza meaning "table". The words thus express the twofold meaning of the Mass - a holy sacrifice and a sacred banquet. Saint Paul speaks of the "table of the Lord" in 1 Corinthians 10:21, although this refers more to eating the Eucharist than to the place where it is celebrated. But the words "we have an altar" in Hebrews 13:10 could be the earliest reference to the eucharistic table as an "altar". In post-apostolic times, early in the Second Century, Ignatius of Antioch used the Greek word for "altar", thusiastalon, to refer to the celebration of the Eucharist by the bishop and the place where the holy sacrifice is offered. This word is derived from the Greek Septuagint text of the Old Testament, where it describes the places where the Hebrew people offered their sacrifices. The Latin Fathers used the standard existing Latin words for an altar, ara (an altar on a "high place") and altare, not only to refer to the Eucharist itself but to the holy table where the Christian mysteries are celebrated. While Tertullian used ara, Saint Cyprian took this word to refer to a pagan altar, and preferred altare for the eucharistic table, hence the Latin origin of our English word "altar". The Christian altar was always treated with great reverence. The Greek Fathers described the "holy table" as "mystical", "tremendous ' and "priestly". It was regarded as so holy that nothing was allowed to be placed on it except the sacred vessels for the Eucharist, the chalice and paten, and the holy Book of the Gospels. As already noted, the first Christian altars in the centuries of persecution were wooden, but by the Fourth Century, when Christianity had become legal and many churches were being built, altars were usually constructed of stone, marble or alabaster and this became the more widespread tradition. A mosaic of the priest Melchisedech in Ravenna depicts the altar of the age of the Church Fathers. This was usually a cube-shaped table, freestanding and dressed in rich hangings and embroidered cloths. Candles stood around the altar and a jewelled cross and oil lamps were suspended by chains above it. It was enshrined under a canopy, resting on four columns, the ciborium or baldachino that we still see in the great Roman basilicas: St Peter's, St Paul's outside the walls, St Mary Major etc. Silken curtains were hung from this canopy and these veils were drawn around the altar to conceal the most sacred and mystical moments of the Mass, the consecration of the bread and wine during the Eucharistic prayer. The altar was always located
over the tombs of martyrs in the Catacombs. We still maintain this link by inserting the relics of saints under a new altar during the rite of dedication. Some scholars in the liturgical movement of the last century claimed that the Eucharist was originally celebrated facing the people, a view that is strongly contested today. To promote better participation in worship, Mass facing the people was revived before the Second World War in parishes, monasteries and student chaplaincies in France and Germany. Mass facing the people therefore became the favoured option in the reforms of the liturgy, authorized after the Second Vatican Council. It was hoped that this arrangement would promote "full and active participation", especially now that the language of the people was used for worship. Mass facing the people had a radical effect on altars and sanctuaries. In many churches the existing altar was brought forward or a new freestanding altar was constructed in front of it. The new altars took a simpler form, with reduced proportions because a cumbersome altar might dwarf the priest standing behind it. In some churches the ancient cube-shaped altar reappeared. While this is suitable in a small chapel, it can make the altar look trivial in a large church. The great sign of Christ must be significant. Once the altar moved forward, the tabernacle had to be relocated. We have returned to earlier methods of eucharistic reservation, that is, setting the tabernacle into the wall or in a tower or shrine apart from the altar but on the sanctuary of the church. According to a second option, the tabernacle may be located on a side altar or in a separate eucharistic chapel, which is to be visible from the body of the church as in St Mary's Cathedral, Perth (see the revised General Instruction of the Roman Missal, nos. 314-317). Pope Benedict XVI is an expert liturgist. By public example, and in line with what he wrote when he was a Cardinal, he promotes what is being called "the Benedictine altar". This is really a rearrangeAn example of "the Benedictine altar" as it has come to be called is seen as Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass at ment of the crucifix and candles. Kenthurst Study Centre near Sydney before World Youth Day last year. In this instance the celebrant faces the people The crucifix is set on the altar, at people. and while crucifix faces him, with candles symetrically set out to left and right and situated between celebrant centre. the importance the and liturgy of understanding of Unfortunately, writes Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliott of Melbourne, a lack candles (two, four or six) are The "temporary." and "cheap" look that altars housing churches contemporary some to led of the altar has arranged symmetrically on each PHOTOS TOP CNS/LOSSERVATORE ROMANO side. When the celebrant faces the the crucifix need not block people shelves on or altar the on flowers heavin God of worship angelic na rest in an area set apart from the of the church, the "sanctuary" or en. Christians on the earthly pil- behind it seems to date only from the people's view, because they all the Eighteenth Century, and is still look at the altar from an angle anyholy place. A low screen separated grimage are raised into the heavway. The real point of this developthe sanctuary from the rest of the enly dimension each time they are frowned upon by liturgists. is to make Jesus Christ the ment Christian the at celebrant The church. In the East this screen was gathered by God to celebrate the altar faced East from the earliest centre of the celebration, not the used to display holy images, the holy liturgy. times. This custom was symbolic priest. Any altar can now "look like In the West, where the simpler ikons, and gradually the screen God's People looking towards an altar", not just a table adorned altar of the prevailed, Rite Roman ikonoslarge the into developed tasis, the solid screen that now was not concealed. In the Medieval the rising sun, a sign of the coming with candles and flowers. Unfortunately we have not conceals the altar in the Byzantine era it moved closer to the back wall of the risen Christ with his light of grace, hope and salvation. To face always maintained the deep sense Rite of the Greeks, Ukrainians, of the sanctuary. Gradually it lost its cubic form, East usually meant that the priest of reverence for the altar which was Russians, Melchites etc, in both Catholic and Orthodox churches. becoming longer. Behind it rose and people all faced the same way, part of the faith of the Christians of the first centuries. They expressed Here we see the tradition of con- a reredos adorned with paintings, so the priest was leading the peocealing a sacred place and holy carvings or sculpture. A cross, can- ple, with his back to them, as in their eucharistic faith in the care action to emphasise the mystery, dles and relics began to be placed a procession. But if the sanctuary they took to build beautiful and happened to be at the Western valuable altars. the supernatural event. By con- on it in the Middle Ages. Some of our churches contain end of the church, then the priest With some exceptions, the tabcealing something you also reveal that still seem temporary, altars Peter's Saint (eg. people the faced Eucharist the reserving for ernacle a mystery. even cheap tables. Yet the Church The altar and sanctuary in the was not set on an altar in west- Basilica, Rome). This was also necChristian East seems to symbol- ern Europe until the Sixteenth essary if the tomb of a saint was set calls us to set up noble and perise more the heavenly altar in the Century. Before that time the directly under and in front of the manent altars for the celebration Letter to the Hebrews. Therefore tabernacle took various forms: a altar (also the plan of Saint Peter's of the Eucharist according to the post-conciliar liturgy. The guidethe way Eastern Christians cel- eucharistic tower, a small shrine Basilica, Rome). It has been argued that linking lines are set out clearly in the ebrate their beautiful liturgies suspended over the altar (often reflects the offering Jesus Christ shaped like a dove), a noble safe an altar to the tomb of a saint went revised General Instruction of the our great High Priest and the eter- set in a wall (aumbry). The use of back to when Mass was celebrated Roman Missal, nos. 296-308.
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Out of the classroom, into young hearts A trip to Vietnam nets profound lessons in humanity for students BY GLYNN'S GRAINGER
Record Contibuter
"The students come back with an amazing gift that money can't buy," according to Whitfords Parish Priest Fr Joseph Tran. He told The Record: "They realise how blessed they are in Australia they don't take it for granted. "The children come back with a completely different way of thinking about life." On a recent trip to Vietnam, 20 Year 11 students from Sacred Heart College, Sorrento, saw the new boarding house under construction. This occurred with the help of donations from WA in order to give the 35 students of Minh Hung a proper education. At Minh Hung, they also helped elderly people to renovate their houses after they had lost their roofs. They saw the school run by the Thu Duc Convent, which has been renovated and set up so that the students can move out from the rooms of the convent into the new classrooms, which will allow many younger women to join the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions. It will also mean the education of more Sisters, helped by the $42,000 the students raised for them. At Long Dien, the Montanha tribal people, most of them orphans, were taught English by the WA students and helped with their education. The students travelled to Vietnam with Fr Joseph, Principal Ian Elder and school staff for the school's sixth annual Vietnam Mission during the two weeks' school holidays from September 23 to October 10. Fr Joseph said: "A growing number of the students would like to go on Mission rather than go on holiday." Years 8 to 11 students at the College raised money with a lot of fundraising activities such as using the school oval as a carpark during the Surf LifeSaving Championships, to running sausage sizzles at Whitfords parish. Two major school events were Sacred Heart Day and the Ladies' Luncheon. For the students who go to Vietnam, the journey begins a full 12 months before they leave, always with a focus on the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, and the work they do there. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions founded Sorrentos Sacred
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Heart College. On Friday, July 24, the students went to a special Mass in Perth to watch one of the Sisters take her final vows in a moving and special ceremony. This impressed on the students the huge commitment the Sisters undertake when they commit their life to this unique vocation. In Year 10, the students have to put an application in for the trip There were 40 applicants last year and half that number selected. School chaplain Fr Bob Carden, Mr Elder, RE coordinator Carol Young and Mission coordinator John Sullivan interview the students and pick the best 20 to go, Fr Joseph said. Courtney and Danni, two of the students who went on the trip, told the Whitords parish on their return: "When we arrived in Vietnam, the first thing that struck us was the heat and humidity. "But as we moved further into our Journey we were faced with extreme poverty and a complete cultural change, due to a communist government. "When we weren't interacting with the Sisters, we were out playing with the kids, either by visiting their villages and schools, or visiting them at Agent Orange orphanages. "We also worked with the extremely sick and old. Just talking to them, even if they didn't understand En?lish, really cheered them up! ' We did many simple acts such as blowing bubbles, balloons, stickers, stamps, giving out toys, chatting and smiling, and we could tell that it meant the world to them!" Courtney and Danni said: "These people are some of the nicest and most generous people you will ever meet, always making us huge lunches and dinners and performing dances for the Moon Festival. "We would like to thank the (Whitfords) parish community for their prayers and financial support. We have seen firsthand where your generous donations are going." Santa Maria College, Attadale students are -also going to Vietnam and Cambodia for 28 days from November 25, returning just before Christmas. A total of 25 girls are going, 22 from Year 10 and three from Year 11. Ten Year 11 students from John XX 1 11 College, Mt Claremont also plan to visit a children's cancer ward at a hospital, orphanages and a blind school and will meet up with an Australian Loreto nun who works in Vietnam. Five boys and five girls will travel to the South-East Asian country for two weeks from November 27.
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Above, orphaned children from the Suio Da Community take a nap. The community was one of the sites visited by students from Sacred Heart College in Sorrento. Twenty students accompanied Whitford priest Fr Joseph Tran back to his homeland of Vietnam after much fundraising. Right above and below, college staff member Emma Janeczko and student Tim Grapiglia amongst orphaned children in Cu Chi.
Maddison Burmaz and a girl from an orphanage for children with physical and/or mental disabilities in Cu Chi. ALL PHOTOS COURTEOUSY OF SACRED HEART COLLEGE, SORRENTO.
Above, a kindergarten class in Suio Da community. Below, Jordan Fryer and an infant at the Sacred Heart Women's Shelter.
Above right, musicians from a school for the blind in Saigon play for their Australian visitors. Below, student Jordan Fryer and a young friend travel through bustling streets amongst the hordes, buying and selling at the Dalat Markets (above and below, left).
