CAL. GROUP IN VOWS The Little Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel made WA history last week with the first local ceremony of life commitment by three members of the congregation.
In St Paul's church Bishop Healy celebrated The Little Sisters of Our Swanbourne on the the Mass during which the Lady of Mount Carmel Feast of St Therese of vows were made. Bishops were founded in Footscray, A t St Paul's church, Swanbourne, after the Mass of their final commitment Bishop Healy is pictured with (I to r) Sisters, Nuala, Angela and Carol.
McKeon, Quinn and 20 Victoria, in 1974 and came priests also concelebrated to WA in 1976. the Mass.
Sister Nuala is the second of the four children of J ohn and Patricia Fogarty, of Manning. Originally from Belfast, the family came to WA 18 years ago, alighting at Fremantle on the advice of Father Bernie Dwyer who the Child Jesus a large was migrant chaplain on congregation saw the the ship. Their son Paul is foundress of the con- in his second year at St gregation, Sister Mary Francis Xavier seminary, Lalor, receive the Adelaide.
vows of Sisters Nuala, Sister Carol is the youngCarol and Angela. est of six children of Roy
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This brings to 14 the n umber of finally committed members among the 28 members of the congregation living in five houses in Australia and New Zealand.
and Clare Jones of Mundijong. She joined the congregation in 1976.
There are now communities in WA at Swanbourne, in the former presbytery, and at Albany. Archbishop Goody gave the group official documents of institution in June this year. The sisters live by the Life and Living handbook which is based on the ancient rule of Carmel written by Blessed Albert of Jerusalem for people living on Mount Carmel in the 12th century.
The sisters maintain Sister Angela is the eldest themselves by the offerings of four children of Des and of guests who can attend Muriel O'Brien-Malone of for days of prayer, weekends or longer retreats. Bayswater.
Senator praises order's work W ithout the efforts of the Little Sister of the Poor, Australia would be a poorer place the minister for Social Welfare, Senator Chaney, said at the opening of a new hostel and administration block at Glendalough last Sunday. He said it was possible in tion is truly Christian in the best g overnment to be discour- sense of the word." aged by constantly hearing He praised the sisters for their of what is not being done. facing up to the changes which
"It is reviving to meet people like those here today who are not merely making representations, not merely complaining, not simply drawing attention .to what's wrong in the community but who are actively doing something about it." Senator Chaney opened the first of a four -stage $4 million rebuilding programme after Bishop Quinn had solemnly blessed the building. The audience was r eminded that Bishop Quinn had blessed original extensions to Glendalough in 1971. A fter the ceremony in response to an appeal for funds to begin the second stage, $9,500 was donated.
CONCERNED Senator Chaney said the Little Sisters of the Poor represented a Wide strand in the Australian community who helped make it a good country. 'There are about 37,000 voluntary organisations in the social welfare field so there are that many groups of Australians getting together to tackle things they are concerned about in the country such as the care of the aged, c ommunity health, or family breakup. Senator Chaney said the Little Sisters of the Poor had left a very Clear impression in his mind from t heir work with Aboriginal fr ingedwellers in Kalgoorlie lyhen he was minister for Aboriginal Affairs. Although the Little Sisters had gone to Kalgoorlie primarily to look after the aged they had m oved also to help the A borigines. "The work the Little Sisters did for one of the most degraded sections of the Australian popula-
with state governments, to see what were the needs of the aged at home. Bishop Quinn said the opening of the new building was an occasion at which to appreciate the generous and zealous service that the Little Sisters offered the community. Noting that it was the 60th anniversary of their taking over the Glendalough premises, Bishop Quinn said that during that time they had offered comfort, compassion, spiritual succour and social help to a great number of people. "This new building says that you are going to stay and carry out your Christian service in this community. "It gives us encouragement because without you this kind of service would be difficult to supply. "It also gives us an indication of the spirit of your order which
had come about in care for the aged, a change, he said, that was for the better. "It is a sign of their large spirit and large mind that the sisters are looking to adjust their approach to the aged in this new building programme." He said the Commonwealth government had already contributed more than $1 million and this was a partnership with the sisters. Turning to other aspects, Senator Chaney said that in paying tribute to the voluntary sector, he often heard the criticism that the government was not doing enough. He pointed out that in real money terms the amount going into social welfare in Australia had increased two and a half times in the past ten years. began in faith, continues in faith "It puzzles and worries me that some things we are not doing ade- Minister for Social and relies on faith in Almighty quately but it also puzzles and W elfare, Senator God's goodness and providence as well as support from the comworries me how far we can keep Chaney munity at large. asking the Australian taxpayer to go with those sort of increases." He said, as a West Australian, he was aware of the question whether WA was getting a fair ** deal for the 8.5% it provided of Month Missions 2* October * tax. income total 4. * He pointed out that WA * Natural family planning 3** * received 10.5% of Australia's 4 •* * Have your say funds for aged housing and was * pope 5* aided in Silence of Jews Tasmania * after highest second * the per capita return of tax_Lpa pal encyclical 6 4a money from the Commonwealth Old, infirm victims : government. * film of real heroes Unusual * On further help for the aged * 9* television on Week Senator Chaney said the total : * answer to the needs of the aged * Woman of the week 10** was not given in buildings such as t Youth scene 11** those opened at Glendalough, ; 12** Just for kids since only one in ten Australians : live in institutional accommodat- ix Lady of Victories school 13*4. ion. 15 *4' :WA defend cricket title He said the government was * . . 16** looking closely at the 90% who :Filling wants of the needy aged * lived at home and, in conjunction 44444444 44444 4 44444444444 4 4 444444**44444444 4
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Sisters in Pakistan to be aided Pictured left (I to r) Father Pat Ahern (Director of Pontifical Mission Aid Societies) and fifth-year medical students Julian Mander (Nedlands) and Jamie Jenkins (Applecross) who will spend their summer vacation at Bathania Hospital in Pakistan working with four St John of God Sisters from Perth. The students will will start a three-year term leave Perth in Novem- as a volunteer lay missionber and will pay their ary at Bethania Hospital working with the sisters. own expenses.
The sisters have been in In the near future, the sisPakistan for 12 months ters will be purchasing a and recent letters request- four-wheel-drive vehicle ed urgent help with their which will be equipped as a medical work. mobile clinic for work In January, 1981, Dr among people in the vilMichael Hagan from Perth lages of North Pakistan.
POPE'S MESSAGE
Everybody involved in this special day
Those helped
Last year $103,552,061 was distributed to Catholic missions around the world through the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies.
NUMBERS Recent statistics indicate that there are 764 million Catholics in the world, or 18 per cent of the total population. Over half of the Catholics are in North and South America, where they are cared for by less than a third of the priests, brothers and sisters in the world. Europe, with approximately one-third of the world's Catholics, has over half of the world's priests and religious.
The greater part of this Faith will provide aid went to missions in $362,000 for the support Africa, Asia and South and training of catechists The Americas are and give them the mateAmerica. gaining ground in the The remainder went to rial for their apostolate in number of students missions in Oceania and to Papua New Guinea and studying for the priestisolated missions in Central Pacific. hood, and Asian semiEurope. For building a small seminaries also indicate a Some examples of aid are -nary for the dioceSe of Port dramatic increase. Vila, Vanuatu, the Society as follows:In Oceania, 30 mission of St Peter Apostle proAfrica, with more than dioceses received $1,090,000 vided $35,000. t wo-thirds of the from the Society for the In Oceania support for world's catechists, leads of the Faith. the Novices in Religious "We have, in World Mission Day, an excellent occasion for an examina- Propagation in this field, and is also a Restoration of mission Congregations is given by tion of conscience with regard to our mission obligation, and for reminding property in five dioceses in the Society of St Peter leader in the number of all the faithful of the Church, whatever be their function or place, that each the Carribean, damaged by Apostle. In 1981 the adult converts. cyclone Allen in 1980 — society allotted $49,500. one is involved in this day," Pope John Paul 11 said in his message for World $180,000 granted by the Mission Sunday on October 18. Society for the Propaga- • ********* •••••••• 000000000000000000 ••••••• • • "Calling on the co- "A further phenomenon should be a common and Churches, without exclud- tion of the Faith. • For lepers: In 1980 the operation of all for mis- which makes us happy and intense effort to help mis- ing any. sionary work, I would like for which we must thank sionary vocations grow "This universality is their Society of Missionary Childhood provided to speak, above all, to the God is the birth of a mis- and mature. unique character," the $275,000 for children in Christian family. sionary movement in the "If the world today has an pope said. Africa and Asia who are iOPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS "In our day, we need to young Churches, which even greater need for afflicted or whose parents •• give back to the family, from being evangelised Christ and his Gospel, the "And this is the reason Corneal Lens Consultants why the concern of apos- are suffering from leprosy. with its vitality and stabil- become evangelisers. number of those who 321 5344 16 PLAZA ARCADE, PERTH ity, its place of impor- "In many mission coun- preach the Good News tolic workers for their own For immediate relief for infants in families seeking 451 8722 projects or country C AROUSEL SHOPPING TOWN for of tance," the pope said. tries, the number of mis- must increase proportion. 73 1929 which they are personally refuge in Zimbabwe — : 4 DEMPSTER HOUSE, PORT HEDLAND "The organisation of mis- sionaries who go forth to ately," the pope added. 21 3445 informed, must not $12,500 from the Society 29 DURLACHER STREET, GERALDTON sionary action during the preach the Gospel to nonbecome preferential, but of Missionary Childhood. • month of October, the Christians, whether it be in • should be integrated with This year the Society for a Month of the Missions, of their own country or in • Christianity the over-all thrust of evan- the Propagation of the which World Mission Day other countries, or even gelisation at the service of is the culminating point, is other continents, grows M11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IMMIMMIIMIMIIIIII1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111_ the young Churches," the confided to the Pontifical day by day. "It is a cause for joy to pope said. Missionary Societies, because the institution of "In fact, in every conti- note how, among many "In conclusion", the pope this day is due to their initi- nent, one finds missionar- Christians, there is an said, "I would like to ies who have come from all every-growing concern for ative," the pope said. remind you that the celeWHAT ARE THEY? "World Mission Day parts of the world," Pope the needs of the countries bration of the Internaand the Churches of the gives each of us the oppor- John Paul added. They start by being average practical Catholics prepared to share whatever expertise they tional Eucharistic Conhave with the Aboriginal children and adults of the North-West of Australia. tunity of making an exami- "Thus, the young Third World, and how par- gress of Lourdes in July They serve the Church, placing themselves at the disposal of the Bishop, "as vicar and nation of conscience on Churches, who in their ticular initiatives to come ought to stimulate the misbecome have missionturn to the aid of persons or legatee of Christ", (Vat II, P382), and assist him in a spirit of dedication. this matter, and of presentsionary effort of the They give themselves totally for 2 years, living in groups, co-operating in fraternal love in the ing to the People of God ary, give proof of their projects in these regions Church. spirit of the Gospels, serving on isolated missions and townships. are multiplying. the doctrine of the Church. maturity in the faith. They are not attached to any religious order, fully accepting their Christian duty to evange"They have understood "This is a sign of mission- "The Eucharist, which lise according to their own individual abilities. that a particular Church, if ary awareness and of a builds up the Church and is Under the patronage and guidance of the Bishop they have their own formally constituted it is not missionary, is not growing sense of justice," the fount and apex of the Association and elected Council. fully Catholic," the Pope Pope John Paul said. Evangelisation whole Christian life, is the Lay Missionaries do not accept a salary, only their keep and pocket money. Their fares are added. The pope added that it is sacrament that signifies paid and a small sum on completion of their service. Speaking about the role fitting to give a privileged and realises the unity of the Christian family, the place to the Pontifical Mis- among all the members of "In fact, it is the future of THE KIMBERLEYS Pope said that both at the sionary societies because the Church. the evangelisation of the religious or the Diocese of Broome is the far North-West part of Australia, roughly 3 times the size of and at the human these supported the direct world that is at stake. If all level, any Victoria. A subtropical region, with a 'wet' season through the summer months; of vaned action taken proclamation of the Gos- "The Eucharist enables terrain with beautiful beaches but a large part taken up by the Great Sandy Desert. Christians were convinced depended on men to stand in solidarity the awareness pel, which was the fundaSince 1959 many admirable Australians have contributed in no small way to the personal of their missionary duty, one with the other, urges growth and education of the Aboriginal people as lay missionaries. They have formed close the difficulties would be that parents had of their mental and proper them to share their faith, and lasting tie . Others are needed-to continue and improve existing services. on and own responsibility obligation the Church. of less burdensome," Pope their spiritual riches, their their Christian values. Needs for 1982 include Kindergarten, Primary, Secondary, Domestic Science It was specifically this sufferings and their mateJohn Paul said. words by their and "By "It is a motive of great announcement that was rial bread. hope to see that small the testimony of their lives, the foundation of true TEACHERS — D.C. 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A DELAIDE — The beauty of natural family planning lies in the shared responsibility between husband and wife," Mrs. Jennifer Adamson, South Australian Minister for Health told the national conference of the Council • of Natural Family Planning.