Students and staff dressed in the traditional royal regalia of Dalat
aughter was only a couple of months old n the second half of 2004 when I read an article on late term abortions in The West (Doctor defends women's right to late abortions: October 16). I still remember my shock on scanning the list of permissible conditions for late term abortions in this State: dwarfism was the third on that list and my daughter has achondroplasia, the most common of more than 200 types of dwarfism. Rosie is a delight. She wasn't planned but was much wanted and has changed my life and, really, the lives of many with whom she comes in contact. I am frequently greeted by people who use my new name of `Rosie's Mum'! She is now coming up 51 2 /, in pre-primary at a Catholic K-12 northern suburbs school and a right character. Ihad no idea that Rosie would be a little person. As an 'elderly prima-gravida', so named by King Edward as I would be 39 when delivering my baby, I had upset the first doctor I consulted by refusing any of the myriad of tests often conducted during pregnancy to determine possible complications. She was quite cross and, ironically, told me very soundly that clearly I had little idea of what it would be like to bring up a disabled child. I saw no point in testing my baby as I was not going to act on any results. I understood the doctor's concern was that a woman had time to prepare herself for a disabled child if abortion was not an option but I also didn't want to spend my pregnancy miserably adjusting to definite difficulties. Instead, I spent my time praying: that I wouldn't have a baby who would projectile vomit; that my baby wouldn't have Down's or CF or cerebral palsy; that while I wanted twins it probably wouldn't be a good idea; that ... and so on! It never crossed my mind to pray that I wouldn't have a dwarf! Now, I thank God every day for Rosie, as she is. I started writing her a letter when she was really little and submitted part of it some years ago to an online support forum for parents of little people: "I'm on the last of the current lot of books on dwarfism. They've all been very interesting .... It sort of surprises me how much parents unexpectedly having a dwarf can't focus on anything other than their child being a dwarf. I know when you were born I felt cheated because the surprise of the dwarfism somewhat eclipsed the expected pure joy of your birth and became a negative or mitigating factor for a while. I deliberately ignored the information people kept trying to give me because I wanted to just see you as you, not as a condition or disability or handicap or whatever. Eventually I did the reading and watched the videos and cried again but throughout it all, what kept me grounded and stopped me crying was to be with you, look at you, hold you and love you.I still stay up quite late most nights, sometimes because it's nice to have quiet time when you and Fisher [the cat] are both asleep; sometimes because the weather's bad and it worries me and often because if
Rosie Jaques and mum, Chris. Rosie was born with achondroplasia, a
type of dwarfism. Chris is a proofreader with The Record.
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I go to bed too soon, it will be a longer gap before I can have another look at you and listen to you breathe and wonder at your being. A lot of the parents in these books talk about what they'd do if they were given the opportunity to remove the dwarfism and that's a funny question because it's only one little part of you. The fact that it will be so obvious is irrelevant; you could just as easily have been deaf or had epilepsy or a missing big toe or a shocking temper. The dwarfism is not the essence of what makes you you but it is part of you so to remove it would be to change you and maybe that would mean the beautiful personality would go as well and the lovely, sunny nature and that would be a real shame. We can both live with you being short and maybe needing the odd operation and we can learn to cope with people staring - let's just smile at them and educate them and treat them how we'd like to be treated. Let's always assume everyone loves us, wants to know us and sees our value and beauty, our potential and promise; all those gifts God has given us and which we won't waste." It was certainly a shock the morning after a very difficult birth to be informed that my daughter was disabled, was going to look more like other little people than her father and me, was always going to be different and have to cope with certain obstacles.
droplasia and, indeed, my first rather naïve reaction to the doctor was, 'but we're both so tall'! I now know quite a bit more than most of the doctors with whom we come in contact as they very rarely see dwarfs in Perth. That's not to say we don't have any we do - but the numbers are comparatively small. These days, I don't spend every day worrying about Rosie and her future. We know quite a few short statured people and Rosie is gradually realising that she will be one of them, even though she spent a long time insisting that she was going to be as big as me. She does get stared at a lot but is so open and generally accepting (unless she overhears someone referring to her as a 'baby' when she will quickly correct them!) that she'll talk to anyone and I really believe they rapidly forget about the height and just see the kid. I don't want to turn this into a polemic on abortion: I started this article remembering how horrified I was that dwarfism was even on a list, let alone Down's and cleft lip and palate, but that was really becauseI was in the position to be horrified because I had one. I honestly believe that most women who abort because of one of the reasons on that list do so out of fear, lack of knowledge or lack of support. Perhaps if they could talk to someone who had one of those children, if they could see the immense potential which exists in every child, even with a disability, they would find the courage with "It was certainly a God's grace to have that baby. I truly feel blessed to have shock the morning Rosie in my life. I must admit after a very difficult I don't tend to agree with many birth to be informed who've said to me that God only gives special babies to special that my daughter was people! I think it's just one of disabled ..." those things: the stats for having a Rosie are 1:40,000 and I was Part of the grief I felt was just one of the lucky ones! that Rosie would not have the Next year, in the third term sort of life one wants for one's school holidays, our local comchildren; another was realising munity of short statured and how little I knew about achon- their families are going to be droplasia and, to be honest, feel- luckier still when our Eastern ing somewhat resentful about States short statured travel to the inevitable burden it would Perth for the national conven involve, not only for Rosie, but tion. Usually it's held over East for me. To my ultimate shame,I which is difficult and expensive even spent the next six months for most of us to access but next waiting for the next childIknew year, keep your eyes open - and to be born with a disability; not down! - and you might see a that I wished for one but won- whole group of little people havdered, rather, why I should have ing a ball. had a disabled child. If you would like to make a donation to help These very normal reactions fund this wonderful opportunity, please arise from a lack of knowledge: contact chrisjaques@arach.net.au. I had never heard of achon-
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"God loved the world so much, that He sent his only begotten Son into the world so that we might be saved." John 3 v16. We celebrate the coming of the
Son of God into the world each year at Christmas. This is a joyous occasion, and a special time for children with the giving of gifts. As we contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary nursing her beloved Son, we are overcome with a sense of wonder at the goodness of our Creator. But we are told that he motivation of God was that the coming of His Son would bring mankind true life, life in abundance. His desire was for ' a united humanity which would be able to confront the many - problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to th humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.
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- How big is the slice of our goods would we offer to those in need. What price would be pay to save the life of even one child. "Wake up, 0 man! For your sake God became man" wrote St. Augustine. Wake up, 0 men and women of the third millennium! At Christmas, the Almighty fifil becomes a child and asks for our help and protection. His way of showing that he is God challenges our way of being human. By knocking at our door, he challenges us and our freedom; he calls us to examine how we understand and live our lives. It is estimated that a child dies every 15 seconds from a water related disease. DO WE FEEL THE NEED TO TAKE ACTION? As we celebrate our Parish Masses we often fail to remember the hundreds of thousands of Catholics who offer the same Holy Sacrificek‘ in most difficult circumstances. But those missionaries who are more than happy to endure the difficulties of "Missionary Life", are working for the good of the souls and bodies of their parishioners. Usually the first buildings constructed at a Mission Station are the schools and health clinics, then the church and finally the residence for the Priest. These pastors and their parishioners are childlike in their patience, and in so many ways resemble the people who surrounded Jesus the Child of Mary at the time of his birth.
Our Holy Father wrote: "At Christmas we contemplate God made man, divine glory hidden beneath the poverty of a Child wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in. a manger; the Creator of the Universe reduced to the helplessness of an infant. Once we accept this paradox, we discover the Truth that sets us free and the Love that transforms our lives. On Bethlehem Night, the Redeemer becomes one of us, our companion along the precarious paths of history. Let us take the hand which he stretches out to us: It is a hand which seeks to take nothing from us, but only to give." 'During this season of giving may we experien the blessings of a cheerful giver. titio, Fr Adrian F Meaney MSC' T he main purpose of Mission Outreach, a newsletter of the Australian Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, is to inform the people of Australia about our Missionary work in the world today. We will suggest areas where you can assist by your prayers, by your financial support and by becoming lay, religious or priestly missionaries.r . Design & layout by Vanessa Ambrose, Kensington, N.S.W. 2033 Email: ambrose* tpg.com.au Phone: 0405 301867 1111
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Dear Adrian, I've been back a couple of weeks and one of my first appointments was to check the water project at Xing Li. Firstly, I went back to Zunyi to inspect a water project that I initiated about a year ago. It's one of three so far and I hope to do more in the future. This one is, however, different. It's a water tank in a primary school and two kilometers of piping...total cost AUS$2,000. As I said, the name of the place is Xing Li and it's about the most isolated place I have ever been to in China. I was also presented with a banner by the Town Party Secretary (Mayor). The banner reads, "LOVE KNOWS NO BOUNDS". I have withdrawn 10,000 yuan needed for the education of the orphans and disadvantaged in Shiciian. We pray for the benefactors from Australia that they may be able to keep a place for China in their hearts. Greg
PHILIPPINES Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish in Babag, Lapu-lapu City. Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish, a small and blossoming parish with meager financial capacity, started in 1997. Parishioners are suffering from lack of water supply, since the only source is the MCWD and the area is surrounded with salty water thus making it difficult for the parishioners to provide their own deep well. The increasing population of the area results in less available water, hence, this project is deemed necessary to provide this basic need of the parishioners. The project khas already been completed. Two water tanks have been installed; one is at the konvent which served as a stock of water from the main source. The other one is at the back of the church which is serving as rain collector. Cisterns are also installed beside the church which parishioners could benefit, like seminars and other uses. This project has been a great help to our parish Our Mother of Perpetual Help and its parishioners, since this area is remote from palatable water. Fr. Ephraim P ..lreiga MSC
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(These statistics were sent ot us by a Religious Sister working in Sudan). More than 90% of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.1.2 million people in Southern Sudan suffer from a food deficit and will need assistance during the year. One out of every seven women who become pregnant will probably die of pregnancy related complications. There are only ten certified midwives in all of k Southern Sudan Only 27% of girls are in school and there are 1,000 primary school children per teacher. Some of the deadliest epidemics in the world are prevalent in Southern Sudan, including Cholera, Meningitis, Rift Valley Fever, Ebola, Guinea Worm and perhaps the two statistics that capture it all: a fifteen year old girl has a higher chance of dying in childbirth than of finishing school; The maternal mortality rate is the highest in the world and the child immunization rate the lowest.
OLSH Sisters in South Sudan „A= HEALTH: There is a new lease of life in the hospital. From the
dispensary of Sr Moira's time to the hospital of today, Overseas Aid has provided medicines and drugs and running costs - and that is still a number one priority. But this year a Nursing School was opened. It was supposed to be in Rumbek but they were not ready so the first year was transported to Mapuordit, and fifteen students are in training. EDUCATION: Our little secondary school opened with 215 students this year, and is struggling. Meantime our primary school with over 1,000 students has an excess of over 200 and the little ones keep popping up out of the woodwork. We have over 300 in Grade 1, and had to turn away another hundred or more. Sudan needs a lot of prayers. There are so many tribal clashes and violent paybacks and so much fear around. We believe that we are not in any danger (in case you are worried), just the people whose only crime is to belong to the ill-fated tribe from which "someone" has killed "someone" from theirs. There is no "guilty person", only a "guilty tribe" and anyone is likely to pay the penalty, so open roads are not safe for travellers.Thank you again for your support. Sr Mary Batchelor OLSH Mapuordit, South Sudan
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Dear Fr Meaney, Greetings from the Solomon Islands! A few words of thanks to tell you that the money you gave us has been used and we have greatly improved our water supply here on the island of Loga . This is where the novitiates of both the Dominican sisters and friars are located. The island on which we live is located outside of Gizo, the capital of the western province. As you can see in the photos, we have installed the water tanks all four of them. Each tank holds 5,000 litres, the local people have dug two wells, but they are no good for drinking but are useful for washing clothes and having showers. They are doing very well right now since there is a lot of rain at the moment. Thank you once again for your assistance. We continue to pray for your work as you continue to help others in many countries and amongst many different peoples. Yours faithfully, Fr. Henry Paroi 0.P.
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The Catholic Church in PNG has estimate hat 11.6 percent of those tested in its ealth outlets in the Western Province are IV positive. And most of those affected -I.... re women aged 15 to 30. 1!-, ,, f t These chilling revelations were made uring a fact finding visit of the Australian mbassador on H1 -7 /AIDS, Murray Proctor and a igh powered delegation into the province. Their visit coincided with the pening of the Catholic Church run Rabiamul VCT Treatment Centre, i .,.71-ilighting the work of the Catholic diocese.
Letter from Bishop Paul Mea Kaiuea MSC KIRIBATI F7L Greetings to you from Kiribati. I have now 13 young ladies who come from very poor families, and they have no jobs because they could not afford 6 Kiriba to pay for school fees. Besides these, I have another two whom I am trying to t , \ help paying their school fees as their families are too poor to pay. We have many other young ladies of the same age group who because they have no jobs are trying to find other means to get money as a source of income to support themselves and their families. They regularly come to Mass and they pray often. All these girls are coming from poor families and they are among the Disadvantaged Youth of Kiribati. There is so much that can be done for the youth as the future of the church depends very much on them. If we lose the youth of today, we are going to lose the church of tomorrow. I'm quite convinced that the mission to the youth is so vitally important as the future of the Catholic Church depends very much on it. 1 would like you to convey my deep appreciation to your Board for being generous to our Disadvantaged Youth especially our young women. Your $5,000 will do a lot of good in keeping them together and to help them to develop christian attitudes. I will try to send you a progressive report on how the money is being used. By the way I have bought a fishing net for these youe ladies so that they will be able to support themselves a little. Note: Bishop Paul Mea Kaiuea MSC has been the Bishop of Kiribati since 1978. His diocese consists of over 30 main islands (atolls) dispersed out over an area of 3,500,000 square kilometres, straddling the equator and bordering the international date line in the east.
V enezula - South America jai We ask the parents of the children to pay an inscription fee and a small monthly payment for the children in the preschools. It is very difficult to raise more than 50°, of the expenses of the centres locally in Venezuela. The donation is to help cover the costs of the 2009-10 school year in the 3 pre-schools of our barrio, hillside parish in Propatria, and also the work-skill courses and educational support given in our 2 centres attached to the chapels in the barrios of the parish. All the teachers are properly trained preschool teachers and we strive to keep up with the standards demanded by the Venezuelan ministry of education. We hope some day to bring the schools to the level where they get recognition and subsidization by the Venezuelan govt. A daunting red-tape journey separates us from that goal as yet. Approximately 80 poor children of the hillside barrios are beneficiaries of our pre-schools, and between 80 and 100 local young people make constant use of our job training and educational support. Fr.John Jennings MSC
VIETNAM I Currently in Vietnam there are more than 6 million Catholics, 8 percent of the 84 million inhabitants-and they are growing: in Ho Chi Minh City alone, there were 9,000 adult baptisms last year. Religious and monastic vocations are also increasing. There are now 270 monks in the country's four Benedictine monasteries. In addition to being religiously vibrant, the Vietnamese Catholic community is also increasingly active in the public sphere. In his address last June 27 to the bishops on their "ad limina" visit, Benedict XVI dedicated a passage to relations with political authority, emphasizing that "religions do not represent a threat Newly professed Ilk's with relatives after to the nation's unity," but on the contrary act "generously and taking their vows in 2009 in Ho Chi Mink City artially at the service of their neighbour." The MSC Mission Office supports Providing programs in Vietnam such as medical treatment HIV/Aids, Disadvantaged Youth, and to lepers in Clean Water Programs. In the Central Hichlands central highlands we support the oflietnam aughters of St Paul of Chatres who minister to 12,000 lepers. The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC) are an international community of religious men of the Catholic Church who believe that nothing is more important than the saving power of God's love. The initials M.S.C. come from the Latin: Missionarii Sacratissimi Cordis. The MSC Mission Office Australia is a work of the Australian Province of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Our web page is www.australia. mscmission.org
The cause of the Baining Martyrs- PNG The Battling mountains are in New Britain, PNG, and the mart) is are 4 Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, 5 MSC Sisters, one Trappist Brother all of whom were killed in New Britain on August 13, 1904. Their cause has taken an important step forward as the relator from the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints has given his letter of approval for the cause and the "position" prepared by the Postulator General Fr. Lucio De Stefano has been presented to the Congregation. Before beatification could take place the "position" must be studied by three commissions of the Congregation. The first study is scheduled to take place in January 2010. Please remember them in your prayers.
KIRIBATI - Central Pacific 5P-V ,111 I write to thank you on behalf of Santa Maria College for donating a
10,000 litre water tank. Students and staff of the College really appreciate it very much and it is indeed a big relief as they are in great need of rain water. We have only one small tank. It is a 5,000 litre tank but it is not enough to support more than 200 students including both teaching and supporting staff. In the last few months we often experienced insufficient rain water. But the provision of this water tank will be able to make life in the school enjoyable and productive. Once again thank you very much for being considered and kind to us here and may the Good Lord continue to bless you. Fr. Patrick Teitiaua MSC
SOUTH AFRICA Dear Fr Adrian and allpeople ofgood will, I hereby request your help/support. I have 7 churches all in remote rural areas of 44 Eastern Cape, South Africa. Eastern Cape is one of the impoverished provinces in South Africa. People are still lacking with the necessities of life; for example there is one well in the whole village, all the churches have no water, if there is no rain, the tanks are empty. So our first request is the support to provide us boreholes or tank water/well. We have many parishioners suffering with HIV/aids in our area, and we have many P. orphans. We have a Home Based Care project which does its best to take care of them, but we have a great need for support. Some of the children go to school without shoes or uniforms. We would appreciate your help. May God grace you and your good work for the underprivilet people. Looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Fr. Clement Kholopa. OFM
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I'm back in Tangulbei now, still no rain. I think that the consensus is, that the Wet Season is now not delayed, but rather failed! I, however, remain hopeful. Who knows what will happen. Last year, after a poor growing season, it rained from July to mid Nov. Unfortunately by that time, most farmers had been defeated (dried crops in the fields), and only a minority had the courage to plant again in July when the rains began to fall. Consequently, there was a food shortfall last year, and there is going to be a huge food shortfall this year, as the rains have been poor throughout the whole country. Even the _ water level in the borehole at the Mission seems to have dropped. I have to get a dipper into that borehole to ir ' '• ' - c ''--i suspects that a lowering of the water not running properly. At first, I thought it ected the submersible pump in the 0 ing correctly. a. ra_ and the recharge rate. That's not good much, mainly just for building (it's fairly is it should. It used to deliver a /A Iwser in 20 minutes. Now we'll ible pump by 6 metres) to the 47 , imp itself has a limit of how high ve to lower the pump level could get the water to the surface r. Paul Leyden C.S.Sp.
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Currently in Vietnam there are more than 6 million Catholics, 8 percent of the 84 million inhabitants-and they are growing: in Ho Chi Minh City alone, there were 9,000 adult baptisms last year. Religious and monastic vocations are also increasing. There are now 270 monks in the country's four Benedictine monasteries. In addition to being religiously vibrant, the Vietnamese Catholic community is also increasingly active in the public sphere. In his address last June 27 to the bishops on their "ad limina" visit, Benedict XVI dedicated a passage to relations with political authority, emphasizing that "religions do not represent a threat to the nation's unity," but on the contrary act "genery' im artially at the service of their neighbour." The MSC Mission Office st programs in Vietnam such HIV/Aids, Disadvantaged Clean Water Programs. In central highlands we suppoi aughters of St Paul of Cho minister to 12,000 lepers.
I'm back in Tangulbei now, still no rain. I think that the consensus is, that the Wet Season is now not delayed, but rather failed! I, however, remain hopeful. Who knows what will happen. Last year, after a poor growing season, it rained from July to mid Nov. Unfortunately by that time, most farmers had been defeated (dried crops in the fields), and only a minority had the courage to plant again in July when the rains began to fall. Consequently, there was a food shortfall last year, and there is going to be a huge food shortfall this year, as the rains have been poor throughout the whole country. Even the water level in the borehole at the Mission seems to have dropped. I have to get a dipper into that borehole to 1 e suspects that a lowering of the water lnot running properly. At first,I thought it ected the submersible pump in the ring correctly. and the recharge rate. That's not good much, mainly just for building (it's fairly is it should. It used to deliver a wser in 20 minutes. Now we'll sible pump by 6 metres) to the imp itself has a limit of how high e to lower the pump level could get the water to the surface r. Paul Leyden C.S.Sp.
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MASS OFFERING The picture on the right is of a Missionary Priest assisted by a Deacon offering Holy Mass in a remote place. The "Church" is a make-shift tent, there is a village dog near the feet of the Deacon, the music is provided with the help of a guitar. Under these circumstances the priests do not ask the people for a Mass offering, but they can support you by offering Masss for your intentions, if you were to make a Mass Offering. And through your Mass offering you offer support to the Missions as well as support to yourself and others.
VIETNAM Currently in Vietnam there are more than 6 million Catholics, 8 percent of the 84 million inhabitants-and they are growing: in Ho Chi Minh City alone, there were 9,000 adult baptisms last year. Religious and monastic vocations are also increasing. There are now 270 monks in the country's four Benedictine monasteries. In addition to being religiously vibrant, the Vietnamese Catholic community is also increasingly active in the public sphere. In his address last June 27 to the bishops on their "ad limina" visit, Benedict XVI dedicated a passage to relations with political authority, emphasizing that "rel4 to the nation's unity," but on the conti im artially at the service of their The MSC Mis: programs in Vi HIV/Aids, Disa Clean Water Pi central highlan aughters of S minister to 12,1 The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart religious men of the Catholic Church ‘1. the saving power of God's love. The m i Sacratissimi Cordis. The MSC Missio Province of the Missionaries of the Sac Our web page is www.australia. mscm
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KIRIBATI - Central Pacifi I write to thank you on behalf of Santa N 10,000 litre water tank. Students and staf appreciate it very much and it is indeed a need of rain water. We have only one srm but it is not enough to support more than teaching and supporting staff. In the last experienced insufficient rain water. But f will be able to make life in the school enj again thank you very much for being con may the Good Lord continue to bless yot
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\ our help/support. I have 7 churches all in remote rural areas of Eastern Cape, South Africa. Eastern Cape is one of the impoverished provinces in South Africa. People are still lacking with the necessities of life; for example there is one well in the whole village, all the churches have no water, if there is no rain, the tanks are empty. So our first request is the support to provide us boreholes or tank water/well. We have many parishioners suffering with HIV/aids in our area, and we have many orphans. We have a Home Based Care project which does its best to take caTe oTthern, but we have a great need for support. Some of the children go to school without shoes or uniforms. We would appreciate your help. May God grace you and your good work for the underprivilet people. Looking forward to hearing from you. Sincerely yours, Fr. Clement Kholopa. OFM
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I'm back in Tangulbei now, still no rain. I think that the consensus is, that the Wet Season is now not delayed, but rather failed! I, however, remain hopeful. Who knows what will happen. Last year, after a poor growing season, it rained from July to mid Nov. Unfortunately by that time, most farmers had been defeated (dried crops in the fields), and only a minority had the courage to plant again in July when the rains began to fall. Consequently, there was a food shortfall last year, and there is going to be a huge food shortfall this year, as the rains have been poor throughout the whole country. Even the water level in the borehole at the Mission seems to have dropped. I have to get a dipper into that borehole to check the resting level of the water. Our Water Engineer in Nakuru suspects that a lowering of the water level in the aquifer could be the most likely reason why things are not running properly. At first, I thought it was the generator (a portable Honda petrol generator), then, I suspected the submersible pump in the borehole, but finally we came to the conclusion that both are working correctly. The water in the borehole must have reduced both in resting level and the recharge rate. That's not good news. Luckily, at the moment, we don't rely on that borehole very much, mainly just for building (it's fairly high in salt and fluoride), but it is a nuisance that it's not working as it should. It used to deliver a A reliable 3,000 Ltrs per hour. It would till our portable 1,000 Ltr bowser in 20 minutes. Now we'll probably have to try and add an extra pipe (i.e. deepen the submersible pump by 6 metres) to the installation and see how that goes. The thing is. the submersible pump itself has a limit of how high it can pump the water, so we can't just keep adding pipes. l f we have to lower the pump level considerably, it would mean getting a new and different pump that could get the water to the surface level. Anyway, enough of that, I must he thoroughl boring you. Fr. Paul Leyden C.S.Sp.