"It leads to increased internationally through his physiologically and the meaning of marriage and a greater awareness of a wareness of sexual- involvement in world psychologically. ity and fertility within Health Organisation stu- It is important to under- t heir own marriage marriage, and to a dies on the effectiveness of stand these factors when relationship. natural family planning. teaching natural family They put some serious mutual respect and He spoke specifically to the priests and p ,co-operation between about a five-nation study lanning to women questions couples present: partners," Mrs Adam- of the teaching of the ovu- approaching the meno- • "What effort is being Two Balcatta Capuchins and a former Balcatta pastor are pause. son told 100 delegates lation method. made to integrate fertility members of the first council of the newly-formed Capuchin proAnother session dealt from all States of Aus- The results have shown with the technology of awareness into total teachvince of Australia. that about 95 per cent of tralia. marriage and the relation- ing, a total theology of
In Sydney on September 17 Father appointed to Balcatta 18 months ago. Mrs Maureen Chamber- women can be readily ship between this theology marriage? For the Australian launching 60 priests lain and Mrs Ann O'Don- taught to recognise the a nd natural family • "What efforts are we Carmel Flora was made first provincial will be province. He concelebrated the Mass at which the 74th of the superior signs of ovulation — which Natural an the Perth present in nell of making to planning. Father Patrick Colbourne full jurisdiction in the 12,000 world-wide Family Planning Office is the basis of natural fam- Two married couples intelligible manner our assisted by who was at one time parish priest at Bal- Capuchin membership was established. ily planning. attended the conference. responded to that presen- Catholic ideals in our eduAthanase Gonelli of Capuchin provincial superiors came to Mrs Adamson acknowl- This, however, varied sig- tation, sharing their expe- cation programs in catta, and Father the ceremony from New Jersey, Detroit, Sydney. nificantly from country to edged the importance of rience that the use of schools, in our preparation councillors are Fathers Ireland, Parma, Salerno and Indonesia other two The country. the natural family plannatural family planning of couples for marriage, and Peter Julian Mes- and mission superiors from New Guinea, ning service, not just for It is interesting to note had helped them to and to those who are living Joseph Oudeman above left and right respec- Japan, Guam, Philippines and New Catholics, but for the that women in developing develop a deeper insight to marriage in our parishes?" sina (pictured Zealand. tively) of Balcatta. countries like El Salvador whole community. from HolOudeman, originally Capuchins made their first contact Father can learn this more readily In her opening address land, was ordained in Australia in 1966 with the Australian area 300 years ago in she announced an increase than women in developed and was appointed to Balcatta in January 1681 when Rome established the Prefecin the grant made by the countries. this year. He was recently appointed cha- ture of Terra Australia Australis. South Australian Health Having learned the The general custody of Australia was plain to the Dutch Catholic community. method there are the diffiCommission to the AdeFather Peter Julian Messina comes established 10 years ago. Since the last laide Catholic Family culties of persevering with originally from Cairns and was ordained general chapter of Capuchins 11 new proit and adhering to the rules, Planning Centre. in 1978, following which he was vinces have been established. so that natural family planMrs Adamson said she hoped this will further help ning may be effectively the centre's fine work and used. that its excellent health Professor Burger also education initiative will be spoke about menopause and some of the factors maintained. A DELAIDE: Natural family planning methods were The principal speaker at involved in understanding the conference was Profes- what happens to women as about 99 per cent effective if people observed the rules, sor Henry Burger of Mel- they pass through this a world authority on birth control told the national bourne, who is well known stage of their life, both
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of subDr Henry Burger, pro- how to use the ovulation "The percentagepregnant jects who became fessor of medicine at method within one cycle. in that second group, was Prince Henry's Hospi- "The message of the first almost three times higher that was, study of the part tal, Melbourne, said more than 90 per cent of than in the first group. women became preg- w omen, regardless of "So the message for peonant when couples socio-economic, cultural, ple who are teaching natuR ebui lding of our home will cost $4,063,000 relaxed the rules. educational status, could ral family planning or who natof effectiveness "The recognise and produce an are managing natural famWe are in urgent need of your assistance in ural methods depends on interpretable ovulatory ily planning programmes, t his valuable project. Our home at Glendalough whether people are highly symptom pattern in the is that if a couple hasn't a ccommodates elderly persons over 60 who motivated or not," he said. very ,first cycle in which learnt satisfactorily within three cycles, you've got to need our care regardless of their race or creed. The rate for people they were taught. Our apostolate is directed towards those in the "strictly observing the "Most of them very read- look very hard at that lower income bracket and to those in most rules" was between zero ily learn the method — in couple. .and 3 per cent a year, he fact, within the first cycle "They will be at increased I need of our solicitude. said. and certainly within the risk for pregnancy.
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"You need to look very Dr Burger is known inter- three cycles that were arefully at reasons why c assigned to teaching in that research his nationally for they're not confident. into natural family plan- study. Perhaps you should even ning with the World "The other message was this: "Most people learned suggest that it's not an Heatlh Organisation. the method to the satisfac- appropriate method for Later in an interview, tion of their leader and them to follow — at least in Professor Burger com- investigator within three that form. mented on findings of a cycles. Professor Burger pointed r ecent World Health " We compared that out that it was a fiveOrganisation survey on group with those who took country survey that natural family planning. additional cycles of teach- involved New Zealand, He said that the finding of ing before their teacher India, the Phillipines, El the survey was that most was satisfied that they Salvador and Ireland, women, 90 per cent of understood and could fol- commencing in 1976 and them, were able to learn low the method. concluding in 1979.
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The expression of shock, outrage or condemnation at the assassination of President Sadat becomes a futile exercise because it underlines only the powerlessness of ordinary people to stem the tide of death that sweeps across the headlines each week. The mind-numbing trail currently stretches through the horrific bombings in Lebanon to the mindless ritual of executions that blacken the face of Iran.. The same trail stalks through Italy and Germany to Northern Ireland. In from Father Kevin Flinn, Columban Missionary, Rivervale Eastern Europe it has carved its path of death from K.M. Ryan, state secretary, and elimination over the past half century. It National Civic Council Sir, travels down the spine of Central and South Sir, I do hope that your readers went beyond your optimisA merica. headlines "Religion in China — Indications for the tic It was a chilling co-incidence that the EgypTragically, Father Jim O'Brien's (The tian president's tragedy happened barely a future seem good" (The Record September 17) and Record October 1) penchant for confusday after the bizarre exhumation of the ing moral issues and party politics hasn't carefully read the whole report. Kennedy assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. changed much over the last several decades and now it would appear that he Even though Australian religious and paigns only arouse interest in religion. So The reasons behind Sadat's death are too chooses to "muddy the water" on the secular papers report favourably on during the Cultural Revolution the complex to analyse given the explosive state very eve of Mother Teresa's visit for the many aspects of life in present-day China, number of believers did increase in some of Middle East religious politics but he cerone must remember that .the true nature places. National Right To Life Convention. tainly was a figure who appeared to want to of anti-God materialism and totalitarianinject some sense into the hopeless struggle For the sake of veracity and on behalf of the • Now things are different. Some ism practised by the communist regime in those parts. National Civic Council, whom Father O'Brien again relaxations have been made. In order to there will emerge sooner or later. seeks to impugn, please permit the opportunity to win outside friendship for China contacts The cheers over his death from the PLO in state the facts: Chinese communists make no secret of with fellow believers in other countries Lebanon only heighten the fear of the manic their real attitude towards Christianity. have been encouraged. This policy has (1) There is no official link whatsoever between currents running through sections of Islam been well received abroad. NCC the and the RTLA. The NCC supports any today. Christians become more than neutral In a recent copy of China Reconorganisation which fights for the principle of the observers because so much of the Lebanese • But many people misunderstand structs, a magazine published in Peking, a inviolable right to life itself and fights for truth, and Palestinian frustration is being expereader complained that previous articles our present attitudes. justice and charity. The RTLA commenced in WA rienced by Middle East Christians who are had stated that the number of Christians without any encouragement or support from the caught in the Israeli-Islam-Leftist crossfire. Some say it is a 'new' policy. But really NCC. Undoubtedly, many NCC supporters are in China had not decreased since the Libit is only the restoration of a long-held Political murder is doubly outrageous eration in 1949. members of the RTLA and I am sure that all our communist technique. because it marks a point of no return when members and supporters support the principle of the He went on to say that if those articles right to life as do Christians (and many nonleaders cannot pursue their professional Some say "China now conciliates reliwere true then the Communist Party's Christians) of all denominations. courses in relative safety for their lives. Civiligion and does not combat it." That is not combating policy for reltion had failed. (2) A recent "news letter" from the State secresation depends on leaders no matter how true. As communists, the Chinese do not tary of the ALP pointed to a decision of the ALP divergent and opposite their views, rejecting agree with religion or with any other form further He queried: "If combat you Women's Committee requesting that no support be of idealism. Lenin says: "A Marxist is a the annihilation of the other as a solution to religion as you are now doing (by being given by members of the party to the RTLA. materialist ... one who struggles against anything. conciliatory towards it) what is your aim There is absolutely no available evidence that any in a We should be thankful that this principle is — to increase or decrease its influence? religion not in an abstract way, but executive member of the ALP or any ALP parliaconcrete way . . . poverty and ignorance so widely accepted. mentarian has publicly opposed abortion on Can Marxist-Leninists `conciliate' reliare the deepest causes of religion and gion and not combat it?" It is the small minded tyrant who is now demand within the party at its meetings as opposed prejudice." to their private position on the matter. It was the trying to take over the world. Behind the finLei Zhenchang, from the Research secretary of the Trades and Labor Council of WA (a ger pressing the trigger is the Dr. Strangelove With our progress in science and techsenior party member) who in fact moved that most Institute of World Religions of the nology we will soon diminish the influfantasy or obsession that the assassinating Academy of Social Sciences, was asked to ence of religion in China. divisive of resolutions on the abortion issue at the bullet will change the order of things. prepare a reply to the above reader's recent ACTU Congress. The gunmen die in the bloodbaths of repri(3) Despite all the red herrings and smoke c omplaints. • We sometimes allow freedom to sal that have dotted history and the vacuum screens exuded from Mr Beasley and Father for their religious sentiments but people of anarchy spawns new dictators. O'Brien there was never the faintest chance that any The main points of his long reply were: we aim to destroy religion and any form ALP politician would attend the RTLA Convention Equally depressing is the co-incidence of of idealism. Our method may appear diffrom the moment that the State secretary's newslet• The principle of the communist ferent but our aim remains the same. Sadat's death with the re -appearance of Pope ter was issued. Government since its takeover 30 years John Paulin St. Peter's Square last Sunday. It (4) The NCC has always enjoyed the physical ago has been to make churches national I came across China Reconstructs in is a sorry commentary on our times to read of and spiritual support of hundreds of priests, nuns and independent of foreign domination. the local library. This communist magathe massive, and costly, police and military and religious brothers right throughout Western zine does not support the hopes often security that will have to surround the pope Australia, not to mention the much wider support • The Gang of Four (1966-1976) expressed in our local papers. from now on. throughout the nation and overseas. foolishly raised the slogans Abolish ReliFolk history thrived on detailing the heroics (5) Finally, one must say it is a great pity that gion and Religion Belongs to the By cutting off the supply of priests, and of arms andpersonal guards that surrounded Father O'Brien seeks to join forces with the persecuMuseum and persecuted ordinary Chris- forbidding anyone to baptise or to teach tors of the true Labor stalwarts long since purged great personages. Somehow popes had got tians. Such direct confrontation with reli- religion to youths below the age of 18, from that once great party and to make the very right gion is wrong. History and experience even though they belong to families of caught up in the same ritual and many were to life itself a party political issue — that was his have proved that administrative orders believers, the communists give proof of wondering at the fantasy that required a pope decision with which he has to live. cannot be used against religious beliefs, their desire to destroy Christianity in to be surrounded by the halberds of the Swiss that such forms of anti-religion cam- China. and Guard or, formerly, the clanking swords of the noble guard. Now we are not quite so sure where fantasy ends and reality begins. 5 t, Political murder is not born suddenly in momentary passion. It is premeditated hate deliberately nurtured to the point where it Send us a letter and have your say in The Record. will explode. You can write on any subject you want: government It is a pernicious process of poisoning from Maureen decisions and policy, problems in your neighbourhood, minds and therefore on the local scene at a different level the attention the media paid to Brown, Diane/la television., anything that affects your life. Lang Hancock was even more reprehensible Sir, Past your letter to Today's Mail The Record, PO Box I read with interest and than his insulting remarks on Aborigines. 50, Perth Aberdeen Street, 6000. Phone enquiries The same bigoted attitudes can be heard mounting anger the J. WilPrefere nce will be given to short concise letters. 325 6644 from similarly isolated people who are not liams letter concerning the turned into nation spokesmen. LangHancock Catholic Care for the IntelHandicapped holds no brief to speak for anyone and it can lectually recent meeting at Castleonly be construed that certain television dare. producers and newspapers pander to the I was unable to attend, belief that wealth is entitled to speak not having a car. I think it is outrageous for unbridled. The solution is quite simple: his remarks the families of the intellecshould never have been allowed to go to air. tually handicapped perAborigines were understandably hurt but it sons to be asked to buy a history, Donahue said. WASHINGTON "It is, from our standis time for them also to cease turning every car for Sister Maureen. (NC) — The secretSunday October 18 I have contributed sideways glance or incident like this into a already ary -treasurer of point, an important remy widows mite of Maryland Farm Kojonup national crisis. We can well do without the $25 as suggested in the letthe AFL-CIO thi- enforcement of the 11 a.m. union effort and trade Mass at Maryland Farm celeposturing and inflammatory language of con- ter sent out by the group, nks Pope John activity" to have the brated by Bishop McKeon. frontation that is becoming the trademark of but I fail to see why the P aul II 's new p ope reiterate the Noon Lunch. Barbecue facilities Prosome Aboriginal spokesmen in their search Church (recognising the e ncycl ical On importance of worker vided. Bring your ow intellectually handicapped for power. Human Work is "a organisations, said prov isions. Human rights can be viewed from many at long last, under presgreat and exciting Donahue, who has read 2 p.m. Procession, Rosary, Benedicperspectives but the exploration of hate will sure) can't buy the car as a document". e xcerpts from the tion also Renewal of Vows. gesture encyclical but not all of achieve nothing. Human life requires respect other of good will. In 3.45 p.m.Afternoon tea provided by words, putting their Tom Donahue, one of the document. "That's that transcends all other considerations. Kojonup parishioners. money where their mouth organised labour's top marvellously supportThe deaths of Sadat and other murdered is so to speak, instead The Shalomite Singers have kindlY of officials, said he finds ing and cheering for personalities, or the near death of the Holy placing the burden on the the pope's emphasis on us. agreed to join us on October 18. Father become a universal human tragedy a lready overburdened the primacy of man The Kojonup parish council cordially because television had made them known as families of the intellectu"The pope gives great over economic systems i nvites ally all who can to come with us handicapped persons. real people struggling on behalf of others. heart to Catholics in the especially significant. As you may have guessed union movement and It is up to the public watching yet another to Maryland to celebrate this very It is a value that orga- everyone else, in that state funeral fill the screen to affirm its con- I too have an intellectually special occasion. nised labour also has s ense," Donahue _, demnation of murder in all form but above all handicapped daughter of E (098) 341020, nquiries: (098) 311029 tried to emphasise in its added. 23, youngest of seven in politics. children.