Ipasio Sionepoe MSC Missionary from Futuna FUTUNA, Pacific Islands - Last year the whole island of Futuna came together to witness the Ordination of Ipasio Sionepoe MSC. He is the fifth MSC Priest from this tiny Island of the South Pacific. There is no MSC presence except for about 200 lay associates in Futuna. Archbishop John Ribat MSC of Port Moresby who had been the Novice Master of Ipasios, as well as Fr Keith Humphries MSC (presently working in Japan), and Fr Simon Mani from the Pacific Islands and 3 other Futunian confreres represented the MSCs at the ordination. The people who once believed that Futuna was being cursed for killing St.Peter Chanel and would never produce a Futunian Priest yet again witnessed another ordination of one of its sons. Therefore an ordination and first mass is always a big celebration. This is an occasion when the two kingdoms of Futuna come together in solidarity to witness and cherish the moment of Grace. Fr Ipasio's first mass was a moving and truly emotional one for him and his people.Before his ordination Fr. Ipasio studied while a seminarian in Nagoya, Japan. He now ministers there as an Ordained Priest.
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MASS OFFERING The picture on the right is of a Missionary Priest assisted by a Deacon offering Holy Mass in a remote place. The "Church" is a make-shift tent, there is a village dog near the feet of the Deacon, the music is provided with the help of a guitar. Under these circumstances the priests do not ask the people for a Mass offering, but they can support you by offering Masss for your intentions, if you were to make a Mass Offering. And through your Mass offering you offer support to the Missions as well as support to yourself and others.
Do you ever pray like this? 4 + Lord, I want to love you, yet I'm not sure. I want to trust you, but I'm afraid of being taken in. I know I need you, yet I'm ashamed of the need. I want to pray, yet I'm afraid of being a hypocrite. I need my independence, yet I fear to be alone. I want to belong, yet I must be myself. Take me Lord, yet leave me alone. Lord, I believe, help thou my unbelief 0 Lord, if you are there, you do understand, don't you? Give me what I need, but leave me free to choose .Help me to work it out my own way, but don't let me go. Let me understand myself, but don't let me despair. Come to me, 0 Lord - I want you. Lighten my darkness - but don't dazzle me. Help me to see what I need to do, and give me the grace to do it. 0 Lord, I believe; help thou my unbelief. Br. Bernard SSF
Letters G'day Father! I've had this collection of old stamps sitting on a sideboard for some time, thinking to get them appraised - but most of them are used and represent little value. However, there may be some value in the ones inside the plastic coverings. Somewhere in your organisation I feel you will know someone with a keen interest in stamps, who will be able to sort them and sell them. Anything you may realise on them please place to any of your very many worthy causes. Regards John Would you kindly arrange for 2 Masses to be offered for the Eternal repose of my beloved sister. I have viewed your new Website. Congratulations it looks great, and I will visit it again and have a better look. I will be celebrating my Platinum Jubilee 70 years of Religious Profession this week. Please pray for me. Sr Mary Raymond RSM or% fp MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, Nausori, Fiji Dear Sir, RE: APPRECIATION FOR liATER T.4NKS This letter serves to record our deepest appreciation for your School in Fiji with over 'Ott effort in assisting our schools receive water tanks which I sbteuednegnf.vehnas believe have been donated by the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Without your consideration and assistance, water tanks rom St our schools would have been deprived of a clean source of fThomas drinking water and we would like to convey to you and MSC Church, ffilloughby our thanks and gratitude. in Sydney Our prayers and good wishes go with you and may the A lmighty richly bless you and your Society. Mikaele Lea were, Divisional Education Officer (Central)
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PROJECTS APPROVED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS COUNTRN ANGOLA BURKINA FASO CAMEROUN CHINA D.R.CONGO FIJI INDIA INDONESIA KENYA KIRIBATI MARSHALL ISL MEXICO NAMIBIA NAURU P.N.G PHILIPPINES SAMOA Sth AFRICA Sth SUDAN UGANDA VANUATU VENEZEULA VIETNAM TOTAL
CLEAN WATER 6,500 6,500 3,100 51,500 43.934 23,000 22,200 4.500 5,000 4,700 4,750 131,833 17,000 2,500 32,000 11,000 4,000 7,500 37,000 418 517
DISADV YOUTH 4,900 2,000 3,000 33,600 73,000 16,000
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10,000 5,000 5,000 33,500 7,000 2,500 4,000 14,000 5,000 6,000 224 500
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TOTAL/COUNTRY 6,500 6,500 16,000 2,000 74,500 86,034 104,050 46,200 4.500 29,000 5,000 5,000 4,700 4,750 195,833 39,000 5,000 49,500 25,000 4,000 7,500 5,000 107,500 833,067
WEWAK, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Greetings to our wonderful friends of the MSC Mission Office in Australia from the people of God in Dagua Parish in the Diocese of Wewak, East Sepik Province. This Clean Water Project is greatly appreciated by the Momase Region,along the West Coast of East Sepik, where I come from. Our population is about 50,000. Clean water is always a big problem in our villages, schools and health centres. For many years, we have been getting the water for cooking, drinking and washing from the rivers which pigs, dogs and other animals use. As a result, many people got sick and died. THANK YOU again for the job well done. It is a first time for us and has opened the eyes of our people to the generosity of Australian Catholics. Miss Angela Gemer
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Ijust came back from Tanna this morning to inspect the progress with the water tank. The water tank has arrived and I asked Fr Calixto a diocesan priest to keep the polytank at his place for the time being. The reason is that actually Fr Luigi an Italian priest is building a big concrete classrom MI 'at Lamanarua. First concrete building for the actual classrooms are made of local materials. I have take photos of the classrooms nearly to completion. Fr Luigi promised me in two weeks time the roof will be up. The polytank will be with Fr Calixto till the finish of the classroom at amanarua then they can take the tank to Lamanarua because of the new t ' uilding. I have taken photos of the community members giving a hand in building the concrete classrooms. As you can School children in front °plow dass-room see in the photo; these people live in a remote area. I have taken photos of Fr Luigi and Fr Calixto. There is no need to worry about the tank now. As I explained to them about MSC mission and how you sponsored the water tank for the school and the community; the teachers, the kids at the school and the 'community members pleaded with me to convey to you their sincere gratitude and thankfulness for your great assistance. Fr Calixto asked me to lodge an application for 2 more water tanks, maybe smaller in size for two other communities. I will send you the application once it is completed.Thank you once again and God bless you. Fr Patrice Romain I water tank waiting to cit on its .ctand
How our MSC Mission Offices work. An example from PNG The project applications are sent to us in the Mission Office in Port Moresby where they are presented to the Board meeting at the end of each month. During these meetings the board discusses each application and if they are approved they are sent to the MSC Missioi Office in Sydney. Over the last ten years the Mission Office has reached out and touched the lives of many poor people in PNG who have no clean water; or those that are dying and living with HIV/Aids as well as the disadvantaged youth. I would like to emphasize that this work is a wonderful gift for the Society of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. In this way we make known the LOVE OF GOD to those who are desperately in need today. In PNG this outreach is being felt and treasured in the lives of many poor and marginalized people. We can see this expressed in their letters of appreciation or reports of each project that had been sent to us in our Mission Office. Fr. Arnold Neyeh MSC, MSC PNG Mission Office Director.
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Fr Sean Fernandez BY ANTHONY BARICH ATTADALE parish priest Fr Sean Fernandez has come a long way since doubting whether he could handle being a priest, to becoming a lecturer in theology, inspired by the Church's traditions, battling the secular forces of the world. Fr Sean's biggest beef is with the current prevalence of atheist writers like Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, who are able to fool unknowing people into doubting God and the Church through sweeping statements of spite and vitriol dressed up as well-reasoned debate. This tears at Fr Sean's heart, as the priesthood of Christ is, for him, a privilege - a vocation that is daunting yet self-sustaining as God proves His existence and power each day by allowing the priest to do things he never thoupt he could do; and impact on people's lives in ways hed never imagined, through the sacraments and pastoral ministry. "I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else. It's who I am more than anything else," says Fr Sean, 40, who is in his 15th year as a priest. Studying his Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome while teaching at the Pontifical Irish College, he found himself steeped in the traditions of the Church, and its riches and full scope of its universality were brought to the fore. Seeing the influence of popular atheists saddens Fr Sean, as it defies the fact that "the very values we cherish in western culture are grounded in our Christian tradition". "For a long time, the Catholic Church was the only one caring for the poor and marginalised - even the pagans in ancient times respected the Christians for their work with the poor:' he said. "The Church started the university system, pioneered healthcare ... all we hold dear comes from our faith." Living in Rome and seeing the ancient works of Christians in the basilicas highlighted to Fr Sean the "living history" of the faith. "The Church isn't a modern invention, it's a living tradition that everyday people have been striving to live out, passing down generations. This sense of history is important to keep hold of." Being immersed in people's lives is one of the enriching experiences of the priesthood, he says. Whenever he goes into schools he always ask the boys if they've ever thought about the priesthood, as he regards it so highly. "Even if you don't have regular contact with them, people open up to you and share with you the most intimate times of their lives - marriages, deaths, baptisms:' he says. "And, crucially, you're bringing the sacraments to people. When dying, I've seen people experience such peace when I bring them the sacraments. It's such a wonderful ministry ... I'm getting all emotional now:' he jokes. Born in Singapore, Fr Sean is the middle child of two sisters - "the manipulated one", he jests, and was inspired to be a priest since age five by a Belgian priest in his home parish. "I wanted to be like him - warm, welcoming; the kids loved him." Now he's chaplain to Santa Maria College as well as Attadale parish priest while lecturing in theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. He's part of the community - after Friday morning Mass, some of the Santa Maria students' mothers take him out for coffee. After graduating from Adelaide's St Francis Xavier Seminary, he was an assistant priest for three years to Fr Tim Corcoran at Whitford, who threw him in at the deep end of pastoral duties. He didn't know what to do, still doubting himself. "But, seeing people's lives affected by my work, I got a real sense of God's grace, that through my stumbling and silence, God could really work through me and the people were really helped," he says.
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Chicken and vegie soup for the soul BY GLYNNIS GRAINGER Parish Contributor CHICKEN and vegetable soup, lamb cutlets and ratatouille, tomato and onion, mashed potato and cake this was the lunch menu for last Friday at St Patrick's Community Support Centre, Fremantle. The Centre has been housed in the old Stella Mans building in Queen Victoria Street, after moving from its former Parry Street premises a year ago. Homeless and destitute men and women of the area can buy a three course lunch there for $4 or have a free breakfast after staying there overnight or at one of five other places in Fremantle run by the Oblates of Mary Above: St Patrick's Community Support Centre, Fremantle. PHOTO: GLYNNIS GRAINGER Immaculate, based at the Basilica. The impressive building still bears and deep conversation with the Oblate thing that comes in we put out on the the name Stella Mans, with a smaller Brother, whose own spirituality flowed tables," Mr Crevatin said. sign saying St Patrick's Community out to them in practical spiritual wisSt Patrick's CSC has 22 rooms, each Support Centre, which it now is. dom. one with an ensuite bathroom, and The late Oblate Brother Ignatius In part the Centre's mission statefully-equipped kitchens. Hannick OMI, who arrived in ment is to follow Christ's example of There are also lodging houses - Park Fremantle in 1970, was shocked by love of one's neighbour by recognition House, Ellen Street, Dorothy Street the number of destitute people who of those who lack the essentials of and Ignatius House, all for males 21 each day came to the kitchen door life and to meet their needs in a nonand over, for $100 a week, with 130 of St Patrick's Presbytery seeking any judgmental, understanding and caring beds all up. help on offer - from a warm coat to a environment, acknowledging human "Some people have been here for 14 sandwich. value and self-worth. or 15 years - (for some) men over 50, From those sandwiches prepared The Oblates and their helpers took we don't put a limit," Mr Crevatin said. each day he developed a caring envito heart Jesus Christ's own words: "For those aged 21 to 45, the limit is ronment for the many who came to "Anyone who welcomes you welcomes up to 12 months because it gives evethe parish daily. me; and those who welcome me wel- rybody on the waiting list a fair chance This was a direct result of the come the one who sent me." to access available housing. influence and spirit which developed Br Hannick would have been "We open 365 days of the year in under the charism of the founder of urged on in his prayer life by reflectterms of the meals and day service. the Oblates, Eugene de Mazenod, at ing Brother, whose own spirituality "The free breakfast is from 8am the time of the French Revolution. flowed out to them in practical spirto 8.30am and lunch from 11.45am Br Hannick was born in Ballina, itual wisdom. to 12.30pm. We don't judge anybody County Mayo, Ireland in August, In part, the Centre's mission statewho comes through the door." 1928, and died in WA in May, 2005. ment is to follow Christ's example of Crisis accommodation for up to He was one of the 11 children of John love of one's neighbour by recogni13 weeks for males only, aged 21 and and Margaret Hannick. tion of those who lack the essentials over, is provided at Hannick House, He joined the Oblates in Ireland as of life and to meet their needs in a named after Br Hannick. a Brother and, after 10 years, volunnon-judgemental, understanding and The women's accommodation centeered to come to Australia. caring environment, acknowledging tre in Fremantle, The Sisters' Place, A fter a brief stint at the Oblate human value and self-worth. complements St Patrick's CSC, Mr Mission House in Camberwell, The Oblates and their helpers Crevatin said, and the women from Victoria, and at Iona College in took to heart Our Lord's own words: there come for a free breakfast at the Brisbane, he was asked to go to St "Anyone who welcomes you welcomes Centre and Hands-on-Health services, Patrick's Parish, Fremantle, the first me; and those who welcome me wel- provided free of charge. Oblate foundation in Australia, where come the one who sent me." Mr Crevatin, who worked for 12 he stayed for the remainder of his life. Br Hannick would have been urged years as a youth worker, said he always Br Hannick was upset by the level on in his prayer life by reflecting on wanted to do something to put someof poverty and destitution he found the words of Jesus, who said that those thing back into the community. in Fremantle and decided to do somewho cared for the poor, visited them "In terms of our mission statement thing about it. in prison, or performed acts of loving and values, I strive to do my best. It In 1972, with the support of his charity, did these things not just for is just something that needs to be Parish Priest and Superior, Fr Joe those in need but for Jesus Himself. done. Without volunteers our service McCann OMI, Br Hannick set up his Matthew 10: 40-42 says: If anyone wouldn't be as good. We have 50 first dining room in St Patrick's parish gives so much as a cup of cold water plus volunteers who assist us with the hall. to one of these little ones because he meals, the day service, accounts and Here, with the full support of a big is a disciple, then I tell you most solreception," he said. number of local businesses, such as emnly, he will most certainly not lose In the day centre there are activibakeries, cafes and supermarkets, he his reward. ties, excursions such as picnics and a was able to supplement the original A gauge of the love and respect in choir called the Starlight Hotel Choir presbytery sandwich with soup, bread, which Br Hannick was held was the which has been running for the past canned foods, chips and the like. support he received in the two years of four years; an art program once a week The parish hall soon became too ill-health he suffered before his death and a photography project. They also small for the numbers needing a hot in 2005. received a grant to buy cameras for the meal and he turned to the old St His life, particularly in Fremantle, photography. Joseph's primary school in nearby could well be summarised in Christ's It also has a literary group on a Parry Street, which had been standing Beatitudes, which he lived to the full, Monday and song-writing lessons and unused for several years. particularly: "Happy are those who guitar lessons. Mental health counselIn 1980, with the help of volunteers, thirst for what is right; they shall be ling is available 31 2 / days a week by he began to scrape and clean the grime satisfied." (Matthew 5:6) appointment only, as it is very popular. and build-up of ages past. As the majority of homeless on the Its emergency relief office hands out When their work was completed in streets of Fremantle and surrounding food parcels and food vouchers and 1982, the workers were able to offer, areas are men, the services provided does drug and alcohol sessions and in St Patrick's Community Support by the Centre of independent accomfinancial counselling. Centre, as it was known, more meals, modation are generally for men only. The three chefs are paid, workfacilities for showering, a library and a Community housing manager and ing from Tuesday to Saturday and recreation area. social worker, Victor Crevatin, told Sunday to Monday. There are two But it was not only food and immeThe Record the Queen Victoria Street storeys of accommodation and a lift diate assistance such as showers and Centre is running as a new centre, with at the former Stella Mans Club - St recreation facilities that the Centre the old Stella Mans Club for seamen Patrick's CSC. required, but also expert counselling, running next door, without accomFr John Sherman OMI, parish priest referrals for more professional assistmodation. "Ship turnaround times are and Rector of the Basilica of St Patrick, ance where needed and advocacy, or much quicker," Mr Crevatin, 44, said, is president of the Board and spends a person to represent those in need, "so seamen don't need accommodaas much time as he can at the Centre. perhaps even legally. tion any more." Two nurses, a hairdresser, chiroTo meet this need, a social worker Funding comes from the State and practors, a kinesiologist, a podiatrist, was employed in 1983, followed by Federal Governments, donations and chiropractor, Reiki, massage, reflexoltwo others in 1985. their own fundraising events. ogy, acupuncture and diabetes workBr Hannick's outreach was not The Centre purchases food and gets shops are available from volunteers just that of a social worker providing some free from Woolworths superwith Hands-on-Health to those who worldly needs for the destitute. market, relying on donations. hold a Health Care or Pension Card, There were many whose lives were "We are grateful for any donations are over 21, and have no dependents, set on the right track through quiet we get - food and clothing, every- living in the Fremantle Zone.
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Perth to lead Sheen celebrations Masses worldwide to recall Archbishop Sheen's life, promote sainthood
Vianney College Seminary in Wagga Wagga and at a Carmelite monastery in Goonellabah, near Lismore in NSW. This has special significance as Sheen was a Third Order Carmelite. A Mass will also be celebrated at the Order of St Paul, the First Hermit community in Marian Valley, Canungra, Queensland along with two Masses in Melbourne, including Sacred Heart Church in Kew. The Sheen Foundation's advisory council has tried to book Masses in every city and country associated with Archbishop Sheen's life and Masses have been scheduled in 35 countries on six continents. Regarding the Archbishop's sainthood cause, Sara Worrell, a spokeswoman at the Sheen Foundation, said that 22 volumes of sworn testimony regarding the Archbishop's personal holiness and his writings were being consolidated into one volume, known as the positio, for the Vatican Congregation for Saints' Causes. It is expected to be completed by June. Then, she said, a panel of doctors, priests and theologians will look into the authenticity of two alleged miracles attributed to the Archbishop's intercession. One verified miracle is needed for Archbishop Sheen to be beatified; a second one must be verified for him to be canonised. Mayer noted that throughout Church history, centuries often passed before some worthy candidates were declared saints.
BY CARMEL TINTLE Catholic News Service PATERSON, New Jersey Trinity College in Perth will host the first Mass in a worldwide celebration of Masses on December 9 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of famed author, lecturer and television evangeliser Archbishop Fulton J Sheen, as well as promote his cause for canonisation. Two women from the Paterson Diocese launched the program: Lo Anne Mayer, a parishioner of Christ the King Church in New Vernon, and La Verne Washburne, a parishioner of Corpus Christi Church in Chatham Township. Mayer, who is a board member of the Archbishop Fulton J Sheen Foundation in Peoria, Illinois and president of its advisory council, credits her friend Washburne with conceiving the worldwide Mass idea. "The Mass is our greatest prayer," Washburne said, "and I can't think of a better way to dramatise his worthiness for sainthood than big turnouts of people around the globe attending Mass in his memory, all on the same day. That's public support on a grand scale; hopefully, it will impress Rome:' She discussed the proposal with Mayer and together they
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organised a strategy. The basic approach has been to encourage friends and acquaintances to request commemorative Masses be celebrated for Archbishop Sheen on December 9 and then to pass on the idea to others. "We are amazed at how quickly knowledge of the program spread throughout the US and abroad via word of mouth," Washburne said. The initial step, however, was for Mayer to sound out the folks at the Foundation. Without hesitation, they approved the proposal and volunteered to reach out to their own worldwide connections. Among them was the Sheen Foundation's group in Perth. Thanks to a time zone advantage, the first of the memorial Masses will be celebrated at Trinity College Chapel by Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate at 7pm. Masses will also be celebrated in Darwin by Bishop Eugene Hurley,
HelINIUMAIWIMIDAY0411140, in. the Holy,Immimimpaid East 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.