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
Silence of pope Funds aided Jews MELBOURNE: The C atholic Education Office of Victoria has expressed disappointment at the treatment of non-government schools in the Victorian budget. The matter of greatest concern was the Victorian Government's decision not to proceed immediately to implement its stated policy of m oving recurrent grants to non-government schools from 22 per cent of government school costs in 1981 to 23 per cent of government school costs in 1982, according to a statement issued by the office this week. Instead the increase was delayed for six months. This meant that state government 1982 capitation grants t o Victorian nongovernment schools for 1982 will be: • For the period 1 January to 30 June, 22 per cent of government school costs, which the budget assesses to be $293 primary and $480 secondary. • For the period 1 July to 31 December, 23 per cent of government school costs, which the budget does not assess in dollar terms. The above figures compare with capitation grants for 1981 at 22 per cent of government school costs resulting in $269 primary and $443 secondary.
CALL FOR A FREE NEWS MEDIA WARSAW, Poland (NC) — In sharp language Catholic bishops of Poland called for full freedom of the press, television and all other means of communication. In a statement read
Access to the govern-
They said: "The pluralism
society, univerLONDON (NC) — A British Catholic historian from the pulpits of ment-controlled media has of modern been one of the key points sally accepted today, throughout churches says Pope Pius XII withheld condemnation of Poland the hierarchy at issue in the sharpening demands that all social between Solidarity, groups should be able to Nazi atrocities during World War II because he termed constraints on battle the independent labour make use of the means of did not want to jeopardise the lives of thousands such freedom "in- movement, and the ruling social communication, admissible." Communist Party. which are social property of Jews hidden by the Vatican. and should serve the whole
The bishops message society." A defence of Pope Pius' views from his German said: "It is inadmissible actions is contained in a superiors and by telling that freedom of expression The statement also newly -published book, German authorities that be limited solely affirmed the right of readshould sympathetic The Papacy in the Modern the pope was because the opinions ers, viewers and listeners World, by Father J. Derek to the German opposition expressed could contain "to make active use of the Holmes, history professor t o communism, says which are uncom- means of social communitruths Holmes. Father at Ushaw College, Britain's fortable for some people, cation for expressing pubpope's the from largest Catholic seminary. "Judging or which do not conform licly their opinions." The pope's "own work on c orrespondence with the with the concepts of a par- In addition to managing behalf of the Jews might German bishops, fears of ticular group. have been endangered by a reprisals would seem to the chief organs of the sec"The monopoly of a ular media, the communist public denunciation of the have dominated his attisocial group or an ideology government also limits the Nazis, even though such a tude toward the fate of the to proclaim its own opin- Catholic press by restrictdenunciation might have Jews in Germany. ions through the social ing the amounts of newsjustified this moral repudi- "He was certainly wellcommunication system is print made available to it. ation," writes Father informed and there is a suggestion of total helinadmissible," the state- In their statement the Holmes. ment continued, "More than half the Jews plessness in his letters in bishops said that "paper in Rome were being shel- the face of such incredible The bishops argued for ought to be distributed priest. the adds evil," tered in ecclesiastical access to the media for all. justly." buildings that had been opened to them precisely on the instructions of the pope himself," he adds. As many as 30,000 Jews were saved in Italy as a result of help given by "righteous gentile", he writes. The author also says that Ernst von Weizsacker, German ambassador to the Vatican during the war, tried to persuade the Vatican to avoid words or G UATEMALA CITY (NC) — The bishops of Gua- MILAN, Italy (NC) — Archbishop actions that would irritate temala in a pastoral letter have sharply Carlo Martini, of Milan, expressed the Nazis because he believed they planned to denounced what they called a government "full and unconditional solidarity" kidnap the pope before the with three archdiocesan priests "campaign to discredit the Church". Allies reached Rome. to carry out these even of violating Italian elecconvicted Von Weizsacker pro- T he letter also missionary to Gua- threats." tion laws by posting notices tected the pope by conceal- praised Father Stanley temala who was According to Church ing the pontiff's anti-Nazi Rother, an American recently assassinated. sources, Father Rother, a against abortion on their church doors before a May referendum. "Besides the assassination priest of the Oklahoma and disappearance of 12 City Archdiocese, was torThe priests, all from the town of Legnano priests, seven of them this tured before being killed at in northern Italy, were tried with two other year, besides the violent his rectory in July. priests, who were acquitted on the charges with pierced were ears His catechists death of many because of insufficiency of evidence. disfigface his and nails and other members of Sentences of 10 days in gaol and a 50,000 lire Christian communities, a ured by cuts. "He was savcampaign to discredit the agely beaten, they (about $45) fine were given. They had been charged with violating Italian elecChurch has been launched practically crucified him," tion laws which stipulate where electoral statements the last few days," the the sources said. in TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (NC) — Attitudes about the bishops said. The government attrib- can be publicised. uted the priest's murder to The three priests placed signs which read, "Yes to C atholic Church "improved significantly" among The bishops added: "We local thieves, but his asso- life, no to abortion" on the outside door of their estranged Catholics and non-Catholics during a six- must voice our concern for ciates blamed the killing on churches before Italy's May 17-18 nationwide refermonth mass media evangelisation campaign by the dio- the life and physical integ- an out-of-town rightist endum on abortion. A proposal to restrict Italy's abortion law was rity of our priests, religious squad. cese of Pensacola -Tallahassee. and catechists, because of "He was a devoted priest defeated by Italian voters by a ratio of 2 to 1. An independent survey Archbishop Martini said the priests had been the defamation of the and a generous benefactor f irm projected that Church and the fact that all of the people of Santiago," "unjustly struck in the exercise of their pastoral approximately 24,000 nonthe sacrilegious murders the bishops said. "We wish ministry. Catholics within the diogo unpunished. Anyone to voice our solidarity with "They acted in full accordance with the directives cese either tried to learn feels prompted at the least Oklahoma City and given by their bishop," he added. "They exercised more about the Catholic excuse to threaten them or Solola." nothing but their duty and right to illuminate the Church or considered takconsciences of the faithful on one of the fundamental ing such action during the themes of the Christian message." evangelisation campaign, which included placement VATICAN CITY (NC) — Tourists to develof more than 1,600 radio oping nations must not have "feelings of have true community, in and television commercials superiority toward the population which LONDON (NC) — inner cities or anywhere on some 20 local radio sta- welcomes them," said Cardinal Agostino Alienation and lack of else for that matter," he tions and four television Casaroli in a letter written on behalf of community sharing added. WARSAW, Poland hours after General Wojstations. Pope John Paul 11 to the World Organisa- w ere behind the He said that alienated or (NC) — Echoing an ciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Professionally conducted tion of Tourism during its general assembly recent riots in the disadvantaged people felt appeal made by Pope prime minister and ministelephone surveys of the Toxteth area of Liver- they had no part in their John Paul 11, Arch_ ter of defence, told the parin Rome. general population found "If an adequate spiritual formation is lacking . . . . pool according to own destiny, no effective bishop Jozef Glemp liament that the governthat 10 per cent "consiinstead of becoming a privileged way of A rchbishop Derek say in how they lived and of Warsaw and ment would take all dered talking with tourism, sense can be reduced to an Worlock of Liverpool. worked and were gov- Gniezno urged Polish necessary steps to oppose Catholic Church members developing some social anarchy and anti-Soviet person, an abuse of the hospitality the erned. of alienation or visiting a Catholic Real working together is "For no matter how we Catholics to work for activities. in a sort of mania of money time and loss of a offered, Church" as a result of the required, and solutions may regard it, that is how resolution of the "A stop must be put to the evangelisation campaign. movement," said Cardinal Casaroli. those who travel to from the outside will fail they do feel," he said. "So it country's problems deepening tendencies of to teach educators urged He Of those, he said 50 per precisely because they are without bloodshed, anarchy, to hooligan cent actually tried to learn developing countries "to shed their possible prejudices from outside, he told a is an emotive issue and an population to antithe unbridledness, toward superiority peace of explosive "The nation needs feelings one." and a bout the Catholic which welcomes them, especially those who are poor Community Challenge "The black members of at any cost," he said out- state and anti-Soviet Church. conference. the Toxteth community side Warsaw's St John the excesses and disrespect for and culturally less advantaged." The survey indicated that Cardinal Casaroli said that the tourism pheno"How can we help those are no more to be thought Baptist Cathedral at open- legal norms," the prime about 45 per cent of the menon has great importance in our age "not only who feel alienated from the of as immigrants than are air ceremonies marking his minister said in a talk adult population not only because of its economic aspects, but especially because rest of the community the Irish in other parts of installation as head of the aimed primarily at Solidr ecalled the arity, the independent PolWarsaw Archdiocese. diocesan- of the possibilities which it offers from the spiritual, (which is us) to share in the city," he said. sponsored commercials, cultural and social point of view." responsibility for how all Indeed, they alleged with "It needs love and sacri- ish union movement, but could Tourism can lead to a "new humanism" if it "con- of us (them and us) live and some force that as British fice, not blood," Archbi- which has been pressuring independently describe the communist goverenough of the tributes to developing constitutive values in the person work together?" the arch- blacks they received less shop Glemp added. message to document consideration than immi- Archbishop Glemp's nment for political and and to facilitating a true and authentic social life bishop asked. they s..4w or installation took place just economic reforms. among men and women," the cardinal added. "Only in this way shall we grant groups, he said. heard.
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PAPAL ENCYCLICAL No easy answers R OME (NC) — People who look for easy answers to complex questions may feel some disappointment with Pope John Paul II's new encyclical, "Laborem Exercens" (On Human Work).