Mooted Crucifix ban 'a matter of democratic health' THE Spanish Ministry of Justice is reportedly weighing a move to ban the display of crucifixes, or other religious symbols, in public schools. That policy option has been under discussion since the summer; it came to the forefront when a European court ruled that the display of crucifixes in Italian classroom is a violation of the rights of non-believers. Since Minister of Justice Francisco Caamano mentioned the possibility to the media in August, debate has ensued over the role of religion in traditionally Catholic, but technically secular, Spain. Debate then intensified in September with the start of the school year and again this month when the European Court of Human Rights ruled on a similar case in Italy. The Global Post reported that the issue originally surfaced in 2008 with a controversial court decision, which stated that Macias Picavea, a public school in Valladolid, was to remove all crucifixes from classrooms and common spaces. The school's council, composed of teachers and parents, had voted to maintain the religious symbols which dated back to the establishment's 1930 inauguration. Some parents, however, felt the symbols violated fundamental rights such as freedom of conscience, successfully taking the case to court. The Global Post reported Carlos Parrado, president of the Lay School Cultural Association in Valladolid, as saying "it's a matter of democratic health:' "Public schools are a space for everyone, people of different faiths or no faith. A symbol that doesn't represent everyone has no place. Why that particular symbol and not another?" he said. The court's ruling - which the regional government has appealed
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AMERICAN crime statistics, furnished by the FBI, show a substantial increase in the number of "hate crimes" in which Catholics were the victims during 2008. The FBI figures showed an overall increase of nine percent in the number of crimes apparently motivated by the victim's religious faith. Jews were the group most frequently victimised, and the number of incidents involving Jewish victims rose by 17 percent between 2007 and 2008. But the rate of increase in antiCatholic crimes was sharper, rising by 24 percent in the year. Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, told the National Catholic Register that the increase may be due to the Church becoming more vocal on life issues such as abortion and homosexual unions. As the Catholic Bishops take a stronger stance, he said, it filters down to the laity, and as more traditional Catholics become more vocal, they become targets for those who disagree with them. "Unfortunately, it spills over into violence," he said, adding that it's just going to get worse before it gets better. "I've never seen our country so
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and is now pending the regional High Court's final decision declares that religious symbols in public schools violate the Spanish Constitution. The decision reiterates that there is no State religion and "the State can neither adhere to nor support any creed". The court decision also asserted that education is "particularly sensitive" to the issue of religious freedom, as what minors learn "decisively influences their future behaviour about beliefs and inclinations." Religious symbols in the public school may induce minors to feel "the State is closer to the faith those religious symbols represent" than to other religions, the court document says. The Spanish Constitution, dating from 1978, guarantees freedom of religion and specifies that "no relipon shall have a State character. Reporting by Catholic World News and rhe Record
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According to a US study of 8,652 people aged between 51 and 61, divorce has a lingering, detrimental impact on health that even remarriage cannot fully repair. The study found divorced people have 20 percent more chronic illnesses such as cancer than those who never marry. The figure only drops to 12 percent for those who remarry. People who remarried had 12 percent more chronic health conditions than those continuously married, which was slightly less than the 20 percent for the divorced or widowed who did not remarry. Researchers found that divorce or widowhood undermines health partly because of incomes dropping and stress developing over issues such as shared child care. -BBC on-line
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Report prompts calls for Bishops to resign Report on clergy abuse in Church in Dublin leads to calls for more action BY C1AN MOLLOY Catholic News Service DUBLIN, Ireland - A report detailing failures of Church leaders' handling of sex abuse cases in the Archdiocese of Dublin has resulted in calls for Bishops' resignations and further investigations and prosecution. "The Dublin Archdiocese's preoccupations in dealing with cases of child sexual abuse, at least until the mid-1990s, were the mainte nance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of its assets," said the report by the independent Commission of Investigation, headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy. "All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities. The Archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid an application of the law of the State. The report said Church officials and police colluded in covering up instances of child sexual abuse by clergy. The Commission investigated the period from January 1975 to May 2004, during which time there were four Dublin Archbishops: the late John Charles McQuaid, Dermot J Ryan and Kevin McNamara and Cardinal Desmond Connell, who retired in 2004 and is now 83. said Police The report Commissioner Daniel Costigan was in a "totally inappropriate relationship" with Archbishop McQuaid; it said Costigan would inform Archbishop McQuaid of complaints against priests while ensuring that further police investigations were quashed. Fachtna Murphy, current Police Commissioner, said none of the officers implicated in the report are currently serving on the force. The report said that in early 1988, the Archdiocese purchased insurance indemnifying it against claims for damages arising from clerical child abuse claims. "The taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the Archdiocese and is inconsistent with the view that Archdiocesan officials were still 'on a learning curve' at a much later date or were lacking in an appreciation of the phenomenon of clerical child sex abuse," the report said. The report said then-Archbishop Connell, consecrated in March, was "slow to recognise the seriousness of the situation when he took over in 1988. He was overreliant on advice from other people, including his auxiliary Bishops and legal and medical experts. He was clearly personally appalled by the abuse but it took him some time to realise that it could not be dealt with by keeping it secret and protecting priests from the normal civil processes." It said Archbishop Connell's predecessors did not meet with complainants and, while Archbishop Connell saw "very few ... some found him sympathetic and kind but with little understanding of the overall plight of victims. Others found him to be remote and aloof." The report contrasted this with
thing wrong, on November 27 Bishop Murray told the weekly Limerick Leader that he would not resign, but later that afternoon he said in a local radio interview, "the question whether I remain on, as far as I am concerned, is a question for the people and priests of Limerick': Victims also have called for the investigation to be extended to other dioceses. Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland, president of the Irish Bishops' conference, said: "I am shocked and ashamed by the abuse of children described in the report. I want to apologise to all those who have been hurt and their families. "I also want to apologise to all the people of Ireland that this abuse was covered up and that the reputation of the Church was put before the safety and well-being of children. I am deeply sorry and I High Court Justice Sean Ryan is photographed as he releases the findings of the government's Commission to Inquire am ashamed." Into Child Abuse in the Conrad Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, on May 20. The Commission's nine year investigation found He also encouraged Catholics to cooperate with police in investigaphysical and sexual abuse was endemic in Irish institutions for boys run by religious between 1940 and the late 1970s. PHOTO CNS/CATHAL MCNAUGHTON, REUTERS tion of any crime. His comments echoed those made by Dermot Ahern, minister of justice, equality and law reform, who said: "The era where evil people could do so under the cover of the cloth, facilitated and shielded from the consequences by their authorities, while the lives of children were ruined with such cruelti, is over for good. The bottom line is this: A collar will protect no criminal." The report found no direct evidence of a pedophile ring among priests in the Dublin Archdiocese, although it said there were worrying connections between some priests, notably Father William Carney and Father Francis McCarthy, who were seminarians together in the 1970s and who, in one case, both abused the same child. Dermot Ahern, Ireland's minister for justice, equality and law reform, pauses as While the report focused on the detailing report a of release the he addresses the media on November 26 after cover-up of abuse, some details failures of church leaders' handling of sex abuse cases in the Archdiocese of John Kelly, who says he was abused emerged. Dublin. The report has resulted in calls for Bishops' resignations and further while in the Daingean Reformatory Fr Noel Reynolds admitted to PHOTO: CNS/CATHAL MCNAUGHTON, REUTERS investigations and prosecution. between 1965 and 1967, reacts after police that he abused little girls being refused entry to the release with a crucifix, while Vincentian the by government's Donal Gallagher, who abused report Fr a of report the the "active interest" the Archbishop Dublin had warned that boys and girls, sexually assaulted a Commission to Inquire Into Child showed in civil litigation and how would shock Catholics. "Efforts made to 'protect the Abuse in Dublin, Ireland, on May 20. 15 year old in a confessional box in he personally approved the defence PHOTO: CNS St Mary's School for the Deaf. Church' and to 'avoid scandal' have strategy used in court cases. The report said Fr Gallagher "Archdiocesan liability for inju- had the ironic result of bringing assigned to the school for the was when articulate very are "They the on scandal horrendous this ry and damage caused was never Church today:' he said in a state- it comes to apologising for what deaf even though it was common admitted. "The Archbishop's strategies in ment released November 26, the other people did, namely pedo- knowledge that he was involved phile priests. What they did them- in inappropriate behavior at the day the report was made public. the civil cases, while legally acceptselves, they are not owning that," school where he had been serving children to "The damage done able, often added to the hurt and One Vincentian told the corn abused by priests can never be he said. grief of many complainants:' The report found that Auxiliary mission that when he asked a class More than two-thirds of the undone," he said. "I offer to each and every survi- Bishops James Kavanagh, Dermot for their opinion of Fr Gallagher, 325 complaints evaluated by the Commission were made during vor my apology, my sorrow and my O'Mahony, Laurence Forristal, one boy said, "If Gallagher was in a shame for what happened to them. Donal Murray and Brendan room, you made sure to keep your the 1990s and 2000s. Cardinal Connell served as Iam aware, however, that no words Comiskey "were aware for many back to the wall:' In September 2006, the years of complaints and/or suspiA rchbishop until 2004. As of of apology will ever be sufficient:' Archbishop Martin asked cions of clerical child sexual abuse Commission wrote to the Vatican's November 30 he had made no Congregation for the Doctrine of Catholics to support and encour- in the Archdiocese." comment on the report. the Faith asking for information Bishop Comiskey resigned at The report emphasised that the age the "many good priests of the the request of the Vatican in 2002 on reports of clerical child sexual Archdiocese ... at what is a difCommission was established not to determine where child sexual ficult time," and he acknowledged following publication of evidence abuse conveyed by the Archdiocese abuse took place "but rather to the sense of betrayal felt by many that he covered up child abuse. of Dublin. The Doctrinal Congregation did Bishop Murray is now serving as record the manner in which com- Catholics. "I hope that all of us - Bishops, Bishop of Limerick and is consid- not reply, but did contact Ireland', plaints were dealt with by Church priests and lay persons - work- ered the hierarchy's most senior Department of Foreign Affairs to and State authorities:' say the Commission had not gone "It is also important in the com- ing together can rebuild trust by moral theologian. "Bishop Murray handled a through appropriate diplomatic mission's view not to equate the ensuring that day after day the number of complaints with the Church in the Archdiocese of number of complaints and suspi- channels. The Commission is an indeactual instances of child sexual Dublin becomes a safer environ- cions badly," the report said, calling at least one situation "inexcus- pendent body and did not consider ment for children," he said. abuse," the report said. Justice campaigner and abuse able:' It noted that in 2002 Bishop it appropriate to use diplomatic "Of those investigated by the commission, one priest admitted survivor Andrew Madden said he Murray acknowledged that "he had channels. 2007, the In February was happy the report was pub- not dealt well with the situation:' to sexually abusing over 100 chilSince the report's publication, Commission wrote to the Papal dren, while another accepted that lished but angered by its contents he had abused on a fortnightly and the response by Church offi- there have been several calls for Nuncio in Dublin asking if docuBishop Murray to resign. Enda ments were available that were relbasis during the currency of his cials. In an RTE radio interview, Kenny, leader of the political party evant to the Commission's investiministry, which lasted for over 25 he said: "I can't help notice how Fine Gael, called for all Bishops gations, but it received no answer years. from the Nunciature. articulate the Bishops are when it implicated in the diocesan report docuof "The total number Likewise, the Nuncio did not mented complaints recorded comes to apologising for the abuse, to resign immediately, but Bishop when extracts of the draft respond five the of one only the is Murray the is what inquiry not which is against those two priests is only report were sent to him in advance about, and then using very flowery auxiliaries still serving. just over 70:' Denying that he had done any- of publication. Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of language" about their roles.