At the Vatican's press conference announcing the encyclical, an American journalist asked about the relationship of the document to Poland's Solidarity labour union. What the journalist really wanted to know was whether the encyclical can be seen as backing the ideals and techniques of Solidarity, a topical question. But for that question there is no quick response. The encyclical clearly advances the right of workers to organise for their protection and this is what Solidarity has done. But the document also says that union activities, such as strikes, should serve the common good. People will argue both ways as to the ultimate benefit of specific stoppages by Solidarity at a time when Poland faces grave economic problems. A person can easily find a sentence here or a paragraph there which favours his position. The encyclical argues the necessity of the right to strike without penal sanctions as a final resort when rights have been prejudiced. But it also legitimises laws to prohibit strikes when "essential community services are in question." Among the participants at the press conference there was
some disappointment that the political, social and economic labour. encyclical does not offer spe- structures, particularly as they It fails, moreover, says the cific "flip-to-page-X" solu- affect the person of the encyclical, because it takes tions for a host of persons as things and regards worker. contemporary and internaA consequence of the doc- them as pawns in the class tional labour crises. trine of the primacy of the struggle. But as was pointed out by individual, according to the Communism, then, glorifies Father Schotte and Austrian pope, is that neither commu- process over people. Father John Schasching, dean nism nor rigid capitalism is But — and this may be more of social sciences at Rome's satisfactory as a Christian difficult for Westerners to Gregorian University, the ideal. grasp — the pope also says encyclical neither attempts to The collectivism of the that so does rigid capitalism. do that nor could it. Strict capitalism operates Marxist approach fails, first Rather than provide facile of all, because it refuses to from the profit motive, answers to complicated issues, regard human initiative and enriching the few at the the encyclical does more. It the valid right of a person to expense of the many, also offers the broad ethical guidepossess the fruits of his making individuals pawns. lines which Christians ought to use to answer labour questions and to design economic systems. Basically, what the document says is that workers are p eople before they are workers. WASHINGTON (NC) — Pope John including the unemployment or retraining of skilled workers A lthough this sounds and a decreased or more slowly accelerating increase in the obvious, in fact, the encyclical Paul II's new encyclical, "On Human standard of living for people in developed nations. is radical, if radical means Work," belongs to the world and thus Such views are likely to prove unpopular with economic attacking a problem at its conservatives, said Msgr. Higgins. roots, and revolutionary, if cannot be read too closely to reflect speThe,pontiffs comments on unions' political involvements revolutionary means shaking cific situations according to Msgr. and strikes also are likely to be misunderstood in such Western and rebuilding structures. George Higgins, former U.S. Catholic developed nations as the United States, Msgr. Higgins said. Every socio-economic sys"Union activity undoubtedly enters the field of politics, tem, says the pope, must be Conference secretary for special conunderstood as prudent concern for the common good," the fashioned around that center- cerns and longtime labour activist. pope wrote. piece: the primacy of the And the pope's views are likely to be at odds with those of "However, the role of unions is not to 'play politics' in the person. some Western economic conservatives, Msgr. Higgins added. sense that the expression is commonly understood today. Everything else is subserAt the beginning of "On Human Work," the pope wrote that "Unions do not have the character of political parties strugvient to that. "the general situation of man in the modern world, studied and gling for power; they should not be subjected to the decision of What the document calls for analysed in its various aspects of geography, culture and civilipolitical parties or have too close links with them." then is nothing short of a total sation, calls for the discovery of the new meanings of human According to Msgr. Higgins, "He's not saying a union re-examination of the world's work" and cited "new tasks" facing individuals and families, shouldn't have a political committee." "each country, the whole human race and finally the Church What the pope Means is that a union should not take its herself." orders from a political party and be a direct branch of the party The global picture is emphasised and the primacy of man itself, Msgr. Higgins said. over economic systems or theories is the central theme, Msgr. While the pope reaffirms the right to strike, he warns against Higgins said. abuse of that right and says it is necessary to ensure the public's The document also goes beyond more than just labour as well-being and maintenance of public services during a strike, understood in the sense of industrial, blue-collar workers. by legislation if appropriate. Rather, he said, it relates to anyone who works, as an "This section has to be applied in the broader context" and employee, employer or in some other capacity. not read to justify the positions of unions or management in Moreover, both "rigid" capitalism, which makes a "dogma" specific walk-outs, Msgr. Higgins said. of private ownership of the means of production, and state The encyclical's emphasis on just wages for work is also collectivisation which abuses human rights, are criticised by likely to irritate some conservatives, including Catholics, the encyclical. who've been critical of other papal teachings on social justice "On Human Work" also discusses the rights of workers to organise into unions or associations, strikes, just wages, health issues, Msgr. Higgins said. "I personally agree with his emphasis," said the priest. care for workers, and adequate compensation for families. "But I'll be very surprised if the encyclical is received. with The pope likewise cites automated production, high energy open arms by those who've been critical of previous encylicals costs, pollution and political demands of people in lesser making similar statements. developed nations and warns that these will require changes in And the pope's encouragement of worker health care also economic systems and distribution of the world's work, will not be welcomed by some Catholics, Msgr. Higgins * **************************************1 predicted . wage which will adequately provide for "The expenses involved in health care, especially in the case his or her dependents. of accidents at work, demand that medical assistance should An employee should be given the be easily available for workers and that as far as possible it "right to rest," which should include "at should be cheap or even free of charge," the encyclical stated. least Sunday." This indicates a sympathy for socialised medicine, Msgr. HigThe encyclical challenges not just gins added. management and governments, but Msgr. Higgins said the work reflects John Paul's other employees, also. Workers are chalencyclicals, especially the first, "Redemptor Hominis" (Redeelenged to see work as a blessing from mer of Man). This encyclical is very much the pope's .own Pope John Paul is echoing labour cost, foster an economic disparGod, as an opportunity to share in creawork, in contrast to others in history which have been. written Pope Paul VI, who said in "Pro- ity between countries which is contrary tion, as the chance to carry out a responby scholars under the authority of some pope, he said. , gessio Populorum," his social to Christian principles and to the ideal sibility to family and to future "It's a more theological document in the sense that he s encyclical of 1968, that the right of personal worth. generations, as the means to build the picking up where he left off in `Redemptor Hommis. and to private property was not an world according to the ideal preached applying it to the particular problems of work," Msgr. Higgins Other specifics abound. Profitby Christ. added. untramelled right and that no one sharing is suggested, so that people The encyclical is written in the conHe also noted the pope's use of the word "I" in the document, was justified in keeping anything share in the fruits of their efforts. text of a Christian's responsibility, but instead of the more traditional, pontifical "We". he did not need while there were Women should be treated as equals is addressed also to "all men and women Hi`gligienswsaungtgsetsotedm.ake it a more personal document," Msgr. those who lacked the necessities and suffer no job discrimination . At the of good will." of life. same time, employers should see that Capitalism, suggests "Laborem Exer- the employment of women is so struccens," is up for re-examination. Here, tured "that women do not have to pay Pope John Paul becomes specific. He for their advancement by abandoning says that there are "indirect employers," what is specific to them and at the groups of institutions whose actions expense of the family." determine whole economic systems Unemployment should become the which can keep human beings penniless concern not only of the unemployed, VATICAN CITY (NC) — The International Labor Organization (ILO) has and powerless. but of industry itself, which should inv ited Pope John Paul ll to visit its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, So, says the pope, some multina- engage in research and development to next June to discuss the implications of his new encyclical, "On Human tional corporations, by charging the provide for those whose jobs technical highest prices possible while securing sophistication is eliminating. Work." raw materials at the lowest possible A person should be paid a family justice When the pope was wounded in encyclical. conducts forums on social an assassination attempt on May The ILO, founded in 1919, is now issues, including the improvement 13, it forced him to cancel a sche- a United Nations-affiliated organi- of working conditions. duled visit to the ILO this last sation with 145 member countries. June. The ILO, a "think-tank" which Blanchard said: "The fundamenPLUMBING MATERIALS It is believed the encyclical was brings together management, tal idea of the encyclical seems to prepared to co-incide with the visit. unions and governments to discuss me to be the primacy of man over • BATHROOM FIXTURES the The new ILO invitation was problems and solutions, has material and of the worker over SEPTIC TANK — DRY WELLS announced by Francis Blanchard, labour been described by the press as the work. I would like to underline 229-233 William Street, Perth. ILO director general, during an "natural destiny" of the ideas pro- that this is the same idea which has 'The Plumbing Supply Specialists' Telephone: 328 8544 interview on Vatican Radio in posed by the pope in his new encyc- inspired the activities of the ILO which he discussed his views of the lical. The organisation frequently since its birth in 1919."
VIEWS COULD CLASH
Property right has limitation
V ATICAN CITY While Pope John Paul's latest encyclical strongly reaffirms the right to private property, it insists that the right has limits and "is subordinated to the right of common use."
ILO invites pope to discussion
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How do you divide a piano or a china cabinet among five children of the deceased who all want it?
THE VICTIMS ARE THE OLD AND INFIRM Some people — among them relatives and alleged friends — are doing aged or infirm citizens out of their homes and other assets in hospitable Western Australia, the State of Excitement. This message comes through loud and clear from the recent experiences of the Public Trustee, Pat McGinnity. "It is not uncommon," Pat says, "for unscrupulous people to encourage the old or infirm to transfer their assets at greatly-reduced values or even as gifts.
Mr Patrick William (Pat) McGinnity is the Public Trustee in W A and chairman of the Distressed Persons' Relief Trust. He was born in Perth, went to St Patrick's Boys' School from 1931-37 and on leaving school had several short-term jobs before joining the Public Works Department as a junior clerk. He was in the army from 1941-45 and saw service in New Guinea and New Britain before rejoining the PWD on his discharge. He did an 18-month full-time accountancy course under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme and c onducted a general store at Belmont for more than a year before rejoining the PWD. He was transferred to the Public T rust Office in 1951 as a trust officer. Pat and his wife Margaret (nee Watts) have five sons ranging in age from 24 to 31. He was the first chairman of the parish council at St Paul's, Mt Lawley, and has been a member of the St Vincent de Paul Society for 25 years.
ROSARY IS HIGHLIGHT OF OCTOBER S YDNEY — CARDINAL Freeman has called for r enewed devotion to the R osary during the month of October.
In a statement released specially through The Catholic Weekly, Cardinal Freeman said:
"There was a time, and it is not so long ago, when in the Catholic mind, t he month of October was identified with devotion to the Rosary. • "One would like to think that such Identification still exists and yet, in all charity, one can be excused for wondering. "It is true that devotion to the R osary still exists in many loyal hearts and the month of October will intensify that devotion. But, on the other hand, would it be too much to say that there are many, perhaps to many, who either no longer say the Rosary or who have no knowledge of its efficacy
and no desire to say it? "Pope Paul VI in his beautiful treatise on Our Lady, Marialis Cultus, stressed the Angelus and the Rosary as two important ways of honoring the Mother of God. But nowadays how many say the Angelus? How many know it? How many recite the Rosary, even one decade, with any c onsistency? "There was a time, when, because of lack of priests, the Faith was kept alive in this country by people gathered together reciting the Rosary. Are we so secure now that we can treat the Rosary indifferently? "I appeal to everyone, young and old, to greet October this year with the firm resolution to pray the Rosary or at least one decade individually, in families or in groups. If for any reason it has been neglected in the past, now is the time to begin. "It would be nice to think that in October, 1981, we witnessed an upsurge of Rosary devotion."
Today's People A weekly feature By BOB BOYLE
"Most hospital authori- certified as mentally incap- It has had to reject their affairs in good order ties and social workers are able, holds and invests repeated calls to open in most cases. aware that the Public amounts awarded by the branch offices in the Pil- Proportionately more Trustee, if so requested court to minor children bara and other country people are now making and subject to doctors' cer- and others — mostly as a areas. It is the only Public wills than was previously tificates, can manage the result of Motor Vehicle Trust Office in Australia the case, but in 1980-81 his financial affairs of these Insurance Trust damages that does not have a office paid $162,000 into old or infirm people. awards. branch outside the capital c onsolidated revenue "In a number of recent city. because it could not locate cases it has been only by Arguments among family family beneficiaries — the intervention of the members- in deceased est- mainly in intestate estates. Executor Public Trustee that it has ates are counted in prob- It was not from lack of been possible to recover lems that beset Pat and his trying. assets which had been staff despite their sedulous The Public Trust Office fraudulently misapprop- The Public Trust Office is efforts to avoid them. bends over backwards to riated. currently handling about How do you divide a locate beneficiaries. It "In the past 12 months 70,000 wills which it takes piano or a china cabinet advertises extensively the affairs of 1 1 1 people in aboard at the rate of among five children of the throughout relevant areas this category were placed approximately 6,000 a deceased who all want it? of the world and even in the hands of the Public year. employs geneologists in Trustee. It makes wills free of the UK and elsewhere to charge provided it is examine tombstones and wnership O appointed executor of the parish records. Investigations estate. It has one officer In Eastern Bloc countries engaged full-time on the it has particular dificulties task of going into the field Answer — sell the object through factors such as And it is suspected that to draw up wills for aged or in question to the son or records having been desthis is merely the tip of the infirm people or others daughter who offers the troyed, regimes being iceberg. unable to get into its office highest price, pass the unco-operative or families Investigations reveal, for in Hay Street just east of object on to the highest changing names as a proinstance, the case of the the Town Hall and adjoin- bidder and split the pro- tective measure. aged woman who sold her ing Law Chambers. ceeds evenly among the property on conditio'n that It acts as an agent in the other four. she be given accommoda- broad sense of the word. Ownership of Mum's Relief tion in the house for as engagement ring is among long as she lived. the greatest of the casus Subsequent inquiries by belli in the daughters of a The five-member Dissuspicious social workers Operations family, so the procedure is tressed Persons' Relief disclosed that the infirm the same as outlined above Trust of which Pat is chairold woman was clinging to man extends aid to people life amid appalling condi- Space lack precludes full It is small wonder Pat who cannot get it from says that his staff, in additions of neglect in a shed at other sources. details of its operations in the back of the house this area, but suffice to say tion to being accountants, whose concrete floor was it engages in activities such have to be psychologists as The Citizens' Advice Bureau, for example, refredolent of urine and as collecting rents, making well. ers deserving cases to the strewn with rubbish. investments on behalf of In this day and age Trust where a family may Too often sons and estates in its keeping (some another difficulty arises not be able to pay its SEC daughters bung Mum or facto relade the through per 14 up to pay of which Dad into a hospital or cent), managing medical tionships that seem to be account or some other bill. Trust members confer and some other institution and practices, farms and other so popular. decide what aid — if any — figure that they have com- usinesses, caring for b "A divorce doesn't cancel should be extended. It pletely fulfilled their filial houses either in deceased a will," Pat emphasises. "If does not donate money but obligations. or e estates and running you are party to a divorce simply pays the bills. blocks of flats. and have made a will in In fact one suburban resi- favour of your former It is funded by authorities dent — still very much spouse, please make such as the government Obligations and the Lotteries Comalive and kicking — has another one." placed his affairs in the with mission. problem abiding An Public TrusTo the strongly Christian hands of the that people So with the operation of and is under- his office is 1946 since tee civil servant who is the should make wills the Fund and the activities happy with the who standably Public Trustee, this deredon't and those whose lives of his office, the Public liction of loving duty is results. are uncomplicated leave Trustee has little idle time. handling The estates it is plainly abhorent. at the moment are valued • In the terms of the Act of at nearly $90 million. The • 26 John Street, Perth WA 6000 -- • • Parliament under which he office, of course, makes a • Correspondence • • The Editor, The Record, PO Box 50 operates, the Public Trus- charge for these services • • Aberdeen Street, Perth, 6000 tee has powers whose and is one government A dvertising scope would surprise most department run at a profit. • Vanguard Service Telephone 328 1388 • , r gistered for posting as a newspaper Category "A" (11) citizens. Despite this, it is still very •• Produced in WA In addition to the admin- much subject to the razor- •• r- inted and published weekly by Edward vanHeemst, 26 John Street, Perth istration of deceased est- gang type of restrictions • • ates, his office manages the that now characterise • Established 1874 : ,financial affairs of those government activities.
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NEW YORK (NC) — My faithful readers may have noticed —both of them are very perceptive — that I've devoted a good deal of Ark,ink and passion over the past few months to the lamenting Hollywood's long-standing love affair with the anti-hero. You know, the kind of ably would have done. For disaffected, laidback not only was Eric Liddell sort of guy that Jack a humble man, but the Nicholson has made a Catholic notion of sainthood had to have been Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) is put through his paces to gain an "extra two yards" after c areer of playing, anathema to his sturdy losing to Eric Liddell (Ian Char/son). though now young Scottish Presbyterian soul. William Hurt bids fair Chariots of Fire is about national honour. For Lid- then, to a superb perfor- team, for example, dis- lar today. to take the tarnished t wo extraordinary and dell put his God ahead of mance by Ian Charleson, mays me — but if its prioriBut go see Chariots of a nd dented crown quite different young Eng- his king, a scandalous cho- Eric Liddell comes across ties ever become as Fire and judge for yourself. lishmen, both of them ice of priorities in the eyes as an intensely attractive clearcut and its manifesta- And let's hope that filma way from him. If these hotshot young winners of gold medals as o f any true English man, unassuming and tions as pure as those makers of the stature of friendly, ever-dignified but embodied in Eric Liddell,I director Hugh Hudson and directors knew anything sprinters in the 1924 Olym- gentleman. about life other than the pic Games at Paris, both of I found Liddell's story capable of great warmth might be converted yet. producer David Puttnam celluloid-filtered view of it them, each in his own much more fascinating, and humour...No archetyp- How good it is to see pas- will some day get around they imbibed as callow tee- highly individualistic way, and obviously more inspir- ical dour and gloomy Scot sion and4force put into the to Bishop Oscar Romero, ing, than that of Abra- he. nagers, I wrote with my outsiders. service of God instead of Bishop James E. Walsh of hams. Abrahams succeed- I've never been fond of self, to see it concentrated Maryknoll, and so many usual lack of charity, they ed all too well in what he Christianity — to achieve something great others who lived and died would have noticed that Two opponents was attempting to do. The muscular the concept of a Catholic instead of dissipated in the for their faith, Catholics heroic men and women are Anglo-Saxon establish- A ll-American football narcisstic fashion so popu- and Protestants alike. very much in evidence even today. Only in Holly- Eric Liddell, a Scot born ment took him, a Camwood's impoverished in China of missionary bridge graduate, to its imagination, I wrote, is parents, ran quite literally bosom — a bosom that, ours the era of the anti- for God's sake. Harold from the evidence of the hero. Abrahams, a Jew, the son film at least he much preof a Lithuanian immigrant ferred to Abraham's — who attained wealth in his and he died a few years VATICAN CITY (NC) — Two miles of wooden barricades Inspiring movie adopted land, ran, again ago, renowned as the elder quite literally, to beat the s tatesman of British and nearly 1,000 security guards surrounds Pope John Paul I I last Sunday, October 4 when he returned to the Last week I saw a screen- anti-Semitic Anglo-Saxon athletics. ing of Chariots of Fire, establishment at its own Vatican to beatify three Italian and two French religious. which is scheduled to open game, or at least one of its the New York Film Festi- own games. The unprecedented secur- dressed in clerical or reli- been asked not to venture An outsider val. I'll review Chariots The dramatic tension of into the crowds. ity arrangements in St gious garb. later. AllI want to say here the film comes from two Peter's Square were The square, normally The excitement of the is that you've got to make sources: Abrahams' strugdesigned to prevent any accessible through nearly worshippers showed itself every effort to see it if it gle, under the tutelage of a possibiility of a repeat of 60 entrances formed by the also in the sustained comes within 100 miles of skilled trainer, to gain an Eric Liddell, on the other the Pope's near assassina- spaces of the semi-circular applause which greeted the where you live. That is, "extra two yards" after a hand, remained and out- tion on May 13. Bernini colonnade that unveiling of large paintings you've got to see it if you demoralising loss to Lid- sider to the end. After gra- Most of the 125,000 peo- partly encloses it, was sur- of the newly-beatified. love movies but, like me, dell — his first defeat ever duating from the Univer- ple who entered the square rounded by a double ring The paintings, hung have almost given up hope — and Liddell's decision to sity of Edinburgh in 1925, for the beatification cerem- of white wooden barri- across the front of St o f ever again being forfeit his chance for an he went back to China, the ony underwent some type cades that opened in only Peter's Basilica, were inspired by one. Olympic gold medal by ref- land of his birth, and of security check: A metal nine places. uncovered as the Pope proChariots of Fire is show- using to participate in a worked there for 20 years detector search for many, Beginning at 6am, three- claimed the beatifications ing at Hoyts Cinema 1, preliminary heat scheduled as a teacher-missionary. body checks of some of the and-a-half hours before following the Kyrie of the Perth. Interned by the Japanese men and searches of the the ceremony, a special Mass. Immediately after, on Sunday. Chariots of Fire is a true Liddell remained stead- at the outbreak of the war, purses of the women. team of Italian and Vati- the Gloria was sung praisstory. You'll meet a saint in fast in that resolve even he died in a prison camp at Because female security can police officials manned ing God for the lives and it. At least I think he was when the blimpish heads of Weihsien, Shantung Pro- personnel were not availa- the nine entrances and example of the blesseds. one. The Roman congre- the British Olympic com- vince, a few months before ble, there were no body stood at various points In his homily, the pope gation in charge of this sort mittee recruited no less a Japan's surrender. checks on women visitors along the 3.5m-high barri- said that the lives of the of thing would no doubt personage than the Prince Not the least of Chariots t o the square. Also cade. Others toured the newly-beatified proclaim demur, but not as vehe- of Wales to persuade him of Fire's strong points is its immune from the body R ome neighbourhood the Church's "perennial, mently as he himself prob- to relent for the sake of perfect casting. Thanks, searches were persons near the Vatican or were inexhaustible and youthp osted atop Vatican full vitality." buildings. The pope praised the five for blending a life of prayer "The world has become a small place, with a life of service and for frontiers are tending to collapse . . . we "realising and transmitCrowd cheers are all living in the one village." ting" the joy of the Christian life. Thousands from the Rain sprinkled intermit- native provinces of the tently throughout the two- newly-beatified cheered and-one-half-hour cere- the mention of their spiritmony but did not dampen ual hero's name. the enthusiasm of the Three of the people beatified were from Italy and crowd. Thousands cheered as the two from France. Pope's helicopter came The five persons are: into view 20 minutes • Alain de Solminihac, a before the ceremony, 1 7th -century French bringing the pontiff from Bishop • Claudine Thevenet, a Castelgandolfo. Applause again rang out French religious who as the pope approached founded the congregation and blessed the altar at the of Jesus-Mary in 1818 start of the Mass, and the • Luigi Scrosoppi, a 19thc rowd's enthusiasm century Italian priest who reached its peak as the founded the Sisters of (ADV. C) pope, after the final bless- Divine Providence ing of the Mass, descended • Maria Repetto, an ItalI Dear Father, Address your enquiry: the steps of the altar to ian religious who worked I I think God may be calling me to the Missionary Priesthood. Please greet a row of handicapped among Cholera victims in The Vocations Adviser, I send information about the Columban Fathers. St. Columban's Mission, the mid-1800's people in wheelchairs. 48 Riversdale Road, He surprised his security • and Riccardo Pampuri, Riversdale, W. Aust. 6103. Name: guards but 15 of them an Italian doctor who Tel. (09) 361-1097. Address. quickly moved to surround joined the hospitalers of him when he made the John of God three years Age: Tel. No move. Reportedly he had before his death in 1930.
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Husband ant vife team John Alderton and Pauline Collins are special guests on Telethon 1981 which starts at 8.00 pm on Saturday, October 17.
CHARITY LINE-UP
This year's Telethon is gearing up to be the biggest and the most spectacular since this yearly 24-hour live telecast came into being.
Heading tigguest list are British television and movie stars !dine Collins and her husband John Alderto Others oil he guest list include American recording str and cabaret performer Vic Damone, ThfNew Price is Right compere, Ian Turpie, vivaous Chantal Contouri, Pat McDonald, Ray Bess, Colleen Hewett, John Farnham and Italuttrose. Pop queer Christie Allen, cartoonist Larry Pickering (not a market gardener with the biggest tomato caounder production in Australia), Normie Rowe ;tuart Wagstaff, Garry Meadows, Skyways stars loanne Samuel, Gaynor Martin, Kylie Foster,' .en James, and Cop Shop stars John Orcsik a,ld Paula Duncan. John Atkin made his first professional appearance Id. the York Repertory Company after which limed the cast of Emergency Ward 10. He made hiaest End debut playing a leading part in Sprint ort Wine at the Apollo Theawed outstanding notices and tre for which by a leading role opposite this was fo James Masol e film Duffy. Pauline Coins is descended from a long line of Irish poets ind teachers. She is the greatgrandniece olthepoet Jeremiah Callanan and her grandmother the opera singer Elaine Reid. Pauline andiohn have two sons and a (laughter _ Nick, kite and Richard.