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No Divine Power involved in Reiki Read healing Some years agoIwas in touch with a man who practised Reiki healing and who told me of some successes he had had in healing people with various conditions, including burns. The whole way of healing sounded suspect to me. Has the Church said anything about it? To my knowledge, the Vatican has not issued any statement on Reiki healing. However, on March 25, 2009 the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Doctrine issued a document entitled Guidelines for Evaluating Reiki as an Alternative Therapy. I base my response to your question on that document. First of all, what is Reiki? It is a healing
technique invented in Japan in the late 1800s that involves placing one's hands on certain parts of the patient's body to facilitate the flow of "Reiki", the "universal life energy", thereby bringing about a cure. In order to practise the technique, practitioners first receive an initiation or "attunement" from a Reiki Master. The inventor of Reiki, lylikao Usui, studied Buddhist texts in developing the technique. How should a Catholic evaluate this technique? We begin by recalling that the Church recognises two kinds of healing: healing by divine grace and healing by the powers of nature. As regards the first, Jesus himself healed many people by laying his hands on them and he instructed his disciples to continue that work. From the time of the Apostles, the Church has invoked the name of Jesus over the sick, asking for healing through the power of the Holy Spirit, whether through the sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick or through simple prayers for healing. As for the second, the Church has always recommended recourse to natural means of healing through the practice of medicine, and the Church herself has a long history
of caring for the sick in this way, especially through her many Catholic hospitals. Where does Reiki fit into this two-fold division of healing? It is frequently described as a "spiritual" kind of healing, and the literature is filled with references to God, "the Goddess", the "divine healing power", the "divine mind", etc. The Reiki life energy is described as bein directed by God, the "higher intelligence' or the "divine consciousness'; and the practitioner receives his or her power through "sacred ceremonies" that involve "sacred symbols". In this sense, it would seem that Read falls into the category of healing by divine power. Nonetheless, Reiki practitioners see their art as a means of healing that comes about through the skill of the practitioner so that the power of healing is at their disposal. The technique is passed on from the Reiki Master and, once mastered, it will reliably produce the expected results. Thus, in the end, it is a natural form of healing. The evaluation of Reiki from the Christian point of view is easy. Looked upon as a natural form of healing, while there may be some means of natural healing that have not as yet been understood or recognised by science, Reiki lacks
all scientific credibility. The "universal life energy" that is supposed to be present in all things and that can be controlled by human thought is unknown to natural science. Reputable studies of the method's efficacy are lacking and it has not been accepted by the scientific and medical communities. Nor can Reiki be accepted as a form of healing by divine power. Whereas the Christian practice invokes God to do the healing and does not expect him to bring about a cure in every instance, the Reiki practitioner may invoke God but he then relies on the technique received from the Master, fully expecting to be able to effect a cure through his or her own power. Moreover, there is nothing in Scripture or Christian tradition that speaks of a "universal life energy"; let alone one that can be controlled by human thought. This world view has its origin in Eastern religions of a certain pantheistic tendency, in which the divine is somehow identified with the world. The Guidelines conclude that "Reiki therapy is not compatible with either Christian teaching or scientific evidence" and "a Catholic who puts his or her trust in Reiki would be operating in the realm of superstition:'
Unintelligent attacks on God Yes, Eucharist is the TotalJesus Mr Grayling's mythology WRITING in the atheist journal New Humanist, AC Grayling, faithfully following behind Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens (the world's former leading philosophical atheist, Professor Anthony Flew, has deserted the Cause and published a book titled, shockingly, There is a God: How The World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind), rants against a recent book on Intelligent Design, Dissent over Descent, by Professor Steve Fuller, a distinguished expert in philosophy, science and technology studies. Although I have not read Prof Fuller's book and cannot comment on its content, I agree Intelligent Design is unscientific. Most of Grayling's article, however, is an intellectually unimpressive attack, not on Intelligent Design, but on religion, and on the assertion that, in Western Europe, Christianity has been the friend of reason and science. Grayling recycled various atheist myths with tedious predictability: And what has atheism done for science?
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Well, let's see: it removed the risk of scientists being burned at the stake for controverting the divinely revealed truth that "the Lord hath laid the foundations of the earth so that it shall not be moved for ever" (Psalm 102, beloved of Bellarmine in his efforts to shut up the astronomers and philosophers of the era of Descartes). Huh? Does this eminent academic really not know that Cardinal (now Saint) Robert Bellarmine died in 1621, after several years in retirement, when Descartes was 25 years old, and that Descartes only began publishing significantly from about 1637? And who exactly was burnt at the stake for saying the Earth revolved around the sun? Copernicus wasn't. On the contrary, he was commissioned by the Pope to revise the calendar and do other important astronomical work. Gallileo wasn't. He was put under house arrest, partly for lampooning and attacking a Pope and Vatican establishment who had initially befriended him, but also for teaching the heliocentric system as fact when it was still a theory - in other words, not for being scientific, but for not being scientific enough. Not Descartes. He died in bed in Sweden (since he was a lifelong Catholic his burial there was a problem). Giordino Bruno was burnt, not for science
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but for Satanism and other specifically religious heresies. Ironically, immediately after making this ridiculously false assertion, Grayling continues in praise of atheism that it "removed the necessity of having to distort observations ... [to fit] antecedent doctrine:' Another atheist mantra Grayling recycles is: "the less religion, the more science; the more science, the less religion:" Odd that it was Western Christianity alone, of all the civilisations which have existed, that produced science and technology, that the only society that believed in the Trinity was also the only society that harnessed steam, and the most religious nation on Earth was the only one that put a man on the moon. Odd that Newton, Boyle and Max Planck as well as countless other great scientists were believers. Odd that the first man on the moon was a Christian, and the second was actually a lay preacher. Odd that for most of history the Catholic Church was a far bigger supporter of astronomy than all other institutions combined, that genetics were discovered by a Catholic abbot, and the Big Bang by a Catholic priest. Further, whatever happened to the idea of the atheist or humanist, as they like to call themselves, as a tolerant, liberal person dealing with reason rather than emotion. While lacking the polemical talent of the polished Christopher Hitchens or even Dawkins, Grayling makes valiant efforts to equal them in the atheists' version of odium theologicum, adopting the compulsively venomous, vitriolic tone now par for the atheist course. I am for some reason reminded that I once wrote a verse, rejected by the only magazine I submitted it to, whose first and last stanzas went as follows: My faith is poor, perhaps. I'd like to test its mettle, find a worthy bravo for my small, lonely steel. It would be nice to have a splendid enemy, to fight and know I'm fighting something real You improve your chess by playing with better players; fighting a master, it's something to draw blood. But againIjust find nursery-school tantrums, sump-intellectual sludge and verbal mud. As for Intelligent Design, it cannot be proved or disproved and therefore I believe cannot be regarded as a scientific theory, though it may be regarded as a supposition or idea. It is a strong theme of mainstream Christian theology that the existence of God cannot be proved from nature. Further, there is disagreement about what the term Intelligent Design actually means, though what the official position, if any, of the Catholic Church is on this, is not for me to say.
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Jesus personally present in us Having reflected on Do / Memorial / This in previous columns, we now take Me as we reflect on the Eucharist as Memorial. ME: Memorial means to 'make present again: But what exactly do we make present in the Eucharist? The obvious answer is, not just some actions of Jesus but Jesus himself, personally, whole and entire. Further, Jesus is really present to us as Risen Lord in seven different ways: sacramentally as in Eucharist, the Word and Sacraments; and personally: as in the community of baptised, the 'poor', each baptised and in the hierarchy. We are asked to 'make present again' the total Jesus - both sacramentally in the bread, but also personally, in fleshand-blood in our own lives, in each baptised, and in the whole Church. Thus, whoever comes in contact with us will encounter the Saviour; through our generous surrender allowing him to direct our lives, Jesus continues the work of redemption. In Jn 14:12 Jesus says: "he who believes in me will do the works that I do:' And the reason for this seems obvious. To 'believe' is to "be a 'living' Jesus:" So, if we believe in Jesus we commit our lives totally to him and he lives in us. Now, the characteristics of Jesus are: 'though he was the Son of God, he emptied (broke) himself for the benefit of his brethren, becoming obedient even unto death ..: (Phil 2:5-11). IfI am a living Jesus, then this attitude of breaking myself for others should characterise me too. The concrete way we are called to do this is shown in Job 29:15-16 where Job says: "I became (made myself) eyes to the blind, feet to the lame, a champion of the cause of the widow and orphan ..." This means not merely helping a blind person across the street once in a way, but literally placing oneself at his disposal 24 hours of the day, serving as his eyes whenever he needs to see. A
very demanding challenge indeed. Like Job, a Christian celebrating Eucharist places himself 24 hours of the day at the service of Christ, reaching out to every needy person around him - this needy person is Christ in flesh and blood today. What the result of all this would be in a community of Christians (believers) is described in Acts 4:32-35: 'The company of believers was of one mind and one heart ... they placed all their possessions at the service of the community ... there was not a single needy person among them: If we could all live up to this ideal wouldn't that be really heaven? A Christian believes that whatever he personally possesses has been received from God as a gift and is meant to be shared with others. So, he places himself at the service of his needy brethren in love and obedience, literally dispelling all their material, social and other deficiencies. They are accepted as integral members of the community. Thus, to meaninVully celebrate Eucharist as 'memorial is to truly make present again the total Christ in the ordinary circumstances of our daily living. Then, there would not be a single needy person in our Christian communities. To celebrate Eucharist then is not just half an hour's ritual; it engays us 24 hours of the day as we "break' and give of ourselves "for" others. Only when we make this the very pattern of our lives, as individuals and as a Church 'body', that Jesus will be 'substantially' present to our world and transform it. Can you be bread broken for a new world?
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Breakthrough for Catholic deaf ministry Technology to help teach grammar to deaf people has been developed and is being used among Catholic pastoral ministries. TEACHING reading and writing skills in English without making any reference to any part of the sound system could be considered the stuff disturbing dreams are made of. In 2005, Geoff Pearson was invited to run a couple of English Reading and Writing classes for the Deaf administrative staff at the WA Deaf Society. The training was funded by the Workplace English Language and Literacy (WELL) Program, part of the Federal Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. This was the first time he had ever worked with deaf people, and although he is a trained English as a Second Language teacher, he had never realised in 25 years of experience just how much teaching reading and writing depended on being able to hear. It was simply something he had
Emmanuel Centre director Barbara Harris with Geoff Pearson and the resource to teach grammar to deaf people. PHOTO: EMMANUEL CENTRE.
always taken for granted. Suddenly, in these classes, he could no longer use the sound system at all. All of the students were profoundly deaf, did not use their voices, and communicated only in Auslan (Australian Sign Language). He had no skill in Auslan himself, so he worked through an Auslan interpreter. Geoff's background in theatre proved useful, as everything he did had to be visual. So for a year he threw himself around the classroom like some passionate
Charades player. As much fun as the students and the classes were, as a teacher he was still frustrated at the complete lack of commercially-produced English teaching materials for deaf people which could convey the rules of English succinctly and precisely. All the material he could find depended to some degree on the sound system, which rendered all of it just about useless. He realised early on that what the students needed most was a way of understanding the rules
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governing how to put English sentences together, why words had to go in a certain order, and why, for example, in English we used such words as "am, is, are, was, were, the, a" and "an" (to name just a few) which simply have no equivalent in Auslan. Auslan also has no plurals - they sign "one car, two car" - and they have just three tenses for past, present and future. Everything is contextual. But English does have plurals, and also has 17 different tenses. The way to convey the subtleties of the difference between "I work", "I worked"; "I was working", "I had been working", "I am working"; "I will have been working", "I am going to work", etc was by grammar. The problem was that it needed to be visual grammar. At around the same time, he was doing some other training using computers and software, and suddenly the penny dropped - here was the technology to produce a visual grammar for the deaf. "The Grammar Disc - Pah!" contains 18 lessons presenting the basics of English grammar covering five major sentence patterns, the eight major word groups and seven key tenses. As it progresses, it links all this into eight key workplace reading and writing tasks including reading safety signs,
following instructions, writing short messages, and writing brief reports. At the end of each lesson is a series of game-like, interactive exercises to practise the grammar rules and skills taught in the lesson. On screen at all times is one of two Auslan instructors who take the deaf user through what's happening on screen and explains the grammar rules. The software never refers to the sound system, but uses specially shot video footage from 11 WA workplaces, lots of pictures and some pretty amazing graphics produced by TAFEWA's technological whizzes at WestOne Services. Barbara Harris, Coordinator of Archdiocesan Emmanuel Centre, said she immediately saw the benefits of such a project and the difficulty some people who are deaf will have trying to work on their own. Ms Harris contacted Geoff and developed a series of workshops training trainers to use the Grammar Disc. "It is an exciting program and already reaping benefits because, as people's language skills grow they, too, grow in confidence and self esteem," she said. For info about the Grammar Disc, please visit www.thegrammardisc.net.au or contact Geoff Pearson (08) 9330 8989 or the WA Deaf Society on (08) 9441 2677. People interested in becoming trainers can contact Barbara on 9328 8113.