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Alistair MacLean's stirring story of heroic courage, Force 10 From Navarone, is a best-seller which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. It is the author's sequel to his monumental earlier success The Guns of Navarone. Force 10 From Navarone is Columbia Pictures sequal to that international box office smash. Carl Foreman, who brought The Guns of Navarone to the screen, worked for years on Force 10 From Navarone, and adapted it for the screen. Force 10 From Navarone has one of the most powerful casts of marquee names assembled with Robert Shaw (Jaws and The in a scene from Channel Nine's explosive/Sunday movie 'Deep); Barbara Bach (The Robert Shaw stars Navarone, the sequel to The Guns of Navarone at 8.35 pm. From 10 Force Spy Who Loved Me); Edward Fox, British aca- seven foot two inch giant the World War 11 story, American unit with the demy award-winner; from The Spy Who Loved which sees two survivors of task of destroying a vital Franco Nero, Italy's most Me; and Alan Badel a t he successful action bridge. popular actor known familiar face to many against the Guns of Nava- Shot down by enemy worldwide; Carl Weathers moviegoers. rone, recalled for a new fighters, they parachute (The Streets of San Fran- These actors portray the mission — to fly into into Yugoslavia far from cisco); Richard Kiel, the principal protagonists in Yugoslavia and hunt down their destination and must and eliminate a traitor who devise their own plans of is betraying hard-pressed survival and success when freedom fighters. their pre-arranged plans They are to go with the are no longer applicable to members of Force 10, an their situation.
Tragic Irish love rebellion
The story of a wilful and beautiful young woman who marries a mild school teacher, and has an affair with a shellshocked British major, is the subject of director David Lean's academy award winning movie Ryan's Daughter.
Stuart Wagstaff is a guest on Telethon 1981.
Ryan's Daughter, Chan- of the local inn-keeper his daughter. the village idiot — a role nel Seven's Tuesday night whose worship of her has She marries Charles which was a personal trimovie on October 13 at made her wilful and Shaughnessy, the town's umph for him . .. he is 8.35 pm, has a galaxy of heedless. schoolteacher (played by made up as a physically international movie stars. Rosy is a young girl who Mitchum), but falls in love deformed mute creature They include Sarah expects more of life and with a shellshocked British i who worships both Rosy Miles, Robert Mitchum, love than her narrow world major (Christopher Jones) and the village's Father John Mills, Trevor How- can offer. and has an affair with him. iCollins, played by Trevor ard, Christopher Jones As owner of the village The villagers come to Howard. Jones plays the and Leo McKern. pub, Leo McKern plays know of the affair and British Major Doryan. Set in Ireland during the Tom Ryan, an informer think that all their troubles 1916 rebellion, Ryan's for the British. with the British army stem David Lean's films have Daughter is the story of It is his association with from this liaison, won a total of 25 Academy Rosy Ryan, the daughter them that brings tragedy to John Mills plays Michael, Awards.
nquestioned devotion
A small boy, an Aborigine and a pelican form a strange alliance to protect their environment on a wild stretch of Australian coast in Channel Nine's award-winning Saturday movie Storm Boy at 6.30 pm. This family movie special shows the unconditional and unquestioned devotion of the three beings towards each other as all feel their need to defend their sanctuary. Greg Rowe stars as Mike, son of a fisherman who, at the age of 10, is caught up in his father's rejection of society in preference for isolation. The two live near a bird sanctuary and one day young Mike meets another person living in the sanctuary among the giant dunes. Fingerbone Bill is an Aborigine who befriends Mike, re-naming him Storm Boy, and teaches him many things about the land, the sea and his people. Between them, Storm Boy and Fingerbone save three baby pelicans when the mother is shot by hunters. Storm Boy takes them home to raise them. He realises he must release the birds once they are able to fend for themselves but his favourite bird, Mr Percival, returns to Storm Boy at the sanctuary, and the two become inseparable as Storm Boy trains the bird. Storm Boy has finally found a peace after the turmoil of his existence and his yearning for a glimpse of a more accepted lifestyle. His utopia is short-lived: the local teacher insists he be educated; a group of dune-buggy drivers almost wreck his house; and the wild-life ranger objects to Fingerbone living in the sanctuary. Now growing up, Storm Boy is faced with a decision between a life of continued isolation, with certain conditions attached, and the challenge of the world outside Storm Boy won best film in 1977.
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Being a mother and a sportswoman fills her life . . . By ANABEL GOMEZ
It was with a heaving chest and tear-filled eyes that Pamela O'Connell accepted her win in the 1954 National Games. "I was elated and excited at the feeling of winning a running event at a national level. That moment made the work, the discipline, and sometimes the suffering all worthwhile. The sense of achievement was overwhelming," Pam said. "Sport is a lot of hard work, but in order to achieve anything in life hard work is necessary." According to Pam, sporting life provides a microcosm of life in general. It gives you discipline and selfcontrol and sportsman etiquette which stands you in good stead in life. Learning to do things that are necessary, even though you might not like them, is all part of being a sportsman.
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Pam attributes a lot of discontent in the world to the lack of discipline imposed on youths. "When you are young and unemployed your life has no discipline, as you don't have to adhere to any rules, save those that bind you to society. Then boredom and desperation set in and even those light holds are broken," Pam said. People must have discipline and a goal in life.
geared towards providing a tertiary education and advancing physical prowess. Recently the Canberra Institute of Sport opened, and although it is bound to have teething problems, Pam maintains that it is what Australia needs. "All major sporting nations have these sort of colleges and the results speak for themselves,", she said. Like everything else, sport needs money to be successful. Pam sees the commercialisation of sport as a significant step in the right direction. "Sponsorship is necessary, and as Financial support long as athletes are wary about from whom they accept sponsorsbip, I can see no harm in it," she said. In Australia, you .are more than Australia is also lacking good just an athlete. In most cases you coaches, and here is where Little have families to support, jobs to hold, and you must fit in all the duties of normal living with training and competing. However, Pam admits that the Soviet system of simply plucking people out of their familiar surroundings and putting them in what the government sees as a desirable situation for an indefinite amount of time wouldn't work in Australia. "Australians aren't very good at being told what to do, arid I can't see us prying people away from their home environment in order to push forward a possible career," she said. Soviet bloc countries and the USA all have colleges which are "Choose something you really want to do — an aim. Then fight hard to attain that aim. If youth had this sort of rigid self-control they would live a more worthwhile life," she reflected. Pam said that in Australia and other Western countries you need more discipline to become an athlete than in Soviet bloc countries because there, if you are an athlete, your entire life is geared and supported to maintain your sporting life.
Champion state runner Pam O'Connell was born in Perth 47 years ago. She attended MLC, Claremont, and then worked as a telephonist in the post office. During this time she entered rigorous athletic training. In 1954 she won the Australian 440 years (400 metres) championship. A year later she won the Victorian 200 and 400 metres and played for the state hockey team. She was chosen to compete in the Olympic trials, but due to pregnancy had to withdraw. For the past 10 years she has taught physical education at Mercedes College, and recently she has started teaching Catholicism (religious education) to year eights. She married Claremont and VFL footballer John O'Connell in 1954, and they have six children.
'Winning is not everything, but a lot of children are taught otherwise by their parents and Little A thletics coaches. 9
Athletics is providing a useful service. Parents are able to enrol in courses which teach them the fundamentals of sport and the techniques of certain events. "However, although children coming through the Little Athletics system are 'brilliantly taught', they seem to have no balance between winning and losing," Pam said.
(the staff) try to show the kids we care and are interested in their progress. "We are always ready to give our support and encouragement, but not just to the best kids. All children should be able to enjoy sport at different levels." Pam maintains discipline by saying to the girls, "I'll give you interest and co-operation, but you have to help me too." Friendship and closeness grows between Pam and the girls, espeWinning spirit cially "when a team of girls struggling and fighting to get up to the "Winning is not everything, but a top. Then they win a title and you lot of children are taught otherwise realise just how much work it took by their parents and by Little Athletto get that title and you are so proud ics coaches. of them." come to me at the the girls "When beginning of the year straight from primary school and after a few years in Little Athletics, I try to relieve Talent development them of some of the pressure and help them to learn to enjoy the game." To Pam winning is important, but Much of Pam's spare time is spent it is not the most important thing in developing further the talents of life, and she tries to teach her pupils interested girls, and travelling with this. teams to their games. And, although she misses not being able to see her own children play (two of her sons Participation wanted play football for Claremont) she does get much enjoyment out of She stresses that her main aim in watching the school teams. teaching the kids is to offer them "High school years are important enjoyment and participation, which she hopes will enable them to pursue for the development of the individual, and it is in this period that we sport at a higher level. "Mercedes," she said, "is a tre- start to lose them because kids want mendous sporting school where we to do other things," she said.
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"The important thing is to make them enjoy sport so that they want to go on." Pam fell into physical education teaching when Beryl Byrne (who is still teaching at Mercedes) asked her to lend a hand. Now Pam has "fallen into" teaching Catholicism. Having been converted 21 years ago, she now tries to introduce her Year Eights to a compassionate, loving and caring God.
Moral values "We discuss ideas and try to get a better understanding of life from a Catholic point of view," Pam said. "I don't like to see the pushing of liberal values onto kids. Too much pressure is being put on them and adults sometimes have a distorted view of what kids' interests are." Pam has devoted her life to sport and children in one way or another. When asked if she regretted not being able to compete in Olympic trials because she was pregnant, she said she had no regrets — having a child was more important to her, even though she had worked for many years for the chance to enter Olympic competition. "Sport taught me how to win and lose gracefully, how to spring back, and how to enjoy life," Pam said.
HILLS CAMP FUND SCORE
Members of the CPY movement held a Wine and Cheese night at Leederville recently. The aim was to raise funds for the camp site and to inform people of the proposed camp site
plans. Mr Gavan Wood, chair- towards building the Redemptorist Lay Groups man of the camp site com- camp. informs us that a Colonial mittee, spoke about the This can be handed in to Ball will be held at the Leeimportance that Marian or sent to Jacques Blandin derville parish hall on SatLodge held in his youth de Chalain, or Mark urday, October 31 starting and how he had seen O'Sullivan, at 29 Victoria at 8 pm. Proceeds will go w onderful things happen Square, Perth, 6000. Other towards the camp site. in the jives of people as a campaigners for the appeal DAY'S PAY result of coming together are Rosemary Barker, APPEAL for a weekend experience. Jane- Hille, Bernadette Young people are asked "Start the day with a Clare and John Noonan. to give one day of their life prayer, offer all your work "The key of these wee- in a special way. successful the for God kend experiences for to building of our new youth young people is to bring Pictured Rosemary camp," Gavan said. them closer to Christ and Barker and Jacques Blandin de Chalain samYoung people are asked His Church," he said. to give their day's wage Fr Tom Ryan of the pling a crisp white from one of our local vineyards.
When young students asked me to pray for them last week because they were preparing for their mock -leaving, I was reminded once again of the nailbiting trauma that surrounds the time of final examinations. During the next few weeks we should remember students in our private and public prayer. Last year I spoke about a prayer scheme for school-leavers which, was attemped very successfully by St Norberts College, Queens Park and CBC Fremantle. Father Gerry Cusack, Mrs Elaine Hart and Mrs Meg Hancock coordinated the scheme. It is a method of planned prayer for schools or parishes that can boost the sense of community, and establish new found friendships among people. The first step is to find a capable and enthusiastic co-ordinator.
Secondly, the names of all school leavers are collected, and then the name of each student is given to a particular family who is asked to "adopt" that student in their prayer. For the next six weeks the whole family makes a sacrifice and regularly mentions their "adopted" student at grace before meals, at Mass and family prayer. As a reminder, the name of the student can be prominently displayed in the home. The intention of prayer ought to be threefold: • That the students prepare conscientiously for
their final examinations. • That they do well in the actual examination. • That the student responds to God's call to a particular job or career and finds employment in their chosen field. Our TAE candidates leave school with a certain amount of fanfare, but they are not the only ones who have left school this year. Over 8,000 young people have quietly slipped into the working world or, in many cases the unemployment scene, with no fanfare whatever. Some find apprentice-
ships and cadetships, others grab the first job that is available as soon as they are able to leave school. Fifty per cent of school leavers never reach their final year of examinations. Two organisations that are trying to meet the needs of these young people are the Catholic Parish Youth movement and the Young Christian W orkers' movement. I encourage headmasters and teachers to inform their school leavers of the existence of the youth office and to encourage their students to make contact with us.
YCS leaders in training
Pictured (back row) Rosemary Underwood (John XXIII), Margaret Saunders (YCS fulltimer), Danny ,Toohey (Leederville), Helena Kadmos (Mercy), Graham Douglas (Trinity). Front row Rosa Speranza (Mercy), Chris Kadmos (Mercy) and Jo Speranza (Mercy), came together to reflect on the successes of the YCS Leader Training camps.
CONVENTION
A Christian convention for young adults will be held next year at the University of New South Wales beginning January .11. The five day conference will be based on the theme To-day is Ours. Organisers are the Eastern Region Catholic Youth Ministry, 459 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW 2021 (telephone (02) 33 6429). Further information can be obtained by ringing Sheila on 325 4055.
REGIONAL MEETING SCENE SHIFTS' PICNIC
Peter Shooter or Cathy Mass and family picnic at Hynes (097) 212141. the proposed youth camp site, 2.5 kilometres past COLONIAL BALL Pioneer Village on the To be held on Saturday, right hand side of Albany October 31, at Leederville Highway, Bedfordale, at Hall (cnr of Franklin and Oxford Sts) starting 8 pm noon, November I. — Tickets single $4, douCHOICE ble $7, obtainable from Final chance to make a Sheila at the Youth Office booking on 293 3874 for (325 4055). this experience beginning Friday evening, October 11111111M1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111, 16 at Rockingham.
YCW Education Night for International Week to be held at Nedlands parish hall (cnr Tyrell and Elizabeth Sts) Tuesday, October 13.
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This week Captain Bob, who is still travel l ing around A merica, visited Nevada. He writes:
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and plateau. There are also Nevada is a state in the several mountain ranges. western United States. It is The highest point is Bounnicknamed the 'Silver dary Peak, 13,145 feet State' after the large high, in southern Nevada, amounts of silver once Captain Bob went right up mined there. It is also to the top. called the Sagebrush State - There are few lakes and because many of these grey rivers. The longest river, green plants cover the t he Humboldt, flows desert. about 300 miles through Nevada has a population northern Nevada. Lake of 449,000. After Alaska, it Tahoe, on the western has the smallest popula- border, is a popular resort. tion of any American state. The only lake having an Tourism is the main source outlet to the sea is Lake of income for Nevada. Mead. This artificial lake The gambling resorts at was created when Hoover Las Vegas and Reno are Dam was built. w orld famous. Visitors Much of Nevada is suited also come to see ghost to raising livestock. Crops t owns, such as Virginia grown include such cereals City, that were once busy as alfalfa, barley, hay, mining towns. pats, as well as wheat, The state covers an area potatoes and sugar beet. In of 110,540 square miles. the hottest areas, almonds, Most of Nevada lies within figs and grapes are also the Great Basin, a vast dry grown. Mineral resources area that is mainly desert include antimony, copper,
gold, lead, manganese, mercury, silver, tungsten and zinc. Mining is still a chief industry in Nevada. In 1859, silver was discovered at Comstock Lode, in Mt Davidson, western Nevada. Many settlers arrived, and Nevada was proclaimed a state on October 31, 1864. In the same year, Carson City was made the capital. When the price of silver fell in the 1880s many people left. Livestock became increasingly important. In the 1900s more minerals were discovered, and the economy improved. A tomic weapons are tested at the Nevada Test Site, northwest of Las Vegas. In fact, Captain Bob got quit eIscared when he heard he this. sometimes think is a bit of a coward. What do you think?
A flock of sheep is driven across a stream in Nevada. Livestock raising is among Nevada's leading industries, and the state has millions of acres of pasture.
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Who's there? Dear Nurse Kerry, Fat! I have got some jokes: fly Fat who? Q. Why can't a duck Name — Jodee MeredFat Bat! upside down? ith Carlo Da Costa A. Because he'd quack up! when MUNSTER Age — 7 years Q. What do you get with a Hobbies — Bike riding, Dear Captain Bob and you cross a duck brownies, camping. cow? Nurse Kerry, A ddress — PO Box 19, Could I please be a A. Cream Quackers!under * HAPPY BIRTHDAY* member of your club? I am Q. Who takes a gun BEACON, WA, 6472. * to: MELISSA DAR- eight years old and in year his wing when he flies? LINGTON of Palmyra, * three at St Mary's School, A. A hi-quacker! To Captain Bob, Here is a trick - get a * MICHELLE DEVE- * Bunbury. I would like to See you, Glenn Meredith stick, a lemon, a piece of * REUX of Huntingdale, enter some of your B EACON paper and some boiling * MATTHEW ELLIS of * competitions. * Bateman, CLAIRE* water. Yours faithfully, To do the trick — squeeze * HASSON of Ballidu, * Cynthia Fenton Dear Captain Bob, * PAULINE KIRK of the juice out of the lemon, not BUNBURY I am so sorry I have dip the stick in the lemon * Cloverdale, IMELDA* Knock been or you knock! been writing to juice and write on the * LOBO of Langford, Who's but I there? doing any puzzles, paper. Let it dry, then hold * KATHERINE PHIL- I . busy. da! very have been the paper over the steam LIPS of Albany, PHIL- I da who? crazy crab. His We a have LIP POWER of Kuker-* from the boiling water. Yesterday Ida Know! name is Barney. The writing will show up. in, ANDREW SMITH* Knock with inY park knock! this went I to s of Northampton, CLA- P Two fleas went to the a creek, Who's to there? went friend. We movies. One flea said to the *IRE TUCAK of Swan-* very some Someone who can't reach and I found other, "Do you want to * bourne, and JIMMY: the doorbell! rocks. smooth W H itTKINS of Hamilton* walk, or do you want to Louise Reid Jonene Kermode catch a dog?" ARRINVIM BUN BURY K Knock knock! Who's there? Bob! Bob who? Nothing to do with you! Knock knock!
BIRTHDAYS
PARENTS' EFFORTS Spotlight COMPLIMENTED on our schools
Our Lady of Victo- Christian endeavours of happy school environ- behaviour and achieve- provide, especially in the ries Junior School, the parents whose children ment. ment awards. areas of finance and planWembley, has an attend their school, and The personality and Parental-school interac- ning, and this year have coenrolment of 172 they strive not to separate potential of the individual tion is continuous and operated extensively in girls and boys from the religious message from child is developed through effective. Educational and providing buildings and the total school environ- providing him with a sense social events are arranged equipment to establish an Pre-primary to Year ment. They are sincerely of achievement and a sense by the Parents and e fficient pre-primary 3, catering for the committed to the develop- of belonging. Stimulation Association, and centre. parishes of Floreat, ment of authentic christian is provided in an ever- Friends' strong financial support The children's Masses are Hohola and other charita- has become quite a school Wembley and Sub- values. increasing variety of inter- for the school in extending an important feature of the iaco. A very co-operative bond esting facilities and amenities is also provided. school and community; the ble institutions. Recently tradition. conjunction Government library
the school, in The staff realises that the between pupils, teachers resources, and teachers are Parents make a valuable liturgies providing a mean- with the parish, completed grants over the past few school has a vital place to and parents is reflected in encouraged to be flexible contribution to the corpo- ingful growth in faith suit- a rewarding drive for the St years have helped to estabplay in complementing the the secure, relaxed and and innovative in catering rate life of the school and able to the young children Vincent de Paul Society in lish a well-stocked, func4t********************************** to the individual needs of assist it in very practical who are actively involved the area. tional library resource the children. terms. Mothers give regu- in the preparation and During the christmas sea- centre. In considering these indi- lar assistance with oral participation. son the children distribute The staff consists of the vidual differences, learning reading, electives of sew- Father Sean Sorohan is gifts to the Home of Peace t each-in-charge, Mrs situations have been struc- ing, cooking, carpentry, always keen to encourage and Princess Margaret Dawn Connolly, who was tured also to utilise the painting, nature walks, T- and advise on these child- Hospital. the first lay principal strengths and interests of ball and gardening. ren's liturgies and is com- The Kodaly method of appointed to the school in particular teachers. They provide further aid pletely supportive and music is followed through- 4975, five full-time You can get a copy of this photograph if Teacher co-operation and in the tuckshop, transport involved in the religious out the school and the teachers, one part-time * you want. interaction is very strong and library. Working bees training and preparation children enjoy the wide teacher and part-time • The Record will be making copies of so that children are given are arranged as needed and of the children for the * photographs available to the school r ange of experience librarian. an education best suited to parents provide an ener- Sacraments of Reconcilia- included in this pro- Generally the school is involved at a reduced rate. All your school * has to do is take the orders and then tell us 4c their abilities, interests and getic, efficient team in tion and the Eucharist. typified by an atmosphere gramme. needs. • how many copies are needed. maintaining and develop- The generosity of child- Folk dancing is under- of happiness and industry. Regular school assem- ing school facilities. • It will be a great way of raising funds. ren and parents is evident taken regularly during the Children are uninhibited, blies are a highlight of the The members of the in the annual contributions second term, culminating though well-routined in school week when children school board are conscien- to the Catholic Missions, in a gala fancy dress ball at the desirable social behavare rewarded with good tious in the services they the Brigidine Mission in the end of the term which iour patterns.
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WEEKENDS FOR ENGAGED COUPLES Among the 12 c ouples at the August Engaged Encounter weekend held at the Redemptorist Retreat House were: A BOVE: Peter Klomp, of Como, and Sally Bohan, of Lynwood, who are to be married on December 5; BELOW: Stephen Clayey, of Melville, and Joyce Mulder, of Bunbury, who will be married in Bunbury on November 7. The next Engaged Encounter weekend will be held at St Thomas More College on December 4-6. Bookings with Noel and Helen Golding 330 4128.
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organised by the Engineering Graduates Association, University of Western Australia, as an opportunity for those interested in A retreat for women, studying engineering to sponsored by the Majel- learn more about course lans, will be held at the and career options. Franciscan Retreat House, Victoria Park on October 24 and 25 starting at 2.30 pm. Any woman is welcome to attend. Bookings 361 3459, cost $17, before October 19.
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practised. For students, their parents and lite Monastery, Nedlands Redcliffe will be celebrated 8pm will include special a fterwards, ladies are to mark the with feast sports of on the new oval prayers and reflections for asked to bring a plate. St of f riends, high school t eachers and guidance Teresa of Avila a public on Sunday October 18 at 1 the disabled. Ladies are p.m. A cabaret will be held officers are invited to an display will be held. REAL ESTATE information evening on the Photos, articles and pic- in the Redcliffe Hall on for personal professional attention subject 'What is engineer- tures will show facts about Friday October 23. The ing?' on Thursday October the Carmelite enclosed jubilee Mass and unveiling 444 9711 11/11 271 2206 15 at 7pm in the Octagon way of life, and there will of the plaque donated by be books dealing with ex-pupils takes place at Theatre. Bookings are open for The programme is being prayer, by St Teresa, St 10.30 a.m. on Sunday Marriage Encounter weekJohn of the Cross and october 25. Further inforends at Victoria Park and modern writers. mation from Saide Cosson The display will be on 277 2718, Jill Courtland Geraldton on October 23. show for a month, Mon- 277 3420, John York 277 A weekend will also be held on November 20 at Send your advertisement to: days to Saturdays, 10am to 4984. Victoria Park. Contact Phone enquiries 4pm and entrance is by the RECORD TRADING POST Kath and Colin Mitchell front doorway off Adelma PO Box 50, Aberdeen Street Perth, 6000 325 6644 on 448 4624. Road. Pay for your advertisement only if you sell what you adertise. It will cost you $5 for items up to $200 and $10 for items over $200 to be paid after you have made your sale. Please limit your advertisements to four lines. The Record will run your advertisement for two weeks and after that you will have to lodge another advertisement. Women who are divorced, separated, or bringing (ESTABLISHED 1888) ALL OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS LISTED BELOW MUST BE PAID FOR up children alone are IN ADVANCE WITH A MINIMUM OF $4 FOR 28 WORDS. invited to the Supporting 68 STIRLING STREET, PERTH M others Association 1307 ALBANY HWY., CANNINGTON For Hire, Situations CATEGORY annual retreat at the Vacant, Situations Wanted, 502 WANNER00 ROAD, BALGA R edemptorist Retreat Part-time/Casual Employment, H ouse on Sunday, Trades & Services, Houses & An auction and fair will October 18 at 10.30am. Flats, Boarding Accommodation, Holiday follow 1 1 am Mass at La Mass will be celebrated Accommodation, School Uniforms, School Teachers, Salle College on Sunday, during the day. ParticiSchool Equipment. 328 7299 PERTH October 11. pants should bring their 3 49 0100 PRINT CLEARLY ONE WORD PER BOX The auction which starts own lunch; tea and coffee BALGA 58 5017 at 2pm includes a range of will be supplied. Those 4 CANNINGTON farm implements, handy- attending should make man goods, household fur- their own baby sitting niture and recreational arrangements. For further The Daughters of Charity items. information phone Jenny NEED YOUR HELP The fair closes at 5.00pm. 3 25 8028.