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Inaugural scholarship for Chisholm graduate to show the way for parish organ music: Archbishop BY ANTHONY BAR1CH National Reporter RENOWNED organ builder Frederick John Lamer has started a $1,000 a year scholarship to provide a year's tuition for a young candidate in the Archdiocese of Perth. Archbishop Barry Hickey said the aim of the scholarship is, among other things, to set the standard for church music for parishes throughout the Archdiocese. Chisholm College graduate and Bayswater parishioner Chadwick Beins, 17, has been named the inaugural recipient of the scholarship. Jacinta Jakovcevic, the Director of Cathedral music and principal organist at St Mary's Cathedral, will guide him in a one year program to begin in February. It can be renewed for up to three years. Mr Lamer has been building and maintaining organs for over 50 years, and Miss Jakovcevic says he was responsible for the Neo-classical Reform Movement in Perth. He built the organ at St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Adelaide and has maintained the organ at St Mary's Cathedral in Perth for the past 34 years. Mr Beins, who has been a tenor in the St Mary's Cathedral choir for four years, has already been accepted into the WA Academy of Performing Arts, and has also applied to study music at the University of WA. A prerequisite of his scholarship is he must be able to play 6th grade level piano and must play a Novena at the Cathedral once a month.
Archbishop Barry Hickey presents Chadwick Beins with the inaugural scholarship started by organ builder Frederick John Lamer at St Joachim's ProCathedral parish centre. PHOTO: ANTHONY BARICH
There is a weekly Novena on Wednesdays. "He's an all-rounded musician:" Miss Jakovcevic said of Mr Beins, who also started up a youth choir in his St Columba's parish in Bayswater by roping in his mates from Chisholm College. He is an active parishioner, playing liturgical music at St Columbas. He also plays the euphonium as well as the piano. His ultimate goal is do a lawmusic double degree, but will still be content if the law aspect does not work out ... "because music is my life", he said. The scholarship is multi-faceted - it involves training on the organ, score reading and analysing, transposition on the organ and playing with the choir. The goal will be to play at the Cathedral's big events. "Cathedral music has to set a standard in quality and choice of music for all parishes, and will help them see how it applies to their own local situation, Archbishop Hickey said as he presented Mr
Beins with the scholarship at St Joachim Pro-Cathedral parish centre on November 19. "We also want to ensure that organ music does not disappear from our worship. The organ has an honoured place in church music." Monsignor Thomas McDonald, who will relinquish the post of Dean of the Cathedral which he has held for 18 years after it reopens on December 8, said that Mr Beins is a "very enthusiastic" member of the Cathedral choir. He also expressed his gratitude to Mr Lamer for his "labour of love" in maintaining the Dodd organ at St Mary's Cathedral for 34 years. "He cared for it as tenderly as a mother would her own child; Mgr McDonald said at the November 19 presentation at St Joachim's Pro-Cathedral, which has been standing in as the Archdiocese's Cathedral while the conservation and restoration of St Mary's Cathedral has been undertaken.
BY ROBERT HIINI Parish Reporter WITH high rates of suicide and depression, as well as reports of isolation, industrial bullying and the exploitation of workers from developing countries, the people who minister to seafarers had a lot to talk about at the Apostleship of the Sea National Conference in Queensland last month. Forty-one delegates from New Zealand and every State in Australia bar Victoria met from November 12 to 15 to present reports of their own ministries; to review their national strategic plan of ministry to seafarers and to discuss ways to better communicate the needs and concerns of seafarers to the rest of the world. WA delegates Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton, David and Marilou Lomas, Steven Italiano and Deacon Patrick Moore of Stella Mans, Fremantle, were there to hear guest speaker Paul MacGillivray, Projects Manager of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. Mr MacGillivray spoke about new research into seafarer fatigue and gave an overview of the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) adopted by the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) in 2006, a document which consolidated over 60 previous conventions. The convention requires 30 countries to ratify it before it has any legal import, setting minimum conditions of employment, such as health and medical provisions, as well as promoting compliance and enforcement. According to the ILO, only five countries have ratified the convention to date: the Bahamas, Liberia, the Marshall Islands, Norway and Panama. Steven Italiano told The Record that the conference provided an excellent opportunity to network and to share "wonderful stories about experiences with seafarers," describing his fellow delegates as "passionate about seafarer welfare."
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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 put into classifieds and charged accordingly. The Record reserves the right to decline or modify any advertisement. Thursday December 3, 10 and 17 ST MARY'S CATHEDRAL CHARISMATIC PRAYER MEETING 7.45pm at 450 Hay Street, Perth. Present Our Victory in Christ, the secret of intercessory prayer for our troubled time. Speaker, Kaye Rollings, FMI; Ambassadors, Sword and Triumph. All welcome. Enq: Flame Ministries International 9382 3668 or fmi@flameministries.org. Friday December 4 PRO-LIFE WITNESS 9.30am at St Brigid's Church, Midland. Mass followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at abortion clinic, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. 'Enq: Helen 9402 0349. Friday December 4 EUCHARISTIC HEALING MASS FOR THE SEASON OF A DVENT 7pm at St Peter's Church, 93 Wood Street, Inglewood. Praise and Worship followed with Reconciliation. Healing Mass followed by fellowship. Enq: Catherine 0433 923 083 or Priscilla 0433 457 352. Friday December 4 PREGNANCY ASSISTANCE ANNUAL THANKSGIVING FOR LIFE MASS 7pm at Holy Family Church, 45 Thelma Street, Como. Pregnant mothers and their families are invited to Mass celebrated by Most Rev Archbishop Hickey. If you or someone you know is pregnant, please join us to celebrate and give thanks to God for the 'gift of life'. RSVP essential by 30 November on 9328 2926. Saturday December 5 WITNESS FOR LIFE 8.30am at St Augustine's, Gladstone Road, Rivervale. Mass, followed by Rosary procession and prayer vigil at abortion clinic, led by Columban Missionary priest, Fr Paul Carey. Enq Helen 9402 0349. Saturday December 5 A N AFTERNOON RETREAT 2pm to 4.30 pm at The MacKillop Multi-Purpose Room, John XXIII College. Final retreat for the year, with highlights of the previous 7 retreats. Presenter: Murray Graham, 'nig° Centre Director. Cost: Donation for Inigo Centre. Enq: Murray 9383 0444. Saturday December 5 DAY WITH MARY 9am to 5pm at Immaculate Conception Church, Canning Highway and Preston Point Road, East Fremantle. Day of prayer and instruction based on the Fatima message. 9am Video, 10.10am Holy Mass; Reconciliation, Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Eucharistic Adoration, Sermons on Eucharist and Our Lady, Rosaries and Stations of the Cross. BYO lunch. Parking on Preston Point Road. Enq: Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate 9250 8286.
Sunday December 6 ANNUAL ROSARY PROCESSION 3pm at St Joseph's Parish Church, Hamilton Street, Bassendean. Rosary procession will be in honour of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, followed by Benediction and refreshments later. Tridium Rosaries will be held before the event from 2 December to 4 December at 7pm. Enq: Colin 9279 9750, Renato 0419 924 633, Michael 9279 7609. Sunday December 6 DIVINE MERCY 1.30pm at St Joachim's Pro-Cathedral, Shepperton Road and Harper Street, Victoria Park. Rosary and ReconCiation followed with Sermon on The Immaculate Conception with Fr Hugh Thomas CSSR. Later Divine Mercy Prayer and Benediction, refreshments will follow in the parish hall. Enq: John 9457 7771 or Linda 9275 6608. Monday December 7 CHRISTMAS PARTY 11.30am at Emmanuel Centre, 25 Windsor Street, Perth. Christmas Carols, come along to share with Archbishop B1 Hickey in preparation for Christmas. Join in the singing and meet other people of Emmanuel. Children welcome. 12 noon lunch; bring a small plate of finger food to share. Close 2pm. RSVP by 27 November. Tuesday December 8 FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 12 noon to 1pm at Holy Spirit Church, Keaney Place, City Beach. Please join us in the hour of grace in honour of the Immaculate Conception. There will be Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during the hour, Rosary and quiet time. Enq: Margaret 9341 8082. Tuesday December 8 HOUR OF GRACE 12 noon at St Jude's Church, 20 Prendiville Way, Langford. This is in honour of the Immaculate Conception, followed by Benediction. All welcome. Enq: 9458 1946. Wednesday December 9 CHAPLETS OF THE DIVINE MERCY 7.30pm at St Thomas More Catholic Church, Dean Road, Bateman. A beautiful, prayerful, and sung devotion accompanied by Exposition followed by Benediction. Enq: George 9310 9493 home or 9325 2010 work. Wednesday December 9 30TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION MASS SERVANT OF GOD ARCHBISHOP F 1 SHEEN'S DEATH 7pm at Trinity College Chapel, Trinity Avenue, East Perth. This Mass is part of a worldwide celebration being held on this day. Supper provided afterwards. RSVP: Daniel sheensociety@globaldial.com or 9291 8224.
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Third Sunday of the Month OBLATES OF ST BENEDICT 2pm at St Joseph's Convent, York Street, South Perth. Oblates affiliated with the Benedictine Abbey, New Norcia welcome all who are interested in studying the rule of St Benedict and its relevance to the everyday life of today for lay people. Vespers and tea conclude the meeting. Enq: Secretary 9457 5758. Fourth Sunday of the Month HOLY HOUR FOR VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND RELIGIOUS LIFE 2 to 3pm at Morley Parish Church, 47 Wellington Road, Morley. Includes Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Our prayers are powerful in assisting those called to the priesthood and Religious life to hear with a disciple's ear the call of God for them. Come and pray. All welcome. Enq: 9276 8500.
Saturday December 12 ST PADRE PIO DAY OF PRAYER 8.30am at St Bernadette Parish, L1 Goody Bioethics Centre, 49 Jugan Street, Glendalough. St Padre Pio DVD, 10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Rosary, Divine Mercy, Adoration and Benediction. Holy Mass 1 lam, celebrant Fr Tiziano Bogoni, using St Padre Pio Liturgy. Confessions available. BYO lunch shared. Enq: Des 6278 1540.
Every Monday LUNCHTIME MEDITATION Christian Meditation comes to the city. 12.15 to 12.45pm, Wesley Uniting Church, corner William and Hay Streets, Perth. Ecumenical Christian meditation, in the tradition of the desert fathers and mothers. All welcome. Enq: christianmeditation4iinet.net.au, www.christianmeditationaustralia.org or 9444 5810.
LEAGUE OF ROSARY Invites all Catholics to pray their Rosary of Joyful Mysteries on Sundays of Advent at home or in Church until 6 January 2010. Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us.
Every 2nd Wednesday YEAR OF THE PRIEST HOLY HOUR 7 to 8pm at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 2 Keaney Place, City Beach. Reflections on St John Via nney, Patron Saint of Priests. Light refreshments later in the Parish Centre.
2010 JOSEPH ITE - MARY MACKILLOP CALENDAR NOW ON SALE Be inspired by Mary MacKillop's inspirational quotes. Order your calendar by phone on 9334 0999 or mriddler@sosjwa.org.au. Every Sunday PILGRIM MASS - SHRINE OF THE VIRGIN OF THE REVELATION 2pm at Shrine, 36 Chittering Road, Bullsbrook. Commencing with Rosary followed by Benediction. Reconciliation is available before every celebration. Anointing of the sick administered during Mass every second Sunday of the month. Pilgrimage in honour of the Virgin of the Revelation, last Sunday of the month. Side entrance to the church and shrine open daily between 9am and 5pm. Enq: SACRI 9447 3292. 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.
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