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Channel Nine will provide a direct telecast of the morning's play beginning at 10.30 am, and finishing at noon for each of the four consecutive days the match will be in progress.
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A great deal of interest will centre on this match as W A's traditional stars including test captain Kim Hughes, openers Bruce Laird and Graeme Wood, Rodney Marsh, and fast bowlers Dennis Lillee and Terry Alderman, clash with the new-look South Australian team led by former test star David Andrew Hilditch IS now lent guide to their chances teams. Play from these season will be shown on Hookes. matches as well as morning Channel Nine. playing with South Aus- forth 1981/82 Shield. tralia, and the opening Cricket will be dominated sessions from major Commentary will be led Former New South match of the season should by the presence of the Pak- matches played at the by Wally Foreman and Wales and test batsman provide WA with an excel- istan and West Indies test WACA Ground during the Bruce Walker.
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The men's singles final In the ladies singles, — TER MS AVAILABLE — with Bryan Kukura between Wayne Firns and Kathy Williams lost her Rob Hulbert and Ron They beat Sharon Gordon Smith 6-1, 6-2. Ron was and Les Curry in three Ron Smith was tense. title to Kerry Messer. Early Hackett 6-1, 6-3. Wayne started slowly and in the match it looked like showing signs of fatigue hard sets 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. his from previous singles The boys' under 19 title The veterans' mixed saw had much difficulty with it might be a repetition of match. saw exciting young Trinity last year's winners, Stehis serve. While Ron was last years match with phanie and Bryan Kukura, handling the windy condi- Kerry playing the shots Ladies doubles cham- player, Colin Kaesea, downed comfortably by down Brian Quain. Brian tions very well and raced and Kathy retrieving. pions, Christine McCulMargaret and Peter Perich away with the first set 6-4, Kathy wore Kerry down lum and Sharon Gordon battled very well against an 6-4, 6-4. OPTOMETRISTS and led 5-4 with two match and took out the first set had to battle to beat Kerry opponent that had too The boy's under 14 resultmany shots. Hopefully points in the second. How- 7-5. However, Kerry Messer and Cathy Veza. ed in a very one sided match 175 Scarborough Beach Road — Phone 444 3543 ever, two weak volleys let changed her tactics from Chris and Sharon had a lit- Catholic tennis will see a when S. Marjonie beat M. Wayne back into the this point on and was con- tle too much experience. lot more of this young Delccisali 6 love, 6 love. R .F. WILLIS, W A 0 A , Optometrist match. Wayne tightened tent to keep the ball in They went on to win nar- player. Colin won 6-4, 7-5. The Men's Plate saw his game from then on and play. This proved to be a rowly 7-5, 7-6. The last set Kathy Williams won the another three setter when girls' under 19 title for at Queens took out the tie breaker. successful ploy as she went being a tie breaker. Park club mates, least the third consecutive Michael Ron had given his all in the onto win the next two sets Messer and Greg ommumummumumnimummuminiumnumununimumuuming Mixed doubles final saw a year. This year she beat the first two sets and had no 6-3, 6-3. Quain battled out their answer for his younger Defending men's doubles new pairing, Geraldine much improved Donna final. Michael eventually opponent in the last set. He champions, Tim Somers Alderman and George winning 6-2, 3-6, 6-1. Miszczyk, take off the title. went down 6 love. The Ladies' Plate went to E and Wayne Firns crushed = Clothes, kitchen tables and chairs, — Sandra Somers who beat E Queen's quest entrants are pictured single and double beds and mat- = Elizabeth O'Neill 6-3, 6-1. around the page. tresses, kitchen untensils, cutlery,
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!GIVE CHRISTINE GEE (19) also representing St Dominics, Christine was educated at HEIDI HENDRIKS (18) is MICHELLE CALLUS (21) is St Dominics and Siena, and representing Queens Park representing the Diane//a completed a commercial Club. She did both her primClub, the club that has domi- course at Leederville Tech- ary and secondary schooling nated Quests in recent nical College. She now at St Brigids, CARMEL BOB (19) Alyears. Michelle did her early works as a bank officer. now attendsLesmurdie and the Nedlands though she lives in Dun- MAR/SE BARRETT (17) is schooling in convents in Christine plays squash and College of Advanced Educacraig, Carmel is represent- representing the St Bene- Yokine and Dianella, and enjoys playing the guitar tion where she is studying ing St Denis' in Joondanna, dicts Club. She was edu- completed her secondary because her club Warwick is cated at St Benedicts and education at St Thomas and dancing and cooking. home economics. Heidi She hopes to travel over plays tennis and squash defunct. Carmel did her jun- lona and now works as a Aquinas, Bedford. She did a , socially. ior schooling at St Johns Claims Assessor for a phar- secretarial course at the • seas later. and completed her secon- macy group. Apart from ten- Perth Technical College and dary studies at Brigidine and nis. Mar/se enjoys netball now works at a receptioMercy Colleges. She is now and squash. Her hobbies nist/clerk at an elderly peoat WAIT doing a Bachelor of are reading and dancing, ple's home. Applied Psychology Course. and she hopes to travel.
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LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
Sister Elizabeth Howson speaks
Filling the wants of the needy aged The Little Sisters of the Poor exist because by the profession of the evangelical c ounsels we are consecrated; we want to live a dedicated life. We have promised God to lead a life of dedicated poverty, chastity, obedience to which we have added a fourth vow of hospitality. It is similar to that of the Brothers of St John of God, with whom we have been affiliated since 1842. We see ourselves in Church to perform, obs- "spiritually poor" — lack- owing to lack of religious euthanasia which is a fear a changing world: The curely and entirely for the ing in faith and knowledge vocations. in the back of their minds. old people who come good of souls; this is our of God — this is where The aged feel that our This is the reason for to us now are not des- apostolic mission. God's Providence leads religious Order fulfils their which they seek admission titute or really poor; The word "poor" in our these people to our homes spiritual need. Some nurs- into homes such as ours. they have pensions title doesn't necessarily to become enriched with ing homes are very effi- In the time of Jeanne mean "poverty-stricken", His grace and love. cient, but do not cater for Jugan in 1839 there was a but they experience but it would indicate some- Nearly every day we have spiritual needs. The elderly desperate need. The menthe "need" to be body who is "needy". A someone coming or seek- express a desire to be in a dicant type of person was loved. To understand person may be "needy" for ing admission home where there is the obliged to go out begging into that old age is indeed a ffection, or "needy" home. In spite of our the Eucharistic presence. because pensions were "respectable", and because deprived of health government grants, subsiunheard of. The elderly not something to be and require another's help. dies and pensions. were cared for in their ashamed of. There seems to be an homes and had a different A
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felt evergrowing demand to In the world of today the life-style to what now have homes elderly have changed, but like ours made exists. Poor rare available. our image today compared They feel that need of Now, because both with that of 20 years ago There is a constant being able to assist at their members of a family go out has not changed because of The aged poor come into demand from bishops in daily Mass, to receive the working, the elderly parent the charism received from this category because the underdeveloped countries sacraments and they want is often left at home someour mother foundress, actual, real poor are rare. requesting more founda- to have a guarantee that times feeling very lonely Jeanne Jugan. That cha- Nowadays, we do not tions which are refused there will be no practice of and depressed. rism is "humble service" — have the real, destitute t o be "little": to be poor coming knocking at "humble" signified by "lit- our door, but we are asked tle" has nothing what- t o accept an elderly soever to do with height or migrant or refugee who size of a person. has no right to a pension It is an "attitude" of here in our country until humility or littleness and they have been residing in our role is to be humble Australia for a certain and obscure, doing our number of years. We are work through love of God, happy to receive these peoand not seeking to be num- ple. A series presented in conjunction with the Religious bered among the learned Then we have another and clever people of this type of person, a person Vocations Council of WA. world. who from all appearances, We just know that we financially, is not eligible have a special task in the for our homes but who is
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The role of a Little Sister of the Poor differs from that of the lay -staff, because the elderly may be more open and confidential concerning questions relating to their own spiritual needs. It is often similar to relationship with a priest concerning affairs of conscience, and intimate preparation for reception of the sacraments. Many of the aged may have been away from any religious practice for 30, 40 or 50 years, and they like to be encouraged by the Little Sister, who gives appropriate advice which prepares the way for the priest and for the reception of the sacraments.
Lay people are taking over in many departments. Quite humbly I acknowledge that some laystaff are more competent and give a wonderful witness of dedication, doing the same geriatric work as we do, animated perhaps by a different intention. For some it is their job and nothing more, with little intention of doing something for a heavenly reward: for others there may be an humanitarian motive or interest in gerontology. A Little Sister of the Poor is required to go further than this by being competent, certainly, but she must purify her intention, directing her motive of geriatric
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I became a Catholic at 1 8 and was instructed by the Oblate Fathers and Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition (at St Patrick's Parish, Fremantle).
idea, and about a month later there were guilt feelings and remorse. (In reality I was fighting Christ's invitation to leave all so that He alone would become "all" in my life.) My spiritual director, an Oblate Father, advised me we are only extending our bap- So I waited until my 21st to go back and seek some nursing etc. towards Jesus pres- well as she needs Priests. tismal consecration by becoming birthday, then promptly e xperience with these ent in that person, remembering Certainly all Christians have a His spouse in this mystical union. made my decision and elderly people, and so, very entered the Little Sisters in humbly! went knockirl at Our Lord's words: 'whatsoever call to holiness through their difasking you do to the least of these my ferent calling, but there is a There is a crisis in vocations to January, 1945 at Glenda- Glendalough home, brethren, you do unto Me'. higher motive in response to the religious life, but we must lough. This shows that if I could spend a few hours This is the reason for our fourth Christ's words: "Go sell what you remember that all these congre- God chooses where He there with them. had vow of hospitality which renders have, COME FOLLOW ME!" gations are doing God's work. If wills: why did He not It wasn't as bad as I holy every action performed with In accepting to live out the evan- He wants our work to continue choose another person, I thought. the idea of serving and caring for gelical counsels and by imitating He will inspire dedicated souls: know of girls with whom I Christ in the elderly poor. If we Our Blessed Mother in our celi- there is still an immense potential worked, lovely Catholic PAT CURTIS MI.A.M E are lacking in love and respect for bate life, by being free to love for dedication in people and Iam girls, yet I was the chosen the aged person, we are failing to God, we see this as a foretaste of sure also that the ideal to lead the one — I received the relilove Christ. Christ's mystical union with His e vangelical life-style will gious vocation. I had been a typist in the The Church needs religious as Church. Not everyone can accept continue. Public Service Water Supply and a member of LW.P't the Fremantle Children of Mary: we were invited to come and visit Glendalough on the Feast of St For our residents, Glendalough is their final home: maybe they Joseph to serve the Meal of For all your complete will have another 10 or 20 years to live but they are not continually the Aged. M echanical Repairs Icame, ignorant of where and Fleet Servicing — walking around just thinking: "I'm going to DIE!" I was going, knowing W elding — Aligning — nothing whatsoever about They lead a normal life Then, of course, they have that and serenity. Balancing — Steam C leaning — Tuning etc. the Little Sisters of the and that is why we try to contact with younger members This is something hard to Poor and their work: I had bring in occupational ther- of the staff also, and they have understand: I could never Personalised Service never seen them — they apy by allowing them to groups of young people coming understand it until my first conPick up & delivery seemed to be hidden away. to entertain or visit them, apart tact with the dying in the Home utilise their talents. When leaving, a Sister from their own social activities. o f the Little Sisters at It is amazing what some can P HONE 361 1340 suggested to me — "You'll They attend the funerals of Glendalough. really do: they can do things their friends in the chapel come back, won't you?" and This made me understand I W arrantyAuto Repairs, which they never thought they look on this as and I replied that it would an honour was afraid of death. about in younger days. Rear 234 Albany Highbe the last place on earth and do so out of respect. They Just to see the way that these They have the different age pray for each other, and when dear old people approach death that I would want to come way, VICTORIA PARK groups (65, 80 or 90 years) and someone is dying they go and so peacefully and serenely was to! Victoria P.O. Box 389 sometimes they meet people pray alongside of them. S omeone must OF an unforgettable example for 6100 that they knew in earlier years prayed for me because P ark They are not afraid of death: me: I understood there was no even in their schooldays. every time I thought about there is an atmosphere of peace need to be afraid. A /H 458 8821 this visit,Ipushed aside the
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I had to wait two years before entering t he Little Sisters because I needed to be this call — or those whom Christ certain of what I was has chosen will be faithful to His doing. Also my family covenant. strongly opposed this All this sounds very exalted, but i dea.
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